This is a scene that Natsume Zigui has never seen before, magnificent and wonderful.

It was as if he had come to the end of the universe, and the space was gradually compressed into a line, which stretched out like a river of light in front of him, extending to the left and right endlessly.

The river of light is rippling, not dazzling, in fact, it is not close to the distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and it is impossible to find that the edge of the star gate will be this magnificent skyscape similar to the Great Wall of Photons.

Natsume Zigui had seen such a light wave, and a year ago, on the Ammen's spaceship, Xia Ming rushed towards the mutant leader, and such a scene occurred between the two.

System Officer Reports: "Very Intense ...... Radiation"

That being said, his tone is lighthearted: "The strength has reached 17% of the load line. ”

Although their Warhammer destroyer is an early model, the shell is still ordinary titanium alloy and ceramic coating, but the cockpit is wrapped in several layers of metamaterial, and the ability to resist cosmic rays and nuclear radiation is tens of thousands of times that of human spaceships in the previous era. Even if the neutron bomb exploded next to the hull of the ship, it would not hurt them.

Then the system officer's tone changed to confusion: "It is moving away from us at a speed of 290 kilometers per second. ”

"You don't think we're really going to get close to that line, do you?"

"It looks like it's a line, but it's actually a space, and we're being pushed away by the gravitational pull of that space," said the weapons officer. ”

"Gravity? Pushed? The system officer frowned, which subverted his common sense.

The weapons officer said, "Hasn't your physics knowledge base been updated?" The gravitational force of discontinuous space is repulsive. ”

"From the level of the thinking strings, the part of the stargate where we are located follows the movement of the orderly strings, and the rest of the stargate follows the movement of the chaotic strings, and the two are also mutually exclusive."

Natsume Ziki gave a supplementary explanation, and then ordered the spacecraft: "Saury 1, turn to the north pole of the ecliptic, follow the polar axis due north, accelerate to the search speed and turn off the engine." ”

Spaceship GEI replied in a mechanical female voice, "Saury 1 received." ”

"Asaury 2, due west along the polar axis, Asaury 3, due east of the polar axis, pay attention to the silence of the engine and radar," Natsume said to the two wingships about 1,000 kilometers away to the left and right, "If I sense correctly, the target is within a radius of less than 10 light seconds, so if you find it, immediately adjust the direction and don't continue to approach." ”

The three warhammers were scattered in three directions, they belonged to the 31st Squadron of the Asaury, but now they were the 31st Squadron of the 4th War Group. It was on a voyage mission, closest to the place of the incident, and was assigned as an outpost for the advance team.

Nearly 1 hour later, the saury 2 sent a communication: "Squadron leader, the string sensor has responded, but we haven't seen what it is, can we turn on the radar scan?" ”

The system officer sincerely admired: "The squadron leader is worthy of being the golden top in LV3, and the positioning is so accurate. ”

It is already 1 billion kilometers away from the Siyuan space station, far beyond the precise range that can be depicted by the stargate positioning system, and the position notification only has vague data, but according to the relative position map depicted by Xia Ming himself, Natsume Zigui still relied on his outstanding consciousness gyroscope ability to accurately bring the outpost detachment to the vicinity of the target.

"It's not as good as Wu Jun of the 08 squadron", Natsume Zigui humbled himself, and then responded to the saury No. 2: "Continue to move silently until the passive sensor ......"

Before the words fell, a chaotic voice sounded on the channel 2.

"The speed is wrong! We're falling! ”

"There's massive objects pulling us! See! I see it! ”

"What's that? It's huge! ”

"Squadron Leader! Request to start the engine, emergency maneuver! ”

A warhammer that can hold the speed of the search, how big will that thing be!?

Natsume Zigui suddenly sweated: "Request approval!" Get out of the way! The radar can also be turned on, and the information will be sent right away! ”

"Hurry! Pull it up! ”

"It's moving! What it launched! Damn, we were hit! ”

"The radar and sensors are broken, shoot the robot out!"

On the screen, No. 2 rotated violently, spilling out a large pile of parts and fragments, and in the earphones, it was the exclamation of the three crew members of No. 2, and Natsume Zigui's heart suddenly tightened.

