Somewhere in Broken Starlink, three small warships with the Black Star Legion logo were cruising in the star space.
The duty of this unit is to track suspicious transport fleets, and now Black Star Legion has deployed such tracking teams in multiple galaxies in Broken Starlink, setting up a net.
In the command room of the headed spacecraft, the captain carefully stared at the star map in front of him. The patrol route of the squad was marked on it. Once suspicious troops were found in the area, or a new mission was assigned, it would be displayed on the star map.
"I heard that there seemed to be traces of a suspicious transport fleet in the next star area two days ago. The clues were intermittent and seemed to be lost. Do you think they will run to our area?" An adjutant next to him spoke with his colleagues. Small talk.
"It would be great to come here. As long as we track the suspicious fleet, it will be considered credit. We have been patrolling here for several months, and we have not performed a single mission. If we are unlucky, we do not know when we will be able to make credit. "
The other person's tone was not without envy.
The patrol mission was boring, and the captain didn't stop his subordinates from chatting, which was what he thought. Although he is only a grass-roots member of the legion, he has a hard-working heart. As long as he accumulates enough merits, he can exchange for the elite training qualification of the legion, and invest in himself, which is conducive to promotion.
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At this moment, a red light spot exuding ripples suddenly appeared on the star map, and a prompt sounded synchronously. This was an on-site inspection mission issued by the monitoring department, which generally represented that the space buoy monitored suspicious troops.
"The mission is coming!"
The captain's eyes lit up, and the secret opportunity came, and immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and head towards the marked coordinates.
The three spaceships turned immediately, and the engines sprayed rainbow light, lasing towards the depths of the starry sky.
After sailing for a while, the team arrived at the target location, turned on the detection device, and thirty or forty space folds appeared on the radar view.
This is the trace left by the high-speed transition. Each trace represents a spaceship. This trace will disappear with time, but it has not completely dissipated at this time. .
"There are forty-one transition trajectories in total. It is a small and medium-sized fleet. Follow the traces and catch up!" The captain did not hesitate.
The team turned on full power and followed the transition traces, and soon tracked it for two hours, when a barren asteroid jumped into sight.
The trace is broken here, indicating that the target has exited the transition mode here.
"Report, the trace of the target has disappeared. It may temporarily stay on this planet to collect resources, or it may hide in an ambush on the back of the planet. Please indicate the next action." The adjutant glanced at the radar without warning and said.
The captain pondered for two seconds and said, "The second ship scans the surface of the planet, the third ship circles to the back of the planet, and the first ship where I am is on standby, keeping the engine running to ensure that it can be evacuated at any time."
"receive."
The three spaceships split up immediately, and it didn't take long for the results to come.
A docked fleet was found in a leyline somewhere on the planet. The power symbol on the outer armor represented a local commercial consortium. At this time, it was collecting underground gas resources.
"Issue a wide-area communication requesting to check their IDs," the captain said.
The transport fleet of the Transcendent star cluster alliance uses various methods to hide the sky and cross the sea. Disguising as the troops of other organizations is one of the most common methods. If the tracking team of the legion catches up with the suspicious fleet, they will usually ask to check the identity of the other party first. If there is a misunderstanding, then will let go.
Generally speaking, it is the responsibility of the Civilized Security Team to check the identity of the transit fleet. As a private armed organization, the Black Star Legion does not have this authority.
However, fist is power. Now that the Black Star Legion is full of stars to track down the transportation fleet of Modo civilization, normal organizations will give face and are unwilling to ask for trouble, and most of the civilization of Broken Starlink will not have any opinion, just open one. Close one eye.
Occasionally, if the tracking team encounters a genuine product, it will also happen that the enemy will attack first, but this is an unavoidable risk. Therefore, the tracking team generally does not fight, and at the same time maintains communication with the intelligence department. In this way, even if the tracking team is killed and disconnected, the information can be sent back and the monitoring department can confirm the identity of the target's enemy.
At this time, the tracking team sent a communication request to the transport fleet, but the other party did not respond.
