Chapter 458 Falling into the Deep Sea (1)

Chapter 458 Falling into the Deep Sea (1)

"An approaching liquid planet has been detected. The navigation trajectory is being calculated..."

“Boom~~!!!”

Han Zu, who was chasing the guy who attacked him before, stopped chasing him after hearing the warning from the contractor's equipment and feeling the stealth warship shaking violently. In order to avoid stumbling and falling to the ground due to the violent shaking of the ship, Han Zu had to float up and stop in mid-air. However, during this period of time, the guy he was chasing disappeared from his perception range by some unknown method.

"Qiang!"

"what happened?"

Xin, who was following behind Han Zu, pierced the bulkhead with her power sword and steadied herself. She felt very uneasy about the sudden violent shaking, which seemed to be connected to the ominous feeling she had when she first boarded the battleship.

"Not sure. My equipment has scanned that this warship is approaching a liquid planet. Perhaps after losing the navigator, there was something wrong with the angle of navigation. We may have mistakenly entered the halo of a nearby liquid planet. I guess the shaking of the ship's hull must have caused it to hit a large asteroid."

However, the shaking did not last long. After a minute or two, the invisible battleship returned to normal.

After the ship stopped shaking, Han Zu returned to the ground. He used the equipment that had been hacked into the invisible battleship to begin checking the condition of the battleship. Everything was normal, no part was damaged, and the consumption of the force field shield of the invisible battleship was also within normal values.

"You'd better not chase him for now. That guy can't do anything to you anyway. I think we should go to the navigation room and take a look. Most of the portholes on this stealth warship have their protective devices closed, so we can't see what's going on outside. If I remember correctly, the protective device on one of the portholes in the navigation room should be broken."

"Isn't there a porthole in the cabin next to this? Can't we just remove the protective plate on top? There's no need to run so far."

"No, I've had a bad feeling since I boarded this invisible battleship. I know you may not care about this, but it's better not to continue destroying the ship."

"Okay, but I'm not going to let the guy who shot me before go."

"I have no objection, but..."

"But what? You know him?"

"No, I mean, if he shows up again, try to use less destructive means to deal with him."

"It seems that your anxiety is really serious. All right, if I meet him again, I will try my best to deal with him with my fists."

"The target unit's heart rate and breathing rate increased, and unstable brain waves appeared."

The contractor's equipment performed a secret medical scan on Xin. Her condition was not quite right. Han Zu was a little suspicious that she might know the person who fired the gun before. However, after the equipment tested it, it came to an abnormal conclusion. Xin did not lie. Although her vital signs showed changes similar to those when she lied, there was another situation that would cause similar vital signs to appear, that is, she had a more serious panic.

This is not normal. According to the scan and comparison conducted when Xin was rescued, even when she was about to die, Xin did not show any similar panic. Moreover, since arriving on the battleship, she has not encountered any events that would increase her panic. Xin is an experienced elite combatant who has not only undergone rigorous training, but also participated in countless dangerous missions. It is impossible for her to have no growth. Therefore, Han Zu believes that this sudden deepening of panic is not natural.

"Let's go!"

Xin grabbed Han Zu's arm with one hand and held the weapon tightly with the other hand, trying to pull him towards the navigation room, but Han Zu did not move immediately, so Xin urged him, and his emotions did not seem very stable.

Although Han Zu quickly let Xin pull him forward, he immediately frowned, not because he was disgusted, but because Xin's state was very abnormal, like a timid ordinary person. Moreover, this level of physical contact was not something Xin would normally do.

Since meeting Xin and her team on Haigo, Xin had never felt this kind of fear under any circumstances. Similarly, before she grabbed his arm, Xin and Han Zu had not had any active physical contact. The most important point is that as an experienced combatant, Xin would never have his finger on the trigger like he did now, and the muzzle of the gun would never be pointed at the ground and waved around.

Xin's current condition must have been affected by something, but Han Zu himself, for some reason, was not similarly affected. Until now, Han Zu gradually began to understand why almost all the crew members of this invisible battleship were lying in hibernation cabins, and why the space that this invisible battleship was currently passing through might really be wrong.

"Boom~!!"

As the two were moving forward, the hull of the warship began to shake violently again. According to Han Zu's observation, Xin's actions this time were enough to prove that she was indeed affected in some way.

"Clang!"

Her breathing and heartbeat became more rapid due to the rising sense of fear. Xin actually threw away the weapon in her hand and squatted on the bulkhead of the corridor. She pulled Han Zu's arm even harder, as if she wanted Han Zu to block her position.

"Are you ok?"

"Ah...ah? I'm fine...I'm fine..."

Xin's condition seemed to be gradually deteriorating. Han Zu squatted down and took off Xin's helmet. Through his observation of her, Han Zu found that Xin's eyes kept moving and her pupils contracted, as if she had been stimulated by some mental level. And the effect of this influence seemed to be spreading, because even when Han Zu squatted right in front of Xin and looked closely at her eyes, Xin never looked at Han Zu. Her eyes kept moving and she was observing the surroundings in a somewhat neurotic manner.

"I should have changed her physique, why is she still like this?"

However, Han Zu saved Xin's life after all and injected her with his own cells. Logically speaking, since she is no longer a member of the Tig race, she should have become similar to Gloria and should not be easily affected on the mental level.

"Inspection in progress..."

Xin seemed unable to communicate normally now. Although she didn't keep saying some illogical crazy words, her abnormal behavior was almost the same as that of a real madman. She seemed unable to hear Han Zu's conversation. After slapping her face twice, she didn't react at all. Even when Han Zu put his finger in front of her eyes and pretended to stab her, she didn't dodge.

"Assessment completed. The target individual showed abnormal and chaotic brain activity, suspected to be caused by excessive panic..."

