Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Thrilling Escape

"Fifteen minutes later, you're ready to make a hyperspace jump. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" Pratt uttered something that shocked everyone.

"Don't you have the hyperspace technology to recover?" Zhou Xin blurted out in surprise.

"It's too late to explain, in short, this is the last resort left to us by Commander Gurans, and it can't be used easily." Pryt explained simply, "Time is running out, and I still have to prepare to open the hyperspace device, so you might as well have a chance to ask my grandson about this question later." Without waiting for Zhou Xin to answer, he ended the communication.

After a while, the Voyager reported, "A set of location coordinates have been sent from the Atlantean base, and the specific location is on the other side of the planet, do you need to go there?" ”

"Immediately after receiving the engineering ship, go to this coordinate location." Zhou Xin ordered, "The engine is warmed up, ready to go at any time." ”

At this point, let's turn our perspective back to the direction of the spherical battleship, and just after the battleship came out of hyperspace, they seemed to spot the presence of the Voyager not far away. Once the space warp was over, it flew straight towards the Voyager.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin, who had just obtained the location coordinates, began to get nervous. The engineering ship still had a few minutes to return to the Voyager, but with the speed of that spherical battleship, Zhou Xin and they were completely too late to receive the engineering ship. Zhou Xin thought for a moment, and then opened his mouth and ordered: "Voyager, notify the engineering ship to speed up, and you are also ready to start, and use the method of synchronous movement to receive the engineering ship." ”

"Understand, the order has been sent, the engineering ship has begun to accelerate, and the ship has begun to prepare for the launch, Your Excellency Captain, do you want to use the brief start process." The Voyager reported as a sketch of the frozen planet appeared on the screen, and over the planet, the Voyager drew two red lines in obvious colors, one near and one far away, "It is expected that this ship and the engineering ship will converge at this location." ”

"Use the brief startup process." Zhou Xin ordered.

"In the process of initiation, the ship is carrying out system self-inspection at key positions...... The self-test has been completed without any abnormalities. Ignore the inspection of non-critical parts, start the main engine urgently, the main engine is charged normally, the start is normal, the ship has completed the pre-departure preparations, Your Excellency Captain, are we leaving? In just one minute, the Voyager had completed its brief preparations for launch, it reported to Zhou Xin.

"Let's go." Zhou Xin ordered.

As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, he felt a thrust coming from the back of the chair behind him, and the Voyager had already begun to accelerate.

On the Star Battleship's side, they weren't moving very fast because of their proximity to the frozen planet, but at that speed they were enough to catch up with the Voyager, and the distance between it and the Voyager was gradually decreasing over time. Even with the Voyager activated, the situation was not very effectively improved, and if nothing else, the Voyager would have been overtaken by the spherical battleship before it could reach the receiving location.

Seeing that the spherical spaceship was still approaching the Voyager, Zhou Xin frowned and thought for a while, and then ordered: "Order the engineering ship to start the backup engine and continue to accelerate, and we will also accelerate and get rid of that battleship." ”

"Flying at a higher speed so close to the planet would be very dangerous, and it would be easier for us to deviate from our intended course." The Voyager warned.

"That's still going to be accelerated, and we're going to be even more dangerous if we get caught up in that spherical spaceship." Zhou Xin said.

"Understood." As soon as the traveler's words fell, Zhou Xin felt its acceleration.

Finally, this time the speed of the Voyager was finally about the same as that of the spherical battleship, and Zhou Xin saw that the distance between the two did not continue to decrease. Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Two minutes later, the Voyager was the first to arrive at the meeting place, but the engineering ship had not yet arrived, Zhou Xin had to let the Voyager slow down slightly, and after more than ten seconds, the engineering ship finally arrived, and at this time, the spherical battleship was already very close to the Voyager, Zhou Xin They had even seen the large gate on the surface of the battleship on the screen, and the situation was becoming more and more critical.

But at this time, there was another accident, several huge laser beams were launched from the surface of the frozen planet and hit the spherical battleship, although it did not cause much damage to the battleship, but these lasers still managed to attract the attention of the battleship, the speed of the battleship slowed down, and then several lasers were also fired from the ship, heading towards the area where the laser was fired on the previous launch planet.

