God said, let there be light

"found it."

At 01:30 in the morning, Zhou Yi called, Fan Luoyi answered without thinking, and Byrne didn't even have a chance to stop him.

"Found it?!" Fan Luoyi sat up all of a sudden, he told Zhou Yi to find only one thing, and took away Lan's shuttle, he couldn't help but tense up, his voice trembling, "Where is it?"

"Hesses."

Hessis is a satellite city built on Ganymede. It does not belong to the alliance, but has its own country, and refuses to establish diplomatic relations with the alliance.

The relationship between Hesses and the Alliance is bad, and the reason goes back to 200 years ago. Hesses was initially conceived as a transit supply station for interstellar colonization. Rare mineral deposits have been found in many satellites, and Hessis has become a mine collection and distribution center for pretreatment and processing of mineral deposits.Hessis is very remote and the environment is not good. People who go there are forced to live. What's worse is that the collected minerals contain radiation elements, which cause a large number of workers to get sick and die.

For the sake of rare mineral deposits, the alliance secretly offered deals to death row prisoners and felons. They went to Hesis to work in exchange for large sums of money to subsidize their families.Later these things came to light, Hesses broke out a workers' revolution and broke away from the Union ever since.

Hessis's historical background makes it a more difficult destination for Cyres to reach.But it still couldn't stop Fan Luoy.

"Wait, I'll be here now."

Without saying a word, Byrne followed Fan Roy to get up, changed his clothes and left, galloping all the way on the photoelectric motorcycle. It took less than 10 minutes from receiving Zhou Yi's call to the time they pressed Zhou Yi's doorbell.

Zhou Yi lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment. The place is big or small, and the furnishings are simple and a little messy. It's not that his home robot is not diligent enough, but that he has too many things, and everything is miscellaneous. Yes, there is a holographic sand table model on the coffee table, and this guy alone takes up a quarter of the living room.

"Here." Zhou Yi led Byrne and Fan Roy into his study room, and the projection screen on the white wall successfully grabbed all of Fan Roy's attention. It's not the photo Fan Luoyi gave Zhou Yi, but real time.

"How did you find it?"

"Oh, it's not easy. The information you gave me is too little, just a photo, find a shuttle with almost no special markings," Zhou Yi shook his head, and suddenly smiled again, "It's hard, no matter how hard it is. See who's looking for it."

"I hacked the docking information of Siris's port." Zhou Yiban leaned against the door, speaking in a very proud tone, "The network protocol used by Sires is different from that of the alliance, so I took a lot of effort to connect it. , checked the records in the port database that day, and found the specific information of this shuttle ship, as well as the ports it had visited before."

Zhou Yi paused at this point, changed the subject and asked, "Do you want something to drink?"

"Don't bother, you continue to talk. Knowing where it has been doesn't necessarily mean knowing where it is going, or where it is now?"

"That's right, that's why I said it's not easy." Zhou Yi nodded with a smile: "A general shuttle ship has a fixed channel. Knowing where it has been, you can roughly know its activity area, and maybe you can find other clues. For example, where is its daily maintenance.”

"In Hesses?"

"Ah, that's right. This shuttle ship is usually active in the Jupiter channel and its surroundings, and the ship maintenance is in Ananke."

Outside of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it basically left the territory of the Alliance. Ananke is another satellite of Jupiter, which also does not belong to the Alliance. It is the largest trade center around Jupiter.Although Ananke does not belong to the alliance, he has always maintained a friendly trade relationship with the alliance. The most important thing is to sell rare mineral deposits and other scarce resources to the alliance in exchange for some other resources and money.

Fan Luoyi took a deep breath, and couldn't help urging: "Stop making detours, just tell me, have you found Lan's whereabouts?"

Finding the shuttle ship is not the ultimate goal, Lan is.

Zhou Yi came over, took the operation panel on the table, put the video data on the screen, and explained: "Don't worry, they won't be going anywhere for a while."

Fan Roy frowned, it didn't sound like a good thing.Byrne gently held Fan Roy's hand, giving him a little silent relief.

"The Baiyue mercenaries of the Gao family are also responsible for this." Zhou Yi glanced at a small window on the far side of the screen, and said with a smile, "I checked the place of manufacture and sales batch of the two mobile phones you gave me. time, all in Ananke, but the place where they were first activated and connected to the network was Hesis. Coincidentally, Hesis is also one of the places where the shuttle ships frequently travel. So, you know what I checked afterwards Bar?"

"Hesses' port call record?"

"Bingo! You guessed it." Zhou Yi quickly called up a surveillance video, "According to the distance between Sirius and Hesses, and the speed of the general shuttle ship, a simple calculation can tell the arrival of the shuttle ship." It really took me a while to find it. Look at this paragraph, the people on the ship only passed one checkpoint when they got down. They took the fast track. There was no camera to capture their faces along the way, but they only stopped at this checkpoint. for a moment."

