Chapter 860: Unknown Origin

Chapter 860: Unknown Origin

I have to say that the "conventional spaceship" built by the imperial technicians like the Eternal Class is really an outrageous behemoth. I think that except for the Xiling Apostle, no one in this world would be crazy enough to build a ship with nearly a hundred Kilometers of battleship, and then the length of more than 20 kilometers in front of it is actually a cannon, and the 20-kilometer-long main gun compartment. No wonder some people say that the design concept of the Eternal class is a gun barrel with an engine. You said that the original design Does this thing's imperial technician still have humanity?

Such a huge interstellar battleship has a spectacular size after disintegration. Even if it is a wreckage, its largest piece is nearly ten kilometers long. And such a huge starship naturally has a matching complex energy supply network, which can ensure that the energy supply of each part of it will not be interrupted at the same time in extreme situations. The overall line can be used to provide a 780-800-kilometer (special model or even more) It is silly to supply energy to a spacecraft that is hundreds of kilometers away. The energy system of the Eternal class is composed of a large number of modules. In addition to the core reactor that functions as the main gun and main engine of the Galaxy, there is also a small small one every ten kilometers inside it. In the nether energy extraction factory, each set of battleship modules will also have an independent small reactor, which can be said to be a battery that generates electricity everywhere. This means that even if it is broken into pieces, there will be considerable residual energy in each of its pieces. , enough to allow the intact machines in the fragments to continue running for a long time, so don’t think that the Eternal-class starship that has been broken into pieces is safe and harmless. Once upon a time, many idiots who tried to seize the wreckage of the Imperial starship during the war were Those who died under the close-in defense guns that were still running tenaciously after the warships disintegrated, even though only one gun and a blackened fixed deck were left in those close-in defense guns.

And just how outrageous is the complexity of this energy system?

Let me tell you this, with a detailed blueprint provided, just drawing its network of nether energy pipes is enough to tire out all the cartographers in North and South America.

Why do I put so much emphasis on describing the characteristics of the Eternal Class that can still run tenaciously even after being shattered to pieces? Well, let’s look down at Viska’s face…

Half of the little girl's face is still dark. The smearing a few seconds ago caused a black spot that was originally only the size of an egg to spread directly into a partial solar eclipse. And she still reaches out to wipe it from time to time, causing the little face to become darker and darker. Coming to Yuehua seems to have reached Bao Zheng's sister's warning.

A few minutes ago, we discovered a sparking sentry gun not long after entering the corridor. This kind of automatic turret used to suppress enemy invasion operations has a recording function, so Visca went to fiddle with the controls of that thing. Core, I want to see if its recording device can still read things, because the scars on the surface of this starship wreckage prove that it suffered a violent attack before it disintegrated. Regardless of whether the enemy has invaded the battleship, the recording device of the sentry gun is at least The last scene before the spacecraft disintegrated should be left, and that is exactly what Sandora and I care about very much.

After checking the completely damaged recording device, Viska made something that fit her height of 1.2 meters and was full of childlike innocence. I almost scared my sister to death once when I was a child. Something particularly stupid: She held the barrel of the sentry gun and glanced at it.

And then that was it.

What do you think this silly girl was thinking just now? Hey, holding the sentry gun to see if the caliber is correct. Viska's abnormal mind is too cute. Besides, why do I feel that this scene seems to have happened? Some idiot suddenly The scene where Mi Er is holding a XX and studying strange things and then being confused.

Of course, this shot did not cause any harm to our little general. She was just startled and her self-esteem suffered a little setback. Now Viska is still wiping her little face aggrievedly, with her mouth pursed as if she is about to She looked like she was about to cry, not because she was hurt by the beating, but because she felt completely embarrassed in front of her brother: although I think it was just too cute.

"idiot."

Pandora was walking next to her, and occasionally glanced at Viska's dirty little face, and couldn't help but muttered two words. But I couldn't stand it, so I took out a bottle of mineral water from my pocket, and started talking carelessly. After roughly washing Maoyan Loli's face, she finally returned to her original appearance. Although there was still a small area that was blackened, it was much better than before. By the way, this kind of face can't be penetrated by sentry guns. Should I be concerned about it...

Due to the direction in which the wreckage fell and the distortion of the internal environment, we are actually walking on the wall of this corridor. The inside of it has been turned upside down. The original wall has become the floor, and the ceiling has become the wall. In front of us The road extends into the deep darkness, as if there is no end. Based on the environment here, Visca judged that everyone is now walking in the vertical corridor of the fourth nether energy acceleration track. This corridor runs through the energy acceleration coil, and the length It is at least two kilometers, very long, but it can reach directly to the control center of this cabin, which is the strongest part of this spacecraft cabin. If there is any place that can be preserved intact after the spacecraft is attacked and disintegrated, this is The control center of each cabin.

