Chapter 948 If You Don’t Take the Road to Heaven, You Will Be Thrown Into Hell.
Normandy SR-2.
After the battle with the Reapers, the battleship underwent a series of modifications and is now in the process of cruising again.
"To be honest, Commander, I don't understand why we have to go all the way to the Asari system to cruise."
Adjutant Ashley Williams frowned and stared at the screen in front of her dissatisfiedly.
"The original Asari galaxy."
Brother Shepard corrected, then looked at the screen in front of him. Although the war with the Reapers has passed, the aftermath of this war has not dissipated. Because of the indulgence of the Inquisition, the Reapers did wipe out most of the alien races, but some alien races survived. The mission of the Normandy SR-2 is to find out if there are shelters on other planets, or if anyone has sent out a distress signal, so that they can investigate and rescue these survivors.
"Commander, we received an indiscriminately transmitted signal."
"Oh? Let it out."
At this moment, the driver suddenly reported, and Brother Shepard also hurriedly issued an order.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Soon, a series of screams came from the loudspeaker, and a voice muttered that was almost inaudible, like whispering prayers. The sound was so hoarse and shrill that the soldiers on the bridge couldn't help but get goosebumps when they heard the sound.
"This is……………"
"…………"
Brother Shepard was silent for a moment, then looked at his subordinates.
"Can you pinpoint the source?"
"Yes, the coordinates of the message transmission point have been locked."
"Very well, let's go take a look."
"yes."
Soon, following the order from Brother Shepard, the Normandy SR-2 suddenly accelerated, and a moment later, they crossed most of the galaxy and arrived at a remote area of this galaxy. Soon after, everyone saw... a huge battleship.
"Isn't that the battleship of the Inquisition?"
Seeing this scene, Brother Shepard couldn't help shouting, and everyone nodded. After all, the Inquisition's warship full of religious and artistic features is truly unique in the world. If nothing else, just looking at the magnificent church above and the densely packed macro cannon muzzles on both sides, you can be sure that this is definitely the Inquisition's warship.
"According to the information of the Tribunal, this should be a moon-class cruiser..."
Brother Shepard took out the information and compared it.
"Why is it here?"
"No obvious signs of damage were observed on the exterior."
"Connect communications."
"Yes! This is Star Alliance Normandy SR-2. If you hear me, please answer."
"……………………"
"This is Star Alliance Normandy SR-2. Please answer if you hear me."
"……………………"
"Report to Commander, no response."
"This is how to do………"
Looking at the battleship in front of him, Brother Shepard was in trouble for a moment.
"Report the situation of this battleship to the command center and ask them to notify the Inquisition."
"yes."
In Brother Shepard's view, this was the safest way. However, just a moment later, the communications officer brought him an order.
"Commander Shepard, contact from within the Star Alliance."
"Internal liaison?"
Hearing the communications officer's answer, Brother Shepard was stunned for a moment, and then went to the conference room at the back and connected the quantum communication. Then, Brother Shepard saw a senior Star Alliance Navy officer appear in front of him.
"Sir."
"Well, hello, Commander Shepard."
The latter nodded.
"I got a report from Normandy. You discovered an Inquisition warship?"
"Yes, sir, the preliminary judgment is that it should be a Moon-class cruiser. It has sent out a distress signal before, but we contacted it just now, but there was no response. We think this matter may be handled more appropriately by the Inquisition."
"Well, that's true, but..."
"but?"
"We hope the ship will be taken over by Starfleet."
"…………Sir?"
Hearing what the senior Star Alliance officials said, Brother Shepard was completely dumbfounded.
"this…………"
"The current situation of this warship is unknown, and it is not necessarily a warship of the Tribunal, right? In this case, we can first send an investigation team to investigate and see the specific situation of this ship. After confirming its specific identity, we can contact It’s not too late to contact the Tribunal, what do you think?”
"this……………"
Brother Shepard is not stupid. What the other party said was high-sounding, but he knew that it was the Star Alliance's technique to slander the Tribunal, and he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to do something...
"This is an order, Commander."
"clear."
If it were Sister Shepard, she might not care about what these idiots think. But Brother Shepard is obedient after all. Since this is an order from the Star Alliance Navy Headquarters, he has to obey it.
So soon, Brother Shepard issued the order.
"Star Alliance Headquarters wants us to conduct a comprehensive investigation of this ship to find out what happened inside."
"Commander, are you kidding me?"
Hearing the order from Shepard's brother, the soldiers were all confused. Are you kidding? This battleship is five kilometers long. Just one look at it shows that it will take more than ten days or half a month to complete the journey. Why are you asking us to investigate?
