The shrill siren resounded throughout the spaceship, and the shield expansion system had already started to recharge at the same time as the siren sounded, and large swathes of azure blue veins appeared on the silver-white armor belt of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace. Energy surges in the shield generator, allowing the spaceship to have several layers of translucent energy shields in the blink of an eye, while a large number of secondary guns, close-in guns and ejection weapon platforms are released from under the deformable armor structure. Flip and unfold, like a giant beast showing its fangs, flashing cold light in space.
Almost all emotion faded from Nolan's voice. After entering the battle mode, she spoke as cold and stiff as a rigid AI: "All weapon systems are online... The impact is expected to come in five seconds."
If it was before, Hao Ren would have been dazed when the siren sounded, but now his first reaction was to calm down, and while connecting his mind to the spaceship's perception system, he quickly asked: " Where did the attack come from? Whose?"
"The body is unknown, and I can only sense the extremely strong energy focusing phenomenon in several astronomical units around the spacecraft, and the hostility judgment is extremely high... The impact is coming."
Almost at the same time as Nolan's words fell, Hao Ren saw a large swath of dazzling light suddenly appear on the outer sensor of the spaceship. The light came without warning, as if the space itself suddenly burst into endless light. A large structure like vines or branches stretched out from the center—these structures broke through the distance in space in the blink of an eye, and quickly spread to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.
The spaceship was unavoidable, because the attacks came from all directions in the entire space, and these high-energy reactions seemed to interfere with the calculation of the jump engine, and the emergency start of the jump also failed. Nolan could only make all the shield systems open to the maximum. against this first shock.
Those weird glowing structures in space touched the shield of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace. In space, this was a silent "touch", like a painless lick, but on the bridge Everyone on board felt a violent shaking instantly.
There were layers of ripples on the surface of the shield of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace. Those seemingly harmless "branches" of light touched the shield and produced an extremely powerful impact, causing the entire spaceship to vibrate. However, the powerful inspection ship The survival system worked: the shield just fluctuated, not penetrated.
Those glowing branches in space were not discouraged at all—in fact, Hao Ren was not even sure if there was a rational operator behind these things. Looking at those glowing space structures, he felt that they were more like some kind of natural phenomenon . But natural or not, these things have started a second attack.
More luminous branches emerged out of space, spreading from all directions as if trying to trap the spaceship. A large number of fine light beams wrapped around the shield, and the entire spaceship began to shake from side to side.
Nolan also started to fight back.
All the defensive artillery rose from under the armor belt, and the twenty-six secondary psionic pulse turrets began to fire continuously, and the bright blue energy beams burst from the gaps in the armor plates on both sides of the Giant Turtle Rock came out, and hit precisely some intersection of those glowing branches in space.
According to Nolan's radar scan, the places where those lines intersect are the energy nodes of the "branches". If they are destroyed, they should be able to block the enemy's offensive.
The main gun of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace also began to recharge—this powerful thing is rarely useful, because in most cases its power is too much for Hao Ren, but today , it came in handy.
Hao Ren's spirit has been connected to the spaceship's perception system. He seems to be standing in the universe with a first-person perspective, personally feeling the energy storm in all directions in the entire space, and he feels a new energy peak. Arriving, this space will be blocked by those glowing "branches".
"This thing wants to trap us here!" Hao Ren immediately shouted to Nolan, "What the hell is this?"
"It's a rapidly proliferating energy coupling structure." Nolan allocated a large number of processing units to the tactical module, which made her voice sound more inorganic. "This ship detected a burst of waves in the local space." Unprecedentedly powerful energy tides, the surges generated by the energy tides are converging around the ship—if it develops on this scale, the shield of the ship will soon be torn apart."
All the gun mounts of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform were raised, and the dense defensive artillery fire kept shooting at the glowing "branches" in the space. These bombardments were very effective. Whenever they hit a key node, there were several bright The branches collapsed and dissipated in the dense explosions—however, the gathering speed of these energy bodies was far faster than the firing speed of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform. Even without looking at the data on the console, Hao Ren could observe this cosmic space with the naked eye It is being entangled and blocked by more and more dense luminous structures, wrapping this small spaceship like a cocoon.
A decision must be made.
"Speed up, get out of here—jump as far as you can toward the nearest gravitational focus."
