Huo Yushen subconsciously looked at the palm-sized Phoenix sculpture on his desk.
It wasn't that they were completely unrelated; they were exactly the same! Except for the size, which was much smaller.
What was the relationship between this Fire-Red Phoenix sculpture and that Phoenix Mecha? And why did Meng Guanghui throw it into a Small Wormhole? Huo Yushen was intrigued.
After the nine team members finished their "Mechanical Drafting," Huo Yushen called them in one by one to question them.
He pointed to the palm-sized Fire-Red Phoenix statue on his desk and asked, "Have you seen this Phoenix sculpture before?"
The first team member went from confused to suddenly enlightened, saying, "...No... Wait, that's exactly like the Mechanical Intelligence Mecha that came to save us!"
Huo Yushen wondered if his hearing was failing him. "...The Mechanical Intelligence Mecha that came to save you?"
Where would a Mechanical Intelligence Mecha come from in that place? And who sent it? Why did it save them?!
With just that one sentence from the team member, a thousand questions raced through Huo Yushen's mind.
Each question had the words "Unreliable" written in large, bold letters!
Yet the team member seemed completely unaware, almost dancing with excitement, looking proud and honored, saying, "Yes! And it's our Empire's Mechanical Intelligence Mecha from five hundred years in the future!"
"It's our own Mechanical Intelligence Mecha! Inspector Huo, can you imagine?! Five hundred years from now, our Empire will have such advanced Mecha!"
Huo Yushen was speechless.
But he didn't reprimand them, just calmly asked, "Is that so? How do you know it's from five hundred years in the future? What's the evidence?"
The team member scratched his head and said, "The Mechanical Intelligence itself said so. It said it was invented by Master Su Shangtian, the father of Mechanical Intelligence!"
Huo Yushen's cold expression almost cracked. He thought his hearing was failing him again. "Su... Su what?"
"Su Shangtian! Master Su Shangtian! He's the great-great-great-grandson of Master Su Buyan! Of course, he hasn't been born yet..."
The team member became a little embarrassed at this point. "Inspector Huo, do you think Master Su Buyan should know about this?"
Huo Yushen took a deep breath, his expression becoming even colder and more stern. "Explain clearly, what exactly happened?"
The team member then composed himself and said seriously, "It's like this. We discovered that the intelligence was wrong, and we suffered heavy casualties, leaving only ten of us."
"But our Mecha were severely damaged, including the Small Wormhole Opener, which was broken by the humanoid silhouette behind the door in the sky."
"Everyone thought we were doomed this time and would die there, when a Fire-Red Phoenix-shaped Mecha descended from the sky!"
"It was very powerful, fighting those Remnant Species ancestral-looking monsters without any disadvantage, and quickly relieved us!"
"Then it came to us and introduced itself, saying it was a Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years in the future, and that we had gone missing after going to that place five hundred years ago."
"Master Su Buyan always remembered us and left a will, asking it to come and save us."
"Then Su Shangtian, Master Su Buyan's great-great-great-grandson, invented that awesome Mechanical Intelligence Mecha, so it came to save us."
"But there were too many Remnant Species-type monsters in that place."
"The Mechanical Intelligence Mecha from five hundred years in the future couldn't kill them all..."
"So after repairing our Mecha and the Small Wormhole Opener, it had to leave."
"We wanted to come back with it, but it said it wasn't from the same timeline as us, so it couldn't come back with us."
Then the team member added, "If you say we have no evidence, we really don't."
"But we're not blind! The functions displayed by that Mechanical Intelligence Mecha far exceed the level of our Empire's current Mecha!"
"More importantly, it can directly penetrate the atmosphere of that place!"
Huo Yushen was slightly moved at this point. "You said it can directly penetrate the atmosphere of that place?!"
They weren't completely ignorant about that planet rich in Exotic Metal ore. They knew its most obvious feature was the special Gravity Field outside its atmosphere.
With their current technology, they couldn't enter from the outside, nor could they break through from the inside.
That's why the predecessors of the Special Security Bureau, after hundreds of experiments and the deaths of nearly ten thousand staff members over several hundred years, took a different approach, thinking of directly locating that place and then using a Small Wormhole to teleport in.
And the Empire's Small Wormhole Opener also went through tens of thousands of years of exploration before researchers made a breakthrough when new ores were mined and new materials appeared.
But its performance wasn't stable, and its energy often collapsed.
If they weren't going to a place that could only be reached by opening a Wormhole, they generally wouldn't use it, because it also had a certain chance of malfunctioning.
Any slight disturbance in the magnetic field could cause the destination of the teleportation to be off by a great distance.
This was the reason why Meng Guanghui was teleported to Da Zang Star of the East Tianyuan City-State this time.
Now, this team member was saying that the so-called Mechanical Intelligence Mecha from the future could directly enter and exit the atmosphere at will, which made Inspector Huo feel that it didn't seem to be technology that their country, or any country in the Beichen Galaxy, could currently produce.
