"Hagrath..." Ada looked at the yellow sandy outer atmosphere on the holographic screen in fascination, and suddenly murmured a few words, "It seems that the heroes have the same opinion. I am honest."
The geth ship that Xie Yuan was on had migrated to the possible home base of the Shadow Broker, the planet Hagrath.
However, in order to avoid probes that may be in the orbit of the planet, Xie Yuan, Aida and UR-025, who was possessed by a large geth elite, secretly sneaked into the surface of the planet in a geth transport ship.
In the meantime, they had descended from outer space to a height of less than 10,000 meters above the sea level of Hagrath.
At this time, below is the sea with huge waves, and on the sea is a cloud line extending to the end of the sky. The clouds are arranged in a straight line and rolled forward as if pushed by an invisible wall. The entire sky is divided by this line. There are two distinct halves, one with clear skies and the other with stormy clouds, while the setting sun dyes the clouds, sky, and sea into boundless blood red...
This is the scene of the sunset on Hagrath, and the possible base of the Shadow Brokers may have been hidden somewhere on this planet for two hundred years, taking charge of the intelligence power that covers the galaxy, stirring up two hundred years of The coming political turmoil.
At this time, Xie Yuan looked at Ada who was sighing, and was a little curious: "Have you heard of this planet?"
"I've heard a little about it...because this planet is almost worthless and the environment is dangerous, you see,"
As Ada spoke, she took out a multi-purpose tool and showed it to Xie Yuan: "It has almost no exposed surface, and the entire planet is occupied by oceans - and because it rotates very quickly and the distance from the star is relatively subtle, the sunlight during the day The entire ocean will boil at night, and freeze into an icy hell when night falls.
Therefore, no life forms exist or can evolve here. It is an almost deserted planet. "
"But the poor mountains and rivers also just mean that this place is inaccessible." Xie Yuan looked at it and directly revealed Aida's inner thoughts. "It is very suitable to avoid people's mainstream gaze and facilitate doing some private things."
"The best way to hide oneself is to hide in the court, and the second is to hide in the city - but as an intelligence agency, it cannot do these two things if it is not official or authorized by local officials."
Ada looked at the scenery outside the window and understood this: "So they can only do one thing, hide in the wild - that's why I said that heroes see the same thing. I can confirm what Tazik has in mind at a glance. The memory coordinates are correct...because if I were the Shadow Broker, I would also consider choosing this place."
Xie Yuan also admitted that this is indeed a good place: "Well, except that our detectors discovered some hidden detectors in the low-Earth orbit of the Hagrath planet, we actually found nothing! He can hide it where?"
"In fact, there may be someone who we can guess, but we can't turn around without thinking about it."
Ada pondered for a while and then pointed to the star above Hagrath's head and guessed.
"Dark under the light?" Xie Yuan's face suddenly became very strange, "Ah, I suddenly remembered that the Alingon planet is actually in this kind of environment - it seems to be the exclusive technology of the Shadow Broker..."
"It shows that He has also experienced this kind of situation, so he studied it in such detail... and so on,"
Ada immediately manipulated the multi-purpose tool again and compounded a series of calculation patterns onto the projection screen. It was a series of light points, and then formed a trajectory that followed the rotation of the planet. She exclaimed: "Maybe, this is why The only reason why He can be confident that he cannot be discovered is also the reason why He has exclusive technology for communicating with the outside world in an electromagnetic interference environment - His hiding place has always been in the strongest storm group on the entire planet before sunset. .”
"So, the Shadow Broker's base is either an aerospace carrier or a cruiser-level spaceship?"
Xie Yuan made a deduction. After all, there is basically nothing in outer space orbit, so apart from spaceships and aerospace aircraft carriers, there are basically no other possibilities.
"What is an aerospace carrier?" Ada asked with interest. The Geth elite controlled by UR-025 also looked at Xie Yuan with his flashlight head.
"An aerospace aircraft carrier is a super airship with heavy armor that can fly above the stratosphere for a long time."
Xie Yuan explained: "A modern aircraft carrier is used as the mother body modification, and four large anti-gravity engines are set up around it, powered by nuclear fusion - to carry aircraft, air-to-ground and air-to-air heavy firepower weapons. The large military base is An all-in-one, mobile super fortress and operational base with light stealth capabilities.”
"This design seems so old-fashioned... Since we can design an anti-gravity engine and have a stable shipboard core reactor, why not try to build a planet-class spacecraft that can fly into space?" UR-025 asked no. An expression of relief.
But Ada listened for a while and immediately asked: "Which country came up with this design?"
Sure enough, only humans understand the underlying psychology of humans: "It was created in the Bald Eagle Country in another universe."
"No wonder...this is indeed a superfluous design that they only came up with——"
Ada rolled her eyes at Xie Yuan: "But it's obvious that the Shadow Broker is not a stupid bureaucrat from the Bald Eagle Country. This is definitely a spaceship."
