The cabin door suddenly became quiet, with only the captain's voice on the intercom still asking: "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

Captain Wu's hand left the manual door closing button, the automatic closing system started, and the starship door began to close slowly. Lu Rankong kicked a gun on the ground and it got stuck in the groove at the door of the ship, and the door stopped again.

He interrupted the captain and said calmly, "Captain, I have already revealed my identity. I am Lu Rankong from the Third Mecha Battalion of the Empire's Army stationed on Star Ta. My companion is K. We are lurking in the prison to carry out a secret mission. Now the Lunt alien has escaped to the ship. If you have any doubts about our identities, please contact the higher-ups immediately. If you insist on launching the starship again, I will regard your entire ship as being made up of Lunt aliens and will take all necessary measures."

"Captain, Captain, Colonel Lu and Colonel K are pointing guns at us. Captain..." said a starship soldier with his hand raised.

The other two also raised their hands and looked at each other. After hearing what Lu Rankong said, the expressions on their faces relaxed a little. Only Captain Wu, who had a gun pointed at his head by Lan Yu, began to sweat even more when he found out that the person behind him was K.

The captain did not reply. After a moment, another voice could be heard faintly through the intercom: "Yes, yes, I will cooperate, yes."

It should be the deputy captain who was in the cockpit verifying the identities of Lu Rankong and Lan Yu.

A few minutes later, the captain's voice sounded, in a much lower volume: "I have verified your identities. Both of you are correct. Colonel Lu, Colonel K, how do you need me to cooperate?"

"Stop the starship and set sail until we find the person we are looking for." Lu Rankong said.

Captain: "I can only give you ten minutes. If you miss the specified time, you will not be able to return on time. If you can't make it on time, you will have to--"

"If you still worry about whether we can return on time, it's because you're worried that I'll find out your accomplices. Lonte, I can make sure your starship never has a chance to set sail." Lan Yu poked Captain Wu's forehead with the barrel of his gun.

Captain Wu pleaded loudly at the right time: "Captain, just let them investigate. They think we are all from the Lonte star."

Lu Rankong also directly ordered: "Captain, notify everyone on the ship to go to the cabin now, I will check them one by one."

After half a minute of silence, the other side heard a conversation, it seemed that the captain was giving some instructions to the deputy captain.

"I have arranged for the deputy captain to notify everyone to gather in the conference room on the second floor. You can go directly there," he said.

Lan Yu asked: "Everyone?"

The captain was obviously very resistant to this voice, and said with hidden anger: "Everyone..."

"Including you?"

The captain said nothing, only his heavy breathing could be heard through the intercom.

Lan Yu: "Captain, you are no exception when checking the Lonte people. You must be included in this list of people."

There was no response from the other end. The intercom was hung up forcefully and the sound was cut off.

After a dozen seconds, the rumbling sound of the starship preheating stopped and the surroundings became quiet. Lu Rankong took back the gun in his hand and did not return it to the starship soldier. He just patted him on the shoulder and said, "Everyone, go to the conference room on the second floor. You go first, and we will follow soon. Don't wait, just do whatever you want."

His tone was casual and relaxed, as if he was standing in his own yard, and he asked the guests to sit in the living room first.

Lan Yu also put down his gun, released Captain Wu's neck, and said, "You——"

"I'll go right away. Right away."

Lan Yu paused and said, "You can close the hatch now."

"Okay, okay." Captain Wu had just had a gun pointed at his head and his face was still a little pale.

A starship soldier hurriedly said, "Captain Wu, you go first. I'll close the door."

Captain Wu and the two starship soldiers hurried inside.

"There are also guns..." Lan Yu reminded.

The two starship soldiers immediately turned around and handed out their guns again.

After two seconds of silence, Lan Yu handed the ion gun in her hand to Captain Wu, "I'll return your gun..."

Lu Rankong had already taken one of their guns, so he didn't need too many, so he would just return this one to them.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from inside the starship. After receiving the deputy captain's order, everyone was heading to the conference room on the second floor.

"Let's go, they've all gone in, let's go and take a look." Lu Rankong said to Lan Yu.

