Shepard's new ship Normandy, the system of the Star Alliance, stole the design drawings of the original Normandy and transformed and upgraded. This infiltrating fast assault cruiser, the Hyun-Stat-Sr-2, was quietly jumping to the orbit of the planet an-5367 in a silent and invisible silent manner.

Then, after it carefully adjusted to the synchronous orbit, it quietly shut down its main engine, as if it did not exist, quietly floating on the orbit of the barren mining planet that had been temporarily abandoned by the Star Alliance, silently scanning the huge planet.

"The track has been set up, no abnormalities have been found!"

“…”

"The surrounding star domain scan was completed, and no hostile or UFO was found!"

“…”

"The planet scan is ongoing, and no threatening targets are found!"

"No traces of jumping from other spacecraft around it..."

"The ies stealth system works properly...because the heat generated by blue shift is slowly being discharged..."

"Tantaros improved driver core works properly!"

"The lithium cooling system is normal, and the time our ship can continue to be invisible is... six hours!"

“…”

"Report to the captain! Everything is normal for our ship and the surrounding star fields. Please instruct us!!"

When the data reported by the crew members of all important positions in the bridge were collected on the holographic interface of the first mate No. 2 of Normandy, he immediately walked to Captain Shepard, who was standing straight in the n7 gray-black armor and reported.

"Continue to observe and standby!"

Shepard didn't say much, but waved his hand coldly and asked him to continue to work on his post.

Since the last time she was attacked and killed by Shepard's Normandy One, she has had a considerable shadow on jumping or using mass repeaters to fly. She always lets the spacecraft be invisible first, and then starts to act and jump, fearing that when her new spacecraft jumps to the other end of her destination, those guys who run out to attack her ambush will appear again.

However, the things she was most worried about have not happened yet. They were on guard and did not find anything wrong here! This planet doesn't seem to be a trap specifically targeting her Shepard or other human ships.

“…”

Standing here at the bridge, he frowned and looked at the huge yellow-brown planet outside Hyun's window.

This planet is different from the blue and beautiful earth of humans. This yellow-brown ball always looks gray, and the air is filled with suspended dust, filling the atmosphere of the entire planet... Then, storm vortexes of large and small are constantly raging, stirring the thick clouds of this planet like mud...

On the orbit of the planet, if you rely solely on the naked eye, you will be completely unable to see any situation on the planet’s ground!

So Shepard did not continue to speak. She was just waiting silently, waiting for the intelligence officers of the Normandy and other cics to use the chaotic holographic displays connected to various detection instruments to analyze and receive the intermittent distress signal so that they could lock in the other party's exact position.

"Miranda, what do you think about that distress signal?"

Since the other party's distress signal has disappeared for a long time, the Normandy that just jumped out cannot be located, so the technicians had to wait and wait for the other party to send the next time to capture the other party's exact position!

Therefore, Shepard can only wait patiently now...

After thinking for a while, the more she thought about it, she felt something was wrong. She turned around and looked at her companion, Miranda, a big beauty with black hair and black eyes in a tight and tight cosmic light clothing, and asked.

"Shepard, I've been thinking about it just now..."

"This planet an-5367 should have been swept by those collectors a year ago... I just checked the information of the Star Alliance, which shows that this planet, except for those remaining semi-life and semi-mechanical transformation monsters without self-consciousness, should not be any living person!"

Like Shepard, Miranda was silently staring at the huge yellow-brown planet outside Hyun’s window.

She was also a little uneasy now... because, after watching the video calling for help, she agreed that Shepard came here for rescue, but now she thought it was incredible!

When did she suddenly become so sympathetic? She actually agreed that Shepard was not going to perform the important and difficult recruitment task, but instead came to this desolate and broken planet and was just a little girl who was never known?!

"About a year ago, a small rescue fleet from Star Alliance came here."

"According to the mission record, they had scanned the entire planet. When they found that the enemy targets with no life and no value in the several colonies above had to temporarily announce the end of the rescue and give up here."

