In the dark and vast universe, a strange team of exiles is sailing silently. They are formed by some kind of huge aircraft, with a total of more than ten ships, and it seems that they have been sailing for many years. The appearance of those aircraft is impressive. They have short and thick shells, covered with thick gray-black armor, and on the armor, you can see neat additional structures like scales. These scale structures are raised upwards, like It is a lot of blunt triangular short spines. The size of each aircraft is extremely astonishing, with a scale of hundreds of kilometers. Due to the thick and gloomy armor covered, these aircraft look like a group of huge asteroids floating in the universe when viewed from a distance.
I don’t know how many years these aircraft have been sailing in the universe. Without exception, they are extremely old and dilapidated. Although objects in space will not be weathered, these huge spacecraft have obviously experienced countless impacts, high temperatures, corrosion and plasma air masses Large and small scratches and missing parts can be seen everywhere on their uneven armor. On one of the most severely damaged spaceships, the severe trauma of its shell even tore off part of the armor layer, exposing the bottom like a sponge Body-like support structure—Hao Ren believed that this was probably the result of a powerful meteorite impact, or it could be worse. But even in such a bad situation, the structure of these spaceships is still basically intact, and the sparse lights are distributed along their pitted surfaces, flashing various indicators in space. The fleet seemed a little more angry, they just made the team seem weirder and more miserable.
But the lights also tell one thing: These ancient craft are still in operation.
This fleet is advancing at a very slow speed. According to the various traces discovered before, it should have left the hyperspace state decades ago, and after several decelerations, it has finally sailed at this low speed until today. The reason why they left hyperspace is unclear, because there is nothing in this star area that can make them stay: there are no celestial bodies or ports of call that can be used as supplies, and there are no traces of civilization. Absent lavender stardust. Maybe it was a mechanical failure that forced these spacecraft to break away from the faster-than-light voyage
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace slowly caught up with the fleet from behind the track cloud. And approached one of the large aircraft. Although these aircraft are relatively primitive in technology, their volume is really huge. The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace was hovering over the black armored belt stretching out mile after mile like a hummingbird, and the pictures sent back were all huge and rough ancient structures. There are some strip lights flickering slightly on the armor surface, and the approach of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform did not change the flickering pattern of these lights: the aircraft did not respond to the approach of the unknown spaceship.
"There is a radar shining on our ship," Nolan's holographic projection zoomed in, and she became life-sized and stood beside Hao Ren. She changed herself into a military uniform at some point, and reported the situation like a starship adjutant . "There were seven radar sources, from three different ships, but otherwise no hostile response was detected, nor was there any sign of weapon system activation."
Hao Ren looked at the picture from the external monitor. At this time, the Juguiyantai was slowly flying over a large aircraft. It was only a few hundred meters away from the latter's shell. He saw the rough metal shell. Slowly retreating on the monitor screen like a piece of steel: "Is there a contact signal?"
"No, I have already sent an inquiry—full frequency band, but I haven't received any response." Nolan shook his head, "But I intercepted the signals between these aircraft, and they still maintain communication with each other. It's just... "
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "Just what?"
Nolan put the intercepted signal on the holographic projection, and Hao Ren saw that it was a large area of regular symbols and numbers. When these things scrolled quickly, he found that everything was just repeating mechanically.
"Each aircraft is sending these things mechanically, basically to confirm their position and system integrity, and nothing else. I doubt it's an automatic signal."
Nangong Wuyue wagged her long tail and snaked her way to the console, her tone was quite interested: "So... a ghost ship?"
Hao Ren glanced at her: "How did you say you were so excited when you said the word ghost ship?"
"Fifty percent of the legends about ghost ships in human history were transformed by sea monsters, and the remaining 50 percent were caused by sailors who got drunk," Nangong Wuyue raised his tail and shook, "Turned into ghost ships to scare people." People are our ethnic culture, do you understand ethnic culture?"
"Sir-monsters who have never been in the sea in the first half of their life don't mention this." Hao Ren waved Nangong Wuyue aside, and then nodded to Nolan. "Can you find the entrance to these spaceships?"
