The alarm came so suddenly that even the headquarters did not respond.
The other party used a space-crossing technology that humans had never seen before. It was not a jump, a curvature flight, or the latest artificial wormhole technology.
It does not release any radiation or energy fluctuations at all during the process of its effect. As soon as the opponent's ships appear, they are directly in this fatal position, as if they were originally here and were just ignored by humans.
There have been deviations in the cognition of people and equipment, and the laws of the universe have been tampered with.
This twisted illusion almost caused the staff of the fleet intelligence department to have a mental breakdown.
Commander Qin Guang quickly calmed down and began to quickly prepare a new combat plan, and sent targeted arrangements to Tong Ling's team alone.
He gave Tong Ling's team a total of three urgent tasks.
First, quickly deploy a folding space shielding field to cut off the opponent's communications; second, kill the opponent at all costs and test the opponent's capabilities. No matter what method is used, try to block the opponent's appearance of breaking through the fleet.
Layer of concealment; third, delay time and give other teams enough reaction time.
But before Qin Guang's mission was sent out, the intelligence department had already received information from the front line.
Tong Ling made her own decision on the spot.
White Elephant, Mountain Centipede and Tong Ling have already gone up to kill them, while Tie Xiu and Sun Tongwen are coordinating and cooperating to quickly deploy the first space-type shielding field.
Qin Guang clenched his fist in approval and said to himself, "Great job."
Then he turned his attention to the information sent back by Tong Ling.
"New type of military unit, plant type, body length 7.13 meters, unknown capabilities. Body projection is as follows."
The optical image of the enemy forces appeared in front of the heads of several key agencies such as the headquarters, intelligence department, and scientific research department.
The biologist shouted, "How come this thing is exactly the same as a tardigrade on Earth?"
What was before everyone's eyes was a chubby creature with a body like a hippopotamus, a total of eight legs, claws on the toes, and a head like a valve core.
If it weren't for its transparency and size, biologists would almost think it was a tardigrade on Earth.
Further analysis reports were soon released. By calculating and analyzing the invisible light spectrum transmitted by the transparent body of the "water bear" under the cosmic background radiation, scholars found that there were responses to the activity of the ZS bacterial community in its body.
At the same time, most of the organic reactions in its body are in line with the basic characteristics of plant life.
The conclusion is drawn. This is a new type of soldier that the Compound Eyes absorbed the physiological characteristics of tardigrades on the earth, then integrated them into ZS bacteria, and finally hatched from the fruits of giant vines.
In an instant, the command headquarters shared this information with the special operations team ahead.
In addition to the known information in the intelligence, there are also many inferential conclusions drawn by the tactical staff based on the characteristics of the Earth's tardigrades.
For example, it can survive and move in a vacuum, and its body surface is covered with a water film.
Through the characteristics of the water film, tardigrades can enter a cryptobiotic state when facing extremely harsh environments, and absorb external substances including but not limited to DNA, integrate them into themselves, and use them as energy and raw materials to repair their own DNA.
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At the same time, it has a natural tolerance to radiation, high temperature, ultra-low temperature, high pressure and other environments.
The transformation of ZS bacteria is definitely not just for fun, so scholars have magnified the capabilities of the "crystal tardigrade" that Tong Ling's team faced at this time countless times to guess.
The new information that arrived in time saved Mountain Centipede's life.
The Mountain Centipede, eager to achieve success, got too close. After charging forward, it unleashed its firepower frantically.
He seemingly easily blasted the crystal tardigrade to bruises all over his body.
But when he was about to continue to close the distance with [Biquge www.bequge.vip], he received new information.
Then a warning sign suddenly occurred in his heart, and he retreated decisively.
Only then did he realize that the crystal tardigrades that he had injured quickly recovered to their original state, and further expanded in size, seeming to have absorbed and digested the energy carried in the attacks fired by his weapon system.
Tong Ling yelled angrily, telling Mountain Centipede to stay calm, and at the same time, she transmitted the three-dimensional image of the energy flow just captured by the T100 armor detection system to the intelligence network.
