Him and their stars

"Many people think that people are alive, but they are actually dead. Many people think that people are dead, but they can always survive." The woman in a thick cloak opened her hood and looked at the people in front of her with scrutinizing eyes. , revealing brown skin and chiseled facial features, and those agate eyes were full of exhaustion, but still bright.

It’s not the Queen of the Erro people, the Great Khan of the Predator Empire, the culprit of the “Great Crusade in the Dawn Star Territory”, Queen Tomitelli, but who else could it be?

Now, the sea-trapping documents about her have been lost all over the universe. You know, humans are a bit face-blind to other races except themselves. If there is any alien face that ordinary human citizens will definitely remember, it must include the Great Khan Tommytelli.

"It is indeed her." Miss Fantine, the deputy leader of the Black Snake Pirates, looked at the opponent's face through the mask of the power mecha, and sent a positive answer to Captain Plank. But despite this, she still pointed the Vulcan cannon in her hand at the Great Khan's thin body, holding the lightsaber in her right hand.

Behind her, dozens of tough pirates with live ammunition also assumed the same battle-ready posture, holding their breath as if they were facing a formidable enemy. In fact, we can't blame them for putting on such a show. After all, this is just an inconspicuous star system located on the branch line of the New World Highway. There are no habitable planets. On average, the number of ships passing here every year is less than double digits.

It was also here that the ship of the Black Snake Pirates finally met the Great Khan Tommytelli. However, the latter's final signal was actually on a dwarf planet that couldn't even hold air.

The pirate ship finally landed on a ring somewhere in the northern hemisphere of this small planet, and saw a small aircraft. Most of its head was buried in the gray planet surface, leaving only half of its engine.

And the Great Khan of the Eero people, who had the most notorious reputation for centuries, was just wearing a cloak and exposed to the vacuum environment, like a ghost floating in the universe.

The pirates who travel across the sea of ​​stars spend much more time in the claustrophobic space of a spaceship than on a down-to-earth planet. They have heard many kinds of supernatural legends about the universe and are naturally more superstitious. The current scene is actually very close to the scary stories they usually hear. If Captain Planck and Miss Fantine didn't still have some prestige among the pirates, these gangsters wouldn't even land.

However, under the leadership of Miss Fantine, the number one thug on the ship, the pirates landed fully armed and slowly surrounded each other.

The current time is Galactic Standard Time, May 2, Community Year 833. The Queen of the Erro people and the Great Khan of the Marauders, Tomitelli, finally appeared in front of everyone again after losing contact for half a year.

In fact, as early as a month ago, the Black Snake Pirates Group, which had been hiding in secret, had received messages from the other party on the secret channel. However, for the sake of safety, Captain Plank was fully prepared and took all the capable old gangsters with him. They boarded the only "legal merchant ship" in the fleet, the Bonhomme Tom Daddy, and carefully sailed along the New World. The road goes all the way.

They originally thought that they might find a spacecraft that had lost its energy and was drifting for help at the edge of a certain galaxy, but they never expected that it would be like this.

Looking at the pirates who were facing formidable enemies, the Eero man who called himself the Great Khan was completely unconcerned and said in a frank and sincere tone: "Don't worry, I am not a space ghost. Although the future universe, I don't know. Is there still room for our ethnic group to survive? But I am still a living Elo man."

I have never seen a living Elorian who can stand directly in the universe and speak in a vacuum environment. thought Mademoiselle Fantine.

But at this moment, the figure of the Great Khan in front of her suddenly swayed, and then disappeared completely like a ghost.

Starting from Miss Fantine, all the pirates' hair stood on end - although many alien races did not have hair - and they were almost about to shoot. Then, the aircraft buried deep in the soil in the distance suddenly shook, and the half-exposed engine trembled, and then completely collapsed on the spot like a building block toy.

When the engine, which was half pulled out of the ground, transformed from a whole body into building blocks, and then from building blocks into "cells" that were difficult to identify with the naked eye for a while, the gray rock and soil also burst open on the spot like a lake where stones had been smashed into it. The blurry figure just walked out from behind the rock and soil.

The pirates became even more nervous and still tightened their grip on the triggers of their weapons. However, they can be regarded as the core veteran gangsters in the Black Snake Group, and they can at least deserve a well-trained evaluation. Faced with such a strange scene, they still did not fire rashly before getting the order.

Deputy Captain Fantine can see more. Her mecha is actually a second-hand heraldry machine saved by the captain for herself, and it is also equipped with an advanced high-frequency imaging detector. Through the image in the window, she clearly saw the Great Khan Tomitelli in a gray robe walking out of the smoke. But immediately, those mechanical cells that were invisible to the naked eye covered her body one by one, forming a space-powered mecha with elegant lines.

This scene was also transmitted to Captain Plank above through the deputy commander's mecha camera.

