The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

But now is not the time to dwell on these issues.

Captain Benjamin said:

"Send a distress signal and send out all the beacons, so that a ship will come over—even if they don't care whether we are alive or dead, but as long as the god is here, they will definitely send a ship over, and we will use that ship to sneak in .” He pointed to the ax on Oregana’s back and the bolter on her waist. “I don’t think the crew is a problem, right?”

This... you are too meowy, right?

Oregana looked at him for a few seconds with searching eyes, but the man didn't flinch at all, with a look of 'my heart and deeds are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is justice'.In short, Captain Benjamin only cares about the purpose, he doesn't seem to care about human life at all, this way of thinking is quite frightening to be honest.

The direction of this person's thinking has changed, but the way of thinking is still almost exactly the same as before.

She touched her forehead and sighed slightly.Sure enough, killing all the people on the rescue boat is fine, there is no need to do that level-most of the people who will come by boat are ordinary engineering personnel, and they don't need to die in this kind of place inexplicably.And among the people who came to repair the ship on the rescue ship, most of them would include Isaac Clark, a special engineer.

There must be someone willing to help, right?Those who don't want to lock it up, and wait until all the dust settles before releasing them. They can tell right from wrong with their eyes.

"How courageous..." she asked, "Didn't you hesitate at all?"

Captain Benjamin shrugged, he looked as if he had aged several years:

"I'm thinking a lot right now."

"Oh?"

"First of all, I would like to explain that I was not born in a church family. On the contrary, my parents didn't like Unification Church. My decision was seen as going astray at the beginning." This half-footed old man The man said, "They kicked me out of the house, but I don't regret it at all, you understand? I didn't even regret it at that time."

He spoke very seriously.

"Then why?"

"Because I think the development of human beings has come to an end." He lowered his voice, "The technological leaps of the twentieth century are like deliberately made fake history. Since the leap engine was developed, our science seems to have stagnated... I was just graduating from school to be a spaceship crew, a career that used to be glorious but is now mediocre. It was supposed to be the best job, right? But because the technology stagnated, our jobs were a couple of years away. There is no difference from a century ago, and there seems to be nothing new in the universe."

"..."

This is completely the way of thinking of a fresh graduate who studied a bad major and came out to do a job that he didn't want to do.Many people can understand this feeling. The future they expected in school and the future they really face are completely different things. This is something that can only be fully understood after entering society. That feeling is indeed powerless and cold, but as long as it takes time In a few months, or a year or two, people can recover and continue their future life in a down-to-earth manner.

As a result, this Captain Benjamin obviously... either had too much expectations, or was really beaten too deeply by society.Disappointment and anxiety create a void in the heart, and this void may be taken by something...

"At this time, someone preached to me, saying that the stagnation of technology is because the current technology has reached the limit of human beings. Only when human beings continue to evolve, the situation will develop." He seemed to want to smoke, but after touching two handfuls on his body, he still Give it up" was all that old bullshit, but I chose to believe it at the time, because there was a magic about looking forward to the future—you know? It felt really good, like going back to when you were a child, and someone replaced you Arrange everything, it paves a way for you, a way to a better future."

"In fact, after joining the Unified Church, my promotion has indeed become a lot easier. The Unified Church does not rely on faith alone to make people loyal, it will give you actual benefits, which makes people desperate... It holds lived our lives, do you understand?"

Oregana nodded:

"It can also be seen that its power is indeed exaggerated."

Captain Benjamin also understands the arrogance of the Unification Church, but he was a vested interest in the past, so he certainly didn't have any special opinions on it before, and he didn't even realize it.But now, when he suddenly looked back, he realized that everything was so weird.Thinking of this, he felt that his brain was like a ball of paste, and he couldn't tell what exactly that punch changed...

But a lot of things must have changed. What was once covered in his head has disappeared. Captain Benjamin felt that his thinking was extremely clear:

"That's right. After I showed my ability, I became the captain of the Ishimura, the greatest and only technological crystallization of mankind in nearly a century. She is older than me... Over the years, we They are all working under the name of Harmony Mining Company, and this kind of task is also the first time."

"I see, you don't know the characteristics of the God Seal." Dark Rock said, "Maybe you are all part of this experiment."

Hearing this, he showed a resentful expression:

"Nothing is up for grabs, I think it's pretty clear. We're a part of it... how ironic. I used to believe that... damn, I'm definitely not a good guy and I don't know what else I can do ..."

Looking at the appearance of Captain Benjamin, Oregana couldn't help citing scriptures like a cultured person, and began to recite the sentences in "Book of Lorgar" like a Word Bearer:

"When people's beliefs are proven wrong, they burn what they believed in..."

"It makes sense, that's what I want to do..." Captain Benjamin raised his head, "Did the philosophers in your world say that?"

"A hard-working author named Lorgar Aurelion. Just some really long tomes."

"Good name. I should have a chance to read his masterpiece later—I'll have to read all of his books by then."

"Ahem... There will be a chance."

At this moment, the engineer wearing glasses climbed up from the elevator shaft at the exit of the bridge:

"Captain, the beacon for sending out a distress signal is ready, and the coordinates are set at the 'impact point' on the outskirts of the galaxy!"