The two walked side by side along the passage. The remaining starship soldier had already closed the hatch, making a clicking sound.

Lan Yu looked around and asked in a low voice: "How are we going to catch him later?"

Lu Rankong also leaned to the side and lowered his voice and said, "I shot him in the left leg. After the Longte people completely occupy the spiritual domain of others, they will be injured in the same part of the host's body."

"I understand. Even if he entered someone else's body, he would still be a cripple now," said Lan Yu.

"almost……"

This starship is very large, with three floors in total. Since it is a military transport ship, the internal facilities are not complicated.

The starship soldier who closed the hatch walked behind them. Seeing the two people looking around and occasionally pushing open the doors of the rooms on both sides of the passage to look inside for a while, he introduced: "Colonels, except for the second floor of our ship which is a place for the crew to move around and rest, the other two floors are cargo holds for transporting goods."

"I understand, I understand..." Although Lu Rankong said this, he still pushed open the door of each cabin and looked inside.

These cabins were indeed cargo holds, as the supplies had just been unloaded and each one was empty, which was obvious at a glance.

The three of them went up the spiral staircase to the second floor, where they saw an empty hall with more than a hundred people working on the starship standing inside.

Because it is a transport ship, there are not many starship soldiers, most of whom are starship operators and odd jobs such as chefs.

Opposite them stood a tall, middle-aged alpha in a captain's uniform, with two deputy captains standing behind him.

Hearing the footsteps at the door, everyone looked over. The middle-aged alpha, the captain, simply said that everyone was here and walked aside.

Lu Rankong walked to the captain's position, with Lan Yu following beside him. The starship soldier trotted in and stood in the crowd opposite.

Everyone looked at Lu Rankong and Lan Yu curiously, staring at the prison uniforms they were wearing.

Lu Rankong said carefully: "My last name is Lu, you can call me Colonel Lu, and the person next to me is Colonel K. I have called everyone here because there is an accident and I need your cooperation."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lan Yu shouted, "Don't exchange doubts with each other. You are right. I am the K. Shut up in advance."

Everyone present gave up the idea of ​​whispering to each other and kept their mouths shut, waiting quietly for Lu Rankong's next words, stealing glances at Lan Yu.

Lu Rankong tapped his trouser legs with his fingers and asked, "I believe everyone is familiar with the Longte people, right?"

All eyes fell on Lan Yu, and seeing that he did not express any objection, they began to talk to each other.

"Lonte people? I know about that. Wasn't the great catastrophe in the Sasu Galaxy caused by the Longte people?"

"Everyone knows the Longte people. My grandfather often talks about what happened back then. He was just a child at that time."

"Is this a lecture about the Lontes?"

"Why are they wearing prison uniforms? Are they acting out some kind of role play?"

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Lan Yu coughed, slowly raised her drooping eyes, and her gaze fell on them.

The hall suddenly became quiet again.

"The current situation is..." Lu Rankong raised his hand and touched his chin, and said lightly: "The famous Longte starman should be among you."

"Don't talk, don't whisper, don't make any sounds of shock." Before everyone else could explode, Lan Yu said sternly, "Swallow all those exclamations you made."

As expected, no one made a sound, only the sound of deep breathing and gasping could be heard.

"Are all the personnel on board present?" Lu Rankong turned and asked the deputy captain.

"Everyone is here, not one is left out."

Lu Rankong nodded, turned around and asked, "During the past hour, were the ship doors open?"

"Yes..." Captain Wu, who started the battle, stood up, "The ship's door has been open all the time."

"You four have been guarding the door without leaving?"

Captain Wu shook his head and said, "We are rushing to unload the goods. The quilts, medicines, vegetables, meat and other supplies delivered to the prison this time must be unloaded as soon as possible. When the delivery trucks come and go, we will leave the door from time to time to check on the goods in the cargo hold."

"In other words, within this hour, you didn't absolutely guard the door?" Lu Rankong asked.

"Yes……"

He turned to look at the deputy captain again, "Where's the surveillance? Play the surveillance footage at the hatch for the past hour."

