Chapter 18: Energy Eater
The exploring battleship circled before landing on the edge of the ruins.
This battleship is not a dedicated probe, but a relatively small frigate. In the Chaos Star Field, the warships are all universal, and there is no functional distinction.
The battleship did not find anything unusual in the sky above, and the ruins had a clear outline under the dim sky, which looked mysterious and strange under the illumination of the detection beam emitted by the battleship.
Moira had also been on the ship's ships after the disappearance, but she hadn't seen the ruins that the explorers had said, and she thought it might be a hallucination.
This has also happened within nebulae. Especially after traveling in the stars for a long time, this can happen when you suddenly arrive on a planet with high gravity.
One person can say that there are forty or fifty people on a battleship. Even those who set off from the battleship to explore may have an accident, but it is impossible for all the people who piloted the battleship to be missing.
This is something that Moira does not understand.
Could it be that something happened that caused these people to abandon the ship and flee? This is unlikely, considering that the Star Wanderer has always called ships home, and even with Levi they love ships like their lives, and no one can do that.
Moira was shocked by the ruins, and she realized that something was unusual.
The imagery continues.
The personnel on the ship were still busy, two teams of ten people walked out of the battleship, and did not take a vehicle, the interstellar nomads did not have the habit of using vehicles on the ground, and the things that could be solved with the ship were used by the ship, and the rest were used by legs.
The screen is divided into three parts, one inside the battleship and the rest for two exploration teams.
One team was heading towards the ruins, while the other slowly walked in the direction of what appeared to be a crashed ship.
The light was distorted, and the image of the team that had reached the ruins first was distorted, as if it had been disturbed by something, and then a man who looked like a captain took out a communicator.
"Miss, we found a ruin in a desert near the equator."
"Ruins? What ruins? ”
"I can't see clearly, there seems to be something blocking outside, and we can't get in." The voice looked a little helpless, "There is also the wreckage of a spaceship not far away. ”
"Spaceship wreckage? Are you sure? ”
"Yes, it's big, it's not as good as ......" The sound of rustling came from the communicator and then disappeared, not only the sound disappeared, but the picture was also blank.
The team disappeared.
A white light erupted from the location of the ship's wreckage not far away, and then the exploration team that was thinking about the wreckage approaching disappeared along with the wreckage.
Only the footage of the ship responsible for exploring the inside of the battleship remains.
At this time, the personnel inside the battleship obviously also discovered this anomaly, and the personnel inside were debugging the equipment, they thought that it was only the battleship's equipment that was malfunctioning, otherwise the images of the two exploration teams disappeared almost at the same time, which is unlikely.
Moira's brow furrowed, and even if she was present, she would judge it that way.
The rest of the battleship's internal images soon appeared seriously disturbed, and there were a lot of white spots on the screen, and suddenly Moira saw a point of light appear behind one of the crew members, slowly approaching one of the crew.
But the crew didn't know it, and Moira was about to shout.
As the white dot figure approached the crew, in an instant, the crew disappeared, and before the surrounding personnel could react, they flew towards the surrounding personnel at this point of light.
In an instant, there were screams in the cabin of the battleship.
But many people only had time to shout, and they all disappeared.
Moira nervously covered her mouth with her hand, and most of the people around her who were watching opened their mouths wide. This is so weird that it has exceeded everyone's comprehension.
Ghost?!
A name that should not exist in the interstellar nomad at all unconsciously appeared in everyone's minds at this time, this is just a legend that existed in ancient times, and it is also a fear that children have since childhood.
And so everyone disappeared.
Immediately after that, there was a blank on the screen, which was supposed to be caused by the battleship's energy being absorbed by these unknown things.
After seeing all this, Moira was a little nervous and a little scared, this is a human instinct, an instinctive fear of the unknown and irresistible.
She was a little afraid, if she also encountered these things when she led people to explore, would she be the same? Needless to say, Moira didn't believe she was anything special than those who went missing, and if she did, she would be just like them.
The presence of these things on this succubus made Moira a little overwhelmed, and she instinctively wanted to escape from here, even the core of the base she had just built could not give her a sense of security.
"Order to speed up the construction of defense towers, and speed up the protective shield, if it's too late, build it first to cover the core area."
While afraid, Moira was also a little unwilling, should she give up on the planet she had found so hard?
Her instincts told her that this might not be the place she could touch.
For something that couldn't be handled, she immediately contacted her father again, and in Moira's heart, his father was her last support.
"Daddy, things are a little troublesome, I got some images from the missing people's warship, and there is something strange in it." With that, she immediately sent the images to Gus.
Gus didn't say anything in the communication, he was looking at the not-so-long footage, but Moira could tell from the increasingly solemn look on her father's face that it was indeed beyond their capabilities.
"Moira, without clarifying this matter, I order you to return to Livill immediately and let the unmanned machinery there continue to build." Old Gus said to Moira with all seriousness.
"......"
Moira is still a little reluctant, and if she retreats, she is likely to be occupied by other forces.
"But what? This phantom star has appeared very strangely, we are a little too anxious this time, we should explore more, it is a little inappropriate to enter so rashly. You're coming back right away, I don't want to lose my daughter. ”
Old Gus's first thought at this time was not her interests but her safety, which made Moira a little moved.
"Okay, Daddy, I'll be right back."
Just as Moira was about to disconnect communication with Gus, a large snowflake appeared on the screen. This caused Gus, who was still connecting, to shout, "Moira, ...... quickly"
Communication was abruptly cut off, and Moira felt like it was already at the base. It is very likely that she brought it back by herself, and followed the battleship that had been drained of energy back to the base, and what made Moira regret even more was that she had refueled the battleship.
She should have left the shipwreck at the wreck. But it was a battleship, and even though it was a small frigate, it was also very valuable to Levier.
She saw the faces of the people around her with a pale look of panic, and knew that danger was coming towards the base.
"What to do? What to do? ”
One exclaimed, "Miss, this thing is sucking energy." ”
The battleship on the screen that had just recharged its energy not long ago is now out of connection.
The energy was sucked clean again, and it was sucked out twice in a row within a few days, which is equivalent to the energy of two warships, what is this kind of thing?
How could energy be so interested?
But this thing is also interested in people!
Moira tried to calm herself down, if she panicked, her people would die here. Now even if you want to go back to the Weilan, you can't do it, not to mention that the Weilan has not had time to land, even if you descend the energy on the battleship, it is definitely a delicacy to attract the other party.
"Order everyone outside to move closer quickly."
"Cut off the core energy of the base," Moira's brain raced, "gradually cut off from near to far." ”
"Quick!"
This is Moira's clever side, and if it is cut from far to near, it will undoubtedly attract that thing to the core of the base. Without using energy, the battleship is useless, and individual weapons are also energy weapons, and Moira does not dare to use them.
Do you want to use cold weapons? Having lost their weapons, the crowd is undoubtedly a lamb to the slaughter.
Cold weapon, only Moira has a knife no more than 20 centimeters long, but what can this do? Luckily, Moira loves kinetic weapons, and her guards are armed with a few honest kinetic firearms.
However, it is not very useful, because there are not many bullets.
The base, which had been very busy before, was shutting down the energy layer by layer from the core to the distance from the core with Moira's order, even the other three warships in the mooring area.
The entire base only had a small supply of energy in reserve, and if it were shut down completely, Moira would be blind and would know nothing.
There were about 200 soldiers and more than 100 construction workers outside the core base, and after receiving the order, these people abandoned everything in their hands and were running towards the core area in a panic.
The passages connecting the various areas were dimly lit, and many people did not know why the eldest lady Moira had given such an order. The front of the passage was noticeably darker than the back, which also puzzled the people who ran.
Moira was calculating how long the remaining three ships would be drained of energy, hoping to buy them some time. It takes a certain amount of time for the ship's energy to be completely absorbed, and at this time there are still some images that can be transmitted back.
"Miss, it doesn't seem like it can pass through the bulkhead of the battleship, they all enter through the hatch."
Someone found out about this important detail.
At the same time, Moira also discovered that when there was energy in the battleship, the points of light were not interested in people, and they preferentially devoured the energy in the energy bars in the battleship.
This thing is eating energy!
The human body also contains energy, but it is almost negligible compared to a battleship. Before the battleship and the base run out of energy, the personnel should still be safe.
Watching the crew and soldiers run out of the battleship that was being devoured in energy, Moira breathed a sigh of relief.
Some of the base builders had already entered the core area where Moira was, but the soldiers on the battleships were a little far away, still running desperately, and they were the ones who could directly feel the horror of that kind of thing.
What to do with it, Moira didn't know, but hopefully they would have soaked up their energy and left.