The eldest lady's voice is full of resentment, I can imagine how dark the expression on her face should be now.
According to Sandora's guess, since the Fifth Fleet bypassed the rules of the void and jumped over directly in the form of "stowaways", and there was an error in the last step of the jump, so in the process, the original communication Agreements and the like have been invalidated due to large-scale information misalignment, so the communication device we have at hand has become a whiteboard equipment, which needs to be reset before it can be used. It may take several days, and the eldest lady is definitely not willing. After waiting for such a long time, she can only use the connecting device produced by Tavel again, and use herself as a search antenna—the miniaturized interface made by Bubbles does not know whether it is insufficient power or something, anyway, Lin Xue this time It doesn't seem to work.
"Well, anyway, as long as you're fine," Lin Xue murmured resentfully for a while, and finally sighed, "There's almost chaos here, and even the emergency expert team is on the scene in Shadow City , Fortunately, you only lost contact for a short while."
Missy’s words reminded me that almost an hour had passed since I arrived in this strange world with Sandora and I finally regained contact with Lin Xue through spiritual connection. What it looks like—think about it, the two rushed into the depths of the void that no one has ever set foot in, to help a fleet that is extremely vigilant and even partially hostile to the empire, and to get rid of another group that may have treasonable And the pursuit of the powerful fleet is at this juncture. All contact was cut off suddenly, and there was no news for an entire hour. I guessed that with the character of the people in my family, I might have made up my mind to a certain extent in the past hour. Lin Xue probably just ran out of the house with a lame excuse, and Shadow City organized a group of experts almost in the blink of an eye... We lost contact for an hour, it seems that it really caused a lot of trouble.
I comforted the eldest lady a little, and explained my situation in as much detail as possible. The answer I got was that now I can only wait until the communication system can work normally before discussing the next step, and during this period. The spiritual connection between me and the eldest lady must be kept unblocked at all times, and ventilate as soon as possible in case of emergency.
"This is the case, we can't track our location through mental connection." I leaned on the seat and turned to Sandora, "How about the communication device and locator?"
"It's all cleaned up, the communication protocol is invalid, and the coordinates are out of order. I'm resetting the system. It's really a bad situation. It seems that the phenomenon that may be caused by this ultra-long-distance jump is still underestimated before departure," Shan Duo Rubbing his forehead, he pushed the console in front of him with a displeased face, and slid back a distance by the reaction force. Get up and turn on the autonomous control mode of the shuttle, "Leave the rest to the system, let it search slowly. The inherent positioning database of the shuttle was originally designed to be used within the empire. Now that we are outside the country, the locator must It's useless. Cocokina. Report the situation of your fleet."
Ke Kekina has always been on the communication channel, and he also knows that the fleet may have gone to an inexplicable place, but it seems that he is not too uneasy about it—perhaps during his long life in exile, this ancient Alan Spirit Race I have adapted to a more thrilling and exciting life than this. After hearing Sandora's question, he replied: "The fleet is in good condition—the same as when it set off. As long as it is not attacked, it will be fine for a long time. However, the mood of ordinary people is a little unstable. So I hope to get a more definite answer, what is our current situation, so that I can explain to my people.”
"Just tell them, treat this as an unplanned temporary stop. Now that they have escaped from the pursuit of those Merova warships, the fleet will be able to set sail again in a few days," Sandora waved her hand casually, responding to this question He didn't seem to be interested, "As for what you fleet leaders need to know... Well, the situation is like this. There was an unexplained accident during the jump. Now the fleet should be docked in a world not far from the empire's territory. The communication device is on the super large After the range jump, it was temporarily frozen - I only know the general reason, and the relevant technical details have not been studied clearly. The equipment we brought needs time to recalibrate the antenna. In addition, we can still maintain basic communication with the mainland of the empire through the spiritual connection, So it's not too bad, understand."
"I understand. This way the situation within the fleet members should be more stable." Ke Kekina responded in a low voice, and then temporarily hung up the communication: he still has a lot of things to do.
And Sandora looked at the terrestrial planet that obviously had life on the holographic screen, with a curious look on her face: "Ah Jun, do you want to go down and have a look? It's just a tourist."
"Compared to this...the radar seems to have found something."
Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly scanned the conventional radar screen, and found that there were a dozen small white dots approaching the Fifth Fleet in high orbit at a very high speed. The scanner showed that the opponent was a "living individual", but due to the alert The level is low, and the system did not call the police when these small white spots first appeared. Now these little white dots have shown a clear tendency to approach this direction, so the radar has raised the alert level of these UFOs. These little white dots flew extremely fast, even reaching the cruising speed of a shuttle used near the Earth. After investigating the system log, I found that the other party was actually launched from the planet below.
