Chapter 397 Unlocked
The galactic thief Yin Ran believed that she had witnessed many strange and bizarre events in her colorful career in the art of theft, and had escaped danger many times at the critical moment, but never like this, which made her feel as if her brain was being crushed back and forth by a suspended speedboat a thousand times.
"You mean, you came in all because of a little pet?"
"Nirm is not a pet."
"Oh, not pets. Can you come up with a better excuse?" Yin Ran said angrily. "We are now in enemy territory. Those rebels only want to beat us into pieces, but you are making up stories here..."
Before Yin Ran finished accusing these unreliable and lying companions, Zhang Fei turned around and said, "Nielm, you are here."
"You're listening to me..." Yin Ran said, and then she saw a furry little animal crawling out from under Zhang Fei's feet. Its fur looked soft and fluffy, it had a pair of black and bright eyes, and a pair of long furry ears like a Lola rabbit. It looked a bit like a cat and a raccoon. It trotted on the ground like a soft marshmallow jumping. When it looked at Yin Ran, all her consciousness turned blank at that moment...
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"Yin Ran! Yin Ran!"
Fei's voice barely brought Yin Ran back to her senses. She looked around in confusion, "I...was that what happened just now?"
Fei said, "You just said cute to Nirm no less than thirty times, and said incoherently that you would give anything to touch it."
Yin Ran: “…”
Zhang Fei said: "You just told Nirm that you are willing to buy all the puffs in the galaxy as long as you can touch it."
Yin Ran: “…”
Guan Yu said: "You just told Nielm that you have 26 bank accounts, and you readily reported the authentication method and password."
"What--"
Guan Yu said: "I was joking."
"..." Yin Ran glared at him, then she turned to look at Fei, "I understand how you got in. What's wrong with this abominable little thing that is so cute that it melted my brain and now I want to take it to wander the stars?"
"It's a passenger that Captain Ban brought on board. It's really cute," Fei said. "I didn't expect it to charm the rebels."
Liu Bei said: "Mr. Cat told us not to look at Nirm alone. It really makes sense."
"Thanks to you animal experts for discovering its uses now." Yin Ran said bitterly.
"So now we just need to go into the control tower and restart the console?" Fei asked.
"Yes." Yin Ran tried her best to look away from Nilm, "Now that we have this little thing that is so cute that I want to touch it a hundred times, our progress will be much faster."
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After receiving the information, Yin Ran stared at the floating screen in her hand and quickly cracked the password lock of the control tower door. But she had just started working. Fei walked to the door and operated the authentication screen. After a few beeps, the door slowly opened.
Yin Ran: “…”
Fei explained: "Because of Nirm, I got the certification authorization from that rebel."
"Okay, I get it."
They walked into the command tower. Bright light seeped through the cracks in the corners of the wall. The corridor was empty. The boots of Liu, Guan, and Zhang made a harsh sound when they rubbed against the ground. Even if they thought they were being careful enough, the reckless Gnus people naturally didn't know what it meant to sneak in carefully. On the contrary, Fei made almost no sound when she walked. She felt that Fei was the best infiltration companion. But since so many of them had already come in, the chance of avoiding the remaining rebels in the command tower was almost zero. This was not in line with Yin Ran's initial idea.
From a realistic perspective, the secret infiltration plan in her mind has completely failed.
But now we can only go inside.
Yin Ran stopped alertly and gestured to her companions. At this time, a rebel appeared in front of the corridor, holding a laser gun in his hand. He cursed and shot at them. He missed, and the laser beam cut a diagonal line on the wall. Nielm jumped in front of them. Time seemed to stand still for a while, and the rebel suddenly shouted in a sweet tone: "Oh! What a cutie!"
Nilm wagged his tail at him generously.
As if he was hit by an explosive arrow, the rebel staggered back a step, the hostility on his face was swept away, replaced by an idiotic smile, he squatted down and made all kinds of disgusting gestures to the furry little animal, and kept shouting about his wishful thinking of taking the furry little cutie for himself. In response to this inappropriate and disgusting behavior, Yin Ran walked up and hit him directly on the head. The rebel immediately fell to the ground unconscious.
She turned her head and asked, "Wait a minute, did I do as many idiotic things as this guy just now ?"
Zhang Fei laughed, and Guan Yu also laughed with his nasty teeth showing. Liu Bei and Fei politely looked away.
Damn it, damn it!
Yin Ran calmly brushed her brown hair aside. No matter what, the next infiltration should be much smoother than the original plan.
