The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

The state of alert will continue until it is confirmed that the reconnaissance ship has been driven away, that is to say, it has become impossible to get close to observe; moreover, the enemy is prepared, and there will be a lack of surprise when attacking later.

But 'Mayiyami', it only takes one seventeenth of a second to start, which is so fast that it is almost impossible to be identified, not to mention locked - at least with Tartarus' technology, there is no way to identify Out of this moment of 'flicker'.

"The ascent is complete!" Graham looked around... Well, all the wing ships are in a state that cannot be detected, indicating that they are still near him, only the beacon in the command link "the stealth action device is operating normally."

"No matter how many times I've seen it, I still have to say...it's really easy to use." Kraqi lightly rubbed the hilt of Nector's Human Blade, and he tapped the console in front of him a few times, the light screen Immediately spread out in front of this veteran, "Well...the surrounding area is very empty."

During this period of time, he not only imparted his own knowledge, but also learned the knowledge of Tartarus - the computer of Tartarus was different from Mackenzie's original type, but because it was easy to use, Carat It didn't take long for Qi to get started.Kraqi switched the detectors a few times, called up the ones dedicated to the dark worms, and observed the surrounding universe.

"Find anything, Mr. Kratch?" asked Captain Graham, who was now trying to concentrate on mapping the system—

This galaxy is a headache-inducing binary system...

The two stars revolve around a center of mass, and the orbital eccentricity is not high. When they are closest, they are about 36AU, and when they are far away, they can reach 51AU.

One of them, tentatively named star A by Graham, is the primary star in the binary system.It is slightly larger than the sun, slightly brighter, and its mass is about 11.00% larger than the sun.Star B is a companion star, its mass is 80.00% of the Sun VII, orange and slightly dim.

The two suns caused a certain degree of gravitational chaos. If you want to jump, the time it takes to calculate your own coordinates will be much longer than normal.

In this huge two-person turn, there are still planets——

There are two planets around star A, one is almost attached to the face of the star, has been locked by gravitational tides, and is sunburned like a heated nickel ball, and the other is a gas giant planet, about 3.1AU from the star, with multiple satellites exist.And there is only one planet around the star B, which is floating in an orbit 16AU away from the star, like a kite pulled by the rope of gravity. (Note: It has been tested with "Universe Sandbox2", and this gravity model is feasible. It continued to run stably until the computer memory exploded, and there has been no orbital deviation. We thought it should be fine) (Nod)

Could life exist in such a place?

The answer is yes - at this distance, the stars can still hold on to their babies to avoid being quietly carried away by their companion stars, and the distance of more than 30 AU is enough for the heat of the stars to dissipate in the universe.

Take a look at that Nepnepnepne, which is 30AU from the earth and has an average temperature of minus 210 degrees. The sun is just a decoration for it, just a little light.If there are creatures living in a certain position on these planets, for about half a year every year, the night sky is not dark, but dark blue.A bright, hazy night lit by another sun is romantic, isn't it?

No spacecraft or other artificial celestial bodies have been found in the universe, which means that there is no civilization that has entered the cosmic age.Maybe we can inspect the planets here one by one in the future to determine whether the gas giant planet in the habitable zone...is there any primitive life on the satellite next to it, but it is better to focus on the dark worms for now.

"The energy response of the dark worm has been observed, but...it is very weak." Beside the position where he just floated up, Kraqi found the remnants left by the dark worm.Maybe carapace fragments or other sloughed things fell nearby, and the energy reaction was like a mist around the surroundings "everywhere, but not strong."

"Hmm..." Graham maintained his invisible state and started to accelerate in this direction. The companion ships did not keep up but spread out in all directions. "They must have been around here before, but they have left now."

"I haven't been away for long... at most seven days." Krach affirmed, and he uploaded the screen to the command link, "It hasn't gone far."

But energy doesn't just exist in this small area. In everyone's eyes, the tracks of the dark worms are dangling inside the galaxy, just like walking in it.They seem to have stopped on every planet. This feeling is not like replenishing matter and energy, but more like a scientific research ship scanning a planet.But the dark worm shouldn't be able to do this kind of thing...

Graham frowned and thought for a long time, then said:

"It seems that after fighting Kerrigan, I felt that I couldn't win, so I went to look for other entrances..." According to past experience, this kind of guessing itself is meaningless, because you have to see those monsters with your own eyes to be able to enter. Based on their actions, they can guess what they want to do. "We have to catch up. Serran, start calculating the position of the opponent's target."

His intuition told him that these bugs might not be that simple.Each of their actions has its meaning-the three motherships retreated after launching a tentative attack on Kepulu?This is not in line with their previous behavior, so they will not give up the prey they found so easily.

When things go wrong, there must be demons, but as a scouting team, Graham can only choose to move forward—however, he must be careful.In addition to the clone fighters, there is also the Mackenzie Krachi.If the entire army is really wiped out in battle, if you want to recover the Nector Blade on the battlefield, the amount of work will be suffocating.

If you get into a fight, give up the fight and run away immediately.This is not the time to act recklessly, everything should be done with caution.

