Xu Yunjin was a resolute man, and his style was very military. He used necessary means when necessary. Soon, he raised his voice and issued a series of orders seriously.
The one-month maintenance period was forcibly compressed to 20 days, which will inevitably significantly extend people's working hours.
All the new humans can still talk, after all, everyone knows the internal reasons. However, this series of orders has caused complaints from the subordinate civilizations. Although these subordinate civilizations are elites, they have more free thoughts, and some internal rumors have arisen.
What about "The enemy may be coming, and the Pangu may have to get out" and so on.
Xu Yunjin sneered and dispatched a large number of troops, directly arrested some spreaders of rumors, and then announced an increase in welfare benefits during the "overtime period." Under the policy of big stick and red dates, the whole thing was suppressed.
"... Just maintain the necessary parts. If it is not necessary, you can maintain it after the 'Pangu' departs. The attached civilization should not be too oppressive." Xu Yunjin said to an expert from the maintenance team.
"The battle star of the 'Pangu' must correct its course as soon as possible, speed up its actions, and leave as soon as possible." He sighed in his heart, and in just a short while, he deeply understood the usual difficulties of Captain Yu Yifeng.
In this way, more than twenty days later, the anxious maintenance work was finally completed and the Pangu was started again.
The first maintenance went smoothly, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, the entire escape is a long-term project. The farthest enemy is still 9.3 light-years away, but there is no need to be careless. It is safer to set off a day earlier.
The communication this time was not useless. Pangu urgently updated its escape route. At the same time, both parties also formulated a plan for the next step: changing direction every four months.
The hibernation bill may still continue, but the infrastructure work on the planetary curvature engine, including foundation laying, basic material production, etc., can already be operated in the Pangu.
The "Future" is responsible for observing the enemy's movements and notifying the "Pangu" to change its route at any time. As long as there is a targeted route, it will not be easy to plunge into the enemy's encirclement network.
Just like that, the long chase through the stars began.
Although the Pangu runs slowly, it still runs at super-light speed and can cover most of its movements. The enemy's spaceship runs fast, but it needs to stop from time to time to analyze the Pangu's gravity data, which significantly lowers the speed of the ship.
speed.
There is also a future drone that follows the enemy, collecting information and threading threads.
One year...two years...three years...
The entire pursuit quickly entered a fever pitch.
The enemy took the lead in using the "outflanking tactic" of planetary battleships chasing behind and other highly maneuverable small spacecraft intercepting in front.
As long as some small fleets are lucky enough to wait until the Pangu stops for maintenance, they can take the lead in launching an attack!
Of course, a large number of fleets ran in front of the Pangu, which was equivalent to being completely unaware of the movement trajectory of the Pangu. Coupled with the timely notification from the Future, the "wait and wait" double-teaming mode did not play a very important role.
Good results.
A strange impasse emerged.
The Future did indeed play a huge role. It commanded the Pangu on several occasions and avoided being surrounded by enemy troops.
The universe is too big. Because of the limitation of the speed of light, all kinds of information are like the fog of war. This is definitely a contest of mathematics, energy and tactics.
However, in the fourth year of escaping, something big happened: the Future was discovered!
He almost had a head-on conflict with a battle star!
The massive explosions of photon torpedoes were like blooming suns. A large number of scorching light clusters flashed briefly. This conflict caused the Future to lose a large number of spacecraft and antimatter reserves.
After long-term detection of enemy army movements, it was found that it was actually quite normal.
Fortunately, as long as it does not encounter a white dwarf battle star, the Future is not afraid, and its powerful maneuverability will quickly throw away its pursuers.
Such an adventure is always safe without risk... and it also makes the Future more and more cautious and cautious...
"In the past 8 years, conflicts of various sizes have occurred 14 times..."
"It's not easy for us to escape like this! What should we do? The opponent's encirclement network has not been thrown away, but has a tendency to become smaller and smaller. The speed of our Pangu is still too slow..."
