From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

Major companies are unwilling to waste too much money on spaceships because the various subscription fees are too expensive. The Earth Federation has been infiltrated by the Unification Church and has become a sieve. All levels of government are content with pleasure, and the colonies are being exploited by companies and the Federation and have no ability to build ships.

So the Ishimura was clearly intended as a test machine for planetary fission technology, but it was launched directly and forced to serve for 50 years. During these 50 years, the Earth Federation did not build an additional mining ship with planetary fission capabilities. It seemed extremely abstract, enough to be made into a weird Earth.

"Of course. Although some of the equipment may be aging, it costs money to maintain autonomous machines. The fact that CEC is willing to spend this money shows that the shipyard still has value in their eyes."

The miners' leader gave Si Ye a firm promise.

"Alright then, let's prepare for the attack on the government district while we capture the people from other parts of the public area."

Because Si Ye's initial large-scale killing of zombies attracted a lot of firepower, there are still many living people in the various functional areas of the public area, so it doesn't take much effort to pull them all out.

However, after intentionally expanding the range of psychic energy dissipation, Shen Yin seemed to realize that Si Ye and others were difficult to deal with, and no longer let the zombies carry out meaningless suicide actions. Instead, they began to avoid Si Ye and others and started to hunt down and slaughter ordinary residents in the space station again.

Because humans killed by zombies will quickly transform into new zombies, their eyeballs and faces may undergo large-scale mutations. At that time, some permissions that can only be verified through facial recognition and iris scanning will be completely lost.

So Si Ye ordered the survivors to use the square and the residential area above as strongholds to prevent the zombies from launching sneak attacks, and at the same time he quickly led his men to rush around in the public area to snatch people from the zombies.

When Isaac entered the temporary defense point, he happened to meet Si Ye, who was having a lot of fun and was carrying a greasy-haired and big-eared company executive back.

The executive was timid in the face of the zombies and hid in a safe house, not daring to come out. However, when faced with the survivors who found him, he attacked them hard and denounced the armed survivors for illegally occupying the company's wealth.

It was obvious that the other party was also the kind of person who had been brainwashed thoroughly by the company and did not care about anything when it came to protecting the company's property. If facial recognition and iris verification did not require him to be alive, Si Ye would have hung him on a street lamp in the middle of the road to see whether he would suffocate first or be stabbed to death by the zombies first.

"Isaac Clarke?"

Although Isaac was not wearing the iconic engineer armor at this time, Si Ye recognized him at a glance because of the DIY cutter in his hand.

"…Um…It's me."

Even the War God Engineer who had fought his way out of the sea of ​​blood and corpses on the Ishimura was a little scared when he saw Si Ye lifting 300 kilograms with one hand without any power armor, so he answered very quickly.

"Some equipment on the Ishimura has been dismantled. I'll have someone take you there later so you can see what's missing and whether it can be repaired."

Lifting eyelids, pressing fingerprints, scanning faces, the miner leader next to Si Ye skillfully operated various verification equipment. Along with the beeping sound of passing vehicles, a slight vibration was heard in the shipyard in the distance.

"Sir, 70% of the functions have been restored, but the payment module still cannot be skipped. Raw materials..."

These companies have written the payment system into the underlying logic of the space station's main control. If this crappy payment system is forcibly rewritten, all the main controls of the space station will be shut down in the short term.

It would be a small matter if the gate lost control and some unlucky person was thrown into the universe. However, if the fusion reactor that has been maintaining a high load loses the regulation of the space station's main control, it will explode at any time.

"So many of us have nothing to do. Let's dismantle the freight pipeline and move all the raw materials out manually. I promise to prepare a new home for those who work. Those who don't work and just wait to die can stay in the space station and be neighbors with the zombies."

Si Ye looked at Isaac.

"Come and help me, I think you've had enough of those zombies. I promise you, you won't see those things anymore."

Chapter 296 Titan Space Station

"Well... all the equipment is online... fully functional..."

Returning to the Ishimura, Isaac felt a strange feeling of revisiting an old place, but he really didn't want to see weird things like zombies and divine seals again, so he accepted Si Ye's invitation and came to check the condition of this meritorious ship.

After inspecting several key equipment points on the Ishimura, Isaac reported to Si Ye with a subtle expression:

"The Ishimura's main equipment is still on board and hasn't been dismantled. The Titan Space Station engineers seem unable to handle the Ishimura's complex wiring. They simply removed some of the outer shell and covered up the wiring, making it look like they've stripped the Ishimura down to its bare shell."

Thanks to the ignorant education methods of various companies and enterprises, among the civilians of the Earth Federation whose illiteracy rate is almost reaching 20%, the engineers who are able to enter government and public positions are usually those who lack strength and skills.

These half-baked engineers often cause a lot of inconvenience to the residents of the space station, but their lazy behavior now actually benefits Si Ye in disguise.

"So, the Ishimura is actually able to operate normally now?"

Si Ye scanned the entire Ishimura. The spaceship in the dead space stood out for its toughness and durability. Various modular and segmented areas allowed the ship to fly away on its own even if only its head was left before the battery was exhausted.

