The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After Leo and Silvia entered the water, they dived all the way to the outside of the engine compartment.

After comparing the three-dimensional image he got from the scanning data yesterday, Leo quickly found a loophole that he had analyzed that could provide access to the interior of the cabin.

Afterwards, he pointed down, and the two of them swam towards the loophole together.

Although the engine compartment started the engine in time to alleviate the impact of the fall when it landed that year, this abnormal landing state still inevitably caused some damage to the compartment.

If it is in the Earth Federation, such damage can be easily and completely repaired, but now this cabin is in the lake of Velen World, and the damage cannot be repaired at all. loophole.

The two swam to the side of the cabin, and Leo quickly followed the marks on the outer wall to find the emergency passage interface of the engine compartment.

This emergency passage is an escape passage specially prepared for the mechanics working in the lower cabin. This escape passage will not be closed or detached automatically. It will only be torn off by the detachment force of the cabin itself when the cabin is separated from other cabins. Then the compartments at both ends will automatically close the hatches.

This design is mainly to allow escapees to have the possibility of escape even at the last moment, and the biggest problem with this design is that it will cause some damage to the connecting cabins at both ends when pulling, but these damages are all possible. Within the acceptable level, as long as there are maintenance personnel, the damage can be repaired quickly.

However, it is obvious that there should be no maintenance personnel in the engine compartment. When the compartment landed, the junction of the escape compartment suffered secondary damage, making this part very fragile. There is no damage, but in fact, the ultra-high-density metal plate at the joint has been completely broken, and this was easily discovered through the polymer oscillation scanning of the detector.

After Leo found the part found in the data, he pulled out the twins, turned it into the sharpest sacrificial knife, ignored it, and then directly inserted the sacrificial knife into the crack in the damaged part of the metal wall, easily cutting the blade Insert it in, then move the blade along the trend of the crack, and quickly cut a half-person-high metal plate.

After removing the metal plate, you can see a hollow tunnel behind the metal plate that can provide one person to pass through, and in the channel, there is a spherical device at intervals.

Seeing this device, Leo immediately recognized it as a force field generating device.

For a combined exploration ship like the Titan-class mothership, once it encounters an enemy attack, it is impossible to rely on armor for protection, because the modular combination method is destined to prevent it from having extremely strong integrated armor. If an integrated battleship armor is installed for each cabin, the weight of the entire spaceship will increase several times, and it is not convenient for module assembly.

Therefore, the builders at that time simply replaced the armor of all the composite module cabins except the core ship with the isolation armor commonly used by warships in the inner galaxy, and the defense of the spaceship all relied on the energy force field to defend, and even the outer layer could be used if necessary. The compartments serve as mothership armor.

This isolation armor is a new type of energy metal. When using the energy force field, the energy field will activate the metal properties of the isolation armor, making the metal more than seventy times stronger, comparable to the armor of a star warship. However, when there is no energy image, it is just a general isolation armor.

This is a good thing for Leo, because if it is really a battleship armor, even if he has a sacrificial knife, he may not be able to cut off that layer of armor in a short time.

Because of the crack on the isolation armor just now, the equipment pipeline of the force field generating device was already filled with lake water. After Leo checked and found no danger, he motioned for Sylvia to follow behind, and then drilled into the pipeline Among them, he quickly swam towards one end according to some indicator icons in the pipeline.

Soon, Leo found an abandoned maintenance vehicle in the pipeline. Because of the vibration caused by the landing of the cabin, the maintenance vehicle broke away from the delivery track and fell aside.

Leo signaled Sylvia to wait, and then forcefully moved the maintenance vehicle back to the track, then quickly checked the energy system, transmission device and other components of the maintenance vehicle, and after confirming that it was not damaged, he opened it manually Repair the system of the car.

On the display screen of the maintenance car, some data startup screens flashed quickly, and finally stayed on the operation interface.

Leo Ke quickly pressed the instruction button on the screen, and saw an energy force field passing from the maintenance car, sweeping across Leo and Sylvia, and then squeezed all the water to the periphery , and automatically convert oxygen suitable for human breathing, forming a spherical force field.

"It's amazing!" Standing on the platform of the maintenance vehicle, Sylvia took off her mask to breathe some of the surrounding air, then stretched out her hand through the water curtain above her head, feeling the icy cold lake water on the other side, while she gasped. When he returned his hand, he found that all the water in his hand was isolated from the force field, and the hand that was still full of water stains just now felt a little dry.

Because the repair car is in single-player mode, the two-person station is a bit crowded. Leo simply hugged Sylvia in his arms and asked her to hold on to the railing next to him. Then he activated the automatic navigation system of the repair car and let it run automatically. Along the guide rails of the pipes, the repair workshop of this engine compartment moves past.

"You seem to be familiar with this place?" Sylvia asked curiously when she saw Leo skillfully pressing the weird characters on the luminous screen, and then the weird device under her feet started to move.

Leo explained in a way that Sylvia could understand, and said: "I have a lot of knowledge related to it in my mind, and this knowledge allows me to freely use these devices from the starry sky."

Sylvia sank for a moment, and said with a little expectation: "Is there a way for me to get this knowledge?"

"Yes." Leo nodded and said, "As long as you can find a database import device, you can get this knowledge."

"Database import device?" Sylvia repeated the name spoken in the language of the Earth Federation with some awkwardness, and then asked, "Where can I find it?"

"In the ruins of a certain prehistoric civilization." Leo responded uncertainly, then thought for a while, and said, "Maybe there is one in the hands of King Chosen Saran."

