Him and their stars

Captain Nemo stood there with a stiff expression for nearly half a minute, then he smiled bitterly and said, "I thought that since it is a space city built in the Fortress of the Enlightened, at least, at least..."

"At least it should be a little bit sacred, elegant, and solemn?"

Captain Nemo nodded vigorously: "This thing is really, really..."

"It really fits the stereotype of a gathering place for smugglers and pirates?"

Captain Nemo continued nodding. "And it also fits my stereotype of plunderers. No, plunderers wouldn't be like this. These pirates, these gangsters, bah, are simply bandits. Bah, they are not even as good as bandits! Bah, they are not even as good as plunderers! I have seen the Unity Fortress, it is much cleaner than here."

Most of the structure of that ancient fortress is actually hidden under a rocky body, but the parts occasionally exposed to the outside world still retain the dignity that an enlightened being should have.

Yu Lian felt that Captain Nemo was a little biased. The plunderers had occupied the Unity Fortress for less than half a year, while the pirates had occupied and managed the Great Freedom City for hundreds of years.

If that can be called "management".

This is like a lazy fat otaku who doesn't care about his appearance, doesn't do housework, and lacks basic housekeeping skills. Even if he is given a 300-square-meter villa with a garden and a swimming pool, perhaps he can maintain basic housekeeping standards in the first few days after moving in. But after all, human nature is hard to change. It is better to expect that the fat guy's laziness can be replaced by diligence and thrift than to expect that they can really find a three-dimensional wife.

It is only a matter of time before the Dabie Desert is turned into a garbage dump where no one can even walk, and it is only normal that the sacred ruins of the Enlightened One are directly turned into a shantytown.

In short, expecting the underworld to have any social governance and management capabilities is probably like expecting a fat, unloved otaku to clean up his house and invite a bunch of three-dimensional girls home for a party.

...Or in other words, compared to the fat dead otaku, the underworld at least has some hope of being saved.

At least once you enter the city, there are laws and order. No matter how many hatreds there are outside the city, they must be restrained inside the city. In addition, the city managers do send people to regularly conduct safety inspections of the nest areas composed of various blocks, clear out some overly dangerous elements, and rest walls, domes, and various pipes.

They even planned the main blue zone of the fortress into a functional area within the municipal square, and would organize parties from time to time.

The Umbar lion-faced gunners and the jackal mercenaries of Kigya, who were irreconcilable in other star regions, could sing and dance rap in the town square of this pirate city. Even the representatives of the predator warlords could say good morning to the representatives of the human intelligence agencies with a sanctimonious smile and even make some deals.

This has a bit of the flavor of universal civilization and racial community. Who dares to say this is not governance?

In fact, the reason why the Great Freedom City looks so messy is mainly because there are too many illegal buildings. After all, most of the areas of the fortress have not been unlocked, and the residential areas seem to be stretched. However, the universe needs a transit station for smuggling routes, a paradise for lawless people, a "free port" that is not (directly) controlled and managed by various countries, and a habitable base in this huge abyss nebula.

Therefore, this mysterious fortress must be utilized.

In order to satisfy the increasing number of heroes, we had to use local materials and rebuild it on site.

There is no other way. The fortress itself is surrounded by various illegal reconstructions, most of which are marked as dangerous red zones. It is impossible to provide available living space for everyone.

Even within some areas where the general structure has been determined, it is said that there will occasionally be defense protocols of ancient civilizations, as if they suddenly awaken like ghosts.

For example, a rotating laser net would pop up without warning in a certain corridor, vaporizing any smugglers who happened to pass by into charred shadows on the wall. A porthole would suddenly open and suck a confused pirate into the vacuum, leaving him dead like star dust.

The above death traps are still marked on the black market map and sold to adventurers at high prices.

However, Yu didn't waste a penny back then. As a psychic, if he didn't even have the ability to predict danger, he would have died countless times in the war ten years ago.

In comparison, he actually spent a lot of money on Internet traffic.

To Yu Lian, this ugly Great Freedom City was actually a real treasure land. He lived and took refuge here, bought an expedition ship for the rest of his life, made a few good friends, and went on several grand expeditions.

