Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Two days later, at the edge of the dragonsnake star, the Firefly was stationed.

Remotely thinking about the late Star Sea Republic more than a thousand years ago, the Firefly was preceded by the latest generation of deep-space explorers.

The then Republican Brothers had high hopes for this test ship, which filled its round-rolling whale-like hull with all the Imperial Pharaoh that the Republic could discover, the ruins of the flood era - and all the hopes of the people.

This test ship would have accomplished one of its greatest missions - to explore from the heart of human civilization to the Quartet of the Stars to find a world lost in the "doomsday” wars of the collapse of the Stars Sea Empire and rejoin the extended family of the Stars Sea Republic to create a more glorious human civilization!

When Firefly's huge hull first slipped out of the dock, with a total of 99 diamond-lined power units simultaneously giving off the most dazzling blue light, none of the republican brothers who cheered the scene, even those who knew how to deduce and calculate, could have thought of the future of this test ship as absurd as ever.

Firefly's first official voyage was not for exploration and discovery, but for concealment and exile.

On the long journey of the millennium exile, the Firefly did initially rely on its own powerful probe to discover many thousands of worlds, supported by the fixers of those worlds.

Countless fixers reluctant to succumb to the Reich's reign, carrying all their homes together with the Divine Spirit and Pharaoh, in a variety of styles, in an eye-catching starship, and after simple technological transformation, connecting these little starships to the body of the Firefly, like a pot vine attached to a big boat, or a small fish traveling with a blue whale.

The advanced Star Sea Jump Matrix on the Firefly releases a special protective film to avoid collisions and fusion accidents that can occur when two starships jump close to the sea.

This technology has made it possible for hundreds of starships to jump together closely, and has also constructed the basic shape of the Firefly for centuries to come.

During the peak period, around the Firefly Star Explorer of the Republic of the Stars, nearly 600 large and small starships were climbed, forming an immensely large exile team with a total population of over 500 million.

The short-lived, overly swollen structure and redundant internal control system greatly reduced the combat power of the Firefly. After several frightening sieges, the number of Starships forming the Firefly Group also dropped from more than 600 to less than 300, although they were fortunate enough to escape from the siege of the Empire. The vast majority of them were powerless, uninhabitable, empty iron coffins, dragged into large armies, and the population fell by 80 per cent, on the verge of collapse.

Prior to the encounter of Starlight Federation, the Firefly was like a whale that had already decayed more than half of its size, and was drifting along in the depths of the stars and seas, knowing that its body was slowly decaying, it could not escape from any "iron coffin", because in a sea of scarce resources, even from a completely abandoned starship, it could dismantle many useful pieces of debris, helping them to prolong their asthma for some time.

Yes, for the fireflies of that time and the “Orthodox Government” of the Republic of the Stars and Sea, what can we do besides prolong asthma?

The overhaul of such a vessel, or "pile” of starships in exile for thousands of years, with hundreds of holes of sores, rust spots and nearly obsolete vessels, is undoubtedly a protracted and immense project that is no less difficult and consuming than the re-refining of hundreds of starships.

Fortunately, relative to a "hillbilly" at the edge of the star sea like Starlight Federation, there's finally a little bit of untouched ground on the Firefly from the center of the star sea.

The government in exile, using superb technology and magical secrets from the center of the star sea, exchanged a lot of resources with the Federation of Starlight, set up a ship dock and plankton repair base station on the edge of the dragonsnake star, or "one piece”, to carry out hot flame repairs.

Even purchased a large number of starships directly from the Federation of Stars and modified them slightly to attach them to their own bodies, increasing their space for movement and improving their quality of life - in a cosmic environment free of gravity and resistance, however teething claws and strange the shape of a starship may be, it does not affect its ability to navigate.

So, looking away from the transporter transporting the resources, at this moment the Firefly is lit by the red giant star like a flame, not like a firefly, but hundreds of fireflies clustered together, surrounded by a circle of orbits, docks and floating stars, repair stations.

Hundreds of transport vessels are transporting supplies to them indefinitely, and hundreds of thousands of mechanics are dressed in crystal armor, working hard in a cold vacuum outside the Firefly, like a bunch of ants struggling desperately in the stars and oceans.

An apparently unmarked carrier, seemingly flat, crosses a circular orbital dock, crosses a long-overdue ship, strips it from the body of the Firefly, and slowly heads towards the body of the Firefly, the deep-space exploration ship that escaped from the extreme heavens more than a thousand years ago.

