Don't look at the group of Asari bitches in the "Jinghua" office who all behave confidently when facing the media. In fact, their chances of winning are not as high as they appear. [No pop-up novel website]
After all, although Monica had signed a confidentiality agreement at the beginning, it was mainly to protect Mu Xing's personal privacy and did not involve too many technical issues - the research conducted by Mu Xing on the "Gagarin" space station, the entire galaxy can No more than fifty people could understand it. And her husband is just an ordinary battleship engineer, responsible for industrial assembly line design... This core secret part is very boring and has nothing to do with the battleship itself.
In short, confidentiality agreements signed all over the world are like that - it is best to sign them as football's "locker room rules" - even if a group of people are gay in there, you can't tell it!
But the law more than a hundred years later will not care about this. In addition to making a few words, it will also take into account the actual situation. Therefore, the possibility that "Jinghua" can win and extract huge compensation from News Network and Monica is not high. But "Jinghua" Law Firm has made it clear from the beginning that they don't consider the issue of winning or losing the lawsuit at all, they just use "litigation" killing tactics - my client has prepared hundreds of millions of stars to slowly fight the lawsuit. ,And you?
Faced with this kind of wealthy people who "don't care about money, only care about having fun", the news network can only give up...
*****
"Still no trace of Lu Yuan?"
"Yes."
The leader of Cerberus, the Illusive Man, threw the photo in his hand on the floor. He crushed the cigarette butt in his hand, then lit the next one, thinking silently in his heart.
When the light falls on the photo, it is vaguely a world of ice and snow. The location where those photos were taken was the "Ice Throne" castle located in Luyuan on the planet Novilia. When Cerberus tried to find the Dawn, he found that except for a little girl playing ghost in the glacier, there was no one there. As for the little girl, she claims to be 9, has an IQ of 9, and speaks confusingly. Of course I can't ask anything...
Even Lu Yuan's shares in the Novilia planet were transferred to an Asari environmental fund for operation. The owner of the fund is a former Asari officer... The clues were interrupted again.
On August 4, the Battle of the Citadel broke out.
August 5th. The "Overlord" Reaper was destroyed; Cerberus appeared in the Citadel as the "Savior"; the Battle of the Citadel ended victoriously.
On August 6, the bustling "Ice Throne" castle was deserted overnight; negotiations in the castle began, humans became the fourth parliamentary race, and the parliament recognized the return of the Quarians to their home planet. Quali establishes ambassadorial diplomatic relations with the Citadel;
On August 7, all Dawn personnel on the Omega Space Station were evacuated; on the same day, the dwarf planet Brace purchased by Lu Yuan disappeared inexplicably; the cleanup of the ruins of the Citadel was officially launched.
August 8,…
As if matching the rhythm of the Citadel's negotiations, the Dawn was erasing the traces she had left behind at an extremely fast speed. When all parties involved in the Battle of the Citadel finally left the negotiation table exhausted, they were surprised to find that the Dawn, which was like a flash in the pan, disappeared again into the vast starry sky. And this time. All the information about the Dawn that the Citadel Council has is actually just that one photo.
A week after the Battle of the Citadel, the Citadel Council and the Star Alliance Fifth Fleet gradually discovered many unsolved mysteries through information integration——
For example, who were those children who destroyed the maintenance station and caused a blackout in the entire Citadel? ! In fact, it was they who prevented the "overlord" reapers from opening the dark passage three times by releasing the "magic scroll" (the council really didn't know how to describe the action of lifting the scroll), and destroying the maintenance station to cause a shock wave effect, etc.! He is the real hero who saves the Citadel!
But after this group of children did such great things, they mysteriously disappeared from the castle. In the end, the credit fell to Sister Xue who risked her life and fought... This time the parliament was really forced to have no choice, if the parliament dared to announce the "truth." He will definitely be regarded as a fool by the public.
The second unsolved mystery - the Li Huamei Squadron and the Kuili Fleet jumped into the battlefield one after another, playing a decisive role in the direction of the entire battle. But afterwards, data from the Citadel Control Center showed that the main relays in each galaxy were indeed shut down at that time. The fleet's voyage recorder showed that both fleets jumped "indirectly" through the Spear Galaxy's repeater - but that main stage repeater crashed 7 years ago!
But when asked. Li Huamei and Carl Danner both said that those were just "coordinates given by friends", "I am technically illiterate", "I saw all the things about navigation but could not understand", "What the hell are repeater coordinates?" , "As a battleship commander, I only focus on firepower! Firepower! And firepower!"...
So the third unsolved mystery is the huge space station that appeared frequently during the war even though it did not participate in the Battle of the Citadel (they did not think it was a spaceship. Which force does it belong to? ? Enemy or friend? What is the purpose?...
