Accompanied by the sense of spatial confusion caused by the hyperspace acceleration, the starry sky on the exterior projection turned into a blurred band of light, and the channel composed of redshift and blueshift has become the only scene outside now, and the whole world is like a monotonous gradient channel , Then, the light band gradually dimmed, and the spaceship has entered a hyperspace state.
According to the superlight propulsion engine power of this Protos battleship, this process may take several hours before we can reach the station.
Ten light years is really a tangled distance. For the Protos battleship, this distance is a bit too close by high-dimensional transition, and a bit far by hyperspace acceleration. Compared with so many days, a few hours are nothing.
It may be possible to find Lilina, that crazy girl—although I only know her approximate location, but at that distance, with the help of Sakura's power amplifier, it shouldn't be difficult to find her, right
"so boring… "
No matter what I said, I just thought of a certain crystal virgin who was incarnated as a wireless router, and there was a boring complaint from the other party behind me, as well as a pleasant clear sound of crystal friction.
The several-meter-high crystal colossus is connected by more than a dozen gratings, and is semi-fixed two meters above a bowl-shaped depression. With the resonance of the crystal, it floats up and down slightly, and countless blue and white colors protrude from the inverted cone base of the colossus' lower body. The crystal cluster, the dense energy sparks on it hit the surrounding grating time and time again—don’t get me wrong, it’s just communication, and on the upper half of the colossus, the sky-blue crystal girl sculpture is lying on its base with a bored face, occasionally very Horrified, she rotated her entire upper body 720 degrees to show how good her yoga skills are. Sakura has maintained this state for many days. After the novelty of reposting the news passed, she was left bored.
"The battleship of Protos is really boring. There are no cartoons or Internet."
"...Normal warships can't have that kind of thing, right? Don't take Bubble's wicked transformation of the imperial warships for granted, okay?"
And if you look at the hard-working heroic guards around you, although most of them are here to join in the fun, and almost 80% of them are now fighting the landlord, at least none of them call it boring, right? As a group employee, you must have a positive working attitude.
But Qianqian is not around, it's really a bit boring - the feeling of missing a happy little animal, although there is a more joyful little one in the pocket, but in daily life, a playful pet and a funny off-line girlfriend The fun it can bring you is completely different.
Worried that Jietas would be suddenly attacked by the imperial rebels, and worried whether the Shepherd would send more warlords over there, we left the main force of the Federation and several of the strongest combat forces there to assist in the defense, among them Including Qianqian, who has the most reversible ability, and Jin Glittering, who has just approached the high-ranking apostle on the strength list, and Pandora, the super killer. Now only my sister and Viska are by my side, as well as a person who is so boring that he is on his base. With a rolling wireless router and a group of Doudizhu's heroic guards, this configuration is indeed much duller.
Oh, I also forgot one person, Tavier, because she appeared in this universe in the state of mass projection, the girl with black long straight glasses needs to be next to Sakura to work—the signal here is better, so Tavier also passes with us, by the way Researching what is the big nebula that the gods are talking about, but even if it is a bit rude to say it, I have to say that after this workaholic joined, the journey became more dull...
The Void Cruiser is a high-speed long-distance self-sustaining spaceship manufactured by Protos imitating the Xiling Expedition-class warship. It is their current highest technological achievement. In this respect, it can be seen that the existence of Kepulu humans and their Protos friends What a big gap. Although they have received more scientific and technological guidance from the empire, the fundamental technological gap has caused the former to passively use the ready-made technology given to them by the empire. They even need to do their best to understand how to operate them. However, the Protoss can draw inferences from one instance and create their own phantom battleships according to our drawings.
This is the void cruiser spaceship we are riding on now, a warship filled with psionic energy, but its shape and overall structure are quite different from the imperial spaceship.
The Great Nebula Zone is the most famous region of this caged universe. It is an interstellar dust cloud with a radius of three light-years that gradually becomes denser from the outside to the inside. On the whole, there is no radioactive gas cloud isolation zone with a deviation of one millimeter, and there will be no layering of the slightest folds within tens of millions of kilometers, and some strangely dense states, which are absolutely impossible to change under natural conditions. The aggregates of matter in that shape, they together form this large nebula with a radius of three light years, an absolute spherical shape, and a surface "smoothness" exceeding 99.99%.
Obviously, this is not something that nature can produce.
A ship traveling faster than light would have a staggering mass (you could argue that's infinity, though it's still a calculable number in the eyes of the Xiling), and gravitational perturbations would have devastating tidal effects on nearby matter, even if The Void Crusher is equipped with the most advanced gravitational balance equipment developed by the Protoss to counteract this damage to the surrounding environment. The gravitational disturbance effect still exists, but when we entered the large nebula, the observation device found that it could not Phenomena explained by conventional science: those fragile clouds with no intensity at all in local areas seem to ignore the spacecraft that is passing by at a hundred times the speed of light, and their structures still maintain their structure when the space is slightly warped. uniform height.