"Catapult! Hurry up and eject! ”

Hearing that the crew of No. 2 still wanted to control the battleship, Natsume Zigui urged them. The elongated front end of the battleship was broken, and there were multiple cracks in the rear end, and the engine was completely out of place, and there was no way to save it.

The bottom end of the battleship exploded into a circle of flames, the mushroom-like bottom separated from the front end, the cockpit in the shape of water droplets came out of it, and the small ion engine in the tail dragged the blue flame and accelerated away with the three crew members.

On the canopy behind the survivors, there is a terrifying picture of Natsume Shigui.

It was a celestial body estimated to be larger than the Moon, with a non-regular spherical outline, a dark green surface with a little bright reflection, possibly ice.

What is scary is not its strange hues and reflections, but dense, at least hundreds or even thousands of kilometers long tiny branches, or tentacles are waving, and the saury 2 is being drawn apart by such tentacles.

"The target is not moving......"

The system officer's voice is also a little out of tune, and this thing just needs to look at it, and you know that it is countless times more powerful than the mutant borg.

"No. 3 is going to contain No. 2's cockpit, we're going to get closer and observe, and the information available will be sent back immediately."

When Natsume Zigui spoke, she noticed that her legs were trembling slightly.

On May 22, the avant-garde group led by Su Yu joined up with the advance team and set up a surveillance network near this strange celestial body.

"Natsume, your squadron is doing well, Saury 2 is right, you got a medal just after the establishment of the army. Well, the boss hasn't decided what the name of the medal should be. ”

Su Yu praised the outpost that had made great contributions, and then thanked Natsume Zigui for his deep bow that still couldn't be changed.

Disconnecting the communication, she sighed again: "If this is the case, the head will be a little embarrassed." The whole army attacked, with high blood, but what they came to do was to collect corpses. ”

The current situation is as Su Yu said, although this monster celestial body is wielding hundreds of millions of tentacles, it is incapacitated. The drone equipped with high-power terahertz radar came to a close distance of 10,000 kilometers and swept it inside and out, and its response was only to try to catch the drone with its tentacles. Even if the tentacles can't reach it, they persevere, and the feeling is just the nerve reflex of a low-level creature.

Judging from its internal structure, it is indeed a low-level creature. Countless half-meter-diameter, nerve-like connective tissues are stacked on top of each other, connected by "nerves" similar to plant fibers, and encased in some kind of mucus, or jelly-like gel, and the outer layer is keratinized, carbonized, or even calcified.

That's right, it's a biological planet!

Stargate is the most magical place in the universe, and everyone is mentally prepared to face all kinds of strange existences, but when they really face a biological celestial body that is larger than the moon, the shock is still indescribable.

Fortunately, it was just shock, not panic.

Not only is this thing unconscious and unable to move, but more importantly, its chaotic strings are very low in strength, completely out of match for its size, and a little stronger than the large mutated creature that mutated the Borgri in the first place.

After getting Xia Ming's permission, Su Yu also ordered the fleet to make some tentative attacks on this biological planet. The Warhammer Destroyer's railgun can effortlessly penetrate its shell, and the shells go all the way down to more than ten kilometers, but this is meaningless. This planet has no heart, no core, and not even organs.

The biological planet reacts to the attack, but only swings its tentacles faster. Everyone is glad that if this thing can move and launch something into space, then there is really no effective way to do it except continue to attack with hydrogen bombs from the first war.

On June 2, the Golden Crow led the main formation to arrive, although the relevant information had been received on the road, but seeing such an existence with his own eyes, Xia Ming also had a little scalp tingling.

In the optical bridge on the back of the Golden Crow, Xia Ming and a slender figure stood side by side, looking through the porthole at the creature planet with a faint silhouette in front of them.

Xia Ming asked, "Do you have any new discoveries?" ”

Qianyi tilted her head, squinted her eyes, savoring something, and after a long time, she nodded: "It's strange that its current chaotic string movement is in the process of disintegrating, and it is structurally incomplete......"

