The core of the ghost ship fleet cluster is a huge planet fortress. Its volume is almost three times the size of the earth. Compared with many planet battleships currently in service in the empire, it is also quite large. And according to Sandora's calculations, the combat effectiveness of this thing is also
It is enough to compete with the simple version of the starship "Zero" class currently manufactured by the empire. It can be said that this is the most advanced thing made by non-imperial civilizations that we have come into contact with. This thing fully proves that the void is vast and has many civilizations. Although the empire station
At the pinnacle of all mortal civilizations, there are also advanced civilizations that are not as powerful as the empire but are still extremely powerful. Although these ghost fleets are not flattering in their appearance, it cannot be denied that they are fully capable of sailing, stationing, and fighting in the void, and
They also have star battleships (and they are not the only star battleships. As mentioned before, the ghost fleet cluster has ten scattered cores. We have only contacted one of them so far. This star battleship is one of its ten starships).
From all aspects, the former founders of these ghost fleets really wanted to be the Xiling Empire that cut down on materials.
But having said that, the design style of their spaceships is really unflattering.
We have been advancing in this "Rotten Potato" brand planet fortress for more than ten minutes, and have passed through countless forked roads. The twists and turns of the tubular passage in front of us seem to have no end, and the branch intersections seem to be endless. The scanning system shows
The surrounding space is always a transportation network extending in all directions, which shows that until now we have not been able to break away from the external "intermediary layer" of the starship. The so-called intermediary layer is a unique term for star warships, which refers to the layer surrounding the functional parts of the starship.
Spherical shell. This spherical shell is used to install weapon slots, shield generators, gnaku and other facilities required for combat. It is also the last barrier to protect the middle layer and core of the starship. It is responsible for the equipment slots.
It functions as a protective armor and buffer zone for starships. Only when you pass through the interlayer can you truly enter the interior of a planetary fortress. If placed on a planet, the interlayer is roughly equivalent to the earth's crust and one-third of the mantle.
And the mesosphere we're currently in looks like it's going to be a long time before it comes to an end.
"Tap tap tap..."
The monotonous footsteps echoed in the tubular passage, and combined with the dark and curved walls around it, it gave people the illusion of walking in an ancient crypt. He swung his arms in front of him in boredom, and occasionally picked up Guaiguai to play role.
Searchlight's Xiao Qijing (note: the searchlight function is inherited from her mother) looked in all directions for a while, looking very professional. I was very curious whether this girl knew how to detect information in this environment. As a result, this girl spoke plausibly.
Follow me: "Arjun, don't forget, I was educated by an archaeologist!"
I immediately thought of Uncle Xu who was digging around tombs of ancestors all day long, and then I felt something was wrong: "This has something to do with the current situation! I don't believe that your dad would also encounter tunnels with alloy gates when digging tombs of King Han Dynasty!"
"Stop making trouble," Sister-sama looked at me and Qian Qian helplessly, "Do you feel that the wind has changed?"
I was stunned for a moment, then I felt it quietly and found that there was indeed a change!
There is always a cold wind whistling through these interlaced tubular passages like ant nests. At first we thought this was because we walked into the ventilation ducts of the star battleship, but we soon discovered that there was a blowing phenomenon in any corridor here.
, indicating that this is the design of the corridor inside the ship. Under Sandora's suggestion, everyone has been moving in the direction where the cold wind is blowing. If there is a set of ventilation equipment there, at least we can enter the inner layer of the starship through it.
Now, the surrounding wind has obviously changed. Although there is still a cold wind blowing in the face, its intensity appears to be strong and weak, with a kind of intermittent feeling.
"There may be a vent in front," Lilina yelled, "I can definitely get out! Go, go, go, people have had enough of this ghost place! There is a vague reaction of life in front, gogogo!"
Lilina was not the only one who had had enough. The whole family had long been impatient with the gloomy and monotonous passage here. Everyone immediately ran away. Lilina, who was still jumping in front, was suddenly thrown behind because of her short calves.
He was jumping up and down behind him while running and shouting: "Wait! Wait for me! You have lost the loli!"
A few minutes later we found the reason for the change in wind speed. Just as Lilina guessed, a huge cavity appeared at the end of the channel. The cavity looked oblate, like two ocean bowls with upper and lower mouths facing each other.
There are identical circular passage exits all around, and everyone is standing next to one of the exits. At the bottom of the cavity, there is a huge gate that is constantly opening and closing. The fierce cold wind blows out from the gate, plus the surrounding
The interference of the huge space and a large number of channels formed an intermittent air flow, which continuously poured into every entrance and exit.
"Wait a minute, the interference phenomenon has weakened here," Sandora waved to stop us from immediately approaching the gate. She took out her data terminal and enlarged the image above, "You can clearly see a larger area here.
Scanned images...and material components...metal-rich rock layers, soil, water, carbonized fossils...plant remains..."
Sandora said and suddenly exhaled: "So that's how this planet fortress was built!"
