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No one could refuse the judge's request. Soon, the hatch of the planetary cracker opened, and Duanmuhuai drove the night raven black star into it slowly. Then he turned his head and looked at the people behind him.

"Here, I want to remind you that from now on, you are the servants of me, Grand Inquisitor Duanmuhuai. You must not doubt or even object to any of my words. Simply put, you must obey me unconditionally." Do you understand my order?"

"This... is fine."

Although I don't know why Duanmuhuai said that, the girls still nodded obediently. Of course, just to be on the safe side, Duanmuhuai made them all wear cloaks and masks, then opened the hatch and walked out of the night crow. black Star.

But at this moment, on the tarmac, a man with greasy hair and powdered face, whose hair seemed to have not been washed properly for several years, was standing there, looking at Duanmu Huai with embarrassment. When he saw the rose knot on Duanmuhuai's chest, this man who looked like a sissy almost rolled his eyes and closed his breath, but he still took out his handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurried to the In front of Duanmuhuai, he humbly lowered his head.

"Huan, welcome to the Iron Hammer. Your Excellency, I am the captain of the Iron Hammer, Murphy. This... May I ask you what I can do for you?"

"Report your situation."

Duanmu Huai didn't even look at the captain, and strode forward.

"I want to know what this ship is doing here now, and what all of you are doing."

"This, of course... As you can see, the Iron Hammer is a planet cracking ship, we are carrying out planet cracking and refining work here... We pull the strata on the surface of the planet through the gravity cable, and then break it down , explore the mineral deposits and refine them, this...we have complete imperial procedures, the USS is a formal imperial enterprise, we absolutely do not have..."

"You don't need to tell me, I will see with my own eyes."

Duanmuhuai unceremoniously interrupted the captain's speech, the latter's body trembled suddenly, and then he lowered his head. But Duanmuhuai looked around, walked towards the captain's room, and at the same time he began to think carefully.

What happened on this ship?

Logically speaking, if a battleship of the human empire had an accident, it was either desecrated by evil gods, invaded by Zerg, or encountered subspace erosion and storms. But if this is the case, then they will not form soul fragments, but will be directly absorbed into the evil god's subspace domain.

Since the battleship has formed soul fragments, it means that the ship must have encountered some kind of problem beyond imagination.

But these questions... have nothing to do with demons and aliens?

Is it heresy?

After arriving at the captain's room, Duanmu Huai looked at the captain and asked.

"Has anything strange happened to your ship?"

"this……………"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's question, the captain shook his head.

"Sorry, Lord Judge, I haven't received any reports..."

"I need all the reports, including the recent entry and exit records of this ship, and the records of mining minerals, as well as the recent casualties of the crew, and find someone who is familiar with this ship. This place has been requisitioned by the Tribunal ,you understand me."

"Of course...I'm going now, please wait..."

After leaving these words, the captain left in a hurry, while Duanmuhuai sat on the magnificent sofa with his eyes closed. Augis sat on the left side of his shoulder, Lani sat on the right, Ann and Guleya sat on both sides, looking around with some anxiety.

Duanmu Huai didn't open his eyes until the surroundings became silent.

"How? What did you find?"

"I didn't notice any particular fluctuations in this place."

Lani shook her head, and An also gave the same answer, but Guleya hesitated.

"I don't know, I always have a bad feeling... This place seems weird..."

Duanmuhuai didn't speak, he narrowed his eyes, and tapped his fingers lightly on the table in front of him. Ever since he entered this battleship, he had a strange feeling, which was a nervous and exciting feeling. It's as if I will encounter something dangerous, but it has something to do with me.

"Mr. Knight, what do you think... what happened to this battleship? It was destroyed?"

Ann lowered his voice and asked softly.

"Currently? I'm not sure. Generally speaking, this situation is either infected with some kind of plague, or it may be an attack by outsiders, or an invasion of Zerg. In fact, I am more inclined that these guys may have dug something wrong. Something to dig."

Duanmu Huai felt that the last possibility was more likely. After all, to create a world of soul fragments, an instantaneous explosion beyond the limit was needed, just like when certain values ​​exceeded the critical point and caused the computer to crash. If it was a plague or Zerg invasion, it would obviously not be able to reach this intensity, and if it was an evil god, it would be swallowed directly into the subspace.

So... It's more likely that the primitive man dug up the nuclear bomb, and then bang... the world is clean.

perhaps.

Not long after, there was another knock on the door, and then the captain walked in, and respectfully handed a document to Duanmuhuai, who took the document and began to quickly flip through it.

Judging from the report, this planetary cracking ship is quite regular. Every three months, a transport team will come here to deliver supplies, and at the same time transport away the refined minerals and raw materials here. At other times, the planetary cracker was acting according to the company's instructions. Generally speaking, judging from these records, there is nothing special about it...

Duanmuhuai looked at the line of records below and frowned.

"Fifteen miners died unexpectedly three days ago? What was the cause?"

