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Not long after entering this closed galaxy, the Feitian encountered a mysterious attack!

"What is attacking us, Xiao Kong?" Yun Xinghe asked Zhinao.

"They are some very small devices. These devices are very slow and have been left behind by me!" Zhi Nao Xiao Air Conditioner posted a few pictures.

But these pictures are very blurry, which is related to the speed of Feitian.

The Feitian's speed is still 0.5C. It is normal that the mysterious attack device cannot catch up with the Feitian.

"Xiao Kong, slow down a little and see what is chasing us?"

"yes!"

The Feitian adjusted the direction of the engine nozzle, began to reduce its speed, and performed certain turning maneuvers so that the pursuit device behind it could catch up.

In this way, more than thirty hours later, the speed of the Feitian dropped to 0.3C, and the pursuit device behind it also accelerated to almost this speed, getting closer and closer to the Feitian.

The straight-line distance is less than 5 light minutes.

Through the high-power photoelectric sighting device at the tail of the Feitian, Yun Xinghe and the others finally saw clearly the complete appearance of the tracking devices behind them.

There are about a hundred tracking devices.

The size is very small, not as big as a dormant cabin.

The appearance is as smooth as a mirror, the shape is like a falling water drop, the lines are smooth and crystal clear.

water droplets.

This device, Yun Xinghe heard the grandfather in his mind describe it, is exactly the masterpiece of the civilization in front of him - "water droplets" made of strong force materials.

It is said that the surface of this device is extremely smooth without any friction, and the outer shell is extremely hard and difficult to damage.

Water droplets are very destructive to other objects.

It even has a resounding nickname - Junior Civilization Harvester.

It is said that there was once a civilization that had just stepped out of the planet and built an interstellar fleet with thousands of battleships. It was extremely ambitious to conquer another alien civilization in a neighboring galaxy.

But halfway through, the interstellar fleet encountered a water droplet. In less than two hours, the entire fleet was wiped out and turned into space junk.

In this primary civilization, faced with such heavy losses, the hard-liners were speechless, and the voices vowing to fight to the end were missing; the compromise and capitulation factions gained momentum and were elected to power by pessimistic and desperate voters, expressing their willingness to give up all resistance and only I hope higher civilization will give them a way out.

Because of the huge destructive power of water droplets, the use of this kind of weapon is strictly prohibited in the "Galaxy Civilization Convention". However, the binding force of this convention is limited. It is still often heard that a certain civilization is about to leave the planet and prepare to attack the enemy on the planet. In the starry sky, when he was showing off his skills, he was completely destroyed by an unknown water droplet and his vitality was severely injured. It is unknown whether this water droplet was released by the unscrupulous person, but for the primary civilization, Water droplets are indeed an irresistible weapon of destruction.

For a civilization at the level of the Blue Star Federation, mere water droplets, although they pose a certain threat, are not a big threat.

Because water droplets have weaknesses.

The first weakness is that due to the limited volume of the internal power system, the speed of water droplets is very slow, not exceeding 0.3C. As long as the speed of the spacecraft exceeds 0.3C and the water droplets cannot catch up, there is naturally no threat.

The second weakness is that the strong force material that makes up the shell of the water droplet has an extremely smooth and hard surface, but it does not mean that there is no material that is as strong as it, so it can be used head-on.

S-class force field alloy is a hard material that is not weaker than water droplets. If you have a thick and large enough S-class force field alloy, you can deal with water droplets like a table tennis ball, sending the water droplets flying around. .

In addition, the destructive power of water droplets still lies in its speed, and its internal energy reserve is limited and is not a so-called "perpetual motion machine". Once the energy is exhausted, the water droplets will become useless garbage floating in space.

Therefore, Yun Xinghe, who knew this, deliberately made Xiaokong slow down to seduce the appetite of the "water droplet" behind him. Sometimes he would speed up to increase the distance; sometimes he would slow down to narrow the distance. He tried his best to consume the energy reserves inside the water droplet. Once it becomes space junk, find a way to capture it and study it carefully.

"Small-caliber laser cannon, attack!"

Gu Fan controlled the weapons on the spacecraft and tried to attack the water droplets to see if there was any attack effect.

An orange-red laser shot straight towards the water droplet.

After hitting the water droplet, the laser light is reflected to other places like the reflection of a mirror.

"Energy attacks are ineffective," Gu Fan said.

"Try physical attacks and launch missiles."

"The missile aiming is completed, launch!" Gu Fan pressed the missile launch button, and several missiles flew towards the water droplets, dragging flames.

Two hours later, several groups of fire appeared in the rear, and the missile hit the target.

But it had no effect. The surface of the water droplet was intact and it continued to chase the Feitian unhurriedly.

