Chapter 588: Broken Ship

This is the assembly platform of the base, next to the take-off and landing platform where we landed. As the largest flat area in the asteroid fortification group, this place is entirely made of silver-grey Imperial alloy, with New Eden etched on the ground.

The federal emblem and imperial coat of arms, as well as everything around the assembly platform, are brand new.

The smooth building surface, the alloy armor plates that have just been grown by nano-builders, the air combat robots that have not yet been started after assembly, and the spotless crystal matrix, but the lifeless base has a brand-new feeling everywhere, making people feel extra special.

Uncoordinated.

We obviously contacted this base once before we set sail, but only twelve hours later, the base was abandoned due to attack, and even the garrison here disappeared completely. What happened here?

?

"There is still 10% power here," Viska's voice came through the mental connection. She had just emerged from a functional building in front that was not completely enclosed and was pulling her messy hair. "That's it.

The few beacons that still had warning lights on were powered by the spare Protos Crystal Tower. Fortunately, they escaped the attack and provided teleportation coordinates for the Void Rangers. I have transferred their energy to

The artificial gravity generator is on. It will start in about ten minutes, and the remaining crystal energy can maintain gravity for twelve hours. Heroic spirits who are not used to the space environment can relax a little bit."

Suddenly, everyone's eyes were focused on one person.

The antenna on King Da Mao's head suddenly straightened up: "I... I'm just not used to this feeling of being helpless! As a knight, you are meant to fight on the ground..."

Before she could finish speaking, Bedivere gracefully floated over from the front and noticed Saber's gaze. The latter immediately stood upright in the air and gave a knightly salute as steady as a rock: "My king."

"People always have what they are good at and what they are not good at." I saw that Arturia's stupid hair was curled up, and I immediately stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't go out to eat King's Dinner with Sandora when you go back.

Just learn basic physics and you will get better..."

What should I say? Before I finished speaking, Saber had already let me shoot her away. She really needs to practice more.

Originally, it was impossible for such a guy who couldn't learn to fight without gravity to participate in this operation, but the pride of the Knight King did not allow her to hide in a safe spaceship and face a person just because she couldn't stand upright on the battlefield.

Colossus was in a daze, and the Lion King almost stalked him and finally came over like a bastard in the name of familiar skills. But now it seems that Saber has a long way to go before he can learn to walk in space. Before that, he can't perform

As for her swordsmanship, she could only serve as her own space fort—firing one shot, she would fly out for more than a hundred kilometers like the Long March 7, and then be towed back by the tugboat to fire the second shot.

Fortunately, the life-saving artificial gravity was finally restored at this time. Arturia, who was about to float out of the assembly platform and fly to the sea of ​​stars, danced in the air for a while and then lay prostrate on the edge of the platform. Sister R next to me immediately sighed in disappointment.

Tone: She has all the chains ready, just waiting to throw spears and tie people up.

Sister R is completely bad at learning now.

"The damage to the base is not serious," Viska said, walking ahead of us. As the person with the strongest military expertise at the scene, the little girl finally had an advantage. "The destroyed sentry guns and laser turrets show that they were used when the enemy appeared."

They all entered the battle in time. Some battleship fragments collected nearby and the damage scars on the front of the base showed that the enemy's main force did not get too close here. However, due to the incomplete construction of the base, the energy shield output was insufficient.

Coupled with the fact that the enemy may have super weapons, the defensive barrier was broken first even though the base had complete firepower, and then, a little bit of bad luck——"

Viska pointed to two small points in the distance. There were two asteroids that flew away from the building complex. The alloy skeletons connected to the main body of the base were blown off from the front, and then were thrown out. There may be other asteroids in the middle.

Something collided with each other and eventually turned into two unlucky guys spinning rapidly.

"The Nether Energy Reactor was hit head-on... Those idiots... gave them so much technology, but the imitation they made was still at such a level that they couldn't even copy the technology of the Space-Time Reactor...

"

Keep your mouth shut, my dear sister, not all races can use quantum brains as daily computing tools.

The power zone of the base has been torn apart, and there may be a large dose of psionic energy leaked. There can be no survivors. The several heroic spirit teams that followed us were divided into three directions, and went to investigate the storage area, residential area and other areas of the base respectively.

In the armed production area, the bonus from the Temple of the World Tree allows them to have higher sensitivity than the Xiling life detection device, and we move closer to the command center in the center of the base. The golden pyramid-shaped building, the Xingling hub seems

It wasn't seriously damaged, and there might be something worth collecting inside.

"The base has not been completely destroyed, but the most critical building has been destroyed." Viska's blood-red cat eyes released a faint red light, seeming to be scanning the structure of the surrounding buildings. "There are no signs of overloading in conventional energy pipes."

, and so far there has been no sign of a large-scale enemy landing on the base. The troops stationed here should have successfully driven away the first wave of enemies, but they took the initiative to retreat after discovering that the base was unable to work and its position was exposed.

, they took away almost everything they could... huh?"

Viska suddenly discovered something, ran forward quickly and then ran back holding something the size of a water tank.

"Protos's probe seems to have been broken, but there are no scars on the surface. The builder may still remember something."

The little guy had an excited expression on his face. He was holding a "water tank" that was almost as big as her at a height of 1.2 meters, and it looked as if it was nothing. Then he threw the latter roughly to the ground. My sister and I suddenly felt that we were under our feet.

There was a shaking.

...Even if it's not broken, it should be almost done by now. This girl is really used to those monster machines produced by the empire.

As the most important daily work unit, the exploration aircraft manufactured by Protos have naturally been transformed by Xiling Technology, but those are all internal improvements for the AI ​​system and energy system. Their appearance is still so simple and round.

