Isana smiled cheerfully, and patted my arm as if suddenly remembering something: "By the way, His Majesty the Emperor, have you heard about the ghost ship?"
"Ghost ship?" I was taken aback by Yumeizi's question, and then thought of her race for a moment, and nodded clearly, "Oh, you mean the kind of boat that drifts on the sea, where there is no one, and it's broken The legend of the old antique ship you are driving? Human beings have a lot of legends about ghost ships, and you mermaids also care about this? Could it be that you made those ships?"
"No, it's not that kind of ghost ship." Isana has a habit of flicking her tail when she is anxious, so I can hear her patting the floor, "although I liked going to sunken ships when I was young. Treasure hunting... Hey, it has nothing to do with this. I'm talking about a legend that has been very popular in the macro world recently. It is said that an imperial warship that was withdrawn from the battlefield fell behind, and the generals and soldiers on the spaceship disappeared. Under the control of the host, it floated back to the Empire area. Because it couldn’t find the port, it has been floating around in various universes, becoming a ghost ship. Occasionally, people who travel in the interstellar world see that huge spaceship, and they say The ghost ship seems to be dead, there is only a little light on the whole body, the engine is dim as if it is about to go out, the spaceship is full of tattered scars, and if you are close enough, you can even see the black holes inside from the cracked holes corridor. But no one can board that ship, because no one dares to get close to it, and the ghost ship always disappears suddenly, as if the host of the spaceship is still trying to find the military port. Many people have said that they have seen the ship Ships, especially the old crew members in the caravans that transported supplies for the servant army, all said that they had met ghost ships, but most of them had no evidence, so they should be bragging."
Isana was telling the story of the ghost ship with great interest. At first I raised my attention, thinking it was some important information, but after hearing it, I slowly realized: This is simply a space version of Sailor’s Adventures. It's like those old sailors in the age of sail blowing alcohol and blowing hard things in the port bar. In the past, those superstitious old sailors always liked to use sea monsters and ghost ships to flaunt their adventures, but now those boring crew members who shuttle between the stars have more advanced talk: interstellar ghost ships, and even void ghost ships.
The story is pretty good in terms of creativity: they directly used the imperial warship as the background of the story, which must be a cool gimmick. In the eyes of most commoners in the macro world and the family, imperial warships are almost legendary things, especially large spaceships. Most people have only seen those behemoths in brochures and on screens. They look forward to those powerful imperial machines, just like a sixteenth-century inland boy yearns for a sailing battleship with a 55-meter mast and 18-pound guns, but the giant ship will not go to the village to cruise, and eighty to ninety percent of the people will not I didn’t have a chance to go to the Empire’s resident to see what the Eternal Class looked like, and many people would never be able to go to space in their lifetime, so they waited for those old crew members who had gone to space or even traveled through the world to return to the surface, mixing alcohol and adrenaline in the tavern The ghost ship story that was made up together became popular.
Isana knew right away that I wasn't paying much attention to the story, and I heard another slapping sound from under her chair: it's the fish girl flicking her tail again, and she's looking at me with displeasure : "The ghost ship is not necessarily fake, right? Although some people must be bragging, there are dozens of worlds that have ghost ship legends recently!"
"The imperial warship lost its way? Then the navigation host can turn on but can't lead the way? In the end, it is still floating around in the imperial area?" I laughed dumbfounded, "What's more, no outpost has detected the signal of this active spaceship? It's not me To spoil your fairy tale, it's really not possible - we have several sets of backup navigation on our spacecraft, and there is a "catastrophic damage identification agreement" between each other. If all navigation equipment fails, the spacecraft will It will immediately jump into a stable universe and then lock the engine. This is to prevent the spacecraft from flying to the enemy-occupied area without navigation, resulting in information leakage. In addition, I don’t believe that all the officers and soldiers on the spacecraft are missing. Yes, the Imperial Army has a clear operating procedure for 'abandoning ship evacuation'. Unless all soldiers die in the spaceship before evacuating, the military department will not let a ship be 'lost' like this. Either recover it immediately, or The spaceship is destroyed by other friendly forces before it is captured, or the captain blows up the spaceship before evacuating, anyway, we will not let a ship just float out of sight. Also - the identification signal transmitter on the spaceship is as strong as a black box, there is a ghost If it is a ship, the local imperial outpost has already discovered it."
Isana listened to my explanation in a daze, and lowered her head in frustration: "Why is your technician so disrespectful to Dream?"
Me: "..." This involves the victory or defeat of national interest wars, can we save face
"But someone really submitted the video of the ghost ship encounter to your military department." Isana thought for a while, and suddenly became excited again, "Not only the video, but also the log of the spaceship. It is said that among the people who encountered the ghost ship There is an officer of the servant army, he encountered that thing while driving a private spaceship, and that is the most rumored one—this can’t be fake, can it?”
"Huh?" I became serious now, "And these things?"
Isana nodded vigorously, and the two white-bearded old men on the opposite side of the table also nodded. It seems that the two of them have also heard these "stories" that are widely circulated in the macro world.
