Chapter 1,387 Ghost Ship

Isana smiled cheerfully, and as if she suddenly remembered something, she patted my arm: "That's right, His Majesty the Emperor, have you heard about the ghost ship?"

"Ghost ship?" I was stunned by the fishy girl's question, and then I immediately thought of her race and nodded clearly, "Oh, you mean the kind that drifts on the sea with no trace, tattered and uninhabited. The legend of the old antique ship you drive, right? There are quite a lot of human legends about ghost ships. Do you mermaids care about this too? Could it be that you built those ships?"

"No, it's not that kind of ghost ship." Isana has a habit of flicking her tail when she's anxious, so I heard her patting the floor, "Although when I was a kid, I quite liked going to sunken ships. Treasure hunting... Hey, it has nothing to do with this, I'm talking about a very popular legend in the macro world recently. ¤ Literature bar: wxba ¤ It is said that an imperial warship that was withdrawn from the battlefield fell behind, and the generals and soldiers on the spaceship All disappeared, and the spacecraft floated back to the Empire under the control of the host. Because it could not find a port, it kept floating around in various universes and became a ghost ship. Occasionally, people traveling in the interstellar saw that A huge spaceship. They said that the ghost ship seemed to be dead. There was only a little light on the whole body, and the engine was dim as if it was about to go out. There were tattered scars everywhere on the spacecraft. If you were close enough, you could even see the cracks from the cracks. Through the opening, we can see the dark corridor inside. But no one can board the ship because no one dares to get close to it, and the ghost ship always disappears suddenly, as if the main engine of the ship is still trying to find a military port. Many people Everyone said that they had seen that ship, especially the old crew members in the caravan that transported supplies for the servant army, and they all said that they had encountered the ghost ship, but most of them had no evidence, so they were probably bragging."

Isana told the story of the ghost ship with such gusto that at first my concentration increased. I thought this was some important information, but when I heard it at the end, I slowly realized: This is basically a space version of Sailor Adventure, just like those old sailors in the age of sailing who would brag to others while smelling alcohol in a port bar. . In the past, those superstitious old sailors always liked to use sea monsters and ghost ships to flaunt their adventures, but now those bored sailors traveling among the stars have more advanced talking points: interstellar ghost ships, and even void ghost ships.

This story is quite creative in terms of creativity: they directly used the Imperial warship as the background of the story, which is definitely a popular gimmick. In the eyes of most civilians in Macroworld and the Familia, imperial warships are almost a legend, especially large spaceships. Most people have only seen those behemoths in brochures and on screens. They longed for those powerful imperial machines. Just like a sixteenth-century inland boy longed for a sailing battleship with a 55-meter mast and 18-pound guns, but the giant ship would not cruise in the village, and 80 to 90 percent of the people would not have the opportunity to visit the imperial garrison. What does the Eternity look like? Many people will never be able to go to space in their lifetime, so they will wait for the old crew members who have been in space or even traveled across the world to return to the surface. Ghost ship stories became popular as they were concocted in taverns with a mixture of alcohol and adrenaline.

Isana immediately realized that I wasn’t paying much attention to this story. I heard another snapping sound coming from under her chair: this was the fish girl flicking her tail again, and she looked at me unhappily. : "Ghost ships are not necessarily fake, right? Although some people must be bragging, there are legends of ghost ships in dozens of worlds recently!"

"The imperial warship got lost? And then the navigation host could be turned on but couldn't lead the way? In the end, it was still wandering around in the imperial area?" I laughed dumbly, "What's more, no outpost has detected the signal of this active spaceship? It's not me. To ruin your fairy tale, this is really impossible - there are several sets of backup navigation systems on our spacecraft, and there is a 'catastrophic damage determination protocol' between each other. If all navigation equipment fails, The spacecraft will immediately jump into a stable universe and lock the engine. This is to prevent the spacecraft from flying into enemy-occupied areas without navigation, causing intelligence leakage. In addition, all the officers and soldiers on the spacecraft are missing. I will update I don’t believe it anymore. The Imperial Army has a clear operating procedure for ‘abandoning ship and evacuating’. Unless all the soldiers died in the spaceship before evacuation, the military will not let a ship be ‘lost’ like this, or it will be recovered immediately. Either the spacecraft is destroyed by other friendly forces before it is captured, or the captain blows up the spacecraft before evacuating. Anyway, we will not let a ship just float out of sight. In addition - the identification signal transmitter on the spacecraft is as strong as a black box, If there really is a ghost ship, the local empire outpost would have discovered it long ago."

Isana listened blankly to my explanation and lowered her head in frustration: "Why is your technician so unwilling to give face to the dream?"

Me: "..." This involves the outcome of a war of national interest. Can we save face?

"But someone really submitted the video of the ghost ship encounter to your military headquarters." Isana thought for a while, and suddenly became excited again. There was one officer who was an officer of the Servant Army, and he encountered that thing when he was going for a ride in his private spaceship. That was the most rumored incident - it can't be a lie, right?"

"Huh?" I became serious now, "And these things?"