"Oh, it seems that we have found a primitive civilization that developed space technology. This is a rare thing. Is this why the fleet was automatically guided to this place after the navigator went wrong?" Sandora said to herself After saying a word, we focused the monitoring of the shuttle on one of the small white dots. After the screen was enlarged, we could see what it was.
An old man with a white beard.
... an old man with a white beard!
I almost choked myself to death with a mouthful of saliva, Sandora also showed a dumbfounded look, and then we zoomed out. Only then did I notice that the picture was not just an old man with a white beard. In fact, it was an old man standing inside some kind of small aircraft. He stepped on a silver disc with a radius of about four or five meters. The bottom of the disc is in an inverted cone shape, and the upper part has a layer of translucent shield (before we pulled the lens too close, we didn't see the aircraft). Inside this space vehicle with a simple structure but apparently high technological content stands an old man in a purple robe with white beard and hair. The old man is hale and hearty. I held a crooked silver-white alloy scepter tightly in my hand, and on the other party's purple robe, I saw the patterns of stars, the sun, and some kind of plant.
If this old man does not appear in space. Only at Hogwarts...
"...a...a orbital shuttle driven by mana," Sandora's mouth turned up slightly. After all, she was well-informed, and she was not as surprised as I was, but just found it a little interesting, "It seems that we have come to an interesting place. "
What is approaching us at high speed is a group of small white dots, and the old man with the white beard is just one of them. The other white dots are all the same small space vehicles, all of which are controlled by a single person, and everyone wears the same purple robe. Holding the alloy rod in his hand, it seems that this is the other party's uniform. And except for the old man we saw at first glance, everyone else is very young, looking about twenty or thirty years old. These visitors who were riding in strange aircraft and suspected of being "mages" soon approached the Fifth Fleet's near-defense warning zone. But Sandora signaled that Cocokina didn't need to care, and asked the latter to temporarily stop his starship formation work.
The small group of strangers in the single-person aircraft approached the fleet with our acquiescence, and stopped at a place... they thought they were far away, and then seemed a little at a loss, circling there Go, everyone has a shocked look on their faces. They looked at the Fifth Fleet with the same expressions as when I first saw the warships of the Empire. The white-bearded old man who first appeared on the surveillance screen seemed to be the leader of this group of people, because everyone's aircraft followed. He left and right—those flying machines are really flexible, they can move freely like human hands and feet, and the scanning equipment has detected distorted gravitational fields near these flying machines, which shows that the other party has at least mastered anti-gravity technology... Well, it's not a big deal , as far as I know, it seems that the mysterious side will be slightly easier to achieve the anti-gravity effect than the technological side.
"Then what? Let's just watch here?" I glanced at Sandora and found that Her Majesty's face was full of interest, so I couldn't help reminding, "We may have to stay here for a few days. "
"Wait, let's see what they want to do. Anyway, the early warning system judges that this is a group of non-threatening targets." Sandora seems to have plans, and her face is not all playful. "According to the operation of the aircraft they use method and energy loss rate, this civilization should not have the ability to leave the star system, but they obviously have the enthusiasm and curiosity to explore space. When they see strange artificial objects suddenly appearing in the sky above their home planet, the reaction they have can generally be It is regarded as the "true expression" of this civilization without reservation. This is a small method that is occasionally used when observing unfamiliar indigenous civilizations. We used to do this before, throwing something unknown at the limit border that an indigenous civilization can reach If you feel serious, then observe the opponent's reaction, judge the potential of the target civilization based on the opponent's reaction, and whether it has the value of direct contact... "
I feel that my expression should be a little distorted now: What are the seven deadly sins of aliens
At this time, an aborigine in a disc flying vehicle had already approached the fleet carefully under the instructions of the old man of the team leader, but there was still a distance of several kilometers between the two sides—it seemed very far away, but considering the huge size of the Fifth Fleet, Even in the current highly "compressed" situation, the size of the Fifth Fleet far exceeds that of a dozen Earths! In other words, in the eyes of these explorers, the Fifth Fleet is more than ten times larger than their home planet. Rather than saying that we are docked in the orbit of their planet, it is better to say that their planet now looks Became a stone beside the Fifth Fleet.
For a fleet cluster of this size, the distance of a few kilometers is actually equivalent to landing. Although the explorer has not touched any starship, his current position is already a docking area for small warships. his angle. I can't even see the whole picture of any giant ship-class spaceship. I speculate that there should be only a large continuous land of steel in the opponent's field of vision—and countless giant artificial objects of the same size floating around this land of steel.
