Darkness is unbounded.

This is an extremely empty star field.

There are not many stars, and even small celestial bodies, nebulae, dust, etc. are extremely rare.

It's empty, as if it's boundless and endless, enough to break down for a person with a phobia of loneliness.

The Kaisheng Empire is the second-highest civilization in Myriad Star Cloud City, second only to the Saheya Star Federation in strength.

But such a powerful empire has now suffered an extremely embarrassing thing, their Princess Corinthians' envoy ship was actually attacked by a wandering civilization.

Starting from the extremely distant Kaisheng Empire, Princess Corinthi, who was going to Wanxing Cloud City to inspect and condole, took the envoy ship for the seventh time to carry out similar missions, and every year she would regularly carry imperial envoys to comfort those scientific researchers and their families who were fighting on the front line.

This year's mission is special because Princess Corinthine has become an adult, and after being canonized as a princess, she is eager to do something for the public good for the empire, to show her love and social responsibility.

Compared with many options, she finally chose to come to Wanxingyun City, not only to inspect and condole, but also to come for sightseeing, after all, there are more than 20,000 different civilizations in Wanxingyun City, different cultures and customs, different diets and fashions, all of which are too attractive to this beautiful princess.

Time goes back an hour ago.

The envoy ship has completed the 12th space jump and is preparing to sail a certain distance, and then it can reach Wanxing Cloud City after making a few more space jumps.

On this route, the ship flies many times a year, and the inspection and condolence flight mission is fixed once a year, but this time there was an accident.

Just completed the jump out, the space jump device that is least likely to have problems actually alarmed.

Without personnel control, the envoy ship's integrated maintenance intelligent management system automatically arranges system self-inspection and maintenance operations, and arranges maintenance robots and engineers to operate in accordance with standard operating procedures.

But no one expected that ten minutes later, the space shielding device also alarmed, the energy supply was insufficient, and the maintenance had not yet begun, and in less than five minutes, the main power system, which was least prone to problems, began to report failure......

The situation was extremely tricky, and the envoy ship seemed to have encountered man-made sabotage.

After a brief meeting, the captain ordered the envoy ship to sail silently and enter a 20-minute damage management operation.

Silent sailing, in fact, is to shut down all system equipment except for the life support system and restart, which is an effective solution to deal with large-scale failures, because when restarting, once a fault is detected that cannot be eliminated by itself, the corresponding equipment will activate its own backup equipment.

In this way, after the envoy ship is successfully restarted, the maintenance operation only needs to replace the damaged equipment, and will not affect the normal flight of the envoy ship.

Many of the ship's systems have multiple sets of redundant backups, and the captain ordered this, of course, it is understandable, and he immediately mobilized the crew and a large number of engineering robots, ready for rapid repair within the restart period.

However......

No one could have imagined that 'silent diving' was really terrible.

Without stealth shielding and weapon defense, the envoy ship was raided by interstellar pirates who had been waiting nearby.

In general, interstellar pirates are wandering civilizations, they do not have their own planet, but generations but live on huge starships, and their main business is robbery.

The envoy ship that should not have failed has a large-scale failure!

The interstellar pirate who shouldn't have appeared appeared in this vast starry sky!

Is this really pure coincidence?

Princess Corinthine's whereabouts must have been revealed, otherwise the failure of the envoy ship and the sneak attack of the interstellar pirates would not have been so coincidental.

The guards protecting Princess Corinth were undoubtedly dutiful, and Captain Darsley immediately ordered the members of the guard to quickly take control of the entire ship, strictly prevent anyone from continuing to sabotage, and at the same time take over the control of the entire battleship.

The design and construction of the envoy ship is naturally of high standard, and the quality is also extremely high, and in order to protect the key personnel from harm, an emergency defense combat system is specially designed.

Dashley quickly activated the system, giving the envoy ship an energy shield and the ability to launch some counterattacks against the enemy with the ship's weapons.

In addition, Dashley also asked the envoy ship to quickly complete the restart, the space jump device was broken and could not jump and escape, and the main power system was damaged and could not be used, so use the backup system and auxiliary power system to speed up the escape.

Velocity!

In interstellar warfare, the most important thing is speed!

Fixed in one position and not moving, that is a fixed target, no matter how awesome the protective shield can not withstand for too long, only by moving at high speed can the difficulty of the enemy's attack be increased.

