Chapter 287 Starlight? Fleet!
"Alive... We survived?"
In the cockpit, Isa looked at the scene outside the porthole that gradually became clear from chaos with a dull look, and her soft voice was trembling.
Chen Fan swallowed hard and nodded with an imperceptible amplitude: "Okay, it seems so..."
Good luck. After all
, the [Varilla] is just a public ship. Although its performance has been fully enhanced, it
is still not enough to directly fight against the extreme disaster of wormhole collapse.
Not to mention the huge fleet behind the [Varilla].
Looking at the bright red warning messages that kept popping up on the main console, Chen Fan gave the order with a somewhat ugly face.
"One, report the damage!"
"The [Varilla] curvature engine is damaged by 17%, the wormhole generation and stabilization system is damaged by 67%, the hull is not damaged, the weapon system is not damaged, and the shield system is not damaged..."
As the electronic synthesized sound echoed in the cockpit, Chen Fan's anxiety was slightly relieved.
Fortunately, the damage to the [Varilla] was not serious. The only problem was the wormhole generation and stabilization device.
This was also within expectations.
"What about the Swamp Fleet?"
Chen Fan cast his eyes to the Swamp Fleet outside the porthole, which was obviously in chaos, and asked worriedly: "How are they doing?"
Yi reported the battle damage of the Swamp Fleet in a steady tone: "The fleet's warp engine is close to being scrapped, the conventional engine is damaged by more than 70%, the hull structure has a slight deformation, and the overall strength of the hull has decreased by an average of 5.3%..." "
... A total of 87 starships crashed, and there are currently 426 starships remaining."
Chen Fan's face darkened.
"So many starships crashed..."
He took a deep breath: "What about the personnel damage? Have the results been counted?"
"The cumulative number of casualties in the Swamp Fleet is 791, including 73 serious injuries, 616 minor injuries, and 102 deaths."
Chen Fan couldn't help but be stunned: "Why are there so few?"
87 starships crashed, and 102 people died? !
"The situation was urgent at the time. The shipboard main brain could not guarantee the successful forced landing of all starships, so it could only selectively abandon some large starships."
After hearing Yi's answer, Chen Fan's heart moved and he had a guess: "The crashed starship..."
"86 large colony ships and 1 patrol starship." Yi's voice was somewhat relieved, "In order to reduce casualties, this machine specially selected those colony ships carrying dummies."
"As for the patrol starship...it was really unlucky and had an accident when it was about to complete the forced landing."
Chen Fan laughed dumbly: "This is already the best result."
He never expected that in that short moment, the shipboard main brain and Yi could actually make such a perfect handling measure in such a critical forced landing process.
It is worthy of being Human Union Technology.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"A communication request from Auraya was detected. Do you want to connect?"
...
In the holographic communication interface, a line of dark blue blood was slowly flowing down from Auraya's forehead.
In the previous emergency landing, Auraya was also accidentally injured.
The moment he saw Chen Fan, Auraya's frightened expression gradually calmed down: "Sir Chen Fan..."
"The migration fleet has basically lost its cruising ability. We..."
"I know, fortunately the casualties are not very serious."
Chen Fan's expression sank, and he nodded gently: "You notify the fleet to prepare to rest on the spot."
"There should be a spare replacement engine device on the colony ship, right?"
Seeing Auraya nodded in affirmation, Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's no problem."
"I have a professional maintenance robot here. It won't take much time for the fleet to regain power."
As he said, he turned his head to look at the star map beside him. At this time, the shipboard main brain had completed the positioning of the fleet based on the coordinates of several pulsars.
The moment he saw the fleet coordinates, Chen Fan's face suddenly darkened.
773 light years away from the destination.
Damn, why is it getting farther and farther? !
Sensing Chen Fan's thoughts, Yi's voice quickly came from his right hand: "Emergency landing during wormhole collapse cannot determine the three-dimensional coordinates at all." "
The error of 773 light years is already considered a precise forced landing. According to the statistics of the Human Union, the average error of emergency landing during wormhole collapse is around 50,000 light years, and the highest value can reach hundreds of millions or even billions of light years. Of course, this is the result of the collapse of a large wormhole." "
In addition, due to the high-dimensional coordinate conversion involved, many emergency landing locations will be a bit... strange."
"Due to the gravitational effect of large stars themselves, forced landing inside stars and around black holes is quite common. " Chen Fan's mouth twitched slightly. Indeed, according to Yi, the place where they are now forced to land is already heaven. "Sir Chen Fan, this, this... what is going on?" In the communication channel, Olaya quickly became panicked. "Why does this happen in wormhole jumps?" Hearing Olaya's question, Chen Fan's expression became a little more solemn. The relief of escaping death quietly dissipated, replaced by a faint anger! "The wormhole encountered unknown interference." Chen Fan's face became even angrier: "I suspect it was caused by human factors."
