In the dark void, a powerful warship dragged a ring gate with a diameter of 12 kilometers, and it seemed to be flying slowly and quickly towards the solar system at a speed of 6,000 kilometers per second, and this speed was still increasing!

According to the military's calculations, the accelerating stargate will eventually reach a high speed of 60,000 kilometers per second, that is, about one-fifth of the speed of light, and it will take more than 60 years to fly from its original position to the solar system.

However, all human spaceships, including warships, cannot reach the perverted speed of 60,000 kilometers per second at a normal speed, and at such a high speed, it is difficult for any spacecraft to get close to the stargate, let alone reach the Orion Nebula through the stargate.

Moreover, human beings have not invented the legendary super protection means of protective shields, and the conventional speed of warships is too fast, and once there is an unexpected situation ahead, they can't dodge. Moreover, the current conventional speed is sufficient, especially under the premise of the continuous maturity of faster-than-light technology, there is no need for human beings to increase their conventional speed.

Therefore, the military's plan to "transport" the stargate was met with unprecedented opposition, and finally had to change the plan and set the maximum speed of the transportation at 6,000 kilometers per second on the breakup ridge - this speed is nine minutes slower than a turtle crawling on a long cosmic scale, and the distance of more than ten light years takes more than 600 years!

What is the concept of more than 600 years?

More than 600 years ago, in the 17th century, mankind was still struggling to find a ray of light in ignorance and ignorance, the great geographical discoveries were coming to an end, and colonialism was in the ascendant. Newton discovered the gravitational force and the three laws, and the Ming Dynasty, which led the world, was in decline, and the bloody Jurchens entered the Central Plains, bringing about a dark age of more than 200 years, which is about to drag down the splendid Chinese civilization for more than two centuries......

No one can predict what will become of the Anthropocene realm in 600 years, and some pessimists even doubt that the stargate will not wait for the day when it will be transported to the solar system, and it will be extinguished directly due to some accident in these 600 years!

In any case, Stargate is still on the road to the solar system, as for what the future holds. Let's let future generations have a headache.

In the blink of an eye, another two years have passed. The Outer Bone Man suffered heavy losses under the joint efforts of humans and mechanical civilizations, and within the effective control of both sides, there had been no trace of the Outer Bone Man for more than a year, and there were only a few alarms. Only a few scattered biological warships were found. One battleship can do it.

Eliminated the enemies that once threatened the entire Anthropocene realm. Mankind's energy has shifted from all-out war to internal construction, and the fleets of the United States, Russia, and Europe are frantically developing outwards and making every effort to open up the universe. It's just that two years is too short. The United States, Russia, and Europe, which are developing in three directions, have still not been able to find any habitable planets -- as early as 200 years ago, mankind sent out dozens of candidate planets that may have a habitable environment, but the few that are relatively close to the earth are all occupied by the Chinese side, and other potential forces can only continue to advance into the far sky.

Originally, Gliese 370 in the constellation Sails, Gliese 163 in the constellation Swordfish, and HD4030 in the constellation Easel each had a candidate planet, but the Americans rushed to Gliese 370, 36 light-years away from Earth, only to find that there was only a low-temperature terrestrial planet that was much more desolate than Mars before the transformation.

The luck of the Russians was not much better, the planet of Gliese 163 was too big, and it was a gaseous planet, and there was no possibility of even remodeling.

Only Europeans were lucky enough to opt for HD4030, an orange dwarf star with six planets, which was just over six light-years away from the Sun more than 400,000 years ago, but now it is 42 light-years.

Its mass and diameter are about three-quarters the size of the Sun, and the distance between the sixth planet and the star is roughly equal to one astronomical unit!

In every way, HD4030 is like a planet with life, and after a preliminary survey by the European fleet, it was found that this planet has a complete supply ecosystem!

This is the fifth planet with an ecosystem discovered by humans, and the ecstatic Europeans have been reveling for more than a month, and they can't wait to start the journey to develop a colony star.

But the long voyage of more than a year each way soon became bitter for the Europeans, and the mass emigration had to learn from the Chinese experience and exile countless criminals to this new star, and until enough immigrants arrived, the European fleet stationed there could only do some scientific work.

The Europeans conducted a large-scale scientific research on this planet that was ordered to be the new Europe, but no one expected that their expedition would actually find some fossils of higher animals and plants, and the study found that the genes of these animals and plants were no different from those of the earth's creatures, and some of them were even identical!

The discoveries in New Europe shocked the world, and although some people believed that the news was false, no one could argue with the overwhelming evidence.

However, this was only the beginning, the European fleet carried out a comprehensive exploration of New Europe through a series of means such as ground penetrating radar, and found that the mineral resources of this planet are very limited, and more detailed field investigation found that all the mining areas seem to have traces of mining.

At the same time, biological research has once again achieved significant results, the scientific expedition team found human skeleton fossils in the rock formations of New Europe, and after measuring DNA, it was found that the genetic composition of these fossils is very similar to that of ancient Homo sapiens.

Such a discovery went beyond pure science, and the European fleet immediately closed all the research results and quarantined all those in the know, and reported the news to the European Joint Parliament as soon as possible.

