Resurrection Empire

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The workships located in the center are hardly immune to the disaster, but the workships in the relatively peripheral areas seem to have a chance to struggle again.

Yisu Locke showed the data, and then said: "The workships in the central area have been unable to recover, but the workships with a sequence of less than 20 and more than 30 can persist for a longer period of time through scattered maneuvers. However, according to the 'net' As a reminder, the chaotic gravitational field will still sweep across a large area, just covering all work ships in a horizontal sequence of [-] to [-], and it is inevitable that the data link will be completely disconnected."

The elderly Vincent Van Hoy frowned, and put forward a different opinion, "I don't think those work ships that have been disconnected have necessarily been blown up. The performance of the work ships is very good, and the operators are also selected from the best. Even in the face of this predicament, there must be a chance to survive some of them. The essence of the so-called dark energy explosion is the same as the ancients driving a small sail into the stormy sea. Another continent. Now they have all lost contact, but because the disordered gravitational field and radiation energy caused by the dark energy explosion are too strong, cutting off the signal. The specific operation order has been issued. Next, we can only wait for the earl Wake up and trust the fighters."

On the other side, Ahmed Sami's Falcon had already started evasive action in advance.

Although the core shock zone of the dark energy explosion has not yet arrived, small tearing dark energy clusters have begun to rush at the speed of light scatteredly.

Ma Weiping was staring at the projection screen intently, making quick algorithm adjustments in his mind, and suddenly, he moved his finger again.

A simulation map of the battle situation was projected onto the projection screen in front of Ahmed.

He saw a small dark energy group with a capture radius of 3400 million kilometers approaching obliquely in the second quadrant area ahead, and it would arrive in 115 seconds.

Ahmed did not hesitate to choose to maneuver diagonally to the left.

After 106 seconds, the Falcon broke away from the gravitational capture radius.

He didn't even have time to catch his breath when Marvian sent a new message.

This time, it was surrounded by three dark energy clusters that were approaching each other in a triangle shape. The capture areas of the three gravitational fields completely overlapped, and the Falcon could not avoid it.

Ahmed Sami turned pale, and made a bold decision purely by intuition.

Instead of slowing down, he accelerated forward instead.

He selected the middle point generated by the overlapping of three gravitational fields.

It was a straight line, and it was the only lifeline.

As long as he maintains the center of gravity of the Falcon moving along this line, the three powerful gravitational forces can form a delicate balance among each other.

Although the universe is large, its vitality is only on this line, and the margin of error cannot exceed two meters.

After one hundred and seven seconds, it passed smoothly.

There was not even time to cheer in the ship, and Marvian once again gave a new reminder.

The evasion is much easier this time, and you only need to do a routine maneuver.

He finally stopped fooling around, and instead became a little inexplicably fanatical.

Ahmed first completed the preparation of the preset maneuver, then turned his head and glanced at Ma Wei'an, "Good job, Ma Wei'an."

Although Ma Wei'an didn't turn his face to look at him, the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Captain Sami, don't be nervous, this is just the beginning. Next we will have a storm, please show your limit. Our sequence is 981, which is one of the vertical sequence ships with the best chance of surviving. So , we must not make mistakes.”

Chapter 489 Towards Suffocation

In his short 25-year life, Mavian has never had a moment of such drive.

He didn't know who it was for, or he just wanted to prove something, or he wanted to make his doomed death more valuable and meaningful, so that he could still be remembered and praised by some people after death.

In short, even if he didn't find a reason to go all out, he just gave all his behavior control to instinct, and then he did it.

He unscrupulously showed his talent, and with the cooperation of Ahmed Sami, a captain who is not well-known, but his actual driving level can be regarded as the top among the top, he faced the challenge caused by countless torn dark energy. The regiment formed a hail of bullets and charged away.

Continuous maneuvering, overload dodging...

Continuous dodge...

In order to avoid it in advance, the extreme speed had to be increased to more than 0.2 times the speed of light, and a new change of direction was carried out against the self-disintegration risk warning of the spacecraft.

Maybe it was luck, or maybe it was Ahmed's years of research and pondering on the performance of every inch of the structure on the Falcon that allowed him to accurately grasp the limit.

Such a violent operation lasted for an entire hour.

Every step was perfect, zero mistakes, and the spacecraft did not disintegrate.

At the fleet headquarters, Ren Zhong finally woke up and connected to the online conference room.

The tragic scene in front of him made his pupils shrink sharply and his heart beat faster.

Ren Zhong has seen many big scenes, and millions of people have died because of his decision.

But in the past tense, his enemies all had specific targets.This time is different, his enemy is the natural phenomenon in the universe, the universe.

He had seen the truly terrible lethality of nature.

The width of the strike section caused by the burst of dark energy reaches 0.15 light-years, which is a scale beyond human imagination.

The radial tearing dark energy blocks and the wind-like disordered gravitational field are like a scimitar across the moon, extinguishing the information nodes of more than 997 workships in just one hour, and cutting off [-] longitudinal data links.

The main casualties occurred in the range of ten horizontal sequences from 24 to 33.

