Isana smiled cheerfully, and as if she suddenly remembered something, she patted my arm: "That's right, His Majesty the Emperor, have you heard about the ghost ship?"
"Ghost ship?" I was stunned by the fishy girl's question, and then I instantly thought of her race and nodded clearly, "Oh, you mean the kind that drifts on the sea with no trace, tattered and uninhabited.
The legend of the old antique ship you drive, right? There are quite a lot of human legends about ghost ships, and you mermaids are also concerned about this? Could it be that you built those ships?"
"No, it's not that kind of ghost ship." Isana has a habit of flicking her tail when she's anxious, so I heard her patting the floor, "Although when I was a child, I quite liked going to sunken ships.
Treasure hunt... Hey, it has nothing to do with this. I'm talking about a very popular legend in the macro world recently. It is said that an imperial ship that was withdrawn from the battlefield fell behind. The generals and soldiers on the ship were missing, and the ship was lost.
Under the control of the host, it floated back to the Empire. Since it couldn't find a port, it kept floating around in various universes and became a ghost ship. Occasionally, people traveling in the interstellar saw that huge spaceship. They
The ghost ship seems to be dead. There is only a little light on the whole body, and the engine is dim as if it is about to go out. There are tatters and scars everywhere on the spacecraft. If you get close enough, you can even see inside through the cracked holes.
A dark corridor. But no one can board the ship because no one dares to get close to it, and the ghost ship always disappears suddenly, as if the main engine of the ship is still trying to find a military port. Many people have said that they have seen that
Ships, especially the old crew members of the caravans that transport supplies for the servant army, all say that they have encountered ghost ships, but most of them have no evidence, so they are probably bragging."
Isana told the story of the ghost ship with great interest. At first, I paid more attention. I thought this was some important information, but at the end I slowly realized: this is basically a space version of Sailor Adventure.
Just like those old sailors in the age of sailing, blowing the smell of alcohol and bragging to others in the port bar. Those superstitious old sailors in the past always liked to use sea monsters and ghost ships to flaunt their adventures, but now those who are in the interstellar
The bored crew members traveling between time and space have something more advanced to talk about: interstellar ghost ships, or even void ghost ships.
This story is quite creative in terms of creativity: they directly used the Imperial Ship as the background of the story. This gimmick must be very popular. In the eyes of most civilians in the Macro World and the Familia, the Imperial Ship is almost a legendary thing, especially the large spaceship.
Most people have only seen those behemoths in brochures and screens. They longed for those powerful imperial machines. Just like a sixteenth-century inland boy longed for a sailing battleship with a 55-meter mast and 18-pound guns, but the giant
The ship will not cruise in the village, and 10% of the people will not have the opportunity to go to the imperial station to see what the Eternal class looks like. Many people will not even be able to go to space in their lifetime, so they will wait for the old crew members who have been in space or even traveled across the world.
They returned to the surface. The story of the ghost ship, mixed with alcohol and adrenaline in the tavern, became popular.
Isana immediately realized that I wasn't paying much attention to this story. I heard another snapping sound coming from under her chair: this was the fish girl flicking her tail again, and she looked at me unhappily.
: "Ghost ships are not necessarily fake, right? Although some people must be bragging, there are legends of ghost ships in dozens of worlds recently!"
"The imperial ship is lost? And then the navigation host can be turned on but cannot lead the way? In the end, it is still floating around in the empire area?" I laughed dumbly, "What's more, no outpost has detected the signal of this active spaceship? It's not me.
To ruin your fairy tale, this is really not possible - there are several sets of backup navigation systems on our spacecraft, and there is a 'catastrophic damage determination protocol' between each other. If all navigation equipment fails,
The spacecraft will immediately jump into a stable universe and lock the engine. This is to prevent the spacecraft from flying into enemy-occupied areas without navigation, causing intelligence leakage. In addition, I will update if all the officers and soldiers on the spacecraft are missing.
I don’t believe it anymore. The Imperial Army has a clear operating procedure for ‘abandoning ship and evacuating’. Unless all the soldiers died in the spacecraft before evacuation, the military will not let a ship be ‘lost’ like this, or it will be recovered immediately.
Either the spacecraft is destroyed by other friendly forces before it is captured, or the captain blows up the spacecraft before evacuating. Anyway, we will not let a ship just drift out of sight. In addition - the identification signal transmitter on the spacecraft is as strong as a black box.
If there really is a ghost ship, the local imperial outpost would have discovered it long ago."
Isana listened blankly to my explanation and lowered her head in frustration: "Why do your technicians not save face for their dreams?"
Me: "..." This involves the outcome of a war of national interest. Can we save face?
"But someone actually submitted the video of the ghost ship encounter to your military headquarters." Isana thought for a while, and suddenly became excited again. "Not only are there videos, but there are also spacecraft logs. It is said that some of the people who encountered the ghost ship are also
There was an officer who was an officer of the servant army. He encountered that thing when he was going for a ride in his private spaceship. That was the most rumored incident - it can't be a lie, right?"
"Huh?" I became serious now, "And these other things?"
Isana nodded vigorously, and the two old men with white beards across the table also nodded. It seemed that they had also heard of these "stories" that were widely circulated in the macro world.
