Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 5 Salvage Cruiser

"This is also a strange thing for us. We also have anti-detection technology, but with more than 100 sensors at such a close distance, why is the interference still so severe? And even though it is anti-peeping, some signals are always being sent out... I really wonder. Don’t understand what it is.”

Chen Xiaomeng sighed.

"And this thing is 10 kilometers long and 500 meters wide. Is this a city built underneath?"

Liu Wenhan was equally puzzled.

"But as a city, it's a bit too small..."

Listen to the two people next to you talking.While Qin Xu was doing his work, he murmured in a low voice: "What's so confusing about this? If you go down and take a look, you'll know what it is?"

Chen Xiaomeng and Liu Wenhan were stunned for a moment, and then turned their attention to Qin Xu who was working hard.

Qin Xu felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere suddenly. The two people over there were too quiet, so he raised his head and took a look. Especially when he saw Chen Xiaomeng looking at him and smiling, he suddenly felt horrified.

Just as he was about to run away, Chen Xiaomeng grabbed his hand. The next second, Qin Xu, wearing a heavy diving suit, was kicked off the landing craft and fell into the sea.

"Is he going to be okay?"

After all, there were many good people on the boat. A woman in her 20s asked Chen Xiaomeng worriedly.

"It's okay, this kid is really awesome."

The person who answered the woman's question was Liu Wenhan, but Liu Wenhan's enthusiasm did not attract the woman's attention. She pretended not to hear and looked at Chen Xiaomeng.

Chen Xiaomeng said: "It's okay, more than 100 detectors have gone down. There are no sea monsters below, so they can't die."

"I can rest assured that."

Liu Shaomei breathed a sigh of relief and returned to her work.

Liu Wenhan sitting next to him seemed to be a bit older.

When Chen Xiaomeng looked at the two people, he always felt that their relationship was a bit strange, but he didn't think much about it.

"It's so dark down there! I can't see anything."

Qin Xu's voice came to Chen Xiaomeng's ears.

"There is a button on the right ear of your helmet. You press it, or 550A you press it for him."

"Where is the button? I can't find it."

"..."

"Turned on."

The cold electronic sound of 550A sounded.

Chen Xiaomeng covered his head and sighed, and then continued to say to 550A: "550A, tell Qin Xu which way to go. Don't get further and further away from the target."

Qin Xu was busy down there for a while, and his voice came to Chen Xiaomeng's ears again.

"Like a ship."

Qin Xu's voice appeared in the ears of everyone in the landing craft, and his sound immediately startled everyone.

"Are you sure you read it correctly? This thing is a monster with a length of 10 kilometers!"

Chen Xiaomeng said in disbelief.

Then an even more frightening voice came from the communicator, "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, I've already gone in. And it seems there's still electricity inside. Let me see if I can move."

"do not!!!"

Chen Xiao was so frightened that he almost rushed into the sea to stop Qin Xu.

"Going deaf."

"You stay there now and don't move anything."

Chen Xiaomeng was almost frightened. With Qin Xu's IQ, he might have pressed the self-destruct button.

After spending so long with Qin Xu, Chen Xiaomeng has almost figured out his brain circuits. Never expect him to be in the same chat channel with her.

Qin Xu could only cry out for injustice. It seemed that several failed attempts to strike up a conversation had left a deep stereotype on the other party.

"Is the spaceship flooded?"

"No, there is an isolation cabin. After entering, you can drain the water in that small space before entering. And it seems that you can come in casually. When I walk over, it automatically opens the door."

"Remember, from now on, don't touch anything inside. We'll be there soon."

"Okay, I see there are a lot of colorful buttons here, I can just press one or two, it should be fine."

"What do you say?"

Qin Xu, who choked, smiled awkwardly. It seemed that Chen Xiaomeng couldn't afford such a joke at work.

Chen Xiaomeng was speechless. He didn't think Qin Xu could hold back for long without being stupid. He immediately put on his diving suit and jumped in with the others.

"It's really a spaceship, but it's too big. Our largest frigate is only less than 800 meters..."

Almost everyone on the landing craft got off. As soon as they heard about such a large spacecraft, as scientists, they had already entered a state of frenzy.

Liu Wenhan is one of the few veteran crew members with 20 years of aerospace experience, so the newcomers unconsciously take him as their leader.

He immediately ordered the crew to separately explore and record the situation, and at the same time released the pistol safety so that they could fire immediately in case of emergency.

"Liu, Liu Shaomei, you are on the same team as me, we are responsible..."

Liu Wenhan said angrily, but Liu Shaomei did not look at him, but continued to explore the ship.

They are indeed not in a superior-subordinate relationship, and Liu Wenhan does not have the authority to give orders, but everyone follows orders, which makes her look very different.

Watching Liu Shaomei walking away, she went to another team and started working inside the ship with instruments.

Liu Wenhan added a few more wrinkles to his slightly aged face. He sighed and led a few people to search in another direction.

As for Chen Xiaomeng, she was the first to rush into the ship, and then followed the position given to her by 550A and rushed all the way to Qin Xu.Seeing that Qin Xu was still standing obediently in front of the control panel of the spacecraft's cockpit without moving, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

"Follow me. Others don't have a correct understanding of your IQ, and you have inexplicable confidence in yourself. I'm really afraid that you will click blindly in there."

