Him and their stars

Facts have proved that the Buran is worthy of being the most cutting-edge Clear Sky-class battleship, and after excluding the supreme commander, the level of the crew on board is indeed considered the elite of the empire, and naturally the best in the universe. Under the siege of the gorgeous crystal storm that covered the sky and the sun, this "thin" cruiser seemed to be swallowed by these crystals at any time, but she always soared in the sky, as proud as a fire phoenix.

The continuous lines of fire pierced into the crystal dust like arrows, causing explosions one after another, adding another layer of flame color to the colorful crystal storm.

The crew of the Blizzard may have never encountered such an enemy. Now they are so focused on evacuating that they have almost forgotten the fact that although this scene is dangerous, the ship has not been injured yet.

How steady a cruiser was, let alone a fearless vessel like the Throne. In any case, even if it is a half-blood Dreadnought with half the firepower, it is still Dreadnought!

In fact, Yu Lian has always known that the biggest threat to battleships from the space crystal swarm is the ultra-long-distance impact of himself as a giant orbital cannon. But such an attack, just like the ultimate move of psykers, actually requires a certain amount of reading time and acceleration space. If you suddenly rush into short range, you will deprive them of their most powerful weapon.

Of course, this kind of "creature" can also use the crystal body as a medium to absorb space radiation for energy conversion and launch electric charge attacks at medium and short distances, but in terms of power, it is far less than the third level on the side of the dreadnought. The close-defense secondary guns naturally cannot pose a threat to the armor and shields of the dreadnought.

As a result, the Throne drove a body much larger than that of the Blizzard, wrapped in a thick energy shield, and crashed into the scattered formation of the crystal group. It looked like a whale hitting the shore. in the beach.

The moment the Throne suddenly accelerated and crashed into the crystal group, although they were trying to disperse, the whole thing seemed more chaotic, like a group of wild animals that were stunned by fright. At least three-digit crystals of different sizes were attracted by the Throne's mass and smashed into pieces against the shield.

Until now, Yu Lian is still not sure whether these crystals are alive, but he is sure that these are definitely not automatic weapons. They do not have the calm, efficient and meticulous feeling of robots at all.

"Close-in defense guns on both sides, fire at will." Yu Lianda said.

With enemies on all sides, the gunner must be very satisfied.

In this way, the Scarlet Throne completely penetrated the crystal group, which was easier than a lion cutting through a flock of sheep.

It was only at this time that these crystals, which were suspected to be "space predators", finally returned to the state of mind of wild animals and dispersed to every corner of the entire galaxy, clearly fleeing in all directions.

Although Yu Lian has also considered finding an opportunity to capture a few intact crystals and take them back, this thing requires more professional equipment and manpower from capture to detention. Moreover, even if he ran away from them like this, he really had no way to pursue them, so he continued to move towards the jump channel to the Tree Shepherd A galaxy according to the original plan. Before entering the jump channel, he did not forget to send a message to the Blizzard over there, "Let's split up and see who can find the whereabouts of the main force of the Marauders first. This will be a continuation of the God of War Festival."

It's a pity that such a message that requires martial ethics and a sense of ritual has not received a response from the other party.

Well, now there are several standard astronomical units between the two ships. This is not the homeland of the Milky Way with source mass waves. There is a delay in communication. This is of course very reasonable.

In this way, the Scarlet Throne officially arrived in the Shepherd A galaxy at 10:27 am on January 15th, standard cruise time.

Just as Yu Lian guessed, this remote galaxy located at the end of a known star path is indeed composed of an atypical pulsar as its core.

The reason why it is a pulsar is because it has the characteristic of continuously ejecting electromagnetic pulses. The halo permeating from both ends of the star is like the fireworks released by the gods, pointing to the depths of the void, as if it can tear the universe apart.

The reason why it is atypical is that the electromagnetic pulse it releases does not have a great impact on the dreadnought's instruments at least. The impact on the mass of stars is not too great. At least it can form a galaxy with a stable structure and a large-capacity transition channel.

