The United States resented China's re-declaration of occupation of habitable planets, but the Yankees soon discovered that China only nominally claimed sovereignty over three habitable planets.

581d was blown into a barren land by two light-speed torpedoes, 581g was occupied by the exoskeleton, and the climate of 667cc was really a headache.

These planets can only be considered potentially habitable planets, and it is simply impossible, at least not in the short term, for real large-scale migration. Uncle Sam, who can't eat grapes and says that grapes are sour, has finally balanced his heart a lot.

In addition to these planets, the nearest habitable planet candidate is located at Gliese 370 in the constellation Glise, 36 light-years from the solar system.

Although Gliese 370 is only a potential candidate galaxy for habitable planets, it is on a first-come, first-served basis, and the Americans know that if they don't start again, they may be preempted by the Chinese.

Unfortunately, although they know the acceleration potential of the faster-than-light engine, the energy redundancy left by the US Starfleet warships when designing is not high, and the maximum speed cannot be raised at all, and it has taken more than two years to fly to 581, and then to 370, it will take a year and a half, such a long time, not only enough for the Chinese to rush to the ground, I am afraid that even the house has been built.

Fortunately, under the pressure of the Outer Bone Man, the Chinese could not pull out the spacecraft to complete the great cause of occupying the new colonial star in a short time.

The opportunity of the Americans was actually won by the Outer Skeleton Man, and this is really making the Yankees unable to raise their heads.

In addition, the Chinese's behavior of picking peaches also reminded the Americans that if the American Starfleet directly threw the Outer Bone People group to the Chinese. Ran to grab the immigrant star by himself...... I am afraid that without the Chinese protesting, the people and opposition parties in the United States will immediately hold up the banner of "disregard for the lives of the people" and oust the responsible government.

I'm struggling to find a suitable planet here, but it's a headache to grab a planet.

The first 20 immigrants of the experimental nature were directly admitted to the base after the thaw, and in order to ensure that there was no infighting, these 20 people were all male criminals with relatively minor crimes, and most of them were engaged in plant-related work.

In the beginning, these guys also played passive sabotage and did not cooperate at all, but the supply of the base was completely dependent on the fleet, under the threat of starvation. They chose to cooperate with the times.

The seeds provided to them are all extremely vigorous types. Including the curly cypress in the fern (this is the legendary Nine Dead Resurrection Grass); desert plant cactus; a raw stone flower that is known as a "living stone"; a centenarian orchid that grows only two leaves in its lifetime; Green jade trees that prefer warm climates; epiphytic orchids, bird's nest ferns and mosses suitable for high temperature and humidity environments; At the end of the day, it is indispensable to survive at minus 273 degrees Celsius, maintain vitality after rotating for six years under vacuum conditions, and do not die at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Basically. The first batch of selected plants are all species that are able to survive in extreme conditions. And the plants are generally not tall. to prevent being uprooted by strong winds.

As time passed, the plants cultivated in the base soon germinated and began to gradually adapt to the native environment of Storm Star. Except for a few plants that are not adapted to abundant water, most species do not show environmental rejection and are soon transplanted outside the base.

Unfortunately, the reality is always more skinny than ideal, and after a few days, the plants removed from the base have invariably failed, but the strange thing is that these plants did not wither, but were covered with a thick layer of gray-brown fluff, very similar to the native plants of the island.

However, this was only the beginning, as one of the first immigrants was lucky enough not to strictly follow the decontamination procedures for entering and leaving the base, and after a few days, the migrants began to grow grayish-brown hairs on their bodies, identical to those grown on plants.

This discovery caused the entire base to be in a mess, and he kept asking the fleet for help, but until he understood the specific reason, it was impossible for Ye Fei to risk sending people to land.

Fortunately, the immigrants quickly calmed down, and found that the fluff growing on their bodies did not have a very high impact on people except for the scary look, and in order to survive, one of the immigrants with high botanical knowledge wanted the fleet to provide a batch of research equipment.

Ye Fei did not refuse this suggestion, and soon the research equipment was airdropped to the island.

In less than an hour, the immigration base came to the result, and the migrant's body was not fluff at all, but a fungal-like microorganism!

