The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Not at all."

"Almost all the 'plates' have stopped working, and there is only a little core energy reaction. There is a lot of structural damage on each 'plate'." Liu Lizi did not join the conversation between the bosses, she seriously investigated these ancient The remains "did not detect any high-level biological responses. But some low-consumption plants could still be observed, and there may be a larger-scale but low-consumption ecosystem."

"It's like a bud on a tree stump. If you leave it alone, will new intelligent life be born on these plates in the future?"

"Then who can say for sure? But if intelligent life is really born here, they must have a hard time." Liu Lizi replied, "Look at the surrounding environment, ordinary primitive spacecraft can't fly at all. Get out, the sky is locked for them. And there's... this"

As she spoke, she displayed the picture just captured by the peripheral probe on the screen in front of her——

It was a piece of black matter like an asteroid, most of them were incomplete and fragmented, but a few individuals could still see its egg-shaped shape, a large number of growths on the surface, and three giant tentacles behind the body—— There is no way to see the eye stalks anymore, because the 'eye' part has disappeared, leaving only the naked parts sticking out, like a hedgehog or a puffer fish or something.

Their identities can be seen at a glance——

"It's the shell of the dark worm..."

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Chapter 1090 Chapter 122: Ancient Battlefield Without Police

The remains of the dark worm appeared in the universe in pieces.Originally powerful creatures were killed in battle, and their huge mountain-like bodies floated in the universe. Over 10 years, they were impacted by cosmic rays and small dust, and the surface was eroded with countless traces. , but this not only failed to destroy them, but gave them a sense of the heaviness of the years.

Together with the wreckage of the Forerunner battleship, they were sparsely scattered in the space area of ​​about half a light minute, forming a unique asteroid belt. A thin circle of dust cloud wrapped this ancient battlefield. Although the particle density far exceeds Ordinary space, but the atmospheres of planets presumably still seem insignificant.

This is not all of the battlefield at that time, because there are still a large number of wreckages that have been blown away in the explosion, moving straight forward at an astonishing speed in the course of 10 years, perhaps because they fell into the atmosphere of the nearby gas giant star and were trapped If it is tightly packed into the inner core, it may also float to the outside of the galaxy and fly to the endless frontier of the universe.

The Very Leopard slowly sailed into the dust cloud, and the relatively high-speed elementary particles collided with the shield, shaking like a lake.Not long after, Liulizi activated the anchoring device, moored the ship between these 'asteroids', and fired a set of probes towards the surrounding wreckage.Then the picture immediately appeared on the bridge.

After the integration department kills the dark worm, it will make harmless treatment of the remaining body of this creature.The whaling crew would spend some time—possibly days, even weeks—chopping up the carcass and hauling it in batches to the nearest star for incineration, or towing it into a falling orbit, where the star's gravity would work it out.The latter usually occurs when there is a lot of work at hand, and in the extreme remoteness of the current universe, since such falls can last for months or even years, it is very dangerous to leave the remains of dark worms in space. the behavior of.

But here is different, obviously the original pioneers did not have the leeway to deal with these terrible biological wastes.Even many dark worms have very high body integrity - there are two or three large holes in the center of the body with a diameter of several hundred meters, and there is nothing else, and the wound always looks familiar to people.

Oregana pointed a laser pointer at the huge wound on the screen, making the red dot bob up and down like teasing a cat:

"This batch is easy to identify. Judging from the molten traces on the side and the cavity inside, this is a wound caused by some kind of antimatter weapon, just like our thermal spear. Judging from the degree of wound healing, it is fatal in this place. The individual survived for a period of time after the injury. The cause of death was probably that the wound was too large to heal and a large amount of body material flowed out. The core of thinking and psionic organs were penetrated by the doomsday weapon, and then it was left alone... We feel a bit like It's like this."

