Chapter 41: The Dilemma
"Look, they're coming. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Seeing that his words came true, Spred said to Zhou Xin with a wry smile.
Seeing that the Voyager was in a situation where there was a strong enemy behind and a strong enemy in front of the pursuers, everyone present couldn't help but get nervous. But fortunately, there is still a not-so-good news for them at this time, judging from the circumnavigation time of those small warships, there should still be a considerable distance between them and the current location of the Voyager, and judging from the changes in the picture, it seems that the opposing warships can only move at a slow speed in this strange space. Therefore, now Zhou Xin and they still have a relatively generous buffer time to think about solutions.
Hearing Atlas's conclusions, the crowd was not happy to have an extra buffer. After all, before they come up with a solution, no matter how much time is left next, the result will be the same for them.
At the same time, Zhou Xin was thinking as he checked the situation around the Voyager, trying to find an escape route from the enemy's encirclement. However, after observing for a long time, he was disappointed to find that no matter which direction the Voyager broke through, it was very likely to be intercepted by the other side. Reluctantly, he asked the Voyager and Atlas to make a deduction, but they came to an even worse conclusion - unless it broke out in the direction of the largest spherical battleship, the Voyager would eventually come into contact with at least two small warships head-on in either direction. Although it didn't sound like a lot, since he had never seen the combat effectiveness of such warships before, Zhou Xin was not sure what would happen if the Voyager, which did not have many armed forces, met them.
In order to avoid a premature encounter with the opposing warship, Zhou Xin had already stopped the Voyager in place, but at this time he knew very well in his heart that this could only delay the meeting between the two sides a little, and could not fundamentally solve the problem. Moreover, as the encirclement formed by the other side gradually decreases, it is very likely that they will encounter more than two enemy warships next.
Although there was nothing wrong with Zhou Xin's thoughts, the other party didn't want to leave them any time to breathe, and not long after the Voyager stopped, the situation changed again.
"Brother Captain, the spatial anomalies around you seem to be disappearing." Just when Zhou Xin was still thinking hard about countermeasures, Atlas's voice suddenly sounded in his ears. With her voice, Zhou Xin came back to his senses and turned his gaze to the screen again.
At first, Zhou Xin didn't feel any change in the picture on the screen compared to just now. However, after a careful observation for a while, he noticed that the spherical battleship that was extremely distorted in the original picture was slowly returning to its original shape. It's clear that the chaotic space around it is slowly flattening out as Atlas said.
"Do you want to catch us as soon as you're done with the siege?" Seeing this situation, Dart immediately understood the other party's thoughts, "Aren't they afraid that after the space is restored, we will directly use warp speed to fly and escape?" ”
"I'm afraid it's not possible for the time being." Spred stared at the screen in front of him and shook his head, "I just checked the state of the warp engine, it seems that due to the relationship between multiple spatial changes in a short period of time, the neutron matter at the core of the engine is now in a highly activated state, causing the space around it to become extremely unstable. If the engine activates the space near the core in this state, I can't guarantee what will happen in the end. We may be able to get out of here normally, but it is also possible that there will be no change at all, the ship will still stay in place, and it may even cause the entire engine to explode like a bomb. ”
"When will this state of the core be restored?" Zhou Xin asked eagerly.
"It's the first time I've seen this happen." Spred's tone of reply was a little helpless, "So I don't know when the core will be able to return to normal." ”
"It seems that the purpose of the other party to create this strange space has been very clear." Dart sighed, "It's just to limit the capabilities of our warp engines. He quickly continued to think along with this, "It can be seen that the other party probably already knew that our ship was equipped with a warp engine. Could it be that this spherical battleship is the one we encountered before? ”
"I'm afraid it's very likely." Spred smiled bitterly, "It's really a narrow road, but we met them." Moreover, I didn't expect them to know such a deep knowledge of warp engines. The kind of white light that could destroy the core of the engine had already caused us a lot of trouble, but now they had come up with a way to limit our warp speed more effectively. I really don't know what kind of height the other party's technological level has reached. ”
"Now is not the time to say that." Zhou Xin reminded, "Our top priority now is to come up with an escape plan with the highest success rate. ”
"Atlas just said the results of the analysis." Dart continued, "Now no matter which direction we go, we will also be intercepted by the other party, if we don't want to come up with a special escape route, then the only thing we can do now is to judge which direction we will fly to, and the success rate of our escape will be higher." ”
"It basically doesn't make a difference which way you go from." Atlas spoke, "They didn't find any loopholes in the siege network that the other side organized. ”
"Doesn't that mean we're going to have to fight each other right now?" Spred said, "Pick a random direction to escape, and pray that the other party won't be able to keep you when you meet the opposing ship?" If this is really the only option, then we have to act now, otherwise the probability of our success will be lower and lower in the future. ”
"Do you think this approach is feasible?" Zhou Xin smiled bitterly, "Since we already know that the other party is our acquaintance, then they must have arranged it a long time ago, and this kind of arrangement now definitely won't give us the possibility of escaping." ”
"Even if it's not high, you can't give up." Spred became a little anxious, "It's better than us sitting here and waiting." ”
"That's what I said." After listening to Spred's words, Zhou Xin forced himself to calm down, "But I don't think we've reached the point of panic yet." Let's all calm down, maybe we can come up with a better way to escape......"