Near the power room on the lower deck.

An orange-yellow holographic isolation belt was suspended in the corridor, enclosing a large isolated area. This was the location of the impact accident.

A lifeboat-class civilian spacecraft crashed into the hull of the Orion cruiser, and half of the hull was directly inserted into the Orion cruiser's hull.

Even if we look at the relatively short space history of human civilization, this is considered a quite explosive accident.

What is especially puzzling is how this small boat passed through the deflector shield defense and broke through the almost impossible to break through the hull shell.

Fortunately, the gymnasium in the living area on the lower deck was damaged. At that time, because the spacecraft was about to enter the hyperspace channel, such entertainment facilities were blocked, so no one was injured.

This is also the reason why many people came to watch later.

The ship's safety and maintenance department immediately shut down the air exchange system in the damaged area and isolated the damaged area in accordance with the plan in the safety manual.

Although only a small cabin was actually damaged, the safety director sealed off the entire related area based on the assessment report of engineers from the fourth department.

At this moment, engineers wearing aerospace exoskeletons were standing around the isolation belt, operating the tablet in their hands. Seeing Luo Yi coming over, one of the engineers stepped forward and said.

"Hey, this is a controlled area, you have to put on your space suit before coming in."

Luo Yi hung the respirator around his neck and showed his three IDs at the same time. "The modified prosthetic body on my body has the function of resisting low-pressure environments. Is there a risk of secondary explosion?"

The engineer turned back and exchanged glances with his colleague standing next to the isolation belt, then looked at him and replied, "That's not true. We have shut down the reactor and chemical battery of the accident spacecraft."

"That's enough, I'm just taking a look outside to understand the situation here." Luo Yi patted him on the shoulder, walked through the isolation belt, and walked to the door of the room with the [Under Repair] sign.

The alloy door was tightly sealed, with a layer of folded titanium alloy reinforcement plates affixed to the inside and outside.

The staff standing next to him handed him a tablet, and the screen of the tablet was connected to the camera of the repair robot.

Through the screen on the tablet, Luo Yi saw the situation in the room. He saw that the fitness equipment had been hit by the huge impact force in a corner of the room, and the outer shell of the ship was dented inward by the spacecraft.

There is a breach with a radius of about 1 to 2 meters.

That scene could simply be described as tragic. Luo Yi frowned.

To be honest, it's not like the damage a lifeboat-class civilian craft could do.

"It's almost like an explosion, isn't it?" The engineer looked at him and shrugged, grinning and said, "But actually no, we didn't find an armor-piercing warhead on the spacecraft. This is indeed a ship for scientific investigation.

It is a civilian spacecraft, and there is an obvious oxidizing environment on the surface of the spacecraft... From this, it can be inferred that this ship should usually work in the atmosphere."

The staff on the side also said.

"Anyway, we rescued the people as soon as possible. The other damage could not be dealt with with the repair tools on the ship, so we had to hand it over to the construction workers of the star port."

Luo nodded, recorded the information on the memory chip, and then continued to ask. "The child you rescued said that there is another person in this... scientific research team, who should be a little girl. Have you found out?"

The staff standing at the door exchanged glances in confusion, and then looked at him with a strange expression.

"How can it be?"

"At that time, the eight rescue teams rushed in directly. There was only one sleeping cabin in the whole ship." "Did he crash his brain?"

Luo Yi didn't speak. He tapped the screen twice with his index finger, controlled the repair robot to move forward a few steps, and focused the camera on the cockpit that had been deformed by the impact.

There is really nothing there.

While he was deep in thought, the engineer standing next to him suddenly spoke.

"Speaking of which, something strange happened."

Luo Yi looked at him.

"What a weird thing."

The engineer continued.

"Some people heard the explosion, and some people didn't."

Luo Yi was stunned for a moment.

He remembered that he heard it, so he rushed to the scene as soon as possible.

But there were indeed some people who didn't hear it, such as his comrade Xiao Yong, who came over after hearing the alarm.

It's strange to say that the alarm should have sounded as soon as the explosion occurred, but the alarm failed.

Instead, after the relevant units on the lower deck reported the damage information to the first unit, the first unit manually sounded the sound.

This was also the main reason for the gathering of people at that time.

After all, based on everyone's past experience, if the alarm doesn't go off, it means it's not a big deal, and it's normal to want to take a look.

What's unusual is that some people heard the explosion and some people didn't.

