The open area between galaxies was called the Void in ancient times, and the Ice Zone in the Galactic Age.

It is called the ice area, which is not simply due to temperature, but mainly because the natural celestial bodies tend to zero, and human beings cannot get any material help in the ice area. Without material supplies, there is basically no star energy, and nothing can be developed here except waiting for energy consumption, which is equivalent to an ice-covered area of the universe.

In terms of scope, if the space between the two star systems and them is a house, then except for the two star systems the size of a bottle cap, the rest are ice.

In an environment where there are basically no natural celestial bodies, it is not dangerous for ships to pass through ice areas, but the lack of reference objects makes navigation orientation very troublesome. It may sound a bit unusual, but the fact is that even if there is a standard star map that can identify the direction of the target, it cannot accurately locate its own position, and the angle calculation is impossible, and a slight deviation may cause the hyperspace jump to miss the target star field.

Pan Wen's fleet was now moving through the ice, preparing for the next jump.

This is the retreat that Pan Wen has thought of a long time ago, using the ice area to bypass the Blue Country and the Resistance Front, and directly return to the "bridgehead" where K11 is located.

The benefits of walking in the ice zone on the return trip are clear, firstly, the possible state of siege of the blue nation after the fleet is rubbed between CT154 and the blue fleet can be ignored, and second, the last stop of the departure does not need to venture into the blue circle of the resistance front. In the absence of time to collect loot, avoiding war is the first lesson that pirates have to learn.

The "bridge" between the KT cluster and the MR cluster, composed of K11 and MR243, is itself the periapsis of the two star clusters, and it is also a very obvious landmark in the Milky Way.

In addition to not being able to pinpoint one's position, there is another problem when using hyperspace jumps in the ice area - it is possible to jump dozens or even hundreds of light-years away from the predetermined point when jumping! The problem of skipping heads is ultimately due to the lack of natural and man-made objects in the ice area, which play a role not only in positioning, but also in their own gravity in modern hyperspace jumps.

To put it simply, if you make a hyperspace jump on a conventional shipping lane, the larger the energy output level, the farther you jump. In the ice region, the stellar gravity can basically be regarded as zero when it is in equilibrium, and the target is also a gravitational zone, so naturally there will be no quantum tunnel repulsion generated by gravity, which means that the quantum tunnel energy series opened by the jump has no relationship with the actual jump distance, and it is normal to not be able to stop the car.

Pan Wen's fleet had been stranded in the ice for six days, and it would take less than thirty hours to return to K11 from CT154 via the normal course if there was no fighting.

Now the fleet is operating the twenty-sixth jump after entering the ice area, and the navigator expressed confidence in reaching a measurable position, but because Pan Wen has heard this several times, he ignored it and told the deputy captain Nadezhda to maintain the synchronization rate of the fleet, and he still stayed in the captain's room to read the information.

If you want to return to the normal world from the ice region, you must be able to locate the fleet within five light-light years of any star system, that is, the measurable zone, before the final jump, in order to accurately jump back outside the main gravitational well of the star. There is also a method that is impossible for Pan Wen to die - let the crew go into hibernation, set a course and slowly fly back to the normal area.

In the ice area, the ship can increase the speed of the ship to above the departure speed and maintain the speed without any scruples, and can jump out of the frame to make ultra-long-distance jumps, but such and such problems make it impossible to use the ice area for military purposes under the existing technical state, and even if it is a smuggling ship, it is not willing to easily enter this dead land.

In more than 20 jumps, Pan Wen's fleet made five over-budget jumps, and in one case it was only close to changing the target to MR243, but the recomparison of the star map at that time showed that it was still at the edge of the KT cluster, so he did not risk jumping directly to another star cluster.

In this torturous situation, the fleet finally returned to K11 on the twenty-ninth jump.

“Yahhh!!!”“ Mom, I'm back! "It's nice to be able to see the stars directly!" "La-la-la-la!"

Although the crew members in the control rooms of each ship were very calm during the voyage in the ice area, in fact, the psychological counselors of each ship began to be busy as early as ten hours ago, and if they continued to delay in the ice area for a few days, it was difficult to say that no one would collapse, and the invisible enemy was always more terrifying.