"So, I don't understand now. After a year, what happened to the little girl who suddenly sent a distress signal more than an hour ago?!"

"If it weren't for not having any enemies found here until now, I almost thought this would be another old trap for interstellar pirates!"

In short, according to the information Miranda herself has found, and what she has been thinking about after jumping here, there should not be any living people on this planet except for the remaining semi-mechanical monsters transformed by collectors with humans who are still active on the planet!

But now, what happened to the little girl who sent a message for help, and how could she survive to this day? Anyway, she doesn't really believe that a little girl can survive for so long in such a harsh planetary environment in front of her.

So, she originally wanted to remind Shepard to ask the other party to be careful, but now, after seeing that the other party seemed not to be confused and became alert, she did not talk much, but just said some of the things she thought of and her confusion.

"Oh!"

"Miranda, you may not believe it. I am also thinking about this interesting question now..."

"I don't even know why I gave up the task of giving up our original mission and let the spaceship jump to this deserted mineral star to save the little girl..."

"If you think about it carefully now, at that time, I felt like I was hypnotized by the other party..."

"That's a very weird feeling... maybe it's my own intention, maybe it's not?"

Shaking her head, Shepard expressed his feelings at the time with some amusement.

Perhaps, this is the sequelae after her resurrection, and her rationality and judgment ability began to decline, becoming more prone to emotional activities?

Before, she only remembered that when she saw the holographic video of asking for help and the little girl crying inside, her mind suddenly became hot and she had no ability to think. She just ordered Normandy II to go forward at full speed and jump over to prepare for rescue.

Now, when she finally calmed down and thought about her previous behavior, she always felt a very magical and evil feeling.

That little girl, something is wrong...

If there is really a problem here, then they may have fallen into the enemy's trap now! If that is true, it will be detrimental to her to fulfill the arduous mission she shoulders.

"You actually feel this strange feeling too?"

Miranda exclaimed directly and looked at the human heroine next to her in surprise, the former ghost of the castle. Miranda had always thought that she had that strange feeling, but she didn't expect that she would be too?

"You mean 'or'?"

"Very good! If you felt this way just now, I think today's things seem to have become very interesting... But no matter what, since you've come here, you might as well go and investigate first!"

Looking at the planet below, Shepard's originally tense face suddenly started to laugh.

She felt that there must be something wrong with that video of the little girl calling for help! Perhaps, this planet is a trap set against the rescuers, and the little girl's call for help must have some strange factor of hints that they don't know, hypnosis or temptation?

"How was the scanning and analysis of that video of call for help? Are there any special discoveries?"

Shepard, who found that he was not an isolated case, breathed a sigh of relief and began to look at a person from the CIC combat intelligence processing team on the side, and asked him.

"Report to the sir!"

"After many scans and analysis, the call for help video was normal. Neither I nor edi found any special bands or hints of sound or images that were doped in it!"

"I'm sorry, sir! My judgment on the call for help is: Everything is normal!"

Soon, after operating for a while, a Cic intelligence officer turned his seat innocently and said cautiously to Captain Shepard, who was standing in the middle of the bridge behind him.

He used all the equipment and technology to conduct in-depth research on the image, and even decomposed it into the most basic digital code, filtering out sounds, images, etc.... Anyway, he didn't find any additional discoveries in the end!

“…”

"Sir, can you think too much?"

The former Normandy One helmsman clown sitting in the helmsman's position suddenly turned around and asked his old commander.

He had just been paying attention to eavesdropping on the conversation between his cold chief and the beautiful lady Miranda. He had watched that video before, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with that! He felt that no one could ever give up the help signal that the other party cried, right?

So, the clown finally couldn't help but overstep his authority and asked.

At the beginning, he was rescued by this brave and fearless commander Shepard, who was able to successfully escape from the Normandy One escape pole. It is precisely because of this that he did not think that his heroic, beautiful and righteous old commander would be wrong to come to this planet to rescue a little girl. This was originally a very normal thing.

