Chapter 429 The Cursed Ship

No one could refuse the inquisitor's request. Soon, the hatch of the planetary cracker opened, and Duanmuhuai drove the Night Crow Black Star slowly into it. Then he turned his head and looked at the people behind him.

"Here, I want to remind you that from now on, you are my servants, the Great Inquisitor Duan Muhuai. You must not doubt or even object to any of my words. Simply put, you must obey them unconditionally. Do you understand my order?"

"That's...okay."

Although they didn’t know why Duanmu Huai said this, the girls nodded obediently. Of course, to be on the safe side, Duanmu Huai asked them all to put on cloaks and masks. Then he opened the hatch and walked out of the night crow. black Star.

At this moment, on the tarmac, a man with oily hair and powdered face, whose hair seemed to have not been washed properly in several years, was standing there, looking at Duanmuhuai uneasily. When he saw the rose knot on Duanmu Huai's chest, this effeminate-looking man almost rolled his eyes and breathed out, but he still took out his handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly came In front of Duanmu Huai, he humbly lowered his head.

"Huan, welcome to the Iron Hammer. Dear Judge, I am Murphy, the captain of the Iron Hammer. This... How can I help you?"

"Report your situation."

Duanmuhuai strode forward without even looking at the captain.

"I want to know what this ship is doing here now, and what you all have done."

"This, of course... As you can see, the Iron Hammer is a planetary cracking ship. We are doing planetary cracking and refining work here... We pull the strata on the surface of the planet through gravity cables and then break them down. , explore the mineral deposits and refine them, this... We have complete imperial procedures, the USS is a regular imperial enterprise, we absolutely do not..."

"You don't need to tell me this. I can see it with my own eyes."

Duanmuhuai interrupted the captain unceremoniously. The latter's body trembled suddenly, and then he lowered his head. Duanmuhuai, on the other hand, looked around and walked towards the captain's room. At the same time, he began to think carefully.

What happened on this ship?

Logically speaking, if something happened to a human empire warship, it was either desecrated by the evil god, invaded by the Zerg, or it might have encountered subspace erosion and storms. But if this is the case, then they will not form soul fragments, but will be directly absorbed into the evil god's subspace realm.

Since this battleship has soul fragments, it means that this ship must have encountered some kind of unimaginable problem.

However, these problems... have nothing to do with demons and aliens?

Could it be that heretics are causing trouble?

After arriving at the captain's room, Duanmu Huai looked at the captain and asked.

"Has anything strange happened on your ship?"

"this……………"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's inquiry, the captain shook his head.

"Sorry, Lord Inquisitor, I did not receive any report..."

"I need all the reports, including the recent entry and exit records of this ship, the records of mineral collection, and the recent casualties of the crew. Also, find someone familiar with this ship. This place has been commandeered by the Inquisition. ,you understand me."

"Of course...I'll go now, please wait..."

After leaving these words, the captain hurriedly left, while Duanmu Huai sat on the magnificent sofa with his eyes closed to relax. Ogis sat on the left side of his shoulder, Lani sat on the right side, and Ann and Gulea sat on both sides, looking around uneasily.

Duanmu Huai didn't open his eyes until there was silence all around.

"How's it going? What did you find?"

"I didn't notice any special fluctuations in this place."

Lani shook her head, while Ann gave the same answer, and Gu Leiya hesitated.

"I don't know, I always have a bad feeling... This place seems weird..."

Duanmuhuai didn't speak. He narrowed his eyes and tapped his fingers lightly on the table in front of him. Ever since he entered the battleship, he had a strange feeling. It was a nervous and exciting feeling. It was as if he would encounter something dangerous, but something related to him.

"Mr. Knight, do you think...what happened to this battleship? That it was destroyed?"

An lowered her voice and asked softly.

"For now? I'm not sure. Generally speaking, this situation is either infected with some kind of plague, or it may be an attack by outsiders, or an invasion of Zerg. In fact, I am more inclined to think that these guys may have dug up something." Something to dig into.”

Duanmu Huai feels that the last one is more likely. After all, to create a world of soul fragments, it requires an instantaneous explosion that exceeds the endurance limit, just like when certain values ​​exceed the critical point and cause the computer to crash. If it is a plague or a Zerg invasion, it will obviously not reach this intensity, and if it is an evil god, it will be swallowed directly into the subspace.

So...it's more likely that primitive people dug up a nuclear bomb and then exploded it...the world was clean.

perhaps.

Not long after, the knock on the door rang again, and then the captain walked in and handed a document to Duan Muhuai respectfully. The latter took the document and began to read it quickly.

Judging from the report, this planet cracking ship is quite regular. Every three months, a transport team will come here to transport supplies and at the same time transport away the refined minerals and raw materials here. At other times, this planet-breaking ship acts according to the company's instructions. Generally speaking, judging from these records, there is nothing special...

Duanmu Huai looked at the line of records below and frowned.

