One ship flew away from the battlefield in front of the beast behind, but the speed of the giant beast was a little faster than that of the Yangtze River, and the distance between the two sides continued to close, and the giant beast quickly caught up with the battleship.

Ye Fei's face sank like water, feeling that this place was almost far enough away from the war zone, and he decisively ordered: "Jiang Xue, prepare faster than light, let's go back and get rid of this big guy." ”

"Yes, faster-than-light ready, three, two, one—start!" The Yangtze River disappeared in the colorful light in an instant, and before the colorful light dissipated, the giant beast chased to the location where the Yangtze River disappeared, and Lu Jian, who had been paying attention to the giant beast, was shocked to find that the giant beast actually disappeared with the Yangtze River.

Lu Jian's pupils constricted: "Ye Fei-"

Gliese was so small that the vanished Yangtze River reappeared in the blink of an eye, and its position was only half a light-second away from the main force of the expeditionary force.

The battleship had just returned to normal, and Ye Fei happened to receive Lu Jian's wolf-like roar, and subconsciously dug into his buzzing ears: "Commander, I can hear ......"

"Full speed ahead!" Lu Jian couldn't say anything, and gave the most severe orders as quickly as possible.

Jiang Xue directly received the highest-level order from the flagship, and she immediately activated the battleship without thinking about it.

In the combat state, the orders issued by the flagship are divided into different levels, and the low-level orders will be issued to the captains of each ship, and the captains who receive the orders must be arranged and executed according to the actual situation according to the level of the order. However, the highest level is also called a first-class battle order, which is not issued to the captain, but directly to the combat post or individual who specifically executes the order, and anyone after receiving the order. It must be carried out immediately as soon as possible.

As a last resort, the commander of the fleet will never abandon the commander of the specific command and directly give the order to the battle position.

The engine of the Yangtze River was running all the time, and the battleship immediately began to accelerate under Jiang Xue's maneuvering.

Ye Fei, who was stunned, didn't understand what Lu Jian meant, and the scissors suddenly jumped up like a burning buttocks, and screamed miserably with the voice of his father and mother to marry: "Back-"

Ye Fei turned his head meaningfully, only to see half of the giant beast's body just popping out from the colorful light that was about to disperse.

Finding that the Yangtze River was accelerating, the neck of the giant beast shrunk in the torso suddenly popped out, and bit the back of the port side of the Yangtze River, and with a flick of its thick neck, it actually bit through the tail armor of the Yangtze River.

"Report - Behemoth bites through three layers of armor behind port side. Eighteen airtight compartments were lost! ”

Ye Fei's face turned pale: "Close the nearby airlock." All outer personnel were withdrawn, and the ship's surface weapons were switched to remote control...... How many people are trapped in the damage zone? ”

"Fourteen."

Ye Fei pursed his lips tightly and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Order everyone to get out of the damage area as soon as possible, they have three minutes." ”

The speeding Yangtze River was suddenly pulled along. The speed of the battleship dropped sharply when it landed. In the blink of an eye, the whole body of the giant beast appeared. It tried hard to pull the Yangtze River back. The Yangtze River is moving forward at full speed. Although the giant beast is strong, the power of the Yangtze River is not to be seen, and the strong power pulls the giant beast so long that it can't retract its neck.

The two sides are at a stalemate. The armor bitten by the giant beast was gradually elongated and deformed under the tremendous force and tearing.

"How's it going?" Lu Jian asked anxiously.

"It's not a big problem." Ye Fei was unusually calm.

"Don't fight hard." Lu Jian reminded.

"Don't worry, Commander, I won't." Ye Fei's eyebrows were twisted, "I was careless." ”

Lu Jian smiled bitterly: "It's not your business, no one would have thought that this thing would have the ability to exceed the speed of light, and it would be too perverted for creatures to evolve to this extent." ”

Ye Fei hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "The information provided by the mechanical civilization does not mention that the giant beast has this ability, do you want to ask the master?" ”

"If you don't say I'll do the same, don't talk yet." Lu Jian immediately contacted the Juggernaut, and after establishing contact, he asked straight to the point: "Juggernaut, how can this giant beast have the ability to exceed the speed of light?" ”

"I'm sorry, but I didn't know it had this ability." "The great civilization that created me has a history of 40,000 years, but there are only five records of encounters with behemoths, and there is no record of behemoths in my database that can exceed the speed of light. ”

"But you saw what happened just now!" Lu Jian's words were not so polite, and his tone directly brought out his dissatisfaction.

