Encountering a strange creature that spews particle beams makes the fleet's commander-in-chief, Admiral Conrad Herzog, nervous. Easy to read on the phone: αр.(1)(6)Sorting out the things that made him feel more nervous, one after another.

An unmanned reconnaissance ship has discovered the fleet of the new Roman Empire in space eighty light-years away!

An Imperial fleet of six hundred battleships and seven hundred cruisers is preparing to continue its march on the interstellar planet "Yi".

The "Haraldi" detachment of the Central Fleet of the New Roman Empire escorted the scientific expedition team composed of two scientific research ships into space nearly 80 light-years away from the interstellar planet "Yi".

The images brought back by the unmanned reconnaissance ship show that the black 'hole' and 'hole' of the interstellar planet are still lying on the galactic surface as they were when she was first discovered, heading towards the center of the galaxy at a rpm speed that exceeds the fourth cosmic velocity. Images from data obtained by the Computerized Synthetic Gravitational Detection System also show that a large number of Immortal Interstellar Bundesmail ships are deployed in the space around the planet Yi.

The commander of the squadron, Colonel Gus Whitehead, had no choice but to order a temporary halt to the advance and consult with his officers on countermeasures.

"The number of enemy battleships exceeded five thousand, of which there were three thousand battleships." "If we continue to approach the planet 'Yi', it will definitely prick their nerves and prompt them to attack us. ”

"But there's no way to stop like this." Captain Lota Staudert said.

"His Excellency the Archon has instructed us to avoid 'exchanging fire' with our enemies as much as possible, and has authorized us to cooperate with them to a limited extent." Gus explained, "I wanted to take this opportunity to show them a friendly gesture. ”

"I don't think that kind of opportunity is ripe yet." Major Jiang Ziyue said, "The enemy has an absolute superiority in forces, and our presence may make the other commanders nervous, but with this amount of troops, it is absolutely impossible for them to pay attention to us." Therefore, I think that it is impossible to have limited cooperation with them now, and it is easy to 'expose' our true strength. ”

"Ziyue has a point." Lota agreed.

"Why, you two are getting more and more husbands singing 'women'." Gus smiled and said, "I see how you've become intimate along the way. ”

Jiang Ziyue in the communication video smiled at him, Gus didn't know that he had agreed to Rota's marriage proposal. Just said seriously, "Don't change the subject, Gus." I suggest that instead of flying towards the 'easy' planet, we should make a big circle and pretend to fly towards another target, into extra-deep space. It's better to make the enemy think we're flying out of the galaxy and make them 'confused' about our true intentions. ”

"It's a thankless task." "Not only is it a waste of energy, but it's also not easy to grasp the enemy's situation. ”

"They should be busy searching for the missing Thirteenth Fleet right now. I also guess they didn't find the reason for the disappearance either......"

"That's why you're going to 'get it' mysterious." Rota excitedly interrupted Jiang Ziyue's words, "Let the enemy think that the disappearance of the enemy's thirteenth fleet has something to do with us?" ”

Jiang Ziyue nodded and said, "If we are flying towards a more distant space, as if we are heading straight for a certain target, then the enemy's commander will definitely send a large number of troops to track it down." This will distract most of them, and we will suddenly turn back and head straight for the 'easy' planet to scare them. ”

"But in this way, we still can't take back the 'easy' planet." Lota immediately revealed that she and Jiang Ziyue still lacked enough tacit understanding.