Nowadays, the Deep Space Explorer is already completely faceless, with hundreds of traffic hoses attached to its enclosure, firmly connected to other starships around it, like a heart that extends out of countless blood vessels.

The carrier did not travel very slowly, and now it has fully traveled inside the Firefly. Countless near-defensive guns are swiveling in all directions. From time to time, the invisible locking of the blue light passes over it. Hundreds of heavily armed armored armored men float in a vacuum. The portable crystal magnetic guns have unlocked their seals. From time to time, the guns flash with dots of starlight. Behind the cold mask, there seems to be a sharp gaze, staring dead at the carrier.

The carrier slipped into a clandestine dock a few kilometers from the “heart” of the Firefly.

“…"

The giant airtight gate closes slowly, like two rows of teeth up and down by a giant steel giant.

Inside the dock are hundreds of heavily armed men, such as the armorers of the great enemy.

They were all secret police officers in exile from the Ministry of the Interior to receive a special shipment of “goods”.

The hatch at the rear of the carrier opens downward and flips out a ladder and a cargo conveyor belt.

Some of the members of the “General Election Observation Mission" were taken out of captivity, while others, considered more dangerous “traitors”, were placed in special box restraints and transported down through cargo conveyors.

Only a very small number of the site owners are not wearing crystal armor.

Including a middle-aged woman wearing a black trench coat with a harsh face and a left-eye disability, who was replaced by three scarlet eyes.

She's the head of the Special Investigation Unit of the Ministry of the Interior in exile.

“Wait!”

When the vast majority of the prisoners were taken to the shuttle inside the starship and ready to be taken to a secret cell, Cheng Xuanxing suddenly called to a halt, and three lenses mounted on the same round base slowly spinning, releasing a faint red light and shooting at an inmate held in a box restraint.

That's... Tang Xiaoxing!

“Captain! ”

To escort Tang Xiaoxing's secret police officer to a stand.

Cheng Xuansou carefully weighed Tang Xiaoxing, falling asleep, faintly said, “The process of capturing Tang Xiaoxing was originally repeated. Such a hand untied chicken power refiner actually escaped from you twice? ”

“Yes.”

The secret police hesitated, "The first time we tried to capture her after we knocked her unconscious, who knew she wasn't affected by the shock bomb, sneaked away quietly, even set a trap, which seriously injured six of our team members; the second time we had caught her, who knew we had suddenly killed a mysterious tactical team and rescued her again; until the third time, with the cooperation of the four holy chambers of commerce, we kept shrinking the siege and then locked her hiding place through the surveillance lens of Fish Dragon City, according to her walking posture. ”

“The other party seems to have used the strategy of ‘sounding east and west’. Most people are out in circles with us. There are not many people around Tang Xiaoxing. The situation is not good. We can only abandon Tang Xiaoxing's siege. ”

Cheng Xuanxing asked with no expression: "How long has Tang Xiaoxing been out of your control? ”

Secret police responded: "No more than six hours! ”

“Six hours? ”

Cheng Xuanxing sneered, “And the other party has a 'counter-tracking expert’ who has found all the tracking and locking chips that set us up on Tang Xiaoxing? ”

The sheriff hesitated: "Yes. ”

Cheng Xuanxin glanced coldly at his subordinates and said after a moment of silence: "Help me prepare a sterile room and call two more policewomen. I want to check her body. ”

"By the time Fish Dragon City, we had a full scan, and she had nothing on her. ”

Cheng Xuanxin looked at his subordinates.

The police trembled slightly and gasped in the air: “I understand. Prepare the sterility chamber now! ”

Half an hour later.

Cheng Xuanxin came out of the sterile chamber with a small glass bottle in his hand and a slightly bloody red bead lying in the bottle.

“This is--”

He was responsible for the capture and release of Tang Xiaoxing's secret police officer, who was suddenly sweating.

“The anti-tracking expert must also be the tracking expert, so simple, you don't understand? ”

Cheng Xuanxing frowned and looked at his subordinates, “I carefully studied the action report you sent back yesterday. The person who was with Tang Xiaoxing at first was obviously a real master, and the people who raided you later were trained experts. Do you really think that when Tang Xiaoxing fell into their hands, it would be so easy to throw up? ”