Of course they are not going directly to the administrative star of the Cass Federation.
A normal administrative star has a comprehensive defense system near the planet.
This colony is just a coordinate, a lighthouse, guiding them to the real secret base.
——An abandoned resource star in the same star system as the administrative star.
While Kolev explained various operations of the spacecraft to Yang Ming, he steadily avoided several slow patrol ships, dodged the mostly deserted defense detectors, and sailed into the synchronous orbit of the resource star.
After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, the pirate ship entered the resource star's thin atmosphere.
This planet is like a regular lump of ice. It is located outside the habitable zone of the star system and receives relatively little heat from the star.
When Yang Ming looked down, the ground was completely white.
"There is plenty of fresh water here, but the atmosphere is relatively thin."
Kolev introduced with a smile:
"This planet was not originally here. It should have been dragged here during the last civilization era as a companion star to the planet next door. However, the resources here have been drained, and there are only some huge holes left under the ice sheet.
"The planet next door is also very interesting, and I have a lot of assets on it. I'm pressed for time this time, so I won't take you to visit it."
Yang Ming yawned. The operating buttons in his eyes were like a group of flying little fish, attacking his retinas crazily.
He felt that he would need to get an injection of gene stabilizing fluid later.
Studying in class is more likely to cause anxiety than fighting.
"How long are we going to be here?" Yang Ming asked.
"We have brought enough supplies, and we can live here for three years without any problem," Kolev said with a smile. "But I can't let Kimo wait too long. I will stay for about three months to avoid the limelight and then leave."
Mimili asked: "Dad, is there anything I can do?"
"Happy, my child," Kolev said with a smile, "you just need to enjoy everything here. This is the fortress I have designed for the two of us for more than ten years. You will be surprised later! Guess I used it
What? Here’s a small portion of the wealth I’ve accumulated over half my life.”
Yang Ming suddenly became excited.
——Expectations of pirate wealth.
The pirate ship slowly sailed towards the fishbone-like ridge. Kolev firmly inserted the pirate ship into a canyon that was extremely difficult to detect. Yang Ming and others were required to put on bulky planetary exploration suits.
When the old crew members wanted to move supplies, Kolev just waved his hand: "Don't worry about it, come with me! There are many tireless workers here!"
The group left the pirate ship and slowly followed the ridge to the bottom of the canyon.
Kolev walked to the knife-like stone wall, lowered his head and tinkered for a while, and suddenly a two-meter by three-meter projection screen appeared in front of him.
This is a display interface, in which a piece of monitoring screen appears.
Yang Ming went to the back to take a look and praised: "It's much more spacious inside than a spaceship."
"Haha! Hanton! You want to know what I did here, right?" Kolev said excitedly.
"In no mood."
"No! Say what you want! My dear Chief Officer Hanton, I can give you the same management authority as my daughter!"
“The scenery here is really nice.”
Yang Ming looked calmly at the sky filled with auroras.
Mimili on the side couldn't help laughing.
After confirming again and again that this base had not been invaded, Kolev waited for a few more minutes before opening the base door.
Along with the roaring sound, the camouflaged ice stone layers on both sides slowly moved, revealing a diagonally downward passage.
Kolev and Yang Ming walked in the front, and everyone lined up and walked slowly downwards. After passing several rooms with a structure similar to a 'ship lock', they finally entered the front of the base, which was wide and resembled a large aircraft carrier hangar.
Two rows of robots with different shapes were neatly arranged, using their bodies with different structures and sizes, while making elegant bows, and then shouted in an electronically synthesized voice with more than fifty different voices:
"Welcome home master."
Yang Ming looked at these robots with low-level intelligence with great interest.
Half of them are maid and housekeeper-type humanoid omnics, and the rest are engineering-type omnics. There are still stone debris residues on the tracks, and they look like they have been running for a long time.
Kolev's old friends were completely stunned.
