Shortly after the fleet entered the void, we arrived at the nest of the ghost fleet. For the empire's area, these floating corpses in the void were indeed floating too close. Although there is no concept of distance and coordinates in the void, the information proximity is still
The only criterion for determining "distance" in this place is that the Royal Fleet arrived at the location of the Ghost Fleet after almost only one information calibration. This shows how close the previous "distance" between the two has reached to the bottom of the abnormality.
With the empire's void detection technology, coupled with the sensitivity of the macroworld network to void fluctuations, and the special capabilities of the death courtyard system, we were able to detect the coordinates of the ghost fleet only when it was so close, and it was still dispatched.
Under the premise of tracking probes, I have to say that this is a very shameful thing for the intelligence department. If this group of ghost battleships were not so special, I think the intelligence chief would have found a crack in the ground to go into seclusion and practice.
Already.
After getting closer, we discovered that there was an extremely powerful information interference layer near the ghost fleet. This information interference layer may be an important factor in protecting so many warships from being swallowed up until now.
Construct a signal that simulates the world barrier to "deceive" the void, so that the fleet inside it can be as safe and sound as if it is in a physical universe. Although we don't know whether this interference layer is formed by countless warships together, or because the huge fortress at the core of the ghost fleet has a barrier.
The function of the weapon and this barrier are enough to be amazing: except for the Xiling Empire, I have never seen such a generous thing from other civilizations.
The Royal Fleet didn't feel anything when it passed through this layer of information interference. It just vibrated suddenly. In Sandora's words, this vibration was the movement of us penetrating the ghost fleet's protective barrier. I was very aware of the group of spaceships.
Now it has fallen into disgrace, otherwise I might have to start thinking about demolition compensation again...
Sandora and I were sitting on the officer's platform with serious expressions. Sandora was carefully analyzing the intelligence coming from the lower information link. I was pretending to analyze the same thing seriously, while the Pandora sisters were exchanging words in a low voice.
Something, when a huge cluster of ghost fleets appeared on the radar, Sivis reported that some ghost ships did have more active energy responses than other warships, but they were all located in the core of the cluster, which was far away from the boundary of the cluster.
There is a distance of one million kilometers, and the energy interference along the way is serious, and the ship-borne detection equipment cannot scan more accurate signals.
Sandora had been waiting for this moment and immediately ordered: "Send out a reconnaissance fleet and probe swarm to search for ghost ships along the way. The main force continues to advance towards the black core. Be careful to set up gravity traps along the way. Don't take this place lightly."
Pandora also began to give orders to her heavily armored Guards Corps. Although she stood as tall as Sandora on the officer's platform, her momentum was no less than that of the latter: "The escort fleet is deployed, and high-speed artillery positions are deployed at any time.
Prepare to fight and counterattack any ghost ship that behaves hostilely!"
Following the orders of the two men, the Royal Fleet first changed its formation. A group of carrier ships broke away from the main force and released a large number of agile and advanced reconnaissance spacecraft. These small and fast reconnaissance spacecraft were equipped with the latest design of comprehensive ship-borne scanners and
The experienced imperial agents formed a group of three, quickly dispersed and rushed towards the nearest ghost ship, and began to scan these silent tombs. The special warships began to deploy gravity traps and various space blockade devices: in this dangerous situation
In this era, one can never be too cautious, especially when there is no guarantee that the fallen apostles will jump out of some corner and give us a brick...
The Pandora Heavy Guards Corps located in the outer sphere of the Royal Fleet then took action. The medium-sized battleships and aircraft carriers accounting for 80% of the entire regiment expanded the formation of the fleet until the joint shield range reached the limit. After expanding the inner sphere of the fleet,
After space, these battleships that particularly like the art of explosion began to continuously deploy super-heavy cannon turrets. The latter is one of the signature tracks of the Pandora Heavy Legion. The so-called super-heavy cannon turret is composed of two parts. One part is a gun larger than the Eiffel Tower.
