Chapter 455 "Commercial" Battleship 7-2-θ (1)

Chapter 455 "Commercial" Battleship 7-2-θ (1)

"Error, unknown realm, unable to connect to matrix sequence, trying to reconnect."

"Connection failed, retrying..."

It was unknown how long it had been, but when the invisible warship jumped, the nauseating energy fluctuations that filled the surroundings disappeared. Han Zu, feeling very uncomfortable, frowned and heard the error message in the contractor's equipment. According to the description of the equipment, it was now offline and could not connect to the contractor's huge information matrix.

This situation is different from what Γ4 told him before. According to Γ4, in order to prevent Han Zu from disappearing again, the device implanted in him this time can almost remain stable within the sphere of influence of the Tigs and the traitors, and there is absolutely no possibility of the device being offline. You know, the territory of these two parties in the universe is not a small area. At least it has exceeded the size of the human observable universe.

The equipment was almost tailor-made and had extremely strong reliability. Unless Han Zu died, it was basically impossible for any form of failure to occur, including equipment offline. Han Zu quickly thought of the only possibility for the equipment to be offline, which was that he had now exceeded the maximum range of the equipment and arrived at an area that neither the Tige people nor the contractor had ever set foot in.

Han Zu's knowledge of astronomy was limited to textbooks, some knowledge about black holes (out of interest), and some basic common sense, so he actually didn't have much reaction to this, and his attention quickly shifted back.

Xin's perception of energy was not as sharp as Han Zu's, so she only felt some vibrations of the ship's hull, nothing more, and she was unaware of the prompts from Han Zu's traitor device. She was just observing the movements around her and had no idea what was happening at the moment.

Although the device could not connect to the defector's matrix sequence and could not obtain message comparison, other functions that did not require connection to the matrix could still be used normally. So Han Zu immediately used the scanning module of the device and began to detect their current environment.

"The docking device pipeline."

According to the equipment scan, Han Zu and Xin are currently on this invisible warship, inside one of the device pipes used to dock with other spacecraft. A dozen meters away is a sealed docking hatch, and behind it is a dedicated landing area. However, there is currently no spacecraft docking at this location, so this place and the landing area behind are empty, with no one.

Using the equipment to inform Xin of the information near their location, the two of them went deeper along the docking device pipe and soon arrived at the docking hatch. To be on the safe side, Han Zu used his perception and perspective abilities to check the landing area behind the docking hatch again. After confirming that there was no one nearby and no monitoring devices, Han Zu used the energy beams shot from his eyes to directly ablate and destroy the internal alarm device, then directly cut open the blocking device on the hatch, opened the hatch, and entered the interior of the invisible warship.

"Multiple vital signs detected, assessing threat."

"Completed, Threat Level: Very Low."

According to the equipment's scan, outside the security hatch of this landing area, there are many similar landing areas, and there are many people around. However, based on the threat assessment module and their own perception, they can confirm that the people around are basically workers or unarmored soldiers. They pose no threat to the two of them at the moment.

However, the two men came to this invisible battleship for a purpose. Han Zu planned to retrieve the storage device and find out what information was stored in it, so he planned to keep a low profile to avoid attracting the attention of the soldiers on the battleship.

For convenience, Han Zu shared the information scanned by the device with Xin, and tried to avoid using communication as much as possible, instead communicating with gestures, in order to keep a low profile as much as possible.

"General communications intercepted. Contents being translated."

"completed."

"We are about to pass the 'border'. At that time, all non-essential systems of the warship will be shut down to maintain the force field shield and ensure a smooth passage. Except for the navigation team, all other crew members will return to the hibernation capsule immediately to reduce the ship's energy consumption. The hibernation capsule will be activated in 3 hours."

