Chapter 948 Ghost Fleet Cluster

Not long after the fleet entered the void, we arrived at the ghost fleet's lair. For the empire's ruling area, these floating corpses in the void were indeed floating too close. Although there is no concept of distance and coordinates in the void, the information proximity is still The only criterion for judging "distance" in this place is that the Royal Fleet arrived at the location of the Ghost Fleet after almost only one information calibration. This shows how close the previous "distance" between the two has reached to the bottom of the abnormality.

With the empire's void detection technology, coupled with the sensitivity of the macroworld network to void fluctuations, and the special capabilities of the death courtyard system, we were able to detect the coordinates of the ghost fleet only when it was so close, and it was still dispatched. Under the premise of tracking probes, I have to say that this is a very shameful thing for the intelligence department. If this group of ghost battleships were not so special, I think the intelligence chief would have found a crack in the ground to go into seclusion and practice. .

After getting closer, we discovered that there was an extremely powerful information interference layer near the ghost fleet. This information interference layer may be an important factor in protecting so many warships from being swallowed up until now. Construct a signal that simulates the world barrier to "deceive" the void, so that the fleet inside it can be as safe and sound as if it is in a physical universe. Although we don't know whether this interference layer is formed by countless warships together, or because the huge fortress at the core of the ghost fleet has a barrier. The role of the weapon, this barrier is enough to be amazing: except for the Xiling Empire, I have never seen such a generous thing from other civilizations.

The Royal Fleet didn't feel anything when it passed through this layer of information interference. It just vibrated suddenly. In Sandora's words, this vibration was the movement of us penetrating the protective barrier of the Ghost Fleet. I was very aware of the group of spaceships. Now it has fallen into disgrace, otherwise I might have to start thinking about demolition compensation again...

Sandora and I sat on the officer's platform with very serious expressions. Shandora was carefully analyzing the intelligence coming from the lower information link. I was pretending to analyze the same thing very seriously. The Pandora sisters were exchanging something in a low voice. When a huge group of ghost fleets appeared on the radar, Sivis reported that some ghost ships did have more active energy reactions than other warships. But they are all located in the very core of the cluster, a full million kilometers away from its borders. Moreover, there is serious energy interference along the way. Shipboard detection equipment cannot scan more accurate signals.

Sandora had been waiting for this moment and immediately ordered: "Send out a reconnaissance fleet and probe swarm to search for ghost ships along the way. The main force continues to advance towards the black core. Be careful to set up gravity traps along the way. Don't take this place lightly."

Pandora also began to give orders to her heavily armored Guards Corps. Although she stood as tall as Sandora on the officer's platform, her momentum was no less than that of the latter: "Unfold the escort fleet and launch high-speed artillery positions. At any time, Prepare to fight and counterattack any ghost ship that behaves hostilely!"

Following the two men's orders, the Royal Fleet first changed its formation. A group of carrier ships broke away from the main force and released a large number of agile and advanced reconnaissance spacecraft. These small and fast reconnaissance ships are equipped with the latest design of comprehensive ship-based scanners and experienced imperial agents. They form a group of three and quickly disperse into formations to rush towards the nearest ghost ship. Starting to scan these silent tombs, special warships began to deploy gravity traps and various space blockade devices: in this dangerous era, there is never too much caution, especially the fallen apostles who might not be sure to come out of some corner. Jump out and give us a brick...

The Pandora Heavy Guards Corps located on the outer sphere of the Royal Fleet then took action. The medium-sized battleships and aircraft carriers accounting for 80% of the entire regiment expanded the fleet's formation until the joint shield range reached the limit. After expanding the inner sphere of the fleet, After space, these battleships that particularly like the art of explosion began to continuously deploy super-heavy cannon turrets. The latter is one of the signature tracks of the Pandora Heavy Legion. The so-called super-heavy cannon turret consists of two parts. One part is a gun larger than the Eiffel Tower. One round of the Fortress Cannon, and the other part... another Fortress Cannon... typical Pandora style.

