Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 662 - 662 659 The Ship Home

?Chapter 662: Chapter 659: The Ship Home Chapter 662: Chapter 659: The Ship Home In the deepest part of the engine room, where the power sector lies, all the crew members and zealots who once stood watch are now dead, but the massive steam core continues to operate without control.

The reactor vessel rumbled with a low vibration, the pipes and valves surrounding it occasionally hissed softly under the control of the automatic balancing system, and the warning lights monitoring the Boiling Gold Catalyst blinked steadily, indicating that the pressure inside the steam core was operating at high levels.

At the end of a steel platform, some dozen meters away from the steam core, stood a colossal copper column, situated between the roof and the floor. Portions of the column’s outer shell were hollowed out, revealing complex gears and connecting rods in motion within. The rapid clicking noise of the precision machinery meshed continuously like waves, as strips of paper were sucked into one opening on the edge of the column and then expelled from another to be transferred to other storage devices or punch analyzers.

This expensive and precise difference engine was automatically calculating parameters related to the ship’s subsequent navigation plans and providing this data to the engine room. Part of its input and output data came directly from the navigation station above—none of this could fall into the hands of the Subspace Shadow.

A massive cloud of doom was gathering, a foreboding more terrible than death descended—the Ghost Ship Captain had realized what was happening, and his anger was descending upon this place.

Without hesitation, the immense Skeleton Spider moved. It waved its long limbs and quickly scurried to the front of the copper column, then without hesitation, it drove a bony spike into the core power shaft of the difference engine.

The surface of the dark bone spike exuded a field of corrosion, and the protective casing of the power shaft, guarded by a thick copper shell and steel armor, was pierced as easily as if it were paper. The steel bearing inside that constantly rotated instantly emitted a series of ear-piercing noises, followed by a catastrophic collapse of the connected gears and connecting rods, which entangled subsequent punching machines and paper strips into the mess—
The difference engine and the subsequent punch analyzers both derived their power from the same main shaft. A single power collapse was enough to destroy the entire system, a “safety flaw” designed intentionally so that in case of emergency, the ship’s recent navigational records and the control center could be destroyed as quickly as possible.

But that wasn’t enough; simply destroying the difference engine wouldn’t stop the Ghost Ship Captain.

As long as the ship could still sail, it could still potentially take that captain to the “Holy Land.”

The task of The Saint was to lift the safety limits of the steam core.

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