Chapter Ninety-Seven: Entering the Satellite Underground Base
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After turning off the communicator, Atlas then reported to Zhou Xin, "Brother Captain, the probe has successfully launched an investigation into the underground base of that satellite, do you want to take a look?" ”
"How are the ships that departed in the morning, have they arrived in Space City?" Zhou Xin didn't answer, but asked another question.
Atlas shook his head, "Not yet, when the spaceship departed, Space City and the satellite were just at opposite ends of the planet. Moreover, the route of their flight also circled a large distance from the planet, apparently to avoid the detection of the planet's surface, so now the ships are only about half the way, and it is expected that they will not be able to reach it until noon tomorrow at the earliest. ”
Zhou Xin nodded, "Then let's take a look at the underground base on the satellite first." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the image of the original Song Xing near Songxing disappeared from the screen, and was replaced by several indoor scenes with partial black shadows.
"What's going on?" Seeing the new image on the screen, Zhou Xin asked strangely, "Is the detector damaged?" How the image looks like this. ”
"Nope." Atlas replied, "It wasn't until the probes snuck in that they happened to be in time for the activity in the base. In order not to be discovered, they first found some corners and hidden, and this batch of images happened to be taken when they were hiding in the corners, and those black shadows were just shelters in front of the camera.
Zhou Xin looked at the incomplete images that appeared on the screen for a while, and then found that the only thing that appeared in the picture was the wall, and a small number of other furnishings appeared. Taking a closer look at the wall, Zhou Xin felt a little surprised. None of the walls shown in the shot are decorated, just the natural texture of the stones. Of course, if it's just such a smooth wall, there is no problem, the problem is that the whole wall is still potholed, which makes people feel strange. At the beginning, what appeared on the screen was a distant picture, and the wall still looked very flat, it should be a masterpiece of large machinery, and Zhou Xin didn't see any problems. But when the camera got closer, Zhou Xin found that the entire wall was completely uneven, covered with dense small potholes, which looked like a huge stone. The entire wall has not been polished even in the simplest way, and it feels like a large machine shoveling the wall to build a room. The cracks in the rocks had been repaired, but they were just a casual wipe with some paint of unknown composition, and it looked like scars, which were very ugly. The only thing that is commendable is that all the walls look very clean and there are no obvious smudges.
"This wall-" Zhou Xin said to himself thoughtfully, looking at the picture on the screen, "I feel as if I have returned to ancient times, I can't see that it looks like a base of high-tech civilization at all." ”
"Maybe that's the style of this civilization." Spred replied casually.
"It's hard to say whether it's a new civilization or not." According to the evidence obtained before, Zhou Xin had some vague thoughts about this civilization in his heart, but he couldn't be sure of it himself, so he just mentioned it.
He then turned his gaze to several other things that appeared in the camera, and the first thing he saw was a cabinet. This cabinet occupies nearly three-quarters of the position in the picture except for the black shadow, and it looks very conspicuous, so Zhou Xin stared at it at first sight. The shape of the cabinet itself is not described, it is just an ordinary cabinet, but the materials used in it are a little strange. There are clearly two dividing lines throughout the cabinet, and the three parts that are divided into them all look like metal, different sizes, and the connected parts look a little unnatural, as if they were cut directly from three different cabinets and put back together. Moreover, the patchwork is still very rough, and the whole cabinet does not look straight on the ground, but is tilted to the right. Slight traces of rust can also be seen on the surface of the cabinet, and these marks also show obvious faults at the location of the dividing line, which also proves that the cabinet was indeed later put together.
"It's really in line with their style." After a few glances at this cabinet, Zhou Xin smiled.
"Let's be more serious, what's wrong with being crooked like this." Spred's tone was a little odd.
"Maybe that's what they like." Zhou Xin teased.
Turning his gaze away from the cabinet, Zhou Xin glanced at the images of the other detectors. In addition to the previous cabinet, he also saw some other furniture, many of which had more or less traces of splicing, and only a small part was intact. Whether it's spliced or complete, it looks very shabby and obviously some years old.
Looking at the static picture on the screen, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and asked, "Why is it that all the images sent back by the detector are images, and there are no images?" Is there a signal shield in this base? ”
"That's the image from the probe." Atlas replied, "It's just that because the probes are hiding in hidden corners and no one is passing by, they look like pictures." ”
As soon as the little girl's words fell, a person appeared in the picture of the cabinet that she had seen at the beginning. The man hurried over to the cupboard, opened it, took a few things from it, and left. However, Zhou Xin didn't care what he took, but carefully observed the person who appeared in the picture. Although the person's face did not appear in the detector's lens, Zhou Xin could clearly see that his complexion was pink through the exposed half of his side face, and it was obvious that he was a Ewen.
Seeing that it was a Eun person, Zhou Xin didn't feel surprised, but just whispered to himself, "Sure enough." Then he asked, "Atlas, did the probe send back images as it entered the base?" ”
"Yes." As he spoke, the screen changed to the locked gate that he had seen in the morning.
The image frozes for a moment, then the closed door begins to vibrate slightly, and after a few seconds the door begins to slowly open. To everyone's surprise, they saw through the crack in the door that it was still as dark inside the door as it was outside.
