"The enemy's attack again hit the second secondary engine. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info," the Voyager reported coldly and mercilessly, "the core of the engine was damaged, and it was able to maintain less than ten percent of its thrust. ”

However, this news, which was originally extremely bad for the Voyager, reminded Zhou Xin instead. The moment he heard the report, his body stirred for a moment, and then he quickly ordered: "Directly abandon the second auxiliary engine." ”

"Ditch the second secondary engine." The Voyager immediately confirmed, "Warning, dangerous operation!" Please reconfirm with Your Excellency the Captain. ”

"Ditch the second secondary engine." Zhou Xin had already cleared his mind at this time, and he quickly confirmed, "And guide it to explode behind us." Then he added, "Execute immediately." ”

Hearing this, many people present already understood what Zhou Xin meant, and Dart's face showed a look of sudden realization. At such a critical juncture, no matter whether this method is the best solution or not, no one has opened up to question it at this time.

"Warning! Warn! The No. 2 auxiliary engine is about to start the disengagement procedure, and the nearby personnel are requested to hurry up and evacuate. The Voyager's warning sounded near the second secondary engine. At the same time as the warning sounded, the badly damaged secondary engine No. 2 had already begun to move backwards relative to the Voyager.

The situation was urgent, and with the Voyager abandoning all necessary verification procedures, it took only ten seconds for the second secondary engine to completely detach from the ship and float towards the pursuing battleship behind it. In order to convince the other party that the engine had to be abandoned due to damage, Zhou Xin also asked the Voyager to cause a small explosion at the point where the engine was separated from the spaceship.

Sure enough, this approach succeeded in misleading the enemy ships behind them. Seeing the detached secondary engine, the opponent did not attack the engine, but chose to bypass it and continue to attack the Voyager.

"The main engine casing was hit, and the thrust was again reduced by ten percent." Seconds after the second secondary engine detached, the Voyager reported again, and everyone's hearts were raised with this report, "The main engine fuel line is exposed, and it could be attacked at any time." At this point, there were about fifty seconds left before the Voyager arrived at the entrance of the passage.

At this time, Zhou Xin no longer let the Voyager release probes around. Instead, Atlas simulates the outside world based on data from the small number of non-visible light detection devices that are still working on the Voyager. In the footage, he saw that the pillar of light, representing the second auxiliary engine, had already flown between the battleships in just a few seconds. To be precise, it should have been a few seconds before the battleship flew around the engine. Anyway, at that moment, the improvised detonation device detonated the entire engine. At that moment, with the No. 2 secondary engine as the center, a large red mist erupted.

"Did you find this helpful?" It wasn't until now that Dart asked.

"Whether it's useful or not, at least it should be able to delay the other party for some time." Zhou Xin said as he looked at the red sphere that had been shrouded in red mist on the screen, representing the enemy warship. At this time, in Zhou Xin's heart, he didn't think that this would cause much harm to the other party, but as he said, he didn't expect this attack to cause much damage to the other party, and only hoped that he could delay them a little.

Fortunately, Zhou Xin's plan succeeded, and in the second after the engine exploded, he did not see any battleships rush out of the red fog. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the distance between the two sides was widened a bit.

It wasn't until the third second after the explosion that Zhou Xin saw the first battleship flying out of the fog. Because the images obtained from other detection equipment in the outside world are very inaccurate, and they can only identify objects, so Zhou Xin and the others do not know how much damage the explosion caused to the other party, but this is not what Zhou Xin is concerned about now. All he wanted to know now was whether the other party would be able to catch up with the Voyager.

Unfortunately, the answer was yes, and just fifteen seconds after the explosion, the enemy ship regained its range of the ship. Around the Voyager, the beam of light, which had just been reduced, became dense again. At this point, there was still half a minute before the Voyager flew to the entrance of the passage.

During the attack, Atlas managed to manipulate the Voyager to barely dodge between the dense beams for more than ten seconds, during which although the opponent's beams occasionally hit, fortunately, all the hits were on the unimportant part of the ship's periphery. However, under such a dense attack, even Atlas has moments when his strength is insufficient. After holding out for more than ten seconds, the Voyager's main engine was inevitably hit. Of course, Zhou Xin, who lost most of the external detection equipment, did not know the news in the first place. They just felt that after a violent vibration, the force that pushed their backs suddenly became much smaller.

"The main engine fuel line was hit by the opponent and is now completely out of function. The back-up conveyor line was activated, and the thrust of the main engine was reduced by 50 percent. ”

For Zhou Xin, this is just the beginning of a series of troubles. After the Voyager reported on the situation of the main engine, Atlas's panicked voice rang out:

"Brother Captain, I have detected a change in the surrounding space, and the curvature of space is decreasing."

For this sentence, Zhou Xin didn't have any concept at first. In desperation, the little girl had to explain simply: "To put it simply, the space in front of us is expanding. Although we are still flying at high speed to the entrance of the passage, the distance between the ship and the entrance of the passage is now increasing because the space is expanding faster than we can fly. ”

"So what to do." After understanding Atlas's words, Zhou Xin couldn't help but get nervous, "This doesn't mean that we will never be able to reach the entrance of the passage?" ”

"Not really." The little girl replied, "According to the theory of space, this expansion cannot be carried out indefinitely, but has a limit. Moreover, as the space grows larger, the energy to maintain its existence will also increase exponentially as the space increases. Although the other party's technological level is higher than ours, relying only on such a spherical battleship, even if all its mass is converted into energy, it will not expand much space. ”

"But they don't need to expand much." At this time, Dart reminded......