In the dim and deathly silent corridor, a tiny but unusually bright light shone. It quickly spread from one point to another, from a single point of light to countless rays of light of varying length. They quickly scanned up, down, left, and right of the aisle one by one, and the data obtained from the scan was uploaded to the system installed in the engineering box at the back through the communication module.
The body of this light, the little guy that Ray Mingkai called the exploration flyball, had other identical companions. They carried out high-speed exploration work in every corridor in this colonial satellite.
"Kai. Is it here? "
Euphemia, who was wearing a spacesuit, with a pistol at her waist and an engineering box in her hands, looked up at the steel door in front of her and the exploration flyball that was constantly hovering.
"Well, it should be here."
Ray Mingkai nodded and looked back at the map projected from the engineering box.
"If the other exploration flyballs don't find anything in a short period of time, then we can only explore what is behind this steel door first."
Upon hearing this, Euphemia lowered her head and looked at the projected map.
The projected map in front of Lei Mingkai and the others continued to expand as the number of exploratory flying balls increased to more than ten, and they continued to explore.
Every second that passed, new map information would be added to the projected map.
Now, in front of Ray Mingkai and Euphemia, there was only the steel door marked with a yellow signal by the exploration flyball.
"Let's start!"
Ray Mingkai waved his right hand, and the exploration flyball that was hovering in front of the steel door returned to Ray Mingkai's palm. After Ray Mingkai reached out and pressed an invisible button on it, the exploration flyball transformed into the form of a spider robot in the blink of an eye.
With a few hops, it jumped out of Lei Mingkai's palm and ran to the combination lock beside the steel door with its slender limbs.
"Hum!"
As a beam of light shot out from the top of the spider robot, the work of deciphering the steel door began.
"Uffi. Hide well! "
Ray Mingkai, who was always paying attention to the progress of the spider robot, immediately sent a warning to Euphemia when he saw the red light on the spider robot's body turn green. He took the lead to lean against the door and cautiously watched the steel door that was slowly opening under the control of the spider robot.
"Rumble …"
In the vibration of the steel door slowly opening, the spider robot jumped from the combination lock. After jumping a few times on the ground, it turned around and rushed in through the gap of the steel door without fear.
After a while, Ray Mingkai, who estimated that the spider robot could see the situation inside, waved his hand behind him.
Euphemia showed the image displayed on the toolbox to Ray Mingkai.
"It looks like a square."
Euphemia herself wasn't sure what kind of place the Spider Robot was looking at.
Lei Mingkai shook his head after carefully studying the image provided by the Spider Robot.
"Let's go take a look with our own eyes!"
An unknown purple gas slowly circulated in the air, occupying more than half of this seemingly vast space. Under this unknown purple gas, there were countless metal cabinets about 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide that were neatly placed here.
These metal cabinets seemed to be arranged according to some kind of mathematical law, and they were gathered one by one into a square array.
As far as the eye could see, Lei Mingkai could see no less than 50 of these square arrays formed by countless metal cabinets, even though they were shrouded by the purple gas.
"This, what exactly is this? Goods? "
Euphemia frowned. She raised her hand and signaled the spider robot that was waiting for a new order to turn back into the exploratory flyball and had it quickly circle around the area.
"We can see with our naked eyes the square array. We have already confirmed 58 of them. Every square array is made up of 121 metal cabinets. "
Euphemia said briefly as she summarized the data returned from the exploratory flyball.
"Fifty-eight square arrays, each array is made up of 121 metal cabinets?"
Ray Mingkai's eyes suddenly narrowed.
For some reason, he felt that the scene in front of him seemed to be familiar. He just couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
"Uffi. If I say that the things stored in these metal cabinets are people, would you believe me? "
When she heard Ray Mingkai's baseless speculation, Euphemia's hands froze first, then she shook her head again and again, but she didn't say anything.
Although Euphemia didn't know why Ray Mingkai suddenly said this, according to the previous observation of the colonial satellite's length of about 10 kilometers, it meant that the number of metal cabinets hidden in the purple gas was far more than the total number of metal cabinets they could see.
"We can see more than 7,000 metal cabinets. If there are more metal cabinets in the purple gas, as you speculated, doesn't it mean that there are at least hundreds of thousands of people here, and human-like creatures are stored in these metal cabinets?"
