Looking at the image transmitted by the Deep Space Probe, both my and Araya's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. The latter even straightened his wings, looking just like a kite that was about to soar into the sky.
I thought that I was seeing things, so I let the Deep Space Probe get closer to take a closer look. In the end, I got a clearer look: a long axis of more than eighty kilometers, silver armor, blue decorative paint, thick and oppressive overall silhouette, and the front of the spaceship that looked like a flying coffin no matter how I looked at it from afar. What else could this be other than a Schilling's Eternal-class spaceship? At the very least, I had never seen another civilization design their mothership to look like a coffin …
But after a closer look, I did notice that this spaceship was slightly different from the Eternal-class spaceships made by the Empire. It had an enlarged cabin at the back and was equipped with many crystal arrays. It looked like a crow's nest or a universal magnifying antenna, but apart from that difference, it was no different from an ordinary Eternal-class spaceship. Very quickly, the Deep Space Probe found a huge cross emblem on the side of the spaceship. There was no mistaking that blue crystal emblem. This spaceship's Schilling lineage was undeniable.
"An Empire spaceship!" Araya stood up in a huff and then, as though he had practiced this countless times, he fell to the side with his left foot on his right foot. Even as he lay on the ground, he shouted, "Brother Monarch, it's an Empire spaceship! Did the Matriarch and the others find this place? "
The first thought that came to my mind was that Shallow Shallow and Lin Xue had led a 'rescue team' here. So, I used the Deep Space Probe as a relay to send a communication request to the Eternal-class spaceship that had suddenly appeared. But … the message disappeared like a clay ox into the sea, there was no response at all.
Not only was there no response, the holographic projection in front of us also extinguished with a sizzle. The Deep Space Probe had been destroyed.
"What's going on?" The silly cat angel was not in a daze. "That spaceship doesn't belong to the Empire?"
"I don't know. That spaceship is strange. It doesn't even have a communication signal." I frowned as I put away the equipment in front of me. "The Deep Space Probe seemed to have been shot down by an automatic surveillance drone. Let's go and take a look."
"Roar." Alaya patted the dust off her body. She spread her wings and disappeared in an instant. I waited patiently for a few seconds and the lady appeared before me again. "Brother Monarch, where's the spaceship?"
… If someone with abnormal blood pressure was placed in the same room as Alaya, how many times would they have to rescue him within three days?
We covered the distance of twenty light years in the blink of an eye. A moment later, I led the silly Alaya to a vast expanse of space. This was the final coordinates left behind by the Deep Space Probe before it was destroyed. In front of us, the wreckage of the two armies that had just been annihilated from the civil war were still floating in space. Fortunately, the mysterious Empire's spaceship hadn't gone far. In fact, it hadn't even left. That spaceship was currently patrolling around the edge of the battlefield, as though it was waiting for Alaya and me to arrive.
We didn't disguise ourselves and just casually teleported in front of the target. Alaya was glowing like a human light bulb. Her three-meter wingspan and perpetually glowing angel sister had always been a powerful weapon on the battlefield. That was why the mysterious Eternal Battleship of unknown origin immediately noticed us two uninvited guests. In that instant, I felt at least seventy or eighty sets of radars and the like staring at me. I wasn't sure if I was imagining things, but I could also feel the energy flow of the weapons when they were activated … Did this spaceship think that we were enemies?
However, just as Alaya had activated her Holy Light shield and I was prepared for battle, the spaceship suddenly 'stopped'. The feeling of being locked on by the enemy detection system disappeared. The enemy detection system didn't really activate its weapons either. It only silently observed the two uninvited guests in front of it. In theory, a spaceship shouldn't have a line of sight, but I felt as though the coffin that was more than eighty kilometers long was staring at me.
"Brother Monarch, someone else is coming." Alaya suddenly tugged on my sleeve and said through a mental link.
There were people on the grayish-green planet below us. Ten minutes ago, they were busy fighting a civil war with their compatriots living in a space city. Then, the Eternal Battleship suddenly appeared and blew up all the troops on both sides. Even if you used your toes to think, you could imagine how confused and frantic the locals were right now. It was as though Germany was in a war with the entire Europe during World War II. Suddenly, a group of people from the Zenith Empire appeared and flattened all of Europe. In an instant, the entire world felt hot and cold, and all humans were stunned for a moment …
Of course, someone had to come and take a look at the situation. That Eternal Battleship of unknown origin had only fired one shot. After that, it stayed in their high orbit and didn't move for the past ten minutes. Since the natives of the grayish-green planet had the ability to fight a space war with their own people, they should have at least sent a few young soldiers to take a look at the situation.
"They should be coming for that Eternal Battleship. There's no need for us to be entangled with these natives." I tugged on Alaya's wing and moved closer to the mysterious spaceship that was more than a hundred kilometers away. "Let's go and take a look at the situation on that spaceship first. I feel that it's very strange."
I tugged on Alaya's wing as we flew forward. As we flew, he waved his hands and feet. "Brother Monarch, why are you grabbing my wing? You can grab my arm … "
I turned my head and chuckled. "A big target is easy to aim at …" Of course, that wasn't the real reason.
