The captured mecha pilots have been moved from the single-room confinement room to a more open public area.
The crew of the Aleph used partitions to enclose the dormitory area and placed sofas and coffee tables in the corridor to serve as a living room.
In this way, the captives regained their freedom to a certain extent. They gathered around the coffee table in various postures, but generally they were still divided into two factions, men and women, with each gender occupying a sofa on each side.
On the way here, Lao Li had been observing the actions of these people through the surveillance cameras in the house.
When no outsiders are present, the prisoners will communicate closely with each other, and what they say will appear on the screen in real time in the form of subtitles through translation software.
Compared to the girls, the boys, who were a smaller number, were generally more excited.
Some of them are trying to encourage their compatriots to escape.
Lao Li has seen the word "Goblin" appear in the subtitles more than once, and the words that follow it are not good.
He was speechless about this.
He really couldn't understand why a completely fictional creature like the goblin could appear so uniformly in the myths of almost all carbon-based civilizations in the galaxy except the Laron people, and their appearance and temperament were surprisingly similar.
It was as if an invisible hand was controlling the development of these civilizations across tens of thousands of light years, and from the time they were still in their infancy, they were instilled with the concept that goblins were short, green, evil creatures without reproductive isolation.
When the door to the room was opened from the outside, all communication stopped.
Everyone present looked at Lao Li and the two guards beside him.
Old Li had a smile on his face that looked, at least from his perspective, amiable.
He pulled a stool from the corner of the room and sat on the short side of the square coffee table, the boys gathered on his left and the girls on his right.
He placed a fist-sized black dodecahedron on the coffee table. The small box used lasers to create three dialog boxes on the tabletop, one for the boy, one for the girl, and one for Lao Li.
This is a translator with built-in speech recognition and translation tables. It can translate between the Galactic Standard and the dialect of the Twin Corona Empire, with the translated results appearing simultaneously on three dialog boxes.
"Everyone, welcome aboard the heavy cruiser Aleph."
He opened his hands to the sides and made a welcoming gesture out of thin air.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm the second mate of this old ship. You can call me 'Li'."
After the subtitles were translated, several boys' faces turned grim.
They were the ones who had been cursing the most earlier.
Old Li's eyes swept around and finally fell on the face of the little girl in the blue uniform.
"You're the operator of that blue mecha. Your name is Li Nanxiang, am I right?"
The other party did not answer, and there was a look of rejection on her smooth and pretty face.
"Don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm, I just want to talk to you."
Old Li took out his mobile phone from his chest pocket and found the picture of Blue No. 1 Mecha and showed it to her.
This mecha is currently parked in the hangar of the Aleph, undergoing inspection by the technical department like other silver-painted mechas.
Prior to this, technicians had tried to recover some data from the data storage device of the mecha that was burned by the electromagnetic pulse, which included the personal information of the mecha operator corresponding to each mecha.
"Honestly speaking, considering the technological level of your equipment, it's hard to make a difference to us."
"But I'm willing to give you a chance. I need a reasonable explanation for your rash attack on me."
Still no answer.
"All right."
Lao Li put his cell phone back into his pocket and stood up as if to leave.
"But we have to remind you that silence is not a good coping strategy here."
"I'm just checking your attitude to see if you're protected by the laws of the Alliance. Do you know what those guys from the Earth United Nations back there are best at?"
Old Li opened his green palm with four fingers and used the longest finger to stroke his forehead.
"They're the best at making a hole in your skull and inserting electrodes into your brain to read your memories directly."
"Of course, maybe you don't need to suffer this way, because we have other candidates."
He took out a photo from his pocket and threw it to Li Nanxiang.
The person in the photo is Li Yiyi who was rescued.
His upper body was bare with electrodes attached to his chest, and his hands were fixed to the sides of the stretcher with restraints.
Although the lower body is mosaiced, it can be seen from the color of the pixels that it is still naked.
The photo was thrown directly onto the coffee table, visible to everyone present.
The boys immediately became angry after seeing what was in the photo. Most of them stood up, clenched their fists and glared at Lao Li.
The guards around Lao Li also reacted immediately.
They aimed their guns at the crowd, ready to kill anyone who showed even the slightest offense.
"What are you doing!?"
A crisp sound.
Li Nanxiang frowned, but she was not saying this to Lao Li.
Since Li Yiyi was not present, Li Nanxiang was the most powerful person on the scene for them.
At her command, the young men, who were originally very angry, sat back down, but anger and unwillingness were clearly written on their faces.
This girl had a calmness that didn't suit her age. Old Li couldn't help but think of her more highly.
"Lee, you said you had no ill intentions, so could you explain what you're doing to my friend?"
Li Nanxiang turned around, still with a cold expression.
"So we can talk now, right?"
Old Li didn't answer her question directly, but just looked at her fair face. Beneath her blue bangs, beads of sweat oozed out.
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
In the end, it was Li Nanxiang who was defeated first. She turned her head slightly to avoid looking at Lao Li.
"But before that, I have to make sure the team members are safe."
She used the word team member.
"You mean your brother?"
Old Li smiled, held down the guns of the guards on both sides, and then sat back down.
"Don't worry, he's fine."
"He's in shock from burns and lack of oxygen, but he's lying in our medical bay. As long as he's alive, he'll definitely survive."
Li Nanxiang's expression was a little subtle. She didn't know whether she should complain about one of the sentences.
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