Chapter 170 Loser
Pioneer No. 3 was kidnapped while he was sleeping.
Not only did she fail to develop any power, her own protection was also a mess.
This made Yang Ming more suspicious...
The real Forerunner No. 3 is hiding behind this woman?
Yang Ming was not in a hurry. He continued to let the Feinan hover outside the planet and observe the development of the situation.
Law has secretly sent a small drone into the planet's atmosphere.
The three criminals knocked out Pioneer No. 3, moved him to the trunk of the hovercraft, and headed towards the lawless area on the edge of the city.
The process of recruiting people cannot be said to be easy, but it can be said to be smooth and flowing.
“This is also considered professional talent.”
Yang Ming curled his lips and muttered, while Lu smiled but said nothing.
"This kind of criminal organization actually exists everywhere," Lu said softly, "They are like cockroaches hiding in the cracks of bricks. If you don't remove the bricks, you generally won't notice their traces."
Yang Ming asked: "Are there many criminals in Luofeng now?"
"The vicious criminals have been punished. The crime rate in Luofeng is now below the level of the Milky Way," Lu said slowly. "The imperial system has retained the death penalty, which is a good deterrent. As for the people in front of us, their final fate is likely to be to spend their old age in a prison equipped with a gym and an audio-visual room. "
"A prison in name only," Yang Ming sighed softly.
Lu smiled and said, "Formality comes first. This is a very common phenomenon."
They chatted intermittently, and on the projection screen, the hovercraft gradually drove into the edge of the city and turned into an abandoned warehouse.
The surveillance footage was interrupted due to lack of equipment.
The small detection drone that Lu had released earlier has appeared above the warehouse. The projection screen switches to a bird's-eye view and begins to use rendered replacement models to represent the several humans active in the warehouse.
Their phone calls and internet access have been completely monitored by the law.
Yang Ming looked carefully for a while. Those people seemed to be fiddling with some instruments. They brought Pioneer No. 3 into a container and tied him to a chair.
"Lil, what are they doing?"
"It's a brain wave detection device," Lu said slowly, "It looks like a lie detector. It's an older device. They obviously want to interrogate this woman."
"Keep the drones close, they don't have any defense system."
"Yes, boss."
Lu took immediate action and the picture became clear. When the drone landed steadily above the warehouse, all sounds inside the warehouse were captured completely.
They were indeed interrogating.
The captured young woman - the pioneer No. 3 who showed up on her own initiative - had already started to cry bitterly after being simply threatened and subjected to continuous electric shocks by several criminals.
"A boss wants to see you. You'd better cooperate. Otherwise, we will make you suffer the same pain you just suffered a hundred times."
The young woman nodded continuously, tears streaming down her face.
A criminal brought a stereoscopic projection device and placed it in front of the young woman.
Afterwards, the criminals put headphones on the young woman, lowered their heads and quickly left the container, staying several dozen meters away from the container.
Yang Ming, who was far away in the bridge of the Feinan, subconsciously lowered his voice and said, "Try to locate the source of the communication."
"Okay boss."
Lu agreed and the projection disappeared.
Inside the warehouse and container, a virtual image appeared in the stereoscopic projection, and a deep baritone voice floated out, echoing in the woman's headphones and the bridge of the Feinan:
"I think you have already felt threatened enough by my friends."
"Let me go...please..."
The young woman trembled and said, "I don't know anything. I really don't know anything."
"The universe is the abyss," the baritone asked, "need I remind you more?"
"This is just what I saw in my dream," the young woman shouted. "I started having dreams for no reason a few years ago. I often feel like I have become a different person. I always see these things. I...my psychiatrist told me that I have delusions."
"In a dream?"
The baritone sank into a deep thought.
The woman continued to shout: "I really, really did see that information by accident. This information is exactly the same as what appeared in my dream. I don't think I'm sick. I thought I wasn't sick..."
"Calm down," the baritone continued, "and tell me, what did you see in your dream? What do you remember most? The explosion of a planet?"
The woman nodded vigorously.
"The plot in the game failed, the planet was destroyed in reality, the Ninth Disaster..."
She spoke a string of words that had no logical connection.
Mingte City, the back seat of a speeding luxury car.
Allison was wearing headphones and listening carefully, and he soon noticed something was wrong.
Several countries on the planet are unable to reach a consensus, resulting in disputes and internal friction?
His home planet was clearly united, and the coalition government fought against the Ninth Calamity together, although it was a tragic defeat in the end.
this?
