"Hey, I feel like they're shaking."
Lìlìna grabbed the guardrail in front of her and muttered to herself, but her eyes were shining brightly, "Hey, I suddenly saw some very interesting life reactions just now, it seems to be hidden really deep in that planetary fortress , almost fooled even the Pope."
Sandora and I looked at each other, the latter pondered for a moment, and said to Lin Xue: "What did you see just now?"
"Escape, annihilation, hatred, despair, wandering so far..." The eldest lady closed her eyes slightly, and her tone was filled with an indescribable sense of desolation and sadness. Looking at the time and space with the naked eye, the whole person lingers with a lonely temperament. Seeing this, I quickly slapped her on the back of the head: "Speak human!"
"This group of unlucky bastards let the empire survive once before." Lin Xue rubbed the back of her head while stretching out her leg and kicked me. "Now they still have a little bit of survivors hiding in that planetary fortress. Don't ask more questions, yourself." Go up and have a look. My advice is not to cause any casualties, so you'd better tie up Pandora and Visca first,... …"
The two short winter melons immediately watched the young lady grind her teeth.
The vast majority of the ghost fleet are unmanned death ships, but obviously the entire fleet group still has living people, they are hiding in the large spaceships in the inner layer of the fleet and the planetary fortress at the core of the fleet, they are avoiding Unfortunately, the imperial spaceship ran into the macro world, and now the imperial fleet appeared in front of them, so the latter instinctively wanted to escape, and this should be the situation so far. According to the opponent's behavior of using a spaceship self-destruct just now to lure the imperial army to launch a general attack, in order to gain a minute of void jump time, it seems that the opponent is quite familiar with the parameters of some key equipment of the empire. If there is no new equipment such as the garden of death , maybe they can really escape from this place. Sandora made a decision after thinking for a while, ordering the main force to continue to gather around the ghost fleet cluster, and at the same time use the fully charged artillery array to deter these ghost ships with unknown intentions, and then let the Admiral Empire lead the twenty-two A revenge angel-class elite mothership and a few light spaceships approached the planetary fortress at the core of the ghost fleet.
"Isn't that a little risky?"
My elder sister was more cautious. She glanced at the dark ghost ships with flashing lights with some concern. "They are not trash. Once they make a misunderstanding and resist desperately, the Admiral Empire may not be able to withstand it."
I glanced at Lin Xue, who nodded to me: "The premise that they won't take the initiative to attack is of course that we don't fire first."
"But it's safer for me to issue a statement first."
I thought about it, ordered the communicator on the officer's platform to be transferred to the frequency band of the full-frequency broadcast to the outside world, and then thought for a minute, "By the way, what should I say? It means that we are here for love and justice. It's very sensational, just the kind that makes you want to give away all the house books to others as soon as it sounds like it."
LìLìNa looked at me admiringly: "Hey, boss, you really never make drafts!"
I don't know whether this girl praised me or hurt me, but out of habit, I still threw her into a nearby basket.
"Whatever, they won't respond anyway, but it's kind of good."
Lin Xue glanced at me and said helplessly.
I thought about it, connected the communicator, and said in the full-band broadcast: "Ghost Fleet... well, I don't know what your name is. Anyway, this is the Royal Fleet of the Xiling Empire. I am the commander of the fleet. Your side has entered the empire's rule. District, this fleet will conduct routine inspections, you can relax your nerves, this fleet will not attack you, I hope you can cooperate with our actions, during the routine inspections, I hope you will not try to leave the scene or take irrational actions, otherwise we will There are..."
Lin Xue pinched me from behind: "Hurry up, get to the point!"
I quickly summed up two sentences: "In short, we are landing now. Don't shoot casually, or the imperial army will attack with the whole army."
Sandora pressed her forehead: "It's really a huge mistake to let Ah Jun play freely..."
I had a good time, anyway, as long as the meaning is clearly expressed, the two civilizations pay attention to diplomatic rhetoric. I always feel that it is idle and hurt you. Can people understand you with a lot of rhetorical methods? Even the cultural background is different. In Biberu's hometown, "Have you eaten" is a curse word... You see, you digress when you say it.
After broadcasting the declaration prohibiting exchange of fire three times in the full frequency band, the Admiral Empire led the selected elite escort fleet to approach the hinterland of the ghost fleet cluster. I noticed that after the flagship of the imperial army suddenly moved, those ghost ships all There was more or less confusion, the specific manifestation is that the lights on many spaceships flickered like a convulsion, and those spaceships that were identified subconsciously increased the thrust of their engines—but there was a death garden system to modify this area. The information structure of the void, except for the Imperial Army, all spaceships have lost the ability to navigate in the void, and those ghost ships are still in place in the end.
Just like Lin Xue said, although the ghost ships had a large and small explosion, none of the warships exchanged fire with the imperial spaceship rashly, and there was no conflict until we approached the huge planetary fortress. Feeling that the atmosphere in this space is extremely tense, but Lin Xue's prediction is still correct.
