Chapter 441 "Infectious Diseases" (12)
"Xin and his team sent back a message. The blockade of the port security gate cannot be completely lifted. However, Xinle discovered that the frigate's weapon sequence energy has been exhausted. They are rushing back."
"You mean we should just blow up the security door?"
"Yes, without the weapon sequence, even if the security door is destroyed and the alarm is sounded, the frigate's defense system cannot be activated. Our spacecraft is very fast and can reach the space station before the backup energy of the weapon sequence is activated. The space station has a protection protocol, and the frigate cannot attack."
"Okay, I'll go now."
After receiving Hai's message, Wu quickly returned to the spaceship and started the engine. Just as he was using the locking device to find the best breakthrough position for the security door, something on the detection panel seemed to disappear from the detection range of their spaceship. However, because no alarm was triggered, this abnormality was not noticed by Wu.
"Om~~~"
After the spacecraft's onboard energy cannon locked the position, it tore a hole at the current dock location, which was enough for the team's spacecraft to leave. Now they just need to wait for Xin and others to return, and everyone will be able to go to the space station.
"Power is starting to go out in other ports in the port area. It looks like the frigate is running out of energy."
"I hope Xin and the others can come back soon. If the frigate's energy is used up, those energy creatures will turn their attention to us."
Like the team members who stayed behind at the spaceship, the few people led by Xin and Xinle who were returning also found the same situation. They were now two floors above the spaceship. According to the normal moving speed, it would take them more than ten minutes to return to the spaceship.
According to Sinler's route assessment, they did not return along the original route. There were many fungus webs on their original route. However, when they returned to the fungus web locations, the damaged fungus webs had not only been repaired, but were also much thicker than before. It seems that the disappearance of the frigate's energy also had an impact on them. These fungus web-like creatures began to emit some special smells to attract the crew members who had lost their souls, and feed on their flesh and blood. This method was used to repair the fungus webs.
However, in some areas where the crew were not densely populated, those fungus-web-like creatures began to die, and some weak fungus webs lost their activity and gradually began to crystallize. The crystallized remains left behind by these fungus-web-like creatures after their death were very fragile and could be easily destroyed without much effort. So although they took a detour, their return speed was actually much faster than returning by the original route.
"Wow! Wow!"
"Bang!"
When the team led by Xin and Xinle reached a certain section of the corridor, they heard some unusual noises, as if someone was rummaging through something. They turned on the mute position, raised their weapons, and moved in the direction of the sound. They soon found the source of the sound, which was a dormitory area for senior officers. The rummaging sound was in a room in front of the team.
In the corridor outside the rooms in front of them, the team could see through the night vision system inside the armored masks that there were several torn-down room doors on the ground. After Sinler's scan and confirmation, there was no energy reaction on these destroyed room doors. Judging from the traces of damage on them, they should have been caused by brute force alone.
Xin made a few gestures, and the other members of the team quickly came to the two sides of the hatch of the room where the sound came from, ready for battle. At the same time, Xinler quietly opened the spherical robot pool and placed two spherical robots on the ground. Xinler's spherical robots were customized and modified by him. Unlike the spherical robots used by others, his robots did not make any sound when moving.
The spherical robot quickly and quietly entered the room where the sound came from. Through the surveillance screen, Sinler saw a familiar figure, but now he was naked and searching for something.
Another spherical robot arrived in front of the man. Although the room was completely dark without any lighting, the man's identity could still be roughly identified from his facial features. This man should be Han Zu.
But after all, Han Zu's body was still in liquid form before, and although the person inside could be roughly confirmed to be him, his body was normal. The situation on the frigate was full of weirdness, so the team did not try to alarm the people in the room. After all, it was indeed possible that the person inside was not actually Han Zu. Xinle decided to use the spherical robot to observe again.
The spherical robots modified by Sinler are smaller in size and consume much less energy than normal-sized spherical robots. In addition, there are some residual fungal creatures in the surrounding rooms and corridors that also emit some energy. In addition, his attention is not on the surrounding environment, so Han Zu did not actually notice the two spherical robots.
Sinler probably thought that the people inside had not discovered the spherical robot, so he controlled the spherical robot and deliberately bumped into the debris on the ground around it, making some noise. Sure enough, the people inside immediately stopped searching, turned their heads, and immediately found two more spherical robots around them.
Han Zu picked up a spherical robot. The size of this spherical robot was much smaller than those used by other members of the team before. It was not painted and did not make any sound. Han Zu brought it close to his eyes and observed it carefully. He remembered that when he was still in liquid form, he entered Sinler's robot pool and the robots inside were similar to the one in his hand.
