Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 1466 The Stench of Death

The darkness in her eyes seemed to be wriggling, twisting, and crawling. Lines of terror swept in from all directions. The huge, indescribable terror ravaged Alyssa's nerves.

But all this is just a moment.

Alyssa blinked her eyes, and everything returned to normal. The terrifying fear still remained in her mind, but it seemed like it was just an illusion.

"There's definitely something wrong with this ship."

After leaving this comment, Alyssa continued to do what she was doing.

——Recyclers really have big hearts.

Alyssa had indeed never encountered such a situation on a ghost ship before, but Alyssa had even been to the realm of gods and had even seen the corpses of gods with her own eyes. This level of fear was nothing to worry about.

She would say that there was something wrong with the ship because she felt that what she had just seen was probably her instinct warning her that something terrible had happened on the ship.

Since it is not real, there is no need to be afraid.

Alyssa was still very stubborn and under the protection of everyone, she stretched her head to look inside the reactor.

You can see a substance in the reactor that emits a silver-blue light under light. That is the reaction material.

The reactor had no shortage of materials and appeared to have no damage on the outside, but it suddenly stopped and cooled down completely.

Something instantly took away all the energy on the ship, even the ability to generate energy.

Rather than taking away energy, it is more like taking away vitality.

Alyssa found the idea that popped into her mind ridiculous. Although many crew members would refer to the ship in an anthropomorphic way, it did not mean that it was really alive.

Shaking her head to get rid of the unrealistic idea, Alyssa moved to the operating table of the reactor and tried to restart it.

Restarting the reactor is very troublesome and requires a lot of magic power to start, just like many generators actually need to be powered by small generators in order to operate normally.

Alyssa first tried the mechanical start on the console. If the ship had backup energy, the operation would be smoother.

But it's gone, nothing.

"Have the mechanics connect the energy transmission pipeline. We are trying to restart the reactor of this ship."

Alyssa notified the Swan, and everyone waited there for about half an hour. Fang Lanyin came back and said that the injection of magic power had begun.

It was too strenuous to fully mobilize this ghost ship relying on the magic power of the Swan, but the injected magic power was enough to start the reactor. It did not need to work normally and could operate at low power. After that, the ship could restart all the equipment little by little by itself.

Alyssa tried to reignite the fire on the operating table. After seven or eight attempts, a rumbling sound came from the reactor, accompanied by a shrill hum.

A faint red light was emitted from the observation window, and the intensity of the light was increasing.

Then there was a series of popping sounds, and the lights in the engine room were turned on one by one. To be more precise, these lights were on when everything happened, and they only went out when there was no energy. Now that the reactor was working again, they were all turned on naturally.

Humans are phototactic animals and they feel much safer when they stay under the light. It can be clearly seen that Dui and many crew members are in much better mental state.

"There's nothing wrong with the reactor. It's still working. You can remove the pipes."

This ship is almost new, and may have been out of the shipyard for less than two years, while the Swan was a second-hand ship given to Villania after it was retired from the Storm Kingdom.

Then Alyssa took her personal terminal and connected it to the terminal under the reactor, hoping to see if she could communicate with the machine soul of the ship while there was energy.

But no matter what Alyssa did, the ship's machine soul did not respond at all.

It was as if it died along with it.

Alyssa guessed that maybe there was something wrong with the machine soul's program because there was no energy for too long, but she didn't pay too much attention to it.

"Let's go to the warehouse next. The door over there should be openable."

First we went to the engine room, in addition to checking if there was any problem, we also wanted to open the energy source, otherwise the cargo hold's airlock would be difficult to open. Even if Sanafia was extremely strong, it would be impossible to open the airlock by brute force. As the lights were restored, everyone's faces looked much better. Just as everyone was about to leave after hearing this, Alyssa's personal terminal started beeping.

"I have made a preliminary analysis of the information you just sent me."

Vilania says:
"The last sailing record of the ship you were on showed that it seemed to be being chased by something. It made five or six consecutive jumps, but in the end, it probably didn't escape."

"What exactly is it?"

"I don't know. I'm not sure."

The voice on the other end of Verania's end was a little confused, but she must have done something to deliberately adjust the communication to a channel that only Alyssa could hear.

"But I think this is similar to what we saw in Blackhand Harbor."

"You mean, that huge mass of darkness?"

"Well, the information reads very close, but on a much smaller scale."

Back when we were in Blackhand Port, there was a huge mass of darkness that appeared. If it weren’t for the different data, the people in Blackhand Port would have thought it was a black hole.

Its mass was so large that it even caused the colonial satellite Blackhand Port to deviate from its orbit.

"Also, I found out something. The destination of this ship is the Red Maple Republic, and the consignee is an old acquaintance of you and me. Its presence is everywhere."

Alyssa was slightly stunned:
"Molybdenum Group?"

"Completely correct."

The secret cargo of the Molybdenum Group made Alyssa even more interested.

"We are unable to analyze more information for the time being. You'd better be careful on the ship. There are too many unknowns."

"Okay, I understand. You should also speed up the analysis."

After hanging up the call, Alyssa waved her hand, signaling everyone to move on.

The Molybdenum Group has a strong presence in the war between the Red Maple Republic and the Whirlwater Federation, and this transport ship without any markings is obviously carrying secret cargo related to it.

It was a good decision to come here. Not only can we find out what the Molybdenum Group is doing, but we may also be able to give the Xuanshui Federation an early warning.

The reactor is currently operating at low power, and a lot of debugging is needed to get it working properly, otherwise the reactor will slowly shut down again within a few hours.

But this is not something Alyssa can do, she won't.

Let's wait until we have a thorough investigation and then ask Fang Lanyin and a team of mechanics to come over. Now Alyssa can't wait to see what's in the warehouse.

Everyone left the engine room from another exit. According to the data provided by the Swan's scanner, it would not take long to reach the warehouse after leaving the engine room.

This is similar to a large truck pulling a container. When you come out of the cab, the cargo hold is naturally behind you.

As they got closer, the width of the passage was gradually increasing, but there seemed to be something wrong with the lights in some places, and they were flickering, but it was not a big deal.

Soon, everyone stood in front of a huge airtight door. This transport ship could abandon the cargo hold when necessary, so it had such a large airtight door.

Since there was energy, Alyssa cracked the opening code after a few operations at the door. The door made a loud empty sound, accompanied by the exhaust sound of hydraulic power, and the door slowly lifted up.

However, almost at the moment the door opened, the energy detector on Alyssa's body issued a sharp alarm, indicating that Alyssa's negative energy was seriously exceeded.

Everyone felt a biting cold at that moment, and even through the protective clothing, they seemed to smell a rotten and smelly odor.

That's the smell of death.

(End of this chapter)