272 War Situation

(I'm sorry.,I forgot to update it yesterday for some reason.,Today it's added and a new chapter is added)

Wu Xiaoqing was on the edge of the cliff and stayed for 3 hours.

Within his field of vision, he could see more than thirty similar craters, and on average, each crater, flew out more than 200 ships per hour. In other words, just the spaceships he saw with his eyes, cumulatively, have exceeded 18,000.

What kind of concept is this - the United States, which has the most powerful air force on the planet, has only a few thousand aircraft in service. Even during the Cold War, when the earth's armed forces reached its peak, the number reached by the United States was only more than 30,000, and if these planes all took off at the speed that Wu Xiaoqing and the others saw now, they would not last more than six hours at most.

Moreover, planetary attack ships and terrestrial combat aircraft are also completely different concepts.

In terms of mass alone, the weight of a planetary attack ship is conservatively more than a few thousand tons, while the aircraft on the earth, for small combat purposes, are only a few tons or even a dozen tons, and a large transport aircraft passenger aircraft, even if the load is counted, the take-off weight is absolutely impossible to exceed a thousand tons. Not to mention the so-called "airplanes" on Earth, strictly speaking, are nothing more than "drifting" in the air medium. By Earth's standards, each of these spacecraft can be used as an aircraft carrier, a space carrier.

If the aircraft carrier is used as the equivalent calculation, then the force that Wu Xiaoqing sees now alone is enough to destroy the earth and even the entire solar system back and forth dozens of times.

With the force that the earthlings now have at their disposal, they want to interfere with this level of civilization...... It's like a man from the Napoleonic era who traveled back to the Cold War in an attempt to reconcile tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. There is no doubt that A took Wu Xiaoqing to see these pictures, and what he wanted to convey to Wu Xiaoqing was such a meaning.

Prior to this, although Wu Xiaoqing could probably understand that Civilization B was a much more advanced civilization than the earth through the study of the language of Civilization B, it was difficult to form a specific concept of this advancement before seeing the facts.

Only when he saw the spacecraft taking off in front of him with his eyes, and saw the tail flame of the spacecraft covering an area of dozens of square kilometers like a small thermobaric bomb, did Wu Xiaoqing feel a trace of coolness from the bottom of his heart, and this coolness followed, that is, the search and rescue team's almost subconscious questioning - on what basis did the search and rescue team judge that they had the ability to interfere in this war and complete this mission?

Not to mention such a high-intensity spaceship, just to transform the planet itself...... It is already a vast project that is unimaginable to the people of the earth.

Those huge craters with a diameter of more than ten kilometers, after the walls of those pits were burned by the high-temperature tail flame, there was still no melting phenomenon, and the depth of these pits could not be seen at a glance...... There is also air, Wu Xiaoqing has basically made a judgment now - there must have been air on this planet. Because when he saw those people in Civilization B before, through the other party's clothing, Wu Xiaoqing could still easily see that the creatures inside were engaged in breathing activities, judging from their behavior of coming to this planet through those "ladders", this planet must be used for their long-term survival. To survive, naturally a lot of air is needed, and as long as there is air, as long as gravity exists on this planet, there will inevitably be diffusion...... The spacecraft themselves are designed to fly at high speeds in a medium-free environment – that is, a vacuum.

This means that the vacuum on the surface of the planet is an artificially created environment. In addition, there are no other buildings, settlements, or other structures on the surface of the planet, except for the traffic tracks and these potholes.

In Wu Xiaoqing's view, this is already very obvious - this planet is a highly militarized planet, and it can even be said that it is a planetary fortress...... The entire planet itself can be seen as the mothership of those huge "attack ships".

"What we're seeing now ...... How long ago was the image? ”

"Now." Wu Xiaoqing looked at A's mouth opening and closing when he spoke, and felt the incredibleness of this world for the first time, because now he was sure that there was a vacuum around him, and theoretically he couldn't hear the other party's words, but Wu Xiaoqing clearly felt that his eardrums were vibrating, he took a few steps in one direction, and even clearly felt that A's voice was getting lower.

"That is, what we know about the speed of light is wrong?"

"That's right," A knows what Wu Xiaoqing means - according to the theory of relativity, in the universe, the speed of information propagation will not exceed the speed of light at most, that is, there can be no real-time monitoring in the universe, "You just haven't touched the boundaries of the application of the theory of relativity." ”

"Do they know they're being monitored?"

"If they knew, they probably wouldn't have the heart to fight each other," A said, "and they'd be the first to point these ships at us." ”

……

"It's all here." The Archon walked into the room, nodded to everyone in the room, and then waved his hand - all come in.

A team of heavily armed soldiers walked into the venue, making the more than 20 people attending the meeting involuntarily nervous. But when they saw the tools in the soldiers' hands, they quickly chose to obey.