The energy flow three-dimensional diagram shows that when the Mountain Centipede's artillery fire hit the crystal tardigrade, a high-energy reaction did occur. However, after the brief expansion of the energy that could even tear apart the space, only a small part spread, and most of it was like a mud cow entering the sea.
Evaporate quickly out of thin air.
Even the energy that diffused out was siphoned away like water flowing around the vortex.
The energy level contour shows that the crystal tardigrade reduces the energy level near its active area by three steps.
Basic energy such as thermal energy, radiation energy, quantum tidal energy, etc. dispersed in the universe will flow toward it on its own like water flowing downwards.
Even if the human armor remains completely still and does nothing, as long as it gets closer, the energy in the reserve battery will be lost on its own, and the closer the distance, the faster it will be lost.
The two sides were in contact for only a few seconds, and the Mountain Centipede's armor reserves had already lost an additional 12% of its energy.
However, his armor's self-test did not alarm. Through manual inspection, Mountain Centipede found that at the same time as the energy was lost, many parameters ranging from overcharging, potential to the reaction strength of the anti-matter energy module all dropped by 12%. His armor
The overall performance has declined to the point that the armor's automatic inspection equipment did not detect any abnormalities.
This shows that the crystal tardigrade's change in energy level is not limited to the scope of energy flow, but its influence spreads to the entire space in a ripple shape.
As other objects approach it, it will seamlessly jump from high energy level to low energy level, just like water continuously losing potential energy when falling from a waterfall.
The water has not changed, but the implicit potential energy contained in the water has decreased.
This concept is like accurately imaging a candle with a small hole. As the distance gets closer, the picture imaged by the small hole continues to shrink, but the information contained in the image itself does not attenuate.
Assuming that the content of the image is a person, and this person can only think linearly, then of course this person cannot realize that his body has shrunk.
According to the theory that real energy makes up everything in the universe, in a certain concept, whether it is human beings or armor, they are "three-dimensional images" carved by real energy as colors in the universe.
Only human consciousness can jump out of this bottleneck and discover the difference by feeling.
"hiss……"
Mountain Centipede was secretly speechless, and then quickly reported his findings.
Then he said angrily: "The impact beam and collapse bomb I used just now were more than enough to destroy a planet, but in the end they were useless. Isn't this thing invincible? What else can we do?"
Tong Ling did not answer him, but first passed on the latest information, and then fell into hard thinking.
She didn't know what to do for a while.
The crystal tardigrade is still approaching the shielding field at a very slow but steady speed, and will hit the shielding field in less than fifty seconds.
In order to ensure the final mission, if the team that goes out to perform the mission still cannot find a solution to the tardigrades after forty seconds, the fleet will have to risk the complete exposure of its whereabouts by turning on the short-range curvature engine and entering the curvature space to accelerate forward.
At the same time, this also means that all field teams have been abandoned.
Thirty seconds later, the twenty-seven teams in front will begin to return and join the encirclement and suppression.
This seems to be good news, but Tong Ling believes that if you still can't understand the other party's energy absorption principle, no matter how many people come, there will be no essential difference.
There is nothing the soldiers can do but rush forward and bombard them indiscriminately.
But this will only make the crystal tardigrades grow bigger and have more energy.
In short, there is only forty seconds left for the field team.
Five seconds after receiving the information from Tong Ling's team, the other team leaders issued a meeting invitation to Tong Ling.
Tong Ling distanced herself from the crystal tardigrade, released some physical restraint devices similar to rigid fishing nets, and connected to the conference communication.
Tong Ling stared forward. After getting closer, the restraint net was drained due to the basic interaction force and quickly disintegrated into basic energy.
Tong Ling was secretly speechless, and at the same time, she was quickly reading the conference communications in her mind.
She received five important messages.