One round of Fortress Cannon, and the other part... is another Fortress Cannon... typical Pandora style.
The two fortress cannons occupy 90% of the energy supply and slot positions of the entire turret, resulting in this super-heavy space sentry having basically no defense, so they can only be deployed inside the impregnable joint shield.
This is why the Guards Corps wanted to expand the scope of the joint shield just now. When Pandora formulated this tactic, the idea was as follows: first, we open a large enough position, and then fill it with artillery and explosives as hard as we can.
The deployment is complete...
You said this is such a militaristic behavior. Pandora is so ruthless. I remember when I was in junior high school, every time I brought a brick to a fight, I was judged by the teacher as a fierce and stubborn person. If I were like her, not only would I carry a brick in my hand,
There is a brick and two magnetic levitation bricks floating around... I should have asked the Chinese Academy of Sciences to slice it.
But no matter what, I admit that this kind of thing is indeed quite a deterrent. At least this tactic of taking advantage of the cluster to expand the firepower to the extreme can allow one spacecraft to exert the dps of three spaceships, although the endurance and protection
Therefore, it was greatly discounted, but Pandora's strategic thinking has always been "blow up the enemy first and then you will be safe", so it is still used today.
When Pandora was setting up the fortress artillery positions, Viska was doing the same thing, but her legion had not been formed yet, so this girl's warships were simply mixed into the Pandora Guards.
As a result, among every dozen or so silver-gray battleships on the battlefield, there will be a black-red painted warship that stands out from the crowd. At a glance, it looks like a group of captains' aircraft have been mixed in...
"All the fortress cannons have locked onto the large ghost ship within the range," Viska's eyes have begun to flow with bits of energy light flow. Her sister also follows her example, "It is estimated that the instantaneous fire coverage can reach 4%.
10. Considering that most of the ghost ships are civilian ships other than warships, it can be considered that the threat power of the target is within the scope of the legion's instant annihilation."
"The outer layer of the ghost fleet has been scanned, and no traces of life or activation have been found."
At this time, the reconnaissance team that went to investigate the situation also sent back the news. It was an expected situation. After reporting this, they immediately accelerated and rushed deeper into the gyro-shaped starship cluster. There, the ship-borne scanner
A number of active ghost ship signals have been discovered.
"Be careful, they may fight back." I warned, and then turned my attention to the huge ghost ships around me.
Frankly speaking, this is the first time I have had direct contact with the entity of a ghost ship. Before this, I have always learned about these things through eyewitness reports and video materials. I have never seen the real thing before, and now they are in front of my eyes.
It feels naturally different.
In terms of average size, there is a considerable gap between the ghost ship and the imperial warship. The size difference between its main spaceship and the most common spaceship in the empire is nearly double, and those giant ships that can be compared with the eternal class are so rare that they can only
They are meant to be watched. Ninety percent of the ghost ship's paints are black or very dark red, which look depressing and heavy. Linked to their ghost names, they give people a feeling like a death tomb.
The design style of these spaceships is full of thick and "solid" lines. Spherical and semi-arc protrusions can be seen everywhere on the surface of the hull. Under these curved parabolic shells are slowly flickering gray-blue energy flows, one by one in parallel.
The distribution is like the cracks in the carapace of some kind of arthropod insect. This design style is very different from the straight and rigid lines and rough and atmospheric shapes that are common in Imperial ships. I am used to seeing the sharp and clear shapes of Imperial warships (a certain round Expedition-class is considered
The only exception, that kind of fortress ship can really only be regarded as an accident). When I see these ghost ships, I feel that they are a bit nondescript and unattractive in appearance.
"These things look like rotten potatoes," Qian Qian commented with a flat lip, "The aesthetics are so bad."
Lilina shook her head: "It looks like animal offal to me, a lot of rotten meat."
I quickly threw this girl aside. What this guy said was so disgusting...
At this moment, the response from the first wave of reconnaissance troops came from the communicator: "Report sir! We have landed on the ghost ship! This ship showed an activation reaction a minute ago and produced some kind of response to the approach of the reconnaissance troops.
