Goya Zone.

It is a nebula that spans 200 light-years and is 1-5 light-years wide and thick.

The nebula here is neither a common radiation cloud nor a light gray dust cloud, but a very special kind of "colloidal cloud".

These gelatinous clouds, viscous and resilient, resemble man-made spider silk, and any ship that enters the Goya Nebula will have to slow down.

Even if you don't slow down, those gelatinous nebulae will slow you down – because the more you go, the more you will have to go.

And the Goya Zone, which is just at the junction of several civilizations, is an important transportation artery, and there are many passenger and commercial spaceships.

And the surrounding civilizations were unable to extend the tentacles of order into the viscous Goya Nebula.

Thereupon......

Star thieves are plentiful, and raids are rife.

It's a chaotic place to smell and change.

At a time when the star thief force was rampant to the point of seriously threatening the trade routes of several countries and causing heavy economic and human losses year after year, several civilizations joined forces to launch a large-scale joint clean-up operation in the region, vowing to eradicate all star thieves!

As a result, the away battle, the lack of understanding of the environment, and the star thief forces have formed a climate, this joint encirclement and suppression, ended in a fiasco, and the countries also blamed each other for the reasons for the defeat, and the trouble broke up.

Since then, various countries have organized several separate encirclement and suppression, but for thousands of years, the star thief forces in the Goya Nebula have risen and fallen, and have never died out...... Unless all the spaceships of various countries make a detour, they will not pass through here.

The Destroyer Bandits.

It is a large star thief gang in the Goya Nebula, among the thousands of star thief forces, the comprehensive strength can be ranked in the forefront.

It has more than 10 advanced modified spaceships and more than 10,000 vicious star thieves.

The leader of the bandits, Manquilla the Destroyer, is a giant man over three meters tall, with knotted muscles and an ugly face, who is said to have been thrown into sulfuric acid by his parents when he was a child.

Naturally, Manquilla, who has never felt any warmth and love, and is only full of hatred and anger towards this world, quickly showed his "talent" after joining a group of star thieves.

Brutal and murderous, he usually has one word after taking down any spaceship that resists a little - kill, regardless of men, women and children, and kill no one left.

Even if the spaceship that does not resist chooses to surrender, it must decide not to kill, kill some, or kill all of them according to the good or bad mood of his mood...... But Manquilla was always in a bad mood.

Over time, he earned the title of "Destroyer", gathered a group of equally murderous subordinates around him, and broke through a shocking change in the Goya area, which made the passing spaceship tremble, and in some nearby civilized planets, it can stop the prestige of children's night crying.

Manquilla the Destroyer.

Manquilla also enjoyed it, people were afraid of him, they were afraid of him.

In the white-gray nebula, inside a dark star pirate ship shaped like a fishing trident.

In the bridge control hall, on the communication panel of the command platform in front of Manquilla, a middle-aged man dressed in gorgeous and noble clothes appeared.

The middle-aged man said in the lingua franca on the screen: "Manquilla, as long as you help me kill those two people, I will give you 10 million badus (badu, currency unit, similar to star coins), as well as the ability to move freely in the kingdom of Sovereign, in addition, I will also hire you as the commander-in-chief of the freedom fleet of the Sovereign Kingdom with a high salary, and help you control the entire Goya Zone...... This will be all your future fiefdom. ”

Hearing this, Manquilla plucked out his ears with his fingers and said in that mocking broken voice: "The usurper Frega, 10 million Badu, you want me to help you secure the throne? plus a commander-in-chief of little substance, and the whole fiefdom that I need to fight myself...... Usurper, do you think I, Manquilla, am an idiot?"

"No, no, Mr. Manquilla, I didn't mean that. ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand awkwardly, and at the same time, he was very angry that the other party had been calling "usurper", but he still had to say: "The Nebula Princess is the fastest spaceship flying in the Sovereign Kingdom, and our fleet can't catch up, if the brother and sister want to go to the Norton Kingdom, the Goya Nebula is a must-pass place, and our star map experts have also found that the Nebula Princess, the most likely to pass through, is near the station of the Destroyer Star Thieves......"

"Mr. Manquilla, that ship will surely pass by you, there is a young and vigorous prince on it, and a beautiful princess, please send them home safely, or ......"

A cold killing intent flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes: "Whatever you do, it's best to ...... Kill them!"

"The request can be discussed casually, there are enough Badhu in the treasury of the Kingdom of Soveilin. ”

In the middle-aged man's tone, he tried his best to seduc.