According to the results of the equipment scan, Xin seemed to have suffered from inexplicable severe panic, which caused serious disorder in brain activity, making her unable to communicate normally, and even unable to perceive the outside world. As for her transformation process, because the bodies of the Tig people are relatively strong, compared to humans, the time required for the Tig people to complete the evolution process is three to five times longer than normal humans. In other words, Xin has not yet completed her evolution, and is in a situation where she is mostly Tig and a small half a new race.

"After the target individual's 'evolution' is complete, it should be possible to recover from its current state after calculation."

According to the calculations of the contractor's equipment, if Xin completely completes the evolution, then he should be able to shield or resist this inexplicable influence. According to the calculated time, there are still more than ten hours left for Xin to complete the evolution. Whether as a possible future ally or a current experimental subject, Han Zu naturally cannot leave Xin alone.

"I have to...I have to see where...are we sailing...?"

It was not known whether it was because her body was gradually evolving, fighting against the strange influence that had appeared inexplicably, or because Xin, who had become somewhat crazy, had entered the next stage of madness. Xin briefly returned to normal, and kept saying that she wanted to see with her own eyes where the battleship was passing. While Xin was briefly back to normal, Han Zu quickly pulled her and flew towards the direction of the navigation room, but halfway there, Xin returned to her previous state of panic.

After a while, due to the violent shaking of the ship's hull, Han Zu, who had been walking and stopping, finally brought Xin to the navigation room. However, Xin was completely unable to communicate at this time.

Han Zu first threw the navigator's body on the seat aside, and then placed Xin in a seat that could accommodate armor. He tried to communicate with Xin and tried to get her to look at the space outside the porthole. But the other party still didn't respond.

"Hibernation Pod No. 122 is in an abnormal state. The vital signs of the personnel inside have disappeared. Hibernation Pod No. 122 is offline."

"Hibernation Pod No. 201 is in an abnormal state. The vital signs of the personnel inside have disappeared. Hibernation Pod No. 201 is offline."

Han Zu observed the space outside through the porthole and found nothing unusual. Just as he was about to continue observing, the module responsible for monitoring and managing all hibernation capsules on the ship suddenly sounded a silent alarm.

In just five minutes, the broadcast of information that the hibernation capsule was in an abnormal state and the vital signs of the people inside had disappeared never stopped. Through the panel of the hibernation capsule management module, it could be confirmed that the crew on the ship were dying in large numbers.

Thirteen minutes later, in the navigation room.

"Hibernation Pod No. 303 is in an abnormal state. The vital signs of the personnel inside have disappeared. Hibernation Pod No. 303 is offline."

As the last announcement ended, the panel of the hibernation module showed that the last hibernation module had also shut down. This meant that all the crew members on the warship had died at this moment, except for Han Zu, the crazy Xin, and the guy Han Zu had been chasing before. If he was still alive, this invisible warship had become a space cemetery, and those hibernation modules had become space coffins.

"According to the battleship's speed calculation, it is estimated that in five minutes, the gravity data of the liquid planet on the battleship will reach its peak. At that time, the battleship will be captured by the gravity of the liquid planet. It is recommended to correct the course and increase the sailing speed."

The contractor's equipment finally completed the distance measurement of the nearby liquid planet. Han Zu glanced at the navigation control panel in the navigation room. If the battleship continued to maintain the current course, it would enter the gravitational range of the liquid planet in five minutes. According to the records of the navigation room's navigation device, the battleship's route had a significant deviation, and the liquid planet was not the destination of the invisible battleship.

"Control sequence overwritten."

There was still plenty of time, so Han Zu was not in a hurry. However, for safety reasons, he still came to the navigation console and changed the route of the battleship on the navigation terminal, preparing to let it move along the original route.

"Error, automatic navigation device cannot be used, manual navigation system has been activated."

This is not easy to deal with. Since this area is not the contractor's activity range, there is no node here. Since it is impossible to connect to the contractor's network matrix, Han Zu, who is completely unfamiliar with this ship model, does not know how to manually drive this invisible warship. He can try, but if he gets the function of these control panels wrong, then the warship that could have landed smoothly on the liquid planet may crash into it.

But Han Zu was not the kind of person who would be timid, so he used the little time left to begin observing the structure on the control panel.

Although Han Zu didn't know much about this battleship, he was already able to use the language of the Tigris fluently, so he began to try while confirming the description and function of each module. Fortunately, although the structure was different, Han Zu still knew a little about the function of some modules.

"That is to press this first, then check that, then lower..."

It actually worked. After a period of cautious attempts, Han Zu finally figured out how to basically drive the battleship away. So he moved his fingers twice, ready to manually start the invisible battleship, and tried to change the sailing angle to avoid being captured by the gravity of the liquid planet and being plunged into it.

"Has been captured, and is looking for an available landing site."

But he was a "novice driver" after all. Although Han Zu understood step by step how to operate the stealth battleship, he was too late. The stealth battleship had been captured by the gravity of the liquid planet and was currently entering the atmosphere.

"Error, primary engine is offline."

"Ok?"

This was not a difficult task. All it took was adjusting the power output of the main engine, and the warship would be able to escape the gravity of the liquid planet and return to its normal sailing route. But things did not go as smoothly as expected. The main engine of the invisible warship suddenly shut down inexplicably.

"Error, the secondary engine is offline."

"Error, Engine 3 is offline."

"Error, engine sequence failed, all offline."

Before Han Zu could start and debug the other backup engines, the control panel reported errors one after another, and Han Zu could feel that the hull of the ship seemed to be leaning a little.

"Well, it looks like we have no choice but to make an emergency landing."

"Error, force field shield sequence failure, offline."

But the troubles did not seem to end there. Soon, all the equipment on the entire ship suddenly malfunctioned and began to go offline one after another.