When Gus heard this, he laughed heartily and said, "Lotta, it seems that it will take some time for you to keep up with your son." Basically, once you toss around, it's easy to spend two or three months. At that time, the consul will issue an order on behalf of the Senate, and the Central Fleet will launch an offensive into the territory of the Federation, and then the enemy will have to defend itself, and we can take advantage of the situation to take the 'easy' planet. ”

Jiang Ziyue hurriedly said, "You can't blame Lotta, Gus. The last time the Archon summoned only the two of us, Lota didn't know that the Archon had postponed the attack on the planet Yi for three months. ”

"Yo, you took care of your wife so soon?" Gus exclaimed in surprise, "Looks like you two are doing a fake show." ”

"What kind of fake drama is really done!?" Lota said angrily, "We were truly in love. ”

"Don't talk about that, let's get down to business." Jiang Ziyue said impatiently. Every time he had a meeting with Gus and Rota to discuss the battle, it would always evolve into an emotional forum, and this kind of thing happened to be not something he was happy to accept. "Gus, what do you think of my thoughts?"

"I have to say, we always coincide." "It's just that I don't think it's necessary for us to fly all of them into outer deep space, and we can leave a small group of ships to watch them and take action when the time comes." ”

"Makes sense." Jiang Ziyue agreed.

"So who will lead some of the warships to stay?" Lota asked.

"I'll stay." Gus said with a deliberately lost and helpless look, "Who told me to be alone." ”

"Let Lota lead one or two hundred cruisers to stay." Jiang Ziyue said.

"Why?" Lota asked unhappily. She is more willing to act with Jiang Ziyue, not only out of trust in Jiang Ziyue's command ability, but also out of attachment to her lover.

Gus explained for her future husband: "Although there is less extraterrestrial interstellar matter in deep space, in those unknown spaces, we lack comprehensive and detailed information and experience of faster-than-light travel, and the danger is greater than in the Perseus Spiral Arm interstellar." So your family is hurting you and wants to keep you on the edge of the safe Yingxian spiral arm. ”

At the end, Gus didn't forget to joke and joked, "Lotta, you can actually fall in love with me." I also hope that you will stay, and you have also seen that I am inseparable from your son Yue in terms of talent, but I am more handsome than him, funny, and the official is bigger than him, and my salary is higher than him. Live with me and you're guaranteed to smile and look ageless......"

"Gus, you're hitting the wrong target." Lotta said coldly, "Although I admire your silver-white hair, I prefer bald men. ”

"Is that decided, Gus?" Jiang Ziyue has always limited his speech to work.

"It's up to Madame Zun's opinion." Gus smiled and said, "Madame Jiang, if you are willing to stay, how about leading two hundred cruisers to stay?" ”

"You should be called Madame von Jiang." Lota proudly corrected that she seemed to be very invested in her new identity in the future.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I almost forgot Ziyue's last name." Gus hastened to apologize.

"In fact, my family also has the surname 'von Staudert', only to give up the title 'von' when I was my great-grandfather." Lota explained.

"I suggest that your future children can be given the surname 'von Janstaudt'."

Seeing that the two were getting farther and farther apart, Jiang Ziyue hurriedly said, "That's enough, two." We should not bring the issue of 'private' people to the operational meeting for discussion. Set a time to start again. ”

"Okay, let's rest for twenty-four hours, and then we'll set off again." Gus gave instructions.

"Yes, sir." Jiang Ziyue and Lota replied in unison.

On October 11th, Gus and Jiang Ziyue began to 'advance' into the deep space outside the galaxy with most of the ships of the "Haraldi" fleet, leaving only Lotas Toddet to lead 200 cruisers and several supply ships to patrol at a distance of 70 or 80 light years from the planet "Yi".

The strange behavior of the new Roman Imperial Army puzzled Admiral Herzog, the commander-in-chief of the Federal fleet, and his staff officers, but soon a consensus was formed that the Imperial Army was flying towards some mysterious target. Just as the admiral was about to deploy the fleet for tracking, the good news came from the "Free Beachhead" landing expedition team on the planet "Yi".

Academician Zhu Hansong and his scientists, with the assistance of army engineers and maintenance personnel, successfully dissected a complete corpse of the Yixing monster brought by the returning Captain Alfonso Ovid.

The corpse's head had been completely blown off, but the 'gross' weight was still close to ten tons, and Captain Ovid would not have been able to drag this behemoth on a planet with a gravity constant without the help of the power armor.

