Section 45 Partition erosion

The moment they saw the words on the shattered screen, several people felt a wave of dizziness at the same time, and then an uncontrollable tingling sensation erupted from inside the cranial cavity.

In the face of the change in elbows and armpits, Captain 01 showed the unique calmness and calmness of a veteran, he kicked down No. 2 beside him, and turned No. 3 aside with his shoulder, not daring to look at the screen again, he pointed to the vague position in his memory to turn the muzzle of the gun, and pulled the trigger on the position of the tablet.

Bump Bump!

The metal bullet that rushed out of the barrel of the revolver with the fiery serpent had not had time to enjoy the best moments of his short life, and just a moment later slammed into the target area.

Bang bang bang! Ping-pong ping-pong!

The bullet hit the floor of the battleship's corridor, shattering the layer of anti-slip shock-absorbing paint applied to the surface, and collided with a special special alloy for aerospace ships. Thankfully, everyone was equipped with full-protection level power armor, and the stray bullets bounced off the armor shell and were no longer a threat to the team.

The two men who were knocked away by the captain shook their heads, barely maintaining their balance, and their sanity and consciousness were gradually regained in the series of gunshots.

After two seconds of strafing, the strange tingling sensation in his mind gradually subsided, and Captain 01 let out a stifled exhale, releasing the finger that was holding the trigger.

He gestured to the two beside him a few times, and then issued instructions in the squad command channel.

"The 1st and 2nd squads remained vigilant and opened fire at random when they found hostile targets, taking care not to hurt their own people. The third squad led two technical soldiers to evacuate, and the situation here was not something we could handle. ”

At the same time as he issued the order, the countdown to the opening of the floodgates was just over.

On both sides of Gate C11, as the gate opened, the outlet of the pressurized valve sprayed out the high-pressure nitrogen used to block the card slot, and the white water vapor was instantly diffused.

"Ah~~~!" Lin Hao's screams of pain pierced everyone's eardrums through the communication channel, but soon the sound disappeared.

The auxiliary power armor on his body was locked by remote commands, and the communication function was also cut off, with his ordinary human physical fitness, he couldn't break through the mechanical lock of the armor joint position, and there was no need for any restraint at all, and the armor itself had become his prison.

No. 3 grabbed the handle at the back of Lin Hao's neck and dragged him back to the gate when he was coming and going, while the two soldiers under him protected the other technical soldier from retreating, and all the equipment used for work was abandoned.

The floodgates slowly opened upwards in the midst of everyone's vigilance, the white mist excited by the low-temperature nitrogen quickly dissipated, the soldiers on guard with guns swallowed their saliva, and the various types of enemy-seeking functions in the tactical eyepieces were fully opened, but there was no hostile reaction at all.

After opening the gate, the black hole was quiet, and the scene was a little weirdly calm.

"Readings."

"Honkai factor contamination: 11. Safe! ”

"Thermal sensing, no hostile targets found!"

"Infrared, no hostile targets found!"

"X-rays, for the detection of hostile targets!"

"Turn on the lighting system of the C11 module!"

A soldier was instructed to select the lighting option on the tactical tablet left by the technician and press it on.

Five seconds later, the lighting in the C11 segment had not been restored, but everything was displayed on the tactical tablet.

"No response." He responds within the communication channel.

"Throw the illuminated magnesium rod and turn on the tactical flashlight." No. 01 served as the on-site commander, commanding his soldiers in a calm and calm voice.

Soldiers 07 and 08 took out the magnesium rod wrapped in a metal tube around their waists, held the two ends with both hands and twisted them in reverse, and the chemical material at one end of the magnesium rod was triggered by the machine and ignited.

This kind of magnesium rod, which is simple to make and does not have high technical content, is not without more efficient lighting equipment to replace it, but because of the simplicity of the technology, it has incomparable reliability, compared with the automatic lighting robot that cannot be used after being polluted by the Honkai factor, this reliability has an extremely important position.

Two glowing magnesium rods emitted crimson light drew a parabola in the dark C11 module and flew into the dark corridor of the module.