Each of the two soldiers corresponded to one attendee, and they used the professional scanning equipment they brought with them to do a full body examination of each person, including all the electronic equipment in the conference room, the information wall, the communicators, the monitors, the cleaners, and even the air filtration and fire protection systems hidden in the walls, which also contained storage space, which according to the laws of war could also be considered "unknown battlefields".

The results of the scan are still good, and no suspicious traces of rebels were found, which means that the penetration of AI into the ruling government is not as serious as imagined.

"You should all know the reason for the search, let me explain it myself, to prevent any possible rumors and misunderstandings - 3 hours ago, we successfully retrieved the identity of the dead player in the server of the Fourth Earth, and the AI impersonated the identity of the dead player to incite and encourage the gamer to engage in espionage. The proposal to declare war on the Fourth Earth, which has just been launched in the Council, has been rejected - but here we need to build up the awareness that our home planet is not safe, and that there is enough evidence that there is a possibility of collusion between those gamers and the AI......"

The president's remarks made the mood of some officials at the scene nervous, and one of the special representatives from the parliament even stood up and openly protested: "Your Excellency, I think it is necessary for me to remind you of some precise legal definitions of terms. Communicating with an AI program is not the same as rebellion! At present, whether it is military or government work, there are a large number of AI in service - if you follow your definition, then the soldiers of the whole federation are rebels under the command of AI. ”

"If I hadn't taken the initiative to take information control, they would have rebelled a long time ago! As a representative of the Parliament, you have no say! Please keep that in mind, sir. The Archon shot back unceremoniously, and then he picked up his communicator and knocked on the table, "Now the meeting begins...... Intelligence officer, tell me what you find. ”

The intelligence officer was a thin old man, whom everyone had never seen before, and it seemed that he had recently been promoted by the consul. Seeing that he is approaching 300 years old, just the movement of standing still has to rely on mechanical support - I don't know from which hibernation service the archon found him. He opened his mouth, and after finding that he had some difficulty speaking, he simply put on a gaming helmet - this kind of thing can read brain waves and use it to directly present text and even images.

"Let me introduce myself, I'm from three centuries ago," the officer said, bowing to everyone, "working in astronomy...... Three centuries ago, I wrote a report about a star 12 light-years away that could have had a primitive civilization. ”

"You're talking about Z-45, right?" The Commander-in-Chief of the First Fleet asked, "We've been there to get a closer look, and we've made the same type of report. ”

"That's true," the intelligence officer nodded, "and now we've found enough evidence that the rebels are preparing to launch a stellar spacecraft toward Z-45, please look at the picture." ”

Everyone picked up the glasses on the table and put them on, and clearly saw the evidence presented by the intelligence officer, including the abnormal increase in the amount of heat radiation on the planet occupied by the rebels, the decrease in the rate of mass change, the large shift in the center of gravity in the interior of the planet, and the battlefield intelligence that the AI temporarily slowed down the offensive.

"We consulted with colonization experts, and they made it clear that these phenomena represent the creation of a super-massive warship by AI – a giant ship that far exceeds the needs of ordinary warfare. We deduce that it is most likely a colonial ship. ”

"Colonial ships?" Someone asked, "Why do these AIs need colonization?" They currently have a huge advantage on the battlefield! ”

"We're not AI, so we can't understand what they're doing, but one thing is for sure," said one of the Archon's scientists, "and if the other side is actually building a colony ship and successfully reaching the target system - it means that even if we can win this war, we won't be able to completely destroy the enemy in the end." The enemy will launch a counteroffensive based on the Z-45 in a few hundred years, if not decades. We both know each other's productivity ......"

Another industrial expert specializing in AI smiled wryly: "Of course, we know that their efficiency is optimized little by little...... When we first colonized our system, we used an AI-powered fully automated colonization ship...... The highest record is reached after two years to reach complete independence, and twenty years to the entire planet blocking...... In less than 50 years, a planet can be fully utilized*......"

Several fleet commanders were shocked: "Then if the other side goes all out to build attack ships......

"The reality is that they don't," the industrial expert reassured, "and it's impossible to really use the planet 100 percent...... In warfare, quality plays a greater role in defense than in offense. Converting the mass of the planet into a fleet is a decrease in the sustainability of the battle. A stable source of gravity is more critical than the role of a fleet. ”

Then the industrial expert smiled bitterly: "Don't you even know the common sense of this theory of galactic warfare?" You're generals. ”

Several generals almost all showed anger on their faces, but they all held back. Also holding back his anger was the consul who promoted these generals, who snapped his hands tiredly, and then asked the intelligence expert to continue his speech: "So I suggest that even if the war resources are tight now, we should find a way to build a fleet and follow the rebels...... If the war is won, we can naturally kill them quickly...... If ......"

There was silence in the room, and everyone heard the subtext.