Road to science and technology

In fact, there is no technical problem in locating the Trisolaran First Fleet and the Space Force's escape spacecraft.

However, due to the distance, the first thing Yuanxing detected was the Space Force warship that fled first in the Doomsday Battle, because they have not yet flown out of the solar system.

So, after determining the coordinates, the only remaining star in the Trisolaran world dimmed twice. This was when the Yuanxing and Xianzhou-1 were using stellar frog jumps to jump to their destination.

At the same time, the Natural Selection, which escaped from the Doomsday War, and the members of the four battleships chasing it had already awakened from the deep sea state.

Their five captains, including Dongfang Xuexuan, are now leading the members on their respective battleships in a formation to pay tribute to Zhang Beihai. Of course, except for the team of more than 2,000 people on the Natural Selection, everyone else is a holographic projection.

"Asia Fleet, Blue Space!"

"American Fleet, Enterprise!"

"Asia Fleet, Deep Space!"

"European Fleet, Ultimate Law!"

Dongfang Yanxu, who was standing at the front of the team, was the last one to salute Zhang Beihai who opened the door and walked in: "Natural Selection! Senior, the five interstellar battleships you have saved for mankind are also the entire human space fleet. Now I accept you. command!"

Zhang Beihai looked at the people saluting him quietly, but Zhang Beihai had mixed feelings in his heart. He wished so much that these people were here to arrest him. Now that these people are saluting him, that can only mean one thing. The space force is over. How much he hopes at this moment that he is wrong.

And just when he was about to say something, the alarm system of Natural Selection suddenly sounded!

"Alert! Unidentified objects found ahead!"

"Alert! Unidentified objects found ahead!"

There was no time to be surprised, no time to say anything, Zhang Beihai, who acted decisively, directly called up the command interface on the spot, and then said: "Dongfang!"

Upon hearing this, Dongfang Yanxu immediately understood what Zhang Beihai meant. She immediately clicked a few times on the interface, and then the virtual projection screen immediately turned into an unknown object detected by Natural Selection.

But she didn't know what it was, so she frowned and asked, "What is this?"

On the projection screen, there was a black screen in front of Natural Selection. The reason why they knew it was a black screen was because originally they should be able to see the starry sky from this direction. Now this black screen blocked the starry sky in front of them, so now they see It's a deep black.

Several captains who came through the projection also looked at the projection screen, as if they could see it, but no one answered Dongfang Yanxu what it was.

At this time, Zhang Beihai said calmly: "It's really a wave of ups and downs. Can you get around this thing?"

"No, this thing seems to have appeared suddenly. It was already very close when we detected it. Now we don't even have time to slow down. If the battleship turns around," Dongfang Yanxu raised his hand and clicked on the projection screen a few times. Obviously she After inputting the parameters and letting the computer calculate the steering trajectory, she waited until the calculation results came out before continuing: "No, this thing is too big. Based on our current turning radius, it will hit it no matter what, even if all the materials are thrown away. It's inevitable! The estimated time of encounter is not one minute, but only fifty-seven seconds."

"what to do?"

Because he had just said that he would accept Zhang Beihai's command, the captains were all looking at him at this moment.

Zhang Beihai did not hesitate: "All personnel return to work, quickly! All warships decelerate at full power and turn to starboard with full rudder, and immediately launch probing attacks at the target!"

"Yes!" 4

As these four yes sounds fell, all the projectors in the hangar of the Natural Selection disappeared, leaving only the ship's personnel who scattered back to their jobs.

Only four people said 'yes', because Chu Yan, the captain of the Blue Space, who was as stable as an old dog, said something different: "Blue Space is ready and is firing gamma ray lasers, electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons, and high-energy particles at the target." Beams, infrasonic hydrogen bombs are also being dropped!"

Zhang Beihai glanced at Chu Yan unexpectedly. From this seamless execution, it can be seen that Chu Yan had already given Blue Space instructions to prepare for the attack when he discovered the shady plot.

As the attack order was issued, the five battleships headed by the Natural Selection began to make full right rudder drift movements in space. At the same time, each starship wanted to launch their weapons at the black screen close at hand.

Since the tonnage of the other four battleships is only half of the natural selection, they are almost 200,000 kilometers apart and now look like a big ship with four small ships drifting in space with a black background and firing various cannon fire. .

However, all the weapons they launched, whether they were gamma ray lasers, high-energy particles, or even powerful kinetic energy weapons, or infrasonic hydrogen bombs that sprayed tail flames, all disappeared like mud cows entering the sea when they came into contact with the black screen. Not even a sound.