"receive."
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace turned the bow of the ship with great difficulty, and a stream of blue light swept across the hull of the spaceship. This defensive method specially used to "clean up" attachments slightly reduced those tentacles-like entanglements. The impact of the branches, and the spacecraft took advantage of this opportunity to fully open the engine and accelerate suddenly.
The jump engine is still being disturbed by unknown sources. Nolan's countermeasures have already begun, but the progress of cracking the interference is not satisfactory. It is almost impossible to accurately jump to the gravitational focus when the engine parameters are seriously inaccurate. That's why Hao Ren asked to "jump as far as you can" - just jump in one direction, it doesn't have to be somewhere, but at least you have to get rid of this weird trap first.
Yes, a trap, Hao Ren thinks this is a trap.
When the spacecraft accelerated towards the gap, the energy structures spreading around in the space seemed to be touched, as if there was really a rational thing controlling them. These energy tentacles became "angry", and they twisted crazily He followed and began to chase the wake of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace, beams of light were constantly entangled on the shield of the spacecraft, and the continuous explosions made the whole ship shake violently.
The impact was so strong that even the spacecraft's inertial stabilizer couldn't resist it.
Everyone on the bridge was very nervous, and they were actually a little panicked when the attack first started: even if they were well-informed, this kind of experience of being bombed in a spaceship is very rare.
Lily clutched the armrest of the seat nervously. Although she was very powerful, individual strength seemed useless in this situation. She watched Hao Ren trying to correct the parameters of the spaceship, and couldn't help but say: " Landlord... what's the situation? Wasn't it all right when the drone came to detect it? Why were we blocked and beaten as soon as we came in?"
"I still can't figure out the situation," Hao Ren said quickly without raising his head, "but the purpose of these attacks is very clear, and it is definitely not a natural phenomenon... Something is preventing us from entering the X star cluster..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Nolan's siren sounding again: "Attention! There is a focus of energy ahead... Can't dodge, everyone resists..."
A bright light appeared in Hao Ren's vision from the perspective of the spaceship. He saw the light cut down like a sharp knife, and the energy form contained in the light shocked him.
Nolan tried his best to deflect a little angle, and the light beam obliquely hit a set of shield generators in the rear half of the spacecraft. A huge explosion erupted from the rear of the hull, and a large amount of metal and crystal structures were scattered in the explosion. Leave a tragic trail.
"Shield generators No. 4 to No. 6 have lost contact, and the shield strength is less than 30%... The hyperspace stabilizer is damaged, and it is switching to a spare component... There is a material leak in the seventh compartment, and the gate inside the ship is closed. Attention, the gravity generator is malfunctioning, emergency correction is in progress... "
Alarms came one after another. The gravity on the bridge was temporarily unbalanced for a while. Doudou, who flew out, grabbed Elizabeth who almost flew out with the other hand, but soon, Nolan restarted the backup gravity generator in the key cabin.
Nolan's voice sounded a bit intermittent, as if there was something wrong with the language function: "The attack contains divine power, and the energy level is the same as that of the secondary psionic energy."
Hearing her words, Hao Ren didn't show any surprise on his face: what he felt just now was this kind of power.
The giant turtle rock platform also uses this level of power, the power level is the same, but the number...
Hao Ren glanced at the energy storm that was clinging to the spaceship - it has now developed into a terrifying space structure with a scale of several astronomical units, surging behind the spaceship like an indescribable vortex The fragments of matter thrown out after the damage of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace fell into the storm and were swallowed up by the latter. The small spaceship was almost nothing like a grain of sand in the desert in front of this maelstrom. superior.
A thousand words and one word, Gan.
It is impossible to go back the same way, because the jump engine is disturbed, any precise jump is impossible, and if it is a normal flight, it will be overtaken by the storm within a few minutes, and there is no time to retreat to the outside of the X star cluster.
Then there is only one way.
"Start the jump."
"But the jump parameters are still..."
"Transfer directly, don't set the course, search for the source of gravity in hyperspace, and land on any planet. If possible, it's better to have a life response," Hao Ren said firmly, "At the same time, the unmanned The fleet issued an emergency summoning order to let them come in directly—it doesn’t matter if the jump is off, and the fortress will be repaired on the spot to start a storm.”
"Order received."