I fell into thinking: there are videos, spaceship logs, and even an eyewitness record by a servant army officer. If a "ghost ship story" is so detailed, it may not be as simple as a folk rumor.
Could it be that it is the same as the "ghost ship" that encountered the exile fleet in the passage of the macro world, and it is also an aircraft that drifted into the void in the old empire era? It's just that this time it's not an exiled race, but an out-of-control old imperial warship
"I'll go back and check what's going on, and see if there is any official sighting report from the military department," I nodded to Isana, and turned to look outside: it's really late now, the streets are already lit up, so I stood up Come, "Then I will withdraw first, you can do it yourself."
Isana waved her hand: "I won't send it if it's too inconvenient for me to jump up."
I:"… "
Before leaving, I suddenly saw those two old men with white beards again, and remembered something very important: "You two had better not stay out too late, the Military Academy is closed at night, what do you two say now? Also a student…”
"It's okay, I'll teleport it in." White Beard No. 1 said, and White Beard No. 2 also nodded: "I'll climb over the wall and go in."
As an institution whose ultimate goal is hard power for students, the Imperial Military Academy has such a rule: no matter whether you climb over the wall or skip classes, whether you cheat or leave early, as long as you can use your own means to get it done without being discovered by the teacher, you will not If you are punished, you can even get extra points if you voluntarily confess afterwards. So I smiled and nodded to the two high-energy old men: "Then I wish you good luck."
As soon as I went out, I sent a message to the Security Section of the Military Academy: "Tonight, the academy will strengthen the closure of the school, and all the walls will be powered on. By the way, the space confinement field will be opened to the stratosphere..."
I felt refreshed when I hung up the communication, and I vaguely realized what my dean was like when I was in No. 2 Middle School. It turns out that this feeling is really good...
I came home a little later than usual today, but just like every time before, as long as I didn't mention eating out, the family would wait for those who hadn't come home to have dinner together. There was a large circle of people sitting around the signature huge dining table, and the battle was like a small banquet. The only vacant seat between Pandora and Viska seemed to be that the sisters fought with other people to get this Feng Shui Baodi, the first thing I did when I sat in the past was to pinch each of the sisters' faces to show their intimacy, and then pinched the two wild jingles who were dozing off on the plate in front of me and put them aside: this meal is another three Fifty bean goddesses accompanied the meal, and several clever little guys had already landed on the shoulders of the elder sister or uncle Kenser, waiting for others to feed them.
"You're back!" An angry reproach came from across Pandora's position on my right, but I couldn't see anyone. I poked my head and looked over, only to see a Gothic doll only a few tens of centimeters tall sitting On the chair, she held a smaller knife and fork to protest. Because of her size, this little guy would be almost surrounded by the backrest and armrests of the chair if she really sat down, so there was a large stack of books under her buttocks, which made it easy for people to see. I was worried that this little guy would fall off. Of course, Pandora and Viska also have books...
"Meet an acquaintance," I explained to the little girl, and the moment I raised my chopsticks, I remembered that I had been back and forth in the teahouse this afternoon and filled my stomach with water and snacks, "Uh..."
"What's wrong with the master? The food isn't good?" An Weena's head popped out of the soup pot in front of me immediately, looking steaming. "Today, I have the stuffed leek stuffed buns that the master likes to eat."
I looked at a ghost head floating on the table but I had long been used to it, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "No, I had some snacks before I came, and I'm not very hungry."
While I was talking, Sandora had already emptied the third bowl of rice porridge.
"Speaking of... about the ghost ship, Sandora, do you know?" I remembered what Isana told me before, and looked up at Sandora, who swallowed a whole bun with all her strength, rolling her eyes. Lu Wulu asked me: "Oh Ning Huan (ghost ship)?"
"It is said that an imperial warship of unknown origin appeared in the macro world," I picked out stuffing from the bun and fed it to Ding Dong and a wild Ding Dong in front of me (otherwise they wouldn't know what was in the bun if they were full). It’s stuffed), and said slowly, “It’s said that it’s amazing. Many interstellar voyagers have said that they have encountered that ship. According to the description, it should be a large mothership, but it’s not like the eternal class. The spaceship is seriously damaged , there is no active signal, nor does it accept calls, and it still retains the ability to sail across the world. At first I thought this was something like an urban ghost story, but I heard that even the servant army has officer witness records, so I wanted to ask Have you heard of it?"
"I heard that there are people reporting to the military department, and there is indeed a report from the servant army." Sandora nodded, and the movement of my hands stopped immediately: "Is there really a ghost ship?!"
Seeing that no one was feeding them, the two bean goddesses ran to look for food by themselves with two toothpicks on their shoulders.
