As mentioned before, a few weeks after the Battle of the Citadel, the Normandy was suddenly attacked by an unknown warship while tracking the remnants of the geth (it was actually a cruiser sent by the "Collector" base. "乐〈文" In the novel, faced with being hit hard as soon as they met, Shepard decisively ordered the abandonment of the ship. Therefore, except for the crew members who died in the first round of strikes, almost all the remaining people entered the escape hatch in time and ejected, thus escaping. One calamity.
Only Sister Xue stayed on the ship to save the joker who stubbornly wanted to save the ship. In the end, joker was rescued, but she died...
After being resurrected by Cerberus, Shepard woke up two years later. The world had become very different, especially the former crew members.
Obstacle Li returned to Star Alliance and was promoted. Faced with Sister Xue who had come back from the dead, although she expressed that she was very happy, she immediately clearly rejected Sister Xue's recruitment request. We all know that Obstacle Pear is a stubborn and prejudiced person who takes certain things very seriously - Lu Yuan was just messing around in school, but after he made a lot of contributions to Star Alliance, even Those who had been cheated by him had all forgiven him, but Li Shi always had a bad impression of Lu Yuan;
Therefore, when Sister Xue and the notorious organization Cerberus got mixed together, no matter whether Sister Xue wanted to do something to save the world or not, the troublesome pear was destined not to get involved.
After the Krogan Lex returned to his home planet, he inherited the position of leader of the tribe and became the prestigious "King Rai"! At this time, Cerberus was holding the "antidote" of the genetic medicine in one hand. With a weapon in one hand, he was rampaging on the Krogan home planet, trying to turn all the Krogan people into dog-stoppers - but Lex was born to deal with this kind of thing!
He was fighting Cerberus until his brains exploded. Therefore, although he warmly entertained Sister Xue, he rejected the olive branch she extended. After all, Sister Xue now seems to be a member of the Dog Stoppers.
Among the crew of the generation, the original turian Gallas was the most likely to return to Sister Xue's command, just like what happened in the previous plot.
When he resigned, he was a disgrace to c-sec! It was impossible to continue to work as a policeman in the Citadel, and he couldn't afford to lose his father when he returned home. So when the Normandie crashed. Becoming a homeless man, Gallas wandered around and eventually wandered into the Omega Space Station. Become the "Archangel" who upholds justice in the darkness!
In the original plot, he prospered, became famous in the dark world, and eventually returned to the new Normandy.
But the world has changed. The Dark King of Omega Space Station has become the Queen's adjutant, Ding Mumu... Possessing the combined power of psychic energy, wanderer, and the Divine Illumination Sutra, Ding Mumu is unrivaled in the darkness! Of course, Gallas couldn't do it either... So after being played like a cat and mouse by Ding Mumu for a year, Gallas was successfully tamed by Sister Mu Mu and became Mu Mu's "Top Fighter No. 1", completely missing Normandy.
Finally, there is Liara, the Asari bitch who once competed with Annie for Sister Xue.
She opened an investigation company in the capital of the planet Ilim - unfortunately, as we all said, the world has changed...
You must know that the "Ilim Spring" incident had just passed not long ago - at that time. Zhao Min suddenly rose to prominence in just two or three years since Ilim and became the uncrowned king of Ilim's generation. Then she punched the Asari bitch and kicked Waller. When he left, the whole Ilim was turned upside down! In the end, Shi Shiran packed up tens of billions of star yuan in cash and the battleship blueprints of the two races and left, leaving only a handsome back for future generations to recall...
Since then, the business environment in Ilim has suddenly become harsher. Major companies have expanded their territory one after another, eventually carving up the entire Ilim market and monopolizing it, leaving no opportunity for newcomers to develop and grow. So Liara is in tragedy... Even though her company has been established for more than a year, it is still struggling to survive...
At this time, Sister Xue just waved her hand. She dropped the mess in her hands without hesitation and threw herself into Sister Xue's elastic arms again.
Then. Liara proposed the preliminary task of becoming a teammate - to find the Shadow Broker's lair and rescue her former partner Feren (gender: male. This name is awesome - Sister Xue's side task was completed.
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Hagrath is a planet shrouded in storms all day long. The ocean is boiling during the day and turns into an icy hell at night.
Due to irregular satellite motion trajectories and declinations, the entire atmosphere of the planet is in a state of strong convection for a long time...that is to say, a global hurricane!
Strong winds with speeds exceeding 220 kilometers per hour, non-stop heavy rains caused by strong convection, and intensive discharges caused by atmospheric friction have caused the entire planet's natural environment to be extremely harsh. In addition, this planet is just like hundreds of ordinary rocky planets, with an iron core and a silicon-based crust... in short, there is nothing special about it. If you want to find these elements, there are many more convenient ways in the universe than mining this planet.
This means that its development value is zero!
Therefore, no one can guess that the headquarters of the "Shadow Brokers", an intelligence organization spread throughout the galaxy, is actually hidden on this planet - an old cruiser that flies in the storm all day long.
