"The space transmission has stopped, all units are in good condition, the plane connection drive is shutting down, and the No. 3 main power engine group is preparing to leave the silent operation state. Victory will always be with you and me."
The Imperial Admiral's shipboard host completed the last broadcast of the pilot phase, and then there was a noise that we had never heard on the bridge.
"Sure enough, the information barrier interfered." I knocked on the control crystal in front of the commander's seat. "How is the situation of the communication tower?"
The main communication tower is a large-scale building complex built in the middle of the left arm of the Imperial Admiral. As a non-combat flagship specialized in command and field headquarters functions, the communication building of the Imperial Admiral is its most important place, but just now
The burst of noise that echoed through the bridge indicated that the communication center may have been scrapped - under normal circumstances, the communication that sounded at this time should be the communication from the rear fortress.
"Glory to you, Your Majesty," the holographic projection in front of the seat showed the image of the commander stationed in the communication tower area, a middle-aged man with a thin face. "The communication links between the fleets are all normal, and all communications with the Shadow Fortress are silent.
, the tower group host hardware is not damaged, but the world coordinates and the Empire's time and space transmission network data stored in all memory carriers have been cleared by unknown forces. At the same time, we have also lost the communication protocol with the Temple Legion. I am afraid it will take a long time.
repair."
"Well, wait patiently, I will reply to the contact with Shadow Fortress as soon as possible."
After hanging up the communication tower, I stood up from my seat.
It seems that this is what Lilina encountered when she entered this world. First, she was blocked by that weird information barrier from communicating with the headquarters, and then all the spatial coordinates and upper-level protocols stored in the spacecraft were also in the process of crossing the plane.
Being cleared, with the communication devices equipped by the Temple Legion, it is simply impossible to rebuild the communication network under such circumstances.
"Sakura, how do you feel?"
I turned my head and asked concernedly the purple-haired girl next to me who was still slumped in the chair.
Although she has been strengthened into an elite unit like the Crystal Madonna, Matou Sakura's body is still relatively fragile (compared to those Xiling Apostles), and she usually doesn't follow us around often. For time and space teleportation, this
Girls are not used to it.
"It seems that it was a wise decision not to let Emiya-senpai come with me, ugh..." Sakura Matou frowned with a look of disgust, "'Ultra-remote fuzzy coordinate transmission' is indeed more uncomfortable than walking through the gate of the world, I'm afraid it will
It takes a long time to get used to this."
I smiled awkwardly. Since we cannot know the situation in this world, and it is impossible to accurately locate the space teleportation, the ship-based host can only choose an open space to dock when the interdimensional teleportation comes in.
, this vibration... is indeed a bit serious.
Since Ying was busy vomiting acid water, she didn't bother to transform into a wireless router so that we could resume communication. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I asked each military unit to release the probe while waving to Qianqian and her sister, and took it out of my pocket.
Bring out three small cloth bags...
Hehehe, Lin Banxian, Lin Banxian, relied on his ability to predict, and imitated Zhuge Liang's tricks, right? He also said that we should wait three days after we complete the transmission before opening it. That's what you said, isn't that what it is? You don't know anything.
Just watch it.
"Ajun, do you want to open them now and let Lin Xue's statement of 'three days later' be undermined?"
Onee-sama came over and saw what I was thinking, so she walked slowly out of the way.
I didn’t mind either, and nodded carelessly. I would like to add here that I always felt that there must be something fishy in Liu Duo’s clever plan. Anyway, if you were in my place, I would have taken it apart as soon as Zhuge Liang turned around - everyone is curious.
of.
So I insist that when Zhuge Liang handed the kit to Liu Bei, he already knew that Ya would open it and take a peek!
"Does Lin Xue already know that you will peek in advance?"
Qian Qian, who usually rarely gets enlightened, unexpectedly did so once this time. However, I just shook my head incomprehensibly at her suspicion.
"That girl must know that I know that she already knows that I want to take a peek. Common sense means that I will definitely not fall into this trap. Therefore, it is beyond her expectation to open it now!"
