Chapter 13: The Dark Base
Following the waypoint set by Nathan, Fuwei controlled the Storm Petrel, turned left and right, and made three big turns in succession. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The mysterious Ifrit Nebula still reflects a palpitating orange glow, and along the way, a few pieces of metal belonging to the starship's hull were spotted, but after reaching the third waypoint, no spatial wreckage was gone.
Another hour passed, and the starship finally approached the final waypoint, and Fu Wei controlled the ship to get out of the LDS propulsion mode, and the orange light emitted by the conventional thrusters pushed the Storm Petrel interceptor to continue to move forward at a speed of kilometers per second, but through the portholes, there was still nothing to see that could be called a base, only an orange expanse.
"There's still 30km, kid, and you'll see it soon."
Nathan explained, "We're still on the edge of the Ifrit Nebula, just deeper than the other pirate groups.
The Ifrit Nebula is an absolute labyrinth, and no one would dare to set up a base so deep into the Nebula except for the Aurelia Pirates, and the garrisons and bounty hunters would not go deep into the Nebula to hunt you down to such an extent. ”
"No wonder I can't see it, this visibility feels like it's only two or three miles away, as if it's going to be an orange fog." Fu Wei nodded in agreement.
Nathan frowned, and said suspiciously, "Kid, didn't you grow up on the Miscellaneous Mining Satellite?" How could you possibly ever see fog? ”
"Listen...... The neighbors have told ......"
Fu Wei said with a haha, fortunately, Nathan didn't care so much, he was just surprised by the many insights of a 12-year-old boy, thinking about it, Fu Wei even knows the word solar system, can he not know the fog?
"The Ifrit Nebula is a permanent cloud of dust that spun around your grandmother's base, the ionic gas that blocks the sharpest radar signal in the entire Grimm Cluster, and no outsider has ever been here except for the members of the Aurelia Pirate Order, your father, your mother, and me."
Nathan continued, "My mission is accomplished, my dear child, I have brought you here safely, look, this is it! The outside world frantically searched for something that couldn't be found, the base of the Aurelia Pirate Regiment. ”
Fu Wei turned his head, through the porthole, through the heavy nebula dust, and sure enough, he saw a faintly visible oval object, like a huge rugby ball, at this moment the Storm Petrel interceptor was still 4km away from the target, but the object looked very huge.
How big can it be?
Fuwei felt as if a gymnasium in his previous life had been uprooted and moved here, no, it was much bigger than the largest gymnasium he knew in his previous life!
As the storm petrel continued to advance, the outline of the object gradually became clear, the surface was not shiny ancient silver, but rusty, obviously experienced the destruction of time, no matter how Fu Wei looked, he felt that the base in Nathan's mouth was like a pile of giant space garbage.
This huge oval base has a rounded shape, narrow at the ends and wide in the middle, with a standard streamlined shape.
"Are you sure this is the base of the Aurelia Pirates and not the eggs laid by some unknown giant creature??"
Fu Wei raised his eyebrows and asked.
Nathan frowned and reprimanded, "Don't talk nonsense! Stinky boy, this is your grandmother's pirate base, Aurelia's private property, and now it's yours.
In the future, the right to use this base will also belong to you alone, as long as you don't make a mistake and attract the garrison or navy, I guarantee that you can live to death in safety here.
Remember, you have to keep the three waypoint formulas I have stored as the biggest secret, and you can't tell them to anyone unless you trust someone 100 percent. ”
"I see."
Fu Wei nodded solemnly, but in his heart he felt that Nathan was a little verbose.
He urged Nathan, "It's close, let's get inside!" ”
"Wait a minute, I have to contact the take-off and landing platform of the space shuttle, how can I get in without opening the closed hatch?"
Nathan said, already making remote contact at the same time, and a panoramic image of the Aurelia Pirate Colony base appeared in the upper right corner of the porthole, and it seemed that Nathan had successfully established a connection.
A loud "boom" came from the loudspeaker, not through space, but from inside the Aurelia Pirate Regiment's base.
Through the porthole of the interceptor, Fu Wei saw that six arc gaps appeared in the flat part of the front end of the space shuttle base, and on the wide flat plane, six arc corners of the same size, the same proportion, and constantly disappearing, this is the ancient 'hexagonal closed hatch', a steel giant door with a diameter of about a kilometer long.
