To be honest, I had never seen what Tavel looked like in casual clothes before today. The classic image of this research madman is simply too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The neat white robes of the researcher, the delicate glasses of the lady, and the meticulous and vigorous manner These three points add up to become the well-known exploding madman glasses girl in Shadow City... well, she can't let her hear this sentence, the scientists of the empire are generally no less dangerous than Hitler's...
I gave Tavel a vacation, and I really didn't expect to see her in casual clothes because of this. To be honest, she put on an ordinary dress and took off her glasses. She is like a different person, that is, that kind of The blade-like military temperament can also give people a sense of familiarity, but it is particularly inconsistent with her soft girly attire. In all fairness, I think it would be better if she stood still, looking at her back with a lady like...
This also directly led to the fact that I couldn't recognize her at all after she took off her glasses. If she didn't speak, at most ten minutes later, I would make up a half-sister for Tavel.
"The subordinate applied to return to the research institute early," Tavel repeated to me again seriously, "About the matter of the ghost ship, the subordinate feels that he should be able to find more things by analyzing it himself."
"It's not impossible, the research institute does seem a bit busy without you," I nodded slightly, and the other party immediately showed a happy expression, but I added later, "I still have a long vacation, to be honest. Yes, if Reimu and Zi are half as dedicated as you, I will be satisfied."
As I said this, I thought of the unlucky fox that Zi was forcibly sent to take over for him all day long. Lan just came out of the medical center yesterday, and the hair on his tail is full, but it seems to have left a serious psychological shadow. Now She would get anxious with anyone who stared at her tail for more than a minute, and grinned her teeth and landed on all fours to blow hair with them. Even I was almost bitten by her. At present, 70% of the stray dogs and cats in Shadow City have already surrendered to Lan’s nine tails. The latter has become the king of canines in Shadow City. I am very happy Worried that if this continues, she will one day regress to the point of eating raw meat. And Reimu has been skipping work all day recently, and all the work is pushed to Ibuki Suika, who was coaxed and tricked into the urban management brigade by her, and Marisa, who is a bit silly. I spend all day sleeping in the dormitory. Poor Cuixiang, that silly girl is still limping on one leg. She has been patrolling with a cane she picked up from nowhere for the past two days. The urban management armband was messily tied on the horns of her head. From a distance, it looks like a ball of rags. This guy is always holding a wine gourd wobbly. Now many people are worried about the financial problems of the Shadow City urban management department. Every time Cuixiang goes out to patrol, he can gain a handful of change...
And that silly girl happily thought she had made a profit.
As I said before, 10% of Cuixiang's intelligence is probably really suppressed by her into the big horns on her head.
I accidentally thought of the two arrogant working girls who always made people feel like a big fight, which made me feel depressed. I was worried that after they turned Lan into a fox dog and Cuixiang into a beggar gang elder, would they make another mess? What a moth, it seems that it is time for them to write a 30,000-word self-criticism.
Of course, I didn't forget that Tavel was waiting for her reply. She applied to return to her job early. To be honest, this did not surprise anyone. This research freak, for her to let her leave the laboratory is as terrible as forcing Lilina to go to Zimbabwe to save lives and heal the wounded. Vacation is not a comfortable thing for her—did you hear, even buying a beautiful dress? Because there are orders from above, she herself has no interest at all. If the same thing happens to Qianqian, do you believe that girl can shovel Tangbai Building including its foundation and bring it back
"It seems that I'm giving you a vacation, and you're not always idle."
I glanced at Tavel, "Are you also working on the ghost ship?"
"I just downloaded some data from the shared link." Tavel immediately stood at attention and entered the report state, "The subordinates have been following your order to take a vacation, but downloading data from the shared link and conducting scientific analysis is just One of my daily personal hobbies!"
"Okay, okay," I waved to Tavel, "don't always be so serious, you should know that I don't like these messy etiquette in informal occasions. What do you think about the ghost ship?"
"The subordinates speculate that the ghost ship fleet may be slowing down."
If Tavel didn't make a sound, he would startle me. I just thought that she had nothing to do to understand the information about the ghost ship, but I didn't expect that she had already researched such a detailed thing by herself!
"They're slowing down? What do you mean?" I asked, rubbing my chin.
"This is the conclusion obtained by my subordinates after analyzing and comparing the data obtained from the void probes distributed throughout the macro world network, and speculating on the course of the ghost ship. Although the core information disturbance source of this fleet is indeed getting closer to the macro world, but its 'moving speed' in the void is indeed slowing down. At present, the subordinates are not sure whether the fleet is planning to stop or turn around and escape, but they obviously don't want to contact the Empire—this is just a guess, and there is not enough evidence , in theory."
"There are still people manipulating the ghost fleet. This is indeed our guess," I thought for a while, "but the entire fleet is braking... Then no one thought of it. How reliable do you think this conclusion is?"
