In some times of crisis, if a strong person stands up, then others will involuntarily follow the strong one. Shangsi is now playing that leadership role.

But let's be honest, leaders are not good.

The conversation between Aubrey and Algernon in the hallway just now revealed a lot of information to Shangs, but it was not good news.

The first piece of bad news is that the ship's concussion really wasn't a small meteorite swarm, but a Zerg attack.

Shang Si has systematically studied the history of anti-invasion wars, and of course he clearly knows how strong this kind of Zerg is that almost drives humanity to extinction. Although there is only one now, the Dodo, a civilian merchant ship, may not be able to withstand it for long.

The second bad news is that the Dodo now has only two lifeguard compartments to use, while the ship now has 289 passengers on board.

If the spaceship is equipped with thirteen life-saving pods according to the regulations, then if you can't defeat the Zerg, you can abandon ship and escape. But now if you abandon the ship and escape, only sixty people will survive, and the others will either blow themselves up with the ship, or they will have to be snacks for the Zerg.

Shang Si stood up in this situation, carrying the lives of nearly three hundred people, and the pressure in his heart can be imagined.

But if you don't want the situation to be more chaotic, you have to have someone to take on the pressure.

……

"How much energy is left in the ship's shield?"

"The remaining sixty percent. According to the ship's central system, it can be maintained for another hour. ”

"Is the nearest supply point responding to a distress signal?"

"The rescue ship arrives in an hour and thirty minutes."

Shang Si pondered for a moment. Things were bad, as Aubrey said, the shield energy was not enough to sustain the arrival of the rescue ship, and the life-chamber could save too few people. But at the last minute, he didn't want to give up other people's lives.

Speaking of which, at first, Shang Si was still wondering, the system released the task, and the punishment for failure was never so heavy, why did it become a failure obliterated this time? But now that I think about it, if the Dodo blew itself up, he would definitely die on the ship, and it would be no different from a failed obliteration.

"Send out a small detector and probe the outside." Shang Si ordered.

After a while, the external situation was displayed in front of Shang Si in a three-dimensional image. The more small probes there are, the more detailed the images will be, and many dead spots that the spacecraft has not detected will also be shown on the 3D image.

Shang Si observed the Zerg that was not far from the spaceship.

In appearance, this is an armor-like zerg classified in the E class, its body is covered with a layer of hard shell, somewhat like the seven-star ladybug on the earth, except that it is not six-legged, but has a flocculent tentacle ~ hand.

These tentacles~ hands are not used for walking, and when this zerg breaks the protective shield of the Dodo, the flocculent tentacles~ hands will reach into the spaceship, grab the people inside the spaceship, and inject digestive juices. Then this zerg can rely on these tentacles ~ hands to feast.

Every time this zerg flies for a while, it hits the Dodo with its hard shell. Fortunately, there is still a protective shield on the Dodo, otherwise it would have to be knocked apart by this big guy.

But even so, there is always a time when the energy of the spaceship's shield is exhausted, and if the rescue ship has not arrived at that time, then the Dodo will be a self-destructive ending, after all, no one wants to be the lunch of the Zerg.

However, this type of zerg has a weakness, and that is its abdomen. If it can be hit, this zerg will not die but also be seriously injured. This is difficult for ordinary spaceship staff (they rely on the number of orbits calculated by the central system, and if they break a large meteorite, they are qualified), but Shang Si has no problem aiming at the weakness of a flying Zerg under the dual education of the system and the Curran Military Academy.

Shang Si: "Check the weapons of the whole ship." ”

Soon, a staff member replied, "The inspection is complete." ”

Shang Si: "Report on the weapon." ”

Staff: "The Richter cannon is in good condition and ready to fire." ”

Village......

Richter cannon?!

Shansi: It can't be what he thinks, right?!

Shang Si looked at the staff member in silence, and only withdrew his gaze when he saw that the staff member was at a loss.

Shang Si swore that he didn't mean to scare the staff. He's just a bit of a fluke.

As a result, the staff member clearly told him that he had not been wrong in the first place, that the Dodo had a weapon such as a Richter cannon, and, perhaps, only a Richter cannon......

The Richter cannon, a military weapon that has long been obsolete, was later used as civilian spacecraft equipment to break large and medium-sized meteorites that threatened the spacecraft's shield. But that was decades ago, and now, even civilian spacecraft have been phased out for an unknown number of years......

This kind of thing is powerful, but the speed of the missile shot ~ is too slow, and it is not flexible at all. It's okay to fight a meteorite that can't dodge, but to fight the kind of Zerg that flies around, just like a walk, the Zerg has long since disappeared.

