This is the assembly platform of the base, next to the take-off and landing platform where we landed, as the largest flat area in the asteroid fortification group, this place is completely cast from silver-gray Imperial alloy, and New Eden is etched on the ground The emblem of the Federation and the coat of arms of the Empire, everything around the assembly platform is brand new.
The smooth building surface, the alloy armor plates that have just been grown by nano builders, the air combat robots that have not yet been activated after assembly, and the spotless crystal matrix, the lifeless base has a brand new feeling everywhere, which makes people feel extraordinarily uncoordinated.
Obviously, we contacted this base once before we set sail, but it has only been 12 hours since the base was abandoned due to an attack, and even the garrison here has disappeared completely. What happened here?
"Ten percent of the power is still maintained here," Viska's voice came from the spiritual connection. She just got out of a functional building that was not fully enclosed in front and was pulling her messy hair. "That's right. Those beacons with warning lights on, they were powered by the spare Protos crystal tower, luckily escaped the attack, and provided the teleportation coordinates for the void wanderer, I have transferred their energy to The artificial gravity generator is on, and that thing will start up in about ten minutes, and the residual crystal energy can maintain gravity for twelve hours, so the heroic spirits who are not used to the space environment can relax a bit."
All of a sudden, everyone's eyes were on one person.
The antenna on King Dumao's head straightened all of a sudden: "I... I'm just not used to this feeling of being helpless. As a knight, I fight on the ground..."
Before she finished speaking, Bedivere gracefully floated over from the front, and noticed Saber's gaze. The latter immediately stood upright in the air, and saluted like a mountain knight: "My king."
"People always have things they are good at and they are not good at." I saw that Arturia's hair was curled up, and I immediately stepped forward and patted the other party's shoulder. Just learn basic physics and you'll be fine..."
How should I put it, I haven't finished talking yet, Saber has already made me fly, she really needs more practice.
Originally, it was impossible for such a guy who could not learn to fight without gravity to participate in this operation, but the pride of the King of Knights did not allow her to hide in a safe spaceship and face a The colossus was in a daze, and the Lion King almost stalked and finally came here like a fart in the name of familiar skills, but now it seems that Saber has a long way to go before learning to walk in space. As a swordsman, she can only honestly be her own space turret—after firing one shot, she can fly for more than 100 kilometers like the Long March 7, and then be towed back by the tug boat to fire the second shot.
Fortunately, at this moment, the life-saving artificial gravity was finally restored. Seeing that Artoria, who was about to float out of the assembly platform and fly to the sea of stars, danced in the air and lay down on the edge of the platform, Miss R beside me immediately sighed in disappointment Tone: She has all the chains ready, just waiting to throw spears to tie people up.
Ms. R is completely out of school now.
"The damage to the base is not serious." Wiska walked ahead of us immediately. As the person with the strongest military expertise on the scene, the little girl was finally superior. They were all put into battle in time, and some battleship fragments collected nearby and the damaged scars on the front of the base showed that the enemy's main force was not too close to here, but because the base was not well built and the energy shield output was insufficient, further In addition, the enemy may have super weapons, and the defensive barrier was first breached when the base's firepower was full, and then, a little bit of bad luck—"
Viska pointed to two small spots in the distance. There were two asteroids flying away from the building complex. The alloy skeleton connecting them to the main body of the base was blown off from the front, and then thrown out. There may be other planets in the middle. Something collided with it, and finally turned into two hapless eggs spinning rapidly.
"The Psionic Reactor was hit head-on... Those idiots... I gave them so much technology, but the imitation I made was still at such a level that I couldn't even replicate the technology of the Space-Time Reactor..."
Keep your mouth shut, my precious sister, not all races can use quantum brains as daily computing tools.
The power area of the base has been torn apart, and there may be a large dose of psionic energy leaking, and there are no survivors. The several heroic spirit teams who came down with us were divided into three directions, and went to investigate the storage area, residential area and In the armed production area, the bonus from the Temple of the World Tree makes them more sensitive than the Xiling life detection device, and we move closer to the command center in the center of the base. The golden pyramid-shaped building, the star spirit hub seems to be Not seriously damaged, maybe there's something worth collecting inside.
"The base has not been completely destroyed, but the most critical buildings have been destroyed." Viska's blood-red cat pupils released a faint red light, as if scanning the structures of the surrounding buildings. "There is no sign of overloading the conventional energy pipelines." , and so far there is no sign of the base being landed on a large scale by the enemy. The troops stationed here should have successfully driven off the first wave of enemies, but they chose to retreat after discovering that the base was unable to work and their location was exposed. Took pretty much everything I could... huh?"
Viska suddenly noticed something, ran to the front quickly and then ran back holding something the size of a water tank.