Once again, I would like to thank all the companies for their ignorant education, which has made those unskilled engineers dare not even look at the gravitational beam generator and stasis field generator on the Ishimura.

After all, successfully dismantling it is what the job is supposed to do. If it fails, the space station government will sue you and you will be burdened with a debt that you will never be able to pay off in your lifetime.

"That's right, but all the subscription services on the ship have been canceled, and the modules have been locked by the Titan Space Station government. It seems that they are determined to decommission this meritorious ship after 50 years of service."

Isaac was just an engineer, and searching for permission cards from other people's corpses was probably the limit of what he could do. However, judging from the frequent noises coming from the government area, it was obvious that the colonial government of the Titan Space Station had not yet died under the attack of the zombies.

"The shipyard is already running. We'll just have to capture the station's director and unlock him."

A wisp of silver-gray powder flew out from Si Ye's sleeve, penetrated into the Ishimura, and began to secretly take over the planet-splitting ship.

After dismantling some cargo pipes and kicking the space station's alarm system, and relying on manpower to transport enough supplies, the long-silent shipyard built the smallest spaceship in the ship blueprint in just 10 minutes.

[Hummingbird], a 14-meter small gunboat.

While this small, battery-powered gunboat has the endurance to be an airport defender, the heavy and light blasters it carries are enough to easily blow the roofs of the massive buildings in the government district apart.

The group of mercenaries under the command of the director of the government district space station, who only have light weapons, are simply unable to fight against this heavy firepower, which cannot be considered heavy firepower.

"Damn it! How come they're okay!"

Looking at the searchlights that were lit again in the shipyard in the distance, the space station director Tidman's face turned ashen.

He and his defeated troops have been able to survive until now at the hands of the zombies thanks to the death space field of the divine seal. He doesn't understand why the civilians who are the first target of the zombies have not been slaughtered by the zombies, and why they are still able to establish a stable defense line and even restart the shipyard of the space station that has been closed for a long time.

But Tidman knew that whatever the shipyards were producing now, it was not good news for them.

He activated the additional power supply equipment again to stimulate the No. 12 Divine Seal in the laboratory below. Now, Tedman could only hope that the spiritual pulse of the Divine Seal could crush the minds of those survivors and buy time for the company's rescue.

The divine seal was stimulated by a strong electric current, and the lines on the body surface flickered like breathing. At the same time, a huge mental pulse spread out, and the surrounding zombies crossed the damaged connecting channel like crazy and rushed towards the fortress at the end that the survivors had built with various scrapped vehicles and waste.

The spiritual pulse emitted by the divine seal hit the small psychic repeater placed by the guard team, causing the repeater's subtle glow like a blue-purple candle flame to tremble.

The survivors who were working behind the repeater only felt a little itchy on their scalps. They scratched it casually and continued to move various supplies. They were not affected by the spiritual pollution of the divine seal at all.

As for the zombies that escaped from the government district, unfortunately, the survivors of the Siye Gang had unlocked the use of dozens of manufacturing stations, and each manufacturing station had the ability to print enough equipment to equip a fully armed company before the print head overheated.

Some of the survivors lost their families in the previous riots and were filled with grief and anger, while others were angry at the despicable behavior of the company and the colonial government.

In short, when the zombies appeared in front of the defense line set up by the survivors, the storm of bullets formed by various weapons quickly spread the zombies evenly on the ground, and mixed with some solid ammunition into a mixture of metal and flesh that was difficult to reuse.

"Damn..."

The spiritual pulse of the divine seal was fruitless, and the attack of the zombies was ineffective. Tedman watched with his own eyes as the small dock of the shipyard opened, and an inconspicuous boat slowly floated towards the government area.

"It's the Hummingbird! It's the gunboat!"

The blaster was enough to easily tear open the outer wall of the government district and turn Tidman into a meaningless ice sculpture in the universe. However, because his face was still needed to unlock various facilities, the gunship simply destroyed the antenna high above Tidman's area as a demonstration, and then hovered in front of the observation window, silently threatening everyone with the heavy blaster.

On the other side, the garrison team guarding the defense line also received Si Ye's order and began to lead a group of survivors who still had enough courage across the gate and head straight for the administrative district.

"How ugly."

Snapped!

Si Ye arrived first at the laboratory where CEC manufactured replicas of the Divine Seal. After ordinary corpses were unable to cause any effective damage to Si Ye and his party, the Divine Seal gathered a group of corpses and began to perform aggregate mutations here.

However, the wriggling and twisted mass of flesh and blood had not yet taken shape when Si Ye crushed it into a pool of bloody mud. Sensing the danger, the divine seal launched a series of mental attacks, but was unable to shake Si Ye in the slightest.

Si Ye took out a large storage box from his personal space and directly stored the Divine Seal No. 12. However, considering that this thing has no effect on the Star Sea Empire, Si Ye will most likely find an opportunity to project it directly to the Earth Federation Headquarters or the CEC Company Headquarters in Earth orbit.

Tidman, who was located above the laboratory, had also been subdued. The space station executive wanted to escape by relying on the building terrain to block the gunship's vision, but then he chose to surrender in front of the guard team who shot the mercenaries who were resisting stubbornly into bloody slag.