Allison suddenly asked, "What is the population of your dream planet?"
"Well, it seems to be 4.6 billion," the girl tied in the container replied in a trembling voice.
Allison leaned back and fell silent.
More than one low-level civilization was destroyed and then retaken?
That old man I had seen before...
broken!
Allison's expression changed slightly. He raised his head suddenly, looked at the driver and the mechanical security guard in the front seat of the luxury car, and forced himself to calm down.
At this moment, Allison first felt an inexplicable sense of insecurity, and then a surge of anger.
He was fooled by another pioneer!
Allison took a deep breath, quickly adjusted his thoughts, kept himself calm, and continued to question the third pioneer.
It is obvious that this is a failed pioneer. When the other party was merging consciousness, he was defeated by the original consciousness of this body.
Allison immediately thought of several key words.
In the competition among civilizations, the strong survive and the weak are eliminated.
He felt that he needed to gain a deeper understanding of this civilization in order to gain an early intelligence advantage.
"Very good," the baritone voice echoed in the woman's headphones again, "I need more information. As long as you cooperate, not only will I not hurt you, I will also give you enough benefits."
The young woman nodded quickly.
"I will definitely cooperate."
…
In the Feinan.
Yang Ming looked at the rendering on the projection screen with a complicated expression.
A pioneer of failure?
If he had failed in the competition with Hanton's consciousness, would he have ended up like this?
People regard him as having delusions and being mentally ill.
This is somewhat ironic.
“Boss, I didn’t expect there would be a forerunner who can’t compete with ordinary people of the galactic civilization!”
Lu's projection appeared again, praising softly:
"I thought the chosen pioneers must be warriors with extremely strong wills."
"Your Ranger teacher said that the pioneers were selected randomly," Yang Ming spread his hands, "How is the investigation going over there?"
Lu groaned for a few seconds and said, "We can only roughly determine the opponent's location, that is, in which district of Mingte City, we can't lock the equipment used by the opponent. The opponent's technical team has done a good job in defense."
"After all, it's the New Federation, so there's no need to force it."
Yang Ming picked up the cold coffee and took a sip.
The young girl said the transliterated name of a planet, and it was the first time that Yang Ming heard the name of Earth’s competitor.
Semicin.
It was a planet with two natural satellites and an extremely beautiful natural environment. It had been carefully protected by the Semi civilization for tens of thousands of years. In the end, it was directly shattered because of a game.
The young girl also said:
“I don’t know why I have so many memories, but I think, I think… maybe this planet is asking me for help.
“I don’t know how to help them. They are under attack by evil forces. Maybe I should go to the International Court of Justice. In fact, I sent several emails asking for help but received no response.
"I have tried for several years to find Semi and its outer port. I have looked at most of the maps of the galaxy and searched every administrative planet, but I still can't find this planet... Is this true? A disaster that happened on this planet?"
The virtual projection of Forerunner No. 2 did not answer directly, but fell into deep thought.
Yang Ming watched this scene and whispered, "Will he kill to silence the witnesses?"
"Can't tell," Lu responded softly.
The deep baritone sigh of the Second Pioneer was heard from the projection screen, and the virtual image disappeared instantly.
After a while, the criminals got the message and rushed into the container.
One of them pulled out a laser pistol.
In the Feinan, Pioneer No. 1 Yang Ming watched the scene with a frown.
Inside the city of Minter, the second pioneer Allison's fingers were trembling slightly. He stared at the picture on the small screen in front of him and saw the young woman's tearful plea. He could not press the button that would decide the girl's life or death.
She was just innocently implicated;
She was even thinking about helping the planet she saw in her dream;
The failed consciousness that resides in her brain has almost the same fate as hers, and they should empathize with each other...
Allison slowly moved his fingers away and leaned back in his seat. There was a hint of tenderness and touch on his resolute middle-aged face.
He suddenly raised his hand and slapped the button.
Feel sorry.
For the sake of their respective civilizations, he could only make this choice!
On the screen, the laser pistol fired a dark purple light bullet, and a bloody hole appeared on the young woman's forehead, but her expression was still one of fear and disbelief.
Allison squeezed her eyes shut.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that this was not a game. The world around him was vivid and bright. The red so bright that they were glaring.
"Mr. Congressman, we are almost at our destination."
Allison rubbed his face to regain his composure and smiled, "Drive slower."
"Okay sir, you need to keep your temper under control."
"I see," Alison said impatiently, "Why are you nagging more and more?"