When Yu Daxia left, his contribution to the exploration of Da Zi Zai City was already ranked in the top five, and his pseudonym was engraved on the golden plaque in the city square. The C area of ​​the fortress in the city was finally classified as a blue zone, which was a favor he made to his brothers on the road.

Of course, the only regret is that when Area C was opened for sale, Yu Lian was already ready to leave.

Therefore, he spent all his time in the Great Freedom City in the nests on the outer armored plates. This really was the result of previous generations planting trees.

Yu Lian sighed for a moment. With his eyesight, he had even found the nest where he lived from the real-time picture.

However, this sighing only lasted for a few minutes.

He then realized that he really had no intention of going to that city to chat and laugh with his "old" friends.

All that is in the past. He is now just an emotionless general who only wants to obtain more information and decide the next destination of all the soldiers on the ship.

Reason told me that I should move to New Shenzhou with the automatic dreadnought now.

However, another voice deep in his heart told him that now that he had learned the news about the Bazin fleet, he could not sit idly by.

Yu Lian found that he was actually expecting Feifei to give him an answer.

"New Shenzhou 2 is about to enter the Great Freedom City." The first mate issued a report.

Somewhere in the main body of the fortress of Da Zizai City, in the middle of two armored plates, red and blue lights suddenly flashed. That was of course the signal guiding the New Shenzhou 2 to enter the port.

In addition to those illegal block buildings that serve as temporary piers and berths, this Great Freedom City certainly also has a regular star port, which is also the only star port within the main blue zone of the mysterious fortress, but its capacity is limited and only VIPs can use it.

Obviously, the new Shenzhou 2 is enjoying this treatment.

Not only that, the pirate city not only shut down its shield, it even sent out six medium-sized warships that looked fairly presentable, and formed a formation in front of the entrance to the star port, as if they were acting as a guard of honor.

If you look closely, you can see that the capitals of these six ships are sprayed with images of dancing elves, little angels playing musical instruments, doves of peace holding olive branches, etc. It is obvious that they are used to doing this kind of work.

“If time wasn’t limited, they would have prepared welcome signs in Earth’s common language,” said Yu Lian.

Obviously, it should be Feifei who gave new instructions on the new Shenzhou 2.

She will definitely come back with good news, and during this process, my work here must of course continue.

Captain Nemo then ordered the Silence to turn and quietly entered the stardust in the outermost ring of the galaxy. After making sure that it was far away from the observation range of the Great Freedom City, it lifted the "mirage" state.

The good news is that because the stealth mode has been lifted, the warship's most energy-consuming equipment has stopped running. The energy scale displayed on the terminal has naturally stopped falling at a high speed.

The bad news is that because the battleship was immersed in the outer ring nebula of the star system, it automatically activated the deflection shield. Of course, it was just the most common energy shield, and it could be turned off manually, so it would not cause any additional burden.

The even better news is that the "autonomous energy array" on the terminal began to flash a vibrant green light.

It was like an incredible electric shock, like a miracle. It was a green light with different meanings that flashed through life.

...In short, this may indicate that the Silence has really begun to enter the stage of autonomous charging.

Regardless of the outcome, everyone's expectations for the ship were growing. Without waiting for Captain Nemo's order, they continued to work enthusiastically on the next step of exploration.

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Afterwards, the monitoring array also captured more intensive communication signals. Needless to say, that was of course the natural reaction of the Great Freedom City. It can be imagined that the intelligence agencies and informants of the major forces in the city must be very busy now.

The communications team had already taken their positions. The person in charge reported to Yu Lian that most of the signals collected so far were encrypted using very simple means and were easily cracked, but at least 20% of them were encrypted using quantum locks. This should be the military intelligence department of a major country.

Even for them, it takes time.

Yu Lian thought that this was actually because his comrades were not yet accustomed to the new equipment.

As we all know, the best way to crack the encryption of communication signals is never to steal keys, analyze codes to unlock data, or use some suspenseful spy methods or a flash of inspiration from a hacker boss, that is, the so-called great power to make bricks fly.

