Chapter 202 The first task before the hunt
: "From now on, everything has to be decided by yourself. You are now a "ghost" and no longer responsible for us..." Anderson said after seeing Shepard's opinion that he wanted to ask him. His tone was both relieved and lonely.
Fortunately, Shepard fulfilled his dream that year and confirmed the ghost's position. What was lonely was that he himself retreated from his combat post. The new job arranged by Xinglian was the military officer of the embassy stationed in the castle, responsible for assisting Udian's work.
: "Yes, you are only responsible to the Godcastle Council now, but your behavior still reflects the overall image of human beings, the commander. If you mess it up, I will have to spend a lot of trouble for you to deal with the aftermath..."
The Human Ambassador reminded that from now on, Shepard's performance has been directly linked to his political future, so he urgently reminded Shepard not to embarrass him.
: "I will take care not to make your work more difficult as much as possible..." Sister Xue replied. Udian still put in a lot of effort in her appointment, and she said this sincerely.
: "Very good, please remember that you were already a human being long before you became a ghost..." The ambassador explained a few more precautions, and then said goodbye by himself. Leave Anderson to say goodbye to them.
: "What's your holiday with Saren, sir?" Seeing the ambassador walking away, Shepard asked Anderson like this. When she was in the parliament hall just now, she was surprised that Anderson and Saren seemed to know each other.
: "That was a long time ago, and now it has no meaning." Anderson sighed when he heard this. His holiday with Saren was his biggest failure and regret so far. So he didn't want to say it very much.
: "I'm going to set out to take down Saren, Anderson, that means I need to know everything about him." Shepard could tell Anderson didn't want to answer, but she had to know what the holiday between Anderson and Saren was.
Sallen is not a child playing house. Even now, Sallen's advantage is still huge. He has a whole fleet of Jess and his whereabouts are uncertain, so Shepard needs to do everything he can to understand her enemies.
: "Well, about 20 years ago, I was nominated as a ghost candidate by Star Alliance..." Anderson saw her say so. He also knew that he had to share his story with Shepard, so he began to tell the past between him and Saren.
It turned out that as early as 20 years ago, he was nominated as a candidate for the ghost by Star Alliance after a political incident. The person in charge of investigating his performance at that time was Salen.
At that time, Salon was not as famous as he is now, but he was already an experienced ghost. During the first contact battle, Salon lost a brother. Therefore, like many Touaregs, he still disliked humans after the two tribes achieved peace.
Anderson happened to be the fighting hero of Star Alliance in its first contact battle, so during the assessment, Saren framed him without any suspense, causing him to lose his ghost qualification that he was about to get...
This incident has always been regarded as a shame in his career by Anderson, and Star Alliance was also very embarrassed. So after that incident, Star Alliance covered up the news that his first ghost candidate failed, and Anderson did not mention it to anyone, even his most proud disciple Shepard.
After learning about the incident, Shepard chatted with Anderson for a few more words, and then she took Chen Chao and the others back to the Normandy.
: "Damn it, which bastard came up with this..." After returning to Normandy, Sister Xue immediately swears. She always thought that as long as she becomes a ghost, everything will go well. But now it seems that she still inadvertently hurt her old superior. When she was outside just now, she was holding back her anger...,
: "We need to discuss the next step, Commander." Chen Chao followed her to the captain's room and said, "This is Shepard's cabin now, and Anderson had already sorted out his things before they came back.
Normandy was originally a newly-developed warship, and Anderson commanded the warship for only half a month. So the captain's room still looks very neat now.
: "What are some good suggestions do you have?" Shepard took a few deep breaths to calm down, and then asked. After hearing those clues just now, she had a preliminary plan herself, but she also wanted to hear Chen Chao's opinions.
: "Our Marines are still dissatisfied. If we go back to the Big Arctic recruitment now, it will be another week. We can't afford to delay such time." Chen Chao said the time it takes to fix the line according to the current repeater.
The Castle controls all the mass effect repeaters that have been discovered. Now the Arctic repeaters are 6 relays from the Castle. In addition, sailing between different galaxies, it takes 4 to 5 days to arrive even at the Normandy speed.
This will waste precious time. Salen is already ahead of them. They need to act as soon as possible to have a chance to kill this legendary ghost.
