"If that's the case, will we have to give up on turning to the community for help?" Zhou Xin said helplessly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Don't just give up." Spred replied, "But at least don't be as impatient as you are in front of the other side." Find a way to make the other person understand that we want to get some neutron matter only for research purposes, and not for anything more important. ”

"What if, as Demancha said, by the time the community agrees to our request, the Kazlans have run out of neutron matter?" Zhou Xin asked.

"Then we can only pray that the Kazlan people will not." Spred was silent for a long time, and finally only came up with this sentence, "At least then we will have a chance to ask the community for help, but if we give them all the hole cards, we really have no chance at all." ”

After listening to his words, Zhou Xin also fell silent. Although Zhou Xin didn't want to think so badly of Demancha like Spred, he also knew in his heart that for a civilization they had only known for a few days, the situation that Spred said could still happen. After weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Zhou Xin made a decision, "Okay, just like Spred said, let's put this matter aside for a while." ”

Although this decision seemed a little helpless, with Spred's explanation just now, most of the people in the command cabin still did not object. At this moment, the voice of the Voyager was heard from the command cabin, "Your Excellency, the Eune fleet has once again launched an attack on the Kazlan Line. ”

"Is there any action of the Eun fleet that is different from usual?" In the past few days, Zhou Xin has heard a similar report no more times. At first, it was Atlas who reported to him, but after observing a few battles that could almost be considered replayed, the little girl completely lost interest in the matter, and then decisively left the task of observing the battlefield to the Voyager, and concentrated on her own research. At least he thinks it's much better to face those machines than to watch the exact same battle several times a day.

"This ship has not found anything unusual in the actions of the Ewen fleet for the time being." As soon as Zhou Xin asked this question, the Voyager immediately replied.

"There's no need to report this kind of battle to me every time in the future, unless there's something out of the ordinary." It seems that Zhou Xin is also tired of watching movie reruns several times a day.

"Understood." The Voyager replied.

"Brother Captain, Brother Captain." No sooner had the Voyager finished speaking than Atlas's voice rang out.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Xin asked.

"People noticed that something seemed wrong with some of the buildings in Space City." The little girl replied.

"Something is wrong? What's wrong? Zhou Xin then asked.

"Captain, brother, look." As he spoke, Atlas showed a panoramic view of the entire Space City on the screen.

"Nothing has changed from before, huh? What exactly did the probe find? Staring at the space city on the screen for a while, Zhou Xin didn't notice that the space city in front of the camera was any different from before.

"Didn't the captain's brother find out? Some of the buildings in Space City are slowly moving. Hearing Zhou Xin, he didn't find out, so Atlas had no choice but to tell the result.

"Move?" Zhou Xin's tone was a little puzzled.

"Well, after comparing the images sent back by the probe in the past two days, they found that more than a dozen buildings in the space city are moving in different directions relative to the entire space city. Although the relative distance of movement is not very far, it certainly did. As he spoke, Atlas marked the dozen or so buildings in the frame with red circles, and then explained, "Most of the buildings in Space City have been investigated by probes, and almost all of them have lost power. In this case, the entire space city can only move together as a whole under the drive of inertia, how can it be possible that some buildings have moved relative to others? ”

"As you said yourself, most of the buildings have almost lost power, maybe it's just that there is still residual energy in the dozen or so buildings you marked, and then the engines of these buildings started for unknown reasons?" After listening to Atlas's explanation, Zhou Xin seemed a little unimpressed.

"Impossible." The little girl on the screen shook her head vigorously, and then a few more marks appeared on the dozen or so space buildings marked in red, "The probe has investigated the interiors of these marked space buildings in detail, and they can be sure that their fuel tanks are completely empty, and their engines are impossible to start. ”

"Maybe it's a spare fuel tank or something." Zhou Xin said casually, "Backup energy, this is not very normal. ”

"But Brother Captain." Atlas continued, "If it is true that the dozen or so space buildings were activated by mistake, then they should be running in a disorderly direction, but people found that they moved in the same direction relative to the entire space city, as if someone was manipulating, but the life detectors on the probes did not find any signs of life in these space buildings. ”

"How is this possible?" After Atlas finished speaking this time, Zhou Xin's attitude finally became serious, "Did you send a probe to investigate after discovering the anomaly?" ”

"It's gone." The little girl replied, "After discovering this anomaly, they immediately sent a probe to investigate the vicinity of the dozen or so space buildings. Then it was discovered that the attitude adjustment engines of those space buildings started again at some point, and they were pushing these space buildings to move. ”

"Strange why these buildings were activated." Zhou Xin's heart felt strange, and he stared at the dozen or so space buildings circled by Atlas for a while, but he didn't find anything in common at all. The sizes of the moving space buildings varied, and even the locations throughout the space city were random.

Spred had been watching from the sidelines, and at this time, he spoke: "Could it really be just a coincidence, it stands to reason that the direction of the attitude engine should return to its original position after losing power, and if so, then it is not very strange that they are moving in the same direction." “

"That's right." Spred's words made Zhou Xin quite agree, and at this time, he couldn't see that the abnormal actions of these space buildings would have a particularly big impact, so Zhou Xin instructed Atlas, "Before we find out what happened to these space buildings, let's let the probe follow them, and it's not too late to report after discovering the anomaly." ”

"People know." In fact, Atlas's purpose at the beginning was to inform Zhou Xin of this matter, whether Zhou Xin said it or not, she would continue to investigate.

