It is to use the phase space's suppression of the normal universe to launch an attack.

But based on Chen Ming's familiarity with the power of phase space, he knew that the current attack on the Afterglow ship had no direct connection with the phase space.

The reason lies in those exploding ships.

These explosions not only had obvious flames, but also some bright pink energy waves that exploded along with them.

You should know that the energy color of Yuhui's spaceship is usually cyan or azure. Even if it explodes, it will not produce such pink. These energy lights are obviously related to the weapons that caused the Yuhui battleship to explode.

Moreover, phase space only affects the normal universe in a physical sense. Even if something in the phase space caused the spacecraft to explode, those things should not be seen from the perspective of the normal universe.

Not to mention the rust that can be seen on the details of the ship wreckage.

Rust is usually caused by chemical reasons, which further proves that this situation has nothing to do with phase space.

So Chen Ming could be sure that this was not an effect achieved using phase technology.

But he couldn't analyze anything just by watching the video. He needed to see and touch the wreckage of the Afterglow battleship with his own eyes to conduct further analysis.

"Any clues?" the legion commander asked Chen Ming.

"A little, but not much."

Chen Ming pointed to the Afterglow battleships in the area next to him and several cargo ships in front of him and said, "The battleships are not valuable because the Afterglow cores can store data themselves. Only these cargo ships have recorded some of the situation at that time."

"What exactly happened?"

"Let's talk about it on the way."

"On the way?"

"We have already obtained all the valuable information here."

Chen Ming patted the cargo ship beside him and said, "Although the remaining debris over there is already being sent here, no matter how fast others send it, it will definitely not be as fast as us going there directly."

"Simply put, I'm too lazy to wait."

"OK."

The legion commander had no objection to Chen Ming's idea and followed him out of the dome.

As soon as he got outside, Chen Ming waved towards the sky, and the highest point quickly appeared in the clouds, blocking the light shining on the planet, and slowly landed on the ground.

The two climbed to the highest point and the spacecraft quickly took off.

After Chen Ming determined the destination for the highest point, which was near the location of the rear fleet group, he started the automatic driving of the spacecraft.

It will take only a few jumps to get there.

Take advantage of these few minutes of the transition process.

Chen Ming played the records he got from the cargo ship to the legion commander at the highest point where he used to do research.

At the same time, he also explained to the legion commander his analysis of the contents recorded through the repair of the Afterglow freighter.

"It is confirmed that Yuhui was indeed attacked during the retreat."

Since the video the commander had watched had not yet shown the time when Yu Hui's warship had an accident, he subconsciously asked, "Who?"

“I don’t know.”

Chen Ming shook his head and signaled the legion commander to continue watching the video.

He stretched out his hand in front of him and used liquid metal to create detailed models of thousands of afterglow spaceships, arranging them to imitate the situation in the video.

There are not many footages from the cargo ship, and the multiple perspectives of the multiple cargo ships are all relatively close to the perspective of a cargo ship from one of the Yuhui battleship fleets that is guarding the Yuhui rear fleet.

At most, Chen Ming roughly recorded a corner of what happened on the edge of the entire fleet and reproduced it here.

This is enough for now.

These contents alone are enough for Chen Ming to arrange the formation of these warships.

These models can almost be said to be made completely according to the design of the Afterglow ship, but after being reduced to a certain proportion. These model spacecraft can even operate like normal spacecraft.

Chen Ming observed the fleet he had arranged using the model, trying to try to see something from the distribution of these warships.

However, just watching is obviously not enough.

The key is not the afterglow, but the existence of attacking the afterglow.

The legion commander on the side quickly watched the video and came to Chen Ming's side.

Chen Ming raised his hand slightly upon seeing this.

Among the thousands of model spaceships in front of them, hundreds of them were suddenly cut into several pieces as if by some invisible force from some location, and more model spaceships on the side suddenly exploded from the inside out.

This is an effect specially simulated by Chen Ming. It is not a real slash or a real explosion.

However, although it was just a simulation, Chen Ming and the legion commander personally saw the entire process from a more third-party perspective.

The expressions of both of them changed slightly.

The legion commander turned to look at Chen Ming and said, "Is it accurate?"