There was another flash of laser beams ahead, and when the attacker saw clearly the furry little cutie, he was knocked unconscious by Zhang Fei before he could finish his routine idiotic move.
After that, they encountered the enemy three times in a row. The first two times were smooth. Nilm used its invincible and lovely charm to make the rebels show the most disgusting and greasy performance of their lives. Until the third time, when four rebels rushed down the stairs at the same time, Nilm's appearance only made them stop slightly.
They fired at the same time. Boom. Boom. Something exploded in front of Nirm, and debris on the ground flew everywhere.
Why would these idiots fire at Nirm? Why would they fire at the cutest furry creature in the world? Yin Ran wondered, didn't they realize that the little cutie in front of them was the most unique creature in the galaxy? How dare they? How dare they?
How dare they hurt my Nirm! I will kill them!
Yin Ran threw an electric grenade at them. In the arc of electric sparks, their laser beams lost their original direction and danced in space like crazy silver snakes. The three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang raised their guns and fired forward. Three people were shot and fell to the ground. Another rebel hid behind a cover for cover. He reacted quickly and soon fired back again. Fei was almost hit.
A dazzling light shot out from the gun in Yin Ran's hand, directly disintegrating the ceiling above his head, and the collapsed building stones hit him. With a scream, several chitin fragments scattered and flew, and blue-green blood flowed out from under the stones.
Yin Ran stared at him for a while. Nilm jumped out from the flying dust. It looked unharmed, and its little paws wiped its face obediently, which was so cute that it almost made people faint. This little thing must have found an opportunity to hide just now. Smart furry. But why did these four idiots open fire on it?
"Fortunately, Nielm is fine." Zhang Fei said.
Yin Ran turned to Liu Bei and asked, "You just said that Mr. Cat reminded me not to look at Nielm alone, right?"
"yes."
I understand. Yin Ran said, "Then looking at it the other way around, Mr. Cat is actually hinting that if the target is multiple people, Nielm's cuteness won't be that strong."
Fei understood immediately, "Just now, four rebels appeared at the same time , so the effect was weakened."
"So that's how it is." Liu Bei said, touching his chin.
But even so, Nirm is the cutest little animal in the galaxy, Yin Ran thought. She glanced at the corpse underground. This was the fate of the fool who dared to attack Nirm.
After that, they did not encounter any more troublesome obstacles. They only encountered two rebels before entering the top of the tower. Under the help of Nilm's cute charm and the gun aiming of the three brothers, they surrendered obediently.
After opening the control room, Yin Ran came to the console and started to operate. Rows of complex scrolling symbols appeared on the floating panel. Fei looked at it for a while and told her that the black box had locked the control system. Even if the power was cut off, the track system could not reconnect. If she wanted to restart, she would need some time to crack it. Yin Ran found that she was not more professional than Fei in processing data, so she handed the task over to Fei.
"How long will it take?" Zhang Fei asked.
"Wait a moment." Fei said with her head down.
Liu Bei came to the monitor in the control room. From the screen, he could see the smoke and flashing pulses of weapons in the distance. The Queen's guards were fighting with the rebels. He hoped that they could all escape safely. Among those pirated queens who were used as bait was the Rites. To be honest, he certainly didn't want his companions to die, but it would be best if the sexual harasser of the Eye of Supervision could get away. In particular, getting away means that he can survive.
Being alive is better than anything.
There were flickering spots of light in the sky, and thunder rolled in the clouds. Perhaps the Xiyiqi and Saidi armies on the track had already started a war. Perhaps this flood-like war disaster could not be stopped at all. But Liu Bei, like his two brothers, had an extremely firm and optimistic mentality. They had faced hundreds of millions of Izel alien armies approaching, and they had crossed the most desperate battlefields. This time would not be more desperate than the last time, Liu Bei said to himself.
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Fei stared at the screen in front of her, and she never shifted her gaze since she stood in front of the console.
Six screens were suspended around her, and each screen was constantly displaying lines of complex data. Fei's fingers kept moving between the screens, testing, modifying, adjusting, and calculating the rune codes that were bound together and the passwords that were linked together. These operations were almost carried out simultaneously.
She was found to have an outstanding talent for numbers since she was young, and she did not waste her talent in the future. An excellent navigator and a successful information technology expert, she can keenly detect the most subtle connections in these code ciphertexts and find the best breakthrough point.
It’s almost there, she thought, it’s almost there.
She would soon be able to break through the layers of foggy code fortresses of the Black Box Society, penetrate deep into the data core, and truly crack it completely.