"But what if Lin Xue knows that you know that she knows that you know that she knows that you are going to peek?"
Suddenly, a little thing's questioning voice suddenly sounded above my head.
My face froze: "But maybe she knows that I know that she knows that I know that she knows that I know that she knows..."
The little thing continued to work tirelessly: "It's also possible that she knows that you know that she knows that you know that she knows...it hurts so much, I bit my tongue again!"
I have lost my ability to complain about this little girl who bites her tongue and acts cute when she can't explain clearly, but what she said seems to make sense. What if Lin Xue really knows that I know that she knows that I know that she knows... you guys
If I didn't want to keep up with the word count, I could loop out more than thirty lines.
But then again, why am I fussing with a prophet about this! Is there any point in this kind of fight? I feel like I am as crazy as Ding Dong who vowed to defeat the Dragon God in an arm-wrestling contest.
I didn't care about anything at the moment. In the atmosphere where I was slightly curious, my sister was playing with it, and Ding Dong was leaning down to peek, I solemnly opened the cloth bag with the crooked mark No. 3.
Why does it feel so like dying in the hand of fate?
There was a small piece of paper inside. Qianqian couldn't wait to pull it out and read it loudly: "Mumu, you really took a peek in advance, and Qianqian, you pressed a line of words with your finger!"
Everyone: "..."
This is such a brutal prediction accuracy. I said to you, Great Prophet Lin, you won’t have to spend a whole night without sleeping and just have enough food to survive, right? If you have the time to go bankrupt the China Welfare Lottery, what better?
Qian Qian scratched his hair and continued to read the words that were pressed by his fingers in embarrassment: "Now please open the second bag~~"
I sighed, and then opened it - the cloth bag marked No. 1. Damn, can I listen to that crazy girl?
In the end, there was still a small note in the first cloth bag, and Qianqian snatched it away. On it was a big line of words: "I told you, you should open the second one~~~"
I even drew a silly smiley face on the back, which is only a little better than my sister.
I sighed again and opened the second one. If you cooperate, I will cooperate. I want to see how many boring things that girl can do.
As a result, I was shocked. She really had something even more boring: there was still a note in the small bag numbered 2, with a line on it: "Hey, Mu Mu, you haven't thrown away the tips bag you opened for the first time, right? In fact, I put the words
It's written on the inside..."
I looked up with tears in my eyes: "Nima, I don't want to be such a playful person... This going around is just like Baidu..."
Completely speechless, I picked up the initial tip bag and turned it over. The words on the bag suddenly changed. I almost had no time to adjust my mentality: "Let all Imperial battleships and Imperial soldiers enter phase invisibility, and search for insurgents nearby."
The human and celestial body hides itself. You are temporarily switching to the New Eden Federation's battleship. I am not sure why, but it should be clear soon."
"What's wrong? Arjun?" Seeing my face suddenly change from aching to serious, my sister immediately grabbed the "tip bag" out of curiosity, and frowned when she saw the line above.
"She asked us to hide the Imperial fleet," I casually threw aside the other two cloth bags that were purely used by Lin Xue to cause trouble. "That girl may have received some metaphor - shipboard host, reorganizing Imperial units, search
Let’s see if there are any suitable isolated unmanned celestial objects nearby.”
"The host understands that the hyperspace probe returned information. A high-brightness red giant was discovered 1.53 light-years ahead of the static route. The red giant is hidden in a cloud of strong radiation. No life planet has been found nearby. Do you want to stop?"
"Hidden inside the red giant?" I raised the corner of my mouth, "It sounds interesting - Sakura, how is your body recovering? I'm afraid we need to shake it up a little."
A certain Crystal Madonna immediately waved her hand bitterly: "I think I have to vomit..."
After letting Matou Sakura rest for a while, I gave the order for the fleet to set sail. Now all the imperial spaceships have entered phase invisibility according to Lin Xue's instructions. The only ones exposed within the observable range are a group of battle cruisers from the federal government.
ship and the Protos aircraft carrier, which made the Pandora sisters who had planned to lead a group of tigers and wolves across the starry sky quite frustrated.