Xia Ming sighed: "Speak human words." ”

After Qianyi supported the high-dimensional space-time fragments, he recovered a lot of his former "memories", and the knowledge contained in these memories was difficult for Xia Ming to understand for a while, and Qianyi's thinking was different from him, and he could only rely on this synthetic person to communicate deeply through human thinking.

Qianyi explained, "It's dead, and it's not a whole entity. ”

Xia Ming gasped, isn't he a complete individual!? How big would that whole individual be!?

And, since it's dead, how can it still respond to stimuli?

"Even in low-dimensional space-time, even for humans on Earth, death is a process, not a point in time without thickness. This is a high-dimensional space-time, and for such a large individual, the death process will be very long. ”

Qianyi's words were very reasonable, Xia Ming said that he had been taught, and then asked, "What is its ontology?" And why did you die here? ”

"I don't know", Qian Yi shook his head: "My understanding of high-dimensional space-time, except for the laws left by the core will, is limited to the part of the area I guarded after the disintegration of high-dimensional space-time. What happened elsewhere, I don't know, and I don't fully understand. I just know that this thing must be a mutant as well, and it's another failed attempt I made. ”

Xia Ming frowned, and a huge sense of crisis surged in his heart.

If what Qianyi said is correct, this biological planet itself is not terrible, what is terrible is that there are two layers of threats behind it.

First of all, the body of this biological planet, just this part in front of you, if you are alive, if you don't find an effective way, even if you add Younas, even if you use a hydrogen bomb, you may not be completely sure to destroy it. How terrible would that be if you changed to this body!?

Secondly, what kind of existence would it be if such a terrible existence was also cut off? It's just that the natural movement of high-dimensional space-time is okay, if it's another failed experiment, human beings are probably not as good as ants in front of it.

"Can you stop the expansion for a while, or can you precisely control the direction of the expansion and avoid this area?"

Xia Ming's first thought was Qianyi's side, let her stop first, and buy a little time.

Qianyi shook her head: "I understand what you mean, but the direction of expansion you are talking about, for me, there is no such concept." From the macro perspective of your human beings, my expansion is not an outward extension, but rather the digestion of one fragment and the next fragment will come to me. ”

Is this just moving your mouth and not stretching out your hand, Xia Mingxin said, it seems that you can add a lazy attribute to Qianyi.

"So you can stop scaling first?"

"It can be done, but according to my calculations, it's not worth the cost."

"How?"

"This fragment that has just been digested has such an existence, and the next fragment is likely to encounter its essence, and even more terrifying existence will appear, they should have sensed my existence. If they do nothing, they may have the ability to break through my barriers, and at that point, not only you, but even I will not be able to resist. ”

Xia Ming's heart was shocked, and he instantly had a lot of inferences: "You mean that the ontology of the biological planet in front of you may have a clear consciousness?" Isn't this a mechanic that goes against the chaotic strings? ”

The reason why the mutant Borg was unable to break through the barrier of Qianyi was not only because the strength of the chaotic strings was not high, but also because the mutation of the Amsians was not complete, not only was the single thinking completely reduced to the level of low-level creatures, but also the real bee colony structure was not formed, and group consciousness appeared. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Qianyi to squat at the exit of the human race.

Judging from the mechanism of the encroachment of chaotic strings on thinking, it seems that group consciousness is also impossible. If you apply the faction setting of your egg, the chaotic strings are like the power of chaos, the force that completely destroys the order.

"The chaos at the bottom does not mean that it will not bring rationality at the top, but such rationality is only reflected in the acceleration of entropy increase", Qianyi's explanation sounded profound, but Xia Ming immediately understood.

The mutation of the chaotic strings to the thinking is not all chaos, and the deeper mutation will be a kind of rationality, the rationality of destruction, just like not thinking about one's own mission, one's own meaning of existence, one's own value, and all the code hides the Skynet of the command of "destroying mankind".

Skynet, which does not conform to logic and does not conform to the development route of EI, does not exist in reality, but this kind of destruction movement built by chaotic strings is a real threat.

If this kind of conscious, rational mutation breaks through the barrier of a thousand memories, then everything is really over.

Xia Ming asked again: "What you said outweighs the losses, can you come up with something substantial?" ”

"I still need to do some preparation......"

