Chapter 37: The Harbinger of the Penultimate War

"The first exploration team has been completely wiped out, and no information has been sent back, and it is suspected that it has been interfered with by a strong energy field."

"Strong energy field, this is not the technology that this civilization is good at, according to the direction of civilization development we set for them, their main development direction should be artificial intelligence, genetic modification, and ultra-high-speed sailing, in this case, the development of strong energy weapons is not necessary enough, and the possibility of development is low."

"3% more likely to have a hostile civilization"

"The likelihood of an anomaly in this civilization is also 3%"

The dialogue between the beacons is interrupted, whether it is the emergence of a hostile civilization, or the emergence of an abnormal civilization within this civilization, causing them to be wary of their own civilization, or the development of the original track, it is a bad situation, which will greatly affect the efficiency of harvesting.

"It is proposed to contact the 72nd Conquest Base and send a clearance force to carry out a one-time cleanup."

"If it is rejected, the proposal will lead to the failure of the first type of harvesting plan, which will cause a lot of waste of resources. It was felt that further investigation should be carried out to gather more information. ”

"Veto, if there is a hostile civilization, according to the federal decree, we must report it as soon as possible, if there is a civilization anomaly, the second category has been established and there is no need to continue to investigate."

"It is proposed that a final decision be made in accordance with the judgment of all authorities."

"Agreed, final ruling in 30 seconds, decision within 30 minutes."

The Beacons have easily abandoned the second group of scouts they have sent, and their actions are bound to disrupt Victoria's set-up, but for now, they can still be happy.

"We won!"

Viktoria's voice spread to every corner of the planet through the remnants of Skynet, and at the same time, some images of the previous battle were spread, focusing on the scene when the opposing spaceship shattered and exploded in the attack, and all the escape pods also exploded one by one.

Of course, Viktoria's purpose in doing this is not to boost morale, and the group of people who are now participating in the work, the morale has always been locked at full value, and there is no need to encourage them at all.

On the contrary, she wants to reduce the fanaticism of these people, who rely on a spirit of sacrifice to maintain their current morale, because they can't see victory, they can only fight with everything they have to prove that they have survived.

And the video appearance at this moment proves that they have a chance to win, so they will no longer be so themselves, and their thoughts will change from sacrifice to victory.

If it was in the past, Viktoria wanted these people to stay in the mood of sacrifice, because it would make them think less about useless things, and they would have a lot less to worry about fighting. But after what had happened before, she hoped that these people would think of victory, because there would be much less sacrifice.

And there's another reason.

"How will the other party respond?" Victoria projects her influence on the side of the stargazer and talks to Chiaki Nanami.

"There is a 30% chance that the other side will directly press the army, 60% may the other side will send the next wave of investigators, and 10% of the other party will directly contact their backstage to request support."

The very bad possibility, especially the last one, would almost have declared their efforts a failure, and the first option was also a terrible one, and if the opposing army was overwhelmed before the Star Wars project was successful, they would have been declared a failure as well.

The only reliable thing is the second possibility, even if the other party advances faster than they expected, according to the timing of the first wave of temptation, the second wave will give them at least 2 days of additional time, which is enough to complete the transformation of the planet at a minimum.

After that, as long as it's not the third case, then it's their victory.

"Nanami, your third guess is wrong." At this time, Hua Feng spoke, destroying the other party's speculation with an unquestionable tone, "According to the spiritual erosion and energy position realized by this beacon, the other party only has a curvature engine at most, or a basic version. ”

"If you want to carry out large-scale intergalactic shuttle in a short period of time, you must prepare in advance, and open a wormhole at two space points at the same time, for safety, it takes at least 1 month to prepare in advance, and the energy cost is extremely huge, of course, if they find a natural wormhole, it is another possibility."

"There will be no natural wormholes."

Viktoria was very sure of this, this was the conclusion that the Empire had already explored, it was already at the forefront of colonization, and there were no wormholes for at least a thousand light years, not even those that could not be exploited by the Empire's technological power.

"So we have at least two extra days, but our workers can't stay here any longer."

Viktoria knew very well that the first time the other party was discovered was only because they were careless, and the person who tried the second time must have more elaborate secret methods, and it is likely that they will not be able to detect it when they are investigating now.

At that time, it is likely to enter a tragic state of ground warfare, and the people who continue to stay on this planet will become a burden and a tool that the other side can use.

Or there is an even more tragic situation, the other party does not care about the people on the ground at all, does not care about the ecological problems of the planet, and directly uses space weapons to strike at the ground, so that it can almost be said that the destruction of the ground is a foregone conclusion, and the workers on the ground will definitely not survive.

"I will organize the evacuation of those civilians, one day is enough for them to evacuate."

"As for the thruster project, since I focused on repairing the Skynet system in the early stage, I can control the machine to repair it next, and now I can achieve half the efficiency of those workers."

"But what about maintenance, once the war starts, Skynet must be destroyed, and you need someone to maintain the thrusters to complete your final strategy." Hua Feng did not hesitate to say the cruel reality.

It was impossible for all of those civilians to leave, someone had to stay and act as a force to repair the thrusters, otherwise the Star Wars project was just empty talk.

"Somebody will stay, and as much as I would love them to leave, they will stay."

In this way, Hua Feng saw the relief in Victoria's eyes, and perhaps he may also see the relief projected by himself in Victoria's eyes.

Hua Feng doesn't think of himself as a human being, and even hates people, because people are too weak; But he considers himself a human being and admires human beings because human civilization is strong enough.

At this moment, he once again saw the strength of human civilization, even if he had already taken the wrong path, but at this time, there were still people who stood up and chose to fight in order to continue.

"Then let's prepare, Pang Zhi, you are responsible for guarding around the thrusters, you need to remember the people who will stay there in these two days, except for those people, anyone who enters within a hundred meters is your enemy, even us."

"Illya, you and I will go to outer space together, and we will snipe on the outer side of the atmosphere to prevent them from strafing the ground. ”

Such a task is dangerous, but when Hua Feng has no intention of moving, only they can afford such a task.

"Viktoria, we need as many ships as possible for cover."

"No problem, I will send all the ships except for some battleships, chain ships, and engineering ships that need to be kept, to buy you as much time as possible.

"Illya, you and I create a concealment formation, so that we can avoid the detection of the other party as much as possible."

"And Hua Feng, this time you have to make a move, you can't disappear halfway like before."

"I've helped you solve a lot of problems before, whether it's Inkes or Beacon, I'm the only one who can solve it, and with your strength alone, it's bound to fail." Hua Feng naturally refused, he didn't have much interest in solving a pile of garbage.

"You won't waste much time, you won't waste much energy, I just need you to be in space."

"So?" I saw through Nanami's calculations, but as the other party said, he didn't need to spend much energy, so.

"I agreed."