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Chapter 1304 Ghost Signal (Turn-based system is still suitable for me)

Star Alliance, World God System, Inquisition Space Station.

"call……………"

Zhen Jingling walked out of the room, stretched, and shook his ears and tail.

"It's a bit boring staying here all the time. I don't know when big brother will take Kallen out to play again."

While muttering to himself, Zhen Jiling flipped through the personal terminal at hand.

Thanks to the efforts of Zhen Ji Ling, the Flash Series has now become the most famous event in the Star Alliance. Many Star Alliance residents come to the space station to watch the annual Flash Competition and cheer for the horse girls. From this point of view, Zhen Ji Ling's performance is quite good. Although Duanmu Huai's series of actions in the fight against the dark elves made the Star Alliance have a lot of resistance to the Inquisition, most people in the Star Alliance are still not resistant to the Inquisition.

  Or, is this the limit we can go from a diplomatic perspective?

If Duanmu Huai gave instructions to annex the Star Alliance, Zhen Jiling might have used other means, but Duanmu Huai just said that if the Inquisition did not provoke it, he would ignore it, so Zhen Jiling could only maintain a certain degree of diplomatic relations with the Star Alliance like this.

But this is also my job.

Thinking of this, Zhen Jiling turned around and planned to go to the cafe to kill some time. At this moment, the conversation between two men standing in front of the vending machine across the corridor caught her attention.

"Are you still studying that strange signal?"

"Yeah, to be honest, I think that's just something made up by some entertainment news. In fact, there is no such thing at all... Ghost signals are all made up to scare people."

"What do you think?"

"Maybe it's the radiation interference caused by the supernova explosion? Never mind, let's just treat it as a job. By the way, do you know about the disappearance of the Quarian fleet?"

"Missing? Really missing?"

"Yes, our institute has always been in contact with the Quarian fleet. Before, they suddenly disappeared without a trace, and we don't know where they went. Oh, by the way, the Geth on the Quarian home planet also disappeared. It's really strange."

  Quarians?

Hearing this, Zhen Jiling immediately pricked up her ears. She had been working for the Star Alliance and naturally knew the situation of the aliens here. The Quarians were one of them. They were humanoid creatures. Originally, the Quarians lived on a normal planet, but later the AI ​​designed by the Quarians rebelled and occupied their planet. The Quarians had to leave their homes and wander around the universe on warships.

When the Inquisition fought against the Reapers, only the Quarians, who had no home and were wandering around the stars, barely escaped.

  From a certain perspective, not having a home means your home won’t be robbed, which doesn’t seem bad, right?

After that, the Alliance was the only one in power, but it had nothing to do with the Quarians. They still wandered between the stars, occasionally sending people out to travel, or buying some rare things back. The Real Smart had never seen the Quarians in the Inquisition's space station, and they seemed unwilling to come to such a place.

And now they suddenly disappeared...

Thinking of this, Zhen Jiling's eyes turned and he came over with a smile.

"Hello, two guests, are you having fun?"

"Ah, it's the cute Kallen-chan!"

Hearing Zhen Jiling's words, the two men were stunned for a moment. When they turned their heads to look at the petite and cute horse girl in front of them, they immediately showed excited expressions as if they had seen their idol.

"Yes, it's Karen. Hello, guests."

“No, no, no, it’s our honor to travel here… We’re having a great time, really!”

"That's good. So what were you two talking about just now?"

"Hey? This..."

"If you don't mind, can you tell Karen about it?"

Faced with the cute aura of Zhen Ji Ling who was pressing forward, the two mortals had no way to resist at all.

Therefore, Duanmu Huai soon received a report from Zhen Jiling.

"Any unusual movement from the Star Alliance?"

Staring at Zhen Jiling on the other side of the screen, Duanmu Huai was somewhat surprised, but not particularly surprised.

It has to be said that Jin Ji Ling acted very quickly. After realizing that something was wrong, she immediately sent people to collect information. Although Jin Ji Ling did not have a ruthless character like Lumiel who could call the shots on the Internet, the charm of "cute Kallen-chan" allowed Jin Ji Ling to get the answer directly from the person in person without going through the Internet.

After all, full of charm is really strong, and she knows how to use it.

According to Zhen Jiling's investigation, a strange thing surfaced.

First of all, the Star Alliance has received a strange signal since some time ago. No one can tell what the signal is. Moreover, the signal has been specially processed and is extremely hidden, so it is impossible to trace its source. The signal itself has no impact on the Star Alliance. At most, it just brings a little noise and interference during the superluminal communication.

It's just that such a signal appeared inexplicably, and it was encrypted, so it naturally needs to be investigated.