Hearing this, the corners of Manquilla's mouth smiled slightly, and the sulfuric acid face became even uglier, and he thought for a while: "Tell me the coordinates of the Nebula Princess, and I will estimate the approximate time of their arrival." ”

"Yes, you can!"

Fregaard's face was ecstatic, and he quickly asked the scientist to send the coordinates over.

He also did not forget to woo and said: "Mr. Manquilla, thank you for your help, you will be the most honorable guest of the Soveilin Kingdom, I have decided to confer a noble title and give you a rich fief." ”

Manquilla smiled coldly: "Don't rush to thank me, usurper, I just won't let go, passing by every lamb near the Destroyer Star Bandits." ”

Especially the lambs who cast themselves into the net.

……

Nebula Princess.

In the kingdom of Sovereign, it is the most luxurious, the most advanced, and the fastest flying civilian spaceship.

Its elegant lines, smooth and rounded, like a perfect work of art.

It can reach a maximum speed of 0.65 times the speed of light, so it does not need any weapon protection, as no ship or weapon can catch up with it except light.

In case of danger, simply speed up and run.

But now, this high-speed spaceship is about to enter the chaos zone - the Goya Nebula.

And because of this decision, the two crew members of the spacecraft had several heated arguments.

"Brother, it's too dangerous inside the Goya Nebula, there are star thieves everywhere inside, and it's very likely that we will run into them, so it's better to bypass here. The female voice said.

"No, it will take at least ten more years to get around here, and in ten years, my kingdom will already be in the hands of that damned usurper of Ferrega, we must hurry up and go to the Norton Kingdom to find my aunt and ask her to help us restore the kingdom!" the male voice said through gritted teeth.

"However, once we enter the Goya Nebula, our speed will slow down, and the star thieves will easily catch up with us, and the Princess will not have any self-defense weapons on board. ”

"No, the Princess is equipped with an antimatter engine that only a level 4 civilization can have, and her power is three times that of a conventional engine, and it is impossible for a spaceship to be faster than the Princess in any environment. The man said confidently.

"Brother, it is said in the "Encyclopedia" that in the Goya Nebula, there is no speed of any spaceship, which can be faster than the modified spaceship of the star thief, unless it has undergone a special design to reduce resistance, and there have been many fourth-level civilization spaceships that have insisted on passing through it before, but there are very few successful ones, this place is not as simple as you think. ”

The woman stomped her feet, hoping that her brother would change his mind and take more detours, rather than facing danger head-on.

"Shut up for me, men's business, women don't intervene!"

The man said roughly, continuing to control the ship, and went straight into the Goya Nebula.

As soon as they entered, the huge negative acceleration made the shoulders of the two almost be strangled by the fixed belt.

"Didi~"

"The ship is slowing down, it's slowing down......"

"The current acceleration is -186 m/s, -187 m/s, -189 m/s...... Resistance is still increasing and is expected to decelerate below 0.1C. ”

The ship's sirens kept coming.

"It can't be!"

The speed drop was so fast that the man couldn't believe it, and he endured the severe pain caused by the negative acceleration, and stomped on the afterburner rod under his feet, increasing the output of the antimatter engine to offset the negative acceleration.

"Boom~"

After the power was increased, the tail of the Nebula Princess, the engine spewed out a light that was 10,000 times more dazzling than the sun's rays, and under the huge thrust, the negative acceleration really decreased.

The backs of the two of them finally leaned back on the back of the seat.

But this state only lasted for two minutes, and the brain issued a warning: "The engine is overheating, please reduce the engine working power!"

Looking at the screen showing the engine temperature, the red area representing the high temperature was rapidly eating away at the orange area, and the man had no choice but to relax the pedal and reduce the power.

The body leaned forward involuntarily, and it hurt to be strangled by the fixed belt.

A few days later.

The speed of the Nebula Princess has dropped to less than 0.1C.

In addition, from the perspective outside the spacecraft, it can be seen that the surface of the spacecraft is wrapped in a viscous substance with a thickness of more than hundreds of kilometers, like a mass of marshmallows, and as the spacecraft moves forward, it gathers more and more.

In order to return to normal speed, you must wait for the ship's speed to drop to 0 and clear the goo before you can move on.

The man slowed down, but at the same time regretted, if he had known this, he should have slowed down some speed in advance and then entered this nebula.

Now, we have to stop the ship completely and clean up all the goo before we can move on.

It took several days.

Hopefully you won't be targeted by star thieves.

……

Less than three days away.

"Our baby has stopped, hahaha, baby, here we are!"

Three strangely shaped star pirate spaceships are heading straight for the Nebula Princess......