I fell into thinking: there are videos, spacecraft logs, and even an eyewitness record from a servant officer. If a mere "ghost ship story" is so detailed, it may be more than just a folk rumor.
Is it possible that the "ghost ship" that encountered the exile fleet in the macro world channel is another aircraft that drifted into the void from the old empire era? Only this time it is not an exile race, but an out-of-control old empire warship?
"I'll go back and check what's going on and see if the military department has any official witness report." Isana and I nodded and turned to look outside: It's really late now, the lights have already started to light up the streets, so I stood up
Come, "Then I'll withdraw first, you can do it yourself."
Isana waved her hands: "I won't give it away if it's inconvenient if I jump up."
I:"……"
When I was leaving, I suddenly saw the two old men with white beards again and remembered something very important: "You two had better not stay out too late. The Military Academy is closed at night. What do you two say now?"
I am also a student..."
"It's okay, I'll teleport in." Whitebeard No. 1 said, and Whitebeard No. 2 also nodded: "I'll climb over the wall and get in."
As an institution whose ultimate goal is students' hard power, Teijoshi Academy has this rule: No matter whether you circumvent the firewall or skip classes, whether you cheat or leave early, as long as you can do it by your own means without being discovered by the teacher, then it will not matter.
After being punished, you can even get extra points if you take the initiative to confess afterwards. So I smiled and nodded to the two high-powered old men: "Then I wish you good luck."
As soon as I left the house, I sent a message to the Security Department of the Military Academy: "Tonight, the academy will strengthen the closure of the school, and all the walls will be powered up. By the way, the space confinement field will be opened to the stratosphere..."
I felt refreshed when I hung up the call. I vaguely realized how my dean felt when I was in No. 2 Middle School. It turns out that this feeling is really good...
I came home a little later than usual today, but just like every time before, as long as I didn't mention eating out, my family would wait for those who hadn't come home yet to have dinner together. There were people sitting around the signature huge dining table.
There was a large circle of people, and the formation was like a small banquet. The only empty seat was between Pandora and Huesca. It seemed that the two sisters had to fight with others to win this Feng Shui treasure. The first thing I did when I sat there was
First, he pinched the faces of the two sisters to show intimacy, and then pinched out the two wild Ding Dongs who were dozing on the plate in front of him and put them aside: this meal was accompanied by thirty or fifty bean goddesses.
, there are already a few clever little guys sitting on the shoulders of elder sister or uncle Kenser, waiting for others to feed them.
"You're back!" An angry scolding voice came from Pandora's position to my right. But I couldn't see anyone. I looked over and saw a Gothic doll, only a few dozen centimeters tall, sitting there.
On the chair, she held up a smaller knife and fork in protest, because of her body shape. If this little guy really sat down, she would be almost surrounded by the backrest and armrests of the chair, so there was a large pile of books under her buttocks for people to see.
I was just worried that the little guy would fall off. Of course, Pandora and Viska also had books on their backs...
"I met an acquaintance," I explained to the little girl. The moment I raised my chopsticks, I thought of myself walking back and forth in the teahouse this afternoon to fill up on water and snacks, "Um..."
"What's wrong, Master? The food is not good?" Anweina's head immediately popped out of the soup basin in front of me. It looked steaming, "Today we have steamed buns stuffed with chives that Master likes to eat."
I saw a ghost head floating on the table but I had long been accustomed to it. I smiled slightly awkwardly and said, "No, I ate some snacks before coming here. I'm not very hungry."
While I was talking, Sandora had already emptied the third bowl of rice porridge.
"Speaking of... about the ghost ship, Sandora, do you know?" I remembered what Isana told me before, so I looked up at Sandora, who swallowed a bun whole and rolled her eyes.
He asked me nonchalantly: "Oh, Ning Huan (Ghost Ship)?"
"It said that an imperial ship of unknown origin appeared in the macro world," I picked out the fillings from the buns and fed them to Ding Dong and an unknown wild Ding Dong in front of me (otherwise they wouldn't know what was in the buns until they were full)
It's stuffed), while slowly saying, "It's rumored to be amazing. Many interstellar voyagers said they had encountered that ship. According to the description, it should be a large mothership, but it doesn't look like the Eternal Class. The ship was seriously damaged.
, has no active signal, does not accept calls, and still retains the ability to sail across the world. At first, I thought this was another urban legend or something, but I heard that even the servant army had officer sighting records, so I wanted to ask.
Have you heard of it?"
"I heard that there are people reporting to the military, and there is indeed a report from the servant army." Sandora nodded, and the movement of my hand stopped immediately: "Is there really a ghost ship?!"
Seeing that no one was feeding them, the two bean goddesses ran off to find food for themselves, carrying two toothpicks.
