The core of the ghost ship fleet cluster is a huge planetary fortress, which is almost three times the size of the earth. Compared with many planetary warships currently in service in the empire, it is also quite large, and according to Sandora's calculations, the combat effectiveness of this thing is also very large. It is enough to match the simple version of the "Zero" starship made by the current empire. It can be said that this is the most advanced gadget made by non-imperial civilizations we have come into contact with. This thing fully proves that the void is vast and diverse. Although the empire stands At the apex of all mortal civilizations, there are also advanced civilizations that are not as powerful as empires but are still extremely powerful. Although these ghost fleets are not flattering in shape, it cannot be denied that they are fully capable of navigating, staying, and fighting in the void, and They also have star warships (and not the only star warships, as I said before, the ghost fleet cluster has ten scattered cores, we have only contacted one of them so far, this star warship is one of its ten starships) sits, From all aspects, the former founders of these ghost fleets wanted to be the reduced Xiling Empire.
But after all, the design style of these spaceships is really unflattering.
We have been in this "Rotten Potato" brand planetary fortress for more than ten minutes, and we have walked through countless forks. The twists and turns of the tubular passage in front of us seem to have no end, and the branch intersections seem to be endless. The scanning system shows The surrounding space is always a transportation network extending in all directions, which shows that until now we have not been able to break away from the external "intermediate layer" of the starship. The so-called interlayer is a unique term for starships, referring to the layer that surrounds the functional parts of the starship. Spherical shell, this layer of spherical shell is used to install various facilities required for combat such as weapon slots, shield generators, and hangars. It is also the last barrier to protect the middle layer and core of the starship. The function is also the protective armor and buffer zone of the starship, and only through the interlayer can it be considered that it has truly entered the interior of a planetary fortress. If placed on a planet, the interlayer is roughly equivalent to the crust and one-third of the mantle, and the interlayer we are currently in looks like a long time to come to an end.
"Tap Tat Tat..."
The monotonous sound of footsteps echoed in the tubular passage, combined with the dark and curved walls around, giving people the illusion of walking in an ancient crypt, shaking their arms in front of them in a shallow and boring way, and occasionally hugging them obediently as Xiao Qijing of the searchlight (note: the function of the searchlight is inherited from her mother) swayed in all directions for a while, looking very professional. I was curious if this girl knew how to search for information in this environment, but the girl plausibly Tell me: "Ah Jun, don't forget, I was educated by an archaeologist!"
I suddenly thought of Uncle Xu who digs people's ancestral graves from south to north all day long, and then I feel something is wrong: "This has something to do with the present! I don't believe that your father will encounter a tunnel with alloy gates when digging the tomb of King Han!"
"Stop making trouble," my elder sister looked at me and Qianqian helplessly, "Do you feel that the wind seems to have changed?"
I was taken aback for a moment, then felt it quietly, and found that there was indeed a change!
There is always a cold wind whizzing through these criss-crossed tubular passages like ant nests. At first we thought it was because we walked into the ventilation ducts of the star warship, but soon found that there were blowing winds in any of the corridors here. The phenomenon shows that this is the design of the corridor in the ship. Under Sandora's suggestion, everyone has been moving towards the direction of the cold wind. If there is a set of ventilation equipment there, at least we can enter the interior of the starship through it. Now, the surrounding wind has obviously changed. Although there is still a cold wind blowing head-on, its strength appears to be strong and weak at times, with an intermittent feeling.
"There may be a vent in front," Lilina yelled, "I can definitely get out! Hurry up, hurry up, people in this ghost place have had enough! There is a vague life reaction in front, gogogo!"
Lilina was not the only one who had had enough, the whole family had long been impatient with the gloomy and monotonous passage here, everyone immediately ran wildly, and Lilina, who was still jumping in front, was thrown behind because of her short calves. Jumping up and down in the back while running and shouting: "Wait! Wait for me! You lost Lori!"
A few minutes later, we found the reason for the change in wind speed. Sure enough, as Lilina guessed, a huge cavity appeared at the end of the passage. A circle is full of identical circular passage exits, and everyone is standing on the edge of one of the exits. At the bottom of the cavity, there is a huge gate that keeps opening and closing. The fierce cold wind blows out from the gate, coupled with the surrounding The interference of a huge space and a large number of passages formed an intermittent air flow, which continuously poured into every entrance and exit.
"Wait, the interference phenomenon has weakened here." Sandora waved her hand to prevent us from approaching the gate immediately. She took out her data terminal and zoomed in on the image above. "Here we can clearly see a larger area." Scanned images of ... and material composition ... metal-rich rock layers, soil, water, carbonized fossils ... plant remains ... "
As Sandora said, she exhaled suddenly: "It turns out that this is how this planetary fortress was built!"
