Chapter 190: Storytelling
In response to Teng Juli's question, Li Yi said:
"That may not be impossible, because judging from the traces, there are no B-class mecha delivery boxes around."
Li Yi had already determined that the delivery box they had just discovered in space was loaded with a Class B mecha.
Teng Juli pondered: "So, where are the remaining A-level and B-level delivery boxes?"
Li Yi said: "This part may be coming in small pieces, from all directions. It seems that we need the garrison corps to strengthen patrols around here."
Teng Juli felt a headache and asked, "But with such a large area, can the cruiser defend it?"
Li Yi said: "Let's go, quickly report the intelligence to the two commanders and see what they decide. In any case, even if the aliens have noticed something unusual in the surrounding star field, they probably won't come here immediately, so don't panic."
As they spoke, the two of them each carried a delivery box and prepared to take it over.
As for the delivery boxes floating in space and other delivery boxes under the ground, Li Yi has frozen them with freezing waves to prevent any signal sending devices from being hidden inside and to continue to guide more alien drifting delivery boxes over.
Although they discovered these delivery boxes, they could easily arrange a siege and attack tactic to lure out the stragglers and kill them.
However, there is a risk of exposing Planet 33, and it is also possible that they will figure out the laws of gravitational vortexes and find a more suitable and faster entry route.
In short, even if there are better tactics, these delivery boxes should be sealed first, waiting for senior generals who know more strategic information to make decisions.
Mu Tianlei and Lin Wendong, who received the news from Li Yi, also felt that the situation was quite serious and should not be underestimated.
Not long after, everyone involved in the search received the corresponding news and focused on searching for other possible scattered delivery boxes.
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Three hours later.
Around the No. 29 Planet Regiment, more than a dozen mechas returned and gathered one after another.
Everyone quickly reported back and discovered that except for the A-level delivery box, all the other B-level delivery boxes were found.
Mu Tianlei frowned and said, "Li Yi, please confirm whether the flame traces in the surrounding area are from the six-armed mecha."
Li Yi shook his head and said, "No."
If it is true as Li Yi judged, that there are no traces of flames from the A-class mecha in the surrounding area, then it means that the six-armed mecha also arrived in the surrounding area on a delivery box or similar item, and then began to move around in the surrounding area.
Therefore, Li Yi's judgment is very critical.
Everyone immediately pondered, what was the leak? Zhang Pengting said: "Could it be that the light is not in the dark again? In fact, the movement of the northern ruins leaving was also observed by them, but because of the fear of the two celestial officers, they did not land directly on Planet 33, but on the northern ruins, which is the back of our planet?"
Li Yi shook his head and said, "Liaison Officer Zhuang has already arranged a monitoring system for the entire planet. It is impossible that he could not monitor these movements."
Liang Zhishen said:
"Is there a possibility that this A-class mecha did not rely on the delivery box and drifted here on its own? Or did it simply drift over from the border star? It just happened to receive the guidance signal from the drifting box and came here alone?"
Li Yi pondered and said, "It is indeed possible that there is no delivery box. The highest of these B-level ones is only 132 meters."
"However, it is unlikely to come from the border star. It will take half a month for an A-class mecha to fly over, but if it just relies on drifting, it will definitely not work."
"Let's collect the parts of this A-class machine first and examine it briefly. Maybe we can determine when it can arrive."
Liang Zhishen was surprised:
"You can see that?"
Li Yi said: "I'm not sure. After all, the recovery rate of the A-class mecha is very high. I'm not sure if I can tell from the slight wear and tear on the surface. I can only try. So it's better to be prepared. Sirs, prepare for the interrogation. I'll translate."
Mu Tianlei couldn't help but ask: "No, you also know the alien language?"
Li Yi said: "I haven't learned it, but I remember seeing some related data on alien language analysis. I can learn it temporarily later. If the mecha master in that day is a real alien, maybe I can get some more detailed internal information about the aliens from him."
Mu Tianlei said: "Okay, although it seems outrageous emotionally, my reason tells me that I should listen to your advice now."
…
Soon, everyone was divided into groups to clean up the battlefield, collect the damaged parts of the divine mechas, and compare them one by one.
The other part was interrogated one by one.
Robots are used to assist in cleaning up the battlefield, but they cannot handle so many large objects, so each mecha master has to do it personally.
As for interrogation, although AI also has auxiliary functions, their starship is only a medium-sized starship, and there are no resources inside to equip such a large AI mothership. Therefore, the intelligence of AI can only be said to be relatively ordinary, and it can only be used as an auxiliary tool for detecting lies.
Li Yi's focus is interrogation and translation.
The human side has naturally translated many alien languages, and also has many detailed language databases and translation AI, which makes it easier to interrogate them after they are captured.
However, due to its intelligence level, the translation AI will also make many translation errors, which will naturally affect the interrogation effect.