"More than 90%," Tavel nodded confidently. "My subordinates are good at analyzing various fuzzy data, and have created some very complicated void data models. According to this model, the ghost fleet is indeed slowing down."
"Slow down, I don't want to contact the empire... By the way, when Lan and the ghost ship came into contact, the other party launched a counterattack, but after the imperial patrol ships brought by Lan appeared, the three obviously manned ghost ships seemed to be running for their lives. Gone! They did..."
I feel that some conjectures are suddenly clear, and Tavel's analysis is very likely to be correct, but at this moment, Sandora's emergency call suddenly came from the spiritual connection: "Ah Jun! Important information, the first probe It may have come into contact with the main body of the ghost fleet!"
I was a little surprised, but quickly calmed down and smiled at Tavel: "Your guess should be right, but now we can directly confirm the origin of the ghost ship without guessing: the probe has found their lair."
"Because the empire will always reap success," Tavel's mouth turned up slightly. Then he still did not forget his application, "Your Majesty, can this subordinate return to the research institute?"
"If you want to confirm that your body is fine..." I glanced at Tavel, but didn't say the second half of the sentence: Tavel looked energetic, as an apostle of the spirit. She doesn't worry about her health, in her words. Ten or so hours of comprehensive adjustments are actually enough for a vacation. I have no doubt that it will take less than ten seconds for Tavel to kill a Terminator. In this case, the other party has to go back to the research institute, so I really have nothing to say, "Okay, it seems to continue working It’s a happier thing for you—Tavier, the chief researcher of the empire, the vacation is over early, and you can go back to your post—but pay attention to your health in the future, if you mess up the project again, maybe Sandora will really punish you.”
The workaholic immediately gave a military salute overjoyed: "Yes! Tavel returns to the team!"
I have never seen such a happy person who was called back to work overtime in advance. If this kind of employee is placed in any private company. How hated that is... The normal people around must bite her.
Not long after I wandered outside, I returned to the headquarters in a hurry. Sandora, a group of commanders, and most of the family were already waiting here, even Qianqian and Lilina were together. There is a huge holographic projection device in the largest command hall, and a group of people form a circle in front of this holographic projection to point and discuss things. Looking at the girls and daughters-in-law who seemed to be picking Chinese cabbage in the vegetable market from a distance, many commanders were retrieving data and assigning tasks on the nearby information terminals, and it was very lively.
You only know when you ask. When Sandora contacted me, there was indeed only one probe suspected of touching the main body of the Ghost Fleet, but in the few minutes when I rushed to the headquarters, many probes suddenly sent a lot of information. A large number of probes sent out in batches seemed to have been negotiated, and a large number of ghost ships were discovered at the same time—perhaps this shows that the ghost fleet has a structure similar to a discrete cluster. It does not have only one "cluster", but many scattered fleets Clusters form a common core.
The probe sent back not only rough information such as the number and coordinates of the ghost fleet, but also recorded very clear video data. Now Sandora and the others are studying the clearest and largest cluster image among them, while studying and discussing.
"Wow, Ah Jun, you're here!" Qianqian was the first to notice me, and immediately jumped over joyfully and hugged my neck and gave me a sip. I think the reason why she is often the first to spot others is because most of the time she He didn't concentrate on anything—you see, Little Bubble is still pouted and counting how many small bright spots are on the screen.
... By the way, Little Bubbles managed to sneak into the military zone again.
"These are the lairs of the ghost fleet?"
I looked up, but the second half of the sentence was almost skipped, "Damn it! How much is this f*cking!"
Sandora zoomed the screen, adjusted the image of the ghost fleet to the maximum, and then changed the background of the entire fleet, turning the black background of the void into transparent, so that all the ghost spaceships are clearly presented in front of us, the scale Surprising.
"This is only a part of it. The entire ghost fleet is at least ten times the number."
Sandora said in a deep voice, and on the screen of the holographic projection, there are tens of millions of huge starship clusters and a huge fortress with strange shapes in the center of the entire cluster.
"Hundreds of millions of starships... and all of them are big guys..." I felt my forehead was sweating, "Is there a scale, who will tell me how big this big black bump is first?"
I am referring to the black fortress in the center of the screen. From the image, the main part of the Ghost Fleet is a cluster of starships distributed in the shape of a top. Countless starships form a flat shape with a large top and a small bottom like a swarm of bees. Disc, the outermost spaceships are large in number and small in size, and the further inward the spaceships are, the larger they become. It is difficult to explain how a ghost fleet that has lost control maintains this stable structure in the process of drifting, unless they still It has a certain self-control ability, and in the center of the entire cluster is a huge black "thing" with a strange shape. It looks like a bloated piece of meat with an irregular appearance and layers of black streamlined structures. Roughly spherical, with flickering lights and a large red gash.
