Time is so short, and there are still more than 30 intact tardigrades left. It is impossible for Tong Ling to kill all of them before the expected time.
In addition, the tardigrades that were temporarily incapable of movement after being split by her have regenerated unexpectedly.
After the original energy represented by the colorful light dissipates to a certain extent, it no longer continues to expand, but gathers in a small scale, and then floats in the universe in countless cotton-like forms.
From a distance, it looks like a goose-feather snowflake cast by the magic of slowing down time.
The snow melts in the "air" and gradually shrinks.
Data captured by battlefield monitoring equipment show that the energy contained in these shrunken snowflakes is also continuously decreasing, but it has not disappeared. Instead, it has directly appeared in the bodies of the injured tardigrades across space. The
injured parts of the tardigrades are recovering at an extremely fast speed.
This is the first time that humans have dealt with something that has both material and energy properties.
Its self-recovery properties are very shocking, but they are also within the expectations of the command.
Fortunately, the fleet's shielding layer has been repaired at this time, and the attached induction energy has been successfully removed.
There is only one mission target left, which is to eliminate the tardigrade troops with cross-space pursuit capabilities.
This is obviously impossible to accomplish, and the only option is to retreat. Although such an evacuation will inevitably lead to the possibility of being chased by tardigrades. But we can't let the enemy break through the shielding field and the protective layer and kill directly. The technicians still haven't tested the upper limit of the energy absorption of the tardigrades, and the possibility of the entire fleet being sucked dry cannot be ruled out.
The possibility of being chased is as high as more than 80%, and there is nothing we can do.
The notice of the fleet's upcoming evacuation has been issued in advance to the soldiers going out.
Considering that all tardigrades have been abandoned, the notice clearly states that the surviving soldiers can terminate the mission immediately, return to the fleet's shielding layer in advance for refuge, and then enter the fleet's composite curvature bubble layer to evacuate with the main force.
However, this combat guidance is not a mandatory order, and there is a second option in the notice.
The large fragmentation bomb that is about to be completed has a 5% chance of destroying the tardigrades.
However, the detonation of the fragmentation bomb still requires the completion of the last step of the chain reaction catalytic process, which takes a total of 3.3 seconds, so the warriors can decide for themselves whether to stay where they are until the fragmentation bomb is finally successfully detonated.
Qin Guang handed the decision-making power to the warriors.
Without any hesitation, the more than 30 surviving warriors and armored pilots made the decision to stay.
But before that, they have to do one thing.
Tong Ling is still driving the T100 up and down, constantly blocking the progress of the tardigrades.
Although she cannot completely destroy the opponent, her efforts have won enough time and space for others to gather fragmentation bombs.
At this time, Tong Ling's armor reserve energy index has dropped to 10%. According to previous practice, the remaining warriors should have begun to remove the energy modules of their own armors one by one, waiting for her to return to collect them.
But this time the warriors did not do so. Instead, they first separated two people to surround the fragmentation bomb and complete the chain reaction catalytic process. The other thirty or so people formed a long snake formation and kept approaching the direction where Tong Ling was fighting with the water bear.
9%, 8%... 3%.
In just one second, Tong Ling's energy index continued to drop to a dangerous range.
However, since the battlefield information system did not detect the super energy supply module provided by the Xinhuo Project, the simulation training did not provide synchronous projection information. Tong Ling's subconscious mind did not control her to return to recharge, but continued to charge forward.
In every intensive training in the past, the only sign of her mission failure was always "death in battle."
She had died countless times due to the exhaustion of armor energy.
This time was no different.
The only difference was that it was "fake death" in the past, and this time it was real death.
Suddenly, T100's forward steps suddenly stopped and stopped abruptly halfway.
The energy battle blade held in the armor's extended mechanical arm quickly shrank and extinguished.
After a blink of an eye, the thirty-six engines stopped humming.
T100's energy index has dropped to 0.02%.
In the entire suit of armor, only the life support system is still functioning.
Tong Ling, who is in the simulation training, is still subconsciously controlling the armor in vain, trying to shut down the life support system and transfer all the remaining energy to the weapon system.
But this time the training system gave her a new setting, making her operation ineffective.
Outside, the suppressed tardigrades finally found their chance, and the remaining tardigrades formed six groups and began to refocus the beams.
At this moment, an armored warrior who had been waiting for a long time took the risk to complete an ultra-short-range fold and appeared beside T100.
This is a spider-like bionic armor.
The armor originally had eight legs, each equipped with a powerful multifunctional ejector, which not only had the function of a medium-range cannon, but also provided excess reverse thrust for superload maneuvers.
Unfortunately, at this time, only the top half of the Spider Bionic Armor appeared near T100, with only two long legs.
The bionic armor broke at the chest, and the fracture was neat, without any dilatational cracks.
The warrior encountered the most dangerous accident in ultra-short-range folding technology, called the fundamental interaction fracture zone.
The military also called it a slicing scalpel.
The characteristic of the fracture zone is that in an absolute plane, the fundamental interaction force between matter and energy instantly returns to zero, and the essence is the disappearance of real energy.
The phenomenon observed by the human eye is that any matter or energy field that touches the fracture zone will be easily cut without any obstruction, so it is called a slicing scalpel. Its cutting ability is even stronger than that of the unified force cutting knife and the real energy blade.