Logically speaking, the computing power of the terminal on the Silence is ahead of others by more than one era.

"In fact, we are ahead by more than one dimension." The projection of the girl in gray flashed on the podium, and the flowing data light bands wrapped around her translucent skirt.

"However, if the operation cannot be ahead of the others by one dimension, how can the performance be brought into full play?"

Well, she was mocking the backwardness of the carbon-based monkeys again... well, or rather, worse than the monkeys. After all, humans are not one dimension ahead of monkeys, at least they are Paramecium.

"Moreover, your biological characteristics and mental information have been linked to Fina. Now you can directly control the bridge equipment with your mind." Gray Wind stroked his long silver-gray hair in a very humane way: "Then why not do it?"

Yu Lian glanced at her and said, "If I do this, I won't be able to do anything else."

"Yes, you will become a very promising human-machine interface. Of course, you can stop at any time."

"Forget it, one ship girl is enough. Ship boys and the like really don't fit my aesthetic." Yu Lian glanced at Xiao Hui and found that she was wearing a sailor suit this time, but because the hem of the skirt went past the knees, it became the traditional special forces uniform of the gangsters.

To be honest, she looks like a pretty bad girl, which is quite consistent with Xiao Hui's personality, but she is not dressed like a ship girl after all, and she immediately showed a look of disappointment.

Yu Lian added: "I still like to see my comrades busy at the operating table. It brings back the flavor of life."

Xiao Hui pouted: "You are so hypocritical."

You are not qualified to say that. Yu Lian responded with a contemptuous sneer.

Xiao Hui sat on the railing, crossed her legs, and didn't look charming at all, just a carefree girl. "Very good, if you don't do it and I don't do it, the equipment will have to reduce its dimensionality to adapt to the user's ability. They are also very difficult."

"In other words, before the dimension of life is upgraded, it is impossible for everyone to bring out the full performance of this ship?" Yu Lian seemed to be talking to himself.

"It will get better and better. This is the work of civilization guidance." Xiao Hui shook his finger.

"Does this mean that only when a psychic reaches my or Feifei's level can it be considered an upgrade in the dimension of life?" Yu Lian thought of the "life level" description on the shipboard terminal when binding the commander's authority.

"Wow, sometimes I really envy you carbon-based creatures, you can always show off yourselves from strange angles." Xiao Hui was amazed, but did not give a direct answer: "But, I am not familiar with psychic energy."

She changed the angle of her crossed legs and added, "Although people can use nanomachines to simulate psychic energy, they are really not familiar with psychic energy. Oh, because of this... um, Wide Silence, now even the techniques above the seventh ring can be simulated. But, I am really not familiar with psychic energy. However, brother Yu Lian, the improvement of life dimensions has never mattered to individuals or groups. Strong is strong, and ascended is ascended. The improvement of body, energy and information is objective and materialistic. If it is idealistic, shouldn't you ask yourself?"

Yu Lian looked at Xiao Hui, who was dressed like a little gangster but was as wise as a philosopher, and said gratefully, "It is really my great luck to dig you out."

"Thank you. Although your words sound like you are describing a mummy, I will just take it as a compliment."

Yu Lian nodded and directly entered the state of "let me think it over".

"You can just say it directly. Carbon-based monkeys are secretive by nature. Sometimes they can make progress, but sometimes they are always as stubborn as a stinking neutron star aggregate. I never doubt that you will have crazy and stupid ideas, and I will not hesitate to ridicule you anyway."

Yu Lian nodded slightly, and then smiled with relief: "So, my omnipotent Gray Sister, if I really order our Silence to do something crazy, what should I do?"

"For example? Attack the empire's homeland, or go straight to the sky realm?"

Yu Lian did not answer, but his expression, which was pretended to be calm and composed, was filled with the madness and bravery of all living things that were full of vitality.

Xiao Hui looked at the other party with a half-smile: "Ahaha, I am sorry for saying too much. The international disputes of this generation of civilization are not within the scope of my work. I am just fulfilling my duty as a friend to remind you that this Silence is not invincible. Ahaha, of course, speaking in a narrow sense."