Captain Ed, Kelly and others had been entangled with Second Officer Petrus and others for a long time after they destroyed the asteroid and saved a certain planet. And then, they even had to fight for it.

They gathered together a Moklan warship and headed to the planet Moklus and stopped in the orbit of the planet. It seemed that they were preparing to file a lawsuit with the Moklan over that matter?

Anne didn't pay attention to the specific situation, nor did she follow along.

Because, that Uncle Ed actually did what he said. When he arrived on the planet of Mokles, he downloaded and purchased a large collection of classic holographic simulation games through the quantum network covered by the Planetary Alliance on Mokles.

came back, and there were many of them that Anne was very interested in looking at.

So, for many days in a row, Annie was immersed in the entertainment room, missing all day, and no longer paying attention to the progress of the matter that Ed, Kelly and others were busy and arguing about.

And as helmsman Gordon once said, the members of the ship, from the captain to the ordinary crew members, often only have a rest period of one to a few hours a week when sailing, and there is no rest time.

There is so much leisure time for entertainment, but Annie is different. She has twenty-four hours of rest time every day, so she can play as long as she likes and play as much as she likes without worrying about other people's opinions.

Or feel.

Then……

Until one day, the idiot Uncle Ed, Aunt Kelly, Second Officer Bertus, Helmsman Gordon, Ship's Doctor Aunt Claire and the Alola girl finally returned together after disappearing for several days.

When the Orville boarded the Orville and set sail again to leave the planet Mocles, Annie realized that it seemed that she had accidentally missed something interesting?

"??"

(*ˉ?ˉ*;)

"Uncle Ed, what happened?"

(???.???)????

"Why do you look so unhappy all of you?"

(°ー°〃)

The day after the spacecraft started sailing again, Annie sneaked up to the bridge and asked the idiot Uncle Ed who was sitting in the captain's seat absentmindedly directing the crew to start work.

"Why are you all wilted and looking pitiful when you come back?"

く(＾_?)ゝ

"Yes or no……"

(゜-゜)

"Being bullied on that dirty planet?"

(??へ??╬)

If that's the case, Annie said that since the other party found so many fun classic games for her, she might be able to find a way to vent her anger on them?

Of course, if it's too much trouble, forget it. She just asked casually and had no other meaning.

(…)

(●￣?￣●)

"Bully?"

"That's not true!"

First, he looked at his ex-wife, first mate Kelly, who was also looking a bit unmotivated. After thinking that he was just idle now, Ed didn't have any other important tasks besides wandering around and drawing star maps. This didn't bother him.

He continued slowly:

"Annie..."

"Here's the thing."

"us……"

"We failed in our lawsuit!"

"In the end, Petrus and Kelden's newly hatched little daughter, of course, should now be a son?"

"Those guys finally sentenced her to undergo surgery."

"You really should have come with us then. Maybe you could have been of some help?"

Ed sat in his seat dully and suddenly sighed with some confusion, as if he was still regretting something.

"Help?"

(???.???)????

"Do you want to..."

(°ー°〃)

"Let people blow up the Moklan planet like they did against the Kalevens, and then force the Moklan people to surrender?"

(???)

After listening, Annie first looked at Aunt Kelly who was also in low spirits, and then suddenly asked with her eyes shining.

If Uncle Ed in front of her agreed, then of course she wouldn't mind making another trip and setting off one or two big firecrackers. Although, the last time, the Kaliwen people surrendered and the firecrackers she set off had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Contact?癙

(…)

(●￣?￣●)

"?!"

Hearing this, Kelly on the side was startled and almost slipped from the first mate's position.

"No!"

"don't want!"

"Annie, we don't want to at all!"

While she exclaimed and stopped, she also did not forget to glare angrily at Ed, who was not opening the pot and picking up which pot, and signaled Annie and Ed not to talk about that matter anymore.

After all, that has passed, and she has indeed tried her best. Now that everything has happened, there is no need to discuss it again.

"All right!"

"I take back what I just said, maybe you really shouldn't go!"

Ed slumped his shoulders helplessly and changed his mind again.

"oh……"

(??ˇεˇ??)癙

Pursing her lips, Annie thought for a moment before continuing to ask casually:

"If that's the case, isn't the medical technology on the spacecraft very advanced now?"

(ー`′ー)

"In the worst case, can't we just change back again?"

(′?︵?`)

Of course Anne had heard about the little Moklan girl who crawled out of the egg, but she didn't think it was anything. After all, the medical treatment in this world was already very advanced, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

"It's not that simple. Although it is indeed possible, but..."

"never mind!"

"It's better not to talk about that matter."

After a pause, Ed, who didn't know how to explain, waved his hands and sighed with a bitter smile:

"I have also taken a serious look at myself."