In other words, they contracted the Storm Star version of filariosis ringworm......

No wonder the plants on the island are so strangely colored, it turns out that it is not a plant at all, but ...... Well, mushrooms!

This fungus resides on the surface of the body, absorbs nutrients from the human body and grows, and there is no obvious harm to the human body in a short time, but after a long time, no one can say what will happen.

After finding the reason, all the immigrants breathed a sigh of relief, and various antifungal agents began to be airdropped, but the effect after using them was unsatisfactory, and within a few days, the base became a world of fluff, full of fluff torn from the body, and everyone was like moldy fruit.

And as the parasitism progresses, some side effects gradually appear, and migrants generally show symptoms of limb weakness, lethargy, and malnutrition.

However, the fleet could not come up with an effective treatment, so it could only watch the first batch of immigrants die and struggle.

It's not that Ye Fei doesn't want to save them, but there is no way at all, he has used all the medicines that can be used, and he has thought of all the methods he can think of, but it doesn't work, he doesn't dare to send people to land again!

When I think about it, I feel afraid for a while, if it hadn't been fully disinfected when the first airborne landing was made, maybe this fungus would have spread throughout the fleet.

The various specimens brought out of the surface of the storm star were sealed at the first time, and even had to be placed outside the battleship just in case!

Ye Fei discussed feasible methods with his wife Gao Lan more than once, but in addition to drugs, the only thing that human beings can rely on is their own immunity, reliable immunity against microorganisms, which requires a large number of individual bases, that is, a large number of humans need to be infected with this fungus, until the immune system of some of them successfully produces antibodies - human beings have evolved for tens of millions of years. This method has been used to fight the ubiquitous microbes.

However, this method was destined to sacrifice a large number of infected people, just like the cold virus brought by European colonists when they landed on the American continent, and the cold was a mortal and incurable disease for the natives of the American continent at that time!

Sacrifice more people's lives to save twenty people, and it may not be able to be saved, everyone in their normal minds knows how to choose, Ye Fei is not a saint, he must be responsible for everyone's lives, and he can only regretfully let the first batch of immigrants fend for themselves.

But he was not willing to let the immigration operation end like this, and there was still a chance and possibility of healing before at least twenty immigrants died!

Gao Lan led a small number of military doctors to become virologists. Day and night in a negative pressure laboratory, this strange fungus is studied. An attempt was made to control this fungus with existing drugs and microorganisms of the earth.

Saving immigrants is only one aspect, and if there is no way to deal with this fungus, Stormstar will have to cross out from the list of migration candidates!

Even if you bombard the entire line with a nuclear bomb, you may not be able to destroy all the fungi.

Gao Lan is a clinician. I haven't studied the virus much. There has been no breakthrough.

Desperate immigrants have developed suicidal tendencies. They are no longer afraid of the unknown environment outside the base, and they run around the island without protective gear, using all kinds of strange methods to deal with the problems on their bodies. He even ventured into the sea and tried to smear his whole body with various sea creatures, etc.

Finally one of them committed suicide with a nervous breakdown, and when the body was found, he had been dead for several hours, and the body was already stiff.

The immigrants were sad and desperate.

The island was hot and humid, and the corpses were left for a few days to decompose, and they had to freeze the bodies of the deceased. Just a few hours later, they suddenly found that the deceased's lush fluff had withered, revealing the deceased's emaciated appearance, which had not been seen for many days.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the words low temperature and death were immediately linked.

The news quickly spread to the fleet, and Gao Lan immediately conducted experiments on the specimen, and the results showed that the activity of this fungus weakened at about twenty degrees, completely dormant at twelve degrees, and maintained an environment of five degrees for sixteen minutes, and the actual specimen was completely inactive, and would not recover even if the temperature increased, and it was completely dead.

This news is simply a desperate situation, sweeping away the low pressure of the fleet for more than ten days.

The surface of the storm star is high temperature and humidity, and I am afraid that the temperature of more than ten degrees is a low temperature and cold wave that has not been encountered in thousands of years for protists.

In the past, even if this fungus was found to be afraid of low temperatures, there was no way, the fungus that lived in the human body was systemic, and anyone whose body temperature dropped to five degrees Celsius would only be killed.

But now it is different, cryonics requires a temperature close to minus 200 degrees, and there is no pressure to kill the fungus!

The rescue operation was immediately launched, and the remaining nineteen migrants were taken into the landing craft by the landing commandos and flew away from the nightmarish storm star - the storm star has a high atmospheric pressure and a stronger gravitational force than the earth, and it is impossible to fly into the universe with the power of the landing craft alone, and it must be coordinated by the gravitational beam of the Yangtze River!

Although all ships of the expeditionary force are equipped with traction beams, only the traction beams on the assault ships have the greatest power, which is why Lu Jian sent the assault ships to 667C to carry out the planning.

After the successful return of the landing craft to the fleet, all nineteen migrants were re-frozen.

Ten days of parasitism consumed a lot of nutrients on their bodies, and these immigrants were very weak, so in order to prevent them from dying due to nutritional deficiencies during the freezing process, the resident doctor injected them with a large amount of high-energy nutrients before they entered the freeze.

A few days later, they were re-thawed, and the nineteen who survived the catastrophe cried over their heads, preferring to die rather than enter Storm Star again.

The previous accident interrupted the immigration plan, unless the temperature of the storm star dropped as a whole, it would be impossible for Ye Fei to send people down to find death, they were simply worrying.

What Ye Fei is thinking about now is not how to immigrate, but how to take advantage of this unfavorable accident!

On March 31, 2206, the Yangtze River, which had been tossed for more than ten days, returned in vain, and on April 19, the fleet returned to Gliese 581.

Ye Fei found Lu Jian as soon as he returned to the team, and the two discussed secretly for half an hour, after which a new combat plan was drawn up, and the fleet immediately began to prepare for combat.

At the same time, Lu Jian took the initiative to contact the U.S. Starfleet to inform the Chinese side that it would launch an attack on the outer skeletons entrenched on the fourth planet. Peter thought that Lu Jian wanted the American fleet to cooperate with the Chinese side's actions, so he had already calculated how to refuse, and he also wanted to humiliate Lu Jian.

But to his surprise, Lu Jian didn't mean this at all, which made Peter's clanging calculation come to naught.

Peter didn't know what the Chinese were doing, but he waited to see the excitement, the Chinese won and there was no harm to the Americans, if the Chinese lost, the Americans had nothing to lose, so why not?

After the arrival of the American Starfleet in Gliese 581, it also launched several attacks on the fourth planet, but the outer skeleton was strong. Several battles didn't get anything cheap. The same is true for China, which has always refused to come forward. The current situation is to put it nicely, humans and the Outer Skeletons remain in a state of confrontation, but in fact, humans can't defeat the Outer Skeletons and are forced to stay on the periphery of the planetary system 581. Linger without giving up.

It's just that it doesn't matter Peter or Lu Jian. It's impossible to admit this fact.

April 20, 2206. After half a day of preparation, the Chinese expeditionary force made all preparations, and only two Fangli ships and two assault ships participated in this mission. Lu Jian gave an order, and the four battleships disappeared into the colorful glimmer.

Moments later, the formation appeared four lightseconds away from the fourth planet.

After the Outer Bone Man lost the fifth planet, the defense of the fourth planet was strengthened a lot, and the patrol team released a light second, and the bone mound rarely flew close to the fourth planet, for fear that the scene on the fifth planet would be repeated.

As soon as the four human warships appeared, they were discovered by the Outer Bone Man, and the small fish scattered all over the fourth planet did not surround them as before, but released more than twenty bamboo ships from the bone mound, and flew quickly towards the expeditionary force formation.

The four battleships immediately accelerated, did not collide with the enemy at all, and dragged the bamboo ships around in circles.

However, the defense of the outer bone man was too tight, and he couldn't find a chance to break through to the fourth planet, and after circling the planet twice, Lu Jian gritted his teeth, picked a direction far away from the bone mound, and ordered the formation to forcibly advance.

The patrolling small fish ships attacked in groups, and quickly gathered a large number of warships to attack the area...... Space blocking, it is useless to line up in a line, and the only effective way is to use a large number of warships to form a surface defense layer.

Not only that, but a large number of small fish ships that took off from several bone mounds swarmed over, which were also mixed with a lot of bamboo knots and wolf flowers.