After a series of investigations and battles, Sister Xue finally led Sister Lan to locate the location of the Shadow Broker's lair. They sat in the landing vehicle and boarded the cruiser flying in the storm...
Once entering a ground battle, Sister Xue will always be the best. This is the will of the universe - so Sister Xue only brings the blue girl Liara and a newly recruited veteran. There must be a bunker within ten steps. , and the heavy weapons fire coverage that never appeared - finally pushed the mercenaries hired by the Shadow Brokers during the ground battle and broke into the battleship.
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The door to the battleship's central control room finally opened in front of them.
Shepard fearlessly walked in first. At this time, neither the Shadow Broker nor Saren could stop Valkyrie.
The lights in the empty hall are dim. They could only see a console surrounded by a holographic screen in the center of the hall. A figure sat in the darkness behind the console, elbows resting on its surface. Hold it with your fingers intertwined and rest it on your chin. Although they couldn't see the person clearly, the three of them, Shepard, all felt like they were being looked up and down...
And especially Sister Xue, her heart suddenly started beating violently, because the figure just outlined in the darkness actually gave her a very familiar feeling!
"Long time no see...Shepard." Shepard heard the "Shadow Broker" say, with a little joy in his voice. "You're always so...reckless."
"Annie?!!!"
The man behind the console stood up, exposing his face to the light. Beautiful face, fiery red hair, except for Anne who had been "killed" in Wormel. Who else could it be!
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The following is Shepard, the former N7, Ghost Agent, Citadel Savior, whose database status is "killed", and Anne, the former N7, Normandy Marine Captain, current "Shadow Broker", whose database status is also "killed" dialogue between.
"You're not dead?!"
"Of course I'm not dead... just standing here like you."
"Since you're not dead, why don't you come back to me! Do you know how much... I miss you?!" Shepard's voice was choked with anger. "You can't bear to abandon me?! Watch me fighting alone in the castle?!" Sister Xue thought of her powerlessness when facing Saren... and couldn't help but feel extremely sad and angry. She thought more than once that if Anne was still there at that time, the two of them would be able to easily kill Saren with their tacit understanding!
"Anyway, you still have Liara, right? Ah, Liara, I forgot to say hello to you. Hi, long time no see!" Anne said. It was really full of resentment, which made Sister Xue a little embarrassed. Since she reunited with Liara after a long separation, along the way...ahem...she now felt that she could not say anything. They are all scum. Instead, Liara greeted Anne with a normal expression. Her relationship with Anne had always been more than cold, and the relationship between her and Anne was definitely not a good one.
"And you don't really think you can take down Saren and the Reapers on your own?" Annie shook her head and said, although she also hoped that Shepard would continue his rampage, she did not want Shepard to become arrogant. "Think about how the Li Huamei fleet and the Quaili fleet appeared... and then think about why Saren's plan was about to succeed. How could the Citadel suddenly have a blackout... Although we did not directly participate in the battle in the Citadel, But it’s also done a lot!”
"It turns out that it was all done by the Shadow Broker!" The mystery surrounding the Battle of the Citadel was revealed. Shepard and Liara both had expressions of realization, disbelief, and finally shock. Regarding their misunderstanding of giving credit to the Shadow Broker, Anne nodded and simply admitted it, not wanting to explain too much.
Moreover, in fact, their understanding is not wrong - when the Dawn entered the center of the galaxy, Annie replaced the Yago people and completely took over the "Shadow Brokers" organization. Through this organization, the Dawn combined with the Asari Environmental Protection Organization to quickly launder the funds of Lu Yuan and Mu Xing, and then purchased a large range of materials that the Dawn needed. The Shadow Broker's channel was originally very hidden, and after the Dawn entered the galactic center, she itself became a Mass Effect repeater. With the Dawn itself as the coordinates, material transfer does not need to go through the Omega 4 repeater at all.
Therefore, Dawn's funds and logistics are completely outside the control of Cerberus and the governments of various races.
"Okay, I admit what you said makes sense." Sister Xue said reluctantly, but then her eyebrows rose again. "I heard that the Shadow Broker bought and sold my body?! How do you explain this to me!"
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ps: I started to find it difficult to close the book.
In fact, it's all because Lao Lei's updates are so bad... Recently some chapters are incomprehensible and uninteresting. This is because in order to build a complete and detailed world, the entire plot is spread out. At the end of the day, everything needs to be explained clearly. It’s okay if you read this part in one go, but for readers who are following the book, it is likely that some of the previous details have been forgotten... so of course it seems a bit mindless.
But since Lao Lei wants to write a book with as rigorous a structure as possible and no big mistakes, he has to fill in all the big holes and small holes one by one...
There is also the question of whether there will be a next world after this world ends. The current outline is there. In order to deal with the Mona people, there is still a missing piece of the puzzle. The plan is to create a fairy world, but the details have not yet been determined... (To be continued)
