May 13, 2206.

"Call the Yangtze River, please answer when you hear it!" Ye Fei had led away the giant beast for a day, and Lu Jian, who had not slept for two days and two nights, was very tired, but he had to endure his sleepiness and call the Yangtze River again.

"I'm the Yangtze River, please speak." Ye Fei, who had just slept well, was refreshed,

"How's it going?"

"Everything is normal, at present, our ship is moving at twenty-six times the speed of light, I have arranged for someone to keep an eye on the giant beast, and the distance between our ship and the giant beast is very stable."

"Then I'll rest assured, and I'll speed up to get rid of it when the distance is almost there." His bloodshot eyes made Lu Jian look unusually haggard.

"Understood, chief, how's the situation going?" Ye Fei asked almost the same words.

Lu Jian understood what Ye Fei meant, and replied: "Everything is normal, now the three parties are jointly blockading the last bone mound, Fei Fei wants to fly, and the enemy ships inside also want to come out, if there is no good way to deal with the giant beast, it will be cleaned up a long time ago." A beautiful battle of annihilation was overwhelmed by a few giant beasts, and Lu Jian held his breath as much as he wanted, "Okay, I'll go to sleep for a while." ”

The two sides cut off communications.

Three days later.

"Ye Fei, this distance is about the same, right?"

Ye Fei scratched his forehead: "I still want to fly for a few more days, but now it's closer." "It takes fourteen days to fly a light-year at twenty-six times the speed of light, and it takes one-fifth of a light-year to fly in three days, if you can't fly faster than light, this distance is tantamount to the end of the universe, but the giant beast is not a small fish, he doesn't want to waste half a day in vain, just get rid of the giant beast. A few days later, it flew back to Gliese 581.

"What's close, what's close, speed up, hurry back, what's the matter with you leaving the team with a battleship? Hurry up, if you don't come back, Gao Lan will have to go to me here and cry and collapse the headquarters. Lu Jian reluctantly pointed out the reason.

He could command any soldier in the fleet, but he could not command a wife who was worried about her husband's well-being.

There was a suppressed chuckle in the bridge, Ye Fei's expression froze, and he agreed: "Then let's do it...... Jiang Xue, full speed ahead! ”

"Accelerating forward...... Thirty times. Thirty-four times. Thirty-eight times, forty times...... Burn the wind! ”

"Scissors—"

"According to the calculation of the rear light system, the distance between our ship and the giant beast is increasing."

"Very well, our ship is currently a third faster than the Behemoth. Such. Let's be cautious. Jiang Xue was out of the faster-than-light state an hour later. ”

Forty times the speed of light is capable of traveling a distance of 288 astronomical units in an hour, almost ten times the distance between the Sun and Neptune! If the Behemoth is still flying at twenty-six times the speed of light during this time. The Yangtze River was able to throw it out of more than 90 astronomical units and fly this distance at the speed of light, which took about 13 hours.

An hour later, the Yangtze River broke out of the faster-than-light state as scheduled, and in order to prevent accidents, Ye Fei did not order the Yangtze River to return immediately, but waited quietly in place.

Half an hour later, a colorful light suddenly appeared, layers of spatial fluctuations were like, and the giant beast that should not have caught up suddenly appeared in the void not far from the Yangtze River.

Ye Fei was shocked and angry like a fried cat: "Start flying faster than light immediately, in any direction!" ”

Lu Jian was also stunned by this sudden accident, and the reality in front of him directly overturned the last inference of the master.

The Yangtze River disappeared in front of the giant beast again, but the persistent giant beast had no intention of giving up.

Seventeen minutes after entering the speed of light, the abnormal state on the Yangtze River disappeared, and the scissors, who had been keeping an eye on the stern of the ship, immediately reported: "Chief, it is following again." ”

Ye Fei's face sank like water: "Jiang Xue, if you move forward at full speed for an hour and then break away, I don't believe that you can't get rid of it." ”

In another hour, after breaking away from the speed of light, the Yangtze River changed direction and soared at a speed of 6,000 kilometers per second for 20 minutes.

This time, the Yangtze River flew for only ten minutes before exiting the faster-than-light speed, and then flew out of the light-second in a conventional way, using the ship's optical system to stare at the position of the battleship when it left the faster-than-light.