The lighting and air pressure in the corridor waxed and waned, which seemed to be caused by insufficient energy in the environmental conditioning system, or possibly due to an air leak nearby. The footsteps of a group of five people echoed monotonously between the four walls of metal castings. , and occasionally paused, it was Viska who was checking whether the information nodes on the way could still connect to the wreckage's "final recorder" (something similar to a black box), but it seemed that the damage to the spacecraft was too serious, and it The data network is in tatters and cannot be relied upon.

But just when we were about to give up checking this corridor and go directly to the control core, Qianqian, who was always looking around curiously, suddenly pointed at a dark corner passing by the corridor and shouted: "Look over there! There is a person!"

"Where is it?" I quickly followed Qian Qian's hand, and sure enough I saw the "person" in her mouth. Of course, in this case, it should be said to be a corpse.

A body wearing a strange-looking one-piece overalls lay dead in a corner. We have passed several corners like this one. They were sunk directly from the alloy wall of the corridor, leaving only room for The next two or three people operate inside. These niche-like cubicles are control terminals that monitor the operating status of the energy circuit. Most of the time, this terminal will operate on its own, but in an emergency, the spacecraft can also be manually operated. The power furnace was forced to shut down, and the soldier who fell here should of course be the technical soldier responsible for controlling the power cabin, but I found that the clothes on the body were strange, one-piece overalls? There is no such thing in the imperial uniform.

With this curiosity and the sense of reward of finally seeing a fallen soldier in this huge wreckage, we came to the body. He was leaning against the crystal panel that had darkened due to the shutdown, and his whole body was abnormal. He was twisted, and there was a large pool of blood under his body - in fact, it was not just blood. Strictly speaking, half of his body seemed to have turned into a ball of floc, with broken limbs and blood spread out on the ground, looking like death. It was so miserable that Qian Qian switched to a dark personality in an instant, otherwise this girl would have vomited it out on the spot.

I also feel a little sick. Although I have endured a lot of strong winds and waves, this kind of death is really miserable.

"It was caused by the impact during the crash." The expression on Shandora's face was very indifferent. Perhaps in her opinion, a semi-flocculated corpse was really no different from a bowl of tofu. "He may have wanted to stabilize himself." The power furnace is producing power, and half of my hand is still hanging on the emergency stop switch."

"More importantly, this is not an imperial soldier."

Viska pointed at the corpse casually, turning the semi-flocculated mass into a piece of charred dust, "A carbon-based creature."

I feel like the situation is a bit confusing. In the wreckage of an Imperial battleship, its sentry gun attacked its original owner. This may be explained by the failure of the turret control system, but why is there a The remains of carbon-based organisms?

"Let's go." Sandora looked at the twisted alloy walls around her and took the lead in walking towards the control center.

Along the way, we discovered more corpses one after another.

Just like the corpse we met just now, these battleship members of unknown origin were all wearing rough work clothes that did not belong to the imperial uniform. They fell dead in the operation rooms of various control nodes. There were men and women, and the one thing they had in common was that they were dead. They were all miserable. When the wreckage of the battleship fell on the surface of Mars at more than ten times the speed of sound, they were all shocked into a state of almost shattering. These people were all carbon-based creatures, and they had not been physically strengthened. Carbon-based creatures, their fragile bodies simply cannot withstand such energy.

Pandora collected some samples of corpses along the way, and after a rough analysis, she found that the cause of death of these crew members was not the shock wave when they fell, but a violent burst of psionic energy. The source of radiation may be the energy pipe of the battleship itself, indicating that they All of them were already dead when the battleship disintegrated, and then the wreckage of the spacecraft fell into the world without anyone controlling it.

The three debris that hit the lunar surface just happened to take a "shortcut" and entered the universe a few days early.

"Why are they in my spaceship!"

The unstable red light flashing in Viska's cat pupils shows that the little girl is not in a good mood now. The Xiling apostle has extremely troublesome sensitivity to the words "imperial property", and Viska is even more She is a little lunatic who is very protective of her food. She will never accept that her battleship is occupied by a group of "carbon-based monkeys" of unknown origin (multiple groups of ridicules), even if it is a spaceship that she no longer wants - and more importantly Yes, those carbon-based monkeys also sank the spacecraft! !

So now there are bursts of nameless fire in Viska's heart, and in my opinion, this nameless fire is very unnecessary: ​​you don't even want this spaceship, and maybe it has been in space for hundreds of thousands of years. Why can't people be allowed to occasionally pick up floating garbage?

Of course, this is just my world view, and it is completely incomparable with Visca's thinking. We all know that Visca is not mentally normal...

In addition, I am also curious about why there is not a single Imperial soldier in an Imperial battleship. Its members are all these carbon-based organisms of unknown origin. After Pandora examined their cells, she found that these "people" are not the same as those of Earthlings. The genes are very different, and the body structure is also different, but the appearance is similar. At the same time, she also found some basic elements in the cells of these corpses that do not conform to the material list of this universe, which shows that they come from a place very close to the earth. The evolutionary environment is not native to this universe. This is consistent with our previous guess that the spacecraft crash-landed from another world.

"In front is the central control room of the power cabin section."

