Earth Federation border, Lanling Defense Zone.

A Earth Federation Sabertooth Tiger-class destroyer advances rapidly in the dark starry sky.

In the battleship command room, Captain Murdoch and First Deputy Wang Yuming both looked worried, and the other crew members were probably also gloomy.

"Captain, who did it? Is it really the legendary ghost ship?" Wang Yuming asked with a frown.

Murdoch shook his head gently and said, "I don't believe there is any ghost ship. It's just a rumor that enemies with ulterior motives use to disrupt our military morale and shake the will of merchants."

Wang Yuming said: "But Captain, this is the fourth time this month. Even if the rumors appear repeatedly and come true, they will be believed by everyone."

Murdoch looked at his deputy and gritted his teeth and said, "Anyway, as soldiers, we must always rely on facts. I will never believe it unless that ghost ship really appears in front of me."

At this time, the navigator suddenly stood up and reported: "Captain, we have arrived at the site of the accident. The wrecked cargo ship is on our right hand side. Please issue further instructions."

"Forcibly invade the system, build a bridge, and the Marines are ready to board the ship." Murdoch ordered in a deep voice.

"yes!"

Murdoch and Wang Yuming stood in front of the landing porthole and looked to the right, and saw a flying crane-class medium cargo ship anchored in space.

According to the data from the database, the ship comes from an enterprise called Taibai Trading Company. It sails in the border Lanling area all year round. The main cargo transported is consumer-grade electronic equipment.

At this moment, this Feihe-class medium-sized cargo ship was drifting silently in space, no matter how the communications soldiers called, there was no response and it was dead silent.

Murdoch's eyes were slightly cold, and he whispered to Wang Yuming: "Let's go up and take a look."

......

Bang ~

The bridge has been established, and an alloy landing extension channel extends from the Sabertooth Tiger-class destroyer, connecting the warship and cargo ships together.

The detection system reported that all equipment on the Feihe-class cargo spacecraft was operating normally, and the air filter, gravity generator, and fusion reactor were still in ignition state.

But it was such a spaceship that seemed to be normal, but the life scanner did not detect any signs of life, as if all the people on the ship had disappeared on the spot.

Wang Yuming took a breath of cold air. It looked so similar. It looked so similar to the situation of the three spacecraft that happened before!

The Marines rushed into the cabin of the Feihe class cargo ship through a bridge, followed by Wang Yuming and Captain Murdoch.

"The warehouse is safe!" shouted the Marine in front.

"Search for this ship comprehensively! You can't let any corner!" Murdoch ordered loudly.

"receive!"

"One group enters the cockpit to retrieve the navigation report, the second group goes to the power cabin, and the third group goes to the crew lounge!"

The captain of the Marine Corps assigned tasks to his subordinates, while Wang Yuming and Murdoch looked at the cabin full of cargo.

Swish ~

Wang Yuming lifted a piece of canvas, revealing the rows of wooden boxes under the canvas.

"It's a new virtual helmet and a home holographic game console." Wang Yuming frowned and said, "All the goods are here, which means it's impossible for pirates to do it."

Murdoch nodded, without saying anything, but the wrinkles on his forehead became deeper.

The Lanling Release Area is located in the junction of the Pangxin Empire and the Assyrian Republic. The star field is changing and the personnel composition is complex, which is a typical three-no matter area.

A large number of pirates, mercenaries, black market smugglers, and spies from major forces are active in the Lanling area. It is common to say that the cargo ship is robbed by pirates, but all the cargo on the ship is there, but the crew members are gone, which is really puzzling.

Before this, three similar incidents had occurred on the Lanling border, one passenger ship, one mining ship, and one smuggled cargo ship.

The crew members on these three ships were all killed for no reason, and the death was terrible, but the property on the ship was not a single loss, which made the border legion feel that it was really incomprehensible. Killing for the sake of killing was not like a pirate's method. Who was the one who directed these three tragedies?

Immediately afterwards, rumors of ghost ships emerged.

Rumors say that there is an old warship full of holes in Lanling area. I don’t know that it was destroyed in that era. Although the soldiers on the ship are dead, their souls are still lingering.

Whenever the ghost ship appears, all the instruments and electronic equipment on the ship will fail, and the surrounding starlight will become dim, as if it accidentally sails into the thick fog.

Next, the ship being targeted will lose its motivation. Watching the ghost ship approaching step by step, but there is no way to do anything, bringing everyone on the ship into despair.

Once the ghost ship approaches the caught ship, the ghosts on the ship will invade in large numbers, slaughter all the people on the ship, suck their brains and deprive their souls, and then the ghost ship will leave to find the next target.

Most soldiers are materialists and cannot believe in any bullshit ghost ships and immortal souls.

But the facts are right in front of you, and the successive accidents have begun to shake the confidence of the border legion, not to mention the active merchants here.

According to the customs report, in just one month, the total amount of goods entering and leaving the Lanling Star Domain decreased by 30%. Merchants would rather take a long way to start import and export trade from other star domains than pass through the Lanling Star Domain.

"Report! Nothing was found in the control room!"

"Report! No one in the power cabin!"

"Report! The crew lounge is intact!"

The news came one by one, which made Wang Yuming and Murdoch worried that this accident seemed exactly the same as the previous three so-called ghost ship accidents.

"Captain, look!" Suddenly, Wang Yuming pointed to a pool of viscous liquid under his feet and said.

He raised his feet, and the disgusting white liquid stuck to the bottom of his combat boots, and there seemed to be some less obvious blood.

These liquids flowed from the corner of the warehouse. Wang Yuming and Murdoch searched all the way and finally found a container. The container was locked from outside. Unknown liquids flowed out from the crack at the bottom. People could already smell a very obvious fishy smell when they stood here.

Murdoch looked pale, took a step back, and then nodded slightly at Wang Yuming.

Bang ~

Wang Yuming opened the handle of the container and opened the door to both sides.

The smell of fishy smell rushed out, and the miserable situation inside the container made the bravest soldier's heart shrink.

More than a dozen human corpses have long been transformed into corpses and are stinking in transparent and blood-colored stinky liquid, just like a monster ate these people into the stomach, digested them halfway, and spit them out again!

......

When Jiang Xia woke up, she found herself lying on a white hospital bed in a medical room with several tubes inserted into her body.

All-in-one is by Jiang Xia's side, but he is already asleep, tilting his head and lying on Jiang Xia's thighs, without snoring, but there is some unknown liquid on the corner of his mouth slowly flowing out, looking stupid.

Jiang Xia reached out to shoot Wanshitong's head and found that there were thick straps wrapped around his arms, both arms, body and legs, making him look like a mummy.

Jiang Xia struggled to lift his legs. Wanshitong felt the shock, and jumped up like a nerve, shouting in a daze, "Jiang Xia! Jiang Xia isn't dead, right?"

"Nonsense! How could I die so easily?" Jiang Xia said with a smile and cry.

Wanshidao was stunned. When he saw Jiang Xia who woke up, he tried his best to beat Jiang Xia's legs with his two little hands.

"Bad guy! You bad guy! I was scared to death just now!"

Jiang Xia frowned. It seemed that he was injured very much. Everything was obviously useless, but his legs were as if they were broken, and they were so painful.

"What? Did you hurt you?" Wanshitong was slightly stunned, stopped the movement in his hand, and asked with concern.

"I deserve it!" Wanshitong suddenly became more and more aggressive and punched Jiang Xia, then picked up his arm and said, "Who made you scare me? I... I must give you a lesson that I will never forget for life!"

Jiang Xia was speechless. He didn't intend to reason with the unruly attacks. He turned his head and looked to the side. There was a row of portholes, and outside the window was deep and dark space.

"Where am I?" Jiang Xia asked, looking at the Nebula outside the porthole.

"The battlefield medical ship Weihaiwei."

"So we have left the Changjing Galaxy?"

"Well, a few hours ago, the evacuation fleet had successfully entered our territory, and now we have returned to the Earth Federation."

"So the evacuation mission has been completed?"

"It's a must!" said the world's bestiality: "The major portals of the Milky Way have reported on the evacuation of our Earth Army in large quantities, and they also said that we have accomplished a rare feat in the history of the Milky Way!"

"In one week, we evacuated 3.5 billion expatriates from the territory of the Qingxue Republic. This is the largest evacuation operation in the history of the Milky Way! Shocking the entire Milky Way!"

Jiang Xia let out a long sigh, nodded slightly, and said to Wanshitong: "It's good if the evacuation of the overseas Chinese is successful, and it's good if it's successful. Please bring my e-cigarette pipe."

"Just under your pillow, you won't take it yourself!" Wanshitong gave Jiang Xia a blank look.

"Isn't it inconvenient for my hands? I've put on a stand."

"Tsk, for the sake of a comrade-in-arms, I'll make an exception to help you once." Wanshitong pouted and said, "You're really a man. Chaya is a rare super warrior. You have been forced to kill him. I thought you were no match for him at all."

"Nonsense, I'm a man." Jiang Xia stared at Wanshida with her eyes and watched him clumsyly stuffing cigarette cartridges into his electronic cigarette pipe. This guy obviously had never done a job of serving people. With a trembling finger, two cigarette cartridges fell out of the cigarette box.

"Be careful, this is a Chinese brand cigarette cartridge, which is very expensive." Jiang Xia said with heartache.

"Smoke your cigarette!"

Wanshidao threw a fierce little look over, then stuffed the pipe into Jiang Xia's mouth, almost smashing Jiang Xia's front teeth.

"I said, how could you serve people like this? Is it good to be gentle?" Jiang Xia took a breath of cigarette and complained.

"Sincerely make you! I'm not so good to my grandfather!" Wanshitong said angrily. She picked up a red apple from the front desk, then clumsily peeled it off with an electric peeler, cut a small piece into Jiang Xia's mouth.

"I'm smoking." Jiang Xia was so amused and crying that he was served by Wanshitong. However, his face changed immediately and he said in surprise: "This smell... what apple did you peel me? Where did it produce it?"

"It's made from Earth, a very ancient variety, it seems to be called Red Fuji."

Puff ~

Jiang Xia still put his pipe aside, began to close his eyes and chew it carefully, and a rare smile appeared on his cold face that had not changed for thousands of years.

"The apples from my hometown taste this way, they are so delicious!" Jiang Xia couldn't bear to swallow the apple pomace and savored the wonderful taste just now.
To be continued...