Originally planned to escape regardless of any situation, because the pursuit speed of the team behind did not increase rapidly, so that Gold and Ensign 1 had a little choice, and there was no need to risk entering MR240 to turn around, and slightly adjusted the course and went directly back to Segeis.

It doesn't matter if there is a danger or not, after all, only Pan Wen is surprised, and the crew only feels that the boss has a brain pump, and in order to escape quickly, he exceeded the critical speed in the nebula area, causing serious wear and tear on the external anti-radar coating of the Gold and Ensign No. 1.

"Boss, the cost of retreating this time is not small."

Back in the Sea of the Dead and into the boot session, Pan and Doris chatted in the captain's room again.

"Yes, the painting of the Gold and Ensign 1 will probably stop for a few days in Segeis. You haven't been back to Hong Kong for a long time, so take this opportunity to take a good rest. ”

"Well, I thought you were going to let me take the test."

Pan Wen shook his head: "I have high expectations for you, but there are some things that can't be forced, you can go when you feel ready." ”

Pan Wen hopes that Doris can become a boss-level captain like Pan Yue'er, but NPC level promotion is different from simple leveling, which means that the "world" has to use more resources for it, and the total amount of resources in the "world" is almost fixed in a short period of time, so not every expert-level NPC has the opportunity to go to the next level. Of course, Doris can get a boss-level license, of course, Pan Wen will make a lot of money, and if she can't get it, there is no way, at least her experience since she was hired has made her an experienced captain, and she is no longer the wheat girl who has never commanded the frigate at the beginning.

Doris stared at Pan Wen across the screen for a moment, then turned the conversation back to her experience with MR251: "It's strange to think about the surroundings of Hemer. ”

"Oh?"

"I always feel that there is some force that is prompting the bugs to produce new evolution, first D21, then E7, in my eyes, if the bugs have always had such a high evolutionary efficiency, they should have ruled the universe."

Pan Wen listened, frowned slightly, and asked, "Is it very high?" ”

"Of course it's high, Careda and they have a special statistical method for bugs, removing creatures that can't leave the birth range for a hundred kilometers in their lifetime, excluding fungal evolutionary circles and 'food', and in a few months, the number of recorded large-range bugs has increased from 120 to 132, and ten of the 12 new species have no natural enemies on the entire planet."

"Maybe it's the high incidence of mutations, maybe it's like this before the bugs turn to outer space to prepare for a trip."

After humans entered the galactic colonization period, they tortured each other with insects for a while, but by the end of the day, no one had figured out how many species of insects there were. Some scientists believe that each insect colony that has traveled to a habitable place is likely to behave as two completely different groups in the eyes of humans when the travel carrier redeveloped after experiencing localized adaptation, and the former is likely to behave differently in the eyes of humans. As for what kind of evolution will occur before the next stage of travel, no one knows what kind of evolution will occur before the swarm of insects living in the atmosphere, because the time for humans to enter space is too short compared to that of space-traveling creatures, and they have not had the opportunity to witness a swarm throwing a large number of spores into outer space.

Doris put on a puzzled expression and nodded as she expressed her doubts: "They all say so, and I kind of believe it." During this time, with the boss, I don't have to think about management and fighting, and I always feel a little suspicious when I think about it. ”

"Tell me about it." Pan Wen ignored Doris's complaints.

"D21 had a large flying creature with membranous wings, and it was still the same thing until I got back. However, when investigating E7, it was also found that flying creatures with very similar shapes and a higher degree of evolution were able to enter the Black Barrier area. I think we did a full survey when we first arrived at Hemer, and we didn't find anything at that time, so both birds evolved in the last few months. Doris spoke more and more slowly, and her brows furrowed tighter, as if she was organizing her language, "The bugs of D21 and E7 are the same ancestors, and if birds are bugs endemic to their species, shouldn't there be obvious evolutionary differences?" If not, then why did two planets with no atmospheres communicating evolve the same shape? The wind environment of D21 and E7 is completely different! ”

The black barrier area is generally between 80 and 90 kilometers to more than 200 kilometers above the ground, and there will be great differences according to the geomagnetic and mass of each rocky planet, but no matter how much it is different, this area is not the height that organisms in the atmosphere should fly to. The lack of oxygen and hypothermia in the black barrier area is mainly completely detached from food and life, and no matter how good the vision is, it will be obscured by even very thin clouds, which is definitely not a product of natural evolution.

It's not natural evolution, the two planets have the same species, and they are generally a certain branch of the swarm, but Doris's suspicion is very right, the information of the swarm's own branch is recorded on the travel carrier, and it should develop into the same shape at any place, and the color is different at most, and it is impossible to reflect such a large evolutionary gap in a short period of time.

"Maybe when you go again, the D21 birds will evolve into the same." It's a bit strange to say, but the two are just chatting, and Pan Wen doesn't take things too seriously, the evolutionary efficiency of insects is definitely higher than that of normal native species, and the fact that there is no convincing is speculation.

"Well, maybe I'm thinking too much. Boss, when are you going to go to Hemerstar again? ”

"Let's go on a trip when you're done with your vacation, it's almost a month by then, and the mercenaries over there at 241 may be looking for the gold number, so it's better to hang them down."

