The ghost ship that Lan encountered was a wedge. It seems that it started from this, and the ghost fleet began to appear frequently near the macro world network. Even the recent extreme cases have shown that they are directly harassing our civil shipping routes, and have gradually threatened To the stability of the macro world.
Although this kind of threat is very subtle now, as long as the warning level and protection strength of the transmission device are increased a little, those "void pumice stones" can be ignored, but this has undoubtedly begun to arouse the extremely high vigilance of the empire's headquarters.
Today is the fifth day after encountering the first ghost ship that will launch a counterattack. In the past five days, we have basically received about three reports of "foreign objects intruding into the transmission channel" every day. Some of the foreign objects found in the reports are Huge starships, and some are amazing habitable structures. The reason why they are called by this weird term is because those behemoths are not starships. They have power and transition devices, but structure They are completely different from any known starships. They do not have heavy shields and armor, but have layer upon layer of protective structures, like sponges filled with large and small compartments. These irregularly shaped There is a strong reaction of residual life in the things, indicating that they once lived in a huge number of residents—of course, they are dead now, these structures are basically damaged, and the compartments inside are only dust that has completely decomposed organic matter , if it wasn't for the strong solidification force field around them, these behemoths would have already been smashed to pieces in the void.
Due to the increasingly dense phenomenon of ghost ships, the macro world network has recently raised the alert level, and all civilian transmission applications are processed together, and some civilian passages near the outer routes are temporarily closed. The nearby world transits to the station, which puts some moderate pressure on those transiting worlds, because the local inspectors and commissioners have to find a way to deal with the travel of many colleagues from different worlds who should not pass by them at all. It is a problem, and it cannot affect the normal order of this world. It is said that Wugeng Liuli recently submitted no less than ten reports to the Space-Time Management Bureau on this matter: More than 200 Cybertronians plan to form a group to reverse from her world to Marfa Continental, and Liuli really doesn't know how to explain to her sisters why there are more than a hundred luxury sports cars and more than a hundred heavy bombers in the family, and the premise is that if she has a place to house those Cybertronians if…
Therefore, we had to launch a lot of countermeasures, including adding auxiliary personnel to all border outposts of the macro world network, sending some special super-space support to the local inspectors, etc. These things made the magic girls of the Space-Time Administration... The ravens are so busy, I don't know if I should send some people to the Xizhimen overpass to observe and learn professional knowledge such as traffic guidance.
Of course, we don’t ignore the ghost ships that frequently intrude into the macro world network. The Military Control Department has recruited a large number of servant soldiers to enter the macro world network, cleaning up those ghost ships that don’t know the rules like cleaning the virus in the blood vessels, servants The advantages of the large number of troops and wide distribution have been well utilized this time, and in the past year, under the instruction of Sandora, the headquarters has been expanding military depots everywhere in the macro world network. These military depots provide extremely strong mobilization for the servant army ability, every ghost ship incident that has occurred so far has been properly handled in the first place.
However, these are only symptoms after all. If you want to cure the root cause, you should find out what is going on with those ghost ships as soon as possible.
It is a pity that since the last time Lan met once, the ghost ship with signs of control has never appeared again. What we encounter with the patrol team is always the silent spaceship wreckage. We have not found anything from those wreckages. There are no biological traces, and no reference log was found. The spaceship seems to have been abandoned for an unknown number of years. Except for the strongest thing like the engine, which is still intact, all auxiliary systems are completely scrapped. It was very difficult for the ship itself to find out where they came from.
The only thing we can be sure of is that our previous guess was right: all the ghost ships come from a huge fleet.
And this total fleet is gradually approaching the macro world network.
In the general void system, all worlds are randomly distributed like bubbles, with voids between each other, and their bodies have no intersection, but since the establishment of the macro world, the situation has changed after these worlds are connected to each other , the macroworld network gradually formed a huge information entanglement, the scale of which shocked even the Protoss. These macroworlds, like villages connected by highways extending in all directions, formed a continuous piece in the void, although there is no physical Or the concept of "closer", but they have indeed become a "whole" in another sense, and the ghost fleet is similar to the macro world. They may be composed of tens of millions of starships. After losing control, it should have been scattered and drifted away immediately, becoming a large number of irrelevant fragments in the void, washed away like a handful of sand thrown into the torrent, but the huge size of the ghost fleet itself caused these starships to lose control After that, they still gather together, and they can form a small group to wander around. Now, the two behemoths that have the same goal in terms of organization and form have slowly drifted closer, and their edges have already touched each other, and no one knows when the larger-scale collision will occur.
Like the past few days, I rushed to the headquarters early this morning to hear the latest news about the ghost fleet, and to study the search plan for the ghost fleet body with Sandora.
