Walk alone in the abyss

Forerunner No. 3 was tied up while sleeping.

Not only did she fail to develop power, her own protection work was also a mess.

This made Yang Ming even more suspicious...

The real forerunner number three is hiding behind this woman?

Yang Ming was not in a hurry, and continued to let Feinan hover at the outer edge of the planet, observing the development of the situation.

Lil has secretly sent small drones into the planet's atmosphere.

The three criminals stunned the No. 3 forerunner, moved them into the trunk of the suspension vehicle, and headed towards the no-management zone on the edge of the city.

The process of their plucking people can't be said to be familiar, it can only be said to be smooth and smooth.

"It's also a professional talent."

Yang Ming pursed his lips and muttered, while Lu laughed beside him without saying a word.

"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 push the bricks away, you will generally not notice their tracks."

Yang Ming asked, "Are there many criminals in Luofeng today?"

"The vicious criminals have all been punished, and Luofeng's crime rate is now below the level of the Milky Way," said Lu Huan, "The imperial system retains the death penalty, which is a good deterrent, and the few people in front of us, they In the end, there is a high probability that they will spend their old age in prisons equipped with gymnasiums and audio-visual rooms."

"A prison in name," Yang Ming sighed softly.

Li laughed and said, "Form is paramount, this is a very common phenomenon."

They chatted without saying a word. On the projection screen, the hover car gradually drove into the edge of the city and turned into an abandoned warehouse.

The monitoring screen is interrupted by the lack of equipment.

The small detection drone that Lü previously released had appeared over the warehouse, and the angle of view of the projection screen was switched to a bird's-eye view, and the rendered replacement model was used to represent several humans active in the warehouse.

Their calls and internet have been completely monitored by Law.

Yang Ming watched carefully for a while, those people seemed to be fiddling with some kind of equipment, and brought the No. 3 forerunner into a container, and tied it to a chair.

"Law, what are they doing?"

"It's a brain wave detection device," Li Huan said, "it's like a lie detector, it's an old device, they obviously want to interrogate this woman."

"Keep the drones close, they have no defenses."

"Yes, boss."

Law immediately operated, and the picture became clear. When the drone landed steadily above the warehouse, the sound in the warehouse was also fully captured.

They are indeed interrogating.

The captured young woman, the No. 3 pioneer who came out on her own initiative, had already begun to cry bitterly after the simple intimidation and continuous electrocution by several criminals.

"A boss wants to see you, you'd better cooperate obediently, otherwise we will let you enjoy the pain you suffered just a hundred times."

The young woman nodded repeatedly, tears streaming down her face.

A convict brought in a stereoscopic projection and set it in front of the young woman.

Afterwards, the criminals put earphones on the young woman, bowed their heads and quickly left the container, tens of meters away from the container.

Yang Ming, who was far away on the bridge of Feinan, lowered his voice subconsciously at this moment: "Try to see if you can locate the source of the communication."

"Good boss."

Law agreed, and the projection disappeared.

In the warehouse and the container, a virtual image appeared in the stereoscopic projection, and the deep baritone floated out, echoing in the woman's earphones and the bridge of the Feinan:

"I think those few friends of mine have already made you feel enough threats."

"Let me go...please..."

The young woman trembled: "I don't know anything, I really don't know anything."

"The universe is the abyss," the baritone asked, "do I need to remind you more?"

"It's just, it's just what I saw in my dream," the young woman cried, "I've been dreaming for no reason since a few years ago, and I often feel like a different person, always seeing these things , I... my psychiatrist told me that I was suffering from paranoia."

"In a dream?"

The baritone fell silent.

The woman continued to shout: "I really, really, saw those messages by accident. These messages are exactly the same as what appeared in my dreams. I don't think I'm sick. I don't think I'm sick..."

"Calm down," the baritone continued, "tell me, what did you see in your dream? What is your deepest memory? The explosion of a planet?"

The woman nodded vigorously.

"The plot in the game failed, the planet was destroyed in reality, the ninth natural disaster..."

She uttered a series of words with no logical connection.

Minter City, the back seat of a speeding luxury car.

Allison listened carefully with his headphones on, and he quickly noticed something was wrong.

Several countries on the planet could not unify their opinions, resulting in disputes and internal friction?

His home planet was clearly united, and the coalition government fought against the ninth natural disaster, although it also failed tragically in the end.

this?