"Try a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead. If this doesn't work, I'm afraid only the high-energy particles ejected from the engine at the tail of the Feitian can cause some damage to the water droplets."

Yun Xinghe said.

What is the most powerful weapon on a spaceship?

Not the main gun installed directly in front.

It's the engine at the rear.

The high-speed particles ejected from the engine nozzle can reach a speed of more than 0.9 times the speed of light in the spiral acceleration field. Particles at this speed can not only provide huge reverse thrust, but these high-energy particles can also collide with any object. Cause huge damage to it.

But unfortunately, this attack is only effective against targets directly behind the butt of the spacecraft, and the shooting angle is embarrassing.

Moreover, the engine tail nozzle is in the shape of a radial chrysanthemum, and the particle beam cannot be concentrated. Considering various factors, it is just an unrealistic fantasy to rely on the engine nozzle to kill the enemy.

"Boom~Boom~"

Behind the Feitian, two bright fireworks lit up, and a nuclear missile with an explosion yield of about 5,000 tons exploded, hitting the water droplet.

After the short explosion ended, Yun Xinghe looked at the screen and saw that the water droplet device was still there - even though it was blown upside down for a certain distance, the surface was still intact.

"Slow down and let the water droplets approach the spacecraft."

Various attacks were ineffective, so Yun Xinghe could only try his last resort.

5 light minutes, 3 light minutes, 30 light seconds, 1 light second...

The final distance was 0.001 light seconds, less than 300 kilometers away.

The Feitian adjusted its attitude and used the main engine at the tail to aim at the water droplet not far behind.

"Maximum afterburner activated!"

With an order, Zhi Nao Xiaokong suddenly turned on the active engine in the center of Feitian's tail at maximum afterburner.

"Bang bang bang~"

The instant acceleration of up to 10G caused the backs of everyone in the seats to slam against the back of the chair. The loose muscles on the face were all squeezed behind the ears, and the expressions were distorted and painful.

"Boom boom boom~"

The large amount of high-speed particles ejected from the azure engine tail nozzle formed a dense barrage, covering a cone-shaped channel-like area at the rear, covering the water droplet device that had no time to dodge.

"Kakaka!"

Under the impact of countless high-energy particles, countless tiny cracks suddenly appeared on the extremely smooth surface of the water droplets and in the countless invisible explosion flames. As the number of high-speed particles hitting the surface increased, the cracks continued to extend and expand.

The water droplet composed of strong force material finally suffered a fatal blow.

"Wow!"

Like a fine piece of ceramic, with a crash, the water droplet broke into countless pieces.

The water droplet was finally completely destroyed.

…

Five days later.

The Feitian successfully captured a water droplet that eventually became space junk due to exhaustion of energy.

Inside the spacecraft's science laboratory.

Through various methods, the hard shell of this water droplet was successfully cut open.

"God, how is this possible?"

"Incredible!"

"The internal structure of this water droplet is more complex than a planet."

"There are at least 1 billion parts, and there is also a miniature material reactor less than the size of a fist. The total length of various internal circuits exceeds 1 astronomical unit."

"It can be said that the precision of this device is much higher than that of the Feitian, and the number of parts is ten times that of the Feitian. What is even more amazing is that with such a large number of parts stacked together, the failure rate of the water droplet is astonishingly low. "

"To what extent has the civilization of this star system mastered precision processing technology?"

Lan Xiulong kept exclaiming with disbelief on his face.

You must know that the development trend of scientific and technological equipment has always been in the direction of modularization, simplification, and batching. The more sophisticated and complex the device is, the more difficult it is to manufacture. The more parts the equipment has, the higher the failure rate and the time it takes to manufacture it. The cost will also become unbearable.

This civilization did the opposite and took refinement to the extreme.

Carry forward the spirit of craftsmanship to the extreme.

"If you magnify this water droplet 10,000 times and make it into an object as big as the Feitian, there will be no possibility of the Feitian escaping."

Belekov said, then he was a little surprised: "Why don't they make the water droplets bigger?"

"Yeah, why not make it bigger?" Sugaru also asked.

"This may be related to the characteristics of this civilization. It is easy for these aliens to make things small and precise, but they are not necessarily good at enlarging them. They are very proficient in small systems, but they are required to integrate a large system into a simple and Practical, it can be very difficult.”

"Isn't this what the He people in our federation are like? The performance of the parts they produce is very excellent and unmatched by anyone. But if you ask them to enlarge things, even if they are doubled, they seem to have encountered a world-class problem and are helpless. Measures are difficult to solve.”

"This civilization must be a civilization with many skilled craftsmen, but small ones have small advantages, and big ones have big benefits. If this civilization can only create offensive weapons like 'water droplets', for us, this civilization, It should be very easy to deal with.”

Yun Xinghe said with a smile.