The red giant star scanned by the shipboard host is a star in the decline stage that is one billion times the size of the sun, bright and old. Some data show that the predecessor of this old star may be a fat "sun".
After experiencing millions of years of internal nuclear burning, it has expanded to this extent. It is a lonely solitary traveler in the universe. No accompanying celestial bodies have been found around it. Of course, it is possible that they have existed, but now those celestial bodies have been destroyed by this
The tyrant has swallowed it up, and what greets us in this desolate sky area is only a large and spreading dim hot nebula and a red giant star that is gradually cooling down.
Of course, after the fleet approaches the red giant star, what appears in front of us is no longer a celestial body, but the boundless Red Sea rushing into our field of vision. A celestial body equivalent to one billion times the size of the sun means that you are hundreds of millions of kilometers away.
It is impossible to see any curvature on its edge, and the Imperial fleet jumped directly to a location less than two million kilometers away from the planet. This made us find ourselves in a red sky and earth in the blink of an eye.
Even though the spacecraft's imaging system had dimmed the brightness of the exterior scene, the bridge was still reflected red by the sea of fire in the holographic projection.
The surface of the red giant star is a thin cloud of hydrogen fuel gas, which is as magnificent as a layer of flame floating on the boiling soup. Therefore, Matou Sakura and her Heroic Spirit Guards lay on the railing of the bridge and watched the real scene in front of them.
The holographic projections sighed one after another like the choir.
They never saw the truly thrilling and magnificent side of the red giant star. In fact, the naked eye, which is full of limitations, cannot glimpse all the magnificence of this cosmic giant from any angle, but just a red world is enough for them to see.
They were amazed.
Here I suddenly thought of a little secret I learned when I accidentally chatted with Pandora. That girl's helium flash is actually related to the formation principle of red giant stars.
The balance of a star is maintained by its huge gravity and the violent outward impact of internal nuclear reactions. When a star enters its old age and its fuel is exhausted, this balance will be broken. Due to the lack of fuel, nuclear reactions in the center of the star produce
The impact will weaken rapidly, and the star will begin to collapse under the influence of gravity. As the collapse proceeds, the hydrogen element that was not involved in burning on the star's surface will also produce nuclear fusion due to high pressure and high temperature. This surface energy release will cause
The collapse process further intensifies and becomes crazy. Some stars with suitable mass will evolve into black holes, while some stars will go to the other extreme. Due to the sinking of heavy elements under the influence of gravity, stars usually have a huge mass at this stage.
Helium cores, these deposited nuclear fuels do not participate in the burning of stars when they are in their prime, but when the stars are about to die, they begin to fuse at a high temperature of 100 million degrees. This is different from the slow burning of stars over billions of years.
The process is extremely fast, causing the entire star core to explode like lightning, causing the star during the collapse process to expand explosively, and eventually form a red giant. The ultra-high-speed helium fusion is called helium flash, or helium flash for short.
I call it Loli Lion Roar here.
Of course, Pandora's helium flash is incomparable to the explosion of a red giant star. The girl's tragic height of 1.2 meters cannot hide an exploding sun. She just used psionic energy to simulate the process, and the power has also dropped by an unknown amount.
After all, one is a multi-megaton nuclear deflagration that a star has accumulated over hundreds of millions of years before it explodes in an instant, and the other is a laser that a dwarf winter melon can roar out in just a few seconds of charging. If the power of the latter can be compared with the former...
Apostle Xiling would never play like this no matter how defiant he is.
"The probe detected a white dwarf star forming inside the red giant star. The Imperial Fleet will establish a ring base around it as our outpost in this universe. At the same time, they will also try to establish a connection with Lilina.
I'm afraid the Temple Legion's communication system has also been formatted. We have to try the encrypted frequency bands they may be using one by one in order to restore the connection with the natural black." I patted Matou Sakura on the shoulder and asked her, who was still busy.