The anxious communications personnel of the European fleet forgot the fact that all communications had to go through the Chinese communications center, and as a result, the Chinese side received the news a little earlier than in Europe.

What happened to the discovery of human fossils near a star that once appeared near the solar system?

It is important to know that there have been unexplained evolutionary faults in the history of human evolution. The discovery of the new Europe has given all the scholars involved unlimited room for reverie.

Because it does not involve human safety, the relevant news soon spread to the people, there have been many speculations about human civilization in the history of the earth, many people believe, believe and superstitious, there have been times in ancient times that are comparable to or even surpass modern civilization, and the human fossils found in the new Europe are the traces left by those civilizations sailing to the stars.

The inference is very reasonable, but until more evidence is found, it is still just an inference, for the average person. It's just an after-dinner pastime.

The military does not care if there is a certain human civilization that flew through the vast expanse of space in ancient times. The military is only concerned with the extinction of humanity in the new Europe, or the extinction of humanity in the new Europe if the "theory of ancient civilizations" is true.

For this reason, the Chinese side did not hesitate to send an inspection team to join the new European inspection, and by the way, help the Europeans transport a group of exiled criminals - this is just an official statement. In fact, the transport of exiled criminals is one of the conditions put forward by the European side for China to join the study.

Secretly. The Chinese side quietly studied the various creatures on the giant star. Aside from the confirmation that the genetic composition of the Giant's protists is similar to that of humans, no genetic fragments similar to the human genome have been found, which makes everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

The operation of the microcosmic and macroscopic realms depends on the same laws of nature. The evolution of carbon-based organisms on Earth means that any planet with suitable conditions may have evolved carbon-based life, and it is not surprising that the giants are genetically similar to those of Earth.

I don't know if there are human fossils left on the other planets of the Path, and all the fleets of the four powerful forces have received orders to carefully search for nearby planets during this period of time, trying to find evidence that humans have once spread all over the universe.

Ordinary people don't care about this, but for the military and political leaders, the importance of search results is no less than the elimination of the Outer Skeleton!

If ancient human civilization once went out of the earth for interstellar colonization, how did an advanced civilization that entered the interstellar age die out in the universe? And all the perishes on all planets...... Could it be that there are descendants of ancient humans on a habitable planet?

If you think about it further, is it possible that human beings are not protists of the earth, but alien colonists from a certain "home planet"?

For a while, all kinds of speculations appeared, and the academic world was like a boiling pot of boiling water.

April 6, 2212, Sun Gate, Aquila.

Ye Feimao, who stole half a day of leisure and carried a shining star on his shoulder, savored a cup of Longjing tea in the captain's room, but no matter how he tasted it, he couldn't drink the strange things in the legend, he just felt that there was some taste, and he couldn't understand how those tea sellers came up with so many gimmicks.

He was promoted to rear admiral a year ago, and is now in charge of commanding the garrison fleet of the Stargate.

Suddenly, the personal terminal on his wrist shook wildly, Ye Fei hurriedly put the tea on the table, and opened the communication with a thought: "What's the matter?" ”

"Report!" Ruan Peng was extremely anxious, "Orion Star Gate has been attacked!" ”

"What!" Ye Feiteng stood up, "Who is it?"

"I don't know, our ship just received an alert."

"How's it going?"

"The fleet is resisting, and the situation is not optimistic." Ruan Peng replied.

If the situation was not critical, how could the fleet stationed at Orion's Gate ask for help?

Ye Fei jumped over the desk, and ran to the bridge: "Sound the battle alarm, everyone is ready for battle, and inform Jiang Xue to prepare to go-"

At the sound of the order, the battleship immediately began to operate like a delicate gear, and countless men and women were assigned to their respective posts, and the whole ship was waiting for them.

Ye Fei, who rushed to the bridge, loudly ordered Jiang Xue to set off, and while sitting on the command chair, the battleship slowly turned and flew towards the stargate that was slowly flying to the earth.

After receiving the Aquila's request to pass through the stargate, the originally translucent stargate immediately reverted to an opaque milky white, and the four warships guarding the Sun Stargate passed through three at once, leaving only one Harrier-class battleship to patrol around the stargate nervously.

As soon as the Aquila drilled out of the stargate, it found that countless blue translucent flying machines as magnificent as gems had appeared near the Orion stargate, and the number of them was at least more than 2,000!

The speed of the enemy ships was extremely fast, and the two Aquila-class and Harrier-class ships left behind to guard the Orion Gate were exhausted. The main gun's pillar of light is continuous, and when it hits an enemy ship, the enemy ship suddenly turns red, and then suddenly bursts like an over-inflated balloon.

These strange battleships have a very single means of attack, and they are almost the same as the biological battleships of the Outer Skeleton Man, attacking the enemy with the liquid that spews out of the body, and the battleship is hit by the liquid sprayed by the enemy ship, and the armor on the surface of the ship will immediately corrode, and the original shiny battleship will soon become mottled.