Dashley is experienced, but he's not a panacea.

In addition to desperate resistance, he can only keep sending out distress signals.

It's a pity that the location of the incident is extremely far away from Wanxing Cloud City, and it will take several spatial jumps to get there, and at the same time, it is also extremely far away from their Kaisheng Empire, so it is really 'no village in front of the village and no store in the back'.

Even if it was the battleship stationed in the Kaisheng Empire in Myriad Nebula City, or the interstellar battleship in the empire's own territory, it would take a long time for them to rush to the aid as soon as possible.

It's hard to save the fire from far away!

Dashley was just holding the illusion of 'giving it a try', and kept sending out distress signals.

After all, it is impossible for the Imperial Princess Corinth to surrender, and it is impossible for her to beg for peace with the interstellar pirates.

Once the other party is promised to give up resistance, after the other party boards the ship, not only will they take away a large number of condolence items, bounties, gifts, etc. on the envoy ship, but they will definitely not let Princess Corinth go.

If the princess is taken away by them, she will be humiliated, killed, tortured...... The princess guards led by Dashley are absolutely to blame, so after consulting the princess herself, they are even more determined not to surrender and fight to the end.

However, determination alone is useful.

The envoy ship is not fast, and it is impossible to enter the space to jump and escape, while the opponent is enough to give full play to the speed advantage and constantly maneuver around it, not only provoking all kinds but also launching a wave of more powerful offensives.

After all, the envoy ship is not a professional starship, the shield cannot last too long, and the shipboard weapons on board are not enough to blow up many warships of the other side.

What to do?

Do you really want to die here?

Inside the command bridge.

Princess Corinth has been persuaded by her personal attendants to change into a light but very strong and comfortable light mecha, ready to escape in an escape pod at any time, after all, once the energy shield of the envoy ship is burst, it will be quite dangerous without mecha protection.

With blue pupils, delicate face, and snow-white hair, Princess Corinthine is as tall and graceful as an elf.

When life and death were in danger, she was not too flustered, and the majesty and self-cultivation of the royal family naturally remained.

But watching the crew busy into a pot of porridge, dispatching and commanding, desperately rushing to repair, and frantically liaison...... Everyone was so busy, and under Corinth's calm and indifferent expression, she was actually very frightened in her heart.

She has just reached adulthood, and she is the youngest princess of the Kaisheng Empire, and she is also a princess who is loved by the royal family and many people, and they even praise her as the 'Elf Queen', describing her as having an elf-like appearance and figure, and a unique temperament like a queen.

But now......

The more Corinth thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, the envoy ship had to take this route many times a year, and she had never had such a problem before to pick up and drop off the envoys.

For such an interstellar ship that has only been in service for seven years, it is the time when the ship is in the best condition, properly maintained, and the personnel and equipment are in good operation, how can there be a large-scale failure?

It's also a coincidence that after losing the ability to leap in space, the interstellar pirates appeared, and she would never believe that there was no inner ghost.

What exactly do interstellar pirates do? Profit or murder?

With many starships, it would be too much trouble for them to rob such an interstellar envoy ship as themselves, they can completely rob those weak civilizations and seize one or several life planets, which is more profitable than robbing an envoy ship.

So, if there is no possibility of making money, the only possibility is murder.

They were definitely hired by a certain force, and they received accurate information to wait here, and when the envoy ship could not escape from space at high speed, they chased and attacked fiercely, and when the protective shield was blown up, it would take less than a few seconds of fire to blast the entire envoy ship into slag.

Time!

The protective shield has become more and more unsupportable, and ideally, it will last for another ten minutes at most.

And if the opponent uses a more powerful attack weapon and launches a more powerful attack, he may not be able to hold out for five minutes.

The personal maids who have followed for many years are all so nervous that they are about to suffocate.

Corinth also secretly clenched her fists, ready to turn around and escape in the escape pod as soon as possible.

"Oh no!

"The shield is already in jeopardy, when will the main power system be restored?"

"Cut off the energy supply to the unimportant cabin, and supply all the energy that can be collected to the protective cover!"

"Always ready to unleash the last batch of fighters and launch a decisive attack on the enemy to delay time!"

……

Amid the sound of reports and orders, suddenly, the signal corpsmen screamed loudly.

"Good news! good news!"