"General Lu, I have no need or reason to hide the situation." The Juggernaut was very calm, and the processor methodically calculated, "According to my inference, there are two possibilities for this accident. ”

"How?"

"One possibility is that the Behemoth does have the ability to travel faster than the speed of light, but it must have enough energy reserves to support it. Historically, the largest recorded behemoths were no more than twenty kilometers in size, and these few were obviously much more powerful than those. Juggernaut said.

"How is that possible?" Lu Jian didn't believe it at all, "It's outrageous enough to appear cosmic creatures, can cosmic creatures fly faster than the speed of light?" ”

He compares the Outer Bone Man's biological battleship to a small fish, so the giant beast is simply the Great White Shark in the universe! The universe is full of such powerful creatures, and they still don't let people live?

"Flying faster than light is not such an incredible thing." Juggernaut said suddenly, "I know that in your human concept, the speed of light is the upper limit of the speed of the universe, but in fact, this is just your misunderstanding, light cannot escape the gravitational pull of black holes, which means that light is also a substance, it is not the fastest substance in the universe." I know a lot of phenomena that are faster than light, such as supernova explosion shockwaves and quasar rays. It's just that human physical theories still have some limitations, and you are used to explaining phenomena that are beyond the existing theoretical system of human beings within the scope of the theories that you already understand. ”

Lu Jian's expression froze, he didn't know much about physics, but since the birth of the theory of relativity, it has been regarded as a classic by the physics community, although some people have doubted the theory of relativity, but they have all been abandoned because of the lack of practical theoretical basis.

"Actually, you can take a look a little more relaxed." Juggernaut summed it up.

"What else could be?" Lu Jian didn't want to discuss the range he wasn't good at.

Humanity is a race with a clear division of labor, and every individual in the mechanical civilization is an all-round all-rounder. Unless Lu Jian is really crazy, he will be stupid enough to compete with the electronic brain for the amount of knowledge.

"Another possibility is that the Exoskeleton Man modified the genes of the behemoth." "The only reason they imprisoned the beast in the Bone Tomb was to drive the giant beast to act as a power source for the bone mound. ”

Lu Jian still thinks that the possibility of this explanation is relatively high. In his common sense, it is a matter of course to achieve faster-than-light flight through technology, and it is too incredible for living beings to evolve faster-than-light flight capabilities.

As the so-called summer insects are indescribable, the scientific route of human beings and the biotechnology route of the exoskeleton man are two completely different models, and there are very few places that can be compared and borrowed from each other. It's normal not to understand. It's a strange thing to understand.

In fact, human beings have long had inferences about biotechnology, but the vast majority of people don't realize this - the elves in magical novels are a group of beings who are good at using nature, and theoretically speaking, the legendary elves are a kind of primary biotechnological civilization.

"Isn't it possible to exceed the speed of light without a giant beast's bone mound?" Ye Fei still couldn't hold back. Ask a question that has been bothering him for a long time.

"Ye Fei, is it? I know you. There was a sudden increase in excitement in the Juggernaut's tone. Actually, the reason is not complicated. The Bone Mound is not a simple lair, the Bone Mound modified by the Outer Bone Man is an organic whole, able to connect all the biological warships hidden in it. I don't know exactly how they do it, but I can only say that the world of the living world is so unpredictable that anything incredible can happen. ”

Ye Fei's cheeks twitched, what is the difference between this statement and not explaining?

Ye Fei has not learned since he was a child, and after joining the army, he has always been exposed to military-related knowledge, and his biological knowledge is very poor.

The cosmic creatures themselves, though incredible, are not incomprehensible.

There is no shortage of bizarre extreme creatures on Earth, such as microorganisms living in ice, fairy shrimp eggs that can resist boiling water, and deep-sea hydrothermal vent biomes with 400 degrees of heat.

The more places humans think life is impossible, the more strange life beyond human imagination can be discovered.

The sun still has billions of years to live, and if life on Earth exists until billions of years later, life on Earth also has a chance to evolve into cosmic life.

But more than four billion years is too far away, and by that time, the possibility of human existence will be infinitely close to zero.

