(That's right, the time to ask for votes at the beginning of the month has arrived! Now I am a skilled author who will never forget to ask for votes!!—Of course, if possible, I will also give a reward...) The battle is over, and the servants and reserve echelons are starting to clean up Battlefield, recycling and useful starships.
The Lion Legion led by Odysseus and Rena has just returned to the formation. Almost every one of the mana vanguards and arcane law enforcement officers has a certain degree of damage, but none of them was killed. It has to be said that they are special. The fighting style is really easy to use on a specific battlefield.
The main echelon of the Sixth Fleet is now being reorganized, assembled and counted battle damage.
Although we won in the end, and the result seems to be good, it must be admitted that the ferocious invasion of the Fallen Apostles has caused considerable losses to the New Empire this time, and the Sixth Fleet lost nearly one-third of this battle.
The servant army did not launch a frontal attack, but its battle damage almost reached this amount.
At least in the recent period, the Sixth Fleet is unable to appear on the frontal battlefield. They need to recuperate, replenish the destroyed warships, and recover the lack of personnel caused by the dead soldiers.
Although Xiling Apostle has the ability to resurrect, not every soldier can be resurrected in the face of such a high-intensity battlefield. Many heroic soldiers were completely killed in battle, and the military department will be very busy for a period of time in the future.
It should be said that fortunately we gained a relatively large advantage in the early stage of the battle and maintained it all the time, otherwise this vicious battle might even damage the entire Sixth Fleet fundamentally.
As the current main army of the New Empire fighting against the Fallen Apostles, this situation is extremely bad.
And when the fleet commander started the routine finishing work.
We also finally have the energy to focus on other things.
When the battle was in full swing, the intelligence officer once reported a request for help from an unknown source.
Those who asked for help said that they were being attacked by a group of extremely destructive enemies. We suspect that the people who attacked them were the fallen apostle invading army who fought against the imperial army.
Because everyone was caught in a fierce battle at that time, coupled with Xiaoxue's suggestion, this message for help was temporarily put on hold. Now, it's time for us to look at it.
Sivis turned on the holographic device on the officer's platform, which displayed the translated text of the request for help, as well as the coordinates and frequency information of the message, and she reported to us: "It has been nearly nine hours since the message was sent.
The sender's response disappeared completely, and we did not detect a second similar signal.
According to Her Royal Highness' prediction, the sender should still be alive, but they are hiding. "
Pandora tried her best to stretch her body and lie in front of the holographic device, with a serious expression on her face. As the general of Sivis, at this time, she should at least put on an appearance of strategizing.
But I didn't expect her to offer any constructive suggestions: this short winter melon with only explosions on his mind seems like an idiot for any problem that cannot be solved by explosions.
Instead, the twin sister Viska who was sitting next to her made some suggestions: "Why don't we broadcast across the universe, saying that the battle is over and the outside is safe now, let them come out?" I glanced at Viska, and the little girl also Looking back with his gleaming blood-colored cat pupils.
She smiled happily, showing her two filial teeth: "Brother, brother, isn't this a good idea?" Her intelligence outside of cannon measures is only a little higher than Pandora's, and I shook my head: "If you change it, would you believe it?" ?” “In the eyes of a third party.
It should be difficult to distinguish the emperor from the fallen apostle," Sivis shook his head as expected.
"Apart from the abyss reaction, there is basically no difference between us and the fallen apostle's army.
This third-party force should know nothing about the empire, so they should have the same vigilance and avoidance attitude towards the empire now.
It may not be realistic to establish contact with them by conventional means.
But the power of Her Royal Highness might be able to find their hiding place..." "I can only make a vague judgment," Xiaoxue rubbed her forehead. The child was already very tired, but she still tried her best to determine the location of the caller. Operate a few times on the picture, zoom out the view, and finally select a bright celestial body group hundreds of millions of light-years away from here. The super strong electromagnetic radiation and natural gravitational distortion are ideal barriers.
If I'm right, they're somewhere in this quasar.
But... They seem to have the ability to travel through the world. If we rashly send people there, they may run away, and then it will become an embarrassing situation of chasing and fleeing.
Although it's not that the imperial starships can't catch up with them, it's just that if they jump into the macro world network recklessly, they may be in danger.
This universe is already very close to the macro world network, and the other party is a group of brats who have not memorized the rules of cross-world navigation. "
... Listening to the biggest brat in history call someone else a brat, this feeling is so subtle.
"We need a few spaceships that don't belong to the empire's camp, and..." I turned my head to look at the people around me, "There are also a few idlers.
123, I’m talking about you guys, come and help, let’s rescue the crashed spaceship..." Before I finished speaking, Bingtis swayed over and stretched his waist: "I'm fine, it doesn't hurt ..." Me: "...you don't say a few words, no one will treat you as dumb! "Spaceships other than imperial starships are easy to find. When the Sixth Fleet set off with a considerable number of servants, we soon requisitioned an aircraft carrier and three carrying barges from the fleet of the civilization community: this is Their largest ship, although we are not sure how many people sent the distress signal and how many things they carried, but Xiaoxue said that it would be beneficial to bring a few large ships there.
