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 “Rumble, rumble…”

 The thick hatch was opened, and under the dim light, one could see that the passage ahead was dark. Under the flickering lights, blood and mutilated corpses were everywhere.

"Oh my god…"

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help showing trembling expressions. This was not just because of the dead corpses, but also because of the appearance of these dead corpses - they were not ordinary human corpses, but more like transformed humans. Although these humans still retain their human appearance, their bodies are covered with various tubes and machines, and some even have their arms replaced with something like a universal tool. Even their heads were opened and connected to data lines.

At present, these people have fallen to the ground and turned into mangled corpses.

"What's this…?"

Ashley frowned, walked to a corpse, and looked carefully. The man's stomach had been exploded, and it could be seen that the pipelines and machinery inside had replaced almost half of the internal organs and body.

“I remember Your Majesty the Inquisitor said that this thing is called a servitor…”

 “Servant?”

"Yes, according to your Excellency the Inquisitor, the Inquisition believes that killing or imprisoning those criminals is too wasteful of resources, so they will be directly transformed into this... half-human, half-machine existence to be used as laborers. "

　　At this point, Brother Shepard couldn't help but gasped when he looked at the tragically dead servitors in front of him. When they were fighting against the Reapers, he and his sister had acted together with Duanmu Huai. At that time, if someone did something wrong, the Inquisitor would be furious and said that it would be better to make the other person into a servitor. is more useful...well, now I can see the real one.

"But...we haven't seen anything similar in the Tribunal?"

“Because this is a technology from ancient times, your Excellency the Inquisitor said that it is no longer used in the current Inquisition.”

　　…”So, Commander, you mean…”

“I think this battleship is not from the Inquisition.”

 Brother Shepard tightened his grip on his weapon.

“If I’m not wrong, this should be a battleship from the Human Empire period…”

 The Empire of Man.

 With the emergence of the Inquisition, this term is no longer unfamiliar to the Star Alliance. In fact, historians have begun to study the history of the Human Empire. But I really didn't expect that I would encounter such a warship from the Human Empire era here. You can imagine how shocking it would be if this battleship could be brought back to the Star Alliance.

 “Okay, let’s move on.”

As he went deeper, Brother Shepard quickly discovered that although the appearance of this battleship was very similar to the battleship of the Tribunal, the inside was completely different.

He has boarded the battleship of the Inquisition more than once. It is grand, majestic, full of majesty and golden brilliance. The shining and gorgeous decoration is reflected in almost every corner of the battleship. It is more like a gorgeous church or a five-star hotel, with every corner exuding dazzling brilliance and noble temperament.

 But this battleship is completely different.

Black steel and huge gears filled most of the ship's body, and they stopped rotating silently, as if they were organs that had stopped functioning within the battleship. Although its space is also very wide, there is no trace of the majesty and splendor of the Inquisition warships on it. There is only silence, like a deathly steel tomb.

 “Obviously, there was a big battle here.”

 After inspecting the body, the adjutant spoke.

"But what makes us wonder is, why are there only the corpses of these servitors? There should be something else here, something to fight with them, we..."

 “Stop.”

However, before Ashley finished speaking, Brother Shepard suddenly motioned her to shut her mouth, and then everyone heard a ding-ding-dong-dong sound coming from the pipe in the distance, like someone running. .

Then, a door nearby suddenly opened, and everyone saw dozens of people wrapped in cloaks rushing out. They let out hoarse screams, held a handful of strange weapons in their hands, and charged directly towards them. Fighting against Brother Shepard and his party.

 “Attack!”

At this moment, faced with the opponent's attack, Brother Shepard did not hesitate to give the order. Then the Star Alliance warriors quickly stayed in the surrounding bunkers, took out their weapons, and launched an attack on the incoming enemy.

In the blink of an eye, the original grave turned into a lively battlefield, with gunshots and shouts happening one after another. The attackers were not afraid of death. They screamed and rushed towards the Star Alliance soldiers in front of them. They almost instinctively pulled the trigger and fired at the enemy in front of them. Not only that, the Star Alliance warriors soon discovered that trying to stop these attackers by attacking their limbs was basically futile. They would not even feel pain. Only by blowing out their heads and hearts could they stop these attacks. A fatal blow.

 Luckily, the Star Alliance warriors were well-trained, and the opposite side was just a group of rabble. After the initial panic, they immediately stabilized their steps and cooperated to eliminate these sudden attackers.

"ah--!"

As the last attacker fell down with a scream, the entire battleship seemed to fall into deathly silence again. At this moment, the Star Alliance warriors were still in fear and couldn't help but stare at each other.

 “What the **** is going on with these guys? They’re just like a bunch of lunatics, these **** monsters!”

 “I agree with you that these guys are monsters.”

Shepard stepped forward, stretched out the barrel of his gun, and lifted off the cloaks of the attackers. Under the cloaks, he saw mutated, bloated, and rotting corpses. Although these corpses still have human characteristics at first glance, more places have mutated. For example, some people have eight eyes on their heads, and some have crab claw-like organs under their armpits. As for the ones whose bodies are covered with scales and fur, there are countless of them. Even their hands and feet look more like beasts than humans.

 “Oh my god, what is this, an alien?”

"I don't think so. Although aliens also look weird, they at least have something in common. Look at these monsters, each of them looks completely different. Even the Batarians look different from them. It looks much better.”