Luo Yi carefully recalled the scene at that time. There were indeed not many people in the room, only a few dozen.

Compared to the thousands of people on the lower deck, this number is indeed too small.

"Is there any pattern to this?"

"I can't tell," the engineer shook his head, "I also wanted to ask you if you have any clues."

The staff on the side laughed and joked.

"In other words, this should be the work of the fifth department. The war is over, and that department should play a role."

"Didn't that guy say time traveler?"

"Haha, according to what he said, we have to buy ourselves personal accident insurance now."

"Personal accident insurance is okay, let the alliance" pay for it?"

"Hahaha."

Obviously no one believes that the child comes from the future. After all, it is an indisputable fact that they are still alive.

At this moment, the engineer suddenly thought of something and spoke.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Luo Yi, who was deep in thought, raised his head.

"Can you finish the sentence in one sitting?"

"I just remembered it." The engineer looked at the adjacent rooms and pointed to the one at the end of the corner. "That's the canteen in the living area. There were a few people in it at the time, but they didn't react.

After hearing it, they didn't realize something was wrong until our people came in."

Luo Yi was stunned again.

His duty room was relatively far away from here, and everyone heard the violent explosion, but the people near the center of the explosion heard nothing?

"It's weird, isn't it? The sound insulation effect there is actually not very good. More than once, someone complained that the people dining there were too noisy." The engineer shrugged his shoulders and said in a joking tone, "Maybe we should find a real

Pastor." "It makes sense."

Luo nodded, returned the tablet in his hand to the staff on the side, then looked at the engineer and said seriously.

"This information is very important... I want to circle the people on the lower deck who heard the explosion and those who did not hear the explosion, and then mark what they did and where they were when the explosion happened. This may be

It will help solve the dilemma we are facing at the moment.”

"Good idea," the engineer snapped his fingers, "Go and discuss it with the people from the Eight Departments. This is their job."

Department Eight is the ship safety and maintenance department, which is equivalent to the security management department on the entire starship, including the security director, peace officer, emergency rescue team, etc.

Although Department 4 (Engineering and Maintenance Department) also has the word maintenance in its name, it is mainly responsible for technical work such as equipment maintenance and outer space operations.

A starship with 3,000 people is like a small town sailing in space, with almost everyone assigned specific duties.

But sometimes Luo Yi couldn't help but want to complain. They had too many departments, and even they themselves had to think for a while about whose job it was.

But fortunately, everyone was very responsible. At most, the work was not divided enough, and no one kicked the ball. Luo Yi wrote down the collected information, nodded neatly and said.

"I'll be there."

The weapons and defense department as the third department is the quasi-combat department of the Orion guided missile cruiser and is also the emergency response department.

Although the Eighth Department is responsible for general public security incidents, the Three Departments will usually be involved in major accidents that are serious enough to cause damage to the ship's hull, threaten the lives of all officers and soldiers on the ship, and where the suspicion of a KB attack cannot be ruled out.

As a professional soldier, Luo Yi acted very quickly. After inspecting the accident scene and the torpedo library, he immediately went to the Eight Departments to exchange information and obtain the access control status of various functional facilities.

This method can easily determine the location of everyone at that time.

Regarding the intelligence provided by the third department, the eighth department also showed a considerable degree of attention and sent almost all security personnel to visit and investigate all 1,600 crew members on the lower deck.

The results of the investigation surprised everyone. Only about two hundred people heard the explosion, but because the alarm did not sound, most people did not take it seriously.

In the conference room of Department 8, a three-dimensional holographic image of the lower deck of the Orion cruiser was suspended on the conference table.

According to the opinions of the three combatants, they marked the area where those who heard the explosion were in red, and the areas where those who did not hear the explosion were marked in yellow.

The light blue holographic image is almost filled with red and yellow colors. The meandering red is like a long dragon spreading on the inside of the ship. Unfortunately, there is no obvious pattern.

But what is interesting is that there is no situation where some people in the same area hear the explosion, but others do not. In other words, there is no third possibility between red and yellow.

"It seems that the problem lies in the space." Looking at the marked map, Luo Yi said thoughtfully, "I think we should conduct key inspections on these rooms marked in red." The security director of the Eighth Department stood at the

Beside him, the unshaven face was filled with subtle expressions.

He seemed to have thought of something, but thought it was too ridiculous, but finally coughed and said, "Do you know what I thought of?"
To be continued...