An old question was put in front of Chen Feng again.

Join the war?

Not join the war?

As early as nearly a hundred years ago, when he first stepped out of the earth, this question had troubled him.

With Chen Feng's nature, of course he was unwilling to stand by and watch, and he had to rush to the center of the battlefield to get his mind clear.

But he found a reason to convince himself, that is, he needed to collect information and could not die too early.

He really used this hundred years to accumulate countless knowledge in his mind, and even saved Xiaofu's life, allowing Xiaofu to advance by leaps and bounds, until he discovered the giant ship of the Mi tribe, and then developed the folding armor, and finally destroyed the spherical battleship by himself.

Chen Feng has memorized a lot of cosmological knowledge.

First, the coordinates of the life galaxy, miracle galaxy, and a large number of habitable and easy-to-transform galaxies that humans have developed and utilized will greatly accelerate the development and expansion of the Orion Arm human race in the next timeline.

Second, the cosmological knowledge that he carefully selected and mastered will also allow the future generations of humans in the solar system to stay at home and focus on the universe in advance, whether before or after the solar dome descends.

The technological progress in the solar system will also be accelerated again.

Third, he wrote down the coordinates of the Mi tribe's giant ship, and knew how to explore the Mi tribe's mind core. He also remembered Xiaofu's folding armor design plan and Xiaofu's thinking mode of inferring the genetic information of Z bacteria based on protein structure.

Then the next time, at the very least, he can try to excavate the giant ship himself and make the folding armor after arriving here.

Fourth, Xiaofu even understood the ZS bacteria. Even if this understanding is actually useless, it is better than dying with a confused look on his face.

These are the results of Chen Feng's hundred years of lurking, proving that his seemingly selfish choice was correct.

Now the situation has reached a new stage.

Before, he could still use the need to accumulate strength and then develop slowly to prevaricate and paralyze himself, quietly ignoring the fact that the basis for his decision not to come out was because he could not see the "acquaintances" and the essence of the problem that there were no people he really cared about.

But now there is no time.

The same reason can no longer be used as an excuse.

But the paradox still exists.

He really doesn't know what to do better.

He is not someone who is afraid to take responsibility.

He is hiding not out of pure selfishness, but out of greed.

This is not selfish greed, but greed that he has to do on behalf of the entire race in the face of the survival of civilization.

He dreams of finding a better choice, as long as he can gain more benefits for civilization, make the lives of everyone in this timeline more meaningful, and let Xiaofu complete his highest ideal in the last step. Even if he fails the expectations of everyone in this timeline and becomes a greedy and cowardly sinner in the hearts of others, a "traitor" who abandons countless believers, he can bear it.

So, he is not necessarily selfish.

If Chen Feng takes Xiaofu with him to join the battle now, according to Wei Xing and his own estimation, he can at most postpone the extinction of the two moons to three months, and Xiaofu will still not have time to complete the planting battleship.

But if he continues to hide, after two months, he will be the only human left in the Orion Arm, and the fleet of the Compound Eyes will surely start to search and encircle him with all their might.

How long can he escape then?

Will the Compound Eyes quickly discover the secrets of the Gras people by further infiltrating and absorbing the information of the Orion Arm, and also drill into the sub-space medium layer?

This is still unknown.

But there is another possibility. After Chen Feng brings Xiaofu back to human society, he lets Xiaofu exchange ideas with other top scientists, inspires each other's ideas, and builds a new and larger research institution for Xiaofu. Then, even if the advancement of planting battleship technology is slow, some other types of important technologies may burst out, which may delay the time of human destruction?

Or, among the remaining scientific research forces of the Orion Arm, there must be other people who are as smart and intelligent as Xiaofu. If Xiaofu is used as a catalyst and put into the big fish tank of humans, can a strong catfish effect be formed to complete the development of planting battleships faster?

Chen Feng really doesn't know.

There is always a fog in front of his eyes.

The fog was too thick, and he couldn't see the way.

The course of history was filled with too many possibilities, and every choice Chen Feng made would bring endless variables and bifurcations. The result of his thinking was that no matter how he chose, he couldn't come up with a standard answer.

Many people think that absolutely calm and rational people will definitely make decisions quickly and will never hesitate when faced with a dilemma.

In fact, this is completely wrong.

