The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Pilot a Titan ship and engage enemy troops in an unreasonably low orbital area.When the output of the anti-gravity system decreased, Ben immediately performed an emergency jump and escaped from the gravity well, but he misjudged the situation and tried to restore the original height by using the usual control method.Under his command, the high-speed Orobas reached the top of the atmosphere in just ten seconds.

Before he issued the next command, Orobas had broken through the limit altitude.

The dense city below was still glowing with gentle light, and the burning giant ship had fallen uncontrollably, disintegrated in the atmosphere, turned into boundless rain of fire and scattered to the ground.Whether it's buildings, vehicles, mountains, or people in fear, they all evaporate and dissipate in the flames.

The image on the display screen was slightly dim, but even so, the fireball continued to emit scorching and dazzling light in the distance.Like a child who couldn't untie the Nine Chains, he was restless and crying loudly.

Desperate for my own stupidity, for my own powerlessness.

He felt the blood in his body rushing to his head, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans began to ooze from his forehead.

In the trembling bridge, where sparks were constantly erupting all around, the eyes of countless people were now focused on themselves.He noticed the different expressions in the crowd: disgust, fear, horror, anger...their eyes looked like they were looking at a monster at the moment.

Yes, he killed them.In order to make meritorious service, the stupid himself let the Titan ship sail to the area prohibited by the regulations, which resulted in the tragic death of billions of people... He could not absolve himself of the responsibility.

"No...it shouldn't be like this! It shouldn't be like this!"

Dark, negative emotions emerged from the bottom of his heart, and the scene of death flew up and down in his mind.The despair was so deep that he didn't even realize that although the bridge of the Titan ship was spacious, it was absolutely impossible for so many people to stand there.

"Let us help you."

Billions of eyes were fixed on him, men and women, old and young, saints and prisoners, all voices fused together, as uniform as the best choir.They said softly:

"Let us help you."

The headache continued to torment him.He felt like his head was about to explode.He pressed his hand to his temple, the pain was suffocating.

There seems to be something wrong with this...

He vaguely felt something, but the countless pairs of eyes staring at him made him almost unable to think—are those really human eyes?Do people's eyes protrude upwards like this, even curved?

Something opened an inconspicuous crack in his consciousness.It felt as if two hands were tearing at a thick canvas, starting at the weakest little crack.He couldn't help trembling, the scene in front of him became precarious...

"—Woo."

Mordlai Fenlila opened his wet eyes and blinked a few times—he realized that he was lying on the floor, and things in the room began to become clear, especially the things that were coming towards him. Black ball.

bang...

Modley had no time to dodge the thing, and was hit hard on the forehead. The piercing pain made him howl uncontrollably, and the black ball let out a suppressed scream.Only then did he realize that the one who flew over and hit him was actually Hal Mannis in the next bed.For some unknown reason, the guy fell off the bed and hit his head hard.

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After a while of jumping around, the lights in the room were turned on:

"Pain pain pain..." Mordlai Fenlila got up from the ground covering his head, his thoughts disturbed by the nightmare gradually became clear——

This is observation station No. 2, [-] astronomical units away from the target star, and it is the closest one among several observation stations.A few hours ago, I and these companions had just finished the heavy work of sorting out the observation data. I wanted to sleep until the shift change tomorrow morning, but I was suddenly awakened by a stupid dream...

Drive a Titan to low orbit and fight people?

Are you kidding me... A professional technician like me can't even drive a battleship, but why is he driving a Titan?I'm afraid it's going to be a joke to others when I say it.

But to be honest... the feeling of sitting in the driver's seat of the Titan is pretty good, even though it's in a dream...

"...What are you doing? It's midnight, and you have to go to work tomorrow." The big man who just turned on the light was named Norlan Suoman, and he scratched his (self-proclaimed) senior technician with an irritable expression. With a bald head, there was dissatisfaction in his tone, "Did I get too excited when I dreamed of a beautiful girl? I had a bad dream."

"Sorry... go to sleep." Mordley had no strength to refute, the fatigue surging from the depths of his body made him want to get off the quilt and fall into a deep sleep. Hal, who had just bumped his head, must have the same thought, he Now he is crawling to his bed while yawning.

Let us help you...

At the end of the interruption of consciousness, he glanced at the clock beside the bed——

Three twenty-six in the morning.

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A few hours later, the observers who had been repaired finished their breakfast and started working officially.

Everyone tacitly did not mention last night's farce, only the pain from the bump on the head still reminded Modlay Fenlila that annoying nightmare had indeed happened.

