Chapter 457 "Commercial" Battleship 7-2-θ (3)

Chapter 457 "Commercial" Battleship 7-2-θ (3)

"How about it?"

"Everything is normal and very quiet. The other crew members should have entered the hibernation chamber. How many days will it take us to pass through this area?"

"A week or so. Only two days have passed. What's wrong? Are you anxious?"

"That's not the case, but every time we pass this area, I always feel uneasy."

"Well, actually me too, but at least so far, no accidents have occurred, so there's no need to take it too seriously."

"I hope so. My shift is over and it's your turn. By the way, to save you some trouble, I turned on the light on the hatch."

"Okay, go get some sleep. By the way, remember to notify the next patrol brother before you rest."

"no problem."

A few hours later, the soldier who had walked out of the shuttle returned to the interior of the shuttle, chatted with his companion for a few words, and prepared to go back to rest. However, in the less than one minute between him returning to the shuttle and the soldier who was handing over walked out of the shuttle, two figures took advantage of this opportunity to quickly approach the shuttle and hide in the shadows under the shuttle's gangway. After they hid, the soldier in charge of the handover just walked out of the hatch.

Although the previous soldier on patrol helped him turn on the light on the hatch, the light had a limited angle of operation and other locations in the Independence Port were still very dark. So, like the previous soldier, he turned on the lighting equipment on his weapon and prepared to search again for other locations that were not illuminated by the light.

Perhaps in order to reduce the sound of his footsteps as much as possible, the soldier walked very slowly. After going down the gangway, he stopped for a while and looked around with lighting equipment, but did not find anything suspicious.

"Ping!"

However, when the soldier was about to continue his patrol, he suddenly heard a crisp collision sound. The sound was very close, and it seemed to come from the gangway. He immediately looked inside the hatch above the gangway and saw his companion who was called in to prepare for the next handover. He waved to him, said hello, and immediately continued his patrol.

The soldier in the hatch was not actually standing in that position, but he also heard the collision. Both sides thought that the sound was made by the other side, so they didn't care. After greeting the soldier who left the shuttle and started patrolling, the soldier in the hatch turned around and returned to the waiting area.

"Clang!"

However, the soldier had just returned to the waiting area behind the hatch and had not yet sat down when he heard a sound again, as if something had fallen to the ground. Feeling a little strange, he stood up and prepared to go over and take a look, but perhaps because he felt safe, he did not take his weapons with him, but left them where he had planned to sit down and rest.

After arriving at the location where the sound came from, he began to search on the ground and finally found a cutter on the ground in the corner of a hatch. This kind of maintenance tool is very common and can be seen on almost any spaceship or warehouse, but it is a bit strange that it appears here. After all, there is no warehouse nearby and the engineers on the shuttle ship did not come here.

"The emergency treatment module is being activated and a strong painkiller is being injected."

"Varied...?"

Just when he was wondering why this tool appeared in this place, the medical module on his armor suddenly started up and injected him with a strong painkiller. This strong painkiller has no side effects, but there is a characteristic, that is, if the person who injects it is not injured and does not need pain relief, some ingredients in this strong painkiller will make people fall asleep immediately. It is precisely because of the characteristics of this strong painkiller that pharmacists occasionally use these strong painkillers as drugs to treat insomnia.

The soldier was so sleepy that he fell into a deep sleep before he could react. His body automatically fell backwards, but he did not fall to the ground. Instead, he was caught steadily by someone.

"You killed him?"

"No, I just hacked into his armor's systems and knocked him out with a strong painkiller. I think he'll sleep for a few hours."

"Strong painkillers can also be used as sleeping pills? How come I didn't know that?"

"You should know more about these potions. Even I, an outsider, know more than you."

"Okay, what should we do now? Ask someone first?"

"No need. I roughly know where the storage device is. Now I just need to avoid the soldiers inside the shuttle and go directly to the storage device."

The shuttle was much smaller than the stealth warship it was in. Soon, Han Zu and Xin arrived at the outside of the cabin of the soldier carrying the suitcase-sized container that he had seen outside the shuttle. His cabin was not in the same location as the dormitory area on the shuttle. Most of the people inside were the person in charge of the shuttle. It was still some distance away from the dormitory area. As long as there was no loud noise, the other soldiers would not hear what happened here.

"drop."

"Ok?"

