Chapter XXVII: The Disaster of the Fleet
Shortly after Zhou Xin asked the question, the aircraft monitoring the fleet responded to Zhou Xin's words. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Without warning, the momentary silence was once again shattered by the aircraft patrolling around the fleet.
"Oh my God! The flying machines attacked. "After the craft began to act, Atlas was the first to find out.
At first, Zhou Xin thought that it was another blind spaceship that tried to break through the blockade of the aircraft again, but what happened next shocked everyone in the command cabin, including Zhou Xin.
Not long after Atlas screamed, a bright light erupted in the corner of the screen for a moment, which made the command cabin light up a lot, and some people who had lowered their heads and stopped paying attention to the big screen were also re-attracted by this light, and when they raised their heads, they saw an amazing scene happening on the big screen.
The dazzling light came from where the entire fleet was, and just now, a chain explosion occurred in the entire fleet, and the light of the explosion illuminated an entire area nearby. Until now, the explosions had continued to occur in the fleet, like a grand fireworks display, and after all this time, the bright light showed no sign of abating.
"What's going on?" Zhou Xin looked at everything that happened on the screen with a blank face, and asked subconsciously.
"It's a flying machine, this is an attack launched by a flying machine." Atlas replied in disbelief, "Oh my God, are they trying to blow up the entire fleet?" β
Everyone else stared blankly at the scene on the screen, a look of surprise on everyone's face, and there was a sudden silence in the command module. This atmosphere lasted for more than a minute, and the explosion on the screen continued, and even intensified, while the explosion continued to spread to the center of the fleet. Moreover, after all this time, the aircraft still showed no sign of stopping its attack, as if it wanted to use up all the ammunition it carried. As for the fleet, it seems that all the ships are civilian, and everyone does not see even the slightest sign of resistance from them, and they can only passively bear the wrath of the aircraft.
At this time, Zhou Xin couldn't help but get up from his seat, "Go and save-" He shouted halfway, and then reacted, both sides of this matter have nothing to do with him, and the spaceship is not suitable to expose himself now, and this situation cannot be rescued by the Voyager alone, so his face fell, and in an instant, as if he had lost all his strength, he sat down weakly.
"Don't think about it, how can we save it, and this is an internal matter of this civilization itself, we will interfere with what they do." Although Dart's face was also shocked, he replied calmly after listening to Zhou Xin's half sentence.
"I understand." Zhou Xin said dejectedly, "But looking at so many people, and most of them may still be civilians-" He couldn't go on, and after being silent for a while, Zhou Xin suddenly became excited, "Why did the flying machine attack the spaceship, isn't there any innocent people in the fleet?!" Slaughter! This is a naked slaughter! Once again, he got up from his seat excitedly.
"What's the use of knowing why?" Dart sighed, "It's happened, and it's irreparable now. β
Zhou Xin sat down again, and then stared at everything that happened on the screen without saying a word, after nearly three minutes of bombing, the aircraft finally stopped this attack, and the explosion of the fleet began to show signs of weakening, the center of the fleet still came from time to time The bright light of one or two explosions came from time to time, but the explosions on the periphery of the fleet were basically invisible, only a few large spaceships broke out from time to time New fires, but these fires were as weak as candles in the wind, It only lasted a few seconds before disappearing.
At the beginning of the explosion, there were many small ships that wanted to escape from the impending disaster, but this time they were not as lucky as the ships that left before, and the aircraft launched an attack on these fleeing ships mercilessly, and these fleeing ships were also the key targets of the aircraft, and each spaceship that tried to escape would be doubled by the aircraft. However, in order to survive, more and more ships had to join the ranks of escape, but this was all in vain, most of the ships were destroyed directly after leaving the fleet not long after, and only a few ships were able to escape the attack of the aircraft, but the few ships that escaped were also scarred. For those spaceships that were able to escape the attack, the aircraft did not deliberately pursue, they just bombed everything in their range except for the aircraft as much as possible. But for this kind of detail, Zhou Xin had long been unintentional, because he had long been shocked by the attack on the entire fleet.
At the same time, from the time of the explosion to the time it weakened, not only did the ships that were still functioning begin to flee, but even those that had completely lost their ability to move began to launch small devices similar to rescue pods. For these life-saving capsules that have no ability to resist, the aircraft still launched an attack mercilessly. For this kind of densely launched rescue capsule, it is not a single shot to destroy one, and the explosion of every explosive launched into the escape area of the rescue capsule will directly destroy more than a dozen nearby rescue capsules. At the same time, the high-speed flying debris scattered by the rescue pod after the explosion will also spread to a large area in the vicinity, and under this chain reaction, there are basically few rescue pods that can survive this dense barrage. Even if there are a few that survive, if they are launched at the wrong angle, these capsules will be difficult for rescuers to find, and it is still a question whether anyone will rescue them next. Therefore, even if there is a rescue pod that escapes the current disaster, it is estimated that the survivors inside are more than lucky.
Although he had known for a long time that this matter had nothing to do with him, Zhou Xin still looked very angry when he saw that the aircraft did not leave a way for the rescue capsule to survive, "It's already like this, do they still refuse to let go of those survivors?!" Is there any deep hatred between them?! I don't talk about any emotion when I attack. His question was not answered, though, and the others in the command module simply watched in silence what was happening on the screen.
