Chapter 1,486 An Unexpected Encounter

I don’t know whether to say it was expected or surprising that we were not attacked.

The imperial fleet jumped into the kn22d world. There was no fierce artillery fire, no heavily guarded fortress array, no gravity traps and jump interrupters, and there was not even a little bit of communication interference. What greeted us was the empty and cold space, and An ancient star system that appears to be completely devoid of life.

"Deep space telemetry has discovered the fallen apostle's military base," the intelligence officer reported loudly from the command seat, "but all bases are in a silent state, no active targets have been found, and the soul detection response is zero."

"Abandoned?" Sandora frowned, "Expand the telemetry range to the entire universe, release spy probes, and don't let go of any suspicious places, including space folds and abnormal gravitational focus."

I looked at this empty universe. Like most worlds located in the abyss, its basic rules are not "friendly" enough. The stars are few and far between, and the celestial bodies are sparse. I don't know if it is this itself or too strong abyssal activity that has caused this place to be originally... The celestial bodies have self-destructed, but the environment here should be considered a blessed place in the entire abyssal zone: at least it still has some formed celestial bodies and relatively regular material activities, just like the star system where the Imperial Fleet is currently docked, although its The sun is not very stable, and the speed of the planet's orbit also fluctuates abnormally, but at least it is a celestial body, and it is always good to have something in the field of vision.

More accurate telemetry results were quickly presented to us: There are seven large military bases in this universe, countless small outposts and garrison points, and two galaxies that look like heavy military industrial bases. It can be said that it is a comparison of military weights. A high border world with a higher military weight than we predicted. The only thing here now is that there are no people.

"All military bases are in a state of silence, with minimal energy response and no signs of soul activity. It's like a ghost town that has been abandoned and running automatically." Sandora looked at the reports sent by junior officers, "Intelligence probes It is passing over the nearest military base from here... without being attacked or interfered with."

The image returned by the probe was projected. Its current location is an artificial star system 1.40 thousand light-years away, and it is passing through a large starport of the Fallen Apostles at low speed. On the screen, neatly arranged small Battleships, starport buildings with twinkling lights, rotating stargate calibration rings, and the silhouette of the Eternal-class mothership at the edge of the screen, which looks like a large ghost. The picture is silent, and you can only see these things slowly moving in the field of vision. The probe removed its camouflage under our remote control, and even proactively released an obvious identification signal, but the dead military base still remained silent, not even interested in destroying the probe.

More spy probes poured into the star system, and after careful investigation, they finally came to the conclusion: this was an abandoned base, but for some reason all the systems in the base were still on, just like a moment ago. It seems that the personnel in the base are still working normally.

"Pull the fleet closer and prepare a ship for me." Sandora simply ordered. I looked at her in surprise: "You want to go there in person?"

"Anyway, you plan to go there in person." Sandora looked at me like an old married couple, "I don't know what you are thinking about. It's okay, it's just an unmanned base. Being too cautious will make you look petty. ”

The fleet soon arrived at the unmanned base. This is a star system with four artificial planets. The orbits of each celestial body are orderly filled with star ports, factories, military depots and comprehensive orbital stations. These space facilities alone are larger than the land that humans have ever set foot on. It is so vast that it is impossible for just a few people to explore such a vast area. Our main purpose is to go and see what is going on in this base. A large number of espionage probes have poured in here more than ten minutes ago, so the structure of the base has been identified, and we know that its center is located in the northern hemisphere of the second planet. It is a highly militarized big city. Is there anything in the territory of the Fallen Apostles that is not militarized?

The Royal Fleet hovered in the low-Earth orbit of the second planet. Surrounding the fleet were the various orbital stations of the Fallen Apostles. Sivis couldn't help but look at the starports and space factories that could be described as being close at hand. He muttered in the public channel: "It's the first time in my life that I'm bringing a fleet next to these dangerous guys. It feels really strange."

Even if those dark space buildings are empty, they can still give people an unpleasant and depressing feeling. This is enough to show how bad the impression these madmen in the Abyss Zone have left on people.

"It's just some uninhabited cities," Sandora didn't care much. "If you really feel uncomfortable, you can keep the fleet away from them, but you have to make sure that all the main guns of the fleet are locked on these space buildings. I don't believe in the Abyss." Lingzhen will hand over these things to us."

At this time, a high-octave voice suddenly broke in from the public channel: "What should we do about this ship!"

I don’t need to look at the profile picture to know that this is the second lunatic: among all the ship-based hosts, she is the one with the most problems.

"This ship is too big. It is not suitable to stay in the orbit of a planet like you. This ship will not serve as a companion star for a planet with a radius of not even 5,000 kilometers," the second madman yelled in the channel , she is now two astronomical units away from us. Because the Warsong is too big, she can't come to the orbit of the second planet to join in the fun with the royal fleet. "This ship also needs to find a place to dock!"

