Chapter 456 "Commercial" Battleship 7-2-θ (2)

Chapter 456 "Commercial" Battleship 7-2-θ (2)

"What was the cause of their death?"

"Brain death, didn't I tell you that before?"

"I mean, what caused them to become brain dead?"

"The scan on the device said... Uh, hypoxia? Oh, I see what you mean."

As the only part of this stealth battleship that remains in normal operation, apart from the energy system and shield device, the interior of the navigation room has sufficient lighting, a stable life support system, and even ventilation facilities are still functioning normally. The five navigators who died in their seats were not wearing any special helmets or masks, nor did they suffer any attacks. The cause of death from severe lack of oxygen leading to brain death is indeed strange.

"By the way, will the brain structure of the Tig people execute their own pseudo-hypnotic absolute orders?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is... Let me ask you this, can you Tigres suffocate yourselves to death?"

"Are you kidding? Unless there are external factors affecting it, the brain will issue a command to stop holding your breath before reaching the limit of oxygen deprivation to ensure safety. This is common sense, right?"

"I just think that the brain structure of the Tigs and humans may be different. If you put it that way, then it can rule out suicide."

"It can't be suicide, right?"

"If suicide is ruled out, the only possibility left is homicide. But there were no signs of a fight at the scene, nor any obvious signs of attack. This is strange." Han Zu frowned, his eyes full of confusion, trying to find out how these navigators became brain dead.

"Could it be that some kind of invisible energy attack directly acts on their brains, destroying the normal function of the brain and causing brain death due to lack of oxygen?" Xin also put forward his own guess.

"This requires a lot of energy, and it has to be invisible and traceless. Although I didn't detect any abnormal energy residue in my perception, it is normal that there is energy that I cannot detect, so I can't rule out this possibility." Han Zu touched his chin and thought.

"Perhaps it has something to do with the area this battleship is traveling in? Perhaps these strange orders on the battleship are meant to avoid such accidents."

"But this doesn't seem reasonable. After all, if this is true, knowing that there might be casualties, there is no need to leave these five navigators outside. All the equipment in the navigation room has sufficient energy, and the navigation task can be handed over to the automatic cruise sequence."

"Perhaps the task of navigating through this area must be completed by humans? Perhaps the automatic cruise sequence is being interfered with? This doesn't make sense. Everything on the navigation panel is normal, and there is no interference?"

While thinking, Han Zu quickly thought of a possibility, that is, these five navigators were most likely sacrificed. Perhaps the normality of this area was due to the death of these five navigators. If this was the case, then this area would be very dangerous.

But on second thought, that doesn't seem to be the case. First of all, these navigators don't have any restraints on their bodies, so they are not disposable wetware like death row prisoners. Secondly, these navigators' positions on the warship should not be low. The social welfare of the Tiger people is very good, so it is impossible for them to die for the sake of promotion.

Moreover, these navigators were clearly unaware that they would meet this fate. Judging from the orientation and movements of their bodies, they were still carrying out their navigation work in an orderly manner before they died. There were no signs of struggle on their bodies, indicating that the brain death caused by lack of oxygen occurred immediately, which is not common sense.

Due to the special situation on the battleship, Han Zu had used the cracking module on the equipment to hack into the main system of the battleship a long time ago. During the two days of exploration on the battleship, Han Zu had been paying attention to the situation in the navigation room. It can be confirmed that since the navigation room was closed, no one or anything else has entered or left here. Up to this point, all the clues have been cut off. After thinking about it, Han Zu made a judgment. Regardless of why the five navigators died here, he could take advantage of the current situation and use the high-authority equipment in the navigation room to confirm the location of the recovery team and the storage device.

"How's it going? Have you found the recovery team?"

"No, it seems that their actions cannot be recorded. However, I did find the code name of this invisible warship and the position of the captain. As the first person in charge on the warship, he must know some inside information."

"Then let's get going now. I have a bad feeling about this."

"Row."

With the identity confirmation from the navigation room console, and the structural diagram that Han Zu had drawn using the contractor's equipment, it didn't take long for the two to find the captain's cabin after leaving the navigation room. They used high-energy rays to easily cut off the locking device of the hatch, and after pushing open the hatch, they saw the layout of the captain's room, as well as the captain's hibernation cabin lying horizontally on the ground in the middle of the room.

"This guy's personal terminal is still on this table. Maybe it contains the location of the recovery team or the storage unit?"

"Let's look for it first."

Just as Han Zu used the cracking module on the contractor's equipment to crack the captain's personal terminal, Xin glanced at the captain inside through the observation window of the hibernation capsule. It was this glance that made her discover something that might be a clue.

"what is this?"

"Did you find out?"

Xin pointed at the captain in the hibernation chamber. Through the position of the observation window, he could see a faint mark on his neck. Han Zu changed the cracking module of the device to automatic operation and walked over to take a closer look. This mark was extremely hidden and difficult to detect without getting close.

"Is this a... tattoo? But it's too small and too faint. It doesn't look like a birthmark or an allergic reaction to the skin, nor is it a scar. What on earth is this?"

After observing it carefully, Han Zu thought it might be a mark of some kind.

"Maybe he joined some organization?"

"No, I have dealt with all kinds of organizations of the Tig people, both legal and illegal. This... trace does not belong to any organization of the Tig people or the allied races. Do you have any ideas?"

"Neither do I. This doesn't look like any marks I've seen before. Do other people on the battleship have such marks? I didn't pay much attention to it before. If not, it might just be a scratch or something. It's not important. But after I crack his personal terminal, I can take a look when I go to find the storage device."

The cracking of the terminal went smoothly and took almost no time, but at the same time, no clues were found after the terminal was cracked.