"Protos' probe seems to be broken, but there are no scars on the surface. The builder may still remember something."
The little guy had an excited expression on his face. He was 1.2 meters tall and held a "water tank" that was almost as big as her, which seemed light and insignificant. There was a shake.
... Even if it is not broken, it should be almost the same by now. This girl is really used to those monster machines produced by the empire.
As the most important daily work unit, Protos's probes have naturally been transformed by Xiling Technology, but they are all internal improvements for the AI system and energy system, and their appearance is still so simple and round. , the front half is a variety of industrial ray focusing prisms like big eyes, a fat alloy belly in the middle, and an anti-gravity device and propeller at the tail. Now Viska is lying in front of its big eyes, holding the shiny crystal with its small hands. The focusing prism, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, he pulled it out.
This violent woman didn't have time to study the superficial Protosian automaton, she just detected the memory core of the latter near the head, and wanted to find the nearest way to dig it out.
"Hey girl, be careful not to break it..."
I hurried forward to stop Viska's violent dismantling, and suddenly, the "eyes" of the probe lit up.
A beam of blue-white high-energy material flow hit Viska head-on before I could react, and the latter's small head was immediately tilted back by more than 90 degrees, and the little girl's violent movements suddenly froze.
It was still a moment when I didn't realize it. As soon as Viska, who was suddenly attacked, pulled back and swept his legs, the entire prism part of the probe shot out.
Nice brute force solution.
"Tch, I knew this kind of idiot AI was unreliable," Viska muttered, reached out and pulled out a triangular crystal block from the head of the squeaking probe, and turned his face to show off at me, "Hee hee , My lord brother, this kick didn't break... Eh? What's wrong?"
Shall I remind her to look in the mirror
I was hit by the particle gun of the probe's self-defense. Although it didn't break the defense, it was completely black.
"Wow..." Viska finally realized that his little face might have looked like the background color of the universe, and hurriedly took out a handkerchief and wiped it, "Damn... that thing's attack power is too low, and the automatic shield didn't activate at all... I didn't expect How could it be like this..."
Ah, a face that is resistant to particle guns, and doesn't even bother to activate the shield, Viska, are you forcing me to complain
He and his elder sister wiped Viska's dark face one by one. In the end, it just made the little girl change into a big face. I don't know the reason for the attack just now. It's not very powerful, but it's quite colorful .
By the way, Viska's face feels really good, soft, if you don't remind me, no one would have thought that this thing can resist armor-piercing bullets.
"Okay, now let's see what this nasty probe has recorded."
Just like a child playing with a temper, Viska wiped her black and white face vigorously, and held the removed memory core in her hand. She did not see any other movements, and the memory core was It lights up by itself.
A few seconds passed with no movement.
"... Well, my lord, wait a minute, this is coded in the Protos language, my next compatibility pack..."
It turns out that the constant sound of "didi beep" in your stomach from just now is because of this
"Okay." Viska downloaded the language library from Void Cruiser's mainframe, and finally analyzed the memory of the broken crystal, "Let me see... spaceships, miscellaneous troops, pirate attacks, there seems to be nothing of value... um In the end, it was attacked by some kind of space weapon, and the shield was overloaded. The pirate group here is quite powerful... My lord, this base was attacked by local pirates.”
pirate? Pirates who can afford space weapons? How great is it to build a country with this strength
Viska tossed the poor memory core for at least five minutes, until the latter turned into a gaseous state in a flash of light, and all its information was finally extracted. The probe witnessed the base being attacked by a huge mixed fleet The whole process, but it is not sure whether the latter is a pirate or not—there is no difference between the pirates in this world and the government army. At the end of the memory, the probe recorded an order for the entire army to retreat. A safe new base was found, but the probe was destroyed at that moment. The location where the army finally evacuated could not be recorded, and it might not be so easy to find other memories. It was carried away, and the rest were some tatters.
A tall figure fell beside him lightly like the wind, and Medusa, who went to investigate the residential area, came back.
"It smelt of blood and death, but no bodies were found."
Sister Zi Changzhi reported a little discouraged, and behind her, followed by a group of disgraced heroic spirits ABCD.
"We dug up a hollowed-out asteroid," Ms. R's mouth turned up slightly, "but I ran out in time."
Hey, your team members are obviously buried, right? Even if you know that Heroic Spirits won't get hurt so easily, give me a sense of leadership, okay
"As a woman, if it's dirty, doesn't it affect your image?" Faced with my complaints, Ms. R turned her head unnaturally, and then she was facing a dirty cat face at the top and bottom, and she was covered in cold sweat. "General Viska is very sorry, please don't mind what I just said to myself"
"The storage area and the armed production area are the same. There are no corpses, no wreckage, and the evacuation is clean." The other two groups of heroic spirits also rushed back, and their findings were similar. "All the buildings are now empty shells. Everything that can be moved has been moved."