I reckoned that in many people's minds, the scene of traveling with an angel would be very romantic. Grabbing onto a young lady's slender hand and walking in the sky while the angel's wings gently flapped behind the young lady's back. Such a scene, taken from any angle, could be thrown onto a computer's desktop for ten years. That was why I was certain that pulling on Alaya's wing and dragging him forward would definitely shatter countless people's romantic fantasies. But actually, this was the only normal way to be with this lady. Did you know that her wingspan is three meters? Did you know how strong her wings are when she flaps them? Did you know that this idiot often forgets that there's someone beside her? When you're traveling with her, you have to stay at least one and a half meters away from her or grab onto her wings and don't flap them randomly. Otherwise, you'll be covered in bruises. Did you know that? Back then, when my body wasn't that strong, she forcefully slapped me into a medical pod several times!
We quickly circled to the side of the nameless Eternal Starship. The native spaceship that flew out from the grayish-green planet below to investigate the situation stopped a few hundred kilometers away from the Eternal Starship. Looking at how carefully they circled around, it was obvious that they didn't dare to recklessly approach this incomparably huge and terrifying thing that could save the world with a single shot. This was good as well. It would prevent people from disturbing us.
Alaya and I searched for the entrance on the Eternal Starship. This spaceship was indeed different from the standard spaceships of the Empire. We didn't even know where the entrance was. Thus, we could only search slowly. During this period of time, I tried to contact the spaceship several times. However, the spaceship in front of me was like a lifeless steel grave. Not to mention a reply, I didn't even receive any internal communication signal from the spaceship.
It was clearly firing its cannons and destroying the probes. It was as lively as it could be. But now, it was as quiet as a ghost ship.
"Big Brother Monarch, the entire spaceship doesn't seem to have an entrance. There isn't even a passage for supplies." Alaya searched elsewhere for a while and floated back after finding nothing. She gathered a white light in her hand. This light extended to the outer shell of the spaceship and covered the entire starship with an almost undetectable brightness. Speaking of which, if she had such a brilliant detection technique, why did I have to waste so much effort?
"There's no entrance?" I raised my eyebrows. "Could such a large spaceship be pilotless? Er … Eternal Starships do seem to be pilotless. But did the Old Empire create an Eternal Starship that was pilotless? "
After eliminating the possibility that it came from the New Empire, I was now assuming that this spaceship was a relic of the Old Empire. In any case, I had met many "relics of history" in the past two years. It would be normal to meet one that wasn't registered in the records in this remote universe.
"I don't think so …" Alaya shook her head uncertainly. She didn't know much about technological equipment. In other words, she didn't know anything. "I think I heard Pandora say that an Eternal Starship's combat power is only guaranteed when it's manned. Also, if the person isn't on the spaceship, they won't be able to experience the joy of firing the Galaxy Cannons … The Warlord and the others are special cases."
The joy of firing the Galaxy Cannons … As expected, it was Pandora's style of speech.
I raised my head and looked at the spaceship's armor that was as vast as the earth. I found a way to enter the spaceship. "Isn't that the carrier's ejection port? Let's enter from there. "
The carrier's ejection port was sealed. Unless the Eternal Starship's own escort team attacked, this port would be covered with a layer of rechargeable armor all year round. However, compared to the thicker main armor around it, the plate covering the ejection port was obviously easier to deal with. Moreover, it wouldn't cause a chain reaction in the spaceship's positioning system. After all, we didn't intend to dismantle the entire spaceship.
At this moment, Alaya finally showed some use. She placed the tip of her wings on the door and spun around like a compass. The Holy Light burned a two-meter wide hole through which we entered the spaceship.
Then, we found that the place was indeed deserted.
The carrier's ejection port was a wide corridor with no atmosphere. It was hundreds of meters wide. The interior was brightly lit, and autonomous robots could be seen flying around to repair the spaceship. The floor and the walls of the corridor were filled with moving lights and signals. However, apart from these cold automatic devices, there wasn't a single person in sight.
A normal Eternal-class starship, on the other hand, must have sentinel troops in places that were vulnerable to invasion, such as the carrier-based aircraft ejection channel. Although these sentinel troops were not very useful against invaders like the scorpion soldiers, they were still indispensable.
Alaya and I quickly flew through the lifeless corridor. At first, we were worried that we would be attacked by the spaceship's defense system (after all, we had used brute force to cut open its outer shell). However, after a few minutes, we didn't see any sentinel cannons rising from under the armor plates. Even though we didn't activate our camouflage, Alaya was as bright as a searchlight the entire time. The spaceship didn't seem to have any intention of clearing out the invaders. We even brushed past a dozen autonomous robots along the way. These maintenance workers also ignored the 'invaders'.
"Something's wrong." Even a fool like Alaya knew that something was wrong. "Didn't this spaceship destroy our probes earlier? Why doesn't it seem to be hostile now? "
I was also curious about this problem. Let's say that it recognized us, but the spaceship didn't respond to our calls. Let's say that it still refused to make contact with us, but the spaceship's alarm system didn't respond to 'destruction' or 'invasion'. Moreover, the spaceship's mainframe didn't seem to be paralyzed … This place was indeed strange. However, I couldn't answer Alaya's question. I could only pull her deeper into the spaceship.