His old commander Captain Shepard was originally a great hero and female hero who saved the galaxy!

"Please do your job well, Lord Clown!"

Seeing that the other party wanted to interfere with his decision, Xue Bode held his arms and stared at the other party expressionlessly.

"Okay, you have the final say!"

After shrugging his shoulders and spreading his hands to signal a helpless move, the clown, who was the helmsman, no longer pointed at his beautiful life-savior and captain, and honestly turned back to his position, continuing to be alert to any information on the orange and yellow holographic screen.

He actually has nothing to do now. Now that the Normandy 2 spacecraft has turned off its main engine this week, it is idle and silently flying in the planet's orbit. All things are naturally the most subtle manipulation of artificial intelligence. There is no need for him to do more. He just needs to continue staring at the screen interface and always pay attention to the status of the spacecraft.

"Eti!"

After waiting for a while, she found that the intelligence officer was still unable to lock the specific location of the signal source, Shepard, in secret, simply called the artificial intelligence edi of the Normandy No. 2 ship.

The full name of artificial intelligence edi is "Strengthening Defense Intelligence". It is an artificial intelligence defense program developed by Cerberus specifically for Normandy SR-2. It is not available to her original Normandy One.

It is said that Yiti's "she" is not only very helpful for the crew's daily query of information, but also provides a lot of critical information, or provides practical and optimal action plans for each task, etc.

‘What are your instructions, Captain Shepard?’

A female holographic image, which was all silver and gray, was wearing a silver and gray tight suit, and then looked very stunning, appeared at the bridge in an instant, projected directly in front of Shepard, and looked at the captain Shepard who had just called her, waiting for the other party's further orders.

"Is there any way to make a little girl survive in that harsh environment in the destroyed planetary mining colony of an-5367 for more than a year, and at the same time, she can successfully avoid sweeping and attacks from the collector monsters?"

"Also, let me tell you about the help-seeking image we received!"

Shepard, who always felt that his brain seemed to be disturbed by some undeterminable factor, finally thought about it seriously and could only ask for help. He asked about the artificial intelligence program she had always felt was not reliable.

Now she has no choice. If there is really some factor in that image that interferes with their judgment, then the pure artificial intelligence in front of her will definitely not be disturbed and will definitely be able to give her a more fair analysis.

‘Of course there is, Captain Shepard!’

'According to the information I obtained: As early as 2142, when the Gagarin Space Station, the space equipment called the "starting point" began to be built outside the orbit of Pluto, in order to be able to colonize outside the solar system during a long space voyage, the humans on Earth began to develop a low-temperature dormant device! In order to immerse human astronauts in a deep sleep state so that they can achieve the distant and long space travel in the limited life of human beings.'

‘This low-temperature dormant slug was soon developed successfully. The original code name was d-101, and a series of upgraded models were derived...’

‘But later, in 2148, when prospectors accidentally discovered the ruins of Prometheus in the Prometheus Plain on Mars: a Prometheus Observatory that had been operating for 50,000 years... In 2149, the deciphered Prometheus data allowed humans to find the Charon mass repeater in the solar system. Then, the galaxy alliance began to be established and coordinated the survey, safety and colonization of extra-solar planets.’

‘In 2152, Charon mass repeaters and more repeaters that were almost spread throughout the Milky Way were discovered one after another. With a faster and almost instantly efficient navigation method, the low-temperature dormant warehouse program was finally abandoned.’

‘Today, Star Alliance only retains a small amount of medical survival dormant warehouses to meet the safety of the lives of the field hospital for seriously injured or some special state injured people who have no time to rescue, when the number is very small.’

'But according to my database, Xinglian should also have a low-temperature dormant emergency rescue dormant compartment that was once distributed to the pioneering colonies. Its codename is d-257. Although it is a bit old, it should be able to freeze the humans entering the survival warehouse at a very low temperature in an emergency and eliminate vital signs to almost nothing in order to maintain the arrival of rescue or avoid certain dangers.'

