Resurrection Empire

Mavian's face changed slightly when he heard this, as if he wanted to refute something, but soon his shoulders slumped again, "Maybe. I really don't know what glory is. Forget it, anyway, don't look at me like this, I can do it Good job for me. You have to understand that you are talking to the top 100 programmers in the entire work fleet. You have to respect me too."

Ahmed: "You..."

Mavian turned away and stopped talking. He just remembered a family story.

Others think that the Shenxun Ma family has a high position and great power, but descendants of the core family like him have been taught from birth that they exist for the "net".

The meaning of my life is to be a nanny and a tool for the "net".

The universe has given the Ma family such talents, so they must be a good tool, otherwise they will waste their talents.

On the fleet, this indoctrination has not weakened, but has been further enhanced.

Mavian once had a deep-rooted self-positioning of this "tool" and believed deeply in it. However, as time went by, as he performed better and better and was sent to higher and higher positions, he became more and more convinced of it. Doubts arose about this responsibility.

he often thought.

As an individual, as a human being, what is the meaning of living?

He once asked his father Ma Xiayun.

He asked his father, in your eyes, am I your son or a useful programming machine.

Ma Xiayun didn't answer him and just slapped him.

After that, Mavian began to work less hard and started to be lazy, but even if he was obviously lazy, he was still stronger than most people.

When he is faced with work, even if he often loses focus, he can still complete it very well.

This made him extremely distressed. It was obvious that I had given up on myself, but my instinct was not obeying my command.

My heart was extremely resistant, but my subconscious seemed to enjoy it.

This damn talent...

You didn't even ask me if you wanted to give it to me, so you made me become this person.

So, Mavian came to work the fleet, but behaved the same as before. He just came to find a reason for himself to die.

But in the Falcon, things around him had changed only a little.

That is, there are no more people who praise him no matter what he does because of his talent. There is only Ahmed, a warrior who is always rude to him because of his attitude.

Mavian was always scolded for poking Ahmed, but he enjoyed it.

This would at least make him feel like he was living less like a tool and more like a human being.

Tools are not qualified to be scolded.

Seeing that he looked tired and tired again, Ahmed took two deep breaths, sat down again, calmed down a little and said: "Forget it, since you were able to pass the selection, at least it can prove that you are There is no problem with your level. Even if your work attitude is not good, your ability should be enough to make up for this shortcoming. So I won’t argue with you. Please return to your post immediately and stop taking the task as a joke."

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. Who told you to be my captain?" Mavian shrugged, sat back in front of his console, lazily raised his right hand, and fiddled with the console with one hand. With.

Mavian's eyes were slightly squinted, as if he were sleepy, but the movements of his hands were not slow, like a butterfly darting through a flower.

At the same time, a large amount of code-like information quickly emerged on the workbench display in front of him, indicating that his brainwave link had also entered high-frequency agitation.

This sight actually made Ahmed, who was about to teach Mavian another lesson and cheer him up, hesitated to speak, and finally closed his mouth again.

Up to now, the crew members on the Falcon have been getting along for a whole year. Although they occasionally have conflicts, they all understand each other's abilities.

Mavian operates information equipment differently than the average technician.

Most of the technicians on other work ships can only perform standard operations in accordance with the technical specifications provided by the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and cannot and dare not make random changes, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes.

Ma Wei'an is one of the people who participated in formulating the technical specifications, and coupled with his extravagant nature, he always likes to add some extra personal expression after completing the standard operations of the technical specifications.

Ahmed was extremely disgusted with this at first, but after a whole year, Mavian's behavior did not bring any negative consequences. Instead, he used low-power information flow scanning twice to observe the background information flow radiation, found abnormal clues, and quickly applied With the help of the computing power of "Net", it accurately predicted the chaotic gravitational field caused by two small-scale collisions of dark energy clusters, and provided early warning to other nearby work ships.

In view of this, Ahmed said nothing.

This time Mavian repeated his old trick and borrowed extra energy to do some flower work of his own.

Unexpectedly, twenty seconds later, Mavian's face suddenly turned pale and he stood up suddenly, "No!"

