Him and their stars.

Chapter 1872 He is giving you the middle finger from 3 AU away

Marshal Yu always believed that he was a professional soldier who had received the grace of the country, so he would always be hesitant and entangled. In comparison, the soldiers under his command were not as pretentious as him.

In fact, Colonel Singh and his men, because of the title of a personal league, seemed to have an important identity, and each of them was very honored.

"Everyone understands that side is the promising side." Feifei explained.

"Isn't it because you can get an extra salary?" Yu Lian said with a smile.

"Salary is the future, and the future is the salary." Feifei said.

Yu Lian felt that his girl's words were becoming more and more dangerous, but except for himself, everyone seemed to enjoy listening to her.

Colonel Singh took away 200 million gold royals as funds, which was part of the spoils of the Yu fleet's expedition.

He took a slightly modified torpedo ship as a means of transportation - specifically, the space bubble torpedoes were removed and three blaster machine guns were installed. This kind of firepower can at least protect oneself in the world of pirates and smugglers, but it is not realistic to travel long distances.

However, Colonel Singh patted his chest and vowed to issue a military order, saying that if he failed to get a usable warship back after operating in the Great Freedom City for half a year, he would be beheaded.

...Well, is this guy going to create a bunch of "official pirates" in the Great Freedom City?

Yu Lian couldn't help but think so, but this possible future was naturally full of expectations.

As for Captain Planck and his friends, they were also packed into a ship and boarded the Great Freedom City. Including the captain himself, there were only ten people in total, less than one-third of the surviving pirates. They brought basic self-defense weapons and some supplies, and they could still barely fit into a torpedo ship.

The captain told Yu Lian that this was all that was needed. He was a legitimate gangster and had old brothers in other places and some connections in the underworld. With a little effort, he could still reorganize his gang.

In a nutshell, the Black Snake is gone, and the much-anticipated "new Black Snake" is also gone, but the Black Snake Pirates will still thrive and continue to serve as the communication channel among the three parties.

It turns out that this person is also an operations master! Yu Lian said that he is looking forward to it even more.

As for the remaining pirates, they all said that they were already soldiers of the community's space fleet, and were proper court eagles... proper professional soldiers, and no one could kick them out of this glorious post.

Yu Lian originally thought that they were pirates who were still wild and would follow their boss back to the "free world" where they could eat meat in large bowls. He still overestimated the desire of the people in the underworld to be recruited.

Unexpectedly, Miss Fantine, who claimed to be an agent of the Alliance Military Intelligence Agency, also decided to continue to follow her captain, which made Mr. Planck burst into tears. The two of them held hands and looked at each other affectionately, as if everything was unspoken.

As for the minor unpleasantness that had arisen from identity issues before, it became nothing more than a passing cloud.

Feifei felt it was a pity: "This Miss Fantine is indeed a top student of the Alliance Naval Academy. She can at least adapt to most of the work on the ship."

Anne agreed: "At least he can be my third officer or co-pilot or something."

Yu Lian was happy to see this happen: "But this way, the identity of the Alliance Intelligence Agency will be more convincing."

Well, since the leader and second in command of the Black Snake Pirates are gone, the remaining twenty or so pirates on the ship can't cause any trouble, so they can just be considered as some reinforcements.

Such a huge warship had only 20,000 people on board, including imperial prisoners, and was stretched to the limit in every aspect.

There was no other way. With Xiao Hui obviously shutting down most of the ship's automatic functions, all departments were indeed short of manpower. Therefore, the pilots under Anne's command had to do daily maintenance on their vehicles themselves, and the marines under Colonel Walter's command were also forced to pick up wrenches and become laborers, and were often scolded by skilled craftsmen. The real situation can be imagined.

In the long run, this is of course a good thing. Just as Xiao Hui said, as people get more familiar with the equipment of the Enlightened, some smart people will start to think about the underlying logic. As long as they figure out a feasible theory, civilization will begin to progress.

However, from the most realistic and utilitarian point of view, everyone will still be troubled by the reality of lack of manpower for a long time.

Captain Nemo even told Yu Lian that based on the current state of the Wide Area Silence, it would require at least 10,000 well-trained and excellent crew members to bring its performance and combat effectiveness to the fullest.

