How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 36 The ship man didn’t think about anything, he was just eating cookies
Lan Malok leads his team on a "mission."

He sent a small team to intercept the Imperial tax fleet leaving the port of Jestal, a civilized world, and requested to inspect the cargo in the entire fleet in the name of searching for possible fugitives.

Judging from the time it took for each team to send back communications, it seemed that they might have encountered some difficulties after boarding the ship, but Lan Malok didn't care. He only asked his soldiers to complete the mission.

These contacts reported some administrative or armed institutions that the empire established 1 years later that they were unaware of, as well as some local specialties (grain, dried vegetables, local spices) used by Jestal to offset the tithe. , a few expensive handicrafts and luxuries, etc.), some very un-imperial ship facilities and a mess of so-called "state religion" personnel.They had obviously had some minor friction with the political officials on these ships, but for Ranmallock, he only cared about the outcome of the mission.

No trace of the fugitive was found by any of the teams, which is also a very common result in pursuits and investigations.Ranmallock shouldn't have been upset about this, but he just had a strong feeling that "something was wrong."

He thought about the whole process again: they decided to hunt down the fugitives, they jumped into the subspace following the fugitives' traces, they encountered a subspace storm, they found a way to return to the physical universe only to find that 1 years had passed. Relying on the fragments of short-range communication waves scattered in the universe to piece together the current situation of the empire, they...

No, wait a minute, relying only on intra-system communications in this remote star region, can they sort out the current situation of the empire in such detail?

In addition to the logically unreasonable problems, he also had a vague feeling that he had forgotten something.

This feeling that something was wrong made him a little restless, and when a Dark Angel Firewing Grand Master was restless, it was easy to be almost paranoid and start looking for the source of his restlessness.

As soon as he started thinking about it, he discovered more and more things that were wrong: Why did he only stop the tax fleet leaving the port instead of blocking the entire airport?Why was he so sure that the fugitives the Dark Angels were hunting were on this fleet?After all, after they left the subspace, they found that 1 years had passed. Why did he still conclude that the fugitive they were chasing was still alive?Even encountered the same subspace storm?Also landed on this planet?

There was something wrong with the whole thing.This made Ranmallock couldn't help but nervously inquire about all his actions after the Lion's Mane jumped out of the subspace - the subspace storm destroyed the ship's Geller position, and some inexplicable and unexpected things happened on the ship. The accident should be told. He suspected that these... things still left some impact after the ship left the subspace.

Ranmarok probably knew what was going on, but these things should not be spread widely, even within the Dark Angels.And the entire crew of the ship besides him was supposed to be subject to a similar investigation - but that was more work than he could accomplish quickly alone.If possible, he hopes that the insiders of this investigation can be limited to a specific inner circle to which he belongs. However -

——However, he suddenly discovered that a very unreasonable entry appeared in the Lion's Mane's communication record: a short-range communication from the Emperor's Dream was received, and the timestamp showed that this event occurred 26 Terra Standard Time ago.

If such an important communication was received, then any crew member on the Lion's Mane, whether a warrior Astartes or a mortal auxiliary, should know that the matter should be reported immediately and left to his final decision.

The problem is that this communication record has been marked as "processed", but he has no impression of this matter at all.
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"If the 'man in charge' on the Dark Angel ship really sends a communication asking what is going on, I will first laugh at him to his face."

Yago Savitarion uttered heroic words in the main control room of the Storm Frontier, and in exchange for Fujimaru standing huddled on the chair next to Somni, holding hot milk, and looking particularly golden from a psychic perspective Xiang didn’t object very strongly:
"You are just expressing your anger." She pointed out objectively, "Before I told you that this person's name is Lan Malok, you didn't even know his name, and you most likely never met him directly."

"What does it matter? Laughing at the jailer is one of the few interesting entertainments in any prisoner's boring life." Saiweita defended, "A young lady like you will definitely not understand, but please don't deprive us of having fun. means."

"But you are no longer a prisoner?" Fujimaru Ritsuka said in a matter-of-fact tone, "By the way, I haven't had time to discuss this matter with Conrad yet: If there are other Night Lords on that ship, I think it's better to just put them away Also save it from the hands of the Dark Angel."

Savita was speechless for a moment, and carefully looked up and down to see if Ritsuka was sitting or not, and then said after careful consideration: "Yes, yes, but..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka frowned and put down the cup: "Are you worried that your legion brothers will get in Conrad's eyes again, or do you think I can't talk this matter down with the Dark Angel?"

Sevatar didn't speak, but shrugged strangely, trying to brush the question away.Ritsuka was a little bit tempted to hold on, but a holographic light screen that Somni pulled over from her side caught her attention.

"Thank you, Somni." She leaned towards the light screen and read carefully for a few seconds, and then her tone became obviously cheerful, "I'm just saying! 17 years old is the grade that should go to school!"

