The world-devouring dragon

"We must understand why all unmanned machines will disintegrate as soon as they approach Satan. If we don't solve this problem, we will have no way to start."

"Try using a gravitational field, maybe you can explore the reason by binding it."

"Then you need a super gravitational binder that can affect the galaxy..."

"..."

In the vast spiritual space, countless scholars are debating.

Satan is a taboo name for an evil god originating from the ancient earth era. In the classics of the ancient earth era, this name means the source of all evil. Scholars gave this name to the strange giant snake moving in space, which shows the importance they attached to it.

Scholars have tried many times to explore why unmanned machines instantly collapsed, but they have been unable to come up with a conclusion.

It is true that their weapons are powerful, but if they cannot contact the target, no matter how powerful they are, they will not be able to exert their power.

"Perhaps we should send psychic warriors to find out?"

Someone suggested.

Before this, scholars had used unmanned machines to explore the secrets of Satan, but they had never dispatched psychic warriors.

Although in this interstellar age, combat methods that rely on flesh and blood have been eliminated, there will still be a group of agile special forces armed with short crossbows, daggers, silenced pistols, and silent presence on the battlefield where cannonballs roar. , on different battlefields, naturally have different role positioning.

Those warriors who have undergone the most cutting-edge genetic adjustments and developed powerful psychic abilities since childhood are the perfect weapons in the eyes of all generals.

Their number is extremely rare, and they are often the elite among the billions of interstellar humans. They are all extraordinary warriors who have been honed to the extreme. Even in the Second Republic, whose population is measured in trillions, the total number of psychic warriors is only around one million most of the time.

You must know that the number of star sectors in the Second Republic has expanded to more than 500,000. Each star sector often has a range of hundreds of light years and thousands of administrative planets. However, these psychic warriors are rare. On average, each star There are only two people in the district, and there is only one person in every thousand administrative planets.

Such cherished psychic warriors must naturally be used on the battlefield where they are needed most.

But the academic conference quickly rejected the proposal.

Without him, if the psychic warrior went to investigate in person, he would not simply chase behind the light, but should personally contact or even board the behemoth. But at nearly the speed of light, the time flow of the giant snake at this moment is actually extremely slow.

Although two galactic years have passed since the appearance of the giant snake, and humans have tried to explore it dozens of times, to the giant snake advancing at nearly the speed of light, it actually seems like it has just set off for a few minutes.

If psychic warriors are really dispatched, then the academic conference may have to wait for the returning psychic warriors for decades or even hundreds of years.

So……

The president of the 7th Ring World Society stared at the Milky Way star map model in front of him.

"The location will be on the Hope Star."

The deep voice suppressed everything.

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Hope Star, the first exoplanet colonized by humans, is located in a galaxy named after the famous colonial spaceship "Farstrider".

Unlike the destroyed Earth and Mars, although it also experienced war, it still survived in the end. Today's Hope Star has become a tourist-oriented scenic planet. There are not many people living here, but there are always many interstellar tourists who go to Hope Star every year.

But in the past two years, a piece of news has spread, which has made the entire planet uneasy. The "Star Devourer" is about to arrive in the galaxy where the Hope Star is located.

Different from the "Satan" named by scholars, people prefer to call this star-devouring monster "Star-Eating Beast", and judging from its direction of travel, the destination of this Star-Eating Beast is also the Hope Star.

The local organization where the Hope Star is located has repeatedly requested the Second Republic to annihilate the Star Eater in order to protect the Hope Star. However, it is obvious that the Second Republic is more interested in studying the Star Eater than protecting a remote and uninhabited small planet. .

In the year 20151 of the Galactic Calendar, two years after the discovery of the Star Eater, the decision of the Second Republic was made.

"... All residents of Hope Star evacuate the Far Walker Galaxy... The Far Walker Galaxy will be used as a location to capture the Star Devouring Beast Satan..."

If the Second Republic's judgment was correct, then the star-devouring beast named Satan went to this galaxy 11 light-years away from the solar system in order to prey on the stars of the Farstrider galaxy. So here, the Second Republic can completely use the stars of the Far Walker galaxy and its powerful gravity well to set up a gravitational trap, restrain the Star Eater to escape, and finally successfully capture the Star Eater in this galaxy.

From the perspective of the Second Republic, this idea was completely cost-effective in exchange for a small galaxy for a unique sample in the entire galaxy.

There are still 9 years until the arrival of the Star Eater Beast, so the Second Republic will have a lot of time to set up defenses here.

"Nine years?"

Tiloan, who was once again included in this plan and assisted in capturing the Star Eater, looked at the dark and silent depths of space. Although he could not see anything, everyone knew that there was an unprecedented space beast there. Coming.

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The first line of gravity defense was laid out first.