The soldier inside was wearing armor, leaning on the bed, using his helmet as a pillow, staring at the space outside the porthole. His left hand was on the suitcase-sized container. It seemed that it, or the things inside, were indeed very important. At this moment, he heard the door he had closed make a sound and opened automatically. He thought it might be another bored soldier who came to chat with him, so he didn't react at this time.

However, after the hatch opened automatically, no one appeared behind the door. He didn't hear any movement, so he naturally didn't look back.

"Bone rolling..."

But soon, the sound of something rolling attracted his attention. He looked back and saw a cylindrical object rolling to his feet hanging by the bed. When the object stopped, he twisted his body and picked it up. After carefully examining it in front of his eyes, he found that it was a metal cylinder with many holes on the surface.

"No, didn't I lock the hatch? How come it opened automatically?"

Just as he was thinking about what the metal cylinder in his hand was, his mind finally came back to focus and he found something wrong. Just as he realized it and was about to throw the cylinder in his hand away immediately, the cylinder suddenly emitted a dazzling light, which briefly took away his vision. At this moment, he suddenly heard a dull and hurried sound of footsteps, and then he felt something hit his face hard, and then he fainted.

Han Zu waved his hand at the hatch, and Xin, who was hiding behind the door, immediately came in and closed the hatch. While Han Zu was fiddling with the suitcase-sized container, she quietly put her finger on the soldier's neck. The soldier was not killed, but just knocked unconscious.

"I thought you were going to just kill him."

"That's what I thought at first, but considering the trouble that might arise if he died, it would be more appropriate to make him unconscious."

"Om~"

Using high-energy rays to directly destroy the blockade, Han Zu easily opened the container and saw what was inside. After Xin's confirmation, it was the storage device they were looking for before. Using the contractor's equipment, Han Zu quickly read the contents inside, but the information he saw made Han Zu feel very confused.

"what?"

"What did you find? Is there any information about the situation on the space station? Or anything related?"

"I'm... not sure. Take a look for yourself."

After transferring the contents of the storage device to the information panel inside Xin's helmet, Xin couldn't help but express a hint of doubt.

"So what's the rest?"

“That’s the whole message.”

"You're not hiding some of the information, are you?"

"This time, there really isn't anything. What we saw was the same. If you don't believe me, just look for yourself."

Han Zu handed the storage device to Xin without hesitation. After checking, Xin found no trace of the storage device being modified, proving that Han Zu did not hide any information. The information inside the storage device that the two saw was actually just a map of an unknown location, with no coordinates, no markings, no navigation data, no three-dimensional orientation, and nothing else.

"Do you know where this place is?"

"I don't know. There is no indication on this map, so I can't tell the specific terrain. This map seems to be different from ordinary flat maps, so I can't confirm whether it is a flat map. In short, I have no impression of the location on this map. I can't use the equipment now, so I can't search. But according to what you said before, even if it can be used, it is estimated that it will not be able to connect to the Domination Network."

"I have no impression of this map either. I tried to use the map on my planet and found that it is different from the map we use. There are no markings, and I can't tell what the terrain is on the map. But if I'm not mistaken, this place is either a terrain map located in a large mountain range or nearby, or a... um... underwater terrain map under the ocean? Probably."

"So what happened in Sector 4... No, what happened in the space station and the High Wall frigate might be related to this map? But... why would a map be related to the situations in those two places?"

“Perhaps the cause of the space station accident is related to the location on this map?”

"But there's not even a single mark on this map. If this is a rough topographic map, then if we don't know the scale, then we can't tell what size this map represents. It's possible that the area on it is only a few dozen meters in size, or it could be the size of the surface of an entire planet. Not to mention that we don't know what to look for, even if we did, we probably wouldn't be able to confirm its or their exact altitude."

"Maybe this storage device is just a decoy? Not a real storage device?"

"But we have already searched every possible hiding place on this invisible warship."

"There are still other locations of this shuttle that we haven't searched. How about we rule them out first?"

“This is the only solution at the moment.”

At present, there are less than twenty people in the entire shuttle ship who are wearing armor, except for the one patrolling outside, the one who was knocked out by a powerful analgesic, and the one who was "lulled to sleep" by Han Zu's punch. There are only two or three people. After carefully "lulling" them to sleep, it was much easier to deal with the other unarmored soldiers. Using three or four special "stun bombs", Han Zu easily made everyone on the shuttle ship fall asleep. However, after checking them, he did not find any clues.

"What should we do now?"

