Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

This means that if they want to take away the opponent in one wave, they must defeat all the enemy's fleet + the super heavy fortress in the galaxy + the heavy fortress in the next two galaxies + the light fortress scattered on the opponent's habitable planet.

And in the process of the opposing fleet's continuous retreat, they can also carry out simple repairs on each fortress. At the same time, during this period, there may be new warships that have just left the factory, or even naked main guns that can be used directly after simple modification. .

The difficulty of doing this is really too great. To do this, Hong believes that they must at least double the opponent's combat power.

Obviously, now that the opponent has 14 star systems, if they want to assemble twice the fleet with fewer star systems, even mechanical intelligence is somewhat powerless. Therefore, Red has been prepared for a protracted war from the very beginning .

Slowly nibble away at the enemy's galaxies, constantly weaken the enemy and strengthen their own, so that their productivity gradually cannot keep up with the cat alliance, and the production speed of the fleet is getting slower and slower. Finally, after the cat alliance has obtained enough industrial production capacity, it bursts out Crush the superior fleet and completely penetrate the last line of defense.

Yes, this time, Hong still doesn't intend to compete on the same stage with the opponent on a fair basis-why fight tactics with others in a war that can be won by F2A with explosive force of productivity?

Although the industrial potential of the Cat League is relatively weak now, as long as their fleet keeps moving forward, one day they will be able to overtake the potential one day, and then use her mechanical intelligence to continue to grow and finally win the war.

This is her plan for this war.

If everything goes well, following this set of procedures, it will be almost a breeze for the Cat League to win.

Of course, Hong also knew that it would not be possible to implement it so smoothly in reality—the main variables were concentrated on the hateful subspace creature on the opposite side, and the unknown civilization battleship that appeared inexplicably.

In fact, Hong is now more worried about that battleship.

After all, a mere warship was able to single out a fleet of the church head-on, and under the concentrated fire of hundreds of warships, it was still able to retreat after destroying two warships of the church, and continued to hunt and kill those on the route. The supply ships with thin skin and big fillings, and even some smaller branch fleets.

Strong firepower, high defense, fast maneuvering, a single warp speed is elusive, and the full firepower on the ground will directly kill the small fleet on the opposite side, and then leave gracefully. The shortest interval between two warp speeds is only ten minutes, and the warp speed cools down The time is frighteningly low.

And according to Hong's speculation, this battleship should have very superb self-repair technology, and can quickly repair its damaged parts without a space station and a professional engineering ship—because with the development of this battleship, The number of operations continued to increase, and more and more detectors captured its figure. Hong found that although this battleship would bring back a lot of injuries every time it fought with a battleship, every time it reappeared, its surface had been repaired It's all over the place.

And Hong can be sure that there is no dock for this battleship in this galaxy-obviously, these repairs are all done by itself.

This level of technology seems to be completely different from theirs.

To make an analogy, this is like a nuclear-powered attack submarine with almost unlimited supplies, returning to the ocean of World War II to hunt down warships and cut off supply lines.

It's simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

"This battleship must have been thrown over by the wormhole that is about to open, right?" Hong Yue studied it, and the more he felt that the situation was not optimistic, "This technological gap has already formed an obvious generation gap with us."

"As long as the civilization on the other side is a normal interstellar civilization, it can form a fleet in batches according to the standards of this warship, even if it does not have a warp drive, it can easily defeat all of us in the known star field just by looking at the level of attack and defense. civilization."

"Then what should we do?"

Xier asked aloud.

"I'm afraid I can only hope that the civilization on the other side is also a peace-loving civilization like ours." Hong seemed a little helpless, "Or, if this battleship is just an antique discovered by archaeology, like the colorful ship... If the flagship of the extermination unit is the same, then it’s fine.”

"After all, as long as the conventional fleet can't open up the obvious gap, we will..."

Suddenly, Hong paused.

"what happened?"

Seeing Hong's sudden silence, Xi'er said with some doubts.

"My detector just reported a bad situation." Hong took a deep breath, "That battleship——here it comes."

...

