"Captain," Favniel asked softly, "are you worried about the Senators?" ”

"Well," Captain Violet said, gazing out at the distant starry sky beyond the bridge, "do you remember?" The battle we had when we were fleet cadets. To this day, I still feel that those few days were the bloodiest and most terrifying experience of my life. ”

"The memory is still fresh," the red-haired lieutenant pale, as if recalling something, "is it...... Did we tell them to evacuate immediately? ”

"Griffith will make a decision if it's really dangerous, the Templars are not ordinary psychic people," the captain shook his head, "Mandolfil may be of incalculable value, and it is necessary to take some danger for this." Faphnir, is there absolute security in this universe? Instead of worrying about them, think about how to avoid being caught by the three trade alliance fleets. ”

……

Xiao Yan and the search team went deeper into the interior of the enterprise. Along the way, they repeatedly deployed signal generators to assist the Oscar in scanning the giant ship, obtaining a clearer map of the ship's interior.

In order to prevent being suddenly surrounded in an unfamiliar environment, the Oscar's remote monitoring provides constant warning.

Sergeant Downey also arranged for Private Odie to bring an action monitor, a sonar-like instrument that can monitor all kinds of minor sounds such as footsteps and impacts within a certain range. The Trade Alliance's combat robots were not breathing, and conventional life detectors and infrared devices were almost ineffective, and action detectors filled the gap.

"Did you find anything?"

"It's as quiet as a grave, sir."

The Marines, led by the commandos, lined up in battle formations to alternately cover the advance.

"The map shows that there are several roads ahead," Sonia looked at the map that had been passed to her as she and a few technical sappers tried to hack into the ship's systems, "and at the end is the bridge, where we can try to connect to the ship's central control system, but it looks like ...... The back of the main entrance was blocked by a heavy object. ”

"That's not a problem!" Ophelia beckoned to the assault gun, "There's no obstacle that a blaster can't do, if there is, then another one." ”

"I don't think you need to bother," Xiao Yan, who was at the front of the line, pointed ahead, "I have already seen the main entrance of the passage that has been blocked, and I have seen a big hole in it. Spread out and be careful! ”

The Marines immediately scattered in all directions, cautiously approaching each other.

"Io, Odi, go up and have a look." Sergeant Downey pointed to the broken gate, and two Marines, one with a gun, and one with an action monitor, trotted up.

It was a square entrance, with a 5-meter-high, 15-centimeter-thick alloy gate that was shut, but with a large hole in the lower right corner. The broken hole could accommodate a power-armored GI in and out, and the edges were so smooth that the alloy that could withstand the heavy artillery flowed all over the floor like a molten candle.

Private Io got into the hole and fumbled for a while, and soon got out: "Sergeant, the back of this door is blocked with a container, but there is also a big hole in the middle of the container, we can walk directly to it." There are a lot of obstacles behind, and it takes a lot of time to clear them, and the assault guns can't get through. ”

"Do you want to take a different route?" Sergeant Downey turned to the officers and asked.

"This route is the closest route to the bridge, we can't afford to delay too much time," Xiao Yan said, "Keep going, the personnel will drill through, leave the assault guns and part of the personnel to build a defensive line and dismantle the obstacles, and hope that when we come back, there will be a big road to take." ”

Once again, the search team split up, some of them built fortifications in place and cut obstacles, while the rest followed Xiao Yan into the narrow passage.

Behind the alloy gates, metal crates with all sorts of miscellaneous items blocked the road. The boxes contained engineering materials, machine tools, and even a truck full of lead that had overturned in the middle of the road.

"On the way to the bridge, we found traces of human activity!" Ophelia carefully avoided all sorts of debris, and said to herself in a documentary-like tone, "The crew of the Enterprise tried to block the main road to the bridge before they disappeared, and in a hurry they used everything they could find, but judging by the traces left at the scene, this effort did not change anything. In the last moment of fate, what kind of mood did the missing crew members have? ”

"Everyone stay vigilant," Xiao Yan didn't pay attention to Ophelia's joking tone. The traces of the scene reveal unsettling information that the crew of a capital ship-sized ship is trying to block something with primitive methods.

"Did you find anything on the radar and monitors?"

"No signal."

"The main library has not been found, there are many carrier-based aircraft that we have never seen here, but we have not found Mandolfir, not even a trace."

"I'm Rangier, we're about to arrive in the engine room, and there's something strange here." Corporal Rangier from the other direction reported, "We sent the image over. ”

Although the Enterprise has a large interior space and poor signal, the signal generators arranged by the landing crew along the way can make contact with people in all directions through the Oscar as a relay point.

The squad heading to the engine room sent an image to the officers, and the ship's passage near the lower engine room had become eerie from a corner.

The simple corridors, handrails, and ceilings are wrapped in a dense black substance, with resin-solidified lines and patterns, but the color is as smooth as metal. The pipe-like structure intersects repeatedly, reaching into cracks in the broken ceiling or at the end of a dark road.

The Marines' cameras looked up and down, and Corporal Rangier stepped into the frame and tapped lightly on the strange thing, making a tinkling sound.

"It's hard, and it's everywhere from here," said Corporal Rangier, "does anyone know what it is?" ”

Xiao Yan, Sonya, Ophelia and the team members, you look at me, I look at you, no one knows what this is. Finally, Sonia thought for a while and said, "Corporal, please stay where you are and send a drone to reconnoiter first." ”

"Order received, ma'am!"

……

Xiao Yan and the search team continued along the road to the bridge, and found that the further they went, the more damaged the passage became.

The walls of the sturdy hull were torn apart, bullet marks from the shots were everywhere, and a badly corroded mark was found every few steps.

"The crew is desperately resisting on the way to the bridge," Ophelia took a closer look at the bullet marks, "I can make out the traces of blasters, thermal weapons, and alloy ammunition, and the battle is quite fierce. ”

"But they failed," Xiao Yan turned to look at Sonya, "You go back to the Oscar first, right?" ”

"The bridge is in front, I'm here, and I'll go back after seeing the bridge," the girl shook her head stubbornly, looking at the marks on the wall, "This place was abandoned after the fierce battle, and the bodies of both sides were not kept. ”

"This means that one side has won, completely controlled and cleaned up the battlefield," Xiao Yan repeatedly scanned the surroundings with his senses, but found nothing, "The winning side may have used some kind of highly corrosive acid as a weapon." ”

Although there are no traces of enemies along the way, this is a ghost ship drifting in the universe, and the dead environment and broken scene still make everyone very vigilant. Hearing Xiao Yan say this, the commandos and marines checked their shields one after another to ensure that they could be activated immediately at the critical moment.

"Yes...... There is action! Private Ody suddenly shouted, "There's also a biological reaction, there's a group of things coming beyond us!" 200 yards away! ”

Hell, how did you find out so close?! Xiao Yan was taken aback, although he and Sonya's perception was not a specialty, it was not weak, and the vigilance range of the two alternating reconnaissance could cover a large circle with a radius of 1 km. In addition, the equipment of the Oscar and the search team is also constantly operating, and it is reasonable to provide early warning. How did it suddenly get closer to the 200-yard range?

Doesn't this mean that their vigilance and reconnaissance are pointless from the start?!

(End of chapter)