The Scythe of War nodded. He flipped through the data set he got from the chief think tank, and said:

"It's probably shot by the spotlight main gun of the Sojourner dreadnought ship. I think it should be a ship captured by the Flood." He said, "It's exactly the same as the record, and everything matches—the fleet attack of the monk of prejudice Ai Qiumin resides here. The second half of the fleet fought with the dark worms here, causing the fleet to be separated and weak, and finally they were annihilated here together. You see, the wreckage over there belongs to the sojourners—see that sign Sexual blade-shaped hull?"

In one corner of the screen, there is indeed a broken dagger-like wreckage, which is exactly the same as the battleship on the data.

Judging from the data, the Sojourner Dreadnought is the last model of a series of top-level battleships, and its history can be traced back to the early days of the Forerunner Star Expansion—this description always reminds people of the Eternal-class fleet aircraft carrier or the mothership of Protos like.But despite the long history of this line of ships, the Sojourner actually entered service not long before the Forerunners began to control the Flood, and has participated in every major battle since.

Extremely fast, extremely powerful, and extremely efficient are the characteristics of this type of warship. They also called this capital ship, which is more than 400 meters long and can be controlled by only a few people, the "Dragon Cavalry".Its main gun is an antimatter ray cannon called a spotlight cannon. Its hull is equipped with a total of 28 guns, which are extremely powerful. species) is enough to discipline those disobedient small countries.

The Forerunners built millions of sojourners, but only a handful were used by them - the vast majority were either captured by the Flood to deal with their creators, or never activated before Halo activated.To be sure, there are still many Sojourner warships still standing in hidden ports across the galaxy...but there are no war attendants or sages to activate their extinguished cores.

"Has it turned into a deep space ship?" Dark Rock looked around, then raised the cuckoo stick in his hand, trying to detect if there were any mood swings in the nearby subspace. "It would be much more convenient if there was, We can ask her directly."

"This subspace environment cannot be changed."

"You can't tell. After all, the subspace may still be active when these ships were smashed." Dark Rock didn't seem to give up. "It's not impossible if you move fast."

However, Scythe of War is not very interested in this. In his opinion, the deep space habitat born in this environment is very uncontrollable. The probability of a fight in case of a fight is far greater than the probability of being able to sit down and communicate.He'd much rather be able to find the remaining entities than ghost ships that 'had a mind of their own':

"If we're lucky, we might be able to get some ships that have survived to this day... Let the industrial ship follow up and clean up the wreckage."

But Liulizi's attention was elsewhere——

"But how did this shell come out... the effect of the halo?"

The halo belt releases a massive pulse of supermassive neutrinos.This neutrino pulse wave is carefully tuned to have a resonant frequency to destroy the nervous system of any macroscopic organic matter that has even a basic notochord, such as that performed by the biased monk controlling the halo in the Chamhak galaxy The low power test is shown after launch.The halo effect can target and eliminate most forms of neural structures, from biological nervous systems to neurophysical constructs, but the effect cannot affect artificial intelligence.Simple life forms without nervous systems, such as bacteria, fungi, algae, mosses, and traditional plants are not affected.

You have seen the remains of the dark worm that has been placed for a long time before, but the body structure of the dark worm is very strong, even the eyes on it are stronger than ordinary asteroids.Even after a long time in the universe, those detector organs that have lost their function will still be open like this, just like Zhang Yide who is drunk.

But now, all eyestalks in front of the eyes are gone.In front of the eye stalk, there is a large mass of deactivated and dehydrated biomass that has become waxy like a volcanic eruption.It's as if the internal structure turned into pus and sprayed out of it, which looks disgusting.

"Maybe……"

Oregana rubbed her chin, her two thinking threads just saw the structure formed by the eruption of the eye stalks, and suddenly thought of other things:

"Isn't it like Snow Coke? You insert the straw in, and then a liquid mixed with Coke, vanilla ice cream, and carbon dioxide bubbles is sprayed out of the straw, and the glass that flows out is..."

"Don't give such a nasty example!"