The first thing the Star Alliance suspected was that it was the remnants of the Geth. After all, if we were to say who was the best in the field of electronic encryption, then the Geth group of AI would naturally be the first choice.

But of course they couldn't go looking for the geth, after all, after the Reaper War, most of the geth were destroyed, and the only two or three remaining kittens were nowhere to be found. Although the Star Alliance has been searching, the star field is so large, and the geth are robots, so if they really want to be cruel, they can stay on any planet.

As a result, the Star Alliance's pursuit has not yielded much results.

They suspected that this signal was related to the Geth, so the easiest way was naturally to find their creators, the Quarians.

Although the Quarians were wandering around the world, their fleet was large and needed supplies and repairs. Even after the Reaper War, the Quarians suffered heavy casualties, but some of their fleets still survived. And their whereabouts were naturally always under the control of the Star Alliance.

As a result, when the Star Alliance sent people to seek help from the Quarians, they were surprised to find that the Quarians' fleet had disappeared.

The reason why Zhen Jiling suspected that this matter was related to the signal was because the Star Alliance had clear records of the dates when the Quarian fleet replenished its supplies. Judging from the last records, the Quarian fleet disappeared when the strange signal appeared.

Could the Quarian fleet have something to do with this signal? "I knew these damned xenos were untrustworthy. I should have killed them all."

Duanmuhuai snorted coldly.

"Where did they go? The mass transporters were destroyed. The only way for them to leave the system is through the star gate."

"According to the Star Alliance's investigation, the Stargate did have a record of the departure of the Quarian fleet, but their destination was a coordinate point in an unexplored area... Out of caution, the Star Alliance sent the Normandy to track them."

"is there any news?"

"nothing now."

Zhen Ji Ling shook her head. She was a civilian in the Inquisition and had no right to mobilize the army. In other words, the only people Zhen Ji Ling could mobilize were the Night Guards and angels in her space station. Therefore, Zhen Ji Ling had no right to send the Inquisition fleet to search for where the Quarians had gone. Only Duanmu Huai and Ai Kote had this power.

"Um……………"

Duanmu Huai touched his chin. Strictly speaking, this didn’t seem to be a big deal, but the sudden disappearance of the Quarian fleet gave Duanmu Huai a bad feeling.

As a god, his intuition is pretty accurate most of the time.

"Give me the coordinates. I'll have Aikote send a reconnaissance fleet to see what the aliens are up to. And that signal... well, Lumiel should be able to handle it."

"Okay, big brother."

It turns out that some things really need to be done by professionals.

Ten minutes after Duanmu Huai called Liumi'er, the latter had successfully cracked the mysterious ghost signal.

However……………

"This seems to be some kind of calling signal, which is adaptive, so it cannot be captured accurately."

"Calling? Can you find the source of this signal?"

"Of course... Although the other party was very cautious and passed through several layers of transit, the signal characteristics were still retained. I have locked the source of the signal."

"Oh? Where?"

Soon, a line of numbers that seemed quite familiar to Duanmu Huai came out of Liumi'er's mouth.

“……………I seem to have heard this number somewhere before?”

"That's where the Quarian fleet was heading to before... Big Brother."

Zhen Jiling was speechless, he just explained it to me.

"Oh, yes, that's it. So as expected, those aliens did something weird."

Duanmu Huai patted his forehead.

“Tit——————!”

However, at this moment, the alarm suddenly sounded, and at the same time, Lumiel's expression changed slightly.

"what happened?"

"That mysterious signal has increased significantly!"

"Enhancement? What are the effects?"

"Not at the moment. It seems to be just a simple communication signal... I have intercepted the communication records. Wait for me to decode them..."

As she spoke, Lumiaire reached out her hand and placed it on the keyboard. Then Duanmu Huai saw lines of code popping up quickly on the screen in front of her - well, Duanmu Huai couldn't understand this stuff, but he didn't need to understand it, he just needed the result.

"Decoding completed."

Lumiaire reached out and tapped on the keyboard. Soon, a data packet was opened, and then intermittent text appeared in it.

【………Please##………Please wait###………Please wait………】

[The Unexpected Enemy Protocol has taken effect]

[Unlock all functions... Assimilate synthesis units... Analyze internal database...]

[Warning: Galaxy damaged to catastrophic levels, infected by organic and noncompliant mechanical civilizations]

[Start the galaxy purification... Start the purification center...]

.....................

???

  What the hell are you trying to do?

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai was stunned for a moment, and then the next moment, he gave the order directly.

"Get ready to go, I'm going to see what the hell that is!"