Happiness always seems to be very short-lived, and happy smiles are hard to keep long.

"I'm about to enter the space jump, please get ready. Repeating, the broadcast of the upcoming ......" reminder echoed repeatedly, Lin Xi returned to her seat and sat down, and the magnetic attraction point on the battle armor activated, firmly fixing her to her seat.

She closed her eyes, and as the ship's vibration intensified, her consciousness suddenly fell into a trance. This is a normal phenomenon when jumping in space, as if you have already completed the jump when you wake up.

However, this time, Lin Xi felt a little strange, as if something invisible was washing over his body, and his consciousness gradually floated upward, approaching the sea. Once she jumps out of the sea of consciousness, she wakes up.

In the past, the trance was only a momentary feeling, but this time it lasted a little longer. Lin Xi felt a little strange, so he worked hard to get his consciousness to surface. But she only had a little strength, and no matter how hard she tried, she could only make her consciousness rise a little, and she was still quite far from the water.

Lin Xi is not a person who will easily admit defeat, she has worked hard over and over again, trying to struggle out of the current situation.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly the trance receded, everything around me became normal, and the deep sea of consciousness that could not surface disappeared. Lin Xi opened his eyes, and in front of him was the familiar captain's room, and the virtual portholes were lit up one by one, showing the scenery outside the ship.

"Location. Lin Xi commanded.

A star map automatically appears on her side, marking the fleet's current position. Not far ahead, there is a huge space base, lit up by rows of lights, and starships are constantly flying in and out. The space base has the word 'Apple' on its logo and is one of three mobile bases sent by the Ninth Fleet.

At this time, a line of prompts floated in front of Lin Xi's eyes: Command authority has been restored.

The figure of the deputy captain appeared on the console in her hand and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Lin, your authority has been restored, may I ask if you are anchored at the base now?"

"Stop at the Apple base. After giving the order, Lin Xi removed the magnetic suction system of the battle armor, stood up, and said, "Evaluate military merits." ”

A string of numbers jumped and finally stopped at 3761. This number is a bit unexpected, the dynasty has a combat power assessment of all kinds of starships, and the battle merit number is the combat power of the starship down, and the damage to the battleship depends on the damage caused. Generally much smaller than a wreck.

More than 3,000 military exploits mean that Lin Xi has destroyed at least three frigates of the same level, and damaged many more. However, according to Lin Xi's own calculations, the actual military merits should be less than this number, less than 200 military merits. After a little thought, she understood that the colonel had made some imperceptible tilts to her in the distribution of military merits.

More than 200 military merits are not too much, but less is not less, the same as severely damaging a frigate of the same class.

Lin Xi stretched out his hand and put a little on the military merit table, and the picture became the military merit required for the promotion of each rank. Each rank has three to four promotion modes, which are normal, early, exceptional, and special merit. Normal promotion means that during the term of office, the military merit meets the basic requirements, and at the same time the service period reaches the minimum number of years, the promotion can be made. There are clear provisions in both the early and exceptional grades that if the military merit exceeds 100% and 200% of the basic military merit, the minimum number of years required for promotion will be reduced by one year each. The special merit is that when the military merit exceeds 300% of the basic military merit of the rank, the minimum number of years of promotion is no longer limited.

Just like Lin Xi is a lieutenant colonel at the moment, he can command a standard frigate. The standard combat power of a frigate is 1000, and the basic military merit is also 1000, and below the rank of rear admiral, the minimum number of years required for the promotion of a colonel is three years. The dynasty stipulated that in the absence of war, a lieutenant colonel fixed 20% of the basic military merit every year. That is, a lieutenant colonel can be promoted to colonel in about five years if he does not succeed.

The rules for all ranks of officers are the same, that is, an officer can be promoted to colonel after about fifteen or six years from the date of promotion to major. However, if a colonel is promoted to a major general, he can no longer stay up for seniority, and he must have an actual assessment of merit.

Lin Xi is a lieutenant colonel at the moment, but the problem is that she has only been promoted for a month, and if she wants to be promoted to another level, she must meet the standards of special merit, that is to say, she must have at least 4,000 or more military merits to have the basic qualifications, and then she will be reviewed by all levels of the fleet, and finally she must be signed by the chief officer at the admiral level before she can be promoted.

Lin Xi called up the status information of the ship, and what came into his eyes was a starship that was red in many places throughout the body, and some parts even turned into phantoms, which meant that this part was completely damaged and had to be replaced with a new one.

Lin Xi's hand stopped in the air before he clicked to assess the repair time.

The assessment icon rotated for a full few minutes before it slowly stopped. This assessment is not generated in a vacuum, but can only be obtained by contacting the mobile base to confirm the current shipyard status, component inventory, and the number of engineers at the base, according to the maintenance order given by the base.

When the evaluation icon stopped, looking at the 112-day evaluation time, Lin Xi smiled bitterly, and then said: "Use the backup authority to advance the maintenance sequence." ”

The evaluation icon rotates again. This time, Lin Xi used his priority authority to try to bring the order of ship repair forward. The generation of this authority, on the one hand, is from the Lin family, and on the other hand, it is the privilege of the first place in the Zhige Academy.

She didn't want to use her privileges until she had to.

Moments later, the assessment came back to fruition, 98 days.

This result made Lin Xi stunned and said, "Query the items in the first place." ”

The system replied: "Permission passed." At present, the starships used in each dock and the order of use are as follows......"

At the top of the list is a capital ship! This behemoth occupies nearly 60 percent of the production capacity of the entire mobile base, and it will take a full 50 days of repairs before it can return to the battlefield. At the same time, there are two heavy cruiser-class starships under repair in the base. Even if Lin Xi used his authority, it would be impossible to get in front of them.

Lin Xi thought for a moment and said, "Check the ships that can be replaced." ”

After a few moments, the system replied: "The latest replaceable ship is at the Cangsen base 42 light-years away, and the closest time to replace is 211 days away." ”

Changing ships is slower than repairing ships, so Lin Xi had to put this option aside.

She stood for a moment, and finally opened a communication channel that she hadn't used for a long time.

Lin Xuanshang's image appeared, he looked at Lin Xi, smiled and said, "I thought you would never use this channel." ”

"If necessary, it will still be used. ”

Lin Xuanshang nodded, "That's good, I'm still a little worried that you can't let go." Is there anything I need to solve?"

"There is one piece, please remove the special protection for me. ”

Lin Xuanshang looked a little surprised, and said, "How can there be any special protection?"

"Not your order to keep me safe under any circumstances?"

Lin Xuanshang shook his head, "I have never given such an order. You know very well that our Lin family has never taken special care of children who can be independent. ”

Lin Xi pondered, "Who could that be?"