"Well! Well done!" Captain Benjamin turned to Oregana, "I'll leave it to you in the future!"

"Of course. Then..."

She turned around and said to the others:

"Before the arrival of the rescue ship, move the personnel to our ship, leaving only the necessary personnel on the Ishimura. Evacuate all the escape pods, tow the Ishimura to the 'shock point', and properly preserve the 'head' and God. India—operation codenamed 'Troy', start now!"

Chapter 1130 Chapter 153: This is the Stone Village! ! (Leonidas face)

Repair ship Kyleon

A man was holding his RIG (Resource Integration Gear) armor helmet on the swaying bridge, watching the video of the holographic projector with a serious face.

He is not a very handsome man, his appearance can only be described as ordinary, and there is a sense of seriousness unique to technicians in his brows, which makes him very reliable - this is the 43-year-old senior engineer, Ai Zack Clark's consistent impression on his colleagues.

For the past few decades, Isaac Clark has lived an ordinary life.Indeed, he had an engineering father, Paul Clark, who had been sent by the Unification Church to work in space as a child and never returned.Isaac has even forgotten what his father looks like, and has never known his father, but this has determined his life path—to inherit his father's work.

In order to achieve this goal, Isaac entered an engineering school to study electrical and mechanical engineering. After graduation, he entered the Harmony Mining Company and met his girlfriend Nicole Brennan, who was a senior medical staff. It's been a good day.For a long time, Isaac has been trying to reunite with his mysteriously disappeared father; however, his father's personnel files are kept secret by the Earth government in a highly classified form.

If you don't consider his mysterious father, Isaac's life is quite good-career and love are very secure, everyone in the company is also envious, and Nicole recently got a chance to sail on the Ishimura , which means a lot of income, which is good news for the two who are considering getting married.

But at this moment, something strange happened.

Isaac accidentally received a communication from his girlfriend, and the USG Ishimura lost contact inexplicably after that.When the rescue team organized to repair was first formed, he immediately voluntarily applied to participate in the task of being sent to the USG Ishimura for repair.

But this task is very odd.

The Ishimura is a precious property, and the rescue team sent after the loss of contact was too shabby—it was just a small maintenance ship, the Kyleon, less than tens of meters long, with five crew members, including a computer expert and three soldiers. , The serious engineering staff is even alone.This is the configuration to go to repair the ship?

There must be some considerations above, but he didn't dare to ask, and the uneasiness in his heart gradually accumulated, slowly fermenting like grapes piled together.Along the way, Isaac could only watch the video recordings sent by his girlfriend over and over again, trying to find some clues.

[Isaac, it's me, I wish I could tell you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for everything, if only I could tell someone, it's over here, I don't know what's going on here , it’s so strange... such a thing...]

In the video, she looks sad, the picture definition is very low, and the sound is a little distorted.It looked like it was filmed in a medical bay, with the back lights flickering and no one else in sight—it was like something out of a horror movie.

Of course, Nicole Brennan never posted anything like that.When the Ishimura and the Sudden Death were facing each other, she had nothing to do in the infirmary, she was leaning on the sofa and drowsy, and then the wounded and the power outage on board made her dizzy again. …That is to say, since the incident happened, doctor Nicole Brennan has been busy all the time. She has no time at all, and she never thought of sending a distress video to her boyfriend more than 1000 light-years away, nor did she Need to send - because the situation is not out of control at all.

So what is the origin of this video?

Dark Rock used video processing software to imitate the dying video of Nicole in the first part of "Dead Space"... Although there is a purpose of "wanting to fish Isaac out to see" here, it is not Not the main purpose.The most important purpose of this video is to let the Harmony Mining Company and the upper-level Unification Church of the Harmony Mining Company know that something happened to the God Seal here to lure the Unification Church’s actions afterward, and what the Unification Church and the Earth Government will do afterwards Everything will be recorded as evidence and used 'for the benefit of human civilization in this world'.

Our Captain Benjamin, Dr. Kane was very interested and offered technical support.Using the civilian communication channel that already existed on the Ishimura and the headquarters, the finished video was edited with the captain’s authority and the time stamp was edited with Nicole Brennan’s ID, and then sent directly to Isaac’s mailbox——using’ Infallible' modified the time stamp to make the appearance of a long-distance hyperspace communication failure, and then Harmony Mining Company, which discovered the loss of the Ishimura, must have noticed the last communication before the loss.

As a result, everything is developing according to the dark rock's prediction.

While Oregana was still trying to train Rhubarb and Haidongqing here, this little rescue team, which was not very reassuring, was already on the way.

Computer expert Condora Daniels stands in front of the clear polymer porthole at the front of the bridge:

"How many times have you seen this thing? You must miss her very much."

She has full confidence in this mission, as everyone knows—she thinks that the people who come here are elites, and she is familiar with the computer system of the Ishimura as if she were at home, and then she only needs to sit in any terminal In the front, go to direct the other four 'tool men' to run errands to solve hardware problems, and the work is done.Isaac was uncomfortable with the heightened emotions of her blind confidence, but Condola seemed to take it lightly:

"Don't worry, we're almost there, you'll see her when we land. Surely you still have a lot to talk about, right?"