The range of illumination provided by the burning of the magnesium rod was large, but for some reason, it was only able to illuminate the surrounding area of two meters in the C11 module, barely enough to illuminate the walls on either side of the corridor. But in the C11 module, the corridor is only a very small part of it, and what really occupies the main body of the space in this section is the frozen food warehouse.

The bright light projected by the Tactical Flashlight pierced the darkness and illuminated the corridors in Sector C11, and the pillars of light swept along the edges of the corridors, carefully probing the gaps between bulkheads, ceilings, and floors.

No anomalies were found.

As the captain, 01 held his breath as he stared at the pillars of light moving in the dark hallway, thinking about his next move. Since he was appointed to investigate the abnormal alarm in the cabin, although the anomaly has been discovered now, he feels that these are still not enough, and his side must get enough evidence to prove the previous discovery, otherwise the previous discovery can only be regarded as speculation, not fact.

But his brothers follow him, after all, he is a living person who gets along day and night, let himself gamble with these lives, even if No. 01 thinks that he is not an honest and good person, he is a little unbearable.

"Advance." The inner hesitation did not last long, and he could already hear his own cold voice ringing through the communication channel.

This was an order from the captain, and all his soldiers obeyed it.

No. 08 and No. 09 walked forward side by side, their bodies as close to the bulkhead as possible, and even if they deliberately lightened their steps, the soles of their metal boots still made a heavy sound from the floor of the battleship.

The two of them pushed forward, walking a few meters into the C11 module, and the darkness overwhelmed them, and even if they used a tactical flashlight to search forward, their backs could not be seen.

This corridor is only less than thirty meters long in total, and the tactical flashlight can shine on the opposite gate with a sweep, but the two big living people have disappeared from the field of vision of the team members!

"08, 09 withdraw!"

"Withdraw!"

There was no response, and the command in the communication channel was lost, but the two soldiers' connection icons still showed a normal connection.

Captain 01 raised his hand to stop No. 02 and his two soldiers from preparing to make a fire test move.

If they were still alive, in the corridor ahead, the fire test would most likely have shot their own people.

Everyone looked at the two magnesium rods burning in the depths of the corridor, they burned silently and illuminated the surroundings, like two bonfires in a lonely night, but the bonfires could only illuminate a small area around them, and only darkness could be seen from a little distance.

Captain 01 silently counted in his heart, and when the countdown number in his heart returned to zero, he slowly spoke:

"With the speed of the two of them, it should be time to get to the drop of the first magnesium rod."

However, there was still darkness around the first magnesium rod and the faintly visible corridor bulkheads on both sides, and no human figure appeared.

"Throw two more magnesium rods."

The order was quickly executed, and two more magnesium rods flew into the dark corridor, and four burning magnesium rods appeared in the corridor at the same time, but there was still no sign of people.

"Retreat. Can you hear me on Number 3? Report the situation upwards. ”

"Receive... Received... Here, Zizi..." There is a murmur in the communication channel.

"Retreat!" No. 01 suddenly felt bad, didn't care too much, shouted directly, and took the lead in running backwards.

However, within three of his legs, the maneuvering joints of his legs locked on their own and he couldn't move.

"That thing usurped control of the Mobile Armor!" The thought was rolling through his mind, and the man had fallen by inertia and slid forward along the floor.

The soldiers who reacted to the order took action one after another, but except for the two at the back of the battle position, the other two were locked in armor like the captain and stayed in place.

"Silly fork! Leave us alone, get out! 02 yelled as he opened his fully enclosed helmet mask.

Seeing that the captain and several people fell, the soldiers wanted to come up and drag away their comrades, but they were stopped by No. 02.

The soldiers looked at their fallen comrades in horror, their lips opening and closing quickly, and they said something, but the communication channel was already full of sizzling, and the only means of communication that could still be used today were the most primitive roars.

"Withdraw! It is one to be able to walk one! Hurry up and bring the rescuers back to Lao Tzu! 01 roared, but because he was wearing a mask, he made a low humming sound.

Inside the command hall

"C11, C17, C23, C32, these four sections are at the bottom of the belly of the Chixiao, and they are the anchor sections that connect the steel cables that bind the wreckage of the king crab. It was the collapse factor monitor in the C11 module that sounded the alarm before, so I suspect that the other three modules are likely to have problems as well. Wu Tao pointed to the tactical projection screen and talked eloquently.

