The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 391: Jade Star Killing Field
When a real Aedari or their descendants board the Azure Pearl, some of the underlying logic and permissions of this Void-class battleship will be activated.

For example, the inheritance of the captain's position of a battleship. Without the arrival of the Fourth Lady, even if the Machine Soul wanted to cheat, it would not be able to initiate this authority motion.

Of course, although the opening of inheritance requires the blood of a celestial being, to whom the captain's position is finally inherited depends on the circumstances.

For example, the Phantom Demon Messenger at the beginning, and Ergou now.

——According to Article 47 of Chapter 12 of the Void-class Battleship Intelligent Control Code, when the intelligent control AI independently selects the successor captain, it must ensure that the candidate will not cause damage to the battleship.

——I'm sorry, young Eldar, your performance does not meet the standards of a captain candidate!
The fourth lady was about to get angry, she roared: "Then change it! I am the daughter of the Shenhou clan! Ghost! You must follow my orders!"

——Daughter of the Shenhou clan! You do not have the authority to forcibly modify the underlying rules of this battleship!

——Human! Please tell me your real name!
Ergou glanced at the fourth lady who was so angry that her chest was pounding, and then he announced his current formal name "Chen Shen".

——Human Chen Shen! According to the emergency regulations for void-class battleships during wartime, you will take over as the 13th chief officer of the Azure Pearl. Please go to the captain's command cabin at the bridge as soon as possible to complete the handover ceremony.

Unfortunately, the captain's command cabin in the bridge area had already been dismantled and modified by the Phantom Demon Messenger for other uses, so Ergou naturally could not complete any handover ceremony here.

Fortunately, the half-corrupted battleship machine soul was not some dogmatic machine that was inflexible. She smoothly skipped this procedure and went straight to the point.

——Welcome aboard! Commander! The Azure Pearl will open a new chapter under your command! The battleship is about to start self-inspection, Commander, do you allow it?

The so-called self-inspection is actually the machine soul reporting its status to the new captain. Ergou knows this very well, because every time he boarded the "Mrs. Niu" (let's call the steel battleship trapped in the subspace the "Mrs. Niu"), the machine soul on the "Mrs. Niu" would do this.

However, the self-inspection report of the machine soul of [Mrs. Niu] basically only contained content about which purification areas had been conquered and corrupted by evil spirits, and there was basically nothing else.

For an ancient warship like the Azure Pearl, the self-inspection results should be very satisfactory.

Of course Ergou agreed to this.

Not long after, Jihun reported the current situation of the "Azure Pearl" to Ergou.

First of all, in terms of energy storage, the energy storage rooms and singularity reactor batteries of the Azure Pearl are basically fully charged, thanks to the eight solar sails that come standard with the Void-class battleships. Over the past tens of thousands of years, it was these solar sails that provided the Azure Pearl with sufficient energy, allowing the battleship's self-maintenance system to operate normally, without turning this unmanned battleship into a pile of starry sky ruins.

Of course, long periods of unmanned operation are not without problems.

Three of the solar sails had malfunctions that the battleship's self-maintenance system could not handle, two singularity battery reactors suffered irreparable damage, and an energy storage room had a structural leak due to a shortage of the battleship's reserve materials.

However, among these problems, except for the reactor problem which requires the warship to go to the specific Aidari maintenance port for disposal, the other problems can actually be handled after Ergou takes office.

For example, repairing the solar sail requires Ergou's captain authority and sufficient repair materials. Leakage in the energy storage chamber is also caused by the lack of repair materials.

To put it bluntly, the logistical problems of this battleship have reached their limit, and even its most basic self-maintenance has become unsustainable.

This is also the main reason why the battleship's machine soul is eager to establish a new captain. Otherwise, even if Ergou knows the real name of the machine soul, he can't force it to submit to him.

Energy is the only impressive aspect of the Azure Pearl.

The following aspects, such as weapon systems, crew status, and protection systems, are really terrible.

For example, all the physical ammunition weapons that the Void-class battleships usually have are missing, and even the turrets have been dismantled into materials to repair important parts of the battleship.

For example, most of the facilities such as thousands of lance weapon turrets and hundreds of pulse energy weapon turrets were also demolished, and only a small number of lance turrets and pulse turrets were temporarily retained. The reasons for the demolition of those energy weapon facilities were naturally the same as those for the demolition of physical weapon facilities.

It's just to take money from one pocket to pay for another.

