Finally, after flying for 29 standard hours, the battleship Plague finally arrived at the area where the unknown fleet was located. Due to constant damage and malfunctions inside the battleship, they were 4 hours later than expected.
However, the powerful fleet composed of 200 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers still made no movement and was just floating quietly in the space.
Severance Tann looked at the 200 fleets arranged in a dense formation through the sensor screen, frowning, and then she opened the public channel and said: "This is the Titan battleship Plague, which belongs to the Western Territory Theater of the Confederation of Independent Systems.
We have come to surrender and hope that you will accept our sincerity."
"General!" The adjutant's expression changed drastically, but then he understood what Tann meant.
Another 10 minutes passed and there was still no response.
"General, do you think we should try to fire a shot first?" the adjutant said in a low voice.
Even he himself didn't know why he spoke so quietly. Maybe he was worried about waking up the 200 battleships?
"No, just send people to board some of the battleships." Severance Tann said.
"Isn't this a bit risky?" The adjutant frowned.
"We don't have much time left," Severance Tann said. "Instead of blindly testing here, it's better to board the ship directly to check. How many usable exploration spacecraft do we have?"
The adjutant immediately replied: "There are 12 more, all small spacecraft that can only carry 5 people."
"Divide into three groups and randomly select a spaceship in the front, middle and rear of the fleet formation to try to dock." Severance Tann gave the order directly.
"yes!"
The 12 exploration spacecraft loaded with some Marine soldiers and B-1 combat robots activated from the inventory flew towards three randomly selected Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers.
On the bridge, Severance Tann and members of the staff were also watching their movements on the screen.
The exploration spacecraft cautiously approached the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, and then found the entrance to the hangar platform under the battleship. However, the hangar platform was tightly closed, and the exploration spacecraft could not do anything after turning several times.
An engineer standing next to Severance Tann came up with a way. He asked the exploration spacecraft to directly use the civilian frequency band to send a maintenance message to the warship.
Unexpectedly, this method actually worked. The thick armored gate on the hangar platform actually opened!
The engineer was a little proud and explained: "I am just trying to be a doctor on a dead horse, because in order to prevent unexpected situations from being unable to rescue, the battleship will not lock the entrance and exit when it is on standby."
"Standby? Why would this fleet fly into such a void to standby?" Severance Tann frowned, "Generally, warships will only enter the standby state when they are anchored in the port area. Once they set off, they will never enter the standby state.
It will be on standby like this, especially for warships."
"At least this shows that these warships are now completely unmanned," the engineer said.
At this time, the Marine Corps soldier who was the first to enter the battleship's hangar had already sent a video message, "General, we are in the hangar now. There are 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets parked here, which are designed to be fully loaded as a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser.
Status." He adjusted the camera on the head of his space combat suit to display the images of neatly arranged fighter jets.
"There are no fighter jets taking off, which means they have not fought." Severance Tann said, "Continue to go deeper."
The Marines continued to walk towards the depths of the battleship with the B-1 combat robot as the guide, but they were blocked by the compartment door. "General, the compartment door cannot be opened. Doesn't this make sense?"
The engineer also said: "It really doesn't make sense. If the spacecraft is on standby, it is absolutely impossible to lock the compartments on the hangar platform. Moreover, why is it that the compartments inside the hangar are locked, but not the outside of the hangar platform?
The hatch? That’s weird.”
Severance Tann said in a deep voice: "Maybe they want to prevent people inside from getting out. At the same time, they also want people from outside to come in."
"What did you say?" The adjutant was shocked, "Is it a rebellion?"
Severance Tann shook her head, stood up, took off the general's uniform jacket, and said, "If other battleships are in the same situation, then let the exploration spacecraft come back and transport a group of people and cutting equipment.
I first entered one of the battleships myself and used a lightsaber to cut open the hatch."
"General! This fleet is full of weirdness, I'm afraid it may be in danger." the adjutant said quickly.
Severance Tann thought for a while and said, "Prepare a space protective suit for me too."
While the exploration spacecraft began to send more marines, robots and cutting equipment, Severance Tann also personally boarded one of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers.
She directly pulled out her yellow lightsaber and pierced it into the hatch. The extremely high temperature of the lightsaber melted and penetrated the hatch almost instantly. Then she began to move the lightsaber, melting the thick hatch directly and cutting out a person.
How big a hole comes out.
Several B-1 combat robots that had been on standby immediately stepped forward and pushed, knocking down the cut hatch. The interior of the battleship was finally revealed to everyone.
Poof... There was no banging sound after the hatch was pushed down. Instead, it seemed as if it had fallen on something soft, and almost no sound was made.
"Oh my God!!" Then the Marines exclaimed.
Everyone, including Severance Tann, couldn't help but back away after seeing the scene inside the hatch.
Unlike the hangar platform, which is clean and tidy and looks like brand new, behind the hatch, it is a complete hell!!
Countless corpses were piled on top of each other, all blocked at the cabin door. They looked like dead men, with hundreds of hands stretched out densely, as if they were trying to grab something. There were dead bodies everywhere on the walls and on the ground.
It turns into black blood stains and bloody scratches. This sight can give people nightmares for a month!
Even the hell in your imagination is nothing more than this!
These corpses were all wearing the gray uniforms of the Republic's Judicial Fleet, which had been completely replaced after the outbreak of the war, and...
"There are no traces of shooting." Severance Tann had recovered. Although she still didn't have the courage to go there, she had already begun to observe the situation over there from a distance. "These corpses were not killed by guns."
Several Marines were already retching there, and they tried very hard to hold back from vomiting in their fully sealed space combat suits.