Chapter 1,448 Ghost Ship Accident

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"Wait, you just said you hit a ghost ship?!" I interrupted the nagging herbaceous plant. The latter seemed to be frightened by my sudden loud voice, and the leaves all over its body trembled vigorously. , and then the sharp sound came out from the mechanical device under its stalk again: "Yes, ghost ship, isn't this news aroused? You must have heard of it in Shadow City, right? Out-of-control imperial warships are wandering everywhere. Something like that, quite a few people saw it - but we were probably the only ones unlucky enough to hit it.”

Now even Sandora became serious. She touched the leaves of the "Mimosa" plant and said, "Did you 'bump' into it? Wasn't it because of a firefight or some other conflict? What happened at that time?"

"Ah, do the urban management and sub-district offices in Shadow City still care about this?" Mimosa swayed and jumped around uneasily, "You are really responsible and much more humane than I thought. In fact, the spacecraft docked at the port for maintenance the day before yesterday. At that time, our boss had already made an accident report to the Space-Time Management Center, but since you also want to know, let me tell you, I am the navigator monitor of the spacecraft, and I happen to know more."

The plant twisted its body as if it was planning to give a long speech, and then it/she/he spoke: "Our Lin Jing caravan is a large caravan, and those who carry some luggage in the carry-on space are in the hub square. The people who run around doing small business through the boundary gate are different. We use a large cargo ship to do business, and it is a good ship. Our boss spent a lot of money to buy retired military products from the New Eden Federation. It is said that one-fifth of the components are made by the Empire, and that thing runs really fast..."

"Let's get to the point!" Sandora and I shouted in unison.

Mimosa trembled: "Okay, okay, let's talk about the main point. In short, we have a large cargo ship. Before, we have been running short-term trade in several jump zones in the macro world. Recently, there is a Feiyali Void. A consortium? This consortium is recruiting many caravans to organize a larger trade network, and our boss is thinking about it. A few days ago, he imported a batch of heavy elements from the Kaibola III star cluster and plans to come to the Void Consortium to discuss cooperation. Our Because the merchant ship is a retired military product and has its own cross-world engine, it did not go through the large civilian world gates set up on fixed routes. Instead, it applied for a free route in accordance with the regulations. The accident happened on this free route - encountered The ghost ships are all free-route spaceships! We set off from Kaibola III, transferred to the Otimion Three Realms Alliance, and signed at the Grand Cross Skyhorn Void Station to transfer..."

Sandora and I couldn't help it anymore: "Let's get to the point!"

Mimosa trembled again: "Then it hit the ghost ship."

I bumped my head against my fist: Why is this green plant so sad when talking than Sylvia: "Now we can talk about the details!"

"You guys are really weird. You have to distinguish between different bit rates when transmitting information to the outside world. My thinking transcoder is overloaded." He jumped twice on the ground to express his dissatisfaction before continuing, "We started from the Grand Cross Sky Point Void The station tickets were transferred to the Galactic Civilization Community, where one stop would lead to the imperial capital. Everyone relaxed a little, and the boss suggested relaxing, so we all jumped off the workbench and ran to the rest pit to water ourselves. The water was exposed to simulated sunlight. Lin Jing liked this the most - and then the ghost ship suddenly appeared only a dozen kilometers in front of our merchant ship: It was definitely the largest spacecraft I had ever seen. It looked like A space city."

"So when the ghost ship appeared, all the control desks of the spacecraft were empty..." I stared at the plant dumbfounded, "Don't you have operating procedures or anything like that?"

"Yes, there is only one rule: don't splash on the equipment when watering yourself," Mimosa shrank its leaves, "Forest elves are a romantic and free race... and we have a gift: a mechanical body that lives with us. It can be guaranteed that the Lin Jing will not make too many mistakes.”

I looked at the mechanical components under the opponent's roots: "This thing can't stop you from watering and basking in the sun while the spacecraft is sailing."

"This is a survival behavior. The judgment of mechanical components in this area is relatively weak," Mimosa swayed. "In short, we couldn't control the ghost ship when it appeared, but everyone saw the spectacular scene on the monitor in the rest pit. Something. Screams resounded through all the rest pits, and more than half of the forest elves dug frantically to bury themselves. I saw the boss trying to use voice control to remind the spacecraft to avoid it, but he was too stuttering. But in the end, the ship on the spacecraft The shipboard host finally came into play: it was indeed a retired military product. When the collision was about to happen, the shipboard host forcibly activated a hidden safety protocol and took over most of the spacecraft's equipment - that is, except for our greenhouse and solar simulator. With all the equipment outside, the spacecraft swayed at a very sharp angle, and the second half of the cargo bay and an auxiliary engine hit the protrusions on the edge of the ghost ship hard. Oh, that was so powerful that the hull shook as if it was about to disintegrate. In the same way, two unlucky guys and I were thrown out of the rest pit and hit the sunlight simulator. The photosensitive visual components were burned out at that time. But anyway, we escaped, although the cost was a bit high: the rear half of the spacecraft The section was knocked to pieces, the cargo compartment was gone, and an engine was lost. However, the reliable passage control device and the self-repairing drone blocked all the loopholes. In this way, no one died at last. The injured thankfully survived. Just stay alive. In the next two days, the boss has been trying to drown his sorrows. Our beautiful "Grass and Trees Ark" came to Shadow City in a tattered appearance like a poor drifting boat, and lay in the repair dock that afternoon. The only good news here is that the goblin insurance company covers accidental damage caused by the collision of the ghost ship - luckily those green-skinned profiteers didn't know that we were all sunbathing in the rest pit when the ship hit."

