Chapter 261 The Living Battleship
The figure disappeared in a flash, but Li Yelai became alert. That is definitely not an illusion!
"Did you see it?" Li Yelai asked quickly.
“Keep your voice down, what did you see?” Jing Lin, still wary of the flesh-and-blood aberrations that had just fallen asleep, turned around and asked.
"There is someone above! It should be said that there was a humanoid object, which was looking down at us from the bridge just now. It disappeared in the blink of an eye." Li Yelai said.
"I didn't notice it. Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?" Jing Lin asked.
"No. Even if you see it wrong, the object will not disappear directly." Li Yelai responded: "There must be something movable there. And it is humanoid."
"It is difficult for humans to survive in this environment. Could it be a returnee or other parasite?" Jing Lin looked up at the bridge above: "But it saw us, but it did not attack."
"It can be speculated that it is not the same as the flesh and blood aberration." Li Yelai analyzed: "It does not want the flesh and blood aberration to discover it."
"That's good, then it at least He won't take the initiative to attack," Jing Lin whispered.
The two set off again.
Jing Lin walked in front, his left eye flashed, and his 'Extreme Subtlety' ability started to activate. If there were any changes, flying dust or sliding screws would be noticed by him immediately.
Li Yelai walked half a step behind him. Once Jinglin launched an attack, Li Yelai could immediately support him.
However, as the two climbed higher, they saw traces of fierce fighting.
In a ship that was completely overturned and pieced together with other ships, the two saw a large number of scattered bullet casings and the decomposed corpses of more than a dozen flesh aberrations.
Those flesh and blood aberrations were obviously dismembered. Their corpses had turned into bones, and the flesh and blood on them had completely disappeared.
It must have been many years since his death.
But Li Yelai and Jing Lin's expressions changed, because there were obvious signs of burning, biting and tearing on the bones.
Jing Lin squatted on the ground, looking at a thigh bone, and couldn't help but feel a chill.
This deformed and twisted thigh bone has obvious knife marks and tooth marks!
"Old Li, these are human teeth marks." Jing Lin said in a low voice.
"It seems that they are indeed survivors." Li Yelai responded with a grin.
In this dangerous place where the sun never shines, the survivors have no logistics and reinforcements, and naturally no food sources.
If you don’t want to do anything to your companions, you can only eat the deformed flesh and blood mutants, even if they were once humans or other creatures. In order to survive, you have to work hard to swallow this meat.
"Can you guess the time?" Li Yelai asked in a low voice.
After being silent for a few seconds, Jing Lin responded: "The vibration just shook the dust here. I'm not sure whether my judgment is correct, thirty years!"
Border The fleet lost contact forty-three years ago, and the previous mines and footprints were also around forty years ago. Now there are traces of thirty years ago.
Have the survivors persisted in this ghost place for ten years?
How did they persevere?
Are they still insisting?
Thinking of this, both of them were silent for a while, and then immediately approached Daqi.
Although the hope is very slim, they still hope to find the Border Fleet soldiers from back then.
However, when the two passed through a crew room, they were stunned.
In the crew room, two skeletal corpses lay.
Wearing the combat uniforms of Border City, they were holding obviously modified firearms in their hands, leaning against each other in the corner of the room.
And their heads were cut off by themselves and fell on their bodies.
They were soldiers of the border fleet. They were far away from home and eventually died here
Li Yelai looked at the two bodies in silence.
Jing Lin checked it and whispered: "It's the incision of the chain sword. Judging from the posture, one of them put the chain sword on the necks of the two people, and then, Launching the chain sword, directly cutting off their heads or losing their heads, they will not become flesh and blood aberrations."
"They don't want to become flesh and blood until they die. Monster! You are indeed a warrior from Border City!”
"It's embarrassing for them. If someone can bury them, it won't be so hard." Li Yelai sighed softly, feeling very uncomfortable.
He suddenly thought of the illusion he saw during his fifth awakening.
Why can the creatures in the restricted area come back again and again!
But humans have to pay the lives of countless heroes!
That’s not fair! So unfair!
Human beings also want to gain immortality and eternal life!
Everything is corrupt, but all living things are immortal!
‘Alas, all living beings are immortal. ’ Li Yelai thought silently in his heart.
Then, the two walked through the cabin and saw more corpses of flesh and blood aberrations.
No human corpses were seen, but steel footprints were seen.
Those should be the footprints of the border guards.
“There are drag marks on the ground, and the bodies of human soldiers were dragged away.” Jing Lin’s eyes swept across the battlefield and responded: “At least there was a time here. There are more than twenty human soldiers.”
