The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Seven hundred kilometers?" The legion commander was a little uneasy about this news.

[No, it should be smaller. I didn't see it during the first wide-area scan, but only discovered it during the concentrated and precise scan. 】

The battle at the edge of the solar system made her realize the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides. Against a monster as large as a planet, the attack of the conventional fleet seemed weak and weak. It's as embarrassing as two battleships shooting grenades at each other. Although it can cause huge damage to external equipment, it is basically impossible to sink each other.

Only the doomsday weapon can severely damage or even destroy the mothership class in a short period of time.It is worth noting that these monsters will try to leave the battlefield as long as they eat a doomsday weapon during the battle. Does this indicate that they have the emotion of fear?Or simply a manifestation of biological instinct?

However, the use of doomsday weapons is not a simple matter. Doomsday dreadnoughts are unreliable temporary emergency items. They can be said to be disposable products that are disposable, expensive and dangerous.The Titan, which is the platform for the doomsday weapon, is still being assembled on the production line. Even with the integrated industrial station, it will take several months to complete the hull. Now if we fight against the eight-body mothership-class dark worm...

I can only look for the homeless lady and Captain Okita who hasn't had time to go home now... The anti-ship doomsday weapon and wave cannon on the wandering counterattack battleship can destroy at least two...

"What about heading and speed?"

According to previous experience, the dark worm is not particularly high in jump technology, the cooling time after each jump is quite long, and the speed and distance of the jump are not very good.At a distance of five light years, it would take a second for a dreadnought or an aircraft carrier to arrive, but it would take weeks to months for a bug to fly.

[One tenth of the speed of light, stay away!Up to now the heading and speed have not changed! 】

One-tenth of the speed of light... not a jump, this is a regular voyage.

This way of sailing is not suitable for trekking in the universe, because accelerating an object with a huge mass to one tenth of the speed of light requires huge energy and a very long acceleration time, and it is troublesome to slow down when it is about to reach the destination.Only guys with similar IQs to Tibetan mastiffs or guys who really can't maneuver faster than the speed of light will choose this method of slow acceleration.

Don't these dark worms jump?It doesn't make sense...

Oregana crossed her arms and pondered for a while.

The dark worm will definitely jump. I have seen it with my own eyes. When I confronted the dark worm for the first time, I couldn’t catch it even if I jumped out with residual blood. The second time I had experience, I set a lot of The deployment-type jump-disrupting device trapped him, and asked Dark Rock to drive a light interceptor ship to replenish the jump-disrupting probe at any time before killing him in place, and this guy wanted to jump away more than once in the middle.

She believes that at least starting from the heavy aircraft carrier level of [-] kilometers, the jump can be carried out.

"Hmm..." In any case, judging from the current situation, even if these bugs turned around immediately, they would not be able to reach this side in a short time.I still have time to continue scientific research activities, but I also need to make some preparations to "predict the possible attack path of the insect swarm, and arrange a large-scale transition interruption device. The specifications are based on the time at the edge of the solar system."

【Yes. 】

"In addition, prepare the equipment for the collapse of the hole. Once the situation changes, everyone will immediately withdraw and collapse the wormhole."

"learn."

[Need to speed up drilling? ] asked the pilot of the gyratory class.

"No, take this slowly, don't make mistakes in your busy schedule."

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"incredible……"

I am afraid this is the most powerful discovery so far. A half-destroyed large-scale man-made facility with a diameter of about 3000 meters has a ring-shaped structure as a whole. Connected, it looks like a wheel magnified countless times.

Before the technology of gravity control system came out, the easiest way to experience a down-to-earth feeling in the universe was to make a prototype or a ring and let it spin, using centrifugal force to create artificial gravity on its inner wall.The representative ones are the Principality of Zeon tube and the PLANT hourglass (Note ①: The hourglass is swung like an hourglass, which is really terrible structural strength).

Therefore, most of the artificial objects seen in space have the function of living and living.

When it was in good condition, it should have a beautiful white shell, slowly rotating and floating on a certain gravitationally stable point. There may be scientists working on it, or it may be the bureau of the rich, attracting the attention of the world.But now, the white shell is covered with damage and scorching marks, and the wheel-shaped structure has a large area of ​​defects. It looks miserable and lies on a giant asteroid, losing all its past glory.

For such a large man-made space facility, it is very unwise for a person to go in and explore slowly.Leaving aside safety concerns that are insignificant to a clone pilot, the workload alone is enough to make one feel overwhelmed.

She parked the Astro aside and ejected a swarm of scout drones from their drone pods.This gadget, which is not much bigger than DJI, doesn't have many functions. It doesn't have any weapons or armor, and it can only take pictures.Because the self-discipline system is relatively complete, it does not take up much UAV control bandwidth, so a lot can be released at one time.

They fly in through breaches in the annular space station, and conduct video and investigation from the inside.

The power supply system had long been lost, and the interior of the space station was pitch black, but then it lit up, which was the effect of the reconnaissance drone's own lighting equipment.

Passages, ventilation ducts, control rooms, halls, handrails, ladders...all the things that appear on the screen are familiar, but at the moment they feel depressing like an amusement park that has been closed for a long time.

