Start sweeping the universe by rubbing the CPU with your hands.

The development of technology is never smooth sailing. It's like the Humanity Space Carrier No. 1 at this moment.

After the voyage was about 3.3 light-years away and was about to enter the deceleration stage, Han Yang noticed through the monitor that there was an extremely serious malfunction on the Humanity No. Space Carrier.

A large number of key internal equipment were aged and damaged, the performance of external armor materials was reduced, and various failures occurred frequently, even causing the nuclear fusion reactor and thrusters to begin to damage.

Human No. 1, which was damaged to this extent, obviously lost the ability to slow down.

It can no longer slow down its speed. It will keep sailing at about 40% of the speed of light.

In the future, if it doesn't happen to hit a certain star - compared to the vastness and emptiness of the universe, the probability of hitting something is very low - it can probably sail to the Triangulum Galaxy.

Through careful inspection by the robot, Han Yang finally confirmed that the cause of the failure was that the energy of secondary particles produced by the impact of tiny interstellar dust at extremely high speeds exceeded previous estimates. , leading to a reduction in material performance and eventually damage to various parts of the interior.

It was consistent with what Han Yang had expected.

Han Yang discovered this possibility as early as the early departure of Humanity 1. The complete destruction of Human One at this moment only confirmed his discovery.

This loophole has been corrected by the subsequent departure of Humanity 2 and the space carrier that followed.

But the Humanity 2 spacecraft was also broken.

A failure in the propulsion system caused an explosion that destroyed most of the main thrusters.

It also loses the possibility of slowing down.

After careful inspection, Han Yang found that it was still caused by insufficient material performance and the inability to support continuous full-power operation for several years.

This was also not beyond Han Yang's expectations.

After it, the No. 3 spacecraft and others have specially corrected this loophole.

In this way, spacecraft No. 3 and No. 4 were also damaged one after another. At present, Space Carrier No. 5 is more promising to actually reach the Nanmen II system.

In addition to these seven actually verified samples, Han Yang also conducts research and verification of related technologies in a variety of ways within the solar system.

Needless to say, research in the laboratory is a routine operation. In interstellar space, Han Yang also specially modified some warships to conduct research on various natural phenomena and the impact on the ship's hull under sub-light speed navigation conditions.

The most advanced Stardust-class warship currently built by Han Yang has an acceleration capability of 300 meters per second squared.

That is to say, if the fuel and working fluid are sufficient, it will only take less than five days to accelerate to 40% of the speed of light.

Of course, in terms of the fuel utilization rate of the combat spacecraft, even if the spacecraft cabin is filled with fuel and working fluids, it can at most support it to accelerate to this speed. It is impossible to slow down further.

But Han Yang has many spaceships in his hands. If you can't slow down, you can't slow down, and Han Yang will be wasted.

As a result, hundreds of warships scurrying around like headless flies at extremely high speeds appeared in the vast starry sky outside the orbit of Neptune.

The robots and various scientific research equipment carried on it closely collect various data to provide data support for Han Yang's next research and improvement.

Under this situation, the human space carriers No. 8 and No. 9 were also launched one by one, embarking on a journey to the nearest neighbor in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, one of the two stars in the South Gate.

Time passes slowly. In the end, the Humanity Space Carrier No. 1 successfully entered a state of deceleration and began to reduce its speed at a rate of 1 meter per second. Finally, after a few years, it reduced its speed to a low enough level and docked in the South On the orbit of Gate C.

The three stars of Nanmen 2 were numbered by Han Yang as Nanmen 2A, Nanmen 2B and Nanmen 2C.

Among them, Nanmen 2C is commonly known as Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the sun.

It is a red dwarf star with a mass of only 12.3% of the sun.

According to Han Yang's detection, there are many stars rotating around Nanmen 2C, but most of them have very low mass. There is not one that can be called a planet, and even there is only one dwarf planet.

This dwarf planet was numbered Nanmen-1 C by Han Yang.

At this moment, looking at the small dwarf planet with a light yellow color on the surface through the Human Space Carrier No. 5, looking at the dim red light in the distance, looking at the small and dim, in fact, the Nanmen 2C is petty and hot-tempered. , Han Yang was filled with emotion.

The first interstellar voyage was finally successful, although the success was not so complete.

Although Humanity 5 was parked successfully, quite a lot of equipment has been seriously damaged. It may be impossible to return to the solar system.

However, this is just the beginning.

Space carriers No. 6 to No. 9, which are more stable and reliable than Human No. 5, should also be able to arrive smoothly. Among them, space carrier No. 6 has a chance of returning, while space carrier No. 7 has a half chance of returning. Space carrier No. 8 and No. 9 should be able to return to the solar system smoothly.

