Chapter 947 Contact

Chapter 947 Contact

To be honest, I had never seen Tavel in casual clothes before today. The classic image of this research madman is simply too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. He is a neat researcher in a white robe, elegant lady glasses, and meticulous and resolute. The combination of these three points makes the girl with explosive glasses famous throughout the Shadow City... Well, you can't let her hear this. The empire's scientists are generally no less dangerous than Hitler...

I gave Tavel a holiday, and I really didn’t expect to see her in casual clothes. To be honest, after putting on ordinary clothes and taking off her glasses, she was like a different person, that is, that kind of person. The blade-like military temperament can also give people a sense of familiarity, but it seems particularly inconsistent with her soft girl outfit. To be fair, I think it would be better if she stood still, looking like a lady from the back. Like...

This also directly caused me to not recognize her at all after she took off her glasses. If she didn't speak, I would have imagined a half-sister for Tavel in ten minutes at most.

"My subordinate applied to return to the institute early," Tavel repeated to me seriously. "About the ghost ship, I feel that I should be able to discover more things if I start analyzing it."

"It's not impossible. You seem a little busy without you in the institute." I nodded slightly, and the other party immediately showed a happy expression, but I added later, "I still have time and I have a long vacation. To be honest, Yes, if Reimu and Zi were as dedicated as you, I would be satisfied."

As I said this, I thought of the unlucky fox that Zi had forcibly sent to work for me all day long. Lan just came out of the medical center yesterday. The hair on his tail was all grown, but it seemed to have left a serious psychological shadow. Now She gets anxious with anyone who stares at her tail for more than a minute. She grins and gets down on all fours to yell at anyone. Even I almost got bitten by her. Currently, 70% of the stray dogs and stray dogs in Shadow City The cats have already worshiped under Blue's nine tails, and the latter has become the king of canines in the Shadow City. I am worried that if this continues, she will one day regress to the point of eating raw meat. And Reimu has been skipping work all day recently, leaving all her work to Ibuki Suika, who she coaxed and tricked into joining the urban management brigade, and Marisa, who is a bit silly. She sleeps in the dormitory all day long. Poor Cuixiang, that stupid girl is still lame on one leg. She has been patrolling for the past two days with a cane she picked up from nowhere. The urban management armband was tied haphazardly to the corner of her head. From a distance, it looked like A ball of rags, this guy is always holding a wine gourd precariously. Now many people are worried about the financial problems of the shadow city urban management department. Every time Cuixiang goes out to patrol, he can get a lot of change... …

And the silly girl happily thought she had made a profit.

As I said before, eighty or ninety percent of Cuixiang's intelligence is probably suppressed by her into the big horns on her head.

I accidentally thought of the two arrogant working girls who always made people feel very depressed, and I was very worried whether they would do it again after turning Lan into a fox dog and Cuixiang into an elder of the Beggar Clan. What the heck, it seems it’s time for them to write a 30,000-word self-reflection letter.

Of course, I didn’t forget that Tavel was waiting for my reply now. She applied to return to her job early. To be honest, this was not beyond anyone’s expectations. This research madman, it is indeed a good idea for her to let her leave the laboratory. Forcing Lilina to go to Zimbabwe to save lives and heal the wounded is just as fatal. Taking a vacation is not a comfortable thing for her - don't you hear? Even buying a beautiful dress is because of orders from above, but she herself has no interest at all. The same thing happened to Qian Qian. Do you believe that girl could shovel the Tang Bai Building and its foundation and bring her back?

"It seems that even though I'm giving you a holiday, you're usually not idle either."

I glanced at Tavel and said, "Are you also researching ghost ships?"

"I just downloaded some data from the shared link," Tavel immediately stood up and entered the reporting state, "My subordinates have been following your orders to take vacations, but downloading data from the shared link and conducting scientific analysis is One of my daily personal hobbies!"

"Okay, okay," I waved to Tavel, "Don't always be so serious. You should know that I don't like these messy etiquette in informal situations. But about the ghost ship, what do you think?"

"My subordinates speculate that the ghost ship fleet may be slowing down."

Tavel started chirping when she didn't chirp, which startled me. I originally thought she was free to learn about the ghost ship's information, but I didn't expect that she had already researched such detailed information on her own!

"They're slowing down? What do you mean?" I asked, rubbing my chin.

"This is the conclusion reached by my subordinates after analyzing and comparing the data obtained from the void probes distributed throughout the macro world network, and speculating on the course of the ghost ship. Although the core information disturbance source of this fleet is indeed constantly approaching Macro World, world, but its 'moving speed' in the void is indeed slowing down. At present, my subordinates are not sure whether this fleet intends to park or turn around and escape, but it is obvious that they do not want to contact the empire - this is just speculation, definite evidence Insufficient, in theory.”

