The three ships are slowly slowing down from 50% of the speed of light, and the interstellar voyage is not only speeding up to test the strength of civilization, but slowing down is also a severe test.

Fortunately, human civilization has withstood the test, and now the small fleet is approaching the forward base, and until then, it is necessary to control the speed to a safe range.

Otherwise, the forward base shoulders the important mission of human deep space, and no accident must be allowed to affect the safety of the base.

However, in the midst of the slowdown, the fleet can also not be idle.

Everyone in the nutrition pod seems to be dormant, but in fact they are conducting actual combat exercises through virtual reality.

A large number of spherical drones are constantly ejecting from the spacecraft, and they are controlled by officers to carry out various combat simulations.

"Team A1 released the smoke and caused the doubles to explode en masse, then extinguished the engine and remained in radio silence for 10 minutes. While this would have lost the link with us, it could have the same effect of confusing the Blues. ”

"What the A2 squad needs to do is withstand three times the amount of enemy fire, direct them to the designated airspace within ten minutes, and wait for the A1 squad to take advantage of the favorable angle of fire to inflict heavy damage on the Blues in one fell swoop."

"That's right! Execution Plan C. ”

As the commander of the squad, Yang Weili gave instructions again and again, and finally eliminated the drones of the other two spaceships in the actual combat simulation.

Those spherical drones that are electronically destroyed will return to the spacecraft on their own, otherwise after the system is reported dead, they will be thrown off by the spacecraft without energy supply, and become a cold and silent space junk.

"The 37th space fighter combat training record in deep space has been completed."

With the announcement in virtual reality of the victory of Yang Weili's team, the command of all officers was agreed to be taken back by the AI.

Those who are willing to stay and review may naturally apply for permission, and those who are unwilling can also switch to other virtual scenes.

This small fleet can only connect to the local area network, but there are definitely plenty of virtual reality games, learning materials, and video music on hand.

After all, in these ten days, they can only experience it in virtual reality, and in reality, because of the terrible load that acceleration and deceleration will bring to the body, they can only stay in the nutrition cabin most of the time, which is jokingly called [Deep Sea Mode] by everyone

"This time is the closest I've come to defeat, but I didn't expect that in the face of twice as many enemies, the tactical effect would drop so much?"

"And that's just a simulated enemy who is also human, if it is...... Aliens, their thinking and fighting habits are completely different, and when I was the commander, there was a lot more to think about, and for ......"

Yang Weili is seriously doing a review and reflection.

Their group of trained officers originally focused on cultivating elites for space operations, and after an astonishing elimination rate, a full 200 were left, all of whom can be described as the elite of the elite. Yang Weili's ability to maintain a constant victory and undefeated for nearly 64 actual combat training sessions is an incredible thing in itself.

"Everyone's improvement is obvious, and I haven't improved in a long time."

Yang Weili, who has long had a full score of 100, always wants to break through the limit to 101 points, which is no less difficult than going from 0 to 1 and starting from scratch! In contrast, the improvement of other people is the progress that normal people should have.

Not to mention a genius commander who was still reflecting on why he was stagnant, the external armor of the three spaceships had become potholes due to actual combat training, and there was no domineering power that could not be achieved when they set off from Space City.

On the contrary, it is like an unpretentious patrol spacecraft that has served for many years between the Earth and the Moon.

[Captain's order: The Penglai will enter the final deceleration stage in half an hour, please prepare accordingly]

Yang Weili, who had just finished the battle review, heard the broadcast, although he thought of it in a dream now, but all the experiences were extremely real, and he had to sigh at the power of virtual reality technology.

Just when Yang Weili wanted to close his eyes and recuperate, new information popped up again.

Boena: "Why don't we wait and play online with the Tarzan?" ”

Yang Weili: "Still playing? It's almost 2:30 a.m. in the space elevator time zone. ”

Boehner: "It's so late?" No wonder I'm a little tired! Well. Why don't you just play a game? ”

Yang Weili doesn't care about this guy who will take a turn tomorrow, and sets it to the anti-disturbance mode in the virtual reality personal interface, so that no one can disturb him except for urgent matters.

