Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 667

[Chapter 660 The boat home]

In the deepest power area of the mechanical compartment, all the crew members and believers who had been on duty here were dead, but the huge steam core unit continued to operate without anyone controlling it.

There was a low tremor coming from the reactor. The pipes and valves surrounding the reactor made a slight hissing sound from time to time under the control of the automatic balancing system. The warning light used to detect the status of the boiling gold catalyst flashed steadily, showing steam. The pressure within the core is running high.

At the end of a steel platform more than ten meters away from the steam core, a huge copper pillar is standing between the roof and the floor. Part of the shell of the copper pillar is hollowed out, and a complex gear and connecting rod structure can be seen inside it. Continuously running, the rapid clicking sound of the precision machinery becomes a continuous wave. A strip of paper is sucked into the opening on the edge of the copper column, and then spit out from another opening, and is sent to other transfer equipment or punching analyzers. .

This expensive and sophisticated differential engine is automatically calculating some parameters related to the subsequent voyage plan and providing these data to the mechanical cabin. Some of its input and output data come directly from the upper navigation station – all of this must not fall into that In the hands of the shadows of the warp.

The huge haze in destiny is gathering, and a omen more terrifying than death is coming – the ghost captain has already reacted, and his anger is coming here.

The huge skeletal spider no longer hesitated. He waved his long jointed limbs and quickly climbed to the copper pillar, and then without hesitation, he pierced a bone spur into the core power shaft of the differential engine.

The surface of the dark bone spurs was filled with corrosive force fields. The power shaft shield, which was tightly protected by the thick copper shell and steel armor, was easily penetrated like tissue paper. The continuously rotating steel bearing inside instantly emitted a series of harsh sounds. Then, a series of gears and connecting rods connected to the main shaft collapsed catastrophically, and all subsequent punching machines and transferred paper tapes were involved – the difference

machine and subsequent punching analysis The power of the ship comes from the same main shaft. A power failure is enough to destroy the entire system. This is a deliberate “safety flaw”. Its purpose is to destroy the ship in the shortest possible time in the event of an emergency. Voyage records, and the complete destruction of its control center.

But that’s not enough. Just destroying the Difference Engine won’t stop the ghost captain.

As long as the ship was sailing, it was still possible that it could take that captain to the Holy Land.

What the “Saint” has to do is to lift the safety restrictions of the steam core.

The steam core in the reacting state is indestructible. The thick protective shell will isolate its boiling gold catalyst and reaction medium from the outside world. Even nitroglycerin explosives may not be able to blow up the sphere – it must be done first. Just let the steam core shut down in an emergency.

Now, the shutdown conditions are met.

Accompanied by the roar when the power shaft of the differential engine collapsed and a series of harsh noises from the gear set, all the mechanical devices connected by gears, belts and connecting rods began to collapse in series, and the airflow output from the steam core broke through almost in the blink of an eye. The critical point of the safety valve was reached, and lethal high-temperature and high-pressure steam began to overflow in the mechanical cabin. The overpressure airflow broke through the safety pin of the steam core. Amidst the creaking noise, the spherical shell of the reactor began to descend.

The boiling gold catalyst has separated from the furnace core as the shell descends, but the hot “fire ball” is still burning deep in the reactor, and the terrible heat rushes to the control platform along with the airflow – it is enough to kill a living person Instantly steaming heat.

But it was just a breeze for the Saints.

He raised his bones and limbs in the “breeze”, quickly picked up several barrels of nitroglycerin dynamite piled nearby, and rushed without hesitation towards the reaction vessel that was emitting fatal heat and the internal flames were rising.

The time for martyrdom has come, the time for martyrdom has come… Blow up everything here, the cause of the Holy Lord cannot be disturbed by the evil spirit returning from the subspace… The flames are rising in the reactor, and the out-of-control flames are crumbling in a critical state. A

barrel Nitroglycerine is enough to give a “push” to this critical point and blow the entire ship to pieces.

The Saint held the explosive aloft.

Almost at the same time, the flames in the reactor were suddenly tinged with a green light.

A terrifying face appeared in the reactor. In the rapidly out-of-control fire storm, Duncan’s upper body gradually emerged from the flames of the steam core. He leaned down and met the skeleton who was holding the nitroglycerin barrel high. The spiders looked at each other at a very close distance, and their voice sounded like thunder: “Do you think this is useful?”

“Go to hell! Ghost!”

The skeleton spider roared, and then suddenly threw the nitroglycerin explosive into the reactor.

A violent explosion occurred – in a flash of lightning, the entire reaction vessel was involved in an out-of-control and extremely terrifying explosion. Duncan’s flame incarnation, which had not had time to completely condense, flickered in the explosion, and then the surrounding people The flames that had not been eroded by the spiritual fire turned into shock waves in the explosion, sucking everything in the entire cabin into it.