The deputy captain didn't dare to make a decision, and hesitantly looked at the captain. The captain waved his hand unhappily and said, "Show them, so they give up, otherwise it will never end." He turned around and snorted coldly, "You're talking about there being Lunt people on board. How ridiculous."

The deputy captain immediately connected the terminal to the main cabin, called up the hatch monitoring of the past hour, and projected it onto the open space in front of him.

The three-dimensional image appeared, and the scene at the cabin door appeared clearly in front of everyone.

Except for the hatch and the open space in front of it, which were illuminated, everything around was dark. Just as Captain Wu had described, three starship soldiers and he were counting the cargo, leaving the hatch from time to time to go to the cargo hold, and several automatic loading and unloading trucks were transporting goods back and forth on the ramp between the starship and the ground.

Everything seems normal.

Lu Rankong took two steps forward and kept fast-forwarding the images with his hands. Lan Yu stood beside him, observing the people opposite, not missing any changes in their expressions.

Lu Rankong wanted to see the scene when the Longte alien left Officer Wang's body, but that place happened to be in the dark and the surveillance camera did not capture it.

Lan Yu turned her head to look at him, and he shook his head slightly.

The captain sneered beside him.

Lu Rankong didn't mind. After turning off the screen, he turned around and faced everyone, saying, "Raise your hands if you have been with others and have not lost sight of each other in the past hour."

Dozens of hands were raised one after another.

"Xiao Hong and I have been in the fuel tank, and we have never lost sight of each other."

"Colonel Lu, several of us in the kitchen sat together peeling potatoes and none of us left."

"We played cards in the dormitory and never went out."

The captain glanced at the man who said he was playing cards with a warning, wrote down his name, and turned his head away.

Lu Rankong said: "Those who can prove each other should stand on the left first, and the others should stay."

By the time those people stood on the left, only half of the more than 100 people were left.

"Please raise your hands if you are alone, have not walked around, have not seen other people, and have surveillance to prove it." Lu Rankong said again.

Dozens of hands were raised immediately.

"I was sleeping in the dormitory the whole time. The surveillance cameras in the corridor showed that I had never left the house, and no one had entered the dormitory. The door had never been opened."

"Me too. While the starship is unloading and hasn't set sail yet, I'm taking this opportunity to rest in the dormitory. The corridor is monitored."

"Colonel Lu, I am also sleeping in the dormitory. I haven't closed my eyes for more than 20 hours. Many brothers are sleeping in their own cabins."

"I was sleeping too and never opened the door. The surveillance camera outside can prove it."

"I'm in the testing room and I have a video of my work."

"I'm at the pressure pump and I have a working video as well."

Lu Rankong walked over and whispered a few words to the deputy captain.

This time the deputy captain nodded directly, called out a few people from the side who had been temporarily cleared of suspicion, and used the terminal to arrange seven or eight small floating screens in the air, asking them to check the surveillance videos to see if they were all like what the rest of the people said, that they had locked themselves in their rooms and had never gone out, and had never opened the door.

The video was quickly fast-forwarded and watched again. Without any problems, the group of people who had been proven guilty stood on the left along with those who had been cleared of suspicion.

Now there are only eight people left standing still.

Lu Rankong didn't ask them. He looked at the captain first and asked, "Captain, what were you doing for the past hour?"

The captain has the rank of colonel and is the highest-ranking officer on the starship. People he meets usually respect him very much, and few people would speak to him in the same tone as Lu Rankong.

——It was as if he had forgotten that he was just a colonel.

"Colonel, do I need to answer your questions as well?" The captain emphasized the word "colonel".

Lu Rankong seemed not to hear his hidden meaning at all, and continued in a calm but serious tone: "Everyone on this starship must answer what they were doing in the first hour, and whether there is anyone or surveillance that can prove it for them."

The captain remained silent with a sullen face. The deputy captain beside him saw the tense atmosphere and quickly replied, "Colonel Lu, both of us can testify for the captain. We were all in the command cabin waiting to set sail. During the journey, none of us went out, and no one else came in."