"Wang" and Ma Wei'an's first simulation calculation really had a mistake and was not accurate enough. The real core sweeping area is not 20~30, but 24~33.

As Vincent Van Hoy said, despite the devastating blow, more than [-] workships miraculously survived.

Some workships were purely lucky, and some workships showed amazing courage and perseverance, as well as extraordinary professionalism, and survived this round of destructive blows.

Of course, no matter how these workships survived, they are enough to be called heroes.

However, the misfortune of luck is that even the surviving workships have been more or less damaged in one way or another.

Damage varies.

Some workships have power system failures, and some communication modules have been torn to pieces.

There are also workships that are almost broken into two pieces, barely pulled together by a little neutron-coated structural column.The air inside the workship has already leaked completely, and only a small number of crew members can barely survive by relying on the space suits that are still in good condition.

It is impossible to repair the workship under such circumstances.

"My lord, the current situation is still very dangerous. The distribution of workships that still have basic functions is very fragmented. Most of them are workships with a vertical sequence below 100 and above 900. The core impact area is further to the left, so the work ships with a vertical sequence below 100 Ship preservation is lower, and work ships with a longitudinal sequence of more than 900 are better preserved, but not much better."

"We now have only one vertical data link that barely keeps the link, which is the line 1 on the far right of the star map. And the data link 997 is not a straight line link, but is generated by temporary switching of work ships in nearby sequences, and does not It is stable and may be disconnected at any time. Moreover, although the first round of the strongest shock of the dark energy eruption has passed, the aftermath cannot be underestimated. This single seedling is still crumbling."

Ysu Locke explained the situation and responsibilities very quickly.

In fact, there is no need for him to say, as the real helm of the artificial intelligence research institute, he only needs to glance at the simulated star map to know the situation.

Not only that, but he knows more.

Sun Ai told him through brain wave communication that since the Yuanxing Fleet "entered" the black mist area according to the agreed time, the Nanxiang Star Cluster Special Service Fleet waiting on the other side has never interrupted the information flow with the simulated workship in the safe channel The link, in the name of providing information support, does not indicate the risk of this dark energy eruption, and its purpose seems to be to accurately locate the source star fleet.

Sun Ai's information has another meaning, it doesn't need to be stated explicitly, Ren Zhong will understand it naturally.That is, once the last vertical link is completely disconnected, the truth that the Origin Star fleet did not enter the black mist area at all will be exposed.

There is also a very urgent situation.

仅剩的997号线具体的工作舰组成情况如下，刨除尚且完好的其他舰船，分别由997-33、996-32、996-31、997-31、997-30、997-29、995-28、997-27、996-26等等舰船组成，是一条不那么稳定的折线，勉强可堪一用。

It is also the sole seed formed by this cross relay that keeps the camouflage of the entire fleet.

Among them, more than one workship survived in multiple horizontal sequences. At this time, these workships are trying to get closer to the shortest path between lines 997 to form a cage network to prevent a certain workship in the data link from being damaged by the new The accident or the damage situation continues to deteriorate and the chain is completely broken.

Of all the workships on the link, the most dangerous transverse sequence is the 27th row.

This horizontal dimension seems to be the core impact surface, and the loss is extremely heavy. Of the 997 working ships with a transverse sequence of 27, only eight survived, with a survival rate of less than 1%, which is one-fifth of the average survival rate of 5% for all impact surfaces.

幸存的舰船编号分别如下5-27、12-27、33-27……981-27、997-27。

The more severe situation is that only the 997-27 can reach the vicinity of 997-981 within one day, and connect it to the 27 line in parallel to form a parallel redundant network to provide a stable data channel.

This means that once the 981-27 workship disconnects before 997-27 reaches the stable link area, this only seedling will inevitably be disconnected.

However, this is not the worst situation. Among all the impacted workships, the most dangerous situation is 997-27.

The ship that was highlighted in the previous briefing was almost broken into two pieces, and the one that barely maintained its incomplete disintegration with only one structural column was 997-27.

Once the 997-27 workship cannot persist, it means that the camouflage operation will fall short.

Ren Zhong can also imagine with his toes that once Liu An finds out that this conspiracy cannot destroy the Origin Star Fleet, he will inevitably pull a huge mixed pirate fleet from the Shattered Star Ring and pounce on him, who has not yet had time. After completing the review of military achievements and potential in the empire, the unregistered quasi-earls and the entire Origin Star Fleet are completely wiped out, and finally just randomly throw out a pirate leader to take the blame.

No one would have thought that the fate of the Origin Star Fleet, which has nearly 30 large ships and a total population of nearly [-] billion, would be tied on such a fragile thread.

此时此刻，30亿个人的30亿条命运的丝线与997-27中仅存的5个机组人员交织在了一起。

The huge conference room was completely silent at this moment, and Chen Qiao was constantly adjusting the algorithm, trying to restore contact.

The damage to the 997-27 work ship is absolutely very serious.

Under normal circumstances, the fleet headquarters can access the main control system of the workship through the information flow link, comprehensively monitor the operation of various equipment on the workship, and even remotely take over the program of the workship's intelligence brain to provide computing power assistance to quickly Solve the problem.

