"Wait, you just said that you crashed into a ghost ship?!" I interrupted the chattering herbaceous plant, who seemed to be startled by my sudden loud voice, and the leaves all over his body trembled vigorously , and then the sharp voice came from the mechanical device under its stalk again: "Yeah, ghost ship, isn't this news buzzing, you should have heard of it in Shadow City, right? Out-of-control imperial warships wandering around What, quite a few people have seen it—but we should be the only ones who were unlucky enough to bump into it. (Book River Novel Network Www.Shuhe.Cc full text without pop-up window)”
Now even Sandora became serious. She touched the leaves of the "Mimosa" plant: "Did you hit it? Wasn't it because of an exchange of fire or any other conflict? What happened at that time?"
"Yeah, the city management and sub-district offices of Shadow City still take care of this?" Mimosa swayed and jumped up and down uneasily, "You guys are really responsible, you are much more humane than I imagined. In fact, the day before yesterday when the spaceship was in port for maintenance Our boss has already done an accident report with the Space-Time Management Center, but since you also want to know, let me tell you, I am the navigator monitor of the spaceship, and I happen to know more."
The plant twisted its body as if it was going to make a long speech, and then it/she/he spoke: "Our Lin Jing caravan is a large caravan, and those who carry some luggage in the carry-on space alone, at the hub〖 There are different people who run around the crossing gate of the square to do small business. We do business with a large cargo merchant ship, which is a good ship. Our boss bought it from the New Eden Federation for a large price Retired military products, it is said that one-fifth of the components are from the empire, and that thing runs really fast... "
"Get to the point!" Sandora and I shouted in unison.
Mimosa shivered: "Okay, okay, let's talk about the main point. In short, we have a large cargo merchant ship. Before that, we have been doing short-term trade in several jump areas in the macro world. Recently, there is a Fiali Void. Consortium? This consortium is attracting many caravans to organize a larger trade network, and our boss has moved his mind. A few days ago, a group of heavy elements came in from the Kaibola III star cluster and planned to discuss cooperation with the Void Consortium. Our Because the merchant ship is a decommissioned military product, it has a cross-world engine, so it did not go through the large civilian world gates set on fixed routes, but applied for the [self] free route according to the regulations, and the accident happened on this [self] free route On board—everyone who encounters a ghost ship is a spaceship that takes the 〖自〗 free route! We set off from Kaibola III, transfer to the Odymion Three-Realm Alliance, and sign the ticket at the Grand Cross Tianjiao Void Station... "
Sandora and I couldn't help it again: "Get to the point!"
Mimosa trembled again: "Then I hit the ghost ship."
I bumped my head against my fist: How can this green plant speak more worryingly than Sylvia: "Now we can talk about the details!"
"You guys are so strange. It is necessary to distinguish between different bit rates for external transmission of information. My thinking transcoder is going to be overloaded." The ticket was transferred to the Galactic Civilization Community, and there was one more stop to the capital of the empire. Everyone relaxed a little, and the boss suggested relaxing, so we all jumped off the workbench and ran to the rest pit to water ourselves, And basking in the simulated daylight. Lin Jing likes this best - then the ghost ship suddenly appeared only a dozen kilometers in front of our merchant ship: it is definitely the largest spaceship I have ever seen, it is like a space city .”
"So when the ghost ship appeared. There was no one on all the consoles of the spaceship..." I stared at the plant dumbfounded, "Don't you have any operating procedures or something?"
"Yes, there is only one rule: when you water yourself, don't splash on the equipment." The mimosa shrank its leaves. "The Lin Jing is a romantic and [free] race...and we have a talent: the mechanical body that lives with us It can be guaranteed that Lin Jing will not make too many mistakes."
I looked at the mechanical components under the other party's roots: "This thing can't stop you from watering and basking in the sun during the flight of the spaceship."
"This is a survival behavior, and the judgment of mechanical components is relatively weak in this respect." Mimosa swayed, "In short, when the ghost ship appeared, we couldn't control the spaceship, but everyone saw that spectacular thing on the monitor in the rest pit The screams resounded through all the rest pits, and more than half of the spirits dug wildly to bury themselves. I saw the boss trying to use voice control to remind the spaceship to avoid, but he stuttered too much. But in the end, the main engine on the spaceship It finally worked: it is worthy of being a decommissioned military product. When the collision was about to happen, the shipboard host forcibly activated a hidden security protocol and took over most of the spacecraft's equipment—that is, everything except our greenhouse and solar simulator. Equipment, the spaceship swayed at a very violent angle, the second half of the cargo compartment and an auxiliary engine slammed into the protrusions on the edge of the ghost ship, oh, that was very powerful, the hull vibrated as if it was about to disintegrate, I And two unlucky ones were thrown out of the rest pit and hit the sun simulator. The photosensitive vision component was burned out at that time. But anyway, we escaped, although the price was a bit high: the second half of the spacecraft was hit Falling apart, the cargo bay is gone, and an engine is missing, but the reliable access control and self-healing drones are plugging all the leaks so no one dies, the wounded thank goodness they're still alive In the next two days, the boss has been borrowing fat to relieve his worries. Our beautiful "Grass Ark" came to Shadow City in a dilapidated appearance like a poor drifting boat. It was lying in the maintenance dock that afternoon. The good news is that the goblin insurance company covers accidental damage from ghost ship strikes—good thing those green-skinned profiteers didn't know we were all sunbathing in the rest pit when the ship hit."
