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

In the vast sky, among the stars, a small human fleet is sailing silently.

In the command ship, the commander and several staff officers were discussing the mission.

"The coordinates sent by the Silver Alliance are here, but there is nothing here."

"Yes, the nearest star here is more than ten trillion kilometers away."

"The Predator is really here?"

The commander thought for a while and finally said: "No matter what, be careful. Keep observing."

This fleet, consisting of only a dozen warships and one medium-sized supply ship, carefully searched the airspace.

It's time to change shifts. According to the normal procedure, the commander needs to summarize the 10 hours of work on duty, leave a record, hand over the shift to the deputy commander, and then he can go to rest.

He retrieved all the ten hours of observation records and began to review them for the last time.

During this process, he suddenly noticed something.

The detection radar detection record shows that three hours ago, a very small peak appeared in the radar wave signal.

This kind of thing is actually not uncommon. It may be due to signal interference, interstellar radiation interference, interstellar dust cloud interference, etc. Even certain stellar activities and certain violent physical processes that occur in distant deep space, such as supernova explosions and black hole jets, may cause this phenomenon.

It didn't even reach the warning threshold, so it was simply ignored by the detection team.

But to the experienced commander, it seems to have some unusual meaning.

He clearly remembered that the radar detection record four hours ago seemed to have such a peak.

He began to look through the previous records, and went through all the records within the past ten days. He was surprised to find that within ten days, wave crests of this nature appeared more than 20 times.

If it is interference, it is unlikely that the nature will be so similar. If it's not interference, then...

Wow wow wow...

A shrill alarm sounded in every spacecraft. The somewhat distracted soldiers who had been tortured by the lengthy work instantly cheered up.

The captains of each ship rushed back to the command room, and the fleet's top brass immediately gathered in the flagship's main control room.

"I suspect we have found traces of the predator..."

After further detailed analysis and targeted detection, a miniature detector quietly flew in a certain direction.

With the help of the faint light released by thousands of stars and the use of high-definition low-light cameras, the detector finally sent back a very amazing picture.

In the vast space, a huge "slab" floats quietly.

This slab is made up of two smaller rectangular slabs that join together to form a larger slab. There is a clear dividing line between the two slabs.

Each small slab is more than 300 meters long and 150 meters wide, with a total area of ​​4.5 square meters. The two pieces add up to more than square meters.

In the middle of these two flat plates, there is a relatively small lump-like object, which is more than twenty meters long and about five meters wide.

A large number of vertical and horizontal branch-like things extend from the mass-like object in the middle, penetrating the entirety of the two huge flat plates.

"This, what kind of monster is this..."

Looking at this scene, the commander and the fleet executives couldn't help but hold their breath.

This thing is really beyond people's imagination. It seems that only certain monsters in myths and legends and ghost stories can compare.

"This... is the predator?"

The findings of the expedition fleet soon reached Han Yang. After discussion, the team was strictly ordered to be cautious and not allowed to get close, and were only allowed to observe carefully through small unmanned detection equipment.

"Its two huge wings should be light sails."

After some analysis, the scientific advisor assigned to the galaxy defense system came to this conclusion: "It is very thin, and the thinnest part can even reach the nanometer level. In this case, even if the light sail is so huge, the overall mass will be very small." Low is very low. In fact, we believe that the combined mass of the two huge light sails is not even one-third of its body.

Light also has pressure. These two huge light sails can use the pressure of light, as well as the pressure of various cosmic radiation and cosmic dust to gather less into more and achieve changes in their own motion states.

If you compare light to wind, then every star in the universe is a powerful hair dryer, blowing strong winds in all directions. Different stars have different blowing powers and directions. Surrounded by thousands of stars, by changing the angle of the light sail, you can fly flexibly in the universe.

Although the light pressure is very small, after hundreds or even thousands of years of accumulation, it may not be able to accelerate its own speed to the point of sub-light speed... However, based on the public information of the Silver Alliance, we believe that for these predators, light is Pressure navigation should only be a means of long-distance interstellar navigation. A short-term rapid turn should be propelled by nuclear fusion or nuclear fission. The fuel source is collected from the universe through light sails.

They are extremely concealable. In fact, if they were not in interstellar space, but in a near-stellar space with strong interference, we should not be able to detect them so easily.