But now, 997-27 can only silently function as a data link relay point, and the headquarters can't recognize the ship's main control system at all, which shows that the core brain of this working ship is severely damaged.

Even the fact that 997-27 was broken into two pieces was reported by ship 981-27 by means of information flow scanning and remodeling.

Fortunately, 997-27's traffic repeater is still working.

Now that the fleet headquarters wants to contact the other party, they can only add additional functions to the repeater and add communication data into it.

This is a delicate job, and multiple encryption and camouflage must be carried out to avoid disturbing the stability of the data link itself and accidentally leaking the truth.

Chen Qiao is creating an encryption algorithm, and Sun Ai will quickly stack it.

After a long time, Chen Qiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "It's connected! From now on, we can have voice communication with the survivors on 997-27."

"Who's coming?" Chen Qiao raised her head and looked around the conference room.

In fact, Chen Qiao asked this question too much, and it seemed like a waste of time, but no one blamed her. After all, she was not a professional military personnel, and it was normal for her not to understand these things.

No one answered Chen Qiao, and everyone's eyes focused on her answer.

She also sat down quickly with a little embarrassment, and directly pushed the voice communication authority to Ren Zhong who was sitting in the main seat.

Ren Zhong immediately opened his mouth and said: "Call 997-27, this is the headquarters of the fleet, I am Ren Zhong. Please answer if you receive it, please answer if you receive it."

There was a rustling sound from the opposite side first, and then there was silence for two seconds, followed by an ecstatic voice.

"Received 997-27! I'm Captain Huang Xubo! Is that... the Earl?"

Huang Xubo seemed to be trying to suppress his excitement.

Ren Zhong hummed, "Yes, it's me. Calm down your mood and report the damage and casualties of your ship."

Huang Xubo coughed twice, but as expected of an elite scout, he quickly calmed down and spoke very quickly and concisely.

"The ship is severely damaged, and the control brain has been completely torn apart. The air in the cabin has completely escaped, the life support system has completely collapsed, and it cannot be repaired. The damage rate of the energy supply system exceeds 95%, and the fusion reactor has suffered a serious leak. After emergency repairs, the power supply to the repeater was preserved. But the main battery can only last for another 10 minutes before it will be completely shut down. There are still five crew members. The other ten people have either been sucked into space, or died due to damaged spacesuits. Sacrifice. The technical officer has died, and there are five existing captains, mechanics, energy dispatchers, navigators, and reconnaissance equipment controllers."

Although Huang Xubo's tone was very calm, and his focus was not on his own safety at all, everyone knew that he was very clear that he was bound to die.

No, maybe he still has a chance.

The energy reserve inside the space suit is enough to keep the life support system running for three days, which can completely wait until the rescue of 981-27.

But Ren Zhong said in a calmer tone: "Tell me your plan, how to ensure the stability of the data link?"

Huang Xubo said without hesitation: "Reporting, Earl, we have agreed on a plan before you contact me. A total of five members of the crew were sucked into space and captured by the dark energy group. Although the spacesuits of the other five were severely damaged, but There are still three spacesuits whose energy modules are still in good condition. My colleagues have checked the storage warehouse at the back of the workship just now, and there are still six spacesuits. Counting our own, we can make up a total of 14 spacesuits The mechanic told me that the power supply modules of 14 spacesuits connected in series can just meet the power supply demand of the information flow repeater, and can keep the repeater running for [-] hours. As long as the next [-] Within hours, we will not be so unlucky as to be involved in the gravitational field of other dark energy groups, we will be able to maintain the link."

Huang Xubo's words are still very flat, but in fact this is the way to kill.

In order for the power supply of the space suit to meet the needs of the information flow repeater, all functions of the space suit must be completely shut down, including the air cycle machine in the life support system.

With the remaining oxygen in the space suit, without the cycler, after only 10 minutes, they will start to feel insufficient oxygen.

It only takes half an hour at most, and all five people including Huang Xubo will suffocate to death.

In the underlying intelligent logic setting of the space suit, the safety and security of personnel is given the highest authority.

When the life monitoring system finds that there is a risk of suffocation, it will automatically cut off the external energy supply and restore the life support energy.

To achieve the conditions mentioned by Huang Xubo, five people must take the initiative to completely shut down the life monitoring system.

But the system is placed in the most convenient finger operation part, and the system can be turned on again only by bending the finger slightly.

This means that the five people must overcome the instinct of survival. When they can easily save themselves, but when they are unconscious due to suffocation, they must use their will to overcome the urge to bend their fingers until they die quietly.

This is almost impossible to achieve.

And this is still five people.

As long as any one of them makes a mistake, the data link will be disconnected instantly.

There is also a plan, that is to let the other four people directly open the mask, suffocate to death, and let the last person complete the last step and set the preset program.

Then the last person took off the space suit holding his breath, and don't let his desire to survive interrupt the energy supply.

This is the only solution.

Ren Zhong thought for five seconds, and then slowly said: "I trust you, let's do the preparations. Thank you."