The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"?!"

Liu Lizi who was following was startled—inside the shield, there were indeed densely packed eyes looking out, and it was one of the eyes that Oregana poked just now.After getting poked twice in that eye, now there's a 'too bad, ready to stare' look in there.

While it might seem intimidating, the change alone is actually harmless.Oregana didn't feel the hostile reaction of the creatures in the subspace, and the energy reactions of these creatures were too weak to look like.If there were hostile subspace creatures, he would have drawn out his axe a long time ago, and would have captured all the troublemakers and sent them to the Skullmaker Fortress for Dabra and Karata to use as research materials.These two dimensional blacksmiths are currently developing a demon engine called the 'Mechanical Beast Series' and are in urgent need of various research materials.Up to now, an individual code-named 'Minerva X' has been created to provide logistical supplies to Z-chan. For this reason, a 'partner circuit' that increases the synchronization rate and communication function is specially equipped.

But for some reason that the creator didn't know, they didn't have a good relationship. Recently, they had an inexplicable fight on the beach where the blood moon had just been suppressed.I really don't get it... (sigh)

And there is no material here that can be taken back to the blacksmiths for research. The subspace creatures here are weak and ignorant, sticking to the machinery like barnacles.In the long years, these subspace creatures that 'parasitic' here were unable to replenish their energy through emotions, so how did they survive here and remain 'neutral'?

Subspace creatures are life forms that are very sensitive to the environment.

"It's really strange... Could it be that there is a certain emotion input all the time?"

Oregana was poking and poking with her hands while she was talking, but a whole row of eyes stared at her.

"Boss..." Liu Lizi said in a low voice, "Don't poke that, it looks a little bit off..."

"It's nothing, just treat it as a subspace mimosa." (Satisfied)

"How can there be such a mimosa! Do you think it is a hell plant!"

Although he seemed to be having a nightmare before, but now his boss seems to have adjusted his emotions and returned to his usual state.But after returning to normal, the usual troubles began to appear...

Oregana patted Liu Lizi's shoulder armor lightly, opened the communication and said:

"Can you find a place similar to the main control room?"

On the other hand, the tech kid who was controlling a lot of drones to investigate replied:

[I'm looking for it, the damage here is so serious, the usable passages are basically blocked. ] There are a total of 49 screens in front of her, like a monitoring room uncle who works in an umbrella company—after all, ordinary monitoring room uncles don’t need to look at so many screens [Metal is affected by the subspace and grows growths, which are blocked everywhere Yes. 】

These small detection machines encountered a mass of tangled steel frames and compartments, the power of the warp revealed in every inch of passage-sometimes, an unidentifiable stone-like material replaced the metal, sometimes , the channel will be inexplicably rotated eighty degrees, and then rolled together with another set of channels.In many places, there are space anomalies that are enough to make the doctors of the S○P Foundation feel numb. From time to time, there will be detection machines that must return to the original path, or get stuck somewhere and need rescue.

This level of complexity directly makes it best not to let the marines enter the investigation until the road is cleared. Even the light power armor is too big to adapt to this kind of environment like cave exploration.

But there is one thing that everyone is very concerned about - that is, it is really very quiet here.

Scouts had dived tens of kilometers and traveled hundreds of passages, but found nothing but harmless warp creatures.

"I thought there would be corpse mutants here." Liu Lizi opened his fighting claws with a click, swung them twice and then retracted them immediately. "I'm not used to it."

On the other side of the communication, War Scythe asked curiously:

[Not used to what? 】

Liulizi wags her tail—this is not a subjective behavior. Many cats of the cat family find that if they do not deliberately control the tail, it is difficult for them to notice the movement of the tail. It will follow the owner's mood. Take different actions.This has led to some accidents, such as accidentally lighting a campfire with one's tail while camping, as if the whole person came to the cat and mouse set.

And wagging the tail usually expresses the same meaning as what Zhu Ziqing wrote in his prose-the heart is not at peace.

She said:

"In the past few months, almost all the ruins we have dug have energetic creatures. But now there is nothing here, and it is too quiet to make people feel at ease..."

Hearing this, War Scythe couldn't help but make a joke to ease the atmosphere:

[Maybe you can see the alien egg if you continue to move forward. 】

"If we encounter an alien, let's catch up and trip it up." As a result, Oregana became more enthusiastic, gesticulating there, "and clamped its head like this until it was convinced. Rhubarb and Haidongqing No brains, but aliens might understand?"

"...Do you have to try to tame this thing?"

To be honest, what Oregana said was very attractive to Liu Lizi, especially the first half - chasing up, tripping and holding her down, just thinking about it made her feel uplifted.But this was not the time to think about it, so she patted Oregana with her tail to remind her boss to focus on the task at hand.

Then I found that my boss had nothing to do at the moment, and was just watching the monitoring screen together, like an old man in the monitoring room.

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But in the next instant, something suddenly appeared on one of the screens - a resentful human face filled the entire screen.

"!!"

"!!!"

The startled appearance of the tech kid almost makes people think that she will punch the screen through the screen after being frightened by a ghost, just like the person in the short video that was popular many years ago.

