The fighter is not very effective against the Alien Skeleton, but the combat effectiveness of the new fighter has been greatly improved compared to the old F-440, and it may not be possible to fight against the alien fleet alone, but it is not difficult to perform harassment missions.

Although Wu Ting's military rank is the same as that of Lu Jian, his position is one level lower, and he knows that opposition is invalid, so he can only push the boat down the river. Unexpectedly, after the main force arrived on Proxima Centauri, it experienced several major battles, not only destroying a large number of enemy troops, but also discovering the huge potential of the faster-than-light engine.

Wu Ting, who had been accompanying the Yuanwang on the road, watched countless military exploits pass by him, how could he be willing to be indifferent?

It's just that in places like the military, where there is a distinction between the upper and lower levels, the officials of the local government are dissatisfied with their superiors, and they are so sorry that they resign and do not wait, but how can they get up as soon as they want to leave?

The official level not only crushes people to death, but also presses them to death and then puts a big stone on the ground, unless the relationship between the two sides is dissolved, the possibility of turning over is infinitely close to zero.

Lu Jian, who had the leading power of the meeting, was in charge and issued the most severe gag order to everyone, and after the meeting, Lu Jian personally made a detailed report to the headquarters of the Heavenly Army.

The headquarters attached great importance to Lu Jian's report, but the stakes were very high, and it was impossible to study the reason for a while, so the headquarters of the Heavenly Army did not reply at all.

Lu Jian originally thought that the headquarters of the Heavenly Army would study for a few days before making a decision, but a few hours later, Lu Jian received a new order from the headquarters, requiring the expeditionary force to conduct a test of extreme speed. Verify the speed limits of faster-than-light engines.

The solar system is really not a good place for experiments,—— these days, maybe when you are unlucky, you will encounter evil, aren't the Americans just because of bad luck and hit Ye Fei's muzzle?

Placing the experiment on Proxima Centauri minimizes the need to leak secrets.

Lu Jian happily accepted the order, but he had difficulties in choosing the experimental ship.

The most suitable experimental ships in the expeditionary force are naturally the two capital ships, which are the largest, have the most reactors installed, and have the highest energy supply intensity.

But Lu Jian had a total of two capital ships, and he was really reluctant to throw them into the fire pit. The next option is an assault ship. However, both the Yangtze River and the Yellow River proved their worth in the Battle of Proxima Centauri, and the assault ships only had twelve reactors, which was a little underpowered.

After thinking about it, the only way to do it was to take the destroyer with the largest number of cuts. Even with the loss of one. It also did not have much impact on the overall strength of the expeditionary force.

The most rear. Lu Jian chose the Hengshan, which was in the best condition among the four destroyers.

The ultimate speed test was not an easy task, and the danger was extremely high, and the Hengshan immediately began to prepare for it. Remove the solidification balls attached to the surface of the hull, check the power supply system of the whole ship, clean the power pipelines of the whole ship, and maintain the power equipment of the whole ship......

All in all, it is to thoroughly clean up all the power-related equipment of the entire battleship, although there are various maintenance robots on the battleship, but there is no problem with the daily maintenance of the robots, and the thorough cleaning is somewhat inadequate, and it has to rely on manpower to carry out all-round cleaning.

The 14-kilometer-long battleship, the more than 2,000 crew members of the Hengshan had to be busy for half a month, to say the least. In order to speed up the progress, Lu Jian directly dispatched a large number of personnel from several other destroyers to participate in the cleanup, and planned to complete all the preparations within a week.

Two days later, April 22, 2204.

The eruption of the Proxima Centauri flare, which had raged for more than 40 hours, gradually subsided, and the chaotic magnetic storm in the nearby airspace subsided, and the tiny Proxima Centauri re-revealed its calm side.

The expeditionary force, which monitored Proxima Centauri 24 hours a day, immediately reported the situation to the headquarters, and Lu Jian, who had been busy on the Hengshan, immediately returned to the flagship Yanjing after receiving the news.

With such a violent flare outbreak, theoretically no biological warship could survive, but if he didn't see it with his own eyes, Lu Jian couldn't feel that he could let go of the stone in his heart.

After several magnifications, the optics send a clear image to a large screen on the bridge. Proxima Centauri, who has calmed down, is like a child who has lost his temper, supple and respectful.

