bioinnovel Chapter 486 Death Ship!
Chapter 486 Death Ship!
The Chaos Mech hovered at the edge of the dark hyperspace channel.
The blue exhaust flames from the thrusters went out.
The mech relies entirely on its jet nozzles, which allow for precise attitude adjustments, to maintain stability.
Five hundred kilometers ahead, a massive shadow floated silently in the dead corner of the spatial turbulence.
Zhang Yan did not approach immediately.
He pushed the power of the mech's optical detection system to its maximum.
The image on the screen is magnified and sharpened.
It was the wreckage of a giant ship that was ten kilometers long.
The outer shell is a dark gray-black color.
The surface is covered with armor structures that resemble scales.
Most of it has peeled off or carbonized.
The most shocking sight was the huge wound in the middle of the ship.
"The scan results are in."
The stargazer lifted his fingers off the virtual keyboard and pushed the data panel onto the main screen.
Her voice sounded a little dry in the quiet cockpit.
"Cross-comparison of carbon isotopes and spatial decay rates."
"The ship was destroyed approximately 26,000 years ago."
"It was right after the Mohist civilization collapsed 30,000 years ago, in the early stages of the establishment of the Gate Network."
Zhang Yan's gaze was fixed on the wound.
The wound stretched across the entire ten-kilometer-long hull.
The edges are very smooth.
"Cut over the high-resolution image of the cut edge," Zhang Yan said.
The screen is flickering.
The metal cross-section at the edge of the wound was magnified to the microscopic level.
"It wasn't a meteorite impact, nor was it a conventional kinetic weapon."
Zhang Yan looked at the metal lattices that were in a glassy, molten state.
"The attack angles are completely consistent, and the decay curve of the residual energy is unidirectional and radial."
Guan Xing raised his hand and pushed up his glasses.
I understood what Zhang Yan meant.
You mean...
"The opponent only used one attack."
"We cut this ten-kilometer-long ultra-high-density alloy warship in half."
Zhang Yan's tone was cold and hard.
The cockpit fell into dead silence.
Zhang Yan quickly mentally simulated the combat capabilities.
The Chaos Mech has incorporated the Four Spirits Protocol.
In addition, there's the full-power shield from the Heart of the Gods.
Enduring the Void Spear head-on is already the limit.
If faced with an attack capable of severing a ten-kilometer-long giant ship in one blow.
The shield of chaos couldn't even last for 0.1 seconds.
He closed his eyes.
Consciousness sinks into the heart of the divine craftsmanship in the chest.
Golden streams of data surged rapidly through my mind.
He retrieved the Guixu technical files provided by Mo Li.
The armor structure of the wreckage shell was input.
And that emblem with three concentric circles.
Two seconds later, the matching results popped up.
"Confirmed." Zhang Yan opened his eyes.
"This is the Yuanwang-class exploration ship of the Guixu Civilization."
"The standard staffing is three thousand people."
"Equipped with an independent space jump engine and a high-dimensional energy shield."
A giant ship carrying three thousand people perished in a hyperspace passage just days away from Earth.
Is there any sign of life?
Zhang Yan asked.
"No, in 26,000 years, even microorganisms have died out."
Continue operating the stargazing system on the console.
Her movements suddenly stopped.
"etc."
She increased the receiving power on a specific frequency band.
A piercing static noise filled the cockpit.
Immediately afterwards, a very regular ticking sound was extracted from the noise.
"What is this?"
"Signal."
Observe the stars and rapidly type on the keyboard to translate the sound into a visual waveform.
"A very weak, cyclical signal was emanating from the communications array in the bridge wreckage."
"The energy source has been depleted."
"It relies entirely on the high-dimensional energy floating in the channel to maintain passive launch."
Zhang Yan stared at the waveform graph.
"frequency."
He said.
"Parsing in progress, parsing complete."
The stargazer paused for a moment.
Their gaze fell on Zhang Yan's face.
"The underlying protocols of frequency and gate networks are completely consistent."
This is the ship of Guixu.
However, the signals emitted were of the same origin as those from the EarthGate network.
It's like a distress beacon that has been drifting in the darkness for over 20,000 years.
The same sentence kept being repeated.
Until today, it was intercepted by the Chaos Mech.
"Move closer." Zhang Yan pushed the control lever.
The mech was restarted.
It glides towards the wreckage at a very slow speed.
A green indicator light suddenly lit up on the communication channel.
It is a mandatory access request for a cross-stellar quantum entanglement channel.
Zhang Yan pressed the answer button.
Nie Qingcheng's voice rang out in the cockpit.
Because of the distance, the sound was slightly distorted.
But that calm, cool tone is still familiar.
"Zhang Yan".
"I am here."
Zhang Yan's hands gripped the control lever firmly.
His gaze was fixed on the approaching wreckage of the bridge.
My fingertips brushed against the edge of the metal box that was placed close to my chest.
"Everything is normal on Earth."
Nie Qingcheng didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.
"There is no change in the evaluation node of the Eye of the Abyss."
"The gate network's self-sustaining mode is stable."
"Qingcheng International's overseas assets have completed the first round of monetization."
"Qin Xiao pushed the outer defense line of the Great Wall Group outward by 500 kilometers."
She paused for a moment.
"What about over there?"
"One-third of the journey has been completed."
Zhang Yan did not mention the dead ship.
He doesn't intend to use the deaths of people from 26,000 years ago to increase anxiety on Earth.
"Encountered several instances of spatial turbulence. Resolved."
There was a two-second silence on the other end of the communication.
"be safe."
Nie Qingcheng lowered her voice a little.
"If you encounter something you can't solve, you're allowed to run away."
"Know."
"Eat on time. There are high-vitamin nutritional supplements in the mech. Don't complain about how bad they taste."
"it is good."
"Hang up."
Communication was cut off.
Zhang Yan extracted this communication recording separately.
Store it in a metal box close to your body.
That box contained all the photos and videos that Nie Qingcheng had given him.
It was close to his heart.
The mech was less than 100 meters away from the bridge wreckage.
The ten-kilometer-long behemoth exudes an intense sense of oppression at close range.
The outer armor of the bridge was torn apart by more than half.
The intricate network of energy channels inside is exposed.
There are also broken load-bearing columns.
The faint loop signal was coming from deep within the bridge.
"Prepare for physical contact."
Zhang Yan extended the mecha's right arm.
A data probe extends from the end of the 1000-arm.
The mechs slowly approached.
The probe touched a relatively intact metal connector on the outer shell of the bridge.
The alarm blared and crashed into the cockpit.
Zhang Yan's fingertip probe just touched the metal texture of the connector board.
"What happened?"
Zhang Yan quickly stabilized the mecha's posture.
Part of the physical connection was severed.
"The signal has changed."
Stargazing with fingertips resting on the edge of the screen.
My eyes were glued to it and I couldn't look away.
The original distress beacon, which had remained unchanged for 26,000 years.
The moment the mech made contact, it abruptly stopped.
What emerged was a massive, raging, and completely unfamiliar encrypted data stream.
It was rushing frantically into the Chaos Mech's system along the probe.
This data is not from pre-recorded inanimate objects.
It is changing in real time, and it is reorganizing wildly.
What is still alive in this ship that has been dead for 26,000 years?