"Molly!" Kolev yelled, "You haven't come out to receive guests yet! Where did you go, Molly!"
"Here we come, Master."
A cold electronic synthesized sound suddenly sounded, and the light coming from all corners created a three-dimensional projection in front of Kolev.
This is a virtual character with a somewhat contradictory appearance.
She wore a professional skirt, stockings, and a pair of red-soled high heels, but her round face was as childish as a girl's, and she also wore a pair of square-rimmed glasses.
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Kolev, you have exposed your hobby."
"This guest, please do not slander my master."
Molly—this virtual image was speaking seriously, and the voice seemed to come directly from her mouth:
"When the master first set my appearance, the relevant hormone secretion in his body was no longer enough to make him have any interest in this aspect. He was already old enough."
"Molly! Shut up!" Kolev took off the helmet of the exploration suit and cursed through gritted teeth.
Molly whispered: "Good master, if I have caused you any loss of face because of my honesty, I feel deeply guilty."
"Reduce your poisonous tongue index by 20%, your nagging index by 50%, and your humor index by 50%! Damn it! Why did I give you so many boring parameters!"
Kolev bumped Yang Ming with his shoulder and cursed:
"Having this guy arguing with me has given me a headache. Now, some of your functions can be laid off!"
"Oh, this is such a joy... the setup is complete."
Molly's tone of voice changed slightly and became much more serious.
"Master, please set permissions for guests."
"Mimili, my only daughter, the inheritor of everything after my death," Kolev pointed at Mimili behind him, "Her authority is set to the highest level."
He lowered his voice and added: "Except for my property list, this can only be given to her after my death."
"Already set, second master."
Mimi Li raised her hand to her forehead, with a look of helplessness on her face: "Dad! I can survive without you!"
"But you will definitely not be as comfortable as you are under my care."
Kolev smiled proudly and pointed at Yang Ming:
"This guy has the same permissions as Mimi Li, but he is prohibited from entering the next residences of these ladies. Others have VIP permissions."
"It has been set that the third owner is prohibited from entering the ladies' room...but I cannot control those mechanical door locks that are not connected to the Internet."
"I just want you to keep an eye on him! Report to me at any time!"
"Okay, my old master."
Molly's virtual image took out a notebook, lowered its head and quickly recorded something.
Then she turned around and called her names. Two housekeeper robots and eight maid robots moved forward to help Yang Ming and his party take off their heavy planetary exploration suits; more than a dozen crawler robots left the base through a special passage on the other side and went to the pirate ship to carry supplies.
A few minutes later, everyone was sitting on the soft sofas on the left side of the main hall, drinking delicious drinks, listening to melodious music, and admiring the almost realistic landscape projection on the wall.
The old pirates kept lamenting the luxury here.
Yang Ming couldn't wait to walk around everywhere.
After the robots left, the front hall became a little empty.
The left side of the front hall is the entertainment area, and the right side is the work area. There are several workbenches, a row of black square chassis, and several highly integrated consoles.
The center of the front hall was empty. Yang Ming observed it carefully for a while and soon discovered something unusual.
This is a circular lifting device with a diameter of 20 meters, and there is also a hidden exit diagonally above it. Thinking of the terrain outside - the ridges arranged like fishbones, Yang Ming suddenly had some guesses.
"Kolev, there are escape boats and ejection acceleration tracks here, right?"
Yang Ming asked in surprise.
Kolev, who was showing off to his old buddies, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:
"A qualified pirate must always consider his options carefully. Since you are so interested, I will take you to Hanton first. This is just the tip of the iceberg."
Mimili asked: "Dad, you disappeared every once in a while. Is this why you came here?"
"Yes," Kolev said with a smile, "If I die in prison, you will get the information Molly gave you. This is my last gift to you, a self-circulating base."
Mimili's eyes were full of feelings, and she said guiltily: "I messed up."
"Cheer up," Kolev sighed, "Your Uncle Hanton is right, I see you through too many filters, but you don't have to worry at all, dad will help you take care of everything."
