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Being intercepted on the way, and the interrupted signal content meant at least two things —
First, the other party knew their route and had set up an ambush here in advance. They had shut down all radiation sources such as thrusters, so the fast warship did not discover the other party until it was close.
Second, the other party knew that there were earthlings on their warship. The word "also" explained everything.
From these two points, the acting captain Mia immediately realized that there must be a traitor in the fleet, but for the time being, she did not know whether the traitor was in the fast warship or in the main fleet.
The upper echelons of the entire ship rushed to the first conference room. Each team and fighter quickly entered combat readiness, and the other personnel were on standby.
Ali rushed out of the rest cabin. Just now, the old captain had sent a message to him, saying that there might be a traitor in the warship. As the old captain's most trusted person, he had to personally lead people to patrol the key battle positions.
It was impossible to find the traitor in a short period of time. Both the old captain and he knew that if they investigated the traitor now, not only would they not find it, it would also create panic and more chaos. Therefore, they could only guard against it and not investigate.
In the sound of the alarm, Ali's team quickly assembled. Now, they had grown to more than a hundred people, all of whom were elites. Ali did not even bother to look at those who were slightly weaker. However, elites were elites, but those who he could truly trust and rely on for life and death were less than a dozen.
He organized the twelve reliable old members into a team, and the other teams were led by the people he trusted first. The last core team was the power of his fist.
As his trusted assistant, Muran was also in the team. Ali passed on the information from the old captain to Muran, asking her to quickly make a corresponding defense plan.
The situation was urgent and could not be delayed. Who knew, a fight might break out the next moment. If the traitor was in the warship and did not have a defense plan, he would not even know how he died at the critical moment.
He trusted his assistant very much, and the two had worked together for a long time.
However, he did not expect that after Muran quickly read the old captain's information, she immediately gave him a suggestion that caught him off guard: Captain, arrest Fang Mingcheng immediately!
"Fang Mingcheng? Arrest him for what? "
What a joke. Ali did not think that the traitor would be that unlucky guy who had a good relationship with him.
…
Almost at the same time, the same words resounded in the first meeting room. Qi Chen suggested to the higher-ups and the acting captain, Mia, "Detain Fang Mingcheng immediately, then announce that the traitor has been found!"
Thorn 'E, who was standing in front of him, swayed unnaturally. He had never liked this gloomy guy who was talking. He hoped that Mia could be the captain. He had fought alongside the Cold Star Battle Team many times. Did this guy have the same experience? Just talking about it made it feel very insecure. It didn't want to be in the hands of an inexperienced and ruthless guy when it went out to fight in the future.
Maybe it was also because of Ao Mai. The relationship between the four cardinal members had always been good, which made Ci 'E more inclined to Miya, although he did not know that Ao Mai and Miya were not on the same side in the Cold Star.
This gloomy guy wanted to arrest Fang Mingcheng. Although he did not have much contact with Fang Mingcheng, he only knew that he used to belong to the Ruan family. Naturally, he was the biggest suspect of being the traitor, but it might not be Fang Mingcheng. Even Ci 'E was sure that it was not Fang Mingcheng, unless Fang Mingcheng's head was filled with feces.
Therefore, due to various reasons, he snorted and said coldly, "Now is not the time to find the traitor. Fang Mingcheng has always been very honest. It can't be him. Let's find a way to fight the enemy first!"
After saying that, he suddenly found that the smartest people in the meeting room, such as the old bastard Coel and Chris, were all looking at him as if he was a fool.
What, did I say something wrong? Why are you looking at me like that? Ao Mai, can't you see that I am helping the Cold Star? Why are you looking at me like that too? Huh? Why is Brother Kule pulling my clothes?
This scene made Ci 'E, who was as strong as a bull, blush slightly. He felt that he must have said something wrong again. Otherwise, why would Brother Kule also …
Fortunately, Miya spoke in time to save him from the embarrassment. Her tone was very calm, and she resolved Ci 'E's embarrassment without leaving a trace, "Fang Mingcheng is indeed unlikely, but the other party did not hesitate to ambush us on our route, and even revealed the existence of Earthlings on our spaceship. It seems that they are deliberately letting us know that there is a traitor among us."