The two fortress cannons occupy 90% of the energy supply and slot positions of the entire turret. As a result, this super-heavy space sentry has basically no defense, so they can only be deployed inside the impregnable joint shield. This is why the Guards Corps wanted to expand the scope of the joint shield just now. When Pandora formulated this tactic, the idea was this: first we open a large enough position, and then fill it with artillery and explosives as hard as we can. The deployment is complete...

You said this is such a militaristic behavior. Pandora is so ruthless. I remember when I was in junior high school, every time I brought a brick to a fight, I was judged by the teacher as a fierce and stubborn person. If I were like her, not only would I carry a brick in my hand, There are still two magnetically levitated bricks floating around... I should have asked the Chinese Academy of Sciences to cut them into slices.

But no matter what, I admit that this kind of thing is indeed quite a deterrent. At least this tactic of using the advantage of the swarm to expand the firepower to the extreme can allow one spacecraft to exert the dps of three spacecrafts, although the endurance and protection Therefore, it was greatly discounted, but Pandora's strategic thinking has always been "blow up the enemy first and then you will be safe", so it is still used today.

When Pandora was setting up the fortress artillery positions, Viska was doing the same thing, but her legion had not been formed yet, so this girl's warships were simply mixed into the Pandora Guards. As a result, among every dozen or so silver-gray warships on the battlefield, there will be a black-red painted warship that stands out from the crowd. At a glance, it looks like a group of captain's aircraft have been mixed in...

"All the fortress cannons have locked onto the large ghost ship within the range." Viska's eyes have begun to flow with bits and pieces of energy light. Her sister also follows her example, "It is estimated that the instantaneous fire coverage can reach 4%. 10. Considering that most of the ghost ships are civilian ships other than warships, it can be considered that the threat power of the target is within the scope of the legion’s instant annihilation.”

"The outer layer of the ghost fleet has been scanned, and no traces of life or activation have been found."

At this time, the reconnaissance team that went to investigate the situation also sent back the news. It was an expected situation. After reporting this, they immediately accelerated and rushed deeper into the gyro-shaped starship cluster. There, the ship-borne scanner A number of active ghost ship signals have been discovered.

"Be safe. They may fight back." I warned, and then turned my attention to the huge ghost ships around me.

Frankly speaking, this is the first time I have had direct contact with the entity of a ghost ship. Before this, I have always learned about these things through eyewitness reports and video materials. I have never seen the real thing before, and now they are in front of my eyes. It feels naturally different.

Judging from the average size. There is a considerable gap between the ghost ship and the imperial warship. The size difference between its main ship and the most common ship in the imperial army is nearly double. And those giant ships that can be compared with the Eternal Class are so rare that they can only be watched. Ninety percent of ghost ships are painted in black or a very dark red. They look oppressive and heavy, and the ghost names associated with them give people a feeling like a death tomb. The design style of these spaceships is full of thick and "solid" lines, and spherical and semi-arc protrusions can be seen everywhere on the surface of the hull. Objects, under these curved parabolic shells are slowly flickering gray-blue energy flows, distributed one by one in parallel, like the cracks in the carapace of some kind of arthropod insect. This design style is similar to the straight and rigid lines common in the Imperial Army. There is a huge difference in the rough and atmospheric appearance. I am used to seeing the sharp and clear shapes of imperial warships (a certain round expedition-class ship is the only exception, that kind of fortress ship can only be regarded as an accident), and when I see these ghost ships, I feel that they are a bit nondescript and unattractive in appearance.

"These things look like rotten potatoes," Qian Qian commented with a flat mouth. "The aesthetics are terrible."

Lilina shook her head: "It looks like animal offal to me, a lot of rotten meat."

I quickly threw this girl aside. What this guy said was so disgusting...

At this moment. The echo of the first wave of reconnaissance troops came from the communicator: "Report sir! We have landed on the ghost ship! The ship showed an activation reaction a minute ago and produced some kind of response to the approach of the reconnaissance troops, but before we It suddenly became silent after taking emergency measures, and the ship will send personnel to land to explore the situation."

