Chapter 1450 Abnormal Area

When Azarena and Cassandra were discussing the possible "self-healing system" of this huge space station in front of the viewing window, Nicholas Egg, who was in charge of the project, was floating in this open "connecting cabin" ", with full curiosity and excitement, he "observed" this metal sanctuary that could be described as "beautiful" in his eyes.

In the eyes of others, the iron ball star at this moment is just wandering aimlessly in the room, but in fact, his incomprehensible perception has penetrated into this maze made of steel and polymers In the depths, under the layers of metal walls, roofs, criss-crossing pipe networks, and passages, the sky stood before his eyes in a more complex, three-dimensional and incredible posture.

He stopped in the middle of the room, "watching" his feet.

There is a deep structure several kilometers thick. Darkness and cold rule the cabins and ancient systems that have never been awakened. This huge space station is in a deep sleep, and it "looks" like... This sleep has continued I don't know how many thousands of years.

In Nicholas's view, this is very abnormal.

He can perceive the amazing level of technology contained in this space station and its own solid structure more clearly than other "people". He knows that such a space giant is actually far more "sturdy and durable" than people imagined. A rough estimate——if the Sky Station fell into a deep sleep due to being too old and disrepaired in the last few hundred or even thousands of years, then everything is understandable, but if it entered hundreds of thousands of years ago In this state... At that time, it should not have suffered much damage at all.

Is there some internal reason that caused the shutdown of the space station? Is it a system-level attack and intrusion? Or those "starters" will accidentally come up with tofu projects?

Nicholas was thinking, and slowly extended his perception deeper. He "saw" those cold metals opening in his "vision" like a receding curtain, and the walls and roof of the space station appeared in his perception. With a hazy and illusory translucent texture, he slowly sank to the vicinity of the main energy grid with a penetrating perspective, which was already close to the ring-shaped central axis of the Sky Station—then, his perception could no longer Deep down.

Even with his special talent, there are times when he is powerless in the face of something astonishingly large as the Sky Station.

The sound of metal knocking footsteps came from beside him, and the voice of Alice RS-6 entered Nicholas' "ears": "Commander, the search in the environment has been completed, and no structure that seems to be a control interface has been found."

Nicholas turned around, and his attention fell on the "Iron Commander" - from his perspective, this "Miss Alice" was a beautiful creature, but this "beauty" did not refer to her Appearance, although her appearance should be considered beautiful by human standards, what Nicholas appreciates more is her exquisite mechanical structure, sophisticated and strong endoskeleton protective shell, and hidden folding and deformation tool modules in her limbs... This The lady is far more beautiful than the grotesque flesh and blood of a human being.

Unfortunately, not a ball.

Nicholas sighed slightly in his heart, and a buzzing voice came from his body: "This should only be a transitional area for the space station staff to stop to rest and enjoy the space scenery. The control nodes of the entire cabin should still be deeper."

"Do you need to go deeper?" Alice RS-6 stared at the "temporary superior" in front of her with inorganic eyes, her expression was as cold and hard as her tone, and her brand-new mental core did not have much about interpersonal communication. Experience is used to adjust your "interaction behavior", but fortunately, the commander in front of you doesn't care about it, "My soldiers and I are currently in good condition."

Nicholas scanned the entire hall, and after confirming the progress of the logistics team setting up the temporary supply point, his body rose and fell slightly: "Notify the dragons and sea monsters to call the advance team, and we will move on."

Under the command of the commander-in-chief, an advance team was quickly organized - the large force will continue to set up camps and supply points in this connected compartment, and the advance team will be led by several team leaders and Mr. Nicholas Egg himself. Continue to the dark and silent cabins ahead.

This elite team of more than ten people left the "rest hall" with a wide viewing window and a good view, and passed through the connecting corridor outside the hall where the lighting and gravity had just been restored. They were inside the silent giant steel beast. While exploring, the dragon members led by Azalena and Belranta walked on the outside of the team, and the iron soldiers led by Alice RS-6 walked side by side with them. Kashan was the pioneer at the front. The siren exploration team led by Della, the commander Nicholas was protected in the middle of the team.