At the end of the ejection port was a transparent energy shield. This shield should have a 'discriminating filter' function, but Alaya and I, the two 'invaders', easily penetrated the shield and entered the middle section of the spaceship.
A normal artificial atmosphere appeared around us, and the gravity system was more stable. The corridor in front of us was brightly lit, and the data devices on both sides of the corridor were operating as usual. All signs indicated that the spaceship was operating normally, and the mainframe was online.
However, it was unusually silent.
"Searching. Spaceship serial number, origin, destination, whether to carry a mission?" I found a humming public data terminal in the inner corridor. After issuing a series of commands, I received the expected answer, which was … no response.
It was as though the mainframe of the spaceship had gone silent.
"Brother Monarch, I feel that someone is watching us …" At this moment, the angel sister suddenly spread her wings and soared into the sky. Her wings sprinkled white light, and rays of holy radiance spread in all directions. But soon, she landed again. "It seems like an illusion."
"It's not an illusion. I felt it too." I frowned and looked around. However, the feeling of being watched had disappeared. There was no one in my sight or my spiritual senses. "Anyway, be careful. This spaceship … is stranger than the Specter Ship."
The angel sister unsheathed her Holy Light sword and got into a fighting stance. At the same time, a large halo spread out from her body. The light condensed into mini angels within a ten-meter radius, and they quickly disappeared from our sight along the corridor.
"The holy doppelgangers are very fast in searching. Once they discover something, I can switch positions with them or forcefully teleport anything within the doppelganger's line of sight to me." Alaya explained his rarely used skill. "There must be someone in this spaceship … I felt someone looking at us just now."
I was surprised by the little angels that Alaya had released. "Why do they look so strange? They are so fat … "
"I've watched a lot of dramas recently. If you eat too much mental food, your doppelganger will become fat."
I was speechless. What kind of mystical body does this fellow have!
From the outer layer to the middle layer of the spaceship, there wasn't a single soul to be seen. Along the way, be it the autonomous robots, sentry cannons or machine guns, all of them seemed to ignore the 'intruders'. However, the feeling of being spied on still lingered in my mind from time to time. Confused and surprised, Alaya and I slowly arrived at the inner layer of the spaceship. What appeared before us was a small forest.
And a … pastry house hidden in the small forest?!
Pastry house?! Oh my gosh, this really is a pastry house! It really is a house made of all kinds of pastries!
Alaya and I stared at the pastry house that seemed to have come out of a fairytale. Its outer walls were made of chocolate, the door was made of hard bread, the glass was made of sugar crystals and the roof was made of cake tiles. We could smell a sweet aroma from 20 meters away from the house. I couldn't explain how such a large house could be built with such soft materials without collapsing. However, it was obvious that it shouldn't have appeared in this place … Unless the owner of this spaceship was a performance artist.
"It looks delicious." The silly cat angel didn't seem to notice anything wrong with the scene in front of her. She curiously moved forward and sniffed. Then, she dug out a piece of chocolate from the wall. "Brother Monarch, it really is chocolate!"
I said, "… Don't just randomly pick up things to eat …"
Before I could finish my sentence, the fairytale cake house in front of me suddenly disappeared. The surrounding forest that was brimming with vitality also rapidly lost its color. The flowers, trees, rivers, pebbles, everything faded away like flowing water. Very quickly, all that was left was the pale white ground and the alloy cabin wall that could be faintly seen in the distance. This scene was as though a large-scale projection was shutting down or a dream was about to wake up.
A voice came from behind me. "Ah Jun? Alaya? You guys really came from the outside? "
I was shocked and immediately turned my head to look. As expected, there was a golden-haired girl in a blue dress standing behind me. Her ocean-blue eyes were filled with astonishment. Wasn't this Sandora?!
"Sandora?!" I was even more astonished than the other party. The glorious image of Ulysses Imperial Power flashed in my mind. "Weren't you in a deep sleep?! You should be at least 20 light years away from here … "
"Deep sleep …" Sandora frowned. Her eyes changed from confusion to clarity a few times. I noticed that as her expression changed, the surrounding scenery started to tremble. Some strange colors appeared out of nowhere and disappeared quickly. The ground became transparent and soft, as though everything here was slowly dissolving. "Let me check my condition … Yes, I am indeed in a deep sleep. However, there seems to be some power leaking out. It seems like you guys have entered by mistake."
As she said that, Sandora stretched her waist, instantly showing off her elegant figure. "Although I haven't slept enough, we have more important matters to attend to. Wake up first."
When Sandora finished speaking, the scenery that was already showing signs of loosening started to tremble violently at an unprecedented frequency. A large amount of crazily distorted colors surged in front of us and flowed past us like water. However, Alaya and I were in the center of this storm, but we didn't feel anything at all. In fact, before we could even react, everything had already ended.
The stars flickered and disappeared, replaced by another starry sky. The entire universe from before had silently collapsed in just two seconds.
It was like waking up from a dream.
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