Him and their stars

On the other side, setting off at the same time as Yu Lian, there were also a group of seamen from the Shibao Ship Group... ah no, a group of "righteous people" anyway.

They will also be divided into two parts. One part will be led by the newly promoted first-class knight, Sir Gong Aogong, and will travel with the imperial fleet. The destination will be the Jingsen Star District of the empire, which is Suliuka. The fiefdom of the Wang family.

Gong Ao already had a title and military rank, and he also officially became King Suliuka's retainer. Most of the more than 20,000 battle-hardened veteran bandits under his command will be directly accepted by the guards of the feudal prince's palace. From then on, they can eat the rice of the Suliuka royal family, which is equivalent to eating the imperial grain of the empire. . The rest of the people have also been accepted by the royal family's enterprises and estates. If they are not willing to be court hawks, becoming court workers is also a good choice.

As for the last group of people, they will temporarily accompany the community task force led by Yu Lian. However, after leaving the Nebula Channel, the task force will continue "west" into Alliance territory. The Shibao citizens who boarded two large transport ships and an immigration city ship (captured from the plunderers) would go "south" and pass through several countries including the Circassian Kingdom. The territory of "Friendly Neighbors" enters the Community from the border of the New Atlantis Sector. The escort along the way will be provided by regular mercenary troops with a good reputation. After entering the community border, the escort work will be taken over by the cantilever fleet stationed in New Atlantis, that is, the Seventh Fleet.

If all goes well, this immigrant fleet of more than 400,000 people should arrive in the New China star region in August and start their new life.

Since there is no need to make another detour in the direction of the Alliance, the voyage will naturally only take half the time.

Although they were about to part ways, Gong Ao was not worried about everyone's safety at all. After the Battle of Snake's Lair, these "righteous citizens" became the darlings of the media. Not to mention anything else, the King Gong, no, Sir Gong himself, has been interviewed by NOB and Imperial Sky TV. After all, he was the first combat hero to launch a formal assault on the snake's lair, and his record of being the first to lead a team to penetrate the armor outside the snake's lair has since been known throughout the galaxy.

Although this guy looks ugly, he is a psychic after all, and his temperament and appearance are very recognizable. Once you accept this setting, you can still accept him as the darling of the media industry. In this case, as long as he and his subordinates are really willing to be down-to-earth and diligent people, they will definitely have a good death.

Therefore, the "righteous people" of the Shibao Ship Group were indeed a little sad about farewell, but in fact it was not much. Master Fu Xin, the fourth master of Shibao, is also the talker of the immigration ship group. He also humbly asked Yu Lian if there were any better investment directions in New China now. He wanted to completely imitate the model of Hongfeng Factory. , to provide Shibao immigrants with a real collective enterprise that they can live in the sun.

Although Yu Lian didn't understand why the other party would come to him to ask about investment issues, because the other party's attitude was very sincere, even if it was just for the sake of the Omnic Brotherhood, he still needed to give him a little face, so he was patient. He chatted with the other person for a few words.

There's no point in giving advice, at most it's just trying to build relationships through small talk.

So, after leaving two more destroyers and one cruiser behind, the task force set sail on time with the immigration fleet. After less than a day of sailing, before dinner time on June 21, the entire fleet received an emergency communication from Nephi before they even left the Spiral Nebula Channel.

The correspondent was Yu Lian's old classmate and adjutant, Chester Rozes. Logically speaking, this guy should be supervising the testing work of the remaining three Lord God-class ships in the Turanka galaxy, but looking at this guy's background, it is clear that he is already at the Community Embassy.

"...So, you are saying that there is a workers' uprising in Binggu City?"

"The media said it was a riot, and when I just reported it, I also used the word riot. How come it turned into an uprising directly when you came here?" Luo Zeshi said loudly.

"Hahaha, we all know this kind of thing." Yu Lian shrugged: "During the New Year holiday, you personally led a team to visit and investigate several major parts supply bases at the God level. Didn’t you tell me that there are hidden dangers in the Ice Valley City area?”

"However, I didn't expect that the scale would turn out like this. I originally thought that there would be some small-scale riots at most, but now there are more than 100,000 workers and citizens participating in the uprising. There are even people from the agricultural areas near Binggu City. Luo Zeshi shook his head: "The situation there is indeed not very good now. The situation is a bit like that of Lone Night City."

