534: Chapter 534 Fleet Hijacked

Baili Ji was furious and ordered Shang Yangping of the Civil Affairs Department to go negotiate.

Shang Yangping could only brace himself and go.

The result was that he was thoroughly scolded.

Despite his anger, Baili Ji could not directly send troops to suppress them. After all, there were still 20,000 soldiers detained in each base, and if the situation escalated, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Furthermore, if the Council clashed with these directly affiliated bases, the negative impact on other regions across the country would be permanent. This would cause local areas to become highly wary of the Council, which was very detrimental to unity.

After Shang Yangping returned looking dejected, Baili Ji then sent Yue Ming of the Security Department out.

The Security Department's functions had been completely hollowed out, and he had been a transparent person for a long time.

The Military Political Department was in the capital, and temporary Command HQ were in the local areas; he wasn't needed for any work at all. However, useless as he might be, his title was there, so his involvement in the negotiations was considered part of his duty.

Perhaps because Yue Ming didn't have too many entanglements or deep-seated grudges with the various bases, he wasn't criticized this time.

The leaders of the various bases clearly stated their demands, asking the Council for an explanation as to why these more than 230 people were arrested.

The Council did not provide an explanation, and the bases were unwilling to withdraw without one.

The two sides were at a stalemate over this issue.

“Warning! Battleship power malfunction!”

“Warning! Battleship communication system malfunction!”

“Warning! Battleship control system malfunction!”

Oriental Chen had been investigating here for three consecutive days, but had found nothing.

Just as he was feeling annoyed, the battleship suddenly started alarming.

“Xiao Lin, what's going on?” Oriental Chen asked.

No response.

The battleship's communication system was already paralyzed.

“Bang bang bang~”

Someone knocked on the door.

Oriental Chen opened his door; it was Dai Zheng.

“Commander, something's wrong! Our battleship has lost control,” Dai Zheng said seriously.

Oriental Chen walked to the window and looked out.

The situation was very wrong.

The battleship's power system was malfunctioning, but the battleship hadn't fallen; it was still hovering steadily in the air.

“Can the mechs be used?” Oriental Chen asked.

“No, they can't be used,” Dai Zheng shook his head.

This was troublesome.

If communications were down, he couldn't do anything.

“It's moving! It's moving!” a Special Operations Team member suddenly shouted.

The battleship was turning around.

The acceleration caused by the rotation made everyone lean in one direction.

Everyone immediately looked for a wall to maintain their stability.

“What's going on?” Oriental Chen was stunned.

The battleship, despite losing power, actually began to sail south.

This was unscientific.

Now they couldn't do anything.

The mechs couldn't be used, and they couldn't even put on their armor.

Strangely, even the Combat Suit couldn't be activated.

The battleship's doors wouldn't open, so they couldn't even bail out.

Drones couldn't be controlled, and the few Bee Queens on the battleship that hadn't been used yet also couldn't be used.

There were no controllable permissions at all.

The Digital Eye also wouldn't open.

It wasn't just the main battleship Oriental Chen was on; the other battleships were also like this.

How did he know?

Because all the battleships were uniformly gliding south, and he could see them through the window.

“Have everyone come over and use their abilities to open the hatch,” Oriental Chen said.

“Abilities can't be used either,” Dai Zheng replied simply.

“Abilities can't be used either?” Oriental Chen was stunned again.

Now this was truly miserable; besides watching, they couldn't do anything else.

“Break the window!” This was the last resort.

The glass on the battleship wasn't that easy to break, but they had to try; they couldn't just sit and wait for death.

“Yes!”

“Bang bang bang~”

“Bang bang bang~”

Weapons couldn't be used, so everyone could only find axes and smash them with force.

After dozens of consecutive blows, there were no marks on the glass.

“This glass is really too hard,” Dai Zheng sighed next to Oriental Chen.

Oriental Chen didn't speak.

He had designed the battleship, and the glass was indeed special, very thick, and very tough.

But it shouldn't be so tough that it couldn't even leave a single mark; this wasn't scientific.

Several Special Operations Team members smashed for more than ten minutes consecutively, each panting, and ultimately failed.

“Commander, this is a bit strange. Has our battleship been controlled by something?” Dai Zheng asked.

“Everyone, take a rest first!” Oriental Chen still didn't answer, saying indifferently.

The situation was indeed strange.

The battleships, without power, were like ghosts, flying south at a constant speed. If they weren't controlled, it definitely wouldn't be like this.

But he couldn't admit this, otherwise it would disturb everyone's minds.

Since they were controlled, it meant there were people controlling them.

If someone was controlling them, there must be some purpose.

Now, since they couldn't escape, they would just wait and see.

He believed that these questions would soon be answered.