Speaking of this, the artificial intelligence edi with a beautiful silver short-haired girl looked at Captain Xue Bode. When it saw the other party's clear expression, it knew that the other party should have understood what he said and what he wanted to express, so it continued:

‘If the planetary mining colony of an-5367 had that rare and backward dormant warehouse, the success rate of the little girl successfully avoided the collector monsters and swept the attacks would be as high as 50%.’

'By my analysis of the planet an-5367 just now, the results show that the planet has too much atmospheric dust and extremely low visibility. Although it has the minimum environmental requirements for humans to breathe directly, allowing humans to breathe and survive without wearing protective gear, it will endanger the health of the upper respiratory tract mucosa. I do not recommend staying in that environment for more than three hours without protective gear. In addition, infrared monitoring of the minimum temperature on the planet's surface is -20 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature is 12 degrees Celsius. Without protective gear, it will make humans feel very uncomfortable, which is consistent with the "very cold" described by the little girl!'

'In summary……'

‘Although it is impossible to analyze what exactly caused the lifesaving capsule to automatically release dormant and release the little girl, based on the results of my logical thinking calculations and the lie detection of the helping image, the truth of the little girl, the truth of the things she stated can be as high as 99.999%.’

‘So, Captain Shepard, you can go and do the rescue as soon as possible!’

‘I received the distress signal again, determined the specific location of the other party, and also scanned the other party’s vital signs, confirming that it was undoubtedly human. If you set out now, there is a 52% chance of successfully rescuing the other party and completing the rescue operation!’

‘The countdown to the mission is now twenty minutes. If you cannot reach the rescue target within twenty minutes, I suggest you cancel the rescue operation and leave here.’

The artificial intelligence of the holographic image extended his finger and operated it for a second on the holographic 3D model of the planet An-5367 projected, and she successfully marked a small green dot on it. The green dot is exactly the exact place where the little girl in a red skirt sends a distress signal, just in the middle of an abandoned mining colony.

As Ity continued to enlarge the holographic images of the planet, Shepard and Miranda next to him finally successfully discovered the small figure who seemed to be curled up in the corner of the dilapidated room in the ruins of the colony.

“…”

Seeing that his advanced Normandy II actually scanned a living little human girl hiding in the ruins, Shepard's breathing couldn't help but stagnate, and even his breathing became a little unnatural.

Although she could not see the specific appearance of the other person from the holographic image of edi, from the green digital figure, she was sure that the other person must be crying helplessly and trembling there now? It is really rare for a little girl to calmly send a distress signal and hide in that environment.

"Wait! Itie!"

"I don't understand why we have only a 52% chance of successful rescue now? Why is such a simple thing not 100%?!"

Now, Shepard has decided to go to rescue! However, she said that this unreliable artificial intelligence only has a 52% chance of successfully rescued, which made her feel a little incomprehensible.

"Report!"

At this time, without waiting for the AI ​​edi to answer, the clown helmsman who had just been taught a little by Shepard turned his head and reported to the confused captain.

Because, at this moment, on the map in front of him, he saw three big red dots heading towards the colonial ruins where they found the small green dots.

"Captain Shepard, I know this problem! That's because: Now there are the remaining enemies on the planet rushing towards the dilapidated colony, and three alien-equipped mass effect low-altitude aircraft and the monster semi-mechanical zombies transformed by nearly 300 collectors are on their way!"

"There are still many mechanical monsters that follow..."

"It is expected that they will arrive at the little girl's hiding place within twenty minutes! Our Normandy II cannot force landing and combat in this planetary environment, because it will cause great damage to the invisible paint and engine!"

"If you don't set out quickly, the chance of successful rescue will be zero!"

Mr. Clown, who was the helmsman, was doing the cic's work, exclaimed at this time, and reported anxiously and urged Captain Shepard, who was screaming at him.

He doesn't want such a cute little girl to be plundered and killed and transformed by a group of monsters. That kind of thing is cruel to think about it!

"strangeness……"

"Those guys, why did they find that little girl and surround her position?"