As soon as Euphemia said this, she was shocked by her own speculation.
"Maybe!"
Compared to Euphemia, who was frightened by her own speculation, Ray Mingkai was much calmer.
Although, he was not sure whether his speculation was correct.
"Hundreds of thousands of people are packed in metal cabinets?"
With this idea alone, Ray Mingkai felt that it was absurd.
However, no matter how they speculated, they had to investigate the situation in front of them. Moreover, Ray Mingkai and the others still had to seize control of this colonial satellite to prevent it from continuing to wander in the space-time channel.
"Uffi. What about the other exploratory flyballs? "
Before trying to enter the purple gas, Ray Mingkai asked.
"The exploration has been completed. It is returning to our current location. " After Euphemia pulled up the work status of all the exploratory flyballs, she found that except for the exploratory flyballs in the same place as them, the rest of the exploratory flyballs had completed their mission.
"Really? It seems that this is the right path. Even if we don't want to go, we have to go. "
Ray Mingkai turned his hands over, quickly checked the status of the pistol, and nodded.
"Uffi, when the exploratory flyballs return, let them be the vanguard! This purple gas really makes people panic. "
"Mhmm."
Ten minutes later, the purple gas that was slowly flowing at a fixed speed was suddenly torn apart by a gust of wind, revealing a path leading to the depths of the gas.
"Hum!"
In a flash, a fluorescent light flew quickly, plunging into the depths of the path that had just been torn apart, and moving toward the unknown area.
The same situation was also playing out in every corner of the purple gas. And the cause of this change was Ray Mingkai and Euphemia who found an exit among these exploratory flyballs.
"It has been ten minutes since we entered this unknown gas. It seems that the number of these metal cabinets is far beyond our imagination. "
Looking around vigilantly, Ray Mingkai, who was protecting Euphemia behind him, carefully looked around and looked at the area that had been explored by the exploratory flyballs.
"Ah! Kai! Look over there! "
All of a sudden, Euphemia shrieked and raised her hand to pat Lei Mingkai's shoulder forcefully.
Ray Mingkai turned around and pointed his gun in the direction Euphemia pointed, but what he saw made his face change color.
Between the row of metal cabinets on the right side of Ray Mingkai and Euphemia, there was an open metal cabinet.
However, this was not the reason why Ray Mingkai and Euphemia were surprised. The reason why they were surprised was that at the bottom of the metal cabinet, there was a skeleton crawling out from the metal cabinet.
The grayish-white skeleton.
It looked like it had a compact design, but now it was tattered clothes.
And the finger that extended forward and did not retract until death.
"Kai! Be careful! "
Euphemia subconsciously pulled Ray Mingkai, who wanted to go over to check the situation.
"Don't worry. It's okay! "
Ray Mingkai gently patted Euphemia's little hand, but to be on the safe side, Ray Mingkai still recalled the three exploratory flyballs near them and began to scan with their current position as the center.
"It's a human."
Ray Mingkai squatted down next to the skeleton and after studying it, he came to a conclusion that surprised even himself.
"Human?"
Euphemia finally overcame her fear and came to Ray Mingkai's side and whispered.
"Yes. It's a human. "
Ray Mingkai took out his personal terminal and entered the data obtained from the skeleton in front of him one by one. The answer obtained by the personal terminal was the same as Ray Mingkai's.
"If it's a human, then does this colonial satellite come from the Gao Da world?" Euphemia thought for a while and came to a speculation based on the information she could currently grasp.
"No, maybe not."
Ray Mingkai stood up and looked around, looking at the unknown purple gas that was still permeating the surroundings.
From the moment he saw the unknown purple gas, Ray Mingkai consciously let the exploratory flyball try to analyze the composition of the unknown gas.
The result made Ray Mingkai puzzled.
The unknown purple gas wasn't harmful. On the contrary, it was a kind of medicine that could make creatures in a long-term emotional state.
In other words.
As long as Ray Mingkai and Euphemia took off their helmets at this time, they would immediately be forced into a certain emotional state by the unknown purple gas and stay here until they died.
"Beep Beep!"
