Captain, your ship has exploded again.

Picard and his team were rebuffed by Zhang Xun; the negotiators failed to achieve their goal. However, Spock, who was with them, did not think so, even though most of the androids in the base did not provide telepathic feedback.

Picard, his face dark, argued with Liam, "Zhang Xun's military strength is now comparable to that of an empire! Our goals require a gradual approach, you brute! I told you long ago that Zhang Xun would never give me any face!"

Liam retorted, "So what! The Interstellar Federation is just looking at their attitude, not actually wanting to cooperate with them."

Picard roared, "Then what did you bring me here for! As a mascot?"

Liam shrugged and said, "You're just an insurance policy to ensure our safe arrival!"

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, Spock spoke up to stop them, saying, "It wasn't all for naught. At least I got from that adjutant that the giant device outside the window is a super fortress cannon."

Picard and Liam both gasped. Anything that the Vulcans called a superweapon was no easy thing to deal with.

Liam asked first, "What about the range and power?"

Spock shook his head and said, "I only sensed what kind of weapon it was from the moment the other party relaxed their mind, but afterwards all they could think about was Zhang Xun."

Picard asked curiously, "Didn't you sense anything from Zhang Xun?"

Spock shook his head: "The other person's mind is like a black hole in childhood, grabbing everything around him. I tentatively asked him if he was an omnic, but he denied it. I have never encountered this kind of mental state before."

Both felt they had to send these two messages back, but before leaving, they planned to visit the place where the other had started out, since Tianmingxing had already made a considerable fortune, and the same nebula might have yielded even greater gains.

Watching the Titan depart, Zhang Xun looked at the monitor, which showed the Titan that had just left.

"Tell the surveillance fleet to stay hidden. I'm going to capture the Vardich's Sarek alive. We've been searching for so long and haven't found them. I have to get my hands on that large teleportation generator on that ship, hehehe~"

Natal, who was taking notes nearby, looked at Zhang Xun with a lewd smile and said, "Why do I feel like you're thinking something bad?"

Zhang Xun wiped his mouth and retorted, "Nonsense! Slander! I never intended to use the teleportation gun to exploit a bug!"

"He recruited so quickly," Natal thought with a dark expression as she looked at Zhang Xun. "He's getting more and more unruly these days, even at night."

The departing Titan was unaware that it was being followed, while Picard was questioning himself. Zhang Xun's current strength meant he wouldn't stoop to lying, so his claim that he was a Federation soldier from another universe might actually be true, which would mean that Picard had pushed the other party out.

The Titan quickly arrived at the nebula. Looking at the surrounding interstellar dust, Liam was at a loss. After all, the nebula was too big, and entering it would inevitably affect the radar and greatly reduce its detection range.

However, a strange radar signal soon came through, which made Liam very happy, since the other party came from the nebula.

"Calling the other ship! I need their information."

At this moment, the adjutant replied, "There is no response from the other side! There are only two life signals, and both are in poor condition. There are obvious signs of an attack on the exterior of the ship. The shields have not been raised, and there is damage in many places on the hull. It seems that they escaped."

This pleased Liam even more, after all, the nebula, the escape, and the attack—more and more evidence suggested that the other side had encountered the Silver Star Empire in the nebula.

"Teleport them here!"

Soon the personnel from the opposite spaceship were teleported in, but both of them were unconscious. The other was in an even worse state, being teleported directly to the spaceship's medical room from a medical pod.

"Medical staff! Check on his condition!"

After summoning medical personnel, Liam looked excitedly at the unconscious young man, eager to learn about the Silver Star Empire from him. Just then, a massive spaceship appeared in front of the Titan.

Liam asked Seven in shock, "Who is that? Someone from the Silver Star Empire?"

Nine of Seven was also somewhat surprised. After checking the scan information, he said, "The database comparison did not find a matching alien ship! However, the style does not match the Silver Star Empire."

The others nodded in agreement, after all, the enemy warship looked too ugly and even quite ferocious.

The other party's communication came in: "Hello! Um~ Captain Liam Shaw!"

“It is me! But I must inform you that we are a diplomatic vessel, here in the Silver Star Empire for negotiations. According to diplomatic immunity…”

"Stop! Stop! Who told you we're from the Silver Star Empire? We're bounty hunters! We take money to do things! You took my kitten! Please hand her over to us!"

Just then, Picard discovered from the medical information on the console that the woman was Beverly Cruise, and he frantically approached the young man who had just regained consciousness.

"What is your relationship with that seriously injured woman?"

The other person replied with some confusion, "What happened to my mother?"

Picard asked, his voice trembling slightly, "Who is your father?"

"My mother has never mentioned it. Do you know my mother, old man?"

At that moment, Liam was about to have his men hand him over to the other party, but Picard stopped him and walked over to Liam and whispered something to him.

"He's Beverly's son!"

Liam, somewhat puzzled, said, "So what? Since they weren't being pursued by the Silver Star Empire, they're meaningless to us. They're just a son. Why are you still so hung up on your old flame?"

Picard growled, "Based on his age, he's very likely my child!"

Just as the two were about to argue, the spaceship's radar suddenly sounded an alarm.

The two asked at the same time, "What's going on!"

More than twenty Silver Star Empire battleships deactivated their cloaking and appeared above the two ships. Their massive forms loomed overhead like dark clouds, startling Vadich so much that he opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word.

Only when the towing beams of the three battleships were fixed on the Sarikei did she shout in terror, "Retreat! Run!"

She was well aware of the consequences. Some time ago, people from the Silver Star Empire were looking for her, which made her feel uneasy, after all, the other party was powerful and extremely cruel.

But when she discovered that the other party's intelligence capabilities were quite mediocre, she became bolder.

This adventure to the vicinity of the Silver Star Empire Nebula was also due to her collaborator, Queen Borg, who requested the capture of Jack Krasha, while simultaneously inflicting pain on the Interstellar Federation hero Picard—a win-win situation.

Just when she was about to complete the plan, Liam suddenly appeared out of nowhere. And before things were even over, the Silver Star Empire also found her. What a run of bad luck!

At this moment, the Sarike was completely fixed in place by the traction beam. Don't be fooled by the Sarike's size; it's all talk and no action. Compared to the Silver Star Empire's battleships, it's practically a child.

In her desperation, she tried every weapon on the warship, even activating the space wormhole device multiple times. However, there were too many enemy warships, and even if she cut off a few traction beams, she would still be caught by other warships.

At this moment, the communication between the Titan and the Sarike was not over. The members of the Interstellar Federation stared in disbelief as Vadich cried and wailed, as if he were about to be taken away and tortured.

The second mate beside him asked hesitantly, "Why is she so afraid?"

Nine of Seven gritted his teeth and slowly said, "If you had heard of Zhang Xun's methods, you would probably be scared out of your wits by now. After all, it was tested on more than 1.37 million lives, most of whom went insane before they died, even though they deserved to die."

The people on the Titan shuddered at the thought. Just hearing the number of people was enough to make them tremble. Could it be that Zhang Xun ate thousands of them every day as a treat?