Although it will take a little longer for them to reach the direction of the assault, this frame is too bluffing, and once entangled, the possibility of the battleship getting out is extremely small.

Helpless, Lu Jian could only order to give up the advance and reopen the distance.

When the formation flew away, the alien fleet also shrank its forces, and it didn't chase or catch up at all, just clinging to the fourth planet.

Lu Jian's face was extremely ugly, in a few months, the Outer Bone Man had already gained a firm foothold on the fourth planet, the morning and dusk circle was full of signs of the Outer Bone Man's activity, and there were constantly biological warships breaking through the sky and taking off to join the fleet of the Outer Bone Man, and if this continued, it wouldn't be long before the enemy army could leave here, and if it couldn't be contained, it would give the enemy time to expand its strength...... Lu Jian couldn't imagine how he would meet people at that time.

"Commander, this won't work at all, should you use the second set of plans instead?" After staying away from the enemy army, Ye Fei took the initiative to contact Lu Jian and cautiously suggested.

Lu Jian frowned: "The second plan is too risky. "The so-called second set of plans is to use the battleship's faster-than-light flight ability to get close to the fourth planet.

The blockade of the outer skeleton is so tight, it is difficult to say whether there is a chance to enter the faster-than-light state and fly out after entering, and more importantly, the magnetic field will affect the faster-than-light flight, and the speed of the flight is too fast, it is difficult to ensure that the position of the battleship is particularly accurate.

As a rule, precisely calculated faster-than-light flight is basically able to appear near predetermined coordinates with an error of no more than two thousand kilometers.

Although the expeditionary force used the faster-than-light advance tactics in the battle with the wolf flower ship, the premise was that the corrosive fog defense circle of the wolf flower ship was large enough, and there were tens of thousands of kilometers inside.

This is not the case with the fourth planet, whose outer space is full of small fish ships that have an effect on faster-than-light flight.

In addition, the fourth planet is tidally locked by the star, and the planet's magnetic field is said to weaken if its rotation speed is weakened, but the magnetic field of the fourth planet is actually much stronger than that of the Earth.

Approaching the planet's magnetic field in a faster-than-light state, it is nonsense not to be affected, and if you fail to get out of the faster-than-light state in time and collide directly with the planet, it will be called sadness at home.

"Take a risk, take a risk, how can you be safe in a war?" Ye Fei said, "The patrol range of the exoskeleton hybrid is too large, and it is no problem to drop the landing capsule one light second away, but with so many biological warships along the way, the possibility of a successful airborne landing is almost ......."

"I know everything you say." Lu Jian said in a deep voice, "It's better not to take risks...... Don't say it, listen to me. ”

After Lu Jian finished speaking, he directly transferred the North, and transferred two remote-controlled fighters from the North.

These two J-447 fighters are experimental remote-controlled fighters modified by the fleet itself, which can be controlled by humans or unmanned when necessary, but the fleet's technical and technical power is limited, and the remote control device cannot be as flexible as manned control.

The two fighters arrived at the Yangtze River, and Ye Fei hoisted eight airborne capsules under the wings of the fighters according to Lu Jian's instructions, which looked nondescript, but the length of J-447 was more than 60 meters, and hanging a few six or seven meters long and round airborne cabins was like hanging a few large bombs, which looked strange.

Immediately after the two fighters set sail, they entered a faster-than-light state and flew directly to the fourth planet.

Soon, these two fighters appeared outside the atmosphere of the fourth planet, and the nearby small fish ships immediately surrounded them, and the fighters had already set up a program to control them to fly to the planet immediately and plunged into the atmosphere.

The small fish couldn't catch up and could only shoot a large number of solidified beams.

After entering the atmosphere, the fighter plane immediately released eight airborne capsules, and the airborne cabins that broke away from the wings fell directly to the surface, although five airborne capsules were hit by the condensation beam during the landing, but in the end, three of them successfully reached the surface, and the airborne cabins that touched the ground suddenly split, and clumps of light fluff rose with the wind. (To be continued......)

PS: By the way, there is such a thing as a towing beam, which is no longer science fiction, although now only small things can be moved.

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