"Either the captain is completely unaware of this, or this guy is very smart and didn't store the recovery team's information on the terminal. There are no clues here."

"Do you remember what the ship the recovery team was on looked like? Should we go look for it in the port area? Although we have already searched once, because there are more than a dozen identical shuttles on this stealth ship, we may not have noticed it before."

"It seems that this is the only way now. Although I saw the shuttle before, it was very fast and I didn't see the details of the shuttle clearly, so I may have to look for it. Let's go."

All crew members were in hibernation, so there was nothing on this invisible warship to stop the two from searching in a big way. However, when they were traveling in the dark warship without any lighting, even though they were wearing armor and equipped with weapons, Xin always felt uneasy. She always felt that something was wrong on this invisible warship.

Soon, the two returned to the port area again and searched the dozen or so shuttle ships here carefully inside and out, but they found nothing on these empty shuttle ships.

"Not here?"

"It's possible. It's also possible that it's in the docking area."

"But we entered this battleship from the docking area, and the area we searched initially was also from that location. I don't think we missed anything. Maybe there is some secret special hangar on this ship?"

"Maybe. I have memorized the serial numbers of the shuttles we have searched. I plan to compare them with the list of secondary ships of this stealth battleship. Perhaps I can find some clues."

Using the equipment, the numbers of the shuttles that had been searched were compared with the list of secondary spacecraft on the battleship 7-2-θ. This time, a clue was found. The numbers of those shuttles all started with 7-2 and ended with -θ. These shuttles formed a whole formation, and all the numbers were normal, but the only one missing was shuttle 7-2-13-θ. 7-2-13-θ was also the only shuttle that was not in the port area.

"Confirming the location of 7-2-13-θ..."

"Completed, requiring level 2 authorization."

Han Zu used the captain's authority to try to visit. Fortunately, nothing went wrong this time. The captain was indeed an insider. Using this clue, the two successfully found the location of the shuttle ship 7-2-13-θ, which was located in a secret independent port on the top of the battleship. According to the scan, this secret port seemed to maintain the energy supply of various facilities like the navigation room and was not shut down.

Passing through the hollow structure area inside the battleship, Han Zu used his flying ability and biological force field to reach the location of the secret independent port with Xin. There was no obvious entrance here. In order to open the passage to the secret independent port, it was necessary to be scanned by a special biometric information lock.

The two of them definitely didn't have a biometric lock, but Han Zu, who had the ability of perspective, found a maintenance pipeline near the secret independent port. They could first enter the maintenance pipeline, move to the designated location, and then destroy the wall to enter the secret independent port. This would not only allow them to observe the situation inside from a suitable position first, but also avoid unnecessary troubles that might arise after directly destroying the entrance.

After finding a suitable entrance to the maintenance pipeline, the two carefully entered the maintenance pipeline, which was filled with an old metallic smell. Han Zu was in front, followed by Xin, and they slowly moved forward along the pipeline. After a few minutes, Han Zu stopped and used his perspective and perception abilities to observe the situation in the secret independent port.

The shuttle ship No. 7-2-13-θ was parked peacefully in the independent port, with the hatch at the bottom of the side closed and the engine not started. Although the life support system inside was operating normally, the lighting equipment was not turned on. This was not for saving energy. However, according to the equipment scan, the lighting facilities here were still on a day ago, and should have been turned off manually later. The other crew members on the battleship were all in the hibernation cabin, so the person who could turn off the lighting facilities inside should be inside the shuttle ship No. 7-2-13-θ and has not left yet, or has not had time to leave.

Han Zu raised his hand in front of Xin and made a few gestures. Although Han Zu's gestures were basically self-created, at least their meanings were easy to understand.

It means "there is someone inside."

Xin nodded and tightened his grip on the weapon. The two men lowered their steps, slowed down, and continued to move forward in the maintenance pipe, reaching a position where they could break the wall and enter the secret independent port. Han Zu carefully adjusted his strength, using the high-energy rays from his eyes to carefully cut the wall. This was to achieve an effect that would not make too much noise, nor would it be too weak to reach the level of cutting the wall. About a minute or two later, with a slight sound, the wall was cut open to a position large enough for two people to enter and exit. Han Zu gently grabbed the cut metal plate and slowly put it into the maintenance pipe.

Han Zu got out first, followed by Xin. The two moved cautiously and slowly approached the shuttle ship 7-2-13-θ. According to the observation inside the shuttle ship, there were indeed more than a dozen soldiers wearing ordinary armor moving around inside.

"Tsk~~"

At this moment, with some steam gushing out, the shuttle's hatch suddenly opened, and as the gangway stopped on the ground, a figure walked out. Han Zu and Xin immediately hid in the darkness under the shuttle and watched quietly.

That should be a member of the recovery team. He was using the lighting equipment on his weapon to search the interior of the independent port. However, he did not leave the shuttle. He just stood at the end of the ladder and used the light beam of the lighting equipment to carefully scan every corner of the secret independent port.

Of course, because Han Zu and Xin had hidden at the bottom of the shuttle, which was out of the soldier's visual field, they were not discovered at all.

Han Zu made a few more gestures, which meant "Keep still, don't move."

While the soldier continued his search of the secret independent port, Han Zu used his ability of perspective to carefully observe the situation inside the shuttle. He found that in the dormitory area on the shuttle, most of the members of the recovery team had taken off their armor and were resting. Only a few soldiers near the hatch were wearing armor. They should be sentinels waiting for rotation.

Han Zu noticed that in a room in the dormitory area, there was a person who had not taken off his armor, unlike the other members of the recovery team in the dormitory area. Next to the bed where he was sitting, there was a container similar to a suitcase. The material of the container was special and Han Zu could not see through it, but judging by the size of the container, the things inside should be the storage device he was looking for, which was taken away from the space station.