"What's going on, what's going on?" Qian Qian immediately became interested again. She likes breaking news the most. Sometimes, when Anweina finds a double-yolked egg while cooking, she can watch it for a long time.
"Look, this is the image of the planet fortress I just simulated." Shandora projected the picture on the data terminal, which showed a planet divided into two completely different parts with bright colors: a rule
, a planet with mountains and rivers, covered with a thick metal shell!
"This planet fortress is built on a planet," Sandora said excitedly. "It is similar to the 'zero' class battleship made by the empire, but it is more carefully crafted. The interior of this planet fortress is
A complete planet, based on the analysis of material residues, it was even once an ecological planet with rich life and superior environment. Then it was transformed. Not only was the interior hollowed out, its crust was also enriched with metals. Finally, a planet was built on the surface of the planet.
Countless huge metal structures, these metal structures are the tubular channels we walked through before. The channels are filled with supporting metal beams, forming an extremely thick buffer barrier. Beyond, is the surface of the planet fortress, those drums.
The things that look like lumps are its weapons and defense systems. Together, these things are the planetary fortress we are on."
"A starship transformed from an ecological planet." My sister's glasses narrowed slightly, as if she remembered something. "I don't know why they did this. The 'Zero' class star warship will specifically select inanimate rocks when building it."
Or if a metal planet is used as a base, using an ecological planet for this kind of transformation would mean destroying the original ecosystem. Isn’t this a waste?”
"There is an obvious age difference in the layered parts of the starship." Sandora knocked on the shell of the data terminal. "The construction process of this starship probably lasted thousands of years. Perhaps it was gradually transformed into
It looks like this, but the specific situation can only be known by contacting the residents here - but we have gone so far, and the other party has not even appeared, it is really hidden deep enough."
I sent a text message to Sister Scorpion who was digging a hole in who knows which corner: "Weijia, where are you."
"Your Majesty, we have found a cystic cavity and are about to report to you - the scouts found traces of life at the bottom of the cavity. There have been ** biological activities here within a few days."
"They also found a cavity," I turned to Sandora and said, "and there is life left in it."
"Let's go down and take a look. Let Vega stay vigilant in the other cavity. They may conflict with the local residents." Sandora nodded and said.
I transferred the order to Vega, and then slowly walked down the cavity with Sandora. This huge metal bag looked like a squashed hamburger, and the path from the edge to the bottom of the pit was therefore not smooth.
It is very steep, and the winding pipelines under the feet also make the walls of the pit appear not very smooth. It is easy to walk, but the small dark red lights hidden behind the layers of pipelines are flickering, like wolves lurking in the dark night.
It gave people a very uncomfortable feeling. Everyone quickly reached the bottom of the cavity. The huge metal gate kept opening and closing in front of our eyes, spewing out bursts of cold air with a faint sweet smell. The wind was very strong.
Big, I'm glad I didn't take out the jingle, otherwise I would have...
"Ajun, why is there so much wind outside! Dingdang is sleeping... Wow!"
I:"……"
It's time to go pick that little thing off the wall.
"Below here is a set of gaseous molecular accelerators," Sandora stood on the edge of a metal gate with a radius of more than ten meters and looked down. The warm yellow light exposed when the gate opened and closed reflected on her face. "There is no mechanical accelerator."
The wind equipment caused a lot of trouble..."
"Whoa!" Just before Sandora finished speaking, a black shadow suddenly rushed out of the airlock, carrying a sharp cry, and rushed towards the direction of us!
This black shadow appeared quite suddenly. I didn't even have time to see clearly what it was. But what our group is least afraid of is a sudden attack. Lin Xue took out a huge pan a second ago and put it on the table.
Waiting in mid-air, just now I was wondering what she was doing when she suddenly took out the pot. At this time, I saw the black shadow hit the bottom of the pot with a "bang", and the echo lingered for a long time.
The pan in the eldest lady's hand vibrated violently in mid-air for a long time with an amplitude visible to the naked eye, and then the vibrations spread all the way along the handle of the pot, from the arm to the body. It is no exaggeration to say that at this moment, the eldest lady was in my eyes.
There's a double image, and you can see how violent the impact just was - and to put it another way, she has a nice figure.
"I'll go, I miscalculated," Lin Xue put away the pot and took out her itchy ears, "It's shocking."
A few of us turned to look at the black shadow just now. After "it" hit the pan, it was bounced to the side. Fortunately, Lin Xue had calculated the angle in advance. The shadow did not fall back to the gate at all but fell to the edge of the hole.
Having avoided the fate of being clipped into a color photo, the other party is now getting up staggeringly. It looks like he was hit hard. In fact, it is surprising that the other party can still stand up. Lin Xue has been strengthened many times.
, the physical strength was there, she was shocked to death by complaining, this black figure who took the initiative to bump into the pan could still stand up, it was really strong.
This is a very weird-looking creature. Perhaps "it" is one of the "masters" of the ghost ship, but this man's bones are exquisite and extraordinary, and he is actually far away from human beings - this one is shaking his head and standing up,
The attacker who hissed and growled looked like a black carapace insect enlarged to the size of a motorcycle, with an insect-like body and a triangular head, four jointed limbs covered with hard shells, and a thick and short bone spur tail.