"Well done everyone, I've informed the ships to lift the alcohol restrictions, and at the same time, your secrecy restrictions have also been lifted, and you can go and celebrate at any time after the shift change." After the crew in the control room had vented for a while, Pan Wen's voice sounded in the bridge control room through the radio speaker.

Confidentiality Restrictions...... Yes, all members of the fleet control center are forbidden to reveal the location of the fleet to other crew members until they see the K11 star, and a similar situation does not arouse suspicion among the crew, because there is also the same prohibition when entering the war zone, and even the marines who need to take risks will only have access to the location information when the mission is issued.

Pan Wen, who lifted the alcohol restriction for the crew in his mouth, was happy and distressed at the same time, and his mood was very complicated.

Happily, it took the fleet less than seven days to return to the normal world, much better than the worst he had planned. is distressed, because of the small money.

Except for the heavy cruiser Gold, which uses a fusion reactor as an energy supply when jumping, all other ships consume a lot of energy bars, and the average consumption of each jump is about fifty star coins, and five ships jumping down nearly thirty times is not a small amount of money, and a soldier-level cannon fodder frigate just jumped away!

If it weren't for Pan Wen's habit of hoarding supplies all along, the energy bars had piled up thousands of star coins on the Gold No. alone, and a large number of energy bars had been replenished before the trip because of the need for more than ten jumps on the scheduled reconnaissance route, and it might not be possible to get out of the ice area this time.

From the huge energy cost of the jump, you can understand why even the smuggling fleet is reluctant to enter the ice area, and in the face of a place where they can lose their entire wealth at any time, they would rather make less money and take the safe lane.

Although the level of energy reserves when he returned to K11 was low, after making a budget, Pan Wen still chose to change the route and go to the Resistance Front again, he was mentally prepared to lose money in reconnaissance operations, but he was still psychologically uncomfortable if he lost too much, and the slave trainees were still facing a large amount of exam expenses after obtaining their licenses, and they had to go to the guys in the blue country to get a little back.

The fleet is divided into two operations, and the Fat Dun led by Pan Yue'er returned to Segeis with the Heavy Hammer, with two tasks, one is to recover the missile ship and crew that went to the Haimo Star D21 satellite to send technical information, and of course, to confirm the situation in all aspects by the way, especially the progress of the news that Saigeis went to other people's homes to grab information.

Pan Yue'er was a boss-level captain before she was hired by Pan Wen, and she belonged to the second-level member, and she could still hear some gossip about the things of the heads, and Pan Wen, as a participant in the event, only needed some gossip to understand how far things had got. If you let Doris lead the team back, because Doris's membership level is lower, even if the gossip may be more than ten days ago, it is really worthless to pass the news back and forth more than ten days ago.

The four ships left behind in Pan Wen's fleet without the Fat Dun and the Heavy Hammer are all customized warships, which belong to modified ships, and the boss also has two among them, which should be counted as a powerful attack fleet, and most of the actual small-scale firefights are very short, and the energy consumption is very low. Therefore, he returned to the Resistance Front and tossed the Fat Dun and the Heavy Hammer to return from Segeis, and fought for more than ten days before returning to Segeis with a full load of booty.

Of course, being able to toss for so long is related to the low combat power invested by the blue country in the resistance front, compared to the bug occupation area of CT154, although the number of K7 and K8 fleets is more, but the average size is less than half of that side, plus the multinational armed presence of the resistance front, the frequency of fighting when the Panvin fleet cruises in the safer area outside the blue country jump circle is not high, and a few trophies cannot be recovered at a time. On the other hand, when all the capital ships are in the state of returning to the fleet, the fleet only has four reconnaissance ships and one missile ship, a total of five sub-ships, and these ships can be loaded separately, and there is indeed more space for accumulating trophies.

By the time the fleet returned to Segeis, thirty-five days had passed since the time of departure, and a month had passed, and many things had changed.

First of all, there has been a result about the fact that Segeis took advantage of the fire to rob and go to someone else's house to get technical information, because the on-site database was invaded by the robbery fleet on a large scale at that time, and no effective picture was left, and only a few people from the big league were caught, so the entire pirate group could not be accused on this basis, and in the end, it was the same as Pan Wenchai, and it could only be done after Segeis made some symbolic compensation, as for whether the big league was going to do black work to repay the debt, Pan Wen didn't care, because the negotiations had a final result, Prizes for participation in joint operations have also been put in place.