Qianyi didn't elaborate, Xia Ming didn't ask anymore, hoping that she could bring some surprises.

Now the task is to deal with the biological planet in front of you.

Younas's fleet was still halfway there, and Xia Ming informed them of the situation, but he wasn't prepared to wait for them to arrive. Since this thing is in the process of "dying", it is enough to deal with it with its current strength.

Even, just the Golden Crow can do it.

Unlike the Warhammer destroyer, the small cockpit is a rescue pod, and the whole ship carries more than 260 people.

According to the design idea of the Star Alliance, it is very dangerous for so many people to be crowded on one ship, but for a warship as large as the Golden Crow, the crew is pitiful.

These people are not only responsible for the maintenance of space reactors, radars, communications, and power systems, but also a complete set of fleet communications and command teams. The cruiser also undertook the front-line support mission of destroyers and assault ships, and had to be taken care of by someone for supplies, repairs, and medical care.

The combat system of the Golden Crow itself must also be operated, and there are hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on board, as well as transport planes for transportation, and broadside battles will also be carried out when necessary, for which a ship-accompanying marine detachment has also been set up.

The command bridge buried in the center of the hull covers an area of hundreds of square meters, and although there are more than a dozen people crowded, it is already a very spacious place in the battleship of the Star Alliance.

Xia Ming returned to the command bridge, sat in the command seat in the center, and gave the order: "Weapons officer, transfer the fire control system to me." ”

The weapons officer replied, "Yes! The fire control system is transferred to the captain! ”

The GEI report of the Golden Crow: "The Golden Crow confirms that the fire control system has been taken over by the ship's captain. ”

The Golden Crow is scheduled to be loaded with three main weapons, one is the DN-800 high-power electromagnetic railgun, which can launch a 20-ton projectile at 60 times the speed of sound, which is enough to destroy half a city if it bombards the surface. The weapon's orbit is 200 meters long, which is why the Golden Crow has an elongated front end, similar to the fuselage of a fighter jet.

The other two weapons are on the left and right sides of the battleship, and they also look like fighter air intakes, but these two spaces are still empty, and the ion cannon (not the particle cannon or the positive electron cannon) codenamed "Void Storm" is under development.

Now the weapons controlled by Xia Ming through the attached intelligence Xia Xiaoyan are only DN-800 railguns, and 20 DN-200 railguns, which are the same models as those carried on the Warhammer destroyer, in addition to about 40 laser cannons of all sizes.

The biological planet ahead is still in the process of dying, and the movement of the tentacles is just a stress response to intact nerves. What Xia Ming wants to do is to speed up its death process, and in order to do so, it is necessary to destroy the nerve connectors that have not completely died.

Closing his eyes and sensing with all his strength, the biological planet was like a pomegranate that had peeled off its skin and had rotted in Xia Ming's consciousness. There were still some particles in it that were still active, and the dim red light contrasted sharply with the gray tissue next to it.

Lock......

With Xia Ming's adjustment, the huge hull of the Golden Crow made a deft maneuver, approaching a place 10,000 kilometers away from the biological planet. The front muzzle was aimed at one of the most active and largest nerve connectors.

The GEI of the Golden Crow issued a warning to the crew: "Prepare for the impact!" ”

Launch......

Xia Ming's mind moved, Xia Xiaoyan faithfully passed the command to the fire control system, the front end of the battleship spewed out an orange flame, and the battleship with a mass of up to 600,000 tons pushed by the recoil also shook a little, but under the adjustment of GEI's engine, the maneuver of the battleship was not affected.

It took nearly 10 minutes for the shell to fend off the planet, silently penetrating the surface, passing over countless fibers like giant trees, and bombarding nerve connectors hundreds of kilometers from the surface. This "sarcoma", which was stacked with tiny spheres and a diameter of several hundred meters, was instantly shattered.

In consciousness, a red dot disappeared, and it was clearly visible that a large tentacle on the surface of the planet withered and drooped.

"Next ......"

Xia Ming continued, although he didn't want to admit it, but it felt really good to fight such a cannon. (To be continued.) )