"Her?" Sylvia curled her lips and said, "I'll just rely on my own luck!"

When the two of them were talking, the repair vehicle in motion had already stopped slowly.

At this time, a probe protruded above the two people's heads, and a detection grating swept over the two people.

At this time, while preparing to cast the psychic shield, Leo reached out and pressed an authorization button on the repair vehicle. When the acceptance icon appeared, he reported an authorization code and the corresponding password, and then waited for the control system in the cabin to do so. respond.

When Leo was on mission, he had many identities. One of the identities gave him a secret permission code, which allowed him to have the fourth-level permission. Under this permission, he could obtain most of the civilian The control authority of equipment, the control authority of a small number of warships in the ruins, and the ability to call some local troops.

As far as he knows, this secret permission code is a code shared by biochemical warriors and will not be canceled easily. When someone uses this code to do something that endangers the Earth Federation, the system control masters of each star field can quickly make a decision. React, block the permissions of this code.

He didn't know whether the biochemical man's public code authority had been revoked after his death, but if it hadn't been revoked, then he would save a lot of trouble and danger in the next exploration of this cabin.

Not long after he reported the permission code, the control screen of the maintenance vehicle quickly displayed the word "Pass", and then the detection probe also retracted, and an energy force field was transmitted from above, blowing the surrounding water to the ground. Squeeze away, followed by the metal wall above to reveal a small entrance just enough for the maintenance vehicle to pass through. The maintenance vehicle also floated up and brought the two of them into the entrance.

After the two entered, the entrance was closed again, and the surrounding energy force field was also released, and the lake filled the place again.

At this time, Leo and Leo had already walked out one end of the distance along the pipe. After passing through the front entrance, they entered a rather large space. This space is divided into two parts. About 500 meters or so, the circular inner wall is full of houses with a height of more than ten floors. It seems that this should be the living area of ​​the cabin staff, and there is also a gravity device here, so that people can stand on the ball even if they stand on it The top inner wall will not fall from the bottom.

It was the first time for Sylvia to see this kind of scene, and she was completely stunned by everything in front of her eyes. Her mouth was wide open, and she didn't know what to say for a long time.

At this time, the repair vehicle suddenly turned around in the air and approached a two-story building on the ceiling.

At the moment of turning upside down, Sylvia immediately screamed nervously, turned around and hugged Leo tightly, fearing that she would fall from the sky.

However, after finding out that what she was worried about didn't happen, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed by her actions just now, and then she gave him a hard look as if to vent her anger or blame Leo for not reminding him, He turned around and looked nonchalantly, looking at the strangely shaped buildings around him.

The maintenance vehicle slowly parked on the roof platform of the two-story building. Leo stepped down and saw that Leo didn't fall down after walking down. Sylvia also walked down. And after stepping on the roof, I couldn't help looking up at the overhanging house, then jumped twice on the spot, picked up an item on the ground, and threw it away, just like a child who just got a toy.

At the same time, Leo has spread the spiritual net from here, infiltrating every building and room in this living area, and the result disappointed him, because he didn't find any living people from here, not even from here. Any dead people were found here, and the entire living quarters were left empty.

Leo turned around and walked down the roof from the spiral staircase next to him. Sylviakin followed, and the two of them came to the room of this small building.

The house on the second floor is very messy, tables and chairs fell on the ground, lamps also fell on the ground, daily necessities and books are scattered around, it seems that it should be the internal shock caused by the landing of the engine room, making this place like an encounter It's like an earthquake.

Sylvia tried to pick up some of the books on the ground and flip through them, but when her hand touched the books, the books immediately shattered into powder and scattered all over the ground.

"What's going on here?" Sylvia had a puzzled look on her face after seeing this situation. She had actually considered the issue of keeping the book, so she was as careful as possible when holding the book. But with just a light touch, the book was completely shattered into powder, which really baffled her.

"In the civilization of the starry sky, paper books have long been eliminated, and brain reading is the mainstream way of reading." Leo explained from the side: "However, there are some people who like this kind of retro books, so some people develop Books made of this kind of degradable material. This kind of book cannot be stored forever, and will automatically degrade into the most original material after the shelf life expires."

After the explanation, Leo carefully checked the situation of the repair workshop. Although there was some damage caused during the emergency landing, because no one else entered here, the things here are still quite preserved. Not bad, especially since most of the items are still in the same place as they were at the moment before the people who lived here left.

Judging from what he discovered, the people who lived here did not appear to be in a hurry when they left. It can be seen that the engine room was not abandoned due to some accident, but the mothership where it was located voluntarily abandoned it. The preparation time in advance is sufficient, so that everyone has enough time to pack their things.

However, he felt something was wrong, because according to the procedure, if the engine room was abandoned, in addition to relocating the people who lived and worked here, the energy source here would also need to be taken away, and even the system would need to be set Clean-up procedure, clear the cabin system, and then detonate the cabin after a safe distance to completely destroy it.

But the current situation in this engine compartment completely violates any abandonment rules he knows. Not only has the extremely valuable energy source not been taken away, but the system has not even been cleared, and it has been allowed to send a recovery signal by itself, especially this recovery signal is the weirdest , because if it is an abandoned cabin, it is impossible for the system to release a recovery signal.

"What's the matter? Is there any problem here?" Sylvia shifted her attention from the surrounding objects back to Leo at this time, seeing Leo frowning in thought, she couldn't help asking.