The calmer and more independent you are, the more pheromones you collect when making decisions, and the more comprehensive judgments you make, the more complicated the situation becomes. Reason is really of no help to whether the final decision is fast or correct. What

can motivate humans to act without hesitation is not logic, but emotion.

Only emotions can make people dare to gamble even though they know it is wrong.

Chen Feng used to be an old gambler, but this time he has not found the fulcrum of his emotions, so he cannot get rid of the confusion caused by greed.

After thinking for a long time, Chen Feng jumped out of the medical cabin and sighed.

In his thinking just now, God knows how much information he quickly analyzed, but he didn't get a conclusion. He was confused by his own brain.

He said to himself: "Anyway, whether we participate in the war or not, we can't return to the territory of the empire for a while. Let's keep a distance first, neither close nor far away, just fly like this. Let's see the situation."

At the same time, he also sent a message to Xiaofu and temporarily changed the route.

Xiaofu didn't make any suggestions on this, he just listened to Chen Feng's arrangements.

Chen Feng reopened the Empire's galaxy simulation system and once again reviewed the war situation from a global perspective.

There are only about 600 of the original 14,400 major colonized galaxies left.

The reason why these colonized star systems have been able to survive until now is not because of their strength, but because of their mediocrity.

These star systems have neither top scientific research institutions that can promote technological progress, nor large industrial bases with mature industrial chains and special mineral deposits. They also do not have favorable natural planetary environments and moderate stellar environments. They are not breeding bases for reserve population cultivation, and they are just mediocre. The compound eyes are too lazy to choose them as their main targets.

In addition, there are more than 800 new colonies established to increase military resources and restore industrial production capacity.

The Dyson membrane energy base star system originally expanded to hundreds of thousands, but after years of war, there are now less than 10,000 left, and the trunk channel for bio-battery transportation has long been cut off.

1,024 star gates have long been annihilated.

Human large carriers can no longer safely travel through the route.

As long as a large transport ship dares to appear on the route, it will definitely be discovered by the patrolling blade mantises.

Humans can only break up into small groups and send small artificial or intelligent ships to travel through the route in small batches, trying to bring more energy batteries back to the surviving galaxies in a cycle of a few months or a few years.

Even so, small units will still often encounter enemy attacks.

If it is not a blade mantis, but a beetle or a dragonfly fighter, there is still a chance to fight.

If you encounter a blade mantis, basically just hope to escape for one more second.

Despite the dangers, these long-distance transporters have never stopped running.

No one cares about death, just like everyone knows that the death rate of air crashes is extremely high, but people still have to take planes.

Someone will always sacrifice, but there will always be someone who can successfully reach the destination and bring back the precious batteries.

Since microwave power transmission cannot cross the planetary system, the main output of the Dyson membrane energy base system is batteries.

In a complete industrial system, each high-performance battery can be transformed into dozens of standard fighters.

Dozens of batteries can be transformed into a small battleship.

The transporters also often change their destinations temporarily, perhaps because the energy base ahead has seen the traces of the blade mantis, or the return destination system has been destroyed.

Many years ago, the Ocularists changed their war strategy and began to gradually cleanse and block the scientific research, industrial and population supply capabilities of human beings. After continuously cutting off the supply lines of human beings, movers became an important occupation with many practitioners.

Since the end of 3118, when the Ocularists built the serpentine star gate and began to occupy or destroy the human star gate, the number of movers has increased countless times in a short period of time.

The huge number of movers, who are like space wanderers, use their lives to form the blood vessels of the remaining colonies of the Morning Wind Empire, supporting the last remnants of the empire.

In short, on the vast star map of the empire, most of the once prosperous human colonies have long since turned into a small orange dot.

There are a total of more than 1,400 remaining galaxies, scattered all over the territory, without scale and organization. Most of them have turned blood red, and only a few still show green, which represents temporary safety.

The original 72 star regions of mankind have long been in name only.

Chen Feng noticed that at the other end of the territory of the Morning Breeze Empire far away from his position, there was a red dot with a particularly bright color that caught the eye.

He first narrowed the search range, enlarged the star map, and then exclaimed.

This is strange.

Currently, there are about 90,000 prismatic battleships of the Compound Eye patrolling outside the Orion Arm to hunt down escape ships.

The nearly 900,000 prismatic battleships in the Orion Arm are divided into groups of hundreds and more than a thousand teams to attack different human galaxies.

