Su Zhe didn't expect to meet Tom at the entrance of the passage, but what was more unexpected than him was Tom, who had just been promoted to lieutenant, and he didn't expect that his first task after the transfer of his post was to accompany the Vostok spacecraft to the temporary advance base outside the Oort Nebula, and be responsible for the logistics and security of the scientists on the Vostok spacecraft.

At this time, the two friends met unexpectedly, and then when they learned about their respective situations, both Su Zhe and Tom were excited, and it was a real joy that they could be together outside of the Oort Nebula, including for a long time afterward.

The Vostok spacecraft stayed at the Martian base for a day, replenished the necessary supplies, and then continued its journey, this time it was no longer a normal flight, but sailed in curvature to the forward base of the Oort Nebula, and then stayed there, waiting for feedback from the situation ahead before deciding when to leave the Oort Nebula and arrive at the temporary forward base.

When the Vostok spacecraft that Su Zhe and the others were riding on was sailing towards the edge of the solar system in curvature for the first time, on the far other side of the universe, the Vanguard spacecraft, the sister ship of the Vostok spacecraft, was also sailing in curvature, and its target was still the red and dark nebula.

After being pursued and escaped by an unknown fleet, it took the Vanguard spacecraft more than 100 days to return to its normal course, but at this moment it was still more than 600 light-years away from the Red Dark Nebula, and it was still a long time before he reached his destination.

Outside the spaceship is like a fixed and eternal cosmic starry sky, on the bridge inside the spaceship, Su Yichen sat in front of the control console, his eyes did not look at the projection navigation screen, but at the small hourglass in his hand.

This little hourglass is, of course, made up of those two small pyramids, which are the extremely high-tech products of the Rand civilization. It's just that the little hourglass in his hand is different from what he saw in Galen in the Andromeda galaxy. There is no "sand" inside that represents the passage of time, only a star map condensed by milky white starlight, this star map is the red and dark nebula, along the way, Su Yichen doesn't know how many times he has stared at it like this, trying to figure out its intention to show the red and dark nebula. But until now, he didn't know what this star map was meant to represent, but as the Vanguard got closer and closer to the Red and Dark Nebula, the kind of call that Su Yichen felt in his heart became stronger and stronger.

"Could it be that the information left behind by its owner is inside the Red Dark Nebula? Or is there other secrets hidden by the Rand civilization in the Red and Dark Nebula? Su Yichen once again thought of these possibilities in his mind, in the past few years, he has made countless speculations, but every speculation seems to be possible, but none of them can be confirmed.

Maybe they won't figure it out until they arrive at their destination, Su Yichen comforted himself and sighed lightly. He put away the small hourglass, and then set his eyes on the three-dimensional projection screen, although the starry sky outside was boring, but after experiencing the accident of the previously unknown fleet, Su Yichen and Luo Yan made a division of labor, no matter when someone must stay on the bridge, so as not to have a new accident.

Although the Pioneer spacecraft has an extremely advanced intelligent brain, no matter how good the brain is, it cannot compare to an intelligent life like Su Li. An inanimate brain can do reconnaissance, analysis, alarms, and so on. But it has another great drawback, which is the ability to be flexible and adaptable. This is a logical flaw. It is also one of the differences between ordinary intelligence and intelligent life, if Su Li is around, they don't have to work so hard, thinking of Su Li, the corner of Su Yichen's mouth showed a slight smile, this intelligent life like their own children has also "grown up". She looks like a big girl now, and as for her future, just like the parents who sent her children away, Su Yichen is looking forward to her being able to go further than herself, maybe one day in the future. When they grow old and die, Su Li takes her place to protect their civilization.

I don't know how long it took, just as the terminal of Su Yichen's wrist vibrated slightly, his thoughts returned to the present from other places. Look at the time, Luo Yan should be almost here, according to the work assignment of the two, there will be an alternate time between them, and now it is this time.