I looked at the star system structure diagram: "Then go and transfer to the star. This star was made by the fallen apostles. It might also be a military base. By staying next to it, you are monitoring it. "

The two lunatics were a little disappointed when they heard that there was no fight, but thinking that they were just messing around in the enemy's base camp, they became happy again. The huge Warsong star battleship took the Revenge fleet in its orbit and collectively jumped into the distance. The star began to revolve at an orbit of only 0.3 astronomical units. As it revolved, she opened the unencrypted external broadcast channel and said hello to the other four artificial planets built by the fallen apostles in the star system: "You planets outside. Okay?" "Planet in the fourth orbit, please let me see your tumbling atmosphere!" "Planet in the third orbit, swing to your heart's content!" "My ship's surname is Chen. I am very happy to come to your base to toss around the first orbit. Planet, let me see the North Pole of your passion!" "How are you, Sun here? My surname is Chen..."

Immediately I felt that Madman Er’s brain really didn’t need treatment. She thought other starship hosts were just like her.

We left the fleet in a shuttle and sailed through the empty fallen apostle orbital stations in space in a calm and uneventful voyage. Then we plunged into the thin atmosphere of the second planet and arrived at the northern hemisphere of the second planet. Over the capital city.

This massive city is built on a plain: the entire planet has been precisely customized by the Fallen Apostles. Therefore, the surface of the planet is basically all such plains and "ridges" that seem to be cut out by machinery. The shuttle slowly patrolled over the city, with a panoramic view of the city. Normally I rarely have the opportunity to see the place where the fallen apostles live so close up. As a result, after observing this place, it seems that there is nothing special about it: the architectural form and normal Xiling City is almost the same. It also has an orderly layout and urban arterial roads that can be seen at a glance. I am familiar with the facilities on the surface, and I can almost name them and their uses, except for most of the buildings. Apart from the gloomy main colors, I feel that the settlements of the fallen apostles are no different from the imperial colonies.

"Does the villain in your impression have to have a big cloak, a big back, and a strong back, and complain to the moon every night, and must live in a cave?" Bingtis glanced at me and sneered at my conventional thinking. "Have you not heard that the devil also has a private life? When you see the fallen apostles wearing clothes, you should know that they usually worry about whether they should tuck their long johns into their socks..."

Me: "...Fallen apostles don't wear long johns, right?"

Bingtis: "...I am just an example."

"Okay, okay, you two have time to study these crazy things, why not save your energy and prepare to go out to explore the road," Shandora slapped me and Bingtis on the shoulders, "There is a landing platform below, let's land ”

The shuttle landed smoothly on an open landing platform. For the first time in my history, I set foot on the planet where the fallen apostles lived. Although the surrounding scenery was not too surprising, I was still quite excited. With this excitement and novelty. I took a deep breath. The air in this poor place was so thin that I almost couldn't breathe. And there is absolutely no oxygen in the atmosphere of this planet!

Sandora closed her eyes and diffused her spiritual power. The Soul Reaver's special talent allowed her to detect enemies better and faster than any life-scanning device, but even so she still found nothing: "The whole planet is empty, are they really gone?"

Bingtis took out her meteor hammer Bible from her portable space and gestured at a psionic obelisk in the distance: "Then do you think I will seduce a few people if I knock that thing over?" An ambush coming?"

I rolled my eyes at her: "You can try it."

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a "whoop" sound coming from my ears. Bingtis's brick Bible came out of his hand and turned into a ray of golden light. Then there was a big explosion that shook the earth, and the tall tower in the distance slowly collapsed. By the way, if Sister Bing throws this Bible, it will not only cause kinetic damage. After this thing hits the target, it can also produce an astonishingly powerful impact of holy light. Some people praise it: The big seal makes a thunderous sound, not as good as Bingye's meteor hammer. This sentence has no meaning just to rhyme. In short, Bingtis is unprecedented. With his own mobility, he blew up a psionic obelisk a thousand meters away on the spot, just to see if there was any ambush here.

I stared at this scene with my mouth open, and finally couldn't help but jump up: "Are you really here?"

Bingtis held up an arbor and watched the smoke and dust disappear after the obelisk collapsed. Hearing this, he turned around and gave me a roll of his eyes: "Nonsense, I am a person with an ID card. You know I will do what I say."

"Didn't you ask Sicaro to get your ID card for two and a half dollars a piece?" Shandora finished her sentence and walked forward, "It seems that there is really no one here. I scanned in this direction. There is a command post, let's go there and check out the situation. Bingtis, put away the meteor hammer, and if you throw it around again, do you believe that I and Ajun will join forces to beat you?"

"This is the Bible. It's a very serious thing, you know?" Bingtis said this, but he still honestly put away the big weapon that could smash a crater when thrown. By the way, this guy also knew that he Is it the Bible in your hand instead of the Heaven-turning Seal?

After walking around for a while in this city built by the enemy, I found that there were indeed some differences between this place and the colonial settlements in the imperial zone: apart from the ubiquitous dark red color, there were no civilian buildings visible here. Or something "lifelike".