"Let's hope our attacks can help." At this time, Zhou Xin received a contact from Plit.

"It really helped." Zhou Xin thanked, "We are still worried about being caught up, and your attack is really just right." ”

"But we won't be able to delay for long, those high-powered laser devices are fixed on the ground, or they will be removed by them soon." Prit sighed apologetically.

"It's okay, there's enough time." Zhou Xin said, "After receiving the engineering ship, we can speed up and leave, is the hyperspace device ready?" ”

"Ready, you can turn on when you get to the coordinates." Pratt said, and then he reminded, "Since the hyperspace devices in the base are not very powerful, the hyperspace doors will not be open for a long time. When you see the hyperspace door open, don't hesitate to rush inside. ”

In the time of their conversation, the Voyager had completed the reception of the engineering ship, and the battleship had successfully destroyed the laser installation on the ground, and the two ships began to accelerate almost at the same time.

At this point, the Voyager was closer to the ship, which was larger than the full moon on the screen. At this distance, the battleship had already begun to try to fire lasers to attack the Voyager, but because it was still a little far away, it was basically difficult for the laser beam to hit the Voyager, and even one or two laser sweeps on the hull would not cause much damage to the Voyager. Seeing this, the spherical battleship began to continue to accelerate, and the Voyager detected this situation and began to alert Zhou Xin.

"Flying at such a fast speed so close to the planet, aren't they afraid of accidents?" Zhou Xin blurted out in surprise, and then he gritted his teeth, "We also continue to speed up, and we can't let them close the distance." ”

"If the speed continues to increase, we may miss the coordinate position, and if we miss it at such a high speed, the ship will have to go around a very large circle to get back to the coordinate position." The Voyager reminded.

"How long will it take to get there?" Zhou Xin asked.

"At the current speed, there is still one minute and forty-three seconds to reach the target coordinates." As she reported, the Voyager displayed a countdown on the screen.

"If we move at this rate, will the ship catch up with us?"

"No, by the time we reach the coordinate location, the battleship is expected to be about three thousand kilometers away from us."

"Then keep up this pace and keep moving towards the target position." Zhou Xin commanded helplessly.

A minute later, the distance between the battleship and the Voyager was less than 10,000 kilometers, and although the lasers fired by the other side were still not powerful, the outer deck that had been hit had begun to show obvious ablation marks, which was a clear warning sign that the Voyager would take more damage as the battleship continued to approach.

At the same time, something that Zhou Xin had seen before, but overlooked, happened, the spherical battleship opened the hatch while firing a laser, and the triangular fighter that Zhou Xin saw in the video flew out of the hatch. After breaking away from the battleship, the planes rushed towards the Voyager at a very high speed.

At the same time as seeing the triangular fighters, Zhou Xincai remembered them, and he immediately panicked, according to the speed of those triangular fighters, he would be able to make contact with the Voyager in about half a minute.

"I actually forgot about these fighters." Zhou Xin said nervously while being annoyed.

"Although these fighters are very fast, their attack power is not very strong, you don't need to destroy them, just launch some fighters to attract their attention." Pratt reminded him quickly.

"The key is that our spaceship is an exploration spaceship, and it is not equipped with a fighter suitable for space combat." Zhou Xin interface.

"This-this-this-" Suddenly Pritt also seemed at a loss, and he struggled for a long time and couldn't think of a good way.

At the same time, those fighter groups were already less than four thousand kilometers away from the Voyager, and if Zhou Xin couldn't think of a way, those fighters would start attacking the Voyager in a dozen seconds.

At the critical moment, Zhou Xin thought of something, and without thinking about the feasibility of this method, Zhou Xin hurriedly ordered: "Let the No. 3 engineering ship out as bait, and how long can it be delayed."

As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, the Voyager released the engineering ship, and after leaving the Voyager, the engineering ship turned on its engines, and it rushed straight towards the group of fighters. Although the engineering ship does not have any attack power, but its characteristic is that it has rough skin and thick flesh, after successfully delaying for the Voyager for more than ten seconds, the engineering ship turned into a dazzling fire under the fire of the fighters, but it has successfully completed its mission, and those fighters can no longer catch up with the Voyager.

