Hao Ren received the news while having breakfast the next day - Zhuomu finally heard the broadcast signal from the depths of the universe again, and this time with the assistance of the crystal resonant antenna, he successfully locked the source of the signal.
This news immediately excited everyone. Hao Ren laid down his job on the spot and asked the data terminal to transfer the communication. Zhuomu's interactive image—this time it was the head of an annoying dog—appeared on the holographic projection: "That communication frequency It appeared again! It is 22,000 light-years away from us, and this time the location is very clear!"
"Let the drones all enter the jump acceleration orbit, and Nolan warms up the engine to prepare for departure," Hao Ren immediately gave the command, and then asked a little curiously, "Can the crystal resonance antenna be used this time? Can you receive it?" Is there a crystal signal from space?"
"This... I can't receive it yet," Zhuomu's voice was also a little confused, "I only received those communications from unknown sources. As for the crystal signal...except for the ones sent from us, I don't None found."
"It still doesn't work..." Hao Ren frowned, "It shouldn't be, isn't there something wrong with the antenna?"
"I also studied the system you built, and I feel that there is nothing wrong with the principle." Zhuo Mu sounded no less confused than Hao Ren, "And I am still using this antenna, it is receiving There is obviously no problem in terms of ability."
Hao Ren smacked his lips like a toothache: "There is nothing wrong with the hardware, the principle is so simple that it is a straight line, but the signal that should be clear and unmistakable cannot be received. This is simply a metaphysical problem..."
At this time, Lili was rolling a bowl of noodles on the chopsticks, gnawing on it like a chicken leg, and raised her head with a groan: "Landlord, you, the pope, is the leader of the metaphysics world, and sometimes you are deceived by metaphysics. ah?"
But Nangong Sanba next to him thought about it seriously, and suddenly came up with an idea: "Crystal signals can only be sent from this planet, but can't be transmitted from outside... Could it be Feng Shui... No, geography A question about location?"
"Are you saying that this planet or this planetary system blocks the entry and exit of the crystal resonance signal?" Hao Ren was suddenly inspired. He had to admit that although Nangong Sanba was a scumbag, this "Hunter Intelligence Analysis" skill point It's really high enough, "It is indeed possible... But why? What's so special about this planet? I didn't see it either..."
The data terminal echoed: "It is indeed just an ordinary mild ecological planet, and the planetary system itself has no abnormalities. The only thing worthy of attention is that there is an eldest son inside this planet... But the dream plane is basically an ecological planet. There is an eldest son. Ah, the more special thing is that this place was smashed by a crystal once, and it also stunned the local eldest son... Could it be because of this that the crystal resonance signal from outer space went around this planet? ?”
"I always don't think it's because of such a joke." Hao Ren frowned and waved his hands, and stood up, "Forget it, this matter can be studied slowly, the most urgent thing now is to go to the "communication" that Zhuomu just found. Source', maybe another survivor civilization, and it sounds like they're alive and well, which isn't easy."
Hao Ren meant that it was not easy to find a group of alive and kicking survivors in the Dream Plane, but Lily wagged her tail and shook her head and muttered, "Yes, it seems that there is no need to collect the corpses this time..."
Hao Ren grabbed the erha's tail and yanked it vigorously: "Eat well! Don't leave any pot unopened!"
Everyone knows that in the normal theme of monster girls, once a creature with a long tail is caught by someone's tail, the inevitable result is a shy face, powerlessness, and blurred eyes—but there is no normal guy around Hao Ren, so Lily's reaction is Hurry up and nibble off the last noodles first, then jump up and say that you want to bite...
But she was suppressed by Vivian's second bowl of noodles.
Nolan quickly completed the pre-departure preparations—in fact, if she was just going for a drive, she didn't need to prepare at all. It was unambiguous to kick the accelerator and go to the sky on the spot. However, Hao Ren judged by analyzing the contents of the communications received before. Nine times out of ten those who called out were in danger, and whether it was the Crazy First Son or something else threatening them, be prepared to go and fight someone.
Therefore, Nolan took a little time to calibrate his fire control system to ensure that this most important piece of equipment is in the best condition.
"We're the only ones who can go this time," Hao Ren stood next to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, looking at Vivienne standing beside him, Doudou lying in Vivienne's arms, and the Asuman Crystal, who was waiting to get on the spaceship not far away, sighed helplessly, "Until the divine power blockade is settled, it seems that you can only stay on this planet."
"It's super boring to stay at the base to watch the house, okay?" Lily was obviously a little unhappy, and even her tail drooped listlessly. As a husky, two consecutive times of excitement and being unable to join in had already greatly dampened her enthusiasm. "When will the deadly divine power blockade outside be closed..."
Vivian squinted at the husky girl: "Isn't it your job to be a doorkeeper?"
Lily glared at her immediately: "I don't have any common sense! Our family is a family that pulls sleds!"
Vivian: "..."
I always feel that this dog is invincible after completely letting go of myself. The provocative way that used to be invincible is now becoming less and less powerful day by day...