Lu Jian has been paying attention to the situation of the Yangtze River, but he has never interfered with Ye Fei's command - there is no absolute necessity, Lu Jian will only decide the general direction of the fleet, and the specific command is the captain's business.

As time passed, the atmosphere on the Yangtze River became more and more dull and depressing, and everyone's hearts were like a mountain.

Forty minutes later, the giant beast did not appear, and many people's hearts were quietly relieved, but Ye Fei was not among them.

Forty-seven minutes and twelve seconds, the colorful light in the void suddenly appeared, but Ye Fei's heart suddenly relaxed, and he said helplessly: "Keep flying." ”

This time, Jiang Xue didn't need Ye Fei's instructions again, and randomly chose a direction to start the faster-than-light engine.

No one could have imagined that this flight would be more than two months.

The maximum speed of the giant beast does not exceed twenty-six times the speed of light, and in the past two months, the Yangtze River has accelerated to forty times the speed of light more than once to get rid of the giant beast, but every time it stays a little longer, the giant beast will follow up like a ghost, even if the uninterrupted breakpoint faster-than-light flight does not work, making Ye Fei annoyed and helpless.

Lu Jian would contact the Yangtze River almost every day, but unfortunately there was no good news, but the main force that still stayed in Gliese 581 had a lot of moves.

For a period of time after the blockade of the bone mound, the coalition forces have not been able to find a way to destroy the giant beast, and all existing weapons cannot effectively kill and injure the giant beast.

The coalition forces immediately put the plan of throwing the bone mound into the star on the agenda, but the plan is difficult to implement, especially the power of the bone mound itself, it is not easy to move the bone mound through external forces, and the plan is stranded again, and the master can only mobilize the mechanical body to keep the bone mound firmly watched, and it is really not possible to be sleepy for a while.

The fleeing brown spotted behemoth is still under the surveillance of the Hengshan, and the strange thing is that the brown spotted behemoth has never flown faster than the speed of light, although it did not fly directly to the solar system, but the direction deviation is not much, so it has caused a high degree of vigilance among the expeditionary force and the headquarters of the Celestial Army.

The Third Fleet, which was originally planned to merge with the First Fleet, changed its original plan and joined the Hengshan on July 2, 2206. Prepare for a devastating blow at the right time.

It is a pity that the Third Fleet's plan is also stuck in the implementation -- the Third Fleet is the first fleet formed by the Chinese military after implementing the global recruitment plan, and 50 percent of the fleet's personnel come from all countries around the world.

On July 17, 2206, the Yangtze River in faster-than-light flight.

"According to the report, our ship's fuel reserves are less than 30 percent." Jiang Xue dutifully reported on the fuel reserves.

Due to the distance from the homeland, each giant ship of the expeditionary force has a large amount of fusion fuel in stock, and with the supply ships that have been following the fleet, there is usually no shortage of fuel. Thirty percent of the reserves were enough for the Yangtze River to run back into the solar system, but according to the regulations, Jiang Xue had to alert the captain when the fuel reserves dropped to the warning line.

Ye Fei rubbed his temples with a headache: "Why did you consume it so quickly?" "More than two months. The Yangtze River stops and goes. The giant beast was never able to get rid of it, and the battleship flew at full speed for half a month at the longest, but the giant beast still followed.

Jiang Xuebian flattened his mouth: "The battleship has not been refueled since leaving Proxima Centauri, and it has been running for ...... past two months."

"It's fine. No need to explain. I know why. Ye Fei sighed. We haven't shaken off our tail for so long, so we can't bring it back again, right? ”

Jiang Xue pursed her lips and glanced at Liu Hongye.

"Captain. If we run out of fuel, the battleship will be useless, even if we fly back and refuel and lure the beast away! For the sake of his wife, Liu Hongye had no choice but to stand up.

In fact, there are a large number of hydrogen isotopes in the hydrogen warheads carried by warships, but no one will come up with such a bad idea as dismantling nuclear warheads unless they have to do so - nuclear warheads have safety devices, and if you are not careful, they will be directly stimulated, and it will be fun to explode directly in the battleship.