During its heyday, the Azure Pearl had nearly 10,000 weapon turrets of all sizes on board, but today, no more than 20 turrets remain.

Of course, the Azure Pearl also has some real killer weapons left.

For example, there are two dual super-heavy pulse cannons, one of which has been retained. One shot from this thing can destroy a continent.

The most super heavy ion cannon was also retained. This is the real fang of the Azure Pearl, and one shot can crush a moon-class planet. However, this weapon is quite wasteful, and basically it takes a lot of materials and time to cool down and repair after firing one shot.

Moreover, if one wants to use the super-heavy ion cannon, even the captain and machine spirit of the battleship do not have direct authority to use it. They need to obtain authorization from the Aidari Upper Military Council in advance.

Interestingly, when the support fleet set out from the main star of Mount Li tens of thousands of years ago, the so-called "authorization" they should have obtained was actually the Phoenix Scepter in the hands of Ergou and others.

Even the Fourth Lady, a noble lady from heaven, did not know this, let alone Ergou and the machine soul created by the demon messenger Galileos. It was even more impossible for them to know this.

In terms of crew, Ergou is the only normal crew member in the entire battleship.

Well, the captain is essentially a member of the crew.

As for the Fourth Lady, she can only be regarded as a visitor of the warship and will not be counted as a crew member unless Ergou is willing to recruit her.

Then there is the defense system of the Azure Pearl.

The protection system of a general warship is generally divided into two categories. One is the offensive protection weapon belonging to active protection, which is designed to destroy the enemy on the way of attack. This category includes various types of protective energy turrets, close-in defense missiles, etc.

The second type is the passive type that withstands damage, such as the battleship's outer wall armor, energy shield, scattering field shield, etc.

Needless to say, the active protection system of the Azure Pearl had long been dismantled to the point where not a single hair was left.

The passive protection system is not very good either, not to mention the battleship's outer deck, which is the best preserved of the three defense facilities.

As for the more advanced holographic field generators, which have very heavy scattering field shielding, they all have problems of varying degrees, and basically cannot be repaired in a short period of time.

There is one thing missing from the Void-class battleship's arsenal, and that is carrier-based attack ships. Originally, the Azure Pearl had two squadrons with a total of twenty-four attack ships, but now there is not a single one, and the ship parking area is empty.

Finally, there is the battleship's power system. The Azure Pearl has eight curvature thrusters (engines). If fully powered, it is enough to allow the battleship to travel at sub-light speeds across the starry sea.

However, six of the eight thruster systems have been sealed for a long time due to lack of maintenance, leaving only two curvature thrusters still functioning normally.

To sum up, the material warehouse of the [Azure Pearl] is extremely poor, and it urgently needs the new captain Ergou to bring back a wave of warship supplies to fill the shortfall.

Of course, the materials needed for the Azure Pearl were not something that anyone could easily find. If one wanted to start from the most basic raw materials, it would require very advanced technology and extremely powerful socialized productivity. For example, the Song Dynasty in the current timeline would not be able to get involved without thousands of years of positive development.

Ergou's only way out is to search the ruins of the Adari and look for the finished products and materials left behind by the Adari people.

Fortunately, Yujianxing is an ideal place to hunt for treasures.

After some mishaps, the logistics support for the fleet stopped at the high altitude orbit of Yujianxing. Then, they basically fell to the surface of Yujianxing.

So after Ergou finished taking stock of the assets of the "Azure Pearl", he immediately ordered the warship to set sail.

As the two curvature thrusters were activated, the [Blue Pearl] broke through the gravity of the star Luhua as lightly as a large butterfly, and "slowly" moved towards the outermost planetary orbit of the main star Lishan.

As long as the [Blue Pearl] reaches the orbital ring of the main star of Yu Jian Star, the next step is to move towards Yu Jian Star along the orbit.

At this point, many people should have understood that Yujianxing is the one among the three satellites of Mount Li that is farthest from the main star.

It takes more than two months for Yu Jianxing to orbit the main star, but it took less than half a month for the [Blue Pearl] to reach Yu Jianxing's high-altitude orbit. After all, traveling in relative direction always saves time and distance.

Yujianxing is a relatively cold moon-class planet.

The surface of Yujian Star is covered with ice and snow for most of the year, and the climate is not much different from the polar environment in Ergou's previous life.

Even so, the natural environment of Yujian Star is considered to be relatively mild in the entire starry sea.