"Sinler?"
"Han Zu?"
Han Zu called Xinle's name tentatively, and Xinle's reply came from outside the door behind him. He stood up, walked to the door, stuck his head out to check, and found the relieved team members.
"Are you planning to return to the ship? Has the blockade of the port area been lifted?"
"I guess so. The frigate's weapons have been shut down because the energy has been exhausted. I have sent a message back to Wu, asking him to destroy some of the security doors. What about you? Has your body recovered?"
"Well, I encountered a lot of energy creatures on the way to find you. After absorbing them, I returned to normal."
"...You should find a pair of pants to put on first. By the way, what are you looking for here?"
"Pants."
"...The locker is under the bed."
"I looked for them, but the owners of these rooms are so different in size from me that their clothes are too small to fit me."
The area was temporarily safe, so the team began to help Han Zu find suitable pants. Although Han Zu said that if it really didn't work, he could return to the spacecraft and wait until he arrived at the space station, the team members didn't want this guy to go back naked.
Coincidentally, in the room of one of the senior officers, one of the members of the team found a large stuffed toy with a pair of pants of the right size on it. Although the fabric was thin and it was not a formal piece of clothing, it was better to have it than nothing.
“This one should be suitable.”
"alright."
After putting on the pants, the team and Han Zu finally began the journey back to the spaceship. The journey was smooth and they did not encounter any energy creatures. The team quickly returned to the spaceship and reunited with the others.
After boarding the spacecraft, everyone started chatting while waiting for Wu to do the pre-takeoff inspection.
"It's not allowed to bring these toys on board. Although everyone would sneakily bring some on board, it's hard to hide such a big thing. And it's not cheap either."
"Everyone on the High Wall should know about the smuggling to some extent, and some may even be involved in it. I didn't expect these guys in the rear to be so corrupt. They deserve their current fate."
"Sometimes I am puzzled. How can we develop steadily when the rear is so corrupt?"
"What's so strange about this? Those parasites are not stupid. A peaceful, stable and strong society can make their lives more comfortable. So those big parasites will definitely find ways to maintain social peace and stability so that they can make more money."
"So we still have to thank them?"
"That's not what I meant. After all, if it weren't for these guys, our development would be faster and more stable. If we encounter them, it would be easy to kill them if possible."
"But as long as humans exist, these termites will always exist."
The distance between the space station and the frigate was not too far, so while everyone was complaining, Wu had already driven the spaceship to the edge of the space station. Han Zu was indeed shocked when he saw the size of the space station. He originally thought that the "High Wall", which was the size of a half a city, was already a behemoth, but after seeing the space station in front of him, which was almost one-third the size of the moon, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Your Tig space station is so fucking awesome. It's almost one-third the size of our satellite. Wow, it's really awesome."
"One-third the size of a satellite? You mean the satellite of your planet?"
Sinler pointed to a location outside the porthole. It was a planet almost as big as the Earth.
"Isn't that a planet?"
"No, it's a satellite."
"Then why can't I see any planets here? Logically, the moons are so big, so the planets should be easy to find, right?"
"It's gone."
"Oh... what the hell?! It drove away?"
"It can't be said that they took away all of it, but a large part of it was taken away. The original rocky planet here had a lot of precious minerals, and there was no life on it, so the headquarters used the Extinction Order to blow up the original planet, and then used several fleets to transport the minerals away. The remaining asteroid belts you can see around are the remnants of that planet, but most of them were pulled away by the gravity of other nearby planets."
Although the Tige people's technological level has long reached a level that humans cannot understand, Han Zu and Gloria still widened their eyes when they heard Sinler's answer and the expressionless faces of the crowd.
"We're here. The weapons sequence on the space station won't lock onto a ship of our level. We can dock directly..."
"Enemy attack! Hold on tight!!"
Wu, who was driving the spaceship, suddenly controlled the spaceship to make a rapid and unconventional move. A stealth torpedo brushed the bottom of the spaceship and exploded in the asteroid not far away, emitting a dazzling light. Han Zu, who was not sitting in his seat, was thrown directly into the cargo hold, making several loud noises, but he was fine.
"Warning! Warning! The spacecraft has been locked!"
A shrill alarm sounded inside the spacecraft, and on the detection panel of the spacecraft, several targets could be seen moving towards the spacecraft at high speed.
"Hai! Start counterattacking!"
"it is good!"
Hai, who was in the gunner position, immediately began to control the weapon sequence of the spacecraft and started to counterattack. The originally calm and dark space was suddenly lit up by the energy fire of the spacecraft. Hai's control of heavy weapons was very precise. Even in an encounter, he was able to remain calm and deal with it. Soon, the torpedoes that were locked on the hull of the spacecraft on the detection panel were cleared away by Hai.