Allison suddenly asked, "How many people are there on the planet in your dream?"

"Okay, it seems to be 4.6 billion," the girl tied in the container replied tremblingly.

Alison leaned back and fell silent.

More than one low-level civilization was destroyed and then made up for the exam?

The old man I saw before...

broken!

Alison's complexion 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, Alison first felt an inexplicable sense of insecurity, and then a burst of anger.

He was tricked by another forerunner!

Alison took a deep breath, quickly adjusted his thinking, kept himself calm, and continued to question the third forerunner.

Obviously, this is a forerunner who failed. When the other party merged his consciousness, he lost to the original consciousness of this body.

Alison immediately thought of several key words.

Civilized competition, the strong survive and the weak are eliminated.

He felt that it was necessary for him to gain an in-depth understanding of this civilization in order to gain an early intelligence advantage.

"Very good," the baritone voice echoed in the woman's earphone again, "I need more information, as long as you cooperate, not only will I not harm you, but I will also give you enough benefits."

The young woman nodded quickly.

"I will definitely cooperate."

...

In the Feinan.

Yang Ming looked at the rendered picture on the projection screen with a complicated expression.

Failed pioneer?

If he had failed in the competition with Hanton's consciousness, would he have become like this?

It is regarded as delusional disorder and neurosis.

This is somewhat ironic.

"Boss, I didn't expect that there would be pioneers who couldn't compete with the ordinary people of the galaxy civilization!"

Law's projection appeared again, softly admiring:

"I thought that the chosen forerunner must be an extremely determined fighter."

"Your Ranger teacher said that the forerunners are all randomly selected," Yang Ming spread his hands, "How is the investigation over there?"

Law pondered a few times: "I can only roughly determine the location of the other party, that is, in which part of Minte City, I can't lock the equipment used by the other party. The technical team of the other party has done a good job of defense."

"After all, it's the new Federation, so don't force yourself too much."

Yang Ming picked up the cold coffee, and took a sip from his mouth.

The young girl said the transliterated name of a planet, and it was also the first time Yang Ming heard the name of an Earth competitor.

Semistar.

It was a planet with two natural satellites and an extremely beautiful natural environment. It was carefully protected by the Semi people's civilization for tens of thousands of years, and was finally smashed to pieces because of a game.

The young girl also uttered these words:

"I don't know why I have so many memories, but I feel, I feel... maybe this planet is calling for me.

"I don't know how to help them, they have been attacked by evil forces, maybe I should go to the international court, in fact, I sent several emails asking for help, but never got a reply.

"I have been trying for several years to find the Semi star and its outer port. I have seen most of the map of the Milky Way. I searched for administrative stars one by one, but I couldn't find this planet... Is this true? A catastrophe happening on this planet?"

The virtual projection of No. 2 Forerunner did not answer directly, but fell into deep thought.

Yang Ming watched this scene, and said in a low voice, "Will he kill someone to silence him?"

"Can't judge," Ritsu responded softly.

The deep baritone sigh of No. 2 Forerunner came from the projection screen, and the avatar disappeared instantly.

After a while, the criminals got the news and rushed into the container.

One drew a laser pistol.

In Feinan, No. 1 forerunner Yang Ming watched this scene with a frown.

In Minter City, No. 2 Forerunner Alison's fingers were trembling slightly. He stared at the picture on the small screen in front of him, watching the tearful pleading of the young woman.

She was just implicated innocently;

She was even thinking about helping the planet she saw in her dream;

The sense of failure residing in her brain has almost the same fate as her own, and they should actually empathize with each other...

Alison slowly moved his fingers away and leaned back on the seat. At this moment, there was a little tenderness and touch on that resolute middle-aged face.

He suddenly raised his hand and tapped the button.

Feel sorry.

For the sake of their respective civilizations, he can only make such a choice!

On the screen, the laser pistol fired dark purple light bullets, and the young woman had a blood hole on her forehead, her expression was still terrified and disbelieving.

Allison closed his eyes tightly.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that all this was not a game, the world around him was vivid and bright, and the red lights on the roadside billboards were a bit dazzling.

"Mr. Congressman, we will arrive at our destination soon."

Alison rubbed his face to get himself back to normal, and said with a smile, "Slow down."

"Okay sir, you have to control your emotions."

"Understood," Alison said impatiently, "Why are you nagging more and more?"