"Why is my IQ so bad? I..."

Facing Chen Xiaomeng's gaze, Qin Xu felt more and more guilty.

"Well, sure, I'm an idiot when it comes to science, I admit it."

Qin Xu wanted to change the other person's stereotype of him, but he bought his degree and compared it with top students with double majors in physics and biology from other prestigious universities.

That really doesn't compare.

Chen Xiaomeng nodded with satisfaction, took the instrument and started working on the spot.

As for this, Qin Xu, who was not a professional, could only watch from the side, and almost fell asleep in the captain's seat which was extremely comfortable.

In fact, he actually fell asleep in the end. Since he couldn't do research, he could only do heavy physical tasks. After a tiring day, he was the only one doing the hard work.

When I woke up, I found that the communicator had been ringing, so I picked it up and took a look.

"Gain 1% progress in improving cruiser hull technology."

"Acquire 1% progress in improved deflection shield technology."

"Acquire 1% progress in porcelain gold armor technology."

"Acquire 1% cruiser construction technology progress."

"Acquire 1% progress in blue laser cannon technology."

"Acquire 1% railgun technology progress."

"Get 1% of Gravity Sensor technology progress"

……

Qin Xu was dazzled at this moment. He knew every word, but he didn't even recognize them together.

In fact, he had never learned any of these advanced scientific terms in college. He only learned some financial knowledge. He worked hard to memorize so many of them, but in the end, none of them were used.

Now I don’t know anything about it, so I can only learn little by little from Chen Xiaomeng.

After waking up, Qin Xu looked around with sleepy eyes, and suddenly became energetic.

Because he found that the entire cruiser command room was full of people. They were very busy dismantling it, studying various parts, and walking back and forth.

But Qin Xu sat in the captain's seat and slept soundly for who knows how many hours. When he thought that everyone saw him falling asleep here, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and quickly stood up from his seat.

I was really tired after throwing away the sensor with heavy objects hanging on it for a day.

Su Lixuan happened to come in. Seeing Qin Xu standing up from the captain's seat in the command room in a hurry, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Keep sitting, there's nothing to be embarrassed about."

Qin Xu suddenly felt bad. He quickly made a gesture of invitation, and then backed away, "No, no, Captain, please sit down first. I can stand."

However, Su Lixuan had no intention of sitting down. Instead, he pushed Qin Xu to sit back, "I still have a lot of things to do, so I don't have time to sit. It's your job to sit here properly."

Obviously Chen Xiaomeng has already said hello to Su Lixuan. Don't let Qin Xu do things. Asking him to help is worse than not helping.

Qin Xu believed that his emotional intelligence was still high. He understood the implication and stopped asking for help. He continued to sit in the captain's seat and watched everyone busy.

And Su Lixuan also went up to direct the work.

Not long after, a scientist shouted loudly, "All areas have been inspected, and a total of more than 2 alien bones have been found. They are so old that the cause of death cannot be determined."

Su Lixuan nodded, indicating that he understood.

The man saluted and left to continue working on the cruiser.

"Can this boat still move?"

Qin Xu asked.

"Except for the damage sustained when it fell into the sea, there are no traces of battle. If nothing else, it should still be able to fly."

Su Lixuan thought for a while.

"What if there is an accident?"

"..."

One word to Second Lieutenant Su silenced him.

But soon Qin Xu was pulled out by Chen Xiaomeng. It seemed that a door was broken and could not be opened. A laser cutter was needed, and coolies came.

The preliminary research is finally over.

Sixteen of the cruiser's 20 giant ion thrusters were broken, and it would definitely not be able to fly on its own. In the end, the engineering fleet was called.

Dozens of heavy engineering ships arrived in the sky above the ocean of Alpha Star. Nano-steel cables pulled the huge cruiser, and the remaining four ion thrusters of the cruiser were running at full power.

After scrapping six heavy engineering ships, the cruiser was finally pulled out of the seabed.

Immediately afterwards, 30 more engineering ships were urgently transferred from the headquarters. After two days of pulling little by little, the cruiser was finally pulled up, passed through the thick clouds, and arrived in the outer space of Alpha Star.

After arriving in space, we no longer have the strong gravitational constraints. Although we still have to be dragged by the engineering ship, we are finally no longer afraid of falling back into the sea without being caught and starting all over again.

Ten engineering ships towed the cruiser, and other engineering ships started the construction of a giant space station in the Centaur system, building a shipyard, and planned to drive the cruiser into the shipyard for on-site repairs.

With the successful salvage of a 10-kilometer-long almost intact alien super battleship and the announcement of the habitable planet Alpha, these two major news were broadcast on almost every display screen on the Earth's mother planet at all times and on all platforms.

People's hearts are united and people want what they want. Taking advantage of this momentum, Vanessa, the president of the United Nations on Earth, signed the "colonial frenzy" bill.

From now on, when the United Nations of Earth colonizes the outside world, in addition to the official colonization ships, major consortiums will also work together to build one, which is equivalent to two colonization ships setting off at the same time, and will transport 200 million people to the new world at one go.

(End of this chapter)