"Maybe……"

“We really can’t apply our own values ​​to others?”

"Every person and every race has different concepts, habits and beliefs."

"Some things may seem wrong to us, but others may not necessarily think so."

"If nothing else, just like us on Earth, over the past few hundred years, even if the Earth has been unified into a unified government, some people still celebrate the Spring Festival, some celebrate Christmas, and some celebrate Eid al-Fitr?"

"So, Annie, you..."

After finishing speaking, Ed just wanted to say something more.

"??"

However, he saw that the naughty little girl who seemed to be very interested in his topic just now had run over to the helmsman Gordon and was arguing with Gordon about something.

I didn't even listen carefully to what he said.

"Damn it!"

"That brat!

"

Seeing this, seeing that his sentiments were not taken seriously, or even not even listened to, Ed couldn't help but feel a little angry and angry.

"Ed!"

"okay."

"Don't let a kid like Annie get involved in that kind of thing."

"Say less!"

After patting Ed's shoulder affectionately, Kelly persuaded him with a smile.

Although the lawsuit they fought on the planet Moklos did fail in the end, at least they succeeded in creating a huge topic among the Moklan race. What can it develop in the future? Can it be possible?

To change some of the misconceptions of that stubborn single-sex race, it depends on the fate of the Moklan people themselves. Outsiders like them really cannot do more, otherwise it will easily cause diplomatic turmoil.

However, this time they did not gain anything from the lawsuit. At least, after this incident, the rift between her and Ed that was caused in the Calivian Zoo was finally repaired a lot.

Maybe that was an unexpected surprise.

At least in Kelly's opinion, the two people's values ​​​​are still consistent when it comes to certain things. It seems that she and Ed have not completely reached the point of no return?

"Everyone, please pay attention."

"Let's continue mapping the stars!"

"Our Orville is currently at the outermost edge of the Planet Alliance's activity area. Surveying and mapping is what our exploration ship should do!"

Then, Kelly, who didn't know why she suddenly felt happy, started yelling at the distracted crew members on the bridge.

Their Orville was originally a medium-sized exploration ship, and its main purpose was to explore the border airspace of the Planetary Alliance and draw new star maps. As for the previous Kallivan incident, the Maklan lawsuit and the rescue of the asteroid,

Planets and so on are not what they should do.

"clear!"

"As you command!"

"Okay, sir!"

Everyone responded one after another and began to nervously carry out the various tasks required to draw a star map, such as surveying, recording, analyzing and calculating orbits.

"..."

"There is nothing more annoying than mapping the stars."

“Looking at these data gives me a headache!”

"You also have to observe the trajectory of the planet and the various asteroid belts. A new galaxy will take at least half a month or even longer. It is really torturous."

"It's a boring job..."

However, the helmsman Gordon, who only liked sailing and taking risks, complained instead, as if he had no enthusiasm at all for the boring work of drawing star maps.

"??"

"stop!

"

"Hey!"

"Little Annie!"

"Can you please stop making trouble for me?"

"I've worked hard!"

However, what made Gordon, who was already somewhat negative, feel even more desperate was that there was actually a troublesome little girl next to him who was causing trouble for him. From time to time, the girl reached out and scratched randomly on his workbench, trying to make changes.

His data has increased his workload several times for nothing.

"Go! Go! Go!"

"Go find someone else!"

"Alola will welcome you!"

So, he wanted to instigate Annie to go aside and cause trouble for Alola.

"They didn't cause trouble!"

(????)

"Aren't they helping?"

(??ˇεˇ??)

Annie did not leave, but stared back with some dissatisfaction and annoyance.

Because she discovered that Gordon had just entered the wrong data on the orbit of a planet, causing the planet's actual orbit to deviate from the drawn orbit by about one billionth, and that slight deviation may lead to the inability to find it in the universe.

When we arrived at that planet, she was obviously helping to correct the mistakes, but where was the trouble?

"don't want!"

"Stop!"

Unfortunately, Gordon didn't buy it.

He just hurriedly stopped it, and soon the chaos spread to John and Alora on the side, so much so that when the second officer Petrus came to the bridge and what Captain Ed said to the other party, it was unclear.

I couldn't care less and listened.

In this way, everyone in the bridge was busy with their own work while dealing with Annie.

I don’t know how long it took...

"Captain!"

"I found a huge artificial object on the port side, about half a million kilometers away from the Orville."

At this moment, the robot Isaac spoke.

It seemed to have discovered something interesting during the mapping process, and then, after confirming that it was correct, it hurriedly reported it to Captain Ed who was secretly whispering something to Kelly.

"!

"

"Report!"

"I noticed that too."

