Chapter 556: Rescue_1

Jiang Que was somewhat surprised, "More than eighty years ago, what was the name of your, sorry, what is your world called?"

It was only in the recent half-century that independent high-level intelligent robots emerged in the Solar System State. Could the technology of Old Qin's world really be thirty years ahead of the Solar System State?

"It's called the Kindling Star System, meaning the ember of revenge was left." Old Qin answered.

Jiang Que nodded without much concern for the phrase "ember of revenge," "Is the technology of the Kindling Star System so advanced? Eighty years ago you could already make a robot of your level?"

Old Qin said, "The tech advisor on the Q-07 Battleship once served as an assistant to Master Jiang Sixteen.

"After the Pioneers arrived in the Kindling Star System, due to a shortage of population and production capacity, they used relatively advanced technology of the time to create a large number of intelligent robots to work for humanity.

"Right after arriving in the new star system, a technological explosion occurred in the Kindling Star System, and the robot technology quickly made significant breakthroughs.

"However, because there were too few scientific researchers, the technological explosion was only focused on intelligent systems.

"To my knowledge, even now the nuclear engines of the Kindling Star System are far less advanced than those of the Solar System State, and they don't even have the most basic concept for matter stream engines.

"The Kindling Star System coincidentally acquired the technology for a curvature engine, but to this day, they still don't have the technology to manufacture large curvature spaceships."

Jiang Que sighed with relief, "I see."

With such weak foundational science and technology in the Kindling Star System, if there were a direct confrontation, they would definitely not be a match for the Solar System State.

Jiang Que asked again, "What was your mission when you went to the Solar System Federation?"

Old Qin did not hide anything, "At that time, we were ordered to try to contact the upper echelons of the Solar System Federation, hoping to cooperate with them against the Solar System State."

"Did the Solar System Federation agree? Did anyone know you were envoys from the Kindling Star System?"

Old Qin smiled and shook his head, "We had just infiltrated and hadn't had time to contact any of the high-level officials.

"The Space City of the federation is easy to blend into. All one needs is to hack their registration system and fabricate an identity for themselves, but it's not easy to meet those so-called big shots within the federation.

"The situation is different in the Solar System State. First of all, it's very hard to infiltrate their intelligent systems, and even if you can infiltrate, it's easy to leave traces."

Jiang Que said "oh," "So all along, you only had three accomplices?"

"Next, we will infiltrate on a large scale." Old Qin did not directly answer Jiang Que's question. He said, "The Kindling Star System has devised the 'Trojan Plan.'

"I have uploaded all the information about the people I've been in contact with over the years, and on the Kindling Star System side, they have already started to create intelligent robots to replace these people based on this information.

"They will use these robots to take the place of the Solar System State residents who have been in contact with me. In time they will contact more people, and they can replace even more individuals."

Jiang Que gaped, never expecting the Kindling Star System to have such a sinister plan!

She then realized, "Exposing the Enbo Star System and my abduction were just diversions to shift the Solar System State's attention, creating conditions to implement your 'Trojan Plan'!"

Old Qin neither denied nor confirmed.

Jiang Que was worried—the "Trojan Plan" might already be underway!

But there was a huge flaw in the plan, "You should have steel skeletons. How come nothing was detected during security checks when riding transportation devices?"

"Yes, we almost gave ourselves away because of that." Old Qin said, "Fortunately, we went to the Solar System Federation first. During the subsequent lightspeed travel, we had time to obtain some intel on the Solar System State.

"The mechanisms of ordinary security systems are actually quite simple, and with just a signal modulator, one could tamper with their detection results."

Jiang Que pondered, "Since you've already made contact with the Kindling Star System, you must know the location of the New Continent Star System. Why didn't you broadcast the position of the New Continent Star System to the universe first, but instead broadcasted the position of the Enbo Star System?"

Old Qin responded, "Actually, we don't know the exact location of the New Continent Star System. The Solar System State has always been very cautious about the residents of the Former Solar System Federation."

"Our contact with the Kindling Star System only allowed us to determine a general location of the New Continent Star System."

"Just like the initial communications between Earth and the Trisolarans, when the Trisolarans received the first signal, they could only determine the general direction of the signal."

"It was only because of subsequent reply signals, and the close distance between the Solar System and the Three-Body Star System, that the Trisolarans were able to pinpoint the origin of the signal."

"But if the distance is over a dozen light-years, it becomes difficult to locate the precise position."

Jiang Que breathed a sigh of relief, "So that means the Trojan Plan hasn't started yet."

Old Qin just slightly smiled without answering the question.

Jiang Que also realized that Old Qin seemed too easy to talk to. Although she was not yet out of danger, whatever she asked, it would answer, "What, what is the purpose of abducting me?"

After learning the information about the Kindling Star System, Jiang Que had thought that Old Qin kidnapped her to threaten the Solar System State.

But the intelligence about "the Trojan Plan" made Jiang Que realize that the act of kidnapping her was entirely superfluous.

The Dark Forest Strike on the Enbo Star System was enough to attract attention, and it would also completely baffle the Solar System State.

The entire "Trojan Plan" seemed to be an extra step—since the Kindling Star System didn't know the exact location of the New Continent Star System, how did they plan to proceed with the plan?

And if they knew the location of the New Continent Star System, why bother with such a plan at all? Why not simply broadcast the location of the New Continent Star System?

Old Qin mysteriously smiled, "You guess."

At that moment, Jiang Que shivered suddenly because she acutely sensed that Old Qin at this time was a living person, not a robot.

A thought immediately flashed through her mind: This kidnapping is far from as simple as it seems on the surface!

Because the person behind the planning of the kidnapping was not simple.

At that time, Xiao Zheng came back and said to Old Qin, "I've checked it. It should be similar to what we expected."

Suddenly, Old Qin asked, "Do you regret it?"

Xiao Zheng smiled, "Of course not."

Old Qin nodded, "Let's go."

He took Jiang Que down from the airship and headed towards the cabin up ahead.

Perhaps Old Qin had already determined that Jiang Que had nowhere to run, so he let go of her and allowed her to follow behind.

They passed through the passenger cabin and went towards the cockpit.

Between the cockpit and the passenger cabin was a not-too-long corridor with smooth steel walls on both sides.

When the three people reached the middle of the corridor, a small door on the steel wall suddenly opened, and a hand shot out and dragged Jiang Que inside.

The event happened so suddenly and since there was no room there, even robots like Old Qin and Xiao Zheng were caught off guard by the rescue operation.

Then, several armed robots burst out of the small door and, without hesitation, dismembered Old Qin and Xiao Zheng with laser cutters.