At 8 o'clock the next morning, the members of the Falcon Special Forces gathered on the starship on time. Everyone found that the deputy captain Xiong Kai did not come, and the sentinels talked about it privately.
"Where's Deputy Captain Xiong?"
"Yeah, Big Bear has never been late before, what happened?"
"Did you oversleep?"
Just then, Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran walked into the starship side by side, and everyone immediately shut up and stood in line.
Lu Zexuan glanced at the crowd and said, "Xiong Kai's grandmother is seriously ill and is in the hospital. She needs to take some time off. From today on, the deputy captain of the Falcon Special Operations Team..." He looked at the Zhao brothers standing in the crowd and said, "Zhao Quan will take over temporarily. Zhao Quan has served in the Falcon Corps' Guard Battalion for many years and is very familiar with the operation of the starship. From now on, the safety of the starship will be handed over to you."
The brothers Zhao Feng and Zhao Quan are veterans sent by Lu Zexuan's father. They are older than everyone present. Lu Zexuan gave the most important job of guarding the starship to the younger twin brother. Even if the starship encounters trouble, the older brother can sense it immediately.
This arrangement was reasonable and no one had any objection.
Zhao Quan stood at attention and saluted: "Yes, sir. I will definitely protect the starship!"
Lu Zexuan nodded at him and continued, "The goal of this mission is still to investigate the planet S107 in the Doradus constellation. Last time we were confused by the monsters and rashly entered their territory, where we were surrounded and attacked. This time everyone must be more cautious. The White Tower requires us to bring back at least two monster specimens for scientists to study their characteristics and weaknesses."
In the interstellar age, humans have sent elite troops to capture samples of plants and animals on other planets for research with the purpose of understanding them. This has been a habit that has lasted for hundreds of years.
Only by studying the opponent's characteristics clearly can we minimize the losses when occupying resource stars.
This kind of capture mission is not difficult. After the specially made high-energy electromagnetic net locks onto the target, it can quickly shock the target, making the opponent lose the ability to resist. Then you can capture two living monsters and go back to report.
Lu Zexuan walked to the command desk, set the navigation path, and asked Zhao Quan to stay in the command room to carefully observe the starship's data.
The starship soon entered the southern interstellar channel and began to fly smoothly.
If nothing goes wrong, they will be able to reach Dorado at 4pm. In the following time, everyone had nothing to do, so Moore suggested that everyone line up for inspection, and Yu Ran assisted him.
The sentries sat down one by one, and soon it was Lu Xiaolong's turn.
His mental image was a forest with weeds growing on the ground. The chameleon was lying on a tree trunk, its body completely integrated with the trunk. This spirit liked to hide. Yu Ran ignored it and searched the forest with Moore.
Small bubbles of memory emerged in Lu Xiaolong's mental picture, all of which were about food.
All kinds of delicious snacks, nuts, cola chicken wings, spicy beef, braised spareribs...
Mor couldn't help but laugh and said, "Looking at your mental picture makes me hungry."
Yu Ran asked, "Is your mind full of food?"
Lu Xiaolong said embarrassedly: "My life aspirations are not high. Hehe, I am already very satisfied if I can have delicious food every day."
The last time Yu Ran checked his mental image, he saw a lot of delicious food. In addition, Tang Ce discovered that he went to the warehouse to steal canned food, so Yu Ran subconsciously thought that he was a foodie.
However, foodies are the most likely to let people down.
Because he was a foodie, when the guide checked his mental picture, he would be distracted by his mind full of food; also because he was a foodie, it was not easy for him to arouse suspicion when he gave snacks and fruits to others, which was why Lu Chengan ate the biscuits he gave without any precautions; also, even if he was discovered eavesdropping in the middle of the night, he could successfully cover it up by saying "I got up to find something to eat."
Yu Ran continued to check the forest, and found nothing unusual on the surface. However, when his mind tentacles passed a lawn deep in the forest, the chameleon hiding on the treetops tensed up slightly, but soon, all kinds of delicious mushrooms grew in the lawn.
Quick enough to react, and use food to confuse? It seems that there are many secrets hidden under this lawn. Yu Ran remembered the location of the lawn and quietly let his mind tentacles leave that area.
After checking all the sentries, it was just time for lunch.
Yu Ran deliberately went to the tea room.
At this time, most of the sentries were eating in the restaurant, and Yu Ran was the only one in the tea room.
A chameleon followed silently on the roof. Yu Ran took out a white pill from his pocket and threw it into the cup of water. The pill quickly dissolved in the cup. Yu Ran then shook the cup calmly, holding the cup and turned to go out.
