The alarm came so suddenly that even the command center did not react.
The other side adopted a space-crossing technology that mankind has never seen before. It is not folding, not curvature flight, nor the latest artificial wormhole technology.
During its effectiveness, no radiation or energy fluctuations are released at all. The opponent's ships appear directly in this fatal position, as if they have always been here, but have been ignored by humans.
There are deviations in the cognition of people and equipment, and the operating laws of the universe have been tampered with.
This distorted illusion almost caused the staff of the fleet's intelligence department to collapse.
Commander Qin Guang quickly calmed down, began to quickly compile a new combat plan, and sent targeted arrangements specifically for Tong Ling's team.
He gave Tong Ling's team a total of three emergency tasks.
First, quickly deploy a folding space shielding field to cut off the opponent's communication; second, kill the opponent at all costs and test the opponent's capabilities at the same time. No matter what method is used, try to prevent the opponent from breaking through the outer cover of the fleet; third, delay time to give other teams enough reaction time.
But before Qin Guang's mission was issued, the intelligence department had already received intelligence from the front line.
Tong Ling made an on-the-spot independent decision.
Bai Xiang, Shan Wu and Tong Ling had already rushed up to kill, while Tie Xiu and Sun Tongwen coordinated and cooperated to quickly deploy the first layer of space shielding field.
Qin Guang clenched his fist in praise, thinking, "Well done."
He then turned his attention to the information sent back by Tong Ling.
"A new type of soldier, plant-type, 7.13 meters long, unknown capabilities. The projection of the shape is as follows."
The optical image of the enemy appeared in front of the heads of several key institutions such as the command center, intelligence department, and scientific research department.
The biologist shouted, "How come this thing is exactly the same as the water bear on Earth?"
In front of everyone was a round body with a body like a hippopotamus, a total of eight legs, claws on the toes, and a head like a valve core.
If it were not transparent and too big, the biologist would almost think that this thing was the water bear on Earth.
Further analysis reports were soon released. By calculating and analyzing the invisible light spectrum transmitted by the transparent body of the "water bear" under the illumination of cosmic background radiation, scholars found that there were reactions of ZS bacterial community activity in its body.
At the same time, most of the organic reactions in its body conform to the basic characteristics of plant life.
The conclusion was that this was a new type of soldier that was hatched by the fruits of giant vines after absorbing the physiological characteristics of water bears on Earth and integrating them with ZS bacteria.
In an instant, the command shared this intelligence with the special operations team at the front.
In addition to these known information, the intelligence also included many inferred conclusions drawn by tactical staff based on the characteristics of water bears on Earth.
For example, it can survive and move in a vacuum, and its body surface is covered with a film of water.
Through the characteristics of the water film, the tardigrade can enter a hidden state when facing an extremely harsh environment, and absorb external substances including but not limited to DNA, integrate them into itself, and use them as energy and raw materials to repair its own DNA.
At the same time, it is naturally resistant to radiation, high temperature, ultra-low temperature, high pressure and other environments.
The transformation of ZS bacteria is definitely not just for fun, so scholars have magnified the ability of the "crystal tardigrade" that Tong Ling's team is facing at this time by countless times to guess.
The timely arrival of new intelligence saved the life of the mountain centipede.
The mountain centipede, eager to make a contribution, got too close, and after rushing up, it vented its firepower crazily.
He seemed to easily bombard the crystal tardigrade with scales all over its body.
But when he was about to continue to close the distance, he received new intelligence.
Then he suddenly felt a sense of alarm and stepped back decisively.
He discovered that the crystal water bears that he had injured had quickly recovered and expanded in size, as if they had absorbed and digested the energy carried by his weapon system in the attacks.
Tong Ling shouted angrily, asking the mountain centipede to remain calm, and at the same time transmitted the energy flow 3D map just captured by the T100 armor detection system to the intelligence network.
The energy flow 3D map showed that a high-energy reaction did occur when the mountain centipede's artillery fire hit the crystal water bears, but after a short expansion, only a small part of the energy that could even tear apart space spread out, and most of it evaporated quickly like a drop in the ocean.
Even the diffused energy was siphoned away like the water flow around the vortex.
The energy level contours show that the crystal water bear has lowered the energy level near its activity area by three levels.
The basic energies such as thermal energy, radiation energy, quantum tidal energy, etc. that diffuse in the universe will flow to it like water flows to lower places.
Even if human armor remains completely still and does nothing, as long as it gets close, the energy in the reserve battery will be lost by itself, and the closer the distance, the faster it will be lost.
The two sides were in contact for only a few seconds, and the mountain centipede's armor reserve energy had already lost an additional 12%.
But his armor self-check did not sound an alarm. Through manual inspection, Shan Wu found that while the energy was lost, multiple parameters such as the electric conductivity, potential, and reaction intensity of the antimatter energy module all dropped by an equivalent of 12%. The overall performance of his armor declined, so that the armor's automatic inspection equipment did not find any abnormalities.
This shows that the crystal water bear's change in energy levels is not limited to the scope of energy flow, and its influence spreads in a ripple-like manner throughout the space.
When other objects approach it, they will seamlessly jump from high energy levels to low energy levels, just like water constantly losing potential energy when falling from a waterfall.
The water has not changed, but the latent potential energy contained in the water has decreased.
This concept is like taking a precise pinhole image of a candle flame. As the distance gets closer, the pinhole image continues to shrink, but the information contained in the image itself does not decay.
Assuming that the image is of a person, and this person can only think linearly and logically, then of course this person cannot be aware that his body has shrunk.
According to the theory that everything in the universe is composed of real energy, in a sense, whether it is human beings or armor, they are "three-dimensional images" carved out of real energy as colors in the universe.