Lu Jian, who was emotional, sighed.

If it weren't for the critical moment two days ago, who would have thought that such an inconspicuous little star would have such a violent side?

"No trace of enemy troops was found...... What is it? The officer who operated the optical system suddenly exclaimed.

"What's the situation?" Lu Jian's heart sank, could it be that the outbreak of the stars couldn't kill the outer bone people?

The two sides on the big screen zoomed in again, and it wasn't until a quarter of Proxima Centauri occupied the entire screen that Lu Jian finally found a small black dot in the corner of the screen.

"Zoom in here!" Lu Jian pointed to the screen and said.

It was another continuous zoom, and the small black dot eventually occupied most of the screen.

There was a sound of neat gasps.

On the screen is a star core full of large holes and small eyes, only half of the fiery red star core is left, and the huge core hole in the center is clearly visible, like an invisible giant blade cutting through the bone mound, it looks like a burnt walnut, and like a fruit gnawed by a group of mice.

"This is the Celestial Wolf Bone Mound? Didn't burn it out for two days? Lu Jianzhi said that this must be the remains of the bone mound, and he didn't want to ask anyone, just to express the surprise in his heart.

The temperature of the stars is not a joke, the bone mound with a diameter of 17,800 kilometers is indeed not small, but it is a fart in front of a huge star?

Even Proxima Centauri is just a small star only 1.5 times the diameter of Jupiter.

Xu Dong, who had a dry mouth, finally straightened his tongue: "Didn't it crash directly into Proxima Centauri?" How can you still fly out? ”

He had always thought that Proxima Centauri's sudden eruption was due to the bone mound crashing into the surface of the star.

"Not strange." Hu Bin calmly analyzed, "It must have been blown out by a strong solar wind, such a strong flare...... Hum. ”

A flare, commonly known as a solar storm, is a star that throws a large amount of surface material into space in a very short period of time, even though the bone mound has entered the chromosphere. It is not impossible to be blown away by a strong solar wind.

"Okay, don't think about these useless things, continue to monitor, and report as soon as you find the Exoskeleton." Lu Jian said.

"Burn it like this, if there is still an outer skeleton alive on it, it will be a hell!" Hu Bin looked like he had seen a ghost.

Lu Jian was unmoved: "If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, do you know what the consequences of underestimating the enemy?" ”

"You're the commander, listen to you." Hu Bin pouted and said.

Lu Jian sent the Jinmen to close to the surveillance, and he himself went to the Hengshan again.

A day later, the remains of the bone mound flew out of the danger zone, after a closer look at the Tsumen. It was concluded that the skeletonless man had survived. The expeditionary force that got the news, from Lu Jian to the most ordinary soldiers, invariably breathed a sigh of relief.

However, they rejoiced too soon, and shortly after receiving the news, the early warning system arranged in the double satellite suddenly discovered the movement of an alien fleet. Lu Jian almost scolded his mother. Start with Proxima Centauri. The First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force has completely annihilated three bone mounds. More than three million biological warships, still coming?

However, the follow-up reconnaissance information surprised everyone, and this alien fleet of more than 10,000 warships was actually homeless. A force dangling around the double star.

Lu Jian couldn't figure out the origin of this alien fleet, but it didn't matter, the Sky Wolf Group had been destroyed, but the Outer Bone Man who belonged to the Sky Wolf Group had not yet died.

So the work of interrogating the lone seedling Bai Xing was immediately put on the agenda, and at the beginning, Bai Xing was still stubborn, so angry that the auditors wanted to install a brain wave detector on the back of his head. But after learning that the Sky Wolf colony no longer existed, it became extremely depressed and began to cooperate with the interrogation, and Lu Jian, who received the news, immediately rushed to the interrogation room in person.

"Where did this fleet come from?" Lu Jian pointed to the clear real-time image on the screen and asked, and the one-meter-square translation device was placed between the two of them as a table, spewing out a string of scents according to Lu Jian's question.

Shirahoshi raised his eyelids tiredly in reply, and the screen on the translation device gave the result: "It's our fleet." ”

"Your fleet? What did they do? Lu Jian asked eagerly.

He thought it was another slip through the net of the striker colony.

"Find a suitable asteroid and transform it into a new bone mound." Shirahoshi replied.

Lu Jian's face changed slightly: "Isn't there only one bone mound in a community?" You all have two bone mounds, how can you still build them? "The intelligence of the mechanical civilization makes it clear that there is only one bone mound in a community, is the intelligence wrong, or is the mechanical civilization concealing something?

He suddenly thought of Wu Ting's words, and secretly worried for a while.

"We have two bone mounds, but that's usual." Bai Xing didn't expect that Lu Jian wasn't sure whether the black bone mound belonged to the Sky Wolf group at all, and he didn't expect Bai Xing to confess in a word.

"Oh? What's different now? Lu Jian secretly clenched his fists, good guy, I finally have to ask something useful.

Shirahoshi hung his head: "Before every galaxy with a living planet, we will build bone mounds and prepare for separation. ”

"Separation?" Lu Jian was taken aback, but he immediately understood what Bai Xing meant.

Whether it is a biological warship or an exoskeleton man itself, mass reproduction requires the support of an astronomical amount of organic materials, and the ecosystem of the living planet is the best raw material.

The Outer Skeleton Man usually sails in the universe, cannot be replenished with organic raw materials, and is always in a state of consumption, so it can only maintain the existing race, and even consume a part of the biological warship in the endless flight to maintain the survival of the community.

Only by finding a new planet of life can the Exoskeletons be free to expand the community, and if the community reaches a certain standard, one community will split into two.

Lu Jian, who kept speculating in his heart, suddenly realized that he had gotten into a dead end.

If the number of warships is used as the standard, then it should be split when the total number of warships is enough to drive two bone mounds. However, the wolf colony has already created a new bone mound before it arrives in the solar system, and the number of their warships is obviously enough to divide it, so why should they wait until they reach the solar system to officially separate?

"What are your criteria for community segmentation? Number of warships? ”

"The number of warships is one thing, but also the number of clansmen." Bai Xing said succinctly, "The biggest reason is actually because of you humans. ”

"How?"

"You humans are very powerful, so you must build a bone mound in advance to fight against your fleet."

Lu Jian nodded understandingly, the bone mound is the support of the outer bone people. Just like the human race on warships, the behavior of the wolf colony is reasonable.

Shirahoshi only replied mechanically, without taking the initiative to explain.

In fact, not only must the number of warships and ordinary clansmen pass the level, but the number of white bone people and above must also meet the standard of division, and only a community can be qualified to split into two.

This is because the culture and knowledge of the Outer Bone people are all inherited by the high nobles, and the community that tries to split must cultivate a high nobleman who is enough to support the normal operation of the two communities, so as to ensure the normal development of the two communities after the community is divided.

In the society of the Outer Bone People, the cultivation of high nobles is very difficult, so there are not many opportunities to split the family.

I figured out the doubts in my heart. Lu Jian left very satisfied. And put a label in my heart - this white star has a high use value and can be hammered slowly.

The alien fleet that lost the bone mound had no ability to fly faster than the speed of light at all, and Lu Jian was so focused on the experiment that was about to start that he didn't have the extra mood to care about the enemy army that had nowhere to escape.

April 29, 2205. Proxima Centauri.

"Report to the commander. The Hengshan is ready. Captain Yu Haiyi! ”

After seven days of intensive preparations, the destroyer Hengshan was completely new from the inside out, for the sake of safety. All personnel unrelated to the experiment were evacuated to other warships.

"Start the experiment, five minutes of flight time." Lu Jian calmly gave an order.

The true situation of the experiment was only circulated in a very small area, and most of the officers and men only knew that the Hengshan was about to carry out some kind of experiment, but no one knew the specific details.

The command gave the harshest gag order, and no one dared to speculate at will.

"Yes!" Yu Haiyi replied loudly, and then quickly turned into a command state, "The reactor is running at full power, and the superluminal engine is charged!" ”

Sixteen fusion reactors entered a state of full power at the same time, and a powerful electric current rushed into the faster-than-light engine with an unstoppable force, and the energy stored in the engine instantly crossed the starting line, and the battleship disappeared in place when it landed.

Lu Jian suddenly sighed in disappointment.