He realized a very strange thing-as long as his attention was distracted, the memory would recede like a tide, and he would forget about it in just a few seconds; but then he accidentally touched it on the forehead That bag, the pain will make him recall everything in an instant, including the time he saw before he finally fell asleep.

Three twenty-six in the morning.

It's a little strange, but Modley told himself that he shouldn't focus on such trivial matters - the observation of the dark worm is the first, and there is still a lot of data to be sorted out, but there is no time Can be used to think wildly:

"Did the detection system show anything special?"

The big man Norlan stared at the data returned by the probe, and shook his head:

"Now the waveform is very flat and the data doesn't look like there's any change."

It was still an unremarkable day, the bug was slowly growing up, my team was here staring at it, and then the masters behind were discussing how to kill it.It's been like this these days, and I'm a little tired of it to be honest.

But that's what work is.

Let us help you...

Suddenly, he seemed to hear something. Modley turned his head and asked the big bald man sitting on the workbench behind him:

"Did you say anything?"

"I said, there is no change in the data." Norlan repeated impatiently, "There is nothing abnormal."

"Well……"

Did you hear it wrong?

Maybe……

If it was normal, he would definitely pay more attention to these details, but now Modlay is surrounded by a kind of lazy burnout, and he has already tried his best just to focus on the data in front of him.

Maybe I should get myself a cup of coffee...

For a moment, he felt that his vision began to crooked, and the characters on the data panel in front of him turned into colorful and undecipherable symbols, writhing in front of his eyes like earthworms.

Unable to resist, there seemed to be a deep and dark cave under his feet, and something protruded from it, biting his trouser leg and dragging it down.The thing was black and limp, like a snail out of its shell.The mouth is like a sunflower in full bloom, and the mouth is densely filled with small needle-like straws. The two eye-stalks on the head are dangling, and the eyes that are opened at the end are the same as human beings.

Let us help you...

A baby-like voice came out of the sunflower-like mouth, and the elongated eye-stalks slowly wrapped around Modlai's legs.A voice echoed beside my ears... No, it didn't just start ringing now, but it has been buzzing all the time, but I didn't notice it until now.It was like some monstrous gigantic insect clumsily imitating a foreign language, unique in its timbre and intervals, and in the trills that made it so far removed from known familiar creatures.

After realizing this, Modley's back was immediately wet with cold sweat.At that moment, a strong sense of fear gripped the technician's heart.

Make no mistake, this is a psionic attack!

He struggled in a panic, trying to get rid of the monster's strength at his feet. The soft, sticky, and itchy feeling made Modley's skin crawl.He kicked with all his strength, obviously making a lot of noise, and the smell that he had never smelled so far had filled his nostrils, but the big bald man behind him didn't respond at all.

Everyone is good!Come and help me!

Although I wanted to shout, my mouth seemed to be glued to death, and I couldn't make any sound. The ears were filled with the constant voices of children. into the ear canal——

We'll help you, we'll help you, we'll help you, we'll help you...

The thing dragged itself slowly, and dragged itself into the dark cave.He didn't dare to imagine what terrible things would happen after entering, but his efforts had reached the limit, and he couldn't resist the power of this monster, just like a human being couldn't wrestle with a steamroller—Modley was pulled away, and his head hit the table head-on , The collision was very heavy, the field of vision became pitch black, and countless stars and sparks floated in front of my eyes.

In an instant, everything disappeared, and Modley found himself sitting upright in front of the computer, with an uncomfortable sense of dislocation everywhere in his body.It was still a forward movement just now, but now it is sitting on the chair properly.No noises and whispers in the ears, no big black holes in the floor, no horrible worms with assy mouths.This is the workplace I am familiar with, quiet and neat.

There was a severe pain on his forehead, and the dream from the previous night flashed back clearly in front of his eyes—the elongated and curved eyes swayed like waves, as well as the terrible, chorus-like echo, all of which had already appeared clearly enough imagery.

No matter which angle you look at, you must have been attacked by psionic energy, and you couldn't even react immediately.Or, was it because I was affected that I couldn't react at the beginning?

Those abnormalities should have been noticed long ago!

Needless to say, this must be the work of bugs.But here is so far away from the stars, can it actually affect such a long distance?

The screen in front of him showed that just a few seconds ago, an X-class flare erupted on the surface of the star.It is the most violent eruption phenomenon that occurs in a local area of ​​the solar atmosphere. It releases a large amount of energy in a short period of time, causing instantaneous heating of the local area, emitting various electromagnetic radiation outwards, and accompanied by a sudden increase in particle radiation.Perhaps it was because of the burst of flares that the worm's psionic attacks stopped...

