Hao Ren received the news at breakfast the next day. Zorm had finally detected a broadcast signal from the depths of the universe, and this time, with the help of the crystal resonant antenna, he had successfully locked on to the source of the signal.
The news immediately excited everyone. Hao Ren immediately put down his bowl and asked the MDT to transfer the communication. Zorm's interactive image — this time, it was an annoying dog head — appeared on the holographic projection. "The communication frequency has reappeared! It's 22,000 light-years away from us, and the location is very clear this time! "
"Put all the drones into the jump acceleration orbit. Nolan, warm up the engine and get ready to go," Hao Ren ordered and then asked curiously, "Is the crystal resonant antenna working this time? Can you receive the crystal signal from the universe? "
"This … I can't receive it yet," Zorm's voice sounded a little confused. "I only receive those communications that I don't know who sent it. As for the crystal signal … I didn't find anything except for the one that was sent from us."
"It still can't be used …" Hao Ren frowned. "It shouldn't be. Isn't the antenna working fine?"
"I have also studied the system you made, and I feel that there is nothing wrong with the principle." Zorm's confusion seemed to be no less than Hao Ren's. "And I am still using this antenna, and it obviously has no problem with the reception."
Hao Ren smacked his lips as if he had a toothache. "The hardware is all right, and the principle is so simple that it is almost a straight line. But I just can't receive the signal that should be clear and unmistakable. This is a freaking metaphysical problem …"
At this time, Lily was rolling up a bowl of noodles on her chopsticks and gnawing on it like a chicken leg. She looked up and said, "Mr. Landlord, as the pope, you are the leader of metaphysics, right? How can you be fooled by metaphysics?"
Nangong Sanba, who was next to her, thought seriously and suddenly had a thought. "The crystal signal can only be sent out from this planet, but there is no way for it to be transmitted from the outside. Could it be the geomancy … no, the geographical problem?"
"You mean this planet or this planetary system has blocked the crystal resonance signal from entering and exiting?" Hao Ren was suddenly inspired. He had to admit that although Nangong Sanba was a fighter, his' intelligence analysis' skill was really high. "It's possible … but why? What's so special about this planet? I don't see it either … "
The MDT echoed, "It is indeed just an ordinary planet with a mild ecosystem, and there is no anomaly in the planetary system itself. The only noteworthy thing is that there is a First Born on the planet … But in the Plane of Dreams, there is basically every ecosystem planet. Ah, and the special thing is that this planet was once hit by a crystal, and the local First was smashed. of the planet. of the First First of all, and the First First Born of the planet.
"I don't think it's that simple." Hao Ren frowned, waved his hand, and got to his feet. "Forget it, we can take our time to study this matter. The priority now is to go to the 'communication source' that Zorm has just found. Maybe it's another survivor civilization, and it sounds like they are alive and kicking. This is not easy."
Hao Ren meant to say that it was not easy to find a group of living survivors in the Plane of Dreams, but Lily wagged her tail and shook her head. "Yeah, it seems like we don't have to collect the bodies this time …"
Hao Ren grabbed the husky's tail and pulled it hard. "Eat your food! Don't rub my nose in it! "
Everyone knew that once a creature with a long tail was caught by someone, the inevitable outcome of a creature with a long tail was shyness, weakness, and blurry eyes. But there was no normal guy around Hao Ren, so Lily's reaction was to quickly eat the last of the noodles, and then jump up to bite someone …
But she was suppressed by the second bowl of noodles that Vivian gave her.
In fact, if she was just going for a ride, she did not need to prepare at all. She could just step on the accelerator and fly away. But Hao Ren had analyzed the content of the communication he had received before and judged that the people who called were in danger. Whether it was the crazy First Born or something else that threatened them, they had to be ready to fight.
So Nolan took a little time to calibrate her fire control system to ensure that this most important piece of equipment was in the best condition.
"This time, only a few of us can go." Standing next to the Petrachelys, Hao Ren looked at Vivian, Lil Pea, who was lying in Vivian's arms, and the crystal of Asurmen floating not far away, waiting to board the spacecraft. He sighed a little helplessly. "It looks like you can only stay on this planet until the divine blockade is over."
"It's super boring to stay in the base, okay?" Lily was obviously a little unhappy, and even her tail drooped listlessly. As a husky, not being able to join in the fun twice in a row had greatly affected her enthusiasm. "When will the damn divine blockade be turned off?"
Vivian gave the husky a sideways glance. "Isn't guarding the door your old job?"
Lily immediately glared at her. "Do you have any common sense? My family pulled sleighs for a long time! "
Vivian was speechless.
