"Captain, we have made several regional broadcasts, but no ship has responded."
"Moreover, our remaining energy... is only enough to support the life support system for about three hours."
In the bridge, a blue-eyed civilized soldier said helplessly.
Hearing this, the captain was very happy at first.
Fortunately, the people in the Science Department were right. Otherwise, if they were to fly directly to the Milky Way, all the energy would be exhausted before reaching the Milky Way.
And what does it mean when energy consumption is exhausted?
This means that they cannot even maintain the life support system, and everyone will be suffocated to death in the battleship.
But after feeling lucky, I started to have a headache.
Three hours may seem like a long time, but for the interstellar era, this is an extremely short time.
If there is no one nearby, there won't even be enough time to wait for rescue.
Not to mention...
This is no longer the Triangle Galaxy.
Therefore, the only hope is the nearby spaceships.
Although I don’t know which civilization they belong to, I can only ask them for help now.
However, after arriving, Mingming spent 80% of his remaining energy to complete a radar scan and confirmed that there were more than a dozen ordinary spaceships that were not battleships around him.
However, no matter how they called, there was no reply from the other party.
If he hadn't checked repeatedly and found that the communication equipment was fine, Captain Marcus would have thought that the communication equipment was malfunctioning...
Therefore, the other party did not hear the call.
But because this is a battleship, and it is also a Kerry Empire battleship that is hostile to humans, so those non-military spaceships dare not respond?
Soon, Marcus analyzed the current situation.
But precisely because of this, he had an even worse headache.
After all, even if most of the battleship's systems are shut down, it will only be enough to support the life support system for three hours.
When the time comes, everyone in the battleship, without exception, will die.
"Broadcast again to explain that we are not the Kerry people, but from the Triangulum system. This battleship was also captured by us after the Kerry people escaped to the Triangulum system."
"At the same time, we came here this time to establish friendly relations with the Federation."
"Keep sending messages like this and be sure to contact the other party."
Facing the communications officer, Marcus said again.
But the communications officer was a little hesitant...
"Captain, this..."
"What's wrong?"
"The energy consumed each time it is fired will almost reduce the time that our life support system can support, at least five minutes..."
"I...Okay, let's do it first!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Soon, this message was sent out from the battleship in the form of a broadcast again.
But it is a pity that the spacecraft of the scavenger group directly regarded this information as a plan for the Kerry warships, and still remained silent and continued to hide.
A few minutes later.
Marcus sent three different messages in an attempt to prove that he was really not from Kerry...
Finally gave up.
"Captain, do you want this to continue..."
"Keep going!"
"What about us?"
the communications officer asked cautiously.
"Since there is a human spaceship here, the news must have been spread. Let's just wait and wait for the fleet of the Star Sea Federation to arrive..."
"Pray that the fleet of the Star Sea Federation can arrive before we die."
Marcus sighed slightly and said.
There is no way, anyway...
It depends on your fate!
Soon, more than twenty minutes passed.
As time went by, the blue-eyed man on the bridge became more and more desperate.
After all, every passing second of time is moving towards the last two hours or so of their lives.
This is an extremely horrific form of oppression, and people who have not experienced it will never understand it.
Even people whose willpower is not strong enough can collapse before time reaches the end.
And just then...
Captain, look over there!
The communications officer suddenly saw something and pointed forward through the huge bridge window and shouted loudly.
Hearing the shout, Marcus also turned his head and looked over.
Immediately, he saw a scene that shocked him very much.
That was a picture of two thousand hyperspace windows being opened at the same time.
"Two thousand hyperspace windows... Yes, that must be the fleet of the Star Sea Federation. Apart from them, no other civilization has so many warships equipped with hyperspace engines."
After all, the Kerry Empire battleship they boarded was equipped with a hyperspace engine.
The scene when the hyperspace window is opened is naturally very familiar.
Therefore, after seeing this scene, Marcus suddenly became excited.
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At the same time.
In the flagship of the Third Fleet.
"Commodore, the fleet has exited hyperspace. The target position is 1-1-3 and the distance is 1200. Through database comparison, it is a frigate built by the Kerry Empire in Sculptor."
"The Pangu battleship team came forward and used tractor beams to control the enemy ships."
"clear!"
Pioneer Fleet, First Legion and Third Fleet.
Currently, there are a total of 2,000 warships, which is not a large number. After all, the Federation's current annual warship production is only this amount.
Therefore, it will take at least more than ten years for the pioneering fleet to complete its establishment.
However, although there are only two thousand battleships, their combat effectiveness is not weak at all.
Among them, there are 1,800 Zhurong-class warships and 200 Pangu-class warships equipped with space technology.
If we are facing the main fleets of the four major civilizations in the galaxy, then these two thousand battleships...
It can even easily defeat the opponent's tens of thousands of warships head-on.
"Brigadier General, received the other party's communication request."
Just when more than twenty Pangu-class general-purpose warships used tractor beams to firmly control the Kairui warship, Shangguan Ningxue was just about to order the dispatch of mecha troops and mobile infantry...
The communications officer suddenly loudly reported the report.
"Communication request...take it!"
"Yes, Brigadier!"
Soon, as the communication was connected, a figure was projected on the bridge.
Looking at the figure in front of her, Shangguan Ningxue frowned slightly.
Why aren't you from Kerry?
And, what race is this?
It seems that I have never seen it before.
The figure in front of him is also humanoid, and his body shape is very close to that of a human being.
However, its eyes are blue, both the eyeballs and the whites of the eyes are all blue.
Shangguan Ningxue has never seen eyes like this before.
"Who are you?"
"I am Marcus, the envoy of the Blue-Eyed Civilization from the Triangular Galaxy. I am here specifically to visit your federation."
"Triangular Galaxy?"
Hearing this, Shangguan Ningxue frowned again.
Things were a bit unexpected.
He knew that the Triangulum Galaxy was three million light years away from the Milky Way and was one of the three major galaxies in the galaxy group in which the Milky Way was located.
Although it is the smallest of the three major galaxies, it is also a standard galaxy, not a satellite galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud or the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
"You said you are from the Triangular Galaxy, so why are you in a Kerry battleship?"
"This started more than two years ago..."
Marcus did not hide anything and explained in detail the entire process of how the Kerry warship arrived in the Triangulum Galaxy and was discovered by the Blue Eyes Civilization.
After hearing this, Shangguan Ningxue nodded.
However, although she somewhat believed the other party's words, she did not dare to be careless.
I immediately said that I can trust you, but we must send people to board the ship to inspect.
This request made no sense to Marcus.
And what happened here, as reported by Shangguan Ningxue, was quickly transmitted back to the headquarters of the pioneering fleet.
Finally, a new order was given.
[If there are no problems after the inspection, bring back all the people and battleships]