: "Salon is not an easy interstellar pirate. We need a strong enough Marine to defeat him." Chen Chao said, thinking about several known high combat candidates currently in the God Castle.
: "You mean we are recruiting here?" Sister Xue frowned and looked at him. She had thought of doing this. There were teams of free mercenaries with prominent names on the castle.
However, that would cost a lot of money first, and she didn't know what financial support Xinglian gave her at the moment.
Secondly, the combat power of those mercenaries is usually very unreliable. Although there are those that can satisfy her, it is too few after all, and she doesn't know if she can recruit them in a short time.
In the end, the moral integrity of the free mercenaries was not at ease. It was okay for a few famous mercenary groups to say that they would not break the contract halfway, but she also suspected that these cowards would dare to follow her to join Salun.
Although she was disdainful, Shepard knew that Saren's name was not false. Although she was confident that she would burst Saren into Xiang in the battle, those free mercenaries would probably roll and crawl away when they heard that they were going to be with such legendary figures.
: "This is our only choice. This is a gathering place for all kinds of talents in the Milky Way. We will definitely find the right candidate." Chen Chao said confidently.
: "Then do you have any choice now?" Sister Xue has completely calmed down. While asking Chen Chao, she began to recall her experiences in the God Castle in the past two days.
: "Remember that Touareg? Gallas? I checked it. He is one of the best C-private C-C police officers in the God Castle, and he wants to arrest Saren almost as much as we do." Chen Chao first mentioned this character who is very popular in the game.
: "Well, he should be able to do it, is there any?" Sister Xue recalled the Touareg whom she met earlier. He had a pretty good impression of that Touareg.
: "The other one may be a little harder. I heard that the famous Krogan combat master "Lex of Ergeno" is now on the castle. He has been a mercenary for hundreds of years and is a rare Krogan psychic."
Chen Chao said that a candidate who is likely to be no less than Sister Xue’s combat power. Although the natural lifespan of the Krogans is very long, it is the second only to the Asari tribe among the known intelligent races.
But few Krogans can live safely for hundreds of years, because all the Krogans are fighting powerful warriors, and most of the Krogans spend their lives in battle, so few can live for so long...
: "A Krogan? How can we convince him to come with us?" Shepard had never heard of this name. After all, the famous warriors in the Milky Way were in a sea of sea, and with various conflicts one after another, she could not have known it all.
: "It's very simple. I heard that he was working for a shadow agent, and his mission was to kill an agent who betrayed the shadow agent. By the way, that agent was still chasing Talli."
: "Just just take that agent first, or invite him after Lex is finished, he is a Krogan and will not give up any challenging battles."
: "You are a mystery, Shen. I have read your file. You have never left the earth before. How do you know this?" Sister Xue said strangely when she heard this. She sat on the chair and looked at Shen Chao standing in front of him.
Even with the support of Xinglian's intelligence network, she still found that Chen Chao seemed to know a lot of things she didn't know, which confused her.
: "Everyone has some secrets. Commander, my intelligence source helped me find Talli, and it can also help us with the next task. As for how I got it, is it really important?" Chen Chao said and sat down.
After learning these days, he believed that Sister Xue was a pragmatist and would not voluntarily give up any useful information sources and support.
: "Okay, I'll let you go first, but if you want to get my recommendation after this mission, you have to tell me your real background..." Sister Xue decided not to investigate Chen Chao's information source for the time being. Just as Chen Chao said, they have more important things to deal with now.
: "There is one more thing. Corporal Chen Chao, a ghost candidate cannot hold the title of soldier. I will promote you to the second lieutenant now..." Sister Xue said as she took out an epaulette from her pocket. After a brief award ceremony, Chen Chao's rank was upgraded to the second lieutenant.
After the award, they went for lunch. Sister Xue arranged for them to recruit the two people mentioned by Chen Chao in the afternoon. However, the plan did not change quickly.
Just as they finished lunch and were about to go out to find Galas, a communications soldier rushed over and told them that there was a Touareg looking for Shepard. When they went out, they saw that it was Galas. He came here specifically to join Shepard's team so that they could hunt down Saren.
Seeing this, Chen Chao felt that the introduction he had given to Sister Xue was in vain. The person they were preparing to recruit actually came to apply for results... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
Chapter completed!