Familiar faces appeared on the screen, Fan Roy's heart seemed to be squeezed suddenly, and his breathing stopped.

It's Lan.It really is him!

But from the video, it can be seen that Lan's complexion is very bad, and his overall condition is not right. He has been leaning on the man beside him, and seems unable to walk upright by himself.

Just as Fan Roy was about to ask something, he suddenly noticed that Byrne was staring blankly at the screen, holding his hand involuntarily, getting stronger and stronger, and it hurt Fan Roy.

Fan Roy took Byrne's arm, shook him back, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Byrne shook his head slightly, his brows were tightly frowned, his face was serious, and he hesitated for a while before saying, "I don't know either..."

"What do you mean?"

Byrne turned to Zhou Yi and asked him, "When was this filmed?"

"52 days ago."

"Do you have a way to get the crew list and passenger list of the shuttle?"

Zhou Yi laughed: "This group of people is Bai Yue, even if there is a list, it's a lie. Ten out of ten are fake identities."

"How many people were originally on board, and how many extra people boarded the ship in Siris, can there be a way to check?"

Zhou Yi stopped laughing, Byrne's question was too strange, he exchanged a glance with Fan Luoyi, Fan Luoyi also looked puzzled.

"what is the problem?"

Byrne looked at the screen and pointed to the man beside Zhilan: "I know him."

"You know him?! Have you met Bai Yue's people?"

Byrne shook his head. He couldn't answer Fan Luoyi's question. The Locke he knew was not from Bai Yue, but Locke had been missing for a year...

Byrne didn't believe that Locke would vote for Bai Yue.Absolutely, don't believe it.

Locke came from a bad background. He was a war orphan. As soon as other children could run, he had already learned to carry a gun, shoot, and kill people. He received humanitarian aid at the age of nine, was taken away from the battlefield, and sent to charity orphans. hospital.But his life did not gradually improve, but experienced more ups and downs and cruelty and blood that ordinary people can't imagine.

At the beginning, the storm group specially recruited Locke to join the group, not only because of his excellent quality in all aspects, he was extremely excellent in the storm group, but also his psychological quality was very strong, and his mental power was terrible. people.

Byrne said to Zhou Yi: "Give me this video."

"Oh, okay."

With a flick of his finger, Zhou Yi copied a video for Byrne and sent it directly to him.

Van Roy didn't ask too much. If Byrne didn't say anything, he had a reason not to say it. He believed him.And the most important thing right now is Lan.

Fan Luoyi asked Zhou Yi: "What do you mean they won't be able to go anywhere for a while? How can you confirm that they will stay in Hessia forever?"

"According to predictions, Hesses will encounter an asteroid impact in about 20 days. According to the current forecast, the asteroid is not large in size and is not yet at the level of a disaster warning, but Hesses should enter a state of refuge."

"..."

Zhou Yi looked at Fan Luoyi, who was looking at Lan Lengshen on the screen, as if he still couldn't believe it, but he was finally found.

"President Fan, what should we do next?"

He has completed the task Fan Luoyi assigned to Zhou Yi, and now it depends on what kind of decision Fan Luoyi will make.

Van Loy pondered for a while, and asked, "Is there a way to go to Hesis as a civilian? A tourist or something."

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows, Fan Luoyi really planned to save people by himself? !

"Alo, shall we discuss it before making a decision?"

Byrne's words sounded like a discussion, but his tone was firm. He couldn't let Van Roy take risks.If Hesis is really Bai Yue's base, it's too dangerous.Even if it is not, Hess is not in the alliance jurisdiction, and he goes as a civilian, how can he save people?This is clearly no return!Gray Vulture probably wouldn't even take his order.

Fan Roy looked up at Byrne, suppressed the corner of his mouth for a long time, and then nodded slowly.

Byrne heaved a sigh of relief, fortunately Fan Roy is not an impulsive person.

"Zhou Yi, thank you. I interrupted you today. We will discuss the matter later."

"Okay." Zhou Yi shrugged, "However, Mr. Fan, you have to remember what you promised me."

Fan Roy nodded: "Don't worry, I will definitely do what I promised."

"Those two walk slowly, I will see you off soon."

Coming out of Zhou Yi's house, the two of them still rode electric motorcycles back home. They had nothing to say all the way, and their mood was very different from when they came. The excitement and anxiety were gone, and the rest seemed to be empty, as if they had fallen into a bottomless pit. , Powerless despair is a boulder tied to the body, dragging them to be swallowed by unknown fear.