Since the ship has been in service for two thousand years, the structure of the ship has changed greatly, and the original drawings are not completely applicable. Jacob led the team to follow several passages and turn around several times before he arrived at the position they needed to check.
The patriarch is a big thing, and he will definitely not be able to stay in a place with many people and eyes.
Storage areas, lower decks, or some pit areas are where it is most likely to stay.
Bahram has led his team to the bridge to control the ship. He needs all surveillance to remain on and let the accompanying mechanical priest start checking the genetic status of everyone on the bridge.
After searching carefully, Jacob found nothing except a few warehouse administrators who had been scared.
"Have you noticed anything strange recently?"
Jacob suddenly thought that maybe he could ask something from these people, but when he saw Astarte for the first time, they could stand up and couldn't answer.
Seeing them trembling, Jacob didn't waste time and was preparing to go to the next location.
But as soon as he turned around, a boy who looked less than sixteen years old suddenly said:
"Ange! I...I..."
Jacob turned around, staring at the dark eyepieces, and the boy froze.
"explain."
"Just...that's...the dispatch area below...some people I don't know often come in and out, and...there's a strange smell..."
"Oh? Scheduling area?"
Jacob thought for a while and immediately realized that they were neglecting one thing. This ship was actually working part-time in smuggling business, just like most imperial civilian ships! All its warehouses were actually connected. The ship owner established a dispatch area under the storage area, which was specially used to transport various "shameless" goods to avoid inspections by the Ministry of Justice. That place was definitely not on the ship structure map. It was actually a "mezzanine" between the storage area and the equipment area, so there must be no monitoring equipment!
So when the boy mentioned the dispatch area, the few people around him instantly changed their faces.
Suddenly, fierce gunfire sounded, and then dense barrage splashed everywhere and covered the team's position. Jacob had already reacted and grabbed the boy and hid behind him, but the others were unfortunately shot. With the boiling and ruptured organs, several workers fell down and wailed.
The soldiers fought back as soon as possible. They came to Jacob, ignored the bullets hitting the armor, and used accurate shooting gauges to kill the gene stewards who crawled onto the container one by one.
Jacob turned around and looked at the already scared boy.
"How to get to the dispatching area?"
Seeing that the boy did not respond, he bent down and patted the other person's face with his hand.
"Hey? Can you hear me?"
The boy blinked, then nodded bloodlessly.
"How to get to the dispatching area?"
"Ah...uh... on the far right, there is the green button area. Press 1919810, and a downward slope will open under the red container."
Jacob turned his head and looked at it, and found that the place was outside hundreds of containers, and some things could be seen sneakily hiding nearby.
He looked at the boy.
"Go to a safe place to hide until everything is stable, don't be curious about any movement, there is something very dangerous on this boat."
The boy had long wanted to run away, but he immediately left the place after hearing this. Jacob also connected with Bahram.
"Company Commander, we found the area where the target was hiding. The ship has a smuggling black compartment, which connects to all storage areas."
"Received, the bridge immediately closes all storage areas gates, and immediately other teams will concentrate on your location."
"The enemy has discovered us, and the target is likely to flee. There are many civilians on this ship. If it is allowed to enter the passenger area, it is likely to cause great casualties. I want to hold him back first."
After one end of the communicator was silent for a moment, a response came.
"Okay, be careful, the team closest to you will arrive in five minutes."
"receive."
After turning around, Jacob said to the others who were still shooting:
"I broke through the center, and you divided into two teams to encircle from left to right."
After saying that, Jacob put the hot melt pistol back to his waist and pulled out the explosive gun pistol, and switched the pistol to the left hand holding the shield. He then used his right hand to pull out the force field sword. As the bright blue energy field appeared on the blade, the 10th company sergeant raised his shield and rushed forward with a quick step forward, and his team members immediately dispersed around.
When passing those containers, you can see many nibbling arms spilling around, and there are also dirty deep purple blood. Many of them have appearances that are no different from humans, but their souls and genes have been deeply corroded by aliens.
It was not until Jacob rushed in that he found that the number of the other party was so large, just like cockroaches. When he saw five or six, it meant that there were already hundreds of them around.
Gene stealers perfectly comply with this rule.
Dense bullets shot at him, and six sneaky figures appeared on the tops of the containers on both sides leading to the button zone. Those were gene stealers in crew uniforms, carrying only primitive live-fire weapons. Jacob greeted their wild rain of bullets with his armor, and from time to time he used his pistol to carry out accurate and deadly shooting again and again.
In just a few seconds, he crossed hundreds of meters away, and the remains of the surrounding gene stealers fell from the container like rain.
At this time, realizing that this goal was difficult to stop, the gene stealers were still waving the welding and the chainsaw rushed towards the giant with desperate fanaticism.
Jacob waved his blade and made an arc forward, cutting off a gene stealer's head, and the sword passed through flesh and bones almost effortlessly.
With this rapid blow, Jacob aimed at the other two targets with his pistol, hitting their chests and causing their entire upper body to disappear into the blood mist.
Even before the corpse fell on the deck, Jacob had already smashed an ugly bald head with his elbow.
At this time, the two teams also used crossfire from the side to solve the gene stealer who tried to resist with grenades and explosives. Jacob came to the position the boy pointed out, entered the corresponding number, and then heard the sound of metal friction.
Turning around, I saw that the huge container had "cracked" and exposed a pitch-black slope on the ground.
Jacob came up above the slope and stared at the darkness dozens of meters away.
In an instant, he raised his combat shield at an astonishing speed and blocked three large-caliber sniper rifle bullets.
Chapter completed!