"Is this really a trap?"

There are some things that are once doubted, it is difficult to gain absolute trust again...

So, Shepard was not in a hurry to make a decision immediately because they still had a lot of time. She still didn't understand why the monsters created by the collectors were dispatched on a large scale when they found the little girl, just like forcing them to go down immediately?

The more she thought about this, the more she felt something was wrong!

"Report to the captain, this is definitely not a trap!"

Mr. Clown, who is still the helmsman, spoke in a hurry. Looking at his impatient appearance, he seemed to want to land on the planet by himself and save the little girl in front of the collector monsters?

"Speak your judgment, Mr. 'Helper'!"

Captain Shepard expressed dissatisfaction with a guy's behavior of overstepping his authority and speaking indiscriminately! If Normandy 2 had not needed the other party's control now, she would have to scold the other party!

"Because that little girl just sent a message of help from the entire channel without any restrictions, she will definitely be received and discovered by the enemy!"

The clown felt that it must be caused by the little girl who was afraid and helpless, and randomly pressed the sending of helping signals! Thinking about it, it is already amazing that a little girl can persist until now in that environment and still think of sending a helping signal.

"Iti, is it what he said?"

Shepard looked at the holographic image of the artificial intelligence edi still standing in front of herself and asked.

‘Yes, Captain Shepard!’

‘The other party did not use the encrypted band that only our human ships and instruments could receive, as before, but instead changed to full-band transmission!’

‘So, you still have eighteen minutes and twenty seconds left...eighteen minutes and eighteen seconds...’

The artificial intelligence program edi confirmed expressionlessly and gave Captain Shepard a countdown, which was the arrival time calculated by the opponent based on the speed of those enemies.

If this time limit is exceeded, there is no need for rescue.

“…”

"Let the hangar prepare an ut-47 Kodiak landing aircraft right away!"

"Miranda, you go to A and I to take a walk on this planet an-5367 immediately!"

After confirming that it was not the enemy's conspiracy, Shepard had nothing to hesitate. She walked towards the gate behind the bridge on the spot, while giving her orders and giving Miranda instructions.

As for another Jacob who had rich combat experience, she had no intention of taking her with her. Because it was just to rescue a little girl. As long as you land in the colony as quickly as possible, find people, and turn around and leave, there was no need to mobilize troops and mobilize too much combat power.

"As for orders, Chief Shepard!"

Miranda didn't talk much nonsense, nodded, turned around and ran out quickly. She needed to equip her own armor and weapons, and of course, her universal tools.

‘Okay captain!’

‘The UT-47 pull-down shuttle landing craft Kodiak is ready, the system has completed self-test, the shuttle landing craft is in good condition and can set off at any time!’

Behind Shepard, the artificial intelligence edi's electronic synthesizing sound without any emotion sounded...

The somewhat crowded cargo hold of the Star Alliance's ut-47 pull-down shuttle landing craft can generally accommodate twelve soldiers. If you squeeze, two more can be stuffed into the cab. Compared with the Star Alliance's official name "Kodiak", this small shuttle landing craft is more popular among the Star Alliance teams, because it looks very flat and is as durable as cockroaches, and it is not easy to damage or malfunction.

This special landing spacecraft has powerful and excellent environmental sealing technology and armor, which rarely exposes fragile components inside! According to the results of Star Alliance's official tests at Venus' sulfuric acid clouds and extreme temperatures, the "Kodiak" can forcefully land in absolute vacuum, high air pressure and temperatures close to near absolute zero to harsh temperatures exceeding 900 degrees Celsius!

In addition, the "Kodiak" is a truly mass-effect anti-gravity vehicle. Its essential zero-element core can even allow the spacecraft to float directly in the planet's powerful gravity! It can also actively block the enemy's scanning, or engage in a certain degree of electronic confrontation with the enemy. There is also a powerful kinetic energy barrier system that can defend against the enemy's kinetic energy weapons. Therefore, it is very suitable for hidden marines in the airborne, and gradually becomes the main equipment of the Star Alliance.