"The 'God of War' interstellar battleship from the human civilization on Earth has received our distress signal, and the captain of the ship, Qin Tian, said that he will leave immediately!"

The signal corps excitedly shouted loudly.

Suddenly!

Cheers and shouts immediately rang out throughout the command bridge.

And Dalsley, as the captain of the princess guard, always keeps a clear head.

"Did he say when he would be able to arrive? If not, ask quickly, and you have to keep sending him the location to let him know where we are going!"

Time!

Now for the envoy ship, every minute and second is an ordeal.

Moreover, they are contacted through a public extradimensional communication channel without encryption, Qin Tian wants to lead the God of War interstellar battleship to the rescue, then these interstellar pirates will definitely be able to get this news.

In other words, if it were Darsley, if he were an interstellar pirate, he would definitely immediately attack with the most powerful and powerful attack, trying to blow up the envoy ship before Qin Tian arrived!

The signal corpsman also realized this, nodded again and again, and immediately began to communicate and ask.

"Thank God, thank you!"

"Thank you Qin Tian!

"Just now the signal corps said that there is only one star-trooper, the God of War, can you repel the interstellar pirates when it comes?"

"Anyway, it's also a professional interstellar warship for military combat purposes, unlike our envoy ship, which doesn't have strong armament and defense!"

"At the critical moment, the allies in Myriad Nebula City are reliable! The human civilization on Earth seems to be a new civilization that has only joined in recent years, right?"

……

Hearing that rescue soldiers were coming, the nervous mood of Princess Corinthian's maids began to relax, and they couldn't help but gossip and chat.

And Princess Corinth, who was nervous, originally bit her red lips with her teeth, and her heart was full of fear.

At this moment, she also secretly breathed a long sigh, and she was no longer so nervous.

"Report!"

The signal soldier shouted loudly: "Qin Tian replied, it is 80,000 light years away from us, and we can arrive in five minutes at the earliest!"

80,000 light-years?5 minutes?

Dashley was immediately incredulous.

"Isn't it? Such a long distance, you can come in five minutes? Even the newest starship of our Kaisheng Empire can't run so fast......, right?

The chief engineer immediately explained: "Unless the power system is overloaded, the speed of the battleship can be far exceeded the design limit in a short time, but this will undoubtedly cause great damage to the battleship itself, and the powertrain will inevitably need to be replaced afterwards!"

The corners of Dashley's lips twitched slightly.

What is life and death rescue?

What does it mean to be unhesitating?

The other party risked scrapping the battleship and rushed to the aid of the envoy ship, which was enough to make everyone present feel warm.

Who said that the world is hot and cold, and people's hearts are unpredictable?

The powertrain of an interstellar battleship is definitely not cheap, but for the sake of Princess Corinthian's envoy ship, which has never been met, the other party still rushed to the rescue regardless of the danger of the battleship being scrapped.

Princess Corinth bit her red lip tightly, and tears welled up in her eyes.

It may only take a moment to move.

Affected by this, the crew also tried their best to resist and survive the five minutes.

All unnecessary energy-consuming equipment has been turned off, and even the life support system has adjusted the comfortable temperature of the human body from 26 degrees to 31 degrees, so that the thermostatic system equipment can consume a little less energy and make the energy shield a little more powerful.

Not only that, in the flight hangar, a number of air and space fighters that should have attacked to the death were not dispatched, and all of them activated their power systems to supply energy to the envoy ship to further improve the defensive capability of the protective shield.

Attack, even more fierce!

The four interstellar pirate warships besieging the envoy ship had previously maintained a long distance from a safe distance for long-range attacks, but now they knew that the other side had interstellar warships rushing to help, so of course they were going to be ruthless.

Five minutes!

After five minutes, the other party had escaped by chance, and if they could blow up the envoy ship within these five minutes, it would be done.

Fierce battles, race against time.

One by one, the interstellar missiles pulled out a straight light and headed straight for the envoy ship, some of which were destroyed by the long-range high-energy ablation of the ship's defense weapons, and many of them hit the envoy ship with a bang, blowing up the color of the energy shield and causing a series of halo shocks.

All kinds of high-energy weapons and energy weapons, as well as space weapons, were launched wildly, hitting the energy shield of the envoy ship so that it was almost crumbling.

Life or death, it's up to these five minutes......

(End of chapter)