Shepard, Miranda, Gallas, Jacob, Caiden and others, as well as other important crew members of the Normandy 2, were all gathered in this small laboratory, and they formed a circle. In a large circle, except not to affect Dr. Modin's actions, dozens of people stood directly in full. Almost everyone who could come came, ready to witness this historic moment!
And those who need to stick to their posts and cannot come are also staring at the holographic images of the laboratory in different places on the spacecraft, always paying attention to what is about to happen here.
Of course, little Annie who likes to join in the fun must be here too!
However, she was not crowded with those guys. She had a good relationship with Dr. Mordin and was also loved by the crooked star. She just lay down on the doctor's rotating chair in a very stylish manner. , hugging his little bear and watching that strange uncle Mordin fix those troublesome things.
In fact, as long as they come to ask her, Lady Queen Anne, she can solve the interrogation of prisoners like this with a wave of her hand, so there is no need for trouble!
"It should be almost done, Commander Shepard, I have some things to report to you first..."
"Last night, I compared the DNA structure of these collectors with all the currently known races in the galaxy, and then I discovered that they are indeed the Pluto who left various relics, beacons and wisdom enlightenment to all races in our galaxy. Immortal!"
"I'm sure of that!"
Having said this, Modin glanced at the crew members and marines around him, thought about it, and continued:
"So, if the Protheans were really wiped out by the Reapers..."
"Then I'm sorry! Commander, I am pessimistic about whether we can crush the Reapers' conspiracy or prevent them from invading the galaxy..."
He has been thinking about this matter for a long time since he got the result last night.
In the opinion of the Salarian Dr. Modin, since the Protheans were as powerful as the Protheans of the previous era, and they were all defeated by the Reapers and transformed into thug-like collectors, then those of them who inherit the Protheans' heritage blessings What hope do the various races of the Galaxy Citadel have developed? You must know that the current territory of the Milky Way that the Citadel has explored is only 3% of the total. It is definitely far from the heyday of the Protheans. If the Protheans were really harvested by the Reapers, they would If the genocide and civilization collapse, then this matter is really terrible.
Of course, although it is now confirmed that the Collector is a Prothean, the most critical first-hand evidence will surely be obtained soon as to whether the Collector and the Reaper are related.
Because, their Commander Shepard and others captured a leader of the Collector, and the information obtained from the other party's mind must be very valuable and credible!
"I myself have been able to confirm that these collectors are the men of the Reapers. I also firmly believe in the existence of the Reapers. I even understand their terror better than all of you!"
"But no matter what, I will not compromise just because they are strong. I will keep fighting hard, just like we have always done before!"
"So, Dr. Mordin, please begin!"
Shepard has long spoken about the existence of the Reapers, but no one else believes in her. Those who are willing to believe in her have no ability to change anything... Therefore, she wastes a lot of time looking for the so-called ' In the matter of evidence, I watched helplessly as the threat of the Reapers approached, but I had no choice but to do anything...
But, it's different now. She will soon be able to obtain the most direct evidence. If even this can't convince some guys, then she really has nothing to do...
They really tried their best and did everything to the extreme! Her reputation as a hero was earned through the hard work of countless classmates. Their efforts are by no means as simple as what the outside world advertises!
Over the years, many of her fellow warriors have fallen on the road against Saren, the geth, and the overlords... Even in the 'Horizon' colony, they have sacrificed several marines... Fortunately , they were lucky enough to achieve a great victory in this mission!
Not only did they shoot down the enemy's spaceship, they also captured many collector prisoners who were still 'alive'. We really can't expect them to do better than they did now.
"I can't wait now!"
Standing directly in front of the instrument that the doctor was playing with, Shepard raised his hand to indicate to Dr. Mordin that he could start now.
"All right!"
"I now begin to stimulate and activate part of the collector leader's brain and nerves, putting it in a low-frequency state like a dream... and then project his consciousness into this holographic device, which will affect its judgment and thinking, and then you can have a normal conversation with him and basically...whatever you ask, it answers?"
"But you have to be quick!"
"I can't guarantee how long this state can last... You must also know that this collector is too powerful, whether it is physical strength, mental strength, or other powers, etc. It’s a very high value, completely beyond our imagination!”
"I think it's best if you don't give me more than ten minutes?"
Dr. Mordin, a Salarian, carefully warned Shepard in the laboratory while operating the equipment that he had been playing with all night.
Even after a busy night, he didn't feel sleepy because...the Salarians are amphibious warm-blooded creatures with extremely active metabolism. Their extremely high metabolism makes their life span only about forty years. , and also makes their race often only need to sleep for one hour a day to ensure sufficient physical strength and energy!
Calculating it this way, it seems that the Salarian family's waking hours are a little longer than humans?
Therefore, the people on earth laugh at the short lifespan of the Salarian people. In fact, that is very undesirable. The waking hours of the Salarian people are no shorter than those of the people on earth who have to rest for at least eight hours a day! Therefore, although he was busy for a long time last night, Dr. Modin recovered quickly due to an hour's rest in the morning and devoted himself to today's important experiment with full energy.