Yu Lian shook his head: "That's not the case. After all, it's Nephi over there, the capital star of the alliance. They can't let the situation develop in an extreme direction, and they will even try their best to minimize the topic."

If this were not the case, he would definitely doubt the IQ of the league's top brass, and even Miss Bei's IQ. However, the previous timeline has proven that all those who doubted her intelligence were severely slapped in the face in the end.

Luo Zeshi said: "Yes. Thirty minutes after the uprising, a division of Marines parachuted into the vicinity, blocking all the internal and external channels of Ice Valley City, and then also blocked the news. Now, the distance is It has been more than twenty-four hours since the incident broke out. There is no report at all in the formal media, only some gossips are circulating, and most of the citizens of Nephi don’t even know what happened.”

Yu Lian nodded: "This is what it should be. In other words, there will be rumors spread, which is a bit beyond my expectation."

He didn't ask Luo Zeshi how he knew. If the embassy can't even grasp such important news, then everyone from the ambassador to the third secretary to the military attache's assistant are useless, only qualified to write soft articles for marketing accounts.

Luo Zeshi nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "...Also, the crew of "Skull Squadron" is filming an outdoor scene very close to Ice Valley City, and something happened."

Yu Lian was slightly startled. He did know that "Skeleton Crew" was on location, and even knew that Commander Tatos would visit and make a guest appearance. But, what does this have to do with the workers’ movement in Ice Valley City? Too close to the city? Is 150 kilometers considered close?

In short, based on the intelligence currently available to the embassy, ​​at the beginning, the workers in Binggu City only carried out a large-scale strike movement. One thing to say is that labor movements of this level are not new. They happen in various places from time to time. As long as violent acts of beating, smashing, and looting do not occur, the alliance will not use heavy punches.

In fact, in the first few hours of the strike, both the striking workers and the violence department coordinating public security showed great restraint. Perhaps the only negative problem for the city is temporary traffic jams. But in fact, since the marching workers occupied the municipal square and various intersections, the speeches, debates, and road shows had the flavor of a festival. The citizens are actually quite happy to see it.

The real change occurred after ten o'clock in the morning of the local incident. Some radical organizations sneaked into the arsenal under Raytheon Company, snatched a tractor beam unit prepared for the Zeus Dreadnought, and launched an artillery bombardment in the direction of the "Skeleton Crew".

"Tractor beam bombardment?" Yu Lianqi asked.

"Yes, tractor beam bombardment." Rozez repeated.

"I was confused at first. This kind of weapon is not used for direct attack. Although it can be switched to a mass accelerator template in an emergency, the efficiency is not as good as the formal kinetic energy cannon. However, it later proved that those people told the crew What was fired in the direction was not an artillery shell, but a special assault landing module. This is a modular equipment that can be spliced ​​and dispersed independently. Each module is only two meters long and has a radius of 40 centimeters, which is a power The stretcher is just big enough to hold an adult with a loaded gun."

"...Tsk, a large truck that can be seen everywhere can transport twenty or thirty units. Hmm, it sounds very creative!" Yu Lian could only comment like this.

In short, these members of the "extremist organization" fired two rounds at the crew, firing two "cannonballs" composed of two sets of 10X landing pods. Of course, they were intercepted by the second female lead, first security captain and guerrilla Gongsun Qing of the "Skeleton Squadron" crew, but because the swordsman lady who lacked science, engineering and military knowledge had never seen such a splitting weapon, Things, the interception can only be said to be a small part of the success.

As a result, twelve landing craft successfully landed near the crew. Then, twelve heavily armed assassins successfully approached less than three hundred meters away from the commander.

The more than a thousand good staff on the set may have become an obstacle for them, but they have also become their natural cover.

"Don't worry, Colonel Li is fine." Luo Zeshi saw Yu Lian's ugly expression and quickly comforted him.

Yu Lian breathed a sigh of relief: "She is the number one in our 830 world, and she was born in a martial arts family. When we were all mortals, I was not. She will not be the number one target of the attackers. , self-protection should not be a big problem. The only thing I worry about is that she, the director, wants to show off her strength and protect her crew..."