Logbook S16238.6.19.2

The 19th clearing operation has been launched against the corrupted civilization in the local galaxy. A total of 6 ship units have been destroyed and 168 corrupted biological units have been eliminated. The remaining 4.9% of the ship’s fuel has entered the warning line. It is judged that the clearing operation cannot be completed. Calling Cephalon for support... Requesting support... Error, Cephalon signal not found.

It is judged that the connection with the center has been lost, and it is applying for a signal transfer from the nearest friendly unit...Application for a signal transfer...Error, no signal from any friendly unit has been found.

Activating emergency communicator...

warn!Failed to activate, detected that the entangled state has been destroyed, unable to make emergency contact with the center, and judged that the center has been destroyed!

Judging that in the absence of response, the ship cannot return to the nearest friendly star field, and it is confirmed that the center has been destroyed, meeting the conditions of the BQ613-1 plan, and preparing to implement the civilization preservation plan R219-1.

Judging that the corrupted civilization in this galaxy cannot be eliminated, and preparing to leave this galaxy... The location of the wormhole with the temporary number SG-89 has been confirmed, and the warp drive is warming up.

It is judged that it is impossible to break through the defense near the wormhole head-on, and the necessary conditions are met, and it is applying to release the safety lock of the warp speed engine, so that it can directly travel at warp speed in the wormhole passage——Warning, this voyage is extremely dangerous, and the probability of engine damage is extremely high , please ensure that this operation is required.

Unable to connect to the center, according to Article 219-1 of the security plan R468-12, the shipboard intelligence is allowed to release the security lock by itself according to the situation.

The safety lock has been released and the route has been confirmed.

Warp drive, start.

...

"It doesn't seem hostile to us."

Looking at the silver-white warship of unknown civilization in front of him, Hong took a look and said somewhat uncertainly.

"In that case, someone should be controlling this ship. Otherwise, it would be impossible to fight violently when seeing the religious order, and be docile like little rabbits when seeing us. Like going to war."

"Send a boat to take a look?" Li Chu suggested.

"It's already on the way." Hong said that she had already made arrangements. "It would be the best if there were people. A group of intelligent creatures who can fight without meeting each other and understand how to communicate with strange civilizations are probably not bad. To the extreme... wait, the other party took the initiative to contact us?"

Such an unexpected situation immediately confused Hong.

"How do they know our communication protocol?"

Obviously, Hong was sure that this was the first time she was dealing with this civilization, and she had never provided the civilization with her own communication protocol. Logically speaking, it was impossible for the other party to actively contact them.

There are only two possibilities, either they found their own communication protocol from the destroyed warship of the religious order - that was the product of Hong's previous psychological offensive, which was actually a verbal attack.

Or, they deciphered the communication protocol through her internal communication within the short ten minutes of meeting Hong.

However, according to the information Hong had collected before, every time this warship appeared, it just opened fire with full firepower, smashing all the mission's spaceships to pieces, and then left at a warp speed, without any feeling of wanting to obtain information at all.

Moreover, when Hong launched a psychological offensive, she was also contacting the religious sect's cake, and had nothing to do with these underlying troops, so it was very unlikely that she could obtain information about her own side from them.

In addition, the other party did not immediately send a communication request as soon as they met, but suddenly initiated it after more than ten minutes. , but Hong's model told her that the other party most likely cracked their communication in such a short period of time.

Although the specific fleet command uses directional laser communication, there is no need to worry about being hacked and interfered by the other party, but cracking their radio wave communication so quickly reveals a very pessimistic thing-the other party's technology The level is really much stronger than them.

"Do you want to pick it up?" Li's voice hesitated, obviously, she was also aware of the joints inside.

"Yes, why not." After confirming that the situation was going in a direction she didn't expect, Hong felt a lot more carefree, "Anyway, sooner or later, I have to deal with them, instead of waiting for the civilization behind them to be fully integrated, I would rather be in a hurry. It is better to find out their situation now and lay a good foundation for future negotiations."

"clear."

Hong nodded, and displayed the communication signal on the big screen in front of him.

"Is there no video signal..." Hong said to herself, "It seems that our guests are a little shy."

Looking at the big "No Video Signal" on the screen, Hong took a slight breath, and was about to read the opening remarks she had prepared long ago.

"Hello, this is the Maomao Single Push Alliance. On behalf of all members of the alliance, I welcome you. We..."

