Chapter 864 Abandoned Battleship
The spaceship built by Nizi, like themselves, exudes a flamboyant and exaggerated atmosphere. Inside this palace-like spaceship, every corridor, every piece of equipment, and every artifact is carefully decorated and laid out. Sophisticated.
Its corridor is spacious and bright, with a curved vault with graceful lines. Light golden, tassel-like luminous bodies hang down from the vault of the corridor, and crystal clear crystal stones hang from the end. The walls on both sides of the corridor are continuously lined with countless relief patterns. Those relief patterns are meticulous and use exquisite artistic techniques to depict scenes that resemble religious legends, including fights against natural disasters, Mysterious rituals related to the stars, taming various dangerous beasts. Of course, the protagonists in these pictures are all tall and handsome "perfect human beings". They either wear holy armor or robes representing wisdom and knowledge. They play the role of savior or guide in each picture, and each of them plays the role of savior or guide. Various other species, including humans who resemble them but are depicted as thinner, all prostrate themselves at the feet of these "gods."
Hao Ren felt that he was walking in a magnificent temple rather than in a battleship. If it weren't for the occasional technological facilities with flashing lights between the reliefs and statues, he would almost be there. Forgot that this is a spaceship floating in space.
Yzaks walked beside Hao Ren. As he walked, he casually looked at the luxurious decorations around him. These splendid and beautifully decorated corridors reminded him of some things in his hometown - the art-loving elves and the human kingdom with a long history. It can build something similar to it. Of course it is slightly less luxurious, but from the point of view of "exquisite works of art", the two are quite similar.
"If it is not a weapon, it can be called a good work of art," Yzaks said with a smile. "It is a pity that such decoration should not appear on the battlefield. As a battleship, it is too luxurious. It’s just unnecessary decoration.”
"Humanity also had such a period of luxury goods on the battlefield, but that was in ancient times - it is hard to imagine that a space civilization can maintain this kind of custom." Hao Ren shook his head, "These rebels have completely gone crazy and become gods. It was still a vague thing, so they hurriedly gilded their statues.”
Lily used her claws of ice and fire to poke and poke at the passing statues, muttering as she poked: "Group convulsions, this happens in any society from time to time, but these guys' convulsions were a bit louder." . By the way, it looks like there’s really no one in this ship, huh?”
The data terminal floated at the front of the team, constantly sweeping around with a blue beam. It was detecting the energy flow in the corridor walls and the remnants of life nearby: "No signs of life were found - except microorganisms. The spacecraft. The power seems to be intact, and regular signal transmission can be detected. The basic system of the spacecraft should still be operating automatically. The core system seems to be offline. The machine has detected a silent line. This line Throughout the entire spacecraft, we can use it to find the location of the ship's main engine and also understand the general structure of the ship."
Hao Ren said absentmindedly. Although he was concerned about the structure of the spacecraft, he was more concerned about the whereabouts of the crew here. This splendid place, every corner of it looked graceful and luxurious, but at the moment it was lifeless and lifeless, suspended in space like a cold handicraft. He wanted to know why. Along the way, he found no traces of damage, and there were no signs of intra-ship fighting on the walls of the corridor, so he could basically rule out invasion of the warship, mutiny of the crew, internal environmental disasters, etc. that might have caused the crew to abandon the ship and escape. Factors, and also because no obvious external trauma to the spacecraft was found, it can be ruled out that the ship was abandoned when the battleship was damaged.
The ship was abandoned in completely intact condition.
They came to the end of the corridor, where there was a Y-shaped fork and a door. The door was in the center of the fork. It might be a temporary resting place for the staff. Lily scratched the metal door with her claws: "What's behind this?"