The battle here is very fierce, with hundreds of flesh and blood aberrations besieging the iron guards and human soldiers.
The human soldiers relied on firepower to suppress these monsters, but eventually, the ammunition ran out.
The soldiers picked up engineering shovels or held knives and sabers. Engaged in hand-to-hand combat with flesh-and-blood aberrations!
But after losing the suppression of thermal weapons, the flesh-and-blood aberrations with psychic barriers clearly gained the upper hand.
Human warriors spent a lot of money to eliminate this group of aberrations.
“Perhaps the bodies of the human soldiers were taken away to avoid being turned into flesh and blood aberrations.” Jing Lin said: “Perhaps the Iron Guards took them away.”
“Iron How long can Wei live?" Li Yelai asked.
Before becoming a psyker, Li Yelai knew that the Border Guard was definitely a powerful existence in legend!
They are powerful and long-lived. Before the psykers were exposed, they were invincible in the minds of the people of the giant city.
When the giant city was built, it protected humans from danger and fought with warlords in the wilderness.
It was not until all dangers were eliminated that it faded out of the public’s sight. A true legend.
In fact, the Border Guards are non-psyker soldiers who have undergone various biological modifications.
After transformation, they cannot become psykers, but their physical bodies are more powerful and can perfectly adapt to heavy power armor.
That was technology from a civilization in a restricted area. After the human ancestors conquered the disaster fog that failed to become a restricted area, they passed this technology to other giant human cities. This greatly enhances the combat power of the giant city.
In fact, the iron guards of each giant city circle have their own differences and names.
In Border City, they are called Border Guards, and their power armor is thicker.
In Yaoqing Giant City, they are called snow riders, and their power armor is equipped with heat insulation equipment.
“Your border guards and our snow knights have received the same transformation, so theoretically they should have a lifespan of two hundred years.” Jing Lin responded: “Do you speculate that some of the border guards are still alive? It’s difficult, even the Iron Guard needs regular maintenance and care. It’s difficult to survive in this environment.”
"At least it's an expectation." Li Yelai responded: "We didn't see the bodies of the Iron Guards, which means anything is possible."
Then the two continued to move forward.
Finally they got close to Daqi, but the structure of Daqi was relatively intact, and the two of them could not find the entrance to it. Not wanting to destroy the hull of the battleship, the two climbed onto the deck and climbed into it from the unclosed missile silo on the deck.
After the two entered the missile silo, they did not find the flesh-and-blood aberration. Instead, they saw a dozen huge missiles. They are displayed in groups of four in the missile silo.
"Is this the one with a maximum speed of Mach 10?" Li Yelai asked.
"It should be." Jing Lin sighed with emotion: "If it weren't for the technological gap, the troops in the restricted area would have been bombed when they went out! That's ten times the speed of sound. Of course, I have also heard that missiles were interfered with by the restricted area and turned around. The case of attacking Jucheng. "
"Don't worry, the three restricted areas in the border city are all barbarians, and they don't have the ability." Li Yelai spoke and laughed at the three restricted areas in the border city. .
The civilization and technology of some restricted areas exceed the standard. The prosthetics, iron guard transformation surgeries, and power armor of the giant city all come from certain restricted areas or disaster fogs.
But there are also many forbidden civilizations that take the psionic route. The level of technology is far inferior to that of humans.
There is not much to say about the Doomsday Forest. Extraordinary creatures are mass-produced, and apart from the core area, there is no civilization at all.
As for Black Source City and Heavenly Realm, they are not following the technological route.
Although it has unique technology, it will not crush humans.
Then the two walked out of the missile silo, and after forcefully opening a solid metal protective door, they entered the ship.
But they felt a chill. Both of them exhaled obvious white mist. It was obvious that the temperature in the cabin was extremely low. Even with the psychic barrier, Li Yelai felt a chill.
At the same time, the instruments carried by the two men also sounded a low alarm.
'Warning, lack of oxygen...'
The two immediately turned off the warning to avoid attracting nearby flesh and blood aberrations. He immediately took off or pulled up his face shield and put on an oxygen mask.
“How could this happen?” Li Yelai and Jing Lin frowned.
There is an ultra-low temperature environment in a battleship that has been completely silent? Moreover, the oxygen content in the air is frighteningly low.
Without oxygen masks, ordinary people would die quickly in this kind of space.
Of course, psykers don’t feel well either. At least at the current level of the two of them, although they can move for a long time without oxygen, they still need to breathe.
