The tens of thousands of transition interference devices released by the fleet are distributed around the red dwarf star. Once they are activated, the surrounding area of this scorching high-density gaseous star will become a huge trap zone, and the gravitational force will be deflected to tens of thousands of different coordinates At this point, the space readings will fluctuate violently. In this case, all the transition equipment will not be able to start up because they cannot locate themselves. This kind of interference array can even trap the general flagship such as the Imperial Admiral, and deal with that ghost ship. Of course the boat is not a problem.
However, this interference array can only be activated after the ghost ship enters this space. According to Xiaoxue's prophecy, the time left for us to activate the interference array is only three seconds. In order to ensure that there will be no accidents within these three seconds, we specially A mass-produced mainframe was brought to serve as the data link center: her powerful performance can ensure that the entire system can be turned on synchronously without any accidents.
Xiaoxue's prediction was very accurate this time. At the moment when the countdown reached zero, the ghost ship arrived as promised: and it appeared exactly at the point where it should appear.
When the giant ship arrived at the encirclement in a burst of distorted light curtains, all the sensors responded instantly, and the information about the target spacecraft's orientation, size, energy response, etc. was uploaded to the mass-produced engineering ship No. The main engine was processed, and then under the unified control of the mass-produced main engine, the gravitational well array was turned on, the jump blocker was turned on and reinforced, and the tracking probe began to rush to the ghost ship and take root on its surface—the whole process took less than It was completed in a second, and the out-of-control warship that made Hong Shijie panicked was completely controlled.
Our whole family watched this scene on the upper platform of the No. 1 engineering ship, from the ghost ship appearing out of thin air, to the soaring data volume in the information link, to those firefly-like probes rushing out from under our feet and flying towards The goal, everything was completed in a blink of an eye, and I didn't even realize it, until the huge and broken starship floated lifelessly more than ten kilometers away in front of me, and the message "The operation was successful" came from the information link. After the sound of the report, I was sure that the ship had finally been captured.
Xiaoxue was standing beside her. I couldn't help but reach out and pat her on the head: "Okay girl, this time the calculation is quite accurate."
Bear King had a smug smile on his face, but he was still trying to pretend that he was calm: "It's all trivial, anyway, I'm also a prophet... Hey dad, don't rub my hair, I'm not a kid anymore !"
I chuckled, and observed the spaceship more than ten kilometers away with Sandora and the others: As stated in the data, this ancient dilapidated starship is huge in scale, even though it is no longer complete. The remnant part is also tens of kilometers long. Apart from the normal protruding components on the main body of the spaceship, there are still a large number of damages and distortions caused by age and external impacts. The board leaned into space, making the silhouette of the ghost ship seem like a mountain range floating in space, and the dim light of the nearby red dwarf shone on the broken armor belt. Let the surface of the ghost ship glow with a dark red glow... people can't help but think of bloodstains.
I paid special attention to the front end of the spaceship: the structure of this spaceship looks somewhat similar to the Eternal-class battleship, so its front end should be the weapon section, but there is only a large jagged fracture zone left, twisted armor Plates and entangled internal components stick out from the fault zone, like blood vessels and bones bursting from the front end of a stumped limb. Such a tragic injury makes people wonder: what happened to this ancient spacecraft What kind of events turned into this appearance? How did it escape from such a dangerous situation
"It's so miserable..." Sandora was also a little speechless. Although we have seen audio-visual materials of ghost ships in a large number of sighting reports, seeing a few pictures is not the same as seeing them with our own eyes. The pictures taken are rarely able to clearly record the details of the ghost ship. Now that the ship is in front of us, we realize that it is in worse condition than previously expected. Sandora even has a puzzled look on her face: "Look at the damage in the front part of it, it is a fatal injury. If the spaceship encounters There's no reason why it should have survived the way the battle came to be. The ship's energy response is extremely weak, and my radar shows it's almost shut down internally. I can't believe its order field is still active, and it supports Floating in the void until now... What about the test report?"
Sandora's last words were addressed to the main engine of the engineering ship. After the ghost ship is captured. The engineering mothership sent a large number of detectors and engineering sub-machines to check the other party's situation, and several minutes had passed by this time. The rough scan report is almost due.
The straightforward voice of the shipboard main engine sounded in everyone's minds: "Appearance scan: 26% are catastrophically damaged, 30% are severely damaged, and all other parts are slightly damaged. Surface functional scan: The outer layer of the target spacecraft All components were shut down, no active equipment was found, and it was preliminarily judged to be completely out of combat power. In-depth functional scan: The jump engine and void engine of the target spacecraft can still be used, and suppression has been carried out. The rest of the system has a weak energy response, and it is preliminarily judged to be dormant Status or fault shutdown. Core scan: No scan conclusion, there is an interference zone inside the spacecraft, and the core area may still be in operation, it is recommended to conduct an in-depth inspection."
"Is there a life reaction?" Lilina suddenly jumped out and asked - before that, she had been busy squatting on the ground with the little crow and playing backgammon.