This width is enough for most starships to enter and exit, and the Storm Petrel interceptor, which has a wingspan of only 35 meters, is like a small sesame seed on a mooncake compared to this hexagonal closed hatch, and the hatch is like a cross-section of a melon vine on the butt of a watermelon compared to the entire base!
Fowei finally had a slight impression of how huge the base of the Aurelia Pirates was, and along the way, no artificial celestial body he had seen, except for the miscellaneous mining land satellites, no ship or space station would be larger than the base in front of him.
There was already a contact target on the contact list, "Aurelia Pirate Base", and Fu Wei chose this target, gave Storm Petrel a docking order, and the ship automatically flew towards the open hatch.
"Wow!" The closer he got to this huge space shuttle, the more surprised Fu Wei became, the base was like an eternal giant sculpture, looking down on the uninvited guests in this small starship, making Fu Wei goosebumps all over his body.
"Big, right?" Nathan smirked, "In the heyday of the Aurelia Pirate Regiment, it had 35 starships and hundreds of pirates. ”
"Hearing you say that, it seems like you are extremely proud of your granddaughter?" Fu Wei said deliberately.
"Fart!" Nathan turned his face on the face.
"So many pirates, all of them keep the location of the base a secret?"
Fu Wei was a little unconvinced, once there was a traitor among these hundreds of people, the entire base would be finished, but judging from the intact appearance of the base, the Aurelia Pirate Group base should never have been attacked on a large scale.
"That's where your grandmother's charisma comes into play." "Son, in this day and age, taking an oath of allegiance and being someone's follower is much brighter than being a contract laborer," Nathan said. ”
As he spoke, the spacecraft had completely entered the interior of the space shuttle, just a semi-open take-off and landing platform, and its space was already beyond Fuwei's estimates, with a row of starship docks on the left and right, a row of 25, and a full 50 of them, but each dock was empty.
Nathan remotely controlled the take-off and landing platform, closed the hexagonal rotating closed hatch, and after the Storm Petrel entered the take-off and landing platform, it automatically docked to the nearest docking frame, and the mechanical arm stretched out, unloading the cockpit at the front of the starship's hull, moving to the side, and docking with a swap module.
There was a click, and the docking was complete.
"It doesn't look right, take me to the main control room, walk along the middle gangway to the end, go up the gangway to the bridge and find it, and plug me into one of the processor slots in the main control room."
Nathan said.
Fu Wei licked his lips, rubbed his hands, and neatly pulled out Nathan's big USB drive, clamped it under his armpit, then turned around the seat, opened the round airtight door behind the cockpit, and got out.
Wearing only a long sleeve, a pair of trousers, and sneakers on his feet, Fu Wei felt cold as soon as he stepped out of the hatch, and he entered a dark and wide corridor, and the red emergency lights far above his head emitted a faint red light, reflecting everything here in red.
The temperature was very low, and it seemed to nod above zero, but fortunately the gravity device did not fail.
Fu Wei trembled and walked forward, the echo of his footsteps was very deep and heavy, and he looked back from time to time, Fu Wei was really afraid that someone would suddenly appear from behind him, this place was really terrifying!
This middle rampway is connected to a lot of function rooms, Fu Wei doesn't know what their function is for the time being, he plans to go to the main control room of the bridge, he will go to find a boiler room and other function rooms, to raise the temperature of the entire base, or find some thick clothes to wear, this is too cold!
After walking for about 15 minutes, Fuwei finally reached the end of the portion, at which there was a fork in the road, and there was a steel staircase, one direction up and the other down.
Nathan said that the main control room went up.
The handrail of the staircase was cold and biting, and Fu Wei had to pull his long sleeves down and wrap his whole hand to isolate the biting coldness a little.
The stairs were not long, and Fuwei encountered another fork in the road, one was a vertical gangway, and the other continued to lead to the upper floor.
Fu Wei walked up the vertical portway, the light was too dim, so that some corners were dark, Fu Wei's pores were oozing some kind of fear, the more scared, the more rapid Fu Wei's footsteps, he just wanted to find the main control room quickly, plug in the big USB flash drive, and let Nathan's voice echo throughout the base.