It gives me the feeling that the typhoon can't disperse a puff of green smoke, and the flood can't wash away two fallen leaves. We rushed into the clouds and mists with the momentum of thunder, but the light and fluffy latter seemed to be watching us coldly from another world.
That's right, it's all about rhyming.
Tavel started her own research work after the spacecraft entered the nebula. She occupied the seat of the intelligence officer as a temporary workbench: "We have just passed through the thin area of the nebula that is 0.1 light-year thick. Along the way, The density of the surrounding matter fluctuates by no more than one part in a billion. In front of it is the radiation layer mentioned by Queen Gotak. After the radiation layer, the density of the large nebula suddenly triples, and then there is the next material cloud belt with infinitely uniform density, and then another The radiation layer, and another material belt... It’s like layers of fruit shells. The material density of each layer is very uniform, and it suddenly increases sharply in the next layer. My lord, the interior of the great nebula may be solid. We really Why don't you go and see? There shouldn't be any danger - in theory."
Scientists are very dangerous, especially the scientists of the Xiling people. This group of lunatics with no lower limit will do any sensational things for research, such as suggesting that our lonely spaceship rush into the suspected shepherd Go to the Great Nebula Core of the Stronghold.
That's right, the core area of the great nebula is one of the well-known forbidden places in this universe, and compared to other places that can only be guessed, the center of the great nebula can be almost 100% sure that there are shepherds' bases, at least they often The place to stay here has been listed as a key monitoring target by us. The 137 large starports in the Red Giant Star Fortress are working overtime to build fleets in order to attack here first after the full-scale war. The purpose of such a small number of people is to pick up Lilina, whoever agrees to Tavel's crazy suggestion is definitely out of his mind.
"Well, your subordinate understands His Majesty's concerns. I will try my best to let the detection machine fly in the outer layer of the nebula, but we can't analyze much information in the superluminal state. If we can stop for a while..."
"Come back and talk about it."
I rolled my eyes at the sky, you don't have to be polite with this research madman, because as soon as you are polite, she will climb along the pole and make you doomed.
"This area must have been created by the rebels." Viska stood on his chair, trying to use this method to create a sense of overlooking. "The natural laws of this universe cannot form such an area."
His tone was quite serious, and his expression was in line with the general's majesty, but if you can just stand on tiptoe to match Tavier... you'd better go down.
"It is said that this is the most tragic battlefield since the start of the cosmic melee cycle," the elder sister looked at the holographic projection in front of her. Although there was only a blurred light band on the exterior scene, after the compensation calculation, the simulation map of the large nebula was still clearly presented in the In front of everyone, "Those races that lost their territory in the war or have just arrived here and have not had time to establish a territory will be driven to the outer area of the Great Nebula, where they will fight for melee, and the last surviving race can leave, otherwise they will be killed by the shepherd The supervising team is wiped out."
"Hmph, those lunatics also made rules." With a sarcasm in his tone, Viska jumped down from the chair lightly, his face flushed, and Pandora would be responsible for using the knife with his hand if he made such a foolish move Or punch this girl down, but now that "Sister Stupid" is not here, she can only feel the embarrassment and jump down by herself. In addition, speaking of lunatics, it seems that you are about the same, Your Excellency the General who is 1.2 meters.
"It's really unfair," my elder sister sighed, "Many races that just came to this universe were thrown into the battlefield for no reason like this, but it's also strange that after so many years of wars, even though the big nebula has a radius of three light years, There should also be some battleship wrecks left here, right?"
"They should have all become the matter of the big nebula, or the energy of the radiation belt," Tavel turned his head and pushed his glasses, "the rebels must have built this zone not just to make it a battlefield, this huge cloud There are obvious traces of planning in the district, and its operating mechanism is not yet clear, but it definitely has some function, if... "
"Come back and talk about it."
"... Well, Your Majesty."
Now is not the time to launch a frontal impact on the nebula. Our spaceship took a huge arc inside it, bypassing the first radiation layer of the nebula. It is said that this is the boundary line set by the shepherd in the balance cycle. The spaceships of ordinary races will be attacked by them once they cross the radiation belt, which makes our voyage twice as long, but six hours later, the spaceship still passed the huge "interstellar dust". After slowing down to a light-capturing speed, the first ray of starlight from the eastern part of the nebula shone on the sleek fusiform of the Void Wanderer, like a silver barracuda, and the Federation's spaceship entered the silence of space.
"It looks very calm. The introduction also said that this is the most chaotic area ruled by pirates in the entire universe, and there are wars every day." Cu Chulainn carried his magic gun with a regretful expression on his face, "It's so dark that you can't see anything. .”