This Lin Jing quite likes to talk, although it is a bit nagging, but it tells the whole ghost ship collision incident vividly and vividly. We know what happened to this unlucky air crash, and by the way, we also know that herbs also have the habit of deceiving insurance...
However, considering that this unlucky caravan may have almost lost their money this time. And those goblin profiteers who run insurance companies across the world are rich and powerful anyway, so I decided to pretend that I didn't hear it/her/his last two words.
"So your collision was a complete act of death." I rubbed my chin and thought about it. "It's still impossible to determine the behavior pattern of the ghost ship. It didn't do anything actively from the beginning to the end."
While it's impossible to say for sure how ghost ships behave, there's one thing I'm sure of: Ghost ships do seem to be real.
Before, I was 99% convinced and 1% skeptical about this rumored ghost ship, but now a victim who had just suffered an air crash was in front of me, and the matter of the ghost ship I really didn't run away.
"Then what. Is the investigation and evidence collection over?" Seeing that we hadn't spoken for a long time, Mimosa couldn't help but said, "If you can, can you do me a favor? Send me to the nearest teleportation point, and I'll go back to the hotel... the gang Those who die without conscience will not know if someone is left behind."
I looked at the short mechanical legs under this herb plant. Although those little claws can't run as fast as humans, they should be able to run a distance of several hundred meters. Why is it/she/he so lazy
"We are plants after all." Hearing my doubts, Mimosa swayed its leaves and said, "Spirits don't like to travel long distances, we prefer to plant in the soil. And walking takes a lot of energy, and it's night again. Even the sun There's nothing you tell me to do."
I shrugged and grabbed this strange new citizen (or called a new tourist? Lin Jing should not be registered as a permanent resident of Shadow City), and walked to the civilian teleportation point on the street with Sandora, hoping Ling and Sylvia squatted by the side and studied the soil for a long time. At this time, we saw that we were about to leave, so we hurriedly followed.
oh. It was Xi Ling who hurried to follow, and she dragged Sylvia who hadn't reacted by the way.
There are civilian teleports on every street and in all crowded places in Shadow City. This silver-white thick cylinder looks like a trash can at an intersection (don’t complain about this metaphor, it really does). It adopts multiple interaction modes and accepts most frequencies of thinking input. It can be used by all residents of Shadow City. I Enter the teleportation destination according to the inn that Lin Jing said, and then everyone retreated to the outside of the teleportation area, watching that the mimosa plant was gradually shrouded in a distorted light curtain, at this time Sylvia seemed to react suddenly, facing the place that was about to teleport The walking Lin Jing waved: "Oh, Mr. Lin Jing, hello, my name is Sylvia..."
Everyone: "..." This reaction speed!
That mimosa vigorously swings its branches and leaves the last sentence: "Our forest spirit is a hermaphroditic plant!"
I know how to call Mimosa this time, it's not polite to call it, let's call him...
After the mimosa disappeared into the teleportation light, Sandora held her chin and said thoughtfully: "Ah Jun, what do you think of this ghost ship?"
"It's always a problem." I thought for a while, "After all, it may be something left over from the old empire, or a military unit out of control. It's okay if it appears on the route, but it will be a lot of fun if it suddenly appears over a colony at any time." Yes. And based on experience... something that survived the disaster of the old empire and continues to this day must be somewhat special, and that thing is quite interesting."
"Actually, I've been paying attention to the ghost ship these days when you're out, and there have been four or five more sighting reports of it in the past few days." Sandora looked up at the deep night sky, "By the way, Xiaoxue made a few vague predictions ... Although there is no direct prediction result, but Xiaoxue sees that the ship seems to have some connection with me."
I was suddenly surprised: "I still have contact with you? Could it be something that belonged to you back then?"
After the collapse of the old empire, the Fifteen Sky Zone is the best preserved area. Although Sandora survived, the only remaining power left by her is her personal guards and the revenge fleet "Princess Warsong" that was reassembled in the past. The universes that ruled were basically falling apart, and the armies and strongholds that once housed those worlds certainly did not survive. But in recent years, we have been discovering remnants of the old empire. They come from various sky zones. They are all things that escaped with world fragments or material leaks in the universe after the collapse of the old empire. Naturally, they also include Sandora’s former sky zone. relic. If the ghost ship is such a relic, it really must be recycled.
"I'm not sure yet." Sandora shook her head, "I don't remember that I ordered the construction of that type of spaceship back then, and I couldn't see the logo of the Vengeance Army on the ghost ship—we have all seen the sighting pictures of the ghost ship, I don't think that's my thing."