"Fifteen miners died accidentally three days ago? What was the reason?"

"Those idiots got the procedure wrong."

When talking about this topic, the captain was also speechless.

"They were supposed to replace the previous shift of workers and perform maintenance and repair work on the gravity cable. However, when changing maintenance suits, one of them opened the cabin door without pressurization, causing an unimaginable leak in the entire cabin. and the explosion - thanks to them, I had to stop work to make repairs until everything was back to normal. Fortunately I asked the lawyer that this was not a work injury and no compensation was required."

"Logically speaking, the hatch cannot be opened without pressurization."

"I don't know about that, maybe there's something wrong somewhere."

"Is there any video of that time?"

"certainly."

The captain nodded.

"This is evidence that the company will seek compensation from them in the future."

As he spoke, the captain came to the terminal and opened it. Soon, an image appeared in front of Duanmu Huai. In the video, in the locker room, a group of miners were changing maintenance clothes. Then one of them was seen walking slowly to the hatch door as if sleepwalking after changing the maintenance clothes, and then reached out and pressed the button. button. Immediately following the piercing siren, other workers who were changing into protective clothing also saw this scene. They either shouted to stop the guy, or put on protective clothing in a hurry.

Unfortunately, it was too late. At the next moment, the entire hatch suddenly burst open, and then the workers were sucked out and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"etc."

Duanmuhuai stretched out his hand and pointed at one foot of the screen—one foot could be vaguely seen among the messy debris.

"Are there survivors?"

"Yes, he is Keller, the foreman of this class, but he is crazy."

"crazy?"

"Yes."

The captain nodded.

"He was wearing a maintenance suit at the time, so he escaped. But after we rescued him, he kept talking nonsense. The doctor thought he might have been too stimulated and suffered a mental disorder, so he was given an injection. Tranquilizer, but the effect is not ideal..."

"I want to see him."

Duanmu Huai put down the report.

"Where is he?"

"In the intensive care unit of the medical area... I will send someone to take you there."

Soon, a man who looked like the captain's deputy appeared in front of Duanmuhuai. He lowered his head and did not dare to look at Duanmuhuai. He just led them deep into the battleship and took the elevator through. After passing several areas, the group came to the medical area.

And here, Duanmu Huai finally met the man the captain said was crazy.

At this moment, he was locked in a room, his whole body was tightly bound with restraints, and even his mouth was gagged.

"How is this going?"

Duanmuhuai looked at the doctor next to him, who spread his hands helplessly.

"This is not my idea, but he is so crazy. Ever since he regained consciousness, he has been crazy and trying to commit suicide. Although I tried using large doses of sedatives and drugs, they had no effect. There was no limit, so in the end we had to restrain him like this and wait until the transport ship arrived a few days later to send him back.”

"I want to talk to him."

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai opened the door and walked in, then came to the side of the tied man. Then he stretched out his hand and opened the belt. However, at the moment when the belt restraining the man was released, only The man suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Duanmu Huai's arm. This scene also made An and Gu Leya take a step back in fright. But Duanmuhuai didn't care, he just stared into the man's eyes.

They were cloudy, red, fragmented eyes.

"Tell me, what happened to you?"

Duanmu Huai stared at the man and asked coldly, then he took off the thing that was stuffed in the man's mouth. At the same time, a shrill scream rose from the ground, almost making everyone tremble. However, the next moment, the cold, destructive and fearful aura erupted from Duanmu Huai's body, completely stopping the man's wailing.

"Answer my question, what happened to you!"

Duanmuhuai glared at the man fiercely, and the man's originally cloudy eyes seemed to slowly regain their consciousness.

"No, no, it's not my fault! It's not my fault! I don't know why it happened like this! Kyle is not normal. He has been abnormal since working early that morning. He seemed to have had some kind of nightmare. His whole body In a daze, I originally asked him to rest and not schedule work! But he refused, he said he was going out, and he said someone was calling him outside... I didn't know what he was talking about, and I didn't expect it! He would do that kind of thing! And..."

As he said this, the man's expression became more distorted and frightened. His hands clutched his head, even leaving streaks of blood.

"After that, I heard it, too! It was inviting me out too! No, I don't want to go out! No...!"

The man's bloody face was twisted and hideous, while Duanmu Huai continued to stare at him.

"Who wants you to go out? What did you hear?"

"…………………………"

This time, the man did not answer. His eyes, which had gradually recovered their clarity, seemed to become cloudy again at this moment.

Then, the man opened his mouth.

However, what emerged from his mouth was not the man's hysterical voice, but a crisp, childish girl's voice.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, the sky is full of little stars......"

The girl's singing echoed throughout the room, making people's hair stand on end. Then, the next moment, the man stared at Duanmu Huai, showing a weird smile, and then his neck suddenly tilted - just like that, he died.

"…………………"

Duanmu Huai silently threw away the body in his hand and stared at the infinite starry sky outside the window.

"It seems that we are in trouble."

Then, he spoke.