Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 368 Breach (4000-word chapter)
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The Alpha star is in low-earth orbit, fifteen kilometers away from the "Sick Village" of the South Sixteenth District space station.

The Greek airship drifted quietly in the shadow of Star Alpha. It had already entered an orbit parallel to the space station. With the help of the gravity of Star Alpha and its own inertia, it maintained a constant relative distance from the space station.

This is also a part of the plan-the transport ship of the Mineral Mining Alliance will only come every two or three months, and you can take their ship when you come, and there is no need for this when you leave, so Ke Lan will arrange the Greek The USS is on standby around the space station so that they can be picked up at any time.

For this reason, a lot of equipment and crew members have been added to the Hellenic, and even a team of "Marines" have been arranged. If any accident occurs, these marines can even directly drive the landing craft, forcibly break into the space station and send them to the space station. rescued.

"Captain, I seem to see something at the end of the space station." A crew member in charge of observation reported.

"What is it?"

"The distance is too far...and it's still on the dark side, so I can't see clearly..." the crew member replied, "but I don't feel right."

"Start the No. 1 and No. 4 propellers at the stern, break away from the current orbit, target coordinates B5F0, G15A[-], and move forward." The captain ordered without hesitation—the observer on the Greek ship has more than [-] years of professional work With experience, he once served in the Second Fleet. Since what he said is wrong, it is likely to be right.

Out of trust in the capabilities of the observers, the Hellenic slowly drifted away from the orbit and approached the space station.

Although the Greek ship is a luxurious airship, it is still a civilian ship. It does not have that kind of military-grade surveillance equipment. At the previous distance, it is completely impossible to use a conventional natural light camera to see things on the dark side of the space station. impossible things.

Only this experienced observer can catch a trace of abnormality by relying on the blurred light and shadow outline after the image is enlarged. As for the other people on the airship, they didn't find anything.

Two of the six propeller nozzles at the tail of the Hellenic ejected soft blue flames, pushing the airship around to the other side of the space station little by little...but the distance between the Hellenic and the space station was shortened to insufficient At ten kilometers, the observer suddenly exclaimed!
Before anyone could ask him why he exclaimed, the enlarged image on the main screen shocked everyone on the bridge!
Although the enlarged image is full of mosaics and jagged images, at least the exterior of the space station can be seen clearly—at the tail of the space station, that is, on the outer wall of the space station that is directly connected to the F area, there is actually a diameter. A hole of about five to six meters!And on the edge of this hole, there seems to be something still wriggling...

"Let the reconnaissance plane dispatch! I need high-definition pictures taken at close range!" The captain said decisively.

The hangar door of the Hellas opened, and two single-seat shuttle-type aerospace planes shot out, heading straight for the space station.

"Probe 01 and Probe 02 are on their way to carry out reconnaissance missions and are expected to arrive at the predetermined location in 28 seconds." The voice of the pilot of the reconnaissance plane rang through the communication channel.

The speed of the shuttle-type reconnaissance plane was very fast, and the distance of a few kilometers was almost instantaneous, but just when they were about to reach the reconnaissance position, one of the shuttle-type reconnaissance planes crashed into the distance of more than a hundred meters away as if out of control. Companions, the people on the Hellenic didn't even have time to call the reconnaissance plane, and the two reconnaissance planes had already turned into a burst of fireballs.

Everything happened so fast that the other reconnaissance plane had no time to dodge it, and the pilot didn't even have the chance to eject and escape, and both of them died. In an accident like this, there is no chance of survival at all. .

"What's going on! Check the real-time status record fed back to the ship by the reconnaissance plane's flight recorder, and find out the cause of the accident!" The captain was the first to react from the shock - the pilots of the two reconnaissance planes The pilots are all fighter pilots retired from the Air Force, and they can definitely be counted as the group of people with the best aircraft piloting skills among human beings-one has 3200 hours of flight time, and the other has more than 5000 hours of flight time. They have also served as instructors for pilot students. If you count according to the standards of mech pilots, the two can definitely be called aces.

But the sudden loss of control this time was precisely the reconnaissance plane driven by the pilot with 5000 hours of flying time...

"It is reported that until 0.45 seconds before the two planes collided, the automatic recording equipment on the reconnaissance plane was still sending us status information, but judging from this information, neither of the two reconnaissance planes had any failures."

"This is impossible..." The captain tightly grasped the edge of the podium, "This is absolutely impossible!"

The aircraft itself did not malfunction, which meant that the accident was probably caused by the pilot's human error, but the captain could not believe that the pilot would make such a low-level mistake.

There are no meteorite fragments or space junk in this airspace, and there is no strong gravitational field or electromagnetic interference around. This kind of place is usually used as an excellent place for novice pilots to do flight training. Who would believe that an old instructor with 5000 hours of flying experience actually overturned in the same place as the training ground?

During the mission, the pilots are absolutely prohibited from drinking alcohol and taking drugs that can affect the sensory organs, and neither of them experienced fatigue driving... This kind of mistake should never have happened!

"Captain... there is something, I don't know if you have noticed..." A crew member standing at the bottom of the command platform turned his head, with a strange expression on his face, as if he saw something very strange same thing.

"What is it, say."

"It's too quiet. Just before the accident, the communication channel was too quiet." The crew member said, "From 01 seconds before the loss of control of probe 5, to the loss of control of the plane, to the collision with probe 02...there is no information on the communication channel." any sound."

"It's unreasonable," he continued. "Even if the pilot didn't have time to report the situation, he shouldn't have remained silent in this situation...He, he didn't even utter an exclamation or a yell."

"It's really unreasonable." The captain said in a deep voice, his face was ashen - he had also seen the resume of this pilot, and the other party had encountered several near-death situations during his service. But every time he saved the day.People like this are undoubtedly very strong psychologically. When encountering unexpected situations, they will never be so frightened that they can't even speak a word.

