Sweat began to trickle down the starship soldier's forehead, dripping down his chin to the floor. His body began to tilt and his center of gravity shifted to his right foot. However, because of the needle inserted into his neck, his upper body was stiff and motionless.
"Your legs hurt? Do you still want to live?" Lu Rankong asked.
The Starfleet soldier said nothing, but he didn't deny it either.
"If you answer a few questions, I will let you live. The military has a special prison that can be used to detain you. When there is a suitable opportunity in the future, I will let you return to Longte Star."
Lu Rankong lowered his voice and asked, "Who did you give the Kaling Crystal you smuggled out to? There must be another Longte starman. Tell me his name and identity."
The Starfleet Trooper remained silent.
"Did you kill Xu?" Lan Yu suddenly asked from the side.
The starship soldier turned his eyes to look at Lan Yu, and two voices came out of his mouth at the same time, "Who is Xu?"
"A prisoner..."
“I don’t know…”
Lan Yu stared at the starship soldier closely. Seeing that the confusion on his face did not seem fake, she added, "An employee of the Black Crow Bar."
When Lan Yu said this, she saw that his eyes narrowed when he heard the words "Black Crow Bar employee".
"Did you remember? Did you kill that person? Don't you know that he was a criminal before? Then did he find something in the Black Crow Bar, so you silenced him?" Lan Yu asked a series of harsh questions.
"I don't know what Black Crow Bar is." The starship soldier closed his eyes, refusing to say anything more.
Lu Rankong whispered in his ear: "You were Officer Wang at that time. It would be easy to find out whether you took leave to go to Sasu Star during those days. Do you think you can just keep silent?"
"Black Crow Bar... Black Crow Bar..." Lan Yu slowly read the name of the bar and said, "Before he died, an employee of the Black Crow Bar said that there were people from the Lonte star in the prison. So he must have discovered you, and he discovered you after he was released from prison. So how did he find you in the bar?"
"If you tell me, you still have a chance of survival. If you don't tell me, you will die. Have you decided not to speak again?" Lu Rankong moved the thumb that was pressing on the medicine push rod.
"I killed him..." The Starfleet soldier suddenly spoke and opened his eyes. He said calmly, "I was drinking in the bar, and he found the Kaling Crystal I was carrying with me. He also recognized my identity, so I had no choice but to kill him."
Lan Yu continued to ask: "Why do you carry the Kaleng Crystal with you? Xu is just an ordinary person. He would not recognize the Kaleng Crystal if he found it. Even if he recognized it, he would not think that you are from Longte. You are lying..."
"Tell me, what did Xu find out that made you follow him to his home and then kill him." Lan Yu's eyes were deep and her voice was filled with an endless sense of oppression, which made people feel flustered.
The starship soldier swallowed, and his throat made a slight sound.
"He heard my conversation with Noah," he said with difficulty.
"Who is Noah?"
"Noah was also a Lonte, and he is dead."
"Dead?"
"Yes, he's dead." The starship soldier looked at Lan Yu and said slowly and clearly: "He planted a bomb in a shopping mall on the planet Zata, and then you killed him."
Lan Yu and Lu Rankong looked at each other quickly and remembered what happened in the Cactus Mall.
Lu Rankong then asked: "Did you and Nuoer meet at the Black Crow Bar and were discovered by Xu?"
"Yes, when I finished talking to Noah and was about to leave, I found that the bartender was behind the baffle. I pretended not to notice him and waited in the alley outside the Black Crow Bar. When he got off work and went home, I followed him all the way." The Starfleet soldier continued to speak in two voices.
Lan Yu asked a question from the bottom of her heart: "Why did Nuoer go to the mall to plant a bomb later? Was it just to kill a group of ordinary people?"
This question popped up in his mind several times, but there was no answer.
Normally, a Longte person would hide his identity and whereabouts, just like the one in front of him and the Mrs. Wang before him.
But the bomber was just the opposite. He appeared in the shopping mall so unscrupulously, planting bombs and taking hostages, without any fear of his identity being exposed.
It's impossible that he went to Sasu Star with all kinds of means just to blow up the shopping mall.
The starship soldier did not answer, but looked at Lan Yu with a meaningful smile and then closed his eyes.
Seeing that he was unwilling to speak, Lu Rankong asked another question: "What did you do in the mine on April 13th? Why did you leave bloodstains?"
"April 13th..." The Starfleet soldier did not avoid the question and spoke slowly, "I don't remember April 13th, but when you mentioned the bloodstains in the mine, I remembered something. It should be April 13th."
He sighed, as if two people were sighing at the same time, which sounded a bit weird. "I stayed in the prison guard's mental realm for quite a long time, and his spiritual body was almost completely devoured by me. I don't know how, but that day, the only unformed spiritual body that was left suddenly woke up and tried desperately to snatch my body. I had just crawled out of that small hole, and in the process of snatching my body, he started to hurt himself, picking up the iron pickaxe on the ground and stabbing himself in the abdomen."