Ye Fei tapped his forehead lightly, "I remember that there seems to be a collection system on the ship, which can absorb free hydrogen atoms in the universe...... Can't you take advantage of this? ”

"Yes, yes, but our current location is still in the bubble of the local galaxy, the hydrogen density in space is too low, it will take a lot of time, and the behemoth will not give us that much time." Fu Hongye smiled wryly, "And after collecting hydrogen atoms, deuterium and tritium must be further separated, and the efficiency is too low." ”

Ye Fei was silent for a while, he had no right to gamble with the lives of the soldiers, if there was nothing to do, returning would become inevitable.

Everyone was waiting for Ye Fei's decision, and the unwilling Ye Fei asked with the most glimmer of hope: "Is there no way at all?" ”

Fu Hongye shook his head slowly but firmly.

Ye Fei couldn't help but stare deeply, all his thoughts in the past few months have been thinking about how to deal with the giant beast, counting the weapons on the Yangtze River, it seems that there is only a little chance to sneak attack with a light-speed torpedo when the giant beast is not out of the speed of light.

But Ye Fei had a feeling, he felt that the super-light speed flight ability of the giant beast was far above the battleship, and it was difficult to say whether the light-speed torpedo could hit the giant beast - the superlight speed flight of the battleship could only fly in a straight line, but was the behemoth like this?

In the past two months, there have been several times when the Behemoth has appeared for a significantly shorter period of time than expected, and this phenomenon has all occurred after the Yangtze River has turned.

"Captain!" Ye Fei's contemplation was interrupted by Jiang Xue, who wanted to speak and stopped, "I have a solution, maybe it will be useful." ”

Ye Fei's eyes lit up: "Tell me quickly, what way?" ”

"The last time I stopped the ship, I saw a star nearby, and the density of matter in the galaxy must be much higher than in interstellar space." Jiang Xue said the answer.

Fu Hongye's pupils shrank, and he didn't understand what Jiang Xue meant, wasn't this dismantling his platform?

"How far?" Ye Fei decided to ask first.

Jiang Xue made a simple calculation: "If you fly at full speed, it will take about seven days." ”

Ye Fei's heart was racing.

Seven days of flying at full speed is about half a light-year, which is indeed not too far, and with the distance from the giant beast before, it will take about five to six days after the battleship arrives in the galaxy.

If there are gaseous planets there, collecting fuel is not particularly difficult.

"Okay, that's it, adjust the direction right away." Ye Fei finally made up his mind.

If you don't have a chance, I'm afraid you can only return home.

July 24, 2206, unknown airspace.

Colorful shimmers of light flashed at the edge of the planetary system. The Yangtze River was out of the faster-than-light state, and the entire ship's equipment began to work at the same time, completely scanning the galaxy.

The battleship quickly gathered enough data to begin building a digital model of the planetary system, and when the model was completed, everyone on the bridge was taken aback.

Fu Hongye blinked his eyes in surprise: "This galaxy is so empty!" "Humans have long discovered that few stars exist alone, and most stars have more or less a few planets around them, but this place is empty, and only one planet orbits the yellow dwarf in close proximity.

Yellow dwarfs are stars that resemble the Sun.

"And this planet, so close to the sun?" The scissor eye is almost attached to the hologram. Tsai watched carefully and carefully.

The only planet was almost in the middle of the star. There is actually a faint light mist like a comet's tail on the far side of the planet.

"If only Hu Bin were here, he would definitely know what was going on." Fu Hongye, who also couldn't take his eyes off, said.

Jiang Xue was unhappy when she heard this: "I don't need Hu Bin for this, I also know what's going on." She pouted disdainfully.

"What's going on? Tell me about it. Ye Fei couldn't help but urge.

Jiang Xue pointed to the only planet and said, "It's very simple, this is the legendary hot Jupiter." Generally speaking. When a star is formed, all the material that is close to the star is attracted to the star. Therefore, it is impossible for a massive giant planet to form around the star, and the planet should be formed at a relatively distant position, and then slowly fly towards the star. In the process, it swallows up all the other objects in the galaxy, so the galaxy looks empty. ”

"Hot Jupiter?" Ye Fei felt as if he had heard this word somewhere, he manipulated a few times to enlarge the image of the planet, and suddenly a high-resolution holosphere with a diameter of more than one meter appeared in everyone's eyes.

"Oh, look, it's raining in this place! What kind of cloud is this, and why is it red? Scissors was amazed, Ye Fei turned the hologram, and sure enough, he saw bright red clouds floating on the planet covering half of the sky.