"Why is it so dark inside?" Zhou Xin couldn't help but ask this question in the end.
"Wait a little longer and the inside will light up." Atlas had apparently seen it a long time ago, she replied.
As she said, the moment the door opened completely, the passage behind the door lit up. Slightly different from what Zhou Xin imagined, the lights in the passage looked a little dim, and it looked like it was almost dusk. Under such lights, everyone vaguely saw that there seemed to be a behemoth parked in the passage.
After a while, the behemoth also lit up, and at this time it was more clearly recognizable, and it was the ships that had been seen before. At the same time, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one at the door, the probe flew in. At maximum speed, several probes flew into the shadows beneath the ship almost simultaneously, and then the shadows obscured them, and the probes continued along the outer shell of the spacecraft towards the interior of the passage.
When you looked at it from a distance, you didn't notice it before, but at such a close distance, everyone saw that although the outer shell of the spacecraft that appeared in front of the probe lens did not have traces of rust like the metal objects that belonged to the place that they had seen before, the surface of the shell was still covered with scratches and scorching marks, obviously because it had been used for a long time. Moreover, comparing each deck that makes up the shell, it is clear that the old and the new are different, and Zhou Xin even saw that several decks were made of completely different metals. But while it didn't look great, each deck was fitted together seamlessly, and it wasn't the first time they'd done something like this.
At this time, the probes happened to pass where the different shapes of the ship's hulls met, and they stopped to observe it for a while. Zhou Xin saw that those parts that were not in shape were directly sealed by them with decks, and a large number of metal strips could be welded to the seams on the outside as reinforcement. It looks a little ugly, but judging by the previous flight conditions of the ship, this method is still very useful.
After a few seconds of pause, the probe continued on its way, and after several more similar junctions, they came to the location of the ship's engine. Now, the two engines at the tail of the ship are spewing blue flames, but the flames in the picture seem to be a little unstable, up and down, like a mischievous elf.
After carefully observing the engines of the spaceship, Zhou Xin always felt a little strange. After carefully comparing the two engines on the left and right, he finally found that the size of the two engines that are now breathing fire is not the same, the one on the left is about a circle larger than the one on the right, and the flame emitted by the engine on the right is smaller than that on the left, presumably to balance the output of the two engines.
Not daring to stay in such an obvious place for any longer, the probe stayed for a short time before moving on. Not far behind the ship was another spaceship, which was also activated, and the lights on either side of the ship were flickering regularly. Hurriedly passed under the spaceship and came to its tail, and this time Zhou Xin finally saw two engines of the same size. However, although the two engines are almost exactly the same size and shape, they are very different from the old, the one on the left looks almost the same as new, while the right engine shell is covered with all kinds of black marks, and the paint on it is also peeling off a little, it seems that this engine has been tried for a long time. However, because he had seen so many items related to this force before, Zhou Xin was already familiar with these two engines that were different from the old and the new.
The probe then proceeded, and there was still a spacecraft behind it. However, the spaceship that just appeared in front of me did not seem to start, and the entire spaceship did not see a single light. Flying next to the third spacecraft, a fourth spacecraft appeared in front of the camera of the probe, and when the fifth spacecraft was seen, there were no large ships in sight, only a few small shuttles less than ten meters long, which were crowded in the corners at the end of the passage, and it seemed as if no one had used them for a long time.
When he saw the shuttles at the bottom of the passage, Zhou Xin suddenly found that during the process of the probe coming in, he did not find the existence of any doors, except for the existence of more than a dozen passages at half the height of the spacecraft. These passages are directly connected to the hatches of each ship, and there is no way to access them from the outside.
However, because he had seen the picture of the inside of the base sent back by the probe before, Zhou Xin knew that the probe had successfully entered the base in the end, so he did not ask questions, but continued to look at the screen calmly.
At first, the probes seemed to have the same helplessness as Zhou Xin now, they first investigated the wall at the bottom of the passage for a while, but the results showed that it was just an ordinary wall, and after the investigation failed, they began to return along the wall on the other side of the passage.
After advancing for a short distance, something different finally appeared on the originally flat wall, about the tail of the third spacecraft, Zhou Xin saw that a small door more than one person high appeared on the wall of the passage, at first, the probe also tried to push the door gently, unexpectedly, just like that, the small door was opened.
flew into the small door, and before Zhou Xin could react, the detector quickly flew into a small pile of debris piled up in the corner and hid. From the footage on the screen, Zhou Xin could see that several people in protective clothing walked in front of the detector's lens. Through the mask, it can be seen that among these people, there are both Ewen and Kazlan, and they have seen people from two civilizations at the same time in the base, which finally confirms Zhou Xin's previous idea - this third force is completely composed of people from two civilizations. However, he still has no clue about the specific identities of these people who make up this force. Then, Zhou Xin noticed that these people who walked in front of the camera did not look as energetic as the people he had seen before. It is not clear what kind of Kazlan people are on the surface of the planet, but the Ewen people are very obvious, they are in front of the camera, their faces are still small, and no matter what civilization they are, they will occasionally joke with each other, which is completely different from the people they have seen on the planet before.
Having just walked to the middle of the screen, the men seemed to notice something unusual, and they walked quickly towards the door through which the probe had entered......