During Qi Yiming's efforts to integrate the various forces on the planet Gaia, the fleets scattered also returned to the galaxy where the planet Gaia was located one after another.

Only Chen Cheng and his wife's revenge did not come back for a long time.

This couldn't help but make Qi Yiming a little worried, but fortunately, nothing happened to the Revenge.

It's just that when they passed through the X-113 galaxy, they received a strange signal, so they delayed for a while.

But it also brought back a news that shocked the world for Qi Yiming.

The process of things is simple.

On its way back, the Revenge suddenly received an electromagnetic wave apparently emitted by sapient beings.

At first, the couple thought that they had discovered another planet inhabited by humans, and after determining the location where the electromagnetic waves were sent.

The two men commanded the Vengeance to leap to a distance of 2,000 kilometers from the signal source, ready to take an observation.

But when they got out of the jump, a scene that they would never forget appeared in front of them.

A giant cuboid spaceship with a total length of more than 300 kilometers, a width of more than 100 kilometers, and a height of about 50 kilometers appeared in front of them.

The hull is I-shaped, and the central axis of this giant ship is densely covered with buildings.

The vacant areas on both sides of the central axis are divided into pieces by some relatively thin rigid structures.

Many mechanical arms are densely packed on the rigid structure, which looks like an engineering ship.

But Qi Yiming was ecstatic when he heard the introduction.

He knew what that ship was.

The Engineer, a giant mobile dock.

It is a logistics warship built by the former Human Federation for the Expeditionary Fleet, responsible for the maintenance of warships and the construction of warships below the cruiser class.

Her shipboard brain has stored blueprints for all common types of warships below the Federation Cruiser, and as long as there are enough materials, this giant mobile dockyard can continuously produce various types of warships.

This is really sleepy and meets a pillow, Qi Yiming is worried about not being able to produce warships, this is a mobile dock, the chosen one, this is definitely the chosen one.

But Hao Chenqi said they had been attacked.

"Who attacked you?" Qi Yiming asked Hao Chenqi, who had always been more careful.

"There are no clear signs, it's a bit like a drone ......," Hao Chenqi recalled the scene at that time.

"Drones?"

Qi Yiming frowned, he knew that there was a drone escort on board the Engineer.

If Hao Chenqi is right, then it should be the guard drone on the Engineer that attacked them.

This made Qi Yiming a little puzzled, it stands to reason that the battleship code of the Revenge is stored in the identification system of friend or foe in the mobile dock, how could they be attacked?

Could it be that there are still humans alive on the Engineer?

Thinking of this, Qi Yiming was even more happy, you must know that he always heard the people around him mention the Awakened, but Qi Yiming had never seen these humans who lived in the same era as him.

What are you hesitating about, Qi Yiming directly put down the matter at hand, pulled Hao Chenqi and his wife back to their respective warships, and after the revenge recombined with the Xuefeng, several people rushed to the X-113 galaxy.

Others are fed up with deep space sailing, and even the most appealing things can't stand up to the feeling of being grounded.

Anyway, that thing was there, and it could be seen sooner or later, so I didn't go with Qi Yiming.

The X-113 galaxy isn't too far from the Awakened Galaxy, which is the new name given to the galaxy where Gaia is located, and it always feels a bit irregular to use a code name.

It took 4 days for Qi Yiming to come to the outer edge of the X-113 galaxy.

The X-113 galaxy is inhospitable, with only one terrestrial planet and a large asteroid belt.

The giant mobile dock floated silently within the asteroid belt.

With the warning that Hao Chenqi and his wife were attacked, Qi Yiming did not dare to approach the Engineer easily, but only carefully observed at a distance of 2,000 kilometers from the Engineer, and constantly sent identification codes to the Engineer.

It's a pity that the Engineer has not responded to the Snowpeak's identification system, but there are more drones around the Engineer.

These drones are not very large, no more than 5 meters in length and 3 meters in width, and two light laser launchers are installed on the fuselage, which is not very powerful.

"What's going on?" Qi Yiming scratched his head, a little puzzled by what was wrong with the Engineer.

"Captain Marine, bring the distance closer to a thousand kilometers." Since there is no response, we can only get closer and observe.

"Captain, those drones will attack us when we get close to a thousand kilometers." Hao Chenqi wanted to stop Qi Yiming from making further moves.

Qi Yiming waved his hand and said, "There is no reaction at this distance, how can you find out what the problem is?" It has to be close. ”

The Snowpinnacle slowly approached the giant dock.

When the distance of 1,000 kilometers was broken, the drones cruising around the giant dock suddenly gathered together and flew towards the Snow Peak.

"The ship received a dense electromagnetic signal...... It's all binary encoding......" The communications supervisor looked at the encoding parsed on the communication screen, a little at a loss, this was the first time he had seen this situation.

Qi Yiming somewhat understood what was going on, "Captain, let's withdraw from a distance of a thousand kilometers." ”

The two thrust engines in the bow of the Snow Peak began to work, and the Snow Peak also began to slowly retreat, and sure enough, after the Snow Peak withdrew from a distance of 1,000 kilometers, the drone swarm immediately dispersed and continued to cruise around the giant dock.

Seeing this, Qi Yiming smiled bitterly.

"Captain, do you know what's going on?" Hao Chenqi saw Qi Yiming smiling bitterly, and knew that Qi Yiming already knew what was going on here.

"The Engineer's shipboard brain looks like something is wrong...... The friend or foe identification system has stopped working! Qi Yiming said his guess.

"What then? Let's mobilize a fleet to storm it? ”

Qi Yiming shook his head: "Our fleet, even if the Xuefeng wants to break through the Engineer's drone defense, it is no different from delivering food." ”

"The Snow Peak can't even break through the defense line of those drones?" Hao Chenqi looked at the drones cruising around outside the hanging window in surprise.

Qi Yiming nodded: "Don't look at these drones, but the drones you see now are only a small part, and there are more drones stored in the engineer's hangar." ”

"And that's just a small part?" Chen Cheng pointed to those drones in surprise: "As far as the drones that can be seen now, the number is less than 100,000, right?" ”

"The main problem is not here, the intelligent brain of the Engineer can arrange the production of drones by itself to supplement the battle damage." Qi Yiming cleared his throat: "In other words, as long as the materials on the Engineer are sufficient, there can be a steady stream of replenishment of drones." ”

"Do you know how many drones the Engineer has, including the drones in the hangar?"

"I haven't calculated it carefully, but as far as I know, the number of drones on board the Engineer is no less than tens of millions of dollars."

"Ten million?" Hao Chenqi covered his mouth in surprise.

"Okay, let's go back......" Qi Yiming knew that he would definitely not be able to take the Engineer in a short time, so he could only return with a feather.

"Aren't we going to keep watch?" Chen Cheng pointed to the engineer and asked Qi Yiming.

"Just send someone to see it once every half a month, there's no need to stay here." Qi Yiming smiled and looked at Chen Cheng who was asking: "There are no dozens of battleships, don't think about taking the Engineer." ”