Chapter Twenty-Four: Changes in Star City
Iro's frigate was speeding with two hunting destroyers, and a fleet of more than twenty ships was in hot pursuit less than a light year behind.
The frigate is already damaged, there is a hole in the middle of the hull, as if it was blown out from the inside by some explosion, and it was temporarily patched from the inside, and it is not good to close it.
The other two hunting ships were unharmed.
The Phantom opened the way in front, and behind the Enchanting Palace, the three battleships were more than ten light-years away from Qin Huo's second fleet, and the reason why these three battleships could catch up with Qin Huo's fleet when they set off later was that they were moving in the opposite direction perpendicular to Qin Huo's vision.
The Qin Huo fleet had made an arc in order to escort Qin Feng, and it did not move in the direction originally planned.
When Yiluo received Qin Huo's message, the heart that he had been carrying was slightly relieved. She hurriedly sent another message and sent her location to Qin Huo.
After Qin Feng led the Great Qin Legion away, Yiluo ran Cold Moon Star City with all his heart. Although Iroh knew that the space where Star City was located had gradually changed, tending to the brink of collapse.
But she is still more dedicated, and this is a kind of exercise for herself. If nothing else, the kind of care that Qin Feng felt when he left, the feeling of being as close to Xingti as he was, made Yiluo very fascinated.
She's building up strength for herself, waiting for a suitable opportunity, a chance to return to the Legion.
She used the data left by the legion when it left to deduce, and knew that the legion's fleets would not be on interstellar voyages for a long time, because the corresponding supplies when they left were only enough to last for a year or two.
She had calculated that if the Legion fleet were to cross the vast interstellar space to reach the location of the Mine, according to the speed at which the Legion could currently sail, it would not be possible to reach it in a hundred or ten years, unless it was through a space passage or a stargate.
In addition to managing Star City, she also wants to do something, constantly researching the space technology collected from Star City, hoping to research technology that can cross space or travel through space at high speed.
The cultivation area of Star City has been fully harvested once under the strict monitoring and management of Yiluo, and the second time is almost about to be harvested, and the grain is not a big problem for Star City at present.
However, as for the distribution, Ilo was reluctant to care, after all, she didn't need food herself. The ten shadow personnel that Qin Feng left behind for her didn't need her to worry about, they all had strong survivability.
However, Ilo still took advantage of the convenience of management, and at the time of the second harvest, he intercepted enough food for 10,000 people, and then transported it to two hunter-class destroyers through the open pipeline. There is no problem that this grain can be stored in a battleship for a year or two.
Iloh just wanted to save some for the legion, and she didn't know if she could use it or not, and when it would be effective.
Just after Ilo fully took over the Star City Ship, when she opened the pipeline, she unexpectedly found a secret warehouse in a secret place under the City Lord's Mansion.
She found a large number of crystals and mountains of interstellar high-energy food in this warehouse. She hurried to check the records of the original control center, but found nothing.
Iroh wasn't reconciled, she wanted to make sure no one in Star City knew about these things.
Finally, she found a record in a private diary hidden in the system by Elise's father, the former domain lord of Star City, which was secretly transported to Cold Moon Star City when the Cold Moon Territory was attacked by Narik and several territories and was facing occupation.
With the unexpected death of the old lord, ie
Elise took over as lord of the castle and was not informed of this information.
Iroh was overjoyed when she saw this, and she immediately sent the grain she had intercepted back to the Star City warehouse, filling the cargo holds of the two Killing-class destroyers with crystals, interstellar high-energy food, and even other valuable belongings she had collected.
She knew that the Hunter-class had strong defenses, so she didn't put these things in her frigate.
Since these three warships were all modified by the auxiliary brain of the Star Grape Ship, the three of them could communicate directly, not only strengthening their defenses, but also thinking of a way out if there was a problem in the Star City space.
The rest of the time, Iloh asked the two destroyers to build more empty mines using maintenance robots. It can be used as a defense when breaking away from Star City.
Yiluo has the same idea as Qin Huo, when he has nothing to do, he constantly transforms these three battleships, and then researches.
At the beginning, the city lord Rocky often came to the control center to see Ilo, but as Rocky gradually entered the role of the city lord, it also made him slowly sober up, and a lot of business made him not have much leisure time to come over to see a brain again.
If you want to see it, you can contact you anytime and anywhere through the terminal.
Without Rocky's interference, Iloh is more convenient, and she even uses her authority to study business and city management in her spare time.
Through the numerous space monitoring and detection devices she had created, Iro found that the small space where Cold Moon Star City was located was becoming more and more unstable. She noticed that several small cracks, or semi-passages, had appeared in the space.
Although there is no access to the outside world, it is enough to see that the space here is gradually collapsing.
She used the data from the probe to build a simulation model and calculate it step by step, and four months after the Legion left, she finally came to the conclusion that the space here was about to collapse in less than a month.