"There are still people operating the ghost fleet. This is indeed what we have guessed," I thought for a while, "but the entire fleet is braking... then no one would have thought of it. How reliable do you think this conclusion is?"

"More than 90%," Tavel nodded confidently. "My subordinates are good at analyzing various fuzzy data and have created some very complex void data models. According to this model, the ghost fleet is indeed slowing down."

"Slow down, don't want to come into contact with the empire... By the way, when Lan came into contact with the ghost ship, the other party launched a counterattack, but after the imperial patrol ships brought by Lan appeared, the three obviously manned ghost ships fled for their lives. All gone! They are indeed..."

I felt that some of my conjectures suddenly became clear. Tavel's analysis was most likely correct, but at this moment, Sandora's emergency call suddenly came from the mental connection: "Arjun! Important information, the first probe We may have come into contact with the main body of the Ghost Fleet!"

I was a little surprised, but quickly calmed down and smiled at Tavel: "Your guess should be correct, but now we can directly confirm the origin of the ghost ship without guessing: the probe has found their lair."

"Because the empire will always reap success," Tavel's lips curled up slightly, and then he did not forget his application, "Your Majesty, can your subordinates return to the research institute?"

"If you want to confirm that there is nothing wrong with your body..." I glanced at Tavel, but I didn't say the second half of the sentence: Tavel seemed to be in good spirits. As a Xiling apostle, she didn't worry about her health. , in her words, more than ten hours of comprehensive adjustments are actually enough to be regarded as a vacation. I have no doubt that it would take less than ten seconds for Tavel to kill a Terminator now. In this case, the other party still has to do it. Go back to the institute, then I really have nothing to say, "Well, it seems that continuing to work is a happier thing for you - Empire Chief Researcher Tavel, the vacation is over early, go back to your post ——But please pay attention to your health from now on, if you screw up the project again, Sandora may really punish you."

The workaholic immediately gave a military salute with great joy: "Yes! Tavel returns to the team!"

I have never seen someone so happy when called back in advance to work overtime. If such an employee were placed in any private company, she would be hated by others... The normal people around her would bite her.

After wandering around outside for a while, I returned to the headquarters in a hurry. Sandora, a group of commanders, and most of the family had been waiting here for a long time. Even Qianqian, Lilina and the others were together. There is a huge holographic projection device in the largest command hall. A group of people gathered in a circle in front of this holographic projection and pointed and discussed things. From a distance, they looked like young girls and young wives picking cabbage at the vegetable market. , many commanders were retrieving data and assigning work on nearby information terminals, and it was very lively.

After asking, I found out that when Sandora contacted me, there was indeed only one probe that was suspected to have come into contact with the main body of the ghost fleet. However, in the few minutes when I rushed to the headquarters, many probes came in one after another. A large amount of information, the large number of probes sent out in batches before discovered a large number of ghost ships at the same time as if they had agreed upon it - perhaps this shows that the ghost fleet has a structure similar to a discrete cluster. It does not only have one "cluster", but a large number of ghost ships. A common core is formed by many dispersed fleet clusters.

The probe returned not only rough information such as the number and coordinates of the ghost fleet, but also recorded very clear video data. Now Sandora and the others are studying the clearest and largest cluster image, while studying and discussing it.

"Wow, Ajun, you're here!" Qianqian was the first to notice me, and immediately jumped over happily, hugged my neck and gave me a sip. I think the reason why she is often the first to notice others is because most of the time she His attention was not focused on anything - you see, Little Bubble is still pouting and counting the number of small bright spots on the screen.

...By the way, Little Bubble has successfully sneaked into the military zone again.

"These are the ghost fleet's nests?"

I raised my head and glanced up, but I almost missed the second half of my sentence, "I'll choke you! How many fucking things are there!"

Sandora zoomed the screen, adjusted the image of the ghost fleet to the maximum, and then changed the background of the entire fleet, turning the black background of the void into transparent. In this way, all the ghost ships are clearly presented in front of us, and the scale is Surprising.

"This is just a part of it. The entire ghost fleet is at least ten times the number."

Sandora said in a deep voice, and on the holographic projection screen, there were tens of millions of huge starship clusters and a strangely huge fortress in the center of the entire cluster.

"There are hundreds of millions of starships... and they are all this big guy..." I felt like I was sweating on my forehead. "Do you have a scale? Who can tell me first how big this big black bump is?"

I am referring to the black fortress in the center of the picture. Judging from the image, the main part of the ghost fleet is a cluster of starships distributed in a gyro shape. Countless starships form a flat top like a bee swarm. The disk, the outermost spaceships are large in number but smaller in size, and the spaceships farther in are even larger. It is difficult to explain how an out-of-control ghost fleet can maintain such a stable structure while drifting, unless they are still It has a certain degree of self-control, and in the center of the entire cluster is a huge and weird black "thing". It looks like a bloated piece of meat, with an irregular appearance and stacked black streamlined structures. It became roughly spherical, with flashing lights and huge red cracks on it.