Of course, such a galaxy is destined to be impossible to produce habitable planets, or even transformable Earth-like planets.

The friends on the ship discovered an automatic detection beacon, which is a facility used to automatically collect star data and local galaxy constants. It is placed two standard astronomical units away from the pulsar itself. The equipment was clearly a product of the Empire at first glance. Unfortunately, it had not been maintained for many years and was basically scrapped.

Also, no matter how conscientious a migrant worker is, he won't be happy to work in this damn place. What's more, compared to the Milky Way mainland, the management level of the colonies in the New World is always lower. This is a virtue for all countries with governor's offices and colonies in the New World.

The friends on the ship have returned to their respective combat readiness posts, carefully observing the surrounding situation.

It was here that the formation led by the Empire's cruiser Sabertooth Tiger was attacked. Now think about it, it is very likely that they will be attacked by those space crystals. But although those unknown crystal monsters have been defeated, it does not mean that the galaxy is safe. Maybe the predator fleet is hiding in the shadow corner of the galaxy, watching eagerly, and sneaking towards everyone.

Yu Lian closed his eyes and sensed the constants of the universe from a spiritual perspective. As a wall-hanger with the ability of "space intuition" and fusion of the ethereal pineal gland, his current perception ability is definitely not under the same level of "exploration".

In addition to the ability to discern space beyond ordinary people's understanding, it also includes the mysterious ability to predict potential dangers, which is the legendary "I have an unknown premonition about this."

This ability is actually similar to the psyker's ability to predict when exploring and fighting, but it is wider.

In short, on battleships and exploration ships, the navigator's job, in addition to the humanoid shipping computer, also includes the "metaphysical radar" function of predicting danger. But now, Yu Lian's radar is telling him that everyone should be safe now, and there are currently no enemies in this system that threaten us.

Even so, he was not prepared to let his comrades stop being vigilant.

On the one hand, it is because the so-called "metaphysical radar" has the possibility of overturning. In history, there have been cases where high-ranking psychics who were commanders of the entire army were too superstitious in their premonitions of crisis and led the entire army into a trap. . The most typical example is that in the Fifth Galactic War, the Empire's Second Guards Fleet was deceived in the battle of Daga Starfield, causing the contemporary Queen Magana to lose her temper and yell "Purius, take my place." That Admiral Pulius of "Fleet".

But even with such painful lessons learned, high-ranking psychics who hold leadership positions are still filled with insurmountable arrogance. Yu Lian felt that he could not learn from them no matter what.

More importantly, as a materialist, we should learn to believe in science. When there is a conflict between science and metaphysics, scientific cognition must come first.

On the other hand, there is a saying that for soldiers, combat readiness is actually the time when their experience points increase the fastest. It doesn't matter to the mercenaries, but it is very important to the naval academies sent by Toss. Yu Lian felt that since he signed a big contract for teaching and training, he should still have some contractual spirit.

No, just because everyone has been maintaining a high degree of tension and concentration, a naval cadet from Toss quickly discovered some subtle energy residual signals on the galaxy scan map, and quickly reported it to the bridge.

The Throne continued to maintain a vigilant cruising attitude, and moved towards the signal direction at a constant speed, and soon the source of the signal was within the detection range of the external camera. As a result, everyone on the bridge soon saw a large piece of broken and broken ship wreckage floating in space.

"It should be the battlefield where the Saber-Tooth Tiger encountered the enemy." Feifei said.

Yu Lian agrees with Feifei's opinion. Although these space floating objects are all torn and broken hull fragments, the style of the Empire can still be seen.

Sure enough, on one of the armor fragments on the ship's side, there was a relatively complete ship's number and ship's emblem hanging on it. It was the Saber-toothed Tiger that sent out a distress signal three days ago.

In addition, Yu Lian also saw crystal fragments floating in space around him. Under the cover of the wreckage of the ship, they are naturally even more inconspicuous.