"I know a little bit about this kind of battleship. In short, we just need to go to the bridge to check what happened to this ship."
When fighting against the Reapers, the Shepard siblings had briefly stayed on the battleship of the Inquisition for a period of time, and they were familiar with the general layout. This is why Shepard's brother chose to take on this task. Soon, he took his adjutant Ashley and a team of Star Alliance soldiers and left the Normandy SR-2 on an airship and flew towards the battleship in front of them.
"I always feel that... this battleship looks so weird."
Looking at the battleship floating silently in space under the sunlight, Ashley shuddered.
"It's like a steel coffin."
"Be careful."
Brother Shepard didn't say anything, but just carefully watched the battleship in front of him and pointed in the direction.
"That's the hangar over there. If everything is OK, we should be able to open the hangar door from there and go in."
"Yes, Commander."
As the airship approached, the heavy hangar door slowly opened, and then a group of people took the airship into the hangar. Just as they were about to find a place to land, suddenly, they saw the plasma turret in the hangar slowly move and quickly lock them.
"Report to the commander, we are locked!"
"Boom!"
Before Brother Shepard gave the order, there was a loud noise, and the next moment the airship lost power and fell heavily on the deck while spinning.
"Woo............!"
After a long while, Brother Shepard stood up and looked around.
"Is everyone okay? Are you all right?"
"Nothing..."
"Still alive..."
"I'm fine, Commander..."
Hearing the answers from others one after another, Brother Shepard finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then a group of people hurriedly got out of the wreckage of the airship and looked at the vehicle in front of them - well, it was obviously completely scrapped.
"What should we do, sir?"
"I'll try to contact Normandy. This is Shepard, SR-2 Normandy. Please answer if you hear me."
"…………………………"
However, no matter how Brother Shepard called, there was no response.
"Communications are blocked. There must be something wrong with this ship."
As Brother Shepard spoke, he looked up and looked around. The entire hangar was empty and looked extremely dark, but the lights on the top of the hangar showed that the battleship seemed to still have energy supply.
"Let's go to the bridge. Maybe we can use the communication system of this battleship to contact Normandy."
At this point, everyone had no other choice but to leave the deck and walk towards the door.
There was no one in the entire hangar, but bloodstains could be seen on the ground. It looked like a big battle had taken place here, but no corpses could be seen. Only the bloodstains and the walls, and the charred bullet marks on the floor told what happened here.
"Everyone be alert. I always feel something ominous."
At this moment, Shepard's brother also drew the gun behind him and stared around vigilantly. He had been to the battleship of the Inquisition more than once. In the eyes of Shepard's brother, the battleship of the Inquisition was magnificent and majestic, but this battleship gave people a very cold feeling, as if entering a cemetery. There was a dead silence everywhere, dim corridors, hangar decks, no sound, as if... everything here was dead.
But soon, they encountered another problem.
"Report to the commander, the gate is blocked and cannot be opened."
"Can't invade?"
"No, according to the scan, it seems that the power supply has been cut off..."
"What should we do?"
"We can try to activate the backup power supply, which should be somewhere in the hangar."
"Okay."
With a silent sigh, Brother Shepard stood up again.
"Then let's continue."
Fortunately, with the scanning of the universal tool, everyone soon found the backup power supply.
"This is cut off, as long as it is connected, there will be no problem..."
A Star Alliance soldier quickly connected the wires with his hands and feet, and then nodded to Brother Shepard.
"Okay, everything is normal, commander."
"Okay."
Hearing the response from his subordinates, Brother Shepard also reached out and pressed the switch. Then, accompanied by a low electric roar, the lights around began to flash and light up one by one. However, at this moment...
"————!"
Suddenly, Brother Shepard saw a bloody head stuck on the joystick next to him on the operating table, staring at him fiercely with wide eyes. Not only that, the operating table that originally looked clean and tidy was now bloody under the light, and there was even torn human skin on it. Blood kept dripping from the operating table to the ground, and there were incomplete corpses everywhere...
"Woooooo!"
This frightened Brother Shepard and he took a step back. At this moment, the voice of Adjutant Ashley sounded.
"What's wrong, Commander?"
"No, I just saw............"
Brother Shepard turned his head and looked at the control panel in front of him, but found that the control panel was still the same as before, without any abnormality, not to mention the human skin on it and the twisted flesh around it.
"………………Nothing, let's move on."
Gripping his weapon tightly, Brother Shepard swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
He now felt more and more that entering this battleship was not a wise choice.