When Lan Yu heard this, she held her breath. He knew Officer Wang had disappeared, but he couldn't help but ask hopefully, "What happened next?"
The starship soldier suddenly laughed, his laughter full of pride, "Then I devoured his entire spirit body and made him disappear from this world forever, hahahaha..."
With a click, his laughter suddenly stopped and he let out a scream again. His face became even uglier and more ferocious, and his whole body was shaking with pain.
Lu Rankong kicked him hard at the gunshot wound and said through gritted teeth, "I should have shot you a few more times, you bastard."
The starship soldier gasped in pain and laughed nervously, his whole body shaking with laughter.
As he laughed, his voice gradually lowered and his head began to droop.
Lan Yu looked at him coldly, but her expression became more and more puzzled. She couldn't help but ask Lu Rankong: "Something seems wrong. Can you see what's wrong with him?"
Lu Rankong turned his head to look at his face, and he became nervous. "Hey, hey, what's wrong with you?"
The starship soldier's face began to turn green, beads of sweat continued to appear on his forehead, and his eyes were looking straight ahead. He was in a very abnormal state.
Then, a green shadow emerged from the surface of his body and slowly condensed into a human-shaped entity in the air, becoming clearer and clearer, and then fell heavily to the ground.
The starship soldier also fell backwards at the same time. Lu Rankong quickly pulled out the injection that was still stuck in his neck, supported him, and made him sit against the wall.
The dark green Lonte star lay on the ground, shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the flesh and blood under his skin were quickly drained away.
"What's wrong with him? What's wrong with him? Is he going to die?" Lan Yu leaned over to look at him and asked Lu Rankong hurriedly.
He had seen this scene twice. The Lonte people continued to shrink. In less than a minute, only a small dry handful was left, covered with loose green skin.
Lu Rankong did not reply. He squatted down and looked into his eyes, then raised his head and said to Lan Yu, "He is dead..."
"Why did you stab him to death before you even finished asking the question?"
Lu Rankong shook his head and said, "I didn't stab him..."
"He was shivering there, and your thumb was pressed on the push rod. If your hand shook, the medicine would go in, right?" Lan Yu asked back.
"It really wasn't me who stabbed him to death."
"You're the one who stabbed him to death."
Lu Rankong wiped his face and said, "In fact, I didn't even think of asking him any questions at first. I just stabbed him in the neck to avoid giving him a chance to get out again. But the injection turned out to be bad. I pressed it several times but it wouldn't go down."
Lan Yu opened her mouth slightly in astonishment, "You said the injection was bad?"
Lu Rankong nodded.
After a few seconds of silence, Lan Yu narrowed her eyes and said, "When I asked you what to do if the injection went in and failed and no water came out, what was your answer?"
Lu Rankong looked intently at the Longte alien in front of him, frowning slightly, as if he didn't pay attention to Lan Yu's words and was immersed in his own thoughts.
"How did you come up with this assumption? This is made with the most advanced technology, and the material is not ordinary. It is the result of the hard work of many researchers. You are insulting them by having such an idea."
Lan Yu recited Lu Rankong's answer word for word, and her expression was exactly the same.
Lu Rankong couldn't pretend anymore, he sighed helplessly and said: "How come you have such a good memory? But everything can break down——"
Lan Yu imitated his tone and patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, even if the Sasu galaxy explodes, that thing won't be damaged."
Lu Rankong smiled, shook his head and stood up.
"I don't know whether this is good or bad." Lan Yu held up the injection to her eyes and examined it carefully.
The outside of the injection is made of special material, similar in texture to metal, but the weight is almost imperceptible. There is a small red dot at the end, which connects to the push rod when pressed.
"Yours is definitely good, mine was an accident—"
Sizzle!
A small stream of transparent liquid drew a narrow arc in the air and then fell to the ground.
Lan Yu held the empty injection tube and looked at Lu Rankong, who also had a blank expression on his face.
"Now you will finally stop being obsessed with whether the injection is good or bad." Lu Rankong said.
"I just pressed it a little bit, and I couldn't control my thumb a bit."
Lu Rankong shook his head and said, "Forget it, forget it. Anyway, the Longte starman is dead and no longer needs injections."
After the injection is used, the injection tube will automatically destroy and disappear in the palm of your hand like an ice cube melting.
Lan Yu looked at his empty hands, clenched his fists and then opened them with some curiosity, then remembered the green-skinned man at his feet, took a half step back, and asked, "Since he didn't use an injection, how did he die?"
"He committed suicide..."
"Suicide? Did you swallow some poison?" Lan Yu asked.
"It activated some kind of chip suicide."
Lan Yu said: "But I think he still wanted to live at first."
It was clear that the Longte alien had already started to answer.