"It looks like a rotten potato." Qianqian muttered, she was very displeased with that ugly giant swelling, "It's so ugly."
"Those with trypophobia can't watch this." The eldest lady was pointing at the countless starships.
Under the control of the rear, the probes that were already close to the fleet cluster carefully measured the size and energy response of all the warships, and then came to a conclusion: that huge black fortress like rotten potatoes is at least three times the size of the earth. And the largest of the countless starships around it is almost as huge as the Eternal-class mothership!
Of course, such a huge mothership is also quite rare in this fleet. Probably can only be used as a strategic weapon. Most ghost ships are about the size of small and medium Imperial warships. At the same time, the probes also began to analyze the theoretical combat effectiveness of these warships, mainly by measuring their energy intensity, energy form, and hull structure to achieve a preliminary calculation of the target spacecraft's combat effectiveness.
"Sixty percent of them are unarmed or have only a few anti-aircraft guns," said Sivis, who is in charge of analyzing the combat effectiveness of the ghost ships, and has now come to a conclusion. She specially enlarged the pictures of some ghost ships and presented them to us. I found that most of those hulls are thick and round, and such hulls are rarely used as main battleships. In most cases, only fortress ships like the Frontier class will have such a thick shape, and these thick hulls in the Ghost Fleet The short ships are obviously civilian transport ships or colony ships. "The main energy of all ghost ships is psionic energy with poor purity. Compared with the void decay psionic energy used by the empire, this energy has too many impurities and low efficiency. It is possible that their creators have not fully grasped the establishment of hyperspace. Reactor. It is a technology that directly decays psionic energy from the void environment, but can only use the reactor placed on the main material plane to simulate the initial environment of the world and extract a small amount of psionic energy."
"This shows that there is about two levels of difference between the technological level of the ghost ship and the empire." Sandora said, and then explained to me specifically, "Usually, the mastery of energy can be used to stratify technology, with psionic energy as the For example, just realizing psionic energy and trying to use it is considered elementary, being able to mine ready-made energy from some rare "energy fields" in the universe and using it is a further step, and being able to build a reactor on the main material plane and master it by oneself The process of refining psionic energy is one level higher, and further up is the initial mastery of the technology of the hyperspace reactor, which can extract psionic energy from the border of the world, and then the empire, which can directly create energy in the void, Basically, the Apostles of Xiling have reached the highest level, and if they go up, they can directly control the void, and these ghost ships... Although they are much worse than the empire, they can be regarded as products of advanced civilizations, but it is not clear how powerful they are compared to the empire. You know, no one knows how big these ghost ships were in the first place."
"This fleet is very close to the nearest imperial outpost," Sandora added, "but what is strange is that they seem to be slowly slowing down. Oh, this is a more understandable statement. After all, there is no concept of speed and distance in the void. It can only be said that this fleet is slowly deviating from the "information characteristics" of the empire's ruled area. This is a tendency that requires high-end statistics to discover. The ghost fleet is trying to bypass the macro world But I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed... The macro world network is too large, and the ghost fleet has basically entered the collision zone that cannot be avoided, unless they know exactly the structure diagram of the macro world network, they will definitely collide."
I thought this was it, and it was exactly the same as what Tavel judged, except that a large group of commanders in Sandora only discovered this tendency after having first-hand information, but Tavel only downloaded it from the radio network. After collecting some information, I analyzed this complex statistics by myself before going to bed... People are more popular than people, and there are some things that you can only let professional people do.
"In short, we should go and see the situation in person," my lord sister saw that no one spoke, and put forward her own suggestion. "I think these spaceships are too strange, and it's worth checking in person."
Everyone agreed on this, Sandora immediately ordered to prepare for the Royal Fleet to set off, the first family will personally investigate the situation of the Ghost Fleet, and Pandora began to dispatch her own guards, I quickly patted this little girl The head said that this is not a war, who are you sending troops to fight with
In the end, Pandora's explanation was very simple: Those things must be very troublesome if they hit them, if there is no other way, they should be blown up first...
You said how easy it is to have a logical way like Pandora. No matter what difficulties you encounter in life, you should blow them up first. I have to have this awareness in the make-up exam for the second and fifth subjects in high school... At this time, I should be able to fight for a reduced sentence...
The Royal Fleet and Pandora's heavy guards are always ready for battle. The energy and control systems of the spacecraft are ready for a long time. The preparations were completed ten minutes after the order was issued. The only thing that took a little time was that I used five It took only a few minutes to catch Little Paopao: That girl wanted to hang out with her all her life.
It took less than seven or eight minutes for the fleet to enter the void state to find the ghost fleet. As the intelligence said, this group of floating corpses floated too close... (to be continued) RQ