"Okay, the communication has been cracked." Sandora operated the console in front of her a few times. It turned out that she had been busy with this just now. "Listen to what they said."
I nodded, almost at the same time. The monitored voice sounded in the cockpit. According to the system indication, the explorer closest to the fleet is now reporting to the leader of the old man: "...Master. There is no gravity here, and I feel as if I am still in a zero-gravity zone All the same, these gigantic spaceships don't generate gravity..."
"Keep safe. Don't go any further, put two probe balls down... A report has been sent to the association, and the association will send more people to take over here," this is the voice of the team leader old man, sounding quite calm, "in At such a short distance, the other party has no activation reaction, could it be that these are... ghost ships?"
I poked Sandora's arm: "Look, we didn't open our mouths, and we were treated as a scene of death."
"Master, the detection ball has fallen! I suddenly sensed the gravitational force after being within a kilometer of these giant ships. It was very chaotic... The detection ball failed. The environment inside these spaceship arrays is very dangerous. The detection ball seems to have been destroyed by something..."
"According to your order, no one fired, but the ball just fell into the cooling grid of the Grima IV ship. The engineer is trying to dig out that thing, but it probably won't work after digging it out." Cocokina quickly explained.
"Withdraw!" The old man, the leader of the team known as the master, ordered immediately, so the brave explorer who unfortunately lost a master ball quickly retreated to a safe area—that is, they thought they were far enough away, but they were far away from the fleet. The near-anti-aircraft seems to be almost equal to the distance to the face. I noticed that when the opponent's aircraft accelerated rapidly, the occupants inside seemed to feel no inertia at all. Obviously, this is another proof that the other party has developed a sophisticated space technology using magic.
"Could it be that these giant spaceships are all in a gravitationally isolated protection field?" The voice of the team leader old man rang out, "This is already an unimaginable technology... and the driving method they use is also unheard of... Don't go any closer, now Not sure if there are any living people in these ships, and if not, I'm afraid their automatons are still running..."
Sandora and I watched here. It seems that this group of exploration teams has no further plans to take further action, and it seems that they will send more personnel from the surface of the planet to inspect this huge fleet that has far exceeded their planet. I can already imagine that in the near future, my group will be surrounded by groups of natives from different worlds, and there may be a primary school teacher leading a group of brats to take pictures outside the shuttle, followed by two experts The professor is in front of the camera... This is the most incredible discovery in the history of mankind, which fully proves the correctness of my theory in terms of logic and forward-looking... "And then there will be Hollywood in another world according to our group floating in orbit Two hundred blockbuster movies with basically the same plot have been made about UFOs in China, and the exploration of outer space has been going on for fifty years... Thinking of this, I felt that I could no longer remain silent, so I simply connected to the internal channels of those exploration teams: "Hey, can I say a few words? "
"Noha, are you talking?" The old man in the team leader had a surprised expression on his face, but he said the name of one of his team members, but obviously, no one spoke—he suddenly became nervous and ordered everyone to speak again. Stay away from the unknown fleet, "Check the communication stone!"
"Well, don't get excited, I just want to say that this is not the scene of a traffic accident... Well, well, it's the scene of a traffic accident, but we haven't been killed yet... I'm under a lot of pressure from all of you watching like this."
Sandora simply lay down on the console, unable to bear to read my diplomatic rhetoric.
"Master, it seems... these spaceships are talking?"
"Speak closely, it's the people in the spaceship who are talking," I said, trying to disarm them as quickly as possible, "Don't be nervous, we're just passing by—there was an accident on the way, so we were forced to stop on your planet. But don't worry, fleet Being in gravitational isolation won't have a negative impact on your galaxy—you haven't encountered such a thing before, have you?"
The expedition team was in a collective trance, and the old man of the team leader seemed to be able to react at this time. He fumbled for a long time from his arms, took out a metal plate, and pressed it for a long time before slowly saying: "Welcome to the Blue Star!" , we express our goodwill to visitors from outer space and hope to maintain mutual understanding in the following exchanges. We hope to have more dialogues to ensure that we understand the way of thinking of both parties to avoid misunderstandings. If possible, I hope you can respond and ensure that the above sentences have been accepted Read it correctly…”
I turned to look at Sandora: "... what does this old man mean?"
The moment of our silence may have misunderstood the other party. A female member of the exploration team said to the old man of the team leader: "Master, I still insist that there are logical problems in the basic manual for communicating with visitors in outer space. It uses too many virtual models and transfer models... "
The old man stared at the huge fleet in front of him, looking like a fearless scientist. What kind of spirit that is not afraid of death came together in front of such a huge group of alien spaceships for communication?), speaking quickly... Me: "..." RQ