"You think the population density of the universe is the same as Caishikou, which fights all day long." I squinted at this guy who didn't know what a universe civilization is. "Adjutant, connect the transmission controller."
"Zizi", after a slight energy sound, the crystal panel in front of the commander's seat disappeared like a phantom, and a weird-looking handle-shaped controller rose up. This is a gadget we gave to the New Eden Federation. The instantaneous teleportation device that can gather scattered troops within the galaxy to a base in a very short time and with minimal consumption can be regarded as allowing them to initially have the legion teleportation ability of the Xiling regular army under any situation. The Protos advance team we sent here should have established a base nearby. If we use conventional space to jump there, we still have to wait for the spaceship’s hyperspace engine to cool down. Without cooling.
Let me think about it, what is the startup code for calibration transmission...
Well, go down to the front block, and then down to the front triangle.
... Laugh if you want, this thing is designed by Bubble, the return code of Admiral Empire is still up, down, left, right, left, right, A+B.
A flash of white light-Although it is very cheesy to use, the ultra-advanced Imperial teleporter is indeed much faster to use than the Protos jump engine that takes several minutes to start, just a flash of white light, and we entered an asteroid field.
Ahead is a semi-fixed base that has just taken shape, a typical asteroid belt fortification template, a dozen larger asteroids are connected together by a high-strength interstellar alloy skeleton, forming a base built based on their original relative positions. The three-dimensional defense line, each asteroid has traces of being hollowed out, and the metallic luster has covered almost 80% of their internal and external areas. Various golden buildings with Protos characteristics are fixed on the surface of these asteroids , and its interior should be a place like a warehouse, and the alloy skeleton fixing this piece of asteroid has extended a part outwards, connecting several starports and take-off and landing platforms, and it seems to be ready for use.
However, the entire base was silent.
After the communication call, what responded to us was a noisy background sound. The interstellar alloy skeleton of the base glowed with a cold metallic luster, but the streamer of energy flow was missing. Only a few buildings in the entire asteroid system were still lit. The rest of the place was as dark as if it had lost its energy. On the landing platform, there were a mess of supply containers, half of which were damaged, and the contents inside were floating everywhere—the artificial gravity of the base had been turned off.
That's all we saw after the teleportation was done.
"The spaceship stops, let the probe pass by, and send the picture back."
My elder sister immediately said cautiously, now she has the demeanor of a regular army commander.
"They're under attack," I immediately concluded when the footage came back and zoomed in on the details. "No one."
The newly established base seems to have been abandoned during an emergency operation. When the picture was zoomed in, we found that one-third of the interstellar alloy skeletons that made up the entire base structure had been broken, and the two metal plates with psionic reactors were broken. The asteroid was thrown out of the building cluster due to the fracture of the connection skeleton and some kind of shock wave, and it was floating alone behind the base and spinning rapidly, the entire base lost its energy supply as a result, and two of the three take-off and landing platforms had obvious The molten traces, the surface is covered with pitted metal bubbles, which should be the result of continuous bombardment by high-intensity energy weapons. The asteroid in the center of the base that may be used to install the psionic shield generator has now been torn apart, and it looks like it was destroyed once. Severely overloaded, and around the base, we only find the remains of a few sentry guns and a photon cannon emplacement.
In the more distant space, there are still some inconspicuous metal fragments floating, which seem to be fragments of warships, but the main parts of those fragments have obviously been salvaged by someone, and the remaining fragments have been abandoned here.
"The entire frequency band is silent, and the channel of the mothership of the exploration force is not in the broadcasting range," a Protoss officer shook his head and said, "Great mentor, there is no life response in the base, are we approaching?"
"Well, stay vigilant."
The spaceship reflecting the silver light slowly approached the deserted base, and landed on its only well-preserved takeoff and landing platform. Most of the heroic spirits and Protos warriors were ordered to stay on the spaceship to protect the void wanderers and the more important crystals. The Holy Mother, my elder sister, and Viska led several high-strength heroic spirits to this silent outpost.
"Artificial gravity is totally useless."
Wandering lightly on the takeoff and landing platform, looking at the mechanical devices and broken stones floating in mid-air around me, I said through a spiritual connection.
"This... This is really a very difficult combat environment..."
A very troubled voice sounded in my mind, and when I turned my head, Saber was drifting over with her head tilted at thirty-five degrees.
"Saber, it's enough to use the magic jet, no matter how fast the dull hair spins, it can't be used like a propeller."
"... It's too rude. In your capacity, please don't say such rude words"
Come and bite me if you have the ability
"Okay, okay, there's still business to do," my lord sister is still the eternal peacemaker, calming down the outraged Lion King and the vicious head of state with a single sentence, "Now, it's best to see if there is any Corpses and the like…”V