Chapter 587: The Great Nebula

With the spatial dislocation of the acceleration of the time and space acceleration, the starry sky on the exterior projection turned into a blurred band of light, and the channel composed of red and blue shifts became the only light scene outside, and the entire world was like a monotonous gradient channel, and then, the light band gradually dimmed, and the spacecraft had entered the state of time and space.

Given the superluminal propulsion engine power of this Protos battleship, this process may have to last for several xiǎo before we can reach the station.

Ten light years is really a tangled distance, a distance that is a bit too close for the Protos battleship with a high-dimensional jump, and a little too far with a chrono-spacer acceleration, but compared to the so many days of delay on Jetas's side, a few xiǎo hours are nothing.

It's okay to get Lilina's crazy Niko back—although it's just a matter of knowing her approximate location, but at that distance, with Sakura's amplifier assist, it shouldn't be difficult to find her, right?

"It's boring......"

As soon as I thought of a certain crystal virgin who was incarnated as a wireless router, there was a boring complaint from the other party behind him, as well as a pleasant sound of crystal friction.

The crystal colossus several meters high is connected by more than a dozen gratings, half-fixed two meters above a bowl-shaped depression, with the crystal resonance floating up and down slightly, the inverted cone base of the lower body of the colossus poked out countless blue and white sè crystal clusters, and the dense energy fire on it hit the surrounding grating again and again - don't get me wrong, it's just communication, and the upper half of the colossus, the sky blue sè crystal less nv sculpture is lying on its base with a bored face, Occasionally, in horror, she rotates her entire upper body seven hundred and twenty degrees to show how good her yoga skills are, and Sakura has been in this state for many days, and after the novelty of retweeting the * newspaper at the beginning has passed, she is left with boredom.

"Protos' battleship is so boring, there are no cartoons or the Internet."

“…… A normal battleship can't have that kind of thing, right? You don't take Bubbles' bad taste revamping of Imperial ships for granted, okay? ”

And if you look at the circle of hard-working heroic guards around you, although most of them are joining in the fun, and almost 80% of them are now fighting the landlords, but at least none of them are shouting boring, right? As an employee of the group, you must have a positive work attitude.

But it's a bit boring when shallow isn't around—there's less of a happy xiǎo animal, although there's a more joyful xiǎo in your pocket, but in everyday life, the fun that a cute pet and a funny NV friend can bring you are completely different.

Fearing that Jetas would be attacked by the Imperial rebels, and not worrying whether the shepherds would send more Overseers over, we left the main force of the Federation and several of the strongest combat forces there to assist in the defense, including the most reversed ability of the Shallow and the Golden Shining who had just approached the high-level apostle on the power list, as well as the super killer Pandora, and now there are only my sister and Viska by my side, as well as a wireless router who is so bored that he rolls on his pedestal and a gang of Heroic Spirit Guards who fight landlords, This configuration is really much duller.

Oh, and I forgot about one person, Tavel, because she appeared in this universe in a state of mass projection, and the black long-eyed lady needed to be by Sakura's side to work - the signal here is a little better, so Tavel also passed with us, and by the way, studied what the gods were talking about the big nebula, but even if it was a bit rude to say it, I had to say that after this workaholic joined, the journey was even more dull......

The Void Ranger is a high-speed long-range self-sustaining spaceship made by Protos after the Xiling Expeditionary Class warship, which is considered their current highest scientific and technological achievement, and in this regard, it can be seen how far there is between the Kproru humans and their Protos friends, although they have received more scientific and technological guidance from the Empire, but the technological gap on the basis is several times that the former can still only passively use the ready-made techniques given to them by the Empire, and they even need to do their best to understand how to do them, The Protos, on the other hand, have been able to draw inferences from each other and build their own spectral warships based on our drawings.

This is the Void Ranger ship we are riding now, a ship full of ghostly energy, but very different in shape and overall architecture from the Imperial ship.

The Great Nebula Zone is the most famous region of this cage universe, which is an interstellar dust cloud with a radius of three light-years and gradually dense from the outside to the inside, and its composition has an astonishing order xìng - homogeneous heavy metal molecules, as well as an isolation zone of gas clouds with a thickness of not even a millimeter deviation, almost for tens of millions of kilometers without the slightest fold of material stratification, and some strange dense states. It is absolutely impossible for them to become an aggregate of matter of that shape under natural circumstances, and together they form this nebula with a radius of three light-years, which is absolutely spherical and has a surface "smoothness" of more than 99.99 percent.

Obviously, this is not something that nature can produce.

A faster-than-light spacecraft produces a staggering mass (you could think of that as infinity, though it's still a calculable number in the eyes of the Chillings), gravitational perturbations have a devastating tidal effect on nearby matter, and even if the Void Rangers are equipped with the most advanced gravitational counterbalance equipment that the Protos can develop to counteract this damage to their surroundings, the gravitational perturbation effect is still there, but when we enter the Great Nebula, Observation devices have discovered phenomena that cannot be explained by conventional science: those fragile clouds, which have no local intensity at all, seem to ignore the spacecraft that is passing at a hundred times the speed of light, and their structure remains highly homogeneous even even when space is slightly warped.