"This is too close to the sun, and the sun is shining, right?" The black bear urn guessed angrily.

"You've drunk too much, haven't you?" Scissors angrily pushed the black bear to the elbow, "You don't look at the data when you speak, this place is as hot as hell, the surface temperature is as high as two or three thousand degrees, no matter how much water has to be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, do you think that cloud is the kind in our earth and sky?" ”

"Damn, what else can rain if it's not water?" The black bear said unconvinced, but at this time, the results of the spectral analysis of the planet came out, and the data showed that the main component of the red cloud was iron, mixed with a small amount of other metals.

"I, I'm, how is this possible? Tieyun? The black bear couldn't believe his eyes, and rubbed it hard, but the data didn't change at all.

"Nothing is impossible, the surface temperature is so high, the iron has to be dried into steam, and water vapor is the same reason." Ye Fei smacked his lips, "What the hell, and clouds made of iron?" Isn't that rain molten iron? It's still a planet, it's a big furnace that is boiling. ”

"Who's to say it isn't!" The black bear sighed in admiration, "How the hell do you need to make steel and iron?" ”

What open-hearth electric furnace vacuum electric arc furnace is weaker than here.

Scissors touched his chin as if in thought: "Iron is useless, if only golden." ”

"What if you can jump down and scoop two spoons?" Ye Fei kicked directly on the butt of the scissors, "I'll fuck it, fortunately it's a gas planet, if it's a terrestrial planet, wouldn't there be a river of molten iron on the ground?" ”

"Isn't a river flowing with golden water more emotional?" Scissors muttered quietly.

It is said that more than 60% of the material of this planet is gold, but unfortunately the distance from the solar system is too far, and the specific news has long been drowned in history.

"It's a pity." Ye Fei is like a person who has found a treasure, but he can only look at the unlucky egg in his hand from a distance, full of loss and regret.

If the metal resources on this planet can be really utilized, mankind will no longer suffer from mineral shortages, but the giant planet itself means a great danger, and the ultra-high temperature is a small problem in comparison.

"There's no pity, we're not a prospecting team, so it doesn't matter to us what we have." The black bear can see better than anyone else.

"No, it matters." Jiang Xue pointed to the faint "comet tail" and corrected, "There is hydrogen on this planet, and there is it here." After it is completely pulled into the arms of the star, the hydrogen on the planet will become part of the star. ”

Ye Fei was stunned: "You mean, let's drive the battleship here to collect hydrogen?" ”

"That's right! This comet tail is actually the solar wind that blows out the gas on the planet, most of which is hydrogen. Jiang Xue said with certainty.

"How do you know about the Dao?" Scissors asked suspiciously.

Jiang Xue smiled rarely, and her fingertips circled around the corners of her forehead, "Knowledge." "If you want to control a battleship, you must have enough astronomical knowledge, maybe she can't figure out the name of the starry sky, but she definitely knows the type of each star.

Scissors was speechless for a while: "You might as well just say that I'm uneducated." ”

"I didn't say that." Jiang Xue quietly winked at Fu Hongye complacently.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, Jiang Xue, do as you say, the others will fully cooperate, hurry up!" Ye Fei gave the highest order, and everyone immediately put away their grinning attitude and quickly returned to their posts.

After a brief over-light flight, the battleship approaches the far side of the planet in a conventional way, and finally flies into the tail of the comet, unfurling a giant umbrella-like collection device.

Ships traversing the tail of the comet chase the direction where the mist is thickest, making the collection as efficient as possible.

The easiest method of isotope separation for warships is the gravity method, in which hydrogen ions in the collection device are converted into hydrogen gas after neutralizing the charge, and then poured into separation towers hundreds of meters high in batches, cooled to close to liquefaction temperature, with the lighter hydrogen rising and the heavier deuterium and tritium sinking.

By applying several times the force of gravity, the efficiency of separation is increased several times, a large number of hydrogen isotopes are separated, solidified and loaded into the fuel chamber of the battleship, and the fuel reserve rises sharply.

Ye Fei was so happy that his face bloomed, but it didn't take long for him to sigh helplessly.

He couldn't find a way to deal with the giant beast, and no matter how much fuel he had, he could only escape, how could he be happy? (To be continued......)

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