Somewhere on the earth in a certain plane world, here is a bustling and bustling metropolis filled with high-rise steel buildings, large and small spaceships flying back and forth in the atmosphere, and personal autonomous aircraft.
Standing at a high place or looking around from a flying vehicle, all you see is the blue sky and white clouds, green vegetation and the faint smell of birds and flowers. Human beings and nature live in harmony and complement each other.
It can be seen that this world is not only technologically advanced, but also does a very good job in environmental protection. Here, the sustainable development of science and technology and nature are integrated, and there is no such thing as excessive and harmonious development for the sake of developing science and technology.
Things that blindly destroy nature and the ecological environment.
but……
In an office on a certain floor at the top of one of the huge buildings in the city, an old man wearing the uniform of a senior officer of the Alliance of Planets did not stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and drink coffee while looking at the beautiful city scenery as usual. Instead, he frowned.
He Tou looked at a holographic document that had just been delivered to him by the promotion.
Finally, after a quick look, he thought about the seriousness of the situation, then hurriedly walked to his desk, sat down, put down the portable terminal for transferring files, and then operated quickly on the desktop.
I quickly connected to several channels through an internal encrypted channel and started calling and waiting.
And if you look carefully at the badge hanging on the wall behind him and the epaulettes on the shoulders of his military uniform, it is not difficult to know that he is not who he is. He is the commander-in-chief of the "Union of Planets" in this world!
And here, this office, is the office of the Commander of the Planetary Alliance.
And the reason why he behaved like this was because he had just received a report from one of his captains. The situation stated in the report made him, a bad old man, feel very headache and troublesome. Therefore, he was planning to personally
While communicating face-to-face with the subordinate who made the report, I was also preparing to communicate and hold emergency consultations with the heads of certain relevant departments, especially the heads of the foreign affairs department, to see how the matter should be handled.
"Well?"
After a while, when he saw that the communication was quickly connected to a certain channel, and then a holographic projection of a man in a blue military uniform quietly appeared in his office and saluted him, the old man sighed and turned around.
And looked at the man.
"Ed..."
"I remember that the mission I gave you was to deliver supplies to the Yinpusilong planet, right?"
"But how can you..."
"Why did I hook up with a hero alliance halfway..."
"Lian..."
As he was talking, the old man suddenly became confused and seemed to have forgotten his words.
So much so that he had to quickly pick up the portable terminal that he had just put on the table and check the documents he had already read hastily, as if he wanted to figure out some awkward key in them.
word.
"commander!"
"What you want to ask..."
"Is it the 'Her Excellency Anne Hastur, Supreme Head of the Federation of Heroes of the Koprulu Sector'?"
Seeing the old man's embarrassment, the connected captain "Ed" did not dare to neglect, and quickly bowed slightly and reminded the other party with a smile.
"oh!"
"That's right!"
"That's her!"
First he glanced at a certain line of text in the report to confirm, and then the bad old man nodded suddenly and frowned again at the man standing in front of his desk.
"I have just read your report for the first time. I don't understand. You have just set out, why are you in such big trouble?"
"Look, your report says..."
"She comes from the Federation of Heroes in the Koprulu Sector. Its capital is on the star Haven on the edge of the Milky Way. Its inherent territory includes the entire spiral arm of the Milky Way?"
"At the same time, they also occupy most of the habitable cantilever areas of the Milky Way including the Earth. It can be said that they almost occupy the entire Milky Way?"
"But!"
"I'm on Earth right now, and our Planetary Alliance is here. If they occupied the Earth, how could we not know?!"
Just like that, pointing to some outrageous descriptions in the report, the old commander did not hide the anger in his heart and stared at the captain who was standing in front of him with that ridiculous expression.
Ed's hologram.
"commander……"
"Here's the thing."
"That little girl, she said that she comes from another dimension and universe, not ours!"
"The report has been written."
"I remember it was on the last page?"
Seeing that his commander seemed to be a little angry and fainting, Ed first shrank his neck, and then he had to step forward, pointed at the portable terminal he was holding and motioned for the other person to turn to the end.
On one page.
"..."
Hearing this, the commander was speechless, and once again glared at the man Ed angrily, he had to touch the document page with his finger, quickly turned it over and began to check what he had just read.
But I didn’t write down some of the content carefully.
"..."
Then, after watching for a while, he reached out and pressed the mute button. Then, he didn't know who he was discussing with, but he didn't let his subordinate Captain Ed listen.
for a long time.
The bad old commander stopped negotiating with a certain person or group of people, then pressed a certain button again and looked at the man.
"Ed..."
"If your report, if what that little girl said is true, do you know how scary it is for us to be able to travel through space and use technology freely?"
"The hypothesis of the dimensional world and the parallel universe..."
"So far, our Planetary Alliance's technology in that area still only exists based on theoretical hypotheses without any data and those absurd science fiction novels!"
"so……"
"Do you know how much trouble you have caused us?!"
After the communication was reconnected, the bad old commander looked at the document and nonchalantly explained the stakes to Ed without raising his head.