[Is it a strangely shaped growth? 】

Oregana took over the control, moved the detector's camera, and stepped back a little to capture all of this thing:

"No, it's a corpse. The main body has been completely dehydrated and turned into white wax, no different from a mummy. It is not easy to determine the year of death."

The corpse was covered in a thick armor, and the large gun in his hand had been welded together by the growths and the floor, and it seemed that more than half of it had sunk into the wall.Because of this, the sensor didn't see that it was not an ordinary growth when it was approaching.

Oregana adjusted the aperture of the searchlight, and then pointed the lens at the center of the room.Suddenly, everything was exposed——

"so many."

Corpses are everywhere, many armors are incomplete, missing arms and legs are everywhere, in addition to the corpses of humanoid creatures, there are also corpses of alien shapes.There are traces of battle everywhere.Looking out from the hall, through a protective layer made of transparent polymer, you can see an unusually familiar structure.

"That's... the seal of God?"

A god seal at least 200 meters high is in the hangar compartment outside that window.

This size has never been seen before.

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Chapter 1153 Chapter 174: This must be a kind of zongzi

The at least 200-meter-high God Seal is placed carelessly in what looks like an oversized aquarium surrounded by transparent polymer glass.It looks like a huge stone made of obsidian, which is no different from other god seals, but the difference is that there are many small god seals on this behemoth, and they are like bamboo shoots growing out of the big body , one was no bigger than a forearm, and the largest was more than ten meters long, like a squid that was not very bright.

Thousands of symbols are engraved on it, reflecting a slight red light under the searchlight, and together with the corpses everywhere, they create a strange atmosphere.

"how can that be……"

Oregana muttered to herself.

God seal and corpse are like duck and rice, it is impossible to exist at the same time for a long time.The duck will eat up the rice quickly, and the god seal will quickly transform the corpse into a necromorph.Even if Shenyin is not as efficient as Blood Moon in terms of spiritual pollution, the speed of transforming necromorphs may be slower, but how many years has it been?After so many years, the chicken can be eaten, the rice dog is licked, the fire is burned and the lock is broken. If the Tang monk, master and apprentice have been walking non-stop for so many years, they can probably step on a canal from Chang'an to Tianzhu by foot.

As a result, the corpse remained intact until it turned into white wax. The only change was two subspace mimosas growing in the armpits?Could this god seal be broken?

Of course, the seal of the gods will not be broken, there must be a reason why these corpses have not changed...

She thought so, turned on the robot arm of the detector, and then connected the posture control system of the power armor to the robot arm—in this way, it can be controlled only by the motion sensor without sending instructions through the brain.Oregana moved her fingers, and the hook claws at the front of the mechanical arm also made corresponding movements, pulling away the two stacked corpses closest to each other, and suddenly found a piece of metal that could no longer be seen inserted into the one underneath. The abdomen of the corpse.

The other end was held in the hand of the corpse above.

"The fight was really brutal." Liu Lizi sighed from the side, but immediately asked a question, "It doesn't seem to be a fight between two different races? Look over there."

"Well?"

Looking in the direction indicated by Liu Lizi, the corpses of two alien creatures were stacked on top of each other.The two alien creatures are like magnified springtails, but they are closer to beasts than reptiles. There are traces of fur on their bodies (even if they are no longer visible), their forelimbs are very strong, and they have long legs. sharp claws.They are all equipped with armor to protect their vitals, and their heads are even more sturdy helmets, their mouths and wrists are strengthened with metal blades, and the blades seem to be as sharp as ever even when they arrive.

One of them bit the other's throat, the blade penetrated deeply into the victim's throat, and then pierced the brain obliquely, and it obviously died from the counterattack or dying struggle of the prey before death - the abdomen His armor had been cut open, and his internal organs were scattered all over the place. When the probe approached, the fine airflow generated by the propellers would blow away the dry and scattered corpses like flour.

If the airtightness is still maintained, then just a little spark can explode the scattered dust.So things like corpse explosion can still barely conform to scientific principles...probably...

Rather than a fight between different races, this battle took place between two factions with the same technology and equipment.And the ferocious-looking alien creature is like a specially cultivated war beast-if you only look at the corpse, it is not clear whether it is a co-evolution or an alien cavalry.

Someone said in a relaxed tone:

"I'm lucky. If we had chosen another dock, we would have to search thousands of kilometers to find this one."

This giant structure is not used for living, scientific research or production, its frame is exposed, and there is no internal passage directly connected between the docks.But the supporting facilities of each dock are like a small city. Although it has not been fully investigated, judging from the external structure, the long axis of this 'city' is about [-] kilometers.

If you touch it slowly, you really don’t know when you will go — investigating the megastructure is not boring but takes a lot of time. It’s normal to find key equipment as soon as you come in and feel lucky to get the big prize. of.

But Oregana didn't think it was that simple:

"...I want to be lucky if I dig a grave with us? This thing is either a guarantee, there is something more powerful, or there is more than one." The black-handed chief made an assertion, calling out to his companions on the dreadnought ship, "Monica! "

【Yes! 】

"A set of probes in each of the other docks! We have a hunch that there will be a large number of shipments."

