Chapter 1,452 Strange Ghost Ship

Tens of thousands of transition jamming devices released by the fleet are distributed around the red dwarf star. Once they are activated, the area around this hot, high-density gaseous star will become a huge trap zone, and the gravity will deflect to tens of thousands of different coordinates. point, the space readings will vibrate violently. In this case, all the jump equipment will be unable to start because it cannot locate itself. This jamming array can even trap a flagship like the Imperial Admiral to deal with the ghost ship. Boats are of course not to mention.

However, this interference array must be activated after the ghost ship enters this space. According to Xiaoxue's prediction, we only have three seconds to activate the interference array. In order to ensure that no accidents occur within these three seconds, we specially A mass-produced host is brought to serve as the data link center: its powerful performance can ensure that the entire system starts up synchronously without any accidents.

Xiaoxue's prediction was very accurate this time. At the moment when the countdown reached zero, the ghost ship arrived as promised: and appeared exactly at the point where it was supposed to appear.

When the huge ship arrived at the encirclement in a burst of distorted light, all the sensors reacted instantly, and information about the target spacecraft's orientation, size, energy response and other information was uploaded to the mass production machine on the No. 1 engineering ship within milliseconds. The host was processed and processed. Then, under the unified control of the mass-produced host, the gravity well array was turned on, the transition blocker was turned on and reinforced, and the tracking probe began to rush towards the ghost ship and take root on its surface - the whole process only took a few minutes. By the time it was completed in one second, the out-of-control warship that had frightened people all over the world was completely under control.

Our whole family was watching this scene from the upper platform of the No. 1 Engineering Ship, from the ghost ship appearing out of thin air, to the rapidly soaring amount of data in the information link, to those firefly-like probes rushing out from under our feet and flying towards Goal, everything is accomplished in a blink of an eye. I didn't even react. It wasn't until the huge and broken starship floated lifelessly in front of me more than ten kilometers away, and the "Operation Successful" report came from the information link, that I was sure that the ship had finally been taken over. Caught.

Xiaoxue was standing next to me, and I couldn't help but reach out and pat her on the head: "Okay, girl. The calculation is pretty accurate this time."

The naughty kid king had a proud smile on his face, but he tried hard to pretend that he was calm: "This is all trivial. After all, I am also a prophet... Hey, dad, don't rub my hair, I am no longer a child. Got it!"

I chuckled and observed the spaceship more than ten kilometers away with Sandora and others: just as the information said, this ancient and dilapidated starship was huge in scale. Although it is no longer complete, the remaining parts are still dozens of kilometers long. In addition to the normal protruding components on the main body of the spacecraft, there are also a large number of damages and distortions caused by age and external impacts. Those parts are mottled off or The huge armor plates are folded and raised into space, making the silhouette of this ghost ship look like a series of mountains floating in space. The dim light of the nearby red dwarf star shone on the broken armor belt, making the surface of the ghost ship glow with a dark red glow... It was reminiscent of bloodstains.

I paid special attention to the front end of the spacecraft: This spacecraft looks somewhat similar in structure to the Eternal-class battleship, so its front end should be the weapons section, but now there is only a huge uneven fracture zone and twisted armor left there. Plates and entangled internal components poked out from the fracture zone, just like blood vessels and bones bursting out from the front end of a severed limb. Such tragic damage makes people wonder: What happened to this ancient spaceship What kind of incident led to this? How did it escape from such a dangerous situation?

"It's so miserable..." Sandora was also a little stunned. Although we have seen audio and video data of the ghost ship in a large number of sighting reports, seeing a few pictures is different from seeing it with our own eyes, and those pictures taken in a hurry can rarely record all the details of the ghost ship clearly. Yes, now that the ship is in front of us, we realize that it is worse than previously expected. Sandora even had a confused look on her face: "Look at the damage to its front section, it is a fatal injury. If the ship is It became like this after encountering a battle, so there is no reason for it to survive. The energy response of this ship is extremely weak, and my radar shows that it is almost at a shutdown state internally. I can't believe that its order field can still be activated, and Supported by floating in the void until now...where is the test report?"

Shandora's last words were addressed to the engineering ship's mainframe. After the ghost ship was captured, the engineering mothership sent a large number of detectors and engineering sub-machine to check the opponent's situation. Several days had passed by this time. minute. It's almost time for the rough scan report to come out.

The straightforward voice of the shipboard host sounded in everyone's mind: "Appearance scan: 26% devastating damage, 30% serious damage, and all remaining parts are slightly damaged. Surface functional scan: outer layer of the target spacecraft All components were shut down, and no activated equipment was found. It was initially determined that the combat effectiveness was completely lost. Deep functional scan: the jump engine and void engine of the target spacecraft can still be used, and have been suppressed. The remaining systems have weak energy responses, and are initially determined to be dormant. Status or malfunction shutdown. Core scan: No scan conclusion. There is an interference zone inside the spacecraft. The core area may still be operating. It is recommended to conduct in-depth inspection."

