Two days later, at the edge of the Dragon Snake Star Territory, the Firefly was stationed.
Thinking back to the end of the Star Sea Republic more than a thousand years ago, the predecessor of the Firefly was once the latest generation of deep space exploration ship.
The monks of the Republic at that time had high hopes for this experimental ship.
They filled the round, whale-like hull with all the magic weapons of the Empire that the Republic could discover, the relics of the prehistoric era, and all the hopes of the people.
This experimental ship was originally going to complete the greatest mission, starting from the heart of human civilization, exploring all directions of the Star Sea, to find those worlds lost in the "Doomsday Transformation" war when the Star Sea Empire collapsed, and let them rejoin the Star Sea Republic.
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When the huge hull of the Firefly slid out of the space dock for the first time, and a total of ninety-nine power units arranged in a diamond shape simultaneously bloomed with the most dazzling blue light, among all the cheering Republic monks present, no matter how proficient in deduction and calculation, None of the people expected this experimental ship to have an extremely absurd fate in the future.
The Firefly's first official voyage was not for exploration and discovery, but for concealment and exile.
During the long thousand-year journey of exile, the Firefly did indeed rely on its powerful detection magic weapon to discover many great worlds at the beginning, and gained support from the cultivators of these worlds.
Countless cultivators who were unwilling to succumb to the rule of the empire put all their belongings, along with magical powers and magic weapons, on dazzling starships of different styles.
After simple technical modifications, these little The starship is connected to the body of the Firefly, like a kettle vine attached to a large ship, or a small fish swimming with a blue whale.
The advanced star sea jumping matrix on the Firefly can release a special protective light film to avoid collision and fusion accidents that are very likely to occur when two starships jump across the star sea at close range.
This kind of technology made it possible for hundreds of starships to fit closely together and jump at the same time, and also formed the basic form of the Firefly for hundreds of years.
At its peak, with the "Star Sea Republic Deep Space Exploration Experimental Ship" Firefly as the center, there were nearly 600 large and small starships surrounding it, forming an extremely large exile team with a total population of more than 500 million.
The good times did not last long.
The overly bloated structure and redundant internal control system greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Firefly.
After several thrilling encirclement and suppression battles, although they luckily escaped the pursuit and interception of the empire, the members who formed the "Firefly Group" The number of starships has also dropped from more than 600 to less than 300, and most of them have lost power and are uninhabitable.
Empty iron coffins are barely towed among the large troops, and the population has dropped by 80 %, on the verge of collapse.
Before encountering the Star Federation, the Firefly was like a whale that had mostly rotted away, drifting with the current in the depths of the star sea.
It knew that its body was slowly decaying, but it could not get rid of any "iron coffin" , because in the star sea where resources are scarce, even from completely scrapped starships, a lot of useful junk can be dismantled to help them survive for a while.
Yes, for the Firefly and the "legitimate government" of the Star Sea Republic at that time, what could they do except survive?
Overhauling such a starship, or a "pile" of it, which has been in exile for thousands of years, is riddled with holes, rusty, and almost scrapped, is undoubtedly a long-lasting and huge project, and its difficulty and consumption are no more than refining hundreds of starships.
How much smaller should the ship be?
Fortunately, compared to the "hillbillies" on the edge of the star sea like the Starry Federation, the Firefly from the center of the star sea finally has a little bit of wealth that has not been cleaned up.
The government-in-exile used the outstanding technology and magical powers from the center of the Star Sea to exchange a large amount of resources with the Starry Star Federation, and built a large-scale shipyard and floating maintenance base station on the edge of the Dragon and Snake Star Territory, and launched a vigorous of maintenance.
It even directly purchased a large number of starships from the Star Star Federation.
After a few modifications, they were connected to its own body to increase the space for movement and improve the quality of life.
Anyway, in a cosmic environment without gravity and resistance, no matter how big the starship is, No matter how arrogant or bizarre its appearance is, it does not affect its navigation ability.
Therefore, when viewed from a distance from the transport ship transporting resources, the Firefly, which is now illuminated by the flame-like red light of the red giant star, does not look like a single firefly, but hundreds of fireflies condensed together, surrounded by a Surrounded by circular orbits, docks, floating starports, and maintenance base stations.
Hundreds of transport ships were continuously delivering supplies to them, and hundreds of thousands of maintenance technicians were wearing crystal armor and working hard in the cold vacuum outside the Firefly, just like a group of people working hard in the sea of stars.
The struggling ant.
A seemingly unremarkable transport ship without any markings on its appearance passed through a circular orbital dock, and then passed a starship that had long since been scrapped, stripped off from the Firefly's body, and prepared to be completely disassembled, and slowly moved towards the Firefly.