We were talking about the ghost ship, and Sylvia suddenly yawned and stretched her waist: "Yawn—I want to sleep—you talk slowly—"
When Sandora and I were talking next to each other, Sylvia was always distracted. At this time, I don’t know how many circles her head went around, and she finally got herself trapped, but I looked up at the moon in the sky . Finding that the current time is only past eight o'clock, I suddenly became curious: "Why do you go to bed so early every day? It's only half past eight."
"Bella Villa's activities will consume energy." Sylvia became confused at a speed visible to the naked eye, and couldn't open her eyes at this time, "She has been helping Aurelia build a star pool for the past two days, so I'm... hehe —”
And then this amazing silver mole just fell asleep standing up!
I looked at this slow half-timer who can stand and sleep with admiration, and at the same time I was a little moved by her and Bella Villa's diligence (although Bella Villa is mainly diligent. But Sylvia is also responsible for Bella Vera is cooking), and then together with Xiling sent this confused and defenseless guy back to her small shop and home. It was really getting late at this time, and the time I spent walking outside with Sandora was a little bit beyond the plan, so we said goodbye to Xiling and went home.
As soon as I got home and entered the living room, the first thing I saw was the Firefox browser next to the sofa in the center of the room... the combination of the fox pressing a ball. Bingtis pushed the replica artifact to the living room, and fixed it with a circle of seemingly temporary brackets underneath. And that bastard fox is still lying on the ball and pretending that she can connect to the Internet. Of course she is awake at this time, and she is watching Korean dramas with the little puppet while crunching and eating potato chips—see The taste of these two, my daughter is almost spoiled by the bastard fox!
"These two people have been secretly in love for more than 30 episodes. Human beings are so stupid." The little puppet grabbed the remote control that was a bit too big for her. While watching TV and commenting, the fox next to him wagged his tail: "Yeah. It's really stupid. Human love is too troublesome, so it's not as convenient as animals."
I went up and switched the TV to Animal World, and then grabbed the fox by the ears: "Now let me watch porn, okay?"
The fox's face turned red immediately, and his nine tails crackled like a hot wheel and slapped me on the back: "Why are you so dirty, you have become a fairy, and now you are a human..." At this time, she happened to see a jaguar on TV. **Cycle, quickly covered his face: "Ah! Felines are not ashamed..."
Me: "..." This fox is basically useless, do you have any objections
"Idiot, are the snacks for me?" The little puppet climbed onto the back of the sofa and wanted to snatch the TV remote control, but it saw the snack bag in my other hand first, and its eyes lit up immediately, and the voice spoke. Before falling, I snatched the handbag and picked up what I liked first. Although I have said it before, I will say it again now: How does this puppet digest food
In fact, I have always wanted to ask: if she eats so much greasy puffed food, will the mainspring really not rust
I looked around the living room looking for Bingtis. Usually, at this time, the female hooligans would play poker with a random combination of some of the protoss five-member group, but this time I searched around and didn't see her. The poker player There are indeed guys: Monina and Ilsen are teaming up to bully Lin, and Uncle Kenser is beside him no matter who plays the card, it is very good to say something.
"Where's the hooligan leader?" I pointed to the Firefox browser while talking, "She left the magic weapon here? This fox is almost using the magic weapon as a bed."
Ding Dong didn't know which corner came out, and landed on my shoulder, yelling in a soft voice: "She was in Madison's room, teaching that crow how to maintain its wings. She took this artifact Gave it to the fox..."
Me: "... Is it really okay to casually use such an important thing as a toy for this bastard?!"
The fox slapped my back twice with its tail in protest, but it didn't hurt or itch.
"Anyway, I can't figure out what's going on after studying it. Why don't you give it to the fox and let her play with it? That's what Bingtis said." Dingdang Chi slipped into my pocket and was very agile." The fox seems to like this ball very much Looks like. And what is the Firefox browser?"
I laughed dryly, thinking that the three-minute enthusiasm of that female hooligan was over immediately: in the afternoon, she vowed to crack the secret hidden in the artifact.
Sandora seemed to be preoccupied. She looked at the big ball emitting a faint golden light, and frowned slightly: "I don't know how long it will take for the protoss to read the contents stored in the artifact."
"Even Father God has forgotten what the original reading rules and equipment are like." I shook my head, "Then we can only place our hopes on the experts and scholars of the Protoss. But at least there is good news: the artifact is in our hands , the clues of the home world are in our hands, and the fallen apostles are completely behind and kept in the dark in this respect."
Sandora's frowning brows finally eased, and she nodded slowly.
I looked at the golden ball thoughtfully. This ancient relic, which is as old as my home world, and possibly at the same age as the home world’s catastrophe, definitely records more than just one coordinate. It also records The situation of my hometown world and many surrounding universes at that time, I don’t know if it’s an illusion, I always feel that the gate of the abyss that destroyed my hometown world is weird, so what is recorded in this artifact...
Can this mystery be solved? (to be continued...)