The background was changed to a sea of stars, and the whole thing seemed to be suspended in this endless sea of stars.

In reality, the body is in the nutrition cabin, and the self-consciousness cannot help but wander among the endless stars, and gravity can no longer bind the free soul at this moment.

Maybe it's because Yang Weili's spirit is still a little excited because he has just experienced an evenly matched battle, and he can quickly fall asleep naturally when he floats in this way.

Xingchen, tonight doesn't seem to be able to soothe the slowly restless mood.

Yang Weili exhaled lightly, and then opened the personal interface again.

"Connect to the host."

[Major Yang, is there anything I can serve you? 】

"Connect the external viewfinder in the direction of the asteroid belt."

[Completed, it will be displayed in your personal interface in five seconds.] 】

The sea of stars in front of me suddenly changed, and thousands of asteroids of different sizes appeared in front of me.

In the viewfinder, you can see them spreading out of the deep space, crossing an arc in front of the Penglai and then disappearing into the depths of space.

They are remnants of the distant formative solar system – the asteroid belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. This ring that encircles the solar system contains inexhaustible reserves of minerals and elements that are already scarce or overexploited on Earth.

After the moon, this will become the next promised place flowing with milk and honey in human space!

The current destination of their fleet, the A1 mining area of the asteroid belt, is an asteroid belt mining area that radiates nearly 100,000 kilometers to the left and right with the dwarf planet Ceres as the core area.

It is the highest achievement of the current integration of science and technology of mankind - the forward base!

After more than ten days of sailing, the three spacecraft are finally about to arrive here.

Next, they will rest for a while before heading further into deep space.

The Great Wall base, which is still under construction, awaits them, as does the Oort Nebula.

At this moment, Yang Weili didn't want to think about it, he just wanted to appreciate the pinnacle of human science and technology.

In this area that has been turned into an asteroid mining area, a large number of small spaceships and robots have been sent to different asteroids according to their different functional classifications to carry out their own work.

They first carried out the construction of the gathering bases, which will be responsible for the supply of raw materials for all future construction projects in the forward base.

After the base is collected, there is the preliminary forge factory.

These factories will carry out the initial processing of the minerals mined at the mining base for later use.

After the forging factory, there will be a robot casting factory and a various parts production plant. Due to the limitation of the tonnage and volume of the spacecraft, it is impossible to carry too many robots on the transport spacecraft, so it is also necessary to build a robot foundry on an important asteroid.

The parts factory includes a variety of precision instrument foundries.

In addition to the production of these raw materials, the core is the huge space dock next to Ceres. It undertakes the construction of new spaceships, turning a range of materials into tools for humanity to reach deep space.

The shipyard's spaceship production rate has far surpassed that of Lagrange Space City, and this is the real productivity that represents the pinnacle of human technology.

Under the control of the huge computing power provided by quantum computers, all complicated things are carried out in an orderly manner, allowing Yang Weili to see the beauty of the orderly space industry

The collection base is constantly exporting nutrients and supplying them to various factories. It is located at the production end of the asteroid and has become the heart of the entire space industry, and these hearts are exporting a large amount of fresh labor to replenish various organs every moment.

These nutrients continue to converge, and a brand new spaceship can be built in no time, and then it will be ready for deep space in no time!

Of course....... none of these ships are as large in tonnage and size as the three warships, and most of them are transport ships to assist in transporting supplies from the asteroid belt to the Great Wall base ahead.

At this moment, Yang Weili couldn't help but stretch his vision continuously.

When the entire solar system was under him, a magnificent picture appeared in front of him.

Departing from the Blue Star, the light of the spaceship engines that shuttles constantly connects the stars and dots, as if a straight line connects the Blue Star with the forward base.

The forward base also has such an optical path connected by spaceships, connecting the Great Wall base in deep space.