The shipboard host was silent for a moment this time, probably because it was busy communicating with the detectors sent out, and then replied: "No life reaction was found, and the possibility of life in the core area cannot be ruled out."
"What do you feel?" I found that Lilina had switched to the demigod form, that is, the elf state with blond hair and green eyes, and asked curiously.
"I don't know if it's an illusion." Liliana blinked her eyes, "I always feel that there are living creatures on that ship... My lady, listen to your disciples' request and show the truth to your disciples!"
This pseudo-lily pretended to pray, and Ding Dong came out of my pocket immediately, and the little thing rubbed his eyes while yelling softly: "I heard you, I heard you, you don't need to send text messages since you are right next to me." Well, and why are you being polite to Jingdong..."
I looked at the master and servant who hadn't slipped away speechlessly, and poked Ding Dong's head with my hand: "Do business: the ghost ship is there. Liliana said that there seemed to be living people in it, but our remote detector was blocked by the core area." The barrier is blocked, you look at the situation."
Ding Dong may have just woken up. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the spaceship, and her first reaction was to say: "Ah! This spaceship is really broken!" Then she remembered to do business. The little one was muttering words there, gesticulating in the air with her little arms and hands for a long time, Finally, I grabbed my clothes and shook them twice: "Maybe there is or maybe there is no... there is really a barrier inside, and my intuition tells Ding Dong that there should be living people inside, but the barrier completely blocks the breath of life."
Liliana said that just now, and now even Ding Dong said that. I suddenly realized the subtlety of the situation: It seems that the interference barrier in the core area of the spacecraft is not an ordinary starship core protection layer, it can even interfere with the perception of the goddess of life, this must be a targeted device!
"This ship should be specially made. Xiaoxue is right, it has something special." Sandora frowned and looked at the ghost ship. Then connect to the front reconnaissance team, "Have you found the entrance to the spaceship? How is the situation inside?"
The person in charge of the reconnaissance force immediately responded: "The gate of the spaceship has been found, but all the normal passages are locked. We are trying to cut a gap from the armor fracture zone next to it... The charged armor of the spaceship has only weak power, so it is easy cut."
Of course it is easy to cut, let alone cutting, Lin Jing can smash the ghost ship into pieces with a merchant ship: it is a miracle that this spaceship can persist until today without disintegrating.
Seeing the expression on Sandora's face, I knew what she was up to, so I took the initiative to contact the reconnaissance team: "After opening the entrance, please stay where you are, and we will go there in person."
The entire empire has become accustomed to the style of the head of state's family throwing their arms at themselves. Moreover, this was not a high-risk operation, so the head of the reconnaissance force accepted the order without hesitation at all.
"Who will follow?" Sandora and I turned our heads to the big family behind us at the same time, but there were very few people who responded, even Qianqian, who wanted to join in the fun, and Xiaoxue, who was afraid of chaos in the world, didn't say a word this time , I looked at the two big and small bears curiously, and stuck out my tongue lightly: "That boat is too ugly..." Xiaoxue followed closely and nodded: "Up to the top floor."
Me: "..." Well, anyway, it's Qianqian, nothing she does should be surprising.
In the end, Lilina still stood up: "Boss, I will go with you. I am Bio-Radar."
A little head popped out of my pocket immediately: "Ding Dong too!"
I took Liliana to my side without any hassle: "Okay. You two are in mutual control."
At this time, I felt someone tugging at the corner of my clothes again, and I turned my head to look. Mai Diwen was standing behind her, this silly bird was excited and said to me happily: "Gah!"
I don't want to correct this stupid bird anymore. She is not a duck but a crow.
Although I don't know what this stupid bird can do to help, but the little crow has the name of a crow god anyway, and I should let her see the world more, so I nodded. So in the end, apart from myself and Sandora, the ones who set off together were Lilina and a silly bird. By the way, they also brought a Ding Dong whose intelligence was maintained at around 9, and the rest of the family were captured by the tattered ghost ship. The appearance spoiled the interest, and those guys who are afraid of chaos in the world are honestly looking after the house this time...
A group of people soon came to the lower armor belt of the ghost ship. There is an entrance and exit that can enter the spaceship. The reconnaissance team set up a small floating outpost next to the entrance. We took over with the leader of the reconnaissance team to understand Looking at the situation of the passage, the tall and thin imperial soldier pointed to the alloy barrier tens of meters away: "The normal gate is completely locked. It is a reinforced gate. It will take time to open it. We have already scanned the gate. The direction of the rear passage is now drilling an inclined well in the connecting groove between the armor belt and the structural plate, you see, it is over there."
I looked in the direction pointed by the imperial soldier, and saw a groove on the shell of the ghost ship that spread to the end of the line of sight. Three autonomous machines were hovering outside the groove, burning them with high-power psionic jets. Eclipse ship armor. This place was originally located on the backside of the sun, and there was no atmospheric diffusion, so it should be pitch black, but the light released by the base of the floating outpost still illuminated the work site as bright as day.
