It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

Under the high temperature brought by the laser, the light of the Hall thruster at the tail of the ellipsoid flickered a few times and then slowly went out.

But as the laser weapon blasted into the interior of the detector, a thick black smoke was produced immediately after the various complex equipment inside were melted!

Black smoke spewed out along the broken hole.

This greatly reduces the lethality of laser weapons.

At this time, the working time of the Type II laser weapon has also reached its limit.

It needs a little time to cool down and recharge before it can launch its next attack.

The faint blue beam of light that spanned 1 light second slowly dissipated, leaving only the ellipsoidal detector, billowing thick smoke, sliding forward by virtue of its inertia.

After gliding for a period of time, perhaps because its energy device was damaged, a burst of intense fire suddenly spewed out from its interior!

explosion!

The momentary fire light illuminated a small piece of dark universe around it, but soon, this fire light was swallowed up by the thicker darkness.

【Earth】command center.

Lu Yongchang shook his head regretfully.

"Pity."

Zhao Zijie was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously comforted him: "Professor, there are other detectors, and we still have a chance."

He still remembered that Professor Lu wanted to capture a detector of the opponent's civilization, and use it to make a simple assessment of the strength of the enemy's civilization.

but!

Lu Yongchang sighed again when he heard Zhao Zijie's comforting words.

He shook his head and said, "The thick smoke caused by the internal combustion of the detector has greatly reduced the lethality of the laser weapon."

"The next generation of laser weapons may have to consider solving this problem."

Zhao Zijie: "...???"

"Professor, it has been detected that the remaining 17 probes are changing course."

Zero's voice relieved Zhao Zijie's embarrassment in time.

"cough!"

Zhao Zijie coughed lightly, picked up the microphone on the side, and gave a few orders to the fleet in an orderly manner.

This time, it is bound to successfully capture a "high-end version" detector.

Instead of the original "fake and shoddy" products with a garbage shell!

Chapter 358 Is there a possibility that the problem lies with Zero?

The flagship of the Grays.

When the blue laser pierced the defense of the ellipsoid detector, an alarm sounded inside the flagship.

"alarm!"

"Probe No. 371163 is under unknown attack!"

"The attack type is a high-energy laser beam!"

The sound of the sirens did not cause any panic.

Instead, every little gray man in the command center was abnormal

excited!

"Found!"

The originally gloomy expression of the little gray man technician suddenly rose!

It pointed to the big screen in front of it, and shouted in a slightly sharp voice: "Command! Command! We have found the opponent's fleet!"

"The signal has disappeared."

Electronic audio reports without fluctuations.

The conductor sitting at the top took a deep breath and stood up from his seat.

"How many detectors are there in this area?"

The technician quickly stretched out his fingers and tapped a few times on the personal terminal in front of him.

"Report, there are currently 17 detectors left."

The skin on the commander's face wrinkled slightly, and he slowly shook his head and said, "Too little."

"Let these 17 detectors go to confirm the situation first."

"First of all, we must confirm that this is the opponent's fleet, not a small bait ship!"

"Secondly..."

"Mobilize all detectors in the nearby area!"

"Give me a carpet investigation!"

"I want this little bug to have nowhere to hide!"

……

Human fleet.

Seeing the 17 bright spots in the star chart rushing towards the fleet quickly, the atmosphere in the command center suddenly became serious.

Everyone knows what will happen next.

War is imminent!

Fleet periphery.

Another [Golden Crow] battleship's stern lit up with the light of the Hall thruster, and left the original formation.

Although the ellipsoidal detector just now was vulnerable to Type II laser weapons.

But just to be on the safe side, Zhao Zijie still ordered to send an additional [Golden Crow] battleship to escort.

After all, no one knows what cards are in the hands of more advanced civilizations.

For example, no one knows that a mere second-level civilization actually possesses the strike means of a seventh-level civilization in its hands!

While Zhao Zijie was thinking wildly, the second detector quietly approached.

This time, the [Golden Crow] battleship did not use Type II laser weapons.

Instead, the Type II coil gun was used.

Compared with the Coilgun II, the Type II coil gun is larger and has a faster discharge speed.

The miniature nukes contained inside the projectiles have also been replaced with small plasma bombs.

There is no doubt that the lethality of the Type II coil gun is much higher than that of the Type I coil gun.

As the second probe got closer, the captain of the [Golden Crow] battleship issued an order.

"fire!!"

Flames flashed across the muzzle of the battleship's secondary guns.

Seemingly finding itself locked, the probe quickly changed course and launched an evasive maneuver.

But, obviously, this set doesn't work very well for humans.

"Aim assist is on."

Zero's voice sounded in the [Golden Crow] battleship.

At the same time, dozens of white dotted lines appeared in the holographic projection inside the battleship.

The barrel of the secondary gun also began to swing slightly at this time.

Every time the angle is adjusted, dozens to hundreds of shells are fired from the barrel!

After dozens of seconds.

The flame of a plasma bomb explosion appeared in the dark deep space.

This means that one of the shells successfully hit the small detector.

One has two.

The second way, the third way...

The detector was instantly submerged in a series of explosions.

The flames gradually dissipated.

The dilapidated probe has turned into a piece of space junk, floating quietly in the void.

[Golden Crow] Seeing this, the captain of the battleship nodded in satisfaction, and turned his attention to the next batch of detectors.

"Captain 746!"

Zhao Zijie's faint voice suddenly came from the communication channel: "Do you still remember what I said just now?"

"Professor Lu needs an advanced detector that is as good as possible, are you taking this as a fart?!"

"Do you know how wasteful it is to shoot so many shells!"

The captain of No. 746 froze: "..."

"I, I know."

"Be careful next time."

……

The flagship of the Grays.

The commander looked at the scene in front of him with an ugly expression.

Another probe lost.

The loss of the probe was not taken to heart by it.

This low-quality detector, they have a lot in the fleet.

To his embarrassment, the destruction of this probe did not bring any valuable intelligence to civilization.

"Turn off the active detection device!"

"Let these detectors stay away from each other first, circle around a few times and find a chance to get closer!"

……

At the moment this detector was destroyed, the remaining 16 detectors suddenly turned off their active detection devices.

They hide from the passive detection devices of the human fleet.

Perhaps, for other civilizations, this is extremely fatal.

Finding a few pixel-sized detectors from the vast background of the universe is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

But for human civilization, especially for zero, this difficulty is not too high.

Since these detectors were observed by the optical telescope, Zero has been controlling the optical telescope array in the fleet to track and observe these detectors.

Therefore, these detectors are far away from the fleet and start to circle around, in front of Lu Yongchang and others, they can see everything at a glance!

Lu Yongchang looked at the star map in front of him with a strange expression.

"The opposite is..."

"Want to confuse us?"

Fang Xu also looked confused: "It doesn't make sense...what's there to go around?"

Tao Yuda's voice came from a distance: "Professor, is there a possibility that the other party thinks that after turning off the active radar, we can't see them?"

Lu Yongchang: "..."

Fang Xu: "..."

"Hiss..." Lu Yongchang scratched his head in surprise, "Isn't it?"

"Anyway, it's a third-level or fourth-level civilization. Could it be that their optical telescopes can't do this kind of thing?"