"You will be beaten if you say this in a fast food restaurant, do you know?"

"Feel sorry."

Oregana pursed her lips, she threw the picture of the straw and ice cream aside, and said:

"The nervous system of all life will be targeted by the halo, but the halo effect cannot decompose biomass, and the remains of the victims are mostly intact, probably like a Voldemort growing to the size of Derbastar, yes The whole planet is using Avada Kedavra. If it is not disposed of in time, a large number of corpses will rot, which will have an impact on the ecology of the future..."

76 showed a complicated expression on the side. As the Great Demon of Nurgle who changed her job to 'Endless Prosperity and Prosperity', she was at a loss:

"No... To be honest, there is still a hammer ecology after the halo is hit? No matter how big the impact is, can it be as big as that of Avada Kedavra?"

"That's what I said, but the chief think tank thinks that this will disturb the atmosphere and make it impossible for the creatures that are put back in later to live." Oregana shrugged, "So her life workers will spray a kind of biosphere on the target biosphere." The solute causes any animal that dies from the halo to immediately decay into its constituent molecules."

"21st century palaeoarchaeological studies have found no evidence of mass extinctions caused by the launch of the Array due to precursor solutes. However, in 2332, the Ross Ziegler phenomenon - a weird hiatus in fossil history, a Nothing remained in the time period."

Regardless of whether there is a problem with this operation, anyway... At that moment, the pioneers definitely did not spray this solute on the dark worm.

So the corpse of the dark worm obviously underwent its own internal 'transformation' process.

The collapse of the nervous system caused the dark worm to lose control of all parts of its body, and then the biodynamic furnace lost control, the biological force field collapsed, and the energy leaks everywhere boiled the internal structure of the body into a pot of broth—— It's like a soup dumpling.The increase in its internal pressure caused the semi-melted tissue to be ejected from the outer gap, forming the appearance it sees now.

This situation makes people feel discouraged, because the dark worm does not write, nor does it use electronic devices for information storage.If you want to know what the dark worm is thinking, you have to start with the nervous system and brain storage organs.But judging from the current situation, these biological storage devices have already been wiped out under the impact of the halo.

Oregana frowned, she connected to the control system, fired two sets of probes, trying to find a 'special case' - even though she herself knew that this hope was extremely slim.Everyone knows how powerful the halo is. If the dark worm is hammered hard in this kind of place, it is very difficult to think of leaving anything other than the shell.

But at this moment, the spirit behind the wreckage, who had been studying the giant structure carefully, suddenly called out:

"Why is there another one here?"

"What?"

"Look over here, the back of this plate."

As he said, he flipped the projection, and the picture taken by a probe appeared on the reverse side——

The body of a heavy aircraft carrier-grade dark worm is embedded in the surface of a 'plate', like a tick with its head buried in the skin.There are a lot of water bodies and tropical rainforest-like jungles around it, but the jungles avoid it as if they are afraid of it.The ground around it seemed to have died, leaving behind a leprosy-like plaque. The diameter of that plaque was more than two thousand kilometers, and it was particularly conspicuous on the surface of the 'plate'.

Just like a bald man with a big black mole on his head and a hair in the middle, it is so conspicuous that it can be used as a character label in a stick figure.

"Is it a corpse that floated over?" 76 took a look and concluded, "Because the contents of the body leaked out and polluted the land next to it, so no grass can grow like this, but because the mother body is dead, it may still be alive. The dark worm virus has no way to exert its power, so it has become such a half-baked look."

But Abigail next to her shook her head—the data cable on her forehead was swinging back and forth with her movements, looking like a cat with a plastic bag stuck to its face:

"No, it's not that simple." She took the data umbilical cable away from her face, put it on her shoulder and pressed it with her hand, "It didn't float past—there is still space fluctuation beside it. The center of the space distortion is in... ...this position!"