This is even though there are a lot of "missing" and "unable to start" items on the Silent's terminal entries.

"This is already very good. The space and size of the Silence are larger than the Dawn Angel class, and it meets the typical Titan ship standards. If it were the Alliance or the Empire, it would probably take 40,000 to 50,000 people to drive it away." Yu Lian said with a smile.

"Yes, I really shouldn't ask for too much." Captain Nemo was also embarrassed and felt that he was a little too greedy.

After all, there is absolutely no problem with normal driving and cruising, and the "basic" combat capability can be maintained. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?

Half an hour after Colonel Singer and Captain Planck left, Captain Nemo came up with his own cruise plan.

It is nothing more than starting from the local area, crossing the "southwest" part of the Abyss Nebula, finding a border lord's territory with less strict defense and entering the Helos star zone.

In any case, I still have to thank the old friends in Da Zi Zai City for the gift package. The fog of the Abyss Nebula has suddenly become much clearer.

If we follow the shortest route, we may have to travel at least 5,000 light years less than the previous plan. However, the only problem is that most of the routes on the star map are dotted lines, and those that are solid are indeed quite narrow. According to the quality data analysis, I am afraid that even a smaller battlecruiser cannot pass, let alone the giant Titan-class ship Silence.

To put it bluntly, the reason why those difficult-to-travel nebula areas in the universe, whether they are the far shore, spirals, or abysses, are regarded as military restricted areas and ignored by the regular shipping industry is not because there are no routes to pass through, but because there are no stable and spacious routes that can accommodate large ships and fleets.

However, Captain Nemo actually marked the shortest route on the star map, as if he had drawn it with a ruler.

If it could be carried out, it would take at least one month, or at most forty to fifty days, that is, before November of the year 834, for the Wide Silence to once again enter the territory of his loyal Galactic Empire.

Captain Nemo explained: "Back in the days of the ghost ship, the Silence was able to come and go freely in the nebula. Considering its previous voyages, we have reason to believe that the mass of the Silence may be smaller than that of an ordinary battlecruiser."

"..." Yu Lian stared at the other person, once again showing his dead fish face as if he had no emotions and didn't want to talk.

The captain laughed awkwardly. In fact, the terminal had already given the absolute mass of the ship. Probably because it used some special black technology materials, it was indeed smaller than the Dawn Angel class, but it was not so light that it was only a medium-sized ship.

If we add the Xunli, which has become a part of the nesting doll, it will naturally be a huge ship with a huge size and weight.

The captain said helplessly: "Well, well, okay... the Silence's jump behavior is not entirely based on the gravity well. Maybe there is some space expansion technology, or maybe it is mass elimination technology. Dr. Eddington hopes it is the latter, but this is really challenging my worldview."

"It's fine if gravity and gravitation can be eliminated, but how can this mass be eliminated?" Yu Lian said that it was a bit difficult to understand. He felt that even in a world full of idealistic idiots, this setting was very explosive. "This is why I dare not draw a conclusion no matter what. But... this possibility may exist." At this point, Captain Nemo showed a very strange expression, and the burly and broad shoulders hidden under the uniform seemed to be trembling slightly.

Yu Lian felt that the captain's reaction was a bit excessive, and it was definitely not just because of a march plan. However, before he asked, the captain reported: "We, we just deciphered the signal of the mother of the Dome Whale Clan. This... well, it should have been deciphered."

This is naturally referring to the signal left by the missing Grandmother Dome Whale when the Silence was acquired before.

The great intelligent creature with a bit of divinity seemed to be happy with the actions of the people on Earth. It stopped attacking and took the opportunity to leave the battlefield. Then it left a string of meaningless signals and turned away in a cool manner.

This string of signals should be a farewell. Putting aside the friendly relationship between the Qiong Whales and the Earthlings, if the old grandmother still had ill intentions, her physical strength and spiritual energy were still there, and the mighty Ti Yangkai army was still under control, so she could continue to launch attacks.

However, He really did dissipate His mental control over Ti Yang Kaiqun, and waved His tail that looked like a phoenix's feather, but He did not take away even a bit of the nebula.

Perhaps he was merely saying goodbye, but Yu Lian's subordinates had to respond with the utmost seriousness.

