The sun was setting and the twilight was approaching. A group of little ones had had enough of their weird games, and finally they were willing to calm down. Most of them gathered around the elder sister and adults, listening to those same weird fairy tales, and a few of them were in the Studying their own affairs. There are five or six hand-sized miniature Madison hanging on her body, running around like a carrier carrier, bending down from time to time to pull a few weeds from the ground, and feeding them to the little ones lying on her shoulders. The hand-sized miniature Madison is like a baby bird. Except for its appearance, it is almost the same as a bird in terms of living habits. Facing the weeds that Maidiwen handed them, these little guys will chirp excitedly , Holding the grass stalks and gnawing happily—their diet seems to have expanded again, from vegetable leaves to most green plants. According to the observations of the past two days, I have determined that Mai Diwen will even give her "children" Feed leaves and grass seeds, and the figurines are all about all of the above: except meat, which is still vehemently resisted.
This frustrates the little crow who is still obsessed with the field mouse.
Lilina is also not interested in fairy tales—she is a professional fairy tale editor, and basically all the fairy tale books in the family flow from her, so this guy is not with the small gang. The little guy seemed to be in some trouble, she put a small chair next to me, and sat there like a melancholy girl, with her elbows on the small round table in front of her, her cheeks in her hands, the most eye-catching thing was her head There is also a fresh green grass on top of her. I have been observing this curious scene for several minutes with amazed eyes. I have confirmed that the grass grows on top of her head, and it looks like a part of her body. All kinds of expressions appeared on his face and he wriggled around - this was the first time in his life that he saw a green dull fur, and it was visually estimated that this dull fur can also carry out photosynthesis.
I reached out and pulled the grass on Lilina's head, and found that it was quite strong: "What kind of plane are you doing?"
"Little... The experiment failed." Lilina continued to hold her chin with her hands like a melancholy girl. Because of her height, her feet could only dangle in the air, and she looked very upset. Can't get rid of it... ah, it hurts!"
I gave up the urge to pull that grass, and said to myself that there would never be a shortage of such wonderful things around me...
"Probably something went wrong with the 'EXP+5' effect." Lilina pondered for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Master!"
As soon as I heard this unique language addiction, I knew it must be the little crow. I turned my head and saw that she was standing beside me. There are two little crows sitting on either side of the girl's shoulders, plus one on top of her head. There are five little crows in total, each with a piece of weed in its mouth, and they chew the grass stalks in unison. , five pairs of small black eyes looked at their master curiously at the same time, looking really funny and playful-like a hamster.
The little crow is holding a shiny little ball of light in her hand. It seems that she just wants me to see this, and this thing really arouses my interest. It looks like a magical product: "What is this thing?"
"A letter from Vanilla!" The little crow said happily, and raised the little light ball in front of me: this action almost knocked off the hand-made crow gods on her shoulders, "It's from the temple, Lily The method Sister Na said can be used!"
I froze for a moment, and turned to look at Lilina, who was busy on the other side, who was feeling sad. The latter was stroking the dull hair on her head that can be used for photosynthesis, and explained indifferently: "The prayer system, it seems that the bird's Power has formed a stable system on the mother continent, and it has been written into the underlying data of the world. Believers can send important information to the gods through prayer. This is the foundation of a mature belief system, just like the backbone network. It is estimated to use It won't be long before the Crow God Sect will be able to end the current situation where blessings are like a random lottery. Well, anyway, boss, you just need to know that the little bird has grown up again."
I glanced at the little crow in surprise. The latter was rubbing the little ball of light in his hand, muttering: "Master, this looks like a egg!"
"Pfft—" Lilina almost slipped from the chair, she turned her head and stared dumbfounded at the collar on the little crow's neck that was flashing red lights, and couldn't help but patted her chest, "Fortunately, we discovered this bird's hatching urge in time Otherwise, something big will happen!"
Bingtis came here at some point, she heard our conversation here, and looked at the little crow thoughtfully: "Well, I can already accept prayers, and it seems that the strength is enough to answer any prayers, but the mind Too immature and asking her to start a dialogue with believers now may not be a good thing, this bird needs education."
"Just wrap it around me," Lilina said with the blades of grass on her head straight up, "Now the little bird can only hear prayers, as for how to respond, it uses the simplest feedback mechanism to answer automatically, without letting her participate , let the Pope cultivate her into a qualified god—give me a hundred or two hundred years, and she will definitely succeed.”
"That concubine is responsible for researching an operating system for her." Bingtis also became interested, lowering his head and rubbing the little crow's face, "I am a technical nerd, and I will definitely build you an operating system that even this bird can handle." You can learn to manage the terminal!"