Standing on tiptoe, she tried to stretch her right hand, and pointed out the dot on the projection:

"Bad...bad...almost...this is here...huh...huh...less than [-] kilometers away from the surface of the 'plate', it was captured by gravity the moment it left the subspace, and hit the ground directly. It It may be caused by the tearing caused by the space transmission, or it may be because the simple impact destroyed the internal structure, because this is a heavy aircraft carrier class, not as strong as a mother ship class."

"Then what does this represent?" Behind Ling asked, "Tell me what you think?"

"This means that this dark worm may not be in the material universe when the halo was activated." She said seriously, "It may have avoided the halo attack through a period of subspace diving. Although this did not make it survive, But it's highly likely that its nervous system was preserved."

"We should go down and see."

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Chapter 1091 Chapter 123: Today Ai Qiumin

Dust and smoke spread when the airborne capsule landed, and the hot wind even blew hundreds of meters away.This is a rather large landing module, which looks like a building compared to the model used by the paratroopers-because it transports machinery like tall buildings.

This is an airborne vehicle for transporting MS to the ground, and its history can be traced back to the airborne capsule used by ZAFT to carry out Earth invasion operations.The model now in use is not so much a device for thermal insulation during atmospheric entry, but a multi-purpose forward base.In addition to basic firepower and protection capabilities, it is also capable of deploying comms assist systems in minutes while integrating internal probes—lighter versions of the ones used to scan planets and moons for minerals— — to investigate nearby terrain and geological structures.

In most cases, this set of equipment called "small tree houses" is not used for war purposes, but for research teams including scientific expedition teams, allowing them to carry out stable activities in more dangerous environments. investigation.The MS carried is also considered based on this idea - as a large-scale machine designed as a carrier-based aircraft, the combat efficiency of MS on the ground is lower than that of tanks and fighter jets, and this has not changed much after modernization.

However, MS has an advantage that mobile infantry, chariots, and fighter jets do not have, that is, this thing can be used as a construction machine while maintaining a certain combat effectiveness.The mobile suits used in the universe have gradually shifted towards high mobility and high protection. They are becoming more and more adept at maneuvering in space, and their appearance has also begun to shift towards a thicker and thicker shape.

The latest off-line MS has gradually become a super-thick debu-type body that feels like Widowmaker and Kshatriya, and the engine components have also become super-large, and it feels like it is one step away from being out of human form.However, the models used on the ground changed more slowly, and their performance was also much worse-because their performance was sufficient for the work assigned to them.

After the door of the hangar was opened, what came out of it was a body with a thick shape and a conspicuous skirt armor - the Great Demon Cavalry.Although all kinds of equipment have been updated with minor revisions, the basic shape and frame are not much different from when they were fighting in Kyoto and BETA in the MUV world.

This made Oregana feel a sense of nostalgia. Sitting in the cockpit, everything seemed to return to the past.She moved her wrist and felt the slight vibration of the transmission system, with a relaxed expression on her face:

"It's been a long time since I opened my mobile phone to carry out a serious mission."

The scythe of war followed behind, and the giant steel feet of the body stepped on the wet ground. After resetting the friction parameters according to the feedback data, the body was as stable as standing on the ground of Ganaku:

"You have participated in the mobile martial arts competition several times, and you basically lost in the third round."

The Mobile Martial Arts Competition is a competition that has only emerged in recent years, but its popularity has risen rapidly, and there is a faint threat to the status of the Starship Road.The content of the competition is that the contestants choose various parts to assemble a unique machine of their own and then fight one-on-one or two-on-two in the preset battlefield. Whoever's head is destroyed first will lose.

Each optional part will be assigned a score according to its performance, and its characteristic is that its total score cannot exceed the limit level of the current competition.Unlike Starship Road, whose selling point is team competitions, the Mobile Martial Arts Competition focuses more on individual fights, just like boxers fighting in a boxing ring.The rhythm is faster, the action is more exciting, and the capital investment is much lower than Starship Road, which has attracted a large number of fans to join in just two years.