Lu Rankong lowered his eyes and said, "He committed suicide because he didn't want to answer our questions. And he knew that if he was imprisoned in a special prison, with the military's means, even if he didn't speak, they would be able to get the information they wanted from his mind, including many unknown secrets. What's more, they would not send him back at all, only for life."
"Unknown secret?" Lan Yu murmured.
Lu Rankong turned his head and saw that the starship soldier leaning against the wall was still unconscious, so he said, "Yes, for example, why did the people of Longte go to so much trouble to seize the Sasu galaxy? Wouldn't it be better for them to stay in their original galaxy? The population is not large to begin with, so isn't the entire Longte planet enough for them to mess around with?"
Lan Yu then remembered that she had never thought about this question before, that is, why the Longte people would go to great lengths to come to the Sasu galaxy to cause trouble.
"But some things will eventually become clear, so there's no need to speculate." Seeing Lan Yu still in a daze, Lu Rankong reminded him, "He's still lying down."
Everyone on the ship was still waiting outside. Seeing that the starship soldier had been in for a long time and had not come out yet, they all began to whisper and talk.
The captain couldn't help but walk over to the deputy captain and whispered, "What do you think? Is there really a problem?"
The two deputy captains looked at each other and said hesitantly, "Maybe there really is a problem."
As they were talking, they heard the sound of the tea room door opening, and Lan Yu and Lu Rankong walked out.
"There is a body of a Lonte inside, go and carry it out." Lu Rankong said casually, "Don't damage the body. The military will send someone soon, and you can hand it over to them when the time comes. By the way, there is a body of a prison guard on the open space on the left side of the starship. The prison can't take care of it now, so you can help bury the body first and return it to them tomorrow when the prison staff arrives."
"Really? There are really people from the Lunt star?" The crowd suddenly exploded, and several starship soldiers had already rushed in.
"There is also a starship soldier who is in a coma. His mental realm was invaded by the Lunte people. It wasn't for long. He is not seriously injured. He just needs to get some sleep."
After Lu Rankong finished speaking, he turned around and saw the captain standing beside him. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and walked over and said, "Captain Colonel..."
"Just call me Captain." The captain's attitude improved a lot.
Lu Rankong said: "Captain, although this Longte starman is dead, he still left something on the ship. We must search it out quickly and hand it over to the military along with his body."
"Anything else?" The captain immediately became alert. "Search, everyone, search. If you see anything suspicious, hand it over."
“Yes, sir…”
The spiral staircase at the ship's entrance had been lowered. On the open space on the left, several people were pulling a large black bag tightly. Officer Wang should be inside.
Lan Yu looked over there as she walked.
Although he had come into contact with Officer Wang in disguise as a Lonte alien since he arrived at the prison, he imitated the original Officer Wang's words and deeds, and it seems that Officer Wang was the same when he was alive.
He has a bit of a bad temper, but he is very upright. He is strict with the prisoners, but he will not use any tricks against them.
Alas... Lan Yu sighed in her heart.
An arm was placed on his shoulder. Lu Rankong patted him on the shoulder and said, "The Longte starman is dead. This can be regarded as revenge for him. Let's go."
"There are still many questions that have not been asked. He also committed suicide, so it can't be considered revenge." Lan Yu said with his head down.
"If you forced him to commit suicide, it would count as your killing, so it would definitely count as revenge."
Lan Yu looked up and glanced at him, saying, "It was you who forced him to commit suicide, not me. Your injection was stuck in his neck all the time."
After that, he put his hands together and faced the night sky: "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and if you want to stand at the head of the bed in the middle of the night, you have to identify this person's bed."
Lu Rankong said: "I will sleep on your bed, and he will stand at the head of our bed."
"We can't stand there for long. We can't stay in prison forever." Lan Yu reacted for a moment and asked, "By the way, the Longte people are dead. Can we go back now?"
"Ah, it seems we can go back now." Lu Rankong said.
Lan Yu's eyes lit up, "When are we leaving?"
Lu Rankong said, "Someone from the military will definitely come to pick us up tonight. They will arrive early tomorrow morning. It's just the right time for us to say goodbye to the people in the cell."
The two walked forward silently, and Lu Rankong suddenly asked: "I saw that you just whipped with a loud bang, but you didn't really use much force. Did you really break the leg bone of that starship soldier?"
When Lan Yu heard this, she suddenly stopped, and Lu Rankong also stopped.
"What do you think?" he asked back.
Under the moonlight, his skin was white, his eyebrows were dark, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes were shining.
"I think..." Lu Rankong looked at him like this, his mind suddenly confused, he said hesitantly: "Maybe it's not severed, he's just in pain from the gunshot wound, right?"
Lan Yu blinked at him, with a little cunning, "Take your time to guess..."
After saying that, he turned around and continued walking forward.
Lu Rankong stood there in a daze for a long while before he chased after the figure in front of him.
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