Chapter 794: Mist Star Base

Today is the second day back to Misty Star.

A large and continuous new building complex floats on the boundless sea of ​​helium, nitrogen and hydrogen on the Misty Star. Soldiers who participated in the Battle of Keprulu must be very familiar with this magnificent and huge building complex: General City.

After understanding that the Mobrador system would inevitably become a frontline, we established a second base here. The Imperial Admiral sank into the clouds 20,000 kilometers behind it, on the surface of this vast ocean under astonishing pressure. It unfolded into a steel fortress. With this fortress as the center, more arsenals and beacons are being built intensively, and they have begun to take shape.

These gleaming buildings are shadowy like ghosts floating on the ocean under the thick rolling clouds of Misty Star.

The "Mausoleum" has been sunk beneath General City and has become an undersea ghost city. After simple research, the imperial technicians found a way to control this doomsday fortress and completely repaired it. They were surprised to find that the structural strength of this ruins still maintained its maximum integrity, and even if necessary, it could sink to Near the solid core of the Misty Star, relying solely on its own shell can survive the terrifying pressure. It is a pity that when the doomsday came, the ancient Mobrados did not even have time to sink to the core of the star. No, the terrifying Armored Scorpions destroyed the fortress' control systems before the resisters inside could react.

The Imperial Admiral itself contains several research centers. After the General City was deployed, they were combined according to temporary procedures to form a large joint research institute. The space inside this research institute is even larger than it looks from the outside. With the help of space expansion technology, it can even undertake the task of dismantling a starship as large as the Imperial Admiral. Now the Imperial technicians here are busy analyzing a brand new sample: the captured revenge warship.

The Eternal-class battleship, which lost one-third of its structure in the self-destruction, has been dismantled. Fortunately, the bow of this starship is basically the entire main gun structure. The self-destruction only destroyed this part, leaving the rest of the battleship The place is very well preserved.

Countless research platforms are suspended in the dark isolation space. Each of these circular gravity-free platforms can be regarded as an independent research laboratory. They are equipped with complete analysis and detection suites and uncertain interfaces to cope with different testing needs. . Those valuable ship fragments are placed independently on each platform and scanned by specialized technicians or analysis probes. What is now in front of Sandora and I is a huge spherical structure with a silver-white metallic luster, about tens of meters in diameter, and honeycomb-like concave patterns on the surface, making it look like a giant football. "Soccer..., some hexagons on the surface are open, revealing the dark holes below. According to the signs next to the holes, these openings should have been prepared for physical connection cables.

This metal ball that looks unattractive in appearance is actually the shipboard host of the Eternal-class starship. Despite its disappointing appearance, it has the best tactical core and whole-ship coordination module among all conventional warships. For a warship that is 70 kilometers away and has countless facilities and auxiliary equipment, the whole ship coordination module is the primary criterion for measuring whether the warship can maintain its combat effectiveness despite attrition. This host can ensure that the Eternal-class mothership can fight autonomously even if all personnel are killed. This makes the Eternal-class the only large warship in the empire that can be unmanned. Of course, the ship-based host is not a hope after all. Special units like the Spirit Host have design restrictions that prohibit them from developing personalities. This prevents the Eternal Class from formulating wrong tactics when they are too bored, and also gives the more than 300 officers and soldiers in the spacecraft command center something to do. Anyway, I am So understood.

Tavel's translucent mass projection was standing next to her, holding an information terminal that became almost as iconic as her glasses in her hand. The other hand controlled several probes to move back and forth on the surface of the metal ball. Some uncertain interfaces are connected to it. Those interfaces are magical little things. They can adapt to and read almost any kind of terminal that can generate information flow, including the information quantification ports commonly used by the empire.

The blue light wandered along the hexagonal concave lines, and the audio signal read from the ship-based host began to play on the gravity-free platform: "External information has been connected to the ship-based host for initialization. Current status: Main body detached , it is judged that this is the first activation of this machine. Please load the initial tactical information and battleship matching code. The ship-based host is ready.

"It has been completely reset." Tavel pressed her hand on the surface of this huge metal ball, and circles of light blue halo rose from the position where her hand contacted the ball. "This is a very troublesome situation. Obviously those who seek revenge." The military reset the memory core of the ship's mainframe before detonating the ship. Apart from the self-destruct code loaded on the core as firmware, the mainframe is now as clean as if it just came off the production line. I tried different methods to I scanned this thing but it was deleted so completely." I don't know much about this advanced thing, but Tavel's meaning is still easy to understand. Seeing the best researchers looking at their wits' end, I knew what to do. It was impossible to analyze anything from this giant machine.

A faint blue light floats on the surface of the active ship-based host, which makes this huge metal ball look particularly beautiful. It is the host's psionic shield: because it is the most important device of the starship, don't just look at it. It's a component. The ship-based host also has its own armor plate and energy shield.

Now its shield has resumed operation, but because the basic program has not been loaded, the host itself can only maintain the minimum shield value, which looks thin and seems to be extinguished. I thought about it and called Bubble in the spiritual connection.