Luo Zeshi said: "The attackers and the commander's special service team exchanged fire at the scene for fifteen minutes. Eight of the twelve attackers were killed, one was seriously injured and captured, and the remaining two had escaped into the wilderness. The special service team Four members of the group were killed and nine were injured.”

"The special service team suffered so many casualties? These attackers are well-trained death warriors!"

"Yes, it has been confirmed that the two attackers who fled into the wasteland were psychics." Rozes paused and then said: "As for the crew, it is currently confirmed that 47 people died and 114 were injured. In fact, if Colonel Li hadn’t asked the crew to evacuate in advance in accordance with disaster emergency evacuation measures, the number of casualties would have been even greater.”

Yu Lian sighed. He could guess how sad Feifei would be now. The unreasonable disaster suffered by her colleagues was of course on the one hand. Moreover, if this was done, could "Skull Squadron" continue to be filmed? This is the largest production of the World Group this year!

"In addition, Colonel Li took a long gun from the hands of the special service team and killed three attackers with his own hands."

...Well, "Skull Squadron" can no longer be filmed, so you can imagine how angry Feifei will be. Yu Lian could now feel how angry she was.

"Where is Commander Tatos?"

By this time, I could tell with my knees that those people were heading for Commander Tatos. Likewise, if you think about it on your knees, you can guess that these attackers are definitely not fellow travelers of the workers' organization leading the strike.

"The special service team leader and the security director have escorted the commander into the car to a nearby emergency shelter. Oh, there was also the injured Mr. Asham who got on the car at that time."

Well, it can be seen that the security team of the commander-in-chief is still very professional. Anyway, they are more professional than the security immortal who drew his gun and shot in 0.2 seconds. "It has been more than thirty hours since the attack, right? The commander-in-chief should have escaped from danger. ”

"This is the problem... Thirty hours have passed, but Commander Tatos himself has not shown up."

Yu Lian's brows twitched slightly: "Missing?"

"We can't make such a judgment yet. However, the Ambassador asked to visit the Commander-in-Chief, but she was declined by the Blue Palace. As far as I know, the Imperial Ambassador Count Leval also encountered the same situation. Although the league has blocked the news, we do have relevant speculation."

"...At least it can be explained now that the supreme head of state of the alliance has not appeared in public since the attack, right?"

Luo Zeshi nodded: "The Alliance Congress has been in recess for the past two days, which has not caused tension among the citizens of Nephi. However, the entire crew of "Skull Squadron" has been isolated in the military hospital, including Colonel Li. .”

Yu Lian chuckled and smiled.

Luo Zeshi on the other side of the light screen trembled and said quickly: "However, the ambassador has returned from a visit. Colonel Li asked her to tell you that it is just daily inquiries and temporary isolation, three meals a day and accommodation. The conditions are very good. Please don’t be nervous and don’t overreact. Wait until you return to the country normally,”

"Overreaction? Classmate Chester, do you think I am overreacting like this? Am I not smiling?"

There is a saying, even if Feifei and Miss Bei's well-known "best friend relationship" is put aside, even with her current social status and diplomatic status, the alliance security department does not dare to do anything to her. Even if it is a procedural inquiry and isolation, they must be treated with the same care as a grandma.

So, what should I be angry about? Yu Lian thought.

You don't know how much your smile looks like that of a perverted murderer. Luo Zeshi cursed.

"In addition, Colonel Li also specifically mentioned that Miss Gongsun is always with her, so you don't have to worry." At this point, Luo Zeshi's eyes jumped, showing a little bit of gossip: "So , why would she specifically mention Miss Gongsun?"

"Yes! Why?" Yu Lian said seriously: "Maybe it's because Gongsun Qing was my charge captain on the Red Tiger back then, and we have a deep friendship with him. Feifei is also afraid that I will worry."

Speaking of which, some time ago, this naturally stupid swordsman took Taina Morn and Ash Stern to investigate the so-called "assassination accident", but it was said that he was involved with the famous Lothar rebel organization " "Son of Lohar" was involved. I remember she said before that the "Sons of Loha" has changed to a stable and upright leader, and is preparing to transform from a terrorist organization that kills civilians and civilian facilities indiscriminately to a just resistance organization.

So, do they have any connection with the Ice Valley City incident?