According to Silver Alliance data, there should be at least 100,000 predators in this space, but so far, we have only discovered less than ten..."

Predators are a large category that generally refers to social non-intelligent life forms that have evolved through the evolution of life, have powerful bodies and interstellar navigation capabilities, and feed on cellular structure life.

Based on all the information, the scientific advisory team finally gave this predator an official code name.

Pterosaur.

Han Yang also made up his mind.

"Try to catch one and see, life or death"

"Yes."

In the distant space, this combat team quietly dispersed their formation. With an order, hundreds of electromagnetic cannons fired simultaneously.

The projectiles that hit the light sail easily penetrated it, but the projectiles that hit the pterosaur's body were directly rebounded and burst into flames. Suffering a sudden blow, the next moment, the pterosaur seemed to suddenly wake up. The two huge light sails suddenly shrunk rapidly, and finally shrank to only more than 200 square meters, which was dozens of times smaller.

The next moment, fierce flames sprayed out from the light sail, pushing the pterosaur, which had been extremely shrunk but still very large, towards a Stardust-class battleship.

"Maneuver to avoid!"

The battle-experienced human warrior did not hesitate at all and immediately evaded. But the pterosaur also adjusted its direction, and its short-term burst of maneuverability seemed to be faster than that of the Stardust-class battleship. Finally, it slammed into the Stardust-class battleship at an extremely fast speed.

The armor, which was thick enough to withstand the bombardment of electromagnetic gun projectiles, had a huge dent under the impact. Inside the battleship, the huge overload pressure made the soldiers dizzy and even vomited blood.

The surrounding warships opened fire together, and the pterosaur seemed to be in a state of extreme anger, crashing around in the dark space, and even pounced directly on a Stardust-class warship.

It is still larger than the Stardust-class battleship at this moment. The wings spread out, even completely covering the Stardust-class battleship.

Even though they were mentally tenacious, a little fear still emerged in the hearts of the soldiers when they were directly caught by the pterosaur. However, he did not panic, but still calmly controlled the electromagnetic gun and laser cannon, and fired directly at close range.

The soldiers on the other battleships clearly saw that the pterosaur was furious and began to tear the battleship armor with its fangs and claws. The soldiers in the battleship heard continuous creaking sounds and the harsh sound of metal twisting.

At this moment, even though he was far away in the solar system, Han Yang, who was watching the battle in real time, couldn't help but have a thought in his mind: "So powerful? Can you really tear apart the armor of a battleship with your flesh and blood?"

Once the armor is torn, the soldiers in the battleship will lose all possibility of survival. At the same time, it's time for me to adjust my expectations for the pterosaur's combat power...

But fortunately, this pterosaur failed to tear apart the armor of the Stardust-class battleship. However, all the exposed equipment without heavy armor protection suffered.

Electromagnetic guns, thrusters, radars, telescopes, etc. were all damaged in the violent tearing. For a time, this Stardust-class battleship lost its power, attack power and observation ability, and completely lost its combat capability.

Faced with this "iron can", the pterosaur finally had no choice but to give up and instead planned to attack the other warships. But the other battleships didn't give it a chance. Under another volley, its wings were torn apart, its body covered in tough scales was also penetrated, and there was no movement.

But at this moment, the commander saw from the radar that in the vast deep sky, at the moment when the pterosaur died, at least tens of thousands of signal fluctuations appeared at the same time.

Even with his psychological quality, he couldn't help but feel numb at this moment.

"This is a stab in the old man's nest... retreat, retreat, retreat immediately!"

Three battleships moved forward, one dragged the pterosaur with its mechanical arm, and the other two dragged the powerless battleship to the left and right, and the entire fleet escaped at the same time.

Tens of thousands of "stars" appeared simultaneously in the dark space. At least tens of thousands of pterosaurs activated their short-term rapid maneuvering capabilities in an attempt to catch up with this human fleet.

"Go! Go quickly! Maneuver at full power!"

The commander wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Until those tens of thousands of "stars" disappeared, the fleet did not stop, but escaped at least hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

After confirming that the threat was lifted, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

Now looking back at the starry sky, people can see that there is no difference between that starry sky and the rest of the place.

Equally quiet, equally vast and magnificent. Like nothing happened there.

If it weren't for the huge pterosaur corpse still behind the spacecraft, the soldiers would have simply thought that what happened before was their hallucination. (End of chapter)