First, after verification by the external team, the simple shielding layer deployed by Tie Xiu and Sun Tongwen successfully took effect. The information in this area has been isolated and has not leaked out. At the same time, this also shows that the multi-layer shielding built by the other teams on the outer layer
The same applies to fields.
Second, the repair work of the stability controller is continuing and is expected to end in fifteen seconds. This team can make their own decision whether to return to the fleet safely or continue outward to join the confrontation with the crystal tardigrades.
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Third, some teams responsible for vigilance have gradually discovered traces of nanoscale vines, and these teams are carefully conducting misleading operations on the vines.
Fourth, third, twenty-first, and forty-second, the three field teams have already rushed towards the giant plant's body with full power. They have no intention of returning.
Now that an unexpected new type of troops has appeared, the situation may change drastically at any time. They believe that in order to prevent the entire fleet from being exposed, someone must leave the team and become a decoy to attract as many other mobile units of the plant family as possible.
At the same time, these self-sacrificers can also use their hands and feet to their fullest, so no matter how far they persist, they can always obtain more information for the Nameless Fleet and the entire empire.
Fifth, many squad captains are preparing to jointly report to the fleet commander Qin Guang, requesting the fleet to evacuate immediately without worrying about the field squad.
This amount of information was huge, but with the help of the new brain-link fast communication, Tong Ling had already formed a complete concept in her mind after only 0.5 seconds.
She smelled an obvious flavor from the joint decision-making of other team captains - the urge to sacrifice.
It seems that everyone has been waiting for this moment.
No one is afraid of death, no one is afraid, but only expects it.
Everyone seemed to feel that this was not a disaster, but an opportunity to go down in history.
They were both calm and excited.
Tong Ling subconsciously agreed with this judgment and raised her hand to sign with her fingerprint.
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"These idiots!"
In the distant UV black hole of Ceti, Chen Feng, who received the message through the encrypted channel provided by the whole-brain link correspondent, was furious and furious.
In recent decades, Chen Feng discovered a new problem.
Since his "death", mankind has been living in a war-prepared state of mind.
Perhaps it was the deliberate guidance of the Salvation Society and the imperial government, or perhaps the artistic creators, in order to inspire people, portrayed the multiple hatreds between the compound-eyed people and humans too deeply, and some subtle ideologies have already been deeply planted in everyone's hearts.
Humanity has thrived and developed for hundreds of years in a very repressive mentality of the enemy of illusion.
Since the actual outbreak of the war, hostility has completely reached its peak in recent decades.
The war instinct of the people on earth has also been stimulated to the extreme. Almost everyone is not afraid of death and takes pride in sacrifice.
Death, once the greatest fear in life, has been completely defeated.
On the surface, this is a good thing.
Originally Chen Feng was noncommittal about this.
But now he suddenly realized the problem.
He put a lot of effort into Tong Ling.
If Tong Ling's training failed because of his limited talent, then he could just think that he had chosen the wrong person and start over again.
But now that Tong Ling was clearly one step away from a breakthrough, but she gave up easily and died in the battle, then who could Chen Feng ask to reason with.
Chen Feng realized that these people looked down upon his own life too lightly and gave up on life too easily.
The trait of "not afraid of death" seems very strong, very brave, and worthy of praise.
But this is a double-edged sword.
If the fear of death drops too much, people's desire to live will not be strong enough, which will lead to a drop in willpower.
Human beings are often easily sacrificed before their potential is fully exploited.
The value of such sacrifices has been severely discounted.
When thinking of this, Chen Feng suddenly woke up.
He finally discovered the biggest difference between himself as a human being who grew up in the 21st century and his descendants in any timeline.
He also understood why he always excelled.
The mortal heart of the 21st century has made him "greedy for life and afraid of death", but his mentality of always being able to come back from the dead makes him always have the strongest consciousness of sacrifice.
His desire to survive is extremely strong, but his spirit of sacrifice is also extremely strong.
The combination of contradictory thoughts in him truly makes him unique.
He woke up.
He finally understood why others always fell behind him.