I quickly waved my hand to interrupt Sister Bing's delusion: "Don't worry about it, you forgot that you are from the Star God system? Your operating system is not compatible with the Xiling God system at all, okay?"
Bingtis was taken aback, scratching his chin: "Oh, I'd have forgotten if you didn't tell me! I'm from the Starfield God Department."
Me: "..." This is going to be in time for Shanggang to go online, is this enough for you to ask before you collapse
However, Bingtis' words were also a reminder to himself, and it seems that there are more things to consider: the infrastructure construction of the Xiling god system. The little crow seems to be growing at the speed of hormones. She has a religion and a godhead in less than a year, but we still haven't figured out her full set of power maps. Although there is a long-term and several The temporary research team is tracking and observing the growth of the little crow, but this bird may bring them no less pressure than the deep dive project. I was thinking that maybe I need to take some time to go to the Mother Continent again to see the situation of the Crow God Sect and say hello to Sina and the others. But before all this, I still had to solve another serious problem in my heart.
With a heartbeat, I made a call in the spiritual connection.
"Ah Jun, did you call me?" Sandora appeared next to her with a burst of space distortion, and asked curiously, I handed over a small note (by the way, why both King Huron and Father God have the same problem? Those who are used to sending messages with small notes?) Passed it over: "Look, it was sent from the opposite side of the void just over an hour ago."
"Across the void... King Huron's signature?" Sandora took the note and swept it over, exclaiming, "Wait, the people mentioned here are..."
"The Melovas," I stood up and took a long breath, "means the whereabouts of the Melovas."
"So you asked King Huron to help find the traces of the Melovas?" Sandora looked at me in surprise, "When did it happen? Send troops?"
"As for the day before yesterday," I spread my hands, "didn't I tell you once, when I went to pick up the Fifth Fleet last time, I entered that weird 'dissipated' state, and then I met someone who was walking Sheila. Later, I thought it was very interesting, so I tried a few more times, and I ran into Sheila again the day before yesterday, and then I asked her to find traces of the Melova people."
"Wait, let's say... the Fifth Fleet actually arrived in the territory of the Huron Protoss?" Sandora immediately thought of this, with a look of surprise on her face, "No wonder... it's such a far away place. I was in a hurry. I didn't expect that we would go around the territory of the Huron Protoss. Now that I think about it, I suddenly feel a little regretful... "
"No, I didn't arrive," I waved my hand, "It's quite far away, but after I came back, I communicated with Father God, and by the way, I compared the void map in the hands of the Protoss, and found that the refuge of the Fifth Fleet was far away. The border of Huron is within a quadrant unit—Although I don’t know why the Fifth Fleet has not been found on Huron’s side, but I think it should also be within the sphere of influence of Sister Sheila, so please ask her to stay around the world where the Fifth Fleet stayed at that time Search for clues to the Melovas. After all... Although we can’t send troops, it’s not a problem to leave those Melovas alone. It is next to each other, that is also good news, at least we can grasp the whereabouts of the rebels."
Sandora nodded knowingly: "I mean, it turned out to be the void creature's own communication network... The three of you are really interesting. So, in the end, King Huron didn't find traces of the Merova people?"
"Miss Sheila is quite honest. She searched the entire territory of Huron, and then expanded the scanning range to the limit." I frowned slightly, "That is to say, all the areas where the Fifth Fleet was active at that time were scanned. No trace of the Merova was found at all—this is completely different from what we first guessed."
Sandora already understood what I meant, and her expression became serious: "That is to say, the Melovas did not establish forces near the refuge of the Fifth Fleet at that time, and their lair was not there... those rebels It's been traced all the way."
"Basically," I looked up at the night sky, as if I could see the Melovas' lair from there, "the possibility of the Melovas settling near the Fifth Fleet's shelter has been completely ruled out, so the rest There are only two situations: first, they are in another completely unknown corner of the void, and we may never find that group of rebels in the future; second, their hiding place is not far at all, in the old Near the Remnant of the Empire... ”
Sandora continued following my train of thought: "In the blank area between the three powers of the New Empire, the Fallen Apostles, and the Starfield God Realm, a place where no one has ever set foot... This possibility is better than the first possibility. Sex is several times higher!"
"So I'm struggling right now, should I send a scout ship out to scan the whole territory?" I scratched my hair and said, "In addition, I need to contact Father God and ask him to help scan the border areas of the Protoss. The blank area should also be investigated. In addition, the worst situation is what if the Melovas are hiding near the territory of the fallen apostles. I don't think the fallen apostles will respond to our call to search for the whereabouts of the rebels. They are busy Great cause, definitely can't take care of it."
Sandora frowned and thought for a moment, then shook her head decisively: "No, you can't do this, it will scare the snake away."
I:"?"
