A black-red painted Fallen Apostle scout ship suddenly tore through space and barged into Hazenwood's atmosphere. The sudden change in the situation stunned us for a moment. However, before I could make a move, a blinding white light from high up in the sky suddenly tore through the night sky and pierced through the spaceship. The white light carried a holy color and majesty. It was obvious that Alaya, who had been releasing fireworks in outer space, had made a timely move. When the white light pierced through the enemy ship, it caused a violent explosion. Even from this distance, we could clearly see that one-third of the ship's middle and rear section had been blown into two. The streamlined hull had been bent at a strange angle. Bright sparks from the explosion erupted from various parts of the rear power unit. Alaya's attack had accurately destroyed the location of the ship's energy furnace. This should have been to prevent the spaceship from sending an alarm signal back at the first instance.
The lights and red energy flow at the front of the scout ship flickered intensely for a moment before gradually dimming. The spaceship that had lost its propulsion began to emit thick smoke and began to slowly descend towards the southeast, leaving a long trail of smoke and dust in the sky. After a short while, the sound of the spaceship being hit reached us. After a while, we heard the second explosion. This was the sound of the spaceship crashing into pieces.
Everyone saw this scene, and the surrounding crowd naturally interpreted it as the Goddess making her move. Thus, they erupted in cheers once again. As for me, I looked at the distorted traces left behind in the air by the white light and wiped away my sweat. That silly cat finally reacted in time for once. However, this reaction speed was actually normal. No matter what, Alaya was a general of the old Empire. Her low intelligence in life shouldn't affect her intelligence in battle, right?
"Pandora, turn on the full frequency interference. Visca, go outside the world fragment and see if there are any more spaceships coming over. If there are … lure them away and deal with them elsewhere. Try not to expose your identity. Use your floating cannons to deal with them. " I specifically instructed Visca because I knew that the lass had the same violent and impulsive genes as her sister. When the lass encountered an enemy, she might rush forward and unleash her full power. When that happened, the 'core general of the new Empire appeared in the frontline' would become a reality. As long as the Fallen Apostle's intelligence was above the level of their feet, they would realize that the situation was not right. They would definitely intercept all the world fragments.
Hearing that there would be a fight, Visca immediately set off happily. Pandora, with a straight face, released a swarm of microscopic probes from her dimensional pocket. These probes flickered like fireflies and disappeared before our eyes in the blink of an eye. These were interference emitters. They could instantaneously warp to any location within a ten thousand kilometer radius and form a spherical interference barrier. They had completely enveloped Hazenwood. No signal could be sent out from this planet.
This was to prevent the surviving Fallen Apostles from the scouting spaceship. At the moment, we were not sure if the spaceship was here for a specific purpose or if it was an accident. But no matter what the case was, it was necessary to cut off the spaceship's communication with the enemy.
Because most of the people's attention was on the sky, almost no one noticed the strange movements on our side. Pandora's large number of firefly like probes attracted the attention of a small group of mercenaries, but they probably thought it was some kind of curse magic, so they only took a glance and didn't pay any more attention to it. After Pandora and Visca had their own work to do, I used telepathy to call the two who were doing cultural propaganda in the sky. "Sonya, Edwinsa, can you hear me?"
There was a brief silence in the mental channel. It was probably because the two in the sky were not used to having someone talking to them in their head. But they were not ordinary people after all. They immediately reacted and knew how to reply. The first to respond was the voice of the paralyzed dragon sister. "Is this Lord God?"
Then, an old man said, "Oh! This is the first time I have heard your voice. Thank you for saving this world … "
"Alright, alright. Don't be so polite. Don't be so polite." I quickly interrupted them. "Did you see what happened just now?"