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After sharing the information with Xin, both of them showed puzzled expressions. It seemed that this invisible warship was about to pass through some "border" and needed to deliver a large amount of energy to the ship's force field shield device. The order that all crew members except the navigator team, including the captain, needed to return to the hibernation cabin was even more strange. After all, according to the Tig people's ship behavior regulations, there would be almost no military ships that would move without guards or permanent troops on board. After all, once an enemy ship launched a boarding attempt, the entire ship would be in danger because it had no internal defense force.

However, it seems that the people on this ship are not worried about this situation at all. According to Han Zu's perception, the crew members around the landing area where the two were located have begun to leave, probably returning to the hibernation capsule. This situation is too abnormal.

Putting together the information we know so far, we can know that no matter where this invisible warship will pass in three hours, this place is extremely dangerous, so dangerous that the warship needs to temporarily stop all power supply except for the necessary equipment. At the same time, there will be no possibility of being boarded by others. As the crew around them quickly decreased, the two prepared to find an opportunity to learn more details.

Soon, the footsteps and conversations around them became quieter and quieter, and seemed to be about to disappear. Under the scanning of the equipment, some mechanical sentinel units around were also shutting down. After using the cracking module on the equipment to block some nearby monitoring equipment, the two left the current landing area through a safe route and arrived at the corridor outside. After no longer having to worry about the possibility of being discovered by others around them, the two finally started talking.

"What's the situation with this battleship? What position would it have to pass to require such an order? The order said that all non-essential equipment and power supply would be shut down, but look at this, even these systems have been temporarily shut down. This is too abnormal."

Xin pointed to an extinguished indicator light on the wall of the corridor and said in confusion. That was the life support system indicator light in the personnel activity area of ​​the spacecraft.

"Are all life support systems 'non-essential' devices?... Something is wrong. Let's go find a control console and see if we can find relevant information."

It was said that only the power supply to "non-essential" devices would be shut off, but in the eyes of Han Zu and Xin, it did not seem that simple. The shutdown of the lighting devices was normal, but even the emergency indicator lights, life support devices, and even the safety locks of all the hatches of nearby rooms, as well as almost all visible and turnable devices were turned off. It was indeed too abnormal.

"It's no use. The devices we can see in this corridor are gradually shutting down. I'm sure they will all be shut down soon. I don't think we'll be able to find any control consoles."

Continuing along the corridor, we can see quite a few crew members at the end of the corridor. They are using portable terminals in their hands as lighting, and in the darkness when the ship's lighting system is turned off, they are methodically searching for their cabins. There are even quite a few people having normal conversations. It seems that similar situations often occur on this stealth battleship.

The distance was far, and there was no lighting except for the terminal, so no one noticed Xin and Han Zu hiding in the dark. Soon, everyone in the corridor returned to their respective cabins and lay down in the hibernation cabin without any hesitation. The hibernation device was activated almost immediately. In less than ten minutes, the entire corridor was completely silent, and you could hear a pin drop.

Although the contractor's equipment and Han Zu's own perception ability can still detect that there are still many crew members active nearby, according to the scan data of the cracking module, the entire warship has shut down all power supplies except the engine and force field shield sequence except for the navigation room. So the two decided to wait for a while. Although the situation inside the ship is very strange now, the equipment did not scan anything. The two decided to wait until all the crew members entered the hibernation cabin before searching the storage device, which would be more convenient.

The wait was long, especially when there was nothing to do. After estimating the time, Han Zu set a reminder on the contractor's equipment for two hours, then found a good spot and lay down behind a pile of cargo boxes, ready to sleep through the time. His sleep quality was always good, and he fell asleep not long after lying down.

Xin Ke was not as careless as Han Zu. Although she was also hiding behind the cargo compartment, she could not sleep, so she took this opportunity to carefully check her weapons and equipment to ensure that they would not be abnormal when needed.

Sleep is always a very good way to pass the boring time. Soon, two hours passed. The contractor's equipment released some electric shocks, waking up the sleeping Han Zu. He used his perception ability to observe the surroundings. Nothing happened. Xin had checked her equipment and weapons. She was leaning against the wall, paying attention to the direction of the hatch at the entrance of the room. There was no one outside. She was just keeping alert.