70%.
85%.
95%.
99%.
Cracking completed.
Fei's fingers paused, and she looked at the screen in front of her in confusion. The expected lock was not released, and nothing happened. Strange, she thought, I should have finished it.
What went wrong?
"Are you ready?" Liu Bei asked.
"It should be done...but..."
"What's wrong?" Yin Ran came over and leaned over to take a look. "What's the situation now?"
Fei said, "I'm watching... I see. I've already withdrawn the defense field. Mr. Liu Bei, please fire the flare."
An orange-yellow signal smoke bomb rose slowly from the sky. Yin Ran had specially shielded the signal bomb in advance, so that only the queen and the imperial guards could identify it.
A moment later, accompanied by the loud hum of the engine, a light airship appeared outside the window, and the powerful air wave directly shattered . "Have you finished?" asked the queen on the airship.
"One good news and one bad news," Fei replied.
"Hurry up and tell me."
"The good news is that the space defense system of Guido II has been disabled, and we can leave the satellite." Fei said, "The bad news is that the system lock uses a double setting. If we want to restart the entire system, we have to go to another node."
"Where are you going?"
Yin Ran looked at the screen and murmured, "Danzuo 45 Space Station. Okay, this is our next destination."
Zhang Fei shouted, "Can we really stop this war in time?"
"45 Danzo is near Guidos," the queen said. "There is always a chance to try. Let's go, our warriors."
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The airship flew towards the sky.
Liu Bei noticed that in addition to the queen, there were also Felice and other imperial guards in the airship, but some of the imperial guards had disappeared. Most of them were baits who had just played the role of pirated queens. Liu Bei looked at Felice with a questioning look, and Felice replied, "They fulfilled their mission."
They sacrificed their lives. Liu Bei felt an indescribable sadness in his heart. "Rites has also..."
"I'm here." Rites came out from behind Ferris, and asked with a smile that was even more idiotic than the one the rebels had given Nilm just now, "Are you concerned about me?"
Liu Bei wanted to cut off his tongue.
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The queen looked down from the cabin. Guido was an industrial heart composed of many foundries, smelting mines and research and development centers, but now the satellite was filled with thousands of fire spots. The factories that used to run non-stop were shrouded in the rising smoke and were blurred. There were countless falling objects in the sky, they were turning over and dragging meteor-like flames, which were the debris from the orbital explosion.
The devastated ground was littered with corpses, among them were subjects loyal to the queen, rebels who had been brainwashed into tools by the Black Box, and Sadis who were unaware of the truth.
It was an absurd massacre. The queen could feel the cold fire burning in her heart. The heinous crimes committed by the Black Box Society must be settled. For the sake of her innocent children, she must take revenge.
"We are about to arrive at Danzo 45 space station." Ferris reported to her.
"Your Majesty, there is no response from the space station. The communication is completely silent."
Was the space station also occupied by the rebels?
The queen stood up. She trembled slightly without being noticed, but then she hid all her anxiety and worries under a mask of fortitude and determination. "Land."
There was no more time to waste now, she had to race against time.
This was a small space station, and even if there were defenders, their number was extremely limited. The Queen decided to break through directly from the front. From entering the dock without permission to docking, they did not encounter any warnings or attacks. The space station was as silent as death. As soon as they left the dock and walked through a metal valve, dense bullets and lasers whizzed towards them. At least a dozen rebels attacked them at the end of the passage.
The imperial guards and the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang raised their guns to fight back, and the energy roared and vibrated in the closed space. Liu Bei saw two imperial guards being torn apart by the fierce firepower, but the accurate shooting of Retes made more rebels fall one by one. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not to be outdone. The Genus people have always been brave warriors. The weapons in their hands continuously sent deadly bullets into the bodies of the rebels one by one.
The queen rushed to the front, her force field whip instantly disintegrated the chitinous carapaces of the rebels, and the golden flames danced in the blood. When she stood in front of everyone, even the rebels who were completely controlled by the Black Box Society could not suppress their fear, no matter how many promises about the Supreme Sea and immortality the Black Box Society instilled in them. That was their queen, the supreme king connected to their genes.
Even if their minds were filled with crazy courage and unrealistic fantasies about the future, in front of the queen, they could only accept death like puppets being manipulated by empty hatred and real fear.
The queen stepped forward, followed closely by the imperial guard Rites and the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang. They were like a sharp blade sweeping away all obstacles in front of them.
