I Am the Swarm

The big guy with a body length of 3000 meters is actually not conspicuous in the meteorite belt, but the Euglena of the swarm is everywhere.

The Blades had long discovered the Doki ship hidden in the meteorite belt, and through various analyses, guessed its approximate purpose. In addition to the two supply ships, the Doki tribe also hides another ship here.

The appearance of this ship is not unusual, the captain is close to 2000 meters, and it looks ordinary. If it is placed in the Duoqi fleet, people who are not familiar with it will definitely regard it as a battleship.

But now that it is hiding here with the two supply ships, it highlights the difference. At first, the Blades thought it was a battleship protecting the supply ship. Later, it was thought that the naval guns of the supply ship would be able to deal with meteorites, and if it was attacked, it would not make much difference if there was one more battleship or one less battleship.

And this kind of concealment and hiding behavior, one more ship means one more target, and one more risk of exposure, so it is unlikely that this ship is a battleship. Moreover, there are only four main guns on its 2,000-meter-long ship, which is less than the number of main guns on a 1,500-meter-class battleship.

However, because there is too little information, the Blades can only guess that this is a functional ship, and what it does is still unknown.

In order not to overwhelm the enemy, the swarm uses an ancient hyperboloid projector. In terms of low-speed throwing, the swarm has already been very experienced, and the accuracy is quite good.

And even at a low speed, it is comparable to the speed at which the Primordial class relies on its own plasma propulsion organ to fly, but the advantage is that this purely physical projection method hardly produces any energy fluctuations.

Coupled with the Taikoo's own stealth system, at this stage, it is difficult for them to be observed by other means except gravitational radar.

In this way, after using the planets to block the sight of the Dorchi fleet, several hyperboloid projectors secretly "grow" on the creeper on the back of Lazer, and a few Taikoo-class ones set off silently.

After several months of flying, when Diallo was still visiting GAI, he suddenly received news that the supply ship had been attacked.

"XXX! How did they find out?" Diallo cursed angrily. There are many units of the swarm. After the surrender of the Riken tribe, the Riken galaxy has already been regarded as the home of the swarm. The Doki tribe has no stealth technology that is worthy of praise. It is not surprising that the three-kilometre big guy was discovered.

What really puzzled Diallo was how the swarm had managed to evade his surveillance. In the current interstellar war at this level, when two parties are fighting, they will find each other hundreds of millions of kilometers apart, and then fly at full speed for ten days and a half months before they reach the range of mutual shooting. So there is basically no such thing as a sneak attack.

But the news he received was that the octopus of the swarm suddenly appeared and attacked the supply ship. He knows that the swarm octopus monsters can be optically invisible, but even if they are invisible, when they propel through plasma, there will be energy fluctuations. With the level of technology of the Duoqi civilization, this kind of energy fluctuation is difficult to conceal within the range of the star system.

"Damn it!" Diallo, unwilling to reconcile, cursed again.

Asrit thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, I still remember that in the information provided by the suzerain, it was mentioned that the Zerg has a very traditional launch tool that does not produce any energy fluctuations."

"You mean?"

"That's right, I suspect that the Zerg used this launch tool to deliver the Octopus to the supply ship. Although the Zerg turned a blind eye to our fleet, they attacked the monitoring devices we installed regardless of cost. This behavior I thought it was very suspicious before, but I didn't think about what the Zerg wanted to do at the time, now it seems..."

Diallo nodded and accepted the statement, yes, it doesn't help if he understands it now. Time cannot be turned back. Although the supply ship sent him a message immediately after being attacked, it was already half an hour later when he received the message.

He knew the melee ability of the Zerg octopus monsters. Half an hour was enough for the octopus monsters to squeeze and round the supply ship with poor combat power several times.

The two supply ships are okay, but the key is the communication ship, which is very precious.

The home star of the Doki tribe is more than ten light-years away from the Riken galaxy. Using conventional communication methods, it takes more than 20 years to communicate back and forth. Moreover, such a long-distance signal transmission is difficult to conceal, and at the same time consumes quite a lot of energy.

And the communication function ship is equipped with a set of quantum communication equipment with high technological content, and the communication distance of ten light years is almost no delay. And because of the special conduction method, the concealment and encryption are extremely high. If it is used at close range, it consumes more energy than conventional communication methods, but its advantage is that the energy it consumes will not increase too much as the distance increases. Therefore, after a certain distance, conventional communication methods consume more energy. When the distance is stretched to more than light years, this gap will increase geometrically.

This set of quantum communication equipment is divided into a transmission part and a receiving part. It has a high technological content. Some key nodes have not been conquered by the Duoqi tribe so far. Therefore, this thing can only rely on imports, and the price of this kind of thing that cannot be produced by itself is generally very high.

Diallo was also allowed to bring one because he accepted the mission of the suzerain and was far away, so that he could contact the mother galaxy in time.

To put it bluntly, the functional ship itself is not worth much, but this set of quantum communication equipment is more valuable than many of Diallo's younger brothers and sisters.

This is why the communication ship did not use this equipment to contact Diallo, because none of Diallo's warships is equipped with quantum signal receiving equipment.

However, even timely notification will not help. Diallo is at full speed, and it will be several hours before he arrives. It's been so long, enough for the Zerg octopus monsters to flatten and round the communication ship, and then build a building block.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Asrit also thought of this.

In order to avoid leakage of important technologies, important ships have self-destruct devices. When the situation develops to a certain extent, if the captain of the Duoqi tribe does not activate the self-destruct of the ship, then the artificial intelligence will also take the initiative to activate it.

In this case, unless the artificial intelligence is directly paralyzed remotely, and then encounters a captain who is greedy for life and fear of death, the communication equipment will definitely be over.

However, judging from the past performance and style of the Zerg, they do not have the ability to remotely paralyze artificial intelligence.

But whether it was blown up or captured by the swarm, those devices must no longer belong to the Doki clan.

The loss of items of this level is a very headache even for Diallo, who is the third prince.