"Deep scanning shows that there is a groove at the waistline of the spaceship below, which should be the entrance gate, but it is not large enough for the ship to enter: it is only a dozen meters wide."
Hao Ren smacked his lips: "Tsk... As a huge ship with hundreds of kilometers, this is really a shabby little door. Well, let's go down, Nolan, you follow our signal, and you prepare outside after we go in." Good teleporter, it's convenient for us to evacuate."
"Are you all going down?" Vivienne looked at the people on the bridge, all the ghosts and ghosts who were eating at Hao Ren's house were here today.
"Uh...just a few, you and Lily, and then..."
Before Hao Ren finished speaking, Nangong Sanba suddenly took a step forward: "Let me go with my sister, hunters and sea monsters should be used in this kind of place."
Hao Ren thought for a while, and felt that what Nangong Sanba said made sense: This is obviously neither the spaceship of the Guardian nor the Nizi, but a wandering fleet of a group of mortal races who escaped from the natural disaster. According to the fleet's Given the situation, the probability of becoming a ghost ship is quite high. What is needed in this environment is not high combat effectiveness, but people who are good at scouting and searching and adapting to various environments. Nangong Sanba is a demon hunter, while Nangong Wuyue has ever-changing water forms. It should be very suitable to explore ghost ships.
Hao Ren handed the Doudou in his hand to "Roll" to hold, turned and walked towards the teleportation room: "Then the others are waiting on the spaceship first, let's go down."
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace came to the suspected entrance and exit gate, and hovered at a height of more than 100 meters from the "steel land", while Hao Ren and his party appeared on the surface of the mysterious spaceship accompanied by a beam of light.
There is almost no gravity on the surface of the spaceship, and a group of people move forward with the help of auxiliary propulsion devices. Hao Ren looked up into the distance, and he saw a slightly arc-shaped piece of black-gray steel stretching out in his field of vision. The faint light of the stars in the distance and the light gray interstellar dust cloud hung like smudges on a distant curtain. At the end of the steel horizon, some scattered lights are dotted on several protruding structures in the distance of the earth, shining slightly like will-o'-the-wisps.
"Life, lifelessness..." Vivien muttered into the communicator, "I can't feel any life breath."
Hao Ren pressed his forehead: "Terminal, share vision."
The radar view of the data terminal was immediately overlaid on his human vision, and he saw that the "steel land" in front of him suddenly turned into a complex layered structure, and many orderly lines outlined the details under the shell on these structures. information. He found the location marked as the gate, and after leading the team closer, he found that it was a wide slope that sloped downwards. The slope did not extend down very deep, and he could see a particularly thick-looking metal underneath. barrier.
When everyone came to the metal barrier, Lily quickly ran around the wall with her claws on the wall, but she didn't find anything that seemed to be a control device.
"Partner, do you want to explode?" the data terminal asked casually.
"No, find a normal way," Hao Ren waved his hand, "What if there are still people alive?"
"I don't like to study this kind of stuff," Lily muttered. "Big head."
Hao Ren didn't say anything, just searched for nearby clues through the shared vision. He could see the mechanical structure under the surrounding metal plates. Under the heavy steel covering, there were some relatively shallow trenches, where pipes and lines were distributed, some of which should be the controllers of the gates. The data terminal was much faster than his analysis, and soon the PDA found the suspected activation switch according to the wiring layout around the gate, and marked it in Hao Ren's field of vision with eye-catching red.
Hao Ren pointed to a metal plate on the wall next to it: "Dug out this place—be careful not to hurt the inside."
Lily immediately floated forward, waving her icy and fire claws with a flash of golden light, and quickly removed the metal plate, revealing the complicated and old cable and substrate structure behind it.
This set uses electricity.
With the help of the data terminal, Hao Ren found the key control circuit. He carefully tore off the two cables from the board, and beckoned Vivian to come over: "Put on some electricity, 28 volts DC."
Vivian: "..."
(This year’s Forbes annual list voting has started. Although I still don’t understand how the list mechanism is this time, I hope everyone can vote for it. Forbes on the homepage of Dianniang. The year-end ceremony is, um, it should be. ) (to be continued.)