828. The Lost Fleet (2)
Finally, after flying for 29 standard hours, Plague warship finally arrived at the area where the unknown fleet was located. Due to constant damage and malfunctions inside the battleship, they were 4 hours later than expected.
However, the powerful fleet composed of 200 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser still made no movement and was just floating quietly in the universe.
Sefrans-Tann looked at the fleet of 200 ships arranged in a dense formation through the sensor screen, frowning, and then she opened the public channel and said, "This is where Confederacy of Independent Systems Western Reaches war zone belongs, Plague Titan warship. We are here to surrender. I hope you will accept our sincerity."
"General!" The adjutant's expression changed drastically, but then he understood what Tann meant.
Another 10 minutes passed and there was still no response.
"General, do you think we should try to fire a shot first?" the adjutant whispered.
Even he himself didn't know why he spoke so quietly. Maybe he was worried about waking up the 200 battleships?
"No need, just send people to board some of the warships." Sefrans-Tann said.
"Isn't this a bit risky?" The adjutant frowned.
"We don't have much time left." Sefrans-Tann said, "Instead of blindly testing here, it is better to board the ship directly to check. How many usable exploration spacecraft do we have?"
The adjutant immediately replied, "There are 12 more, all small spacecraft that can only carry 5 people."
"Divide into three groups, and randomly select a spacecraft in the front, middle and rear of the fleet formation to try to dock." Sefrans-Tann gave the order directly.
"Yes!"
The 12 exploration spacecraft were loaded with some Fourth Civilization Marines and B-1 combat robots activated from the inventory, and flew towards three randomly selected Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser.
On the bridge, members Sefrans-Tann and Staff Department were also checking their movements on the screen.
The exploration spacecraft cautiously approached Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, and then found the entrance to Hangar Platform under the battleship. But Hangar Platform was in a tightly closed state, and there was nothing that could be done about the exploration spacecraft turning several times.
An engineer standing next to Sefrans-Tann thought of a way. He asked the exploration spacecraft to directly use the civilian frequency band to send a maintenance message to the warship.
I didn't expect that this method would actually work. Hangar Platform's thick armored gate actually opened!
The engineer was somewhat proud and explained, "I am just treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, because in order to prevent unexpected situations from being unable to rescue, the battleship will not lock the entrance and exit when it is on standby."
"On standby? Why would this fleet fly into such a void to stand by?" Sefrans-Tann frowned, "Generally, warships will only enter the standby state when they are anchored in the port area. Once they set off, they will never be on standby like this, especially for warships."
"At least this shows that these warships are now completely unmanned," the engineer said.
At this time, Fourth Civilization Marines, who was the first to enter the battleship hangar, had already sent a video message, "General, we are in the hangar now. There are 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets parked here, which are fully loaded as designed by Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser." He adjusted the camera on the head of his space combat suit to display the pictures of the neatly arranged fighter jets.
"There are no fighter jets taking off, which means they have not fought." Sefrans-Tann said, "Continue to go deeper."
Fourth Civilization Marines continued to walk towards the depths of the battleship with the B-1 combat robot as the guide, but was blocked by the compartment door. "General, the compartment door cannot be opened. Doesn't this make sense?"
The engineer also said on the side, "It really doesn't make sense. If the spacecraft is on standby, it is absolutely impossible to lock the compartment of Hangar Platform. Moreover, why is the compartment inside the hangar locked but not the door outside Hangar Platform? It's so strange."
Sefrans-Tann said in a deep voice, "Maybe they want to prevent people inside from going out. At the same time, they also want people from outside to come in."
"What did you say?" The adjutant was shocked, "Is it a rebellion?"
Sefrans-Tann shook his head, stood up, took off the general's uniform jacket, and said; "If the same situation applies to other warships, then let the exploration spacecraft come back and transport a group of people and cutting equipment. I will first enter one of the warships personally and use Lightsaber to cut the hatch."
"General! This fleet is full of weirdness, I'm afraid it may be in danger." The adjutant said quickly.
Sefrans-Tann thought for a moment and said, "Prepare a space protective suit for me too."
While the exploration spacecraft began to send more Marines, robots and cutting equipment, Sefrans-Tann also personally boarded one of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser.
She directly pulled out her yellow Lightsaber and stabbed it into the hatch. The extremely high temperature of Lightsaber melted and penetrated the hatch almost instantly, and then began to move Lightsaber, melting the thick hatch directly and cutting out a large hole that was as tall as one person.
Several B-1 combat robots that had been on standby immediately stepped forward and pushed, knocking down the cut hatch. The interior of the battleship was finally revealed to everyone.
Pfft... There was no banging sound after the hatch was pushed down. Instead, it seemed as if it had fallen on something soft, and almost no sound was made.
"Oh my God!!" Mariness exclaimed immediately.
Everyone, including Sefrans-Tann, couldn't help but back away after seeing the scene inside the hatch.
Unlike the Hangar Platform, which was clean and tidy and looked like brand new, behind the hatch, it was a complete hell!!
Countless corpses were piled on top of each other, all blocked at the cabin door. They were dead and ferocious, with hundreds of hands stretched out densely, as if they were trying to grab something. The walls and floor were covered with bloodstains and bloody scratches that had turned black. This sight could give people nightmares for a month!
Even the hell in your imagination is nothing more than this!
These corpses were all wearing Republic Judicial Fleet gray uniforms, which had been completely replaced after the outbreak of the war, and...
"There are no traces of shooting." Sefrans-Tann has recovered. Although he still doesn't have the courage to go there, he has begun to observe the situation over there from a distance. "These corpses were not killed by guns."
Several Fourth Civilization Mariness were already retching there, and they tried very hard to hold back from vomiting in the fully sealed space combat suits.