The fallen apostles do not need any life entertainment that has nothing to do with fighting and the "great cause". I once heard Harlan say that the days in the Abyss were even more boring than the days of the old empire. Now I see that there is nothing except factories and military camps. Other buildings in the city. I finally understand the mood of the former fallen apostle. I'm afraid even Pandora can't accept living in such a lifeless place. After all, that little war lunatic also likes to eat some sweets or draw a bunch of 1.2 meter squares on the roadside pillars in his spare time. As for the contour line, I guess the fallen apostles usually don't even have the luxury of such a spare time life.

"This place feels eerie," Qian Qian followed closely behind me, looking at the empty and deserted buildings around her and couldn't help but mutter, "It seemed like this when Shadow City was first built."

"Everyone is gone, but the building is still running." Sandora said, pointing to a small facility next to it. This is a crystallized spire only a few meters high. It is used to provide additional energy broadcast to surrounding buildings. It is still Running as usual. There are slight red ripples on the surface of the crystal, and a low buzzing sound can be heard when you get closer. The surrounding buildings are almost the same: they are all in normal operating condition, as if the city was bustling with people and traffic just a second ago.

"When the imperial fleet sent to this world, no one was scanned to leave here," Sandora said thoughtfully, "So the garrison in this universe should have been evacuated before we came here... This is in any case The explanation is unclear, a frontier world should not clear out its fleet under any circumstances, and even the evacuation would be too abrupt: the facilities in the city have not even had time to close down."

"We are still struggling with the issue of the empty city at this time," Bingtis curled his lips disapprovingly, "They have opened the world barrier. The sovereignty of the entire universe has been surrendered. Is there anything stranger than this?"

We quickly found the "command post" that Sandora called, a place that looked no different from the surrounding square buildings.

"I sensed a large amount of information flow pointing to this building, and it also has the largest number of backup energy lines in the entire city." Sandora said as she stepped forward and opened the door of the command post, "Oh... as expected, follow me As I thought, they even canceled the access control system.”

Pandora and Viska immediately took out two main cannons and ran in first. After a while, Viska ran out again: "Brother. There is no one inside! All the equipment in the hall is on!"

The command post, like all the buildings we encountered, remained in working order. When we walked into this building, the first thing we saw was a brightly lit and unusually wide hall. A group of public data terminals lined up along the wall displayed the standby screen. Sandora stepped forward and operated the data terminal a few times, and whispered: "The standby time has exceeded half a month...it means that the people here are... It was evacuated half a month ago.”

"At that time, we didn't have an action plan to enter the abyss area," Bingtis followed suit and fiddled around on the data terminal for a few times. After finding that he couldn't do it at all, he stopped angrily, "Half Months ago...it seems that they attacked the God Realm in those few days, right?"

"There is an 80% chance that this world was left by the Abyss Xiling," Sandora pondered. "That is to say, she made arrangements immediately. The 'new army' of the fallen apostles attacked the God Realm. She was there There is such a strange place left at the border...What on earth does she want to do?"

I was just about to express my opinion when I heard a disembodied female voice sounding out of thin air in the hall: "What do you think I want to do?"

Everyone was startled by the sound. Pandora and Viska were the first to react. They instantly summoned a large floating cannon, but after aiming for a long time, they could not find the source of the sound. Sandora had already entered combat mode. Bingtis also put on her Valkyrie armor in a burst of holy light. I frowned and looked around, and suddenly found that all the holographic projections in the hall flickered.

Amidst the buzzing sound of the equipment speeding up, the holographic images on the standby screen switched one after another to a strange female image: wearing a very ordinary black dress, with black hair and eyes, long hair reaching her waist, a face Very ordinary, and with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

We have never seen this face, but the identity of the other party is ready to be revealed. Sandora frowned and looked at the largest holographic projection in the hall: "Abyss Xiling?"

"First meeting," every Abyss Xiling in the hall looked at us with a smile, and then "their" eyes fell on me and Bingtis, "Oh, it's not all the first meeting, the new emperor, but also There is this sister from the God Clan, and we meet again."

"What are you doing?" I looked around. Apart from these holograms, I didn't see anything like ambushes or self-destruction countdowns. "By the way, you were finally killed by one of your own?"

"Can you say this with such a happy expression?" Abyss Xiling maintained a calm chat tone even in the weird atmosphere as she did the last time she met us. She watched Sandora's battle. posture and the Valkyrie armor of Bingtis, and finally looked at the swarms of floating cannons in the hall, "Why are you so worried about the enemy? You should know very well that these things cannot destroy a network consciousness unless you can kill me All nodes are cleared."

Sandora dissipated the abyss flames on her body indifferently: "How many nodes do you have left now... Well, we are already here, if you have anything to say, please tell me quickly."

"Oh, it's nothing too important," Abyss Xiling said calmly, "I'm just reminding you that it's time to retreat."