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Chapter 1465 Engine Room

That just sounds outrageous.

Ah yes, it is normal for there to be ghosts in a ghost ship.

But who can be so calm after seeing a ghost?

In fact, it's really that calm.

Among the ghost ships that Alyssa has visited, there are quite a few cases of encountering undead creatures. Some are ghosts bound in the ship, and some are zombies and skeletons whose bodies have been resurrected. In her opinion, this is normal and does not panic.

"For a ship this big, with at least a few hundred crew members, it's normal for a few to turn into ghosts after a sudden death. Don't worry, when it's invisible, it can only scare you. If it appears, just use the laser rifle in your hand to shoot it, and it will run away crying."

Alyssa didn't think that Lieutenant Dui was too nervous and saw it wrong, or was lying. She was willing to believe that there was a ghost on the ship.

But what's so scary about ghosts? Anything that can be killed is nothing to be afraid of. The reason you're afraid of it is simply because you don't have enough firepower.

To be honest, recyclers do have big hearts.

"Boss, the engine room is in front."

As she spoke, Sophia opened the last door, shone the flashlight around, and turned back to speak.

Alyssa immediately gave up trying to figure out what the black shadow Dui saw was, and turned around and walked into the engine room. However, Dui and several crew members were quite suspicious and kept looking back, fearing that a ghost would pounce on them.

As the most important place on a ship besides the bridge, the engine room is usually not small in size.

Although it's called a 'room', it's actually an open space that's not much smaller than a hangar. Because the engine room not only has a large amount of equipment, but also a core reactor and an energy storage tank that takes up a large area, so it certainly can't fit in a smaller area.

However, the engine room of this ship was of course also pitch black. When everyone came in and shone their flashlights 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 circumstances, a large amount of magic power would accumulate in the engine room, forming silver-blue spots of light or thick fog, requiring assistance from exhaust equipment, detectors and other things.

As of now, there is no problem with the power part.

Alyssa signaled the team to keep moving forward. Because of Lieutenant Dui's shout, many people in the team were now a little nervous, staring at every piece of darkness that the flashlight could not illuminate, as if a ghost with a green face and fangs would suddenly jump out at the next moment.

However, these things did not appear, they just walked in the engine room normally.

The first thing that catches your eye is a huge, tower-shaped device. There should be at least ten similar devices.

This is a device that dissipates heat from the reactor. When it is working, it will collect the waste heat generated by the reactor. Part of it will be used by the air-conditioning system to maintain the temperature inside the ship, and another part will be used to generate electricity to supply a small number of equipment on the ship that require electricity to operate. The last part will be released into the void through cooling fins and coolant.

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

But these cooling devices are in good condition, almost new, and may have been manufactured no more than a year ago, so it is unlikely that there is something wrong with the cooling devices.

Continue walking forward and 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 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 pipes at the bottom of the pool.

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

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

That was the magic residue left after a large amount of magic was used up. Even if it was not cleaned up, these things would sublime and disappear again after one or two years. But this was an abnormal place.

With today's technology, these magical residues will be reintegrated into the liquefied magic for full use, and no residue visible to the naked eye should be left.

The residue 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.

No matter how powerful a ship is, it is impossible for it to completely consume all its magic power in an instant. It can only be called a disaster if it encounters something unknown.

"Did these guys encounter a red storm?"

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

The red storm, also known as the red fog, the man-eating fog.

This is a special kind of undead creature. It looks like a large red or grayish-white mist, and almost blends into the void background in the void.

Since this thing has no entity, the ship's armor plate cannot resist it. Only the shield can resist it slightly. However, if you don't escape immediately, the Red Storm will eat up the magic power that makes up the shield and invade the interior of the ship.

This special undead creature feeds on magic, whether it's from ships or humans.

Wherever the red storm passes, it will leave behind many ghost ships. The crew members will die in an instant and have no chance to resist at all.

But it is not difficult to deal with it. This thing does not have a big appetite. Nowadays, the shield strength of ships is much higher than before. The Red Storm will hit and take a few bites of the shield, then it will be full and run away.

It is extremely rare for a situation like this where almost the entire ship is eaten up. Either the ship's shield is too weak, or the red storm they encountered is too strong.

If we want to prove whether Red Storm did it, we just need to find the body.

The Red Storm will eat a person till only the skeleton is left in an instant, and the magic in every inch of flesh and blood will be digested by it, so when we find a lot of crew ribs later, the matter can be concluded.

"The negative energy level is not high. Let's continue going inside. I want to see how the reactor is doing."

Red Storm as an answer can indeed explain some problems, but it cannot explain why the ship’s reactor was shut down.

Red Storm cannot eat up the reactor, or rather, it cannot eat up all of it.

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 was full and left, and there shouldn't be only a pile of magic power residue 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 extra-large boiler or an extra-large pressure cooker. It has more than thirty observation windows and a large number of walkways, which make it convenient for maintenance personnel to visually observe the situation inside the reactor.

Alyssa took out an instrument to measure the temperature. The reactor had cooled down completely. Normally, even if the reactor was shut down, the residual temperature inside would last for one or two months. If left alone, the core would even retain some temperature for one or two years.

This isn't a device you can just turn off whenever you want.

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

She initially thought it might be due to oxygen intoxication, but soon discovered that the darkness she saw seemed to be moving...

(End of this chapter)