He felt that this dog had become invincible after he completely let himself go. The power of his provocative methods, which had always been successful, was getting weaker by the day …
"There's nothing wrong with watching the house." Y 'zaks finally stood up. "The Executors have sent word that they will send a group of people down to try and make contact with the gentle planet devourer for the first time. Other than that, they will also inspect the surface environment of the mother planet. We can at least receive them by staying here."
Hao Ren nodded. "Then I'll leave this place to you."
Ten minutes later, the Petrachelys had broken through the thick atmosphere of the Executor's home planet and entered space.
In the vast space between the Earth and the Moon, a large number of temporary facilities had been built. Aside from the most eye-catching crystal resonant antenna that looked like several intertwined towers, most of these temporary facilities were related to the drone cluster — armed drone fortresses, command centers, assembly workshops, garages, beacons, and lighthouses. These things formed a complex three-dimensional structure in space, like a loosely stacked space city.
A huge acceleration track extended from the edge of this "space city." Although it was called a "track," it actually looked more like a dozen rings arranged in parallel from large to small. These rings were arranged one after another, forming a continuous structure with a total length of more than hundreds of kilometers. A large number of armed drones had gathered in front of the largest ring at the beginning of the track, densely packed like a swarm of insects.
This kind of orbit looked like a "slingshot device" used to launch physical units somewhere in the universe, but in fact, its function was much more complex and complete than that. Its multi-ring structure was not used to increase the flight speed of the "projectile", but to increase the warp speed of the units passing through it. Each ring had an independent space conversion computer and a high-power coordinate redirection device. They could temporarily erase the coordinates of the 'projectile' in the three-dimensional world, so that the 'projectile' could skip most of the calculation and startup costs in the warp warp process, and the 'projectile' could warp with minimal energy consumption, and did not have to worry about the additional energy consumption caused by a large number of units activating the warp engine at the same time.
Obviously, the warp acceleration orbit was definitely not some kind of "directional delivery".
If the conditions were right, building a warp acceleration track for the drone cluster would greatly increase the efficiency of the combat unit delivery. But this device had an obvious drawback — only vehicles with warp capability could use it. If it was a conventionally powered spacecraft …
Their only fate after entering the ring was to have their coordinates erased in the real world, thus becoming a permanent quantum ghost, drifting in the Prime Material Plane until the end of the world before they could be freed.
Nolan slowly adjusted her direction and found her position in the gap deliberately left by the drone cluster. After that, she followed the mighty 'escort legion' and slowly entered the first ring of the acceleration track.
"Warp engine activated. Acceleration track connection established."
Vivian stroked Lil Pea's little head subconsciously. "What do you think we will see when we get there?"
"Judging from the content of the communication, it's a group of people who are either in hiding or on the run, and the communication technology they use is very likely to have something to do with the resonant crystals. So to tell you the truth, I don't think it's the First Born that is threatening them," Hao Ren said. "The resonant crystal is the natural enemy of the corrupted First Born, so I'm afraid it's something more dangerous that is threatening those 'survivors'."
"When did you think of this?"
"Just now," Hao Ren twitched the corner of his mouth. "I don't know if it's intuition, but I have a feeling that the sudden emergence of this communication source has something to do with the war that is going on somewhere. After all, it's connected to the resonant crystal."
Vivian did not respond. She just watched as the acceleration track on the holographic projection grew larger and brighter.
Every ring of the acceleration track began to glow, and strands of light connected into parallel lines between the rings. Inside each ring, the light film rippled like water, reflecting twisted and turbulent starlight.
The Petrachelys and the drone cluster began to accelerate together and entered the ring array.
Every time they passed through a ring, the drone cluster and the spacecraft blurred. They moved faster and faster, and their figures became more and more transparent. By the time they passed through the last ring, the entire fleet had disappeared.
After a short one-minute warp, which was incredibly fast compared to conventional warp, the space around the Petrachelys lit up again.
"All drones, activate the stealth module. Spread out and set up your positions." Hao Ren said quickly as he turned on the spacecraft's hyperlight search device. The coordinates provided by Zorm were dynamic values, and the deviation was about two astronomical units. In order to avoid falling into a disadvantageous situation after the warp, Hao Ren deliberately deviated the warp target point a little further. So after the warp ended, he first needed to find and lock on to where his target was.
At this distance, the Petrachelys's search device could easily find the target.
Sure enough, in just a few seconds, Nolan's holographic projection popped up. "Found it! It's 32 light-minutes away from the flank of the fleet! "
Hao Ren and Vivian said in unison, "Connect the screen."
The image of the universe on the holographic projection flashed, and a huge structure that looked like a fragment of a celestial body appeared in Hao Ren's field of vision.
At the same time, an army appeared around the celestial body's wreckage.
Hao Ren exclaimed, "What the heck is this!"
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