It can be seen that the old man must have discussed it with some professionals just now, and seems to have received some intelligence support and reached some consensus?
However, his face became even more ugly and troubled, so that his mood became worse early in the morning.
"commander!"
"In fact..."
"You may not believe it, but I didn't find her. She came to her on her own. I'm sure of it."
"At that time..."
"She appeared directly in our bridge through a portal. We were shocked at that time and thought we were being invaded. We almost started a fight with her!"
"My Kai...First Officer Kelly and Second Officer Petrus can all testify!"
"correct!"
"I have also sent the video data of the bridge at that time along with the report document. Can you take the time to take a look?"
Hearing the undisguised harshness in the old man's words, Ed, the man who didn't want to be blamed for nothing and had nothing to do with it soon after he became captain, quickly explained loudly and reiterated it again.
He was also a victim and did not ignore the fact that he ran away to cause trouble regardless of the mission.
"okay."
"You don't have to explain anymore!"
He stretched out his hand to signal Ed to stop talking. Then, the bad old man sat behind his desk again seriously, looked at the document, and pondered.
a long time.
Only then did he put it down again, clasped his hands together, and looked at the man again with that calm expression.
"Ed..."
"I have just contacted the directors of the Planetary Alliance's Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Departments, as well as several committee members, about this matter. They are also very surprised by this."
"To be honest, this is a new situation that our Planetary Alliance has never encountered since its establishment. We were caught off guard because we had absolutely no plans to refer to or implement!"
"But no matter what, you did create a big trouble for us, there is no doubt about it!"
"so……"
"I can't give you a clear answer now."
At this point, the bad old commander paused, and stretched out his hand to signal Ed not to interrupt. He thought for a while before continuing to add:
"Anyway!"
"We need to take time to have a meeting and seriously discuss how to contact civilizations from another parallel universe and receive each other."
"Of course, there is also the need to judge whether the other party is lying or something..."
"Well……"
"before that……"
"Just let her stay on your spaceship for the time being, don't let her leave your sight, and don't take her back to the earth or our solar system, let alone let her come into contact with some core secrets!"
"do you understand?"
Having said this, the bad old commander suddenly turned serious and glared at Ed again with his extremely serious eyes and an expression of no anger or authority.
"ah?"
"yes!"
"My subordinate understands!"
Subconsciously, Ed quickly stood at attention, indicating that he roughly understood their commander's instructions and knew what to do.
"But……"
"Commander, at what level do we need to treat her?"
"captive?"
"refugee?"
"Tourist?"
"still……"
"Head of a country?"
First, he anxiously explained the reception methods one by one, and after roughly knowing what to do from his commander's expression, Ed began to complain.
"But!"
"If that's the case, our Orville doesn't seem to have the basic conditions needed to receive important foreign guests!"
"You know it too!"
"The Orville is just an ordinary mid-level space starship, an exploration-level starship. It only has basic combat and some cargo functions. For receiving foreign guests, it is really not what it is good at.
"
"so……"
"Commander, would you like to send someone else..."
Whether he is good at it or not is another question. Anyway, Ed doesn't seem too willing to let a being who may be destined to only become a trouble and burden stay on his new spaceship. Therefore, he frequently uses his eyes to indicate that he hopes their commander
The commander can send a better and more suitable spaceship to join them and complete the task of handing over and receiving the 'important personnel'.
"Stop it."
"Don't say it either."
Unfortunately, before Ed could finish what he said, that bad old man interrupted him.
"Ed!"
"We are still not sure whether what she said is true or false, and we cannot determine her true identity, so we will definitely not make further contact with her easily!"
"Just let her stay on your spaceship first, and you can continue to perform your mission!"
"remember!"
"Don't hurt her!"
"Don't let her hurt you either!"
"That's it, wait for my next order!"
"complete!"
After saying that, the bad old commander finally got impatient, and hurriedly closed the communication unilaterally without waiting for Ed to speak again. While making Ed's holographic image disappear from his office, he also made his own 3D image disappear.
It instantly disappeared from the wall of Ed's captain's room.
"Damn it!"
"I knew it would be like this in the end..."
"This is trouble."
Seeing that the cunning and somewhat unkind old man had ruthlessly rejected a more reliable proposal that he originally wanted to say, Ed could only sigh resentfully, and then stepped forward to close the communication.
He turned around and walked out of his captain's room.
"Ed?"
"how!"
"What did the commander say?"
"What does the Alliance of Planets want us to do?"
Seeing Ed coming out of the captain's cabin after a long time, first mate Kelly Grayson, second mate Bertus and ship's doctor Claire Finn, who didn't know what the commander's instructions were, hurried forward to greet them and asked
road.
"What else can be done?"
"do nothing!"
After shaking his head and saying this in annoyance, Ed looked at his big-headed alien second officer, Petrus, and ordered:
"Pertus!"
"you go!"
"Set new permissions for that little one so that she can move freely on the ship from now on. Don't lock her up anymore."
