Chapter 23: The Sea of Silence
The Apocalypse higher-ups would never have thought that all the personnel of the Barrier had actually died at the seventy-second second of impact, the energy surge and fire were only a part, and the real fatality was the host system controlled by Amber.
The hijacking of a planetary fortress's host system was catastrophic, as all of the fortress's defensive weapons began firing at its own people, annihilating them all before it could send an effective rescue signal.
All the signals sent by the Bulwark after that were false messages under Amber's disguise.
Even the data of the various barrier numbers are.
So the result that the Apocalypse higher-ups saw was that the Akara had severely damaged the Barrier, but the Barrier had withstood the attack of the Akara, as long as there was enough support, then not only the Barrier could be saved, but even the Acala, a planetary-level fortress from the Golden Empire, could be partially preserved.
It's a huge temptation.
So the Apocalypse higher-ups did not hesitate to send reinforcements.
Two standard fleets.
While the Apocalypse executives were waiting for their ambitions to be fulfilled, a wide area broadcast appeared in all fleet signal links.
"Happy death, then, my enemies!"
The power furnaces of the Acala and the Bulwark overloaded and self-destructed at the same time, and a huge explosion began to erupt from the very core of the two planets.
The Akara has sixteen power furnaces, and although only two can be activated so far, the remaining fourteen have at least the basic conditions for self-detonation.
The Barrier has six power furnaces, and although it is not as good as the power furnace of the Akara, it is already the most advanced product of the human technology system.
Moreover, there are a large number of weapons in the Barrier, and the number of disintegrating missiles called interstellar age nuclear weapons is staggering.
The Fortress is a planetary fortress, one of the most powerful of all planetary fortresses, and is known as the Immortal Star.
But after being hit half to death, it detonated from the inside.
It turns out that unless they have the ability to predict the future, ambitious people will never be able to guess what the next move of a madman with the power of technology can crush him.
The Apocalypse succeeded in ambushing Kungo, but Kungo immediately calculated against them.
The self-detonation of the two planetary fortresses caused not only a huge explosion, but also a wave of spatial turmoil.
The gravitational waves that resemble black holes from the center of the self-detonation and the space concussions generated when space is torn apart are natural disasters for the three fleets of the Apocalypse.
Almost at the same time as the explosion, the closest fleet that had been attacking the Akara was torn apart by the invisible black hole-level gravity.
Although the two support fleets that had just completed the jump were farther away, they didn't even have time to adjust their power systems to attack, so when the onslaught came, they didn't even activate their shields.
Dodging the gravitational pull, the support fleet was still shaken into space molecules by the space shock wave that followed.
Three elite fleets, hundreds of thousands of federal officers and soldiers, in less than three minutes, were wiped out.
And in the midst of this big explosion, a point of light flashed and disappeared at a rather subtle moment.
Shrill sirens echoed across the Hunter's bridge, and launching a move in the midst of space turmoil was a frenzied-sounding move.
But the beauty of mathematics lies in the fact that in the midst of all seemingly impossible situations, once a balance is found, then this balance point is indestructible.
At the moment when the spatial turmoil occurred, it was the calmest area in the center of the outbreak, and as long as you seized this second, the difficulty of the Hunter's escape would be greatly reduced, and at the same time, the completeness would be extremely high.
Amber seized the second and successfully made the Hunter jump. However, due to the use of aimless random jumps, coupled with the gravitational chaos, the Hunter still suffered a certain impact. From the beginning of the migration, the alarm on the bridge has not stopped.
In front of Kungo, a holographic projection data representing the stability of the transition has been going up and down, and the red indicator that represents the danger of the starship's disintegration has been echoing at the edge of a danger line, as if it may cross that line at any time, and then the entire starship will be torn apart.
Everyone stared at the line, and they didn't dare blink.
Then, finally at a certain moment, Kun Wu waved his hand: "Stop!" ”
The Hunter jerked, and then the safety line began to descend rapidly, eventually stopping at about 30%.
The starship is 30% damaged and will need a long time to repair before it can continue sailing.
The Hunter broke away from the hyperspace state and appeared in normal space like a holographic projection that was rapidly condensing, and all the overloaded components emitted thick white smoke, and the autonomic robots immediately rushed out of their respective rest areas and began to rush towards the various alarm points.
In the middle of the bridge, the exterior window monitor is turned on, and the scene outside the starship is projected onto the bridge window.
"Where is this?" An Yang looked at the scene outside the starship and muttered.
"All in all a fairly quiet place, there is not even a bit of signal clutter here. Wherever it is, at least it's a good place for us right now! Kungo looked at the radar system, "There are no measurable information waves, and Awa hasn't found it, so the Pieces of Eden shouldn't be able to seduce the Apocalypse here." ”
He paused and looked at someone glowing on the side: "Karazan, as you said before, two Pieces of Eden will be handed over to you to deal with." I think I need to see if our starship can still move! ”
Karazan nodded, and followed an autonomic robot leading the way towards the vault.
Xiao Xiaobai jumped off his father's shoulder at this time, rolled on the ground twice, and then floated up: "Brother Kunwu, this is really exciting!" ”
Kungo laughed: "That's, it's quite exciting!" ”
And then the two guys were educated together.
After everyone returned to normal, Kungo gave the order to send drones to search the surroundings while the Hunter began to repair itself.
But soon half of this order could not be carried out.
Because all drones and autonomous robots will become unresponsive and disappear as soon as they leave the Hunter.
After completing the twelfth special optical scan, everyone finally saw what was around them.
It was a cloud of matter floating in the depths of the universe like an ocean.
Here, there is a sea of silence.