After sitting for a long time, Su Yichen stood up and moved his muscles, bent over, and stretched his arms and legs. Then I went to make a pot of tea, returned to my seat and waited for Luo Yan to come over, and then the husband and wife talked and talked about things that they were interested in.

When Su Yichen just put the brewed tea on the table and poured himself a cup and was about to drink it, the alarm in the bridge suddenly sounded, and the sudden alarm sound made Su Yichen startled, and he even spilled the tea in the cup with a shake of his hand, but he didn't care about it at all, so he hurriedly stood up and looked at the projection.

"Unknown spaceship discovered! Discover the Unknown Ship! ”

The brain continued to alert, and the projection began to stretch, and the image of a spaceship was revealed at a distance of light years in front of the Vanguard spacecraft.

"It's ......!"

Without waiting for Zhi Brain to analyze and determine, Su Yichen recognized the spaceship at a glance, and he was almost certain that the spaceship that was discovered was the spaceship of the fleet that they had chased into the sky and escaped with great difficulty, because from their shapes and appearances, they were almost identical.

"Bastard!"

Su Yichen rarely burst into a foul mouth, his spirit was highly tense all of a sudden, could it be that he spent so much effort and still didn't completely get rid of these guys? This battleship is here to intercept the Pioneer again? But under that circumstance, how could the other party so accurately judge their sailing trajectory and course? You must know that the Pioneer spacecraft has constantly adjusted its course when it escaped, including after it disengaged, so that the other party could set up interceptions on their route in advance? It's almost impossible!

A kind of fear and powerlessness surged in Su Yichen's heart, he couldn't understand why this situation was happening? Could it be a coincidence? Or is the other party's technology already so high that it can't be understood? In that case, can it be tracked?

At this time, Zhi Brain's analysis had already come to a conclusion, which was the same as Su Yichen's judgment at first sight, this battleship was one of those fleets. Now that the ship appeared in front of them, were the rest of the ships that escaped the star's influence nearby? Su Yichen's gaze couldn't help but look around, and at the same time, he couldn't wait for Zhi Brain to launch a comprehensive search of the surrounding airspace.

"Ahh It...... Here they go again? ”

As soon as the order was given, Luo Yan, who hurried to hear the siren, saw the battleship in the three-dimensional projection as soon as he entered the bridge. Like Su Yichen, Luo Yan also recognized the origin of this battleship at a glance, and immediately shouted in surprise, and at the same time, there was a trace of fear in this shout.

"Yes, here they are again......." Su Yichen turned around and smiled bitterly at his wife, it took them a lot of effort to escape. I always thought that there would be no more danger, but I never imagined that the accident would happen again. Are they going to face another flight? But whether he would be able to get rid of the other party's pursuit this time was not even sure in Su Yichen's heart. The previous method was to catch the other party off guard, and various factors such as the historical environment and the performance of the spacecraft were lucky to succeed, but now the other party who has suffered a loss once will suffer again? As a member of such a technologically advanced cosmic civilization, this is absolutely impossible.

"What are we going to do? Turning around and leaving immediately? Luo Yan asked a little panicked, she only hoped that the other party would not find them for the time being, and immediately turn around and flee again. However, Su Yichen shook his head, he had to make sure that the other party was just a spaceship or the rest of the spaceships were gathering in this airspace, if the other party had already set up an ambush here. Then they recklessly turned around and fled, and if they didn't get it right, they crashed headlong into the other party's encirclement.

Now, there is still enough time to escape from the distance between the two sides, so Su Yichen must confirm it before making the next decision.

"I'll help you!"

"Good!"

Luo Yan immediately understood after listening to her husband's simple explanation, she immediately rushed to the console to assist Su Yichen to use the brain to scan the airspace, ten minutes later, the results of the scan came out, when they saw this result, both Su Yichen and Luo Yan were relieved, because the results showed that there was only this warship found in this airspace. And without the presence of the rest of the battleships.

"It's okay, Yichen. We'll change course right away, and we should be able to escape. Luo Yan, who had palpitations, patted her chest and suggested anxiously.

