Shortly after the fleet entered the void, we arrived at the lair of the ghost fleet. For the area ruled by the empire, these floating corpses in the void were indeed too close—although there is no concept of distance and coordinates in the void, the proximity of information is still This place is the only standard for judging the "distance". The Royal Fleet arrived at the position of the Ghost Fleet almost only once after information calibration, which shows how close the "distance" between the two is to the bottom of the abnormality.
With the empire's void detection technology, coupled with the sensitivity of the macro world network to void fluctuations, and the special ability of the death garden system, we have only detected the coordinates of the ghost fleet in such a close situation, and this is still being dispatched Under the premise of tracking the probe, I have to say that this is a matter that makes the intelligence department very embarrassing. If it weren't for the fact that this group of ghost warships is really special, I think the intelligence chief should have found a crack in the ground at this time and retreated to practice. up.
After approaching, we discovered that there is an extremely powerful information interference layer near the ghost fleet. This information interference layer may be an important factor that protects so many warships from floating in the void until now. Build a signal that simulates the barrier of the world to "deceive" the void, so that the fleet inside itself can be as safe as it is in a material universe, although we don't know whether this interference layer is formed by countless warships, or because there is a barrier in the huge fortress at the core of the ghost fleet The role of this barrier is amazing enough: except for the Xiling Empire, I have never seen such a large-scale gadget from other civilizations.
The Royal Fleet did not feel anything when it passed through this layer of information interference, but it suddenly shook. According to Sandora, this vibration was the movement of us penetrating through the protective barrier of the Ghost Fleet. I was very conscious of the group of spaceships. It's broken now, otherwise I'm afraid I have to start thinking about the compensation for the demolition...
Sandora and I sat on the officer's platform with a dignified expression. Sandora was seriously analyzing the information from the lower information link, and I was pretending to analyze the same thing seriously, while Sister Pandora was whispering something. Something, when the huge swarm of the ghost fleet appeared on the radar, Sivis reported that some ghost ships did have more active energy reactions than other warships, but they were all located in the core of the swarm, far away from the swarm border. There is a distance of a million kilometers, and the energy interference along the way is serious, and the shipboard detection equipment cannot scan more accurate signals.
Sandora has been waiting for this moment for a long time, and immediately ordered: "Send out the scout fleet and probe bee swarms to search for ghost ships along the way, and the main force will continue to advance to the black core. Be careful to set up gravitational wells along the way. In this place, don't take it lightly."
Pandora also began to give orders to her heavy guards. Although she stood as tall as Sandora sitting on the officer's platform, she was no less imposing than the latter: "The escort fleet is launched, and the extremely fast artillery positions are deployed. Prepare to fight and counter any ghost ships that act hostile!"
Following the order of the two, the Royal Fleet first changed its formation. A group of carrier ships broke away from the main force and released a large number of agile and advanced scout spaceships. Experienced imperial agents, they form a group of three, quickly spread out and rush to the nearest ghost ship, and start scanning these silent graves, while special warships begin to deploy gravitational wells and various space blocking devices: In this era, there can never be too much caution, especially if the Fallen Apostle might jump out of a certain corner and give us a brick...
The Pandora Heavy Guard Legion located on the outer layer of the Royal Fleet then took action. The medium-sized warships and aircraft carriers accounting for 80% of the entire legion expanded the formation of the fleet until the range of the joint shield reached the limit, and expanded the inner layer of the fleet. After space, these warships who especially like the art of explosions began to continuously deploy super-heavy cannon turrets. The latter is one of the signature tracks of Pandora's heavy armored corps. One round of the Garrison Cannon, the other part...is another Garrison Cannon...in typical Pandora fashion.
The two fortress cannons occupy 90% of the energy supply and slot positions of the entire turret, making this super-heavy space sentry basically defenseless, so they can only be deployed in the inner layer of the solid joint shield, That's why the Guards Legion wanted to expand the range of the joint shield just now. Pandora's thinking when formulating this tactic was this: first, we set up a large enough position, and then desperately stuffed it with artillery and explosives. Just deployed...
What a militaristic act you said, Pandora is too ruthless. I think that when I fought with others in junior high school, every time I brought a brick, I was evaluated by the teacher as a fierce and stubborn person. If I was like her and not only carried A brick is still floating around and two magnetically levitated bricks... I should have asked the Chinese Academy of Sciences to slice it.
But no matter what, I admit that this kind of thing is indeed quite deterrent. At least this tactic of using the cluster advantage to expand the firepower to the extreme can allow one spaceship to exert the dps of three spaceships, although the endurance and protection Therefore, it is greatly discounted, but Pandora's strategic thinking has always been "explode the enemy first and then you will be safe", so it is used today.
And when Pandora was arranging the fort artillery positions, Viska was doing the same thing, but her legion hadn't been formed yet, so this girl's warships were simply mixed with Pandora's guards. As a result, among every dozen or so silver-gray warships on the battlefield, there will be a black and red painted stand out from the crowd. At a glance, it looks like a group of captains have mixed in...