"In other words, it is possible for other cosmic beings to evolve the ability to travel faster than the speed of light, right?" Lu Jian's face became extremely ugly.

"Theoretically, that's true." The Juggernaut's answer was very accurate, "The universe is boundless, anything can happen, just like our intelligent machines, theoretically no living thing can evolve into a machine, but we actually appeared." ”

This sentence is irrefutable, human science fiction works have appeared countless times artificial intelligence, but whether intentionally or unintentionally, artificial intelligence made by human beings has never been able to think like real human beings, and the real artificial intelligence actually came from far away from the sky, and took the initiative to run in front of human beings.

The reason why some people in the human race are suspicious of intelligent machines is because they suspect that the race that made them was not because the Outer Skeletons died out, but because they were betrayed by the intelligent machines after they were created.

The standard human science fiction model is still the most bloody one, but the market for the bloody model has been booming for a long time.

The conversation with the juggernaut was very fast, and the fourteen warriors hurried slowly, and finally got out of the damage zone at two minutes and forty-seven seconds, Ye Fei, who had been staring at the time, suddenly spit out a breath of turbidity: "Abandon the three layers of outer armor in the damage zone!" ”

The huge mechanical tenon of the aft module armor opened in an instant, the deformed outer armor detached from the battleship, and the Yangtze River, which was moving at full speed, lost its containment and suddenly flew away like a ball that had been kicked hard.

The beast had no idea that there would be such a change, and the huge head that was biting the armor plate suddenly lost its strength, and in an instant it retracted its torso, and the heavy armor plate slammed into its forehead, worse than a few shells.

The Yangtze River took the opportunity to flee away, but Ye Fei did not dare to relax at all. Being chased by the giant beast is not so much that he is careless, but that the ability of the giant beast is too rebellious.

The behemoth became more and more furious, and ripped off the armor plate with one claw. Keep an eye on the Yangtze River and catch up.

This time, Ye Fei no longer blindly ran away, and the two missiles that tested the water broke away from the battleship and went straight to the giant beast.

At the same time, Lu Jian ordered Ye Fei to fly in a straight line as much as possible, and the other warships of the expeditionary force flew to the front of the Yangtze River under the command of Lu Jian, preparing to intercept the giant beast.

Battleships are gone, the laser cannons installed by the mechanical bodies are ineffective against the behemoths, and the task of guarding the last bone mound can only be left to the master.

The Juggernaut guessed that there should be a giant beast in this bone mound, so he didn't attack for the time being, and commanded dozens of mechanical splits to surround the bone mound tightly, but whenever there was a biological warship, it would come up. All lasers are greeted.

It didn't take much thought to look at the bone mound. Juggernaut's main focus is also on the Behemoth.

The two missiles flew close to the giant beast, and the giant beast didn't care about the two little insects, and slapped them with one claw, trying to slap the missile away. I don't want the missile to explode. Blew the beast to the point of flipping over a few heels.

However, in addition to the shock. The nuclear explosion actually failed to kill the behemoth.

However, Ye Fei didn't expect the nuclear explosion to destroy the giant beast, what he hoped was that the nuclear explosion could slow down the speed of the giant beast!

Missile after missile flew towards the behemoth, and the impact of each close-range explosion bought the Yangtze River a little time. And the constant nuclear explosions also made the behemoth even more furious, angrily grabbing the missile with its front paws, but whether it succeeded or not, the explosion would come as scheduled.

The behemoth quickly realized that it was not a good idea to directly confront the missile, and with a twist of its body, it used its speed higher than the missile to shake off the incoming missile, and pounced on the Yangtze River again.

The missile was no longer effective, but the giant beast instinctively dodged the missile, which made Ye Fei see the opportunity, so he continued to attack the giant beast with missiles, forcing the giant beast to be unable to pursue in a straight line.

The other warships of the expeditionary force were in place one by one, and the first one to bear the brunt was the Yanjing, which pointed at the giant beast with its bow and fired a non-stop rain of bullets from the heavy cannons, giving the giant beast a head-on blow.

The giant beast immediately abandoned the Yangtze River and chased the Yanjing instead, and then the Jinmen was another mess, and the giant beast threw down the Yanjing again...... You fight a few warships, and I fight a stubble, and the giant beasts are played around.