It seemed that these imperial warships were indeed attacked by space crystals, but it was impossible to determine whether there were other enemies present at the time.

Later, everyone confirmed that in addition to the Sabretooth cruiser, the wreckage of the Blade 121 destroyer and the Corona 732 assault ship were destroyed at the scene.

This reconnaissance fleet that was originally affiliated with the Imperial Governor's Mansion, except for the Apocalypse Eagle destroyer that escaped to the Hailing α system, all died here.

For humanitarian reasons, the Scarlet Throne continued to be on alert while stopping near the gathering place of the large wreckage, began to conduct life response detection, and sent an automatic call signal. At the same time, some mercenaries with search and rescue experience were also asked to lead a team and drive a small traffic boat into it to search.

Yu Lian felt that although everyone's search and rescue operations were not considered the most professional, they were at least diligent. Sadly, after several hours of searching, many completely stiff bodies were found, but no living persons were found.

Of course, luckily, someone finally found a relatively complete video of the ship's data terminal from the Blade Destroyer. After some not very professional repairs of the internal data, they finally got a video of less than It's a three-minute video with a quality that's quite reminiscent of the classical TV era.

Although the picture quality is hard to describe, everyone still witnessed the scene of the attack with their own eyes. The imperial warship was caught off guard and was hit by a sudden crystal shell and was instantly unable to find its way. Apart from proving Yu Lian's guess and once again letting the friends know the dangers of those unknown crystals, this is really of no value.

However, at the end of the video, a voice sounded off-screen: "Captain, there is a ship jump signal! Is it at D1244? No, it's F8776? Well, that's where it is anyway!"

"Is it reinforcements?" The captain in the screen was overjoyed, and the video ended here.

Of course, later insiders also knew that these unlucky imperial reconnaissance teams naturally did not wait for any rescue. However, their so-called "ship jump signal" is very imaginative.

Yu Lian looked at Feifei, or had already opened the galaxy airspace map, entered the coordinates mentioned in the video, and then harvested a vast airspace with a length, width and height of at least one standard astronomical unit.

However, what is certain is that the gravity wells currently known in this galaxy are not in this space.

There was a moment of silence on the ship.

Anyone with a little common sense will understand what this means.

New waterways, new trade routes, both fame and fortune, and a name that will go down in history!

However, after a few seconds of ecstasy, Vega's face collapsed again.

The pulsar environment is indeed not friendly to data collection. There is no particularly advanced aerospace computer installed on the Throne, and there is no professional analysis team on board. Even if the gravity well existed in this airspace before it was known, given the current conditions on the ship, it would be impossible to calculate anything within three to five months.

To put it bluntly, it is impossible to find a needle in a haystack, but is it easy to find a needle in a pond?

Vega, who had systematically studied space navigation in the academy, looked at the clumsy shipboard hub that began to chatter and collect messy data. It looked like a mess, and obvious pain suddenly appeared on his happy round face. Xiang looked at Yu Lian eagerly.

"Let's move towards this star field." Yu Lian said listlessly.

Everyone didn't understand why he suddenly lost his energy, but he still obeyed orders. Feifei also took this opportunity to thoughtfully pour Yu Lian a cup of hot tea.

Yu Lian finished drinking the tea that Feifei had made by herself. Although she was definitely better at this than Danlun, Liuli was actually better, but she still regained her energy.

Well, in an era when the technology tree is already crooked, if technology cannot solve things for the time being, I will try my best to use metaphysics to solve them. While he was thinking this, he walked to the outermost terrace on the upper level of the bridge.

"After entering this airspace, quickly switch to the second charge speed." Yu Lian left such instructions again.

Feifei frowned slightly and said worriedly: "Second charge speed? Can you calculate it?"

"At any rate, I have reached the fifth ring now, and I have always been very confident in my physical fitness." Yu Lian gave a thumbs up: "Humans, many times you have to push yourself."