Nothing major happened in the next few days, and everything was going on as usual, including all research and development projects and military preparations and recruits. Although there were still a lot of daily affairs that needed to be dealt with, there were no emergencies that popped up every now and then. *The situation is already very gratifying. If possible, I really hope that the days like this will be longer and better—study on world peace in the morning, and take the nine-tailed husky and a group of bear children to the park in the afternoon. If you continue, you will have nothing else to ask for.
The news from the Celestial City confirmed Sandora's speculation: Alleria did not find the ancient equipment. At the same time, Gaia also checked the mother star again, and confirmed that the thing was not on the technology side, so in the end everything pointed to the only possibility: the Melovas had stolen the precious communication array, and now all we have left is I'm worried that they have already smashed that baby for fun. If this is true, Sandora will really smash every planet of the Melova people.
There is not much movement on the Fallen Apostles for the time being. Although there is evidence that the other party is also actively mobilizing troops, and may be doing the same preparations as us, their frequency of border activities has dropped significantly. This should be a deterrent. Due to the pressure brought to them by the sudden appearance of the Father God last time, it may also be that they need time to buffer the losses in the last ambush and complete the research and development projects at hand. In short, no matter what, a tense "peaceful state" is spreading. Everyone knows that a huge war is inevitable and will break out at any time, but at least for now, no one will act rashly. Under such pressure, all the military projects of the empire are speeding up, and the six main armies and the independent Royal Fleet are rapidly changing their outfits. Sandora hopes to complete the strengthening and reorganization of these troops before the war breaks out, giving them Add new equipment and main ships, increase the combat effectiveness of mysterious units, and increase targeted confrontation training against abyssal units... No one knows how fast the fallen apostles are preparing for battle, so the only way is to think that they are not fast enough , and then devote infinite power to future wars.
On the other hand, Shadow City is waiting for news from sisters Asida and Asidora.
They have been out for nearly a week, and it is a very risky behavior to patrol the empty space in the far border for such a long time, and as the patrol time increases, the danger is also increasing. The "white area" is a blind spot in the void that has not been detected and cannot provide immediate support. The empire has zero power in the white area and zero understanding. There may be hidden super-large abyss gates that no one knows about, or hidden Another squadron of the Fallen Apostles, of course, may also hide the Melova rebels who are about to move. The Space Twins only have a few Fifth Fleet immigrant ships that have basically no combat effectiveness - they are all repaired and repaired to barely get on the road. Their only reliance is their super teleportation ability. Therefore, they have to be infinitely cautious and double-cautious, and the longer this state lasts, the greater the chance of accidents—and we also have to consider the issue of "waste", senior officers like Asida and Asidola And their elite troops can't waste too much energy in that place to serve as fishhooks. If the Melovas never show up, I'm afraid the only thing they can really consider is to let the sisters withdraw. But now this trapping fleet has been wandering in the white area for so long, if the Melovas are really outside the Far Frontier, they should have discovered these spaceships long ago, and they should have also received the message from the ancient dormant facility. Identifying the signal, the reason why no action has been taken so far should be out of extreme caution. Well, it was expected to be cautious. After all, they found the Fifth Fleet in an extremely remote place, but after the latter escaped, it suddenly appeared at their door by such a "coincidence", and it seemed that the most important immigration ship He was also separated from the main force. No matter who is in front of this kind of pie in the sky, the other party must be more careful. I just hope that the Merova people will not be too cautious. If they wait a few more days...
Then Asida and Asidora probably don't know how to continue acting.
However, in the end, good luck is still on our side. After wandering in the white area for so long, the Melova people finally dispelled their doubts and appeared...
They must have followed and observed the colony ships for a long time to make sure that there were no hordes of thugs hiding near the latter, and the Asida sisters simply ordered to shut down the main engine of the colonial giant ship when they waited until the end. , and ordered people to blow up a set of shield generators of the giant ship, in order to create the illusion that the giant ship was seriously damaged and gradually disintegrated in the void. The shutdown of the main engine means that the giant ship is unable to escape from the scene, and the collapse of the shield generator means that the order field is about to be overloaded, and the giant ship is about to be swallowed by the void. The slow-moving void shipwreck was difficult to distinguish between true and false, so the Melova people finally lost their composure—once the colonial giant ship collapsed, the ancient dormant cabin might be thrown somewhere, so they had no choice but to rush out .
Well, two hundred and thirty-two mothership-class main spaceships and thousands of small handguns rushed out...
In the headquarters, standing in front of me were the two sisters who were carved out of the same mold. The other party lowered their heads slightly, and there was an atmosphere full of resentment lingering from top to bottom.