Hao Ren patted the Husky girl aside to stop her from making any more noise, and then stepped forward to check the status of the gate. The energy of the access control system should be fine, but he didn't know how to open it. He searched around the door, and finally placed his eyes on both sides of the gate: there were two small sculptures placed symmetrically. The sculptures resembled some kind of beast with fangs and an elongated face. Hao Ren subconsciously put his hand on the sculpture's head and heard a slight sizzling sound coming from the wall, and then the gates slid open to both sides.
"This thing reminds me of those ancient tomb traps in TV series," Hao Ren smacked his lips, "The design is quite retro."
Behind the gate was a small rectangular room, which was a lounge as Hao Ren guessed. Some large soft seats and long metal tables can be seen in the room, and what is noticeable is that there are things placed on those metal tables.
Hao Ren quickly walked into the room and saw strange-looking tableware placed on the metal tables. Some of the food had not been touched at all, and there was a holographic projection floating in the corner of the room. The projection showed a place. A cabin that no one has explored yet. Lily's first reaction after seeing the food on the table was to exclaim: "Ah, so they also eat?"
"Nonsense, Raven 12345 still eats instant noodles to relieve his boredom, let alone these guys who are not even demigods," Hao Ren said while reaching for a drink on the table. As expected... it was cold. "Well, it looks like I've been away for a while."
Yzaks looked at the scene in the room and frowned slowly: "The food was placed on the table, and the projector was not turned off in time, but other than that there were no signs of struggle. They should have evacuated suddenly, and the reason for their evacuation was It was not because of violence. Judging from the situation at the scene, although they left here in a hurry, there was no chaos, so the reason that caused the crew to abandon the ship and escape was most likely an order from their superiors."
Hao Ren's answer was only three words: "Keep looking."
The order to retreat of the entire ship should have been issued from the bridge or a command center with similar functions, so everyone tentatively set the target there. The data terminal searched for the cabin suspected to be the command center by invading the data lines buried in the corridor, and led everyone all the way to the depths of the spacecraft.
As they went deeper, they gradually discovered more evidence that proved that the crew of the ship evacuated under unified orders.
They found more activity cabins, including lounges, conference rooms, dormitories and various workshops. Each room showed signs of being suddenly abandoned: food was left intact on the table. , personal belongings were discarded in the corner of the room, some equipment was still turned on, and in some rooms you could even see clothes discarded on the bed. It seemed that the owner of the room suddenly ran out in the middle of changing clothes. This emergency evacuation situation can be described as panic. Hao Ren couldn't help but wonder under what circumstances those traitors who always pretended to be as majestic as gods made such panic moves.
Finally, they found a wide corridor leading to the deepest part of the spacecraft. At the end of this corridor was a door so majestic that a giant like Muru could enter with his head held high. The door was made of crystal and engraved with the image of the god. It was taller and more exquisite than every door encountered before. The data terminal confirmed that behind this door was the control center of the spacecraft by hacking into the surrounding lines.
This time Hao Ren couldn't find the control switch of the door. Lily used her claws to pry open the door crack: "This thing is so strong!"
Hao Ren searched around and confirmed that the control method of this door was different from the previous small gates that could be opened with statues. He knocked on the shell of the data terminal: "Is this door connected to a self-destruct or other warning switch? ?”
The data terminal took a photo of the door twice: "No, it's just a simple access control system."
Hao Ren patted Y'zaks on the arm: "Here's some technical support."
Yzaks was stunned for a moment at first, but he soon realized what he was doing. He rolled up his sleeves and summoned a piece of hell lava out of thin air. He swung this huge weapon of murder and robbery and smashed it against the door: "Everyone, stay away." ah!"
Lily was lowering her head to open the crack in the door. When she looked up, she saw a calf-sized fireball flying over her head. She screamed and rushed behind Hao Ren, followed by a loud bang that spread throughout the corridor.
Lily jumped up and down in the smoke and shouted, "Can't you be so sudden? You'll die if you give me some time to react!"
"When he said the word "technical support", you should have realized that it was going to explode," the data terminal said coquettishly, "He is indeed my partner, and his work style is getting better and better now!"