"What the hell!"

"Annie, I asked you not to touch my console!"

"do not move!"

"I know how to do it!"

Helmsman Ed also discovered it. However, he was so angry that he finally pushed Annie to Alola. After there was no interference and damage, he finally had time to put something he discovered into Orville.

On the huge porthole of the ship.

However, because the distance was too far and there was no suitable light source in space, the Orville's radar could not see it very clearly. It only roughly projected the opponent's size and outline on the portholes.

"what is that?"

(°ー°〃)癙

"A ship..."

(^～^;)ゞ

"Battleship?!"

(???c)

Looking at the displayed shape of the 'artificial object', Anne couldn't help but feel a little strange.

She was now full and had nothing to do, so no matter what she found, she was very interested in joining in the fun.

"No!"

"There is no such big warship, and I have never heard of any race building such a big warship!"

"Even if it's a cargo ship, it shouldn't be that big!"

After Ed frowned for a while, he shook his head and denied Annie's groundless speculation.

"That shape..."

"It is definitely a man-made object!"

"Will it be a space station?"

"But I can't match a space station with a similar style to any race!"

"There are no records anywhere near our Star Alliance!"

After pushing Annie away and preventing Annie from tampering with her operating table, Alora quickly started operating and analyzing. Soon, she got the answer she wanted and reported it in surprise at the first time.

.

"okay!"

"No matter what it is, it's only half a million kilometers away. Let's fly there and take a look, can't we find out?"

"Let's go!"

"This is one of the missions of our exploration ship Orville!"

Seeing that none of the crew members had a reasonable explanation, Ed simply stopped making random guesses. Instead, he operated next to his captain's chair, sent an action log to the Planetary Alliance, and then ordered helmsman Ge.

Get on the steering wheel and let the Orville fly directly towards the place hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, ready to get closer to see what the hell it is.

"clear!"

"The Orville departs!"

"Start accelerating!"

Without Annie causing trouble on the side, Gordon's movements seemed much more agile, and he quickly completed the turn and began to speed towards the destination at a sub-light speed.

…

In less than two minutes, after slow acceleration and slow deceleration, the Orville successfully arrived not far from the target object, and quickly used various collapse instruments on the ship to scan and surround the huge object that lay in front of the Orville.

An artificial celestial body shaped like a steel space fortress!

"This!"

"God damn it!"

"What the hell is that?"

"Battleship?"

After seeing the appearance of that thing clearly, helmsman Gordon exclaimed again.

"Such a big battleship?"

"Who is crazy enough to build such a big warship and use it as a target?"

After seeing it clearly, Captain Ed, who was as well-informed as Captain Ed, couldn't help but stand up from his position and denied Gordon's words with exclamations.

"who knows?"

"Maybe it's really a space station?"

Kelly was also surprised by this and expressed her first judgment.

but……

Different from ordinary space stations, the huge thing in front of me that looks like a battleship but also looks like a space station is completely silent outside!

Not only did it have very little light, there was no movement from the engine. It even showed no reaction to the arrival of the Orville, just letting them approach and scan around it.

At the same time, what shocked everyone even more was that the advanced scanning equipment mounted on the Orville, the kind of advanced equipment specially designed to explore the stars and the universe, was unable to penetrate its thick shell?

then!

After some discussion and research, it was discovered that it was at least two to three thousand years old, and that the engine had lost power and was currently falling towards a star. Everyone who could not come to a conclusion decided to send a landing force.

Land on the 'artificial celestial body' that is not known to be a giant battleship or a space station, and try to dock it to find out what's going on.

"Going to play up there?"

Σ(°△°|||)︴

"Very good!"

?(?^o^?)?

"People are going too!

"

?*.?(ˊ▽ˋ*)??*.

When Anne heard that she was going on an adventure, of course she didn't even think about it. She just cheered and said that she wanted to occupy a spot and she would never miss out on such a good thing.

"Fine!"

"Count you in too!"

Ed originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought of Annie's fighting ability, he quickly compromised and did not say the word of refusal.

In Ed's opinion, with a powerful living treasure by his side, after boarding that strange big thing that seems to have been abandoned for countless years, at least everyone's safety can be more guaranteed?

"Pertus!"

"Then the Orville will be under your command!"

"By the way, let our chief medical officer Claire go to the shuttle lift platform to meet us!"

"Kelly!"

"Alola!"

"And Isaac, let's go!"

Then, without further ado, Ed quickly issued an order and named a few landing personnel, then quickly left outside the cockpit, preparing to land on the weird huge battleship himself.

"Set off!

"

-=????=?????(?)?

Of course Anne was the first to run out impatiently, and even ran at the front of the team, looking impatient.

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Chapter completed!