Looking at these monsters in front of them, the Star Alliance soldiers also started discussing. After all, they came from the Star Alliance and were no longer surprised by the existence of aliens in this world. Although in the previous war between the Reapers, most of the aliens' home planets were destroyed and they were also harvested. But there are still some aliens who survive for various reasons. Therefore, Star Alliance soldiers are somewhat resistant to such strange creatures.

　　…“…let’s move on.”

Looking at these weird monsters, Brother Shepard always felt uneasy. These things were not human beings, but they looked like humans. It was as if some mysterious, unknowable force had changed their bodies and turned them into human beings. It has become like this. Of course, this is impossible...it doesn't seem right either?

"Be careful, now we know that we are not the only ones in this battleship." On the next road, everyone became more and more careful. After all, this battleship is so big, even if you just walk across its deck, you can see To the dark steel ruins all around. No one knows whether there is nothing in those ruins or whether there is something inside. At least several times, Brother Shepard felt something moving in the ruins, as if someone was watching them inside. But when he turned his head and looked around, there seemed to be nothing there.

 “How much longer do we have to go?”

 “It’s at least twenty minutes away, if everything goes well.”

 Sadly, there is no such thing as everything going well.

Just as a group of people carefully crossed the Steel Square and came to the corridor on the other side, suddenly, a bolt of lightning suddenly appeared and hit a Star Alliance soldier in the rear. The latter screamed and fell to the ground. Made a sound.

 “Hi, what’s going on?”

Everyone hurriedly turned around, and then they discovered that strange figures appeared on the surrounding ruins and towers. They were all smooth, with long heads, some with two arms, and some with long heads. He had four arms, wore armor that looked like it had been torn from other people's bodies and pieced together, and he also held a weapon in his hand. They opened their mouths, and a long tongue emerged from among the sharp teeth.

 “Damn it, this is a trap, get out of here!”

Although Brother Shepard didn't know what kind of monsters these guys were, he was certain that they had bad intentions. There were so many of them that fighting them in this empty square was obviously an unwise choice. So Brother Shepard also hurriedly raised the gun in his hand and pulled the trigger at the ruins above.

"boom!"

With the sound of gunshots, the rickety pillars and the platform hanging on them suddenly fell down and hit them in front of them. At the same time, Brother Shepard hurriedly led the Star Alliance soldiers to run faster and rushed into the passage in front of them.

Chaotic footsteps and angry howls came from behind. Brother Shepard could imagine that hundreds of weird monsters were chasing him behind him without looking back. And all he can do now is lead everyone and continue to run forward.

Soon, a fork in the road appeared. There were two forks ahead, one was dark and the other was shining with bright red light. Brother Shepard subconsciously wanted to run towards the red-lit passage, but at this moment, an inexplicable premonition made him stop.

 “Commander, we must get out of here quickly!”

Ashley shouted while shooting at the back, and at the same time ran towards the bright red passage, but was caught by Brother Shepard.

 “No, we can’t go that way, go this way!”

 After saying that, Brother Shepard turned on the searchlight and rushed into the dark and dark tunnel.

Under the illumination of the lights, the group of people stumbled forward, and then encountered a fork in the road again. This time, the left side was flashing with yellow light, and the right side was completely dark. Brother Shepard did not hesitate to dive into the dark tunnel again - but even so, because they were not familiar with the dark environment, two soldiers fell to the ground and disappeared quietly after letting out a brief scream. No trace.

 Then, they reached an intersection again, where there were two forked roads, with a blue light flashing on the left and a dark purple light on the right. Facing this scene, Brother Shepard couldn't help but stop. Then he hesitated and looked at the closed elevator door in front of him.

“Let’s go this way and open the elevator door quickly.”

"Why? Commander? Why do we have to go this way? It's obviously better to take the lighted road, isn't it?"

 “I can’t explain it, but I feel it will be dangerous over there…”

 “Damn it, I don’t want to stay here!”

 However, although Brother Shepard tried to persuade, several soldiers left the team directly and rushed into the passages on both sides. Brother Shepard could only grit his teeth, reach out, forcefully open the elevator door, then jump up and climb on the cable.

"let's go!"

Although Brother Shepard couldn't explain it, he could feel that this should be the safest way.

 Damn it, what the **** is this place?

“…space hulk?”

Hearing Duanmuhuai’s explanation, Sister Shepard frowned.

"what is that?"

"Have you ever seen a science fiction movie? A battleship went on trial and then lost contact. Many years later, people discovered the distress signal sent by the battleship. They sent people over to take a look. It turned out that the battleship had gone to hell. The people inside Everyone died violently..."

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai silently read "The Surface of a Black Hole" to Sister Shepard.

“I’ve seen a lot of similar movies, but that’s just a movie.”

“Well, if you take that as reality, it’s a space hulk.”

"What……"

 Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Sister Shepard was speechless.

"I have said before that the interstellar travel technology used in the Empire era is to cross subspace, and subspace is very dangerous. In the process of crossing subspace, no one knows what will happen. There are often ships due to various Something happened in the subspace for various reasons, and then it was over, and then they would be like ghost ships, floating back and forth between the subspace and the real world. You should have informed me earlier, Instead of just going up to die - well, I'm sorry, generally speaking, going up to the space hulk is indeed going to die."

“What will happen if the Tribunal is changed?”

“Changed the Inquisition? Keep the distance, lock the target, and solve all the worries with one shot. There is nothing left to worry about.”

 “Then now…”

 “I know, let me go and have a look.”

Duanmuhuai waved his hand and interrupted Sister Shepard's words.

 Space Hulk, I haven’t had this copy in a long time.