After the explosion subsided, everyone could finally see the situation of the current fleet, but what they saw on the screen was almost a post-apocalyptic scene, there was no complete spaceship in the area where the camera of the probe could reach, not even a thing that looked like a "spaceship", in the location of the huge fleet before, now only a large number of wreckage was gathered together, and there was an explosion in the wreckage from time to time, and many wreckage were still on fire. In the cosmic environment, a large amount of fire light was extinguished not long after, and only a small number of fires that were not extinguished for a while were still illuminating this starry sky. The once vibrant fleet is now dead, and no one would have known that this massive wreck would have been a huge fleet in the past without being reminded.
After the explosion had largely disappeared, the attacking craft moved on again, and they began to burrow into the wreckage, seemingly searching for any surviving ships. Some of the ships that survived the attack were bombed by the aircraft, even some of the intact hulls that remained, until they were completely destroyed to pieces.
At this time, even Zhou Xin was silent, since he saw the aircraft attacking those rescue pods, he was no longer surprised by how they were going to destroy the entire fleet, and quietly watched the aircraft blow up the last piece of the relatively intact spacecraft structure into a pile of metal fragments, Zhou Xin was silent for a long time.
After blowing up the last piece of the ship's structure, the aircraft patrolled the debris for a while as if it were its own territory. After confirming that no large hull was found, the scattered craft finally flew out of the range of debris and gathered together, and then they directly dropped the metal fragments in the sky and turned around and returned to the planet.
"Finallyβis it over?" After looking at the fragments for a long time, Zhou Xin finally squeezed out these words.
"It's over." Dart replied in a heavy tone.
"Captain, brother." Atlas hesitantly asked, "W- do you need to send a probe to search the wreckage?" β
Under Atlas's reminder, Zhou Xin finally reacted to what he should do, so he replied: "Go, of course, Voyager, send some probes to search near the wreckage of the spacecraft." After saying this, he finally recovered from the previous shock, and at the same time recovered his ability to think, after thinking about it, he continued, "When searching, remember to ask the probe to pay attention to whether there are any vehicles of this civilization in the nearby space, especially in the area where the debris is dense, you need to be vigilant, so as not to be discovered by the other party." β
"Understood." As usual, it was a serious answer from the Voyager.
"Brother Captain, what if I find a survivor? Need to rescue them? "Atlas asks a key question.
"Of course I want to save it." Zhou Xin replied without thinking, "How can you see death and not save it." β
"Butβ" Dart's face showed a hesitant expression, as the former person in charge of base security, he was more sensitive to anything related to unidentified people, but seeing Zhou Xin's expression with a resolute expression, he didn't continue.
After arranging everything, Zhou Xin stared at the screen for a long time, until the fire on the last piece of spaceship debris was completely extinguished, he let out a long sigh, "I hope there are still clues worth investigating in the fragments, it would be better if we could know why this happened." He said to himself, at this time there was only a faint starlight left on the screen, Zhou Xinleng paused for a few seconds, and then turned off the picture on the big screen.
"Do you think this was an accident or a man-made disaster?" After sitting in the seat for a long time, Zhou Xin couldn't help but ask a question, then he shook his head and comforted himself, "It should be an accident, all the people in that fleet, not to mention the tens of thousands, so many people were killed directly regardless of their identity?" Is this really the work of a higher civilization? To this day he still finds it hard to believe.
"It's not okay to be independent of identity." Dart replied thoughtfully, "It stands to reason that if you want to go to a space building, whether it's for security reasons or to control the number of people, simple identity registration is still necessary, and it's still very easy for people on the ground to rely on this information to identify everyone." β
"And they attack so indiscriminately?" Zhou Xin felt incomprehensible, "Aren't they afraid of hurting the innocent?" β
"Who knows?" Dart shrugged, "Maybe the one who should have run ran long ago." Then he looked puzzled, "I think it's strange why they let the ship escape before the attack began, and didn't attack any of the fleeing ships?" But after the attack, their attitudes were diametrically opposed? β
"Hell knows." Zhou Xin's expression was a little helpless, "From beginning to end, I felt very strange about the actions of those flying machines, the attitudes before and after were completely different, and they were full of various contradictions. Then, he simply gave up thinking, "Forget it, don't think about it if you can't figure it out, I hope the detector can find some clues." β
"I think it's hard." Dart poured cold water on it again, "Judging by the fact that those aircraft completely destroyed the wreckage of the large spaceship into pieces, I think they just don't want to leave any clues for the others." β
After Dart finished speaking, Zhou Xin's face became worse, obviously he also felt that Dart's words were reasonable, so he had to reply helplessly: "Then I can only hope that those flying machines have something missing." β
"Brother Captain, although those ships are basically reduced to pieces, in fact, there is a high probability that we can find survivors." Atlas comforted, "Just now, people have seen with their own eyes that a lot of rescue pods have been preserved intact, and when the probe reaches the area of the shipwreckage, they will let them follow the escape route of the rescue pod they saw before." β
After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin's mood finally improved a lot, and then he ordered: "The speed of action of the probe is going to be accelerated, we don't know how long those rescue capsules can run, if we cause the death of people who could have survived because of our slow speed, then it will be too late to regret it." β
"Don't worry, I'll leave it to me." Atlas said confidently, and after saying this, she mentioned another thing, "Brother Captain, the diary I found earlier has been translated, do you want to see it......?" β