Not long after the Hercules transport plane disappeared, gravitational ripples that were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye appeared in the void thousands of kilometers away from the asteroid, and the time and space were gradually distorted and stretched, and as the streams passed by, 12 more crimson warships appeared out of thin air.

These warships are all of the same specification, about 230 meters long, the overall shape resembles a dagger with a delicate shape, of course, the proportion of the hilt part is more open, the sword grid is a flat structure, there are twin small thrusters distributed on it, and part of the weapon system, the stern is shaped like a rudder, slowly moving counterclockwise, and in the center of it is the main propulsion system composed of 4 thrusters.

In addition to the above features, the head of these dagger warships also has a very striking insignia, a dragon, and a black wyvern that is strong and strong and can walk upright like a human.

Its wings are half-open and half-closed, its dragon head is raised high, and its mouth is open in a roaring shape that looks up to the sky.

The 12 crimson battleships stayed in the dark void for a moment, and the main engine in the tail suddenly erupted in a stream of blue fire, which disappeared one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the void near the slow-flying asteroid thousands of kilometers away, 12 dagger battleships reappeared, parallel to the asteroid at the same speed.

The starboard engine room of a battleship at the front of the battleship sequence was opened, and a spherical aircraft drove out, quickly rushed into the gravitational range of the asteroid, hovered at a low altitude, and then closely followed the Tang side to fight with the troops led by Black 3.

After the 12 battleships stood still for a moment, they slowly turned under the action of the auxiliary propulsion system, and the blue light on the tail was magnificent.

In the next second, 12 silver rays of light flashed one after another, the battleship cluster disappeared without a trace, and the void was calm again. The asteroid is still slowly moving away, gradually turning into a small black dot and falling into the endless darkness in the distance.

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At the same time, in the bridge of the Hercules transport plane, Tang Fang stood in front of the combat command platform and looked at the holographic projection image of the star map and was silent.

In the case of the "Morning Star", with its 6.5 warp tempo level. It takes about 10 days to get to the Saam space station, but it only takes about 3 days to change to the Hercules shuttle, and the voyage time is more than three times shorter, so that it can be a week earlier than originally planned.

Claire, Zhou Ai and others went to visit the ship's facilities, but they were not on the bridge, Tang Yun was very interested in the transport ship, and stood quietly behind the bridge to watch the pilots operate the ship. His demeanor was more serious than that of the crew of the Morningstar.

"Pilot the group, abort the jump, reset course, target the 'Cubardo' star system."

Tang's sudden order startled the crew members who came from the Morningstar, including Aros.

What shocked them was not the change of course, but the four words "abort the jump", if Captain Tang didn't say nonsense, wouldn't this mean that the Hercules transport plane could stop the warp jump halfway?

The high warp level of 8.8 is terrifying enough. If it has such a half-braking ability, wouldn't it completely break the rules of interstellar navigation in today's human world?

The crew of the Morning Star looked at each other. Some people struggled to swallow the sour water that came out of their mouths, and it occurred to them how much of a difference it would make if the Hercules engine's engine system were transplanted to the Morningstar.

The defense has an "Aurora" shield, the attack has a mini Yamato cannon, and the speed has a warp speed level of up to 8.8. And the interstellar engine that can brake halfway, this kind of battleship is exciting just thinking about it.

With Tang Fang's intelligence, it was naturally easy to guess the thoughts of the crew of the "Morning Star", but at the moment he didn't have the energy to take care of them, and his attention was focused on the point where the star map model flickered regularly. It represents a star system, the Cubado, from which the AQBD-1 asexual jellyfish body originated.

The idea of going to "Akubado" was a temporary idea to retrieve the star map just now, firstly, "Akubado" was not far from the current position of the Hercules transport plane, and it only took half a day to arrive, and secondly, he was very interested in the AQBD-1 asexual jellyfish, or this was the main reason why he decided to turn "Akubado".

From crossing into this world to today, I have encountered a lot of strange creatures these days, but only a few of them can collect gas resources, including the underground elite rock worm on Planet 5, the bat demon in the ruins of Na'i Star Ipsilon, and the mushroom monster at the Meigar relay station, these small and medium-sized creatures with zero elements in their bodies are more or less related to epic creatures such as the evil eye and the giant snake.

According to Emma's analysis, the AQBD-1 asexual jellyfish is the key to unlocking the abyss of infection, which makes him very concerned about whether there will be other creatures similar to the AQBD-1 asexual jellyfish on Akron?

In the highly acidic ocean environment that covers the entire planet, human beings cannot penetrate deep into certain abysses and can only operate in shallow seas, so no one can be sure whether there are other species other than the AQBD-1 clonoid jellyfish.

Tang Fang was going to try his luck, the human creation couldn't resist the strong corrosive acid solution, what about the Protoss unit? Take 10,000 steps back and take some sour water samples for analysis, maybe Emma can find a solution to the problem?

Just when he was slightly distracted, the pilot started the abort process according to the order, and the warp speed level of the Hercules transport plane plummeted, the warp bubble contracted in reverse, the curvature of time and space rebounded, and with the silver light flashing on the bridge display, the battleship appeared in the real universe.