"All the fortress guns have locked on to the large ghost ship within the range," Viska's eyes have begun to flow bits and pieces of energy light flow, and her sister also has the same virtue as her, "It is estimated that the instantaneous firepower coverage can reach 4%. Ten, considering that most of the ghost ships are non-military civilian ships, it can be considered that the threatening forces of the targets are all within the range of the legion's instant annihilation."
"The outer layer of the Ghost Fleet has been scanned, and no traces of life or activation have been found."
At this time, the reconnaissance team who went to investigate the situation also sent back news, which was expected. After reporting these, they immediately accelerated and rushed to the deeper part of the gyroscopic starship cluster. There, the shipboard scanner Some active ghost ship signals have been detected.
"Be careful, they may counterattack." I reminded, and then turned my attention to the huge ghost ships around.
Frankly speaking, this is the first time I have come into contact with the entity of the ghost ship. Before that, I have always learned about these things through eyewitness reports and video materials. I have never seen the real thing. Now they are in front of my eyes. It feels naturally different.
In terms of average size, there is a considerable gap between the ghost ship and the imperial warship. Used to be watched. Ninety percent of the painting of the ghost ship is black or very dark red, which looks oppressive and heavy. It is related to their ghost name, and it gives people a feeling like a dead grave. The design style of these spaceships is The center is full of thick and "solid" lines, and spherical and semi-arc protrusions can be seen everywhere on the surface of the hull. Under these curved parabolic shells, there are slowly flashing gray-blue energy flows, which are distributed in parallel one by one, as if some kind of The carapace cracks of arthropod insects, this design style is very different from the straight and rigid lines and rough and atmospheric shapes that are common in the empire. I am used to the sharp and clear shapes of imperial warships (a certain round expeditionary class is the only exception. That kind of fortress ship can only be regarded as an accident), and when I saw these ghost ships, I felt that they were a bit nondescript and ugly.
"It looks like these things are shaped like rotten potatoes," Qianqian commented, "the aesthetics are too bad."
Lilina shook her head: "I look like animal internal organs, a lot of rotten meat."
I quickly threw this girl aside, this guy's words are too disgusting...
At this moment, the echo of the first wave of reconnaissance troops came from the communicator: "Report sir! We have landed on the ghost ship! This ship showed an activation reaction a minute ago, and it has some kind of response to the approach of the reconnaissance troops. , but it suddenly fell silent after we took emergency measures, and the ship will send personnel to land to investigate the situation."
The ghost ship that the reconnaissance troops landed is a large spaceship close to the inner ring of the starship cluster, with a length of 23 kilometers. Seeing that this unremarkable black battleship has been blasted with two big holes in the front by light missiles...
I think I know what the "emergency measures" mentioned by the commander of the reconnaissance force just now are.
Several well-trained imperial agents entered the ghost ship after turning on the stealth system, and the scene around them was transmitted in real time on the screen. The interior of the ghost ship was the same as its appearance, and it felt like an animal tissue. Ragged cables can be seen everywhere in the black corridors and pipes. They are not buried under the walls of the corridors, but exposed to the outside. They look like muscles and blood vessels exposed after the muscles are torn off, and they are also a bit like intertwined vines. Occasionally, a flash of light can be seen between the cables, indicating that the energy system of the ghost ship is still operating normally. The imperial agents who penetrated into the spaceship carefully advanced for a while, and found that there was no life response on the various detectors. An agent from the Psychic Force began to scan the surrounding area.
"There is no mental reaction or advanced logic process, here is 'dead'."
The agents lifted their invisibility, but remained vigilant, held their weapons tightly and continued to move forward. There is still an atmospheric environment inside the ghost ship, which allows sound to be transmitted inside. The hollow echo of military boots on the alloy corridor is the only sound in the ghost ship. This group of soldiers walking in the dark and strange spaceship seems to be walking in a nightmare. The scene transmitted from the communicator is like a weird horror movie made by a director who won seven or eight statuettes at the Oscars. The screen jumps out diagonally, and three aliens pop out, so I will process and post this video to Hollywood...
The first-hand information of the agents on the scene kept coming: "The artificial air pressure is normal, and the pressure fluctuation has ended. It seems that the ship has blocked the hole by itself."
"We seem to be walking in a channel for people to pass through, which is unusually wide. It is possible that the maker of the ghost ship is a group of huge creatures. Signs with unknown meanings are found along the way. The general information analysis rules indicate that they may exchange points indicating directions and positions. There were emergency lights on the walls, but the main lights couldn't be activated, the power was cut."
"...the artificial atmospheric environment contains a large amount of ozone and chlorine, and three out-of-sequence elements were found. It is initially determined that the crew of these ships are carbon-based organisms, but no life remains have been found."