Each of them is a hundred times longer than the Silk Road, and every point they connect is tens of millions of times longer than the distance traveled around the world.

All of humanity's previous long-distance expeditions are overshadowed by the distance in the starry sky.

At this moment, Yang Weili's heart was filled with a burst of pride.

Because he will represent humanity towards the Oort Nebula, a mysterious place that humanity has not yet set foot in.

Although it may become a battlefield between two civilizations in the future, and although it may become a place for many human beings to bury their bones in the future, at this moment, as a place that will be conquered by humans, Yang Weili once again feels deeply proud to be able to participate in such an operation.

With such emotions, looking at the forward base in front of me, the admiration can no longer be contained.

"I heard that the initial construction of this base was basically completed by a group of officers and scientists who volunteered to sign up."

"And now, they didn't hesitate to go to the Great Wall base."

"........ human civilization has such a forerunner, it is destined to shine in the universe!"

In Yang Weili's heart, he silently strengthened a certain belief.

……………

At the same time, the Blue Star, thousands of miles away, is an extremely important meeting.

"The Great Wall of Space Project, doesn't it seem risky?"

"At that time, we didn't even have a Lagrange space city, we didn't even have a few large-scale automated factories, we didn't even understand antimatter, we didn't even understand the grand unification theory."

"But we still gritted our teeth and implemented it, and for this reason, we did not hesitate to split the zero base and sent a large number of talents and materials to the deep space construction like a bottomless pit."

"All the hard work, all the hard work, finally in exchange for today's situation in the crisis of civilization overthrow, everyone has become conservative and optimistic about the implementation of the next plan?"

At the meeting, without Lu Yu opening his mouth, Professor Han next to him was the first to stand up.

As the successor to Professor Mao, he took over the zero base, how much energy and effort has been expended over the years.

Today's Base Zero is no longer the transit base that was used to contact Lu Yu!

It is already semi-public, and it is the world's most cutting-edge scientific research center, and it is a legendary place where the latest scientific and technological achievements of mankind burst out one after another.

The industries involved in Base Zero alone have already managed millions of people, which is comparable to a large city and a big city of science and technology.

There used to be a legend.

A signal tower had just been built on the periphery of Base Zero, and it had to be demolished at the celebration banquet the next day.

Because in the research institute of the base, a mature and transformative result has been obtained.

The specifications of this signal tower are already doomed behind the times.

Base Zero is developing at such a speed that Professor Han has to spend all his energy on management. Just like a speeding car, the driver must be more cautious, otherwise the slightest negligence will be the end of the car crash.

But the status of Base Zero is there, and when Professor Han speaks on behalf of Base Zero, his weight is naturally not weaker than that of anyone present.

"Professor Mao has stepped down from his position as the forward base, but he has not chosen to return to Blue Star, but has applied to continue to preside over the construction of the Great Wall base."

"I went with my old partner, as well as all the starters at the original forward base, some of whom hadn't been back to Blue Star for five years."

"They have worked so hard and can not forget their original mission, to protect the solar system for mankind! And now everyone hasn't even figured out the situation of the unknown fleet, and they even want to open the champagne at halftime? ”

Professor Han also noticed that many people were moved by the simulation plan proposed by the forward base, and the purpose of the construction of the Great Wall of Space was to stop the unknown fleet and entrust the future to mankind at a terrible speed of development.

This is understandable, and blind optimism about the state of affairs may just be an inflated confidence.

But you must know that this time the strategy determines the future of mankind, and if a wrong decision is made at this moment, it will lead to the demise of human civilization.

Then anyone at this moment will be a sinner!

Professor Han's words may be quite harsh, making many people's virtual reality images stiffen.

"I propose to suspend this strategy workshop for the time being!"

"What humanity should do in the future should not be decided by us, but by those who are on the front line working in deep space!"

This proposal stunned everyone, and then everyone had to cheer up again, because Lu Yu silently raised his hand.

He agreed to Professor Han's proposal!

(End of chapter)