The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

828. The Lost Fleet (2)

Finally, after flying for 29 standard hours, the battleship Plague finally arrived at the area where the unknown fleet was located. Because of the continuous damage and failures inside the battleship, they were 4 hours later than expected.

However, the powerful fleet composed of 200 dreadnought-class heavy cruisers still didn't make any movement, just floating quietly in space.

Severance Tann looked at the 200 fleets arranged in a dense formation through the sensor screen, and frowned. Then, she opened the public channel and said: "This is the Titan battleship Plague, which belongs to the Western Territory War Zone of the Federation of Independent Galaxy, We have come to surrender and hope that you will accept our sincerity."

"General!" The adjutant's expression changed drastically, but he immediately understood Tann's meaning.

Another 10 minutes passed and still no response.

"General, do you think we should try to fire a shot first?" the adjutant said in a low voice.

Even he himself didn't know why he spoke so quietly, maybe he was worried about waking up those 200 warships?

"No, just send people aboard a few of the warships," Severance Tann said.

"Is this a little risky?" The adjutant frowned.

"We don't have much time left." Severance Tann said, "Instead of blindly probing here, it's better to board the ship and check directly. How many exploration spaceships do we have?"

The adjutant immediately replied: "There are 12 more, all of which are small spaceships that can only carry five people."

"Divide into three groups, and at the same time randomly select a spaceship in the front, middle and back of the fleet formation to try to dock." Severance Tann directly issued an order.

"yes!"

The 12 exploration spacecraft were loaded with some marine soldiers and the B-1 combat robot activated from the inventory, and flew towards three randomly selected Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers.

On the bridge, Severance Tann and members of the staff also checked their movements through the screen.

The explorer approached the Dreadnought cautiously, and found the entrance to the hangar platform below the battleship. But the hangar platform is tightly closed, and the exploration spacecraft can't help it after turning around a few times.

An engineer who was still standing next to Severance Tann thought of a way. He let the exploration spacecraft directly use the civilian frequency band to send a maintenance message to the battleship.

I didn't expect this method to be really useful. The thick armored gate on the hangar platform was actually opened!

The engineer was a little proud and explained: "I'm just a dead horse as a living horse doctor, because in order to prevent accidents that cannot be rescued, when the battleship is on standby, the entrance and exit will not be locked."

"Standby? Why did this fleet fly to such a void to stand by?" Severance Tann frowned, "Usually only when a warship is parked in the port area will it enter the standby state. Once it sets off, it is absolutely impossible. That's how it stands, especially for warships."

"At least this shows that these warships are now completely unmanned," said the engineer.

At this time, the Marine Corps soldiers who entered the hangar of the battleship first had already sent a video, "General, we are now in the hangar, where 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets are parked here. Status." He adjusted the camera on the head of his space battle suit, showing the pictures of the neatly arranged fighter jets.

"The fact that the fighter jets didn't take off means that they haven't engaged in combat before." Severance Tann said, "Continue to go deeper."

The marines continued to walk towards the depths of the battleship with the B-1 combat robot as the guide, but they were blocked by the compartment door, "General, the compartment door cannot be opened. Does this make no sense?"

The engineer also said aside: "It's really unreasonable. If the spacecraft is on standby, it is absolutely impossible to lock the compartment of the hangar platform. Moreover, why is the compartment inside the hangar locked, but not the outside of the hangar platform?" hatch? That's weird."

Severance Tann said in a deep voice: "Maybe, they want to prevent the people inside from going out. At the same time, they also want the people outside to come in."

"What did you say?" The adjutant turned pale with shock, "Could it be a rebellion?"

Severance Tann shook her head, stood up and took off the general's uniform jacket, and said, "If this is the case with other battleships, then let the exploration spacecraft come back and transport a batch of people and cutting equipment there. I first entered one of the battleships myself, and cut open the hatch with a lightsaber."

"General! This fleet is full of weirdness, I'm afraid it may be dangerous." The adjutant said quickly.

Severance Tann thought for a while and said, "Prepare me a cosmic protective suit, too."

While the exploration spacecraft began to send more marines, robots, and cutting equipment, Severance Tann personally boarded one of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers.

She drew her own yellow lightsaber directly and stabbed into the hatch. The super high temperature of the lightsaber melted through the hatch almost instantly, and then began to move the lightsaber, melting the thick hatch directly and cutting out a hole as tall as a person.

Several B-1 battle robots that had been on standby immediately stepped forward and raised their hands to push, and immediately pushed down the cut hatch door. The interior of the battleship was finally revealed to everyone.

Pfft... After the cabin door was pushed down, there was no slamming sound, but it seemed to fall on something soft, and there was almost no sound.

"My God!!" Then the marines exclaimed.

Everyone, including Severance Tann, couldn't help backing away after seeing the scene inside the hatch.

Unlike the hangar platform, which is clean and tidy as if it were brand new, behind the hatch, it's hell! !

Countless corpses were piled on top of each other, all blocking the door of the cabin door. They looked hideous, with hundreds of hands stretched out densely, as if they were trying to grab something. The walls and the ground were covered with bloodstains and blood scratches that had turned black everywhere. Such a scene could make people have nightmares for a month in a row!

Even if it is the imagined hell, it is nothing more than that!

These corpses were all wearing the gray uniform of the Judicial Fleet of the Republic, which had been completely replaced after the outbreak of the war, and...

"There is no trace of shooting." Severance Tann had already recovered. Although she still had no courage to go there, she had already begun to observe the situation over there from a distance. "These corpses were not killed by gunshots."

Several marine soldiers retched over there, and they tried very hard to hold back so that they would not vomit in the fully sealed space combat suit.