As the light flashed, everyone saw the starry sky in front of them suddenly disappear, and in its place, a dark, dim metal spaceship appeared silently in front of them. It looked like a corpse that had been left there for a long time, floating silently and lonely in the space.

"Hiss... Is this the Ark?"

Looking at the spaceship in front of her, Theresa took a breath, while Cang Xuan nodded with a complicated expression.

"Yes, this is... the Ark."

At this point, Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu's faces were a little complicated. Although they were not responsible for the Ark Project at the beginning, they still hoped that the project would succeed. Occasionally, they would think about those who escaped from the earth, maybe they really took root and survived on a planet.

But unfortunately, reality is often cruel.

Of Dr. MEI's four plans, it now seems that the Ark, Fire Seed, and Stigmata have all failed, and the Hengsha plan is nowhere in sight...

"Leander, scan the entire battleship."

Fang Zheng did not share the sadness of the other two. He just gave orders calmly. Soon, a beam of light appeared on the Leander and scanned the entire battleship from beginning to end.

"Reporting to the commander, there is no sign of life."

"What about the energy reaction?"

“Neither do I.”

"Um……"

After hearing Leander's answer, Fang Zheng reached out and touched his chin, then stared at the spaceship in front of him with a frown.

"Something's not right."

"wrong?"

Walter Yang also came over at this time and looked at Fang Zheng.

"What's wrong?"

"This spaceship flew too far."

Fang Zheng answered without turning his head.

"According to the data provided to me by Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu, the previous generation of civilization did not have the technology to open up hyperspace, so it is a bit unexpected that this spaceship would appear so far away."

"Will it?"

Facing Fang Zheng's answer, Theresa frowned in confusion.

"You got here pretty quickly, didn't you? It shouldn't have been more than two hours since we left Earth."

"You're kidding. Do you think the technology tree of Tiandao Palace can be compared with the civilization of the previous era?"

Fang Zheng snorted softly.

"Well, if you want to compare, then I can tell you that this ark of the ancient civilization is at most a steam-powered old car, while my lovely Leander is a supersonic fighter plane - now you understand. It takes me two hours to get to a place, but according to the speed of that ark, it may take 20,000 years to get there."

“But it’s here now.”

Walter Yang took it silently. After all, he was also a university teacher, so he quickly understood what Fang Zheng meant.

"So... could it be some kind of cosmic storm, or being swallowed by a black hole?"

"It's not impossible, but who can say for sure?"

Fang Zheng stretched silently and then turned around.

"Okay, everyone, let's put on our space suits and go over there. I hope everything goes well."

There were five people on board the spaceship. Besides Fang Zheng, the others were Walter Yang, Theresa, Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu. The former came to check the situation on behalf of their respective forces, while Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu were from the previous generation. Although they did not participate in the Ark Project, they still understood the technology of that era. At least they knew what certain things were for, so that everyone would not be foolishly groping around.

Soon, Fang Zheng and the others changed into N7's special space combat armor. As for weapons, Fang Zheng gave everyone an ordinary N7 pistol as a precaution. Theresa's Judas was given to Kallen (strictly speaking, it was returned to Kallen), and Walter Yang's combat effectiveness also decreased after giving the Herrscher core to Bronya. Moreover, neither of them had experienced fighting in the weightless state of the universe, so giving them weapons would often only be a hindrance.

At the same time, Leander gradually approached the Ark. This spaceship was larger than Leander in terms of size, and was similar in size to the Titan of the God-Envoy class. After all, considering leaving the solar system to colonize outer space, it would always be beneficial to make the spaceship bigger. Obviously, judging from the size of the spaceship in front of him, Dr. MEI had obviously thought that if he couldn't find a suitable colony, he could just use this spaceship as a wandering home.

This idea is not surprising. This is the case with the Quarians in Mass Effect. Ever since they were driven out of their original home planet by their own creations, the Geth, these poor, miserable creatures have been wandering around the interstellar space.

Apparently, human civilization in this previous century had similar ideas.

But unfortunately, this is already a thing of the past.

As they got closer, under the illumination of Leander's light, everyone could clearly see the huge ark ship in front of them. At this moment, it was covered with holes and looked like it had suffered a violent explosion.

"Hmm...it looks like it was destroyed."

Fang Zheng glanced at the porthole and pointed to the big hole in front.

"I can even guess how these unlucky guys died. They were sailing in the universe, and suddenly something blocked their way, and then... bang, just like a sailing warship in the Age of Discovery was hit by a steel battleship in World War II."

Having said that, Fang Zheng pointed to the big hole.