This is not due to inexperience or lack of vigilance... Looking back on the past few hours, I was in a hazy state as if I hadn't woken up-not only myself, but everyone else as well.That feeling seems to have started earlier...

He grabbed the computer suddenly and started to move the data forward until the time point in his memory——

Three twenty-six in the morning.

really!

Modley stared at the screen tightly. At that time, the computer recorded a small-scale psionic burst—but no one raised the alarm during this psionic burst, and none of the four people on duty at the time Humans responded to this, and even the attention signs made by the system were manually deleted. When the guards changed in the morning, they only said 'nothing unusual'.

The duration of the flare is within a few minutes to a few ten minutes. If the other party's psychic interference is due to the flare, then I don't have much time——

"Hey!" He grabbed the communicator. "Sunstrider Space, this is Outpost No. [-]! We are in trouble!"

【What happened? 】The Sunstrider space station is the headquarters of the front line station, located seventeen astronomical units away, his situation is now safe.Because they hadn't received any reports before, the staff of the space station were taken aback by the thoughtless statement [Did the bug move? 】

"The area of ​​influence of the Dark Worm Spirit has expanded, immediately recalculate the safe area!" Mordley swallowed, he noticed something moving behind him, and pressed his shoulder with one hand "Outpost No. [-] Second-level mental pollution has appeared, and it has spread, and the duration may have exceeded four hours..."

【What did you say? ! 】The voices of the people in the Sunstrider space station have changed.

The sound began to appear in the ear again, and something cold and sticky began to spread along the ear canal.The voices in the comm seemed to be blocked, making ridiculous grunts, and the baby-like chants started to grow louder and eventually took over.The tingling sensation of the large-area acupuncture climbed up the calf again, and even if you didn't lower your head, you would know that the thing might come out again.

The psionic attack started again, whether it was because the flare was no longer strong enough to blow away the dark worm's psionic tentacles, or it had adjusted to the new contact method.But this time, Modley's consciousness was unexpectedly clear——

This is obviously an illusion, but the illusion in front of him means that his thinking has touched the tentacles of the dark worm's spiritual energy.This means that one's psychological defense may collapse at any time... No one knows what will become of a clone warrior whose spiritual direction has collapsed.

[Release the anchor immediately!Retreat to the orbit of the fourth planet! 】

In a haze, he seemed to hear a command from the Sunstrider space station, but now it would take at least [-] seconds to release the anchor and let the entire small outpost start to accelerate the transition.

He didn't think he could hold on for [-] seconds—and it wasn't just him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Hal Mannis standing at the door, beating hard on the storage cabinet placed there, his hands were bloody.Every time he hammered, red blood spots splashed on the nearby wall or floor.I don't know what happened, but my shoulder gradually felt more and more painful, and something pierced into my shoulder, wriggling under the flesh.

That should be Norlan's finger.

"I'm afraid it's too late." He gritted his teeth, entered a series of instructions on the screen in a sometimes clear and sometimes blurred field of vision, "Activate Emergency Plan No. [-]."

The consistent style of Tartarus is to equip any laboratory that may cause the spread of crisis to be equipped with fusion bombs to eliminate the source of infection.Naturally, this place is no exception. Now that the pollution has occurred, I must detonate this fusion bomb according to the regulations.

But...Modelai fell into hesitation. Will the consciousness that has been entangled by the dark worm return to the clone smoothly after the explosion?He couldn't judge whether this hesitation came from his own heart, or if the dark worm expected him to think so.The red button had already risen, but he was too late to press it, the voice kept echoing in his ears——

I have seen your essence, Mordlai.Don't press down, you can't resist my spirit without a physical body, it will lead to your destruction...

He felt his body gradually sinking, his hands and feet were numb, exhausted and unable to move.

Countless pairs of eyes lined up, circling around him as if waiting for Mordlai to sink.It was the eyes shining on the long eye-stalks, shaking like wheat waves, but not shining with the light when biting the prey.Those eyes were soft and warm, whispering into Mordlai's mind——

Don't press down, it will lead to your destruction...

Ask us for help.

Let us help you.

We would like to welcome you.

We will give you anything you want.

Don't press that button...

Hearing this, Modley smiled.Even though there was pain from the distance in his shoulders, even though his ears were filled with the sound of water and unpleasant touch, even though his legs could no longer feel anything, he was still smiling happily.In the hazy sight, the big red button is so stark: