Resurrection Empire

In Mavian's short twenty-five years of life, he had never been so motivated.

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

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

He displayed his talents unscrupulously, and with the cooperation of Ahmed Sami, a captain who although not well-known, but his actual driving level is the best among the best, he faced countless torn dark energies. The regiment charged away in a hail of bullets.

Continuous maneuvering, overload dodge...

Continuous dodge...

In order to avoid it in advance, the top speed had to be increased to more than 0.2 times the speed of light, and a new direction was made despite the self-disintegration risk warning of the spacecraft.

Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps Ahmed's years of studying and pondering the performance of every inch of the Falcon's structure allowed him to accurately grasp the limit.

Such violent operations lasted for a full hour.

Every step was perfect, no mistakes were made, and the spacecraft did not disintegrate.

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

The tragic situation 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 decisions.

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

He saw the truly terrifying destructive power of nature.

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

The radial tearing dark energy blocks and the violent wind-like chaotic gravitational field were like a full moon scimitar, extinguishing the information nodes of more than 10,000 work ships and cutting off 997 longitudinal data links in just one hour.

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

The first simulation calculation by "Net" and Ma Wei'an was indeed flawed. It was not accurate enough. The real core sweep area was not 20~30, but 24~33.

As Vincent Van Hoy said, despite suffering a devastating blow, more than 500 work ships miraculously survived.

Some workships were just lucky, while others showed amazing courage, perseverance, and extraordinary professionalism on the part of their crews, and each showed their unique abilities to survive this devastating blow.

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

However, the unfortunate thing is that even the surviving work ships have suffered damage in one way or another.

Damage varied.

Some work ships had power system failures, and some had communication modules torn into pieces.

Some work ships were even almost broken into two pieces, barely held together by a few neutron-coated structural columns. The air inside the work ship has already leaked completely, and only a small number of crew members can barely survive by relying on their still intact space suits.

It is already impossible to repair the work ship under such circumstances.

"Lord Earl, the current situation is still very dangerous. The distribution of work ships with basic functions is very fragmented. Most of them are work ships with longitudinal sequences below 100 and above 900. The core impact area is further to the left, so the work ships with longitudinal sequences below 100 Ships have a lower degree of preservation, and work ships with more than 900 longitudinal sequences are better preserved, but not much better."

"We currently have only one vertical data link that can barely maintain the link, which is line 997 on the far right side of the star map. And the data link 997 is not a straight line link, but relies on the temporary switching of work ships in the nearby sequence to generate it. It does not It is stable and may be disconnected at any time. Moreover, although the strongest first round of the dark energy explosion has passed, the aftermath cannot be underestimated. This single seedling is still shaky."

Ys Locke explained the situation and responsibilities very quickly.

In fact, there is no need for him to say that as the real helmsman of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, he only needs to glance at the simulated star map to know the situation.

Not only that, he knew more.

Sun Ai told him through brainwave communication that since the Source Star Fleet "entered" the black fog area at the agreed time, the Nanxiang Star Cluster special service fleet waiting on the other side has never interrupted the flow of information with the simulated work ship in the safe channel. The link is euphemistically called providing information support, but it does not indicate the risk of this dark energy explosion. Its purpose seems to be just to accurately position the Source Star fleet.

Sun Ai's information also has another meaning. There is no need to say it clearly, Ren Zhong will naturally understand it. That is, once the last vertical link is completely disconnected, the truth that the Source Star Fleet has not entered the black fog zone at all will be exposed.

There is also a very urgent situation.

The specific composition of the remaining work ships of line 997 is as follows. Excluding other ships that are still intact, they are composed of 997-33, 996-32, 996-31, 997-31, 997-30, 997-29, 995- The composition of 28, 997-27, 996-26 and other ships is an unstable broken line, which is barely usable.

It was the single seedling formed by this cross-relay that preserved the camouflage of the entire fleet.

Among them, more than one work ship survived in multiple horizontal sequences. At this time, these work ships are trying to find ways to move closer to the shortest path between the 997 lines to form a cage network to prevent a certain work ship in the data chain from being affected by the new An accident or the damage situation continues to worsen and the link is completely disconnected.

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

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

The surviving ship numbers are as follows: 5-27, 12-27, 33-27...981-27, 997-27.

The more serious situation is that the only ship that can arrive near 997-27 within one day and connect it to the 997 line in parallel to form a parallel redundant network to provide a stable data channel is the 981-27.

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

However, this is not the worst situation. Among all the work ships affected, the one in the most dangerous situation is 997-27.

The ship that was highlighted in the previous war briefing was almost broken into two pieces, and it was barely able to survive complete disintegration by relying on only one structural column. It was 997-27.

Once the 997-27 work ship cannot persist, it means that the camouflage operation has failed.

Ren Zhong could imagine with his toes that once Liu An found out that this conspiracy could not destroy the Source Star fleet, he would inevitably pull a huge mixed pirate fleet from the broken star ring and swoop in to kill him who had not yet had time. After the empire completes the review of military exploits and potential, the quasi-counts who have not yet been registered and the entire Source Star fleet are completely wiped out, and finally a pirate leader is thrown in to take the blame.

No one would have thought that the fate of the Source Star Fleet, which has nearly 12,000 large ships and a total population of nearly 3 billion, would be tied to such a fragile thread.

At this moment, three billion threads of fate of three billion people are intertwined with the five remaining crew members of 997-27.

There was silence in the huge conference room. Chen Qiao was constantly adjusting the algorithm and trying to restore contact.

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

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

But now, 997-27 can only silently function as a data link relay point. The headquarters cannot recognize the ship's main control system at all, indicating that the core brain of this work ship is seriously damaged.

Even the situation where 997-27 was broken into two parts was reported by the 981-27 ship through information flow scanning and re-modeling.

Fortunately, the information flow repeater of 997-27 is still working.

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

This is a delicate job that requires multiple encryption and disguises to avoid disturbing the stability of the data chain itself and accidentally leaking the truth.

Chen Qiao is creating an encryption algorithm, and then Sun Ailai quickly stacks it.

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

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

In fact, Chen Qiao's question was unnecessary and seemed to be a waste of time, but no one blamed her. After all, she was not a professional military personnel, so it was normal for her to not understand these things.

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

She quickly sat down with a slight embarrassment and passed the voice communication permission directly to Ren Zhong, who was sitting in the chair.

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

There was a rustling sound from the opposite side, and then it was quiet for two seconds, and then there was an ecstatic voice.

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

Huang Xubo seemed to be trying hard to suppress his excitement.

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

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

"The ship has been severely damaged, and the control brain has been completely torn. The air in the cabin has completely escaped, and the life support system has completely collapsed and cannot be repaired. The energy supply system has been damaged more than 95%, and the fusion reactor has suffered a serious leak. After emergency repairs, the power supply to the repeater was saved. However, the main battery can only support ten more minutes before shutting down completely. There are still five crew members. The other ten people may have been sucked into space, or died due to damage to their space suits. Sacrifice. The technical officer has died, and there are currently five people including the captain, mechanic, energy dispatcher, navigator, and reconnaissance equipment controller."

Although Huang Xubo's tone was calm and his focus was not on his own safety, everyone knew that he knew that he was certain to die.

No, maybe he still has a chance to survive.

The energy reserve inside the space suit is enough to keep the life support system running for three days, which can completely wait for 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: "I'm reporting to you, Lord Count, before you contact me, we have already agreed on a plan. A total of five of the crew members were sucked into space and have been captured by the dark energy group. Although the space suits of the other five were seriously damaged, among them There are still three space suits whose energy modules are still intact. Just now, my colleagues have gone to the storage warehouse at the rear of the work ship to check, and there are still six space suits. Counting our own, we can make up a total of 14 space suits. The mechanic told me that 14 space suit power supply modules connected in series can just meet the power supply needs of the information flow repeater and can keep the repeater running for sixteen hours. As long as the next sixteen Within hours, if we are not unlucky enough to be sucked into the gravitational field of another dark energy group, we can always maintain the link."

Huang Xubo's words were still very plain, but in fact this was a way to die.

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

With the remaining oxygen in the space suit, without a circulation machine, they would begin to feel insufficient oxygen supply after only ten minutes.

In half an hour at most, all five people, including Huang Xubo, would suffocate to death.

In the underlying intelligent logic settings of the space suit, the safety of personnel is given the highest priority.

When the life monitoring system detects that a person is at risk of suffocation, it will automatically cut off the external energy supply and restore the life-sustaining energy supply.

In order 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. You only need to bend your finger slightly to turn the system back on.

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

This is almost impossible to achieve.

And these are still five people.

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

There is another plan, which is to let the other four people directly open the masks and suffocate to death, and then the last person will complete the last step and set the preset program.

Then the last person holds his breath and takes off his spacesuit, so as not to let his desire for survival interrupt the energy supply.

This is the only solution.

Ren Zhong thought for five seconds, and then said slowly: "I believe you, just make preparations. Thank you."