"So, in order to grab a colonial ship, they dispatched a legion of troops to deal with two or three sampan frigates that looked like they were about to sink..." My tone was erratic, and my eyes looked up at the sky, "This is the rhythm of nuclear bombs hitting mosquitoes. …”
"I was taken aback at the time," sisters Asida's binary synchronized voice replied, "When we dispatched the trapping spaceship, we thought about preventing the enemy from attracting large forces, but I didn't expect them to be so..."
"It's so funny." I couldn't help lying on the table, and raised my hand, "So in the end, you captured a small plane and two prisoners, and the rest of the large army ran away, right?"
"Your Majesty is not good enough to complete the task, please punish me!" The two sisters immediately said a classic sentence - I had already guessed their reaction, so they immediately waved their hands, "Well, it's not your fault, it's your fault. The enemy is even more funny than expected. What a surprise, is it necessary to send out an army to intercept several civil aviation... Then tell me how you smashed a small handgun in the midst of thousands of troops, I It feels like you guys are close to adapting a blockbuster personal heroism."
The Asida sisters gave a solemn military salute and told their heroic deeds:
"At that time, the shipboard radar suddenly detected an astonishing materialization phenomenon on the periphery of the order field, and then the entire trapping formation was enveloped by a larger order field. At that time, we felt that the situation might be wrong, but the order of the Merova people The field technology seems to be almost the same as that of the empire. They completed the encirclement of the formation and the jump of their own fleet almost instantly. We were surprised to find that we were surrounded by hundreds of motherships and a large number of small ships. In this case , according to the original plan, it is impossible to take all these ensnared enemies away without arousing suspicion in Melova. We do not have enough strength. The auxiliary tactical program suggested abandoning the mission, which was indeed the case at the time The safest choice, but then we took a more risky plan-after all, next time we won't have anything to trap the Melovas.
"Using the high-speed response capabilities of space raiders, we created continuous explosions around the giant colonial ship, creating the illusion that the crew of the giant ship was about to die together, and the spaceship was about to self-destruct.
"Then we blew up the front and rear connecting bridges of the giant ship, exposing the entrance to the Ganaku.
"The Merovas' assault formation attempted to storm the Gnaku in a suicidal manner to salvage the hibernation chamber.
"Then we detonated all the bombs on hand, destroying the entire colonial giant ship in 0.35 seconds, and also ordered the other escort ships to self-destruct."
I laughed: "At the moment of the explosion, you pulled the Melova spaceship that had rushed into the giant ship Gnaku and jumped into the portal. It was a close call—well done, in that situation, there is really only one way to do it." It worked, and during this process, the enemy should not be aware of your existence, right?"
"Yes," Sister Asida nodded, "there is no time difference, and the space transmission starts at the moment when the order field collapses. Therefore, from the outside world, the missing spaceship is swallowed by the void because the order field is torn apart. We blew up everything that could be blown up, the Melovas would not find any fragments, and they would not find that there was no one in the colony ship at all, the speed of the void swallowing was extremely fast, and the explosion power on the spot was unprecedented, they would not have this Opportunity. In addition, we also salvaged the ancient hibernation chamber... but it suffered a lot of damage in the explosion, which is where we made a mistake."
When Sister Asida said this, the tone was very relaxed, but I can imagine how time was racing against time. In order to prevent the Melovas from discovering the truth, they had to start the teleportation at the moment when the order field collapsed, and the colonial giant ship The collapse of the order field will destroy the order field of all other small spaceships within the range, so as long as it slows down for a moment, all the Melova spaceships will really be gray, and they seized this blink of an eye time, and put a The order field collapsed, and the Melova spacecraft, which was about to be swallowed by the void, was dragged over—the crew inside were still alive. What's even more insane is that these crazy sisters even rescued the ancient dormant cabin by the way. I guess their APM must be at least four digits.
I asked the Asida sisters to report to the headquarters and then go back to rest (of course, I guess they will stop by the cafeteria for a meal or something), and I got up and went to the second research room in the staff center. The Melova fighter jet that the sisters managed to capture has been sent there and is now being inspected by experts. We need to find the jump coordinates of Melova's world from the fighter plane's onboard computer. It is estimated that this will be a very troublesome technical task-no matter what civilization, the most confidential among their aircraft is the coordinates of their own home world, Melova The Wa people were supported by the empire, and they know how important it is to protect the coordinates of their homeland.
Just as I guessed, a group of experts from the second research room were having a headache at the captured Merova fighter plane, while Sandora was watching the scene in person.
"How is it? The navigation system is very encrypted?" I leaned over and asked, and my eyes fell on the gravity-free platform in the middle of the room. The Merova fighters looked slightly smaller than the individual fighters of the Empire, and looked like a The flattened egg is roughly oval in shape, with one end narrower and the other wider. At the wider end, the fuselage expands into a hemispherical shape, which is probably a place like the cockpit. There is no conventional engine on this small aircraft, but a ring of shimmering light bands along its oval outer edge. This ring-shaped light band is very similar to the Empire's stepless vector engine, and it is estimated to be about the same Something: As an ancient vassal that has been ruled by the empire for so long, the technology tree of the Melova people should have been completely destroyed in the old empire era, and the technology in their hands should be all fake Xiling technology.