Its basic principle is not complicated, but it is currently impossible for humans to achieve it.
In addition to the armor structure, there is also a white and red elliptical cylinder in the middle of the fracture, which is the broken abdomen of the warrior who controls the spider bionic armor.
He is so unlucky.
Due to the vacuum pressure difference, blood mist and tissue fluid are gushing out from the cut.
But he can still be saved. The emergency system in the armor is quickly sealing the cut. At the same time, countless organic fiber tubes are rapidly extending out from the cut of his combat suit, secreting solid gel to seal the cut, reduce blood loss, and temporarily replace the lost organs.
But this warrior ignored his own injuries and turned on the ejectors on the last two long legs of the armor with overload power.
"Warning! The buffering curvature bubble layer has not recovered, and the acceleration is too fast. Operator, you will be impacted by the overload acceleration, with a 100% mortality rate. Do you want to continue the operation?"
A quick warning came to him in the mind link.
"Yes!"
The next moment, a small half of the spider bionic armor accelerated forward like a missile.
Only 0.2 seconds later, the bionic armor reached a terrifying one-tenth of the speed of light by relying solely on the reverse thrust.
Due to the lack of the buffering protection of the curvature bubble layer, the entire armor almost completely fell apart instantly. Under the overload pressure, there was even a phenomenon of matter transforming into an energy state.
The warrior died instantly.
The "beam" "transformed" by the spider bionic armor slammed into the T100.
This "beam" was like a torrent, pushing the T100 forward and accelerating.
The main structure of the T100, which had lost most of its energy, also quickly disintegrated, but the curvature bubble layer near the manned capsule opened up on its own with the support of emergency energy.
A sphere with a diameter of two meters and three meters turned into a stream of light in the universe and crashed straight into the shielding layer outside the nameless ship fleet.
This sphere was the manned capsule of the T100.
In addition, fifteen of the more than thirty mobile personnel also completed ultra-short-range folds and blocked the vicinity of the manned capsule.
The entanglement fired by the tardigrades arrived at the speed of light across space, but was taken up by these fifteen people controlling their own armor.
0.5 seconds before the fleet started its engines, the T100's manned cabin successfully entered the shielding layer and was wrapped in the curvature bubble of the outermost small shuttle.
0.5 seconds later.
The huge fleet flashed violently in space and disappeared without a trace.
1.6 seconds later, the universe shook.
A huge, lightless and colorless storm suddenly spread out at a speed dozens of times the speed of light, constantly expanding, swallowing, and decomposing the universe.
The fragmentation bomb was successfully detonated.
It was seven days later that Tong Ling woke up.
The moment she opened her eyes, the battle report of the Hanjie Galaxy had already appeared in front of her.
"Human casualties: 266, 1 survivor.
Casualties: White Elephant, Mountain Centipede, Huang Guang, Qiu Zhonghua...
Compound Eyes casualties: Hanjie star destroyed, plant life and crystal water bear disappeared. The space within the 0.89 light-year diameter of the Hanjie Galaxy entered the zero state.
Technical description: A cosmic void appeared briefly and was named the zero universe space. The zero-space was maintained for 33 hours, 17 minutes and 51 seconds. Currently, the zero-space has disappeared, and the blast shock is still slowly spreading, eventually covering a range of 7.1 light years. All human fleets in the Witten Galaxy have been evacuated."
Then there was a video of the command center retrieving combat simulation images and analysis data from the database of the T100 manned capsule.
After reading these things, Tong Ling leaned on the pillow silently.
After a long time, she finally spoke, muttering to herself: "I'm not good enough. If I could have been earlier..."
At this time, Gao Xiaoqi and Op Tangde, who learned that she had woken up, walked quickly into the infirmary.
These were the last two members of her team.
"Big sister, you finally woke up! Are you okay?"
Gao Xiaoqi seemed very excited.
Although Opp was a little more reserved, he looked at Tong Ling with special respect and joy.
Tong Ling looked at Gao Xiaoqi with cold eyes, "Why are you happy? Why am I the only one who survived! Why! So many people died! How can you still laugh!"
Gao Xiaoqi's face froze.
Qin Guang, who was holding a lieutenant general's uniform and smiling as he was about to step in, also shuddered.
The distant Cetus.
Fanxing: "She is worthy of being your disciple, she is so good at self-blame."
Chen Feng shook his head, "Like me before, but not like me now."
"But she will eventually become you now, and in human form."
"Yes."
During these seven days, Fanxing quietly completed an in-depth analysis of Tong Ling's thinking and came to a conclusion.
Leaving everything to instinct and intuition is actually the essence of using human brain thinking to simulate quantum intelligence. The mechanism of effectiveness is different from the forced distortion of "Song of the World", and the abilities shown are also different, but the final direction is very similar. People will lose their innate true emotions, leaving only pseudo-emotions that exist by relying on digital simulation.
In the past few decades, Chen Feng has become more and more cold-blooded, just like his quantized self in the previous timeline.
Tong Ling will definitely be the same.
However, Chen Feng and Fanxing cannot be sure at present what changes will appear after the human brain is quantized in this more active way.