Chapter 186: Laughing in the Face of Death
The Long River Fleet is still "divided into two ways".
More than 600 warships lost the power to sprint at full speed and glided forward at a speed of tens of kilometers per second.
This part of the array of long river warships flew peacefully and silently.
On the other hand, hundreds of warships are still spraying tail flames ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers, constantly accelerating, and sprinting with all their might.
They can no longer respond to all the instructions that need to be answered by a human being.
The Long River Fleet, with a total staffing of nearly 100,000 people, has not a single living person.
The name of Changhe was removed from the starry sky history books of the human fleet.
On the day of victory, Shen Changhe will be engraved into the Hero Monument along with his fleet.
The ship's weapons are empty, but the many detection devices loaded on the fleet are operating on their own.
Even with the latest anti-jamming shields, the operation of these high-tech devices is still not stable, they are highly disturbed, and most of the time they are in a state of silence, only occasionally under the urging of the automatic restart setting, the indicator lights flicker back to the light, and send back some fragments of information.
But this information is too fragmented, and it is difficult to guide those in the rear positions.
Only the most superb operators, who control the best equipment and have enough powerful computing power, and these operators happen to have a high understanding of cosmic physics and a deep grasp of all aspects of comprehensive disciplines, can it be possible to quickly find some usable information from these fragmented information.
There are such people on the Tianxin.
Dong Shan, as well as several other grandmaster-level scholars who are also from the particle-related project team.
A few days ago, after completing the last transformation of Chen Feng's individual combat system, this group of grandmasters became idle in the post sequence.
But they are all idle people, especially Old Man Dong, who has the most serious symptoms.
Old man Dong came up with an idea, and simply volunteered to snatch the control task of the gravitational wave field detector from the hands of the communication soldiers.
Not to mention, this group of old gentlemen who used anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes did a good job.
Their ability to learn and their extreme sharpness of mind allowed them to quickly catch up with and surpass the Serious Signal Soldiers.
And because they are grandmasters and scholars from all walks of life, just controlling a detector, they can burst out with some whimsical ideas from time to time, play with flowers, do the same thing more beautifully than others, and by the way, innovate the operation guide of the detector.
After all, this is a new thing that has only been born for two months, and there is a lot of room for development just in terms of operation.
In just a few days, this group of old men revised the operating regulations dozens of times, raising the level of operation of the gravitational wave field detectors of the whole army to a higher level, making the communications troops of other fleets painful and happy.
Chen Feng had asked Tang Tianxin to arrange for Ou Qinglan and all the Grandmasters and Scholars to go to the escape pod.
This group of old men did not want to disobey the order, and they were reluctant to leave their posts without permission, so they simply moved the equipment into the escape pod.
Not to mention, this plan works wonders by mistake.
The surface of the escape cabin has an anti-interference protective layer, coupled with the equipment's own equipment, which can theoretically improve the anti-interference ability of the equipment.
More subtlely, due to the peculiarities of the gravitational wave field, no amount of shielding will affect its performance in the slightest.
Now, it took about a dozen seconds for the old men to join forces, and they really found something from the information shared synchronously by the probes on the Changhe.
They discovered a peculiar energy fluctuation.
The energy level of this energy fluctuation is much lower than that of quarks, and the frequency feels somewhat similar.
Its frequency is very similar to the energy fluctuations that the particle project team has been dealing with for nine months, and only the sound of the person is heard in the particle carrier.
Moreover, this frequency fluctuation is still increasing, like the heartbeat of a person who has just woken up, gradually increasing the rhythm.
Ou Qinglan, who was in charge of the summary command, immediately reported this important information, and suggested that other fleets with gravitational wave field detectors should detect energy fluctuations of this frequency in a targeted manner.
Including Chen Feng, who was trotting all the way through the corridor and planning to go to the command cabin to dock, and Chen Feng, who quickly left the Tianxin and rushed to the front line, nearly 100,000 high-level commanders in all command sequences received this information.
Chen Feng paused suddenly, and a bad premonition surged in his heart.
Sure enough, just a minute passed, and almost all gravitational wave field detectors responded.
Even the fleets and armed space stations in the third line of defense in low earth orbit have made similar discoveries, and even more so strongly!
In the three-dimensional star map of the solar system in Chen Feng's eyes, more than 500 gravitational wave field probes representing the state of being turned on are dazzling green dots, sparsely distributed throughout the solar system.
Almost every legion of the twelve legions has at least a few dozen.
Each additional detector that finds a similar response transforms into a red dot.
The stronger the response, the stronger the glow of the red dot.
Chen Feng glanced at the star map, and the ominous premonition in his heart burst out suddenly, like a huge wave.
In an instant, he was chilled to the bone, and the chill rushed up from his back and down the bone marrow like vines to the back of his neck, itching and stinging where he passed.