The space station has not been attacked with any obvious direction, and no traces of penetration and tearing caused by shelling or missiles have been found anywhere. The external scars are more like being hit by smaller debris after the disaster; The direct impact between the space station and the lower asteroid can be said to be slight. The two collided at a very low relative speed and then rested on top, otherwise the shape of the space station could not have been preserved so well.

Perhaps at that time, this was not a crash, but a [forced landing] manually operated by someone?

Huo Ling couldn't help thinking so.

An image suddenly floated in front of her eyes, she seemed to see an incongruous thing appearing on the wall, and hurriedly adjusted the drone back to scan the position just now——

It was the wall of the hall, with horrific pictures painted on it with various colors of paint. The interweaving of muddy colors made people feel that the painter was not mentally normal at the time.

A huge blue circle covering half of the wall, with countless lines drawn in orange and black, one eye is drawn in the center of the circle, and there are also a large number of black lines around the eyes, the lines are not formed around the eyes. Arranged radially, but everywhere, as if the eyes were bloodshot.

Suddenly, she understood the free translation of the painting.

If so, that would explain why there are so many rubble zones.

and many more!If so, would there be a planet still intact?

"BOSS!! STOP DRILLING!! STOP NOW NOW!!!"

Chapter 195 Chapter 181: Star Extinction

"This..." Oregana Legion showed an unhappy expression.

Super ancient ruins, powerful technology, sealed warships, trembling refugees ready to bow down, all gone...

"Where's the promised ruins! Where's the database! It's such a big one here!"

"No, no, no one has talked to you..."

Ignoring Xianyu Zhai's complaints, the legion commander took a few steps on the spot, kicked the soil and glanced at his feet. It was hardened soil, reflecting white light, and every step on the ground would stir up a burst of dust. It looks as harmless as the moon from the outside, but the news I just got shows that there may be an unhatched dark worm inside it.

"The so-called human heart is probably like this. We feel that we have been tricked by this preserved egg star."

"..." The workload of complaining was too much, Xianyu Zhai decided to give up and continue to perform cross talk with the army leader that no one watched. "That is to say, we are on top of the worm?"

"It may also be on the stomach, anyway, that's what it means." The legion leader stomped his feet twice, "I suddenly remembered a book I read a long time ago, it seems to be called "Magic-eyed Girl Mary Sue: Underground Monster". That’s the story that’s being told.”

"It's Peggy Su..." After all, she couldn't hold back.

In that story, the author depicts a fragile world living on top of a huge monster egg. Although it has a promising ending, it still requires constant SAN value identification on the way to read.

At this time, the spinner class, which was working at high altitude, seemed to be beating on the outside of the eggshell, shouting [Get up, hey! 】Same.

Ordinary oviparous animals are very fragile when they are still inside the egg, whether it is a goo or a crocodile, but who knows if this super-common-sense insect obeys this rule?

No, the chick will use its beak to break the eggshell when it breaks out of its shell, but when the dark worm comes out of its [eggshell], it will destroy the world!It bears the earth on its back, its pulse makes the sea tremble, bursts from the earth at the end of the day, and the world will be destroyed-in this point of view, it is a mythical creature!

Judging from the results of Huo Ling's detection, civilizations that have set foot in space once appeared in this galaxy.That is to say, the worm eggs may have been buried in the ground thousands of years ago, and the intelligent creatures reproduced, evolved, and developed on top of the dark worms. They finally developed civilization and went to the universe, but they could only despair at the birth of monsters. Turned into stardust in the cry of fame.

What kind of mood was the mural in the space station painted?Apparently, the astronauts on the space station at that time saw what was happening from far away in space. They watched lava spewing from the cracks in the ground, and the crustal plates were thrown thousands of times as the dark worms broke free. Kilometers away, relatives, friends, all loved ones and things are wiped out, leaving only the lonely space station in this universe.

Their end was very clear, after landing the space station on the asteroid with the auxiliary thrusters, all of them killed themselves in the control room - after drawing the fiend's visage on the wall, opening the space station's airlock, cutting open My own larynx left this world in pain.

Huo Ling ran back and forth five times and collected everything that could be recycled. She was very interested in the notebooks held by these dead people, and decided to take them all back and analyze them slowly.

"What should I do?" Xianyu Zhai asked a little uneasy, "Are you still digging?"

If there is really a dark worm underneath, there is no way for Tartarus to destroy it with his current strength. The result of waking it up will only turn this planet into pieces. If you are unlucky, you may have to catch it several boats.This is obviously uneconomical.

"Why don't you just leave it like this, we'll go back and collapse now..."

"Dig! Why don't you dig!" But the performance of the legion leader was beyond his expectation. She was very emotional and seemed to have a wave of anger, "Don't use low power to dig slowly, since you know there are no ruins inside, nor is it a refuge. , then use the highest power! After destroying a civilization and sleeping on someone’s grave for countless years, let’s kick it awake today!”

"Alas?!"