The steam core exploded, and the boiling gold catalyst triggered a chain reaction under critical pressure. Amidst the terrifying roar and wanton boiling heat, the entire ship began to tear apart with the mechanical cabin as the core.

The pitch-black skeletal spider stretched out its limbs in the impact storm, trying to grab anything nearby with every bone spur. His bone fragments were ignited in the heat wave, and the surface of the shrinking and squirming brain shone with a faint light, and the nervous system was Being gradually burned, the blood was boiling in the brain tissue – he was dying, but a strange excitement was inspiring his mind.

He successfully detonated the steam core before the ghost captain took full control of the place.

No one on the ship would survive, including himself—but at least the “Holy Land” was saved.

The lower shell of the mechanical cabin began to tear apart, and the raging seawater boiled in the flames and quickly poured into the cabin, making a deafening roar.

The “Saint” closed his eyestalks that had been severely burned and began to wait quietly for death to come.

But death did not come.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet.

After a moment of hesitation and confusion, the dying skeletal spider once again raised the eye stalks around his brain. In his vision blurred and dim due to burns, he saw a strange scene.

All the flames in the mechanical cabin were instantly dyed with a layer of faint green. The faint spiritual flames stagnated in the air as if time had stopped. The torn cabins also stagnated, including the turbulent sea water. In its original place.

And among all the stagnant things, there is the newly exploded steam core – its fragments are still floating in the air, and the molten steel droplets bloom like a gorgeous and weird flower.

A tall figure descended from the explosion flames of the steam core. In the mechanical cabin where everything was stagnant, Duncan walked out of the fire and came to the skeletal spider.

He pushed aside the molten metal suspended beside him, ordered the stagnant flames blocking his sight to move aside, and calmly stared at the “Saint”.

This “Priest of Annihilation”, which has no human form at all, is still alive. After facing the big explosion of the steam core at a very close range, the monster was only severely burned in the terrifying high-temperature impact that could evaporate steel.

Moreover, in the previous brief encounter, this guy was able to quickly judge the situation and did not hesitate to choose the “blow up the ship” plan with a higher success rate – this kind of judgment is so sensitive and quick that it is even close to some kind of “foreknowledge” “.

Very powerful, very smart, with extremely strange powers.

But for Duncan, what is more important is another thing –

as the rabbi said, this Annihilation priest has “eaten” his symbiotic demon, which eliminated one of his biggest weaknesses as an Annihilation cultist: He doesn’t die because the symbiote demon dies or loses control.

This makes it appear more “durable”.

However, it was obvious that before this Annihilation Cult could be put to use, he had to be allowed to recuperate from his injuries first – this frail appearance could not bear the pressure of establishing communication with the Netherworld Holy Lord.

As for now, Duncan is more concerned about another thing.

“I heard that this ship has a supply port. You call it the ‘Holy Land’.” He lowered his head and stared at the many eyes of the skeleton spider. “Where is it?” The weak skeleton spider shook slightly

. For a moment, part of his limbs struggled to rise, but soon fell down again, and a hoarse and vague voice sounded from the depths of the pile of weird and disgusting biological tissues: “Give up… you will never find it… I All navigation records and control devices have been destroyed, and apart from that, the location of the Holy Land is only in my brain – just now, I have destroyed this part of my memory, even if the four gods come in person, you I can’t find that route either…”

However, what surprised the “Saint” was that the ghost captain in front of him did not show any displeasure at this answer.

Duncan just shook his head with regret.

“It doesn’t matter, it won’t take too much effort.”

In the vague perception, the saint suddenly noticed something. He struggled violently with his bones and limbs, and the severely damaged eye stalks turned to the one standing in the flames one after another. The figure said: “You…what are you going to do?!”

Duncan ignored it. He just turned his head and looked at the still flames in the sky, the shattered cabin in the distance, and the surging water outside the shattered hull.

The ship was so torn apart that through the shattered upper decks, the looming sky could be seen between the stagnant flames.

“This ship is very good, it’s a pity.”

He sighed softly, then turned around and came to the steam core that had been completely blown to pieces, stretched out his hand and gently touched the flame that was still in the air.

This flame was once the heart of the ship.

Now it needs to beat again.

The green flames gradually formed waves, and a low and weird roar began to come from every corner of the entire ship. Amid the increasingly intense shaking, the broken ship, which had lost all power, seemed to be gradually “coming to life”. “Come over, struggle and start to accelerate slowly.

Duncan got closer to the fire and ordered to the activated ship –

“Go home.”

So, the ship changed its course and embarked on the way home.

(End of chapter)