This forest elf liked to talk quite a lot. Although it was a bit nagging, it told the entire ghost ship collision incident vividly and vividly. We knew what happened to this unfortunate plane crash, and by the way, we also found out that herbs also have the habit of cheating insurance...

However, considering that this unlucky caravan may have almost lost its capital this time. And those goblin profiteers who run insurance companies across the world are very wealthy anyway, so I decided to pretend that I didn’t hear the last two sentences of him/her/him.

"So your collision was completely a suicide attempt," I rubbed my chin in thought, "This still makes it impossible to determine the behavior pattern of the ghost ship. It never actively did anything from the beginning to the end."

Although I can't be sure of the ghost ship's behavior, I'm sure of one thing: it appears to be a real thing.

Before, I was 99% convinced and 1% skeptical about this rumored ghost ship, but now a victim who had just suffered an air crash was in front of me, and the ghost ship thing He really didn’t run away.

"What about that? Are you done with the investigation and evidence collection?" Mimosa saw that no one had spoken to us for a long time, so she couldn't help but said, "If you can, can you help me? Send me to the nearest teleportation point, and I'll go back to the hotel... That bunch of heartless people don’t even know if someone is left behind.”

I looked at the short mechanical legs under this herbaceous plant. Although those little claws are not as fast as humans, they should be able to run a distance of several hundred meters. Why is it/she/he so lazy?

"We are plants after all," Mimosa said, swaying its leaves after hearing my doubts. "The forest spirits don't like to walk long distances. We prefer to be planted in the soil. And walking consumes a lot of energy, and it's night again." What do you want me to do without even the sun?"

I shrugged, grabbed this strange new citizen (or called a new tourist? Lin Jing probably hasn’t registered as a permanent resident of Shadow City yet), and walked with Sandora to the civilian teleportation point on the street, hoping that Ling and Sylvia squatted nearby and studied Tu Ke La for a long time. At this time, they saw that we were about to leave, so they hurriedly followed.

oh. It was Xiling who hurriedly followed, and she grabbed Sylvia who had not yet reacted.

There are civilian teleporters on every street and in all high-traffic areas of Shadow City. This thick silver-white cylinder looks like a trash can at the intersection (don’t complain about this metaphor, it really does). It adopts multiple interaction modes and accepts thinking input at most frequencies. It can be used by all residents of Shadow City. I Enter the teleportation destination according to the hotel that Lin Jing said, and then everyone retreated outside the teleportation area, watching the mimosa plant gradually enveloped by a distorted light curtain. At this time, Sylvia seemed to suddenly react, facing the person who was about to teleport. Lin Jing waved as he left: "Oh, hello, Mr. Lin Jing, my name is Sylvia..."

Everyone: "..." Such reaction speed!

The mimosa plant vigorously moved its branches and left its last words: "We forest spirits are hermaphroditic plants!"

This time I finally know how to call Mimosa. It's not polite to call it Mimosa, so let's call him...

After the mimosa disappeared in a beam of teleportation light, Sandora held her chin and spoke thoughtfully: "Arjun, what do you think of this ghost ship?"

"It's always a trouble," I thought for a while. "After all, it might be something left over from the old empire, or an out-of-control military unit. It's okay if it appears on the route. What if it suddenly appears over a colony at any time? It would be fun. That's a lot. And based on experience... anything that can survive the disaster of the old empire and continue to this day must be more or less special, and that thing is quite concerning."

"Actually, I have also been paying attention to the ghost ship these days when you have been out. In the past few days, there have been four or five more sighting reports." Shandora looked up at the deep night sky. "By the way, I asked Xiaoxue to blur it a few times." The prophecy... Although there is no direct prediction result, Xiaoxue seems to have some connection with the ship she saw."

I was suddenly surprised: "Is it still in contact with you? Could it be something that belonged to you back then?"

After the collapse of the old empire, the Fifteen Days District was the most intact. Although Sandora also survived, her remaining power was only her own bodyguards and the revenge fleet that was later reassembled, the "War Song Princess" The universes that were once ruled were basically torn apart, and the armies and fortresses that were once placed in those worlds certainly did not survive. But over the years, we have continued to discover the remaining relics of the old empire. They come from various heavens. They are all things that escaped with the fragments of the world or the leakage of matter in the universe after the collapse of the old empire. Naturally, this also includes Sandora’s former heaven. relic. If the ghost ship is such a relic, it really must be recycled.

