Aden, the continent of Frost, the main base of the Earth Federation's interstellar manned expeditionary fleet.

The fleet command, at the moment, is extremely busy. But everyone did their best to keep quiet. Because, in the main control room of the Wanhu across the wall, all the officers of the fleet above the rank of lieutenant general gathered together and held an annual situation summary meeting.

Lin Feng was dressed in the uniform of a federal general, sitting in the chairman's position, smiling, listening to the reports of each general.

Since the destruction of that alien battle fortress six years ago, no similar invasion has been detected in the airspace around Aden. This allowed the fleet to have a relatively peaceful environment for development. Although Wang Renjian's unexpected defection plunged the fleet into chaos for a long time, under the full screening of Wang Renze, Zhang Zhichao and others, the remnants of Ke Nan and Wang Zikai hidden in the fleet have all been wiped out. The chaos was also resolved half a year later.

Thinking of Wang Renjian, Lin Feng's mood at the moment was already very calm. Although he knew that Wang Renjian had endured it for so many years, and even did not hesitate to bow his eyebrows in front of him in order to gain trust, he must have secretly formulated a set of plans to deal with himself, and he believed that his means of revenge would be quite intense. But he is not muddy, not to mention his own strength, not to mention the continuous improvement, the entire fleet has also been greatly enhanced.

Thinking of his own strength, Lin Feng was also a little helpless. He felt that his strength was constantly improving, but because there was no standard to use as a reference, he couldn't tell exactly what level he had reached. He only remembered that once, without wearing any protective equipment, he ran the Lin Horizontal Practice Method and stayed on a meteorite near Aden for ten minutes! And there was no discomfort afterwards!

Lin Feng's fingers tapped lightly on the conference table regularly, and his mind gradually shifted from the reports of the generals to the changes in the fleet in recent years.

It has now been six years since Wang Renjian defected. It's not that he doesn't know that these six years are equivalent to giving Wang Renjian a chance for development. If he was allowed to join forces with those family forces, he would cause great trouble for himself and the fleet. But the situation at that time really did not allow him to catch up desperately and make a complete break with Wang Renjian. One was that the distance was too far for it to catch up, and the other was that the fleet was going through a mess and needed to be put in order.

Fortunately, in the past six years, with the efforts of everyone in the fleet, the strength of the fleet has also been greatly improved.

The improvement of strength is first of all due to the smelting of a large number of unique metals such as YA and YB. After these metals are alloyed with crystalline steel, their superior properties greatly exceed people's expectations. Whether it is its hardness, melting point, resistance to extreme temperature differences, compressive strength, and ductility, it is much stronger than the original material.

Using these high-quality metal materials, people have created more advanced starships and various types of combat ships. More and more new medium starships have joined the combat sequence. Counting, plus the great gift from the Rockefeller family, the fleet now has nearly a thousand medium-sized starships, and each newly built starship is manufactured according to the new standards, and the external armor of the hull is all made of YA crystal steel alloy. Coupled with the energy shield supported by the source energy, its defense has been enhanced several times; In terms of shipboard weapons, each starship is equipped with hundreds of small and medium-sized combat ships, dozens of medium-sized shaped cannons, 12 small annihilation cannons, and tens of thousands of space shuttles and land mechs! Other words. Both in space and in land warfare, the fleet now has the capital of the First World War.

At the same time, after six years of large-scale development. Most of Aden's source energy resources have become the fleet's reserves. Source energy resources have basically replaced nuclear energy and become the main source of energy for the fleet. All starships have been modified with Source Engines, and all weapons are also recharged with Source Energy. This significantly increases the combat effectiveness of the weapon. However, in order to allow the giant beasts in the Sekkender Continent to continue to maintain the speed of evolution, Lin Feng and Xiao Jin decided to maintain the status quo after discussing the source energy in the sinkhole. And that shuttle served as a research base for the fleet's armament department. Through the continuous research of Chen Dali and others for several years, they have basically mastered the principle of its construction, and have begun to verify and manufacture the test ship, and strive to put it into use as soon as possible. After all, there are only two years left before the ten-year appointment with Xiao Jin.

"Well, there's only two years left. Time is running out. It's time to launch an action against the major families in the solar system!" Lin Feng's thoughts once again turned to this major action that he had been planning for a long time.

An expedition to the solar system is imperative! Not to mention that the family forces are not dead, it is absolutely impossible to give up the resources of Aden just like that, even if it is to improve the overall strength of the fleet, it is necessary to return in order to recruit more warriors and interstellar immigrants. Only in this way can the strength of the fleet make another leap forward in a short period of time.

It can be said that although the number of starships in the fleet has increased considerably, the personnel who can carry out operations are quite limited. Based on the calculation of 50,000 people on board a starship, 50 million soldiers are needed for a thousand starships! And now the total population of the fleet is less than 20 million! If you are full of calculations, what can be converted into actual combat power is only 10 million! In other words, the current Lin Feng already has enough swords in his hands to kill the enemy, but there is no one who kills the enemy with a sword!

Moreover, the development of Aden is now on track. And in order for it to be of maximum value, it is necessary to make a large-scale migration to this place, so that these immigrants can build their beautiful new homeland.

At the same time, the factors that prompted Lin Feng to begin to consider putting this action into practice were more critical to the major progress in the research of the "Stargate" space channel exciter.

In fact, in a broad sense, the annihilation cannon is a space weapon. Use huge energy to destroy the stability of space, and effectively kill the enemy by creating space shock or disorder. However, the energy of the Annihilation Cannon is too weak, and it only creates a small area of spatial disorder with a limited duration. The "Stargate" space channel uses hundreds of millions of times the energy of a small annihilation cannon to forcibly break through the barrier of space, create a huge annular channel similar to a closed electromagnetic field, and continuously provide energy to maintain the stability of the channel. Vehicles can break through the speed of light in such a channel, which greatly reduces the time of interstellar flight.

Depending on the energy level of the exciter, the flight speed in the "Stargate" also has different levels.

The lowest level is the red level, which can reach the speed of light, and then the orange level, which is ten times the speed of light, reaching three million kilometers per second! In other words, in such a space channel, it only takes less than half a year to cross the distance of 4.5 light-years from Aden! The yellow level, on the other hand, is a hundred times the speed of light, and so on. Theoretically, as long as the energy is abundant and the bearing capacity of the vehicle is sufficient, its speed can be increased infinitely in such a space channel. This speed beyond the speed of light is called warp speed. Of course, this is only theoretical data. In fact, limited by the problems of hull materials and source energy reserves, the limit that the fleet can reach now is the green level, that is, 10,000 times the speed of light, measured by the warp speed, that is, the warp speed of the fifth level. And it is only in the validation phase, the danger of which has yet to be assessed.

Even so, it made Lin Feng extremely excited. It turns out that in the face of technology, all authority is used to bring down, and everything is possible! Now, humanity's speed has finally broken through the speed of light and allows exploration in a wider universe. This is undoubtedly a milestone breakthrough in the history of human science and technology!

For this technological breakthrough, Lin Feng is full of gratitude and admiration for Chen Dali! In the past six years, Chen Dali and his wife Catherine have completely regarded the sinkhole as their home, soaking in the shuttle ship all day long, repeatedly dismantling, measuring, entering data, and building digital models, and are very busy, until the experimental machine first verifies the test and does not see the sunlight outside. It can be said that Chen Dali perfectly explained to Lin Feng what it means to be a brother! He also fulfilled his original promise, followed his boss, and went to the soup and fire, and did not give up!

"Now that the strength of the fleet has taken a qualitative leap, and distance is no longer an unsolvable problem in front of us, let's start the first step now!" (To be continued......)