The first gravitational defense line has been deployed outside the Far Wanderer galaxy. This gravitational defense line will first weaken the speed of the target and bring it down from near-light speed. Theoretically, if the effect is perfectly realized, it may weaken the target to 93% of the speed of light.

The following gravitational defense lines also have the same concept. They will first slow down this star-sized behemoth, and then use weapons to carry out siege. If the effect is good, the Star Devourer can be directly captured in one go.

Traps and sieges are just like how hunters in the ancient earth era dealt with their prey.

"But what if the capture fails?"

Facing the questions from some scholars, the president of the society said calmly.

"Didn't we complete the second test and understand the target's attack mode and behavior?"

In the view of the academic conference, satisfactory results can be achieved no matter what.

So, time flew by and 9 years passed immediately.

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"There's still one hour before the Star-Eating Beast arrives... 50 minutes... 40 minutes..."

On the fully armed spacecraft, the spacecraft AI was reminding the time from time to time, while Tilloan was staring at the vast space in front of him.

Unlike the previous remote command, Tiloan can ensure his own safety. Now he is no longer testing the power of the weapon, but has to engage in close combat with the giant beast. Only among the many gravitational traps set up here can we have a chance to understand why all unmanned machines will disintegrate instantly, otherwise nothing can be detected at such a fast speed.

But the danger of approaching the Star-Eating Beast at such a close distance can be imagined.

Tilloan kept recalling the previous tests, trying to find clues, but except for a flash that was bound to appear every time, no one knew what happened.

"General Tiloan, please rest assured that we will protect your safety."

Beside Tiloan, four unusually tall psychic warriors spoke silently. Powerful psychic energy surged through their bodies, and complex psychic circuits shone on their exposed torsos to enhance the psychic abilities of these warriors.

These psychic warriors have undergone special transformations since before they were born. In order to adapt to these complex psychic circuits, every muscle and structure from bones to skin has been specially adjusted to adapt to these psychic circuits.

After being born in artificial wombs, they will have undergone twenty-four standard surgeries to completely imprint their psychic circuits into their bodies. Even if you take their bodies apart, the bones will clearly show traces of psychic energy. loop. And this is just the beginning. After that, they will go through a series of trials. It often takes more than a hundred years for a qualified psychic warrior to be formally formed. The elimination rate is so high that except for a few people in the Second Republic, , no one knows the real number.

According to past standards, Tilloan was not even qualified to be protected by a psychic warrior. No matter how high the general's status is, there are still hundreds of people in a star sector. Only this time the situation is special. The Second Republic specially arranged four psychic warriors to protect Tiloan. If the situation goes wrong, they can teleport and protect him at any time. Tilloan leaves.

In this small Far Traveler galaxy, there are already countless unmanned machines and more than ten command spacecraft.

Normally, there may not be even one psychic warrior in a star region, but here they can be seen everywhere. There are more than two hundred generals, auxiliary officers, and psychic warriors on each command spaceship.

These are not just some soldiers, they are all elites trained with a lot of resources.

Behind these two hundred or so people, the resources consumed by each person are enough to allow millions of interstellar humans to live comfortably for a lifetime. It took a huge amount of resources to have these two hundred or so people.

It can be imagined that the Second Republic did spend a lot of money on this capture operation.

"The target has entered within 10 million kilometers of the first gravity defense line, please be prepared..."

Just like the first sight, in the data returned by the subspace probe, billions of kilometers away, that huge light is streaking through space at a speed beyond imagination. It is almost impossible to see the speed of light. There is only data that is constantly refreshed in the detector.

One million kilometers…

One hundred thousand kilometers...

The target successfully entered the gravity defense line.

The invisible gravity is slowly dragging the target to slow down its speed, but the speed is still unimaginably fast. As if there is no delay, the light directly breaks through the first line of gravity defense.

The second line of gravitational defense...

The third line of gravitational defense...

The fourth line of gravitational defense...

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The tenth line of gravity defense...

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The twentieth line of gravity defense...

It wasn't until the target approached the position of the star that the speed of the target dropped significantly. It was no longer shrouded in a blur of light, but the outline of the head and body could be vaguely seen.

Just as in the legend, it was indeed a gigantic giant snake, with cold vertical pupils and a huge body that was difficult to see clearly in space. It was currently flying towards the star.

As the speed decreased, the detector was finally able to function normally.

body shape...

body structure……

spectrum……

Thermal energy distribution…

gravitational field……

After 11 galactic years, many of these basic data that should have been detected long ago were only truly known to the Second Republic after they were blocked by the gravitational defense line. With this alone, the first step of information collection, which was once skipped, is completed.

"Unite the direction and attack!"

Following Tiloan's command, countless unmanned machines attacked the huge beast...