After operating in this ancient space station for dozens of days, this "joint engineering team" and "exploration force" has formed an effective action plan: when going to an unfamiliar area, let the Kraken be the front Pathfinders, dragons with strong individual combat effectiveness and vitality are in the middle of the team to protect the commander, while iron soldiers with multiple detection functions and quick actions are at the end of the team, mainly responsible for scanning and recording the surrounding environment.

As for why the Krakens should be the pioneers in the front... I can only say that they understand everything.

In this way, they passed through multiple connecting corridors, and passed several temporarily locked gates in the middle. From Nicholas' perception, the team seemed to be approaching the end of the current "ring", and the energy flow deep in the surrounding walls also began. Gradually become less stable.

According to experience, this means that there is another "disabled section" ahead. Some kind of load balancing mechanism is trying to transfer the energy of the normal section to the critical system in the disabled section. This "deployment" has caused the current area insufficient energy supply.

At this moment, an extraordinarily tall gate appeared at the end of the connecting passage, standing in the eyes of the advance team members.

The gate is as tall as a city gate, and its width seems to accommodate several steel chariots passing side by side. Some unknown "logos" can also be seen on the silver-white alloy gate-similar logos have appeared many times in the space station, It is not a text or a decoration, but is most likely a mark representing a certain department or a certain ethnic group in the Voyager Fleet.

In addition, the lights in the corridor around this door are obviously much dimmer than the previous cabins, and a dark red gleam can be seen floating slowly somewhere near the door frame.

One of the sea monster explorers crawled to the gate with its tail wagging, poked the cold alloy door with the tip of its tail, and waved back to the others: "No response."

"The energy supply is interrupted again...but this is the first time I have seen such a large gate," Nicholas muttered, scanning the mechanical structure near the gate while saying to others, "The control mechanism of the gate seems to be intact, but there is no Activate, I am trying to transfer the lighting energy in the nearby area to the control mechanism of the gate, but it is best to confirm whether there is any danger on the other side before opening the gate."

"Let me come," the Kraken explorers who went to the gate to test it immediately volunteered to pat their chests, "This door doesn't seem to be completely closed, I feel that there are some small gaps at the bottom, waiting for me to flow in have a look!"

As soon as the voice fell, the whole body of the siren lady exploded into a cloud of water mist, and then the water mist shrank again, condensing into a puddle. Under some weird gazes, the living puddle began to flow towards the huge door not far away, and gradually penetrated into the gap at the bottom of the door.

Just like what the Kraken lady said, the door was not closed for some reason, it left a little gap, the gap was so small that it was hard to detect with the naked eye, but it was enough for a sea monster to seep in...

After a while, the living puddle completely seeped into the opposite side of the gate under the eyes of everyone. Azalena immediately looked up at Cassandra who was not far away, and asked a question she often asked each other these days Ask: "Is it dead?"

"Not yet," Cassandra waved her hand while sensing the breath coming from the opposite side of the gate, "She is reorganizing...the situation seems to be good...ah, there is news! She said that there is a very, very big It's an open space, and everything else seems to be normal except for the lighting failure, the temperature, air pressure and gravity are all right, um..."

Cassandra frowned, as if she was listening carefully to the information shared by the siren on the other side of the door through psionic echoes, her tone gradually became strange: "She said... there seemed to be a very huge tree in the dark, and It might not be a tree, but something else, she felt that the atmosphere in front of it was a bit weird, and she didn't dare to approach it for a while—but she was not in danger at the current position."

"A very huge tree? And it doesn't have to be a tree? What kind of mess?" The red dragon Belranta muttered subconsciously, but it seemed that she was used to the reliable and unreliable performance of these siren teammates. , and quickly turned his gaze to the commander of the team, "Mr. Nicholas, there doesn't seem to be much danger on the other side of the door. Do you want to open the door?"

Nicholas hesitated for a moment, and then quickly made a decision: "Everyone step back, I'm going to open the door."