In fact, the prize of the joint action is the biggest thing for all participants is the enhancement of interpersonal relationships, and the value of the prize itself is not very high, which is higher than when the committee entrusted Pan Wen to dump the loot into the star base under construction at that time, and the prize on the side of the Interstellar Trade Friendship Alliance is mainly composed of points and materials, and the bonus part is also two thousand star coins, and there is also a bit of privilege that is useless to Pan Wen.

The part of the points,Before the overall involvement of Segeis in the war, it is basically useless except for the use of a small number of privileges when it consumes a fraction of the point,After that, the points will also have some exchange value fluctuations according to the overall material stock status of Segeis,According to the overall material reserve of Segeis, the purchasing power is equivalent to fifty percent of the weekday,The points of this reward are equivalent to five thousand star coins,Of course, it is definitely impossible to buy materials at weekday prices if you really buy money in wartime,So the actual equivalent of the points issued and star coins may have to rise by three to fifty percent。

The materials are still in the form of high-grade food, standard module armor and energy bars, due to the large amount and low cost when operating these things, it is cost-effective to use them as money for Saigeis, anyway, the entire batch of materials is equivalent to the existing price of about 8,000 star coins, which is almost twice the star-based reward, and the fuel also solves Pan Wen's urgent need.

In terms of privilege, it is to increase the voting quota for the first-level members participating in the joint operation, that is, one first-level member was originally counted as two votes, but now it is counted as three, which is not interesting for people like Pan Wen who go to the hearing mainly to understand the situation.

In addition, Pan Wen also has a personal reward - a person, a woman.

The origin of this reward goes back a long time ago, when Pan Wen provoked players in MR241 and caused players to invade the Segeis Jump Circle, and the mobile star base had to come to the fore. Later, when resisting a wave of counterattacks from players in the Imperial Jump Circle, Pan Wen was the temporary commander of the rear combined fleet, and this woman was the prize at that time.

The prize that can be distributed by Segeis through the committee,Naturally, it won't be just a random girl.,This woman is a completely artificial person.,In addition to herself, she also has a special mecha.,This thing can do galaxy scanning in a completely stationary state!! Galaxy scanning Pan Wen has almost played, but the size of the joint information system on the Gold does not need to be mentioned, put all the relevant components together, the volume is comparable to that of a corvette, and the size of the woman's mecha is comparable to that of the overrun mecha No. 00, and the volume is only comparable to that of a medium-sized fighter!

The function of the galaxy scanning mecha is very simple, just can do galaxy scanning, there is no direct combat ability, but it is also a very powerful thing, because there is no sale in the world, and it is a tactical-level information collector, and there is no problem in selling one or two hundred thousand star coins. The mecha Segeis spent a lot of money to entrust several companies to jointly develop it, and the function is not new, but the miniaturization is also a system project, according to the explanation of the committee member who distributed the prizes, it only arrived half a month ago, and there are only a dozen units in total. The mecha and the girl issued to Pan Wen are numbered 11.

Looking at No. 11, who had long silver hair and a good face, Pan Wen was a little injured.

Sister No. 11 said that it was useful, he had tasted a lot of the benefits of tactical-level information gathering, but the gold number already had this function, and the original version could also do scanning in a constant speed maneuver. Mecha can't do hyperspace maneuvering without a battleship, and Sister 11's ability seems to be only useful when Pan Wen's fleet is separated, but the separated fleet Pan Wen is definitely on the flagship, and the android won't listen to other people's commands, in fact, she will still be with Pan Wen because of the overlap of the flagship's functions.

Of course, the overlapping functions will not make Pan Wen hurt internally, even if it is a spare one, it is fine, what he is entangled with is that the No. 11 girl and the mecha are limited edition designated to be issued, whether it is to be sold in the market or given away, it is obviously not to give Segeis a high-level child, even if Pan Wen's fleet has more than two ships with galaxy scanning capabilities in the future, the No. 11 girl cannot be sold, it is a complete waste of resources!