"Human, human factors?!" Olaya stammered and exclaimed.
Chen Fan gave a simple explanation: "To put it simply, a certain advanced civilization passing by was unhappy with us and shot us."
In the entire Human Union Pan-Universe, the Human Union logo engraved on the side of the [Varilla] that resembles a star system is the most perfect pass.
Pan-Universe Street, ask who is the father!
After being an investigator for such a long time, Chen Fan has never heard of any investigator's starship being shot down by someone during the wormhole jump!
Chen Fan gritted his teeth and reached out to operate the main console in front of him: "This is the first time I have heard of someone daring to attack the Human Union investigator starship!"
"Fuck, this matter is not over!!"
"One, turn on the full-band detection system, I want to see which civilization is blind!"
To be honest, at this moment, he was even ready to call for the support fleet to enter!
[Varilla] is indeed unable to beat some fleets of advanced civilizations, but the Human Union fleet behind him can!
Don't forget, there is a fully armed support fleet parked in the Stargate Universe next to the EL13697101 Universe Bubble, ready to jump in at any time! !
But...
"No suspicious targets have been detected yet."
The electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit, like a basin of cold water, directly extinguishing the anger in Chen Fan's heart.
"What?!" He slightly widened his eyes, somewhat unbelieving Yi's words, "Yi, are you sure there are no suspicious targets?"
"Since the successful forced landing, this machine has turned on the full-channel active detection radar, but until now, this machine has not detected any traces of advanced civilization activities in the surrounding area."
The cockpit suddenly fell into silence.
"Chen, Chen Fan..."
On the co-pilot side, Isa stared blankly at the porthole in front of her.
Her mechanical left eye flashed a faint blue light, staring straight at the deep starry sky outside the porthole.
As if she saw something, a trace of horror quietly appeared on Isa's face.
"What's wrong?" Chen Fan noticed Isa's abnormality and looked forward following Isa's gaze.
In the deep, dark universe, faint starlight came from the infinite distance.
Chen Fan frowned, and a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.
This seems... there is no problem?
"That, over there..."
Isa's voice trembled slightly.
"There seems to be a fleet over there!"
...
The moment the voice fell, the atmosphere in the cockpit instantly became solemn!
"Fleet?!"
Chen Fan sat up straight suddenly, looking at the main console in front of him nervously: "One, active radar scan!"
"... This machine has not found the fleet, and the front of the Varela is very calm."
As the electronic synthesized voice sounded quickly, Chen Fan's face became weird.
"Isa, you..."
"Yes!"
Isa's mechanical left eye turned slightly, and the blue light released from it became stronger and stronger.
She looked anxious and said decisively: "There is really a fleet!!"
As she said, Isa began to describe the general outline of the fleet to Chen Fan.
"The fleet is very large, probably... a hundred times larger than the Swamp Fleet."
"But the starships inside are a bit damaged, and it looks like they have just experienced a war!"
Chen Fan did not speak, and silently operated the console in front of him.
The active radar array diagram quietly unfolded - just as Yi said, there was nothing in front of the [Varilla].
Chen Fan frowned, turned his head to look at Isa's mechanical left eye, and a thought emerged in his mind: "Is your mechanical left eye... broken?"
Isa bit her lip lightly and shook her head firmly: "There is no fault code, but I did see that fleet."
"They are far away from us. Only with the mechanical left eye can we see the appearance of the fleet clearly."
Chen Fan pondered for a moment and gave an order softly.
"Yi, start the [Varilla] and go to the front to see the situation."
Buzz...
A slight vibration came from the deck - although the curvature engine had a little problem, it did not affect the normal navigation of the starship.
Tens of millions of kilometers passed in an instant, and the fragmented "starlight" outside the porthole began to become brighter.
Chen Fan's expression also began to change gradually.
"This..."
Chen Fan looked at the scene outside the porthole with a look of shock.
As the [Varilla] continued to move forward, the scene hidden in the "starlight" gradually became clear!
What kind of starlight is this! !
This is clearly the light of countless high-power searchlights during the fleet's voyage! !
! Isa is right!
In this deep starry sky, in front of the [Varilla], a fleet is moving forward slowly and silently! !
Its scale is huge, hundreds of times that of the Swamp Fleet!
The [Varilla], with a scale of 120 meters, can only be regarded as a small frigate at the outermost edge of the fleet!
In the center of this fleet, there are dozens of large starships with a scale of more than 100,000 meters! !
(End of this chapter)
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