But at this time, Su Yichen shook his head instead, his expression was a little strange, and his eyes stared at the scan data in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yichen? Yichen? Luo Yan saw that her husband was in a daze, and hurriedly shouted at him a few times.

"It's kind of weird." Su Yichen came back to his senses. said with a frown at Luo Yan, who was concerned about herself.

"Strange? What's so strange? Yichen, are you confused? The most important thing for us now is to adjust the course immediately, or there will be no dangerous ....... ”

"No, no, maybe...... Maybe we're not in danger. Su Yichen glanced at the scan data again, and then said something that made Luo Yan feel inexplicable. Before Luo Yan could understand what he meant. Su Yichen gave Zhi Brain an order to continue to move forward according to the route, and at the same time asked Zhi Brain to scan and locate the location of the spaceship again.

"Yichen, what are you?" Luo Yan didn't understand why Su Yichen did this, was he crazy? The other party is a warship, although the weapons possessed by the Pioneer spacecraft are not weak, but for a cosmic civilization that can leap and fly, it is difficult to compete with the other party with such force. The safest way now is to take advantage of the Pioneer spacecraft's higher and more stable curvature technology to get away as soon as possible, and then look for an opportunity to get rid of it completely.

After all, this time is different from the last time, the other side only has one battleship, and it will be much easier to get rid of. But now instead of doing this, Su Yichen ordered the spaceship to continue approaching the battleship, what did he want to do.

"Don't worry, wait!" Su Yichen's eyes were still looking at the data that was constantly being scanned, and in order to comfort his wife, he said again: "Believe me, I did this for a reason." ”

When these words came out of Su Yichen's mouth, Luo Yan's heart calmed down slightly, of course she trusted her husband, and at this moment, she even felt a little guilty for the excessive anxiety just now.

After only a few minutes, Su Yichen, who had been staring at the scanned data, suddenly laughed, and he laughed out loud, laughing in surprise.

"Haha! Hahaha! Su Yichen laughed and asked Luo Yan to look at these data, Luo Yan looked at it and didn't understand, Su Yichen then pointed at a few data with his hand.

"You compare the data, this is the coordinates of that battleship, this is our flight speed, this distance between the two sides...... How's that, do you see anything? ”

Su Yichen smiled and said kindly, Luo Yan, who was reminded, looked at it carefully, and the whole person was stunned, her eyes widened in surprise, and she looked up at her husband in amazement.

"The other party's flight state is not normal at all, and the distance between us and the other party is almost equal to the speed at which we are advancing, what does this indicate? Don't you understand? ”

"I understand, of course I do!" The surprise on Luo Yan's face instantly turned into joy: "The other party flies by inertia, the inertia speed is not high, and the speed of flying with curvature is much lower than even the normal ordinary flight speed, which is almost equal to the ordinary celestial inertial flight state." And the speed at which we are approaching the other side is almost equal to our forward speed, which means that the other side has lost momentum and has even been ....... ”

"Destroy!"

Su Yichen said the word Luo Yan wanted to say, if his judgment was correct, the battleship was finished, just like the destroyed commercial spaceship they encountered on the way to the Blue Star civilization, it had become a dead coffin floating in the universe.

As for how the other party did this, they didn't know why, but all the phenomena that the battleship showed now could confirm that it was definitely not a battleship that was controlled intact. Maybe it was badly damaged while fleeing from the star, or maybe it was an accident during the jump flight, but in short, it was an enemy, but it was already an enemy that could not pose any threat to them.

In order to ensure that Su Yichen asked Zhi Brain to scan and locate again, and at the same time manipulated the Pioneer spacecraft to keep approaching the other party. In addition, intelligent probes on board the Vanguard spacecraft were activated at the same time to determine if there were any signs of life on the ship. Although they all judged that the other party had an accident, after all, Su Yichen and his wife still did not dare to be careless about this unknown enemy, and it was very necessary to be so careful in this situation. (To be continued......)