The battleship sent to search was in the area of the Weiqing's [explosion], and no survivors were found. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When Zhuang Bifan received such a report, his face was gloomy, and he pursed his lips and didn't speak for a long time.

Sima Yun didn't know how to forgive him. She knew he wasn't just worried about that mysterious and terrible enemy. She put the tea in her hand on the table, then sat down next to him and leaned into his arms, and explained, "Don't think too much. We have long been aware of the dangers of the universe, and we have encountered many enemies, and sacrifice is inevitable. ”

Zhuang Bifan put his arm around her waist and said in a deep voice, "I know." I even thought that one day I would die on the battlefield and not even be able to keep my body. But I didn't expect that more than 500 million people would disappear in front of my eyes in an instant. ”

Sima Yun knew that he took androids very seriously, and he regarded them more and more as natural people. In fact, in addition to the different breeding methods and the lack of reproductive ability, the physiological structure of those artificial humans is indeed not much different from that of natural people. And they have their own independent consciousness and thinking. After getting along for a long time, it is normal to see them as natural people.

She didn't exactly see androids as robots. But she didn't quite see them as one kind either. It's just that she doesn't want to change Zhuang Bifan's mind, but she feels that he doesn't need to be too sad about this: "How can there be immortals on the battlefield? I have heard a saying: Ci is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth! As the commander of an army, such a thing will be unavoidable in the future, and you will definitely have to face it often." ”

Zhuang Bifan smiled bitterly and said: "You are right, you will succeed in ten thousand bones." It's just that this time more than 500 million people have no bones, but not even the shadow of the enemy has been found. ”

Sima Yun saw that he was a little loose, and didn't say anything about it, only said something that could distract him: "By the way, I don't know if Koster has any news?"

They had already moved to another coordinate point, leaving only more than 1,000 reconnaissance ships in the star field where the incident occurred. They also sent the incident back to the Flame Yellow, hoping that through the Koster people who had once roamed the universe, they had heard that the attack came from that civilization.

However, after receiving all the information, Koster and the others were unable to determine the source of such an attack.

In fact, if they hadn't seen Koster, it was almost certain that they wouldn't know. So Zhuang Bifan didn't plan to take the initiative to ask about it.

"Maybe the enemy was just passing through the galaxy. Zhuang Bifan shook his head and said. "The reconnaissance ship that stayed there did not find anything suspicious. I think it's gone. ”

In order to avoid the destruction of the reconnaissance ship in silence. This time, he asked the reconnaissance ships to be in a group of five and pull a certain distance to help each other. If one is destroyed, several other ships can be spotted and reported immediately. He also ordered the reconnaissance ships to report back to the mothership every hour.

Although they were still on their scheduled voyages, they had lost all interest in continuing to look for celestial objects to visit along the way. Every time a new coordinate is replaced, Zhuang Bifan always releases the detection ship as soon as possible, and then the mothership starts the next replacement. Even in the process of preparation, the mothership of the fleet sailed at high speed. lest you be attacked like that again.

However, they have deployed reconnaissance fleets in more than a dozen systems in a row, and they have never been attacked again. Nor did they encounter any civilization. They sailed like that, but they shortened their sailing time considerably, and it would take no more than three days to deploy a reconnaissance fleet in a system.

Koster, who had not submitted a report on the destruction of the Weiqing for a long time, suddenly reported the results of the General Staff to Zhuang Bifan through video communication.

Zhuang Bifan listened to his report, frowned, and asked, "You said that it was a dark energy attack, what is the basis?"

Coster did say that the Guardian was destroyed by a dark energy attack. And he has the basis for such a judgment: "We found out from the information gathered by the task force that the Weiqing was disintegrated in an instant. If it were a normal energy attack, it would not have been possible to do so. ”

As he spoke, the screen changed to a schematic diagram of an Ares-class mothership. His voice continued: "Wang also knows that a giant mothership like the Wei Qing, even if it is caused by the Death Command System, there will definitely be an area where it will explode first. It is impossible to [explode] the entire mothership at the same time like the Weiqing. ”

Zhuang Bifan looked at the two different explosions on the video and had to admit what the other party said. Although there is no evidence to prove it, at least the Weiqing was not destroyed by ordinary energy attacks or kinetic weapon attacks.

But the analysis results of the Koster report made his heart a little heavier: "Is the power of the dark energy attack really so great?"