It is just right for Li Yi, who is proficient in all kinds of skills, to do this task at this moment.
The first person to be interrogated cannot be the alien of the Heavenly Rank.
Because the situation is unclear, it is easy for a strong person with a higher level to discover many secrets, making it difficult to interrogate.
You should start with the soldiers first, get enough information, and then deal with the celestial aliens.
At this moment, Li Yi and Liang Zhishen were working together, and Zhou Fuli and Zhou Bingying were working together. The two groups were interrogating the pilots of the B-class and C-class divine mechas respectively.
These pilots are human in race, but they are slaves of aliens.
Li Yi observed this group of B-level and C-level human slaves for a while and picked out the calmest one.
Since the other party is so calm, it means he knows a lot.
Although he planned to start from the weakest ones, he did not plan to start from the weakest ones one by one, as this would waste too much time.
It’s better to pick someone from the crowd who seems to know more about the situation.
The first human slave had obviously been naturalized for a long time, and his appearance was somewhat different from that of normal humans.
Slightly thick lips, pointed eyes, and drooping eyebrows are considered ugly facial features in the eyes of normal human aesthetics.
But looking at this person, he has fair skin, long fingers, and looks like he is well-fed.
Li Yi observed for a moment and estimated in his mind that this man should be a human slave who was doing relatively well.
After all, he is a pilot of a B-class mecha. Even if he is a member of the suicide squad, he is probably well-fed and well-dressed so that he can exert enough combat power.
Liang Zhishen had already understood Li Yi's routine, and immediately said: "Tell me your situation, your name, which region you are from, and which fleet you belong to."
Immediately, the intelligent translation AI on the side started to talk.
Li Yi checked the alien language information he had just obtained in his mind and started learning it quickly.
With his translation skills now close to perfection, coupled with his strong language skills, learning a new language will naturally be an easy task for him.
Even without brushing up on memory fragments, he was confident that he could quickly master the basics of conversation.
But for him, mastering the basics of conversation is naturally not enough.
To achieve good interrogation results, you naturally have to be proficient in their language.
This human slave did not resist being asked questions, but instead spoke cooperatively.
With the help of the translation AI, Li Yi quickly learned about the situation of this human slave.
The name is transliterated as Katusi, which according to the alien language should be something like Zhang San Li Si.
What surprised the two was that this Katusi had not been implanted with the ideological imprint!
The two of them asked many questions about this, but none of them triggered any effect of the thought stamp.
Effects including forced language avoidance, forced dementia, and forced nervous disorders did not occur.
At this time, after becoming familiar with the situation and having collected enough corpus information previously, Li Yi began to communicate with Katusi.
A strange voice came out of his mouth.
Seeing this, Liang Zhishen simply plugged in a headset and listened to the audio translation himself to avoid interrupting Li Yi's interrogation.
Li Yi said: "You have never received the thought stamp, why are you willing to take such a big risk to go deep into the human territory? In addition, do you remember when you set out and how long you were dormant in the cockpit?"
Katusi said, "Let me answer your last question first. I have drifted here. The hibernation capsule has recorded the time, which should be 57 Imperial standard years."
Li Yi understood that 57 Imperial standard years was the aliens' method of calculating time. When converted, it was exactly equal to twice the Earth's standard time, which was 114 Earth years.
Katusi continued:
"Then let me answer your first question. We have escaped from slavery, removed the ideological seal, and become free citizens of the empire."
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"As you can see, all of us are warriors who volunteered to open up new lands and contribute to the empire."
Li Yi and Liang Zhishen looked at each other, both feeling somewhat unbelievable.
Humans who escaped slavery more than a hundred years ago? Seeing this, Katusi smiled and said, "We are all human beings, aren't we? In that case, why don't you consider joining the Empire and becoming a part of it?"
"Given your size, you can more or less interfere with the political operations of the empire."
"By then, won't you be able to legally abolish human slavery?"
"Then, wouldn't all the human slaves in the empire be liberated? Then you will be heroes of all mankind, right?"
"After that, won't the empire be eaten away by us humans, and then slowly controlled? Isn't this route more likely to put humans in a better situation?"
Liang Zhishen's face changed slightly.
At the back of the interrogation room, Mu Tianlei and Lin Wendong, who had been listening to the interrogation of the two groups, also noticed that Li Yi seemed to have picked up a big fish.
The news brought by Katusi is really important.
But how true is it? Li Yi said with a smile: "You make it sound simple. First, tell us the details of the empire. If you just talk nonsense, that won't work."
Katusi smiled and said:
"It's simple, really simple. As long as you, the Xingyu Federation, are willing to submit to the Empire, everything will be simple."
"Within the empire, there are three supreme races, eight gold races, thirty-two silver races, sixty-four bronze races, and the only god race, which makes up a total of 108 ruling races."