As for the photo secretly released by Cerberus. In fact, it was not taken by any astronomy enthusiast. It came from the quarian fleet. When the rogue fleet transited through the Dawn, most of the quarians were shocked by the extremely large number of reaper fleets, but a few people were not. One of them violated Carl Danner's order, and his curiosity made him quietly press the photo button... When the council was checking the data, they discovered the photo.
Strangely, except for this distant, blurry photo of the Dawn, all the others were burned down due to sudden malfunctions - those of the Reaper fleet. Without direct evidence to prove that "the Reapers do exist", the Parliament can continue to stick their heads in the sand and pretend not to know...
To this day, the "Illusive Man" still can't figure out what it was that caused Dawn to react so violently——
In his opinion, Lu Yuan and the forces behind him have always maintained an indifferent attitude towards Cerberus's ambitions, and have always turned a blind eye to Cerberus's continuous expansion of influence. In particular, the initiative to provide Cerberus with the genetic medicine to treat the Phage Virus put the means of controlling the krogan directly into Cerberus's hands. Theoretically speaking, it should be the honeymoon period for both parties. Even if you occasionally do something "a little bit" out of line, it should be easy to get forgiveness.
But things did not develop as he expected - when Cerberus unexpectedly appeared on the Citadel battlefield, Dawn immediately unilaterally cut off all communication channels.
The Dawn photo incident was just another test by Cerberus. But this time it was General Hackett of the Fifth Fleet and a "Jinghua" law firm who rushed out to slap him in the face, but neither of these two companies had any contact with the Dawn recently. The "Illusive Man" only felt that there was a thick layer of fog surrounding the Dawn, and he could not see clearly. This feeling of being unable to grasp made him even a little annoyed.
"Emergency, please get through immediately." Miranda's communication was suddenly connected, and her profile picture flashed on the wall.
"I'm here." The Illusive Man crushed the cigarette, adjusted his collar a little, and then pressed the button to connect the communication.
"Fifteen minutes ago, the Normandy was attacked while on a mission! It has been confirmed that the Normandy crashed and Captain Shepard's whereabouts are unknown!" Miranda quickly explained the situation as soon as she appeared. As the "Citadel Savior", Shepard currently has a high reputation throughout the galaxy. She is also one of the key targets of Cerberus, and is considered by the "Illusive Man" to be the best candidate for the savior - although Miranda does not agree with this.
"Who attacked the Normandy: Unknown; What attacked the Normandy: Unknown; The naval rescue fleet will arrive in four hours, and our closest ship to the incident site will take another fifteen hours to arrive at the scene .My suggestion is to give up rushing to the scene and we can investigate from the side."
But the "Illusive Man" did not immediately confirm Shepard's condition, or ask Miranda to immediately find information about the attacker. Instead, he asked a seemingly irrelevant question - "Is anyone from the Dawn present at the scene?"
"There is nothing to suggest that they were or were going to be at the scene."
"I understand." The Illusive Man fell into brief contemplation again. Through intelligence integration, he discovered that the Dawn was very concerned about Shepard. They had even been vaguely supporting Shepard's actions behind the scenes, and even arranged for Annie and Li Huamei to be by Shepard's side. But this time, why didn't anyone from the Dawn show up when something happened to Shepard? Did they abandon Shepard's line, or was there something unexpected?
Finally, the "Illusive Man" said to Miranda.
"Activate our network. If Shepard is still alive, find her; if she is dead, I authorize you to activate Project Lazarus and resurrect her if necessary!"
*****
All members of the Dawn were dressed in neat uniforms and lined up in front of the portholes facing outwards.
At this time, all the released "Matrix" ships have been recovered, and all human members, scientific research groups, and genomes have returned to the mother ship. Therefore, for the first time, all members of the Dawn were present, and the number of crew members it carried at this moment directly exceeded the 2.5 million population mark. Even though the entire outer hull of the Dawn was transformed into transparent portholes, more than two million people still packed the 34 decks of the ship close to the portholes.
This star field is a huge meteorite ring. Only near the anchorage area of Dawn, there is still a narrow space where ships can be berthed in a controlled manner. 30 "Matrix" transport ships are parked around the Dawn, and directly in front of the Dawn is a huge and strange repeater! Different from all known repeaters, this repeater is larger in size, and its shining light is orange-red!
The spherical core of mass rotates like fire, like pupils staring into the abyss.
"Salute!" Following Anne's clear command, two and a half million people raised their arms in unison and saluted the bright starry sky outside the portholes.
"We will definitely come back... Now, let's go!"
Following the activation command, the Omega 4 repeater erupted into an orange-red light that enveloped the fleet, boundless. The Dawn Mothership, along with 30 "Matrix" ships, disappeared from the civilized world without a trace. (To be continued.)
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