After determining the current supply situation, Qi Yiming entered the dormant warehouse with a heavy heart.

At the same time, on the periphery of human territory, a giant spaceship with a diameter of more than 300 kilometers and a thickness of nearly 100 kilometers is quietly resting near a star.

A giant pipe with a diameter of about 1,000 meters protrudes from the giant spaceship.

The head of the tube shoots a pale blue ray towards the star.

The moment the ray touched the star, the material on the surface of the star followed the pale blue ray into the giant tube.

In that instant, the star's brightness increased by several notches, and thousands of tongues of fire erupted from its surface, as if it wanted to take back the material sucked up by the giant spacecraft.

What's even more surprising is that such a huge spaceship appeared in this galaxy without any effect on the gravitational balance within the galaxy.

Ten minutes later, the giant pipe slowly retracted the ship.

But the ship didn't seem to have any intention of leaving.

The ship remained silent, slowly disappearing from her form.

A year and a half is nothing at all on a cosmic scale.

Qi Yiming and his companions spent more than a year in the hibernation capsule, during which time Qi Yiming and Wang Sen were awakened once when they needed to abandon the empty transport ship.

When the fleet was out of jump mode again, Qi Yiming and several battleships were awakened on the ship, for the simple reason that they had no extra energy.

"The remaining energy is simply not enough for the fleet to enter jump mode and complete the remaining 1 month's journey, otherwise the battleship will be paralyzed due to a complete loss of energy." Wang Sen looked at Qi Yiming with a sad face, "When the time comes, let alone start the food making machine, even if it sends a distress signal, we can't do it." ”

As the chief manager of the entire fleet in charge of supply distribution, Qi Yiming knew that he had done his best.

It's no small miracle to be able to keep the fleet resupplied here without most of the supplies.

"In order to save supplies, I recommend that all personnel except the necessary personnel on duty enter the hibernation chamber." Wang Shuhua's first thought after learning about the material situation was to let most of the crew go into a dormant state in order to save more materials.

"It's okay to eat, but what we mainly lack now is energy blocks." Qi Yiming did not deny Wang Shuhua's suggestion, but only explained in detail the current situation of the remaining materials.

In fact, Qi Yiming is not short of food, if they are just short of food, then let some people enter a dormant state, and this problem will be solved.

The problem is that they are short of energy, and this problem is likely to be exacerbated by the fact that most people go into hibernation.

After all, maintaining a large number of hibernation chambers also requires a lot of energy.

"We now have two solutions." Qi Yiming looked at the electronic board in his hand: "One is to give up using the jump engine, use the ordinary fusion engine instead, and fly back at sub-light speed." ”

"Fly back?" Ye Lu exclaimed: "We enter the jump mode, the spaceship will reach a hundred times the speed of light, and it will take a month to return to the human realm at this speed, and you tell me to fly back at sub-light speed now?" ”

Qi Yiming shrugged his shoulders and said to Ye Lu, "Sister Ye, listen to me finish speaking!" ”

Ye Lu stuck out her tongue embarrassedly: "You continue...... You continue to ......"

Qi Yiming then continued: "Obviously, the first plan will not work...... Then we can only choose the second way, send a distress signal in deep space, and then wait for others to come to the rescue in this galaxy. ”

"Then what's the difference between this and hitting the luck......" Ye Lu finally did not interrupt Qi Yiming's speech this time, but after listening to Qi Yiming's speech, he sat on his captain's chair with a desperate face.

"Can't we concentrate the energy blocks of each ship, let one ship go back first, and then bring supplies to save us?" This time it was Qiao Shan, whose face was a little pale, who spoke.

"We've calculated, and we're all going to die on our respective ships before the ships we sent out come back." Wang Sen knocked on the electronic information board in his hand, indicating that this method had already been considered.

As a result, the entire fleet fell into a desperate wait, and Qi Yiming and the others had to pull the communication chief on their respective warships every day to ask if they had received a signal from the human realm.

The communications chiefs of each ship shook their heads.

In order to conserve energy, the lighting on each ship was turned off one after the other after their first distress signal, in the hope of prolonging their survival in the stars.

One month...... Didn't receive any news!

Two months...... Again, no message was received.

In the third month, even Wang Shuhua, who had always been calm and steady, was a little panicked, and like Qi Yiming, he had to drag his communications chief every day to ask about the results.

On this day, just as Wang Shuhua was pulling the communications supervisor with a desperate expression on his face in the corridor of the battleship to inquire about the situation, the radar chief of the expedition hurriedly ran over.

"Sir, there is an emergency......

Wang Shuhua didn't say a word, and followed the radar to the bridge.

When they arrived at the bridge, Qi Yiming and they had already entered the fleet command channel.

Qi Yiming looked at Wang Shuhua who appeared on the communication screen and nodded, which was regarded as a greeting.

He was listening carefully to the report of the radar commander of the Snow Peak.

"Radar has detected a planet-sized gravitational source approaching our fleet." The radar chief pointed to the dazzling red dot on the radar screen, and said with a puzzled expression: "However, such a large gravitational source has not affected any state of the fleet at all, and we are still orbiting the stars of our galaxy." ”

"How is it possible that a gravitational source the size of a planet is approaching us and not affecting the orbit of the fleet?" It was Ye Lu who spoke first.

She couldn't figure out why such a large gravitational source did not affect the fleet's orbit in the process of approaching the fleet, knowing that the engines of all warships and transports in the fleet were turned off, and it was impossible to maintain or correct their own orbits.

"How far away are we from the gravitational source?" Qi Yiming glanced at Ye Lu, who looked surprised, and turned back to ask his radar chief.

The radar commander glanced at the information displayed on the radar: "The gravitational source will pass through the orbit of the fleet in about 3 hours......"

Qi Yiming frowned after hearing the radar chief's answer, and then asked, "Have you observed it with lidar?" ”

"I've observed, but there's nothing there!!" The radar chief looked a little overwhelmed, he really couldn't understand how there was a huge gravitational source in that place, how could there be nothing?

"Could it be a miniature black hole?" Wang Shuhua cleared his throat and said.

"Impossible, if it were a miniature black hole, our fleet would have been captured by this black hole a long time ago." Wang Sen immediately raised objections.

Suddenly, the radarman in charge of the observation with the lidar exclaimed, "Oh my God, what is that?" ”

"What happened?" Qi Yiming was startled by the exclamation of the radar soldier, and hurriedly asked.

I saw that the radar soldier clicked a few times on the operation panel in front of him, and the image of the lidar observation was displayed on a holographic screen in the bridge.

On the screen is a huge super battleship.

A year and a half ago, the giant battleship that used stellar energy for supplies removed its camouflage in front of Qi Yiming and them.