She had not spent much time with Chi, so she had unknowingly developed Chi's meticulous attention to details.
As soon as Qi Chen's suggestion came out, she understood his intention.
It was not important whether Fang Mingcheng was the traitor or not. What was important was that they needed a traitor in the current situation. Fang Mingcheng was naturally the most suitable candidate for the role of a traitor.
It was obvious that the other party was telling the people in the high-speed battleship that they had a spy in their spaceship.
Therefore, it was necessary for the people in the conference room to quickly find a spy to calm the panic and suspicion in the battleship as an effective response.
Back then, during the Battle of the Cold Planet, multiple one-dimensional life forms had invaded the spaceship. The scene of mutual suspicion and killing was still vivid in their minds. The people on the fast battleship had all survived that brutal bloodbath. Although they had experienced many things and become more tenacious, the shadow in the depths of their hearts could not be completely forgotten in a short period of time.
If they did not expose the traitor in time, it would be hard to predict the consequences for their newly born battleship in such a huge crisis.
Therefore, regardless of whether Fang Mingcheng was the traitor or not, he had to be.
"Regardless of whether there is or not, the fact that they dared to ambush us here means that they know our route and the composition of our members. This means that they understand our internal situation. Therefore, we can conclude that they have an advantage in terms of combat power over us. Otherwise, we would only be humiliating ourselves." Qi Chen glanced at Old Hull and Regiment Commander He and continued his analysis.
"From the signals they sent, it can be seen that they indeed want to persuade us to surrender and do not want to fight to the death with us. In other words, they do not want us to suffer too many losses. They need to preserve us as much as possible."
At this moment, Ao Mai spoke up. "Whether we can win or not, we will only know after we try."
Qi Chen did not seem to want to offend this expert from the Source Gate, so he did not continue speaking. He had already said what he wanted to say. In his opinion, there was nothing they could not surrender to. Didn't Tian Hou lead his fleet to surrender to the left-rotating army?
The most important thing was to preserve their strength. Fighting to the death was a foolish thing to do.
However, he was not the captain, nor was he someone who held the power to decide the life and death of the entire ship. The final choice was not something he could decide. Thus, he wisely kept his mouth shut.
Old Hull, Regiment Commander He, and a few others were the ones who truly held the power. At this moment, Old Hull looked at Regiment Commander He, as if asking for his opinion. After all, the other party also claimed to be an Earthling.
Regiment Commander He stretched out his hand from the can and flipped through the complete signal sent by the other party. He read it line by line and laughed self-deprecatingly. "I'm already like this. It doesn't matter whether I go to the God's Kingdom they mentioned or not. Even if they bring me to the God's Kingdom, can they get rid of this can of mine? They say they are also Mr. Chu's people, but I don't think I've heard Mr. Chu mention this before? I don't know if it's true or not. Hull, have you heard of it before? "
Old Hull's expression could not be seen, or rather, he did not have any expression. This old regiment commander of the Silver Army was very mediocre in other aspects. If he were to command the smallest scale of space battles, he would probably be wiped out against any Cold Star battle team on the same ship. However, in terms of thinking and speaking skills, he was a natural talent. It seemed like he had not said anything, but in fact, he had already expressed his attitude. He had even forced the other party into a corner, making them unable to move.
Could he say he had heard of it before? Don't say no. Even if he did, wouldn't he immediately become the biggest suspect of being a traitor if he said it now?
If Regiment Commander He, an Earthling, said he had never heard of it before, then the others were all outsiders. How could they be more authoritative than Earthlings in this aspect?
It was just that this Regiment Commander He was too petty and thought too little of everyone else. No wonder he could only be a regiment commander in the past. As the most powerful person on the Cold Star, Old Hull was much more broad-minded than him and could see further.
In his heart, Old Hull actually agreed with Regiment Commander He's words. If they really could not win, temporarily surrendering was not a big deal. He believed that Chi Wu would understand and trust him. If Chi Wu still could not trust him today, then there was no point in him living.
