Chapter 168 SOS Signals

On the 14th day of the seventh month of the fourth year of the ephemeris, the Starry Sky Cowboy spacecraft is flying towards the center of the Milky Way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Because the fleet previously broadcast the news of the existence of the Royal Fleet of the Brilliant Empire to the expedition group that went out, this made the cowboy team cautious and began to consciously move away from the empty star field and advance towards the dangerous Silver Heart.

Although it is the direction of the Silver Heart, the Starry Sky Cowboy is still tens of thousands of light years away from the Silver Heart. But even then, the environment has begun to get harsh. The warp engine could not be used continuously a long time ago, because the stars here were too dense, and the large number of stars that were too close together made the space here bend in a large scale, and the warp engine could not work normally. Otherwise, there are only two fates waiting for the Starry Sky Cowboy: first, running out of energy and drifting; Second, fly directly into the star.

It is precisely because of this that the cowboy squad chose such a route. Even Tier 7 warships sail here, and the warp engines are useless, and the only engines that can be used here are regular thrust engines and jump engines. The complex starry sky environment makes it difficult to locate the jump engine. Only an artificial intelligence like Qin Na can handle such a huge amount of data. The Glorious Empire does not have true artificial intelligence, and although the reason is unknown, their warships still use giant on-board computers to perform complex calculations.

This makes it more possible for the Starry Sky Cowboy to escape, even if it is discovered by the fleet of the Glorious Empire, the Starry Sky Cowboy can escape with a random jump. On the contrary, the wormhole generator of the seventh-level battleship can be accurately positioned, but thinking about the energy required to open the wormhole generator every time, Zhou Bocai and the others would not believe that the fleet of the Brilliant Empire had the interest and determination to catch up with such a small expedition ship as themselves.

It has been almost a year since the departure of the fleet. However, the long interstellar journey did not make many members of the Cowboy Squad impatient. Not to mention the bizarre and strange scenes along the way, that is, looking at a group of beautiful women on the spaceship, the cowboy team members are also immersed in the gentle countryside and can't help but think about it. The only depressed person is probably Zhang Wenhui, but it seems that she has also found a target recently and is frantically pursuing Zhou Bocai. However, it seems that it has not yet succeeded, and it is currently working on it. As the saying goes, there is no marriage that cannot be dissolved, only the junior who does not work hard, and recently Zhou Bocai has been constantly playing Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, whether it is a blessing for Qi people or something, it can be seen that Zhang Wenhui's hoe still has some effect, but he has to work harder.

Recently, Ding Weijian has been happy, Anna is pregnant. Now every day, everyone can see Ding Da Slut grinning stupidly at everyone, even when he sees the tree elves. This can make the tree elves who diligently take care of the orchard nervous, and I don't know what Ding Da Slut is thinking.

In order to be more conducive to the growth of the fetus, Ding Weijian and Anna have now moved to live in the ecological orchard of the Starry Sky Cowboy. The green environment is really refreshing. When everyone heard the news, they followed suit, making the ecological orchard more lively than the bridge. However, this made the dryads very happy, because if they wanted to eat fruit, they had to exchange it for candy.

Today's ecological orchard has become the second bridge of the Starry Sky Cowboy. To be honest, because of Qinna's existence, even from any corner of the spaceship, you can observe all the movements of the spaceship anytime and anywhere. The basic operation of the spacecraft is completely done by artificial intelligence, except for Zhang Jianwu and Zhang Wenhui, the two helmsmen who occasionally check the navigation log, that is, Zhou Bocai, as the captain, is a little more active, looking at the star map before going to bed every day, and by the way to determine the direction of the next step.

The boring long trip makes the members of the cowboy squad find ways to hold activities to pass the boring time, in addition to returning to their rooms to discuss life with their respective wives, they also hold various parties. There are so many kinds of parties that even a ship passing by a desolate planet can be celebrated. As of yesterday, the 101st birthday party of Ding Weijian's unborn child has been held in advance by these unobtrusive uncles and aunts.