The little girl holding a huge pillow and looking unhappy appeared in front of me with a squeak. Paopao raised her tui and gave me a princess kick: "What are you doing? I'm making up for it!"

"Look at this." I pressed Little Loli's head and turned it 90 degrees, making her face the huge metal ball. "Do you know it?" "The main engine of the Eternal-class starship? What is this?" Bubble Hug He rubbed the pillow on his face, "Although it looks like a ball, it can't be used to catch little monsters."

I staggered: "Ahem, don't interrupt. This is the ship-based host on the Revenge Army battleship, but its memory core has been re-inked. If you use your information analysis capabilities, can you still analyze something from it? ?After all, you are considered close relatives."

I asked with great hope, thinking that after all, Paopao is also a powerful Xiling host, and should be familiar with processing various data. Tavel just cannot read this host from the perspective of hardware technology. Memory, but maybe the Xiling host's ability to directly control information can scan something else, and more importantly, they are all called hosts. Maybe Paopao can communicate with this silent iron ball and exchange brotherhood and so on. Maybe What happened? But when Paopao heard this, he was just stunned, then stared at this side with a serious face and gritted his teeth: "I said... the child's father, although I call him the host, but I am not the same thing as this big iron lump, okay! !"I:"……"

"But it doesn't take much to scan it. When it comes to analyzing data with this kind of low-level logic machine, the Xiling host computer is very advantageous. ...

I thought that Bubble could really breathe loudly when talking, and this girl had already started to take action. Just like Tavel, she pressed her hand near a hexagonal hole on the surface of the metal ball to directly read the feedback signal from the host. The blue halo spreads, indicating that the flow of information has begun. The only thing I need to complain about is that due to the height restriction, Paopao has to step on the pillow and raise his hands to reach the data interface at the bottom of the big iron ball, which looks like the Hercules Cup.

"Error, no feedback tool." After a few minutes of communication, the shipboard host responded to the read request from Bubbles with nine punctuated words. This made the latter's expression instantly distorted, and then the angry little girl In front of Shandora and I, a burst of fists and kicks, jumping up and down, beat the innocent ship-based host into a Buddha. Tavel stepped forward distressed to check the pits on the surface of the big iron ball, while Bubble curled his lips: "Don't bother, the core destruction reset will leave absolutely no information, and I guess you recovered it from the starship." The other logic machines are in a similar situation. Those guys eliminated all data devices that might expose Lu's secrets before self-destructing, probably to prevent the leakage of Lu's base camp information. It's really watertight! After Paopao finished speaking, he didn't seem to be relieved. , reached out and took out a large-caliber pistol and shot back. The shield of the ship's host computer, which was running at a minimum level, was finally extinguished. Even though I knew before that this girl had a violent tendency, she seemed to be in a particularly bad mood now.

I casually asked Paopao out of concern, but in exchange for the other party's tearful words: "Ji and Ya are not together, how can people believe in love in the future! Her father, please give me some comfort..."

I made a decisive decision and kicked her back to the portal.

The shipboard host was completely formatted, which frustrated the plan to use this breakthrough point to find the headquarters of the Revenge Army. However, this also brought us information, that is, the "madness" of the Revenge Army did not affect their tactics. Judgment ability. The opponent showed a high degree of discipline and commendable multi-arm coordination tactics in the raid on Mist Star. Although it may seem crazy to collectively self-destruct when the battle situation was lost, they remembered to delete all confidential information before self-destruction. This is also It shows that the other party has some kind of rationality. It is not yet certain whether this judgment was based on the thinking of the battleship captains or a fixed tactical procedure, but it has basically ruled out unreasonable situations like the Great Nebula.

This can only be said to be bad news: compared to the irrational and crazy spaceships guarded by the Great Nebula, an enemy force that still maintains tactical wisdom is obviously more difficult to deal with.

"Sivis, what else of value did we collect?"

Sandora looked around, her eyes passing over the huge battleship fragments in the distance one by one. At the same time, she said to the air. Sivis's holographic projection immediately appeared in front of us: "At present, it is once again confirmed that the Revenge Army has not been affected by any abyss." Infected, its ship structure is normal, there are no more autonomous combat devices like the Temple Guards, and there are no functional defects.

In the battleship command center, we found the remains of many Revenge Army soldiers. They all died at their respective posts, maintaining the same posture as at the last moment of the battle, with no trace of abnormal behavior, and showing a high degree of discipline. The remains of two war engineers were found in the energy matrix area of ​​the battleship. Before they died, they should have been busy manually increasing the energy level to ensure a faster self-destruction process. All signs indicate that they were killed in a completely orderly manner and in compliance with operational procedures. Of course, no traces of mutation or infection were found on their bodies. The only anomaly discovered so far is that of two Revenge Army soldiers. Their remains are located under the base of the Class Coordinate Engine. It is a closed area that prohibits non-technical personnel from entering. Ordinary soldiers will not enter there for no reason. Their behavior is not consistent. Logic, this makes our initial judgment of the Revenge Army "completely awake, and there are contradictions."