In addition to the original crew members on these ships, Xiaoxue and I, as well as the protoss team of five, will accompany us personally, while my sister will stay on the Admiral of the Empire to guard the front line, and watch the reserve echelon and the servant army clean up the battlefield by the way—the thrifty housekeeper Sister, what I like to watch most is the scene of packing things at home. She used to watch me put things in the refrigerator, but now she watches her fleet dump spaceships into the hangar... In addition, Pandora and Viska were also ordered to stay in the on the spaceship.
The two little guys had no interest in things other than fighting, and they didn't like such boring actions as rescuing the wrecked spaceship.
And they still have to check their radiators... Riding on the aircraft carrier of the Civilization Community, we arrived at the target area after several medium-distance jumps.
This is an extremely bright space region, where supermassive interstellar matter—more than half of which can be used as star fuel—gather together to produce intense nuclear reactions, releasing super-intensive radio and optical radiation that can reach tens of billions of light-years away. Being observed, the detectors showed that the diameter of this mass of matter was about 1.12 light-days, of course.
Here's the average diameter: it doesn't look very "regular" and looks a bit like a wrinkled orange.
This is a quasar, viewed from a distance, its shape is a bit like a star, but its super strong light and heat radiation and too large volume indicate that it is definitely not the same thing as a star, and at the same time it is relatively "loose" The structure is also very different from a single planet in the usual sense.
Because the fuel is enriched, the reaction is violent.
The absolute brightness and radiation intensity of this space spectacle are thousands of times or more that of ordinary galaxies—of course, it far exceeds the dark nebula where the fleet stopped before.
We have to use perception methods other than vision to observe this planet, because its brightness is no longer suitable to be presented in front of the naked eye in the form of images. Of course, this is not a problem for us. Everything in it is richer and more colorful.
As for the other crew members on the aircraft carrier, those ordinary races from the civilized community.
They need to use various equipment to filter the light of quasars.
Although these races have been "promoted" by the empire, they are not yet strong enough to look directly at the light of quasars with the naked eye.
Of course, it is impossible to withstand the radiation of this hot celestial body.
And outside the space occupied by quasars, in the area that has been spreading for 50 million light years, there is only a vast dead space.
There are no small-scale solitary galaxies.
There is no nebular matter, and no ashes left after the burning of the above-mentioned celestial bodies.
The quasar in front of us must have squeezed out all the matter in its range at the beginning of its formation, and then used its own radiation wind to blow away the remaining residue in a short period of time, and it swept out a clean garden for itself , so quietly settled down in space.
This civilized community aircraft carrier has a flat, wide and short hull. At the bow of the spacecraft are a series of observation towers. We are now at the top of one of the observation towers. There is a rectangular hall here, allowing people to look outside space view.
Accompanied by the slight sound of mechanical friction, the alloy shield of the observation tower slowly fell, and the light from the brightest celestial body in the universe rushed in unreservedly through the seemingly fragile crystalline wall of the observation tower, like a heat wave that was about to burn everything , but the inner shield has already filtered the heat of the quasar and ninety-nine percent of its luminosity, the flames formed by sunlight are just an illusion.
The aircraft carrier and three barges are passing the 60,000-kilometer area above the quasar. For such a huge celestial body, 10,000 kilometers is already smeared close to the edge. The hot column from the surface of the celestial body below carries huge nuclear fuel fragments. Going into space, one of the two-kilometer-long hot fragments just passed the observation tower, and it looked like a burning continent fell into space under the reverse gravity, which was spectacular.
"Hiding in a quasar is nothing to a civilization across the world," Xiaoxue's eyes glowed with white light, and she was looking for those hiding in this light-sky refuge with great interest." Guest", "Well, it seems that this is here, I saw... one, two... three, three spaceships, with a uniform logo on them, dark red paint, nothing like weapons... at least no obvious strong armed.
It doesn't look like a battleship. If it's not an exploration ship that left the home world for the first time, it's lost with the armed guards. "
"Ha, I really envy you and your mother's ability," Bingtis said to Xiaoxue. She has entered the form of a god, and now she is spreading her gorgeous wings, facing the light of the quasar, stretching her waist, and then In the speechless sight, this female hooligan who went her own way simply hung herself on the huge observation window, "Show your wings, sun your wings, girls should pay attention to maintenance..." Then I saw Ilsen, Monina and Ken Se San also followed up calmly, and the four guys with a wingspan of three meters occupied half of the wall in an instant: basking in the sun under the light and heat of a quasar, these guys are really worthy of the name There is no one like this before.
Among the group of five protoss, Lin is the only one who is sensible, and this honest girl is standing obediently behind me.
Scratching his neck and coughing dryly.
Oh, right.