He handed the "drug-filled" cup of water to Lu Zexuan, took another cup for himself, and said, "Drink some water."
Lu Zexuan drank it without any doubt—a familiar sweet taste. It seemed that Ranran was acting for the traitor again.
At the same time, Tang Ce pretended to come out of the bathroom at the end of the corridor and calmly took back his lizard.
Last time, when Yu Ran went to pour water for Lu Zexuan, the chameleon had disappeared. At that time, the sentinels were fighting, and Tang Ce focused his observation on Xiong Kai, Hummingbird, and Moore, and did not see where the chameleon went.
Later, he saw the chameleon stealing things in the warehouse again, and he subconsciously thought that the chameleon was also stealing food at that time.
But now it seems that Chameleon's observation of Yu Ran is more covert than Xiong Kai's - Xiong Kai secretly glanced at Yu Ran with his peripheral vision, and was noticed by Tang Ce. However, Lu Xiaolong used the invisibility ability of his spirit body to hide directly on the roof of the tea room to confirm whether Yu Ran had been drugged.
After the A-level chameleon becomes invisible, as long as it does not make any noise and lies quietly in the same place, it will be difficult for the guide to detect it. Therefore, Yu Ran did not notice that there was a chameleon on the rooftop observing him quietly.
—Whether Yu Ran actually placed the drug is the key thing that the traitor needs to confirm.
This time, Tang Ce followed Yu Ran's instructions and paid special attention to Lu Xiaolong. Before lunch started, he went to the public toilet at the end of the corridor in advance and left his lizard on the wall of the corridor. Sure enough, he found some movement.
Normal sentinels would not specifically observe Yu Ran pouring water. Even if they accidentally saw him putting drugs, they would definitely remind their captain to be careful of this guide. But after seeing it, Lu Xiaolong did nothing, and his expression did not change at all, as if he had known all this for a long time.
In the restaurant, Tang Ce ran over to sit with Lu Xiaolong and said with a smile: "Brother Long, did you bring any snacks up? Give me a few packs later."
Tang Ce also created a "foodie" persona in front of Lu Xiaolong, and the two of them established a "friendship" because of stealing canned food together.
At first, Lu Xiaolong suspected that Tang Ce was deliberately approaching him, but later he found that Tang Ce had this attitude towards everyone in the team, calling them Sister Bird, Brother Long, and Brother Tiger in a very affectionate manner. It was obvious that he was a very outgoing young man.
He smiled and said, "Okay, I'll get some for you to try later."
Not far away, Yu Ran, who was eating, looked at Tang Ce calmly, and the latter happened to look at him. The two looked at each other and quickly looked away - snacks, Major Tang obviously mentioned this word deliberately. It seems that Major Tang has determined that Lu Xiaolong is the traitor.
With the evidence observed by Tang Ce, the next step of the plan can be implemented.
After lunch, Lu Zexuan asked everyone to go back to their rooms to rest, took Yu Ran to his room, and closed the door.
Everyone thought that the two were doing something intimate in the room, but unexpectedly, as soon as Yu Ran entered the room, she was spiritually connected with Lu Zexuan.
Lu Zexuan asked in his mind: "What did you find?"
Lu Zexuan nodded: "What are your plans for the next step?"
Yu Ran said, "First, follow the White Tower's instructions to capture the monster in the Swordfish Constellation. When you return after completing the mission, everyone will relax their vigilance. Late at night, you can quietly change the starship's route. I'll give you a coordinate, go there."
Yu Ran wrote an unfamiliar coordinate on Lu Zexuan's palm.
Lu Zexuan has been conquering the southern star field for many years and is very familiar with the interstellar routes. The coordinates Yu Ran gave him are not on the route. It seems to be an uninhabited area in the southern star field
He was confused and looked at Yu Ran.
Yu Ran explained: "There is a cosmic wormhole there, which will suck in nearby starships and land them on a red spider star in the distant Southern Triangulum star field. That planet is covered with a strange red-eyed spider, which will help us."
Lu Zexuan was stunned—black hole in the universe? Strange planet? Red-eyed spider
How did Yu Ran know all this? Did he experience all this when he was on the run
Lu Zexuan didn't ask any more questions, just nodded and said, "Okay, let's follow your plan."
***
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Falcon starship arrived at the Doradus constellation on time.
The second time we set foot on planet S107, everyone was extra careful.
Lu Zexuan's voice came through the headset: "Three scouts, use telescopes to find a few places with few monsters. Take one team of hounds and two teams of crocodiles. Split up and put down electromagnetic nets to capture alien creatures."