"It's hard to say whether it's true or not. There are indeed voyage logs and video files, but the investigation team sent by the Imperial Army and all monitoring sites have not captured direct evidence, so it is still an unsolved case for the time being." Sandora shook her head, "Just It can be said that this matter is highly suspected to be true. I have more detailed information here: the witness report mentioned that the ghost ship is a special model that has not been recorded in the active spaceship library of the Empire, but it has obvious characteristics of Xiling, the ghost ship Larger than the Eternal-class, it is a giant interstellar ship with a distance of more than 100 kilometers, but because the bow of the ship is damaged, it is not sure how big it is when it is in good condition. The spaceship may be deeply refitted on the scale of the Eternal-class, It is also possible that part of the structure of the Eternal class is integrated. The first half is very similar to the charging section of the main gun of the Galaxy. In addition, the surface energy supply network of the ghost ship should have been paralyzed. The latter's outer equipment, found that all its peripherals were not powered on, but before the support troops called by the officer arrived, the ghost ship seemed to sense something and suddenly jumped out of the world. Oh, by the way, the ghost ship report is submitted You were in the God Realm at the time, so it's normal if you don't know about it—fox, give me the vinegar."
A big furry tail curled up the vinegar jug across half of the table and stretched out in front of Sandora. On the way back, it also took away a bun by the way: Mr. Fox Immortal has more and more functions.
Sandora shared part of the report of the ghost ship, and I observed the sighting pictures taken in a hurry on my data terminal. Most of these pictures are from civilian witnesses, and each picture is accompanied by a note. The witnesses range from workers on cargo ships to tourists on commercial cruise ships. I even saw under one picture that it came from The words of lumei920. Of course, there are also some pictures captured by the spacecraft's automatic observation device, so the impact will be clearer.
The angles of most of the pictures are not very good, and the image is distorted due to the hastily zoomed in on the camera. There is also a picture that is full of oppression: a large silver-gray and devastated armor belt occupies almost three-quarters of the picture-shooting The eyewitness in this picture had a heart attack on the spot and was sent to the infirmary, because the ghost ship was directly brushed out at a distance of less than 100 meters around the spaceship he was on...
It took me a lot of effort to piece together these fragmentary sighting photos from various angles in my mind, and it took me a long time to roughly guess the overall image of the ghost ship: a dilapidated imperial starship, possessed and eternal The bow part of the ship is similar to the class, and the second half is a triple hull arranged in parallel. The main armor belt is silver-gray, and the remaining quarter is painted in black. The imperial emblem can be seen in the middle of the spaceship, but with Part of a certain emperor's private emblem seems to have been lost with the damage to the hull, so Sandora can't tell who the spaceship once belonged to.
Then I turned the information to the end, and I saw a complete and clear picture of a ghost ship with tens of millions of pixels, followed by a short video...
I:"… "
Anyway, the existence of the ghost ship is probably true, and it looks exactly like my guess: it is a trek starship from the old empire era. After all, the New Empire had never built such a ship, and it was obviously not the Fallen Apostle's. The biggest problem now is that this ship does not release any signals, and the possibility of the disappearance of all the crew members cannot be ruled out. It is definitely impossible to establish contact with it by conventional means. And it's running around all over the place—it's no less difficult to catch a spaceship like this in countless universes than to find Jingle on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, worry about it.
I can only wait for more sighting reports to summarize the appearance of the ghost ship. After reading the reports at hand, I think this ship seems to be sailing in a certain way. After all, the universe is so big, but it happens to coincide with other spaceships many times Passing by, this shouldn't be purely a coincidence.
I put aside the matter of the ghost ship for the time being. After dinner, my sister and Anwena were busy packing things. Lin who wanted to help was ordered to watch by the side according to the usual practice. Except for Pandora, all the younger ones were I don't bother to care about the master who will run away after eating. Anyway, most of them are playing hide-and-seek with the mini-Medisons in the yard: they are keen on this recently.
Qianqian read the information on the ghost ship for a long time, but soon lost interest in this thing, she threw the data terminal aside, turned on the TV and changed the channel, and finally found it after searching for a long time. Interesting program: a foreign dubbed documentary about the living habits of foxes.
Master Hu Immortal, who was napping next to me after eating and drinking, became energetic in an instant, and listened to the movement on the TV with his ears open. After watching the TV for a while, his brain suddenly opened up: "Ajun, Ajun, What do you say the fox's name is?"
When I thought about it, I thought that this is really a difficult question to answer. It seems that not many people have heard the sound of a fox barking. Of course, if you say "Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng", then it is a mess— What is the sound of the fox barking
Just this one question completely drove out the messy things like ghost ships in my mind. I frowned and thought about it for a long time, until a big golden tail mischievously wrapped around my neck and I suddenly realized: next to me Isn't there a fox!
I can't be blamed for my slow reaction, the main reason is that Mr. Fox Fairy has a girlish appearance except for the ears and tail. Even though she was lying next to her, I didn't connect Qianqian's question with her for a while.
"Fox, what's your usual name?" I patted Master Fox Fairy's tail.
The demon fox girl looked at me in confusion, hesitated for a moment, and then said cautiously: "Wow! ←← Is this so?"
I choked: "... I asked you what a fox is called, but I didn't ask you what your human form is called!"
The second big tail slapped me on the face, and the fox girl stretched lazily: "I haven't barked for more than a thousand years, forget it."
Me: "..." RS