"Why do you see someone wearing the Imperial insignia on the comms?"

The commander-in-chief of the Fifth Fleet, the spirit creature known as Cocokina, suddenly changed his tone and said in a low and serious voice, what kind of mood did this expression's three eyes become brighter than before, and with a lilac halo, what kind of emotional changes did this expression mean? Astonished? Fear? Wrath? Doubt? Or is it both? For the time being, we don't know, we can only be sure of one thing, the situation is really complicated - the latest chapter, / Baidu search. Small-MM Reading Network!

None of our people were wearing Imperial uniforms, but Tavel's communication screen was suspended next to the "Council", she was wearing a uniform, and from the perspective of the communication equipment, Tavel in the uniform of an Imperial researcher could be clearly seen on the side of Cocokina, so in his eyes, the Council was in contact with the Fifth Fleet while communicating with the Empire...... Well, that's actually the way it is. It's just that this fact is really not the right time to be exposed.

"Council Unard, I don't think those monsters who have lost their minds will be your new allies, but you do need an explanation." It seemed that seeing that the "Council" had not heard back for a long time, Coco Kina finally couldn't help but break the silence again, but before the "Council" could explain, Sandora stood up first and took the initiative to say: "Commander Coco Keina, it's a pleasure to meet you. Introduce yourself, I'm Emperor Shiling, Sandora? Kelvi? Jurasis, one of the rulers of the new Empire, as you can see, the Empire now stands with the Fourth Fleet, and we belong to the same faction. ”

No one thought (including me) that Sandora would suddenly come forward. And to say things so clearly, not to mention the "council" and the surrounding senior officials of the Fourth Fleet, who have fallen into a daze, Coco Kina on the other side of the video is also stunned. I guess he wasn't mentally prepared for this setting at all, and as soon as Sandora's voice fell, he began to flash and flash, eventually spreading out his "hands" that were much wider than humans, and making a confused gesture to us: "What's going on?" Is the Fourth Fleet finally in your hands? ”

"Sooner or later, you'll have to make things clear, if you wait for the Fifth Fleet to evacuate to the Imperial borders before they discover those Imperial depots. I'm afraid things will be more troublesome," Sandora whispered to the Council, then looked back at the communicator. "No, on the contrary, we just protected the Fourth Fleet from the monsters you call it."

Coco Kina leaned her upper body in the direction of the communicator. His erratic "face" was placed very large on the hologram: "Imperial, what exactly do you want to say?" ”

"The empire of your memory has fallen and collapsed," Sandora replied in a calm tone, "and now the land is gone, and the surviving Apostles of Hilin have been split into two parts, one is the Fallen who hunted you down in the past, the rebels to us. And we are the second force, the new empire that has been reorganized. Unfortunately, we are alone. And most of us didn't wake up from a long slumber until a few years ago, and there is nothing we can do about what happens to you. Now the new empire is gradually rising, and is committed to destroying the rebels who have thrown themselves into the abyss, while doing what it can. To provide refuge to the world of the fallen people. The Fourth Fleet is already in the camp of the new Empire, and not long ago, they received your distress signal, which is why they have the current rescue plan. That's all you need to know. ”

It's hard for me to make out any expression on a face that has three more light bulb eyes than jelly, and Coco Kina's body language is inexplicable to us, so no one knows whether the other party is confused or simply refuses to believe Shandora's words. The erratic spirit energy in his body contracted three times at regular intervals, and then turned his attention to the "Council": "Council Hunard, I would like your testimony. The credibility of this is questionable. ”

- Actually, it doesn't make sense for him to ask for verification, the "council" is already with us, so the former's answer is of course yes, but he still hopes to be recognized by his old friend. So the "council" nodded firmly: "I can swear to the ancestors of the Nader people, and the Emperor's majesty is true in every word. ”

At the same time, we hear the explanation of the "Council" from the Spiritual Connection: "For the Elren Spirits, the highest indication of credibility is to swear to the ancestral spirits of their own race. Whether or not this oath carries as much weight to the alien race as it does to the Elren Spirits, this is already the most powerful gesture of expression of my attitude. ”

Coco Kekina's eyes flickered, and the three rays of light finally froze in a very dim state: "I should believe you for many reasons. And it was really impossible for those monsters of the past to talk to me with such a sane attitude, and there was no need for them to set up any kind of deception...... Well, trust was temporarily established, and the emperor of the new empire was under His Majesty. ”

"Wow, it's so easy to get through?" The shallow babbling voice sounded as always at a critical time, and she was still holding a super huge ninth-order Rubik's cube in her hand, ready to spend most of the day, "I'm ready to use my toys, you can tell me this?" ”

The corners of Sandora's mouth twitched visibly, and I quickly coaxed Asa aside. Actually, it was a surprise that Coco Kina believed our words in such a short period of time, but it didn't take long for me to understand the reason - in fact, strictly speaking, there is no mutual trust between the two sides at all, and Coco Kekina's current performance is entirely due to - there is no choice.

