Capítulo 1928: Chapter 1302: Ghost Signal (Turn-Based Mode Still Suits Ben ow Best)
Star Union, Boundary God Star System, Tribunal Space Station.
“Whew……”
Zhenjiling walked out of the room, stretched, and twitched her ears and tail.
“Always staying here feels a bit boring, don’t know when big brother will take Karen out to play again.”
Mumbling to herself, Zhenjiling flipped through her personal terminal at hand.
Thanks to Zhenjiling’s efforts, the Flashing Series has now beco the most famous event in the Star Union, with many Star Union residents coming to the Space Station every year to watch the flashing gas and cheer for the Horse Maidens. From this point of view, Zhenjiling’s achievents are quite good, although during the confrontation with the Dark Elves, Duanmu Huai’s series of actions caused so resistance from the Star Union against the Tribunal, most people in the Star Union still don’t reject the Tribunal.
Or perhaps, from a diplomatic perspective, is this as far as it goes?
If Duanmu Huai issued an instruction to annex the Star Union, Zhenjiling might still use other ans, but Duanmu Huai just stated that as long as they don’t provoke the Tribunal, he wouldn’t bother with it, so Zhenjiling could only maintain a certain degree of diplomatic relations with the Star Union.
Well, this is her job after all.
Thinking about this, Zhenjiling turned to go to the café to kill so ti, when the conversation between two n standing across the hallway in front of the vending machine caught her attention.
“You’re still researching that strange signal?”
“Yeah, honestly, I think it’s just sothing made up by entertainnt news, sothing that doesn’t really exist… ghost signals, all made up to scare people.”
“What do you think?”
“Maybe it’s radiation interference from a supernova explosion? Forget it, let’s handle it as just another task. Speaking of which, are you aware of the disappearance of the Quillian fleet?”
“Disappeared? Really disappeared?”
“Exactly, our research center has always been connected with the Quillian fleet, and suddenly they disappeared without a trace, nobody knows where they went. Oh, and the Jaycee on the Quillian ho planet are also missing, it’s really weird.”
Quillians?
Upon hearing this, Zhenjiling imdiately perked up her ears. She has been working on this side of the Star Union and naturally knows the situation of aliens here, the Quillians are among them. They are humanoid creatures, originally living on a normal planet, but later their designed AI rebelled and took over their planet, forcing the Quillians to leave their holand and wander through the universe on warships.
Back when the Tribunal fought against the Reapers, it was only the Quillians, who had no ho and wandered in the galaxy, that barely escaped the catastrophe.
From a certain perspective, having no ho ans not having to worry about being raided, which seems good?
After that, the Star Union beca dominant, but it had nothing to do with the Quillians, they continued wandering through the galaxy, occasionally sending people out to travel or buy so exotic items to take back. Zhenjiling had never seen Quillians at the Tribunal Space Station, they seem unwilling to co to such a place.
And now they’ve suddenly disappeared……
Thinking of this, Zhenjiling turned her eyes, smiled slyly, and went over.
“Hello there, gentlen, are you having fun?”
“Ah, it’s cute Kalian!”
Hearing Zhenjiling’s greeting, the two n were montarily stunned, and when they turned to look at the petite and adorable Horse Maiden in front of them, they imdiately showed expressions of excitent as if seeing an idol.
“Yes, it’s Kalian, hello, guests.”
“No, no, it’s our honor to be able to travel here… we’re having a great ti, really!”
“That’s good, what were you discussing just now?”
“Eh? This…”
“If you don’t mind, could you tell Kalian about it?”
Confronted by the fully open charm aura of Zhenjiling, pressing in, the ordinary n were completely incapable of resisting.
Thus, soon enough, Duanmu Huai received a report from Zhenjiling.
“Unusual activity from the Star Union?”
Staring at the screen where Zhenjiling was, Duanmu Huai was sowhat surprised, but not particularly surprised.
Needless to say, Zhenjiling’s actions were swift, and upon sensing sothing wrong, she imdiately sent soone to gather intelligence. Although Zhenjiling didn’t have the kind of formidable characters like Lumiaire who could stir up the Internet, the charm of “Cute Kalian” allowed Zhenjiling to get answers without needing the Internet, simply face-to-face.
After all, full charm is truly powerful, and she knows how to use it.
Following Zhenjiling’s investigation, a strange incident surfaced.
Firstly, starting so ti ago, the Star Union began receiving a strange signal, no one could clearly say what the signal was, and that signal was specially processed, extrely hidden, and its source couldn’t be tracked. This signal itself didn’t have any impact on the Star Union, at most just brought so noise and interference during superluminal communication.