At this time, the juggernaut took the initiative to contact Lu Jian: "General Lu, the giant beast can fly faster than the speed of light, and there is another possibility that the probability is very low. ”

"What is possible?" Lu Jian wondered for a while, why didn't he make it clear just now?

"Behemoths, like small fish, have evolved magnetic flight organs. The faster-than-light engine uses a strong magnetic field, and after the Yangtze River entered the superluminal speed, the giant beast immediately flew to the position where the battleship disappeared, and the magnetic field had not dissipated at that time, and it was likely to use the magnetic field of the Yangtze River to successfully enter the faster-than-light state. If this theory is true, then when the battleship departs from the superluminal speed, it will inevitably follow the detachment from the superluminal speed. So said the Juggernaut.

Lu Jian shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't study how it enters the speed of light first, you can quickly think about how you can mention it." ”

After several consecutive attacks, the giant beast has come back to its senses, and no longer chases aimlessly, but re-bites the Yangtze River - it is not stupid, the Yangtze River has been bitten by it and is an injured "prey".

"I'm sorry, but the giant beast has evolved very strongly, and I don't know how to destroy it." The juggernaut gave Lu Jian the answer he didn't want the most.

"You don't have any useful records in your database?" Lu Jian still didn't give up, "Didn't you meet five?" Did great civilizations persuade the behemoths away? ”

The target of the giant beast is the living planet, and the civilization giant beast that creates intelligent machines, if there is no way to deal with it, won't the giant beast destroy the planet?

The Juggernaut was surprisingly silent for a while before he said slowly, "There is a way, but it doesn't work......"

"It's useless or not, let's talk about it first!"

"Alright then, our solution is to prepare enough food for the giant beast, and when it is full, it will naturally fly away." The Juggernaut believes that intelligent machines are the continuation of great civilizations, and has always compared the two.

No way!

Lu Jian scolded his mother in his heart, what is this called? It's a rival! No wonder the juggernaut said it was useless.

The fierce beast that was in hot pursuit made Ye Fei cry bitterly, and Lu Jian commanded several warships to chase and intercept him, but the giant beast that always had a dead heart could not do it, and the Jinmen accidentally got too close, and was scratched by the giant beast with a claw, penetrating two layers of armor.

The giant beast is simply a-stirring stick, its appearance interrupted the original battle, and also messed up the whole war, if it were not for the strength of the mechanical civilization, the outer bone people might have taken the opportunity to escape.

The battlefield turned into a colosseum, and the expeditionary force became almost a joke.

Ye Fei's heart struggled violently, and he made up his mind: "Commander, I'll lead it away and see if I can throw it away." ”

Lu Jian couldn't think of a better way, thought about it again and again, and finally agreed to Ye Fei's plan.

Ye Fei took a deep breath and held his breath to concentrate, settled down, and said with a long breath: "Prepare to enter faster-than-light flight-"

"Where are you going?" Jiang Xue asked in surprise.

"As long as you don't go to Earth, you can go in whichever direction!" Ye Fei said extremely irresponsibly.

Isn't there any strategic task to lure away the giant beast, isn't it flying anywhere?

Jiang Xue couldn't cry or laugh, so she simply chose a direction far away from the solar system: "Ten seconds countdown to flying faster than the speed of light-" A colorful glimmer of light appeared on the Yangtze River, and it disappeared into the universe in an instant.

Before the light dissipated, the flying giant beast pounced into it and disappeared immediately after the Yangtze River.

Lu Jian watched the giant beast disappear, and the light in his eyes was extremely complicated: "Ye Fei, the giant beast is following, be careful!" ”

"Roger, at the moment our ship maintains a triple beam, ready to speed up at any time......"

"Captain - Monster ...... spotted in the direction of the stern of the ship"

"Jiang Xue, five times the speed of light!"

"The distance is still shrinking—"

"Seven times the speed of light......

"Nine-fold ......"

……

"Twenty-six times ......"

"The distance is stable!"

"Good! Fly for a while, then speed up and shake it off! ”

Ye Fei said. (To be continued......)

PS: There was a lot of struggle over whether to make cosmic creatures have the ability to fly faster than the speed of light, and I thought it was unreasonable, but after all, the novel still had to have an element of fiction, so I finally decided to write it this way.