This place used to be a relatively important production base in the Lishan star region, and its specialty deep-sea ice fish can be regarded as the signature delicacy of Lishan Garden.

Since the main star of Mount Li was destroyed, this place has also been occupied by a group of evil believers.

However, since there were not many Aida people living on Yujian Star, including a vassal race with a small population, the evil followers could not find enough sacrifices to corrupt Yujian Star even though they had captured it.

Then Yujianxing became a hodgepodge of evil areas.

The evil demons killed and plundered wantonly here, and their slaves also struggled to survive in a rather miserable state. There were also a small number of remaining "natives" of Yujianxing - the descendants of the Adar people who refused to succumb to the evil demons and their followers and vassals, a kind of hairy dwarfs with thick hair all over their bodies.

However, some people also call these hairy dwarfs sea otters.

The hairy dwarfs are a dexterous and intelligent race. They are strong-willed, hardworking and their thick fur allows them to dive and work even in environments dozens of degrees below zero.

Of course, the hairy dwarfs are not the native race of Yu Jianxing. The environment of the hairy dwarfs’ hometown is more than ten times worse than that of Yu Jianxing.

In fact, before Yujianxing had time to evolve a truly intelligent race, it was discovered that the Aidari people occupied this star area, and the possible evolution of natural civilization of the native race was interrupted.

The environment of Yujianxing is as perfect for the hairy dwarfs as heaven in the eyes of humans.

The environments on other planets, such as Lishan Main, Fengqi, and Luhua, are too "hot" for the hairy dwarfs.

Regarding the landing on the surface of Yujianxing, the Fourth Lady was unusually unhappy.

She was really envious and jealous of Ergou's "good luck".

So when Ergou approached her to discuss taking the colossus to the surface of Yujian Star, Si Niangzi directly refused.

The fourth lady's reason (gritting her teeth) was that giant spirits as complete as the one she found from the star Luhua were rare in the entire celestial race and were extremely precious.

It would be very irresponsible to rashly drop it onto the surface of Yujian Star. What if the enemies on Yujian Star have weapons and equipment that can withstand the giant attack?

In short, the Colossus is too precious, and using it as a path-finding tool is a waste of resources.

Ergou didn't have much to say about this, after all, he had already scooped up the richest spoils.

Since the colossus cannot be used, Ergou has to make do with what he has and choose to perform short-distance space teleportation.

In fact, there is a temporary small webway portal on the Azure Pearl, and you can directly dial to open the webway portal.

But Ergou concealed this fact from himself.

Ergou couldn't dial the number by himself and couldn't open the Internet portal, so Fourth Lady had to help.

But Ergou was afraid that once the Fourth Lady knew the cyber portal data of the [Azure Pearl], it would be equivalent to giving her a key to connect to the interior of the [Azure Pearl] at any time. At that time, groups of celestial beings would descend directly on the [Azure Pearl] to seize the warship.

Short-distance space teleportation is not complicated, but the destination needs a signal beacon for spatial positioning.

Otherwise, if you teleport blindly, whether you are teleported directly into the ground and suffocated to death, or teleported to a high altitude and fall to death, the result is definitely not good.

For short-distance space transmission, with signal beacon positioning, the (fatal) accident rate is about 10%, while the accident rate for blind transmission is just over 90%.

Of course, for Ergou, teleporting into a solid object is a dead end, but teleporting to a high altitude area is not necessarily the case.

He quickly combined the limited resources and worked out an airborne plan that would be a life-threatening situation for others, but a safe one for him.

He used the remains of the battleship's outer armor - the result of the Colossus breaking through the wall when it first entered the battleship - to build a relatively simple high-altitude orbital airdrop capsule.

The life support system of this airdrop warehouse is basically non-existent, and the operating system is extremely simple. The only thing that can be praised is its heat insulation, which is also what Ergou values ​​most.

Ergou acted so boldly because he relied on three things. The worst case scenario was that he would lose his life and live a third life.

Of course, this is just the final backup. After all, if it comes to this, not only will many of Ergou’s plans be forced to change, but the losses will be enough to make Ergou feel heartbroken.

The second reliance is the signal beacon that Ergou carries with him. If something goes wrong, Ergou can directly order the machine soul to teleport himself back to the [Azure Pearl].

As for the third reliance, it was naturally Ergou's spiritual power, which was also the reason why he thought the airdrop operation was safe.

(End of this chapter)