For a cosmic commanding creature like this that has survived for who knows how many epochs, perhaps even a simple greeting contains some shocking cosmic truths?

Therefore, the scientific team led by Dr. Eddington and the experts from the communication group imported this set of pulse signals into the ship's computer terminal.

They will determine the law based on the oscillation nodes of the pulse, and then use some information left by Edelweiss in the past as raw materials for extended analysis. Of course, Edelweiss alone is not enough, and they must refer to all the historical observation records of the Dome Whale, including the control signal of the Ti Yangkai group just read.

In this process, the computer may have to deduce trillions of possibilities and finally come to the most logical conclusion.

If it weren't for the terminal on the Silence, it would have been difficult for the communications team and the two or three people in the science department to come up with an answer so quickly.

Yu Lian immediately became interested and ignored the other party's ambiguous attitude, so he asked, "So, what is she talking about?"

"This is actually a long paragraph. It contains a lot of information."

Yu Lian raised his eyebrows: "I remember that the pulse signal only lasted for about ten seconds? Wow, it is worthy of being the Holy Leviathan, its language is so advanced!"

After all, the purpose of language is to communicate, and the more information a unit carries, the more advanced it is.

The captain's expression became increasingly odd.

Yu Lian finally felt something was wrong and frowned, "So, what is it?"

Captain Nemo twitched his lips, his face full of resistance and struggle.

Yu Lian was a little impatient: "Captain, you can start your report. Please start reading from the first sentence you translated."

"Your warping looks like a black hole defecating."

"..."

Not only Yu Lian was stunned, but also his friends around him, even Feifei.

As for Captain Nemo on the opposite side, his state has changed from restlessness to self-abandoned relief, as if some important part of his mind has been broken.

Yu Liantui kept his emotionless dead fish face for half a minute before he said, "Well, could it be that the translation algorithm is wrong?"

He now found that his voice actually sounded a little dry.

Unfortunately, the possibility of translation errors does not exist, not even in the next life.

Communications officer Lieutenant Haynes immediately reported that the communications team had already imported their entanglement decoder into the shipboard terminal of the Silence. During this time, they transcribed the neutrino oscillation frequency into the common language of the Earth, ancient Chinese, ancient Latin, and even the sacred text. Of course, it also included the languages ​​of the other races in the galaxy, which numbered one thousand, and they all came to the same conclusion.

Yu Lian was silent again until Feifei walked up to her.

She glanced at the oscillation frequency analyzed by the calculator, pondered for a moment, her eyes lit up, and she suddenly understood something, but for a moment she showed a helpless expression.

"what have you found?"

"In fact, if you give me some more time, you will be able to find it out."

Feifei's hand went deep into the holographic spectrum projection. Under her manipulation, the undulating wave spectrum expanded, and countless fluorescent lines intertwined to form a more subtle picture on the scene.

The non-commissioned officers in the corner suddenly gasped.

Not only them, even Yu Lian couldn't help but want to take a breath of Xiao Hui.

But I only saw that the fluorescent lines that formed the wave spectrum in the corner of the projection, which was magnified at least 10,000 times, had formed a very precise pattern: it was a hundred side-by-side cursing gestures, from the Pegle people's fork, the Argonian circle, to the Montmarri people's eight fingers open, it was really a variety of everything and even qualified to be in a museum. Of course, the most conspicuous one was the two middle fingers standing up in the center.

...To be honest, the gestures used to curse people are of course different in different races and cultures. From this point of view, Grandma Qiongjing is really a good lady with a full range of cultural attributes!

However, the three middle fingers were deliberately highlighted, indicating that He was well aware of the races on the Silence and of course was very familiar with everyone's culture.

Yu Lian really wanted to suck some Xiao Hui now. He thought of the robot girl's weird expression before. Needless to say, she definitely understood something.

Someone finally laughed out loud, but immediately held it back with difficulty. Of course, it was Annie, the former gangster. She glanced at Feifei carefully, but the latter had already turned her head away to hide her face, her shoulders trembling slightly.

Of course, Yu Lian's ears would eventually be filled with the rough and loud laughter full of heroic spirit. Who else could it be except Xiao Hui?

This AI girl who was eager to create chaos in the world was rolling on the slipway, holding her belly, laughing so hard that she could hardly stand up.

(End of this chapter)