After standing up and moving around for a while, the two quietly left their hiding place, walked out of this position, and began to search the crew's rooms one by one along the corridor. In each room and cabin, only the hibernation capsule was operating. The unconscious crew members also made it very easy for Han Zu to crack their terminals and equipment. However, he did not find any useful information on these things.

The awakening time of the hibernation capsule is one week later. Based on this information, it can be roughly judged that the area that this stealth warship has to pass through is definitely not small, even though the stealth warship is moving very slowly now.

"So we estimate we have a week to search for information?"

"Almost, but the sooner the better. I always feel like something is wrong."

For some reason, Xin felt bad about what happened on the battleship, so she quickened her pace and prepared to continue searching other locations on the battleship.

The battleship was large, but not as big as the previous space station. It took the two of them nearly two days to search the entire battleship except for the navigation room. During this period, no one or any mechanical sentinel was awakened, and the observation panel in the cockpit did not provide any information about the ordinary space area outside the battleship.

"Are all the people on this battleship mentally ill? Outside is normal space?"

"Didn't you sense any unique energy reaction?"

"No, there is only some normal energy radiation, and the amount is not large. If it is just this level, the orders on this battleship are even more weird."

Although the two searched every place on the battleship except the navigation room, strangely, they could not find the storage device no matter what. However, Han Zu found the spaceship of the recovery team that evacuated to the battleship and recovered the storage device from the space station. There was no transmission device on the spaceship, and the transmission device on the battleship was not powered and was in an off state, so the recovery team must still be on this battleship.

"That's all we can do. Now the only thing left is the navigation room. If there's nothing there either, then the storage device is probably either destroyed or was sent away immediately after we boarded the ship."

"It seems that we can only try our luck in the navigation room."

After two days of searching, the two had already figured out the layout of the entire battleship. Han Zu even used the contractor's equipment to draw a structural diagram of the entire stealth battleship. Following their markings on the structural diagram, Han Zu and Xin quickly arrived outside the hatch of the navigation room. The two remained quiet, standing on the left and right sides of the hatch, ready to go in and take a look.

"No life signals detected."

However, this time, as soon as the two approached the navigation room, the scanning results transmitted by the equipment made Han Zu confused again.

During the time of searching for the warship, although the two did not enter the navigation room, they passed by here many times. Every time, the equipment on Han Zu could scan five life signals, but this time, it did not scan any. This made Han Zu alert. The hatch of the navigation room was found to be locked from the inside when the two passed by for the first time. In addition, the power supply inside the navigation room was normal, so if someone wanted to enter the navigation room, it would be almost impossible, after all, the hatch was very strong.

"Let's go in and take a look. Maybe there was an error in the scan."

After using the energy beam in his eyes to destroy the hatch's blocking device from the outside, Han Zu opened the hatch. After stepping into the hatch, he immediately found the best angle so that the five navigators inside were roughly in a plane, allowing his high-energy rays to have a better attack angle.

"The bodies of these people have turned cold. They are dead."

However, even though Han Zu made a lot of noise, the five navigators did not react at all. They just sat in their respective seats with their backs to Han Zu. The two walked over cautiously to check, but found that the navigators were already dead.

"There are no external injuries, no residual energy, and it's not cannibalism. After all, for some reason, they don't have any weapons on them."

"Look into their cause of death, maybe we can find some clues."

"It's already been done, but the scan results are a bit strange..."

"What is the specific situation?"

"These navigators died of brain death. But they were not frightened or attacked. Maybe this is related to the location where the battleship was passing?"

"But the outside is no different from before? Is it still a normal scene?"

"That's strange. One person dying of brain death can be considered bad luck or coincidence, but five people dying of this condition is almost impossible."

"Let's check again. Maybe we missed some clues."

"Makes sense."