And for Oregana, honestly speaking, this kind of competition is not easy to win, because I often encounter 'this machine can't keep up with our speed', 'it's just that the head monitor is broken', meow If the head monitor is broken, you lose! 'The problem, so the winning rate has been in a hurry and the winning rate is not high.

"The difference between the competition and the actual combat is huge! The actual combat mainly defends the cockpit, but in the competition, everything is directed at the head. There is no way to react..."

She muttered a few words, and the pile probe launcher of the 'little tree house' behind her had driven a geological probe into the ground, and the vibration made the whole ground tremble violently.After a few seconds, various data and topographical maps appeared in the window in front of him.

Unlike the imaginary that the ground below the ground has been eroded into a network structure, the underground rock plate here is still strong, and the influence of the dark worm on the ground below the ground only exists near the place where it fell, which does not seem to be active. erosion, but only pollution caused by leakage.There are plenty of substances here to mend its body, but it doesn't do it at all.

This is not a stop phenomenon caused by the destruction of the thinking core of an intelligent individual, because erosion, pollution, and repair are all instincts of the dark worm. Even if the thinking core is destroyed, as long as the individual is still alive, it can still complete this series of operations , and re-grow the thinking core in the future - if it does not die in this battle, and successfully finds another intelligent race in the future.

This shows that this guy was already dead at the moment of impact on the ground. This is expected, and now I hope that its body is still relatively complete.

"Pay attention to the readings of the shield and the virus detector. Although the energy response has disappeared, it cannot be ruled out that there is still a deep dark worm virus active-and prepare for battle. It is not clear what it looks like inside." Ao Lei Janna activated the air-cushion jet engine to float the Great Demon Cavalry, and the propeller behind it released a dazzling jet light. That posture combined the majesty of a heavily armored knight and the elegance of an ice athlete." Low-frequency vibrations were detected on the ground. What else is there, Liu Lizi is ready to support at any time."

【clear! 】

In addition to Oregana and War Scythe, there were two technical boys following behind, and four big magic cavalry galloped forward on the wet black ground.Each Great Demon Cavalry only carried a light beam machine gun, and the other equipment racks were isolated protective boxes for collecting samples and additional mechanical arms for precise operation.

The Very Leopard located the ground target at high altitude, and Liu Lizi found an open wound on the carapace of the dark bug. According to preliminary calculations, the damage was more than two kilometers, and the height from the ground was about nine kilometers.This height can already make ordinary mountain climbers daunting, but if you want to reach there with the propulsion of the enhanced Great Demon Cavalry, it is easy to reach there.

[The target is at three o'clock.The distance is six thousand, I marked it on the map. 】Liu Lizi's voice came through the communication【Something is moving around, but because of interference and fog, I can't see it clearly, so be careful. 】

"learn."

The neural link directly inputs the map into the brain, allowing soldiers to have an intuitive understanding of the entire three-dimensional battlefield.After seeing the target point marked by Liulizi, even the well-informed Oregana couldn't help but let out a short exclamation in her heart.As long as a thing of the size of the dark worm falls on the planet, it will immediately form a huge special terrain that ordinary people can't imagine-no matter which planet you are on, you can't see a mountain that is close to 150 kilometers high, right? ?

Ah no...the Ring of Noor must be excluded first...when talking about the bumps on the planet, this place must be removed.

The distance from the marked opening to the ground has exceeded the height of two Erlang Mountains stacked together, but this is only the 'foot of the mountain'.

As the great demon cavalry advanced, the surrounding fog gradually thickened, and everything around them became hazy.It was a kind of pale yellow mist that made people feel a little uncomfortable. It lingered among the surrounding low jungles, like a layer of cotton wool, or a faint spider web.This kind of mist seems to be viscous. Instead of being blown by the wind, it rolls slowly between the branches and leaves of the plants, as stiff as death.