"Is there any life reaction?" Lilina suddenly jumped out and asked - before that, she had been busy squatting on the ground playing backgammon with Little Crow. I didn't expect that this girl was also concerned about business.

The shipboard host was silent for a moment this time, probably because he was busy communicating with the detectors sent out, and then replied: "No life reaction was found, and the possibility of life forms in the core area cannot be ruled out."

"What do you feel?" I asked curiously when I discovered that Lilina had switched to the demigod form, that is, the elf state with blond hair and green eyes.

"I don't know if it's an illusion," Lilina blinked, "I always feel that there are living creatures on that ship... Goddess, listen to your followers' requests and show the truth to your followers!"

This fake loli pretended to pray, and Dingdang immediately came out of my pocket. The little thing rubbed his eyes and shouted softly: "I heard it, I heard it. There is no need to send text messages when I am right next to you." Well, why are you so polite to Dingdang..."

I looked at the master and servant who didn't leave very speechlessly. He reached out and poked Ding Dong's head: "Getting down to business: The ghost ship is right there. Lilina said there seems to be a living person inside, but our remote detector is blocked by the barrier in the core area. Take a look at the situation."

Ding Dong might have just woken up, she rubbed her eyes and looked at the spaceship. The first reaction was to say: "Ah! This spaceship is really broken!" Then I remembered to do business. The little boy was mumbling something, gesticulating in the air with his little arms and hands for a long time, and finally he grabbed my clothes and shook me hard. Two clicks: "There may or may not be... there is really a barrier inside. His intuition told Dingdang that there should be living people inside, but the barrier completely blocked the breath of life."

Lilina said this just now. Now that even Ding Dong said this, I suddenly realized that the situation was delicate: it seemed that the interference barrier in the core area of ​​the spacecraft was not an ordinary starship core protective layer. It could even interfere with the perception of the goddess of life. This must be a targeted device. !

"This ship should be specially made. Xiaoxue is right. It has something special." Sandora frowned and looked at the ghost ship, then connected with the forward reconnaissance team, "Have you found the entrance to the ship? What's going on inside? How about it?"

The person in charge of the reconnaissance force immediately heard back: "The gate to the spacecraft has been found, but all normal passages are locked. We are trying to cut a crack through the armor fracture zone next to it... The rechargeable armor of the spacecraft only has weak power, and it is very difficult to Easy to cut.”

Of course it is easy to cut, let alone cut. Lin Jing could knock the ghost ship into pieces by ramming it with a merchant ship: it is a miracle that this spacecraft can survive to this day without disintegrating.

Seeing the expression on Sandora's face, I knew what she was planning, so I took the initiative to contact the reconnaissance team: "After opening the entrance, just stay where you are and we'll go there in person."

The entire empire has become accustomed to the style of the head of state and his family swaying themselves, and this is not a high-risk operation, so the person in charge of the reconnaissance unit did not hesitate at all and accepted the order happily.

"Who is going to follow?" Shandora and I turned to the big family behind us at the same time and said, but there were very few people who responded. Even Qian Qian, who would join in the fun, and Xiao Xue, who was worried about the world being in chaos, remained silent this time. , I looked at the two big naughty children curiously, and slightly stuck out my tongue: "That ship is too ugly..." Xiaoxue followed closely and nodded: "On the top floor."

Me: "..." Okay. It's Qianqian anyway, nothing she does should be surprising.

Finally Lilina stood up: "Boss, I will go with you, I am the bioradar."

A little head immediately popped out of my pocket: "Ding Dong too!"

I took Lilina to my side and said, "Okay, you two can control each other."

At this time, I felt someone tugging at the corner of my clothes again, and turned around to look. Medivh was standing behind her. This stupid bird was full of excitement and said to me happily: "Gah!"

I no longer want to correct this stupid bird that she is not a duck but a crow.

Although I don’t know what kind of help this stupid bird can do by following me, the little crow is known as the crow god, so I should let her see more of the world, so I nodded. So in the end, in addition to herself and Sandora, the ones who set off together were Lilina and a stupid bird. By the way, they also brought a Dingdang whose intelligence was around circle nine. The rest of the family was affected by the tattered ghost ship. The appearance spoiled the mood, and those guys who were worried about the world being in chaos actually stayed behind to look after the house this time...

A group of people quickly arrived at the lower armor belt of the ghost ship. There is an entrance and exit that can enter the interior of the ship. The reconnaissance team set up a small floating outpost next to the entrance. We took over with the leader of the reconnaissance team to understand After checking the passage situation, the tall and thin imperial soldier pointed at the alloy barrier dozens of meters away: "The normal gate is completely locked. That is a reinforced gate. It will take a lot of time to open it. We have already scanned the gate. As for the passage at the back, an inclined shaft is being drilled in the connecting groove between the armor belt and the structural plate, you see, it is over there."

I looked in the direction pointed by the imperial soldier and saw a groove on the ghost ship's shell that extended to the end of the line of sight. Three autonomous machines were hovering outside the groove, burning with high-power jets of psionic energy. Eclipse the spaceship armor. This place is originally located on the backside of the sun, and there is no atmospheric diffusion, so it should be pitch black, but the light released from the base of the floating outpost still illuminates the work site as bright as day.