, but it suddenly became silent after we took emergency measures, and the ship will send personnel to land to explore the situation."
The ghost ship that the reconnaissance force landed on was a large spacecraft close to the inner ring of the starship cluster. It was 23 kilometers long and was considered a big one among the ghost fleets. We quickly took over the scene on the officer platform. First of all
I saw that this unattractive black battleship had been blasted with two large holes in the front by light missiles...
I think I know what the "contingency measures" mentioned by the commander of the reconnaissance unit just now are.
Several well-trained imperial agents entered the ghost ship after turning on the stealth system. The scenes around them were shown in real time on the screen. The interior of the ghost ship was just like its appearance, with a "knotty" feeling like animal tissue.
Ragged cables can be seen everywhere in the black corridors and pipes. They are not buried under the corridor walls, but are exposed. They look like muscles and blood vessels exposed after the muscles are torn off, and a bit like intertwined vines. These thick cables
Occasionally, a flash of light could be seen between the cables, indicating that the energy system of the ghost ship was still operating normally. The imperial agents who penetrated deep into the ship carefully advanced for a while and found that there was no life response at all on the various detectors.
An agent from the Psychic Assault Force began to scan the surrounding area.
"Without thinking reactions or advanced logical processes, this place is 'dead'."
The agents were de-invisible, but still vigilant, holding onto their weapons and continuing to move forward. There was still an atmospheric environment inside the ghost ship, which allowed sound to be transmitted inside. The hollow echo of military boots on the alloy corridor was the only sound in the ghost ship, which made it difficult to hear.
This group of soldiers walking in the dark and strange spaceship seemed to be walking in a nightmare. The scene coming from the communicator was like a weird horror movie made by a director who won seven or eight Oscars.
Three alien shapes jumped out diagonally from the screen. Then I will process the video and mail it to Hollywood...
First-hand information from agents at the scene continues to come in:
"The artificial air pressure is normal and the pressure fluctuation has ended. It seems that the ship has plugged the hole by itself."
"We seem to be walking in a passage for people to pass. It is unusually wide. Maybe the builders of the ghost ship are a group of huge creatures. Signs with unknown meanings are found along the way. The general information analysis rules indicate that they may be at the indicated direction and location exchange point.
There are emergency lights on the walls, but the main lights cannot be activated and the energy is cut off."
"...The artificial atmospheric environment contains a large amount of ozone and chlorine, and three extra-sequential elements were found. It was initially determined that the crew of these ships were carbon-based organisms, but no traces of life were found."
"Okay, the corridor has reached the end... Well, sir, it's strange, the energy flow of the ghost ship seems to have stopped, and the instrument shows that the internal pressure of the nearby psionic energy is decreasing... No. iii, how is the situation there with you?"
No. iii refers to the reconnaissance ship parked outside the ghost ship that is responsible for responding. When the agents enter the ghost ship to check the situation, this small warship is orbiting the huge hull of the ghost ship, scanning its shell structure, and it sends back a message.
Surprising information: "The energy of the target spacecraft is shrinking back to the central area, and its outer hull has been powered off..."
The reconnaissance ship activated more powerful scanning equipment and began to deeply detect the internal situation of the spacecraft, and then suddenly issued a rapid alarm: "Get out! Get out! The energy reading in the core of the spacecraft is soaring! It is going to self-destruct!"
The agents immediately started the space teleportation and returned to the reconnaissance ship. Then the reconnaissance ship and the two nearby supporting individual fighters evacuated into the distance like lightning... and the three aircraft flashed bright lights in the sky.
And under these three rays of light, the surface of the mountain-like ghost ship suddenly became densely covered with large blood-red patterns, just like a heart that was instantly congested with blood, and then...
It exploded into a huge, dazzling fireball.
Pandora immediately stood up and ordered loudly: "Get ready to fight! Charge all artillery!"
A hurried report sounded in the command hall: "A large number of ghost ship engines have been activated and they are starting!"