But in this small planetary system in front of him, there were a full 100,000 prismatic battleships.

And the battle strategy adopted by the prismatic battleships was different from the past. Instead of splitting and advancing, they surrounded a huge star to form a grid connection array that made Chen Feng feel familiar, and steadily pressed forward with a slow and firm posture.

Chen Feng scanned the detailed information of the system, and then he suddenly realized.

This is the DF-711 system equipped with the code-named 001 ultra-small star engine, and it is also the only slow-speed super fortress ship built by humans that is directly powered by stars.

Since the beginning of the war, the DF-711 Fortress Ship with a diameter of 7.11 million kilometers has begun to accelerate slowly at an extremely slow speed, drifting from the edge of the development star zone to the outside of the Orion Arm.

Since it is impossible to build a huge curvature bubble generator that can cover a range of 7.11 million kilometers, the Fortress Ship can only use the traditional medium propulsion mode.

A hundred years have passed, and the flight speed of the 711 Fortress Ship still cannot reach the speed of light, only 60,000 kilometers per second, which is about one-fifth of the speed of light, and it has not left the territory of the Morning Wind Empire, but has only moved a little closer to the border.

But this is within the scientists' estimation. As long as they can hold on for a few hundred more years, the 711 Fortress Ship will be able to gradually approach the speed of light and throw itself to the other side of the Lania Kaia Supercluster in an unstoppable manner.

According to scientists' estimation, the force field shield of the Fortress Ship at full power can win by overwhelming the grid plasma tearing of the prismatic battleship, and can also rely on its huge mass to resist the attraction and swallowing of the black hole bomb. The force field shield plus the ultra-thick alloy shell layer can also withstand the bombardment of antimatter bombs.

As for the unified force cutting of the blade mantis, it is not afraid.

The surface of the fortress ship is covered with countless energy cannons that use focusing lenses, which can carry out saturation attacks. If the blade mantis really rushes up, there is a chance to destroy it.

As for the blade mantis's ability to fold?

Under the super-strong gravity brought by the fortress ship's ultra-high mass, the space near the fortress ship is already distorted. Coupled with the continuous influence of the ultra-high-power space turbulence force field, it is not so easy for the blade mantis to fold and approach.

As for physical toxin bombs?

There is no need to be afraid of them.

The outer shell armor of the fortress ship has tens of thousands of independent layers, and a scale structure design that can be divided at any time. If a piece is blown up, it will be abandoned on the spot.

The lower shell can immediately float up to take over the damaged parts, and the manufacturing factory inside can work overtime to produce new armor.

Aside from the star engines, the batteries stored in the fortress are enough to fully power the billions of people inside for tens of millions of years.

The researchers did not do nothing during these hundred years. While analyzing the structure of the prism, in addition to studying how to break the opponent's armor, they also improved their own materials based on the feedback from the explosion.

According to the most pessimistic estimate of the Imperial high-level officials, even if the war was lost, the 711 fortress ship would have a chance to rush into the endless universe, even if it was chased by prisms along the way.

Human history will be continued in the fortress ship, for a thousand years, ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, a million years, or even tens of millions of years.

Maybe one day, humans will be able to enter the territory of another more powerful civilization, and this powerful civilization happens to be on the side of the "good guys"?

Although this is a dream, it is better than locking yourself in a nightmare.

The highest command post of the Morning Wind Empire is also located in the fortress ship.

Such a large target is naturally difficult to escape the eyes of the compound eyes.

Before, the compound eyes may have planned to save it until the end to slowly clean it up, but now it suddenly changed its mind and mobilized a full 100,000 prism ships to surround it.

The fortress ship's pace has not stopped, but the prism ship's encirclement also steadily follows the speed of the fortress ship and moves synchronously.

There are still countless warships and fighter planes flying out, trying to tear the prism ship's encirclement.

Outside the encirclement, there are more scattered human forces gathering from all directions.

With the accumulation of sand, the human forces trying to break through the prism defense layer on the periphery alone are comparable to the Barnard star fleet in its heyday.

There is no doubt that this will be the last battle of mankind.

Weixing's two-month estimate refers to the time it believes that the 711 fortress ship can hold out.

As for other colonized galaxies, they can't hold out until that time.

When the 711 fortress ship is destroyed, human civilization will come to an end.