"Are you ready? I'm about to start!"
After operating on the holographic workbench for a while, Modin raised one of his fingers and placed it in front of the start button. After a moment of hesitation, he turned back and asked again.
"Please believe me, it won't take that long!"
It was nothing more than a few key questions, so Shepard impatiently urged the Salarian, who had become somewhat restless after entering old age, to start quickly.
"..."
Nodding, Dr. Modin said nothing more. He checked his equipment on the holographic display again. After finding that there was no abnormality in the feedback signal, he took a deep breath and pressed a button representing Start button.
beep! beep!
A certain signal light began to flash and light up, and soon, in front of an instrument in front of Shepard, a holographic image of a monster exactly like the Collector leader imprisoned in the frozen medical cabin was projected.
'δζζσπ,θκλγ......'
As soon as the holographic image of the Collector leader appeared, he turned his head and looked around in confusion, and then asked Shepard, who was standing in front of it.
"Etty, translate the conversation between me and it in real time!"
With a slight frown, Shepard issued an order to Normandy 2's artificial intelligence EDI.
'As you command, Commander Shepard! '
'δζζσπ,θκλγ......'
'who are you? '
"It doesn't matter who we are. Now, please tell me, who are you, where are you from, and why do you want to arrest us humans?!"
Shepard took two steps forward, almost walking in front of the dazed Collector General, and asked with two pairs of bright white eyes staring at the opponent's holographic image.
'I am the General of the Collectors...'
'We come from the core of the galaxy across from the Omega Four relay...'
'The capture of humans...is for the purpose of building a giant Reaper in human form...'
"It's indeed the Reaper!"
"Now, please tell me your relationship with the Protheans, and your relationship with the Reapers!"
Sure enough, after hearing that the real-time translation of EDI contained the information he wanted to hear, Shepard stretched out his hand to signal everyone in the laboratory to keep quiet, then took a deep breath again and asked loudly. road!
She believed that whether it was herself, the universal tools of other crew members present, or the equipment of the Normandy 2, everything that was happening now was being recorded! Moreover, it is the irrefutable evidence that they are about to submit to the case of all clans in the Citadel!
'us……'
'It's the Protheans...'
'We lost the battle against the Reapers, they transformed us and gave us a purpose...'
'Wait... strange... what's going on? '
After saying these words, less than two minutes later, the collector general's holographic image began to fluctuate somewhat unsteadily. Apparently, it seemed to sense that something was wrong.
"Commander Shepard, my calculations were wrong!"
"Its brain thoughts and neurons suddenly became active. Look at these data, this is really amazing... So, Commander, you better hurry up, this guy is too strong, and it is trying to get rid of my imposition. That dream for it?”
Seeing the change in things, Modin quickly started operating on his instrument.
This situation was really beyond his expectation. Originally, he thought he could control the other party for at least ten minutes, and those ten minutes were just his conservative statement. However, who would have expected that the other party would actually control him in less than two minutes? Within minutes, there was a tendency to break away from his control?
"What is the mission?!"
With a sharp look in his eyes, Shepard stared at the opponent's eyes with sharp eyes, and spoke again with a sharp question in a somewhat urgent tone.
'Preliminary reconnaissance and assessment of all races in the galaxy...'
'Get ready for the once-in-50,000-year harvest...'
Thanks to Dr. Mordin's efforts, the holographic image of the Collector General became stable again.
"Commander, please hurry up!!"
While working hard to operate this, the Salarian Dr. Modin, who always gave off a calm and unhurried image, unexpectedly hit the holographic buttons one by one quickly while warning Shepard anxiously. It was obvious. He seemed to be unable to control the other party.
"Where are the Reapers? When did they harvest the galaxy, where did they come from, how many are there, and what are the Reapers?!"
Knowing the seriousness of the matter, Shepard did not dare to delay any longer and directly asked the most important questions! As long as they know this, they can know what they should do next, or let all races in the galaxy know how to guard against the reapers!
'In the dark universe beyond the Milky Way...'
'Hmm... who are you? '
"Answer the question I just asked immediately!!"
Shepard ignored the other party's question and shouted fiercely again.
'The harvest...the harvest has begun...'
'The Citadel space station cannot control...the Reapers will use the Batarian alpha mass relay...'
'The reapers...endless...'
'They are a race of advanced mechanical life created by Leviathan... They are the source of the nightmare of destruction that occurs every 50,000 years to the Milky Way... Their harvest has lasted for hundreds of millions of years...'
'Well……? '
'No! You primitive races, don’t even think about controlling me! ! ! '
At this time, the Collector's holographic image began to tremble violently, and red alarm modules also appeared on the data on the holographic screen in front of Dr. Modin!
"It doesn't matter, we've got everything we need to know!"
After getting the most critical questions, Shepard looked at the ferocious collector monster with a sneer. It was still a little too late for the other party to break free from control. She had already gotten everything she wanted to know!