There is only one thing that is regrettable, we did not receive a response from the other party in the end, all the ghost ships remained silent, and the star warships in the core area greeted the landing craft from the Imperial Admiral in the dead darkness.
The landing team took a special defense landing craft that looked like a plant pod to the surface of the planetary fortress nicknamed "Rotten Potatoes". The landing of the landing craft and several frigates did not elicit any response. When we left the gangway, we saw only a piece of The atmosphere here is a bit depressing with the dark and deep sky and the earth.
"There is an atmosphere, and it seems to be denser than the earth." My sister shrugged her nose, and frowned slightly, "It just tastes bad." "Earth creatures can't live in this atmospheric environment, and there are some toxic trace elements." Sandora lightly He stomped his feet lightly, and the little leather boots made a short collision sound on the metal ground. "All ghost ships have this kind of atmospheric environment, perhaps simulating" the ecology of their homeland. The surroundings looked desolate, and no animals or plants were found. As the home planet of carbon-based organisms, the environment in this place was not comfortable. "
I found a small high platform and stood on it to look far into the distance. What I saw was the bare dark metal land that stretched beyond the horizon. Only in the extreme distance could I see the slight ups and downs of the land, forming a pattern across the entire sky. Parabola, this planetary fortress that looks bumpy from a long distance, is actually quite smooth in detail. There are no animals, plants, rivers, lakes, mountains and other complex topography. All parabola-like things are alloy armor with smooth surfaces. , Standing on the ground of the planet, it is as if facing a nearly infinitely vast [square], such a monotonous scene, even the Imperial Star Warship is much friendlier than it looks.
The planetary fortress under our feet has an atmosphere, and it is thicker than the atmosphere on the earth. There are traces of light sources in the atmosphere, which allow people to directly observe the surrounding environment with the naked eye. These light sources are evenly emitted from the boundary of the atmosphere. A quick analysis shows that , They are self-luminous phenomena caused by chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere. When the landing craft penetrates the atmosphere, these chemical reactions are disturbed, resulting in several small black holes at the edge of the atmosphere. Looking up, you can see that they are extremely bright. The tall zenith spread out, but the glow had reappeared in its center—perhaps in a few minutes they would join together in one great black circle.
In addition to our family, there are three squads of hero fighters and scouts who landed together. The mission of these special teams composed of armored scorpions, ravens, and leader bees is not to protect the leader, but to protect those scouts and explore the planetary fortress. , find the entrance as soon as possible, because the previous scans showed that there is a very powerful energy reaction under the crust of this fortress, and we can't guarantee whether we can still guarantee safety after going deep into the opponent's base.
As for the Pandora sisters, they didn't come - I was afraid they would tear down other people's houses.
"Ola, you are the commander-in-chief, try not to fight after discovering the other party."
Before splitting up to act, Sandora specifically explained a few words to the leader of the leader bee, because the latter should be regarded as the most rational and calm member of the three kinds of hero combat soldiers, so let her restrict this mission that requires peaceful operations to the safest place. Method 1: If Vega's machete sister gives orders, I'm very worried that she will charge from one side of the planet to the other side with a big knife all the way...
"Even under attack?"
Aura asked quietly, the smooth half-face armor prevents us from seeing her current expression. Of course, you can also think that "smooth...is the expression of the chief bee, although this is a bit curious.
Sandora glanced at Lin Xue before she nodded: "Even if you are attacked."
Aura nodded very plainly, and Vega who was not far away immediately put away the Zhanjian Knife dejectedly, and six mechanical limbs creaked and creaked a bunch of Chinese knots on the ground...
"I always feel a little suffocated." Raven 71, the most eccentric of all the senior military officers of the Empire, muttered, and it's no fault of her dissatisfaction. When you are not allowed to kill.
However, with Lin Xue leading the way, she could only obey unconditionally. After a moment of awkwardness, Raven and Weijia assigned their own soldiers to keep up with the team, and quickly disappeared before our eyes.
The Imperial Admiral hovering above the planetary fortress had already launched some temporary satellites before, and now these tiny probes, not much bigger than a mercury lamp box, have begun to orbit this dark "rotten potato", scanning The received situation was transmitted to the landing force on the surface, and Sandora launched a temporary communication platform on the small high ground where we were, to understand the satellite scanning situation and the progress of various reconnaissance forces.
The short-distance scanning is really quite different from the previous long-distance detection. Soon we found the location of various facilities of this planetary fortress on the energy distribution map marked by the satellite—of course, in Tavel’s words, that is theoretically That's right.
Sandora recognized those energy readings that seemed almost identical to me bit by bit, while explaining in a low voice: "Anti-aircraft artillery positions, large ship hangars, mine platforms for rapid close-to-ground defense, and suspected field The acceleration ring of the effect weapon. The weapon system of this fortress is very complete, but it focuses on defensive warfare within the star system, and there is no mathematical law modification facility related to the law system. This fortress may not be offensive. And pay more attention to survivability, Ah Jun, look at these shield charges, well, you probably don’t understand.” Lou felt that she didn’t need to say so clearly.