After listening to this, Lu Rankong stopped asking questions and turned to the eight people in front of him.

Now, of the eight people, except for the three starship soldiers and Captain Wu who have been going in and out of the hatch, the other four are a navigator, a medical officer, a communicator and an engine operator.

Lan Yu seemed to have no expression, with her eyes slightly narrowed, but she saw all their reactions.

The medical officer kept pulling at his tie, adjusting it from time to time, and looked very nervous, but this appropriate nervousness was the most natural at the moment.

The navigator had one side of his shirt tucked into his belt, but a corner of the other side was exposed, causing Lan Yu to frown without being noticed.

Even though the navigator was in this situation, he looked around and made eyes at the people standing next to him. It seemed that they were very familiar with each other.

The communicator standing at the front was also very nervous, his eyes looking at the ground, muttering something. Lan Yu leaned forward slightly to listen, and heard that he was reciting the trident sound waves, which could be used to determine the position of the starship based on the length and frequency.

The engine operator looked like he was still sleepy. He yawned and rubbed his eyes on his shoulder to wipe away the tears that were about to overflow.

Lan Yu knew that as an engine room operator, his hands would often be stained with oil and the like, and rubbing his eyes or cheeks on his shoulders was also a subconscious reaction.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with these four people.

But who can tell?

Lan Yu had experienced the acting skills of Officer Wang.

The remaining four are the three starship soldiers and Captain Wu who were met at the hatch. Lan Yu had been observing the four people since boarding the starship, and did not find anything unusual about them.

Could it be that... the Lonte alien didn't even board the starship? He looked at Lu Rankong and wanted to discuss it with him, but it was obviously impossible in the current situation.

"Please wait for a few minutes. Colonel K and I have something to say." After Lu Rankong said this to the few people, he turned around, pushed open a small door behind him, looked inside, and motioned Lan Yu to go in.

This should be the tea room in the conference hall. It is equipped with a coffee machine and some tea items, but the space is very large.

After the two of them went in, Lu Rankong closed the door and asked, "Do you have anything to say to me?"

"Well?"

"Aren't you looking at me the whole time? Your eyes are full of 'I have something to ask you, I have something to ask you, but it's not convenient here, I can't start'..." Lu Rankong imitated Lan Yu's tone.

"I didn't look at you the whole time, I just glanced at you twice." Lan Yu saw that he was about to speak, and interrupted him coldly: "Why are you still talking about this now? Let's talk about business..."

"Okay, you talk and I'm listening." Lu Rankong said seriously.

Lan Yu frowned and asked, "Do you think that the Longte people didn't come up at all?"

Lu Rankong stretched out a finger and shook it, "No, he must have come up."

"But I have observed all of these people, and there is nothing wrong with them."

"He knows that he has been exposed and can no longer use the identity of Officer Wang. He can't go back to prison after he gets out. There is no food or water on Quya Star. How can he survive if he doesn't go back to prison? And if he doesn't stay in prison, the wilderness is convenient for the military to search. He can be caught wherever he hides. What's more, the Jialing Crystal can't be defended anymore. There is no point in staying. This starship is the only chance. He must come up and take the opportunity to escape."

"Now everyone else has been checked and there is no suspicion. Only the eight people outside can't explain clearly, but I can't tell what's wrong with them either." Lan Yu said in embarrassment.

Lu Rankong said: "There is a way..."

"Is there a way?"

"Didn't I just tell you that he was shot in the left leg?"

Lan Yu sighed and said, "The gunshot wound was on Officer Wang's leg. After the host was changed, there was no wound on the host. Just now I saw these people moving freely, and none of them looked like a cripple. And I know this Longte star is very good at acting. Now let them run laps, he will run like he is participating in a sports meeting."

Lu Rankong shook his head and said, "His original body was injured along with Officer Wang, and it is indeed hard to tell after changing hosts. He is indeed very good at acting and can pretend that nothing has happened, but the wound hurts, and he will always feel the pain. He is enduring..."

Lan Yu's eyes lit up, "I understand..."