"Precise."

"This... do you want to try it again?"

Chen Ming nodded slightly.

After using psychic power to repair thousands of warship models, he repeated the previous operation.

What happened in the instant in the video was replayed in front of the two of them.

There is not the slightest difference from before.

At the same time, both of them focused their attention on the chopped-off warships.

This time they saw more clearly.

They were also more convinced that what they had just seen was not an illusion.

That is, the slashing that occurred among the Afterglow warships had a trajectory.

Assuming that the fleet is regarded as distributed in a space the size of a football, then the attacked spaceships are only distributed within a cylindrical area that runs through the football.

It was the unknown means of attack that attacked this cylindrical area, causing the warships in this area to be cut off.

At the same time, the Afterglow battleship outside this cylindrical area exploded.

This is another very special point.

Why are the warships within the trajectory being slashed, while the warships outside the trajectory being exploded?

Chen Ming really couldn't figure out how this extremely strange special attack method was achieved.

Moreover, this was not an explosion of the ship caused by external explosives, but an explosion from the inside out.

The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more outrageous it seemed. He asked the legion commander next to him, "Is there any weapon that can achieve a similar effect?"

The legion commander thought about it seriously and responded, "Let's not talk about the explosion for now. As for the slashing attack, there is none, at least not in this way."

"The closest weapon I know of that can achieve the same effect is an air knife used on industrial equipment. It uses special means to compress special gases and then release them. It can indeed cut a lot of things, and it works better than high-pressure water jets."

"But if you use this kind of air knife in a vacuum, the gas will disperse too quickly and the effect will be mediocre."

"Besides, the distance this thing can reach is too close, so it is impossible to use it in a battleship firefight."

Chen Ming knew this kind of air knife equipment and he had used it many times. Even if it had been modified and had a higher output power, the properties of the gas were still there and it was impossible to use it in actual combat in a vacuum.

But others...

Chen Ming kept searching in his memory.

The legion commander pointed to a model of a Radiation-class battleship that had been cut into several sections and said, "What can directly cut off a capital ship?"

"wrong."

As soon as the question came out of his mouth, the legion commander rejected his own question. After all, there are quite a few things or abilities that can cut off a battleship.

He himself was also fully capable of cutting off the battleship, the most serious thing was that he was unable to achieve this level which was not recorded at all.

So he changed the question and asked, "It's impossible to cut a ship into several sections in an instant with a close-range attack, right? Moreover, the directions in which these ships were cut were all different. It's more like they were cut into this state by a randomly swinging chainsaw."

Chen Ming also knew that his idea was a little unrealistic, so he could only say, "That's even more nonsense."

"Yes, to achieve this effect..."

The legion commander shook his head. Obviously, this was difficult to prove based on the theoretical knowledge of the Imperial warships' weapons.

There really might be technology in theory, but he couldn't think of anything that could achieve a similar effect right now.

"Let's not talk about that for now. Regarding those pink explosive substances... potassium ions can produce a flame that is similar to purple when burning. If the brightness is high enough, it is possible to see it as pink, but otherwise it is not visible."

"If it's energy light, it's hard to say. Putting some rare gas in it can also achieve a similar effect. We have to go and take a look to confirm what's going on."

The legion commander simply spread his hands as he spoke. He really couldn't think of anything else that could match the situation they saw.

There are still too few clues.

But he suddenly thought of something else.

"Can you repair these models and slow down the speed to see from which direction and which ship the attack started?"

If we can slow down the recording to the point where we can see clearly what is happening, we might be able to analyze something else based on the environmental conditions there.

However, Chen Ming gave a negative answer: "No, I can't tell."

"The shortest frame I pulled from the cargo ship's sensor records showed the entire fleet being pierced in an instant. It was impossible to tell where it all started."

"The speed of this thing has exceeded the speed that the sensor can record. It is impossible to reproduce it clearly even if we want to."

The corps commander said with understanding: "The sensors of cargo ships are indeed inferior to those of combat ships."

Chen Ming packed up the models he had just made and said, "That's why I want to go and investigate on the spot. There may be clues on the dismantled warship over there."

The words fell.