If it can finally be verified in practice, then Han Yang can believe that he has truly mastered a complete set of ultra-long-range and super-heavy interstellar navigation technology.

Even now, it is not too much to say that it has "preliminarily mastered a complete set of ultra-long-range and super-heavy interstellar voyage technologies."

"But we have to continue to study it in depth. The more comprehensive the technology, the better." Supported by this idea, in the vast universe beyond the orbit of Neptune, those traveling at sub-light speed cannot be slowed down or recovered. The number of battleships increased.

On this day, another battleship entered the acceleration state of full power.

This kind of thing has happened so many times recently that scientists have become accustomed to it.

But after sailing for a while, Han Yang noticed something unusual.

The electromagnetic wave detector seems to have detected a little messy radio signal. This kind of radio signal is unlikely to be produced naturally, but more likely to be produced by technological creations.

Han Yang's heart moved.

"This is a deep space hundreds of billions of kilometers away from the sun. The entire human civilization has not deployed any technological creations here, but there is signal interference generated by technological creations here. Could it be..."

Han Yang immediately mobilized relevant detection forces and cautiously approached this star field. Then Han Yang saw thousands of spacecraft gathering here at extremely close distances. There are also small ferry ships or channels connecting different spaceships.

The large spaceship in the middle looked familiar to Han Yang. After careful detection, Han Yang finally recognized it: "Isn't this the flagship of the ETA fleet, the ETA spacecraft?"

Looking around again, there are the Eta battleships, the guard ships that he has fought against many times, and the rich human spaceships with the human family emblems printed on them...

Han Yang laughed dumbly.

"I didn't expect you to be hiding here...well, it's indeed quite hidden.

I didn't want to deal with you specifically, but now that I've discovered it, let's kill it. It won't take much anyway. "

Under Han Yang's order, hidden camouflage sheds opened one after another throughout the solar system, and old-fashioned warships flew out one after another.

Han Yang has decided that this time he will completely deal with the Eta fleet once and for all, wipe out all Eta colonial forces, and not let a single spaceship go.

Under the premise that the performance of the spacecraft is still not as good as that of enemy warships, the only way to achieve this is to siege through numbers.

Therefore, this time Han Yang directly mobilized about 100,000 old-fashioned warships to attack, striving to ensure that no ETA spacecraft could escape.

Anyway, these old warships still need to be maintained there. If you can consume a little more this time, you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

In order to avoid being detected by the Eta spy equipment, Han Yang also adopted a low-power propulsion mode and divided it into multiple fleets, each quietly approaching the target from different directions.

It took more than two years for Han Yang to quietly complete the encirclement.

At this moment, the dragnet has been laid. The ETA fleet at the core was still unaware of this.

On the battleship ETA, in the conference room No. 1, another high-level meeting was in progress.

The senior officials attending the meeting looked serious and felt heavy.

"Your Excellency, the Governor, the drinking water reserve has been reduced to the lowest level. Moreover, the filtration equipment is seriously outdated and the supply of consumables is insufficient, which makes it impossible to completely purify and eliminate the radioactivity. We, the Eta people, can only drink this radioactive water at this stage."

"Your Majesty the Governor, the food supply is also insufficient. We have implemented the strictest rationing system, but the remaining food reserves can only last three more months."

"There is not enough fuel, and there is a serious shortage of energy supply..."

Malentin was bombarded with bad news one after another.

Malentin sighed.

There was nothing he could do.

All the resources of those rich human beings have been plundered before, and even their corpses have been decomposed into resources. What else can be done now?

Do we really want to use the most important strategic reserve resources?

That is used to support battleships in combat! Even if people starve to death, those strategic reserve resources cannot be touched!

"Keep holding on..."

Malentin murmured: "I have already contacted the envoy fleet. In half a year at most, they will arrive at our base and join us. By then, they will support us with a batch of supplies and then subdue human civilization. We can return to the solar system and obtain supplies from within the solar system.

Tell everyone that now is the last dark hour before dawn. As long as you survive this period, everything will be ready for you in the future! "

Malentin tried his best to calm people down by writing checks for the future.

At this time, a soldier rushed into the conference room in a panic. Without waiting for Marentin to reprimand him, he said urgently: "Your Majesty the Governor, ladies and gentlemen, it's not good! There are almost 100,000 ion propulsion beams appearing around our station. With the flames at the tail of the weapon, at least 100,000 warships are decelerating towards our location at full power!

In just two days at most, they will be here! "

"what?!"

Malentin swayed and almost fainted. (End of chapter)