More than fifty people quickly dispersed, and Hummingbird, Chameleon and Tang Ce drove the airship forward to observe.
Looking down from the sky, the monsters were still motionless, their claws pointing upwards looked a bit like cacti in the desert, and they looked like plants. Thinking of the last time they underestimated the enemy and entered their territory, they were almost wiped out, and everyone was still frightened.
With experience gained this time, everyone's airship has been flying at high altitude. This kind of monster can't fly, as long as you keep flying at high altitude, you can avoid their claws.
Hummingbird soon found a flat area with fewer monsters: "Ten o'clock direction, one kilometer forward!"
Tang Ce said: "Five hundred meters ahead at the three o'clock direction on the right, there is also an area with fewer monsters."
The hound and the crocodile immediately led the team separately. Dozens of airships were arranged in a circle in an orderly manner. A huge high-energy electromagnetic net fell from the center of the airships, accurately landing on the claws of one of the monsters, and quickly wrapped around it.
"Ahhh..."
As the strong electric current paralyzed the monster, it was awakened from its sleep and a sharp cry came from underground.
Lu Zexuan said in a deep voice: "Quick and decisive, pull them up!"
The electromagnetic net began to shrink, and in a blink of an eye, a monster was captured. It was pulled high into the sky, and everyone could see its appearance clearly - it looked a bit like a combination of an octopus and a centipede, with a big head, many claws, claws as sharp as knives, and two big eyes that were rolling around.
Yu Ran said: "This should be a little monster in its infancy. I can sense its fear."
Lu Zexuan said: "Take them back first. The Central Academy of Sciences needs to study them."
Yu Ran asked: "How to study it? Completely dissect its body?"
When scientists study extraterrestrial life, they usually dissect them and even make specimens of different parts of their bodies. There is also an alien life specimen exhibition hall on the capital planet, which attracts many tourists every year.
Humans are used to being at the top of the food chain, and don't have much sympathy for these alien creatures.
Yu Ran didn't say anything more. In fact, he had a more gentle and ideal way, which was to send a special guide team to communicate with the alien creatures mentally and reach a peace agreement.
The resources needed by humans and the living environment of alien creatures often do not conflict.
Many wars have been caused just because of the differences in species.
Guides can directly invade the spiritual world of highly intelligent creatures and communicate with them normally even if they do not speak the same language - in fact, the most suitable person to go to the front line is not a sentinel with strong combat capabilities, but a guide who can communicate mentally.
However, it is so difficult to change people's inherent ideas. How many guides are willing to take risks and go to the front line to communicate with these monsters
Yu Ran glanced at the little monster that was captured. The guy stared at him pitifully with his round eyes wide open. The emotions of confusion and fear were clearly conveyed to Yu Ran's mind.
Yu Ran walked forward, stretched out his thought tentacles, and hinted in its mind: "Be good, don't struggle. This net is very strong. You will get hurt if you struggle."
The little monster blinked, seemed to trust Yu Ran, and stopped struggling.
The Sentinels quickly put it back into the cage at the rear of the starship.
Soon after, another adult monster was caught. This monster struggled even harder, and its roar was deafening. Moore imitated Yu Ran and turned around to communicate with it. Soon, it also calmed down.
The sentinels watched this magical scene and couldn't help asking, "Do you understand what the monster is saying?"
Mor smiled and said, "Guides communicate through mental power. Language is not important. They can understand."
Hummingbird couldn't help but say, "If I had known this would happen, wouldn't I have sent an S-level guide to persuade them to surrender? There's no need to fight them to death!"
Everyone looked at each other.
Persuade to surrender? It sounds outrageous, but it also seems to make sense. The sentinels scratched their heads and stopped dwelling on this question.
Lu Zexuan said: "Okay, the mission is completed, let's prepare to return. Everyone has worked hard, go back and rest."
The sentries returned to their dormitories. Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan looked at each other and returned to the dormitory to rest.
The starship entered the channel and flew towards the capital planet.
Until late at night, Lu Zexuan pretended to be awakened by a nightmare, came to the command room, rubbed his temples, and whispered to Zhao Quan: "You go back and rest, I will keep an eye on it."
Zhao Quan turned around and left tactfully.
It was not until Zhao Quan walked away that Lu Zexuan came to the command desk, quickly modified the navigation path, and entered the coordinates that Yu Ran wrote to him.
Most of the people on the starship fell asleep. No one knew that the Falcon starship had deviated from its direction without anyone noticing.
(End of this chapter)