The elderly driver could only smile wryly.

...

Forerunner Two killed Forerunner Three.

Yang Ming, who had seen a lot of life and death, was somewhat speechless at the moment.

It may be because the "similar" was killed, which made him a little uncomfortable; this No. 2 pioneer who hid in the new federal Minter City also managed to get Yang Ming's disgust.

"Let's go back."

Yang Ming said: "This time the harvest is good, I know the existence of Semistar."

"Boss, I detected a weak magnetic field just now," Lu said softly, "This may be a trace of high-dimensional civilization activities, but the change in the magnetic field is too small for me to detect."

"Huh?" Yang Ming wondered, "Is it possible that the No. 3 forerunner is not dead?"

"Yes, Ritsu's intuition is so."

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 data and action trajectories of the criminals had been synchronized by the law to the organization that maintained law and order on the administrative star.

Go catch it now, it happens to be the scene of the murder.

On the way back, Yang Ming made a simple table by hand, arranging the three low-level civilizations that had appeared.

Contestant No. 1: Earth, with a population of 8 billion and a civilization level of 0.75.

Contestant No. 2: Unknown, with a population of more than three billion people, and a civilization level of 0.9.

Player No. 3: Semixing, with a population of 4.6 billion and a civilization level of 0.95.

Law looked at it for a while, and whispered: "Boss, if you ignore the level of civilization - as you said before, the technological power of low-level civilization is not worth mentioning, your home planet is actually quite powerful."

"What strength?"

"There are a lot of people," Lü pointed to the eight billion population mark, "Population is the most powerful resource in interstellar voyages! With a large population, there will be enough players, as long as everyone unites under the pressure of planetary destruction , it’s possible to pick two.”

Although he knew that Lu was trying to comfort him, Yang Ming still accepted it gladly and did not poke any loopholes in Lu's words.

The 8 billion advantage is to me, but Yang Ming is actually just having fun while he is suffering.

"Let's see later," Yang Ming muttered, "I think No. 2 is the strongest right now. They are all soldiers and have more than three billion players... Uh, it seems that children can't use equipment, so there must be two billion players. Players, this number is terrifying, it is several times more than the number of players in the first trial on my home planet!"

"You don't have to be too pessimistic, it's man-made."

"Okay, let's stop discussing this, and continue to collect all-round information related to the Faya civilization and the forerunners... After we go back, we will pick up 026 to board the ship. This matter is set as top secret, and only you and I have permission to know."

"Yes, boss."

"How is Hera's body?"

"It's nothing serious, I've been monitoring in real time," Li Zheng said quickly, his voice suddenly froze, and he frowned slightly.

The projection screen in front of Yang Ming switched screens, and a pitch-black spaceship suddenly jumped out and was slowly sailing past a white dwarf.

"Boss, the detectors we have placed all over the Luofeng territory have just observed this ship. It is a bit weird and has entered the Luofeng border."

Yang Ming frowned slightly.

The pitch-black ship, the portholes have no light, and there is no energy shield outside.

This is……

This is?

He had a bit of an impression, as if he had seen a similar scene in the expansion pack of "The Abyss", this seems to be...

"Law, calculate the landing point of this warship," Yang Ming's voice did not fluctuate, "The Feinan returns at full speed, and the Luofeng Empire has a first-level security, let Edwan go to the refuge area."

"yes!"

Law immediately carried out the order, and after issuing the order, he asked in a low voice, "Boss, what's the matter?"

"Where's its course?"

"Facing Ilando."

"Don't let it get close to Ilandor," Yang Ming said calmly, "Let Dabic and Gudun Maha mobilize more than half of the main battleships to search in its direction, and attack directly when they find it. This is Zerg Its assimilation battleship, its sole function is to determine the jump coordinates."

Law was taken aback.

Zerg going to attack Luofeng?

"Boss, Miss Hera's experiment!"

"Fly Hera's transport ship to the border of Luofeng."

"yes!"

Lu's figure disappeared in a flash, Yang Ming tightly pursed his lips, leaned over and quickly tapped the operation panel in front of him, setting the route and jumping ahead of time.

In the black box, the eyes of the examiner, who was leisurely admiring the beautiful scenery of the sea of ​​stars, brightened.

There is a war?

That would be great, and the whole preliminary examination process will be much easier.

Even though it's late...