Sonya's voice sounded in my head. "Ah, I saw it. A beam of light shot down that big flying thing. What is that? When I was discussing with Lord Alaya, there was no such plot. Did you design it? "
"Of course not. That was an accident," I said quickly. "Let's go and check on the situation now. The place where that thing crashed is very close to North Fortress. Its radiation … Don't ask what radiation is. Anyway, just know that it is not to be touched. Don't let anyone near it. "
Sonya and Edwinsa could hear the urgency of the situation from my tone. They immediately agreed. Then, I heard Edwinsa's voice coming from the sky. "The Goddess destroyed the Demons' escape ship! The place where that thing crashed is very dangerous. Everyone, don't go near it! "
The old man was indeed talented. Look at how easy it was to lie. It sounded like the truth … Oh, it was basically the truth.
"Let's go and check on the situation." I pulled Shallow Shallow, who was daydreaming, and led Lin Xue and Pandora away from the mercenary camp. Then, we teleported to the place where the fallen apostle's scout ship had crashed.
The spaceship had crashed less than ten kilometers away from North Fortress. In the end, it didn't land on anyone's head. It was a blessing in disguise. I didn't dare to imagine what would have happened if such a highly radioactive thing had fallen on the defenseless North Fortress.
The area where the spaceship crashed was beside a sparse forest. The entire terrain was a slightly sloping open field. Now, the dry land forest had been destroyed by the shockwave, and the surviving plants had also been blown into a semi-charred state by the hot wind. The second explosion that occurred when the spaceship crashed blew away the loose gravel and soil on the surface, forming a huge shallow crater with a radius of nearly a kilometer. The dark-red wreckage of the scout ship was stuck at an oblique angle at the bottom of the crater. From the looks of it, a third of it was already buried underground. It had fallen head first to the ground. Thus, the stern of the spaceship, which had been blasted off by Alaya's Holy Light, was still exposed in midair. The wreckage was currently drooping weakly. There was only a bent metal beam and a few sparse main cables connecting the stern to the main body of the spaceship. It looked as tragic as a broken arm that was only connected by a few blood vessels and nerves. There were still some small-scale explosions going on inside the spaceship. Thick smoke and sparks continuously spewed out from the huge crack at the stern. The surrounding air was filled with an unpleasant burnt smell.
Fortunately, the scout ship was only a small spaceship that was three to four hundred meters long (among the spaceships of the Schilling System, this was definitely a super small spaceship). If it had been a larger spaceship, the North Fortress that was ten kilometers away probably wouldn't have survived.
"There are no signs of life in the external scan," Pandora judged after looking at the wreckage with her gray eyes.
"So, all the passengers are dead …" I heaved a sigh of relief. However, I still couldn't be careless. I had to go in and take a look to ensure that there were no future troubles. However, just as I was about to go over, I noticed that Lin Xue was silent. Her expression was a little strange. "What's wrong, lass?"
"I didn't see it." Lin Xue furrowed her brows. She looked a little unwilling, but more confused. "I turned on the alarm to the maximum. As long as there is a dangerous factor that could lead to the failure of the operation, it will be detected at least ten minutes before it happens. However, I didn't see this spaceship."
When Lin Xue said that, I was also stunned. My raised leg froze in mid-air for two to three seconds before I remembered to put it down. That's right, we have a prophet with us! The biggest threat that I had to worry about in my scheme was the sudden discovery of the Fallen Apostle's scouting unit. In other words, this scout ship should be higher on Lin Xue's alarm list than anything else. However, even when this spaceship barged into the world fragment, Lin Xue didn't feel threatened. The missy was even stunned for a moment like us.
"Could it be that you haven't been eating regularly recently?" I touched the missy's forehead with concern. In the end, she grabbed my hand and stuffed it into her mouth. "You are the one who ate something bad! My mind is in a mess right now! My superpower has never malfunctioned like this before! "
I knew that this wasn't the time to joke around. However, I wasn't joking just now. Apart from eating something bad, I really couldn't think of anything else that could render Lin Xue's superpower ineffective. The Fallen Apostle did have a type of interference device. However, Lin Xue's superpower had a unique trait, which was' self-diagnosis'. If she encountered any interference or any other form of restriction on her superpower, she would be able to detect it immediately. It was obvious that before the Fallen Apostle's scout ship appeared, Lin Xue didn't sense any abnormalities.