Only human consciousness can jump out of this bottleneck and find the difference by feeling.
"Hiss..."
The mountain centipede was secretly shocked, and then quickly reported his discovery.
Then he said angrily: "The impact beam and collapse bomb I used just now were more than enough to destroy a planet, but in the end it was useless. Isn't this thing invincible? What should I do?"
Tong Ling did not answer him, but first passed on the latest information, and then fell into deep thought.
She didn't know what to do for a while.
The crystal water bears are still approaching the shield at a very slow but steady speed, and will hit the shield in less than fifty seconds.
In order to ensure the final mission, if the team that goes out to perform the mission still cannot find a way to deal with the water bears after forty seconds, the fleet will have to open the short-range curvature engine and enter the curvature space to accelerate forward at the risk of completely exposing their whereabouts.
At the same time, this also means that all the field teams are abandoned.
Thirty seconds later, the twenty-seven teams at the front will begin to return and join the encirclement and suppression.
This seems to be good news, but Tong Ling believes that if the opponent's energy absorption principle is not understood, no matter how many people come, there will be no essential difference.
The warriors can do nothing but bite the bullet and rush forward to bomb indiscriminately.
But this will only make the crystal tardigrades grow bigger and bigger, and possess more and more energy.
In short, there are only forty seconds left for the field team.
Five seconds after receiving the intelligence from Tong Ling's team, the other team leaders invited Tong Ling to a meeting.
Tong Ling distanced herself from the crystal tardigrades, released some physical restraint devices similar to rigid fishing nets, and connected to the conference communication.
Tong Ling stared at the front, and the restraint net was drained due to the basic interaction force after approaching, and quickly disintegrated into basic energy.
Tong Ling was secretly shocked, and at the same time her mind quickly read the conference communication.
She received five important messages.
The first is that after the demonstration of the external team, the simple shielding layer arranged by Tie Ru and Sun Tongwen was successfully effective, and the information in this area has been isolated and has not leaked out. At the same time, this also shows that the multi-layer shielding fields built by the remaining teams on the outer layer are also effective.
Second, the repair work of the stabilization controller is continuing and is expected to be completed in fifteen seconds. This part of the team can make their own decision whether to return to the fleet safely or continue to go out and join the fight against the crystal water bear.
Third, some teams responsible for vigilance have gradually discovered traces of nano-level vines. These teams are carefully misleading the vines.
Fourth. The third, twenty-first, and forty-second field teams have already rushed towards the main body of the giant plant at full power. They have no intention of returning.
Since an unexpected new type of soldier has appeared, the situation may change again at any time. They believed that in order to prevent the entire fleet from being exposed, someone had to leave the team and become bait to attract as many other mobile units of the plant tribe as possible.
At the same time, these self-sacrificers could also let go and give full play to their abilities. Then, no matter how far they could hold on, they could always obtain more information for the Nameless Fleet and the entire empire.
Fifth, many squad leaders prepared to jointly report to the fleet commander Qin Guang, asking the fleet to immediately start evacuation without considering the field team.
This was a lot of information, but with the help of the new brain chain's rapid communication, Tong Ling had formed a complete concept in her mind after only 0.5 seconds.
She smelled an obvious smell from the joint decision of other squad leaders - the urge to sacrifice.
It seemed that everyone was waiting for this moment.
No one was afraid of death, and no one was afraid. Instead, they were looking forward to it
. Everyone seemed to think that this was not a disaster, but an opportunity to go down in history.
They were calm and excited.
Tong Ling subconsciously recognized this judgment and raised her hand to sign with her fingerprint.
...
"These idiots!"
In the distant UV black hole in the constellation Cetus, Chen Feng, who received the message through the encrypted channel provided by the whole brain connection communicator, was furious and furious.
In the past few decades, Chen Feng has discovered a new problem.
Since his "death", mankind has been living in a war mentality.
Perhaps it was the deliberate guidance of the Salvation Society and the Imperial Government, or perhaps it was because the artists portrayed the multiple hatreds between the Compound Eyes and humans too deeply in order to inspire people, and some subtle ideologies have long been deeply rooted in everyone's hearts.
Human beings have thrived and developed in a very repressed false hostility for hundreds of years.
Since the war really broke out, the hostility has reached its peak in the past few decades.
The war instinct of the earthlings has also been aroused to the extreme, and almost everyone is fearless and proud of sacrifice.
Death, the greatest fear of life, has been completely defeated.
On the surface, this is a good thing.
Originally, Chen Feng did not comment on this.
But now he suddenly realized the problem.
He has worked hard on Tong Ling.
If his training failed because of Tong Ling's limited talent, then he could still understand it and think that he had chosen the wrong person and could go back and try again.
But now Tong Ling was clearly only one step away from a breakthrough, but she easily gave up on herself and died in battle. Who can Chen Feng go to for justice?
Chen Feng realized that this group of people took their lives too lightly and gave up on life too easily.
"Not afraid of death" seems to be very strong, very brave, and very commendable.
But it is a double-edged sword.
If the fear of death declines too much, the desire to survive will not be strong enough, which will lead to a decline in willpower.
Humans are often easily sacrificed before their potential is fully tapped.
The value of sacrifice is severely discounted.
When thinking of this, Chen Feng suddenly woke up.
He finally discovered the biggest difference between himself as a human being who grew up in the 21st century and his descendants in any timeline.
He also knew why he could always kill himself in one go.
The mortal heart of the 21st century made him born "greedy for life and afraid of death", but the mentality of always being able to come back from the dead made him always have the strongest awareness of sacrifice.
His desire to survive is extremely strong, and his spirit of sacrifice is also extremely strong.
The combination of his contradictory thoughts really made him different.
He woke up.
He finally understood why others could never catch up with him.