But what if it wasn't from the Beichen Galaxy?
Huo Yushen's eyes were dark and unfathomable.
He raised his hand slightly, "Go down, hand over the mined minerals to the Material Department. After they inspect them, they will record your military merits according to the grade."
The team member wanted to be happy, but when he thought of the forty teammates who had already sacrificed, and the missing captain, he couldn't be happy.
He sullenly stood at attention and saluted: "Yes, Inspector Huo."
Then he licked his lips and asked cautiously: "Inspector Huo, can we be assigned the mecha we brought back this time? We promise not to apply for new mecha in the future!"
Huo Yushen stared at him intently, knowing exactly what he meant.
Not to mention the mecha they brought back this time, even the Small Wormhole Opener, he could see that it had been upgraded to a level beyond their current technology.
Huo Yushen's expression didn't change much, and he said lightly: "Yes, go to the Information Department to register, and it will be the mecha under your name from now on. If you leave the Special Security Bureau, it needs to be returned. In addition, they need to be inspected by Master Su to see if they need to be repaired."
The team member was really happy now, nodding repeatedly: "Of course! Of course! Thank you, Inspector Huo!"
He also said: "We have discussed it, and we will divide the minerals we mined equally among all the teammates. If you want to record merit, please also record a merit for the sacrificed comrades!"
Only then did Huo Yushen reveal a satisfied smile, and even his voice was no longer so cold and indifferent.
He said gently: "Yes, as long as you agree, I have no problem. Do not mention the specific details of your operation this time to anyone. The bureau will conduct desensitization treatment on your memories, and cannot expose the secrets of our Empire for the next five hundred years."
The team member saluted him again and said with a smile: "Understood! And I don't want to remember what happened there!"
He left excitedly.
Next, Huo Yushen personally questioned the remaining eight team members.
He didn't ask more questions, just listened quietly to them.
As a result, these nine people were unanimous, saying that when they were almost completely wiped out, a Fire-Red Phoenix Mecha suddenly came and saved them.
This mecha was not only powerful in combat, but also knew how to mine, repair mecha, and repair the Small Wormhole Opener.
This mecha told them personally that it was not human, but a Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years later. It was said that Su Shangtian, the father of Mechanical Intelligence, invented it.
It also said that it was because they had been trapped in that place for five hundred years, but the Empire had never given up on rescuing them, and finally, five hundred years later, built a mecha that could go back in time.
Huo Yushen frowned.
The Mechanical Intelligence in the Special Security Bureau responsible for mechanical drawing verified the situation at the time and the excellence of this mecha from the pictures left in the minds of the nine people.
Regardless of whether it went back in time or not, the technology it displayed was beyond their reach now.
He understood the reasoning, but why was there this small Phoenix-shaped mecha statue? And it was still in Meng Guanghui's hands? Could it be that the mecha came back later and gave him a figure? The more Huo Yushen thought about it, the more unreliable it seemed.
But the facts did not allow him to disbelieve it.
Looking at the richer minerals in everyone's luggage than ever before, he also understood that without the help of the Fire-Red Phoenix Mecha, all of this would be impossible.
But it was also impossible for him to believe that it was the masterpiece of Master "Su Shangtian" from five hundred years later.
...
Sitting alone in the office, he repeatedly listened to what the Mechanical Intelligence said, as retold by the nine team members.
Judging from the reactions of the nine people, these words were indeed said by the Mechanical Intelligence, and there was no need for them to collude.
Moreover, under his powerful Mental Strength pressure, these people had no room for lying.
He believed that these nine team members were not lying, but were the words of the "Mechanical Intelligence" necessarily the truth? In the office's audio system, the words of the first team member were played repeatedly.
Because he was the most eloquent and spoke the most logically.
And everyone was saying the same thing, so Huo Yushen only focused on listening to his speech.
After listening to it countless times, Huo Yushen suddenly reached out and tapped in the air, pressing the pause button on the virtual screen.
Huo Yushen began to repeat a sentence from the Mechanical Intelligence: "... Su Buyan is the great-great-great-grandfather of my inventor. He passed away three hundred years ago, and he left a will asking me to come and save you..."
With just this one sentence, Huo Yushen found a loophole.
Why was it that Su Buyan left a will, instructing this Mechanical Intelligence Mecha from five hundred years in the future to rescue this group of people? Wasn't it said that the inventor of this "Mechanical Intelligence Mecha" was Su Buyan's great-great-grandson? In other words, how could Su Buyan know that hundreds of years later, his descendant would be able to invent such a high-performance Mechanical Intelligence Mecha and be able to go to that place to rescue them?! Isn't this nonsense! This is the second update. There will be a new update at 12:05 tonight.
Tomorrow is the last day of July, I will update three chapters. I am grateful for all the Moon Ticket support from my dear readers!
PS: I have revised the previous two chapters. What fell out of the Wormhole at the end was a special knapsack, not a Mecha backpack. Thanks to the reader for the reminder!
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