His broken fleet is being pursued, and if he can't find a way out, he will be 100% wiped out, and our side can still give him at least 10% hope.

At the same time, as he said, the completely irrational depraved apostles would not have set a trap for him in such a troublesome way (he still did not know the way of the people, and the irrational madmen of the time had really turned into a bunch of cunning scoundrels who did everything in their power), and the Council of Hunard was willing to vouch for Sandora's words with the utmost sincerity. In this case, it is self-evident whether he chooses to continue to lead the fleet around or cooperate with us.

As for the hatred of the country and the family that were hunted down by the Apostle of Hiling, of course, it will not be eliminated in this case, but both sides are very wise not to discuss such issues at this juncture. I believe that after the Fifth Fleet is successfully out of danger, it will be time to put this issue on the table and study it.

"Now I want to know the overall situation of your entire fleet, the working parameters of the Void Jumping Device. Your precise location. ”

Once a basic trust had been established, Sandora immediately turned the conversation to support the Fifth Fleet and inquired in detail about the current situation of the other side. In my opinion. It is basically impossible to rush to the aid of the Fifth Fleet—the distance is too far away, and even with the Empire's most advanced Void Exploration Team, I am afraid that it will not be too late to give all the officers and men of the Fifth Fleet a pillar of incense while it is hot.

Of course, Sandora knew that, too. So her question has removed the option of having the Imperial fleet rush over for reinforcements, and trying to guide the other side out of pursuit first.

"We have already started uploading the technical information about the fleet, and it is expected to be completed in two minutes. I must start by saying that the Void Jump system used by the Fifth Fleet is in disrepair, and it is difficult to guarantee how long it will operate at this full power. Now the slowest of our large ships has a six-percent correction for the information offset per jump, with jumps eight seconds apart, so the fleet can only move at this speed. We lost nearly half of our resource supplies in the raid - they were originally on their home planet and were only a fraction of what was moved when the raid arrived, so many ships are now moving almost empty, relying on the ship's ecosystem to sustain their crews. However, the ecosystems of the large ships have all just been restarted, and they have been shut down for a hundred years before that, and although there are no problems so far, there is a high probability that there will be a catastrophe of ecological cycle downtime suddenly......"

While Cocokina was relaying the current situation of the Fifth Fleet to us, Sandora and the team of Tavel scientists who were on the line were also simultaneously analyzing the starship data sent by the other party. Although there are a lot of technical terms that I don't know very well, I also know from Shandora's face that the Fifth Fleet itself is quite unoptimistic in terms of spaceships. She suddenly interrupted Coco Keina's words with a sudden wave of her hand: "I've seen your biocycle system data, and the current state of the systems used in some of the starships marked as Alpha-class is very dangerous, and these systems provide life support for nearly a third of the fleet members. ”

“…… Yes, our engineers have found three dangerous failures. They're doing their best to salvage the failed atmospheric regeneration towers, but we lack spare components, and they're all left on their home planet. ”

Sandora frowned as she looked at another set of holographic projections beside her, showing the working data of the Departed Garden System.

"The distance is too far, the positioning signal strength is insufficient, and you are crossing the quadrant boundary, and with the current transmission stability rate, we can't even send the smallest rescue device...... Unprovoked transmission requires a stronger guidance signal. ”

Cocokina didn't seem to be expecting the Empire's aid equipment in the slightest, so he didn't care about being disappointed, he just nodded calmly, and then said that the ecosystems could hold out for another day or two - the implication was that if they didn't get out of pursuit and find a safe dock in the world within a day or two, the Fifth Fleet would have to give up nearly a third of its members.

Unlike the Empire, which has the "double jump" technique of teleporting units directly from one ship to another in the Void, their ship's current status is unable to maintain a large enough field of order in the Void to use small transport ships to complete large-scale personnel transfers, and unless they can dock in a safe world, the crew of those starships trapped in the imminent ecological collapse will have no hope. Overall, the Fifth Fleet is in a situation countless times worse now than it was when we met us.

"In short, the fleet is now moving forward according to the navigation information you provided, and we have not found any signs of pursuing the troops yet, but they certainly haven't given up yet," Cocokina glanced at a certain information terminal beside him, and his low tone showed that he was not optimistic about the current situation, "but it seems impossible to evacuate to the nearest safe zone you have marked in a short period of time, our evacuation back then happened to be staggered with the territory of your new empire, although not in the opposite direction, but now the two of them It's just too far away. ”

Tens of thousands of years ago, when the exile fleet decided to split up. All the fleets chose different Void Quadrants as targets, with the Fourth Fleet's goal being close to the current territory of the New Empire, so they could strayed into the Macro-Empire Passage, but the route chosen by the Fifth Fleet was exactly staggered from each of the New Empire's realms (well, at least they didn't choose the route of the Second Fleet, which, according to the "Council", was completely contrary to the current territory of the New Empire). If the Fifth Fleet had gone that way, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to come back for thousands of years), and perhaps the entire empire would not be as far away as the "distance" between the Fifth Fleet and us.