, the front half is a variety of industrial ray focusing prisms like big eyes, a fat alloy belly in the middle, and the tail is an anti-gravity device and a thruster. Viska is currently lying in front of its big eyes, holding the shiny thing with its small hands.

The focusing prism was pulled out hey hey hey.

This violent little sister didn't have time to study the crude automatic robots of the Protoss. She just detected that the memory core of the latter was near the head, and wanted to find the nearest way to dig it out.

"Hey, girl, be careful not to break it..."

I quickly stepped forward to stop Viska from violently dismantling it, and suddenly, the "eyes" of the detective suddenly lit up.

A stream of blue-white high-energy material hit Viska head-on before I could react, causing the latter's little head to tilt back more than ninety degrees, and the little girl's pulling movements suddenly stiffened.

It was still a moment before I could react. As soon as Viska, who was suddenly attacked, recovered his posture, he pulled back and made a sweeping kick. Suddenly, the entire prism part of the probe flew out.

What a violent solution.

"Hey, I should have known that this kind of idiot AI is unreliable," Viska muttered, stretched out his hand and pulled out a triangular crystal block from the head of the smoldering probe, turned his face and showed it off to me, "Hehe

, Onii-sama, this one is not broken...Eh? What's wrong?"

Should I remind her to look in the mirror?

I was hit by a probe's self-defense particle gun. Although it didn't break the defense, it was completely black!

"Wow!" Viska finally realized that his little face might have looked like the background color of the universe. He hurriedly took out a handkerchief and wiped it, "Damn... the attack power of that thing is too low, and the automatic shield has not been activated at all...

…I didn’t expect it to be like this…”

Ah, a face that can resist particle guns, but it doesn't even bother to activate the shield. Visca, are you forcing me to complain?

My sister and I both helped Viska wipe her dark little face. In the end, it just turned the little girl into a big-faced girl. I don’t know what the principle of the attack just now was. It wasn’t very powerful, but it was pretty good.

.

By the way, Viska's face feels really good and soft. If you didn't remind me, no one would have thought that this thing can withstand armor-piercing bullets.

"Okay, now let's see what this damn spy plane recorded."

Just like a child having a bad temper, Viska wiped her black and white face hard, and held the removed memory core in her hand. She didn't see any other movements, and the memory core

Lighted up on its own.

A few seconds passed with no movement.

"...Well, brother, wait a minute, this is encoded in the Protos language, I will make the next compatibility package..."

It turns out that the constant "beep beep beep" sound in your stomach since just now is because of this?

"Okay!" Viska downloaded the language library from the Void Ranger's host and finally parsed out the memory of the damaged crystal. "Let me take a look...the spaceship, the miscellaneous army, and the pirate attack. There seems to be nothing valuable.

...Well, in the end it was hit by some kind of space weapon, and the shield was overloaded. The pirate group here is quite powerful... Brother, this base was attacked by local pirates!"

Pirates? Pirates who can afford space weapons? How great it would be to build a country with such strength!

Viska struggled with the poor memory core for at least five minutes, until the latter turned into a gaseous state in a flash of light, and all its information was finally extracted. The spy plane witnessed the base being attacked by a large mixed fleet.

The whole process, but I am not sure whether the latter are pirates - there is no difference between pirates and government troops in this world. At the end of the memory, the spy plane recorded an order for the entire army to retreat. It seems that the garrison here

A safe new base has been found, but the reconnaissance plane was destroyed at that moment. The location where the army finally evacuated was not recorded, and it may not be so easy to find other memories. Everything in the base is intact.

It has been moved away, and all that is left is junk.

A tall figure landed next to her as lightly as the wind. Medusa, who went to investigate the residential area, returned.

"There was a smell of blood and death, but no body was found."

Sister Zi Changzhi reported somewhat discouragedly, and behind her, followed a group of disgraced heroic spirits ABCD.

"We dug up a hollowed-out asteroid," Sister R's mouth turned up slightly, "but I ran out in time!"

Hey! Your team members are obviously buried, right? Even if you know that the heroic spirits will not be injured that easily, can you give me some self-consciousness as a leader?

"As a woman, if you are dirty, doesn't it affect your image?" Faced with my complaint, Sister R turned her head unnaturally, and then she faced a dirty cat face diagonally below her, and suddenly she was covered in cold sweat.

"General Viska is very sorry. Please don't mind what I just said to myself!"

"It's the same in the storage area and the armed production area. There are no corpses, no wreckage, and the evacuation was clean." The other two groups of heroic spirits also rushed back, and their findings were similar. "All the buildings are now empty shells.

Everyone who can be moved has been moved."

"Well, if the strategy changes after repelling the enemy, they will definitely take everything they can. The bodies of their comrades will definitely not be left in the abandoned base with nothing, including the base buildings.

The signs of being violently opened at least indicate that the remaining people retreated in an orderly manner under safe conditions, but it's a bit strange." I looked around at the dark and silent asteroid complex around me, and there were only a few building lights that were still running.

Everything was distorted and bizarre, "Even if they abandoned the base, they should report to the rear, but Elsword did not receive the communication at all, and there was no code left here to explain their whereabouts. Did the garrison evacuate?

Didn’t you know we would be arriving soon?”

"Who knows," Sister drew circles on the ground, "There is nothing left, and there is no way to investigate what the evacuated exploration troops are doing..."

"Uh, what, sister," I looked at my sister with some trepidation as she kept drawing circles on the alloy floor. I felt that the temperature around me was approaching absolute zero, "What are you doing?"
To be continued...