A message reported by Qin Na interrupted the first birthday party of Zhou Bocai's third child (Mei Yu is not pregnant yet), and then made the Starry Sky Cowboy, which had been quiet for more than a year, uneasy. No way, the news was too shocking, it was a fleet-wide distress signal, and it was sent by an expedition team called 'Woodpecker Squad'. The signal was sent to the Golden Crow fleet via a sub-light speed communicator, and was intercepted by the passing Star Cowboy.

Sub-light communication? I'm afraid thousands of years have passed by the time the fleet receives it! And the Starry Sky Cowboy can only receive such information can only show one problem - the incident site is very close to the Starry Sky Cowboy, and in the way of rushing to jump 60 light years at a time, I am afraid that the incident site is only a short jump distance from the Starry Sky Cowboy, or even less than two light years!

"Qinna, the spacecraft stops moving forward and conducts a comprehensive inspection of the Starry Sky Cowboy, especially the hyperspace communicator, to see if there is any interference," Zhou Bocai commanded solemnly.

"The ship has conducted a side self-check before receiving the information, and has not found any anomalies. And I also used the spacecraft's subspace scanning radar to scan the surrounding space in detail, and it showed that everything was normal," Qin Na replied.

"Can you determine where the Woodpecker team is?" Zhou Bocai asked.

Zhou Bocai had heard of the name of the woodpecker team, that is, they discovered the first energy spar deposit, and since then they have been in the first echelon of many expeditions of the Golden Crow fleet, although there is no sensational discovery like the cowboy team and the bull team, but everything is also decent.

And their expedition ship, the Woodpecker, is very powerful, it is a real battleship, not a modified version like the Star Cowboy. The experimental warship originally designed and built by Boeing was bought back by the woodpecker team at a high price because the Golden Crow fleet did not officially purchase it. It was a real sixth-tier battleship, and it was a military-grade battleship in its own right.

And the Woodpeckers are not like the Cowboy Squad and the Bulls Squad who take the elite route, they are more like a small mercenary group, and although they are called expeditions, their members are actually more than thousands. Coupled with their powerful multi-purpose battleship carrier (if you are interested, please refer to Chapter 62), even if you encounter a large slave hunter group, you can fight. Such a strong team is in danger, of course, let Zhou Bocai and them be cautious. Now the team members are all dragging their families, no one wants to take risks anymore, and everything is better to be safe.

"Judging from the results of the subspace scan, the signal source is from a galaxy 1.2 light-years away," Qin Na said as she played the scanned star map in front of everyone.

Very common star systems, no different from other galaxies that everyone encounters. There are five stars not far apart around the entire galaxy to maintain a fragile balance, there are no rocky planets in the star system, even if there are few giant planets, even if there are giant planets like Jupiter in the early days of galaxy formation, over time, all the material has been plundered by the five stars. Even if it does, there is still a large amount of stellar gas passing between the five stars. Four stars are constantly robbing the mass of a smaller star, and perhaps in tens of millions of years, the smallest star will stop its nuclear fusion reaction and become a brown dwarf because its size is reduced to a threshold, and the number of stars in the entire star system will become four.

However, there are many asteroid belts in the galaxy, very many, which can almost be described as extremely rich. At the gravitational equilibrium of the five stars, a large number of huge asteroid belts are piled up there, and their material richness is comparable to that of a dozen rocky planets like Earth. Perhaps these asteroids are the remains of rocky planets that have been separated by the gravitational pull of stars.

"Maybe the woodpeckers got to this star system because of these asteroid belts? It's a bonanza indeed! Zhou Bocai looked at the material density in the star map and said with emotion.

"What are we going to do?" Ding Weijian asked with a frown.

"Of course, I've gone to see it, but it's better to be careful. Qinna, release the drone and hummingbird probe, and explore the path of the spacecraft 1.5 billion kilometers ahead. In addition, the jump engine is charged, and it jumps immediately if something happens. Third, the hyperspace communicator is turned on to maintain contact with the fleet and immediately send a distress signal to the fleet when nothing is possible. The ship slowly moves towards the target system at sub-light speeds."