The elderly driver could only smile bitterly.
…
Forerunner No. 2 killed Forerunner No. 3.
Yang Ming, who had witnessed many life and death situations, was somewhat speechless at this moment.
Maybe it was because his "kind" was killed, which made him feel a little uncomfortable; this No. 2 pioneer hiding in the New Federation Minter City also successfully gained Yang Ming's disgust.
"Go back."
Yang Ming said: "This time the harvest is good, I know the existence of Semi Star."
"Boss, I just detected a weak magnetic field," Lu said softly, "This may be a sign of the activities of a higher-dimensional civilization, but the change in the magnetic field is too small for me to detect."
"Hmm?" Yang Ming wondered, "Is it possible that Pioneer No. 3 is not dead?"
"Yes, that's Ritsu's instinct."
Yang Ming pulled the square rudder, and the Feinan began to turn around and sail towards the starry sky.
The drone was controlled by the law to destroy itself, and the criminal information and movement trajectories of those criminals were synchronized by the law to the organization that maintains law and order on this administrative planet.
If we go to catch him now, we'll just be at a murder scene.
On the way back, Yang Ming made a simple table, arranging the three low-level civilizations that had appeared.
Player No. 1: Earth, 8 billion people, civilization level 0.75.
Player No. 2: Unknown, population of more than 3 billion, civilization level 0.9.
Contestant No. 3: Semi Star, with a population of 4.6 billion and a civilization level of 0.95.
Lu watched from the side for a while and muttered quietly: "Boss, if we ignore the level of civilization - you said before that the technological strength of low-level civilizations is not worth mentioning, your home planet is actually quite powerful."
"What strength?"
"There are so many people," Lu pointed at the 8 billion population mark. "In interstellar navigation, population is the most powerful resource! A large population will generate enough players. As long as everyone unites under the pressure of planetary destruction, it is possible to fight one against two."
Although he knew that Lu was comforting himself, Yang Ming still accepted it with pleasure and did not expose the loopholes in Lu's words.
What the heck, the 8 billion advantage is mine? Actually, Yang Ming is just trying to have fun while suffering.
"We'll see later," Yang Ming muttered, "I think No. 2 is the strongest right now. They have a ragtag army of over 3 billion players... Well, the kids don't seem to be able to use the equipment, so there must be 2 billion players. This number is too terrifying, several times more than the number of players during the first trial on my home planet!"
"Don't be too pessimistic. Everything depends on human efforts."
"Okay, let's not discuss this anymore. Let's continue to collect all kinds of information related to the Faraya civilization and the Forerunners... We have to pick up 026 on board when we return. This matter is classified as top secret, and only you and I have the right to know."
"Yes, boss."
"How is Hera doing?"
"It's nothing serious, I've been monitoring it in real time," Lu Zheng said quickly, his voice suddenly pausing and his brows slightly frowned.
The projection screen in front of Yang Ming switched images, and a pitch-black spaceship suddenly jumped out, slowly passing near a white dwarf star.
"Boss, the detectors we placed in various places in Luofeng just observed this ship. It's a bit strange and entered the border of Luofeng."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
The ship was pitch black, with no light from the portholes and no energy shield outside.
This is……
This is?
He had some impression that he had seen a similar scene in the expansion pack of "The Abyss". This seemed to be...
"Lv, calculate the course and landing point of this warship ," Yang Ming's voice was calm, "Feinan returns at full speed, and the entire Luofeng Empire is on level one alert. Let Edwang go to the refuge area."
"yes!"
Lu immediately followed the order, and after issuing the order, he asked in a low voice: "Boss, what's wrong?"
"What's its heading?"
"Directly facing the star Yilanduo."
"Don't let it get close to Ilando," Yang Ming said calmly. "Have Dabich and Gutonmaha mobilize more than half of the main battleships to search in the direction where it is. Once found, attack directly. This is the Zerg assimilation battleship. Its only function is to determine the jump coordinates."
Lu was stunned.
The Zerg are going to launch a surprise attack on Luo Feng?
"Boss, Miss Hera's experiment!"
"Fly Hera's transport ship to the Falling Winds border."
"yes!"
Lu's figure disappeared in a flash. Yang Ming pursed his lips tightly, leaned over and quickly tapped the operating panel in front of him to set the route and jump in advance.
Inside the black box, the examiner who was leisurely admiring the beauty of the sea of stars suddenly had his eyes lit up.
Is there a war?
That's really great, the entire preliminary examination process will become much simpler.