The missy looked around in slight annoyance. Then, her eyes suddenly fell on the spaceship wreckage that was billowing with thick smoke. She silently counted, "Three, two, one …" The moment her voice fell, the abdomen of the spaceship wreckage suddenly exploded. A piece of armor plate was blown away by the explosion. Dazzling sparks of energy gushed out from the explosion along with shattered crystallized pipes and molten flocs.
"There's no problem with the prophetic ability. The accuracy and acuity are all normal," Lin Xue said in a low voice. Lin Xue said in a low voice. It turned out that she had been conducting an experiment just now. The missy also suspected that there was a malfunction in her power.
Thus, an undeniable fact was placed in front of everyone's eyes. In the large crater in front of us was a scout ship that had bypassed the prophet's warning.
"Let's not think too much about it for now." I pondered for a moment, then waved my hand forcefully. "Lass, continue with the warning. Since there is no problem with your superpower, we can treat this as a special case. Shallow Shallow, Pandora, the two of you follow me to the inside of the ship to take a look. "
The missy pursed her lips. She seemed to be a little unwilling, but she still obediently went to the edge of the crater. As she walked, she muttered to herself, "I have obsessive-compulsive disorder … My obsessive-compulsive disorder is in its late stages … What is going on?"
The few of us quickly went to the wreckage of the scout ship that had plunged headfirst into the ground. This thing had suffered a terrible blow from Alaya's attack. The light beam had detonated the spaceship's propulsion furnace. Following that, the psionic energy surged along the energy supply network and destroyed all the equipment of the entire spaceship. It had also detonated the weapons array at the abdomen of the spaceship. Fortunately, the psionic crystals stored in the spaceship had a complete safety device. It seemed that those things hadn't exploded. Otherwise, the deadly radioactive dust would have caused a large-scale ecological disaster.
The air around the wreckage was scorching hot with a pungent smell. The psionic sparks from the broken electrical network came into contact with the particles in the air, triggering a continuous and complicated reaction. A large area around the spaceship was like an electric field. I could feel my hair standing on end. Pandora checked the model of the spaceship and quickly found its entrance. Actually, it didn't matter if we didn't find the entrance or not. The spaceship's armor had been blown to pieces by itself. I could see that people could enter it from anywhere.
The three-hundred-meter-long spaceship was actually quite huge in front of us, especially when it would explode in unexpected places from time to time. If we weren't paying attention, we would be shocked. I was worried that there were still some high-energy equipment in the spaceship that hadn't been released yet. The resulting explosions might further pollute the area. Hence, I used my power to calm the psionic energy surges in the spaceship. The explosions in the spaceship were greatly alleviated. Even the charging armor breathed its last breath. Pandora forcefully pulled a few pieces of armor off the abdomen of the spaceship. It was a blocked personnel passageway.
The three of us entered the spaceship and walked along a crooked alloy corridor until we reached the depths of the wreckage. Surprisingly, we didn't find any corpses. Shallow Shallow scratched her face. "There doesn't seem to be anyone in there."
"Control room." Pandora pointed at the last door in front of us and said concisely.
Only then did I notice that we had reached the end of the corridor. The interior of the spaceship wasn't spacious, and the path from the entrance to the control room was a straight line. The control room's gate was right in front of us. The hexagonal alloy gate was jammed shut. The remaining energy in the locking mechanism supported the hologram in the center of the gate. The hologram showed the warning of "Emergency Closure/Serious Malfunction." Shallow Shallow went up and touched the gate. The gate instantly crumbled into a pile of dust.
The hexagonal control room was a mess. The explosion caused by the psionic energy surges seemed to have hit this place as well. Smoldering equipment and alloy shards fell from the ceiling. The central lighting system had gone offline. There were only three or four backup lights in the corner of the control room. It made the scene look even more pitiful. We looked around the small place. There were no corpses beside the broken seats. The scene was even stranger than we had expected.
I took Jingle out from my pocket and tapped her head with my index finger. "Are there any signs of life here?"
