The door was opened silently.
A middle-aged man walked into the room. He stretched out his hand to press his brows and sat behind the desk. The middle-aged man thought for a moment, then reached out his hand to initiate a communication.
"Connect me to the SSV Normandy, Commander Shepard."
"Please wait a moment …."
The mechanical voice quickly disappeared. After a while, a young white woman with blonde hair appeared on the screen in front of the man.
"Hello, sir."
As she spoke, she saluted the man in front of her. Looking at this scene, the man couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Okay, Commander, you don't have to salute me. I'm no longer your officer, but a Councilor …."
"Okay, Councilor Anderson."
Upon hearing Anderson's words, Sheppard quickly changed his words. The two looked at each other and smiled. Then, their expressions quickly turned serious.
"Commander Shepard, what's the current situation on the Normandy?"
"Everything's normal, Anderson. But our main task now isn't to track down and eliminate the remaining Jeeps. You know, the Reapers are our biggest enemy!"
"Hmm …."
Anderson's face turned gloomy when he heard Shepard's words. He would never forget this name.
Anderson still remembered very clearly that not long ago, the main planet of Eden was attacked by the Jeeps, and a large number of humans were captured. At that time, Shepard was in charge of investigating the matter. In the end, she found out that it was a plot led by the traitorous Ghost Agent Salen to summon a terrible species called the Reapers back to destroy all life in the Milky Way.
The situation was extremely critical, and at the very last moment, Salen's Reaper 'Overlord' led an army of Jess to almost occupy the entire castle. At this critical moment, it was Shepard and her Normandy that stepped forward and destroyed the Overlord, putting an end to the conspiracy of the Reapers and Salen.
Although they won in the end, the Councilors of the Godcastle Council were all wiped out. After that, Shepard recommended Lieutenant General Anderson, who was once her superior, to join the Godcastle Council.
According to Shepard's original intention, she wanted to continue investigating the Collectors and Reapers. However, the Divine Castle Parliament insisted that the so-called Overlords were just some strange and huge mechanical weapons created by the Jegers. The prophecy about the future that Shepard saw was just an illusion that she created. Hence, the Divine Castle Parliament gave the order for Sheppard and the Normandy to continue tracking down and cleaning up Jie's remnants.
Of course, Sheppard was very dissatisfied, but Anderson couldn't do anything about it. Although he was one of the councilors of the Divine Castle, he was only one of them. He couldn't overturn the decision of the council.
But this time, Anderson didn't contact Shepard for this matter.
"Sheppard, I have a very important mission for you to complete."
"What mission?"
On the other side of the screen, Sheppard immediately turned serious. Anderson frowned and said helplessly.
"Perhaps you don't know yet, but in fact, just a few days ago, a border fleet of the Tului Empire was attacked by an unknown party at the edge of the wandering galaxy. The entire fleet was wiped out …"
"Is it a Reaper?"
Hearing this, Sheppard suddenly became excited. Anderson hurriedly raised his hand.
"Wait, calm down. Although I also hope it's a Reaper, in fact … .according to the news from the Tului, it's us humans who attacked the Tului fleet …."
“？？？”
Sheppard was dumbfounded. She looked at Anderson with a "What the hell are you talking about?" expression. Anderson was also speechless. In fact, when he received this news from Councilor Tului, he was also very helpless!
"Is this a signal that the Tului are planning to attack the humans again?"
Sheppard immediately had her own thoughts. It was no wonder she would think so. In fact, after humans stepped into the universe, the first war they encountered with aliens was with the Tului.
At that time, the human exploration team was trying to activate a dormant mass repeater, but they were discovered by the patrolling Tului fleet. Because this was prohibited by the Divine Castle Parliament, the Tului fleet launched an attack on the human exploration fleet. After that, they also captured one of the human colonized planets – Shanxi.
At that time, the two sides fought a bloody battle for several months. In the end, the humans successfully recaptured Shanxi from the Tului. The Tului were unwilling to let the matter rest, so they prepared for an all-out war with the humans.
Because of this, the war between the two sides attracted the attention of the Divine Castle Parliament. In the end, under the mediation of the Alisa clan, the humans also joined the Divine Castle and became a member of the big family of the Universal Alliance.
Although the relationship between the two sides was gradually improving, and even the Normandy was a warship jointly built by the humans and the Tului by combining their cutting-edge technologies, Sheppard obviously couldn't forget about the war back then.
"Although I also think this is nonsense from the Tului, … .they have submitted evidence."
As he spoke, Anderson sent a video file over. Soon, images appeared in front of Sheppard.
The Tului fleet, unknown terrifying monsters, a strange fleet, and … .a young man who looked like a human no matter how he looked at him.
"… .report to the Divine Castle Parliament immediately …."
In the end, the video ended amidst screams. Sheppard stared at the snowflakes on the screen in silence for a long time.
"What does Star Alliance think? Is this really not our fleet? "
"Judging from the signals and fluctuations intercepted by the Tului fleet, the other party's technology is completely different from ours."
"… .Could it be Cyberus?"
Cyberus mentioned by Sheppard was a notorious human supremacist organization. They claimed to protect humans and regarded the interests of humans above all other races. It would be fine if that was all, but the biggest problem with Cyberus was that they often kidnapped aliens and conducted inhumane experiments on them. Their attitude towards other aliens was also quite bad … .or rather, hostile.
"We've considered this possibility, but for now … .it's hard to say."
Anderson shook his head.
"You heard it yourself. The other party completely denied any relationship with us humans. If it was Cyberus, they wouldn't say that."
"That's true …."
Hearing Anderson's words, Sheppard also nodded in agreement. Seborus was a die-hard human supremacist, but at the same time, he was also proud of being a human. In the previous video, the other party had indeed shown indifference towards this matter.
"But no matter what, we must investigate this matter."
Anderson stood up and stared at the screen.
"The Tului Lord has issued a protest and warning to Star Alliance through diplomatic channels. If we don't handle it well, a full-scale war between us and the Tului might really break out. So, Commander Sheppard, I want you to lead the Normandy to the Wandering Galaxy immediately and investigate everything about this matter! I want to know where the mysterious fleet in the video came from and who they are! "
"Yes, Commander!"
Upon hearing Anderson's order, Shepard put his feet together and quickly saluted.
"Mission accomplished!"
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