"There's nothing wrong with looking after the house," Y'zaks finally stood up, "The agent sent a message saying that a group of people will be sent down to try to make the first contact with the moderate Galactus. We also need to inspect the environment on the surface of the mother planet, we can still receive receptions if we stay here."
Hao Ren nodded: "Then I will leave it to you."
Ten minutes later, the Juguiyantai broke through the thick atmosphere of the Proctor's home star and entered the vast universe.
In the vast cosmic space between the earth and the moon, a large number of temporary huge facilities have been built. Except for the most eye-catching crystal resonant antenna that seems to be entangled with several towers, the largest number of these temporary facilities is Things related to drone swarms—drone armed fortress, command center, assembly workshop, hangar, beacon lighthouse, these things form a complex three-dimensional structure in space, like a loosely stacked space city.
A huge accelerating track extends from the edge of this "space city", it is said to be a "track", but in fact it looks more like a dozen rings arranged in parallel from large to small, and these rings are one after another. Arranged to form a continuous structure with an overall length of more than hundreds of kilometers, and a large number of armed drones have gathered in front of the largest circle at the starting point of the orbit, densely packed, like a swarm of insects.
This kind of orbit seems to be a "slingshot device" used to direct the entity unit to a certain place in the universe, but in fact its function is much more complicated and perfect than that, and its multiple ring structure is not used to improve the "slingshot device". Projectile" flight speed, but instead increases the warp speed of units passing through it. Each ring has an independent space conversion computer, and is equipped with a high-power coordinate redirection device, which can temporarily erase the coordinates of the "projected object" passing through it in the three-dimensional world, so that the latter can be omitted. Most of the calculation process and start-up loss in the hyperspace transition process allow the "projected object" to start the transition with extremely low consumption, and there is no need to worry about the additional energy loss caused by a large number of units simultaneously starting the transition engine in the same direction.
Obviously, the jump acceleration orbit is definitely not a "directed delivery" thing.
Under certain conditions, allowing the UAV group to build a jump acceleration track will greatly improve the delivery efficiency of combat units, but this device has obvious disadvantages—that is, only vehicles that have the jump function can use it. It's a conventionally powered ship...
The only end for them to enter the ring is to be wiped out of their coordinates in the real world, thus becoming a permanent quantum ghost, which can only be released on the day when the main material plane drifts until the end of the world.
Nolan slowly adjusted his direction, found his own position in the gap deliberately flowed out by the drone group, and then slowly entered the first circle of the acceleration orbit with this mighty "guardian army".
"The jump engine has been activated, accelerating the establishment of the orbital connection."
Vivian touched Doudou's little head unconsciously: "Tell me, what will we see in the past?"
"Judging from the content of those communications, the ones who sent the communications are a group of people who are hiding from the world or are fleeing, and the communication technology they use is very likely to be inseparable from those resonance crystals... So to be honest, I don't think they are threatened. Not the eldest son," Hao Ren said, "The resonance crystal is the natural enemy of the corrupted eldest son, so what threatens those 'survivors' is probably something more dangerous."
"When did you think of this?"
"Just now," Hao Ren twitched his lips, "I don't know if it's an intuition, but I always feel that this communication source that popped up all of a sudden has something to do with the war that's going on somewhere... After all, it's connected to the resonance crystal. Wire."
Vivienne didn't respond, but watched the acceleration ring displayed on the holographic projection grow bigger and brighter.
Each ring of the acceleration track began to glow, and the strands of light connected between the rings to form parallel lines, and inside each ring, the light film rippled like the surface of water, and the reflections on it With the twisted and turbulent starlight.
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform and the drone swarm started to accelerate together and entered the circular array.
Every time they pass through a circle, the figures of the drone group and the spaceship become blurred, their speed is getting faster and faster, and their figures are getting closer and closer to transparency. By the time of the last circle, the entire fleet has disappeared without a trace. trace.
After just a minute of jumping—impossibly quick compared to normal jumping—the space around the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace brightened up again.
"All the drones activate the covert action module, spread out and set up positions on the spot." Hao Ren said quickly while turning on the spaceship's ultra-light search device—the coordinates provided by Zhuomu are a dynamic value, and the deviation is about Two astronomical units. In addition, in order to prevent the jump into a disadvantageous situation after entering the destination, Hao Ren specially made the jump target point deviate further, so after the end of the jump, he first needs to find and lock his target. .
At this distance, the search equipment that comes with the Giant Turtle Rock can easily find the target.
Sure enough, Nolan's holographic projection jumped out after just a few seconds: "I found it! It's at the position of thirty-two light minutes away from the flank of the fleet!"
Hao Ren and Vivian said in unison: "Take the picture over."
The image of the cosmic starry sky on the holographic projection flashed, and a huge structure that looked like a fragment of a celestial body appeared in Hao Ren's vision.
Appearing at the same time, there is also a large army surrounding the wreckage of this celestial body.
Hao Ren: "What the hell is this!"