"But there are three other modules that do not have an alarm for Honkai Factor contamination." Another adjutant of staff questioned it.

"I believe everyone knows how weird the ability of Honkai is, and most of the Honkai disasters we have faced so far belong to the first form, which is mainly based on Honkai factors polluting the environment and creating Honkai creatures to cause physical damage. The second form of spiritual pollution, on the other hand, appears very rarely. However, we cannot rule out that the other two warships suffered from this situation. ”

"First of all, we need to reach a consensus on one thing, that is, no matter what kind of collapse disaster, it needs to use the collapse factor as a medium, and the question now is: where does the pollution come from?

Our monitoring system is fully operational, and if there is a collapse factor in the surrounding environment, it will not escape our monitoring. But now it is.

The only thing I can think of is the big guy. ”

Wu Tao's fingers made several gestures in the projected three-dimensional image. The holographic three-dimensional internal structure of the Chixiao becomes a shrunken Chixiao, the scale of the picture is expanded, and the remains of the king crab that the three aerospace warships are tied and lifted with steel cables appear in the projection screen.

"Isn't it dead?" Tawney asked.

"Its life and death are only the definitions we have given it, and if we judge it from a strictly biological point of view, it has never survived at all. The actions of the Honkai Beast are all manipulated by the will of the Honkai, whether it has self-consciousness, whether it has given birth to a mind and a soul, we have never verified it, how can we say that it has survived? ”

"The only thing we can confirm is that this remnant body that is tied and hung with steel cables three hundred meters away belongs to a very powerful Honkai monster, and to this day, there are still a terrifying amount of Honkai factors and that coercion remaining in its body." Wu Tao explained calmly

Whew~ Wei Xiaoyang let out a long breath

"Except for the Valkyries, no one dares to approach." He said faintly: "If it is dead, it is also pretending to be dead." ”

"It's playing dead?" Tao Ni frowned, all kinds of life detection instruments had already scanned the remains of this king crab more than a thousand times, and all confirmed its death, but now Wu Tao and Wei Xiaoyang firmly believed that it was still alive.

"Don't forget, those machines used for life detection can't scan souls." Wei Xiaoyang looked at the female subordinate who was drilling the tip of the horns and reminded him.

Tawney is good at everything, but sometimes she is too serious, but as a woman, she trusts data more than intuition. On the contrary, it is a man who trusts his intuition more.

Toot toot~

The communication signal sounded, and an adjutant picked up the microphone to connect the communication.

"There is a problem with the C11 module, and it is suspected that there is a Honkai will to erode and usurp the control of the C11 module." As soon as the adjutant heard a few words, he immediately opened his mouth and reported to a group of people who were holding an operational meeting in the command hall.

"Usurped control of the C11 sector?" Wei Xiaoyang frowned slightly, and a hint of ominous premonition faintly rose in his heart.

"Quick! Urgently cut off all the internal networks of the C-level cabin, and the main engine of the C-class cabin immediately carried out a self-test, and all non-responding cabins were disconnected! When Wu Tao heard the news, he only paused, and immediately shouted to the soldiers of the supercomputer team in charge of the central manager of the battleship in the command hall.

"Physically excised! Fast! ”

The soldiers of the supercomputing team in the command cabin were stunned for a moment, and turned their heads to look at the captain who was the head of the whole ship.

Although Wei Xiaoyang wanted to ask Wu Tao the reason, seeing that this subordinate and good brother he had always trusted was so urgent, he could only nod first and ask later.

Seeing that the captain nodded, the soldier immediately turned his head and clicked on the function on the screen, cut off the grid connection of the supercomputer server in Area C, and then began to send orders to his colleagues in Area C, asking to physically block the network connection between the supercomputer in Section C and Area A and Area B.

The supercomputing soldiers at the post in Area C quickly carried out the order and removed the cables connecting the supercomputer in Area C to the network line.

When the cable is removed, the electronic equipment in all cabins in the C section area loses the supercomputer control and automatically switches to manual control, while the microcomputer connected to the grid in the intranet has completely become a local area network after losing the support of the supercomputer, and the computing power has fallen back to the level of a single machine.

