The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Seeing Oregana's reaction, everyone panicked and tied themselves to the chairs.The sea hare yelled while fastening various straps:

"Isn't the newly installed equipment able to clearly see spatial fluctuations and energy flows?! Why is it still like this!"

"Although some things can be seen, the reaction can't keep up!" Oregana felt the bow of the ship trembling violently. The detectors installed on both sides of the hull did read the parameters, but it was like swimming in the sea. Sometimes you get caught in a sardine tornado - you can see it, but you can't keep up with the action, let alone humans, not even seals.So she can only use Shark's operation and crash into it head-on. "The car clock position, go forward five!!" (Note ①)

"Shut up! This ship has a fart clock!"

(Note: Standby Engine, a term for ship operation, refers to the operation process of making the main engine ready to work at any time before sailing. The driver conveys instructions to the crew of the engine department through the car bell, and the instructions are divided into 'advance ( AHEAD)' and 'Reverse (ASTERN)', forward and backward are divided into four gears, that is, 'advance 1234' and 'reverse 1234', plus parking, a total of nine gears, from one to four speeds increase sequentially, forward four is usually said full speed forward. Combat ships have a fifth gear of forward five, meaning 'strong speed'.)

(Note [-]: Eleven districts are different. There are nine forward gears, namely slow speed, half speed, original speed, strong speed, first battle speed, second battle speed, third battle speed, maximum battle speed, and full speed. Cruise speed and combat speed are separate)

Naturally, there is no such car clock on the Starseus-class cruiser. If you have to say it, it is as easy for the clone warriors to precisely control the speed as breathing. If you have to say it, there are related commands, such as - "full speed" Turn on the fader''overload fader''open micro-curve''overload micro-curve'' (it depends on whether it is a fader or a micro-curve, depending on what was installed on the ship at the time). An order of tension.

When Oregana gave the command of 'forward five' and overloaded the afterburner, a sense of tension that didn't exist suddenly surged up.

Statius spewed out a long azure blue tail flame, nailed into the turbulent flow outside the crack like an awl, and squeezed forward with astonishing momentum.Oregana controls this battleship with superb skills, and the hundreds of meters long battleship is flexible in her hands like an agile core fighter——every time the space surge that hits from all directions changes the direction of the hull's progress, position, the attitude control nozzle will emit light in a timely manner to correct the offset of the hull.

Every time, a powerful vibration would be mercilessly transmitted to the inside of the hull, that vibration was like being hit by an enemy ship in battle.The sound of metal squeezing reverberated in the hull, and the unemployed people on the boat were either counting prime numbers or memorizing pi to reduce tension—although everyone has already put on power armor, if the hull is here, it will not hold up. If the housing is cracked, or if there is an explosion in the hull, it will have to do it all over again.

This process lasted for several minutes, and then a strange feeling of falling swept the entire battleship.It's as if the feeling of falling directly from the cliff makes one wonder whether the artificial gravity system of the hull was damaged during the battle of wits and courage with the space just now, but the data on the instrument shows that it was just an illusion.

There are only a few innocuous damages to the hull, and the feeling of falling just now is just because the ship has entered the immaterial space.

The external viewfinder captured the picture, and it was still the familiar background.Strange flashes are constantly flickering in the turbid space background, and the projections of stars on the back of the world are rotating at a dazzling speed. It looks chaotic and frantic, and a large number of "sounds" echo in this boundless but narrow and unbelievably strange space among.The negative emotions brought about by competition and confrontation are far greater than happiness and joy, which makes the subspace here present an unpleasant sense of depression.

But Oregana didn't care about this, she checked the communication link and the time stamp:

"The time benchmarking is complete, and the communication is smooth. Huh..."

Hearing Oregana's voice, Haitu untied the seat belt and restraints on her chest, stretched her waist vigorously, and stood up:

"It looks like a big sigh of relief."

"Yeah, the familiar environment makes people relax." Oregana nodded, she looked around through the viewfinder, this familiar feeling was like returning home and spreading out on the sofa "This is completely different from the vertical well It’s different, it’s familiar, and that’s great.”