Isana nodded vigorously, and the two white-bearded old men across the table also nodded. It seemed that the two of them had also heard of these "stories" that were widely circulated in the macro world.

I fell into thinking: there are videos, spacecraft logs, and even an eyewitness record from a servant army officer. If a mere "ghost ship story" is so detailed, it may be more than just a folk rumor.

Could it be that, like the "ghost ship" that encountered the exile fleet in the macroworld passage, it was another aircraft that drifted into the void from the old empire era? Only this time it's not an exiled race, but an old Imperial warship that's out of control?

"I'll go back and check what's going on and see if the military department has any official witness report." I nodded to Isana and turned to look outside: It's really late now, the lights have already started to light up the streets, so I stood up Come, "Then I'll withdraw first, you can do it yourself."

Isana waved her hands: "I won't give it away if it's inconvenient for me to jump."

I:"……"

Before I left, I suddenly saw the two old men with white beards again, and remembered something very important: "You two had better not stay out too late. The Military Academy is closed at night. What do you two say now?" I am also a student..."

"It's okay, I'll teleport in." Whitebeard No. 1 said, and Whitebeard No. 2 also nodded: "I'll climb over the wall and get in."

As an institution whose ultimate goal is students' hard power, the Imperial Military Academy has this rule: No matter whether you circumvent the firewall or skip classes, whether you cheat or leave early, as long as you can do it by your own means without being discovered by the teacher, then it will not matter. Being punished, you can even get extra points if you take the initiative to confess afterwards. So I smiled and nodded to the two powerful old men: "Then I wish you good luck."

As soon as I left the house, I sent a message to the Security Department of the Military Academy: "Tonight, the academy will strengthen the closure of the school, and all the walls will be powered up. By the way, the space confinement field will be opened to the stratosphere..."

I felt refreshed when I hung up the call, and I vaguely realized how my dean felt when I was in No. 2 Middle School. It turns out that this feeling is really good...

I came home a little later than usual today, but it was just like every time, as long as I didn't mention eating out. The family will wait for those who have not yet returned home to have dinner together. There was a large circle of people sitting around the signature huge dining table, and the formation was like a small banquet. The only empty seat was between Pandora and Visca. It seemed that the sisters had to fight with others to win this feng shui. Baodi, the first thing I did when I sat down was to pinch the two sisters’ faces to show intimacy, and then pinch out the two wild jingles who were dozing on the plate in front of me and put them aside: this meal is three more At the pace of fifty bean goddesses eating with them, there are already a few clever little guys sitting on the shoulders of elder sister or uncle Kenser, waiting for others to feed them.

"You're back!" An angry scolding voice came from Pandora's position to my right. But there was no one in sight. When I looked over, I saw a Gothic doll, only a few dozen centimeters tall, sitting on a chair, holding a smaller knife and fork in protest because of his size. If this little guy really sat down, he would almost be surrounded by the backrest and armrests of the chair, so there was a large pile of books under her buttocks, making people worry about whether the little guy would fall down. Of course Pandora and Huesca also had books on their backs...

"Meeting an acquaintance," I explained to the little girl. The moment he raised his chopsticks, he thought of how he had walked back and forth in the teahouse this afternoon to fill up on water and snacks, "Uh..."

"What's wrong, Master? The food is not good?" Anweina's head immediately popped out of the soup basin in front of me. It looked steaming hot, "Today we have steamed buns stuffed with chives that the master likes to eat."

I saw a ghost head floating on the table but I had long been accustomed to it. I smiled slightly awkwardly and said, "No, I ate some snacks before coming here. I'm not very hungry."

While I was talking, Sandora had already emptied the third bowl of rice porridge.

"Speaking of... about the ghost ship, Sandora, do you know?" I remembered what Isana told me before, so I looked up at Sandora, who swallowed a bun whole and rolled her eyes. He asked me nonchalantly: "Oh, Ning Huan (Ghost Ship)?"

"It said that an imperial warship of unknown origin appeared in the macro world," I picked out the fillings from the buns and fed them to Ding Dong and an unknown wild Ding Dong in front of me (otherwise they wouldn't know what was in the buns until they were full) It's stuffed), while slowly saying, "It's rumored to be amazing. Many interstellar voyagers said they had encountered that ship. According to the description, it should be a large mothership, but it doesn't look like the Eternal Class. The ship was seriously damaged. , has no active signal, does not accept calls, and still retains the ability to sail across the world. At first, I thought this was another urban ghost story, but I heard that even the servant army had officer sighting records, so I wanted to ask Have you heard of it?"

"I've heard that there are reports to the military, and there is indeed a report from the servant army." Sandora nodded, and the movement of my hand stopped immediately: "Is there really a ghost ship?!"

Seeing that no one was feeding them, the two bean goddesses ran off to find food by themselves, carrying two toothpicks.