In terms of body posture, it looks a bit like a praying mantis. This mysterious creature has two completely different pairs of forelimbs. One pair is a thin but dexterous "arm". In addition to being covered with a hard shell and having only four fingers, it seems to be very flexible.
They are no different from humans, while the other pair of forelimbs are at a higher position, thick and powerful like the giant claws of a crab. They look like they have undergone surgery. Half of the pair of giant claws was cut off at the waist, and protruding from the cut is
Two psionic blades shining with faint blue light - I glanced at the eldest lady silently: "Are you going to use astrology stone to make a pan?"
"That belongs to Monina," Lin Xue stuck out her tongue, "The Gods are really a nouveau riche."
"Hiss...hiss..." The black creature that had failed to attack stood ten meters away from us. Its mantis-like shape made it almost as tall as a person when it stood upright - it was also an arthropod like Vega."
It's much cuter.
Because the other person's appearance is really not easy to understand, I still don't know whether I should call the person in front of me "it" or "him", and I don't know if the other person can communicate. Well, maybe I don't need to ask the latter question.
This is obviously a creature with advanced intelligence. Don't think that just because a person has an insect's triangular head, he doesn't have intelligence. This can be seen just from the pair of light knives in his hands. Those are obviously weapons that were added later. Anyway, I will never
I believe that when he came out of his mother's womb, he cut a hole with a lightsaber and jumped out... Insects seem to lay eggs, right?
"Arjun, what are you mumbling about?"
Sandora rolled her eyes at me, and I was indifferent.
"Hiss, hiss -" The insect alien not far away crossed the light blades on its forelimbs in front of its chest, made a very cautious defensive posture, and slowly retreated while making an unexplained hiss.
Qian immediately took a step forward and followed suit: "Hiss, hiss!"
"Hiss?" The other party stopped and looked quite confused.
Qian Qian continued: "Hiss!"
The other person almost fainted when he saw it, so I quickly pulled Qianqian back: How can this girl know any alien language? Don't let people think that this is the dialect of a certain place. It would be bad if it took a long time to translate... It took so long...
Even if I meet someone whose words none of us can understand, should I celebrate this historic moment?
At this moment, another accident happened.
The air gate next to us opened again, and then suddenly a figure emerged from it again. This figure was wrapped in blue light, and suddenly it was blocked between us and the insect alien opposite. This time, it was not a figure with a triangular head.
Brother Mantis is sitting on a hoverbike (I temporarily named that thing because it has two handles like a motorcycle. I feel sorry for the Wright brothers when I say it is an airplane), wearing a light
The young man in armor rushed in front of us and immediately backed away nervously. Then he turned to Brother Mantis and asked loudly: "Torulu! Are you not injured?" Now I know, it turns out that Brother Mantis also has a name.
, it sounds like his father drowned when he named him... Isn't it a bit rude to think so?
"Human?" My sister whispered softly, and this is what surprised me: at first, I thought that the insect-like alien in front was the crew of the ghost fleet, but I didn't expect that another rider appeared now.
Humans with hovercrafts - of course not Earthlings, but at least they look almost exactly like Earthlings.
Of course, I am not surprised that aliens have the appearance of earthlings. According to statistics, 10% of the intelligent races in the world in the void have human or nearly human appearances. There is a reason for this: quite a part of the world
They all come from the work of the Star Realm Protoss. First of all, when they create high-potential species, they are used to imitating their own appearance to design models (it is said that this saves the cost of creation). On the Life Temple counters in major shopping malls in the God Realm, the Protoss themselves are
The template species mods are basically buy one get one free...), and then almost all native worlds will be interfered by the huge information from the divine world. This is equivalent to an unprecedentedly powerful brainwashing broadcast, and this broadcast is the strongest
The information is from those gods, so except for the worlds that are relatively remote or have too complex structures, the high-potential species in almost every world have the same appearance as the gods. In this way, it is not so much that the aliens look similar.
Just like the people on earth, it would be better to say that 10% of the intelligent creatures in the world have evolved according to the appearance of gods.
At this time, the young soldier riding a motorcycle had jumped off the aircraft, holding up the weird weapon in his hand (it looked like a curved rifle, but there was a beam bayonet on the front) in a defensive posture towards us, and behind him
The insect alien finally had time to pinch his neck and uttered a hoarse low voice: "I just broke my neck bone. Fortunately, it has regenerated now."
...I think the truth about those untranslatable alien language mysteries has now been revealed, and no words have been spoken at all.
"You shouldn't have rushed out... We will all be dead now..." The young soldier holding the weapon said to his comrades, "Damn it, it's like this... These lunatics still don't let go... Damn it
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"Afraid of dying meaninglessly," Torulu looked at this side warily, "They never leave anyone alive. The Toberu people are not afraid of death. They have already massacred three fleets, and we are the last ones."
I realized that this alien had just been hit hard and couldn't even speak...