The captain immediately became vigilant, "The situation is not right, prepare to evacuate immediately, report the situation..."
But before he finished speaking, his brain suddenly became stunned, and his vision suddenly became chaotic. This state lasted for a moment before he regained his clear thinking.
However, when he saw the scene in front of him again, his whole body froze, and the terrifying fear burst out from his heart, instantly destroying his reason.
I saw that the surroundings became a prison, and my body was firmly fixed in a prison cell, unable to move.
He was horrified.
One second I was still in the command room of the shuttle ship, why did I suddenly arrive here the next second? !
Before he could understand, his head was dizzy again, and the surrounding environment changed again. He was actually in a transparent glass room, next to a group of huge black beetles, and there was a lot of commotion.
Looking through the transparent wall of the room, he was terrified and saw giants that penetrated the sky and the earth walking outside the room.
As far as the eye can see, everything seems to have become countless times larger.
"What the hell..."
The captain murmured to himself subconsciously, but instead of his own voice, there was a subtle hissing sound.
He was stunned for a moment, looked down at himself, a cold air suddenly rushed into his mind, and the whole person was so frightened that he couldn't believe it.
His body turned into a black beetle, exactly like the bugs around him!
In an instant, he understood something.
It's not that the world is getting bigger, it's that I'm shrinking!
At this moment, orange-red high-temperature flames descended from the sky, filling the entire glass room, and his thoughts were frozen in a blazing white expanse.
boom
In just one breath, all the black beetles were burned to fly ash.
An operator in a white coat removed the flame spray gun used in the experiment, glanced at the residue in the glass box, and gestured "ok" to the team leader not far away.
The team leader nodded and reported to the communication screen: "Report Commander, the target has been eliminated."
"Um."
In the main ship, the commander of this fleet nodded and turned to look at the scene outside the porthole.
I saw three shuttle ships in outer space, two of which were blown up by their sudden attack, turned into fireworks in the universe, and only the No. 1 ship, which served as the command ship, was deliberately put underwater by them. Jump escapes the scene.
And the escaped spaceship, all the members of the ship have had a soul replaced under the body!
"The plan went well."
Nodding lightly, the commander turned his head to look to the side, and saw a black crystal-colored mirror suspended in mid-air, about fifty centimeters in diameter and only three centimeters thick.
At this moment, the Twin Souls stood in front of the mirror, their palms sank into the mirror, until their wrists, as if they were swallowed up, the mirror rippled with ripples.
This mirror is a spectacle-like cosmic treasure called the Soul Transformer!
"Okay, stop for me!"
The commander shouted.
Hearing this, the Twin Souls slowly withdrew their palms, and the soldiers around them immediately stepped forward, removed the Soul Transfer Instrument, and put them in an extremely sophisticated safe to keep them away from the Twin Souls.
Seeing this, the Twin Souls casually glanced at the surrounding mechanical cannons that were aimed at them from the walls and the site, and laughed nonchalantly.
These turrets are safety devices to prevent them from moving, and are controlled by remote intelligence, and the soul-changing instrument only works on the souls of creatures. It is useless for machine intelligence.
The commander then retracted his gaze, looked towards the direction the shuttle ship fled, and said in a low voice:
"The dead men prepared in advance have already penetrated into the enemy's interior, and with our bait, it should be enough to catch people out..."
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"A tracking team in Qianguang Galaxy was ambushed on the way to track a suspicious fleet. Two spaceships were destroyed on the spot, and only one ship escaped..."
Black Star Legion's headquarters in Broken Starlink, Nilo read the report in a low voice, looked up at several cadres in the room, and said:
"Everyone, what do you think?"
Mia said decisively: "The situation is obvious, this transport fleet has started, it can basically be a member of the Transcendent star cluster alliance, and immediately dispatch the troops around the accident site to track the target."
"I think it's a little weird. The troops of the Transcendent star cluster alliance generally don't take action, because once they fight, their identities are exposed. Most of the time, they try to get rid of the pursuers. The reason for the encounter is generally that the pursuers were not found. , was caught up accidentally... But since they started, they shouldn't leave their eloquence alive, the previous cases were like this."