But now that he was forced into a corner by Regiment Commander He, it became a strange situation. His people, Mi Ya and Ao Mai, obviously did not want to surrender, but Regiment Commander He's people intended to surrender. But when it came to him and Regiment Commander He's level, the situation was reversed. He supported the surrender, while Regiment Commander He opposed it.
He knew Ao Mai's temperament, and he also knew Mi Ya's persistence in her beliefs. He also knew that the words of those Earthlings who intercepted them in front of them, saying that they were also Mr. Chu's people … were not credible.
But even if he didn't believe it, it didn't mean that the other people on the battleship didn't believe it. The other party was an Earthling that everyone was familiar with, and they were also Chu Yunsheng's people. So it was not a betrayal, and there was no sense of strangeness. So the psychological burden on them was much smaller. Instead of fighting to the death, they might not necessarily win, and they might even die in the battle. So why not accept it? Going to God's Kingdom that everyone yearned for was not a bad thing in itself.
From the signal sent by the other party, they could indeed see that the people in the other party's spaceship were indeed Earthlings, and they were willing to let them go and check.
Old Hull remained silent and did not speak. He understood that once he made a decision, no matter which decision he made, it would either be to stand with Regiment Commander He and fight against the other party, or it would be another internal division within the fleet.
The conference room was silent for a while, so much so that Ali's team acted quickly. They actually arrested Fang Mingcheng as soon as the order was issued to him. He should have been surprised why Ali's team reacted so quickly and synchronized with the meeting, but now he didn't have the mood to care about it.
Mi Ya looked at old Hull nervously. If they surrendered, even if they went to God's Kingdom, everything they had worked so hard for today would be over, and they would become someone else's vassal forever. Even if it was only for one day, she didn't want to look back. The entire Cold Star would be hopeless, and the entire race would once again fall into darkness and despair, until they became someone else's plaything, and eventually disappear.
She even thought that if old Hull decided to surrender, she would use the warship authority that Bi gave her!
Even if she couldn't stop him, she would take the elites of Cold Star, their blood, sweat, and tears, and escape desperately.
Staff Officer Chen had no right to speak. He was present in the conference room as Qi Chen's assistant, but he was very clear about his partner's mentality. Qi Chen definitely wanted to surrender, and even hoped to go to God's Kingdom. To him, it might be another version of the Wu Nu starship, except that the Wu Nu people had been replaced by Zorro God's Kingdom.
However, he didn't notice the cold and terrifying gaze of Yiyi, who had been silent in the corner, as if he didn't exist …
Everyone in the conference room was waiting, seemingly waiting for old Hull to express his stance, but in fact, more and more people knew that they were waiting for the opposite warship to show strength that matched their tone.
If there wasn't, then they would naturally fight; but if there was, then it was really hard to say.
If the other party was another alien race, of course, there was nothing much to say. They could only fight to the death, but the situation now was different.
…
When Fang Mingcheng was captured by Ali, he didn't resist, as if he had long foreseen that this day would come. The great man who used to be high and mighty on the Humanoid planet was now hunching his body dejectedly.
Instead, some of his companions reacted fiercely, but after Ali sent Mulan to talk to them in a low voice, they no longer resisted.
The whole process was very smooth and very fast.
Looking at Ali, who was familiar with him, the corner of Fang Mingcheng's mouth squirmed a few times. He wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn't say anything.
In the end, it was still one of his companions who shouted, "Captain Ali, we can be traitors, but you must never surrender, or Captain Fang and we will all die! Captain Ali, please, I beg you, tell the higher-ups that Mr. Chu is definitely not on the same side as them! "
There was actually a "traitor" who was persuading them not to surrender. It was really a big story.
But Ali smiled bitterly in his heart. How could he decide this kind of thing? He also didn't want to surrender, but he was just a captain.
When the man was brought into the conveyor, he was still struggling and shouting, "If you surrender, when Mr. Chu finds out, you will all die!
Mr. Chu and them are definitely … "
^ (To be continued.)
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