Savita, who was usually free of major emotional fluctuations, also showed obvious surprise: "Found it?"

"Alita's student registration. Here." Ritsuka turned the light screen in the direction of Sevatar with his hand, regardless of the fact that he was not nearby - anyway, Astartes' eyesight was enough for him to see the information attached to the student registration. Electronic photos of:

With straw-colored hair, fair skin, and a little freckles on her face, there was no doubt that she was the Alita he remembered.But this was obviously not the Alita he knew: the girl's appearance in the photo was more supple than in his impression, and there was an obvious vitality that had not been destroyed by the painful reality, and a more obvious vitality.Savita's heart was filled with mixed feelings.

"...Can the dead also be resurrected?" It took him a long time to barely hold back such a question, so that the atmosphere would not be completely cold. "That 'human science re-editing' that rewrites the history of the singularity can't Does it matter?"

"This cannot be said to be resurrection. The technology that can completely resurrect the dead without side effects is not something that humans can reach in my knowledge... But the Emperor seems to be able to do it, so the psionic thing is really Very cheating."

Fujimaru Ritsuka dragged the light screen back, and while studying the address information on Alita's academic record, he explained, "Alita is still alive simply because the past has been changed. There is no such thing as 'you killed her' It happened, so of course she is alive.”

"...Then, the people who died in the singularity...?"

"Not everyone can survive. Although it is natural for the 'present' to change because the 'past' has been tampered with, what is very annoying is that the 'unborn' are created based on subspace. Entities are not bound by the rules of linear time.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka gritted his teeth when he said these words: "If the demons take away the souls in the singularity and let them escape to the subspace, the reconstruction of events in the real universe will not be able to affect them——' The incident of souls being taken away has already happened. The devil itself holds the corresponding souls as the best evidence. Therefore, in the corresponding time after the event is reconstructed, the souls of these people will automatically disappear. In reality, The person involved will naturally die for various reasonable reasons."

She turned her head and glanced at Sevita: "Speaking of this, Alita's ability to survive like this is thanks to your decision to burn her together with the soul-stealing demon: since the 'cat box' cannot be opened after it is opened, If it proves her death, then she is naturally alive,"

Savita's already heavy mood was further complicated by these words.

Fujimaru Ritsuka obviously sensed the other party's mood, but she did not say any comforting words. Instead, she asked directly: "I'm going to play with her later, and I've agreed that she will treat me to round wheat next time we meet. Do you want to Come together?"

"Hmm...?" Saiweita was confused, "But we have no intersection with her in history after the 'Re-editing of Humanity', so she shouldn't remember you and me, right?"

"That's right? Is there any problem?" Li Xiang was very experienced on this issue. "Then let's just treat it as the first meeting and get to know each other again. That's what 'fate' is. Someone has to take the initiative to go there." One step forward!"

"...Even so, then your agreement to 'treat me to eat round wheat' never happened. Even if you go to find the other party, Aelita will not fulfill it."

"Don't be so rigid. It's normal for girls who meet and go shopping together for the first time to buy some snacks and eat them together on the way." After confirming the specific coordinates, Fujimaru Ritsuka happily drank up the milk in the cup and confirmed to Savita again. "Aren't you coming along?"

"...No, I'd better forget it." The famous Prince of Crows actually showed a bit of timidity under this situation, "I'll wait here for contact from the Lion's Mane."

Ritsuka shrugged indifferently, took a piece of biscuit from the plate in front of Somni - this plate of biscuits was brought here after breakfast the day before, and has not been touched yet - and held it in her mouth. He left happily with his empty glass.

The two remaining people in the main control room looked at each other.Savita felt that he had nothing to say to this "thing" that was wearing the shell of the Forbidden Army but was not the Forbidden Army. Somni obviously did not have the ability to actively speak out and enliven the atmosphere, so the scene immediately cooled down visibly to the naked eye.

The atmosphere quickly turned from silence to embarrassment, and Savita could not help but start to think about whether she should forcefully initiate a topic, but at this time, Somni moved.

He stretched out his hand and picked up a small biscuit from the plate in front of him, raising it to about the position of his mouth - and then using some means, he made the biscuit disappear out of thin air in front of his fully covered face armor. .

Then, the clearest chewing sound came from the golden helmet. During this period, Somni returned to his original, almost sculpture-like posture, and stood motionless in place again, just in the direction of the eyepiece. Look at Sevita.

The First Captain of the Night Lords was not sure how he should interpret this behavior. After all, it was impossible for human thinking to speculate on the thoughts of a ship.But even if he didn't interpret it, he would still have some emotional reactions triggered by this inexplicable behavior.

Simply put, Sevatar was a little pissed off.

(End of this chapter)