Pan Wen decided on the route very simply, the fleet has fewer ships, which is good, and there is no need to worry too much about the fuel cost of the hyperspace jump, not to mention that the energy system of the Golden has almost no cost in the jump. Of course, the players also made a contribution to this decision, although Pan Wen did not have conclusive evidence, but before returning to MR242, he was chased by the group of players from afar, saying that there was no strange plan for him to believe it.

Back in Seguis, a five-day holiday was announced, much to the delight of the crew who had not been in the harbor for more than three days in a long time.

Scardragon went to MR251, and the matter of repairing the anti-radar livery was left to the finance representatives to contact the other engineering teams. Pan Wen himself once again went into the dark room located in the basement of the service center to play tricks.

Two things, one is to replenish the fleet with an ensign-class frigate converted from the Cam X-VI. This thing could have been done earlier, when Pan Wen wanted to save money to do something big and held back, but in the D21 development case, he accidentally made a capital increase and lost more than 20,000 star coins in the family property, and this time he went to MR241 and spent a lot of effort to play money, and the funds were reduced compared to the previous departure, so he simply took down the second second lieutenant class, and after changing the fleet structure, the gold super cannon has a lot of firepower as an ordinary main gun, which is conducive to loading "weak" chickens.

The second thing is to officially get the next model of the overrun mecha.

Earlier, Pan Wen once wanted to abandon the gadgets of oversized mechas, but the recent troubles with players in MR241 made him change his mind.

Players may be because of the existence of the artifact "package", the demand for loot storage space does not seem to be very high, on the contrary, the number of fighters they are equipped with is higher than the normal standard, and recently Pan Wen also found that they are using more and more missile fighters!

As the name suggests, a missile fighter is a small aircraft with a support weapon missile/torpedo as the main weapon, limited by the reconnaissance capability of the fighter itself, the size of the missile equipped with it is much smaller than that used by the battleship, and the range is naturally slightly shorter, which is probably more suitable for a dense missile. There was a period in the history of warfare when missile fighters were popular, because the dense missile, even if the range was shorter, was much stronger than the "little dagger" equipped with the fighter, and it still maintained the advantage of physical weapons, ignoring shields and being more penetrating.

The fact that missile fighters did not end up in large numbers on the battlefield stemmed from several flaws.

One is the hit rate, as mentioned earlier, modern missiles are shielded from the attack of electromagnetic weapons and possible hacking methods, and all data input is completed before launch. However, the size of the dense missile is too small to reach the complexity of the outer wall required for electromagnetic shielding, so it will disappear after being launched for a long time.

If the former can be compensated for by increasing the number at a low cost, the following flaw is fatal, that is, the terminal penetration efficiency. Don't look at the small dense missile, in fact, its burst speed is not up to the level of modern conventional missiles, the end penetration of modern missiles is calculated by 10,000 km / second, close to the speed of separation, even a small free hydrogen molecule hit, it is explosive. The small size and mass of the dense missile at high speed led to a lack of stability, and the final speed and accuracy could not be balanced. With the gradual improvement of interception technology, dense missiles are unable to overcome congenital defects, resulting in their performance at the end of the attack on the battlefield becoming worse and worse, and orders will naturally plummet.

Players regain this kind of fighter that has been eliminated by the battlefield, and Pan Wen doesn't dare to say that they are second goods.

In the process of disintegrating an enemy ship, the overrun mecha group photographed a missile fighter that was not released at close range. From the analysis of the footage taken, the new missile fighter abandons the small cross-sectional and slender shape of the conventional fighter and adopts the airfoil bracket structure to mount the missile, and the missile used seems to be the conventional ship-based missile. Since there is no intensive use of missiles in order to launch a larger number, the defects of the missiles themselves do not exist, and the price paid is only that the fighters themselves cannot directly fight, and they are transformed into real support fighters.

It was this close-up picture that made Pan Wen change his mind.

In modern battles, it is difficult for warships to shoot the details of the opponent from 300,000 kilometers away, and the battle is based on digital positioning before the physical imaging is activated, and most of the pictures are restored by the host system according to the data of each ship stored in the database after obtaining enough information, which cannot be equivalent to the real-time situation of the opponent. And the dispatch of fighters will not have much effect, in addition to the enemy will use fighters to block, the survival rate of fighters on the battlefield depends on speed, and speed will lead to a slight imbalance in the lighter mass, their range is therefore unable to improve rather than weapon technology can not do, in the same way, the static picture also needs to be very stable, it is possible to shoot some small details tens of thousands of kilometers away.

This highlights the role of the Overrun Mechs - with shields, they can get very close to enemy ships, and even directly enter the secondary artillery interception zone when they are not in the range of the primary weapon, even if they are not stable enough, they can be close enough to take good pictures of the battlefield. This ability will be very useful in more and more complex battles in the future, such as being able to directly photograph some of the little guys who throw empty mines in spite of the interstellar convention, which cannot be detected by radar.

With the goal, the second-generation aircraft is no longer a simple equipment upgrade, Pan Wen hopes to position them as high-level scouts, the requirement is to be able to regularly enter a relatively static posture in the battlefield, and use ultra-high-definition graphic reconnaissance as an effective supplement to the battleship's digital reconnaissance system, and occasionally catch a little conspiracy that players don't know about. Of course, the ability to penetrate the engine system of a patrol ship with a few shots does not need to be abandoned.