"Not sure yet." Sandora shook her head, "I don't remember that I ordered the construction of that type of spaceship, and there is no sign of the Revenge Army on the ghost ship - we have all seen the ghost ship. Pictures, I don’t think that’s my thing.”

We were talking about the ghost ship when Sylvia suddenly yawned and stretched: "Yawn - I want to sleep - you guys talk slowly -"

Sylvia was always distracted while Shandora and I were talking. At this time, I don’t know how many circles her head went around, and she finally got trapped. But I looked up at the moon in the sky. . When he realized that the current time was just after eight o'clock, he suddenly became curious: "Why do you go to bed so early every day? It's only less than half past eight."

"Bellavilla's activities consume energy," Sylvia became confused at a speed visible to the naked eye, and couldn't open her eyes at this time. "She has been helping Alleria build the Star Shaping Pool for the past two days, so I... …Huhu——”

Then this magical silver-furred mole fell asleep standing up!

I looked with admiration at this slow-witted girl who could sleep standing up, and at the same time I was a little moved by the diligence of her and Bella Vera (although it was mainly Bella Vera who was diligent. But Sylvia was also responsible for giving Bella Vera was cooking), and then together with Xi Ling, they sent this confused and unsuspecting guy back to her small shop and home. It was indeed getting late at this time, and Sandora and I spent a little more time walking outside than planned, so we said goodbye to Xi Ling and went home.

When I got home and entered the living room, the first thing I saw was the Firefox browser in the center of the room next to the sofa...the combination of a fox pressing a ball. Bingtis pushed the replica artifact into the living room, and fixed it with a ring of temporary brackets underneath. And that idiot fox was lying on the ball on the ground pretending that she could connect to the Internet. Of course she was awake at this time, and she was crunching potato chips while watching Korean dramas with the little doll - you see Look at the taste of these two, my daughter is almost being led astray by a cheap fox!

"These two have been secretly in love for more than thirty episodes. Humans are so stupid." The little doll grabbed the remote control that was a bit too big for her. While watching TV and making comments, the fox next to him shook his tail: "Yeah. It's so stupid. Human love is too troublesome. How can it be convenient for animals."

I went up and switched the TV to the animal world, then pulled the fox's ears: "Can I let you watch porn movies now?"

The fox's face immediately turned red, and its nine tails slapped my back like a hot wheel: "Why are you so naughty? I have become an immortal, and now I am a human..." At this time, she happened to see a jaguar playing on TV. The estrus cycle, he quickly covered his face: "Ah! Cats are really not ashamed..."

Me: "..." This fox is basically useless. Does anyone have any objection?

"Idiot, are the snacks for me?" The little doll climbed on the back of the sofa and originally wanted to grab the TV remote control. However, it first saw the snack bag I was carrying in my other hand, and its eyes suddenly lit up. Before it fell, he grabbed the handbag and picked up what he liked. Although I have said it before, I still want to say it again: How does this doll digest food?

In fact, I have always wanted to ask: If she eats so much greasy puffed food, will the clockwork really not rust?

I looked around the living room to find Bingtis. Usually at this time, the female gangster would randomly play poker with certain people from the five-person group of protoss gangsters, but this time I looked around and didn't see her. The poker player There are indeed some guys: Monina and Yilsin are teaming up to bully Lin, and Uncle Kenser is standing by and nodding and saying something good no matter who plays the cards.

"Where is the gangster leader?" I said while pointing at the Firefox browser. "She left the artifact here and ignored it? This fox is almost using the artifact as a bed."

Ding Dong came out from nowhere, landed on my shoulder and shouted softly: "She was in Medivh's room, teaching the crow how to maintain its wings. She put this artifact Gave it to the fox..."

Me: "...Is it really okay to use such an important thing as a toy for this idiot?!"

The fox slapped my back twice with its tail in protest, but it didn't hurt or itch.

"Anyway, I can't understand what's going on. It's better to give it to the fox and let her play with it as she pleases - Bingtis said so." Dingdang slipped into my pocket with unusual agility, "The fox seems to like it very much." What does this ball look like? And what is Firefox?”

I chuckled twice, thinking that the three minutes of the female gangster's passion ended immediately: in the afternoon she vowed to decipher the secret hidden in the artifact.

Sandora seemed a little worried. She looked at the big ball that emitted a faint golden light and frowned slightly: "I don't know how long it will take for the Gods to read out the contents stored in the artifact."

"Even Father God has forgotten what the original reading rules and equipment were like." I shook my head. "Then we can only place our hope on the experts and scholars of the Protoss. But at least there is good news: the artifact is with us We have clues to our home world in our hands, and the fallen apostles are completely backward and kept in the dark in this regard."

Sandora's frown finally relaxed and she nodded slowly.

I looked at the golden ball thoughtfully. This ancient relic that is as old as my home world and may be in the same era as the catastrophe in my home world must have recorded something more than just a coordinate. It also recorded I don’t know if it was an illusion about the situation of my home world and many surrounding universes at that time. I always felt that there was something strange about the abyss gate that destroyed my home world. So what was recorded by this artifact...

Can this mystery be solved? (To be continued...)