"DD25B space jump ship, please reply; DD25B space jump ship, please reply..."
The forced signal transmission into the spacecraft hovering in the vacuum of space did not elicit any response.
The Knight Commander of Xinuo, standing on the deck, raised an eyebrow slightly, then gently extended his right hand, making a forward gesture.
"Puff!"
With his signal, scorching flames erupted from the tail of the spaceship behind him, and a dozen or so arc-shaped battleships, not much larger than airplanes, slowly rose from the deck of the Pope Ship. Then, accompanied by bursts of flame, they transformed into a dozen or so arcs of light and headed toward the space jump ship, which was estimated to be hundreds of kilometers away.
Besides the dozen or so arcs of light from this location, from the locations of the more than three hundred massive Pope Ship anchored at greater distances, more than a dozen arc-shaped combat ships also transformed into arcs of light and headed towards the space jump ship.
The helmet of the Knight Commander of Xinuo projected the interior scene of the Arc Light spaceship outwards, while a dense array of communication windows were also projected in one corner.
The knight commanders of the various papal warships are currently communicating with each other to ascertain the situation on the ground as soon as possible.
Several spaceships flew close to the space jump ship, and then more than a dozen Church knights wearing power armor ejected from the spaceship hatches.
The power armor has a flamethrower on its back, which is enough to propel them to accelerate long-distance flight in outer space.
The Church knights retrieved heavy laser guns from their weapon bays and then flew onto the hull of the space jump ship.
The suction boots tightly adhered their bodies to the spaceship's hull, while several Church knights converted their laser guns into long-lasting laser modes, using the beams continuously emitted from the muzzles to cut through the hatches of the space jump ship.
No one knows whether the spacecraft carries some kind of strange virus from Subspace, so it's impossible to connect the spacecraft to the base for further research.
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..."
The intense heat completely burned through the area around the hatch, and before the Church knights standing around it could do anything, the hatch was sucked inside.
Immediately following, something resembling an alien nest from a movie came into view.
Huge, viscous flesh, like spider silk, clung to the entire interior of the spaceship, forming disgusting piles of flesh in every corner. The entire internal structure of the spaceship was completely destroyed, and the interior was almost entirely hollow. Countless pieces of flesh were stuck together, all converging at the core of the spaceship—a huge, still beating, scarlet, viscous, and bizarre heart.
The outlines of the bodies of the fifteen Church knights who participated in the incident are still visible, their flesh and blood stuck to the wall, seemingly still being eroded by the flesh covering them.
As the hatch opened, the blood and flesh covering the walls seemed to be attracted by the signs of life coming from the hatch, and visibly wriggled on the walls, even moving closer to the hatch.
"My Pale God! What on earth is this?"
"Fuck! This is Franklin, Fifth Stage powerhouse who has been famous for a thousand years. How could he die in a place like this?"
"Damn it, can't the golden flames of the Angel burn these damned things?"
"Some kind of life seems to be developing within that heart, Your Excellency Knight Commander. Should we take it back to base?"
The gasps of the Church knights piled up at the door rang in their earpieces. Even though they possessed great power and had lived for hundreds or thousands of years, they felt a chill run down their spines when they saw this disgusting and bizarre scene.
"No! Retrieve the black box data from Franklin's team immediately! This damned spaceship must be destroyed on the spot!"
A somber reply came through the headset.
"Yes!"
The leading Church knight immediately nodded, and a data window popped up on his helmet, beginning to rapidly transfer the video files from the past twenty-five days stored on the power armor of Franklin's squad.
At the same time, the power armor on Franklin's corpse, whose half-body was completely attached to the flesh and blood of the wall, suddenly made a sound. A light began to flash from an inconspicuous groove on the top of his helmet, and then a lingering voice was transmitted through the channel signal to the earpieces of the surrounding Church knights.
Franklin, captain of the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Squad of the Seventy-Eighth Monastery in Manoqi City, on the Church Meidelina Planet, left a message: 'Doctor, space jump technology is fully mature, but our experiment has a fatal flaw. We invaded the Subspace through vibration, transforming from a phantom to a solid, but this means our ship's external defenses are useless. When the ship solidified in the Subspace, the cavity was already filled with Soul Matter. And Soul Matter, as you theory suggests, will corrupt real matter, even merging with the air, thus giving birth to some strange life form... sizzle sizzle... These life forms are extremely bizarre; their shapes and abilities are so bizarre that they are impossible to predict. They also possess a shapeless, viscous flesh, their bodies dispersing...' The delirious ramblings could destroy a person's spirit... cough cough cough, Doctor, perhaps Subspace Jump could solve the problem of the ratio between the rate of human reproduction and expansion, but using vibrations to jump into the Subspace, the spaceship's cavity contains a large amount of Soul Matter. If we vibrate and jump back to reality, then the Soul Matter in the spaceship's cavity might also be transferred to reality simultaneously. In other words, every Subspace Jump might inevitably bring back Soul Matter... cough cough, hahahaha, Doctor... Doctor... the delirious ramblings... have destroyed my... spirit, flesh and blood have... covered my body, I... have already glimpsed the true form of the gods... I have already... glimpsed the... truth of everything... boom...
The explosion and sobs ended the entire farewell speech. The Church knights hovering outside the hatch could hardly understand Franklin's words, but the scholar standing next to the Knight Commander of the Xinuo was extremely excited.
He shouted and yelled, his face flushed, his words laced with a triumphant air. "See? Our research results are correct! Life needs design, and Your Majesty is nothing but a thief!"
The true God is the creator of all life and rules. The fundamental reason why Your Majesty has failed to completely exterminate humanity and recreate other life forms is that You have yet to be able to fabricate true life!!!
"Puff!"
Before the mad scholar could finish speaking, a powerful greatsword slashed down, splitting him in two from head to toe, splattering blood and flesh into space.
"Heresy!"