In the scout team of the Dark Angels, interpreting and deciphering space signals can be said to be the basics of the basics.

[Understood, it is being calculated. ] It didn't take long for the pilot named Serran to decipher the track left by the dark worm [Completed calculation - the target is the galaxy closest to here, 3.7 light-years away. 】

"The footsteps of the dark worms are slower than ours, and they have just set off."

For the dark worms with slow feet, 3.7 light years is not a short distance, but for the black hidden special service ship, it is only a moment to jump over after the calculation.Then he must seize this opportunity to see what happened in the galaxy where the dark worm planned to go-maybe there is a space anomaly there, which can bypass the void where Kerrigan is stationed and directly enter Kepulu's Crowded area.

If you can get there first, you can go back to Kepulu through the possible 'channel', then report your position, light up the induction force field, and gather the large fleet - and then fill the place where the bug landed. The empty minefields will be blown to pieces after they hit the ground, and then the fleet will go in and finish off.

But maybe, there will be some guards over there... If there are not many guards, four Panthers will be enough to deal with them, but if there are too many, they will have to find another way - such as calling an ATA or something.

"The whole fleet, lock on the target. The navigator is online!"

Following his instructions, a navigator who was resting next to him just stood up and sat in the navigator's seat, and a cable was connected to the data cable behind him—jumping fatigue is a very headache , The method chosen by the reconnaissance team is to always have two navigators. When a jump is required, the navigators will go online to undertake most of the calculation work of the jump engine.After the jump is over, the next navigator will come up, so that the so-called 'jump fatigue' problem can be perfectly avoided.

After finishing the preparations, Graham said loudly, "Get ready to jump, we're going to get ahead of the bugs and see what's there."

【clear. 】

"Fleet, let's go!"

Powerful energy is injected into the jumping engine, the space is distorted, and the passage is opened-this kind of hidden jumping passage is extremely difficult to find, and there is almost no sound and light effect when jumping, everything is based on the core of 'secret'.

Like a fallen leaf sinking into the water, the four black secret service ships slowly sank into the distorted space, and the external viewfinders turned black one after another.Immediately afterwards, the hull shook slightly, and the viewfinder suddenly lit up.

The distance of [-] light years has been passed in just an instant.It's as easy and convenient as lifting your leg over a small stone in the middle of the road.

However, what appeared in front of them made everyone who was about to speak hold back what they just wanted to say.

The situation in front of me is surprising to such an extent——

First, an ordinary star system: a warm star, eleven planets, three of which are in the habitable zone.Compared with the previous binary galaxies, this place has no features at all.

However, in addition to these planets, there are also a lot of messy things floating in the universe.

A huge monster that looks like a brain, with colorful arms and legs dragging underneath.The long eye-stalks swept across the void like a sniffer.This is obviously the kind of big guy that Oregana once gave Khorne as a meeting gift-at that time, this excellent gift caused a sensation in the subspace, and many Khorne fighters were encouraged and ignited With a fighting spirit, he desperately searched for the alien with a bigger head for a period of time afterwards.

Although in the end, the laurels of 【Presenting the Largest Head】 fell to the skull picker, who found the largest head of the universe's super-large cephalopod - but there are Khorne who want to prevent this competition from continuing The meaning of going down.

And now, there are a total of seven brain monsters floating around in the galaxy. They have not chosen to be invisible, or they have almost no intention of taking precautions.Just floating around leisurely like this, it would be better to have a set of Wenwan walnuts in hand.

The special species of dark worms internally code-named 'Cosmic Brain Demon', the main task is to monitor the growth of larvae and play the role of a watchman.With so many cosmic brain demons appearing at once, does it mean that this place is already a nest of eggs, and each planet already has an egg in it?

It sounds creepy.

"Oh my God..." the great mentor from Mackenzie whispered, "These monsters..."

"What's going on here?" Some people showed a look of surprise on their faces, and they glanced at the cosmic brain demons floating beside the stars. "Why are there so many annoying things?"

"Have we been found?"

"No." Graham felt goose bumps all over his body. "It's really uncomfortable-scan the eggs immediately, we need to know how many babies they gave birth to in this galaxy!"

Removing the eggs would be impossible with the work at hand. Those monsters went deep underground, and only the biggest cannon or the strongest tractor could get them out.Backup had to be called in, and if necessary, the system could be populated with mines in the next few hours.

However, the report from Scout Tararius was beyond expectations——

[Report, Captain, this is Tararius. 】【I just scanned all the planets—there are no dark worm eggs in them!Repeat, there are no dark worm eggs in here, all the signals are sent from these 'nanny'. 】

In order to deal with the attack of the insect swarm, almost all warships of Tartarus are equipped with detection equipment for dark insects.They record the energy codes of the dark worms. Once they start looking for the enemy group, this detection equipment can help the driver quickly locate the eggs deep in the ground.

This is battle-tested equipment, and no one will doubt its reliability.But now, it is doomed to fail.

Appearing in all the planets in this galaxy, there is not even a single worm egg.

Then comes the question - there are no eggs at all, so what are you looking at?