"Should we dispatch Probe 03?" someone asked, there were only three reconnaissance planes on board the Greek, and now two have been damaged, leaving only the last one.

"No." The captain rejected the proposal, "Drive the Hellenic directly up, and recover the black boxes of probe 01 and probe 02, and find out the cause of the accident."

Hearing the captain's order, the pilot who was already sitting in the cockpit of aircraft No. 1000 breathed a sigh of relief. In terms of operation and emergency response capabilities, they are far inferior to the drivers of Probe 01 and Probe 02.

"Damn...what the hell is going on here?" The pilot jumped out of the cockpit, walked beside the logistics maintenance personnel, and looked up at the screen hanging on the top of the hangar with them.

At this time, the explosion and combustion had ended, and the wreckage of the two reconnaissance planes was floating in the empty universe. The severely deformed metal parts were full of traces of collisions and burns, and a broken vector thruster slowly swept away from the monitoring screen. However, the heat-resistant nozzle made of high-strength alloy has now been completely blown into the shape of a blooming chrysanthemum.

The Hellenic leaned forward cautiously.

The main monitoring screen on the bridge has been divided into two parts - one half is looking for the "black box" on the reconnaissance plane in the accident area, and at the same time searching for the two pilots whose chances of survival are infinitely close to zero, and the other half is locking on more and more The nearest "South Sixteen" space station.

As the clarity of the picture continued to improve, the people on the Greek ship finally saw the details of the breach, and low cries suddenly sounded in the bridge.

"This... what is this?!"

It was indeed a large hole that was broken on the outer wall of the space station, and on the edge of this large hole, it was covered with a large amount of carrion-like dark red creep, and countless slender tentacles extended from the creep, like a desert in the desert. Like shrubs, clusters gathered together, rhythmically dancing in a completely windless environment.

The front ends of these tentacles become several petals, and white spore-like objects are released from them from time to time. These "spores" will quickly generate new tentacles after touching the creep, and the area of ​​the creep is constantly changing. Expanding further afield.

"This...is this an indigenous creature of Planet Alpha? Could it be the legendary bloodthirsty creep?!" A crew member said to himself in horror, "But, but...how could the bloodthirsty creep be in space? Survive?!"

"It...it's still growing! According to this speed, within a few days, this thing will wrap the entire space station!" Another calm crew member turned to the captain and asked, "Captain , what shall we do now?"

"Immediately contact Mr. Ke Lan's companions and ask them to abandon their mission and evacuate the space station—at the same time, let the landing craft No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] and the marines get ready to pick them up at any cost." The captain paused, "Then, find a way to contact Fang Zhou and report the situation here."

"Understood!" Although the correspondent's voice was still a little trembling, under the influence of muscle memory, his fingers on the keyboard were quite flexible, and he quickly entered the activation password of the secret communication channel into the verification box.

But in the next second, his movements froze.

"Ship, Captain! Strong signal interference has been detected, we can't contact the people in the space station, and we can't send a message to the ground!"

"Signal interference?" After hearing these four words, the captain immediately cast his gaze on the creepers attached to the outer wall of the space station. "Could it be that these creatures interfered with the communication?"

"Keep approaching, we must give priority to ensuring Mr. Ke Lan's safety!" The captain ordered, "The landing craft will be forced into the unloading area later... Tell the marines, after entering the space station, I will give them the freedom to fire Their first task is to find Mr. Ke Lan and bring them out, and anyone who blocks them can be shot... As for the accountability afterwards, I will take it!"

But as soon as the captain finished speaking, a new situation reappeared——

I saw a few "flower clusters" composed of tentacles separated from the creep, and the ends of the tentacles continuously ejected a large number of spores. With this reaction force, these "flower clusters" quickly moved towards the The Greek airship flew over.

"Captain, do you want to open fire?"

"No, you can't fire. If you fire at this distance, the naval guns will shoot through these things and hit the space station directly—" the captain shouted, "take evasive action immediately, the main propellers of No. 75, No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] are all Activate, adjust the right direction control jet to [-]% power, full left rudder, avoid the course of these things."

"Yes! The main thrusters of No. 75, No. [-], No. [-], No. [-] are all activated! The power of the control jet on the right is [-]%!" While repeating the captain's order, the helmsman frantically pushed the control rudder to one side—— The hull of the Greece began to sway quickly, abruptly drawing a huge "C"-shaped trajectory on the originally straight channel.

There are a total of five tentacles "launched" from the creep, and the Hellenic's evasive action directly diverted from the course of these five tentacles... However, before the Greek could readjust its posture, the five A group of tentacles turned in unison halfway, chasing after them like a gangrene.

"How can this thing be so mobile?" Seeing the approaching tentacles, the captain frowned tightly. He thought for a moment, then waved his hand violently, and shouted: "Let number one and number two The landing craft set off directly, broke into the space station to perform the original mission, and the No. [-] landing craft was changed to escort mission!"

These landing craft were originally prepared to break into the space station, and naturally they also carried some weapons.Although they are light weapons for airships, they are standard heavy weapons if they are used to hit people.

Things like 25mm cannons, honeycomb rocket launchers, diffuser mines, etc., although they can't hurt the airship with heavy armor, they are more than enough to kill living targets.

Using the weapons on the landing craft to attack these tentacles, there is no need to worry about accidentally injuring the space station not far away.

"Let Probe 03 also dispatch to clean up the fish that slipped through the net." The captain ordered again, and the reconnaissance plane is also equipped with self-defense weapons-two high-power cluster laser cannons, which can be used not only for combat, but also for To smash the meteorites and space junk floating on the route, the power is even stronger than the cannons on the landing craft.

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