"Well, if the strategy shifted after repelling the enemy, they would definitely take away everything they could, and the bodies of their comrades would certainly not just be left in the abandoned base. There was nothing, and there were no base buildings. The signs of being violently opened at least indicate that the remaining people retreated in an orderly manner under safe conditions, but it’s a bit strange,” I looked around the dark and dead asteroid complex, and the few building lights that were still operating Distorting everything into a grotesque way, "Even if they abandon the base, they should report to the rear, but Elsword has not received the communication at all, and there is no code that can explain their whereabouts. Could it be that those garrisons evacuated? Didn't you know we'd be there soon?"
"Who knows," my lord sister drew circles on the ground, "There is nothing left, and there is no way to investigate. What are the evacuated exploration troops doing..."
"Uh, what, sister," I watched my elder sister drawing circles on the alloy floor with trepidation, feeling that the surrounding temperature might be approaching absolute zero, "what are you doing?"
"Destroy this place in a while, and release a chain curse by the way, so that the guys who attacked here will suffer bad luck. Well, I'm not very skilled. The actual effect and success rate cannot be guaranteed, and I don't know how aliens breed offspring. …”
Seeing my elder sister, covered in black mist, speaking such creepy words in a calm and breezy tone, even Medea, who is known as a witch, rushed ten meters away, her face full of "good card" Pa, people in the empire really like Kapa's expression, and I am eager to know, it all involves the issue of the way people reproduce, my innocent and gentle sister in the past, what are you cursing now...
At this moment, Sakura's voice suddenly sounded in the communication link, with a little nervousness: "This is the communication tower, here is the communication tower... There is a small spaceship approaching, and its target is this base, should the operation be terminated? "
"Spaceship?" Elder Sister stood up, "Are you sure there is only one small spaceship?"
"Well, it just jumped out thousands of kilometers away, and its body length is only about 500 meters. According to your classification method, it should be considered a small spaceship. The target speed is not fast, but it will definitely reach the sky over the base within two hours. .”
"Don't rush to attack." I was also very curious about a lonely small spaceship that suddenly appeared at this time. I didn't know what the opponent was, so I immediately ordered, "The Void Wanderer sank into the fold of space. The heroic spirits in the spirit body become invisible, let's see what the other party is doing."
A minute later, we all entered the invisible state, hiding in the corners and waiting for the small spaceship of unknown origin.
Just as Sakura reported, about two hours later, the slow spaceship finally appeared.
"It's broken..."
This is the first sigh of elder sister.
Looking at the rectangular spaceship struggling to find a landing point on the takeoff and landing platform, it seems that one of the engines is still malfunctioning, and I wholeheartedly agree.
It’s okay if the hull is a little damaged, it’s right to stand the baptism of war, and some traces of transformation can be ignored. Anyway, the spaceship in this universe is a hodgepodge of various technologies, but—the two large armor plates on the belly of the broken spaceship are obviously different from the surrounding one color? One of the eight engines arranged in two rows at the back of your butt is obviously out of ignition, right? The piece of iron sheet that flutters in the wind (if there is wind) at the stern is definitely not designed like this
And I don't know if it's an illusion. Among the antennas in the middle of the hull, there seems to be one... or is it tied to the bracket with wire
Can this weird thing really go into space? How did you get out of the atmosphere? More importantly—this thing really jumped over? The pilot of the spaceship over there, I apologize to the physicists of the universe
"I... I need to re-evaluate the technological creativity of those lower races," Viska stared blankly at the rectangular spaceship with a simple shape like a large piece of sliced bread, especially its iron wire tied to the bracket. Antenna, "The war-damaged spaceships that we re-trained are stronger than this one. How did it break away from gravity?"
When we were so godly, the dilapidated spaceship that was almost challenging the limits of technology finally completed its landing. It took fifteen minutes to find a balance, which was enough for others on the battlefield I beat it into briquettes, and the moment I saw this scene, I came to a conclusion: the enemy in front of me is definitely not the enemy who attacked this base, otherwise I would have to shoot all the exploration teams stationed here one by one in the deep space. .
In this cruel universe, there are such strange spaceships who dare to single-handedly go to ashes, I immediately lost my hostility towards them, and then patted Viska on the head: "Girl, try to monitor their communication channel. "
"The invasion has been successful for a long time." Viska squinted his eyes, and his small face rubbed a piece of dust on my pants. "It's too easy. I'm afraid you can listen to it directly with an FM radio. …”
Hey, this is over... V