"besides!"
"Arrange her to stay in the best single cabin on our ship. We will try our best to meet her needs, but we must also be careful not to let her cause trouble for us?"
"From now on, she will be a guest of our Star Alliance."
"As for what to do in the future, that's not what we need to worry about. Let's go!"
Waving his hand, Captain Ed with a tired look on his face signaled to the second officer, Petrus, to quickly follow his orders and put someone who was locked in a cell by him and kept clamoring to blow up his Orville.
Release the bad little girl.
"As you command!"
In response to the captain's order, Petrus did not dare to neglect it and quickly saluted and then prepared to set off.
"etc!"
At this time, First Mate Kelly suddenly suggested and looked at Captain Ed:
"Let me go!"
"I'm also a woman, and I'm still from Earth. Maybe it would be more convenient for me to take part in some matters?"
"At least better than Petrus..."
"Will the aliens look friendlier and kinder?"
"certainly!"
"Botus, I don't mean to say anything bad to you. I'm just basing it on the normal aesthetics of people on earth?"
Fearing that the second mate might misunderstand something, the woman, the first mate Kelly, hurriedly explained to the big-headed alien Petrus with a smile.
"..."
The shoulders were slumped. Although the second officer Petrus was unconvinced by some of Kelly's remarks, he turned around in the end and agreed to let Kelly do it. After all, it was not an important matter. Since the other party
If there is a reason, then he has no reason to refuse.
"OK!"
"Then you go!"
"Botus, let's go back to the bridge and continue our mission!"
Ed thought about it and felt that Kelly was more convenient than the alien man Petrus, so he nodded, then waved his hand and prepared to take his second mate, the alien with a strange head, to Yangshang.
And go.
"It's still a normal aesthetic..."
"If it were normal, there would be no blue aliens."
While leading the second officer to turn around and walk toward the other side of the ship's passage, Captain Ed didn't know what he was thinking of, and then he mumbled a few words in a low voice.
"!
"
"Ed!
"
However, even though he spoke very quietly, the first mate Kelly still heard him, so naturally, the other party yelled at him loudly.
"captain……"
"Shall I go with Claire to deal with the epidemic prevention issues on the ship first?"
"I won't disturb you anymore."
After hearing Kelly's angry rebuke, and then turning his head to look at the angry Kelly, Petrus, who had probably heard some rumors, looked at each other with the ship's doctor Claire, and then they both looked for him in a smart way.
They all left together with reasonable excuses, leaving behind an angry-looking first mate and an innocent-looking captain.
"Did I say something wrong?"
"Even if Petrus's appearance doesn't match the aesthetics of us earthlings, it's still better than that ugly blue alien, right?"
Seeing that there was no one around, Captain Ed smashed the jar and went straight towards the first mate and his ex-wife Kelly, taunting him with a sneer.
Originally, the woman in front of him was her wife, and their lives were harmonious, until one day he came home from work and discovered that his wife was having an affair with a blue alien!
After that, the two of them never met again, but how could he have imagined that when he boarded the Orville, he was caught off guard and discovered that the other person was actually his first mate?
Thinking of the relationship between the other party and the Commander of the Star Alliance, and the fact that he was suddenly promoted to captain of an intermediate-level advanced starship after a year, how could he still not know what was going on?
However, knowing is knowing, that is not the reason for him to forgive or be grateful to the other person!
"Ed!"
“You shouldn’t bring your personal emotions to work!”
"besides!"
"Things are not what you imagined. It was a misunderstanding. We must have a good talk when we have time!"
Walking up to Ed, Kelly pointed her finger at Ed's chest and spoke word by word, using the same tone she used before when the relationship between the two was not tense.
"Misunderstand?"
"You were lying on my bed with a blue-skinned alien and you told me it was a misunderstanding?"
"You think I'm a fool?"
"certainly!"
"I know that the structure of aliens is different from that of earthlings. They don't have a spongy body, but a piece of bone and muscle, just like our human fingers. You can take as long as you want, right?"
As he spoke, Ed's tone, which grew more and more angry as he thought about it, began to become slightly harsher, and he opened Kelly's hand in return, causing the situation between the two parties to become tense in an instant.
"..."
First Mate Kelly didn't speak, she just pursed her lips and looked at Captain Ed who was not giving in at all.
"I'm going to find that little girl now!"
"listen!"
"Our business..."
"If we have time another day, we must have a good talk!"
After finishing speaking, she saw someone coming not far away. Kelly, who was afraid that the other party would see the quarrel between the two and affect the performance of their duties and tasks, thought for a moment, then quickly calmed down her expression and said this in a low voice.
After two sentences, he hurriedly turned around and left.
"No!"
"We have nothing to talk about!"
"We finished early."
Looking at Kelly's hurried away figure, Ed also lowered his voice and sneered at the other party. Then, when he saw the crew approaching from a distance, he simply turned angrily and returned to his captain's cabin. No,
Let's go to the bridge again.
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Chapter completed!