Chapter 1465 Engine Room

It sounds outrageous.

Ah yes, it is normal for ghost ships to have ghosts in them.

But how can anyone see a ghost be so calm?

In fact, it's really calm.

In the ghost ships that Alyssa has been to, there are quite a lot of encounters with undead creatures. Some are ghosts bound inside the ship, and some are zombies and skeletons whose corpses have been resurrected. In her opinion, this is normal and scary.

"For such a big ship, with at least a few hundred crew members, it's normal for a few people to turn into ghosts if they die suddenly. Don't worry, when it doesn't show itself, it can only scare you, but if it shows itself, you will be scared. Use the laser rifle in your hand to fire it, and make sure it runs away crying. "

Alyssa didn't think Lieutenant Duy was too nervous and misunderstood, or was lying. She wanted to believe that there was a ghost on the ship.

But there is nothing scary about ghosts. Anything that can be beaten to death is not something to be afraid of. What makes you afraid is simply a lack of firepower.

There is a saying that recyclers have a really big heart.

"Boss, the engine room is ahead."

While speaking, Sophia opened the last door, illuminated it with a flashlight and looked back.

Alyssa immediately gave up researching what the dark shadow Duy saw was, and turned around and walked towards the engine room. However, Duy and several crew members were quite suspicious and always looked back, for fear that a ghost might pounce on them.

As the most important place on a ship besides the bridge, the area of ​​the engine room is usually not small.

It's called a 'room', but it's actually an open space that's not much smaller than a hangar. Because there are not only a large number of equipment in the turbine room, but also a core reactor and an energy storage pool that takes up a large area. Of course, the area is small and cannot be filled.

But of course the engine room of this ship was also dark. Everyone came in and used flashlights to shine forward and at the ceiling. They could see that the height from the ceiling to the floor was almost four times the size of a normal cabin. Under normal operation, a large number of The magic power will accumulate in the engine room, forming silver-blue light spots or thick fog, and it also requires the assistance of exhaust equipment, detectors and other things.

For now, there is no problem with the power part.

Alyssa signaled the team to continue moving forward. Due to Lieutenant Duy's voice, many people in the team were now a little nervous. They stared at every piece of darkness that could not be illuminated by the flashlight, as if a green-faced fang would suddenly pop out in the next moment. Ghostly.

However, these things did not appear. They were just walking in the engine room normally.

The first thing that caught the eye was a huge, tower-like device. There should be at least ten similar devices.

This is a device that dissipates heat for the reactor. When it is working, it collects the waste heat generated by the reactor. Part of it is used in the air conditioning system to maintain the temperature inside the ship, and the other part is used to generate electricity to supply the small parts of the ship that need electricity to operate. equipment, the last part will be released into the void through the heat sink fins and coolant.

Alyssa first checked the nearby cooling tower. If there is a problem with the cooling equipment on a ship, it will indeed cause the ship to run aground.

However, these cooling devices are all in good condition, even almost all new. They may not have been manufactured for more than one year, so it is unlikely that there is a problem with the cooling device.

If you continue walking forward, you will see several huge but not deep 'pools'.

That is the energy storage pool.

These pools made of special materials will restrain and compress the magic power, allowing the gaseous magic power to stay in the pool like liquid water, and be transported to every corner of the ship through the pipes at the bottom of the pool.

This liquid magic is usually silver-blue or sapphire blue, and is very beautiful. It is even said that the people working in the engine room are younger than other crew members. It may be that the high concentration of magic takes care of people's skin.

But now the energy storage pool is completely empty. Alyssa reached out and touched the bottom of the pool, and could only touch a little silver-white powder.

That is the magic remnant left after a large amount of magic has been used. Even if it is not cleaned up, these things will sublimate and disappear after a year or two.

But this is an abnormal place.

With today's technology, these magic remnants will be re-integrated into the liquefied magic for full use, and there should be no visible remnants left behind.

The remnants in the energy storage pool almost covered the bottom of the pool with silver.

Why does this happen?

The only possibility is that the ship encountered a terrible disaster in which all the liquefied magic power was consumed in an instant.

A ship, no matter how powerful it is, cannot completely consume all its magic power in an instant. It may only encounter something unknown, so it can be called a disaster.

"Did these guys encounter a red storm?"

"Boss, don't talk nonsense, that thing is too difficult to deal with."

Red Storm, also known as red fog, human-eating fog.

This is a special kind of undead creature. Its appearance looks like a large piece of red or gray-white mist, and it almost blends into the void background in the void.

Since this thing has no entity, the armor plate of the ship cannot resist it. Only the shield can resist it for a while, but if you don't escape immediately, the red storm will eat the magic power that makes up the shield and invade the inside of the hull.

This special kind of undead feeds on magic, whether it's from ships or people.

Wherever the red storm passes, many ghost ships will be left behind, and the crew will die in an instant, leaving no chance to resist.

But it's not difficult to deal with it. This thing doesn't have a big appetite. The shield strength of ships is much higher now than before. The Red Storm will eat up the shield and run away after hitting it.

It's extremely rare for a ship to be eaten up. Either the shield of the ship is too weak, or the Red Storm they encountered is too strong.

And to prove whether it was done by the Red Storm, you just need to find the body.

The Red Storm will eat people in an instant, leaving only the skeleton, and the magic in every inch of flesh and blood will be digested by it, so if you find a lot of crew ribs later, then the matter can be determined.

"The negative energy level is not high, let's go inside, I want to see how the reactor is."

As an answer, the Red Storm can indeed explain some problems, but it can't explain why the reactor of this ship is turned off.

The Red Storm can't eat the reactor, it should be said that it can't eat it all.

As long as there are reaction materials, the reactor can continuously generate magic power. If it was done by Red Storm, the reactor should still be working after it ate and left, and there shouldn't be a pile of magic power left in the energy storage pool.

Continuing forward, after crossing five or six pools, everyone finally stood in front of the reactor.

This is a round thing that looks like an oversized boiler or an oversized pressure cooker. It has more than 30 observation windows and a large number of plank roads, which are convenient for maintenance personnel to visually observe the situation in the reactor with the naked eye.

Alyssa took out the instrument to measure the temperature. The reactor has been completely cooled. Normally, even if the reactor is turned off, the residual temperature inside will last for one or two months. If left alone, the core will even have some temperature remaining for one or two years.

This is not a device that can be turned off at will.

Just as she was about to look at the situation inside the reactor through the observation window, Alyssa suddenly felt dizzy.

She initially thought that she might be a little drunk on oxygen, but she immediately found that the darkness she saw in her eyes seemed to be wriggling...