In the endless void, a strangely shaped spaceship was flying at high speed, the front half of the ship was in a semi-circular arc, and the back half was five forks.

Two forks are in the front, three are in the back, the first two are short, the last three are unusually thick, and both have long tail flames behind them, and it is clear that the last three forks are where the ship's engines are located.

The shape of the entire ship looks like a part of the antlers on Earth when viewed from an angle.

Such a spacecraft with a length of nearly 2,000 meters in front and back, a width of 800 meters on the left and right, and a height of 300 meters should belong to a nuclear fusion energy spacecraft from the perspective of appearance and tail flame.

And the entire ship should not be significantly armed, oh no, there should be some short-range laser cannon system.

At this moment, I saw a spacecraft flying at high speed, and several laser beams suddenly burst out from the left side, instantly turning a meteorite about 100,000 kilometers in front of me into powder.

The ship flew quietly in the void, occasionally flashing a laser beam, destroying meteorites that were in the way of flight.

At this moment, in the command room at the top of the spaceship, several intelligent beings were discussing something.

These sapient beings are between 1.6 and 1.7 meters tall, with slightly narrowed heads compared to humans, large eyes, tall noses, and thick lips.

Compared with the human beings on the earth, there is one biggest difference between the whole face, above the door of its head, there are two protruding, horn-like things, one long and one short, making this intelligent creature like a small dragon man imagined on the earth.

It's just that the two horns of the little dragon man are on the top of the head, and they both have small forks, and the horns of this intelligent creature are a little above the door of the head.

Both male and female, they have very well-proportioned bodies and slightly fairer skin. In general, it should belong to intelligent creatures that conform to the aesthetics of earthlings.

Of course, one look at them will tell that they are all carbon-based organisms.

"Solhu, how is your translation progressing?"

"Professor Manlim, the image and the image do not match, there is not much progress, and the current direction is correct." An intelligent life called Thor Tiger explained.

Professor Manlim shook his head and said to another intelligent being, "Captain Bee Yuan, the space jumping device is more energy-intensive, is our energy situation enough to sail to the Apat's system?" ”

"Don't worry, Professor Manlim, it's going to be fine. When the space jumping device is fully charged, after two more jumps, you can go to the Apat's system, and then find a gas planet, and you can collect energy. "The other one is called Bee Yuan

"As a captain, you don't take it lightly, all kinds of situations can happen when you sail in space, and you can't think it's safe until you reach a star system."

"Professor Manlim, this time we are exploring the Apats system alone, how could the military allow it?" A sapient creature that appeared to be a woman asked.

"There are two reasons, one is that Barr Zhengyuan has won the support of General Barr for us. The second is the military's war in the triangular galaxy, the war is not going well, it has reached the point of national support, how can it be possible to send warships out to explore at this time? Professor Manlim gestured to the young male sapient beings sitting nearby.

"Oh, I just said that with Brother Barr here this time, our exploration plan must be easy to complete, and you two also said that Brother Barr can't help." The female sapient creature said with some exaggeration.

As soon as Bee Yuan and Sol Hu were said by it, they couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Professor Manlim beckoned to the seated Bar Zhengyuan and said, "Zhengyuan, what do you think of this brown plant in this Apater system?" ”

Bar Zhengyuan stood up, pointed to the brown algae frozen on the screen, and said: "Teacher, don't look at it as a plant, but since it has led to the demise of the civilization of the Apata Galaxy, then its attack power cannot be underestimated, so we should be careful."

This time, my grandfather asked me to come out, just hoping to do an exploration and reconnaissance in advance to confirm whether there is such a terrifying plant, if so, the military can find a way to lure the enemies of the triangular galaxy here, maybe it will be a good trap place.

Captain Bee Yuan, see if you can hurry up, let's go early and come back early! ”

At this moment, the hatch of the command room opened, and a female sapient creature walked in and said, "Professor Manlim, the last detector we installed has been discovered!" ”

As she spoke, she pointed to the star map that had just been displayed on the large screen on the wall in front of her.

On the star map, a large bright spot, apparently representing themselves, is northwest of the bright spot, where is the Apat's galaxy that they have marked as their destination.

In the blank space between the two, a short, thin line seemed to be coming towards them.

When Professor Manlim saw this, his face changed, and he said hurriedly: "Are you sure that this line was drawn on the star map after the detection of the detection equipment?" ”

"Yes, just finished drawing. You said to pay attention to this detection device and to notify you if there is a situation, so ......"

"Professor Manlim, what does this line mean? The device that was sent in for installation at the time of departure was drawn? It took us two days to install it. The previous female intelligent creature asked in surprise.

"Zhengyuan, this device was installed at the request of your grandfather, and it is said that it can detect faster-than-light tracks, do you know about this?"

Professor Manlim ignored the question of the female sapient beings, and instead asked Bar Zhengyuan.

"I know, in fact, this detection device was invented by my seventh uncle, and it is said that it can find the track of a faster-than-light fleet.

However, the performance is very unstable, and the military has not officially procured it. Grandpa thinks that this time we are far away, and there is no shortcut to the natural wormhole, so with this, we may be able to find something abnormal in advance. Bar Zhengyuan said.