For a long time, the faster-than-light engine of the expeditionary warship has directly entered the faster-than-light state after the energy reaches the bottom line of faster-than-light flight, and then increased the energy level of the engine to achieve the purpose of increasing the speed.

Originally, Lu Jian was still expecting that the faster-than-light engine would be able to hold a large amount of energy without starting to fly faster-than-light, and then directly enter a high-speed faster-than-light state, but he didn't expect it to be like that at all.

"The Hengshan reported that our ship reached three times the speed of light...... Six times the speed of light...... Nine times the speed of light...... And counting! Yu Haiyi, who has been in constant communication with the flagship, reported the latest situation one after another.

Lu Jian pursed his mouth tightly, for fear that he would interfere with the experiment by making a noise.

"Fifteen times, it's already fifteen times, and the speed is still increasing! Repeat, the speed is still increasing...... Twenty times the speed of light! Commander, do you hear me, it's twenty times the speed of light! More than double the original data, Yu Haiyi shouted passionately, and his voice was broken without knowing it.

The speed instrument originally configured on the Hengshan could only display a maximum of 9.2 times the speed of light, but the speedometer had no technical difficulties, and the engineers on the supply ship spent two days remaking a display standard that could be up to 100 times.

"Good!" Lu Jian tried his best to control his voice, "How is the engine, is there anything abnormal?" ”

"The engine is fine, too good to be better...... Twenty-five times the speed of light, our ship has reached twenty-five times the speed of light! God, I'm making history! Yu Haiyi shouted mercilessly, jumping and jumping like a child.

Lu Jian was so excited that his blood surged, his blood pressure soared, and he almost had a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage, but fortunately, his physique was okay and his blood vessels were elastic, so he fainted and eased up.

"Three, thirty times the speed of light, this can't be!" Yu Haiyi was stunned and stunned, like falling into five clouds.

When reality transcends fantasy, reality becomes unreal.

"Yu Haiyi!" Lu Jian shouted loudly, "Calm down, pay attention to the experimental data!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Yu Haiyi froze, "Three, thirty-four times the speed of light...... The reactor energy output reached its maximum value, and the faster-than-light engine was in a stable state with no abnormal conditions. ”

Lu Jian let out a fierce breath, thirty-four times the speed of light?

The distance from the solar system to Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light-years, and it only takes ...... to fly over this otherwise unreachable distance Forty-five days!

The sudden happiness completely stunned Lu Jian, and he held his breath in front of his chest, and his eyes rolled and he almost lost his breath.

The thirty-four times the speed of light reached by the Hengshan is not the limit of a faster-than-light engine!

Because the energy output of the sixteen reactors peaked and could not be increased, the situation of the faster-than-light engine remained stable, which means that as long as the energy continues to increase, there is still room for the speed to increase!

"Stop the experiment and return immediately!" Lu Jian, who finally recovered his anger, hurriedly ordered, "Yu Haiyi, I will give credit to all the people on your ship, but you all know the seriousness of the leakage of the secrets, right?" You and your crew, keep your mouth shut for me. ”

"Yes, Commander, don't worry." Yu Haiyi hurriedly expressed his determination.

"From now on, communication control will be implemented, and no one will be allowed to use the resonance communication device without the approval of the captains of each ship." Lu Jian switched to the public frequency band and suddenly issued a control order.

The soldiers talked a lot, and they didn't know what was going on, but in the army in a state of war, communication control was a very common means of secrecy, and no one speculated because of this.

Lu Jian can trust more than a dozen captains, but he does not dare to guarantee that all the more than 30,000 soldiers in the fleet will be loyal to the motherland - the significance of the Chinese expeditionary force is far greater than the confrontation with the alien people themselves, and it is impossible for the United States, Russia and even other countries to try to trap the expeditionary force in their ways.

The Earth side also received the news of the expeditionary force by its own people, and theoretically it is impossible to leak the situation, but what if the communication center also has spies arranged by various countries?

He did not limit the certainty of the spread of news in the fleet, and could only delay the spread of news as much as possible...... However, he can turn off all the resonance communication devices and completely cut off the Expeditionary Force's connection with Earth! (To be continued......)

PS: Well, I didn't want to write too much about the technical aspect, but the faster-than-light thing is related to the plot later, so let's talk more about it.

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