louisehourcade Chapter 487 The Black Box!
Chapter 487 The Black Box!
"Disconnect the physical connection immediately."
Observing the stars, he spoke.
The finger is slammed onto the keyboard to force a blocking command.
The probe bounced off the outer shell of the bridge.
The Chaos Mech flew backwards for over a hundred meters.
The raging data stream was abruptly cut off.
The only sound in the cockpit was the high-speed whirring of the system cooling fans.
"How many were blocked by the firewall?"
Zhang Yan stared at the main screen.
The mech's various indicators are rapidly returning to the safe level.
"Less than 0.1% has come in."
Guan Xing's face turned pale.
Retrieve the data fragments that were just captured.
"This thing is too active."
"It just tried to bypass the physical isolation layer of chaos and directly read the underlying code of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart."
Zhang Yan stared at the jumping gibberish.
A ship that has been dead for 26,000 years.
A sudden burst of targeted data streams generated in real time.
"I want to go in," Zhang Yan said.
"no."
The stargazer's fingers paused on the keyboard, a direct refusal.
"The risk is too high."
"The ship was cut in two with a single blow, but the creature inside survived for over 20,000 years."
"Does anyone know what kind of monster it is?"
"Our mission is to go to the Ruins of Guixu, not to conduct archaeological research here."
"This is not archaeology."
Zhang Yan's gaze never left the black wreckage.
"It is a ship returning to the void."
"It was destroyed so close to Earth."
"The enemy it encountered is very likely the same enemy we will encounter on the rest of our voyage."
He turned to look at the stars.
His gaze was frighteningly calm.
"If this data contains information on waterway safety, and we don't take it, then we'll be like blind men touching an elephant."
Guan Xing bit her lip.
She knew Zhang Yan was right.
But reason told her otherwise.
That ship exuded an indescribable malevolence.
"Ten minutes."
The stargazers eventually compromised.
"I'll only give you ten minutes."
"If you cannot obtain the data source within ten minutes, or encounter any physical threat, you must evacuate immediately."
"If you exceed the time limit, I'll just activate the mech's main cannon and blow the area in front of you flat."
"make a deal."
Zhang Yan did not dismount from the mecha.
The Chaos Mech is enormous.
However, for a giant ship ten kilometers long, it could still barely pass through those huge, torn passages.
He switched his mech to White Tiger form.
The massive humanoid structure rapidly contracted and folded.
It transformed into a streamlined, metallic behemoth.
The white tiger form is even smaller.
It has high mobility.
Suitable for navigating complex ruins.
The thrusters emitted faint flashes of light.
The white tiger silently slid into the huge crack in the bridge.
The interior of the wreckage was pitch black.
There is no gravity, and no air.
Countless metal fragments, broken cables, and unidentified equipment debris.
It floats silently in a vacuum.
The white tiger's searchlight beam swept across the ruins.
Wherever the light reached, there were traces of destruction.
There were no remains.
Twenty-six thousand years is enough time for any organic matter to completely decompose in cosmic rays and a vacuum environment.
Not even ashes remained.
Zhang Yan skillfully maneuvered the white tiger to avoid a large, wrecked energy pipe.
We proceeded deeper into the core area along the main road of the bridge.
"The signal source is 200 meters directly below."
Stargazing provides navigation via communication channels.
"Pass through the ruins of the command center ahead."
The white tiger clung to the tattered metal bulkhead with its four paws.
It exerted force and surged into the space below.
This is the brain of this giant ship.
command center.
The once magnificent circular control console has been smashed to pieces.
Half of the ceiling collapsed.
In the very center of the ruins, something is suspended in the air.
That was the source of the real-time data stream that had just erupted.
A black box with three prisms.
It is about the height of a person and is completely black.
The surface has no seams.
Under the spotlight, the surface of the black box shimmered with a faint golden glow.
"Material compatibility confirmed."
The sound of stargazing came through, tinged with obvious shock.
"It shares the same material as the outer shell of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart."
"This is the highest-level sealing container of the Mohist school."
No wonder it has survived for 26,000 years.
Zhang Yan manipulated the white tiger to approach.
He did not use the probe again.
It directly activated the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart in the chest.
Golden light spread in the vacuum.
It enveloped the triangular pillar.
[Permissions for Tiangongzhixin confirmed.]
[Request to unlock.]
The golden light on the surface of the black box suddenly intensified.
The once perfectly sealed surface silently slid open.
Inside, a crystal emitting a faint blue light was revealed.
The violent data stream just now was the crystal's self-protection mechanism as it tried to establish a connection when it sensed the approach of the Heart of Heaven.
It is not a monster.
It's just a smart recorder that's been waiting for over 20,000 years.
Zhang Yan matched the receiving frequency of the white tiger with that of the crystal.
Massive amounts of data instantly flooded into the Chaos Mech's storage repository.
[Data extraction in progress, 30% complete.]
Seventy percent.
【Finish.】
Stargazing is performed simultaneously from an external source.
"I'm filtering through key information."
Zhang Yan did not move.
He looked around warily.
Awaiting the results of the stargazing analysis.
"Found it."
Guan Xing speaks very quickly.
"This ship is the seventeenth retrograde fleet dispatched by Guixu."
"Their mission is to return to Earth, check the operation of the Gate Network, and search for the lost Heart of the Creator."
Zhang Yan's heart stirred.
Guixu has indeed been paying attention to Earth all along.
Why didn't they arrive?
"They were intercepted four days' flight from Earth."
The stargazer's voice began to tremble.
"The black box recorded the energy characteristics of the attacker, Zhang Yan, not the group."
"What is it?"
"have no idea."
"There are no matches in the database."
"This is a completely new, super-dimensional existence."
The stargazer projected the last video recorded by the black box onto Zhang Yan's screen.
The footage was taken from the external monitoring probes of the Yuanwang-class exploration ship.
There was no sign of any enemy fleet in the pitch-black hyperspace tunnel.
Suddenly, a hole was torn open in the space above the shipping lane.
A hand reached down.
It wasn't a human hand, nor was it the grayish-white, smoky limbs of a colony.
It was a giant hand made of blinding white light.
It is too large to be measured in numbers.
The mere phantom of five fingers is larger than the ten-kilometer-long Yuanwang-class warship.
A giant white hand gently swept across the hull of the Yuanwang-class exploration ship.
Then, the image freezes.
The ten-kilometer-long giant ship was cut in half.
Three thousand people instantly vaporized.
"That was the blow."
Zhang Yan stared at the frozen giant white hand on the screen.
My palms were sweating.