Everyone immediately retreated as ordered, Nicholas himself also dodged to a safer place, and then he began to try to control the control system behind the door according to the experience he had accumulated in the past dozens of days—in fact, he did not directly control the flow of energy ability, but here, the energy flow of most facilities is based on material carriers, and no matter how delicate and subtle these material carriers are, they are "obedient metals" that can be controlled in his perception, and in his fine and ingenious Under the control, some original energy circuits were slightly adjusted, and the door controller, which was originally exhausted in energy, gradually woke up.

The lights in the nearby corridor gradually dimmed, and a low humming sound came from both sides of the gate. The huge gate that looked extremely strong finally receded to both sides.

An unusually vast space shrouded in darkness appeared in front of Azarena.

"This is..." Azalena looked at this place in astonishment, which was wider than the "Assembly Hall" in the previous traffic compartment. Even though everything in her field of vision was shrouded in darkness, she still noticed it immediately. The place is astonishingly wide and the height of its dome is even more astonishing, and in that seemingly endless dark space, she saw some hazy shadows, a few glimmers of light like emergency lights flickering in the interlacing of shadows Then, an even weirder and weirder outline of light and shadow was outlined in the darkness. This scene made her nervous, "This place is different from the 'style' of all the previous areas..."

"Look at that one over there!" Belranta suddenly pointed to the depths of the darkness, "Is that the 'tree' that Miss Kraken mentioned?"

Azalena immediately looked in the direction of the other's finger, and in the darkness, she finally saw the unusually huge outline—there were a large number of shadowy things like thorns or crystal spikes "extending" from the ground. " came out, hovered and entangled and spread to a high place, and when it spread halfway, it showed a gesture of spreading around. The dim light brought by the emergency lights made those "coiling thorns" appear like tree trunks, tree crowns, and bare roots. The same outline, at first glance...it really looks like a giant tree.

But that's definitely not a tree.

"Lighting - need more lighting here!"

Azalena said loudly, and at the same time raised her hand to release a lighting technique, at the same time she couldn't help but feel a little doubt in her heart——

With the dragonborn's night vision ability, how could he not see things here clearly?

Although the hall is dim, it is not completely devoid of light. There are many light sources that look like emergency lights in the field of vision. With the opening of the door, the corridors outside are also brightly lit. It stands to reason that there will be a lot of light coming in through the open door. This hall, but why...it's still so dark here that the dragon's eyes seem to be covered with a shadow here, as if those lights were suppressed by some kind of force in the dark depths?

Accompanied by these doubts that suddenly emerged in her heart, the lighting light ball in Azalena's hand has already flown into the sky, followed by a dozen large and small lighting light balls released by other people-these are enough to make the whole world feel alive in an instant. The brightly lit magical light sources in the hall were scattered, but the darkness in the entire hall was only slightly dispelled.

All the magic light spheres seemed to be suppressed by an invisible force, and the light they emitted quickly decayed in the darkness, almost to nothing.

Azalena stared fixedly at the "illumination techniques" floating in mid-air, like faint bright spots, and suddenly realized one thing——

The dim light sources that look like "emergency lights" in this hall are not actually emergency lighting - those are lighting systems running at full power.

It is some kind of powerful shadow power that floods here, suppressing all the lighting, and even turning "darkness" into something like an inherent attribute, endowing this entire hall!

"Everyone is on alert, the environment is abnormal!" The clear and cold voice of Alice RS-6 sounded in the hall, and the accompanying iron soldiers immediately entered a state of combat readiness. The giant dragons and dragon descendants also activated their protective equipment, ready to deal with dangerous things emerging from the darkness.

Even the sea-monsters, who have always been careless, reacted quickly. In a series of splashing sounds, they turned into huge sea monsters, sea beasts with shells, and even tentacles imitating the god of storms. In the darkness, these The deep-sea creatures have turned into a circle of indescribable barriers of harmonious gods to protect their teammates.

Azalena looked around and swallowed.

It’s really hard to say whether this weird hall is scary or this gang of sea monsters who turn into gods when they disagree with each other is scary...

But in this extremely tense atmosphere, nothing changed in the hall.

(Mom!)