Chapter 1465 Engine Room
Sounds outrageous.
Ah, yes, it is normal for ghost ships to have ghosts in them.
But how can anyone be so calm when seeing a ghost?
In fact, he is really calm.
In the ghost ships that Alyssa has been to, there are quite a lot of encounters with undead creatures. Some are ghosts bound inside the ship, and some are zombies and skeletons whose corpses have been resurrected. In her opinion, this is normal and scary.
“For such a big ship, with at least a few hundred crew members, it is normal for a few people to turn into ghosts if they die suddenly. Don’t worry, it can only scare you when it is not visible, and it can only scare you. If it appears, use the laser rifle in your hand to fire it to make sure it runs away crying.”
Alyssa didn’t think Lieutenant Duy was too nervous or misunderstood. It's a lie. She wants to believe that there is a ghost on the ship.
But there is nothing scary about ghosts. Anything that can be beaten to death is not something to be afraid of. What makes you afraid is simply a lack of firepower.
One thing to say is that the heart of a recycler is indeed very big.
"Boss, the engine room is ahead."
While speaking, Sophia opened the last door, shined a flashlight and said back.
Alyssa immediately gave up researching what the black shadow Duy saw was, turned around and walked towards the engine room, but Duy and several crew members were quite suspicious and always looked back, for fear that someone might come. Come up.
As the most important place on a ship besides the bridge, the area of the engine room is usually not small.
It is said to be a ‘room’, but it is actually an open space that is not much smaller than a hangar. Because there are not only a large number of equipment in the turbine room, but also a core reactor and an energy storage pool that takes up a large area. Of course, the area is small and cannot be filled.
But of course the engine room of this ship was also dark. Everyone came in and used flashlights to shine forward and at the ceiling. They could see that the height from the ceiling to the floor was almost four times the size of a normal cabin. Under normal operation, a large number of The magic power will accumulate in the engine room, forming silver-blue light spots or thick fog, and it also requires the assistance of exhaust equipment, detectors and other things.
As of now, there is no problem with the power part.
Alyssa signaled the team to continue moving forward. Due to Lieutenant Duy’s voice, many people in the team were now a little nervous, staring at every piece of darkness that could not be illuminated by the flashlight, as if the next moment would be A ghost with a green face and fangs will suddenly pop up.
But these things did not appear, they were just walking in the engine room normally.
The first thing that comes into view is a huge, tower-like device. There should be at least ten similar devices.
This is a device that dissipates heat for the reactor. When it is working, it collects the waste heat generated by the reactor. Part of it is used in the air conditioning system to maintain the temperature inside the ship, and the other part is used to generate electricity to supply the small parts of the ship that need electricity to operate. equipment, the last part will be released into the void through the heat sink fins and coolant.
Alyssa first checked the nearby cooling tower. If there is a problem with the cooling equipment on a ship, it will indeed cause the ship to run aground.
But these cooling devices are all in good condition, even almost all new. They may not have been manufactured for more than one year, so it is unlikely that there is a problem with the cooling device.
Continue walking forward and you will see several huge, but not deep, 'pools'.
That is the energy storage pool.
These pools made of special materials will restrain and compress the magic power, allowing the gaseous magic power to stay in the pool like liquid water, and be transported to every corner of the ship through the pipes at the bottom of the pool.
This kind of liquid magic is usually silver-blue or sapphire blue, and it is very beautiful. There is even a saying that the people working in the engine room are younger than other crew members. It may be that the high concentration of magic makes people skin care.
It’s just that the energy storage pool is completely empty now. Alyssa reached out and touched the bottom of the pool, and could only touch a little silver-white powder.
That is the magic remnant left after a large amount of magic has been used. Even if it is not cleaned up, these things will sublimate and disappear after a year or two. But this is an abnormal place.
With today's technology, these magic remnants will be re-integrated into the liquefied magic for full use, and there should be no visible remnants left behind.
The remnants in the energy storage pool almost covered the bottom of the pool with silver.
Why does this happen?
The only possibility is that the ship encountered a terrible disaster in which all the liquefied magic power was consumed in an instant.
A ship, no matter how powerful it is, cannot completely consume all its magic power in an instant. It may only encounter something unknown, so it can be called a disaster.
"Did these guys encounter the Red Storm?"
"Boss, don't talk nonsense, that thing is too difficult to deal with."
The Red Storm, also known as the Red Mist, People-eating fog.
This is a special kind of undead creature. Its appearance looks like a large piece of red or gray-white mist, and it almost blends into the void background in the void.
Since this thing has no entity, the armor plate of the ship cannot resist it. Only the shield can resist it for a while, but if you don't escape immediately, the red storm will eat the magic power that makes up the shield, and then Invading the interior of the ship's hull.
This special kind of undead feeds on magic, whether it's from ships or people.
Wherever the red storm passes, many ghost ships will be left behind, and the crew will die in an instant, leaving no chance to resist.
But it’s not difficult to deal with it. This thing doesn’t have a big appetite. Nowadays, the shield strength of ships is much higher than before. If Red Storm hits it and takes two bites of the shield, it will be full and run away. Lose.
Situations like this that almost ate up the entire ship were extremely rare. Either the ship's shield was too weak, or the red storm they encountered was too strong.
And if you want to prove whether Red Storm did it, you only need to find the body.
The Red Storm will eat only the bones of a person in an instant, and the magic power in every inch of flesh and blood will be digested by it, so when a lot of ribs of the crew are found, this matter can be determined.
"The negative energy level is not high. Let's continue walking inside. I want to see how the reactor is doing."
Red Storm as an answer can indeed explain some problems, but it cannot explain Why is this ship even shutting down its reactor?
Red Storm cannot eat the reactor. It should be said that it cannot finish it.
As long as there are reaction materials, the reactor will continue to produce magic power. If it was done by Red Storm, the reactor should still be working after it is full and leaves, and there should not be only one left in the energy storage pool. The next pile of magic remnants.
Continuing forward, crossing five or six pools, everyone finally stood in front of the reactor.
This is a round thing that looks like a very large boiler or a very large pressure cooker. It has more than thirty observation windows and a large number of planks to facilitate maintenance personnel to respond visually with the naked eye. The situation in the furnace.
Alyssa took out the instrument to measure the temperature. The reactor had completely cooled down. Normally, even if the reactor is turned off, the internal residual temperature will continue for one or two months. If left alone, the core will even continue to There will still be some residual temperature for a year or two.
This is not a device that can be turned off at will.
Just as she was about to look at the situation inside the reactor through the observation window, Alyssa suddenly felt dizzy.
She initially thought she might be a little drunk, but she soon realized that the darkness she saw in her eyes seemed to be squirming...
(End of Chapter)