"What's wrong?" Hearing his tone, Ahmed Sami also became nervous. Although he hated Mavian, he would never underestimate this man's abilities.

"It's too late to explain." Mavian's fingers danced rapidly at first, as if he was completing the operation with high intensity.

Then, he turned around, his face was ferocious and twisted, with a little fear, but also an inexplicable hysterical excitement, "Captain Sami, activate the super maneuver mode and warm up all the enhanced jet engines on both sides of the work ship. , push the reverse thrust medium into the load compartment and preheat it to more than 8,000 degrees!"

Ahmed was stunned, "What are you talking about? This will cost us at least 2% of our reserve energy and reverse thrust media, and we will have to persist here for another four years."

Mavian's expression stiffened, and he suddenly became lazy again, "Forget it, you're right. People are going to die anyway, so why care about these things. I will turn off the supercritical information flow radar scanning and will not send any information to other workers. The ship broadcasts my discovery. That's it. Four years, tsk tsk...you really think about it."

Mavian's sudden change of attitude only made Ahmed nervous.

Captain Sami heard the strong desire for death in his technical officer's heart. He was bored, as if he didn't care about anything.

When a person who has no pursuits or beliefs has decided to die and foresees that he will die soon, he will not have the slightest memory of this world and will not have the slightest regret.

"Okay! I apologize to you! I listen to you! I listen to you now!" Ahmed suddenly sat back on the workbench: "Activate the highest warning mechanism, everyone sit tight!" Mavian smiled playfully, "now it's right."

As Ahmed finished speaking, the other nine crew members in the Falcon also took their places.

The eight-point safety belt next to the work chair pops up automatically, holding everyone firmly on it.

Full-coverage combat helmets also hung from the top and were placed on everyone's heads.

Deep-sea buffer fluid began to pour in rapidly from various gaps in the emergency combat compartment.

"Start super maneuver, warm up the enhanced engine, report the reading data of the supercritical information flow radar to the entire fleet, and request the computing power of our headquarters for assistance."

After saying this, Ahmed finally saw in front of him the scene that Mavian visualized pure data.

In Mavian's prediction calculation simulation, the originally calm black foggy area suddenly turned into a turbulent sea of ​​storm.

This is an explosion caused by a huge dark energy collision, originating from the staggered collision of two dark energy clusters with a mass comparable to the source star on the upper edge of the black fog area.

The energy released instantly by the explosion has approached the critical value of the ultimate explosion, and the impact range is enough to cover a quarter of the black fog area.

In addition to the forward simulation work ships sailing in the safe channel, most relay work ships will be affected by this outbreak.

This is not Liu An's conspiracy, it is purely the malice of nature.

…

Isu Locke looked at the simulated star map in front of him, his fingers holding the cigarette trembling violently.

Five minutes ago, the information chain data network in the star map was still business as usual. The 997 vertical data links were stable and reliable. Although the horizontal auxiliary data links were constantly changing, the cross-network links could still ensure stability.

But at that moment, suddenly, one after another, the data nodes representing the work ship quickly went out and disconnected.

The first thing to go out was work ship No. 411-31. The 411 line was interrupted at the same time.

The red dotted line nearby was strengthening, but unfortunately before the link could be reestablished, one after another other work ships near 411-31 went out one after another. Not only had the 411 line failed to be rebuilt, but other nearby data links were also disconnected one after another. It was as if there was an invisible abyss chewing into this area, swallowing everything here instantly.

Disasters do not occur without warning. As early as two minutes ago, work ship No. 981-27 had issued a fleet-wide warning.

Technical Officer Mavian pointed out that based on his simulation of changes in the background information flow in the black fog area, he inferred that a violent burst of dark energy had occurred directly in front of the working fleet.

For the "invisible devil" like dark energy, conventional radio radar and optical radar scanning are completely ineffective. There is no reflection and will only be easily absorbed. It can only be based on changes in the cross gravitational field in space and subtle changes in background light and information flow. , to make a rough estimate, the accuracy cannot be 100%.

However, Mavian's suggestion still received great attention from the "Net", and all work ships were put into a high alert and early warning mechanism as soon as possible to warm up the engines in advance.

