Chapter 38 Gliese 798c Large Space Station

“Michael, how could there be monsters in the space station? Don’t scare me!”

The two of them had finally escaped from the underground prison to the space station in synchronous orbit. When Alba heard Li Nanke’s words, she felt a sense of horror as if she had just escaped from the tiger’s mouth and fallen into a wolf’s den.

According to the intelligence obtained from the biological laboratory, the prison management and a series of researchers were evacuated, and transport ships would regularly come to the space station to transport ore.

Since it was an organized and planned retreat, they and the permanent personnel of the space station may have fled on the transport spacecraft. Even if there are remaining maintenance personnel, their number is estimated to be not large.

The number of prisoners who escaped from the previous batch should not be too large. After all, even if they were all trapped in the dog trap within fifteen minutes, it would be impossible to save too many people.

The number of prisoners is limited, and the number of people in the space station is also limited, but why is the sense of crisis so strong… Li Nanke had a very bad suspicion in his heart.

“We’ll turn around and enter the station from the cargo area.”

The interior space of the Gliese 798c large space station is very huge. There are usually hundreds of staff members stationed there. The cabins are diverse and extremely complex, just like a maze.

Every prisoner needs to pass through the space station when being transported to the prison from a distant planet. However, due to their status as prisoners, they do not know much about the specific internal structure of the space station, so they only know the distribution of cabins along their own escort route.

If you enter the space station directly from the manned area, you will pass through the disinfection room and security station, and behind you is the main living area of ​​the space station.

There is a high probability that the previous batch of prisoners took this route. If the two of them take another route and enter the space station from the cargo area, there is a high probability that they will avoid danger.

The docking corridor in the cargo area is very wide, but the environment here is much worse than that in the passenger area.

The corridor was a metallic black-grey color with dim lighting at the top. Dense pipes and wires were exposed, casting criss-crossing, hideous shadows. Combined with the dead silence in outer space, there was an indescribable feeling of horror.

Alba felt a chill all over his body and couldn’t help but ask, “Why do I feel that this place is more dangerous and terrifying than the manned area?”

Li Nanke ignored him, slapped the button, the metal gate opened, and he was the first to enter the cargo hold.

The cargo hold was dark and eerie, with most of the lights off, save for a few clusters of lights that would flicker from time to time.

He was on full alert, holding a chainsword in one hand and a stun rifle in the other. He looked around and only saw a large amount of refined ore piled up, but did not find any other living creatures.

Alba followed closely behind, carefully looking around in the darkness, fearing that a deformed monster might jump out from somewhere.

The two walked along the passage, opened the metal gates and passed through one cargo cabin after another, and came to a cabin full of large robotic arms and operating platforms.

The cabin is called the Mineral Operation Station and seems to be used for picking and cutting ore.

When Li Nanke saw a strange-looking gun on the operating table, his eyes lit up and he was about to go forward to check it out, but suddenly stopped.

Under the extremely high synchronization rate, all senses became extremely sensitive. The space station was originally silent, and any sound could not escape his ears.

Li Nanke heard a very slight panting sound coming from a dark corner of the cabin.

He held the stun rifle with the muzzle pointed toward the sound.

Suddenly, an even more creepy sound was heard, it was the shrill cry of a baby!
Alba trembled, turned pale with fear, and quickly hid behind him.

Li Nanke’s face turned cold and he pulled the trigger decisively. Flames burst out from the muzzle and a series of rifle bullets were fired out.

Amid the roar of gunfire, the crying stopped abruptly…

Immediately, three twisted shadows pounced fiercely!
With the help of the flashing muzzle flame, Li Nanke could instantly see the enemy’s appearance.

There were three half-human-sized deformed creatures with bloody tentacles growing on their backs, and the tips of the tentacles were extremely sharp. They pounced on all fours like wild beasts, and their speed was so fast that they were in front of him in the blink of an eye.

The blade flashed with a cold light, and the whistling sound of the high-speed rotating saw teeth resounded throughout the cabin. The chainsaw sword slashed out horizontally, and the two deformed creatures fell to the ground with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Rifle bullets were fired continuously, and the precise trajectory turned the remaining deformed body into a sieve, which also fell from mid-air.

Its body was still twitching and wriggling when a heavy leather boot stepped down hard on its head.

After a “baji” sound, everything fell silent.

Li Nanke turned around and picked up the strange gun on the platform. It had a rough industrial style and looked somewhat like a high-tech pistol.

【Plasma cutting machine】

【Type: Weapons/Firearms】

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Rating: 38/100]

[Details: A firearm tool widely used in mining, engineering maintenance and combat situations. The core component of a plasma cutting machine is a plasma generator, which can heat gas (usually inert gas such as argon or helium) to an extremely high temperature, ionize it into a plasma state, and then eject the plasma gas at high speed through a high-pressure injection system to form a long and thin plasma beam. This plasma beam has extremely high temperature and kinetic energy, and can cut some soft metals or ores. ]

[Note: Are you the legendary strongest engineer in the universe… No, you are just a miner. ]

Li Nanke took a look and threw the “plasma cutter” to Alba.

“Take it for self-defense, and don’t get startled or scream like a woman when something happens.”

Li Nanke has transformed many horror and thriller dreams and has long developed a big heart.

He was not frightened by the deformed monster just now. Instead, Alba’s sudden scream made his heart beat slower. He thought that his teammate was attacked by some hidden monster and was about to die.

Alba took the gun with an embarrassed look on his face. He didn’t have any extraordinary powers and had no weapons in his hands. It was understandable that he would lose his composure occasionally when he suddenly encountered a deformed creature in such a gloomy place.

“The operating platform here also has an optical computer system. Come over and see if you can find any useful intelligence information.”

Leave professional matters to professionals. Alba did not disappoint Li Nanke. He quickly cracked the code and called up a diagram of the space station structure.

He downloaded the 3D drawings directly to a portable optical computer so that he could take out the map and view it anytime and anywhere.

The internal structure of the space station is extremely complex, with hundreds of cabins, and they are not distributed on the same floor.

Li Nanke searched the map and saw a large number of cabins such as “laboratory”, “diagnosis room”, “zero-gravity room”, “ship office”, “fuel storage room”, etc.

The main control room of the third key node is quite far away. To reach the main control room, you need to pass through several cabins whose names sound dangerous.

He searched for a long time before finding another key target in the corner of the map. Fortunately, the target was not far from here.

Li Nanke took out a metal card engraved with special patterns. It was the reward from the previous node – the key to the space station’s secondary weapons depot.

Given the level of technology in this world, there should be some powerful weapons or firearms in the secondary arsenal.

Well, at least it’s not the crappy stuff that miners use.

(End of this chapter)