"boom!"
However, soon, more torpedoes appeared on the detection panel, and these torpedoes appeared at tricky angles, so Wu had to keep taking evasive actions. Therefore, Hai did not have a good angle and could not intercept all the torpedoes.
"Damn it! We were hit in the secondary power reactor! The ship's shield is gone!"
"Damn it! Where are these torpedoes coming from?! Xinle! Lock on the source of the attack!"
"Near the space station! Hey! There are special attack ships with invisible force fields here! Wu, bypass the front and enter the asteroid belt! Our shield is gone, and staying in the open area is seeking death!"
Wu increased the speed of the spacecraft to the maximum and rushed into the nearby asteroid belt. Although the meteorites and fragments in the dense asteroid belt intercepted many torpedoes, the spacecraft that lost its shield also suffered considerable damage due to the impact. However, compared with the spacecraft being directly blown up, the current consumption is still acceptable.
"Warning! Fatal attack detected! Locked! Suggested rules..."
"Boom!!!"
A large energy beam coming from afar directly pierced through the middle of the spacecraft that was traveling through the asteroid belt. A big hole was blasted in the spacecraft, and the oxygen was quickly pulled out of the spacecraft. The alarm sounded, and the spacecraft, which had lost its integrity, began to shake violently and was about to disintegrate.
"We have to abandon ship!!! It won't hold out much longer! Escape Pod!!!"
"Warning, fatal attack detected!! Locked down!"
At this critical moment, the detection platform once again issued a warning. Although the image on the detection platform began to fluctuate due to the damage to the spacecraft, it could be confirmed through the densely packed targets on it that after this attack, the spacecraft, including its location in the asteroid belt, would be blown to pieces without leaving anything.
"run!!!!!"
Wu slammed the safety lock that controlled the escape pod, and then he and everyone else began to flee rapidly towards the escape pod area at the rear. At this critical moment of life and death, no one would care about the energy in the armor, and the propulsion device was fully powered. Everyone did not care about the debris floating in the air due to the vacuum state, and they just crashed into it and soon arrived at the escape pod.
"boom!!!!"
The first few attacks have arrived. Although they were intercepted by the asteroid belt, the debris produced by the explosion still directly destroyed part of the spacecraft structure.
"Where to run?! The escape pod can't avoid the subsequent attacks!!!"
"Damn it! Jump on the gang! Jump on the gang!!!"
“Where to!!”
"Space Station!!"
Everyone's movements were never as fast as today. In less than fifteen seconds, everyone got into the escape pods and escaped from the spacecraft immediately.
Except Han Zu.
"What are you going to do?!!!"
"You still have time to take care of this at this time?! Let's go!!!"
“Han Zu!!!!”
After stuffing Gloria into the Sinler escape capsule, Han Zu slammed the hatch of the escape capsule shut, smashed the stuck safety lock with a punch, and kicked the escape capsule for two people, which was also the last one, down. Watching the escape capsules emitting bright tail flames and flying towards the space station, Han Zu, who had a serious and anxious expression, suddenly calmed down.
"It's a good time to try flying."
Han Zu leisurely passed the place where there was no escape pod and jumped into space. He flew out of the range of the spaceship. He saw several invisible torpedoes flying towards the spaceship. As the spaceship was blasted into a beam of fire, Han Zu was also thrown out by the thrust. The scene was strange and beautiful. Although the scene in front of him was shocking, no sound was made.
Soon, the flames disappeared, and Han Zu stopped and floated in the space. He was able to fly and would not be injured by the vacuum environment, so for him, this was actually no different from going out for a walk.
The destructive thrust of the spacecraft pushed Han Zu to the vicinity of the location where the invisible torpedoes appeared. Han Zu was able to see through his ability that there was a combat barge covered by an invisible force field, parked a few kilometers away near the bottom of the space station.
"The attack should have been launched by it." Han Zu thought to himself.
Han Zu's current location was actually only one or two kilometers away from the space station, much closer than the distance between him and the invisible barge, and the invisible barge did not seem to have started its propulsion engine, so it should not leave for the time being. So he decided to go to the space station to meet up with the team first.
Looking at the location of the space station, Han Zu could see an escape capsule loaded into a certain location of the space station. According to the time calculation, that should be the escape capsule where Sinler and Gloria were. After confirming the location, Han Zu flew in that direction.
“It’s still cool to be able to fly!”
Putting his hands behind his head, Han Zu lay there and flew towards the space station.