Despite the firepower of the two battleships, two fists are no match for four hands. Under the powerful offensive of the enemy army, they were defeated and retreated. He has retreated to the vicinity of the Star Gate.

The two battleships with high and low matching can deal with three or five bone mounds, but they can't fight against these weird enemy ships.

Two warships were not enough to defend the satellite gate, and the reason why only two battleships were left was because the military planned to build a huge military fortress near the Orion Star Gate. But at the moment the main body of the fortress has been built less than a third. Under constant pressure from enemy forces. Only a third of the fortress also began to shoot huge laser beams continuously, and one enemy ship after another exploded in the laser, but it could not stop the enemy from continuing to approach.

Thankfully, Orion Fortress has a modular design. When part of the work is completed, part of it can be put into use.

"Prepare for battle, the Eagle supports the fortress, the Harrier comes with me!" The Aquila immediately turned to support the Falcon, and the invincible power shock ship was the first to break away from the main body.

Because the Falcon and the Harrier form a combined fleet of high and low, the names of the two ships are similar.

However, what made Ye Fei feel strange was that the powered shock ships of the Falcon and the Harrier were not on the main body, why didn't he find that the enemy was hit by the power shock ships?

"Scissors, free offense." Ye Fei asked angrily. "Zou family, what's the situation, what about the shock ship?"

Zou Jia, the captain of the Falcon, immediately replied: "The nebula is an obstacle to faster-than-light flight, the speed of the impact ship is too fast, and the speed has dropped dramatically after rushing into the nebula, and it has not flown out yet!" ”

"Jiang Xue, did you hear that?"

"Understood!" Jiang Xue, who controlled the power shock ship, immediately adjusted the direction, no longer controlling the shock ship as extensively as before, but gave up the automatic control system and manually manipulated the impact direction and superluminal flight time of the impact ship.

"Zou family, where did all these toys come from?" Ye Fei's heart burned with anger.

In the past two years, the military's fleet has been exploring the surrounding situation, and has never found any signs of the existence of creatures, why did such a strange fleet suddenly appear?

The Orion Nebula M42 is not just a simple nebula, the nebula also contains many newborn stars and embryonic stars that are about to coalesce, the most famous is the six-star star composed of six stars in the center of the nebula, but the orbit of the stars there is abnormally chaotic, and there is no possibility of a living planet at all.

The Zou family was full of guilt in the face of Ye Fei's questioning: "There was no warning before they appeared, they just suddenly jumped out of the nebula and attacked. ”

"Jumping out of the nebula?" Ye Fei subconsciously repeated this passage, as if he had tasted a little taste from it.

Although the military has carried out a large-scale exploration of the vicinity of the nebula, the situation inside the nebula is complicated, and the optical system is completely useless in the nebula, so the scope of the exploration does not involve the interior of the nebula.

The location of the Orion Star Gate was originally not far from the bottom of the nebula depression, but in the past two years, the Nebula at the bottom has gradually swelled up, and it has almost flooded the Star Gate.

"Yes, they appeared suddenly, and we immediately began to counterattack, but their speed was too fast, the hit rate of the main guns was not very low, and the missiles simply couldn't catch up." The Zou family hurriedly explained the situation and took off their responsibilities.

"Okay, I know the way." At this time, a missile launched by the Aquila flew towards the enemy group, and the agile enemy ship suddenly dispersed like a fish in the water to avoid a heavy iron anchor, refusing to approach from a distance, until the countdown to the nuclear bomb was over, and it exploded on the edge of the nebula

The nebula does not have a clear boundary, and the position of the intersection of the inside and outside of the nebula is not very obvious, this is not obvious, but the boundary that is much thinner than the nebula is called the nebula margin.

The blasted nuclear bomb blew away some of the nebula gas, and the layers of clouds rippled like undulating water, but soon disappeared with the end of the shock wave, leaving only an inconspicuous "crater".

Although he failed to hit the enemy ship, the sharp-eyed Ye Fei seemed to see a few blue lights flashing in the blowing clouds, and he immediately ordered to launch a few more nuclear bombs into the nebula.

At this moment, he also saw some clues, these enemy ships that jumped out of the nebula must return to the nebula after circling for a while, like fish jumping out of the water, I don't know what the reason is, but it can be used completely.

More than a dozen nuclear bombs penetrated into the nebula and exploded at the same time, and the clouds in a radius of more than 100 kilometers were blown away by the explosion in an instant, and at least hundreds of enemy ships were blown out by the explosion in the clouds.

The nebula can disable the optical system, although the enemy ship is infested in the nebula like a fish, there must be a way to locate and fly in the nebula, but Ye Fei felt that the thick cloud qi could not have no effect on the enemy ship.

Clearly, he was right.

Five battleships and one-third of the fortresses immediately projected a wave of missiles at the nebula under the command of Ye Fei, and the nuclear bombs that exploded blocked the enemy's offensive level, and the enemy troops located outside the nebula were suddenly in chaos, and the five battleships took the opportunity to launch a full-scale counterattack, and rows of enemy ships exploded into debris in the sky, and the remnants of the enemy army desperately flew back to the nebula. (To be continued......)