On this day, the Future was parked quietly in the void, observing the movements of the opponent's battle stars. Several experts were discussing non-stop, almost racking their brains.
After careful planning, Pangu has been escaping for 17 years, covering a total distance of 45 light-years!
17 years!
"The nearest enemy planet is about 5.4 light-years away."
This distance trend is not wonderful. Especially the white dwarf battle star is only 15 light-years away from Pangu.
The new humanity must think of a better way to completely get rid of this kind of tracking.
"It's difficult, it's really difficult... The traces of planetary movement are still too obvious." People are distressed, and there is almost no way to get rid of this kind of brown candy-like pursuit of the enemy.
Without the help of other civilizations or allies, in the dark universe, we can only rely on ourselves for everything.
Even Yu Yifeng sat in his seat with a troubled face and said nothing.
Eight years have allowed them to gradually understand the current situation. At 3 times the speed of light, it is really difficult to escape from this kind of encirclement.
On several occasions, it was pure luck that led to the White Dwarf Battle Star being misled, otherwise the Pangu would have been in danger long ago!
"There are two current plans: First, put a large number of people into the Pangu and spend more than ten years to completely perfect the remaining engines. After all, we have prepared a lot of time, so we should be able to speed up the process."
"Second, give up Pangu." This silence did not last long, and Yu Yifeng spoke with a dry voice.
"...It was our decision-making mistake. If we had known earlier, we should have put a large number of people into the Pangu. Maybe the remaining 120 towers have been built by now. The Pangu would have been able to reach higher speeds, and
I was able to escape..." Yu Yifeng regretted endlessly.
In fact, there was nothing we could do about this, and all the members present did not speak.
The original decision was made jointly by everyone... and for the safety of the new human race as a whole.
Now everyone is a little regretful that they did not dare to take risks at the beginning, so that the current speed is still 3 times the speed of light, and so many years were wasted. Especially the first 9 years when there was no enemy pursuit.
Although Yu Yifeng's think tank is smart, they are not gods and will make mistakes. The new humans have never experienced such a long pursuit battle. Facing such an enemy that looks like brown sugar, they can't even wipe it off if they stick to it.
The kind that fell out also lacked experience in dealing with it.
This long-term war has made everyone's psychology and minds become more mature.
"Well, it's useless no matter how much you regret. The top priority now is to invest a large number of people and continue to build the remaining curvature engines. Otherwise, we can only abandon the Pangu."
"That is to say, we need to discuss a question: whether we can persist in the ten years that the entire project will take." Yu Yifeng stood in front and said seriously.
The think tanks discussed for a while: The answer is... I don't know!
Because many times, it depends on luck!
The enemy's planetary spacecraft has a maximum speed of 10 times the speed of light, which is not particularly high, but it is more than enough to chase the Pangu. Along the way, I stopped from time to time to analyze. Although the speed is slowed down, whether it can catch up with Pangu in the next ten years or so
No., new human experts are really unpredictable.
The speed of the white dwarf battle star is very fast, capable of reaching 50 times the speed of light, but the acceleration of this battle star is very slow, and it takes more than two years to start from zero to the maximum speed.
Therefore, the maneuverability of this battle star is not particularly high, and its turning ability is not good. This is why it has not caught up with the Pangu so far.
"We still have to take a gamble..." Yu Yifeng let out a long sigh: "If we can't give up the Pangu, we can only send out all our engineering teams... such a gamble! In ten years, everyone is confident that in ten years
Will it be completed within the year?”
Everyone was silent and fell into a long hesitation.
After a long time, one of the experts said: "It doesn't take ten years. We have already manufactured a large number of parts. Many infrastructure projects in the Pangu have also been completed. I estimate that seven or eight years will be enough."
Yu Yifeng did not hesitate too much: "Then it's decided... the next time the Pangu stops for large-scale maintenance, all the engineering personnel will be sent there. The time will be 4 months later... Selection of engineers
, let’s start the preparations as soon as possible!”