"Why do you do this, the C section is in charge of 18 attitude engines, two main propulsion engines and 24 anti-gravity engines, once the C section is disconnected from the network, the combat effectiveness of the Chixiao ship will be nearly half." Without waiting for Wei Xiaoyang to post, Tao Ni took the lead in questioning Wu Tao.

Wu Tao covered his mouth and nose with his left hand, pinched his cheeks with his fingertips, stared at the stereoscopic projection map in front of him without focus, obviously thinking about something, hearing Adjutant Tao's questioning, he never turned his head to withdraw from thinking, only let go of the five fingers that were pinched to the white knuckles, and said:

"Honkai... Monsters, or wills, are likely usurping our Blaze internal control system... It's like... It's like..." His tone was erratic, and it was clear that he was not sure what he was saying.

"Like a mechanical Honkai monster?" Wei Xiaoyang asked.

"That's right! It's like a mechanical Honkai monster, but I'm not sure. Because this is the first time such a situation has occurred. Wu Tao finally didn't hesitate, and said his conjecture: "Control our human mechanical creation, take it for your own use, before that, the mechanical Honkai monsters I have seen are all half-mechanical half-flesh monsters produced by aggregating organic matter and fusing flesh and machinery." Direct control of our weapons, this..."

"Needless to say, I understand. In fact, even if we have been at war with Honkai Calamity, an alien force from another world, for several years, who can say that we truly understand Honkai? They certainly have a way of being hidden that we don't know about, just as we're constantly making new hole cards. Wei Xiaoyang showed a confident smile on his face, patted his partner's shoulder, and gave him an encouraging look.

"You did a good job, you judged very decisively, but what should we do next, we can't lose the C area to each other, the Chixiao is my ship, I can't agree to share its ownership with the Honkai monsters."

"This is the first time we have faced this situation, and my thinking alone must have limitations, so I need your help to come up with a strategy together." Of course, the credit cannot be taken alone, and if you are too outstanding, you will be excluded by the collective. Wu Tao, who had already sat in the position of chief deputy, of course knew this, and he looked around at the staff group that was in a meeting for a week, and begged for the help of his colleagues.

Of course, everyone gladly accepted it, and their solemn expressions were softened a little.

"The Valkyries who were sent out to investigate the two air and space warships Yangwei and Hongwu must be reduced in number, and we must leave enough men to ensure their own safety first. Dispatch them to the problematic section of Area C for a direct physical strike. One suggested.

"Can we cut the steel cable connecting the remains of the king crab and cut off the source of pollution, so that our side can get rid of the anomaly faster." Another man asked the captain.

"Don't even think about it, this guy is very important from above. Otherwise, we would not have transferred three of our aerospace warships to transport it, instead of leaving two of them to guard Canghai City, which is being rebuilt, and dispatching transport ships to undertake this lifting task. The capacity of a transport ship is much stronger than that of a combat air ship like ours, and one transport ship is enough to carry its weight. Wei Xiaoyang shook his head with a wry smile.

"Actually..." Tao Ni looked at Wei Xiaoyang with a little hesitation.

"Huh? Adjutant Tao can say whatever you want, everyone is in the same boat, and now that the ship has a problem, what else can't be said? Wei Xiaoyang glanced at Tao Ni who was standing beside him strangely, reached out and patted her on the back, and moved her big hand down slightly on the way, and the landing position became ambiguous.

"Actually, maybe the problem in Area C isn't that hard to solve, you forget, that one is getting ready to strike right now." Tauni's cheeks flushed slightly, and her big eyes glanced at the troubled captain with hatred.

"Ahh I almost forgot. The command boat is in the belly of the ship, isn't it the area of the C section. Wei Xiaoyang was reminded by Tao Ni, and immediately suddenly.

Although the aerospace battleship is not an aerospace carrier, there is still enough space inside the belly of the ship to carry various functional fighters. In the years following the Honkai disaster, these planes were replaced with landing boats and command boats used by Valkyrie commanders.

At the moment when Wei Xiaoyang and Tao Ni and the others were in a meeting, Xu Yun had already taken the escalator under the leadership of Gao Hong, descended all the way from the Valkyrie combat command room, and came to the command boat parking warehouse in the belly of the ship.