The four-legged monster that was once able to 'shoot' high-energy particle beams, whether it was a flat body or four long legs, and perhaps even the head that had been blown off was wrapped in a layer of extremely hard dense ceramic material. In particular, its body is as smooth as a crab shell, with a harmonious and perfect linear shape, and the edges are as sharp as steel knives.

Therefore, when the robot transported the corpse of this giant beast into the laboratory, Academician Zhu Hansong immediately ordered it to be a "particle river crab", which means that it is a giant beast that can 'shoot' powerful particle beams and sweep across the stars.

"How can river crabs be so powerful? That doesn't sound like a powerful name. Ulf Bernstein, however, commented on the name of Zhu Hansong.

Zhu Hansong smiled, the other party is a Westerner, and he doesn't understand the vocabulary of the Chinese nation, the word "river crab" has long been out of its original meaning, representing a power that is irresistible but has no rules to follow.

He said to Bernstein: "Mr. Academician, there was a time when almost all Chinese had an inexplicable awe of river crabs. So, the name is absolutely shocking! ”

Bernstein still couldn't understand, and looked at his student Chen Weiyin, who had pure Chinese blood, with expectant eyes, hoping that she could explain it to him more clearly.

Chen Weiyin also just smiled and said, "Teacher, what he said about the beginning of the 21st century is a period of political and cultural history. She then turned to Zhu Hansong and said, "Mr. Academician, the Chinese in the early 30th century may not understand the psychology of the Chinese in the early 21st century. ”

"Of course." Zhu Hansong nodded in response, and said in a proud tone: "The Chinese at the beginning of the twenty-first century did not have any courage at all, and the rampant small river crabs made them silent and afraid to avoid them. Where is now, the Chinese lead the development process of the human world and bravely assume the responsibility of the human world. ”

"Mr. Academician, I'm afraid this crab is not easy to eat." Mia Frobel, a biologist from the New Roman Empire, said worriedly, "The surface of the ceramic armor is difficult to cut through even with 'excited' light." ”

Upon Roentgenium's 'shooting' scan, it was seen that the corpse's body was encased in nine ovoid organs, five of which were distributed in a five-star shape, four of which each had a slender tubular organ leading to the 'legs' below the body, and only the one at the front of the body had no spring hose. The other four ovoid organs are stacked diagonally on top of each other, and each has a stout, spring-like hose-like organ that leads vertically to the head.

However, it was found that the tubes leading to the head had been completely blocked by something hard. All ovoid organs are connected to each other by some small fibrous tubes, indicating that the organs should be interconnected.

Its four long legs with distinct segments have a structure similar to that of a crab's legs, but the details are indiscernible. Because all these organs and tubes are tightly wrapped by the ceramic material of the outer shell, and these organs, tubes, and the inside of the 'legs' and feet cannot be penetrated by X-ray rays. Apparently, lead is attached to the surface of the body to block the damage caused by radiation to the inside of the body.

"Could this be a silicon-based creature?" Mia Frobel said in amazement.

"Mrs. Frobel." Zhu Hansong did not agree with her words, and said seriously: "Although I am not a 'carbon chauvinist', I think the so-called 'silicon-based organisms' proposed by the academic community is difficult to hold up in theory." ”

"But how do you explain this thing that's made up of ceramic inside and out?" Chen Weiyin asked deliberately. In fact, she didn't really care whether the silicon-based biology theory was true or not, but wanted to take the opportunity to kill the prestige of the academician of the Federal Academy of Sciences who was quite arrogant in front of her.

"Dr. Chen, we haven't seen the core of this creature yet, so we can't make any conclusions yet." Zhu Hansong said tactfully.