"From the outside, it's really hard to tell which sky zone this ship belongs to." During the few minutes waiting for the inclined shaft to open, Sandora looked up curiously at the shape of the ghost ship. Now we are very close to this gigantic ship tens of kilometers long, so we can't see its whole picture at all. Just a piece of armor plate under its side is like a towering cliff in the eyes of everyone, but Shando At the same time, Ra was also maintaining data communication with nearby probes, so she was observing all the details of the ship's appearance at the same time. After comparing all the appearance features, Sandora shook her head in disappointment: "It's a specially modified model, anyway, I didn't order this thing to be built. The logo of the spaceship should have disappeared into the void along with those missing structures , otherwise I can check the memory bank so I can find out who made it."
I turned my head and glanced at Sandora: "Why do you care so much about who built this ship?"
"Let Xiaoxue feel uneasy after a few words." Sandora curled her lips and smiled. I’ve never seen it before. Don’t you feel uncomfortable with it on your body?”
I thought about the symptoms of my late systemic diffuse obsessive-compulsive disorder, and I didn't dare to continue thinking about it.
Since the armor charging system of the ghost ship has basically been scrapped, it didn’t take much time to drill an inclined shaft next to the armor belt, and soon the autonomous machines drilled a channel that was wide enough, and one of the autonomous machines first Fly in to check the situation, and send back a report from "Internal Security".
I noticed one thing: the moment the inclined shaft was opened. There was no gust of air near the hole, suggesting that the ship was completely depressurized, at least in its outer regions.
Every part of the imperial battleship has automatic repair functions. Even if it is blown up in the middle, as long as its core is still working, the spaceship can seal up the damage by itself, and the current situation of complete loss of pressure shows that the self-repair of this ship has been shut down.
"Let's go in." Without saying a word, Sandora took the lead in teleporting to the entrance of the inclined shaft that was just opened and still glowing with faint blue light, and then flew in first.
The inclined shaft ablated by the high-power nether energy jet is hundreds of meters long. The molten and solidified metal cave wall still glowed with blue fluorescence, but there was only darkness at the end of the inclined shaft: not only the exterior lights of the ghost ship were completely extinguished, but even the interior was completely dark, and even the emergency lighting equipment seemed to be dark. They've all run out of energy.
We walked through the still-hot twilight cave, and came to a wide alloy corridor, which was about ten meters wide. Considering that it leads to the outer gate of the spaceship, this should be a passage for people and small aircraft to enter and exit. I looked around, and the light in my vision was extremely dim. The only "illumination" is the blue fluorescence left by the psionic jet: the autonomous machines have pierced through the structural plates of the spaceship. The nether energy jet also melted part of the ground in the corridor, where the metal was half solidified. And some of them have become crystalline, and these blue crystals are the only light source in sight.
I thought about it, and suddenly I slapped my head, so Alaya was patted out of my mind directly. Sister Angel was thrown into such a dark environment in a daze, and she knew what to do without me telling her, so she immediately Spread your wings to increase your brightness...
Sandora glanced at me silently, walked forward without saying anything, while the little crow curiously went up to touch Alaya's wings, with envy all over her face: Would this silly bird want to put himself bleach it
With Alaya's lighting, moving forward became much easier. We floated forward along this corridor at a fast speed, looking for any markers that could indicate the structure of the spacecraft or at least bear information about the ownership of the spacecraft. This severely damaged ship The spaceship has lost its gravity environment, and there is no air in this section, and we feel like floating in outer space when we are floating in the corridor. The little crow cleverly used her lightning power to create an electromagnetic field, relying on the magnetization of the surrounding alloy walls to fly forward with us, so that the speed was quite fast: now she is already a magnetically levitated crow. Liliana couldn't help but mutter beside her: "Boss, I don't think this bird is stupid at all..."
We quickly passed this long corridor in the ship, and stopped at a fork in the road. Sandora looked at the sign on the wall of the fork in the road, looked at the fork in the left, and said in the spiritual connection: "Two Level control channel... This should lead to the inner zone."
"Then let's go." I didn't think much, I got up and planned to fly to the alloy corridor that looked deeper, but found Sandora floating in place without moving. "What's wrong?"
"I'm thinking about one thing." Sandora seemed to be preoccupied, her brows were slightly frowned, and she looked around the environment, "We've come so far here, why can't we even see a marker?"
I didn't respond for a while: "What do you mean?"
"The logo of the legion, the mark of the sky zone it belongs to, or at least the number of the unit it belongs to." Sandora pointed to the direction when everyone came, and the long alloy passage now looked dark and dark. "There is nothing on the walls along the way. There is nothing on the covers of those embedded devices, and we have not seen any information that can indicate where this spaceship belongs, and you look at the identification plate here."
Sandora pointed to the big blue road sign on the wall of the fork.
"According to the regulations, the number of the spaceship to which it belongs will be written on the corner of this identification plate—there is no such information." (To be continued