Chapter 15: Cremation
In low orbit, from time to time there is stripped atmospheric material passing through, rubbing into beautiful bands of light. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Directly below the earth, black-red swirls covered part of Oceania with an all-engulfing momentum. Radioactive storms, from time to time, brewed red lightning, embellished the earth more and more hideous.
The semi-cylindrical spaceship, about 1 kilometer in length, floated silently, with small fireballs erupting from its surface from time to time.
The silent space, the dead spaceship, the raging atmosphere, the flickering fireballs, all show the picture of struggle and death.
The spacecraft is in an unstable orbit and can crash into the atmosphere at any time.
Three Wasps cautiously approached the ship.
"Be careful, all the direction of the nadir, avoid!"
The space fighters turned into a dexterous light blue light, and instantly passed through the void, where they were a second ago, they had been pierced by hundreds of cosmic junk, all kinds of black waste, carrying a huge amount of energy, no less than the terrifying speed of the railgun into the void.
"Whew! Really---, Xiucai, do you dare to be dull any longer? ”
"Hmph, I thought the bear would be cleaner when I left. It turns out that there is also a foul-mouthed fox. ”
"No matter how bad your mouth is, it's at least better than your deadly sluggishness."
"Okay, okay, can the two big men be bigger? When is it, we're here to save people... ”
Natalie's waxy voice naturally has the function of stabilizing emotions. The other two snorted angrily and didn't continue to choke.
The Hornets became more cautious. Three small dots spread out around the ship. A pale blue trail looms around the target.
On the ship, small explosions continued, constantly producing tiny fragments that flew into the void. Once these things enter the vacuum, the energy they carry remains intact, and they become extremely dangerous beings. The Hornets had just encountered a batch of debris from the explosion. The weak magnetic field and shell of the fighter plane cannot provide effective protection at all, and if you are not careful, they will turn into cosmic garbage in low orbit and rotate around the earth forever.
For safety, the Wasp team spent a full two hours. From time to time, they used lasers and railguns to clear out threatening targets, and it was not until a safe passage was discovered that the wasp team approached the ship.
In the cockpit, the alarm was loud, and Liao Fan adjusted the attitude of the fighter. He didn't dare to move too much, the ultimate power of the space fighter was too powerful, and even in deep-sea mode, if he didn't pay attention, he would be crushed into plasma by the overload force.
The Wasp fighter suddenly changed orbit in a strange manner, barely avoiding the direct impact of the transparent fragments. The object, which was only the size of a teacup, grazed the defensive magnetic field, stirring up a bright white arc of electricity, and the leaking energy stirred up layers of ripples in the cockpit. Liao Fan could feel a scorching heat coming from the side, and then the on-board cooler activated, calming the temperature in the liquid that exceeded the normal value.
The whole body stiffens in tension. He tried to swallow the oxygenated solution to calm his emotions.
"You're alright!"
"How? Are there any injuries? You were rubbed just now. ”
This time he was really frightened, and in order not to let his companions hear the trembling voice, Liao Fan chose to be silent.
"You see, I said that joining the army is an act of death, and this time it is lucky, so what will I do next time? And next time, how many times will your luck keep you alive? ”
"Nonsense! You'll be fine, you'll be able to avoid danger the first time you drive the Wasp, and you'll have no problem becoming skilled in the future! ”
"Pull it down! If you continue like this, you will not have a future ... ”
In his head, two voices quarreled. The last bit of tension was also consumed by the fierce argument, and he unconsciously waved his right hand, as if to put aside the noise of mortals.
"I'm fine, transparent fragments of inorganic matter, the detector didn't detect it until it was very close."
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The spacecraft lost its defensive magnetic field, and itself became the target of a cosmic junk attack. Along with the fragments from the small explosion, the surrounding void has become a breeding ground for large strands of debris.
"Liao Fan is looking for the spaceship's interface, Natalie is connected to the spaceship's intelligent system, and I'm here to search for survivors' information."
After two thrills, Liao Fan lost the mood to make trouble for Xiucai. Natalie, naturally, has no opinion.
"I always feel like I shouldn't approach the ship." Natalie's voice trembled.
"Don't think about those useless things, the Space Army is scared by ghosts and ghosts, it's not a shame!"
Even so, Liao Fan himself felt uncomfortable. It's not that he feels any danger, but the two voices in his head react inexplicably.
"This job is not good, let the long machine change the task for you!"
