The 40,000 leaping creatures that came from the colonial stars in the rear were used to support or recapture the star system that belonged to the group, and the gatherers who expanded in this direction at the galactic scale, the amoeba frontier faintly spread out a formation of large peng wings.

The Collectors of the colonized stars on both sides of the target star are trying to open up new colonized stars in front of them, intending to form an encirclement and encircle the target star system, so that even if the enemy successfully occupies the star system, it will definitely not be able to hold it in this surrounded formation.

It can be said that the gatherers' side is fully prepared.

However, even so, the gatherers still have no bottom - God knows what kind of technology the opponent has, and even the slightest generational difference in war will form a very obvious technical barrier.

And so it passed seven years......

The hunters who were on standby did not catch the arrival of the unknown fleet from the radar feeds.

This makes the gatherers wonder.

"What's the situation, why haven't they come yet?"

"Isn't that signal a feedback signal for sailing down?"

The difference between theory and reality is that there is something wrong with the theory, because the theory exists around relying on reality, and after waiting for another year, the gatherers are convinced that they see an unknown alien civilization as a threat, and the danger warning can be lowered by one level.

"We should go check the situation."

"Agreed."

Frightened by an unknown signal, the collectors thought they needed to confirm the source of the signal and make a final judgment so that they could be relieved.

One thing is certain, the signal source should be coming towards the Collectors' star system, and there is no doubt about that, because the other colonized star collectors did not receive any unknown signals, which means that the unknown signal is essentially coming towards the Collectors' star system.

Considering the scale, the collectors speculated that it should not be clear to the other party that the star system has been occupied by them.

Another thing is that it is certain that the other party's sailing speed will not reach 60% of the speed of light, after all, after waiting for eight years, if it is really 90% of the speed of light, then it should have reached the destination a long time ago, but it has not yet arrived, which means that the other party's speed is slower than the gatherers imagined.

Considering the time difference caused by the fact that the unknown signal needs to be transmitted for five years, when the collectors receive the unknown signal, I am afraid that the fleet of the alien civilization has already run a certain distance, so some collectors speculate that the speed of this alien civilization fleet may not even be 50% of the speed of light.

That's why the gatherers relaxed their guard a bit.

"Begin to prepare for the voyage to find that signal source, and the tribe needs to understand the actual situation of that signal source." The cluster leader issues tasks within the channel.

The gatherers began to work like a machine around this task, with a large amount of resources delivered to the five leaping creatures.

They are the appointed exploration teams.

"How fast should we go?"

The 90 percent speed of the traditional speed of light is definitely not good, because such a high speed has a high probability of passing the signal source, after all, there is a shrinkage effect, and the radar is no different from a blind man in that state.

However, if the speed is too slow, the collectors will have a long time searching for the source, even if it will not pass by.

With a suitable speed, the source of the signal can be observed, and the search time will not be too long.

After calculation, the Heavenly Machine Giant Construct answered this question.

"Thirty percent of the speed of light."

"Understood."

The exploration team answers, but their questions are not answered, and they ask the cluster leader.

"What do we do once we find the source? Is it to destroy them? ”

The cluster leader thought for a moment, then replied to the message.

"Depending on the situation, after discovering the source of the signal, establish radio communication with them, try civilized diplomacy, and if the other party shows a strong intent to attack, allow it to be destroyed, and then find the location of their home planet from their ship."

"It is also possible that the other party's navigation technology is not high enough, and the technology in other aspects is not inferior to ours, so you still have to be careful, if you can't win, immediately disperse and flee, go to other colonial stars, antimatter can accelerate you to a very high speed, if you can't escape, then trigger antimatter to explode, and never let unknown civilizations get your corpse, which will make the race very passive in intelligence information hiding."

"Understood."

Acceleration is also through the star orbit, after all, relying on the fuel it carries for propulsion, even if it is antimatter, it is a lot of consumption, and the mass-energy formula is there.

Circles of electric field charges unfolded, and the speed of the five leaping creatures gradually increased from zero to thirty percent of the speed of light, and the surrounding landscape quickly swept behind them, but because it was not high enough, the five gatherers did not feel the obvious space-time distortion.

Although it is true that there is still a shrinkage effect, it is not visible to the naked eye, and the formation background does not converge to the front to form a star rainbow.

After leaving the star system in orbit, the five leaping creatures spread out about two astronomical units each over the vast expanse of stars and stars, and then released radar waves outwards in search of material entities.

It is not difficult to find, there are few large material entities between stars and stars, there are wandering stars, such as meteorites, planets, black holes, etc., but they are in a small number after all, and they are too small and sparse compared to the huge scale space-time between stars and stars.

All the gatherers need is time.

"Found it! Over there! ”

After navigating for an unknown amount of time, one of the collectors picked up a faint reflection from the radar wave, and then fired a cluster radar wave in that direction, confirming the presence of a large entity in that direction.

It soon shared this observation with other members of the family.

"Left deflection 67 degrees! Lean forward 83 degrees longitudinally! ”

Deflected the trajectory of a large arc, and the collectors approached the target at thirty percent of the speed of light at high speed.

The radar wave feedback was not wrong, and a huge interstellar spaceship appeared before the eyes of the collectors.

It was not difficult to spot the ship, which was as dazzling as a star against the background of the stars in pitch black, with the brightest in front of the spaceship, as if it were moving forward against a blazing sun, and the collectors could capture the ship from a long distance with only visible light perspectives.

"Slow down!"

With the order to slow down, a blinding white light was released directly in front of them.

Gamma rays are invisible, but they are visible when they hit an interstellar atom.

It didn't take long for the speed to drop to one-tenth of the speed of light, and it would still be very high, as the gatherers had to keep their speed high at all times, so that they could quickly enter the combat mode in the event of an emergency.