She told the Enchantress and Phantom about it, agreeing that they needed to leave the space where Cold Moon Star City was located ten days or more in advance, and stay away as much as possible, because the collapse of the space here would spread to the outer space, and it was likely to cause a powerful spatial vortex or form a large number of space debris to spread around.
If it is within the scope of its influence at this time, it will face a huge danger, the two battleships of the Enchantress and the Phantom may not have much of a problem, but the frigate where Iro is located is definitely not good.
The time for the departure was set, but Iroh fell into deep thought again. She was considering whether to notify Rocky and evacuate the people of Star City in advance.
She is in a dilemma, if she doesn't tell her, her safety will be more guaranteed, at least no one will stop her escape, in that case, it will be equivalent to burying the lives of these two or three hundred thousand people. Although most of the people in this Star City are from noble backgrounds, there are not many real commoners, and she doesn't like Rocky very much, but after all, there are hundreds of thousands of people.
But if you tell Rocky, you will definitely face a period of chaos, and now there are only about thirty warships that Star City can use, even if they are all full of personnel, they can only take away tens of thousands of people. When the time comes, it is estimated that chaos will kill many people.
The Star City ship that has lost power will not be able to maneuver, and even if it is too late to start repairing Star City's engines now. If you start building a manned spacecraft, you won't have time to do it.
The most important thing is that the current state is not able to open enough passages inside for the Star City ship to pass through.
After much thought, Iloh finally connected to Rocky's communication.
"Lord Rocky, I have bad news for you, according to my monitoring, the space where Star City is located will be
Crash in a month or so. ”
The seemingly calm words made this young man, who had just become the city lord for less than half a year, suddenly fall from the clouds into hell again.
"Then, can you open the passage and let the Star City ship out?" Rocky's first consideration is still Star City.
"This can't be done now, even if I can open the passage, I can't make the Star City ship move, and it will still be affected by the collapse of space."
"Then you can't fix the engines of the Starcity ship?" Rocky asked extremely unwillingly.
"The Star City ship is too big for me to complete such repairs in the short term."
He raised his head and looked at Ilo in the terminal and asked, "Do you calculate how many people can be evacuated by using all the spaceships in Star City now?" ”
"I've calculated that even if you use all the civilian ships, you'll be able to evacuate less than half of the people. Or there will be less, you need to load food and weapons. After all, you don't have a base to settle on outside. ”
Ilo's words made Rocky fall into despair.
The small space where Star City is now located is on the edge of the river system, which is almost rarely visited, and the nearest territory is nearly a hundred and ten light-years away. Let's not say whether the other party let him in, even if he is allowed, it will take a long time to go back and forth.
After all, not everyone has a territory that can only be purchased from a stargate.
After being silent for a long time, Rocky took a deep breath and nodded to Iloh in the terminal and said, "Elise, thank you, I know you are not the real Elise, but if you can tell me the news, I still thank you for the people of Star City." ”
"I suggest that you prepare to evacuate this morning, I have preliminarily processed the grain for the second harvest, enough to support tens of thousands of people for half a year, and now it is stored in the warehouse."
Iloh's words were tantamount to giving Rocky confidence.
He thanked Ilo again, and then, after cutting off the communication, he immediately organized the city defense army to select personnel, and at the same time requisitioned all civilian ships. Food and some supplies were distributed to the various ships, and the first to secure was of course, the warships, and then the selected young men and children were the first to board the ship.
Those old, infirm and useless nobles were ruthlessly abandoned by Rocky, especially those administrative officials who usually had many obstacles, none of them were allowed to board the ship, and even more, some of them were slightly dissatisfied, and they were brutally suppressed by the upset Rocky, and directly used naval guns to bombard the residential areas of the officials left and right in the administrative district, and the damaged shell of Star City, caused by the loss of pressure that immediately turned the administrative district into a dead zone, and no one survived.
With the closure of the compartment partition in the adjacent area, the air leakage was stopped and the other areas were not affected. At this time, although there were no major riots in Star City under Rocky's strong suppression and control of all spaceships, small disputes, pleading, collapse and suicide and other incidents continued to occur.
Rocky stood in the control cabin of the Black Skull, looking at the tragic situation in Star City on the screen, and couldn't help but look sideways.
"Elise, I'm sorry I didn't hold your city." Rocky's eyes were already a little red.
But there is really nothing he can do, this is not something that can be done by manpower. Only then did he think of Qin Feng of the Great Qin Legion, maybe this was the reason why this mysterious legion leader didn't take a fancy to Cold Moon Star City.
He couldn't help but resent Qin Feng in his heart. But at the same time, he secretly regretted that if he had taken the initiative to follow Qin Feng, he would not have fallen into the current situation.
Could it be that the position of this Star City City Lord is so good? Where are you going now?
(End of chapter)