When the Queen and her group attacked, Yin Ran and Fei Zheng quietly sneaked in from the other side. With Yin Ran's superb sneaking skills, the two of them bypassed the bloody front battlefield and went directly into the main control room.
As soon as he entered the control room, he was confronted by a rebel dressed as a technician. Nilm jumped in front of him, and he stood up and raised his paw to wave at him. The technician quickly chased Nilm out of the control room.
Fei walked over to the console and began her work.
Yin Ran asked, "How?"
"No problem. It just takes some time." Fei said without looking up, the light of the screen reflected on her face.
Links in place.
Start calculating.
A low humming sound echoed in the room.
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No, something is wrong, Fei thought to herself.
Although she was almost done cracking it, Fei always had a subtle feeling, like a thin spider silk wrapped around her fingertips. It was so subtle that it could be ignored, but there was still a slight sense of discomfort.
She scrolled back the data again, and after checking it three times in a row, an answer came to her mind.
She was not surprised, but thought to herself: This is indeed a trick of the Black Box Society.
The Queen and her entourage walked into the main control room. After the continuous battle, their bodies were covered with blood and soot.
The Queen said, "The station has been cleared. Can you restart it now?"
Zhang Fei smiled and asked, "Fei, are you okay?"
I can't tell them the answer now. Fei replied: "It's fixed, but it will take some time to reestablish the connection. I suggest we go now."
They all breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the ship along the same route they had come.
Everyone sat down on the boat, Yin Ran picked up Nilm and rubbed his face. After the continuous battles, they finally had time to catch their breath. But the system restart only meant that they could finally return to Xiyiqi relatively safely. The next step was the real showdown with the Black Box Society.
The Queen asked, "How is the communication now?"
"It's still in a state of chaos." Felice turned on the communication equipment, and the intermittent noise of electric current filled the entire cabin.
The Queen said, "I will make a statement soon. Regardless of whether the communication is restored or not, you need to play it in a loop and broadcast it to everyone. It doesn't matter who the recipient is, as long as my broadcast statement can be spread."
"As you command, Your Majesty."
The Queen nodded, and she pondered over her next broadcast.
Zhang Fei suddenly stood up and shouted, "Where's Fei?"
Guan Yu and Liu Bei also looked around: "Where is Fei?"
Yin Ran's face suddenly turned pale. "She stayed in the space station. I understand what happened."
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Fei sat in front of the main console, silently watching the data scrolling in front of her. Restarting could indeed stop the chaotic orbital defense system, but once she unlocked it, the space station would explode within seconds. If she had completed the cracking at that time, everyone including the queen would have died here.
So after making sure everyone was on board the airship, Fei quietly slipped off the ship alone.
She will complete the unlocking and restarting here alone. Her companions cannot stay here and die.
Only by restarting the system can the Zekin crew and the Queen return to Xiyiqi safely. This is the only thing she can do now.
Confirm that the airship has left the space station and reached a safe location.
Fei tapped with trembling fingers.
Unlocking starts.
She saw the data ciphertext suspended on the screen suddenly change, like a wonderfully rotating kaleidoscope, with beautiful numbers recombining. This was the prelude to everything being reborn. This was the necessary price to obtain permission.
She admitted that she was scared, her body couldn't stop shaking, and that facing death was much more difficult than she had imagined. But at least at her end, she saw such a fascinating program unlocking.
Progress 85%. She felt cold all over and her mouth was dry.
Progress 95%. The figure with long orange hair appeared in her mind.
Progress 100%.
First there was a bright spot of light, and then there was a burst of white light all around. The walls and floor were suddenly torn apart, and the control room was filled with flying debris. She saw blue flames filling everything around her. She subconsciously grabbed the armrest of the chair. The air was being sucked away rapidly.
She saw stars in the darkness.
Countless tiny dots of light were spinning above her head, like a rotating galaxy. The space station was breaking apart, and she would become a piece of dust and debris in space like it.
She was flung into a cold, unforgiving vacuum, a cry of fear forming silently in her throat.
The universe has become more beautiful than ever before, but also more terrifying than ever before.
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Then, she was surprised to find that she was still alive. Before her eyes was a wild and perverse scene that she could not even dream of. The blue flames beneath her turned into a pair of wings, and its beak hummed, like a phoenix born from the flames. The blazing flames embraced her and circled upwards in the dark sky.
It carried her through the debris that was flying like snowflakes. Through her panicked tears, she saw the space station that was constantly exploding was getting farther and farther away from her.
"Puss-bug..." Fei whispered as she hugged its body.
It carried her forward, toward the airship that contained her companions.