These monsters have nothing to do with the word 'aimless'.They are very purposeful, and they will observe in their own area every once in a while, and those planets are quite attractive to them.

"Well……"

Graham looked at these planets and suddenly had an idea.He opened up the regular viewfinder and zoomed out on the image of the nearest planet—a dense jungle beneath the clouds, and within the jungle were huts, hunting gear, and more.

Some kind of primitive civilization exists here, under the eyelids of the dark worm.Considering how sensitive the dark worms are to intelligent life, they have no reason to let these primitive people go - devouring intelligent life can make the dark worms stronger and stronger, and any life will become the nourishment that the dark worms urgently need .

But here, they didn't even think about eating up all the intelligent life here, and they didn't even want to eat it, so they let some 'nannies' watch it.

The more he thought about the reason, the colder Graham felt behind him.

Someone joked in the newsletter:

[What are these dark worms doing?Does Observing Civilization Write Observational Diaries? 】

He replied in a cold tone:

"not that simple……"

【What do you think? 】

Graham swallowed, and said seriously:

"They're 'breeding' intelligent beings."

It all seems to make sense...

The previous information showed that the more the dark worm devours intelligent life, the stronger it will be.They devour civilization and absorb various technologies developed by civilization itself.The more high-end the civilization devoured, the greater the benefits after eating some.However, the higher the civilization, the stronger the fleet.Although the dark worm is strong, it is not invincible. It evolved to eat that civilization, but it is not worth the loss if it is killed by the opponent's backhand.

Want to eat civilization, want to become stronger, but don't want to take risks - what should I do at this time?

Answer--

Grab the civilizations that are just in their infancy—such as the era of primitive tribes—and put them together for centralized management, just like raising bamboo rats.

Intelligent creatures at this stage obviously have no way to resist super creatures that are so much smarter and stronger than themselves.Because she is too weak, she can only be at the mercy of others in the universe, and finally falls to an extremely miserable end.

Their life is the same as in the past, survival, development, research of natural science, and then spread the fire of civilization all over this 'new home', everything is the same as the development history of an ordinary civilization.

But once the other party starts to build space battleships, the dark worms will use various methods to suppress it, reduce the "toxicity" of civilization, and avoid burning their own mouths when they bite down - when thousands of years have passed and civilization has matured , the harvest season is here.

It's like eating a Goo Goo, it's safe and harmless, swallowing a live pigeon raw.

In other words, if eggs are implanted in a certain planet in a galaxy, and then several civilizations are raised in the galaxy.Then when the eggs hatch, the newly hatched dark worms will directly become the type with brains.

And this place is the civilized breeding factory of the Dark Worm.

Under the watchful eyes of those giant brains overhead, civilization thrives—not for progress, but for food someday in the future; but those on the surface of the planet don't realize it—until the end of the day, They fail to discover their wretched condition.

"Unbelievable. I never thought of something so... sordid and profane! It's horrific."

"That's right, it's too scary." Graham gritted his teeth and said, "Closer carefully, and use a long-range lens to look at this place from a safe distance—by the way, how is the communication with the headquarters?"

"Very stable, still in range."

"Always pay attention to the communication status, the investigation starts, and the captured pictures are sent back directly."

"Yes!"

Chapter 649 Chapter 589: Paradise Lost and Paradise Restored

In the deep blue night sky, the dim sun burns quietly, just like the torrent at the bow of a ship, the flames of a furnace, constantly changing and never finalized.

Gazing and staring, the radiance is bright, the light clouds are filled.

Children lie on the top of the roller shutter tree among the soft leaves, looking up at the blue night sky, enjoying the best month of the year.In the fields, the soil fruits are already ripe, and the leaves on them are already withered and yellow. Farmers will dig out the fruits buried in the soil, and then bury the withered and yellow leaves in the ground, praying to the gods for the fertility of the land in the coming year.

Then comes the season of cold ice, and then the season of worms after the thaw.After surviving the ice and the flesh-eating worms, it is a beautiful and peaceful sowing season and harvest season, year after year, like a wooden ring in the hands of a child.

Repeatedly, long-term pain and suffering, and short-term happiness.

The priests said that human beings are born with sins—they said that in the past, people's lives were rich and prosperous, gods and humans coexisted in the world, and there was only one sun in the sky, which clearly distinguished day and night.

People believe in God, and God protects people, as if forever.However, the prophet Rorel was not satisfied with this, and he stole the divine fire from the god's sun chariot to illuminate the world.But when he came to the ground with flames and wanted to show off this great achievement to others, an accident happened——

When he held up the brass vessel containing the flames to show off to the mortals, the divine fire became angry, and it burst out of the vessel with a fiery glare that burned everything.From that powerful fire, huge poisonous mushrooms rose into the sky, and black rain fell from the sky.It was a terrible divine punishment. As long as people were exposed to the rays of light, those who were exposed to the rain would get strange diseases, their skin would peel off, and they would watch their bodies gradually melt in the next few days, and those who survived would also lose their minds , turning into a monster with many hands and many legs.