"It seems that you have gone through a lot since you disappeared last time!" Captain Plank sighed: "In any case, Black Snake welcomes your arrival. We will continue to fulfill our obligations as an ally."

He has a handsome appearance and a warm and magnetic voice. He is more like a well-trained and aristocratic publicist than an experienced pirate. In fact, he is very suitable for being a white face.

However, Miss Fantine could only act red-faced, and looked at the Great Khan who stood in front of her, wrapped in a mecha, and said in a deep voice: "Is this a show of force?"

Of course, this reaction is not completely proven. You know, Miss Fantine saw with her own eyes that the aircraft buried in the crater had also disappeared due to the incident just now. Of course it didn't disappear, but collapsed and reorganized, turning into the power armor worn by the Great Khan.

However, the aircraft, no matter how small it is, should be more than 20 meters long, but now it has directly turned into a piece of power armor with a visual height of no more than three meters.

Such a scene has subverted her understanding of science and common sense. Although Miss Fantine was a psyker with a great future, she had always been the most common-sense and scientifically literate person in the entire crew.

Just reduce the size, how can you reduce the quality? Uh, space folding? Or some more powerful nano-armor?

The Great Khan may have noticed the other party's doubts, so he immediately sent a very normal electromagnetic wave short-range communication request through a normal communication terminal.

After Miss Fantine hesitated and connected, she received the following words: "Madam, this is actually a display. I still have value."

"Your words really make us feel ashamed." Miss Fantine said: "Please come with me. The captain has been waiting for a long time."

Twenty minutes later, Khan, who had lost his territory and army, arrived on the bridge of the Good Tom Daddy. She calmly took off her power armor, which was transformed into a spaceship, and allowed the pirates to send it to the warehouse for strict supervision. She then went to the captain's room showing herself to be defenseless and full of flaws. Get ready to chat and laugh with Captain Plank.

But even so, the pirates were still very worried.

Miss Fantine, the second in charge, said to the captain in private: "You told me before that the Great Khan Tomitelli was an explorer? The 'path starter' of the Five Rings? That's not much better than me, right?"

In fact, it is two links stronger than Miss Fantine, but the "exploration" star link's strengths are exploration, observation and discovery, and it is true that it is not good at frontal combat.

"However, I can no longer feel the spirituality in her body at all, and even her own breath is insignificant. She is unfathomable now!"

Of course, Deputy Captain Fantine is just a "Ranger" from the Third Ring Road after all. What she calls "unfathomable" cannot go any deeper no matter how deep it is. However, it can at least show that for the big guys on the Papa Tom, this Eero woman is quite dangerous even if she is unarmed and alone.

Tom Dent, the third boss of the Black Snake and the old captain of the Papa Tom, also suggested: "I will bring fifty useful gunners to guard the door? If the captain is alive, he only needs to break the cup as a sign. Then they swarmed him and chopped him into pieces?"

"If she really becomes a saint, no, even if she only has five rings, then five hundred people will not necessarily be her opponent. And it will only damage the ship first. The Candide is the only legal merchant ship in our fleet... …Wait a minute, you’re a serious businessman, and you’re still a member of the Standard Shipping Association? Why are you talking nonsense here and there every day?”

"It's because I have been a serious businessman all my life, and I have wanted to say this line for a long time."

"Anyway, don't be too nervous. She no longer has her territory and army, and she has no reason to be against us."

Captain Plank felt that he was also an upright hero, so he directly welcomed the dusty Great Khan into the house, and also brought out the fine wine and food that had been prepared long ago. Anyway, the Aero people can be considered a type of demi-human, and their nutritional needs are very close to humans. If you really can't digest it after eating it, you can just take some medicine.

The Great Khan was not polite at all. He drank three glasses of sweet sugared rock wine and ate some food. The fatigue on his face eased a little, and he said with a smile: "I have nothing now. The country, An army, a people, and a dream. But, Captain Plank, I still have life."

Captain Plank swallowed, feeling that he really shouldn't have said this with a smile. However, just because the other person was smiling, he felt even more chilled in his heart, and for a moment he really wanted to smash his cup to the ground.

"Since I still have life left, I have to think about how to use it." She paused, with a warm smile on her face: "Captain Plank, the nano armor I brought back, Can you see it?"

"I've seen it. It's such a miraculous creation! I never thought that you have mastered such a technology?" the captain sighed.

The Great Khan laughed heartily, laughing so hard that he seemed to be crying: "Stop saying such insincere flattery, Captain Plank. I will think you are mocking me. If I If you really master this technology, will you lose everything?"

Planck thought, I said it politely, and if you respond politely, wouldn’t it be nice to end up happily? Isn’t it interesting to have to chat to death? If you really lose everything, it must be because of low emotional intelligence.

But at this time, Great Khan Tomitelli said again: "So, Captain Plank, do you want this kind of armor?"