It’s a bit hard for me to say that it’s a bit hard for me, a lot of people in my family are typical military blind, just like Qianqian or Lin Xue, who are useless in military strategy, so they can play on their own with peace of mind, But I'm obviously not much better than them, why do I have to come to the military meeting every day to pretend to be a wolf with a big tail
"Because the wood works basically like the feathers on the head of an Indian chief, which doesn't work, but the chief thinks it's useful... Wow!"
The above is what the vicious young lady complained to me in private, and the last syllable is because I was pinching that girl's ear.
The senior cadre sent by the Military Integration Department to report was a tall and thin young officer who belonged to the new generation of Xiling apostles. He was originally the adjutant of Kaios, the commander-in-chief of the Psychic Assault Force, and was later recommended by his own chief. The Military Control Department serves as the Senior Overseer of the Servant Army. Currently, he is in full charge of clearing the ghost ship in the macro world network. Sandora, my sister, and a group of commanders and I are forming a circle to listen to his report.
"So far, the ghost ships encountered have been divided into two disposal options. Small ghost ships with no life response will be destroyed immediately upon discovery. Huge ghost ships with full power will be expelled into the void after being installed with tracking devices. We hope Those ghost ships equipped with tracking probes can lead us to find the main body of the entire fleet. As for the ghost ships with counterattack functions that the patrol team encountered in the transmission channel five days ago, they only appeared for the first time. Didn't show up."
Sandora was sitting on the position of the supreme commander concentrating on her expression, and I was dozing off next to her, not because I didn't care about this matter, but because the reports in recent days basically had the same content, the ghost Things like the fleet wander around in the void without any rules. Whether they can find their main force depends on luck, so I feel a little sleepy.
Sandora twisted my waist in the back calmly, and nodded slightly in front while maintaining the imperial majesty: "That ghost ship should be just a special case, don't waste too much energy. Now the tracking detective we released What's going on with the needle?"
An intelligence officer sitting in the headquarters seat stood up: "There has been some progress. At present, we can confirm that the ghost fleet does have a larger cluster. This cluster is hidden in the depths of the void, but it is slowly approaching the macro world network. , the first batch of probes released has been tracking the ghost ship for five days now, and the feedback data shows that it is approaching a huge source of information disturbance, which is very likely to be the main body of the ghost fleet. The other batches of early probes It is also reported that several ghost ships were encountered along the way, and those ghost ships wandered aimlessly within a certain void frequency, but the general trend is still approaching the macro world network."
"If everything is normal, we should be able to contact the main body of the ghost fleet in a few days." Sandora rubbed the center of her brows, "Such a huge fleet is a force that cannot be ignored even in front of the empire. Destroyed…”
The intelligence officer lowered his head slightly: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, we still haven't made any progress on this matter. The ghost ship has obviously been floating in the void for too long, and the attack energy it has suffered has been completely consumed by the void, so it is impossible to judge."
Information about the ghost ship is progressing slowly, mainly because those things that float around do not come from a fixed world, but wander around in the void. It is already quite difficult to scan a world from the void. Thing, sometimes it takes a month or two of searching to discover a new world, not to mention we're now tracking down a group of ghost ships that are constantly changing locations. The intelligence center has checked all the databases, and found no information about the source of the ghost ship, but it is not entirely sure whether they are related to the old empire: after all, civilizations that can cross the void are extremely rare, except for the Xiling Empire. Apart from the behemoths, only a few much weaker advanced civilizations registered by the Starfield Protoss can do it, and those civilizations have been excluded, so Sandora and I guess that the ghost ship should probably be in the Old Empire. A relic of some lost civilization that perished along with the times.
But this is also speculation.
The only good thing is that the tracking probes sent out before are all working normally and have made great progress. At least now we can confirm that they are approaching the main body of the ghost fleet, and the number of ghost ships encountered along the way is also increasing. Well, if everything goes according to plan, it's only a matter of time before they are found: in this case, I can't think of any accidents. The fallen apostles will not be so bold as to come to the empire's defense line to charge hard, right
We are also studying the properties of the ghost ship itself. In the previous encounters, in addition to the ships that were destroyed and returned to the void, the patrol team also captured some ghost ships. Now some of those spaceships are still being studied The center stayed there, and some of them had already been analyzed and placed in the headquarters for the officers to understand. What is more unexpected is that it is actually very easy to decipher the ghost ship. A considerable number of them seem to be civilian ships. Find out, and you can even copy one. Although the technological system used by these spaceships is quite different from that of the empire, it is quite simple for those imperial scientists who are out of specification to understand the principles of a group of backward civilian spaceships—this Just like running, you can run sideways, you can run backwards, you can also run with your hands on the ground, anyway, in Bolt’s eyes, it’s all the same, this is the difference in quality...