At this time, the Highest Point also completed its last jump and arrived near the location of Yuhui's rear fleet.

The reconnaissance fleet sent out by the Legion in advance had completely surrounded the area at this time.

They are also conducting reconnaissance in the surrounding area to ensure safety, and soon a special engineering ship will arrive to deal with this ship graveyard.

After the legion commander had a conversation with the head of the reconnaissance fleet.

Chen Ming successfully drove the vehicle to the highest point and entered the encirclement of the reconnaissance fleet, approaching the area full of ship wreckage.

Before entering, Chen Ming was reminded by the reconnaissance fleet.

It is said that although some ships in the wreckage were cut off by unknown forces, their engines were not necessarily destroyed. This means that the automatic defense systems on some spacecraft wreckage are still running, which requires some attention.

It's not a big deal.

Chen Ming did not intend to visit the entire wreckage area. All he wanted to do was to take away a few wreckages that were at the edge of the fleet so that he could see the entire fleet.

After spending some time and having a small-scale conflict with the automatic defense system left by Yuhui.

Chen Ming successfully achieved his goal and found the wreckage of several warships from different Afterglow battle fleets located in suitable locations.

They were captured and dragged to the highest point in this exploration ship, which has a space specially reserved for storing all kinds of strange things picked up during exploration.

After the wreckage of several warships was towed in.

Various detection equipment inside the highest point were immediately activated under Chen Ming's control and used on the wreckage.

He was in no hurry to repair the wreckage to read the information in it.

After all, if he used psychic power to repair it directly, all traces would be completely erased.

It is better to investigate manually using various means first.

Sometimes traces speak louder than data.

Of course, the first thing Chen Ming paid attention to among the wreckage were the cut marks that caused the warship to be cut into several sections.

The wounds on these cross sections are almost absolutely smooth.

It's easy to see that the cutting damage was absolutely instantaneous.

But what is special is that rust appears abruptly on some parts of the cut surface, forming a very clear contrast with the smoothness of other parts of the cut surface.

Logically speaking, an attack method that has the ability to directly cut through a battleship does not require other auxiliary effects such as corrosion.

But it just exists, which makes Chen Ming even more difficult to understand.

At this time, the legion commander could also see Chen Ming operating the equipment on the spacecraft to inspect the wreckage.

He speculated about this situation: "Is it possible that a linear weapon with a single molecule thickness cut the ship apart? And this single-molecule material has a corrosive effect?"

Chen Ming asked back: "If a single molecule causes corrosion, you can't use your own molecules to react, right?"

"Then I really can't think of any other possibilities, and I don't think it's necessary to continue guessing within the framework. I think this may be the effect of a psychic weapon."

Chen Ming nodded and said, "I think so too. Let me take a look at the other wreckage first."

"good."

Chen Ming continued to control the spacecraft's equipment and turned it towards the wreckage of the ship caused by the explosion.

Want to try to extract the residue from these wreckage.

However, Chen Ming did not find any residue from the explosion. All the materials on the wreckage were the materials that existed on the battleship. There was no residue of the material that had previously erupted with pink energy light and flames.

This situation made Chen Ming more convinced that the damage must have been caused by some kind of psychic weapon.

After checking it several times and recording a lot of data.

Chen Ming mobilized his spiritual energy and began to repair the wreckage.

The afterglow core in the cut wreckage seemed to have been unloaded for no apparent reason.

However, the afterglow core in the debris produced by the explosion was not removed.

He successfully recovered under the influence of Chen Ming's spiritual power.

But even after the restoration of the structure, the consciousness in the core still could not be repaired.

His psychic powers were not yet strong enough to revive life, even electronic life.

But that's enough.

Chen Ming successfully read out the data in the afterglow core.

We found footage that recorded the sudden situation encountered by the Afterglow Fleet.

This time, Chen Ming finally saw something on the sensor screen.

It was a mysterious white shadow that only existed for a very short time.

It passed through Yuhui's fleet, and all the warships that were close to the white shadow were chopped into pieces, while the warships that were not close to the white shadow were hit by the explosive attack.

This is why the Afterglow Fleet has fallen to such a state.

(End of this chapter)