"This one shot directly penetrated the entire Ark ship. It's no wonder. After all, no matter how advanced the civilization of the previous era was, it was only a surface civilization. It is estimated that the spaceships they built were all armor-resistant. As a result, they were directly hit by a cannon and their structure was completely destroyed."

"So who is the other party?"

"Who knows, they could be space pirates, or a race that is very sensitive about their territory. They could even be a secret race that just doesn't want to expose itself. Not all races in the universe are curious about humans. You'd better remember this and don't use human values ​​to measure the actions of alien races - maybe this is just a test."

"test?"

"That's right. I don't know what you are, so I'll just shoot you first to see if you can withstand it. If you can withstand it, it means our strengths are similar. If you can't withstand it - hehe, do fully armed modern soldiers care how the Amazon savages die?"

“…”

Theresa put her hand over her mouth. To be honest, she was looking forward to this space journey in the beginning, which was why she was willing to put down her work as a bishop and come all the way here.

But now Theresa felt that her journey might have been a little... well, rash.

"If the entire universe is compared to a forest, then this Ark is like a harmless doe to me. Maybe it attracted the attention of a carnivore, which then hunted it. Or maybe they picked up something along the way and caught it as a fish..."

Having said this, Fang Zheng sighed.

"Okay, let's get ready and go in. Once we get in, we'll know everything."

Soon, the hatch opened, and Fang Zheng drove the shuttle out of the battleship, then passed through the huge hole that had been destroyed and came directly to the interior of the battleship. He stopped at a relatively empty place that looked like a warehouse. Then everyone walked out of the shuttle and began to carefully look at the battleship in front of them.

"It gives people a really bad feeling...

Looking through the helmet at the huge, dark, silent warship in front of her, Theresa felt a little depressed. Thinking that this was the crystallization of human civilization in the previous era, but in the end it turned into a huge steel coffin here, she felt depressed and uncomfortable.

Is this the ultimate destiny of mankind?

Just like this ark, it will eventually be destroyed?

"Okay, what are you thinking about?"

Seeing Theresa remained silent, Fang Zheng patted her helmet.

"Everything has its beginning and end. Humans may also meet their own end one day, but at least not now. Well, let's move on."

If it were a horror movie or game about space science fiction, the spaceship should be filled with all kinds of monsters. Unfortunately, it was not so exciting in reality. The entire cabin was empty, and there were not even a few corpses. The enemy's cannon shot directly penetrated the middle of the ark, and most of the crew must have been pulled into the universe at that time under the effect of air pressure. Even if there were a few unlucky ones occasionally, they would not have survived until now.

With Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu guiding the way, Fang Zheng and his party did not spend much time and soon arrived at the captain's room - which was relatively well preserved, and even the faint emergency light reflected on the floor. It seemed that even after being hit by a cannon, the energy supply of the ship was not destroyed.

"Um……"

Seeing this, Fang Zheng felt even worse. Generally speaking, in a space battle, one would either attack the engine or the command center, but the enemy chose to attack the middle - this was not a naval battle, and it was impossible for you to be broken into two and still sink into the sea.

From this perspective, it seems that the enemy deliberately avoided the energy core and command center to attack this battleship.

Then the purpose is not so simple.

"Cang Xuan, please turn on the main control computer. I need to check the database."

"I see...please wait."

Cang Xuan nodded, then floated to the console and fumbled for a while, then pressed a button. Immediately afterwards, the originally dim screen began to gradually flicker, but the entire light was as dim as a light bulb of less than five watts, and there were special words from the previous era on it.

"Not enough energy, can only enter the easy mode."

“It’s enough to be able to turn on the computer.”

All Fang Zheng wanted was to start the system. Then he turned on his personal terminal, broke through the other party's firewall in a simple and rough way, and then entered the database.

After scanning the data, Fang Zheng was completely speechless.

It should be said that it is worthy of being called the "Ark" project. Perhaps in order to restore the earth's environment to the greatest extent, this "Ark" not only contains the genome data of all the earth's creatures, but even the earth's own climate, temperature, atmospheric environment and other information are all in it!

Wow, this is basically all the information of the entire earth crammed in there.

Not only that, Fang Zheng also found something wrong when he was checking the historical records, because according to the records of the main control computer, the spacecraft was indeed attacked, and most of the systems fed back wrong data. Then after a while, the database information of the entire main control system was read again!

Who the hell would have nothing better to do than check the Earth database when their spaceship was broken into two pieces!

"Let's retreat!"

After reading the data, Fangzheng's face turned pale.

"Looks like there's trouble!"