The main body of the ship, which was the deep space exploration ship that escaped from the Jitian Realm more than a thousand years ago, sailed away.
Nowadays, this deep space exploration ship has long been unrecognizable.
The outer shell is densely connected with hundreds of traffic hoses, tightly connecting it to other starships around it, like a heart extending out countless blood vessels.
The transport ship was moving unhurriedly, and now it had completely reached the interior of the Firefly.
Countless close-in defense guns were turning dexterously from all directions.
Invisible locking lights passed over it from time to time.
There were also hundreds of fully armed The armor master was floating in the vacuum, and all the shoulder-mounted crystal railguns had unlocked their seals.
The muzzles of the cannons flickered with stars from time to time.
Behind the cold masks, there seemed to be sharp eyes staring at the transport ship.
The transport ship slid into a secret dock a few kilometers away from the "heart" of the Firefly.
"Chi..."
The huge air-tight gate slowly closed, like the upper and lower rows of teeth of an iron giant biting together.
Inside the shipyard, there were hundreds of armored masters who were fully armed and looked like they were facing a formidable enemy.
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They are all secret police members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the government-in-exile, coming to greet a special batch of "cargo."
The hatch at the rear of the transport ship opened downwards, revealing a ladder and a cargo conveyor belt.
Some members of the "Election Observation Group" were escorted away by Wuhua Daodao, while others who were considered more dangerous "traitors" were placed in special box-type restraints and sent down via a freight conveyor belt.
Among all the people present, only a handful did not have crystal armor.
Including a middle-aged woman wearing a black windbreaker with a stern face and a mutilated left eye that was replaced with three scarlet crystal eyes.
She is Cheng Xuansu, the leader of the special investigation team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the government-in-exile, and the commander of this arrest operation.
"etc!"
When most of the prisoners were escorted to the shuttle car inside the starship and were about to be sent to the secret cell, Cheng Xuansu suddenly stopped.
Three crystal eyes installed on the same circular base slowly rotated and released.
A faint red light shot out at a prisoner being held in a box restraint.
That's...Tang Xiaoxing!
"Team leader!"
The secret police escorting Tang Xiaoxing stood at attention.
Cheng Xuan Suzai looked at the sleeping Tang Xiaoxing carefully and said calmly, "I will repeat the process of arresting Tang Xiaoxing exactly again.
Such an incompetent weapon refiner has actually escaped from your hands twice.
Escape?"
"Yes."
The secret police hesitated for a moment and said, "The first time was when we used a 'shock bomb' to try to knock her unconscious and then arrest her.
Who knew that she was not affected by the shock bomb and slipped away quietly, and even set a trap , severely injuring six of our team members; we had already captured her the second time Who knew that a mysterious tactical team suddenly appeared and rescued her again; until the third time, with the cooperation of the Four Saints Chamber of Commerce, we continued to narrow the encirclement, and through the surveillance crystal eyes of Yulong City, according to her Her walking posture identified her hiding place.”
"The other side seems to be using the strategy of 'making a sound in the east and attacking in the west'.
Most of the people are going around in circles with us outside.
There are not many people around Tang Xiaoxing.
Seeing that the situation is not good, we can only give up on Tang Xiaoxing and break out."
Cheng Xuansu asked expressionlessly: "From the beginning to the end, how long was Tang Xiaoxing out of your control?"
The secret policeman replied: "No more than six hours!"
"Six hours?"
Cheng Xuansu sneered, "Moreover, the other party has an 'anti-tracking expert' who found all the tracking and locking chips we set on Tang Xiaoxing?"
The secret policeman hesitated: "Yes."
Cheng Xuansu looked at his subordinates coldly, pondered for a moment and then said: "Help me prepare a sterile room and call two female police officers over.
I want to check her body."
The secret policeman was slightly startled and said, "We already scanned her completely when we were in Yulong City, and there was nothing on her body."
Cheng Xuansu looked at his subordinates.
The secret policeman trembled slightly and gasped: "I understand, prepare the sterile room now!"
Half an hour later.
Cheng Xuansu walked out of the sterile room, holding a small glass bottle in his hand.
There was a flesh-red bead with a slight blood color in it.
"This is" The secret police officer responsible for arresting and escorting Tang Xiaoxing was suddenly sweating.
"An anti-tracking expert must also be a tracking expert.
You don't understand such a simple truth?"
Cheng Xuansu frowned and looked at his subordinates, "I carefully studied the action report you sent back yesterday.
The person who was with Tang Xiaoxing at the beginning was obviously a real master, and the team that attacked you later were also trained.
Qualified experts, do you really think that if Tang Xiaoxing fell into their hands, he would spit it out so easily?
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