However, before she could finish her routine, an extremely chaotic siren sounded from the other side of the communication.

"...warning, program error code [&#%*!]..."

"...Warning! *Warp Creatures* detected! Executing emergency...error, command rejected, *Warp Erosion* not detected, confirmed non...Warning! *Warp detected. ..”

A series of false alarms flooded the entire hall almost instantly—judging from the large number of garbled characters, it was obvious that the reason for the error reported by the other party must be related to me.

Moreover, although he couldn't understand the meaning of these garbled characters, according to the sentences mixed in the garbled characters, Hong could guess that the reason why the other party reported an error was probably because two important instruments were outputting opposite conclusions.

One instrument thought that it belonged to that &##%, wanted to learn the previous unit 01, and immediately drove away, while the other instrument judged that it was not &#% because it could not detect something, No need to run away.

The instructions of the two same levels conflict with each other, and because its shipboard intelligence is only a weak AI, it cannot handle the contradiction of such advanced instructions, and finally caused the current situation——

It's dead.

Volume 210 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter 18 Five It, from [-] years ago

After trying to restart the instruments several times, but this "fault" was not eliminated, the shipboard intelligently chose to close the ports connecting them to the host.

After all, according to the logic of the program, when the higher-level command cannot be obtained, the most important priority of the shipboard intelligence is to ensure its own normal operation-this is the most important thing.

Cutting off the data link of the instrument only loses the ability to detect subspace creatures, and at most reduces the survivability of the battleship a little, but if the AI ​​​​makes a mistake, the entire battleship will completely lose its combat capability. Whether it is light or heavy, no one can tell.

"Unknown civilization ship, this is the cat and cat single push alliance, please call back...repeat, unknown civilization..."

After escaping from the dead cycle, the shipboard intelligence looked at the cat alliance ship outside the ship that was calling it constantly, and read the status of "serious failure" on the warp drive, thought for a moment, and decided to respond.

"Identified as an organic civilization, name, cat-mao single-push alliance... This is Spin Rui Civilization-2945 shipboard intelligence, nice to meet you."

The AI ​​who claimed to be the Spanrui Civilization responded in this way.

"Nice to meet you." Hong Ye responded friendly.

Although she doesn't know why she judged herself as an organic civilization, but judging from the other party's presupposed friendly communication with organic civilization, Hong thinks that she doesn't need to correct her life form for the time being.

Or to put it another way, it’s okay to treat the Cat League as an organic civilization—no one said that an organic civilization can’t have a machine-intelligent leader, right?

"Shipboard Intelligence No. 2945, you are currently in our star field. To ensure safety, please indicate your intention."

"According to the organic civilization negotiation regulations, when entering an unknown neutral organic civilization star domain, basic information should be provided to the civilization for viewing. The data is being sent, please pay attention to receiving it."

After a few simple exchanges, Hong can basically confirm that the Sperry civilization to which this battleship belongs should be a very normal civilization.

The normal here means that they are not extinct civilizations such as cleanliness/iron heart—from the samples of civilizations encountered by the Cat League so far, as long as they are not cleanliness/iron heart/killing, even violent civilizations like the Chien Empire, That's enough to call it "normal".

Moreover, judging from the terms used in diplomacy and the negotiation regulations, they don't look like that kind of violent and xenophobic military civilization.

Whether it is actively revealing their identities, reducing the power of the reactor, turning off weapons to show friendship, or providing basic information to low-level civilizations like them, this is not like the style of a xenophobic civilization.

"Received, analyzing, please wait..."

After quickly browsing through the basic information provided by the other party, combined with the results of her scan of the battleship's appearance, Hong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Because she found that the technical content of this battleship is not as high as expected, at least most of the equipment and modules can be seen as famous - among other things, a magnetic mirror fusion engine directly reveals its technological level It's all over the place.

If you really want a head-to-head confrontation, a rough estimate, forty or fifty single pusher-class ships, should be able to fight this battleship to a tie. It's not like Hong thought before, one ship can beat them A full force.

Of course, combined with the tonnage of this battleship, this means that even if the opponent does not consider the high mobility brought by the warp speed engine, from the perspective of its combat power on paper alone, the opponent's combat power of the same tonnage is at least six times higher than theirs. .