"It's hard to tell from the appearance that this ship belongs to which region." While waiting for the inclined shaft to open for a few minutes, Sandora looked up curiously to observe the appearance of the ghost ship. We are now very close to this huge ship that is dozens of kilometers long. Therefore, it is impossible to see its full picture. Just an armor plate on the side and bottom looks like a cliff towering to the sky in everyone's sight. However, Sandora also maintains smooth data communication with nearby probes, so she is equal to While observing all the appearance details of the ship, Sandora shook her head in disappointment after comparing all the appearance features: "It's a specially modified model. Anyway, I didn't order this thing to be built. The logo of the spaceship should have been It dissipated into the void along with the missing structures, otherwise I might as well check the memory bank to know who made it."

I turned my head and glanced at Sandora: "Why do you care so much about who built this ship?"

"Let Xiaoxue feel uneasy after saying a few words," Sandora curled her lips and smiled. Although she said she was uneasy, I didn't see that she was uneasy at all. "This ship has something to do with me. But. I’ve never even seen it before, wouldn’t you feel awkward putting it on you?”

I thought about my symptoms of late-stage systemic diffuse obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suddenly I didn’t dare to think about it anymore.

Since the ghost ship's armor charging system was basically scrapped, it didn't take much time to dig an inclined shaft next to the armored belt. Soon the autonomous machines drilled a spacious enough passage. One of the autonomous machines was the first to Fly in and check out the situation. A report of "internal security" was sent back.

I noticed something: when the inclined shaft was opened, there was no airflow near the hole. This shows that the spacecraft has completely lost pressure, at least in its outer area.

Every part of the Imperial warship has automatic repair functions. Even if it is blown apart in the middle, as long as its core is still working, the spacecraft can seal the damage by itself. And now this complete loss of pressure indicates that the ship's self-repair has stopped.

"Let's go in." Sandora didn't say much, and took the lead in teleporting to the entrance of the inclined shaft that had just been opened with a faint blue light, and then flew in immediately.

The inclined shaft ablated by the high-power nether energy jet is hundreds of meters long. The molten and solidified metal cave wall is still glowing with blue fluorescence, but at the end of the inclined shaft there is only darkness: the ghost ship not only has external lights. It was completely destroyed, even the interior was dark, and even the emergency lighting equipment seemed to have run out of energy.

We walked through the still scorching shimmering cave and came to a wide alloy corridor, which was about ten meters wide, considering that one end of it led to the outer gate of the spacecraft. So this should be a passage for people and small aircraft to enter and exit. I looked around, and the light in my sight was extremely dim. The only "illumination" was the blue fluorescence left behind by the psionic energy jets: the autonomous machines penetrated the structural panels of the spacecraft, and the psionic energy jets also melted part of the ground in the corridor. The metal is semi-solidified. And part of it has become crystalline. These blue crystals are the only source of light in sight.

I thought about it and suddenly slapped my head, and Alaya was immediately taken out of my mind. The angel sister was thrown into such a dark environment in a daze. She knew what to do without me telling her, so she immediately Spreading your wings increases your brightness...

Shandora glanced at me silently, said nothing, and walked forward. The little crow curiously went up to touch Alaya's wings, with envy on his face: Would this stupid bird want to Bleach?

With Alaya's illumination, progress became much easier. We drifted forward quickly along this corridor, looking for any sign that could indicate the structure of the spacecraft or at least contain information about the ownership of the spacecraft. This severely damaged ship The spacecraft has lost its gravity environment, and there is no air in this section. We feel like we are floating in the corridor as if we are floating in outer space. The little crow cleverly used her lightning power to create an electromagnetic field, relying on the magnetized alloy walls around it to fly forward with us. This way, the speed turned out to be quite fast: now she is a magnetically levitated crow. Lilina couldn't help but mutter beside her: "Boss, I don't think this bird is stupid at all..."

We quickly passed through this long corridor inside the ship and stopped at a fork in the road. Sandora looked at the sign on the wall of the fork in the road, looked at the fork on the left, and said in the spiritual connection: "Two Level control channel...this should lead to the inner area."

"Then let's go." I didn't think much. I stood up and planned to fly towards the deeper-looking alloy corridor, but I found Sandora floating in place without moving. "What's wrong?"

"I'm thinking about one thing," Sandora seemed to be worried. She frowned slightly and looked around the environment. "We have come so far here, why can't we see even a single landmark?"

I didn't react at once: "What do you mean?"

"The legion's logo, the mark of the region it belongs to, or at least the number of the unit it belongs to," Sandora pointed to the direction in which everyone came. The long alloy passage now looked dark, "There is nothing on the walls along the way. No, there’s nothing on the covers of those embedded devices, and we haven’t seen any information indicating where this spacecraft belongs, and look at the sign here.”

Sandora pointed to the big blue sign on the wall at the fork.

"According to regulations, the number of the spacecraft to which it belongs will be written in the corner of this kind of signboard - there is no such information." (To be continued...)