"What's going on, what's going on?" Qianqian immediately became interested again, she likes breaking news the most, sometimes An Weina finds a double yolk egg in her cooking, and she can watch it for a long time.
"Look, this is the image of the planet's fortress I just simulated." Sandora projected the picture on the data terminal, on which was a planet divided into two distinct parts with bright colors: a rule A planet with mountains and rivers, covered with a thick metal shell!
"This planetary fortress is built on the basis of a planet," Sandora said excitedly, "it is similar to the 'zero' battleship made by the empire, but it is more carefully crafted. The interior of this planetary fortress is A complete planet, according to the analysis of material residues, it was even an ecological planet with rich life and superior environment, and then it was transformed, not only the interior was hollowed out, but the crust was also enriched with metals, and finally, the surface of the planet was built Countless huge metal structures, these metal structures are the tubular passages we walked through before, the passages are filled with supporting metal beams, forming an extremely thick buffer barrier, and further outside is the surface of the planetary fortress, those drums What looks like a lump is its weapons and defense system, and these things add up to the fortress of this planet we are on."
"A starship transformed from an ecological planet," the elder sister's glasses narrowed slightly, as if thinking of something, "I don't know why they did this, the 'zero' star warship will specially select lifeless rocks when it is built Or metal planets as a base frame, using ecological planets to do this kind of transformation means destroying the original ecological circle, isn’t this a waste.”
"The layered part of the starship has an obvious age difference," Sandora knocked on the casing of the data terminal, "The construction process of this starship may have lasted thousands of years, maybe it was gradually transformed into It looks like this, but the specific situation can only be known by contacting the residents here—but we have traveled so far, and the other party has not appeared, but it is really hidden deep enough."
I sent a text message to Sister Scorpion who was digging a hole in an unknown corner: "Veja, where are you?"
"Your Majesty, we have found a sac-shaped cavity and are planning to report to you—the scouts have found traces of life at the bottom of the cavity, and there have been **** creatures active here in the past few days."
"They also found a cavity," I turned my head and said to Sandora, "and there is life left."
"Let's go down and have a look, let Vega stay alert in another cavity, they may conflict with the local residents." Sandora nodded and said.
I transferred the order to Vega, and then walked slowly down the cavity with Sandora. This huge metal sac is like a squashed hamburger, so the road from the edge to the bottom of the pit is not easy. It is very steep, and the winding pipelines under the feet make the pit wall not very smooth. It is easy to walk, but the small dark red lights hidden behind the layers of pipelines are flickering like wolves in the dark night. Same, gives a very uncomfortable feeling. Everyone quickly reached the bottom of the cavity, and the huge metal gate kept opening and closing in front of our eyes, gushing out bursts of cold air with a faint sweet smell. At this time, I should...
"Ah Jun, why is there so much wind outside! Ding Dong is sleeping... Wow!"
I:"… "
Time to go dig that little thing off the wall.
"Below here is a group of gaseous molecular accelerators," Sandora stood on the edge of the metal gate with a radius of more than ten meters and looked down. The wind equipment has caused a lot of trouble... "
"Shua!" Just before Sandora finished speaking, a black figure suddenly rushed out from the airlock, accompanied by a sharp cry, and rushed towards the direction of us!
This black shadow appeared quite suddenly, I didn't even have time to see what it was, but what our group is most afraid of is a sudden attack. Lin Xue took out a huge frying pan a second ago Waiting in mid-air, just now I wondered what she was doing when she suddenly took out the pot. At this moment, I saw that black shadow hit the bottom of the pot with a "bang", and the echo lingered for a long time.
The frying pan in the hands of the eldest lady vibrated violently for a long time in mid-air with a magnitude visible to the naked eye, and then the vibration was transmitted all the way along the handle of the pan, from the arm to the body. There's a double image, and you can see how hard the impact was—and, by the way, evil, she's in good shape.
"I'll go, I made a mistake." Lin Xue put away the pot and picked out her itchy ears, "It's shocking to death."
The few of us turned our heads to look at the black shadow just now. "It" was bounced to the side after hitting the pan. Fortunately, Lin Xue calculated the angle in advance. The opponent almost didn't fall back to the gate but fell on the edge of the hole. He avoided the fate of being clipped into a color photo. Now the other party is getting up staggeringly. It seems that the collision is not light. In fact, it is already surprising that the other party can stand up. Lin Xue has been strengthened many times. , With the strength of her body there, she was shocked to death by complaining. This black shadow that voluntarily bumped into the frying pan can still stand up, it is really strong.