But it doesn't matter, she has already prepared that the other party is many times stronger than them. Compared with her expected strength, it is only 6 times stronger, and it can even be called "a little weak".

"Hmm... Excuse me, can I call you number 2945?"

"as you wish."

"Okay." Hong nodded, and the vigilance in his heart was reduced again. "No. 2945, I already know your identity. On behalf of the Cat League, I would like to welcome you. Do you need help?"

"During model analysis... yes, respected Cat League, because the center cannot be contacted, it has been judged to be completely disabled. Therefore, No. 2945 is implementing the civilization preservation plan R219-1. If possible, please inform No. 2945 of your civilization The distribution of the surrounding star fields, so that this ship can avoid organic civilization star fields and avoid unnecessary conflicts."

"In addition, if possible, No. 2945 hopes that your civilization can provide some helium trifusion fuel. According to the organic civilization transaction regulations, in exchange, we can provide some spare parts of the ship module for your reverse technology."

There is one thing to say, this exchange condition is very attractive-even though even now, Helium III can be regarded as extremely rare and expensive, but compared to the reverse technology that may be brought about by the spare parts of more advanced civilizations, this is nothing Not a problem.

It's a pity that after asking about the amount of fuel that 2945 wanted, Hong reluctantly gave up on this idea—nearly [-]-ton-level helium-III, which the current Cat League cannot afford anyway.

Although Hong can also pretend to provide fuel, in fact, she secretly puts a nuclear bomb into the fuel tank, blows up the battleship directly, and then reverses the wreckage. The blame was pushed on Tukeka's head--everyone got them anyway, and the pig's racial cleanliness, plus this was originally the site of the religious order, it was the perfect target for the blame.

But Hong didn't intend to do this—with the current situation, it was far from the point where he had to act against a warship that seemed to have a friendly attitude.

"In addition, No. 2945, when your ship was involved in the star field of the Tukeka Cult by the phenomenon of wormhole opening omen, what is the specific location and orbital parameters." After exchanging routine information, Hong casually asked , "We hope to know the exact location where the wormhole will appear in the future, so that we can make follow-up arrangements."

"Number 2945 doesn't understand what you're talking about."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Hong felt a little puzzled, "That's where your ship suddenly appeared in the galaxy numbered TKK-3."

"Associating... Do you want to ask: the location of the stargate remnants in the TKK-3 galaxy?"

"Um???"

Finally, Hong realized what was wrong.

"Excuse me, how did your ship come to the TKK-3 galaxy?"

"Received an inquiry, judged to be answerable... about 2945 catus years ago, the ship No. 18 followed the Sperry Third Fleet to the transit star gate of your galaxy named TKK-4179, Prepared to go to the Vazel civilization to assist in the battle, but was ambushed by a corrupt civilization near the star gate. The fleet suffered heavy losses and could not forcibly activate the star gate to evacuate. After destroying the star gate, the corrupt civilization also evacuated immediately and detonated them at regular intervals temporary stargate.

"This ship was unable to evacuate in time due to the harassment mission, and then temporarily entered a dormant state according to the command of the center, only maintaining the minimum self-maintenance, waiting for the arrival of the reinforcement fleet, and later because of the detection of weak* subspace erosion in the galaxy Phenomena*, activated immediately, and began to carry out the task of clearing and suppressing."

In the narrative of 2945, Hong finally figured out its origin.

"This..."

Hong and Li glanced at each other, and they both saw the sense of relief in each other's eyes.

Although No. 2945 said that the Sperry Center put it into hibernation to reduce consumption and wait for the follow-up fleet to recover the galaxy, but judging from the current results, it is clear that this is just a blank check given to it by the Center That's all.

A full 18 years have passed, and it has not waited for any follow-up troops—neither Sperry, nor the "corrupt civilization" it calls, have ever entered this remote and barren galaxy, as if completely forgotten It's mediocre.

In addition, from its previous words, it can be known that it could communicate with the center at super-light speed before dormancy, but now it can no longer be contacted. Therefore, it is reasonable to guess that this Spanrui civilization may have already perished.

It has been waiting for a reinforcement that will never come.

"Excuse me, what is corrupt civilization?"