"Connecting intelligent systems is a good business, let the girl give it to you."
"The show is aimed at you, and he doesn't like you. Go and tell him that you can't perform docking tasks. ”
"The girl is taken care of by you, and now it's her turn to repay you."
The two voices in his head were surprisingly not opposed, and an eerie cold enveloped his body. In the 26-degree liquid, Liao Fan couldn't help but tremble.
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"Ahh
The short exclamation is terrifying in the communication loop. Liao Fan was startled and hurriedly asked the wasp to move closer to Natalie. Xiucai did the same.
In the communication circuit, only intense gasps can be heard.
Liao Fan opened the intelligence database and looked through the content that caused her to scream.
Floating in a dense vein, a young corpse with a hideous expression. Under the dim emergency lights, the turbid air became more and more full of impurities.
The intelligence information experienced in a synchronous way shows a lonely, silent world.
My heart was flustered, and I felt that my heart was trying to fight the dead silence on the ship. He lowered his sensory synchrony and calmed down. He closed his eyes and tried his best to get the suffocating image out of his mind, and the lingering sadness remained.
She was vomiting, followed by the humming of the on-board self-cleaning unit working.
“。。。 Natalie, you're alright! ”
“。。。 Vomit...
According to her intelligence, it was a ship belonging to the Church of Oceania. It carried 12,412 children and 633 adults. The spacecraft scrambled into space, and the oxygen, food, water, energy, etc., were only able to last for less than 10 hours, and they had been here for a full 56 hours.
"Eight hours after the spacecraft lifted off, it encountered the Imperial Universe Mothership. The spacecraft sends out a distress signal and indicates that tens of thousands of children need to be rescued... Edlaide's voice was full of anger, and so was Liao Fan.
"As long as they leave enough to keep the children on for a few days, it's an easy thing for the mothership, why!" Natalie choked.
Liao Fan silently put the package marked as life-saving system intelligence into the checked folder. He didn't plan to share this information with his companions. At the last moment, next to these life-saving devices that could not be launched, a terrible thing happened. After the brutal competition, those lucky ones, what awaits them is deep despair.
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Half an hour later, Liao Fan found the spaceship's fairly intact interface.
The argument in his mind became more intense, and he chose to ignore it.
Full of anger takes over, and there is no place for fear to stand.
Wearing a closed flight suit and spacesuit, he slowly approached the interface along the supply hose.
"Why don't I go in! You are in charge of the vigilance ... ”
"I'd better go!"
Opening the last airtight door, a turbid air flow erupted outward, and countless poor weeping souls passed by him.
Liao Fan: "It doesn't make much sense to get the ship back, if there are no survivors, I suggest that the spaceship disintegrate in the atmosphere and burn it all." What do you guys think? ”
Natalie: "I don't have a problem with that, I hope God bless these poor children... ”
Edlaide: "If there really was God, I wouldn't let this happen." ”
Passing through the heavy airtight door, Liao Fan entered the dim space of the spaceship in the form of floating.
The situation is the same as the intelligence coming out of the intelligent system. The interior of the spaceship was full of corpses. The vast majority of them were underage children, but there were also some clergy. Whether it is an adult or a child, they all retain the appearance of struggling at the last moment of their lives. Some of the corpses grabbed their necks and tried to tear open their trachea to let the air in, some stretched out their hands, unconsciously trying to grasp the passing life, and some put on a posture of supplication, and at the last moment did not forget to pray to God, hoping for a miracle.
Hundreds of corpses were disturbed by the air flow when Liao Fan passed by, making irregular floating collisions. He turned from cabin to cabin, through airtight door after door, and all he saw was despair and struggle.
Accustomed to the initial panic, a faint sadness calmed him down. The cold corpse made him realize that this was hell.
Hell is not in the underworld, but in the human world, right before his eyes. Hell is something man-made.
"You're alright! Are there any survivors in the ship? ”
"No, there are no survivors here, there can be no survivors here! How can there be living people in hell? ”
"What did you say?"
"Nope! Forget what I just said. ”
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Liao Fan handed over the program to the on-board intelligent system, while he stared at the church spacecraft that was turning into countless fragments and crashing into the atmosphere. The flames continued to erode the fragments, and before long, the ship, along with its remains, would burn clean, turn into dust, and return to Earth.
As the orbit rises, the burning ship appears smaller and smaller.
For the first time, he felt that cremation was a good way to do it. At least the flames can warm up the icy hell.