We stopped in front of a heavily deformed heavy gate. Viska pointed at the gate and turned around and said, Pandora pressed twice on the control end of the gate, but after a burst of metal noise, the gate did not move at all: it was stuck. It's dead, and it's mechanically stuck.

"The self-destruction device in the control center is still running. Fortunately, the outer armor was not forcibly cut just now... It's really strange. If the self-destruction system was running normally, why didn't it explode after the crash?" Viska's eyes were filled with sparks. The light was like a data stream. She reached out and held an exposed cable next to the door. It had been connected to the database in the control center. Her eyes were still a little confused, then she shook her head and said confidently, " The door needs to be fixed, it will probably take a few minutes.”

As the little girl spoke, her hands were already moving. Her index finger sometimes turned into a probe, sometimes into a cutting light knife. She moved very fast, and in less than ten seconds, she removed a large piece of the mechanically stuck door. Come, revealing the messy power device and the crystal structure with unknown function inside, and then like a workshop monitor, biting two strands of cables and working there...

The more I look at it, the more I feel that there are various violations. A little lolita who is 1.2 meters tall, a decisive and decisive imperial general, is sitting on the floor like an old technician repairing the access control. What do you think she is doing now? Is it related to one of my two attributes? And it seems that the technology is no worse than that of imperial technicians or autonomous machines with special procedures. In my opinion, the complex gate power device, which cannot be disassembled except by using cannonballs, turned into something in her hands in a short time. Parts littered the floor.

Then she couldn't pretend anymore...

"Anyway, just remove the stuck place," Viska scratched her hair awkwardly, "I'm not a technician...Um, sister Sandora, please help me pry open the door. It won't be touched now. It blew itself up."

Sandora rolled her eyes towards the sky, waved her arm, and summoned her big claws again. The abyss claws that were originally terrifying on the battlefield are now doing the job of knocking on doors: but this efficiency is really unnecessary. Said, the door made of extremely strong interstellar alloy, after Shandora pried it open a few times, honestly... fell inside with a clang.

Viska stared dumbly at the door, which had long been turned into a decoration. For a long time, his mouth fell flat: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I scratched my hair: "Why didn't we push it just now?"

Sandora sharpened her claws on the wall next to her and looked at us helplessly: "Okay, there will be some problems in everything you do, I'm used to it now."

"In addition, brother, I am sure of one thing." Viska rubbed my arm with a defeated look, "I'm afraid its self-destruct system is also down. We don't have to be so cautious when we come in."

I looked up diagonally awkwardly and whistled twice, then led the girls into the control center. As soon as I stepped through the door, I almost fell to the ground.

"How...how do you say this..." I stumbled, then stood firm in the central hall, which was tilted at almost 45 degrees and full of cracks and exposed pipelines, and looked around at the twists and turns. The crooked wall and the operation terminal stained with blood, "I almost fell."

"The gravity system is still in effect." Sandora also swayed for a moment before standing still, with a slightly embarrassed smile on her face. "Unfortunately, it is not normal. There are at least a hundred gravity fields of different directions and strengths distributed here. Be careful when walking, you may take one step and suddenly feel the world is turned upside down and the floor becomes the ceiling..."

"Is it the same as this?" A shallow voice came from behind and above. I turned around and saw that this girl was standing head down on the ceiling not far from us, at an angle of thirty degrees to my head. The strange thing is that her skirt will not be exposed: because the gravity of her piece is pointing upward.

"I'll go, I've learned a lot today." I muttered, and stepped closer to the control core. I have to say that walking like this is really not used to it. It's even more troublesome than in a zero-gravity environment, because my It seems that the reaction speed is always a little bit behind the times. The ability of human beings (perhaps?) to adapt to new environments is not as good as Sandora and Pandora. Only Qianqian is playing around there. What's more, she can stop time, so she has ample preparation opportunities for sudden changes in gravity, and it turns out to be fun.

There are also many corpses in miserable death conditions in the control center, and due to the turbulent gravity here, these corpses that turned into debris during the impact almost covered the nearby machinery and equipment, floors and ceilings from all directions. Walking in such an environment, There was also the erratic gravity under my feet, and the lighting system that flickered on and off above my head, which made me feel as if I was walking in Silent Hill. The only difference was that there was no one in Silent Hill laughing and jumping on the ceiling. Silly girl jumping around. Qian Qian is so capable of making trouble.

There is still no corpse of a Xiling apostle here, there are just aliens who come from God knows where. We don’t pay too much attention to these corpses whose samples have been collected, but based on the idea that the dead are the most important, I still Let Viska cremate these corpses along the way like the corpses in the corridor before. After all, it is really painful to have to be spread evenly on a surface of more than 500 square meters after death.

"The voyage log...that's great, there's actually a database online here!"

Viska suddenly shouted happily. She was standing next to the control core in the center of the hall. In front of the huge dim light ball, there was a circle of data terminals. And now, she found what she wanted from these data terminals. thing.

Shandora and I looked at each other, with smiles on our faces at the same time:

Not in vain!