Galaxy Domination Guide

Bai Zhongqi, operating the Agent, also adjusted the compound rifle to close combat mode. Despite the Chancellor having been only a student who played FPS games two years ago, and never having fought on the front lines even after becoming Chancellor, he had undergone extensive training in martial arts, firearms use, and tactics in the Deep Sleep Learning System.

Bai Zhongqi gave Zero a glance and said, "Let's, take a walk around this ship."

Zero nodded, gun in hand, walking ahead. Although Agents couldn't let her use Star Energy, Bai Zhongqi had turned his Agent into an Iron Man-like existence. Not only was it immensely strong, but it could also fly and emit energy light beams. Ordinary enemies clearly were no match for such a terrifying weapon.

"I always have a bit of a bad feeling, but I can't quite say what it is," Zero frowned slightly, and although her Agent's body wasn't as attractive as her physical self, her face still looked 70 percent similar, which made her beautiful and captivating.

"Whatever it is, we need to see it with our own eyes," Bai Zhongqi seemed much more open-minded than she was.

"OK," Zero set aside her concerns. After all, both of them were operating as Agents, so no matter how dangerous it was, it wouldn't matter.

Passing through a dim corridor, Bai Zhongqi noted the interior details of the ship, many of which reminded him of old space stations on Earth, the only difference being that this ship had artificial gravity, which was very rudimentary and felt unreal. It was clear that some adjustments had been made at the bottom of the ship, causing an effect of downward force on the people onboard. Continue your journey with My Virtual Library Empire

They quickly arrived at the spaceship's bridge. The dust-free environment of space meant the bridge was dustless, but from many of the marks, it was evident that it was very ancient and hadn't been touched for a long time.

"It looks like the central control system is out of order. This ship has lost control of its navigation," Zero checked the system and said.

Bai Zhongqi hummed and said, "That does explain why this ship was heading straight for the nebula."

Bai Zhongqi looked around, seemingly sensing the oppressive atmosphere of the silent environment, and said, "No people, and everything's very clean, even tidy, as if someone has organized. No signs of a fight, no living essentials—what on Earth happened here?"

Zero pulled up a blueprint showing some text, "This text isn't in my database, but it looks like it could be a phonetic script?"

"Wait, other areas are gray, but this one is green. What does that represent? Could there be someone there?" Bai Zhongqi questioned.

Zero raised her gun again, her expression cool, and said, "Let's figure this out."

Bai Zhongqi had many questions about this ship, but the more questions there were, the more interested he felt. What surprised him was that this ship was equipped with a weapons system, but what stunned him was that the ship's weapons were four hundred-millimeter caliber chemical energy cannons.

Probably due to the age, these cannons were not well-maintained and could no longer be fired. Bai Zhongqi pulled out a cannonball from the ammunition store, which was not much different from those on Earth. Thanks to the Agent's tremendous strength, Bai Zhongqi easily lifted the half-ton shell. He separated the shell from the projectile and found expired propellant inside.

Zero took a small handful and did a quick chemical test, "It seems to be a kind of explosive similar to TNT, only it appears to be more stable."

She then commented, "Judging from what we've seen, the civilization that this spaceship belongs to shouldn't be much more advanced than Earth in the old days, except for this crude artificial gravity system. Many of the ship's technologies could be achieved with old Earth's technology, and in many aspects, such as electronic technology, Earth is still more advanced."

Bai Zhongqi and Zero still didn't know what secrets this ship harbored. Before heading to the room shown in green on the blueprint, they passed through a large area with seemingly similar functions.

Zero manually dismantled the broken automatic door, and what appeared in front of them was a row of structures like metal drawers.

Bai Zhongqi looked around the large room, seemingly with thousands of drawers, with some surprise. He walked over and forcefully pulled open a drawer, and a foul-smelling, thick liquid spilled out, startling Bai Zhongqi, who jumped back to avoid the unexpected disaster.

After the liquid drained, Zero approached the opened drawer. Although female, Zero still retained many features of a Bionic Human, such as not minding dirt and stench.

She gestured for him to come over, "Your Highness, come and look."

Bai Zhongqi lifted the faceplate of his Battle Armor, though it was to isolate the smell, he peered inside and found, to his astonishment, a naked, hairless Primate Clan man lying there.

"He has long been dead, but the liquid has acted as a preservative," she observed.

Bai Zhongqi opened several more drawers. Apart from one, each contained a body, male or female, spanning various ages.

"Could this be some kind of tomb?" Bai Zhongqi wondered to himself but quickly shook his head, because in space ships, space is valuable, and cremation followed by scattering in space is almost a universal funeral practice among all civilizations after a person's death.

Zero, with her detective talents, even without understanding the language and script of this civilization, managed to discern the situation based purely on data and some other information. She said, "These people were supposed to be in deep sleep in these specially designed containers, something like cryogenic containers, but it seems there was a severe system failure that completely destroyed the life support device, causing all the people inside to die without awareness."

Bai Zhongqi was somewhat silent; this mode of death wasn't uncommon for lower civilizations exploring the universe. If Earth had not undergone technological transformation from the Iridium Star and followed the same path of cosmic development, it might have faced a similar fate.

Long-duration space travel is a torment for Navigators, so within the controllable range, Navigators are put into hypnosis or cryogenics to ensure they don't waste their lives, leaving more time for work and conserving ship's resources.

"However, don't you think there are too many life support containers for such a ship?"