"Below this, there are several thousand civilians and one hundred thousand slaves, which constitute the lower racial group."
"Within the empire, the nobility and inferiority of a race are not determined by nature. As long as you have the strength to win the race war, you can naturally replace the position of that race and enslave them in turn."
"This kind of system, where the strong prey on the weak and follow the laws of nature, isn't it truly in line with the principles of the universe?"
"I heard that the human federation is huge in number. As long as we get enough Giant God resources from the empire, it will be easy to breed silver warriors. Then, we can become one of the bronze races in one fell swoop. Isn't that simple?"
Li Yi knew that the so-called silver-level strongmen mentioned by the aliens were at the high end of the heavenly level, while the gold-level strongmen should be above the heavenly level.
Then he asked, "A race that has a silver warrior can become a bronze race? Then, the standard for a silver race is to have a gold warrior?"
Katusi nodded and said:
"Yes, that's right. The Golden Family needs at least ten Golden Masters and one Demigod Master to be honored as the Golden Family."
"Of course, if we can defeat the strong with the weak and win the clan war, we can also replace them. However, if we don't have enough strong people, we will definitely be targeted by other low-level races soon. By then, we will be overwhelmed and die!"
"The so-called clan war naturally requires strong people from a strong enough race to have the confidence to initiate the clan war!"
"Although you don't have any silver warriors, you have more of them. I believe that with our support, secret techniques, resources, and giant soldiers will continue to flow in, and you will definitely be able to produce warriors of the high heaven level!"
After these words were spoken, Li Yi and Liang Zhishen became more and more confused.
Humanity has no silver-level warriors. How long has this happened? Even if it was a hundred years ago, those above the heavenly rank would have been born long ago, right? How could they not have done this little homework before drifting here?
Moreover, there are many discrepancies between the internal power situation of the aliens introduced by Katusi and the alien information that the two learned in their daily study.
For example, according to the data they currently know, there are five golden races of aliens.
As for the gods, I have never heard of them. Most likely something unexpected happened to them more than two hundred years ago, and they might have disappeared.
However, Li Yi concluded through his careful observation that this Katusi might have lied and cheated to get the upper hand, but he clearly did not lie when introducing the situation of the aliens.
Touching his chin, Li Yi asked Liang Zhishen to continue asking questions while he walked out of the interrogation room.
When Mu Tianlei saw Li Yi, he was not surprised and said, "You find it strange, right?"
Li Yi nodded:
"Commander Mu, when did our Silver-level expert, who is also a high-level Heaven-level expert, appear?"
Mu Tianlei groaned:
"We first had the Heavenly Rank and then worked our way back to the Heavenly Rank High Stage. There is indeed a time difference, but the first Heavenly Rank was born about two hundred years ago, and the Heavenly Rank High Stage was born about twenty years later."
"About two hundred and fifty years ago, in 1952, aliens first discovered the narrow entrance to the border star and entered our human territory on a large scale."
"However, when the aliens entered, they found a desolate place with no life around the border star. They could only see an eternal star gate."
"So, at that time, the aliens only mined minerals in the surrounding areas and did not develop them on a large scale."
"At that time, humans had just entered the interstellar age and had just begun to excavate divine relics in large quantities. Only a small number of strong people with sufficient opportunities were able to set foot outside the solar system."
"Until the year 2001, humans discovered more and more divine mechas and star gates. Their footprints and territories continued to expand. There was even a dark history of using test tubes to occupy and transform various planets on a large scale."
"Then, humans finally had their first conflict with aliens on the border planet."
"Then, a larger number of aliens were attracted, trying to enslave more humans, which led to a high-intensity war between humans and aliens. After ten years of bloody battles and stalemates, the first powerful person above the heavenly level was finally born, and the invading aliens were completely repelled."
Listening to Mu Tianlei's story, Li Yi was still confused.
He said, "Commander Mu, if the first large-scale contact between aliens and humans was 250 years ago, when did so many human slaves begin to be captured?"
Mu Tianlei shook his head and said:
"I don't know about that. According to experts, perhaps aliens visited Earth in an even earlier era, perhaps thousands of years ago. It is also possible that they were captured warriors more than 200 years ago. They might have been implanted with ideological imprints, and then reproduced, or even bred through test tubes."
Li Yi understood that this was probably a confusing account that could not be settled.
After a moment of hesitation, Li Yi said:
"However, if our human records are correct, then Katusi's situation is suspicious. Perhaps he actually drifted for longer than he thought."
"It is very likely that they were sent in in large numbers before our Heavenly Rank experts were born."
Mu Tianlei pondered: "This is indeed possible, but what does it mean?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "Sir, this is a promising thing! These people have not been implanted with ideological stamps, and they are completely different from the slaves we captured before! The possibility of getting more information out of them is very high!"
(End of this chapter)