Shang Si walked to the console and saw that among the weapons and equipment information displayed on the screen, there was indeed only one item on the Richter cannon, and he finally gave up. They can't beat it, they can only drag it, and when the rescue spacecraft arrives, they will be saved with a boatload of people.

At this stage, every five minutes, that damn bug would hit the Dodo's spacecraft, and each impact would consume a lot of energy from the Dodo's shield. In order for the shield to last for an hour and a half, it is necessary to have highly skilled people to pilot the ship and try to avoid the impact of the Zerg.

The best pilot on the Dodo was Vice-Captain Algernon, but now he had been stabbed and was still lying in the infirmary. The piloting skills of the other staff members were average, so Shang Si could only use himself to pilot the spaceship.

Anyway, he is also the best graduate of the martial arts major of the Curran Military Academy, and it is not difficult for him to pilot the spaceship, but it is a bit difficult to avoid the impact of the Zerg.

It's not how powerful this Zerg is, after all, this Zerg is the lowest level of E-rank, and its speed is limited. The power system of the Dodo spacecraft is old to a certain extent, and it is only enough to supply the spacecraft with all its might, not to mention that it is necessary to maintain the operation of the protective shield now.

Without sufficient energy, the operation of the spaceship will be affected, and the movement of some ships will not be so flexible, especially when avoiding the Zerg, the speed is slower, and it will collide with the Zerg.

Therefore, in order to drive the spaceship to avoid the impact of the Zerg, Shang Thought must overcome the poor power system of the Dodo, try to avoid the Zerg in the movement of several ships that can be done, and also save energy.

It's not an easy job.

After Shang Si switched to manual driving, he was engrossed in observing the movement trajectory of the Zerg, and narrowly avoided the attacks of the Zerg again and again.

A thin layer of sweat oozed from his forehead, but he didn't have time to wipe it. In the past hour, Shang Si dodged more than a dozen Zerg collisions, and only once or twice was hit by the Zerg because of the lack of energy supply and the ship's movement was a beat slower.

In half an hour, the rescue ship will arrive. The staff in the Dodo's command room were relieved when they received this notice.

Relying on Shang Si's piloting skills, there is still 50% of the spaceship's protective shield energy left, which can fully support the arrival of the rescue spacecraft.

Some staff members saw that Shang Si was still manually piloting the spaceship, and they wanted to go over and persuade him to rest for a while, anyway, now that the energy is sufficient, even if the bug hits it hard, it can't damage the dodo's protective cover. But Shang Si's awe-inspiring momentum made her dare not step forward.

The situation seemed to be improving, but there was a trace of uneasiness in Shang Si's heart. For the past hour, he had been dealing with the Zerg outside, and it was relatively easy to avoid this Zerg at first, but as time went on, Shang Si found it more and more difficult to dodge. That Zerg seemed to learn, and as time went by, little by little, it improved, and now, Shang Si had to use one hundred and two percent of his energy to avoid this Zerg.

Now there is still fifty percent of the energy of the shield, and according to the energy consumption of each Zerg impact, it is indeed impossible for this Zerg to collide casually. But because of the uneasiness in his heart, Shang Si didn't want to waste more energy. For some reason, he always felt that something was about to happen.

The spaceship of the Dodo, facing the Zerg, wants to fight, and the weapon is an obsolete Richter cannon; If you want to run, the old power system is not as fast as the Zerg at full speed; Just a protective shield is useful, but it's not enough energy......

Every time Shang Si thought about this, if he really couldn't spare his hand, he wanted to beat up the cowering Aubrey in the corner. This spaceship is simply cheating to the extreme, isn't he just lazy and doesn't want to turn so many ports, as for letting him meet such a superb spaceship!

But it's come to this point, it's useless to think about it, it's good that he's here. If he and Sune hadn't taken the Dodo, the captain had escaped, the deputy captain was seriously injured, and the Zerg had been encountered, and the people in the spaceship would have either blew themselves up or fed the Zerg......

He thought, and made another note in his heart for Aubrey.

Su Ne was using his light brain to check the main information on the Dodo, he was not good at piloting the spaceship, but after the statistics just now, he could provide Shang Si with the most accurate information about the ship.

Now the energy of the spacecraft's shield is still 50 percent, and the power system has enough energy to travel the Dodo for three days, in addition to the energy allocated to the shield. It was no problem to support until the arrival of the rescue spacecraft.

Piloting a spaceship manually is more agile and energy-saving than a spaceship's autopilot, but it's also a very energy-consuming thing. Sune knew that Shang Si could still support it, but since the protective shield had enough energy, it was no problem to switch to autonomous driving.

Just when Su Ne wanted to step forward to persuade Shang Si to rest for a while, he saw Shang Si's face suddenly change sharply.