"It's hard to say whether it's true or false. There are indeed voyage logs and videos, but the investigation team sent by the emperor and all monitoring stations have not captured direct evidence, so the case is still unsolved for the time being." Sandora shook her head, "I can only
I highly doubt that this is true. I have more detailed information here: the eyewitness report mentioned that the ghost ship is a special model that has not been registered in the empire's active spaceship library, but it has obvious Xiling characteristics. The ghost ship is better than
The scale of the Eternal class is still large, it is a giant interstellar ship with a length of more than 100 kilometers, but because the bow is damaged, it is not sure how big it is when it is intact. The spacecraft may be deeply modified on the scale of the Eternal class, or there are
It may be due to the integration of part of the Eternal-class structure. The first half is very similar to the charging section of the main gun of the Galaxy. In addition, the surface energy supply network of the ghost ship should have been paralyzed. After witnessing it, the servant officer risked his life to get close to the ghost ship and tested it.
It was found that all its peripheral devices were not powered on, but before the support troops called by the officer arrived, the ghost ship seemed to sense something and suddenly jumped out of the world. Oh, by the way. The ghost ship report was submitted.
You were in the God Realm at that time, so it’s normal that you didn’t know about this—Fox, give me your jealousy.”
A big furry tail wrapped around a vinegar pot stretched across half the table in front of Sandora, and on the way back, it also took away a bun: the fox fairy has more and more functions.
Shandora shared part of the ghost ship report, and I observed the hastily taken sighting pictures on my data terminal. Most of these pictures came from civilian sightings. Each picture came with an annotation.
, the witnesses ranged from workers on cargo ships to tourists on commercial cruise ships. I even saw the words under one picture that the picture came from Mei920. Of course, there are also some pictures captured by the spacecraft's automatic observation device.
The impact will be clearer.
The angles of most of the pictures are not very good, and the image is distorted due to hastily zooming in. There is also a picture that is very oppressive: a large silver-gray and devastated armor belt occupies almost three-quarters of the screen area——
The witness who took this picture suffered a heart attack on the spot and was sent to the infirmary, because the ghost ship was directly brushed out less than a hundred meters away from the spacecraft he was riding on...
I spent a lot of time putting together these fragmentary witness photos from various angles in my mind. It took me a long time to roughly guess the overall image of the ghost ship: a tattered imperial starship with possession and eternity.
The front part of the ship is similar to the first class, and the second half is a triple hull arranged in parallel. The main armor belt is silver gray. The remaining quarter is painted in black. The imperial emblem can be seen in the middle part of the spacecraft, but with
It seems that part of a certain emperor's private emblem has been lost with the damage to the ship's hull, so Sandora cannot tell who this spaceship once belonged to.
Then I turned to the end of the information. I was shocked to see a complete and clear picture of the ghost ship with tens of millions of pixels, followed by a short video...
I:"……"
Anyway, the existence of the ghost ship is very real. And it looks exactly like my guess: it is a Trek starship from the old empire era. After all, the new empire has not built such a ship, and it is obviously
It's not the fallen apostle's. The biggest problem now is that this ship doesn't release any signals, and the possibility of all the crew inside being missing cannot be ruled out. It is definitely impossible to establish contact with it using conventional means. Moreover, it is running around -
—Catching such a spaceship in countless universes is no less difficult than finding Ding Dong on the prairie of Inner Mongolia. How sad.
We can only wait for more witness reports to come out to summarize the appearance patterns of ghost ships - after reading these reports at hand, I feel that this ship seems to have some sailing patterns. After all, the universe is so big, but it has happened to coincide with other ships many times.
The spaceship passed by each other. This shouldn't be a pure coincidence.
I just put the ghost ship matter aside for the time being. After dinner, my sister and Anweina were busy packing things. Lin, who wanted to help, was ordered to watch from the side as usual. The other children except Pandora were all
I don't care about them because they disappear as soon as they finish eating. Most of them are playing hide-and-seek with the mini-Medivians in the yard: they are keen on this recently.
Qianqian spent a long time looking at the information about the ghost ship, but soon lost interest in it. She threw the data terminal aside, turned on the TV and switched channels. After searching for a long time, she finally found a
A somewhat interesting program: a foreign translated documentary about the living habits of foxes.
After eating and drinking, Master Fox Fairy, who was taking a nap next to me, suddenly became energetic. He listened to the TV with his ears. He watched the TV briefly for a while, and suddenly his mind opened up: "Arjun, Arjun,
What do you think the fox calls?"
When I thought about it, I thought this is a really difficult question to answer. It seems that not many people have heard what a fox barks like - of course if you say it's "Da Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng", that would be a waste of time.
——What exactly is the sound of a fox barking?
Just this question completely drove out all the messy things like ghost ships from my mind. I frowned and thought about it for a long time, until a big golden tail playfully wrapped around my neck, and I suddenly realized: next to me
Isn’t there a fox?
You can't blame me for reacting slowly. The main reason is that the Fox Fairy has the shape of a girl except for her ears and tail. Even though she was lying next to her, I didn't connect Qian Qian's question with her for a moment.
"Fox, what do you usually call me?" I patted Lord Fox Fairy's tail.
The demon fox girl looked at me in confusion, hesitated for a moment before speaking cautiously: "Wow! ← ← Is this so?"
I choked up: "...I asked you how to call a fox, but I didn't ask you how to call a human!"
The second big tail slapped me in the face, and the demon fox girl stretched lazily: "I haven't barked for more than a thousand years. I forgot about it."