The exclamated girl came back to life, "Don't look, this planet is not only beautiful, it is even more dangerous. The Federation Army's spaceship has limited psionic energy and cannot last long on the red giant star. Let's go to the Elsword first."
.”
Although I don’t know what Lin Xue is up to, countless bloody stories tell us that if you don’t listen to the prophet at a critical moment, you will suffer big losses, and Alsace’s father is the ironclad proof.
Elsword was the last Protos ship to evacuate the "hot start" range during the Koprulu catastrophe, and the first Protos mother ship to receive imperial technological improvements. This antique ship that has been in operation for centuries is filled with Protos spirit.
The pride and powerful light of the glory days, after mounting a large number of imperial technology components, it can be said to be the most powerful spaceship in the New Eden Federation at present (those "Zero" type ships that the empire gave to the federation as colonial stars and energy treasures
Star battleships are not one of them. Although they cannot defeat off-standard battleships such as the Glory class, they are almost the same as the Eternal class. This huge disc-shaped space fortress is protected by several layers of powerful psionic energy shields. Its interior
There is a military "town" built with a giant psychic crystal as the center, and there is a cylindrical building in this town that is the most conspicuous, which is surging with more powerful energy than the central psychic crystal, and is regarded by all Protos warriors as
The psionic energy generator treated by the temple - a friendly gift from the empire.
I really want to complain about the Protoss' move of building the command center on a psionic generator. Isn't this bungee jumping on a nuclear bomb - nonsense?
"If all your creations have energy leakage, then I'm afraid there will be no safe equipment in the entire universe." Faced with my strong doubts, Renault, who personally served as the commander-in-chief of the federal front army, just laughed, even though this conference room was built
Above the extremely powerful psionic energy generator, but he didn't seem worried at all. It seemed that he had never witnessed the Fukushima incident... Ahem, "But establishing an outpost inside a red giant star, you still regard it as a common thing.
This was really an eye-opener for me.”
"It's so-so, but you, Zeratul, and the two Supreme Speakers of the Federation personally followed me out to fight. Don't you care about government affairs?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Zeratul's deep and hoarse voice rang from the side: "Great mentor, as the head of the empire, you can personally go on an expedition, and we should do the same..."
I was sweating on the spot. If you know this, Zeratul is just telling the truth. If you don’t know, you are not mocking me. Just because I have been on the road all day long, Lin Xue is almost crushing me...
After coughing twice in embarrassment, I began to change the topic: "Speaking of which, Sakura should have finished preparing, right?"
I told Medusa, who nodded imperceptibly: "Sakura switched to the Crystal Madonna form and is debugging the resonance with Avalon. We can already receive intermittent information from the Shadow Fortress."
The translation of this sentence is that Sakura has installed the antenna and is dialing now.
Sakura's work efficiency is indeed good. Ten minutes later, when the Federation fleet traveled away from the red giant through hypertime jump and entered an asteroid belt, we finally restored contact with the Shadow Fortress. The first message received was obviously
It was written by Lin Xue. The first five characters were: The king of heaven covers the tigers of the earth. I replied without thinking: There are great scholars who come and go... Anyway, at least it rhymes.
The communication established with the help of a Crystal Madonna is naturally very limited in terms of bandwidth. Although watching movies is definitely not laggy, I still have to give up private meetings to military communications. Since Sakura is on the Elsword, this Proto
The Mother Ship has become the communication beacon of this universe. The Imperial Admiral, which is parked in the core of the red giant star, will use the Mother Ship as a springboard to continuously transmit the massive world constant information collected after entering this universe to the shadows.
Fortress, at the same time, we were also downloading the void coordinates sent by Shadow City at high speed to restore the deleted fleet star map. This process took more than two hours, and Sakura's uplink and downlink bandwidth once reached 5tb/
s, this brutal internet speed made me almost choke to death due to difficulty in getting up, but Sandora kept complaining that the server was too stuck...
"Girl Lin, can you tell me now, what on earth are you doing?"
While waiting for the star map to be repaired, I finally had time to ask the great immortal what she meant by those three painful tips.