"Jiaozi, jump Jue Nian away, the firepower of the bugs is very fierce, and you may not be able to withstand a hard resistance," she ordered to Essex, "Move to a position 2AU away from here, and get the cavalry carrier aircraft ready. "

【Yes! 】

Xianyu Zhai's expression was a little broken: "Is this a plan to fight? There is no way we can beat it!"

The newly joined friends have all read the previous battle records. The battle at the edge of the solar system is enough to show that fighting against the mothership class without doomsday weapons is just a death.

"We didn't intend to fight it." The legion leader showed a dangerous expression under the helmet, "Anyway, it can't pass through the wormhole with its size and mass, so we can make a fuss."

"Cooperate with other people's method and cut along the wormhole, you can do it to death, right!"

"Anyway, you can't die, so why waste this opportunity? Everyone board the ship, let's stay and watch the data." Oregana patted Xianyu Zhai on the shoulder, "Although there is no way to kill the bugs for sure, at least it can give The original intelligent beings of this galaxy let out a sigh of relief."

"I'm afraid they won't care? They are all dead..."

"But we don't care." The monitor on the face of the Legion Commander's power armor shimmered green. "We hate seeing things like 'died' the most. Even if it's self-satisfaction, we have to blow it up!"

Xianyu Zhai sighed: "Okay, since you said so, then I'll make some preparations too, don't rush to wake it up."

"Oh?"

A few minutes later, the landing ship took off from the surface of the planet with everyone, and the tail thrusters sprayed out dazzling blue tail flames, blowing dust into the air.

From the footage sent back from the surveillance camera, it can be seen that the legion leader who was left on the ground is waving his hand to this side.

"It's been a long time since I died, so I'm in a panic..."

In the next few hours, eleven transition interruption devices were placed around the black egg yolk star, surrounding it, and it was absolutely impossible to transition smoothly inside; at the same time, four sets of flagship graviton power furnaces were arranged around , which were originally intended to power Caldari flagships such as the Phoenix-class dreadnought, but these big guys can also be used as weapons if used correctly.

"Big Tech said that these are leftovers from building Titans, so you can borrow them from us."

"He definitely didn't expect that we planned to use it like this." Oregana took out a marker pen and drew a cat's face on the shell of one of the graviton power furnaces. I went back."

"No, he should have guessed it. He also said that you should be quick to fix the collapse, and don't make troubles. After all, the delegation is next door, so don't make too much noise."

"Don't worry, there will be no movement after passing through the hole~"

As the power of the two surface miners on the bottom of the Revolver increased, the drilling speed increased exponentially, and the thick rock plate was melted and evaporated by the laser. After a while, the distance between the drill hole and the metal shell was less than sixty. kilometers away.

Only then did the data start to change.The line showing the underground energy index fluctuated violently like a roller coaster, and when the fluctuation was the largest, it was beyond the range of measurement.

"Sleeping enough to die, you can't react until your face is burned." The legion commander felt the vibration coming from the depths of the ground, and shouted, "Set the alarm clock!"

【coming! 】

According to the previous plan, the gyratory class immediately stopped the mining device and threw a cylindrical object from the cargo hold.

It was a 3500mm caliber fusion warhead. It was originally the main artillery shell used by the Nagaffa-class dreadnought ship, but as long as the seal is still there, it can be detonated as long as it is dropped.It is not difficult to judge the landing point in the absence of air. Even a mining ship can accurately throw a fusion bomb into the drilled hole.

The nuclear explosion exploded at the bottom of the borehole, that is, the face of the dark worm. The nuclear explosion deep in the ground made the surface undulate like waves, and the shock wave erupted from the borehole, as if dedicated to the birth of the devil salute.

At this point, the underground demons have completely awakened.The earth shattered in its violent birth, revealing countless openings on the ground, and dazzling light leaked from the openings, as if the colors in the entire universe were contained in them.Immediately afterwards, more cracks appeared, and within a few seconds, the entire planet was surrounded by this strange light.

The earth's crust is uplifting, and new mountains continue to grow from the ground, and then are thrown out in terrifying vibrations.It is struggling, the dark worm is struggling in its 'cocoon', just like a butterfly trying hard to get out of the cocoon.

Pieces of the earth's crust were lifted up into the air, and Oregana could no longer stand on the ground stably. She felt as if the fine sand in the sand sieve was being shaken constantly.

"It's coming out! It's coming out!!"

It seemed that for a moment, the gravitational force disappeared, and the legion commander flew into the sky together with the rocks under her feet. The sky and the earth seemed to be reversed. She felt that she was constantly falling, but which side was down? !

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the thick silhouette of the mining barge, and Oregana tried her best to activate the thrusters, carefully avoiding the flying stones in the gravitational turbulence and heading towards the ship.In the crevices of the planetary fragments, she saw a huge thing——

The dark blue shell shone with a metallic brilliance, and there were dense jungle-like eye-stalks, each several kilometers long, ending in large and amazing eyes.The eye stalks are twisting and twisting like vines, not ten or twenty, not fifty or one hundred, but tens of millions!It is densely packed and intertwined, but they are all alive, as if they all have their own consciousness, like a nest of vicious poisonous snakes.It was a scenario that would never have appeared in the worst nightmare.