Tomar muttered.
He has studied magic with Lackey for decades. Although the teacher is Xianyu, his talent is too good to bear. Now he has become a high-level cadre, and has a good relationship with Nilo. Now he is Nilo's team.
"Perhaps the surviving spaceship escaped in time, and the troops of the Transcendent star cluster knew that the information must be leaked, so they didn't want to waste their energy chasing, and would rather spend their time escaping." Mia guessed.
"That makes sense." Tomar didn't doubt him.
"Let's ask the survivors about the specific situation first."
Nilo thought about it and instructed his assistant to contact the captain of the surviving spaceship. After a while, the communication screen was connected, and the person on the screen was the captain of the tracking team.
"Retell your experience in full, I want to know all the details."
The captain in the picture flashed his eyes, nodded, put on an expression of lingering fear and anger, and said the experience again.
The soul under this body has been replaced by the dead man prepared by the Modo civilization. The effect of the soul-changing instrument is not simply to transfer the souls of the two bodies. The soul of "seize the body" can also inherit most of the target's memory, after all The body's brain is also a memory store, like a library.
But this memory will not naturally merge with the new soul, but needs to be sorted out and read slowly, and there will also be partial deletions. Generally speaking, the older the memory, the easier it is to be lost, and the recent memory is basically complete. .
There is exclusion between different souls and physical bodies. Some psychics or psionicists can also perform operations such as reincarnation and body capture, but the success rate is extremely low. Fording and Morningstar are an example.
The soul-changing instrument can greatly increase the success rate of soul transfer, which is close to 100% under normal circumstances, but will be affected by the target's strength and the user's strength. At the same time, with the soul transfer completed by the soul changing instrument, the rejection between the body and the soul will be greatly reduced, and there will be no strong rejection reaction.
And soul transfer is only one of the functions of the soul-changing instrument. This thing is very miraculous, and it has other functions.
After listening to the report, Nilo gave a few words of encouragement and was about to end the communication.
At this time, the "survivor"'s eyes flashed, pretending to be sad and angry, and said loudly:
"We are now the closest troops to the enemy, and I hope to continue this mission, continue to pursue, and avenge my comrades!"
"… Can."
This request is reasonable and reasonable, and Nilo has no reason to refuse.
He hung up the communication, and Tomar spoke again:
"Nilo, since the target knows that he has been exposed, he will definitely change his plan. Instead of going to the transportation line, he will flee separately. I suggest taking the second plan."
This is not the first time this has happened. If the transport troops are exposed, they will basically be regarded as abandoned children. Even if they continue to track, they will not be able to find the secret base of the Transcendent star cluster alliance.
"That's right." Nilo turned to look at Aesop next to him, with an embarrassed tone, "This... Your Excellency Aesop, I'm going to trouble you again this time."
"It's alright." Aesop waved his hand and didn't care.
The so-called second plan is to borrow Aesop's ability to let him go to the location of the incident and use relevant clues as a medium to make on-the-spot predictions, predict a variety of future possibilities, and grasp more clues.
If you want to get a clearer prediction, you need more media. This method is effective. In the past few months, Aesop has not just stayed at the headquarters, but has conducted many on-the-spot inspections under heavy protection. Black Star Legion found a lot of targets.
Nilo nodded and said loudly:
"It's not too late, prepare the spaceship immediately and send Your Excellency Aesop and the escort to the scene of the incident."
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the other side.
A certain star field, a certain planet, a certain base.
Manison stood in front of a virtual screen with his hands behind his back, squinting at the contents of the screen.
This is the secret information from the old Xinghe base camp, from the eyeliner he placed inside the Modo civilization many years ago.
Only a brief message was written above:
The soul-changing twins have been transferred from the base, and the soul-changing instrument has been taken away from the warehouse by the army, and the destination is unknown!
"The soul-changing instrument... If you guessed correctly, Modo civilization used this cosmic treasure to deal with him, maybe I can... "
Manison muttered to himself, and an inexplicable light flashed in his eyes.