"It's really the first time I've seen a planetary fortress made by a civilization other than the Empire." The elder sister said with great interest, "I always feel that this thing is quite high-end. How does it compare with our star warship?"
"Star warships are actually not too high-end things." Sandora's hair began to slowly fill with golden light spots, and she whispered, "No, it should be said that star warships are too broad a definition. , so that it is hard to tell whether it is a high-end technology. Many civilizations are capable of manufacturing such giant fortresses, as long as they can master the driving method that is independent of macroscopic forces, such as class-coordinate driving or curvature driving, and have enough internal space isolation technology, Star warships can be manufactured. Some galaxy-level civilizations that have just entered space also have the ability to hollow out certain metal planets and transform them into colony ships. But that thing has nothing to do with real warships. The lowest-level star warships may only have the ability to cruise at low light speeds and provide limited mobile colonization needs, while the highest-level ones may be like the Warsong, which can easily Turn the entire galaxy upside down, and the one under our feet is somewhere in between... I don't know the physical properties of the interstellar alloy it uses, but if my guess is right, it is completely comparable to the "zero star" currently manufactured by the Empire. , Class star warships even have obvious advantages when facing some early models. "
I was immediately surprised.
"So, they may have had a deep relationship with the empire during their glory days. With such a powerful civilization, there is no reason why they should not be included in the anti-abyss front. It's a pity that I know nothing about them..." Sandora smiled helplessly said.
At this moment, we suddenly received a message from Aura, they found something that was suspected to be the entrance of the planetary fortress thousands of kilometers away from here!
With the help of space teleportation, thousands of kilometers are here in a blink of an eye. We quickly completed the rendezvous with Aura. She has asked the chief bee to use the power of the mirror image to arrange a large-scale temporary base nearby. There is no armored scorpion on the scene. figure.
"They've gone down with the scouts" a certain raven (I really can't recognize what number it is, although it must be a veteran with a high number from the way he laughs)
Shaking his head, he said, "In such a narrow place, only those guys with muscles growing into their heads can perform well. You have to hurry up, maybe you can get along with the scouts before those nervous machete gangs tear down other people's houses." Soldiers converging..."
I looked at the so-called entrance not far away. It is a passage like an ant nest, located in the center of a relatively gentle hill. The entrance of the passage forms a hole with a slope of about forty-five degrees. The narrowest point The radius of the pit is about ten meters. Standing on the edge of the hill, you can feel the cold wind blowing up from below, and you can’t see any signs on the smooth metal pit walls, which means that this opening is probably not for people. go...
Of course, according to the consistent virtues of this book, it may be that the road signs have been blown off by the wind after a long time, or even worse, the road signs on the ground have faded.
...In short, let's go down and have a look.
Leaving Ola and her bees on guard outside the entrance, I dragged my family and jumped into the big hole. After going down, I found that the hole was not as deep as I imagined: there was only a drop of about a hundred meters. , compared with the starship corridors that are often several kilometers away, this height is actually a small step.
However, after landing, what we saw before us was a tubular passage that sloped downwards and could not be seen, indicating that the real destination would extend a long distance underground.
I contacted Vega, she has advanced hundreds of kilometers with the scouts and rushed in at supersonic speed all the way, I began to feel that it was a huge mistake to let her participate in this kind of exploration mission, but fortunately she At least she still remembered the rule of not hurting other people's plants or trees, and she didn't use her ship-cutter knife to open the way, otherwise she would have run thousands of kilometers by this time.
Vega also reported to us a noteworthy situation: the underground of this planetary fortress extends in all directions, and there are forks everywhere. The scan shows that they are an extremely complicated traffic network, and due to the existence of psionic interference, the scan cannot follow It can easily extend to the entire planet as before, and can only be used within a range of several hundred kilometers nearby. The team she leads has been divided into three groups. Considering safety issues, the front road will no longer be divided, but will randomly choose the one leading to the bottom. The road, that is to say, we can only find a general direction in these passages, and we don't need to meet her.
These underground passages are completely different from the bright and straight corridors in the space castle in my impression. Although they also have flat ground, the walls are like irregular pipes like mines. The gray-black metal covers these uneven On the straight pipe wall, it doesn’t look very clean in dim light. There are lights in the passage, but it’s hard to say that this is normal lighting. It should be just a weak light for emergencies. Anyway, it looks dim It made my eyes uncomfortable, and I couldn’t take it anymore after walking in it for a while, so I decisively shook my head and called out Alaya and Xiao Qijing, one adjusted the daylight and the other adjusted the long-range light, when the searchlight opened the way ahead...
The walls and above of the corridor can be seen everywhere along the direction of the ** cables. I don’t know whose idea this kind of exposed pipe design is. Regardless of safety and stability, they look like the future in terms of aesthetics alone. Like a completed unfinished building, Sandora complained about these poor wiring methods while walking, and Qianqian kept thinking of this winding tubular passage curiously associating it with an ant hole.
Then we came to an unusually wide and irregular hall, before our eyes were fifty or sixty passage openings of different sizes and locations.
Qianqian hugged my arm and jumped up: "Ah Jun, look, I said this is an ant hole!"