The entire fleet entered combat status almost instantly. Each spaceship began to charge its main guns, and the sentry guns that had been deployed were locked on their respective targets. They were just waiting for the order of the general attack to be issued. The imperial soldiers were nervous.
They were always on the verge of a cerebral hemorrhage, but when they saw an obvious "murder" signal, they finally succeeded in having a cerebral hemorrhage...
However, just before the general offensive began, Lin Xue suddenly issued an emergency stop order to all units in the command link, saying loudly: "Stop!"
As a prophet, Lin Xue has a very special authority in the imperial army, that is, he can issue a stop order to any unit in extreme emergencies, even the imperial generals and emperors - of course, for the latter two targets,
Her methods of suspension are usually hand knives and ear twisting. This authority can be said to be very impressive, far beyond the word "mistress", but for Lin Xue, this kind of power is necessary, we need the power of the prophet
, and this kind of power is often used to turn things around in emergencies. Past facts have proven that Lin Xue sometimes only has a very strong passive premonition in the few seconds before an action is about to be executed, and
These few seconds are obviously not enough for her to write an application and let Sandora and I spend half a day together... Bureaucracy can kill people.
So Sandora and I simply gave Lin Xue such an emergency stop function. Anyway, everyone believed that she would not fall off the chain at the critical moment. Well, for the emperor, if the prophets started to fall off the chain,
I'm afraid there are not many people who can't let go.
"What's wrong, girl?"
I took a breath and looked at Lin Xue, "You scared me - if someone had started charging, they would have ducked by now."
"No need to attack them, just watch the ghost ship's actions."
Lin Xue curled her lips and gestured to the holographic projection not far ahead with her chin, "I suggest you let the Garden of Death system warm up now, these ghost ships are about to escape."
Several seconds had passed since Lin Xue said this. Under normal circumstances, if the two fleets really clashed at such a close distance, a few seconds would have been enough for both sides to take their brains out. The war in the era of hot weapons has never stopped.
The armor was so shiny that it only took a button to press a button, but in fact, the emperor did not move, and the ghost fleet showed no signs of launching an attack.
The self-destruction just now does not seem to be an attack signal, but just to disrupt our attention. Perhaps their purpose is to make the emperor start attacking the broken spaceships around - just like Lin Xue's prediction, the ghost fleet is preparing to escape!
"The generation of a large void jumping force field has been detected," a rapid alarm sounded from the ship's host computer on the bridge, "The target fleet will flee the scene in one minute!"
The holographic projection screen on the officer's platform switched quickly. The hundreds of kilometers of mammoth ghost fleet clusters were cut into several separate parts. Some ghost ships were specially marked, with a flashing warning box next to them indicating "Soon."
The word "Escape" has the largest frame on the planet fortress at the core of the fleet cluster - that behemoth also wants to escape!
Fortunately, with Lin Xue's reminder, I have already connected to the Garden of Death. The powerful multi-functional law interference equipment can function normally in the void. In just a moment, the void where the fleet cluster is located is distorted, and those who are identified
, the ghost ship and the core fortress, which were already a bit blurry, shook suddenly as if they had been hit in the head, and at the same time returned to their physical form.
At the critical moment, we still prevented these spacecraft from escaping.
If the Emperor really started to wipe out other ghost ships just now, at least a considerable part of these warships would have a chance to escape.
"What's going on?"
Sandora glanced at Lin Xue, "Are they running away?"
"Have you forgotten the information we had before?" I said, "Ghost ships will avoid Imperial warships."
After the escape was prevented, the ghost fleet cluster became quiet again, but the more than a hundred ships had been identified, and there were most likely escape-conscious spacecraft controlled by living people, but the engines were not turned off, including the huge planet fortress at the core of the cluster.
Inside, the lights on their surfaces flickered on and off, and the hulls drifted slightly, as if they were in an extremely tangled state.
"I feel like... they're shaking."
Lilina grabbed the guardrail in front of her and said with shining eyes.