"Will you use this device?" Bee Yuan asked.

"A little bit of it. Judging by the situation of this track, we should still be half a light-year, and according to the calculation of the maximum speed of light of the Imperial fleet traveling faster than light, it will be about six days before we meet us. Bar Zhengyuan said.

"Zhengyuan, can this device know the scale of this faster-than-light fleet?" Professor Manlim asked.

"I don't know, my seventh uncle said that at present, it can only detect the trajectory of faster-than-light travel, and the situation of the fleet inside it is completely unknown." Bar Zhengyuan shook his head.

"Professor Manlim, this trajectory is from the Apat's system." Sol Hu on the side said suddenly.

"Oh, really, it's not going to be that horrible fleet of brown plant life, right?" The female sapient creature exclaimed.

Professor Manlim frowned and said, "Liya, don't be surprised, brown plant life destroys intelligent civilizations, how can there be a fleet?" ”

Thor Tiger said, "Professor Manlim, why can't plant life have a fleet?" ”

"Uh...... Probably not, right? Professor Manlim choked on Thor Hu's question.

"Professor Manlim, what are we going to do now? For six days, we still can't use the space jump device, and at our regular top speed, can we avoid them? Bee Yuan asked, and began to calculate.

Bar Zhengyuan sighed and said, "If it weren't for the whole country supporting the military's campaign in the Triangular Galaxy, we wouldn't have used such an old scientific exploration ship."

Obviously, this fleet is at least of the same level of technology as our Buribar civilization, and according to the direction of this faster-than-light trajectory, it should be heading towards the Saihe system on the border of our republic.

Teacher, now you must notify the military department of the Republic as soon as possible, there is a fleet of unknown civilizations coming, and the civilization level is the same as the Republic, so you must prepare in advance. ”

Professor Manlim nodded, and said to the female intelligent creature who came in to report, "Qilan, according to what Zhengyuan said, hurry up and send a message to the military department of the Republic." ”

Qi Lan, a female intelligent creature, agreed, turned around and walked out of the command room.

"Senior Brother Zhengyuan, do you think we want to avoid this unknown fleet?" Liya looked at Bar Jung-won with loving eyes.

Bar Zhengyuan smiled indifferently and said to Professor Manlim: "Teacher, do you say we should avoid it?" ”

"Oh, does Zhengyuan have any ideas?"

Bar Zhengyuan looked at the faster-than-light trajectory on the star map, was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "We should catch up!" As an envoy of the Republic of Buzhbar, welcome to this unknown civilization! ”

"What?! Wouldn't that be dangerous? If this unknown fleet has malicious intentions, then won't we send it to the door? Liya exclaimed.

Thor Tiger nodded: "Yes, it's too dangerous, don't be impulsive." ”

Captain Bee Yuan suddenly sighed and said, "Zhengyuan is a place to die and come back to life, it is impossible for us to avoid them at all!" ”

"Huh?! We can't avoid them? Liya was a little surprised, she thought that Baal Zhengyuan wanted to make meritorious contributions.

Professor Manlim reassured: "Yes, our 'Ayimi' has a top speed of only 2,600 km/s, and it only deviates from their trajectory by 9 astronomical units in six days.

At this distance, with the technology of the unknown fleet, as long as we withdraw from the faster-than-light voyage, we can easily catch up with us at any time.

However, it is also possible that they are traveling faster than the speed of light and cannot detect the outside world, so we will catch up and perhaps pass by.

Therefore, Zhengyuan wants to try it, so that it can also test their technological level. ”

"Yes, so we have to brace ourselves and be prepared to negotiate with this unidentified fleet as envoys of the Republic.

Inform them that the direction of their fleet is our mighty Republic of Buribar, and ask them to inform them of their intentions. "Bar Zhengyuan is the right color.

Professor Manlim nodded with satisfaction and said, "Zhengyuan's idea is good, if this fleet is hostile and has come to attack our republic, then they must be surprised."

If we can find out where they are, we must be prepared to hesitate to continue attacking our Republic.

If they have good intentions, then we can negotiate with them on behalf of the Republic, and the two sides will reach a treaty of peaceful coexistence in the star field. ”

"Senior Brother Zhengyuan, you are so powerful, you can think of so much." Liya smiled charmingly and complimented.

A group of intelligent creatures of the Buribar civilization began to make various preparations for the next day.

The Buribar civilization has controlled this star field for thousands of years, and it is already a remote area in the area of the Saihe galaxy on the border of the empire, and it basically does not encounter any man-made dangers except for natural dangers in the universe.

As a scientific exploration ship, the "Ayimi" is not armed, but due to the danger of this exploration, the military sent a 100-man marine team as a defense force when landing on the planet.

With a distance of 24 light-years from the Republic's Frontier Galaxy to the Apat, there is no natural wormhole shortcut between the two systems.

Because the galaxy is very sparse in this direction, the Republic has no plans to explore this direction. This time, Manlim taught them that the scientific exploration ship went to the Apats system alone, because the border patrol ship of the Saihe system had captured a flying machine not long ago, which seemed to be flying from the direction of the Apat.