The pilot turned the course stick to turn the bow of the ship, entered the "Akubado" into the navigation system, started the warp engine again, and after a while, the light flashed, and Hercules once again entered the virtual space.

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The "Cubado" star system is located in the heart of the Star Alliance, and is only 9.7 light-years away from the "Duma" star system, however, it is unexplored and barren as a desert with no people.

It's not that the Covenant government doesn't want to develop it, it's that the internal environment of "Akubado" limits its development.

The central star of the star system, Acubado, is a star with only 0.7 solar masses, and there are only two planets around it.

Of the two planets, the closest to Akubados is Akron, a green planet covered in a solution of highly corrosive acids. As for the outer planet, it is called "Elna", which is a gas giant.

Needless to say, ocean planets are considered to be one of the most habitable planetary species, and with a few simple atmospheric modification projects, they can become a habitable planet with a pleasant environment.

"Akron" is an exception. Because of the extremely high concentration of acids in the seawater, the cradle of life has become a cemetery of life, where only AQBD-1 asexual jellyfish can survive.

As a gas giant, "Elna" is naturally not suitable for human life, so although "Akubado" is located in the hinterland of the Star Alliance, it has become an inaccessible airspace, and only some scientific people reside on the scientific research space station in the high-altitude orbit of "Akron" to carry out research work.

When the light of "Akubado" rose from the horizon of "Akron" and spread a layer of frost white in the upper part of the scientific research space station, a stream of light from the void for tens of kilometers flashed. A spacecraft more than 140 meters long appeared in the planet's high-altitude orbit.

This spaceship was the Hercules transport plane carrying Tang Fang and others, and after 14 and a half hours of warp sailing, it arrived at the target location along the way.

After the unmanned radar station deployed by the scientific research space station discovered the storage of the Hercules transport aircraft, it immediately sent this information to the central system of the space station.

Because "Akubado" is located in the hinterland of the Star Alliance, and the scientific research space station is a clear water yamen, there is nothing valuable, and no pirate group has ever dared to risk being surrounded and suppressed by the Star Alliance Navy to rob here, but some unofficial scientific researchers often come here to collect the relevant numbers of "Akron" seawater. In order to be able to develop equipment that is sufficient to resist the corrosion of acid solution, and to develop and utilize the zero element resources in the planetary strata.

So. The appearance of the Hercules transport aircraft did not arouse the vigilance of the staff of the scientific research station, and they routinely sent out communication requests.

Tang Fang ordered the communicator to transfer to the large screen on the bridge, and then told the station commander on duty about his identity and the purpose of bringing it.

Over this time, he has become a household name in the Star Alliance, and he doesn't need to introduce himself at all. The bearded stationmaster was stunned when he saw him for the first time, he never thought that such a big man would come to "Akubado", who doesn't birds.

Of course, he will not refuse the Tang side's request to collect "Akron" seawater samples, and not only will he not refuse. He also said that the space station is willing to provide additional help, such as relevant information, guides, operating equipment, etc.

Tang Fang thanked him for his enthusiasm, but politely refused to provide guidance for the space station, hoping only to borrow special landing equipment and unmanned operation boats.

In the past, when some heavy machinery manufacturing enterprises organized scientific researchers to come here to investigate the situation on the seabed of "Akron", most of them chose to refuse the guide service out of consideration of trade secrets, but the bearded station chief was not surprised by his words, and did not dwell on this issue, and told the relevant staff to open the mooring dock of the space station and let Captain Tang and others enter the station.

The scientific research space station codenamed "Stanford" is not large, only about 2 kilometers long, belonging to the category of small space stations, the Hercules transport aircraft is parked on a berth under the guidance of the navigation drone, and Tang Fang takes Roy and Zhou Ai to enter the space station through the connecting channel.

First met with the bearded stationmaster, chatted for a while about the related issues of "Akron", politely refused the other party's meal proposal, took the two people to the space station hangar, selected a landing ship, said goodbye to the stationmaster, and left the space station.

The landing ship attached to the "Stanford" scientific research space station is a special equipment specially developed by the official organization of the Star Alliance for the "Akron" inland environment, which can be used as an atmospheric shuttle or as a surface speedboat, and has the effect of anti-corrosion and lightning strikes.

This is because the entire surface of "Akron" is covered by the ocean where strong acid solutions converge, which makes the planet's atmosphere very thick with clouds and high water vapor content, frequent convection and circulation activities, and is very prone to extreme weather such as heavy rain and hurricanes.

The landing ship is lowered into the inner clouds by a low-altitude orbit, and the transparent glass cabin allows the eye to catch a spectacle.

The sky of "Akron" is different from that of ordinary resident stars, because the water vapor that makes up the clouds contains a lot of acidic substances, which makes the clouds that should be like cotton glow with a light green hue, which is particularly striking against the blue sky.

Below the clouds, the green ocean is like a silk silk that rises and falls with the wind, setting off sparkling waves one after another, like a green cotton blanket spreading to the end of the field of vision, intertwined with the green on the other side of the sky. It's refreshing.