With the kind "help" of the survivors, Tidman "voluntarily" completed a series of identity authentication and authority transfer instructions. Before the escaped deep-level officials of the colonial government blocked Tidman's authority, the Titan Space Station officially fell into Si Ye's hands.

"...Hang it above the light..."

Si Ye's words saved the station manager from the undignified fate of being beaten to death by the enraged survivors, although being hanged on a searchlight and swaying in the wind as the ventilation duct restarted was not much more dignified.

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Chapter 297 The Express Arrives

Without the divine seal, the zombies in the Titan Space Station no longer possessed their agile and cunning advanced intelligence. At the slightest noise, they would run out from the corners frantically and try to attack all living things.

If the original plan had been followed, Si Ye should have led the survivors aboard the Ishimura or a newly built large ship, carrying a full load of supplies to a new colony far away from the reach of the Earth Federation and the Unification Church.

But unfortunately.

The survivor who obtained all the authorizations for the space station found a star map from the laboratory data. It marked that the corporate alliance led by CEC had built similar laboratories in almost all known human colonies to conduct research on replicating the Divine Seal or conducting experiments on corpses in order to enjoy the unlimited energy and efficient beacons brought by the Divine Seal.

"Son of a bitch! Aren't they afraid that everyone will die?"

Looking at this star map, Isaac almost had a mental breakdown, but fortunately, he had seen many companies and colonial governments being unkind, so he swayed a few times and tried to calm down.

"...In that case, we can't set off rashly. The Ishimura's ecological recycling system can't last that long. We need a bigger and better ship."

Using a spacecraft to take people to a colony is different from using a spacecraft to develop a new colony.

The former only needs a short-term ecological circulation system and an impact point engine, while the latter needs a complete long-term ecological circulation system and must carry a large number of portable factories and manufacturing modules to ensure that the spacecraft's supplies can be self-sufficient before finding a suitable colony planet.

"Then build it. We have the authority now. The blueprint library and material inventory are all open to us. Building a ship larger than the Ishimura will not be a problem."

Using Tidman's authority, he opened the backstage of the space station. The dazzling list of goods and dozens of warehouses filled with fuel and minerals spoke of the richness of this largest space station in the solar system.

To be honest, the Star Empire could accept that the alloy warehouse was forced to explode due to insufficient fleet capacity and no place to consume, but it had never seen a situation like the Earth Federation. The fleet capacity was empty and there were large areas in the colonies that needed to be developed, but they allowed the resources to explode just to cooperate with the giant companies to deceive the residents and raise prices, preventing them from living a good life.

To be honest, this behavior is similar to the 40k human empire, which, due to its bloated administration, collects a tithe on ammunition from the planet that needs it the most. As a result, the ammunition has to be destroyed because the warehouse planet cannot hold enough. It is equally abstract and leaves people speechless.

"Then we need to act quickly. Once the CEC and those companies discover that the station director's permissions have been stolen, they might remotely deactivate our permissions."

With Si Ye's permission, Isaac began to command the survivors to use the authority in their hands to continuously unlock the access rights of various devices in the space station, and set a large number of resources to outbound mode to prevent them from being locked again. At the same time, he began to frantically steal Tiedman's credit card to accumulate start-up capital for starting the equipment.

About a few hours after Tidman turned into a sunny doll, the CEC corporate alliance and the colonial government in Earth orbit finally reacted, remotely fired Tidman, and revoked all his authority.

[Space Station Manager: Mr. Tidman, you have been fired. Because you have violated numerous corporate regulations and codes of conduct, causing irreversible losses to the company, the company will initiate prosecution against you, and all your property will be confiscated...]

Looking at the prompt that popped up on the screen, Isaac, who had been working frantically for several hours, stopped what he was doing and cheered.

According to Isaac, although the lack of some fine materials that cannot be produced by the Titan space station will lead to a decline in the automation of the spacecraft, they have already stolen enough resources to build an armed fleet to kick the CEC's ass.

With sufficient resources, the rest is easy.

Si Ye asked the guard team to lead a group of survivors to clean up the remaining zombies in the space station, while Isaac led the few workers among the survivors to start searching for blueprints to build colony ships with larger carrying capacity.

However, due to the disorganization of the Corporate Alliance and the Earth Federation's armaments, they did not dare to act rashly even though they knew that the Titan Space Station was out of control.

Because the survivors of Titan Space Station now really have a lot of resources, plus the largest shipyard in the solar system, the corporate alliance is really afraid that the survivors who hate them to the core will build armed ships to settle accounts with them.

So the Titan Space Station was building ships, and the corporate-controlled lunar base was also building ships. Both sides were worried that the other side would launch a surprise attack, and were working hard to expand their war preparations.

With three fusion reactors fully operational, the Titan Space Station shipyard demonstrated amazing efficiency.

In addition to the Hope-class colony ship that is being slowly built in the super-large dock, the 42-meter gunboat can be assembled in just half an hour. There are 8 dock shipyards of this size, which means that it can launch 8 large gunboats with powerful firepower in one go in half an hour.