The ghost ship that the reconnaissance force landed on was a large spacecraft close to the inner ring of the starship cluster. It was 23 kilometers long and was considered a big size among the ghost fleets. We quickly took over the scene on the officer platform. First of all I saw that this unattractive black battleship had been blasted with two large holes in the front by light missiles...

I think I know what the "contingency measures" mentioned by the commander of the reconnaissance unit just now are.

Several well-trained imperial agents entered the ghost ship after turning on the stealth system. The scenes around them were shown in real time on the screen. The interior of the ghost ship was just like its appearance, with a "knotty" feeling like animal tissue. Rugged cables can be seen everywhere in the black corridors and pipes. They are not buried under the corridor walls, but are exposed. They look like muscles and blood vessels exposed after the muscles are torn off, and a bit like intertwined vines. These thick cables Occasionally, flashes of light could be seen between the cables, indicating that the energy system of the ghost ship was still operating normally. The imperial agents who penetrated deep into the ship carefully advanced for a while and found that there was no life response at all on the various detectors. An agent from the Psychic Assault Force began to scan the surroundings.

"There is no thinking reaction or advanced logical process, this place is 'dead'."

The agents were de-invisible, but still vigilant, holding onto their weapons and continuing to move forward. There was still an atmospheric environment inside the ghost ship, which allowed sound to be transmitted inside. The hollow echo of the military boots on the alloy corridor was the only sound in the ghost ship. This group of soldiers walking in the dark and strange spaceship seemed to be walking in a nightmare. The scene coming from the communicator was like a weird horror movie made by a director who won seven or eight Oscars. Three alien shapes jumped out diagonally from the screen. Then I will process the video and mail it to Hollywood...

First-hand information from agents at the scene continued to come in:

"The artificial air pressure is normal and the pressure fluctuation has ended. It seems that the ship has plugged the hole by itself."

"We seem to be walking in a passage for people to pass. It is unusually wide. Maybe the builder of the ghost ship is a group of huge creatures. Signs with unknown meanings are found along the way. The general information analysis rules indicate that they may be at the indicated direction and location exchange point. There were emergency lights on the walls, but the main lights could not be activated. Energy was cut off."

"...The artificial atmospheric environment contains a large amount of ozone and chlorine, and three extra-sequential elements were found. It was initially determined that the crew of these ships were carbon-based organisms, but no traces of life were found."

"Okay, the corridor has reached the end... Well. Sir, it's very strange. The energy flow of the ghost ship seems to have stopped. The instrument shows that the internal pressure of the nearby psionic energy is decreasing... No. iii, how is the situation there?"

No. iii refers to the reconnaissance ship parked outside the ghost ship that is responsible for responding. When the agents enter the ghost ship to check the situation, this small warship is orbiting the huge hull of the ghost ship, scanning its outer shell structure, and it sends back a message. Surprising information: "The energy of the target spacecraft is shrinking back to the central area, and its outer hull has been powered off..."

The reconnaissance ship activated more powerful scanning equipment and began to deeply detect the internal conditions of the spacecraft, and then suddenly issued a rapid alarm: "Get out! Get out!! The energy reading in the core of the spacecraft is soaring! It is going to self-destruct!"

The agents immediately started the space teleportation and returned to the reconnaissance ship, and then the reconnaissance ship and the two nearby supporting individual fighter jets evacuated into the distance as if they were out of control... and so on. Three aircraft streaked through the sky with bright lights, and at the starting point of these three lights, the surface of the mountain-like ghost ship suddenly became densely covered with large blood-red patterns, like a heart that was instantly filled with blood, and then...

Exploded into a huge dazzling fireball.

Pandora stood up immediately. Loudly ordered: "Prepare to fight! Charge all artillery!"

A hurried report sounded in the command hall: "A large number of ghost ship engines have been activated, and they are starting!"