Have they all failed? So my heart sank.

"Continue to launch, mainly kinetic energy weapons, launch at full power!"

There is still a chance of recovery.

But after firing two kinetic energy weapons, they knew that there was no chance!

Launching a kinetic weapon is to allow its reaction force to help the warship turn, which is not within the turning radius parameters previously calculated by the computer.

But now they know that it is useless, everything is in vain! This black screen is too big, and it seems to have been calculated. No matter if they slow down or turn, they will hit it!

They didn't know what it was, but they were telling themselves in their hearts that it was definitely not a good thing to encounter such a weird thing on the way to escape.

At this time, the five captains were filled with despair, and so was Zhang Beihai. Before the joy of successfully escaping and continuing the destiny of mankind could appear, they were overshadowed by the next despair.

Does this universe really give no hope to human beings? The despair spread to the entire five starships.

At this time, natural selection and the shady scene were close at hand, but Dongfang Yanxu was still trying to find hope, and she actually detected something strange. Although it was useless, because their starships would definitely crash into this shady scene. among.

So before the Natural Selection fell into the black curtain, a message was sent to the remaining four starships that had not yet fallen into the black curtain: An unknown object similar to a crystal pillar was found on the edge of the black curtain, which is likely to be the maintenance device of this black curtain!

Just after sending the message, Natural Selection ran into what they thought was a shady scene. At the same time, their communications with the other four warships were also interrupted.

Now standing in the hangar, the only person in front of the projected control interface is Zhang Beihai and Dongfang Yanxu. Since the projection of the control interface previously showed the status of the front of the starship, the starry sky in the projection screen suddenly changed. There seemed to be shooting stars flashing and flying by.

Zhang Beihai and Dongfang Yanxu, who had been staring at the projection screen, felt that even the entire interior of the starship had changed. They felt as if their eyes suddenly turned dark, and then countless light spots seemed to be stretched, and then these were stretched. The long light spots seemed to turn into shooting stars. They felt that they could reach out and touch the flying shooting stars. These shooting stars seemed to make people fall into a dream. They were so beautiful!

Zhang Beihai didn't move, but Dongfang Xuexuan couldn't hold it back. She stretched out her hand to touch the meteors, but at this time, the direction where the meteors were coming suddenly shined brightly, so that her hand that originally wanted to reach out to touch the meteors It naturally changed to a movement that helps the eyes block the light.

The bright light did not dim. After Dongfang Yanxu allowed her eyes to adjust to the light, she opened her eyes slightly and saw a sun.

She looked at the proportion of the projected image display. She was familiar with the starship function spacecraft. She knew that this proportion of projection brightness could only be seen when the starship was about one astronomical unit away from the sun.

Are we not dead? Back to Earth-Star orbit?

Just when she thought it was the sun, Zhang Beihai's voice rang in her ears: "This is not the sun. The brightness is wrong and the color is wrong!"

Dongfang Yanxu woke up after hearing this. She glanced at Zhang Beihai, who was standing in front of the projection with a solemn expression, and then turned to look carefully at the stars in the projection.

Before Zhang Beihai could say anything else, she stretched out her hand and started to operate the projection screen skillfully. After a while, more data flow appeared in the projection screen, and then the image in the projection screen turned into a star map, and then into a star map. After switching this star back and forth several times, Dongfang Yanxu gradually showed doubts on his face.

After the Natural Selection's shipboard computer calculated at full power for a while, the entire picture of the star system appeared on the projection screen.

A reddish star with three planets around it. The innermost one in the habitable zone has a bluish appearance. They are now near the orbit of this planet, so they have accurately observed it. The second and third planets are currently There are no precise values, so only their existence is shown.

At this time, Dongfang Yanxu's expression had turned incredulous. She turned to look at Zhang Beihai, who was still staring at the projection screen, and said: "According to the computer star map, if the calculation results are correct, our current approximate distance from the solar system is 286 About light years! But how is this possible!"

Zhang Beihai watched quietly from beginning to end. He did not disturb Dongfang Yanxu's operation. After all, he was not good at such in-depth operation of starships.

Now, regarding Dongfang Yanxu's words, he was silent for a long time, and then said in a deep voice: "You mean we spanned two hundred and eighty-six light years at once?!"

This is unbelievable. It's not that Zhang Beihai doesn't believe in Dongfang Continuation, but it's all too unbelievable. It took more than four hundred years for the Trisolaran fleet to cross 4.2 light-years, but it only took an instant for them to cross more than 200 light-years! What kind of civilization can do this?

Thinking of this, he has confirmed that this is the work of a certain civilization!