However, a signal appearing out of nowhere, especially an encrypted one, naturally needs investigation.
The Star Union initially suspected it to be remnants of the Jaycee, after all, if one were to say who is the best in electronic encryption, the pri candidates would be the Jaycee AI.
But they certainly couldn’t go looking for the Jaycee since after the Reaper war, most of the Jaycee nearly got destroyed, and the few remaining stragglers disappeared. Although the Star Union has been searching, this Star Territory is so vast, as robots, the Jaycee could settle on any planet.
Thus, the Star Union’s pursuit gained little result.
They suspected this signal was related to the Jaycee, so the simplest way was to find their creators, the Quillians.
Although the Quillians wander the world, due to their large fleet needing supplies and maintenance, even after suffering heavy casualties in the Reaper war, a part of their fleet survived. Their whereabouts have always been under the control of the Star Union.
Finally, when the Star Union sent people to seek the Quillians’ help, they were surprised to find the Quillian fleet had disappeared.
The reason Zhenjiling suspects this has sothing to do with the signal is because the Star Union has a clear record of the Quillian fleet’s resupply date. According to the last record, the Quillian fleet disappeared just when that mysterious signal appeared.
Could the Quillian fleet have sothing to do with this signal?
“I knew these damned Aliens couldn’t be trusted. We should have exterminated them all back then.”
Duanmu Huai snorted coldly.
“Where did they go? The mass transmitters have been destroyed. If they want to leave the Galaxy, they can only use the Stargates.”
“According to the Star Union’s investigation, the Stargates do indeed have departure records for the Quillian fleet, but their destination is a coordinate in an unexplored area… Out of caution, the Star Union dispatched the Normandy to track them.”
“Any news?”
“None at the mont.”
Zhenjiling shook her head. She is a civilian in the Tribunal and is not qualified to mobilize the military, or rather, the only ones she can mobilize in her Space Station are the Night Guard and the Angel Demon. So Zhenjiling has no authority to dispatch the Tribunal Fleet to search for where the Quillian went; only Duanmu Huai and Aikute have that power.
“Hmm……”
Duanmu Huai touched his chin. Strictly speaking, this doesn’t seem like anything major, but the sudden disappearance of the Quillian fleet gives Duanmu Huai a bad feeling.
And as a Deity, his intuition is quite accurate most of the ti.
“Give the coordinates. I’ll have Aikute send a reconnaissance fleet to see what those Aliens are up to and about that signal… Hmm, Lumiaire should be able to handle it.”
“Alright, big brother.”
It turned out that indeed, so matters should be handled by professionals.
Ten minutes after Duanmu Huai summoned Lumiaire, the latter had successfully deciphered the mysterious ghost signal.
However……..
“This seems to be so sort of calling signal, adaptive in nature, so it’s impossible to capture precisely.”
“Calling? Can you trace the origin of this signal?”
“Of course… although the other party carefully relayed through several layers, they ultimately retained signal characteristics, and I’ve locked down the signal origin.”
“Oh? Where is it?”
Soon, a string of numbers that seed quite familiar to Duanmu Huai ca out from Lumiaire’s mouth.
“…… I feel like I’ve heard that number sowhere before?”
“It’s the location where the Quillian fleet headed earlier… big brother.”
Zhenjiling looked exasperated, having just explained it.
“Oh, right, that’s the place. So indeed, those Aliens are up to so mischief.”
Duanmu Huai patted his forehead.
“Beep – – – – – -!”
However, at that mont, an alarm suddenly sounded, and simultaneously, Lumiaire’s expression changed slightly.
“What’s going on?”
“The mysterious signal has significantly intensified!”
“Intensified? What impact does it have?”
“Not currently, it seems to be just a communication signal… We have intercepted the communication log, let decode it…”
As she spoke, Lumiaire reached out and placed her hand on the keyboard. Instantly, Duanmu Huai saw strings of code flashing rapidly across the screen before her — sothing inexplicable to Duanmu Huai, but he didn’t need to understand it, he only needed the results.
“Decoding complete.”
Lumiaire reached out and tapped a key, and soon a data packet opened with broken text inside.
[…please##…please wait###…please wait…]
[Unforeseen enemy protocol activated]
[Unlock all functions… Assimilate synthesis unit… Analyze internal database…]
[Warning: Galactic damage reached catastrophic levels, infected by organic and non-submissive chanical civilizations]
[Begin execution of galactic purification… Activating purification center…]
………..
???
What the hell is this trying to do?
Seeing this, Duanmu Huai was montarily stunned, then imdiately issued an order.
“Prepare to depart, I want to see what the hell is going on!”
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