"Okay, the corridor has come to an end... Well, sir, it's strange, the energy flow of the ghost ship seems to have stopped, and the instrument shows that the internal pressure of psionic energy nearby is dropping... III, how is the situation there?"
iii refers to the reconnaissance ship that is moored outside the ghost ship and is in charge of responding. When the agents enter the ghost ship to check the situation, this small warship runs around the huge hull of the ghost ship, scans its shell structure, and it sends back a message that allows Surprising intelligence: "The energy of the target spacecraft is shrinking back to the central area, and its outer hull has been de-energized..."
The reconnaissance ship activated more powerful scanning equipment and began to deeply inspect the interior of the spaceship, and then suddenly issued a hasty alarm: "Get out! Get out!! The energy readings at the core of the spaceship are soaring! It is about to explode!"
The agents immediately started the space teleportation and returned to the reconnaissance ship. Afterwards, the reconnaissance ship and the two individual fighter planes supporting it nearby seemed to be out of control... Nahan evacuated to the distance like lightning, and the three aircraft flashed bright light in the sky, and In the three rays of light, the surface of the huge mountain-like ghost ship was suddenly covered with large blood-red patterns, like a heart congested in an instant, and then...
It exploded into a dazzling huge fireball.
Pandora immediately stood up and ordered loudly: "Get ready to fight! Charge all the artillery!"
An urgent report sounded in the command hall: "A large number of ghost ship engines have been activated, and they are starting!"
The entire fleet entered the battle state almost instantly. Every spaceship began to recharge the main guns, and the already deployed sentry guns locked on their respective targets, waiting for the order of the general attack. The nerves of the imperial soldiers They were already on the verge of a cerebral hemorrhage at any time, but seeing an obvious "murder" signal at this time, they finally succeeded in having a cerebral hemorrhage...
However, just a moment before the general offensive started, Lin Xue suddenly issued an emergency stop order to all units in the command link, and said loudly: "Stop!"
As a prophet, Lin Xue has a very special authority in the imperial army, that is, she can issue a stop order to any unit in an extremely urgent situation, even including imperial generals and emperors—of course, for the latter two targets, she The best suspending method is usually hand knife and ear twisting. This authority can be said to be very remarkable, far beyond the word "mistress", but for Lin Xue, this kind of power is necessary. We need the power of the prophet, and this power is often used Turning things around in an emergency situation, past facts have proved that Lin Xue sometimes has a very strong passive premonition in the few seconds before a certain action is about to be carried out, and these few seconds are obviously not enough for her Write an application and let Sandora and I spend half a day together... Bureaucracy kills people.
So Sandora and I simply gave Lin Xue such an emergency stop function. Anyway, everyone believes that she will not lose the chain at a critical moment. Well, for the emperor, if the prophets start to lose the chain, I'm afraid there are not many people who can't get off the chain.
"What's the matter girl?"
I took a breath and looked at Lin Xue, "You startled me—if anyone started to charge, they would all be dodging at this time."
"Don't attack them, just watch the action of the ghost ship."
Lin Xue curled her lips, and gestured with her chin to the holographic projection not far ahead, "I suggest you warm up the Death Garden system now, these ghost ships are about to escape."
Several seconds have passed since Lin Xue said this. Under normal circumstances, the two fleets would really collide at such a short distance. A few seconds is enough for both sides to get their brains out. It only takes a button to press a button from the glamorous armor until the head is bleeding, but in fact, the imperial army did not move, and the ghost fleet did not show any signs of attacking.
The self-explosion just now didn't seem to be an attack signal, but just to disturb our attention. Perhaps their purpose was to make the imperial army start attacking the dilapidated spaceships around - just like Lin Xue's prediction, the ghost fleet was about to escape!
"The formation of a large void jumping force field has been detected," the shipboard host's urgent alarm sounded on the bridge, "The target fleet will flee the scene in one minute!"
The holographic projection screen on the officer’s platform switched rapidly, and the sprawling ghost fleet cluster of hundreds of kilometers was cut into several independent parts. Some ghost ships were specially marked, and a flashing warning box marked "coming soon Escape", the largest frame is the planetary fortress at the core of the fleet cluster—that behemoth also wants to escape!
Fortunately, with Lin Xue's reminder, I have already connected to the Garden of the Dead. The powerful multifunctional law interference equipment can function normally in the void. , The ghost ship and the core fortress that had already seemed a bit blurred suddenly shook as if they had been hit on the head, and at the same time returned to their physical form.
On the nick of time, we prevented these ships from escaping.
If the imperial army really started to wipe out other ghost ships just now, at least a considerable part of these warships would have a chance to escape.
"What's going on?"
Sandora glanced at Lin Xue, "Are they running away?"
"Forgot the information we had before?" I said, "ghost ships will avoid Imperial warships."
After the escape was prevented, the Ghost Fleet cluster quieted down again, but the more than one hundred spaceships with escape consciousness that had been identified and most likely controlled by living people did not shut down their engines, including the huge planetary fortress at the core of the cluster. Inside, the lights on their surfaces flickered, and the hull drifted slightly, as if in a state of extreme entanglement.
"I feel...they're shaking."
Lilina said while grabbing the guardrail in front of her with sparkling eyes.