Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 233: A Journey to Hell (2)

The voice from the screen belonged to Lucy. It was obvious that the young girl had directly acted as a translator, giving everyone the most intuitive understanding.

On the screen, the captain of the Erosa continued, "I knew it was a one-way ticket when I received this mission. The empire will not allow us knowledgeable people to return. Of course, the rewards for our trip are extraordinarily generous. "Those kids are cheering for the reward, but they don't know that a large part of it is actually their pension."

This was definitely a one-way ticket, and all the ships on the Erosa had received the most generous reward ever. Only the captain was the only one who knew the secret, while the others demanded a confidentiality agreement. They must not disclose their remuneration to their colleagues in order to avoid giving rise to suspicion. Since all the work was carried out independently, the crew thought that they were the only ones receiving this generous reward on the day of departure, but they did not know that they were heading towards the Gates of Hell when they stepped onto the Erosa.

Due to the effect of the confidentiality agreement, the crew only knew that it was carrying a special group of passengers. According to the captain, there was no shortage of precedents in the history of the empire where troops were secretly sent to the battlefield in the name of ordinary people. Although the crew had doubts, no one would find out the truth unless they didn't want the money they already had and even violated the empire's laws.

"These poor people, and I am not one of them. However, the empire has already promised that my children and family will be taken care of. This is enough. Originally, if all went well, we would have reached our destination at the 15th Adahua Planet, at the edge of the universe, in the Ledeon Domain. "The passengers on the third floor will be exiled here forever. They won't be able to retrieve them until the great figures of the empire think that they can be restarted, right?" The man revealed a helpless smile. "As for us, we must die there," he smiled helplessly. When the ship lands, the defenders will give us the final push of a button, following the procedure set out earlier. "

"Yes, everything should have been like this, if there hadn't been any accidents."

A week after the departure of the Erosa, a crew member finally noticed an anomaly on the third floor. Those working on the third floor gradually disappeared, but the captain ignored them. The crew members were greatly puzzled by this attitude, and the captain had completely sealed off the third floor, cutting off all connecting passageways. What frightened the crew was that when the passageways leading to the third floor were closed one by one, not a single person ran out, as if all the people inside had disappeared.

At that time, there were several hundred crew members on board the Erosa, and there were at least a hundred crew members on the third floor who were responsible for the transfer of supplies and daily maintenance. However, no one protested against the closing of the last door. No one knew what was on the third floor. Under the torture of this fear, they finally broke into the main control room and asked the captain to give them an answer.

"I was going to find excuses to delay, but they came out. I don't know what went wrong, maybe the devices that the big shots thought were absolutely safe weren't. Anyway, they're out. Even though there weren't many of them, they destroyed two tunnels and poured into the second floor. "I don't know what those things are. I only saw the word 'Sentinel' on a handed-over document. That's probably the name of these things."

"There was a fierce clash between our guards and sentries on the second floor. Although there were only five sentries, our guards were no match for them. It wasn't until a demonic soldier from the empire attacked that the sentinels were destroyed. We repaired and reinforced the armor plates of the passageway to ensure that those things would not appear from the same place. "Ironically, the Demon Obscure Transformation Soldiers who were originally monitoring us suffered heavy losses because of this unexpected incident."

However, the situation did not improve as a result of the presence of the sentries. The crew knew the purpose of the trip, and no one was willing to accompany the sentry on the third floor. They asked the captain to change the voyage. The captain reminded them that at the time of signing the confidentiality agreement, the empire had already grasped the situation of their family. If they did not proceed according to plan, their families who remained in Adahua Planet could be implicated, and the crew almost fell into despair.

"But something even more desperate happened" The captain held his face and said, "Because of the appearance of the sentinel, it affected the power room during the battle, causing one of the warp accelerators to malfunction. When the spacecraft's engineers found out, we found that the warp space was out of control. So for the next half a month, Erosa continued to shuttle between warp space and cosmic space, and we no longer knew where our destination was going to be, and we had no idea what was going to happen. "

'"But if we knew that we would end up here, I think we should have self-detonated in outer space. This way, there wouldn't be so much pain, right? Unfortunately, Elusa didn't arrive in the Lydronic Domain, and we ended up on a planet inhabited by devils."