Pandora had scanned the spaceship once before, and there was no living person in the spaceship. This time, I asked Jingle to check if there were any corpses. The Goddess of Life's detection standard was different from that of ordinary life detectors.
Jingle hugged her head and twisted her body in my hand. After looking around, she shook her head. "Jingle didn't find anything. Whether they are alive or were once alive, she didn't find anything."
No pilot … Does that mean this is an unmanned spaceship? But the model doesn't look like it.
Even though I didn't fully understand the models of the Empire's starships, even though I couldn't tell which model it came from just by looking at a prefabricated part like Pandora or Sandora, even though I didn't know which model this fallen apostle spaceship belonged to, I could tell at a glance that it was not an unmanned spaceship. Nonsense, there were so many chairs in the control room.
Pandora looked around with her gray eyes. She was using her scanners to check the equipment here. Then, she suddenly found something. "This can be used."
She said a few words as concisely as usual. Then, she ran to a control panel that seemed to have been completely destroyed. The crystal panel of the control panel had already exploded. A sharp metal fragment that had fallen from the ceiling had pierced through the protective cover at the top. However, after Pandora removed the cover plate below the control panel, she found that the inside of the device was still fine. There were no traces of the crystallized circuits being burnt, which meant that the device had fortunately avoided the psionic energy surge.
Pandora fiddled with it for a while. I didn't understand how she did it, but the dim crystallized circuits lit up again. Then, she turned her finger into a long needle and inserted it into the core of the control panel. She restarted the worn-out device using external connections.
A holographic image appeared above the control panel. The device that was not in good working condition took a long time to adjust before the image came into focus. I saw that it was the interface of the spaceship's mainframe. There was a line of Schilling text at the bottom of the self-test list of the equipment in red. I could read these words as if I was speaking my mother tongue. The content was: Automatic navigation — Mainframe fully autonomous mode.
"Conventional model, but unmanned." Pandora retracted her needle. The control panel flickered a few times before it was completely destroyed.
"Why would the Fallen Apostle send an unmanned scouting spaceship?" I heaved a sigh of relief, but I was also puzzled. "Also, if they wanted to send someone, they should have sent a specialized drone. The unmanned mode of a conventional spaceship is only used for navigation."
I realized that I had asked a question that was a waste. There were only two people by my side. One was Pandora, who only knew how to wield a cannon to protect the world's nuclear stability. The other was Shallow Shallow, who didn't do anything serious other than write that she was here. Between the two of them, who looked like a strategist?
In short, after a thorough inspection, we confirmed that there was really no one in the spaceship. Even the operating system was locked in pure automatic navigation mode. The scouting spaceship's communication recorder was also found. Pandora read through its storage unit, but she didn't find any records of any messages being sent back. This meant that the scouting spaceship had not alerted the Fallen Apostle's headquarters. Everything seemed to be a false alarm. Our plan hadn't been leaked. However, just knowing about it didn't mean anything. I wanted to know what this spaceship was here for … My obsessive-compulsive disorder was acting up!
The three of us came outside with our heads full of confusion. Lin Xue immediately ran over excitedly. "Hey, you guys are out. What's the situation inside?"
"There's not even a shadow." I let out a long sigh. "The spaceship came in on automatic navigation. There's no communication record."
Lin Xue let out a sigh. "Alright … It's just like what I predicted. I just went through the entire operation again and confirmed that it was a great success. This spaceship had zero influence on the entire operation … What's going on?"
"How would I know?" I shrugged. Then, I contacted Visca. "Visca, how's the situation on your side?"
Visca was still hiding in the void transition zone at the edge of the broken world, waiting for a fight. At that moment, he muttered regretfully, "Brother, brother, there's nothing here. There's no enemy chasing us, no detectors, and no suspicious targets. There's only a small group of stones that have been chopped up. Maybe when the world was torn apart, an asteroid belt was sucked in and crushed. I'm so bored. I'm building a house with stones. "
"… Come back. Let's go home."
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