The entire fleet entered combat status almost instantly, and every spacecraft began to charge its main guns. The sentry guns that had been deployed long ago were locked on their respective targets, waiting for the order of the general attack to be issued. The nerves of the imperial soldiers were already in a state of close to cerebral hemorrhage at any time. At this time, they saw an obvious "murder" signal, and they finally succeeded. I had a cerebral hemorrhage...

However, just before the general offensive began, Lin Xue suddenly issued an emergency stop order to all units in the command link, shouting: "Stop!"

As a prophet, Lin Xue has a very special authority in the imperial army, that is, she can issue a stop order to any unit in extreme emergencies, even imperial generals and emperors - of course, for the latter two targets, she The method of suspension is usually hand cutting and twisting the ears. This authority can be said to be very great, far beyond the word "mistress", but for Lin Xue, this kind of power is necessary. We need the power of the prophet, and this power is often used In order to turn things around in an emergency, several past facts have proven that Lin Xue sometimes only has a very strong passive premonition in the few seconds before a certain action is about to be carried out, and these few seconds are obviously not enough for her. Just write an application and let Sandora and I spend half a day together... Bureaucracy can kill people.

So Sandora and I simply gave Lin Xue such an emergency stop function. Anyway, everyone believed that she would not lose control at the critical moment. Well, for the Imperial Army, if the prophets started to lose control, then I'm afraid there are not many people left who don't let go.

"What's wrong, girl?"

I took a breath and looked at Lin Xue, "You scared me - if someone had started to charge, they would have ducked by now."

"No need to attack them, just watch the ghost ship in action."

Lin Xue curled her lips and gestured to the holographic projection not far ahead with her chin, "I suggest you let the Garden of Death system warm up now, these ghost ships are about to escape."

Several seconds had passed since Lin Xue said this. Under normal circumstances, if the two fleets really clashed at such a close distance, a few seconds would have been enough for both sides to take their brains out. The war in the era of hot weapons has never stopped. The armor was so polished that it only took a press of a button to bleed from head to toe. However, in fact, the imperial army did not take action, and the ghost fleet showed no signs of launching an attack.

The self-destruction just now does not seem to be an attack signal, but just to disrupt our attention. Perhaps their purpose is to make the imperial army start attacking the broken spaceships around - just like Lin Xue's prediction, the ghost fleet is preparing to escape!

"The generation of a large void jump force field has been detected," a rapid alarm sounded from the ship's host computer on the bridge, "The target fleet will flee the scene in one minute!"

The holographic projection screen on the officer's platform switched quickly. The hundreds of kilometers of mammoth ghost fleet clusters were cut into several independent parts. Some ghost ships were specially marked, with a flashing warning box next to them indicating "Escape soon." "", the largest frame is the planet fortress at the core of the fleet cluster - that behemoth also wants to escape!

Fortunately, with Lin Xue's reminder, I have already connected to the Garden of Death. The powerful multi-functional law interference equipment can function normally in the void. In just a moment, the void where the fleet cluster is located is distorted, and those who are identified , the ghost ship and the core fortress, which were already somewhat blurry, shook suddenly as if they had been hit in the head, and at the same time they also returned to their physical form.

At the critical moment, we still prevented these spacecraft from escaping.

If the imperial army really started to wipe out other ghost ships just now, at least a considerable part of these warships would have a chance to escape.

"What's going on?"

Sandora glanced at Lin Xue, "Are they running away?"

"Have you forgotten the information we had before?" I said, "Ghost ships will avoid imperial warships."

After the escape was prevented, the ghost fleet cluster became quiet again, but the more than one hundred escape-conscious spacecraft that had been identified and were most likely controlled by living people did not turn off their engines, including the huge planet fortress at the core of the cluster. Inside, the lights on their surfaces flicker on and off, and the hulls drift slightly, as if they are in an extremely tangled state.

"I feel like... they're shaking."

Lilina grabbed the guardrail in front of her and said with shining eyes. (To be continued)