The obviously reconciled space structure in the vertical well is unpleasant, and the material universe and subspace are both pleasing things, just like cola and soy sauce.Whether it is cola or soy sauce, they are all things that bring happiness to people, but you mix cola and soy sauce together and take a sip?From the perspective of the subspace demon, the combination of the subspace and the conventional material universe in that form is probably a two-to-one ratio of cola and soy sauce.It contains a strong impact that just one sip is enough to make people unable to find Bei.

Liu Lizi was still sitting on the operating position, she scanned the surroundings with the sensor, and warned:

"It's so quiet... It's completely different from the one in the Integration Department." It seemed that he began to chant some unlucky lines unconsciously, "The number of creatures in the subspace is very low. It may be that there is something here. Pay attention."

"...Of course there's something here."

"have what?"

"You, and us." Oregana lightly touched the screen, "When we entered the galaxy in the material world, a batch had already escaped, and now even more escaped after entering the subspace. But This may alert the target, so it's better to be a little more careful."

"……Eh."

"The degree of fluctuation in the subspace is low, and the value of negative chaos is high. It seems that the people here are not very comfortable."

"War and confrontation every day, how can it be comfortable. The limit distance of the detector on the port side has a conventional material reaction, pay attention."

"Understood, the probe is launched."

In the subspace, the viewing distance is virtual. In most cases, the things you see do not conform to the perspective principle of near-large and far-small, and the effect of the sensor is not as good as outside.Therefore, if you want to accurately locate the target, you must use a large number of probes to assist in scanning to be safe enough.This technology has been matured by Captain Kato Jasmine. Those free space pirates often throw probes in the corridor to find "forks" to ensure that they can escape the pursuit smoothly. On the side of the Integration Department, similar The technology has only just begun to be applied in practice—it was not until the last few months that the transportation department in the civilization circle of the Ministry of Consolidation officially began to study the use of subspace corridors to build a transportation network.

But now, these probes are not the core scanning probes usually used to scan space anomalies, but combat scanning probes used to scan fortresses or battleship locations.These small things shot out from the probe launchers on the side of the hull, moved forward at the fastest speed, and quickly disappeared from sight.But in Oregana's perception, their signal echoes are gradually forming a large net.

This 'net' ends with sixteen probes, with a diameter of more than 24 astronomical units, passing through the entire space at high speed and without omission.In just a dozen seconds, something appeared on the Internet.At that moment, the outermost probes immediately began to slow down. Judging from the scanning picture, it was like an octopus caught its prey and was wrapping it with its tentacles. The probes changed their formation and circled around the target area Nearby, the next round of detection waves was released at the same time.

Four seconds later, the exact coordinates of this 'foreign object' were clearly displayed on the navigation computer of Struthus.

Everyone present stopped gossiping and concentrated on their work.

The hull fluctuated for a while, and the transparent 'curtain' was slowly covered, and the hull disappeared in place as if blending into the background of deep space.The covert action device was activated, and Stacius sailed slowly in the warp.Within a few minutes, that thing suddenly appeared in front of him without warning, like a black high-end car that suddenly appeared.

In this quiet and inconceivable subspace, a huge black monster appeared in front of everyone with a very oppressive posture.

The thing is long, with two thinner sections. Its chubby body is covered with large and small thorns—because it is larger than the Sarnaga World Ship and has a huge body of more than [-] kilometers. Although those thorns look Not big, but the smallest ones are bigger than this Stacius.The unpleasant shape makes it look like a dermatophila larva, only black in appearance.

Not only that, but there are also a large number of hair-like tentacles protruding from the end of its lower body, which is far beyond the impression that sea anemones can give people... The tentacles are unexpectedly thin and long, It seemed as if a great tuft of hair grew out of it, just as seaweed swayed and danced in the waves of the rippling water.

It doesn't seem to have the hard shell that is common on dark worms, and the eye stalks are only at the top and end, and the number is very rare.However, this thing is definitely a dark worm—it has all the characteristics it should have, including eye stalks, unique energy responses, and the mental waves that are constantly radiating outwards, as well as the leech-like Either the 'head' (or tail) firmly attached to a warp rift proves its identity.

And the opposite of that space crack should be the bottom end of the vertical well of the abyss.

Haitu turned on the communicator and reported to the rear:

"We have found the target, and the image has been uploaded. Not counting the tentacles, the long axis of this thing is about 120 to 140 kilometers, and the length of the tentacles is more than [-] kilometers by visual inspection. The report is over." She swallowed. The shape of this thing made her Uncomfortable "It didn't find us, continue to observe."