The captain disappeared from the scene, and a face of the Saber Demon flashed across the screen. As the camera moved further away, a large group of Saber Demons could be seen rushing into the hull of the ship, engaging in a fierce battle with the guards and the remaining Demon Light Soldiers. The images constantly changed, and one could see that the battle had affected almost the entire Erosa.

The captain reappears in the picture: "As you can see, the natives of these planets are rushing in crazily, and our resistance is simply not strong enough to repel them." They could only constantly shrink their defensive lines, but even so, they would still charge in very quickly. It's all over, yeah. But we still have one last trump card. That's right, to kill our defenders. Those emotionless killing machines, their implanted orders are to kill all life on board. Obviously, those planetary natives are also within the realm of life. "

The scene suddenly flickered, and a flame could be seen behind the captain. The captain hurriedly looked behind him and pressed something down. Then, a cold light flashed across his chest, pierced through by a rough iron spear! He seemed to be unable to believe it, so he lowered his head and looked at it. Then, someone threw him to the side. That was a Saber Demon. He tilted his head to look at the camera, stretched out his hand and shook it. Then he shouted, raised his spear and smashed it.

This was the end of the scene.

When Alan regained his senses, he discovered that the virtual scene created by the Cloud Drop System had disappeared. It seemed that the connection between them and the database had been disconnected. Even Lucy remained silent for a long time. Now they knew why the ship was on Nether Realm and what was on the third level of the ship's hull.

But what exactly was the sentinel that Adahua Planet was trying to sneak away? If it was an artificial weapon developed by Ida Chinese, why would they quietly dispose of it? Also, apparently, there was no message of praise from the Abyss Devils in this video. It seemed that there was no connection between the Erosa and this Origin Tool. Probably, the information about this Origin Tool could only be extracted from within the Saber Demon.

This is almost impossible to accomplish.

"Heavens, Miss Lucy. Those big fellows were actually made by you. Do you have any way to control them?" William asked.

Lucy shook her head and said, "I've never seen these guys before, and I've never heard of a weapon like a sentinel. Perhaps you won't believe that I have almost a third of the data in the Royal Library."

She nodded her head and added, "As members of the royal family, we have always wanted to familiarize ourselves with the history of Ada Hua. Only by knowing history can we clarify the responsibilities of each member of the royal family. However, there has never been a record of a sentry in the history I know. Most likely, this part of history has been erased artificially "

"Looks like there's a dark history that can't be seen anywhere." Alan sighed.

Lucy remained silent for a long time before she said, "There is no shortage of wars in the history of Adahua Planet. It has been a rare peaceful era in the recent millennium, but there has never been a moment when the royal battles have ceased. However, in other ways, the battles have been restrained." Those sentries are most likely the product of a power struggle 2,000 years ago. I'm sure that the hands of these weapons are stained with blood. That's why we need to secretly dispose of them. It is only natural that no one in power would want to have a bloody stain on his political career and destroy the relevant archives and all evidence as soon as he is in power. "

"No matter what, we finally know that we can't go to the third floor." "Let's go. We have to go to the power room. Turn off the power and we can get out of here," Allen said, lifting Chiyo.

Lucy nodded, "That's the only way we can leave. Otherwise, as long as the Saber Demon closes the passageway, we'll be trapped here."

"Let's go. I miss the dormitory of the base a little now." Welik sighed.

Lucy opened the door and the few of them left the data room. As the automatic door closed, Lucy looked deeply into the console through the gap. She knew that when the door closed, the history would be forever sealed. From now on, only the four people present knew about the past of the Elusa.

"Are you all right?" Alan asked softly. He saw that Lucy was not in a good state of mind.

"Nothing. Let's go to the power room." Lucy smiled, somewhat reluctantly, no matter what.

She took a deep breath and thought for a moment before drawing up a route, "Follow me."

Half an hour after they left, a group of Saber Demons searched the door of the data machine room. When he saw the metal plate that had been pried open, a Saber Demon left the team. A moment later, Kamu strode over. When he pushed aside the soldiers and saw the exposed circuit card slot under the metal plate, the general revealed a sinister smile, "Open this door for me. These rats will definitely flee inside!"