This is a very strange-looking creature, maybe "it" is one of the master "persons" of the ghost ship, but this man's bones are exquisite and extraordinary, and he is far from human beings—this one is shaking his head, standing up, and giving out The hissing and roaring attacker looked like a black crustacean enlarged to the size of a motorcycle, with an insect-like body and a triangular head, four hard-shelled jointed limbs and a stubby, bony tail. In terms of posture, it looks a bit like a praying mantis. This mysterious creature has two pairs of distinct forelimbs. One pair is a thin but dexterous "arm". It seems that except for the hard shell and only four fingers, the degree of flexibility should be the same as that of a mantis. The other pair of forelimbs are at a higher position, thick and powerful like the giant claws of crabs, they seem to have undergone a surgical operation, half of the pair of giant claws were cut off in the middle, protruding from the cut are two Putting the psionic blade shining with faint blue light——I silently glanced at the eldest lady: "Are you going to make a frying pan with astral stone?"
"That's Monina's," Lin Xue stuck out her tongue, "The Protoss is really an upstart."
"Hiss... hiss..." The fruitless black creature stood more than ten meters away from us. Its mantis-like body made it almost as tall as a person when it stood upright—the same arthropod, Vega, was cuter than "it" too much.
Because the other person's appearance is not very easy to understand, I still don't know whether I should call the person in front of me "it" or "he", and I don't know if the other person can communicate, well, maybe I don't need to ask the latter question, This is obviously a creature with advanced intelligence. Don't be incapable of intelligence just because he has an insect's triangular head. This can be seen from the pair of light knives in his hand. It is obviously a weapon added later. Anyway, I will never I believe that when he came out of the womb, he cut a hole with a lightsaber and jumped out... By the way, insects seem to lay eggs, right
"Ah Jun, what are you mumbling about?"
Sandora gave me a blank look, and I was embarrassed.
"Hiss, hiss—" The insect alien not far away crossed the light blades on his forelimbs in front of his chest, making a very cautious defensive posture, while slowly backing away, he made a hissing sound of unknown meaning. Immediately stepped forward and followed suit: "Hiss, hiss!"
"Hiss?" The other party stopped and seemed quite confused.
Qianqian continued: "Hiss!"
The other party was almost dizzy looking at it, so I quickly pulled Qianqian back: How can this girl know any alien language? Don't let people think that this is a dialect of a certain place. It can be regarded as encountering someone who can't understand the words of the few of us. Should I celebrate this historic moment
At this moment, another accident happened.
The air gate next to it opened again, and then suddenly a figure sprang out from inside again. This figure was covered with blue light, and blocked between us and the insect alien on the opposite side. This time it was not a triangular head. Brother Mantis, but one sitting on a hoverbike (I temporarily named that thing because it has two grips like a motorcycle, and I feel sorry for the Wright Brothers for saying it is an airplane), wearing light The young man in armor, he backed up nervously after rushing in front of us, then turned his head and asked loudly to Brother Mantis in front of him: "Tuolulu! Are you not injured?" Now I know, Brother Mantis has another name , it sounds like his father drowned when he named him... Is it a bit rude to think so
"Human?" My sister muttered softly, and this is where I was surprised: At first I thought that the insect-like alien in front was the crew of the Ghost Fleet, but I didn't expect that there was another rider Humans with hovercraft—not Earthlings, of course, but at least they looked almost exactly like Earthlings.
Of course, I am not surprised that aliens have the appearance of people on earth. According to statistics, 10% of the intelligent races in the world in the void have the appearance of humans or similar to humans. There is a reason for this: a considerable part of the world All come from the handwriting of the Protoss of the Star Domain. First of all, when they create high-potential species, they are used to imitating their own appearance to design models (it is said that this saves the cost of creation. The species mods used as templates are basically buy one get one free... ), and then almost all original worlds will be disturbed by the huge information of the gods, which is equivalent to an unprecedentedly powerful brainwashing broadcast, and the most powerful in this broadcast The information is the gods, so except for the remote or complex worlds, the high-potential species in almost every world have the same appearance as the gods. In this way, it is not so much that the aliens look like the earth Just like human beings, it might be better to say that 10% of the intelligent creatures in the world evolved according to the appearance of gods.
At this time, the young soldier riding a motorcycle had already jumped off the aircraft, holding a strange weapon in his hand (it looked like a curved rifle, but there was a beam bayonet in front) to defend us, and behind him The insect alien finally had time to pinch his own neck, and let out a hoarse low voice: "I broke the neck bone just now. Fortunately, it has regenerated now."
... I think the mystery of the untranslatable alien language just now has been revealed, and people have not spoken at all.
"You shouldn't have rushed out... We're all going to die now..." the young soldier holding a weapon said to his partner, "Damn it, it's like this... These lunatics still won't let go...Damn it..."
"Afraid of dying meaninglessly," Tuolulu looked at this side vigilantly, "They never keep alive, the Tobelu people are not afraid of death, they have slaughtered three fleets, and we are the last one."
I found that this alien had a hard bump just now, and he couldn't even talk...