[Be careful, monitor the local intelligence transmission channel. 】In the communication, the voice of the war scythe was full of worry【Find out what it is doing here... It is too wasteful to put a bug here to cultivate cultists. 】

His worries are not superfluous.

The dark worms don't need to be so troublesome to cultivate cultists - as long as they are willing, fly to the sky above the planet, throw something down and then stop and wait. After two months, they can get the insect-as-god Achievements, by the way, you can also start with the achievements of Crazy Bolt.It would be foolish to spend tens of thousands of years just for this purpose.

Oregana said in a deep voice:

"We know." She controlled the ship and circled around, carefully avoiding the psychic tentacles of the bug—here, Khorne can easily observe its thinking tentacles, "It's really big... ...tsk..."

The sensors carried out a detailed scan along its body, and when the scan result was uploaded to the command link, it was also compared with the database, but the result made Oregana groan softly:

"Not good..."

"what happened?"

"It's a living shallow-lying insect egg," she stared at the display screen in front of her, which was showing a comparison picture of the monster in front of her and the shallow-lying insect egg, "and the structural integrity is over 70.00%."

It is true that the records of the superficial-type insect eggs far exceed this, but it is not their bodies that slowly devour the planet, but a secondary derivative.If you use familiar things as a metaphor, it's like the creep that Zagara sauce often spreads near your home.This derivative creature can form a shell, slowly envelop the planet, grow out of the parasite like a plant, and gradually fill the entire world.

After the devouring is completed, these derivative creatures will be discarded, so they will not be recorded in the size data of adults or eggs.

As for the one in front of him, the large organs used to produce derivative creatures have all disappeared, and the gaps caused by tissue tearing can be vaguely seen, as well as the light-colored scars after the wounds have healed.

This made Oregana think of the information that the psyker had thrown into her head before - in the long past, huge trees grew on the ground.The huge body sprouted and grew from the ground, and the black branches covered the sky and blocked even the sun.Afterwards, the Basta giant eagle from the other side of the star attacked, not only devouring most of the body of the Lord of the Abyss, but also destroying the big black tree that covered the sky...

It now looks like the Buster Corps battleships that came here back then didn't do their job thoroughly.They seem to have just cleaned up the dark worm derivatives on the surface, and attacked the eggs, but only destroyed the part that remained on the surface-the things in the deep layer seemed to be almost intact.

"The upper part has been knocked off, but the lower part seems to be quite complete." Liu Lizi touched his chin and turned the comparison chart, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat, "It is used to absorb heat and energy from the lava in the mantle layer." The material structure is still there, and the thinking (harmony) organ still has at least two lines. Will the battleship of the Buster Legion make this kind of mistake?"

"It's hard to say, after all, I don't know what the situation was like at that time." Oregana shrugged: "The weird space environment near the crack in the subspace can indeed suppress the detector to a great extent—even our detection It is not incomprehensible that the Buster battleships of that generation made a misjudgment.”

Moreover, this shallow-lying type egg is different from the conventional type.The tail of the conventional type is inside the magma layer, but this one doesn't care about that at all, and directly hides the lower body in the subspace.At that time, I'm afraid it just gave up the upper half of its body and retracted into the subspace, just like the gecko cut off its tail and discarded the upper half of its body and the derivatives that devoured the planet in one go, thus fooling the 'predator'.

But this nearly quarter body is not such an insignificant thing as a tail.This is also a very heavy price for it-at least one-third of the thinking (harmony) organs are lost, and other costs are still unknown.

At this time, Haitu suddenly said:

"Think waves were detected, sent from those tentacles." The expression on her face was puzzled. "It's very messy, but...it can be matched with the No.16 data file."

The NO.16 data file refers to the No.16 data file edited after entering this universe.This number is only a temporary number, and a new prefix sequence will be added to distinguish it when it is archived after the event is over.The content of the No. 16 data file is the analysis of the DNA of the local people.Because the analysis of DNA is a tedious and complex task, it has not been complete until now.But even with this incomplete data, some clues can already be seen.

"Well?"