"Why don't we switch to sonar for scanning?" Chen Weiyin continued, "Metallic lead, which cannot be penetrated by X-ray rays, can transmit sound 'waves'. ”

Zhu Hansong was immediately inspired, clapped his palms, and exclaimed with a smile: "Dr. Chen, you are not only beautiful, but also have a flexible mind!" Ulf, you have such a talented and beautiful student, how enviable! ”

In response to Zhu Hansong's praise, Ulf Bernstein on the side smiled proudly. In fact, he met Zhu Hansong in an academic 'exchange' activity very early, and he had also heard about some of the affairs of the public. Although he was engaged in different fields of research and was a member of his national academy of sciences, Bernstein despised the corrupt lifestyle of Zhu Hansong and some other federal scientists.

Scientists switched to sonar to study the corpse of the Yi Xing creature, and soon came up with images that were formed due to the different speeds of sound 'waves'. However, in the past, human beings rarely used sonar directly to study the structure of the object itself, and it took a lot of time to interpret the image. Finally, with the assistance of computer simulation, Academician Zhu Hansong concluded that those ovoid organs were full of structurally intact cells!

Everyone was overjoyed by the new discovery, and Zhu Hansong couldn't wait to announce: "The only way to continue to explore the structure and composition of those organs is to cut through this layer of ceramics." ”

However, in the face of this tank-like behemoth in front of him, Zhu Hansong also looked a little helpless.

It wasn't hard to open the corpse, and it was easy to get a bunch of Marines to blast it to pieces with the weapons on the power armor. But it is not an easy task to dissect the body properly.

"What do you think of having sappers and power armor maintainers help?" Chen Weiyin suggested.

"Looks like that's the only way to do it." Academician Zhu Hansong nodded and said.

After saying that, Zhu Hansong immediately concentrated on checking the robot's cutting procedure, and he had to make sure that the robot's cutting 'excitation' light could not only cut through the outer shell, but also not hurt the tissues of the ovoid organ inside.

With the concerted efforts of many engineers and technicians and the help of auxiliary robots and instruments, it took more than ten hours for scientists to finally cut through the dense ceramic material shell at the front of the flat body of the "particle river crab". The ovoid organ, which had no spring-like hose-like object, was the first to 'show' an area about the size of a human face.

Zhu Hansong immediately ordered the dissection to be suspended. He crouched down and scrutinized the exposed part. There is also a hard substance on top of the organ, but due to the presence of lead, the 'shot' line of all 'shot' scanners cannot penetrate. Sonar detection just now showed that this layer of material was also up to a centimeter thick. He took off his gloves and put his hand on them, as if trying to feel the message of life coming from inside.

But in the face of this alien creature, which has been thought to be dead, Zhu Hansong does not get any of the expected feelings. So, he ordered the cutting operation to resume, and watched as the flickering 'excited' light 'shone' on the ovoid organs.

After stripping away the hard, lead-containing substance, the scientists were presented with an extremely elastic substance. Analysis of the sections removed from above revealed that it was a layer of protein, apparently to cushion the hard ceramic shell with the cell tissue inside, preventing the impact energy generated by the shell from destroying the fragile living matter.

Faced with the new discovery, Zhu Hansong said happily: "Another fact makes us have to surrender to the majesty of 'carbon chauvinism' once again." ”

"But how did these ceramic shells come about?" Chen Weiyin asked, "It won't be made through an automatic production line like us humans." ”

"It's unlikely that all of these technical 'sex' questions will be answered right away." "The next step is to 'figure out' the role of each of these organs. Of course, I had to inform the fleet command of our findings. ”

Zhu Hansong turned to immediately connect the communication with the commander of the fleet, Herzog.

Outside the lab, on the Liberty Beachhead line, Marines Commanders Ovid and Pucci were thankful that the past twenty-four hours had been safe and that no unidentified creatures had been found.

But they apparently rejoiced too soon, and the satellites in space discovered that a large number of infrared radiation 'shoots' with vital characteristics had appeared near the area where the battle had previously taken place with the Yixing Quadrups.