【Eh!OK! 】

After getting the answer, Oregana continued to focus on the matter in front of her. While investigating the corpse, she speculated what weapon was used in this battle through the holes in the wall, and at the same time used the probe outside to find out what weapon was used. Probe energetic reactions over large areas.

There is a feature of the God Seal, which is the so-called dead space—it may be because of the fear that the Necromorphs will scratch the God Seal or some other reason. There is a range around the God Seal, and the corpses within this range will not become corpses. Transformation, the corpse transformation will be as soft as cotton, every inch will be broken, the internal organs will be ruptured, it will be miserable.

After sifting out the influence of subspace energy and figuring out the external energy orbiting the entire star gate, Oregana suddenly realized——

"The scope of 'Dead Space' obscures the entire space facility, so there are no necromorphs here."

"Meow?! The dead space alone has such a large range?" Liu Lizi exclaimed, and she couldn't help but glance outside—at the time of Aegis VII, the range of the dead space was only more than [-] meters. Can the one here directly cover the distance in kilometers?So what is the scope of its influence? !I'm afraid that as long as one is stuck on the moon, people on the earth will go crazy when they look up at the moon?

Reimu!This is a mutation, Reimu! (fog)

"Maybe it was deliberately adjusted like this..." Oregana outlined a huge area on the tactical view, which is a hollow sphere 1000 kilometers away from the star gate, with a thickness of [-] and [-] kilometers. This area is the 'polluted area' of the God Seal. But it seems that the energy is focused, the intensity is really high, and the degree of focus is so high that it is difficult to find such an area from the outside."

Just like laser weapons, laser weapons were not valued when many civilizations began to develop the universe.The reason is that if a laser weapon wants to be lethal, it must be highly focused and focused. As long as the light scattering is low and all energy is concentrated at one point, the laser is naturally too powerful-this is theoretical.But in actual use, another problem arises...Because there is no scattering at all, there is no way to perform ballistic observation. If you hit the shooting button, you can still observe the heat rise and the material evaporates, but what about the miss?

Only then did the gods know where the shot went and how far it was from the target.And because of the energy problem, it is impossible to hold it down and swing it around like holding an invisible shadowless sword to try your luck.So many civilizations have been honestly playing with missiles and railguns for quite a long time... Although the principle is very old, they are super reliable and powerful enough-when the damage is not enough, use nuclear bombs, although there is no AOE damage, but as long as the direct hit is fine.

Some civilizations are more clever. For example, the parallel cluster searchlights illuminate a line of sight parallel to the high-energy laser. As long as the distance before the beam of light emitted by the searchlight diverges, the ballistic can be accurately corrected and hit. Although the laser itself cannot be used. Performance, but anyone within the effective range will die.Others deliberately create electromagnetic waves that can be detected by working hard on frequency crystals (visible light is also a form of electromagnetic waves), so that long-distance and high-power laser weapons have officially become practical space warfare weapons.

But now, the energy of the God Seal is concentrated in a very small area - the principle of the dead space itself is the area of ​​'power interruption + no signal', it can be seen that the God Seal here has been adjusted so that all output Concentrated within that 'focus area', this leads to the frighteningly large scope of the dead space.And because the focus intensity was too great, it didn't leak out, and even the dark rock's previous long-distance detection didn't see anything here.And the Skullmaker's landing ship itself has the ability to disrupt the psychic power, directly driving in is like Kamijou Touma entering the seal.

Is there something here? (touch head with right hand)

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But now, looking at the numbers returned by the energy detector, she couldn't help frowning, and continued:

"If a normal person were here, it would probably take less than ten seconds to stand up like a water angel (SAKIEL), right? The ribs are exposed like this, the arms are raised like this, and they have self-healing abilities."

As she spoke, she shrugged her shoulders and lowered her arms, her movements were lifelike.

After Liu Lizi watched her boss make the gesture of grabbing the head of the No. [-] machine, the chain blade on her wrist popped out—if it was performed according to the animation, it would be her turn to be deflated afterwards:

"It turns out that you have always regarded the necromorph as an apostle..."

"No... mainly because the God Seal showed us a third impact before, and this impression will never be erased." Oregana shook her head and sighed slightly, "Put these things aside for now. ...Monica, is there any result?"

[The internal structure of the docks is the same, we found a god seal of the same specification in the same place of the two docks!In other docks, it took a lot of work to get in because of internal passage problems. 】

"We probably understand..."

According to the experience accumulated in the "find the pattern and fill in the number" problem that was often done in elementary school, there are a total of nine docks in this star gate, and there is a high probability that there will be such a divine seal in each dock.Coupled with the energy focus area of ​​the divine seal discovered before... the divine seal can be adjusted to this degree, and there are multiple divine seals.

There is a high probability that the divine seal is really made by this group of people.

Although I don't know exactly what happened, the ending of these people is not very good. The corpses have been left here for thousands of years and no one has cleaned them up. It seems that important equipment has been left alone, and even the entire system has collapsed.Obviously, this civilization is over. Judging from the fact that there are still a plurality of God Seals that are still in a controllable state, there is a high probability that they did not play God Seals out of control and kill themselves.