"Check the base records." Austin ordered, then stood behind the captain and stared at the image.
After a while, images from the base were transmitted. This is a mobile base specially designed to house the mastermind of military galaxy management. It is not very large, and usually has more than a thousand fixed personnel. At this moment, the base was completely silent. Every place looked normal, but there was no one there. The main brain has completely entered an autonomous operation state and automatically handles everything according to preset instructions.
Austin quickly locked on a point in time, which was 16 hours ago. One second, everything was normal. The staff in the base maintained a normal but slightly lazy working attitude. The next second, they all suddenly disappeared, and there was no trace left. Any traces will disappear!
Austin took over the captain's position and adjusted it himself. He quickly locked on a staff member and then slowed down the image. During the 100x slow playback, the crew member suddenly lost his three-dimensional sense and turned into a plane like a photo, and then disappeared from the edge, as if someone had erased it with an eraser!
Looking at this weird scene, everyone subconsciously held their breath.
"Why didn't you call the police?" Austin asked.
The base was operating normally one moment, with hundreds of staff on duty, and the next moment everyone suddenly disappeared. There should be a major problem in the operation of the base. The mastermind should automatically check and issue an alarm, take rescue measures, and report it to superiors. and the rear base for help. But the main brain doesn't. It just converts all operations to automatic processing, and then runs quietly.
The captain said: "The reaction of the mastermind is abnormal. It should be controlled by someone. Is it a spy of the dynasty?"
The staff officer on the side said: "What happened to the image just now? If the spy wants to use fake images to buy time, he shouldn't use this kind of image, right?"
Austin asked, "How's the planet doing?"
The captain sent out a communication and then said: "Everything is normal on the planet. The ground garrison headquarters said that routine contact with the main brain base is normal, but there has been no contact with the star port base for two days. The fleet is investigating."
"Just go and see it," Austin said.
The spacecraft adjusted its direction and flew towards the mastermind base.
After a while, the spacecraft docked at the base. Austin walked out of the hatch and entered the base. Everything in the base looked normal, even the lights were the same as before, and were not adjusted to the dark red color of fully automatic processing. Entering the base, you are first greeted by a hall with various equipment scattered everywhere and several broken coffee cups on the ground. The coffee stain has long since dried.
Austin looked around and an image came to his mind. There were originally a dozen staff in this hall, all busy with their own things, and then they all suddenly disappeared at that moment, and the coffee cups in their hands fell to the ground and shattered.
Austin walked around the base, filled with things dropped by staff members who suddenly disappeared. After checking the master brain records, we can only see that the master brain switched to a fully automatic operation state on its own, but there is no clue why it switched, who gave the instructions, and why it did not call the police to the rear. Perhaps only by calling in a mastermind expert can we find out the clues. Austin himself is a complete layman on the mastermind. However, the location of the star port base was obtained from the mastermind, but contact with the star port base had been lost for more than 48 hours.
At this time, everyone realized the seriousness of the problem. The starport base was built for the parking and supply of large starships. It can dock heavy cruisers and perform maintenance on starships of destroyers and below. It is a large base with tens of thousands of staff and garrisons. It is also the base of the planetary defense fleet in normal times. . How could such a base lose contact for 48 hours? Under normal circumstances, this incident would have alarmed the Star Territory War Zone enough to send people from the war zone to investigate.
Austin immediately said: "Go to the starport base."
On the way to the starport base, Austin contacted the Planetary Ground Guard Command. The command responded that it was the duty of the garrison fleet to contact the starport base, and the fleet had already responded and was checking.
What about the fleet?
The garrison fleet in the galaxy on the other side is not large, just a few destroyers and frigates. Now the dynasty has no spare capacity to form a raiding fleet, and there is no need to deploy a large number of garrison fleets in the rear. Besides, the Federation currently has a serious shortage of starships of its own, and there are no starships to deploy if it wants to. This is an inconspicuous small fleet, and its whereabouts at this moment are a mystery. Austin tried calling, but there was no response. The planet's ground defenders and fleet belong to two systems. The fleet has not responded for more than a day. They thought the fleet was performing a mission, so they implemented communication silence.
Austin tried to query the location of the garrison fleet, but was told that he did not have enough authority to query. During the war, the movements of the fleet were top secret. Although this fleet is small, as long as it is not directly affiliated, querying it requires the highest S-level authority.
Austin did not give up this time. Instead, he found several friends in the army and asked them to find a way to inquire about the whereabouts of the garrison fleet. As a result, several friends inquired and found that the information on the garrison fleet had been upgraded. Now even the theater does not have the right to inquire. Inquiries must be ordered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was Schiller who ordered the promotion.
Austin didn't say much, he just accelerated the starship. An hour later, the starship entered the orbit of another planet. According to the location provided by the master brain, the starport base was now on the other side of the planet's orbit, also facing the sun.
Austin's starship slowly circled the planet and finally saw the starport.
Only half of the star port base is left, and the other half is missing. The fractures were arc-shaped, as if a giant beast had bitten and swallowed it in one bite. Austin has been in war for a long time and has experienced hundreds of battles, but he has never seen such a wound, and he does not know what weapon can cause such damage.
There was silence in the starship, and finally Austin gave the order to approach the base and take a closer look.
The starship flew to the other side of the base. From this angle, the interior of the starport base could be clearly seen through the gap. After observing for a while, Austin put on his armor and flew directly to the base. More than a dozen of his subordinates followed and flew out of the starship.
Austin approached the base and looked at the break. The cross-section of the notch is extremely smooth, as if it has been carefully polished, but the arc is not continuous and looks a bit like undulating waves.
Those who can follow Austin are not ordinary people. One person said: "I don't think humans currently have any weapons that can cause such wounds."
His current position is as a gunner on a starship. In fact, he is also a shipborne weapons expert, one of the few in the entire federation. If he says no, that means no.
Austin's pupils shrank and he flew into the base.
