“Lieutenant, I am afraid I can’t let you and your squad aboard.” said the commander.
“What-”
“Listen to me. The captain and I had a chat before you came back and we have reached a conclusion that, your squad should not be granted aboard before we found out what happened on the other ship.”
“But-”
“Is for the whole crew, lieutenant.” and he walked away.
The squad looked lifeless through the decontamination room, Nolan kept hitting on the glass yelling for help.
“Get yourself together, Nolan.” The privates dragged him back and tried to comfort him.
Doctor Megan Louis walked down the hallway holding a report in her hand. It listed all the scanning result on the other ship, but nothing special turned up. She reached the airlock and called for Keen.
“How are you and your people holding up?” asked Megan.
“We are doing fine, but can you please tell me you’ve got something, anything that could let us out of here.”
“I-” She gave a disappointed look and they both fell into a silence.
“Whatever happened on that ship isn’t caused by any contagious stuff, right?”
“We haven’t ruled out that possibility yet. There were rumours that some kind of engineered bacteria could eat up human flesh and cleaned up the place, like really clean.”
“Do you think that’s what it is?” said Keen.
“I don’t know. I’ve never seen it before.”
“Are we dying?”
Megan turned back and suppressed her tear from running down.
“No, you are not dying, I won’t let you.” said Megan and she ran away.
In the Center Control, Captain Monokol had established the connection to a nearby Acting Galactic Government Patrol Fleet and through their official permission, contacted the Star Admiral Quentin Ocasso.
“Admiral, this is Captain Monokol from the Sixth Battalion. I have contacted you because our ship have came across a rather awkward situation.”
“What is it?”
“We may have found a lost ship that belonged to the missing Captain John Maison. And the whole crew went missing but the ships intact and clean.”
“John Maison. Are you sure it is his ship?”
“We have crew members searched the ship and found his personal effects. But admiral, I think we have also found out the reason why the entire crew went missing.”
“Go on.”
“We are still looking at other possible reason, and many speculated that the it was some kind of engineered human flesh eating bacteria.”
“Are you kidding me Captain Monokol, that was just some rumour from the street. If you have no more information on that ship, just sent me what you have to the relay, and excuse me, I have other matters to attend to.”
The connection ended abruptly.
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