"It's hard to say whether it's true or false. The voyage logs and video files are indeed available, but the investigation team sent by the Imperial Army and all monitoring stations have not captured direct evidence, so the case is still unsolved for the time being." Sandora shook her head, "It's just that I can say that it is highly doubtful that this is true. I have more detailed information here: the witness report mentioned that the ghost ship is a special model that has not been registered in the empire's active spaceship library, but it has obvious Xiling characteristics. The ghost ship It is larger than the Eternity class, and is a giant interstellar ship with a length of more than 100 kilometers, but because the bow is damaged. It is not sure how big it is when it is intact. The spacecraft may be deeply modified on the scale of the Eternity class. It may also be the integration of part of the structure of the Eternal class. The first half is very similar to the charging section of the main gun of the Galaxy. In addition, the surface power supply network of the ghost ship should have been paralyzed. The servant officers who witnessed it risked their lives to get close to the ghost ship for testing. The latter's outer equipment found that all its peripherals were not powered on, but before the support troops called by the officer arrived, the ghost ship seemed to sense something and suddenly jumped out of the world. Oh, by the way. Ghost ship report submitted You were in the God Realm at the time, so it’s normal that you don’t know about this—Fox, give me your jealousy.”

A big furry tail wrapped around a vinegar pot stretched across half the table in front of Sandora, and on the way back, it also took away a bun: the fox fairy has more and more functions.

Shandora shared part of the ghost ship's report, and I observed the hastily taken sighting pictures on my data terminal. Most of these pictures come from civilian sightings. Each picture comes with an annotation, with witnesses ranging from workers on cargo ships to tourists on commercial cruise ships. I even saw the words under one picture that the picture was from lumei920. Of course, there are also some pictures captured by the spacecraft's automatic observation device, so the impact will be clearer.

The angles of most of the pictures are not very good, and the image is distorted due to hastily zooming in. There is also a picture that is very oppressive: a large silver-gray and devastated armor belt occupies almost three-quarters of the screen area—— The witness who took this picture suffered a heart attack on the spot and was sent to the infirmary because the ghost ship was directly brushed out less than a hundred meters away from the spacecraft he was riding on...

I spent a lot of time piecing together these scattered sighting photos from various angles in my mind. It took a long time to roughly guess the overall appearance of the ghost ship: a tattered imperial starship, with a bow part similar to the Eternal class, and the second half is a triple hull arranged in parallel, with the main armor belt being silver gray. . The remaining quarter is painted in black, and the imperial military emblem can be seen in the middle of the spacecraft. However, the part with the private emblem of a certain emperor seems to have been lost with the damage to the hull, so Sandora cannot Determine who this spaceship once belonged to.

Then I turned the information to the end. Suddenly I saw a complete and clear picture of the ghost ship with tens of millions of pixels, followed by a short video...

I:"……"

Anyway, the existence of ghost ships is most likely true. And it looks exactly like my guess: it is a Trek starship from the old empire era. After all, the New Empire has never built such a ship, and it obviously does not belong to the fallen apostle. The biggest problem now is that this ship does not release any signals, and the possibility of all the crew members missing cannot be ruled out. It is definitely impossible to establish contact with it using conventional means. And it's running around everywhere - catching such a spaceship in countless universes is no less difficult than finding Ding Dong on the prairie of Inner Mongolia, so sad.

We can only wait for more witness reports to come out to summarize the appearance patterns of ghost ships. After reading these reports, I feel that this ship seems to have some sailing patterns. After all, the universe is so big, but it has happened to coincide with other ships many times. The spaceship passed by each other. This shouldn't be a pure coincidence.

I just put the ghost ship matter aside for the time being. After dinner, my sister and Anweina were busy packing things. Lin, who wanted to help, was ordered to stand by and watch as usual. The other children except Pandora were all I don’t bother to care about them because they disappear as soon as they finish eating. Most of them are playing hide-and-seek with the mini-Medivians in the yard: they are keen on this recently.

Qianqian spent a long time looking at the information about the ghost ship, but soon lost interest in it. She threw the data terminal aside and switched channels casually. After searching for a long time, she finally found an interesting program. : A foreign translated documentary about the living habits of foxes.

After eating and drinking, Master Fox Fairy, who was taking a nap next to me, suddenly became energetic. He listened to the TV with his ears. He watched the TV briefly for a while, and suddenly his mind opened up: "Arjun, Arjun, What do you think the fox calls?"

When I thought about it, I thought that this is a really difficult question to answer. It seems that not many people have heard what a fox barks - of course, if you want to say it is "Da Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng", then it is a waste of time. ——What exactly is the sound of a fox barking?

Just this question completely drove out all the messy things like ghost ships from my mind. I frowned and thought about it for a long time, until a big golden tail playfully wrapped around my neck, and suddenly I realized: next to me Isn’t there a fox?

You can't blame me for reacting slowly. The main reason is that the fox fairy has the shape of a girl except for the ears and tail. Even though she was lying next to her, I didn't connect Qianqian's question with her for a moment.

"Fox, what do you usually call me?" I patted Lord Fox Fairy's tail.

The demon fox girl looked at me in confusion, hesitated for a moment before speaking cautiously: "Wow! ←←Is this so?"

I choked: "...I asked you how the fox barks, but I didn't ask you how the human form barks!"

The second big tail slapped me in the face, and the demon fox girl stretched lazily: "I haven't barked for more than a thousand years. I forgot about it."

I:"……"