A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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"Soon," the viewer said. "For some reason, the seventh ship's communications suddenly went down. Let me check them again to see what's wrong."

Bishen and the others remained absolutely silent, listening attentively.

On the other side of the video, frost suddenly seeped from the rusty metal wall, indicating that Orion had activated the cryogenic scanning system on the starship again.

They are searching for illicit communication sources again.

"What the hell is going on?" the person in the perspective complained, half-jokingly. "Why are the boss and the others doing cryo-scans again? What's so great about cryo-scans? They're going to freeze perfectly good instruments and make them malfunction. And once they're frozen, they can't connect anymore. I have to reconnect them all over again."

"It's for insurance," the insect next to him was still chatting. "After all, we just got a high-level male insect, so it's bound to attract the attention of the Liernia military. Everyone's on edge every day, scanning it every day, just to prevent any potential problems."

"That's true," said the person in the perspective. Then he stood up again: "I'll go check the pressure valve of the communication base station inside."

The insect next to him joked, "You're not secretly trying to sneak in and see the male insect, are you?"

"Let's also take a look at the males," the person viewing the camera joked. "Who doesn't like a handsome male? I'd like to see one too."

The insect next to him laughed and slapped him.

Then the protagonist walked steadily inside, and when he encountered other insects along the way, he was able to greet them in a good mood.

After descending to the equipment level, we entered the equipment layer and walked until we reached the vicinity of the maintenance warehouse, a place without surveillance cameras.

Bishen gestured to his adjutant, instructing him to memorize the structure of the star pirate ship and build a model.

The adjutant nodded.

"The low temperature has affected communication progress by 75%." The owner of the perspective walked to the bottom of the warehouse to check the communication base station, muttering to himself as he did so.

However, the laser flashlight he was holding projected different lengths of light onto the wall as he walked.

Frost from the low-temperature scan spread around his feet. He deliberately let the soles of his boots slip on the condensed frost, cried out "Ouch!" and grabbed the wall for support. The data tablet slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

The data board cracked from being dropped.

He crouched down to examine it, tapping and patting the black screen data panel to see if it could be fixed: "What bad luck, it seems to be broken, I have to buy a new one."

[Suspected high-ranking male insect captured. Orion's Orion cargo hold.] (Code word)

In fact, his tapping motions formed a sentence: encrypted Morse code tapping on an encrypted channel, and the chip in his molars converting nerve impulses into hidden gravitational waves.

In front of the holographic screen at the Blade Fleet Command Center, Bishen's fingertip hovered above the holographic star map array.

The transmitted gravitational wave signal is being analyzed; the drifting light spots are gradually coalescing into a signal, which is a constellation coordinate.

The star map projection behind Bishen automatically marked the coordinates of the Black Rock rings. The AI ​​subtly added frequency oscillations to the coordinate points as a disguise.

The Black Stone Ring is the coordinate system for the black market.

"Wait 24 hours," Bishon said softly.

A star map deciphered by AI flashed in the holographic projection, and the coordinates of the black market were flashing regularly.

"Ah, so this is it." The person on the other side of the video had already given up on the broken data board and walked to the communication base station. He pretended to check the air pressure valve for a malfunction and stuck the nano-camera into the ventilation duct.

As soon as the nano-camera entered the pipe, it extended six spider-like thin legs and crawled rapidly.

After passing through a dark pipeline, the view suddenly brightened, and we entered the bottom compartment.

On the starship's display screen in Bishen, a live feed of the pirate ship's hold appeared:

The young male insect, dressed in a white coat, was kept in a narrow, low iron cage like a strange beast.

Those space pirates are absolutely insane.

The male insect looked terrified. The cage was too small; he couldn't even stand up or lie down, and could only half-lie down, half-sit, or curl up inside.

Fortunately, the clothes were intact and did not appear to have been subjected to any violent damage.

Whether male or female, they are all citizens of the Empire. This is a provocation against the Zerg Empire!

"Target status?" The channel suddenly connected to a third encryption protocol, the highest level of inquiry from the command center, and it was blue.

Bi Shen blocked his own microphone, leaving only communication with Lan.

Using his beast-like pupils to focus, he examined the male insect's micro-expressions frame by frame: "No obvious external injuries, fear, or mental instability. The restraint rings under the cage are in standby mode and have not been fastened. He is currently not in mortal danger."

Blue: "OK".

"You really don't recognize this male insect?" Bishon asked him again, skeptically. "I can see you're quite interested. And this male insect looks somewhat similar to your blond-haired friend."

Lan: "...∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿。"

Third-party encrypted exit channel.

Bi Shen remained silent.

Damn. That familiar feeling of being stabbed is back.

Third-party encrypted access channel.

Bishen: "?"

"Is there anything else?"

Lan: "Gao Tian isn't Huang Mao."

Third-party encrypted exit channel.

Bishen: "???"

He grabbed the starship communicator and was about to smash it!

The adjutant held his hand tightly: "Calm down! Calm down, Master! We're still in communication with the brothers who are undercover!"

The space pirates seem to be doing alright. Although the male insect looks pitiful, it hasn't suffered any serious abuse.

However, male insects are still very precious; they can become depressed at the slightest provocation, so we need to rescue them as soon as possible.

He originally planned to wipe out Orion's Orion Legion in one fell swoop. Ugh, annoying.

Now we can only fight as many as we can.

The person on the other side of the video is banging on the communication base station, humming a song as they repair it, and seems to be in a good mood. No one could see anything wrong with them.

The song he hummed and the frequency of his tapping were coded messages, which the military AI on the Shendaofeng warship deciphered as: [Orion's destination undetermined, maintain observation.]

Bishen turned on his microphone and tapped the communicator a few times.

[We understand. Please stay in touch.]

"Repair progress 80%." The user held up the broken data board in front of the empty corridor. "Sigh, it's all the boss's fault. He used cryo-scan too much, and the instrument got frozen and broke. It has to be replaced."

Suddenly, the sound of air being pumped through the ventilation ducts came from the perspective of the user, and five seconds later, the communication base station being adjusted emitted a startup hum.

He hummed a song as he walked up the elevator, but the elevator doors closed and it went back upstairs.

The entire equipment floor fell dark and silent again, leaving only Lu Jianan, a living creature locked in a cage in the bottom compartment, completely unaware of everything.

……

Lu Jianan huddled in the cage, hugging her knees. Her slender profile was reflected on the iron bars. She was completely unaware of what was happening not far away, and didn't know that several days had passed.

It should have been about two days. I've eaten four meals of the nutrient solution the monster brought me... I guess it was nutrient solution?

That makes sense. Monsters even have starships, so how could they not have nutrient solution?

Fortunately, I've only been taking nutritional fluids these past two days, and they're all absorbed so I don't need to go to the toilet. Otherwise, in this situation... oh dear.

Lu Jianan hugged her weak, pitiful, and helpless self.

"Help, my life..." He rested his head on his knees, tears streaming down his face, and whispered.