Zhao Chen boarded the shuttle and parked it in the hangar of a T4 Whale-class heavy interstellar transport ship.
He then took the hover elevator into the ship's cabin.
Soon, he saw a huge creature.
This is the wreckage of a captured T4 Blade-class light interstellar interceptor. Judging from its appearance, it is still in relatively good condition.
To accommodate this T4 Blade-class light interstellar interceptor, the interstellar transport ship connected all the previously separate cargo holds together.
This is what allowed the entire wrecked starship to remain inside.
The floating elevator brought Zhao Chen to a work platform built on the belly of the T4 Blade-class light interstellar interceptor.
There is an opening there.
The levitation elevator descends.
“Commander.” Lilith, wearing an industrial mask and protective suit, walked up to Zhao Chen and handed him an identical suit.
"Have you seen inside?" Zhao Chen asked while changing his clothes.
Lilith nodded: "We went in for a preliminary check... there's no danger, but there are some things that you might need to check yourself, Commander."
Moreover, you are currently the most comprehensive expert in starship technology here.
Zhao Chen nodded, put on his protective suit and mask, and went inside.
The internal structure of this T4 Blade-class light interstellar interceptor is roughly the same as that of a conventional mechanical interstellar warship, although there may be some differences in design concepts.
Lilith, accompanied by the commander, headed directly towards the energy core area of the T4 Blade-class light interstellar interceptor.
"Commander, you... need to be mentally prepared." Lilith stopped and reminded Zhao Chen as they were about to cross a gate.
Zhao Chen nodded.
As he stepped through that gate, he understood why Lilith had given him that warning.
The scene before my eyes was both spectacular and eerie.
This is an extremely large energy core system, even exceeding the size of the core energy system built on any T4-class interstellar warship in the JF-17 series.
It is divided into an outer wall and a core.
The outer wall has a structure that resembles a honeycomb briquette, but there are also'small fleshy sprouts' inside these honeycomb briquettes.
These 'little buds' are actually the 'fuel' of this core energy system.
From a distance, it's absolutely chilling.
Especially for those with trypophobia.
Zhao Chen glanced at it briefly and realized that there were at least hundreds of thousands of these devices here.
In other words, this interstellar warship is powered by dozens of intelligent life forms.
The kernel system in the middle is like a large pool, or something like an energy converter.
The energy extracted from these 'intelligent beings' will be converted into the energy needed by this starship, and then transmitted to the various modules of this interstellar warship, thus enabling the interstellar warship to operate.
"Based on our recovery of the database of the damage to this interstellar warship, we obtained some information."
These things are called incubation chambers by them.
The cultivation chambers extract energy from the brains of intelligent life forms through those circuits, and the liquid inside these cultivation chambers provides these intelligent life forms with their most basic necessities for life.
The extracted bioenergy will be collected in the central core and used for the starship's energy needs.
In addition to the organisms you see in these incubation chambers, there are also nearly a million pre-packaged 'bioenergy' in the energy warehouse of this interstellar warship.
"Once an intelligent life form in a cultivation chamber becomes completely useless, it will be replaced with new 'bioenergy'," Lilith said.
Zhao Chen walked to several incubation chambers, in which there were emaciated humanoid creatures and humanoid creatures that looked like children.
Their eyes were tightly closed, as if they were fast asleep.
Various tubes were inserted into their bodies.
"Can't we wake them up?" Zhao Chen asked.
"We tried, but we all failed."
Based on our medical staff's investigation.
These life forms, which the demon race called 'bioenergy,' were injected with a drug before being transported onto the interstellar warship, putting them in a 'vegetative state' where their bodies were completely unable to move.
Once they enter this incubation chamber, it means their lives are already on a countdown.
Once these intelligent life forms leave this incubation chamber, they will suffer brain death in the shortest possible time.
Even with our most advanced medical technology, there is no way to save them.
As for those 'vegetative state' patients who haven't yet entered the incubation pods, it's very difficult to wake them up again. Lilith looked at the countless incubation pods, her tone somewhat helpless.
"The brain of a living organism is the most amazing structure of a living organism."
It gives us the ability to think, which is why we were able to evolve civilization.
It can also generate energy in an incredible way.
But this is a taboo field of technology.
The brain is powerful, yet also fragile.
"Any change could have indelible consequences." Zhao Chen's gaze swept over the incubation chambers.
He knew exactly why Lilith had called him over.
How to deal with these organisms is a difficult problem.
Only he, the commander, could make the decision.
"Transmit my order: all life forms on the Demon Starships shall be cremated, and their ashes shall be scattered into space."
At least, so that they won't be tortured and abused after they die, and can gain... their final freedom." After saying this, Zhao Chen turned around and walked out of there.
From a third-party perspective, Zhao Chen didn't actually experience much emotional fluctuation.
But the thought that these things would happen to his own star system and his own people made him realize how unbearable it was.
An uncontrollable anger surged into Zhao Chen's head.
He will absolutely not let that happen!
absolute!
"In addition, regarding an incident that Leona reported to us about that happened on the battlefield."
Leona recounted that this occurred during her battle with the Daemon starship that we had completely annihilated.
Suddenly, three demon fleets appeared out of nowhere and attacked the rear of their fleet.
She suspected that the demon fleet possessed some kind of cloaking capability. Lilith followed behind Zhao Chen, reporting on another matter.
Zhao Chen was also aware of this matter.
Starship stealth technology itself is not too difficult.
For example, Zhao Chen's T4 Shadow Demon-class light interstellar stealth bomber and T4 Banshee-class light interstellar stealth reconnaissance ship both possess the ability to stealth their hulls.
However, equipping all the interstellar warships in a fleet with this capability would be a waste.
It's not cost-effective.
"And what were the results of the investigation?" Zhao Chen asked.
Lilith replied, "We discovered that the Demon race actually possesses a T4-class interstellar warship."
It has a unique capability: it can achieve group stealth against friendly fleets within a certain range!
