"The next step is to wait for them to find "us"." Xia Lian whispered softly.

He looked at Aisha and said, "Aisha, arrange for people to take turns keeping an eye on this group of people."

"Yes." Elsa replied.

Xia Lian walked out of the main control room and stood at the top of the stairs with a clear view of the entire assembly workshop.

At this moment, the pirate ship has docked at the place where Fenrir originally docked, and the robotic arm is welding and repairing the gap caused by Fenrir's impact.

Fenrir temporarily docked next to the Eternal Night Star to maintain the holographic projection. There is a star nearby, so Alvaco's Sail is enough to supply all of Fenrir's energy consumption.

The pirates were being tied up one by one, and escorted by the crew of the Kuixing ship, they were sent off the pirate ship.

They will be taken to a designated room in this base and held together.

Of course, this is temporary. Next, their brains will be implanted with micro-explosives made of micro-nanons, which can be remotely controlled by modified humans and detonated at any time.

Then they will be released because they are very short of manpower now, such as the work of dismantling the Kustar ship, and tidying up the resistance base and rejuvenating it. These all need people to do.

These pirates are very suitable manpower.

At this moment, Wang Zhen and Shuiyin were still verifying the identities of the kidnapped New Federation people.

Soon, Mercury got off the pirate ship and flew to the staircase where Xia Lian was standing with a slight jump.

"After checking, there are a total of 132 people. They are basically people on the cruise ship, and some of them have cooperative relations with the Principality of Bahram.

Listening to their oral accounts, they were invited by the eldest prince of the Bahram family to come to the Principality of Bahram to listen to the No. 8 singer's tour concert.

It should be a political social gathering.

And the other part is purely here to attend the concert." Mercury said.

"It seems that this singer is really popular. So many dignitaries have come all the way to the Principality of Bahram to support her." Xia Lian said with emotion.

Mercury continued: "In addition to these people, the middle class occupies a relatively large part."

After a pause, she continued: "The energy system of this ship is still intact and can move at warp speed. There are twelve small fighters in the hangar, which can carry up to twenty people, which is just enough to send those people out.

"

Xia Lian fell into thinking. After a moment, he said: "Bring Rocks up."

"yes."

Afterwards, Mercury began to communicate with the members of the Starship that escorted Rocks. Soon, Rocks was brought to Xia Lian again under the escort of Karl.

Xia Lian looked down at Rocks who was kneeling in front of him.

"If you hadn't encountered us, what were you going to do with these hostages?"

Rocks lowered his head and said nothing, as if he was dead.

But Mercury would not coddle him. She directly stretched out her hand and pressed it on the back of his head. Silver threads stretched out from her fingers and entered his brain.

Soon, Rocks slowly raised his head, his eyes were filled with white light, as if his soul had been absorbed.

"Can you ask questions?" Mercury said.

Xia Lian raised his eyebrows and looked at Mercury.

"As can integrate nerves to form a biological computer, then this biological computer can naturally connect to other people's brains," Mercury explained.

Xia Lian nodded and looked at Rocks, "Answer me."

There was obvious struggle on Rocks' face, but then he slowly spoke.

"We will sell these hostages on the black market.

This can also be regarded as the established rules that we pirates have been dealing with for many years.

We will not harm these dignitaries. After the abduction, we will give priority to sending these people to the black market for sale, and their relatives will buy them back.

In this way, we get paid, and these people will not do anything wrong, which is beneficial to both parties."

Xia Lian nodded, "It's a smart move not to provoke a truly powerful enemy. It seems that even pirates have smart people."

After a pause, he sneered, "But civilians are forgotten in your conventional rules, right?

As an official, it does not guarantee the safety of space routes, but instead reaches a consensus with pirates."

Rocks smiled, "As the future master of a country, are you so naive?"

A glimmer of light flashed in Xia's eyes, and at the same time, he communicated with Alaya again.

[Have you figured out the exchange shop? 】

After a moment of silence, Alaya's voice continued.

[Almost, it doesn’t require much energy.]

[How many fifth elements do I have that can be redeemed now?]

【Two hundred and forty thousand points.】

Xia Lian raised his eyebrows in surprise, "So many?"

[The play you staged in Yongye Star before was very effective, but judging from the population of Yongye Star, this is only a very small part of it.

Most of them are still from Yongye District. At present, the vast majority of people are just in awe of your faith and have not yet reached the level of faith.】

Xia Lian nodded [If we perform such a manifestation again, the effect may not be as good as the first time.]

[What can I exchange for?] Xia Lian asked.

[It depends on what you want to change, the history of human fantasy is also extremely huge.]

Xia Lian thought for a while, [I want to change to something that can allow me to quickly communicate with Helios without being noticed by the enemy. ]

[This is not easy to find. After all, Ansible communication is already very advanced... What about the sophons in the three-body system? It's not enough that you have the fifth element now. 】

[The effect of sophons should be good. It is a fantasy technology that does not belong to this world, but it is too slow and does not have super-light speed. It will take several years to launch a sophon from here to Helios?] Xia Lian said.

After a pause, Xia Lian continued to ask: [Can you make a wormhole for me?]

[This wormhole created by the fifth element will disappear in the blink of an eye.]

[Just kidding, if the wormhole device used to teleport a spaceship cannot appear, can it be used to teleport people?] Xia Lian continued to ask.

【What are you referring to?】

[The portal in No Man's Sky.] Xia Lian's eyes flickered, [Even though it is tens of thousands of light years away, it only takes a few dozen seconds to teleport.]

[It’s feasible, you can redeem one with 200,000 points.]

[Is it so cheap?] Xia Lian was a little surprised.

[Essentially, not much material is needed to realize this door, and the determination of value mainly comes from the internal technology.

The portal in No Man's Sky does not use instantaneous teleportation technology, but still uses warp speed, that is, a warp bubble is placed around humans, and then the distortion of space is used to move faster than the speed of light.

If you redeemed this 10,000 years ago, you might need millions or even tens of millions of fifth elements, but your era is 10,000 years later.

This technology already exists in this era, but it is generally used on spacecrafts. Due to safety concerns, it has never been used on humans.】

[Is it reliable?] Xia Lian asked.

[As long as you provide enough fifth elements, the items that appear will generally conform to human fantasy.

It is reliable in the game and will be reliable in reality.

The fifth element "justifies" what you manifest.

The technology of this portal should be about fifty years ahead of this era, and 192,000 of the 200,000 points were used to rationalize this technology.]

Xia Lian thought for a while and said: [If I directly materialize this technology, would it only require 192,000 points? 】

【almost.】

【What if we make a second door?】

[Then it only requires 8,000 points, because the technology has been rationalized, it is not a large object, and the fifth element consumed for its realization will naturally not be too much.]

Xia Lian nodded, looked at Rocks again with a thoughtful look in his eyes, paused, and continued to ask.

"You robbed that cruise ship. The people of the New Federation will soon know about it, and even if you exclude the fleet from coming for support and search, you are so confident that you think you can safely escape the encirclement and go to the black market?"

Rocks sneered, "My ship is the patrol boat of the New Federation. The skull and crossbones flag on the surface is controllable invisible paint. As long as the skull and crossbones flag is turned off, we will become the regular army of the New Federation!"

Xia Lian looked at Rocks quietly, and suddenly, he showed a smile.

"Do you want to survive? Or do you want to continue being a pirate?"

The white light in Locks's eyes gradually disappeared. He raised his head and looked at Xia Lian with some confusion.


Chapter completed!