"Look for other locations on the shuttle. If you can't find it, then the storage device must be real... I don't recommend doing that, but if you want to try it, I won't stop you. But a friendly reminder, if you pull the trigger, there's no going back."

"What's this mess?"

"Oh, I'm not talking about you. I mean the guy who hid behind the door and eavesdropped on our conversation for more than ten minutes. But he shouldn't be the one who was patrolling outside the shuttle before. It's not time to change guards yet."

After hearing Han Zu's words, Xin immediately drew her weapon, turned around, and aimed at the hatch. However, she did not find anyone. But she did not think Han Zu would play such a joke, so she did not lower the gun and remained alert.

"Come out and chat?"

There was no response, no sound.

As if he had thought of something, Han Zu grabbed a soldier who had been knocked unconscious by him and slapped him in the face, waking him up.

"If that's what you're concerned about, I just knocked them all out, I didn't kill them."

The soldier who was awakened by the slap staggered and tried to figure out what happened, but he was knocked unconscious again before he could fully regain consciousness. Just as Han Zu threw him back on the bed, a man with a different style and paint from the other soldiers on the battleship appeared at the hatch, with a heavy plasma hand cannon in his hand, locking onto the back of Han Zu's head.

"I must remind you, if you do nothing and cooperate with me, at most you will just sleep for a while like them, but if you pull the trigger, then no matter whether your hand cannon fires successfully or not, I will cut you in half. Oh, and the weapon in your hand can't do any harm to me."

"You are not from Tige, why are you here?"

"It seems you made the right choice, but I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to answer your question."

"I suggest you put down your weapon. This man is not exaggerating."

"What is your relationship with the other people on this ship? Why did everyone on this ship enter the hibernation capsule? And how did those navigators die?"

Han Zu turned around, put his arm on Xin's armor, glanced at the man holding the hand cannon at the door, said nothing, just looked in another direction.

Xin understood Han Zu's action. He was using his perspective ability to observe places that he could not see.

"He's not the only one?"

"Well, I'm a little confused. Why didn't I find these people when we searched the battleship before? Maybe their armor is special?"

"Hey! I'm asking you a question!"

However, Han Zu completely ignored the guy at the door and was still communicating with Xin. Perhaps he was very dissatisfied with Han Zu's attitude of ignoring him, the man at the door finally pulled the trigger of the heavy plasma hand cannon in his hand.

“Buzz~!!!!!”

"How can this be?!!!"

After being hit on the head by a plasma bullet fired from a heavy plasma hand cannon, Han Zu remained unscathed, which surprised the man who opened fire. At this moment, he saw the man in the strange robe in front of him, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He sensed an inexplicable danger and instinctively moved his body to the side. Sure enough, his choice was extremely correct.

“Buzz~~!!!!!!”

Two scarlet high-energy rays passed through his helmet, not only directly burning off half of his helmet on the left side, but also directly piercing through the interlayers of several shuttle ships nearby.

Just when the helmet was severely damaged and the burning was about to damage his head, he immediately threw away the helmet, stood firm again, and prepared to continue shooting. However, just as he stood firm, he heard heavy and dense hurried footsteps. When he looked up, the man who had destroyed his helmet before had come to him and punched him on the chest armor.

"Warning, the armor has been severely damaged, the protection has dropped to 13%, and the force field shield has been overloaded."

He suddenly felt as if he had been hit by a heavy tank. He was blown uncontrollably along the corridor behind him and hit the bulkhead heavily. Just as he steadied himself, he saw two scarlet lights appear at the other end of the corridor.

“Buzz~~!!!!!”

He quickly dodged and leapt into the next room, preparing to activate the shielding force field on his armor.

"Unable to activate the shielding force field. The relevant module is damaged and cannot be used."

"Damn it! I need backup!"

"Buzz~~!!!"

While using the communication device to call other people who were also on the invisible battleship, he fled frantically. Fortunately, he did not stop. The two deadly high-energy rays seemed to have eyes. They penetrated the bulkhead and passed by his previous position.

"Where are you? What's the enemy situation like?"

"Extremely dangerous! I don't have time to go into details now! It's right there in that independent port! Quick, quick, quick!!!"

"We'll be there soon, try to avoid the enemy's attacks!"

"You think I don't want to??!"

"Buzz~~!!!"

He threw out some holographic baits, trying to distract the enemy's attack, and then immediately fled towards the exit of the shuttle. He had to leave the shuttle to have a chance.