"Now we are not sure how much the Merova people have inherited from the old empire, and how vigilant they are," Sandora looked into my eyes, "but what is certain is that once they find out that the empire has made a comeback, they will definitely They will not come up to be beaten obediently, and must run away immediately—at that time, it will not be so easy to wipe out the rebels. According to my experience, all rebels are usually best at running for their lives."
I agreed with Sandora's opinion, and then asked her thoughts: "In your opinion, how to find the Melova people?"
Sandora thought for a while, then turned on the holographic projection, which showed a map of the void territory transformed into a visual view. The territory of the gods, the new empire, and the territory of the fallen apostles were located in the center of this overlapping territory map, while the periphery was Large blank areas with no data. Sandora pointed to the blank areas and said: "Even if the Melovas are hiding on 'this side', they will not be near the three major forces. If they were a little cautious when they treasoned, they would choose to stay away from their old masters." So they should be in these blank areas now. These locations are all places that we have not set foot in. If there is no clear world coordinates, it is impossible to find an exact world in these blank areas even with imperial technology. Pai It is not advisable to scan the reconnaissance ship or overload the death garden. It is easy to be detected by the opponent before we find the rebels. They occupy the home court advantage in information response speed in these blank areas, and considering their They have a huge amount of heritage from the old empire, they are the oldest servants who have been in contact with the empire for the longest time, and they have 70,000 years of research time, so they have a very high degree of mastery of the technology of the empire, so the possibility of their successful escape is extremely high."
I looked at the map of the void territory in front of me. This map is not the real appearance of the void, but it can intuitively show the range of the void that the current empire can reach. Sandora is right, the void is so vast that even the Protoss cannot reach it. To grasp it all, what is in that large blank area is completely a mystery to us, and once these areas start to be scanned, the Melovas are very likely to flee upon hearing the news—they have imperial technology on hand, so they say Possibly also has world-drift technology, so they might even pack up and escape with their own universe. Faced with this possibility, we must adopt a faster, more accurate and firmer method... Directly lock their world coordinates.
"It would be great if I could capture a few Melovans alive," Lilina listened for a long time while scratching her head, and finally couldn't help interjecting, "Then the Pope can be responsible for extorting confessions by torture."
"Well, it's rare that you hit the point in the first half of the sentence, oh, the second half is not wrong," I stroked the dull hair on Lilina's head that can carry out photosynthesis, and said casually, "The problem is how to capture it alive? It has been more than four years since the recovery of the New Empire, and the Melovas have never shown their faces in this area, the void is so big, maybe we wait a hundred years and they won't come here to die... "
"Then hang them out." The grass on Lilina's head swayed from side to side twice, "How did they attack the Fifth Fleet in the first place? Boss, you're not out of your mind, are you?"
I was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that I happily shook Lilina's collar back and forth: "Oh, why didn't I think of it, you can do it!" The little girl rolled her eyes, hugged my arm and said, "Let go!" ! Is there anyone who praises you so much!?"
I reacted and put Lilina back on the chair: "Oh, I'm used to it, I can't help but want to throw you out as soon as you open your mouth."
Lilina: "..."
Sandora immediately contacted the research center and ordered that the pile of ancient hibernation capsules that had been dismantled into parts be restored, and it must be restored to its original appearance, while I contacted the captain of the Fifth Fleet, Ke Kekina. The most important thing in executing the trapping plan is that the Fifth Fleet must participate. At the time when the Melovas watched the Fifth Fleet escape from their hands with the Primarch, the hatred value should still be full at this time—of course, more importantly, we don’t I know how the Melovas traced the original body signal, and I am not sure whether the dormant capsule that was dismantled by the research institute can still send out this kind of guidance signal, so the Fifth Fleet itself...is also a bait.
"The Melovas probably don't know that the Fifth Fleet was rescued by the Empire." When arranging these operations, Sandora also considered this issue. I feel that this is really an unintentional convenience: "That's right Fortunately, they acted fast enough at that time and did not meet the Melovas directly. Now the other party should not know the connection between the Fifth Fleet and the Empire. In fact, I am still curious whether the Melovas know about the existence of the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles... "
"I probably don't know," Sandora showed a gloomy expression, "Those who betrayed the empire will be in constant fear, if they know that their old master has made a comeback, they will erase any trace of themselves in the void immediately , instead of swaggering and running so far to hunt down the Fifth Fleet."
I nodded, what Sandora said made sense. Moreover, the New Empire has recovered for more than four years, and the Melovas have never shown up in this area. This probably means that they are hiding far away, so that they have not been able to encounter the Empire at all. The vastness and discontinuity of the void is really the best barrier for the fugitives, not only for the exile fleet back then, but also for those who are in constant fear—
traitor. RS