At the moment when the engineering ship exploded, the space in front of the Voyager began to distort, and in just a few seconds, a blue dot appeared in the distorted space, and this blue dot quickly expanded into a rectangular space door. Next, the spatial door quickly expanded into a rectangular area three hundred meters wide and one hundred meters high, and then fixed.

At this time, the Voyager was only about twenty seconds away from reaching the hyperspace gate, but in these short twenty seconds, each step of the Voyager seemed more and more difficult. Although there was no way for the fighters to attack the Voyager, the attacks of the warships continued to attack the Voyager. Today, the distance between the two is less than 5,000 kilometers. If you can look into space, you can see that a huge spherical battleship is moving forward at a speed visible to the naked eye, and as it advances, red laser beams are shot from the ship from time to time, and the target of those laser beams is the spaceship not far away from the direction of the battleship. The ship pales in comparison to the spherical battleship, and the comparison between the two is like the gap between a mouse and an elephant.

At this distance, the battleship's lasers were enough to cause damage to the Voyager, and from the time the third engineering ship was released, the main engine constantly reported to Zhou Xin that it had been hit, but the damage was not very serious, it was just a break in the shell. But just a dozen seconds later, the high-energy laser beam had begun to penetrate the Voyager's outer shell, and some of the outer compartments had begun to crack, so the Voyager had to seal them off to prevent further disaster. At the same time, the Voyager also began to perform evasive maneuvers to prevent the laser from hitting important parts of the ship. At the same time, the spherical battleship seemed to have discovered the Voyager's intention to escape, and it adjusted the direction of some of the lasers, which blocked the path of the Voyager, and in desperation, the main engine had to choose to bypass the laser-dense area, and the Voyager's progress was seriously delayed.

And those fighters continued to rush towards the Voyager at high speed after destroying the engineering ship, and there were Atlanteans on the first and second engineering ships, and Zhou Xin couldn't sacrifice them to launch the engineering ship as a decoy. But if the planes continued to get closer, they would be far enough away from the Voyager to attack, and the situation would suddenly be in a very dangerous situation.

At this time, there was also a warning from Pratt, "Enter the hyperspace door quickly, the hyperspace generator is about to be unable to support it." "This undoubtedly made matters worse for the Voyager, as she had to dodge the battleship's attacks while also finding an opportunity to quickly enter the hyperspace door. Under such circumstances, the Voyager's evasion maneuvers were inevitably affected, and now, although the Voyager did not suffer any fatal damage, its shell was scarred by the dense attack. What only took a dozen seconds to reach was now a moat in front of the Voyager.

Seeing this critical situation, Zhou Xin immediately ordered: "Ignore those laser attacks and go directly into hyperspace." After receiving Zhou Xin's order, the Voyager gave up dodging, and at this moment, she was also hit by more than a dozen lasers at the same time, and the Voyager's shell suddenly burst into shining blue sparks. Fortunately, the damage was worth it, and Voyager was only one step away from hyperspace.

Just as the Voyager was about to enter the hyperspace gate, Zhou Xin suddenly saw a dazzling white beam of light emitted from the spherical battleship, this white beam was so conspicuous in the dense red laser, Zhou Xin was immediately attracted by this light.

This white light went straight towards the Voyager, and the Voyager, which was entering the hyperspace gate, had no way to dodge it, so this white light hit the Voyager in an instant, and coincidentally hit the location of the warp engine, but the strange thing is that this white light did not cause any violent reaction after hitting the warp engine, and the white light disappeared the moment it touched the engine shell.

Zhou Xin thought that the white light only hit the unimportant part of the Voyager, so he didn't care about it next. At this time, half of the Voyager had already entered hyperspace, and the communication between Zhou Xin and Prit began to become unstable.

"They're just going to give it to you, protecting, good, all the way." The picture began to become severely distorted, even the communication was intermittent, and before Pratt could finish his sentence, the Voyager entered hyperspace......