This small aircraft, which looks similar to the UFO in old-fashioned urban legends, is painted in gold, and two-thirds of the surface of the aircraft is painted with gorgeous patterns in bright colors. For advanced civilizations, all space weapons do not rely on vision to lock and launch, so any paint on space vehicles has no effect, but this kind of seemingly meaningless, flashy golden coat of arms is painted on a small aircraft. The behavior of the aircraft is indeed the first time I have seen it, and at the front of the aircraft, we also saw the distorted and deformed imperial emblem—obviously deformed on the basis of the Xiling military emblem, but it is already distorted To the point of being completely unrecognizable.
"Their navigation computer uses an encryption method similar to that of the old empire, and it breaks the encryption at one time," Sandora replied, "It seems that the Melova people are very careful about protecting the coordinates of their homeland. This encryption device As long as it detects any illegal reading behavior, even if it is only once, it will immediately self-destruct, and its judgment system is a modified imperial device, which is somewhat difficult to crack."
"Hey, I didn't expect the Merova people to be quite capable." I cut it, but there was nothing too unexpected in my heart. Maybe the Merova people only inherited a little fragment of the old empire, but they were the old empire after all. If the first family, plus the tens of thousands of years of development, can still be manipulated at will, then it will be a shame for the cultivation of the empire back then.
"In fact, it is not impossible to crack the navigation computer on it, but it takes too much time. Using the fuzzy calculation function of the Xiling host, it is theoretically possible to decipher any encryption device that can be described, but I am worried that it will take too long Something will go wrong," Sandora glanced at me and continued, "I know how the two sisters captured this fighter plane. There is nothing wrong with the capture process itself, but the trapping plan as a whole is still There is something to be doubted. After a long time, the Melova people may have to wonder what happened to the few single spaceships that 'coincidentally' appeared in front of them. After all, there is no It’s too far away from the empire area back then, and it’s not too difficult to correct the coordinates of your own world.”
I nodded knowingly, and looked over the various devices in front of me again. The side armor of the captured Merova fighter plane has been removed, exposing the dark pipelines inside. The junior assistant technicians fixed a set of non-contact scanning devices a few centimeters in front of these pipelines, using this A safer way is to "copy" the data flow of the target device to the lower-level device, and then upload it to the host for deciphering. The research room reverberated with the slight sound of equipment running, and Bubble's energetic voice suddenly came from the spiritual link: "Don't worry about the child's father! Isn't it just such a gadget, wait for me to take a deep dive with my hand!" After finishing the ship simulation mission, I will deal with it myself... "
Immediately I became more worried...
"Okay, okay, your load is already high enough, don't worry about things here, if the mother machine goes down, it will be a disaster," I cut off the chirping voice in the spiritual link, and turned to look at Sandora, "Where are the other two captives?"
Sandora shrugged: "Where else, the fourth district..."
Me: "... I'll go!"
"Don't worry, they are still alive, and they can live for a long time. Lilina is leading them to visit the fourth district."
I wiped the cold sweat from my brow: "Then I have to go and have a look... Lilina's dark-hearted guy seems to have finally found something interesting this time."
After leaving the headquarters, I headed directly to the fourth district - the entire Shadow City... no, in the entire multiverse, it would be difficult to find a place that could stop children from crying at night - the human rights freeze zone.
The so-called fourth district, in the minds of the residents of the shadow space, is a real existence, but everyone would rather regard it as a place of urban ghost stories. Its existence is open, but no one wants to have the slightest relationship with this place . The fourth district is located in the secondary parallel space of Shadow City. It overlaps with the east district of Shadow City. It needs to pass through a special authority space door or be guided by someone to enter. It looks as if Shadow City has just been built: dead silent, cold ,weird. This place is a nightmare prepared for criminals and vicious prisoners of war. Entering the fourth district is equivalent to entering the gap between the living and the dead.
This kind of place is essential for an empire. Peace and justice often require sufficient shadows and cruelty as guarantees. We cannot guarantee that every inch of territory ruled by the empire will strictly abide by the Xiling Code. In many cases, extreme crimes And mouths that have to be pried open by torture are both headaches, so even the empire needs prisons and wardens, and of course execution grounds. And the fourth district... At least it is the most extreme place of all "execution grounds" that I know of. Few people are so evil that they have to be sent to the Fourth District to be "purified", but once sent to this place, no one will last long.
And those two Melova prisoners of war were unfortunately sent here. RS