If it is within the territory of the empire. Due to the fact that there is a gate between the various worlds, even the largest Void Voyage can be reached almost instantaneously, but outside the empire. In the absence of the Gate of the World Realm, relying on the spaceship to jump little by little, the time required is staggering. I pulled up the Void Territory Map compiled by Tavel, and entered the coordinate signal of the Fifth Fleet into it, trying to find a closer route - this Territory Map is not a "map" or any other graphical interface that most people imagine, it is a tabulated thing composed of countless points with footnotes, because it is impossible to determine the location of anything in the void, and naturally it is impossible to draw a map-like map of the Void Territory, and every point in this table representing the world can only pass through the "information offset" to indicate the relative position of itself and the capital universe, and below the point of the Fifth Fleet. All I could see was a long string of numbers, followed by even a series of ellipses......

I even suspect that it will take them a few years to reach the borders of the Empire.

"Retreat according to the predetermined route for the time being, I'm thinking about how to get you to cross this distance without delay," Sandora curled her index finger against her chin. She seemed to have an idea, "Maybe there's a shortcut...... Give me some time. ”

"Who are you hunting and killing, are you...... Vassals of the Old Imperial Era? "My sister definitely can't help much in terms of technique, so I can only ask other questions that we are also concerned about.

"It's them—those minions," Cocokina's voice was filled with irrepressible excitement, but then calmed down. "I don't know who they are, but I'm sure they're vassals of what you call the 'Old Empire.' We've seen something like a crystal cross on their ship, but ...... I think you'll be interested in these images, which are not quite like normal Imperial markers. ”

Coco Keina said, sending over a set of images, which looked like they had been filmed on the battlefield in high orbit, with large fragmented ship wreckage in the background, and I could see the edge of the planet on one side of some of the frames, because of the high speed of movement, the images were a little blurry, and I couldn't tell which of them were from the Fifth Fleet and which were from the pursuers. The most conspicuous of these images are some ships with arced shells and large golden paintwork, and these golden round battleships that look a bit like a god stick are the pursuers that Cocokina is talking about. My sister enlarged the clearest of the pictures, and at last, we found the Imperial Crusades on the bow of these ships—something that looked like a cross insignia in the strict word.

The logo was apparently based on the Imperial coat of arms, but its color had changed from blue to pale gold, and the sharp crystal spikes had been modified to have a crescent spatlacy-like arc, and on the background of the logo, two crossed scepters could be seen.

The whole mark seemed a bit nondescript to me, and my sister frowned: "How did they make the Imperial Army insignia like this?" ”

"They changed the Imperial insignia without permission...... A normal servant army would never do this, and that's a huge taboo. Sandora awoke from her musings, staring in amazement at the incongruous golden emblem, while I suddenly felt a grab at the hem of my dress.

When I looked down, it turned out to be Pandora.

Anyway, this girl's sense of existence is really too low, obviously she came with us, but because she didn't say a word from beginning to end, she was ignored like a porcelain doll placed in the corner of the house, and her sense of existence is not as high as her sister - Viska was ordered to sit on a chair and not run around ten minutes ago because she tried to disassemble parts from the data machine next to her, and many people are strictly guarding against her, and her sense of existence is high.

"Brother, those spaceships...... Know! ”

As I gazed curiously, Pandora finally spoke, as succinct as ever, "Merois! ”

I thought about it for a moment and patted Pandora on the head: "Can you say more words?" ”

"Fifteen Days, Servants, Merovas!"

Everyone was quiet—well, everyone who knew what the Fifteen Heavenly Zones were, they were quiet.

I hesitated for less than two seconds, and finally reacted, and directly called the chief scientist on standby online: "Tavel, search the database immediately, and search for the information of the Merova people in the new data items added after the concept split." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Tavel replied, and a few seconds later, a large amount of information began to appear in holograms around us, clear pictures and texts from the old empire's database, detailing the information of the old empire's vassals known as the "Merois", and the battleships with their rounded shells and golden livery, which looked extravagant and impetuous, took up more than fifty percent of the picture.

"The Merovas, the vassal race of the Fifteen Heavenly Districts of the Old Empire, one of the oldest vassal races of the Empire, have experienced the era of the Great Frontier and survived all wars, and their comprehensive strength ranks first among all the vassal races of the Old Empire. After the collapse of the Old Empire, all information about the vassals was lost, and they were tentatively classified as extinct. ”

The synthesized voice of the system reads a brief introduction to the race for us.

Sandora shook her head slowly, "No...... They are alive and ...... Probably betrayed. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )