After some discussion, the list of maintenance teams and combat personnel was quickly decided.

Thanks to Chen Yu's thoughtful consideration, there is no shortage of manpower in the expedition fleet.

In addition to the ship safety officer who is in charge of safety and defense, as well as special mechanical maintenance workers, Chen Yu has arranged some reserve personnel on each ship that accompanies him.

Of course, there were no changes to the crew on board the Sea Locust.

With just a few of them, Hans and Karl are enough to deal with most emergencies.

If you really encounter something that even they can't deal with, no matter how many people there are, it's useless, at best, it's just a few more funeral companions.

The next course of action was determined, and the group set off without much delay.

The action team, which totaled twenty or thirty people, was "escorted" by more than a dozen deep-sea searchlights, and slowly wandered towards the hideous behemoth in front.

Among them, many people were in groups of two, carrying sealed metal boxes in their hands.

The boxes contained various repair tools, as well as sheet metal to close holes in the hull.

These metal plates, of course, were not stockpiled by the fleet when it set off, but were improvised from the production table of the engineering bay.

I have to say that in order to adapt to the living environment, in the field of three-dimensional printing technology, Alien Technology does have good attainments.

As long as you have blueprints and materials, anything can be made for you.

It greatly saves space utilization and is more conducive to travel and development.

The water was surging, and dozens of members of the operation team floated in the air in a misty ocean, leaving a series of narrow and dense bubble trails behind them.

Reflecting the light, it slowly rises and finally floats into the darkness of nowhere.

When the team approached the E-class transport, the men split into two directions.

According to the plan of action, some of the fighters swam towards the shell of the submarine, entered the interior of the submarine from the airlock room on the first floor, followed the old path that Meng Lei and his people had taken, and wiped out the strange plant life forms on the second floor from top to bottom.

The other team went deep into the huge gap at the bottom of the ballast tank, divided into two groups, and began to repair the submarine hole.

Meng Lei stood in front of the porthole of the Sea Locust's command room, silently watching the progress of the operation outside the cabin.

And according to the progress of the task, command in an orderly manner.

On the whole, the process of operation was relatively smooth, and there were no accidents.

The purging of those vegetative people is actually not as dangerous as imagined.

Although the strange thalamic plant lifeform has explosive attack power, it moves slowly, and when the firepower is abundant enough, with reasonable tactics, it can easily achieve long-range killing.

Especially, with the death of the core organs.

The mycelium, which dotted all corners of the ship's cabin, gradually lost its activity.

At the end of the battle, the vegetative people actually turned into plants, and their movements became more and more stiff, until they were completely fixed in place, and there was no longer any movement.

It's like a carved and polished gardening shape, and the body grows hideously in the cabin.

At first glance, it is as if you have stepped into a horror garden with a thriller theme!

Although it may seem terrifying, it is no longer a threat.

Such a situation has provided great convenience for the clean-up work.

Armed with assault rifles and grenades, the combat team rushed into the second-floor area of Kaka and slaughtered indiscriminately, quickly clearing out all the remnants.

Suddenly, everyone let out a sigh of relief and felt extremely happy.

When he learned the news, although Meng Lei also felt a little relieved, he did not let his guard down.

Because of his previous experience with the single brush of the Ceres's shipwreck, he asked the combat crew to open all the hatches in the ship so as not to miss anything.

At first, there were still people in the team who didn't understand it and felt that Meng Lei was a little too cautious.

However, as the clean-up of the battlefield gradually came to an end, one after another airtight hatches covered in mycelium were cut.

Those who questioned Meng Lei's decision all kept their mouths shut.

Only then did the people realize that

It turned out that these vegetative people were not only the ones who were wiped out in the passage of the cabin, but even in some closed crew rooms, many crew members were parasitic and infected, turning into strange lifeforms that combined flesh and plants.

Some of them are rooted in the decks of the crew's cabins, and some grow on beds that have been eroded and rotted by fungi.

What's more, it actually hangs upside down on the ceiling of the cabin!

Like a hanged ghost with some kind of biological aberration, his head hangs down, the scarlet flower core blooms in the cranial cavity, and the long tongue covered with barbs hangs on his chest, strange and terrifying!

Looking at the scene in front of them, the combatants who entered the second-floor area to fight all felt chills in their backs.

Thanks to the fact that the core organs of the thalamus have been destroyed, these terrible vegetative people have lost their vitality and can no longer attack.

Otherwise,

The moment they cut open the hatch, they will be skewered into a barbecue by the thick and powerful whip thorns, and they will be killed and injured on the spot!

"It's horrible, this thing came out of a horror movie at all, it's terrifying!"

"Indeed, those alien sea monsters, although they look strange, are barely acceptable, and this vegetative person is simply incomprehensible, like a demon crawling out of hell!"

"There are so many weird things in this sea, it scares people to death......"

……

Everyone talked about it, and their hearts were extremely frightened.

"Just get used to it."

At this time, Meng Lei spoke comforting words in the communication channel and reminded:

"We've only walked less than one-tenth of the shallow area now, and I don't know what weird things are waiting for us in the back, not to mention the deeper sea area, what we have to face in the future may be hundreds or thousands of times more terrifying than this vegetative person, if we don't put our minds at ease, how can we continue to walk?!"

After a pause, Meng Lei said again:

"Alright, clean up the monsters and parasites on the ship, and then go to the bottom warehouse to take a look and count the cargo on this ship.

The merchant ships of the Alliance, there should be a lot of good things in them! ”

After this period of understanding, Meng Lei can be regarded as having a rough grasp of the supply structure of the alliance.

Generally speaking, except for the private transport ships of major arms companies and mining giants, because they do not carry too many materials, they all take the regular shipping lane.

For example, most intra-alliance cargo ships that deliver resources to agglomerations and outposts will choose to take special cargo lanes.

Because there are many conventional waterways that need to be detoured, and the environment is narrow, which is not conducive to the passage of large ships, it will be blocked in a small tunnel.

Therefore, any transport ship that takes the cargo channel,

They were all large merchant ships that carried goods to gathering places or outposts, and the supplies on board were bound to be surprisingly large and of great value.

Meng Lei was also very curious about what the goods carried by this ship were.

Food?

Mineral?

Or munitions?

Anyway, the harvest is absolutely extraordinary!

After receiving the order, the combat team that had completed the clean-up work immediately began to assemble in the bottom area of the transport boat.

At this time, the repair team of the external structure of the submarine finally came to an end.

The huge hole in the ballast tank pierced by the thalamic flesh gun was temporarily patched with basic materials, although the sturdiness was limited, but the hole was plugged anyway, and the water seepage situation would not continue to deteriorate.

The next priority is to clean up the submarine's internal parasitic flora and restore the power system.

This is a big project that will take a long time and will not be completed in a short period of time.

And Meng Lei doesn't know anything about this technology, let alone guiding work, even some of the most basic theoretical knowledge, he is also blinded and can't provide any help.

Commander Meng, who likes to take the lead in everything, will instead become the most idle person in the fleet.

In the command room of the bridge of the Sea Locust, Meng Lei was bored and held the magazine for a while, and then flipped through the hand-held tablet on the center console.

The signal has still not been restored, and this valuable high-end alien communicator has become a brick at the moment, and it is useless.

At this time, Meng Lei suddenly realized something very outrageous.

It stands to reason that the scientific and technological level of the Tia people is relatively developed in some fields.

In addition, electronic products such as handheld tablets also have similarities with Bluestar Technology.

However, the process of deep-sea sailing is boring and boring, and the entertainment in life is also very expensive.

But the alliance didn't develop any games on handheld tablets for the crew to use to pass the time when they went to sea?!

I have to say, this is really unreasonable!

"Go back and let Chen Yu recruit some people who are proficient in programming, see if he can crack the code of electronic products produced by these alliances, if there is a chance, it is also a good business opportunity to develop games on tablets and sell them for money!"

"It's really not good, just make your own mobile phones and sell them, anyway, the most important thing for Blue Star is talent, and it also has a complete technology tree."

"Coupled with the developed 3D printing technology of aliens and the rich resource reserves of the seabed, it is not impossible to form an industrial chain!"

"Even if it's a console to play games on submarines, it's a good way to make money......"

Meng Lei's thinking was divergent, and he thought a lot for a while.

He is certainly not the only one who has come up with these ideas, but there are certainly not many people who can realize them and put them into action at the moment.

At the very least, in order to realize these ideas, it is necessary to have at least an independent and complete cluster, including the corresponding production lines and technical research and development departments.

In addition to separating the objects of support from the Exploratory, ordinary people have no chance even if they have ideas.

The Chongming Fleet is fully equipped with this advantage, and can seize business opportunities and open the market in advance.

"Playing games on submarines, which is safe and healthy, can also release stress and reduce the risk of mental illness is a bit ...... a bit of a head."

Following this line of thought, Meng Lei derived more ideas.

He took out a pen and paper and recorded these thoughts one by one, preparing to wait for the signal to recover, and then find an opportunity to have a good chat with Chen Yu.

Time passes slowly and imperceptibly.

Soon, hours passed in the blink of an eye.

The restoration of the ghost ship was still in full swing, and it was not until half past eight in the evening that the exposed hyphae on the four walls of the cabin were finally cleaned up.

During the whole process, the staff of the maintenance team wore wetsuits and did not dare to take them off for a moment, for fear that the fungal spores in the air would not die and would rejuvenate after being inhaled into the body.

Just changing the oxygen cylinder back and forth, everyone wasted a lot of time.

In the end, Meng Lei simply asked people to build dozens of extra oxygen cylinders in the engineering cabin and threw them onto the ghost ship in one go, saving time and speeding up the repair progress.

During this period, Meng Lei had nothing to do, took out the leather-wrapped diary, and wrote a navigation log no less long than the previous one.

He recorded in detail what he had seen and heard in the past few days after leaving the city of Sil.

The encounter at the beacon station was recorded, and the thalamus, a strange fungal creature, was listed as the first danger level of prevention.

In the course of future voyages, it is important to send someone to regularly inspect the ballast tanks to avoid unknowingly being hit again.

Closing the diary, Meng Lei looked at the time, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening.

Remembering something, he set off to the second-floor medical cabin, ready to ask Gina for clarification.

There are all kinds of signs that this boat doctor who usually looks crazy is definitely having something wrong with him!

This question may not be malignant, but if he can't figure it out, Meng Lei always feels like something is blocked in his heart and feels very uncomfortable.

"Gina, come out!"

In the medical cabin,

The few hospital beds were filled with combatants who had been eroded into their nerve centers by paralyzing toxins.

In addition, Lin, who is shy and introverted but kind-hearted, has also been helping in the medical cabin.

Considering the large number of people, even if there is any secret, Gina may not be able to reveal it easily.

So, Meng Lei deliberately called Gina to the captain's room alone and closed the hatch casually.

In the dimness,

The two stood in place with big eyes and small eyes, and the atmosphere was a little delicate for a while.

Lonely men and widows are in the same room late at night, and there is a bit of ambiguity in everything.

At this time, he didn't wait for Meng Lei to speak.

Gina, who has always been enthusiastic and unrestrained, still maintains her usual style, seemingly unintentionally unbuttoning the top button of the coat, revealing the black lace underneath.

The hot red lips rose slightly, and the big eyes seemed to have rippling water, staring directly at Meng Lei.

She stepped forward, narrowed the distance between the two of them a little closer, and took the lead in speaking:

"Dear little captain, isn't it enlightened today, do you want to have a vigorous love all night? I can assure you that if you are bold enough to try, Dr. Gina will definitely leave you with a wonderful memory. ”

I don't know why, looking at Gina's passionate eyes, and the touch of snow white that Yu Guang inadvertently glimpsed, Meng Lei suddenly felt like a sheep in the tiger's mouth.

He hurriedly took a step back, decisively distanced himself from Gina, and said righteously:

"Dr. Gina, please respect yourself!"