Koster's image appeared on the big screen again, and his face looked solemn. "We also feel unthinkable," he said. With that kind of dark energy that destroys the Weiqing, it can even turn a planet into pieces. We've never seen anything like it before. I haven't specifically heard of such a dark powerhouse. ”

He paused for a moment, then said, "However, the last time we faced the Reaper, we encountered a dark energy attack, and perhaps we can explain why there was such a dark energy attack. ”

Zhuang Bifan immediately understood what he meant: "You mean, use the battleship to amplify the dark energy, but the size of the battleship is not much larger than our detection ship! And the fluctuation of that energy is very powerful, what level of civilization is needed to create such a small volume amplification system?"

"Maybe the other party's dark energy system is already very strong. Coster said right away. "That's why they didn't rule the whole universe. What he meant was that there was a powerful Dark Energist on the battleship that destroyed the Wei Qing, but this Dark Energist was from a low-level civilization.

Zhuang Bifan thought about it, it was really like that, if they could build a large number of such powerful warships, what civilization could confront them?

He pondered for a moment and said, "You mean, let me look at this from an optimistic perspective?"

"Wang, whether it's the technology we have now, or the existing dark energy system. There is no way to confront this unknown enemy for the time being. Too much worry will only make us mess up. ”

Koster also made it clear that he hoped that Zhuang Bifan would put aside the destruction of the Weiqing first.

Zhuang Bifan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe you're right, it may be that a certain extremely strong dark ability person occasionally came to this galaxy and happened to encounter a task force. But we must not turn a blind eye to this and be blindly optimistic. We can get away with it and not encounter it again for a short time, but we can't avoid it forever. ”

He paused for a moment and continued, "We didn't have to change much from our original plan. But let the institute invest more in research to enhance the defense of the mothership. ”

Coster knew that it would be a bit difficult to defend against dark attacks on a technical level, but that was a good thing. So he didn't raise any doubts. He then advised Zhuang Bifan to return to the new earth first: "King, the Kafatra Empire has hinted that it hopes to send a delegation to visit the headquarters in the near future. The delegation was led by their crown prince. Only when you personally receive a delegation of such a standard can we show our sincerity. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll be back to New Earth in three days." ”

Now Zhuang Bifan has no clear deputy. Regardless of whether the other side is strong or weak, face at the diplomatic level still has to be given. The other party asked the crown prince to lead a delegation to visit, and Zhuang Bifan had to send a person of comparable status to receive him.

If there is no threat from the Reapers, it would probably be possible to have DeVille or Coster receive them. But now he can't make the other party feel that he looks down on the other party because of his face. You must know that since the other party sent the crown prince, it is not an ordinary representative. And Zhuang Bifan really has no suitable reception candidate except for himself.

Although there are still more than two hundred galaxies to go, it is not necessary for him to go in person. And because of the matter of the Wei Qing, they are now just replacing all the way, and when they reach the established coordinates, they will release the detection ship. That kind of thing can be done with just one mothership. There is no need for him to go in person at all.

He had three days left to complete the remaining tasks that he needed to assign to other motherships.

It took him more than a day to divide the remaining planned systems into twenty-eight sectors, one of which each mothership was responsible for.

He felt that even if that unknown enemy was still lingering in those galaxies, that galaxy was not small, and although a mothership was large, it might not be able to meet it so coincidentally. He also ordered the thirty motherships to find a suitable star field and begin to prepare for the future development of the base.

After making a plan, he asked the other motherships to continue their missions, and the Hanwu was replaced with a new earth.

He definitely didn't expect that the star ship that destroyed the Wei Qing had been secretly observing the task force. And each time a task force replaces control, the ship will appear near the star closest to the task force to secretly observe the task force's movements.

"Chief, it seems that they are going to separate. ”

The masked man chuckled and said, "Then we don't have to follow anymore." ”

"Chief, where are we going next?"

The masked man casually said, "Just find a place to cat!"

After this period of tracking and observation, although the origin of the other party is not known, it can be determined that this civilization is a civilization with a fairly high level of technology. They were able to solve the problem of long-distance teleportation with technical aspects, and the quality of the transmission was staggering. It was the first time he had seen such a technique.

And he also understood the purpose of this civilization to run so many galaxies during this time. That's to make a detailed star map of these galaxies. Spending so much effort to map galaxies in a short period of time is probably aimed at developing these galaxies.

This field is Deed's sphere of influence, but it is somewhat entangled with Zafna's power rain. It seems that this technological civilization has plans to expand rapidly. The development of such a civilization is indispensable, and it is indispensable to add obstacles to the other two forces. That might add some fun to his recuperation.