At this moment, the exploratory flyballs that penetrated deep into the unknown purple gas suddenly sent back an emergency signal.
"Kai! The exploratory flyball seems to have found the exit! "
"Let's go!"
Fortunately, shortly after Ray Mingkai and Euphemia left the skeleton, they saw a strange square vehicle parked on the side of the road.
Although Ray Mingkai and Euphemia had some doubts about the strange square vehicle, in order to buy time, they still tried to use the decryption ability of the exploratory flyball and successfully started the strange vehicle.
Another ten minutes passed.
During these ten minutes, Ray Mingkai saw more and more skeletons as he drove the strange vehicle. Some of the skeletons not only crawled out of the metal cabinets, but also walked a distance to the main road before falling on the side of the road, until the moment of death arrived.
"What the hell happened in this place?"
The more she saw the skeletons, the more frightened Euphemia was of the scene in front of her.
It was as if in the depths of the unknown purple gas, a figure called the Grim Reaper was quietly approaching the two of them.
"Uffi, calm down. No matter what it is, we will see its true face soon. "
Sensing the change in Euphemia's mood, Ray Mingkai reached out and shook Euphemia's small hand, trying to give her courage.
Under the comfort of Ray Mingkai, Euphemia's emotions gradually calmed down. Moreover, in the unknown purple gas in front of them, there were constantly drawing circles of light — more and more exploratory flyballs were gathering here.
Without a doubt..,
In the depths of the unknown purple gas, another steel door blocked Ray Mingkai and Euphemia's path forward.
But under the operation of Ray Mingkai and Euphemia, who were starting to become familiar with the process, this steel door did not take them much time and was slowly opened.
Seeing that the gap in the steel door was getting bigger and bigger, the slowly flowing unknown purple gas also began to roll along the gap and rushed into the unknown space behind the steel door.
Ray Mingkai and Euphemia raised their pistols at the same time. At the same time that the exploratory flyballs turned into Spider Robots entered the steel door, they rushed in one after another.
"This …"
As soon as he entered the door, Ray Mingkai was stunned.
The broken wall..,
It was a pipe that hung from the ceiling, but it was broken and seemed to be very old.
The floor that looked like it was paved with steel plates, but it was rusty.
In front of them, where the railings should be erected, there were only two or three broken iron pipes silently recounting the past years.
The dilapidated state of the room and the huge space filled with metal cabinets outside were like heaven and earth.
"This is the control center of the colonial satellite?!"
Euphemia, who was also shocked by the dilapidated scene in front of her, put down her pistol, and her face was full of disbelief.
"If the exploration program of the exploratory flyballs is not wrong, this should be the control center of this colonial satellite. Even if it looks so dilapidated and rusty. "Ray Mingkai also smiled bitterly.
However..,
Just when they were in disbelief at the scene in front of them, a hoarse voice, as if there were countless iron sand in the throat, suddenly sounded and echoed in this dilapidated space for a long time.
"Who is it! Who is disturbing the sleep of the emperor of the universe!! "
As soon as the voice sounded, the pipes hanging from the ceiling seemed to have begun to move.
The rusty floor was also rumbling, as if something was about to rush out from below and tear Ray Mingkai and Euphemia apart.
In the face of this strange phenomenon, Ray Mingkai protected Euphemia behind him while guiding Euphemia to retreat slowly toward the open door behind them.
"Who is it!! Who is disturbing the sleep of the overlord of the universe!! "
Another angry roar rang out!
The strange thing was that although the roar this time was still hoarse and unpleasant to the ears, it was much better than the previous one.
"Boom!"
Suddenly..,
In the center of this dilapidated and rusty room, there was a violent explosion.
Countless dust, sand, and even iron pieces mixed in it were lifted into the air in this explosion, and then fell from the air with tinkling sounds, smashing on the ground.
"Who is it! Who is disturbing the universe … "
"Dang!"
Just before the roar finished, a piece of iron fell from the sky like a celestial soldier and smashed it back.
"Ah!! It hurts!! Which bastard is hitting me!! "
Suddenly, Ray Mingkai and Euphemia looked at each other. The state of extreme vigilance from before had mostly subsided at this time.
"Maybe, this voice that claims to be the overlord of the universe is an idiot?"
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