Chapter 1057 Escape Pod
Before getting the Swan, Li Chengqi had been driving the Manta all over the place. At this time, it was hard to see that Alyssa was actually a quite capable captain.
Not to mention that the Swan's performance after modification is much higher than that of ordinary cruisers. Even under the same conditions, Alyssa is confident that she can win one against two.
In less than five minutes, both pirate ships were back to parts, but this also left Li Chengqi, who was planning to set off for a walk, speechless.
Damn it, I started too late and didn’t get the meat!
"Boring, why aren't there any pirates hiding in the wreckage?"
"Brother Li... Even if there are pirates hiding, they would be dead by now."
Fang Lanyin complained about Li Chengqi and continued to operate the temporarily installed mechanical arm on the Manta to cut off a key part of the engine.
After the battle, of course, we have to clean up the battlefield. These two pirate ships are quite fat, and the Swan deliberately avoided the possible warehouses when attacking.
From the goods stolen by pirates to their own supplies, they have now become cosmic garbage, and whoever picks it up belongs to whomever.
In this way, he really did his job as a recycler, which is to pick up junk.
"Are the parts on old battleships valuable?"
"Part of them are general parts, which can fill the maintenance depot resources on the Swan. Those that are no longer needed can be sold."
Apart from mercenaries, recyclers are a group of people who love war the most. It's not that they are willing to participate in the war themselves, but that after every war, recyclers can rush into the battlefield and start picking up rags.
Don't underestimate rag picking, there are many starships recovered by recyclers just like this.
"Brother Li, open the warehouse. If you put these parts in, there shouldn't be many valuable things."
"Are you still pretending? I feel like I'm driving a train now..."
There is a string of containers hanging on the back of the Manta, all of which were picked up just now.
The tail hatch opened, and Fang Lanyin stuffed a large piece of parts removed from the engine into the cargo compartment. Then she got up from the driver's seat and went to the cargo compartment to fix the things with cables.
"Speaking of which, I didn't see much of the wreckage of the high-speed commercial ship."
"Maybe it was blown to pieces. Generally, when a civilian ship is attacked, it disintegrates very quickly. The engine we just dismantled is from a high-speed commercial ship."
Civilian ships will not do much protective design against attacks. This is like a cargo ship with a displacement equal to that of an aircraft carrier, but its ability to withstand attacks is far inferior to that of an aircraft carrier.
Civilian ships have various uses and are specialized for their uses, such as comfort, speed, etc. Therefore, even if they are of the same tonnage, their structural strength is far inferior to that of warships.
There should be nothing nearby that needed to be recovered. When Fang Lanyin returned to his seat, Li Chengqi turned the joystick and planned to return.
"Brother Li, look, that is also the wreckage of a high-speed commercial ship."
Not far away there is a relatively intact hull shell with a emblem that looks like some kind of flower printed on it to prove its ownership.
The hull can also be worth some money, but the Swan's warehouse is limited. If it were a starship, nothing would be left around here, except for the corpses, which were all taken away.
Fang Lanyin didn't recognize the emblem either, so she turned over the broken hull of the ship with her mechanical arm.
And as the mechanical arm opened the hull, there was something that looked like a cone underneath.
It was an escape hatch.
However, the escape cabins on battleships are all thick and thick at first glance, and the surface of this cone-shaped escape cabin is silver-blue, which has a rather technological aesthetic. It was an escape hatch on a high-speed commercial ship that was probably destroyed by pirates.
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The Manta really pulled a bunch of containers back to the Swan like a train. Fang Lanyin untied the steel cables attached to the escape cabin and was holding tools to try to open the escape cabin.
The escape capsule has a small space, and all the redundancy is used to equip the life support system. There is no extra space to equip the airlock. In order to prevent accidental contact, once the escape capsule is launched, it cannot be opened from the inside and can only be disassembled with tools from the outside. .
Fang Lanyin also dismantled the escape capsule once, but she often helped maintain the battleship when she was in Alan Starlink, and she had some understanding of the structure of the escape capsule.
Although the shape is a bit special, the structure is similar.
After a few moments of effort, Fang Lanyin found the switch and turned it with a wrench.
Accompanied by a hissing hydraulic sound, one side of the conical escape cabin opened like petals.
Hall and Sophia, who were standing nearby, immediately raised their guns and aimed at the hatch. Although they had rescue obligations similar to those of sea ships when sailing outside, anything could come out of the escape hatch, so they still needed to be careful.
What's more, this escape cabin is not normal.
Generally, after the escape capsule is launched, it will immediately turn on the rescue signal and wait until it is picked up by other ships. However, this escape capsule has always been silent. Even if it is afraid of being discovered by pirates, now that the pirates are gone, the escape capsule has not sent any signal. Obviously I don't want anyone to find out.
This is an abnormal situation, so be careful.
Fang Lanyin quickly stepped back, and in the opened escape cabin, two figures tentatively came out.
"Please don't shoot, we are unarmed."
It still sounded like a very sweet female voice, but this did not reassure anyone. Hall and Sophia pointed their guns at the figure.
Alyssa shouted at this time: "Put up your hands and come out slowly. Don't make any suspicious movements. After proving your identity, we will protect you in accordance with our obligations under the Constellation Law."
The two people in the escape cabin seemed to have a brief conversation, but still walked out.
The first thing that passed through the shadows was...
Why does it look like a robot?
This is not an accurate description. It looks like the Gundam has been reduced to a human size, but it clearly looks like a full-metal body, but it has flexibility similar to that of flesh.
Immediately afterwards, the second person also came out.
Compared with the previous robot, this one looks like a normal human woman at first glance. You can even see that she is wearing a bubble skirt that is not suitable for running. She is probably fifteen or sixteen years old.
But when she walked under the bright light, she would find that the person's exposed skin reflected a luster similar to that of stone, and the hair was not hair at all, but a large piece of bright pink crystal in the shape of hair. The whole person was not so much a person as a human being. Said to be more like a human-shaped mineral or gemstone.
Li Chengqi was greatly surprised by this. What the hell is this?
However, Alyssa, who had traveled extensively, obviously knew them. She looked at the two people, confirmed that they were not carrying weapons, and gestured to Hall and Sophia to move their guns.
"A silicon-based man and a crystal man? You guys are really a strange combination."
Alyssa said it was strange because the silicon-based people and the crystal people were actually old enemies and had been fighting for many years. Even if peace is maintained now, people from these two races will still not look good on each other when they meet.
Not only were the two people traveling on the same ship, the silicon-based man was also like a guard of the crystal man, vaguely blocking the muzzle of the gun with his own body.
This is very interesting.
(End of chapter)