"This is... the activation signal to control those bulk DNA segments." Haitu raised his head with a stern look on his face. "It has been broadcasting these signals through subspace cracks—these signals are not only through vertical wells. The cracks are broadcast through these two cracks. This is a secondary reaction of the psionic operation, so it does not carry the energy fluctuations of the dark worm, and it looks like something in the background of the universe. Such signals surround The periphery of the entire galaxy is really amazing..."

A large number of implanted fragments, each fragment has a corresponding activation signal, and when a signal of sufficient strength is received, the DNA sequence will be activated.And the thought waves collected here can correspond to those 'switches' one by one.

Using the power of gravity and the sun's magnetic field, the dark worms successfully confined these broadcast signals in an annular area less than one and a half astronomical units away from the outermost planet, forming a thin isolation zone.Every few minutes, the broadcast signal will run in the 'isolation zone'.

In the isolation zone, the signal strength is higher than inside, and if a ship enters, the people on it will become weird guys.And even if you don't get close, the escaping weak signal will still make people feel uncomfortable, coupled with the erosion of the galaxy itself by the cracks in the subspace, the series of strange behaviors of the locals, the view of the universe, and the weird technology tree seems to be It's all understandable.

This is not caused by any natural environment at all, but is deliberately arranged like this.

"It's been doing this for years, but...why?"

"It's supposed to be a way of locking down."

"What do you mean?"

"If you spread the genetically modified aborigines just now, and then immediately broadcast these signals, then you don't need to raise them, you just raise them to death." Oregana asked, avoiding the unconsciously floating psychic tentacles around her, " Right?"

"That's right."

"What they are after is definitely not killing people. Using this weird method to kill people is not right from the perspective of cost control," she continued. "We tend to think this is a kind of electrified fence."

Haitu blinked:

"Electrified fence?"

"Well," Oregana paused, and explained, "There are many places where cattle are raised. This is not a super-alloy wall that is very strong and cannot be broken, but a kind of 'psychological barrier'. Use The wires form a fence, and an electronic pulse current is applied to the fence once a second, and when the cow next to it touches it, it will-snap!"

While speaking, she made an explosion gesture.

"It's like accidentally touching an electric mosquito swatter. It hurts, scares you, and then stays away. After a few more times, the animals will have a conditioned reflex, and they will stay away from the fence in order to avoid the pain. It will fall, and they will not come closer. Fundamentally prevent animals from colliding and destroying the fence, and it does not even need to be buried very deep, and the wall does not need to be thick. It is cheap, easy to use and has a long service life.” At the end, she said, “So A lot of livestock people like this kind of thing...but forget about the goat farmers, the goats still have to be tied, not because they can run, but because these guys can go to the house."

"How do you know so much about this... your hometown is engaged in animal husbandry?"

"How come, our hometown is engaged in art."

"Huh? Art?"

"Well, our hometown makes fireworks - the art of explosion, people all over the world say it is good, and it is used in the Olympic Games." (serious)

"..."

Liu Lizi brought the topic back, and she asked:

"That is to say... are they limiting themselves?"

"To a certain extent, it is true." Oregana nodded lightly, and said in a low voice, "Some small, cheap ones that don't hurt the fundamental pain can easily make all the animals in the pen die." Doesn't try to escape. We think it's pretty similar to here."

"Does it make people here have a sense of fear of the universe..."

As far as this point is concerned, the worm is quite successful - it is seriously grazing humans, as if it is carefully looking after a brood of silkworms.

However, it is not the mastermind.

This crippled egg is not a farmer, but just a shepherd dog.The real behind-the-scenes has still not been found...but there are already some clues.

The shepherd dog always has to tell its owner that he has herded the sheep here, instead of playing goat jumping every day when he has nothing to do.No matter whether it is the subspace communication tower or close observation, it is not found that the other party is using the subspace route for long-distance transmission of superluminal signals.Since we don't use the subspace route, we can only rely on another method for long-distance communication——

"Start to analyze the periphery of the planetary circle and the heliosheath area." Oregana grabbed the communicator and issued an order to the outer Mephisto "With this technology, use the shock wave of the solar wind to It is not difficult to transmit information, and then go through one or two transfers to carry out long-distance communication! Compare Ligelu's spell card list, record all suspicious magnetic field changes, and analyze them one by one without letting any one go!"

【clear! 】

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