I feel that the typhoon can't blow away a burst of green smoke, the flood can't wash away two fallen leaves, we rush into the clouds with the momentum of thunder, and the fluttering latter seems to be watching us coldly in another world.

That's right, I'm just for the rhyme.

Tavel began her research work after the ship entered the Great Nebula, and she occupied the intelligence officer's seat as a makeshift workbench: "We have just passed through the thin area of the Great Nebula with a thickness of 0.1 light years, and along the way, the density of the surrounding matter does not exceed 1 billionth, and in front of us is the radiated shè layer in the mouth of King Gotak NV, after which the great nebula suddenly triples in density, and then the next cloud of material with infinite and uniform density, and then another radiant shè layer, and then another material band...... It's like layers of husks, the density of matter in each layer is very uniform, and in the next layer it increases abruptly, and under my majesty, the interior of the great nebula may be solid, and we really don't go over to see it? There should be no danger in this – in theory. ”

Scientists are dangerous, especially those of the Hillings, a bunch of crazy people who have no lower limit to do anything sensational for the sake of research, such as suggesting that one of our lone ships rush headlong into the core of the nebula suspected to be a shepherd's fortress.

That's right, the core area of the Great Nebula is one of the few well-known forbidden places in this universe, and compared to other locations that can only be guessed, the center of the Great Nebula can be almost 100% sure that there is a base for shepherds, at least it is a place where they often stay, this has been listed as a key monitoring target by us, and the one hundred and thirty-seven large starports in the Red Giant Star Fortress are working overtime to create a fleet just to attack here first after a full-scale war, and we came out with such a few people this time, the purpose is to pick up Lilina, Whoever is going to agree to Tavel's crazy suggestion is definitely in the brain.

"Okay, my subordinates understand His Majesty's concerns, and I will try my best to let the probe fly in the outer layer of the Great Nebula, but we don't have much information to analyze in the faster-than-light state, so if we can stay for a while again......"

"I'll talk about it when I get back."

I rolled my eyes at the sky, and you're welcome to talk to this research freak, because as soon as you are polite, she will climb down the pole and make you doomed.

"This area must have been created by the rebels," Viska said, standing in his chair, trying to establish the feeling of looking down, "the natural laws of the universe do not form such an area. ”

The tone was serious, and the expression was in line with the general's majesty, but it was just right to stand on tiptoe with Tavel...... You'd better go down.

"It is said that this is the most tragic battlefield after the start of the universe hún war cycle," my sister looked at the holographic projection in front of her, although there was only a blurry band of light on the exterior scene, but after the compensation calculation, the simulation of the Great Nebula was still clearly presented in front of everyone, "Those races who lost their territory in the war or have just come here and have not had time to establish a territory will be driven to the outer area of the Great Nebula, and the hún war will be fought here, and the last surviving race can leave, otherwise they will be wiped out by the shepherd's warlords." ”

"Hmph, those crazy people have made rules, too." Viska said sarcastically, jumped off the chair lightly, her face flushed, usually if she made such a stupid move just now, Pandora was responsible for knocking this girl down with a knife or an inch fist, but now that the "stupid sister" was not there, she could only jump off after noticing the embarrassment, and in addition, if you say crazy words, it seems that you are about the same, Your Excellency the general of one meter two.

"It's really unfair," my sister sighed, "Many races that have just come to this universe have been thrown into the battlefield for some reason, but it's also strange that after so many years of war accumulation, even if the Great Nebula has a radius of three light years, there should be some warship wreckage left here, right?" ”

"They should all have become the matter of the Great Nebula, or the energy of the radial ribbon," Tavel turned his head and pushed his glasses, "The rebels must have established this zone more than just to make it a battlefield, this huge cloud zone has obvious traces of planning, its operating mechanism is not yet clear, but it definitely has some kind of function, if ......"

"I'll talk about it when I get back."

“…… Well, Your Majesty. ”

Now is not the time to launch a frontal assault on the Great Nebula, our ship has taken a huge arc inside it, bypassing the first radiated shè layer of the Great Nebula, it is said that this is the boundary line set by the shepherds in the equilibrium cycle, and the ships of ordinary races will be attacked by them once they cross that spoke shè belt, which makes our range twice as long, but after six hours, the spaceship still crosses this huge "interstellar dust", when the spacecraft gradually slows down into the light can capture speed, The first rays of starlight from the eastern part of the Great Nebula shè shè on the smooth fusiform hull of the Void Cruiser, like a silver barracuda, and the Federation ship's ship entered this silent space.