Finally, after listening to the report, Sandora arranged to strengthen the network security of the macro world, and I quickly slipped out to breathe the fresh air outside the headquarters: listening to the report and making strategic deployment here is simply too stressful It is easy to remind people of the sixth grade elementary school being dragged into the office by the teacher to check the papers. I couldn't understand what the teacher said, and the teacher couldn't understand what I said. In fact, the paper with exceptionally good grades depended on a dice Extraordinary performance…
I still follow Bingtis's suggestion to be a hands-off shopkeeper with peace of mind. This kind of professional work is really not something that a guy like me who is idle and has nothing to do to sip at the door all afternoon with a pot of hot tea can take over.
While I was idly walking around the square swinging my arms, suddenly a pretty strange girl came from the corner in front.
...Listen, the point of this sentence is not the beautiful girl, but the strangeness, don't think about it.
It was a girl who looked to be in her twenties, tall and tall, wearing a very ordinary white shirt and knee-length skirt, a short bright yellow waistcoat on her upper body, and simple flat sandals on her feet. It is a shopping attire, because the clothes are light, and the figure can be easily seen. Although it cannot be compared with the giant x that is out of specification like Bingtis, it can be called curvaceous and has a good figure. This strange girl left Her hip-length black long straight hair swayed slightly following her hurried steps. This scene somehow gave me a sense of inexplicable familiarity. After I got a little closer, I took a closer look at the other person's profile. A glance at the face, um, it is indeed a bit familiar, but I just can't remember who it is, it seems that I have never seen such a girl with a plain face... Is there such a person in the base
Wait, no, this place is a military base! How did civilians get in!
Thinking of this, I was immediately surprised, and hurriedly took two steps to ask about the situation, but the other party seemed to have a sense of me for a long time. Before I could speak, she turned her face and looked over, then snapped to attention, and then It's just a standard imperial salute, which instantly made me dizzy.
"Then what, who are you? Family?"
I asked casually, but the strange girl in front of me was stunned: "Your Majesty?"
I fainted as soon as the other party spoke, and then pointed at the other party in shock: "Hey, I'll go, Tavel!?"
"Well," the plain-faced girl dressed like a female college student returning from shopping had a strange voice, "It's me, Your Majesty looks surprised?"
I stared blankly at the other person, but I figured out who she was. I didn't recognize that face at first, and then I slapped my forehead and muttered: "Hey, it's you. I mean, what about your glasses?"
"I didn't wear it today. It was an auxiliary analyzer I made in the style of the earthlings. I didn't wear it because I didn't have work today."
That's the thing, the plain-faced woman in front of me who looks a little familiar but can't remember is Tavel who was put on a week-long vacation by myself, but today I can't recognize her without glasses! And she hasn't worn that signature white robe yet, which makes people feel even more unfamiliar, right? I always thought that Tavel's body was her glasses and white robe, so that over time I almost forgot what this girl with glasses looks like...
I was even worried that in the future, if she just hung her white robe in the research institute and put a pair of glasses on it, would I think she came to work today...
"Um, I'm a little surprised." I glanced unnaturally at Tavel, who was dressed in plain clothes and without makeup, and felt that the casual attire on the other party was really unsuitable. "I've never seen you wearing ordinary clothes and skirts."
"According to your order, take a seven-day vacation, buy new clothes you like, and do your favorite private things at the same time." Tavel replied sternly, the military style of her body was completely incompatible with the fluffy dress she was wearing Tune in, "I also taught myself how to cook, this is His Majesty Sandora's suggestion."
I was immediately very curious, and asked cheerfully: "That girl will definitely not be able to give you any other advice, how about your craft?"
Tavier immediately blushed and turned his head away: "His Majesty Sandora said it was edible, but she doesn't like it very much..."
I was dumbfounded, and felt that this might be a worse evaluation than the legendary "dogs don't eat", that is, Sandora didn't even eat...
When I was thinking about whether the dishes made by Tavel could also be thrown into the spaceship reactor as fuel, the chief researcher of the plain version suddenly coughed softly, and then looked at me expectantly: "Your Majesty, may I ask your subordinates?" Can I end my vacation early?"
I was taken aback: "Isn't it good to have a holiday? Have you had enough rest?"
"Actually, as long as there is a 12-hour comprehensive maintenance, the body functions will be adjusted to the best condition," Tavel said with his head down, as if he had left the researcher uniform like a shirt. Fang staff has completely turned into a soft girl—of course, considering the various magical technologies she tossed out, I think her hardness should not be much worse than Star Gold Stone, "Now my subordinates want to go back to the research institute. Regarding the ghost fleet, The subordinates may have some private discoveries... RQ