Sandora frowned and thought, but obviously the current information was not enough. Finally, she sighed softly: "Have you obtained any information from the memory cores of those soldiers?"

"I'm very sorry, Your Majesty Sandora, just like what happened before, all the souls of the dead have dissipated, and there is nothing in their memory cores. The Revenge Army is obviously under an absolute logic. Once the situation is out of control, they will Just give priority to completely destroying yourself. This method..."

"This method is as if the enemy they face is an army of deep scheming." Sandora said seriously, "They regard normal Xiling compatriots as an abyss. This is really sad. Continue your work, if there is a situation Report immediately."

Tavel nodded, and the holographic projection flashed in the air and then disappeared. Tavel was still tossing the ship-based host that had just been beaten by Bubbles. Although Paopao had declared that the iron ball had no value, Tavel I still want to dig out some secrets from it: women always have a bit of a gossip mentality, and at most they behave differently depending on their occupation.

"I will check the navigation record of this starship, but the best case scenario is to go back to the navigation mark when the battleship entered the main material plane." Tavel reported, Sandora just nodded, indicating that she knew.

Sandora also wanted to stay in the research center for a while, so I came to the upper platform area of ​​​​General City.

This was originally part of the corridor of the Commander's Office of the Imperial Admiral. After it was expanded into General City, most of the corridor that was originally located in the center of the starship became the upper platform of the city, which can be regarded as an observation deck for officers. Half of the platform, which is hundreds of meters wide, is covered by a transparent energy shield, like a layer of glass. I stand inside the shield and look at the spectacular scene outside. The lower atmosphere of the Misty Star is not calm, and the speed is three hundred per hour. A sixty-kilometer hurricane and chaotic low-hanging clouds were raging just a short distance away, creating a hellish and crazy scene. Outside the thin shield, there was a terrifying air pressure that was enough to crush any chariot on the earth into a discus. The nitrogen, helium and hydrogen atmosphere transitioned from the gaseous state to the liquid state under this super strong pressure, forming the turbulent "ocean" below us. In other words, the ocean on the Misty Planet actually has the same composition as the atmosphere, and the "ocean" where General City is located Strictly speaking, the "plane" is the "gas-liquid" interface on the surface of the Mysterium, which is about three kilometers thick. The atmosphere here shows a gas-liquid transition state. It has been endlessly violent storms and huge tsunamis for hundreds of millions of years. It is the result of the rapid change of these two states of matter.

This is an unimaginable and indescribable spectacle on earth. The strongest spacecraft currently built by mankind may not be able to survive in this environment for more than fifteen minutes.

In a humidity environment that is completely different from the earth's atmosphere, the sky outside the shield is sprinkled with "rain" like a curtain. Even with the powerful lights of the fortress, the visibility on the platform outside does not exceed fifteen meters, with some blurry gray and black The dark shadow flashed past behind the thick rain curtain in a blue halo. It was an aircraft patrolling the base. This is not the most dangerous base we have ever built. The nuclear storm in the red giant fortress was hundreds of times more terrifying than here. But in terms of the shock of the scene, the violent storm in the gas giant planet was even more exciting. I remembered the experience of Qianqian pulling myself to experience the wind and rain walk outside the shield on a whim yesterday afternoon. The two of us set off from near the Arctic cloud ring, and a few hours later Sandora pulled us back from the cyclone hole at the North Pole. , it was an unforgettable experience, which gave me a deeper understanding of Qian Qian’s lethality, and also fully demonstrated one thing: it is best not for two road addicts to travel together.

"The storm outside is stronger than yesterday." A soft voice suddenly sounded in my ears. I turned around in surprise and found that my sister was looking at me with a gentle smile. She was gently stroking my hair, just like she often did when I was a child. The only difference is that when I was a child, I would often have a brain breakdown, but not now. "The Holy Pope has announced the war news, but the transfer of power will be completed under the si and the coalition government. Ordinary people are concerned about this." Not aware of it.”

"Even if someone knows, now they don't care about the change of power of "mortals, right?" I smiled, "How is Mobrado society now? "

"It's chaos, but I don't care." My sister smiled slightly, and it was a subtle warm smile that made people's hearts tremble. "Zhagu is right, Mobrado has been in peace for too long, and he has no respect for "Sage" Guaranteed, these four words are too firm to believe. Now, including the heads of the coalition government, they are all in a mess. The enemy has not even reached the defense line of Fog Star. They themselves are already as if the end has come. They don’t know if the fleet of the Revenge Army will really The whole world was in chaos when it rushed over the main planet of Mobrador. "

"Perhaps this is an opportunity for them to break through the predicament. After all, their ancestors were Shandora's servants. It would be so disappointing if they were suffocated to death by the greenhouse environment." Looking at the violent storm raging outside the shield, I felt I was so moved that I suddenly felt something in my heart and wanted to write a poem.

You must have guessed that I didn’t even hold my fart in the end! .