The only regret is that there is a trace of vitality between heaven and earth, there are no gulls soaring at low altitude, and there are no petrels lining up.

The landing ship drew a smoke trail between the sea and the sky, slowly reducing its flight speed. Finally landed on the turquoise water.

Unlike in the air, the landing vessel's chassis is extended outwards to increase buoyancy, and the stern main engines are retracted into the hull, leaving only two auxiliary thrusters to provide surface propulsion for the landing vessel.

When the landing ship stopped, Tang Fang pressed the switch and closed the huge glass window of the wheelhouse.

The interior of "Akron" looks pleasing to the eye, but in reality it is a hell, affected by a sea of strong acids. There are very high concentrations of acids in the air, and if humans breathe without protection, the acids will burn the respiratory system in a very short period of time and cause death, so in order to land on the surface of the planet for field research, in addition to a special landing ship, it must also be equipped with special power armor equipped with a filtration system.

The Don side did not use the power armor on the landing ship. Instead, he changed into Ghost's harsh environment protective clothing, and Zhou Ai and Roy were also equipped with the same equipment.

Although the two of them were unable to use the ghost drive components of the harsh environment suits. However, it can use its filtration system to operate in the harsh environment of "Akron".

Instead of using the unmanned work boat on board the landing vessel, he released a detector and manipulated it to the surface and dive to the bottom of the sea.

As expected, this purpose-built Protoss machine can operate in most harsh environments, and the acidic solution with its extremely corrosive effect does not cause real damage to it.

Ordered Emma to keep an eye out for underwater footage from the detector. He summoned a puppy from the system space to notice its health in the acidic environment of "Akron".

He wasn't worried that what he was doing on the surface would be discovered by those on the space station, and he had already arranged for Ghost to cooperate with Emma to invade the entire space-based surveillance network of the space station when he boarded the space station, and he could only watch what he wanted those people on the space station to see.

Zhou Ai and Roy couldn't help below. They had to climb onto the second deck of the landing ship and look out at the distant scenery, as if they had already regarded this trip to "Akron" as a sightseeing tour.

Tang Fang didn't have time to pay attention to them, so he focused all his attention on the puppy.

Exposed to the acidic environment of "Akron", the puppy was very manic at first, but after about 5 or 6 minutes, it regained its calmness, and the scales on its body only became a little mottled, and there were no deaths or serious injuries.

Since the weakest puppy of the Zerg can survive in such a harsh environment, presumably the queen worm, the eye worm and other big guys will be fine.

Next, it directly ordered the puppy to jump into the water, intending to see how corrosive the sea water was on the Zerg units.

Almost the moment the puppy fell into the water, he heard a mournful roar, the scale armor on the puppy's body was rapidly corroded, and his health dropped sharply.

He quickly pulled it back into the system space and replaced it with a cockroach and threw it into the water.

Maybe the cockroach's carapace is much thicker than that of a puppy, or it may be that it is a creature that uses acidic substances to hunt targets, so its corrosion resistance is very high, until it sinks thousands of meters underwater, there is a decrease in health, but the speed is relatively slow, and it is initially estimated that it can fall more than 3000 meters before it dies.

Cockroaches can descend more than 3,000 meters, but what about the corrupters? Even if the infeed pressure factor is taken into account, 10,000 meters should not be a problem, the key is that the deepest abyss of "Akron" is tens of thousands of meters above the water surface.

Can't you just rely on Protoss units...... I wonder if the Immortals will be able to withstand the powerful pressure of the sea.

As he frowned and pondered, Emma told him the news that the observer had reached 13,000 meters underwater, approaching the bottom of the water, and that if he continued to dive, the water pressure would cause damage to the observer.

"Did you find anything?"

"A large number of AQBD-1 clonoid jellyfish were found in the 5,000-8,000 m area, but no other species were found."

Do you want to try another Immortal? The Immortals have a Fortitude Shield and are heavily armored mechanical units, so they should have stronger pressure resistance than the Detector, but it is still unknown whether they can withstand the extreme water pressure of the deepest abyss of "Akron".

At that moment, there was a crackling sound behind him, and when I looked back, it turned out to be the special cushion of the cockpit tapping against the backrest.

The wind is blowing......

"Tang Fang, the storm is coming, what should I do? Go back or change the sea? Zhou Ai's voice sounded in his ears.

The waves on the surface of the water are slow and fast, and the gradual waves gently shake the hull of the boat.

Tang Fang looked up at the sky, the dark clouds with a touch of green were surging like wild horses, and the horizon occasionally flashed, and it was thunder raging in the distant clouds.

The acid rain fell from the sky, and the footsteps of the dark clouds fell on the sea, splashing patches of water.

Wow......

At the end of the field of vision, a wave formed under the blowing of the strong wind, setting off a wave several meters high and crashing heavily on the water.

Darkness and storm spread like rolling demons from hell, rapidly spreading towards the location of the landing ship. (To be continued......)

ps: Thanks to Honey Sauce 288, Bai Shanjun, the deceased-solo dance 3 book friends for the reward R1292