Cerberus naturally prepared four such excellent landing craft for Shepard on this Normandy II spacecraft, even if the unit price of each of them is as high as three million star coins.

—————

"Uh..."

(??????`??)

Crouching in the corner of this dilapidated ruins, Anne first threw the leftover food box away, sucked it a few times, drank a can of sour and sweet functional drink from the Kepru Star area, and then burped in satisfaction, stretched and breathed happily.

??(????0`??)??

After eating and drinking, she picked up her bear, curled up her knees and retreated back to the corner. Now, she needs to lean on this clean place and digest it well. If no one has arrived in a household, she may have to release her spaceship and try to leave here.

Because... it's dirty here, it's not suitable for her to sleep in after eating and drinking!

(…)

(Cute and charming little master, will someone really be fooled and come here to "rescue" you just now?

⊙(???????)?

——More an hour has passed, and Tibers feels that no one will come here to rescue this terrible little master!)

"Why not?"

(￣▽￣)?

Anne was a little depressed. She had just eaten and drunk enough, and now she was chatting with her little bear and chatting, talking and passing the time. Anyway, she was idle.

(Because you just lie! If someone really receives a signal from you, someone will definitely know that you are lying with a test!

(??????????????)????

——Anyway, Tibers thinks that no one will come. It’s better to release his spaceship out earlier and go to the universe to stroll around. If you can’t find a place for living people, then it will continue to instigate its little master to change the world or something)

"I didn't lie just now!"

╮(￣▽￣)╭

(Why isn't there?!)

(??????????)

"Tibers, look at it..."

"Just just now, I was really cold, hungry, and sleepy! Also, the sky outside was dull and dark, so where did I lie?"

o(??^')o?

(But you are not afraid at all. You just pretended to be afraid and sent a distress signal. Isn’t this a lie?)

Σ(っ°??°;)っ!?

"I didn't!"

"I was really scared just now..."

(￢??￢)??

(The little one didn't see you looking scared!)

(,,?????????????,,)

"I have it!"

"I was really afraid that no one would come after the signal was sent! Look, isn't this scary? If there were no Earthlings, Crooked Stars or monsters, then they might have no chance to play!"

"So, I'm really afraid, so I didn't lie or pretend!"

\(￣︶￣)

(…)

(You are so good, I admit defeat...)

＼(???????????')/

“Huh?!”

"Ahhh! Tibers, they are really here, you found out, right?"

●ヽ(??????)??●??

Suddenly, Anne, who seemed to have sensed something, suddenly jumped up from the ground and began to cheer.

Because, she just felt that in the sky, it seemed that a landing spacecraft was quickly breaking through the atmosphere of the planet, rubbing the air and rushing towards her here! On the other side, in the north of the land, there seemed to be a group of bad guys who were malicious towards her rushed towards her with great momentum. In this case, she would soon have fun.

(…)

(●￣??￣●)

(Tibers no longer wants to say something to the little girl who wants others to "rescue" her while fiddling with those weapons on the ground.)

"Tibers, look, how about this sniper rifle?"

Holding a long weapon that was a little taller than himself, little Annie asked her little bear excitedly.

———

Star Alliance standard weapon: m-92 mantis sniper rifle, code name, mantis!

A powerful sniper rifle is very accurate in long-range combat! However, its firing rate is relatively slow and it is very effective against armor targets, but it is not effective against shields and biochemical barriers.

———

(Don't you have your own ghost suit and weapons, those that are customized for you should be better, why use these weapons?

(????????)?

——Tibers asked the terrible little master who was fiddling with weapons and ammunition while putting a troublesome universal tool on his hand, and then experimenting with the multi-purpose tool to put away those ammunitions.)

"If you use your own weapons, it will be very troublesome to explain later. Let's use these here. Anyway, they are all over the floor, and there are still many outside!"

(????v??v??)

Anne naturally has her ideas about what she does, so don’t worry about Bosto!

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