"Why do you think it must be a superfluous design created by stupid bureaucrats?" UR-025 looked at Ada again.
"This is a consistent method used by the Bald Eagle Nation's bureaucrats to obtain kickbacks - to use a whole ship of specious weapons and equipment that looks cool but actually has very rigid functions to extract a huge amount of development, research and production funds, and then Wash off a large part for your own use.”
Speaking of this, Ada showed a sarcastic look: "According to common sense, the key integration of several technologies can already create space vehicles.
But for personal gain, and to win the trust of the old antiques from the GF Department, they piled up a few advanced technologies to create an airship with powerful lethality, strong defense, and stealth.
Airships are a concept that the Congressmen in charge of the budget can understand. Although it is a very old concept, with the support of large-traffic IPs in the military world such as air carriers, ultra-long-range air-to-ground strikes and stealth, Still willing to spend a lot of money - so after receiving a large amount of kickbacks, a backward weapon upgraded with advanced technology was born. "
"Hmm... It's a pity that the Shadow Broker is not such a fool - but if he was such a fool, he would have died in the long history."
UR-025 sighed, and then reported the status, while using his own consciousness to activate the protection and detection functions of the transport aircraft: "It has entered the storm clouds, and turned on the anti-EMP shield state - most of the radar scans The means are hindered - sonar scanning is now enabled, filtering natural noise, and the search is in progress..."
"Well! Now it's like a hunter hunting a wild beast. Let's see who discovers the other's existence first." Xie Yuan looked at the holographic image taken outside the cabin. Although it was unlikely, he still tried to find the shadow agent with his naked eyes. traces of the ship.
Ada, on the other hand, stayed by his side to watch, but she didn't try to look for it with her eyes—she wasn't someone with a superhuman physique like Xie Yuan who could observe extremely distant objects with the naked eye.
She was just impressed: "The Shadow Broker really taught me a good lesson this time - I benefited a lot from his professionalism in intelligence search and his definition of a life-saving place.
If such a ship flies in the strongest storm group, the huge clouds will cover the shape of the ship and the heat source reaction, and the ionization effect of lightning will make all electromagnetic wave radar detection methods ineffective... What a good idea! The spacecraft does not even need to go elsewhere to replenish energy and water...because these two things are inexhaustible in the storm cloud..."
"How else can we explain why the Shadow Brokers are the most successful and largest intelligence intermediary organization in the entire galaxy?"
Xie Yuan withdrew his gaze and looked at Ada with a smile on his face: "To be honest, if he hadn't sold the information to the collector and I almost died once - I wouldn't have made such a big determination to do it. Get rid of him.
And letting him die in my hands is the greatest kindness I can give him. "
"Do you think he will be prepared?" Ada was still a little uneasy.
"I assume he does, and maybe has a dragnet set up - but what?"
Xie Yuan didn't care about this: "We have a retreat. If we really can't, we can just retreat to the standby area - but as long as the Shadow Broker himself is on the ship, I have the ability to let him die."
"What if he's not here?" Ada asked the worst-case scenario.
"That's okay. We'll contact Liana as soon as we're free - she should also be flirting with Cerberus at this time, so she must have a weakness of the Shadow Broker."
Xie Yuan had already made up his mind about this: "If we can't get the Shadow Broker's property, our goal will be to fight a war of annihilation. Then we must confirm that he is dead and rob his property - if we can get something, a little."
"As long as you have a plan." Ada no longer had any objections. She just asked Xie Yuan and Iron Man about their respective explorations. "So, has the search in the wind group yielded any results?"
"The results of the sonar scan are still not optimistic - there are too many natural noises." UR-025 "Geth Elite" shook his head, then looked at Xie Yuan, "Boss, what are your gains?"
"It's hard to notice this with the naked eye...but, it's not like I can't help it..."
Xie Yuan, who also had no good results, simply closed his eyes, let go of all the barriers of his will, and a large amount of his brain waves began to spread around.
The influence of this brain wave was so wide that even Ada felt as if her whole body was being gently caressed by sea water - as if her whole body was being seen!
This strange feeling made Ada's face look strange, but when she turned around, she saw that UR-025's performance had also become extremely sluggish, as if...as if its remote control had been seriously interfered with.
However, this tide-like feeling suddenly began to converge toward Xie Yuanwei shortly after it spread, so Ada was forced to experience the strange feeling of being caressed by the water again.
Then she saw Xie Yuan open his eyes, then turned around and pointed towards the 9 o'clock direction of the spacecraft: "Over there, there are a large number of mechanical signals and biological signals in the direction of 30 kilometers, whether it is his trap or his lair. , all in that direction."
"Okay, sit tight!" UR-025 immediately turned around and headed towards the direction of Xie Yuan's finger with great enthusiasm.
(End of chapter)