"Those idiots screwed up the programming."

Speaking of this topic, the captain was also speechless.

"They were supposed to replace the previous shift of workers and carry out the maintenance and repair work of the gravity cable. But when changing the maintenance suit, one of them opened the hatch without pressurization, causing an unimaginable leak in the entire cabin And explosions - thanks to them I had to stop work to make repairs until everything was back to normal. Luckily I asked a lawyer and this is not a work injury and no compensation is payable."

"Theoretically speaking, the hatch cannot be opened without pressurization."

"I don't know about it, maybe something is malfunctioning."

"Is there a video of that time?"

"certainly."

The captain nodded.

"This is evidence that the company will seek compensation from them in the future."

While talking, the captain came to the terminal and opened it, and soon, an image appeared in front of Duanmu Huai. In the video, in the locker room, a group of miners were changing their maintenance suits. After changing their maintenance suits, one of them slowly walked to the cabin door like sleepwalking, and stretched out his hand to press the button. button. Immediately following the ear-piercing siren, other workers who were changing their maintenance uniforms also saw this scene. They either yelled to stop that guy, or put on their maintenance uniforms in a hurry.

Unfortunately, it was too late. At the next moment, the entire cabin door burst open, and those workers were sucked out immediately, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"etc."

Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand, pointing to a foot of the screen—a foot can be vaguely seen among the scattered debris.

"There are survivors?"

"Yes, he's Keller, the foreman of the shift, but he's gone mad."

"crazy?"

"Yes."

The captain nodded.

"He was in the protective suit, so he escaped, but after we got him up, he kept talking nonsense, and the doctor thought he might be too stimulated, causing mental disturbance, and gave him an injection. Tranquilizer. But the effect is not satisfactory......"

"I want to see him."

Duanmuhuai put down the report.

"Where is he?"

"In the intensive care unit in the medical area... I will send someone to take you there."

Soon, a person who looked like the captain's deputy appeared in front of Duanmuhuai. He lowered his head, not daring to look at Duanmuhuai, but led them to the depths of the battleship. After passing through several areas, the group came to the medical area.

And here, Duanmu Huai finally saw the man the captain said was crazy.

At this moment, his whole body was locked in a room, and his whole body was tightly bound by a restraint device, even his mouth was gagged.

"How is this going?"

Duanmuhuai looked at the doctor next to him, who helplessly spread his hands.

"It wasn't my idea either, but he was too crazy. Since he regained consciousness, he has been going crazy and trying to commit suicide. Although I tried to use large doses of sedatives and drugs, the effect was in vain. In the end, he had to be restrained like this, and when the transport ship arrived a few days later, he was sent back."

"I want to talk to him."

While talking, Duanmuhuai pushed open the door and walked in, and then came to the man who was tied up, and then he stretched out his hand to open the belt——but at the moment when the belt that restrained the man came off, only Seeing that man stretch out his hand suddenly, he firmly grabbed Duanmuhuai's arm. This scene also made An and Guleya take a step back in fright. But Duanmuhuai didn't care, he just stared into the man's eyes.

It was cloudy, red, shattered eyes.

"Tell me, what happened to you?"

Duanmu Huai stared at the man, asked coldly, and then he took off the thing stuffed in the man's mouth. At the same time, a shrill scream rose from the ground, almost making everyone tremble. However, the next moment, the cold, destructive and fearful aura erupting from Duanmu Huai's body completely stopped the man's wailing.

"Answer my question, what did you encounter!"

Duanmu Huai glared at the man viciously, and the man's originally cloudy eyes seemed to slowly regain their sobriety.

"No, no, it's not my fault! It's not my fault! I don't know why it became like this! Kyle is not normal. He has been abnormal since he started working that morning. He seems to have some nightmare. The whole person Confused, I originally asked him to rest, not to schedule! But he refused, he said he was going out, he said that someone outside was calling him...... I don't know what he's talking about! I didn't expect either He'd do that! And, and..."

Speaking of this, the man's expression became more and more distorted and terrified, his hands were tightly clutching his head, and there were even streaks of blood.

"After that, I heard it too, heard it! It's asking me out too! No, I don't want to go out! Don't...!"

The man's bloody face was distorted and hideous, while Duanmuhuai continued to stare at him.

"Who told you to go out, what did you hear?"

“……………………”

This time, the man didn't answer. His eyes, which had gradually regained clarity, seemed to become cloudy again at this moment.

Then the man opened his mouth.

However, what emerged from the mouth was not the man's hysterical voice, but a crisp, immature girl's voice.

"Twinkle twinkle little stars, how I wonder where you are……………"

The girl's singing echoed throughout the room, making people's hairs stand on end, and the next moment, the man stared at Duanmu Huai like this, showing a strange smile, and then his neck suddenly tilted——just like that Out of breath.

"........."

Duanmu Huai silently threw away the corpse in his hand, staring at the infinite starry sky outside the window.

"Looks like we're in trouble."

Then, he spoke.