Eventually, the chill converged on the top of his forehead.
Chen Feng was a little dazed in his consciousness, and he also had a double vision when he saw things.
This is a self-protection mechanism in human emotional control.
He really didn't want to admit it.
But the truth is, he's realized something.
He didn't know what it was, but he knew something wasn't quite right.
He couldn't figure it out.
Obviously, the lurking bombs are gone, but why are those bombs still appearing near the human fleet quietly?
He began to doubt himself, to doubt his life.
What's the point of my efforts?
Is it true that no matter how hard I struggle, all I get is hopelessness?
This pessimistic mood is like a silkworm gnawing on mulberry leaves, devouring his soul one bite at a time.
Chen Feng was almost completely engulfed by fear.
He had tasted death too many times.
He was not afraid of death, but he was even more afraid of death.
No one is braver than him, but no one is more fearful than him.
Chen Feng turned around violently, summoned the Morrowind system again, switched to the most familiar humanoid armor form, and then compressed his body into the most agile humanoid armor.
Boom!
Chen Feng stepped on the metal floor of the collapsed corridor and shot towards the command cabin like lightning.
At the moment when he hurried back, the latest battle report had been transmitted in real time from the quantum network.
The explosion began.
The first to explode was not the Changhe Fleet, which had reached the front of the line and had already charged after death, nor was it the combat units such as patrol assault combat ships that followed closely, nor was it the main battle corps of the Uranus Region 1 Legion such as the Tianxin Fleet, the K3 Fleet, and the Wind and Thunder Fourth Fleet.
It is the big rear.
Four Earth Guardian Fleets and an armed space station orbit around the Earth.
In the space star map, you can see that the green dots representing the human fleets distributed throughout the solar system with starfall begin to turn red from the inside, extinguish, and quickly spread outward, just like throwing a fire on a winter grassland overgrown with hay, and then blowing a gust of wind.
The spark with the earth as the source point spread along the direction of the wind towards the Uranus Region 1 fleet, and swept through the second line of defense distributed in a fan-shaped shape, the four legions of Jupiter's outer orbit, and disappeared like a withering and decaying force without resistance.
As he passed by the porthole, Chen Feng raised his eyes and looked out.
In the starry sky in the distance, the fleets belonging to the human beings in the rear front are still quietly sailing in the universe, representing the little light of these fleets, which are rushing to this side.
That's the four legions outside Jupiter's orbit.
Visually this is the scene.
But Chen Feng knew it very well in his heart.
It's all because of the visual error caused by the speed of light not fast enough.
Looks like they're still there, but that's a few minutes ago.
In fact, these fleets have been reduced to powder and disappeared without a trace.
Turn around and keep running.
When Chen Feng returned to the command cabin, there was already an inexplicable panic here.
The vast majority of people have hollow eyes.
Everyone knows what really happened on the rear front.
Humanity's vast fleet is in ashes.
In another fifty-five seconds at most, the explosion would spread across the distant starry sky and onto his own battleship.
Tang Tianxin sat upright in her command chair, her teeth clenched very tightly, and the back of her hand holding the armrest of the chair burst out with green tendons.
Her beautiful face looked a little hideous and angry.
Her gaze was also focused on the magnified optical telescope in front of her.
The lunar-sized intruder warship was flying faster and faster, rapidly approaching.
It flew in a straight line, ignoring all the artillery fire that came at it in its path.
The battleships of the Long River Fleet were the first to approach its vicinity, but they did not collide accurately, but as if the water was flowing through the stones in the middle of the river, in accordance with the dynamics of hydrodynamics, they involuntarily dispersed to both sides, crossing the edge of the invader warship.
Then, as they passed by the mid-sphere, the ships slowly disappeared from front to back, turning into specks of dust in the starry sky.
It was a silent destruction, the same as the many times in the past when human ships crashed into the barrier.
The remnants of the Long River Fleet are not even qualified to continue to be thrown into the depths of the universe and become eternal drifting space junk.
As for the artillery fire fired by the other patrol units that followed the rear position, they did not fall on the ball.
The attack trajectories of both energy and live weapons have been altered, and they have been disintegrated as the ships of the Long River Fleet have rubbed shoulders with the invader ships.
"Retreat! All retreat! Limbu, you take all the Morrowind warriors and swarm fighters and retreat! Whether it's a battleship or a mothership, all members of the battleship, all leave the battleship! ”
Chen Feng snatched Tang Tianxin's command and gave orders loudly.
He didn't know what else he could do, so he could only try it in vain.
But he also looked at the other functional officers in the command cabin except for Tang Tianxin.
These people are all dressed in regular clothes and do not have a Morrowind system.
