Chapter 117: The Wind Bride
From the waterway, on a certain coordinate between the sixth and seventh detection points, the faster-than-light communication signal clearly transmitted, and the moment it was received by the advance ship, the crew on board was able to figure out the current location of the spaceship that transmitted the signal based on this signal. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The command headquarters that immediately sent a feedback message to reply and got in touch with it, and then, after consulting with the leader of the Eagle Commando Richter, sent Li Xiangnanban to the advance ship and ordered them to take the "Chengfeng" and immediately go to contact the "fifth spaceship".
After escaping from the solar system more than 500 years ago and jumping to the first coordinate point, it immediately encountered the adventitious worm, and then carried out the second coordinate jump, the "fifth spaceship" - the Wind Bride, because it failed to peel off an adventitious worm attached to the hull before the jump and then jumped, so after the jump was completed, the adventitious worm that almost combined itself with the hull shell also came to the jump arrival site.
Fortunately, after arriving at its destination, the adventitious worm was unable to get in touch with any companions and could not trace its nest, so it panicked and became a "little tadpole busy looking for its mother", so the Wind Bride was able to get rid of the entanglement of the adventitious worm, survived, and continued to sail forward on the channel smoothly.
During the hundreds of years of continuous forward sailing, every ten days, the Wind Bride, which fired a group of faster-than-light contact signals in a cycle that repeated three times in its course, encountered and only encountered the adventitious worm once. And this only time, the encounter that happened more than a hundred years ago, almost destroyed the entire spaceship.
Swarms of thousands of adventitious insects gathered together were clearly in the early stages of building a new nest when they launched an attack on the spaceship. Therefore, not only the converted substances on the ship, but also various inorganic substances that can be used to synthesize organic matter, and even a large number of humans, the adventitious insects have not spared.
The adventitious insects that open openings in the hull and enter the hull are like zombies that have been hungry for hundreds of years. After they were all fed, they stretched out their tentacles and snatched up a large amount of supplies, and swept away countless crew members who were brought back by them to feed the larvae.
After this catastrophe, the ship originally had nearly 160,000 crew members, but in the end only less than 8,000 people survived, and in the past 100 years, these more than 8,000 people have shrunk to less than 1,000 people due to various reasons.
"In order to reduce energy consumption as much as possible and prevent ships from being caught by adventitious insects, do they rely on inertia most of the time to navigate the waterway and only send a contact signal every ten days? It's no wonder that the signals they send have such a small reach that they have not been able to make any contact with the human interstellar alliance for so many years, after all, the power of the machines is there. ”
Piloting the linkage machine, and the other four comrades-in-arms in the same class flew to the safety of the Wind Bride, this time the mission to carry out is not only to contact with the human companions who have been lost for 500 years, but more importantly, in the next few days, together with the comrades-in-arms, escort the accelerated Wind Bride, before the advance ship makes the next coordinate jump, rush to the seventh detection point to meet with it.
Shaped like a hollow pentagonal pyramid with no bottom, the head is sharp, and the "Chengfeng" has the ability to fire laser cannons, and it is a kind of mounted flying equipment that helps a small number of pilots to carry out long-distance running operations.
The inside of the pentagonal pyramid is surrounded by a main control device similar to the stamen of the morning glory, and the five carrying cavities built close to each side of the pentagonal pyramid can accommodate five people as a group of five operators to carry out flexible deployment at any time.
After riding the Wind Ride, the five operators who cooperate with the power propulsion devices of the Wind and the power devices that are far more powerful than a single humanoid mecha can give themselves the ultra-high-speed flight speed that is completely impossible to achieve in the "Five Hands Position".
Using the laser cannon on board the wind, the operators who remove all kinds of obstacles on the predetermined route can fly straight all the time as long as they don't encounter large-sized stars or complex star floats on the road ahead.
Carrying the cavity, she alternately controls the safety of the main control device of Chengfeng with her comrades-in-arms, and at this time, she is on duty, closely watching the obstacles in front of the route, and firing the laser cannon of Chengfeng in time to open the way for herself and her comrades. The other pilots, who did not have their turn to change shifts for the time being, took time to take the necessary rest for long-distance flights in the interval between their duties and vigilance.
During the long flight, an adventitious insect that Li Xiangnan's class encountered by chance flashed briefly on the display screen of the mecha of the five people, and then was quickly left behind by them and disappeared immediately. After skimming through the unchanged scenery for a long time, they finally approached the four of them on the Wind Bride, and then they saw the old spaceship that was getting bigger and bigger.
In the more than 500 years since it set sail, the Hope has continued to become larger and more advanced in the process of transformation again and again, but the Wind Bride that appeared in front of them has obviously embarked on the opposite path to the Hope.
The near-extinction disaster more than a hundred years ago caused the Wind Bride to be devastated, and it still can't be relieved. Its old, dilapidated and unsustainable hull looks like an unmanned ghost ship that has been tossed and turned in the seas for decades compared to the glossy Hope.
"Wind Bride Command, Wind Bride Headquarters, this is Li Xiangnan, the twenty-third squad leader of the Human Interstellar Alliance Eagle Commando, please reply when you hear it, please reply when you hear it, it's over."
"This is the command of the Wind Bride, this is the command of the Wind Bride, the door of the ship has been opened, and I hope that the visitors will enter the hull from the specified hatch according to our navigation instructions, and it is over."
Li Xiangnan, who was taking Chengfeng and making contact with his fellow human beings in accordance with the advance agreement between the advance ship and the Wind Bride, soon let Chengfeng slow down by reverse jetting, and together with his subordinates who broke away from the carrying cavity, he pushed Chengfeng's shell and changed its course.
Soon after, the five people who approached the door of the Wind Bride as instructed to enter the ship stepped on the "fifth spaceship" and took the first step in contact with their fellow human beings.