But the scary thing about natural disasters is that even if humans have early warning, it is difficult to avoid them.

The diffusion speed of the gravitational field is the speed of light.

The maximum flight speed of the work ship can only reach 0.2 times the speed of light. The work ship is like a small speedboat facing a tsunami. There is no way to avoid it and can only resign itself to fate.

What’s even more frightening is that this dark energy burst covers a huge area.

"Net" quickly provided auxiliary simulation data.

The simulation diagram shows that 997 vertical data links are within the scope of the storm, and no one is spared.

Ys Locke immediately decided to end Ren Zhong's frozen state and wake him up.

But it will take time for Ren Zhong to wake up, and due to the special nature of his identity, he cannot easily use the emergency wake-up mode. It will take at least an hour before Ren Zhong can get back to work. Of course, even if Ren Zhong was awake at this time, he couldn't actually do anything except boost his morale or make some new plans in advance for being forced to rebel against the empire.

Before Ren Zhong woke up, Isu Locke, Liang Qifa, Zheng Dafa, Tang Youyun, Gao Ya and the current military commander on duty, Vincent Van Hoy, had already entered the online conference room in advance.

Before the meeting was officially held, the work ship had already begun to perform dispersed maneuvers.

It is difficult for the work ships located in the center to survive, but the work ships located in the relatively peripheral areas seem to have a chance to struggle again.

Ys Locke laid out the data and said: "The work ships in the central area are helpless, but the work ships with a sequence of less than 100 and more than 900 can persist for a while through dispersed maneuvers. However, according to the 'Net' reminder, the chaotic gravitational field will still sweep across a large area, just covering all the work ships in a horizontal sequence of 20 to 30. It is like a huge knife cutting across horizontally, and it is inevitable that our data link will be completely disconnected. matter."

The old Vincent Van Hoy rubbed his brows and put forward a different view, "I don't think those disconnected work ships have necessarily been blown up. The performance of the work ships is very good, and the operators are also the best. Even in the face of this dilemma, there must be a chance to survive. The essence of the so-called dark energy explosion is just like the ancients driving a small sail into the stormy sea. Even if they narrowly escape death, someone will eventually cross the vast sea and go to Another continent. Now they have all lost contact. It is just because the chaotic gravitational field and radiation energy caused by the dark energy burst 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 soldiers."

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

Although the core impact zone of the dark energy explosion has not yet arrived, small torn dark energy clusters have begun to rush in piecemeal at the speed of light.

Ma Wei'an stared at the projection screen intently, running rapid algorithm adjustments in his mind. Suddenly, he moved his fingers again.

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

Captain Sami saw a small dark energy group with a capture radius of 34 million kilometers rushing toward him in the second quadrant area ahead. It would arrive in 115 seconds.

Without hesitation, Ahmed chose to maneuver diagonally to the left.

106 seconds later, the Falcon exited the gravitational capture radius.

Ahmed didn't even have time to breathe before Mavian sent a new message.

This time, three dark energy clusters approaching each other formed a triangle and surrounded them. The capture areas of the three gravitational fields completely overlapped, and the Falcon could not avoid them.

Ahmed Sami turned pale and made a bold decision based purely on intuition.

Instead of slowing down, he accelerated forward.

He selected the middle point where the three gravitational fields overlapped.

It was a straight line and the only hope.

As long as he keeps the Falcon's center of gravity moving along this line, he can create a delicate balance between the three powerful gravitational forces.

Although the universe is huge, its vitality is only in this line, and the error range cannot exceed two meters.

One hundred and seven seconds later, it passed successfully.

The ship didn't even have time to cheer, Mavian once again gave a new danger reminder.

This time the dodge is much easier, you only need to do a regular maneuver.

Ma Wei'an finally stopped being careless and became somewhat inexplicably fanatical.

Ahmed first completed the preparation of the preset maneuver, then turned to look at Mavian, "Good job, Mavian."

Although Mavian did not turn to look at him, the corners of his mouth curved.

"Captain Sami, don't be nervous, this is just the beginning. We will face violent storms next, please use your limit. Our sequence is 981, which is one of the vertical sequence ships with the best chance of survival. So , we must not make mistakes.”