It seemed that Isaac was in a bad mood, and the officer in charge of the safety of this trip—Zach Hammond clapped his hands and said:

"Okay guys, we're here."

The black man looked like a character from an old movie - the one who was called 'This is Sparta! ! "The Persian envoy who persuaded surrender by kicking down the deep pit. Among acquaintances, Hamd is often used as a joke, but he is not angry about it. Instead, he shaves his hair so that there is no hair left. Now he More like the Persian.

Right now, he looks serious as if facing Leonidas:

"The flight track is being synchronized, cheer up!"

The jump was over at this moment, and the Kyleon rushed out of the impact point, facing a large meteorite.The driver let out a small exclamation, but his hands kept moving. He nimbly avoided the big rock and slowly approached the target.

There are already a large number of gravel belts around Aegis [-], which is recorded in the records.The amount of broken rocks at the moment is only in line with the records, which shows that the Ishimura has not had time to carry out the planetary cracking project.

"Come so far, what are they thinking?"

"Mining in outer space is a lucrative business, Miss Daniels. According to the prospector's report, there are gold, cobalt, silicon, and osmium on Aegis VII... So, where is she? Can I contact you?"

The surrounding universe is silent, and there are only subtle noises in each communication frequency band.

"There are more than 1000 people on that ship, so it's not like there isn't even one person who is free to answer the phone?"

"Then we'll have to visit—where is she?"

"There she is, we can see her now."

Around a huge asteroid, the huge ship shadow of the Ishimura appeared in front of everyone.

Before this, everyone has seen the Ishimura——as the pride of mankind, the treasure of Harmony Mining Company, the crystallization of modern technology, it has been used for nearly half a century, and it is still the most advanced, powerful and efficient Her towering and beautiful majestic appearance has left an indelible mark on everyone's hearts.

But now, the Ishimura, which appeared in front of everyone, showed an extremely miserable appearance.The most critical equipment, that is, the gravity anchor directly under the hull has disappeared, leaving only crooked fracture marks on the section where the metal melted and re-solidified.There are several large holes on the flight deck above the hull, and the armor on the side is flipped up. From the holes, you can vaguely see the tragedy of Ganakuri below. The gate of the boarding passage has been torn open, and there are debris floating around.

She was floating in the universe scarred and lifeless.

Isaac's heart suddenly tightened, and Hamd couldn't help but blurted out a few obscenities. The others looked at each other, and it took a long time to react.

"No way……"

"Is it the work of rebels or pirates?"

"Are you kidding me? This is a planetary cracker, how could it be easily taken without one or two warships?"

It is true that the planetary cracker is a civilian industrial ship, but a space ship that is 600 meters long and works in a place full of rocks must have means of self-protection.Although the gravity cable is difficult to use in battle, and it is not equipped with missiles, the automatic cannon equipped on the Ishimura to intercept asteroids also has a caliber of 200 mm, and the impact shells fired are as big as a jar of pickles, which can easily Blow up a [-]-meter asteroid to pieces.

It is basically an industry consensus that no pirate ship can intercept the Ishimura, which is why such a valuable ship as the Ishimura can be allowed to sail on a single ship.

But now, the Ishimura was left here in tatters, and those scars looked very strange—not marks from missiles, nor concave lacerations left by impact shells exploding on the deck. What kind of weapon attacked the Ishimura?Where is the enemy?Where did the crew go?

Everyone knows that the Ishimura itself is much more important than the crew, even for the kidnappers.Therefore, it is very illogical that the Ishimura was left in place...

Everyone on the bridge had different expressions on their faces, and Condora Daniels couldn't help holding on to the seat next to her to prevent herself from falling down. Completely disappeared without a trace-this is appropriate for a computer expert who has nothing to do with the word "battle front line", but her embarrassing appearance always makes people worry about whether Condola will be able to carry out her work properly in the future.

"There are no other spaceships around, we have to go aboard and have a look. Then use the Ishimura's long-distance communicator to report the situation here to the headquarters. Prepare to land!"

"Yes!"

Faster-than-light communication has been achieved for centuries, but until today it has not been an easy task.If you want to drive a large communication array that can communicate at the speed of light, you must have powerful energy to support it. Therefore, you must have a large ship equipped with a powerful power furnace to be able to communicate at the speed of light. A small ship like the Kyleion can do it. Less than this.

Isaac Clark was very puzzled about this matter. For such an important matter as the rescue of the Ishimura, no matter how you say it, you need to get a large ship that can maintain communication, right?But the result is no.If you think about it from the perspective of conspiracy theory, forcibly reducing the number of people and using small boats that cannot communicate over long distances, it looks like a deliberate attempt to hide something... The fewer people you have, the less likely it is to leak secrets, and there is no way Long-distance communication is the second insurance?

The long-distance communication system of the Shicun can only face the headquarters. During this critical period, all civilian communication channels must be locked. If you want to communicate with the outside world, you must go through the Harmony Mining Company.In this way, even if something really happened, the secret would never be leaked out.

If you use the communication system on the local illegal mining colony...

Do not……