"It looks like a rotten potato," Qian Qian muttered. She was very unimpressed by the ugly giant bump. "It's really ugly."

"Those with trypophobia can't watch this." The eldest lady pointed at the countless starships.

Under the control of the rear, the probes that had approached the fleet cluster carefully measured the size and energy response of all battleships, and then came to a conclusion: that huge rotten potato-like black fortress was at least three times the size of the earth, and in There are countless starships around it, and the largest one is almost as huge as the Eternal-class mothership!

Of course, such huge motherships are quite rare in this fleet, and they can probably only be used as strategic weapons. Most ghost ships are about the same size as the empire's small and medium-sized battleships. At the same time, the probe also began to analyze the theoretical combat effectiveness of these warships, mainly by measuring their energy intensity, energy form, and hull structure to achieve a preliminary calculation of the combat effectiveness of the target spacecraft.

"Sixty percent are unarmed or have only a small number of anti-aircraft guns," said Sivis, who was responsible for analyzing the combat effectiveness of the ghost ships. She has now reached a conclusion. She enlarged some pictures of the ghost ships and presented them to us. I found that most of them have thick and rounded hulls. Such hulls are rare as main battleships. In most cases, only fortress ships like the Frontier class have such a thick appearance, and these thick hulls in the Ghost Fleet The short spaceship is obviously a civilian transport ship or colonial ship. "The main energy reaction of all ghost ships is psionic energy with poor purity. Compared with the void decay psionic energy used by the empire, this energy contains too many impurities and is less efficient. Perhaps their manufacturers did not fully master the technology of building a hyperspace reactor and directly decaying psionic energy from the void environment. Instead, they could only use the reactor placed on the main material plane to simulate the initial environment of the world and refine a small amount of psionic energy. able."

"This shows that the technological level of the ghost ship is about two levels different from that of the empire," Sandora said, and then explained to me specifically, "Usually, the technology can be layered by the way of controlling energy, and psionic energy can be used to layer technology. For example, just realizing psionic energy and trying to use it is considered an elementary level. Being able to mine and utilize ready-made energy from some rare 'energy fields' in the universe is a further step. Being able to build a reactor in the main material plane and master it yourself The process of refining psionic energy is one level higher. The next step is to initially master the technology of the hyperspace reactor, which can extract psionic energy from the border of the world. The higher level is like the empire, which can directly create energy in the void. Basically, the Xiling Apostles have reached the highest level, and the higher level is to directly control the void, and these ghost ships... although they are much different from the empire, they can be regarded as products of advanced civilization, but compared with the empire, their strength is different. However, no one knows how large these ghost ships were."

"This fleet is very close to the nearest imperial outpost," Sandora added a few more words, "but what's strange is that they seem to be slowly slowing down. Oh, this is a more understandable statement. After all, there is no concept of speed and distance in the void. It can only be said that this fleet is slowly deviating from the 'information characteristics' of the empire's ruling area. This is a tendency that requires high-end statistics to discover. The ghost fleet is trying to bypass the macro world. . But I’m afraid it will be difficult to succeed... The Macro World Network is too big, and the ghost fleet has basically entered an unavoidable collision zone. Unless they know exactly the structure diagram of the Macro World Network, they will definitely collide."

I thought to myself that this is it. It was exactly the same as Tavel's judgment. It's just that a large group of commanders here in Shandora discovered this tendency after they had first-hand information, while Tavel only downloaded it from the broadcast network. I got some information and analyzed it by myself before going to bed for a while to complete this kind of complicated statistics... People are more annoying than others. There are some things that you really can only do for professionals.

"Anyway, we should go and see the situation in person." My sister saw that no one was talking and put forward her own suggestion. "I think these spaceships are so strange that they deserve our own inspection."

Everyone agreed. Sandora immediately ordered the royal fleet to set off. The first family would personally investigate the situation of the ghost fleet. Pandora began to mobilize her own guards. I quickly patted this little girl. His head said that this is not a war, who are you sending troops to fight?

In the end, Pandora's explanation was very simple: it would be very troublesome if those things collided with each other. If there is no other way, just blow them up first...

You said how easy it is to have a logic method like Pandora's. No matter what difficulties you encounter in life, you should blow it up first. I must have had this awareness when I took the supplementary exam for the fifth subject in my second year of high school... By this time, I should be able to get a commutation of my sentence...

The Royal Fleet and Pandora's Guards Heavy Regiment are in a state of combat readiness at any time. The energy and control systems of the spacecraft are ready for a long time. The preparations were completed in ten minutes after the order was issued. The only thing that took a little time was that it took me five It took a few minutes to catch Little Bubble: That girl wanted to go out and play with her.

It only took less than seven or eight minutes for the fleet to enter the void state and find the ghost fleet. As the intelligence said, these floating corpses in the void were floating too close...

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