"It looks very peaceful, and the introduction also says that this is the most húnluàn pirate-ruled area in the entire universe, and there is a war every day," Cú Chulainn carried his magic spear, with a look of regret, "I can't see anything in the dark." ”

"You think the population density of the universe is the same as the vegetable market where there are fights all day long," I glanced at the guy who didn't know what a cosmic civilization was, "Adjutant, connect the teleportation controller." ”

"Zizi", after a slight sound of energy, the crystal panel in front of the commander's seat disappeared like a phantom, and a strange-looking handle-like controller rose, which is a xiǎo thing we gave to the New Eden Federation, which can concentrate the scattered troops within the galaxy into a base in a very short time and extremely xiǎo consumption, which can be regarded as allowing them to initially have the legion teleportation ability of the Xiling regular army in any situation, The Protos advance team we sent here before should have set up a base nearby, and if we jumped over it in regular space, we would have to wait for the spaceship's chrono engine to cool down, but as long as this thing has coordinates, it won't need to be cooled down as many times as it teleports.

Think about it, what is the startup code for calibration transmission......

Well, the front block is down, and the triangle is front and down.

…… Laugh if you want, this thing is a bubble design, and the return code of the Imperial Admiral is still up and down, left and right, left and right, A+B.

Flash of White Light - Although it is very vulgar, the ultra-advanced Imperial Teleporter is indeed much faster to use than the Protos Jump Engine, which takes several minutes to start, and with a flash of white light, we enter a xiǎo planetary belt.

Ahead is a semi-fixed base that is beginning to take shape, a typical xiǎo planetary belt fortification template, more than a dozen large xiǎo planets are connected by high-strength interstellar alloy skeletons, forming a three-dimensional defense line built based on their original relative positions, each xiǎo planet has traces of being hollowed out inside, the metallic luster has covered almost eighty percent of their area inside and outside, and all kinds of golden buildings with protost sè are fixed on the surface of these xiǎo planets, And its interior should be a warehouse or something, and the alloy skeleton that holds this piece of Xiǎo planet extends outward, connecting several starports and take-off and landing platforms, and it seems that it is already usable.

However, the entire base fell silent.

After the communication call, we were responded to by a noisy background sound, the interstellar alloy skeleton of the base glowed with a cold metallic luster, but only the streamer of energy flow was missing, only a few buildings in the entire Xiǎo planetary system still maintained the light, and the rest of the place was as dark as if it had lost energy, and there were miscellaneous supply containers stacked on the take-off and landing platform, half of which were damaged, and the contents were scattered everywhere - the artificial gravity of the base had been turned off.

That's all we see when we're done.

"The spacecraft stops, let the probe pass, and send the picture back."

My sister immediately said cautiously, now she also has the demeanor of a regular army commander.

"They're under attack," I immediately came to the obvious conclusion when the footage came back and zoomed in on every detail, "not a single one." ”

The just-built base seems to have been abandoned during an emergency operation, and when the screen is zoomed in, we find that one-third of the interstellar alloy skeletons that make up the entire base structure have been broken, and the two metal xiǎo planets with ghost energy reactors have been thrown out of the building cluster due to the fracture of the connection skeleton and some kind of impact bō, floating alone behind the base and spinning rapidly, the entire base has lost its energy supply, and two of the three take-off and landing platforms have obvious traces of melting, The surface is covered with cratered metal bubbles, which must be the result of continuous bombardment by high-intensity energy weapons, and the planet Xiǎo in the center of the base, which may have been used to install the Spectral Energy Shield Generator, has now been torn apart, and it looks like it has been destroyed by a severe overload, and around the base, we have only found the remains of a few battery emplacements for sentry cannons and photon cannons.

Further into the space, there were some inconspicuous pieces of metal floating around, which seemed to be fragments of a battleship, but the main parts of those fragments had apparently been salvaged by someone, and the remaining fragments were abandoned here.

"The full-band is silent, and the mothership channel of that exploration force is not in the broadcast domain," said one of the Protos officers, shaking his head, "Great Mentor, there is no life reaction in the base, are we near?" ”

"Yes, stay vigilant."

The silver-filled ship slowly approached the deserted base and landed on its only intact take-off and landing platform, where most of the Heroic Spirits and Protos warriors were ordered to stay on the ship to protect the Void Wanderers and the more important Crystal Virgin, and my sister and I, as well as Viska and a few high-powered Heroes, ascended to this silent outpost.

"Artificial gravity is all out of order."

Floating on the take-off and landing platform, looking at the mechanical devices and broken stone chips suspended in mid-air around me, I said through the jīng god connection.

"This ...... It's a really difficult combat environment......"

A very troubled voice sounded in my head, and as soon as I turned my head, Saber was floating around with his head tilted down thirty-five degrees.

"Saber, it's okay to use magic shè flow, no matter how fast you spin, you can't use it like a propeller."

“…… It's so rude to you, please don't say such rude words"

If you have the ability, you can come and bite me

"Alright, okay, there's still business," my sister is still an eternal peacemaker, and with a single sentence to quiet the indignant Lion King and the evil taste of the Imperial Führer, "Now, it's better to see if there are any corpses here......