Chapter 40: The Trapped Voyager
"Look at the spherical battleship, why don't I think it's coming closer?" Zhou Xin said in surprise, "Could it be that I saw it wrong?" Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
With Zhou Xin's exclamation, everyone focused all their attention on the spherical battleship on the screen, and after carefully observing it for a while, Spred also said with a puzzled tone, "It seems that the battleship is indeed not moving." ”
The spherical battleship that appeared on the screen at this time, because of the distortion of the surrounding space, made the shape of the entire battleship not look like the standard spherical shape that Zhou Xin had seen before, but it looked a little irregular. However, it was this irregular pattern that caught the attention of everyone present.
After a long period of observation, everyone realized that as long as the Voyager did not pass through the junction of different spaces, the spherical battleship on the screen seemed to be a static picture, and almost no changes occurred. It is only when the ship enters a space of a different nature that the shape of the spherical battleship changes significantly. This is a clear difference from the pursuit that everyone imagined in their minds.
At first, Zhou Xin thought that this was just an illusion brought to them by distorting space. However, Atlas's analysis soon confirmed his thoughts, "From the observation of the spacecraft passing through these spaces, in each space, the spherical battleship showed no signs of approaching us. On the contrary, the distance between the two sides is slowly widening. ”
"How is it possible, isn't the other party going to pursue us?" At first, Dart was a little unconvinced of what he observed, and Atlas's conclusion made him even more incredible, "Or does the other party feel that there is no need to pursue, as long as they rely on this strange space to trap us?" "At this time, no one is holding the fluke psychology of the spherical battleship and not realizing itself.
However, at this time, Dart's doubts were not answered by anyone, because they had no way to guess the true thoughts of the spherical battleship now. At this time, the Voyager passed through a small space again, and the picture on the screen changed again.
"Either way, it's a good thing." At this time, Zhou Xin reacted, "The other party's inaction can at least give us some more time to escape, you must know that the farther away we are from the spherical battleship, the higher the probability that we will be able to successfully escape." ”
"That being said, but didn't you think about the situation where we couldn't get out of this weird space?" Dart reminded.
"So what else can I do now? Stuck in place? Zhou Xin smiled bitterly, "We have no choice now, the only thing we can do is to escape, even if we may not be able to escape from this strange space as you said, but it can also keep us away from each other." ”
Regarding Zhou Xin's helpless statement, others can only agree. At this time, they had no choice but to watch the Voyager pass through strange spaces driven by the main engine, and at the same time prayed in their hearts that the spherical battleship would not start the pursuit so soon.
Looking at the ever-changing space around him, Spred suddenly had an idea, "You say, could it be that the spherical battleship didn't pursue us because of the strange space around it?" ”
"How is that possible?" Dart retorted without thinking, "This strange space is most likely created by the other party, how could they not dare to enter the space created by themselves?" However, after Zhou Xin heard Spred's words, there was a thoughtful look on his face.
"Think about it." Spred reminded, "As Atlas mentioned, drastic changes in space can have a huge impact on the structure of the ship itself. It is important to know that space itself cannot discriminate between every object that enters space. If changes in space can affect our spacecraft, won't they have an impact on spherical warships? ”
"But they can chase through space at the same slower speed as we do." Dart retorted.
"No, no, it's completely different." Spred shook his head and reminded, "You're ignoring the size of the spherical ship. He then went on to explain his thoughts, "For the Voyager, every small space here is enough for an entire ship. But I'm afraid it's different for spherical battleships, if they enter here, they will most likely be in a different small space at any time. After saying this, Spred immediately asked Atlas for verification, and he soon got an accurate answer.
"Being in different spaces at the same time is very different from navigating through different spaces like we do now." Spred continued, "The structure of the entire ship will be distorted in different degrees in different spaces, and even more extreme - several different states of space will appear near the same point. So, in the process of advancing such a huge spherical battleship, who can guarantee that there will be some points on the battleship that will pass through several different spaces in an instant? I'm afraid no one can guarantee this. If this is the case, isn't it the same as if we were walking through multiple different spaces in a short period of time? It's fine if it's not the important part where the problem occurs, but what if it really happens in the critical area? ”
"Doesn't that mean they can only wait until we've left this space before they can pursue them? So what's the use of them creating such a space? Dart asked, skeptically, "Once we're able to get out of this space, we'll be able to start the warp engine and escape." ”
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Spred said in a solemn tone.
Sure enough, as he said, the spherical battleship in the picture, which was still in place, reacted quickly. In the eyes of everyone, more than a dozen small spherical battleships were released from the spherical battleship, and after they appeared, they scattered in all directions, chasing from different directions behind the Voyager.
Unlike the Voyager, these small warships did not initially burrow directly into the warped space, but flew quickly from the outer edge of the warped space to the front of the Voyager. Then, the small warships flew into the warp space from different directions, outflanking the Voyager like a large net.
"Look, they're coming." Seeing that his words were quickly fulfilled, Spred said to Zhou Xin with a wry smile......