Then, another dozen days passed. In the past ten days, Zhou Xin and they still maintained communication with the community, of course, although it was an exchange, in fact, it was just the unilateral transmission of the sorted technology to the other party by the Voyager. After sending two key technical information to the Community, the other side already has enough complete information to enter the industrial society. However, now they only have it, and it will take a long time to fully digest all the technology. According to Demancha, most of the people in the community are not as wary of Zhou Xin and them as they were some time ago, especially the technicians who are studying the materials that have been passed on, and they are full of good feelings towards them. Taking this opportunity, Zhou Xin asked Demancha to submit a request to the parliament that had been delayed for a long time. However, although this request was supported by Demancha and the technicians in the council, the final vote led them to reject Zhou's request. Zhou Xin and they had to find another way to find another way or find a way to get more support in the parliament.

"Is it really necessary to give them military technology at this time?" When Demancha told Zhou Xin about the final results of the council, he couldn't help but muttered to himself.

"Nope." Dart was the first to object, "Although we are now handing over military technology to the community, it is unlikely that they will immediately manufacture the weapons described in the materials, but we cannot take such a risk." Maybe they have the means we don't know about and can really replicate our weapons and equipment in a short time, and then they will have no place to regret it when they point them at us. ”

While listening to Dart's words, Zhou Xin held his chin and thought about it, and after a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind, "Let's give them some of the information on weapons and equipment first." ”

Zhou Xin's words surprised many people in the command cabin, and Spred couldn't help but ask, "It's only been a few days, why did you change your mind?" And Dart was even more vehemently opposed.

"There's no way, the plan can't keep up with the changes." Zhou Xin's tone was also helpless, "The only way we can obtain neutron matter now is to ask the community for help, do you really want me to give up this method?" Come to think of it, this may be our last chance, and if we miss it, there's a good chance we'll have to rely on Voyager's main engine to try our luck in other star systems. But can we really meet the same opportunity again for the vast universe? After Zhou Xin finished speaking, everyone, including Dart, who had the most fierce opposition, fell silent.

"And judging from the interactions we've had with Demancha in the past few days, I think he can still be trusted, and there shouldn't be the worst-case scenario you envisioned." Zhou Xin continued.

"It's useless to just trust him." Dart is still trying to change Zhou Xin's mind, "He alone does not represent the whole community, not to mention that he has a council behind him." ”

Zhou Xin didn't pay attention to Dart's words, but continued: "What's more, there is no need for us to hand over all the military technology that we have prepared for them to the other party at once. As soon as this sentence came out, it attracted everyone's attention, "We can choose some weapons and equipment that will not pose a threat to us even if they are manufactured and handed over to them first." ”

"Even those weapons and equipment that can only be studied theoretically at their current level of science and technology, but cannot be manufactured." Dart suddenly realized, "Why didn't we think of it before?" ”

"I just thought of it."

There was no surprise, and everyone agreed with Zhou Xin's idea after a little discussion. As a result, the fifth key technology, which was originally expected to be sent to the community, was changed to military technology, and the time was changed from a week later to the day after tomorrow.

At the same time, for almost half a month, the battle in space continued. Moreover, after several days of extremely frequent but not very powerful attacks by the Eun fleet, the Kazlan fleet uncharacteristically began to take the initiative to attack. Of course, at first, they were cautious and only launched tentative attacks on parts of the line. But after a few attempts, the Kazran defending fleet slowly began to grow emboldened, and the entire fleet began to push the line outward, trying to drive the Eun fleet out of their hemisphere, but they failed three times. Of course, there are reasons why the number of warships is not as good as that of the Eun fleet, but the main thing is that the neutron weapons equipped on the Kazlan mothership and stealth warships do not work well in the extremely scattered formation of the Eun fleet. They were forced to retreat the defensive line back to the position they had during the confrontation again, and even lost many warships due to rash attacks, and even the stealth warships were destroyed by the Ewens. Although the number of battleships was quickly replenished in time, the blow to the overall morale was huge. Seizing this opportunity, the Euns launched a fierce counterattack on the Kazran Line, relying on the only five remaining motherships as the backing, the Ewen fleet almost broke the demoralized Kazran Line, and finally carried it with the support of the Kazran mothership and stealth warships.

In addition to these two major events that deserved Zhou Xin's attention in the past two days, another situation that they had not paid much attention to before had also developed, that is, the buildings in the space city.

After Atlas discovered that some of the buildings in the Space City would move in a different direction than others, this anomalous movement continued for more than ten days. Although the speed of movement is not fast, it is far away from their original position, and it is even obvious from the picture that the buildings have left the confines of Space City. Moreover, after a long period of observation, Atlas also discovered that although the space structures were moving in the same direction, their speed was not consistent, and even the engines that propelled them did not run regularly. Sometimes the engines of some space buildings can work for hours on end, while others only run for a dozen seconds and then shut down, which causes them to travel different distances, from those that are close to being more than a dozen kilometers away from their original positions, while those who are far away have already flown hundreds of kilometers away.

After listening to Atlas's investigation report on those abnormally moving space buildings, Zhou Xin and the others felt very strange......