Chen Feng added, "If you don't wear a spacesuit, you can launch all the weapons, then press the push button, and try to crash into it like the Long River Fleet." We can't do much more. ”
He grabbed Tang Tianxin's shoulder, turned his head and ran back.
Tang Tianxin shouted, "What are you doing!" Let me stay here! No commander will be a deserter! ”
Chen Feng lazily picked him up, covered her mouth, and ran wildly with a footprint on the metal floor.
He said in his mouth: "A short escape, just for a better counterattack next time!" ”
Tang Tianxin was stunned, "What? Counterattack? ”
Chen Feng nodded heavily, rushed to the escape hatch, threw her in, and then slapped the door close button and launch button.
Before the door closed, Chen Feng looked at her again and said slowly: "There will be a day of counterattack, I promise you." Now you go! You're going now! ”
His words sounded a little clueless to Tang Tian's ears.
But Chen Feng really needs to cheer himself up like this.
He told himself he couldn't give up.
Something different must have happened this time.
As long as you understand this matter, then you can get closer to the truth, even if it is just one of the steps taken in the long march, everything you do will not be meaningless.
Woo!
The engine of the escape pod spewed a scorching stream of equal particles and fired it like a cannonball.
The engine power was turned on too much, and the impact of the plasma flow exceeded the withstand capacity of the launch rack protection system, burning this part of Tianxin's shell to the point of melting iron juice.
The alarm sounded again in the battleship, automatic repair measures were activated, many passages were automatically closed, and the launch port of this escape pod was completely isolated from the rest of the battleship.
The melted breach was flowing with reddish metal droplets, which quickly condensed into a curtain of beads.
The breach was just right to accommodate Chen Feng's switch to a full-powered space fighter that crashed through the bead curtain and volleyed out.
He followed.
Chen Feng connected the voice communication of the escape pod, and Ou Qinglan's panicked voice sounded inside, "What's the situation now, what should I do?" ”
Chen Feng didn't answer her.
He didn't know what to do.
However, Tang Tianxin, who had quickly regained his composure, made a decision.
"The tide is over, and we have no hope of victory. But in the escape pod of each fleet flagship, there are 100,000 frozen embryos preserved! Let's go! We must get out! ”
"As long as we leave safely. Then there are still human beings and me, there are you technicians, and Chen Feng! There is hope! ”
She decided to become a deserter.
The decision may have been painful, but she didn't hesitate.
Chen Feng also thinks it's a good idea.
Although there is little hope of escaping, he finally has a goal.
Run, run as far as you want.
Chen Feng's incarnated space fighter propulsion power is at full power, and the thruster with the highest technology and strongest performance of mankind so far, which can release plasma infinitely close to the speed of light to provide anti-thrust, is like a giant cannon exploding, pushing him up fiercely.
Chen Feng caught up with the escape capsule first, and then controlled the buckle under the space fighter and its firm lock, so that the speed of the escape capsule was further increased.
Then the combined space fighter and the escape pod flew diagonally out and left at a right angle to the straight line of the intruder battleship's displacement.
can only save so many people, Chen Feng can't manage so much.
The voice of Lu Xianxian, the commander of the First District, sounded in his communicator again.
"All fleets command flagship escape pods to disengage! Choose your own escape direction! ”
Obviously, Lu Xianfeng also thinks that Tang Tianxin's decision is correct.
Later, Lu Xianfeng added a new order.
"All the rest of the combat units, regroup the charge! All Swarm Fighters out of the cabin, all Morrowind fighters out of the cabin! All soldiers with spacewalk gear in their gear are out of the capsule! Unleash a sustained assault on the invaders! Buy time for the escape pod! ”
Thirty seconds later.
Chen Feng vaguely felt a buzzing sound from behind.
He looked back.
The thousand warships of the Tianxin fleet finally began to explode in a row.
Starting with the mothership and frigate at the rear, the explosion spread all the way, then swept past the command flagship in the position of the Chinese army, and finally swept through the battleship at the front.
Further ahead, the hundreds of warships of the Long River Fleet, which had already died and could only glide on their own, also exploded one after another, turning into one scorching small sun after another.
Since then, the main battle fleet that mankind has built with all its resources has been wiped out.
The concussion of the explosion chased from behind, approaching, as if it were about to swallow the escape pod.
Chen Feng switched his form, from a space fighter based on power propulsion to a giant shield form that was originally only used on the ground and was responsible for frontal protection.
He bathed his back in the plasma stream ejected from the escape pod, his front shielding in the direction of the aftermath of the Big Bang.
Tang Tianxin was shocked and asked him to get out of the way.
But Chen Feng didn't have time to take care of her.
He was smiling.
Yes, he noticed that this explosion was different from the last time.
Chen Feng is actually not afraid of death, but he is afraid that his death will be worthless.
This is what he is afraid of.