Bingtis asked her to help open a hole in the enemy's flagship before, so the girl bit a hole in the star alloy, is she choking now and hasn't recovered yet? Right now At that time, I noticed that the "horizon" outside the observation tower was rising, and the broadcast of the ship's main engine came along: "The positioning is complete, confirm the coordinates of the mass body... The ship began to sink, and the shield and various filtering levels increased by 100." Ten out of ten, there may be slight shocks.
All staff should be prepared for routine impact prevention... Exposure to the concentration cut-off line of the substance. "
A burst of not-so-violent shaking came from under the feet, and the aircraft carrier touched the gaseous shell of the quasar, and began to sink rapidly.
A celestial body such as a quasar has a gaseous outer layer instead of a solid state, so it does not have a clear and distinct "shell" in the true sense. However, there is still a relatively obvious dividing line on its surface. The violent nuclear reaction and the super-power of the quasar itself Gravity tugs at each other.
A boundary with extremely high density of gas and matter is formed on the surface of the star, and violent cyclones and turbulent heat waves rotate rapidly on this boundary, thereby creating a dynamic balance and forming an unstable "shell".
This shell is always changing, and occasionally it expands tens of thousands of kilometers or shrinks tens of thousands of kilometers inward.
The vibration from the feet of everyone just now was caused by the aircraft carrier touching the cyclone on the dividing line.
If it is a conventional civilization—that is, a spaceship made by a civilization that has not mastered space anchoring technology and special shields.
At this level, it is basically 100% about to disintegrate.
However, the spacecraft of the civilization community will only vibrate a little in the face of this environment.
Of course, if we drive an imperial starship over, I’m afraid there won’t even be a shock: the space interrupter made by Xiling Technology can easily block the storm on the surface of the quasar, without even consuming even 100% of the shield One of the energy.
Looking out through the crystal window of the observation tower, nothing can be seen with the naked eye.
Light far exceeding the imaging threshold filled all the surrounding space.
With the naked eye, all you can see is an endless storm of light and heat inside the quasar.
It takes only a millisecond for the eyes of ordinary creatures to burn out in this environment, and it is difficult for even us to "see" anything in such a dazzling environment.
However, we can use our mind to see things, and within the range of mental scanning, we haven't found the figures of those seeking help yet.
"They should have noticed us, but they didn't run away." Xiaoxue stared directly at the thermonuclear flames stretching hundreds of thousands of kilometers outside the observation window. signal that we are here to rescue."
We have already deciphered the help signal sent by the other party before, so we know the frequency and coding method needed to establish communication with the other party. Soon, a message expressing friendship and humanitarian assistance was sent out, and the response was received almost instantly. : It seems that the other party has been waiting for us to speak up for a long time.
"They asked about the 'chasers'," Xiaoxue knew the other party's response before the report from the communication center came. She looked up at me, "It's those fallen apostles."
"Just say that you have been beaten away, don't say anything else, it's too complicated to explain."
After some communication, the two sides reached an initial trust. Of course, the seeker also asked how we found this place: because they did not send any information to the outside world after hiding in this quasar, but we still found it.
In this regard, Xiaoxue directly used the gap in technology to fool the past.
The biggest advantage of two foreign civilizations that have never been in contact with each other is that both sides can talk nonsense casually. Of course, the disadvantage is that neither side basically believes the other side's nonsense... It doesn't matter, anyway, the other side believes us now and we have no hostility .
"Attention, when the force field barrier is detected, the target enters the range of the traction force field after 30 seconds... The probe has been launched, and the target can be observed after ten seconds... After five seconds, the target can be observed... The probe signal has been successfully transferred."
As the voice of the shipboard host fell, the observation hall dimmed, and the surrounding protective walls closed again. A huge holographic projection appeared in the hall, and three spaceships from strange civilizations appeared on the projection.
They are quietly suspended in the turbulent thermonuclear storm inside the quasar, and their scale does not seem to be large: the long axes of the three ships are all between two kilometers and three kilometers—well, for ordinary civilizations, this is already It's a big spaceship, but I've seen too many crazy giant battle fortresses made by the empire, and I subconsciously feel that this orangutan ship is really small.
The shapes of the three ships are similar, generally in the shape of a long trapezoid with a narrow front and a wide rear. They have symmetrical hulls, tough lines, and three-color paint in black, white and red—an unfamiliar spaceship style.
None of the three ships seemed to be warships, which was the same as what Xiaoxue said. Although there were suspected weapons on their surfaces, according to their size and distribution, they should only be firepower for self-defense.
I called the aircraft carrier's command room: "Take over the channel, let's talk directly to the opposing commander."
There was a momentary interference noise from the communicator, and then the words "communication transfer successful" appeared on the status display window. We have established a connection with the three third-party spaceships of unknown origin.
"This is the Supreme Commander of the Xiling Empire, where are you from?" "This is the Supreme Commander of the Fiali Empire, where are we?" Two inquiries came from the communicator almost at the same time, one was from me, and the other was from a The voice of a young woman.
Everyone: "..." (To be continued.
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