Chapter 376: Chapter 151 The True Secret of the Command Room
“Black, I think I’ve stumbled upon sothing over here.”
“What? I still have 4 minutes to complete the hack,” Black replied. It couldn’t see what was happening in the command room, only listen to Mu Fan reporting from there.
Mu Fan’s brow was furrowed, his tone notably serious.
“Have you co across the Broken Axe Star Thief Group in the database?”
“Broken Axe, aren’t they the Star Thieves who invaded Loga Star? There’s so connection between them, the Wen family, and the Gardot Empire. Why the sudden interest?”
“I saw their mark! But this ti, the mark is of a broken axe intersecting with a broken sword.”
“This Star Thief Group is called the Sword Axe Star Thief Group, could it just be related to their na?”
“No, I can’t forget the mark of this axe.”
Mu Fan’s gaze was fixed intently on the screen.
“Then this matter really gets interesting, tsk tsk. The starship’s light computer I’m hacking into right now, I’ve also found so interesting things. For instance, their central control system isn’t the parallel command system commonly used by the Federation, but one derived from the Gardot Empire’s military system.”
“That being the case, there could indeed be so issues between the two.”
Mu Fan nodded, his left hand unable to leave the control panel as he looked off into the distance.
On the other side of that marker, there was an odd platform.
The control panel beneath that platform was a different color from the rest, shinier and newer-looking, almost like it had been added later.
Then, in the middle of the platform, there was a recess with dozens of circuits connecting to the empty space.
The more he looked… the more familiar Mu Fan felt.
It was a hexagonal tal socket, and Mu Fan couldn’t shake the feeling he had seen it sowhere before.
Hexagonal…
Hmm?
Could it be this!
Suddenly, as if rembering sothing, Mu Fan pulled a tal token from his pocket and squinted at the socket from a distance, making a few gestures.
Maybe it’s worth a try?
“How much longer until you’re done?”
“128 seconds.”
So, Mu Fan suppressed his curiosity, waiting for Black to finish the hack.
After a while, all the screens in the room suddenly went dark, then lit up again, one by one.
A bright, grinning face appeared on every screen.
“Mu Fan, the invasion was successful! Can you let Lin Hao and the others know now, then proceed with the next step of the plan?”
“No rush.” Mu Fan glanced at his wristwatch, almost ten minutes remained until his rendezvous ti with Lin Hao.
“Now that you’ve taken over the system, do you know what this tal socket is for?”
“tal socket? I haven’t found anything in the system about it, wait a mont.”
As Black finished speaking, a hidden door opened on a chanical high platform beside Mu Fan, extending a cara towards him.
“Now I can see inside the command room,” Black said with satisfaction.
Mu Fan looked at the cara, then got up and walked to the place where he had found the tal socket, pointing it out. “Take a look at this, what is it?”
The cara switched through several angles, and even Black’s tone held a hint of uncertainty.
“I really don’t know, there’s no description of this thing in the shipboard database. But looking at its structure, it seems more like a control panel requiring physical unlocking, and it’s utterly independent of the ship system. I feel this will be interesting, Mu Fan. What were you about to tell ?”
In Black’s view, Mu Fan slowly lifted the hexagonal tal token, “I feel that this shape matches the token in my hand quite well.”
The rotating cara suddenly froze.
“Can you tell
where this thing ca from?”
“It was on that Solomon chanic before,” Mu Fan said nonchalantly.
“Why didn’t you tell
about it?”
“I didn’t know what it was, either. I just thought it looked refined and decided to wear it.”
“I really hate things related to luck, because all sorts of unreasonable things tend to happen.”
“Should I try putting it down?”
“Go ahead and try.”
Black’s complaints didn’t continue because its curiosity had been piqued as well.
So, with an expectant position from the cara, Mu Fan carefully aligned the hexagonal tal badge and then set it down.
A perfect fit!
“Why isn’t there a reaction?” Mu Fan muttered to himself.
At that mont, a low buzzing sound began, and a tal secret door opened on the control console below, as the platform descended.
Dark red lights started to shine.
Different from the intermixing of blue and white lights around, the color of these lights looked incredibly heavy and solemn.
When the tal badge had fully descended, a screen slowly rose.
“Mu Fan, hurry and press your wrist against it, I think this thing is about to send a signal!”
Black suddenly said, and Mu Fan reacted quickly, pressing his left hand directly onto the control console.
“Hunting Target control system activated, access recognition: Soashre, insufficient first-level privileges, not granted… beep, privileges approved. Solomon list system master control platform activated.”
“This… this is actually Solomon’s stuff! Good thing you touched it in ti, Mu Fan. If we hadn’t just interrupted its signal transmission, this console would have sent a signal to Solomon’s headquarters! That Solomon chanic’s privileges weren’t enough to access the master system, he only had level three mission inquiry privileges. Heh, but in front of , this system is as weak as trash.”
Three planets appeared in the holographic light screen projected from the screen.
Mu Fan could recognize that the largest planet was Blue Capital Star, and the two smaller ones nearby should also be nearby planets.
At this mont, Blue Capital Star was covered with nurous red dots, roughly hundreds at a glance.
Mu Fan slid his finger across the planet and found that the area with the densest red dots was still located in Zhongjing City.
“Mu Fan, you’ve hit the jackpot! This is Solomon’s Hunting Target master control platform. The chanical Ant that was placed on you during your tracking earlier is what they call a Hunting Target. You can zoom in and look at the part about Dingchuan Academy.”
The planetary image kept enlarging until finally, Mu Fan could make out the contours of Dingchuan Academy.
A bright red light point was constantly flashing.
“This is because I’ve restored the shielding on that chanical Ant, and now you can see its actual position,” Black explained.
Mu Fan frowned, “How did Solomon’s stuff end up on a Star Thief Group ship?”
“Ha-ha, this is why I said you hit the jackpot. All the confidential information from this ship’s body was actually saved here. Solomon’s contact person is this Star Thief, whom you’ve already slit the throat of in the corridor.”
A character portrait appeared, and Mu Fan recognized it as the number 2 Star Thief he had killed with the Snake Blade.
So he was Solomon’s man!
“What other confidential information is there?”
“Co on, let
give you a rough idea. The Gardot Empire has been secretly working with Solomon for 17 months and to a certain extent, Solomon’s military technology even received clandestine support from the Gardot Empire. Solomon’s goal is to rely on their power in the Dark World to infiltrate key administrative planets within the Federation. And this Sword Axe Star Thief Group… is nothing but Gardot Empire’s lapdog!”
“The most important thing is, your previous deduction was correct: Broken Axe indeed belonged to them, but starting from six months ago, it suddenly broke away from Sword Axe, operating under a solitary Broken Axe marker to execute another secret mission.”
“And this attack by Sword Axe wasn’t by chance, but rather based on a secretly altered fake intelligence report that misled the Star Thieves into thinking this was truly a smuggling ship. The report even accurately detailed the Federation starship’s arrival ti down to the minute. And the source of the intelligence… unknown.”
Suddenly, a huge volu of information flooded into his mind.
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