"But dad..."
"Let's go, I'll take you around first!"
Kolev did not give his daughter any more chance to speak, and walked shoulder to shoulder with Yang Ming toward the corridor on the far right.
Mimi Li's expression was a little gloomy.
"Master Mimili," Molly's shadow appeared at the side, "He loves you very much."
"Thanks."
"He loves you more than you know," Molly whispered.
Mimi Li shrugged, folded her arms and followed the two men in front of her, laughing in a low voice: "Looking at the situation now, he likes Uncle Hanton more."
Molly said: "It is actually very rare for an old man like your father, who has a weird temper and is sloppy, to find a friend who has the same temperament. It is a wonderful experience for him in his later years."
Mimi Li sneered and raised her eyebrows slightly at Molly.
They started having a pleasant chat.
…
Yang Ming learned the origin of this base from the old man.
When Kolev was planning all this, he spent a lot of money to acquire a supporting base system for the planetary transformation system, and spent more than ten years building the machine.
"Don't worry, I won't cause an omnic crisis. If no one comes here, this place will only continue to operate for twenty years."
Kolev smiled and said:
"Molly is the brains here. I put a bunch of patches in her brain so she looks silly. That's my masterpiece."
He turned to look at Mimili, whose attention was attracted by the ornaments, and whispered: "I usually call Molly my little daughter. In fact, when my wife and I planned to have a second child, we wanted to name it Mo."
Molly.”
"Mimi Li will be jealous," Yang Ming reminded with a smile, "You'd better treat Molly as a little housekeeper."
"Yes, that's it. Mimili is very much like her mother in this way."
Kolev paused, looked at the corridor to the side, and said with a smile: "Her mother's tomb is in front of her, and it will be mine in the future. I hope so."
Mimili had been attracted here by the road sign, and accompanied by Molly, she walked towards the tomb at the end of the corridor.
There is an indoor jungle inside.
Yang Ming leaned against the wall that projected the aquarium landscape, and looked at the backs of his two 'daughters' with Kolev.
Those old pirates have begun to visit this base on other routes.
Yang Ming asked slowly: "What are you going to do?"
"which aspect?"
"Kill Kimo."
"Follow me," Kolev subconsciously put his hands behind his back. This action was still influenced by Yang Ming, "Molly, cancel the monitoring of the two of us, and alert us if anyone approaches."
Molly's voice came from the wall: "Good master."
Kolev took Yang Ming around slowly, passing by the elegantly decorated residential area and entertainment room, and headed towards the sports field at the back of the base.
The old pirate analyzed carefully:
"The Black Dragon will not be monolithic now. Kimo was not originally my chosen successor. He was a captain and a captain. The other three captains have gaps with him. At least they will not obey as they appear.
"My appearance is equivalent to hitting these gaps with a hammer. The next thing to do is to wait, wait a little.
"It's Kimo who's anxious now.
"I want to choose one of the other three captains to instigate rebellion. I understand their nature. They are all pirates I trained. This is the basis for my confrontation with Kimo.
"And, Hanton, I need your help."
"Get rid of Kimo?" Yang Ming smiled, "I need an assault boat, or let me be in the same room with him."
Kolev smiled and patted Yang Ming's arm, and said warmly: "Although I didn't mean to say this, this is a deal. I asked you to help me with my daughter, so I should give you adequate compensation."
He paused and pressed a few times on one side of the wall. The metal wall slowly rose, revealing a transparent glass wall.
And a giant hangar behind a glass wall.
A clamp-shaped medium-sized ship is lying quietly in the hangar. Next to it are some movable high stands and a dozen crawler robots busy everywhere.
"This is your reward. I'll transfer it to you at a very low price, just... one million federal credits, and you can pay it in installments. How about that?"
Kolev smiled like a profiteer.
"Oh, just one million?"
Yang Ming couldn't look away for a moment: "Are you serious?"