"Is the battleship still operating?" Li Yelai said.
"How many years has it been? This big ship is not nuclear powered." Jing Lin shook his head.
The two were a little confused, but they continued to move forward.
However, the two of them turned on their handheld searchlights and took a few steps. There was a dull sound behind him.
The protective door opened by the two of them was actually closed?
“Fuck you.” Jing Lin cursed and prepared to step forward and open the protective door again.
Li Yelai stopped him: "Okay, there are people who don't want us to destroy this low temperature and oxygen-free environment."
As he said that, Li Yelai's searchlight swept to the side. In a room.
Jing Lin took a closer look and his expression changed.
In the room, there were more than a dozen corpses of human soldiers lying upside down. They all had horrific fatal injuries on their bodies.
At this moment, he fell peacefully in the room. Fell into endless eternal sleep.
The low temperature and oxygen-free environment prevented their bodies from decaying. At least not yet
No one wants to protect the bodies of these warriors from being desecrated by any force!
“Oh my God.” Jing Lin picked up a portable searchlight and looked through various rooms of the ship.
Sleeping battleship soldiers holding weapons, border guards wearing broken power armor, and border city handlers wearing black trench coats.
Almost every room has a large number of corpses, low temperature and inert The oxygen environment allowed them to sleep on their battleships.
They once roared and raged against the enemies of mankind on the battleship. Now, they are guarding their battleship as always.
As always
"Someone. Is someone still alive?" Jing Lin looked at Li Yelai with disbelief in his eyes.
It has been more than forty years, but someone arranged everything and preserved the bodies of the soldiers.
And the people who did all this are still alive!
“I don’t know if everything can be revealed until the bridge!” Li Yelai responded.
The two men immediately walked through the fallen corridor and passed through the rooms where the dead were stationed.
There are frozen blood vessels in the corridor, and there are eternally sleeping warriors, but there is not a single flesh-and-blood aberration.
This made the two people quickly walk through the corridor and come to the huge metal door.
The two of them worked together to push open the door and arrived at the bridge.
The bridge had obviously been modified. Thick steel plates sealed the windows of the bridge, and the only well-preserved window was where Li Yelai saw the figure.
At the same time, there are also terrible traces of battle in the bridge, where melta bombs and machine guns were fired. There are also plenty of traces of combat with psychic abilities.
But the bridge was empty, and the two didn't hear a second heartbeat or breath outside of each other's.
“There is oxygen here, and the temperature is not low.” Jing Lin took off his oxygen mask and responded: “Are they avoiding us?”
“At least for now, they don’t plan to see us. We are gone."
Li Yelai walked towards the console. Almost all the consoles were destroyed by the battle.
But on one of the consoles was a saber, and a logbook was nailed to it.
Li Yelai took off his saber and picked up the logbook.
The first half of the diary was torn out, so that it was the first page Li Yelai saw.
‘June 3rd, 28th year of Jucheng Calendar. A distress signal was received at Border No. 1, and the entire fleet set off, leaving the port to pursue the signal. We cross the Treasure Island Strait, get supplies, and we will save our fellow humans! ’
‘On June 10th, we encountered extraordinary marine creatures, a great victory! ’
‘On June 15th, we discovered the existence of a suspected restricted area and named it the Maelstrom. We are caught in the whirlpool and cannot escape. Psykers are also unable to gain contact. ’
‘On July 1st, in the unknown sea, we encountered the sharks, the creatures in the restricted area of the whirlpool, and it was a great victory! ’
‘On July 8, the fleet psykers seemed to hear the sound of the battleship. How could the battleship make a sound? She may have been corrupted'
'On July 9, the supply ship behind her lost contact. Although no battle broke out, they could not be found. ’
‘On August 2, the battleship turned autonomously! The psykers carefully checked all locations and could not see any abnormalities. Maybe. It really is alive. ’
‘On September 7th, a riot broke out on a battleship. Some soldiers were corrupted by Chaos, robbed the battleship, and launched an attack on us. We fought back and sunk them. No survivors were found.’
‘On September 23, the warriors of three more battleships were corrupted by Chaos, and we sank them. ’
‘September 30th. We saw a continent, which was a steel continent composed of countless ships! We even saw an aircraft carrier! We didn't get close and prepared to send a team to investigate. '
'On October 5th, our battleship began to retreat at full speed independently. It was really alive, but we couldn't escape. Chaos believers appeared in the battleship. They took away control and crashed into The mainland! ’
(End of this chapter)