'Hahaha……'
'Stupid humans! What you are doing now will only accelerate your demise! '
'My failure has increased your threat level... The harvest has officially begun... They have already arrived...'
After a quick laugh, the holographic image of General Collector suddenly disappeared. At the same time, the holographic screen in front of Modin was filled with red warning signals. Now, the other party was completely out of control.
"what happened?!"
Seeing this change, Shepard quickly turned to Dr. Mordin.
However, without waiting for the other party to check the equipment or answer, the frozen dormant chamber holding the Collector General suddenly exploded, and then the Collector General with only several tentacle-like lower limbs broke free from the equipment that restrained it one by one. He jumped out and floated under the ceiling of the cabin, which was not too high.
"aaagh!!"
At the same time as a roar sounded, the opponent's four pale eyes suddenly lit up with bright blue-white light!
"Kill it! No!!"
"Uh-huh!!"
"my head!!!"
"quick….."
However, before Shepard and the other Marines present took out their weapons, opened the safety, loaded the gun and fired, they, including Shepard, squatted down holding their heads!
Woo~! Woo~! Woo~!
At the same time, sharp sirens rang throughout the Normandy II, and red warning lights flashed wildly. Without Shepard's orders, EDI issued a danger warning to other people on the ship.
It was obvious that the Collector General carried out mental attacks on everyone in this laboratory. Even if it could not directly control Shepard and others, it could emit high-frequency brain waves to torture or burn those Protheans who were stronger than them. In other words, it is the brain of a low-level primitive race creature, which should be more than enough!
Boom! !
There was a gunshot, flying low in the air, just a little distance from the ceiling, and a hole as big as a fist was instantly punched through the head of General Collector...
Bang!
No one can survive after having their brains opened, not even the Collector General! Therefore, it could only collapse in frustration in the laboratory of Normandy 2.
"call……"
"Good job, Annie!"
After standing up holding his head with a splitting headache, Shepard did not bother to ask why the little guy was not affected by the enemy's psychic attack. Instead, he took a hard look at the dead man who fell on the metal deck. After killing the collector monster again, he breathed a heavy sigh of relief and praised the little girl.
They were saved by a little guy again. If the other party hadn't shot in time, things would have definitely turned out to be very bad.
"You're welcome!"
Throwing aside the weapon she had just handed over from someone else, Anne ignored the idiots who were squatting or lying on the deck holding their heads and wailing, and ran directly to the fallen Collector General. , kicked the opponent in the head with his own foot, as if he wanted to confirm whether the opponent was completely dead?
Actually, this monster's mental attack is very powerful. If she hadn't been here, I'm afraid these unlucky guys would all be doomed!
'Commander Shepard! '
'An unknown strong bioelectric wave was just detected and was emitted by the Collector General! '
Before Shepard and others could take a breath, the artificial intelligence EDI of Normandy 2 immediately turned off the alarm that had just sounded throughout the ship and reported to Shepard at the same time.
"damn it!"
"It must be sent to either the reapers or the collectors! Quick, clown, find the nearest repeater, we have to go back to the Citadel immediately!"
'Yes! commander! '
Following Shepard's order, the helmsman's clown's voice came from a broadcasting device in the laboratory. However, judging from the tone of the other party, they must have been shocked by the incident just now.
"No!"
"We are not going to the Citadel, we are going to the Bahak Galaxy as quickly as possible!!"
Before the clown could execute it, Shepard, who seemed to have thought of something, changed his order again.
That's right, she was going to where the Batarian alpha mass relay was, and she wanted to find a way to destroy the relay first and stop the Reapers from attacking the galaxy! Just now, when the collector general tried to control her, she also saw many terrible things from the other party's mind, including of course the reapers!
"Great idea, Shepard!"
"However, I'm going to report to my superior now. It's up to you to take care of things here!"
At this time, Miranda, who had obviously discovered something terrible in the mind of the collector just now, staggered and covered her head and walked quickly outside the laboratory without caring about her own state. She needed Report what you know and the information you just obtained to the leader of Cerberus, the Illusive Man, as soon as possible!
"Tch! So boring!"
"Those reapers have been doing the same thing for hundreds of millions of years. They are really powerful..."
"If it were me, I wouldn't have to wait for fifty thousand years. I wouldn't be able to stand it for just one day! But they can persist for so long... They don't want to eat delicious food or play fun things, but they want to No matter whether this galaxy will be ruled by mechanical life, there must be something wrong with their brains!"
After mentioning the Collector General's big head hanging on the deck again, Anne curled her lips in disdain.
Sure enough, no matter what world there is, there are always some weird guys, such as those reapers and their leaders. They must be smart, right? What's the point of harvesting advanced organic races and doing such a thankless job?
This Milky Way is so big, and there are more galaxies outside the Milky Way. If the Reapers are so powerful, they can't go anywhere to play. Why do they have to stay in this world and do the same thing for hundreds of millions of years?
