Voyage of the Stars

In the incompetent rage, the silver mist slowly approached the hydrogen bomb thrown by humans.

Since the Hope has been accelerating, the fifty hydrogen bombs thrown also moved in space at the speed at the time they were thrown.

But the silver mist kept chasing the Hope, so the two got closer and closer.

The space is so vast and pitch black at times, and hydrogen bombs dropped by discarding them are as difficult to detect as floating meteorites.

But Yinwu is worthy of being a consciousness in the field of professional mining. When humans thought that one of the fifty hydrogen bombs would hit, a taunting sound appeared in the signal receiver.

[Stupid human expedition team, you are so naive to think that a few hydrogen bombs can blow me up. 】

Fifty hydrogen bombs exploded in space according to the time set by humans, and the bright light instantly illuminated the dark space.

Like fifty little suns appearing in vain in the dark night, the ocean of light instantly overshadowed the red dwarf stars in the distance.

Because the distance is very close, from a human perspective, the explosion light of these fifty hydrogen bombs is more intense than the red dwarf star in the distance.

In a strong contrast, it is as if the red dwarf star suddenly dimmed a few luminosities.

The explosion of a hydrogen bomb in space is completely different from that in the earth's atmosphere. In space, after the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, it will only form a strong light source like a scorching sun, and then quickly dim, similar to setting off illumination bombs at night. Because there is no relationship between the atmosphere and the ground, there will naturally be no mushroom clouds or anything like that.

Before the fifty hydrogen bombs exploded, the Hope closed all visual windows to prevent the personnel inside from being harmed by strong light.

The strong light obscured the silver haze, and staff in Cambridge quickly adjusted the detection spectrum in order to find the silver haze in the strong light.

This detection method is very common but very practical, which is to filter out the high-energy band of the received light.

However, because the rays emitted by the hydrogen bomb explosion are very strong, even if the high-energy band is filtered, the final displayed picture is still subject to some interference.

But it’s enough for humans to observe Silver Mist’s actions.

People see it in the signal image displayed by the detector. Before the hydrogen bomb exploded, the silver mist turned a corner in space, avoiding the killing range of the hydrogen bomb.

"I still underestimate Silver Mist." Seeing this situation, Yue Yuan sighed. Just a miner can avoid a sneak attack so easily. I really don't know how powerful the third-level civilized warship is.

Yue Yuan remembered that when Yinwu was pretending to be a 'mining patrolman', he said that nano swarms were standard equipment for level three civilizations. If this is true, doesn't it mean that level three civilizations all have weapons like Yinwu.

If this is the case, is the war between level three civilizations a battle between nano-swarms?

Imagine that the entire galaxy is a swarm of silvery bees, Yue Yuan felt his scalp numb, and he couldn't help but think in his mind: Can this thing really be defended against?

This is simply a gray goo storm.

Yue Yuan heard the term gray goo storm from Yi Kai.

According to Yi Kai, it is something that has appeared in games in the 21st century. In that concept, Gray Goo Storm is generally composed of billions of nanorobots. These nanorobots are micromachines that can replicate themselves, and are controlled by a certain A civilization was created.

It is called one of the natural disasters.

And the silver mist that humans encounter now is so similar.

Of course, there are some differences. For example, the silver haze seems to be smaller individually.

There is another characteristic. Yue Yuan noticed that not long ago, the silver mist consciousness mentioned 1.7 million warships of various types. In other words, the silver mist consciousness does not always float in the universe in the form of silver mist. It also needs Rely on battleships.

I just don't know if those battleships are composed of a group of trillions of nanorobots.

If so, that's crazy.

It is unimaginable how such a fleet could be wiped out. After all, if so, then just one nanorobot would be enough to continue to develop again and become a natural disaster again.

Only the third-level civilization has such crazy combat power. What about the fourth-level civilization? What level of civilization is the spaceship that wiped out the main body of the silver mist?

Yue Yuan really couldn't imagine what kind of existence that was.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan also thought of a question, that is, if such nanotechnology is standard for a third-level civilization, then there must be many conscious bodies like Silver Mist in the universe. After all, Silver Mist was created by the Mok Star civilization. evolved from intelligent robots.

Since the Mok Star civilization, as a third-level civilization, can develop this kind of intelligent consciousness, there is no reason why other level three civilizations cannot. In this case, many third-level civilizations must be destroyed by their own creations like the Mok Star civilization.

And this kind of intelligent consciousness developed from the omnic crisis must be like the Silver Mist consciousness, constantly looking for opportunities to strengthen itself. According to this inference, the starry sky in the universe should be filled with natural disasters.

Maybe this is the truth, otherwise how could humans be so unlucky to randomly come to a star system and encounter silver mist.

Well, of course. Based on the characteristics of this existence, it is not difficult to guess.

Nano-intelligent robot consciousness must be an existence that is opposed to carbon-based life. I don’t know if it can become the public enemy of the universe as described in science fiction novels.

But no matter what, these have nothing to do with current humans. What humans have to do now is to leave this star system.

As for whether the final Silver Mist Consciousness will develop interstellar technology by relying on the industrial plant on Ross 154-7, then there is no need for humans to worry.

Even if it develops, before humans have the ability to eliminate it, the intelligence they need to do is to run as far as they can.

As Yue Yuan's thoughts were swirling, the fire controller's voice sounded in the bridge.

"The angle of the positron cannon has been adjusted, the red and blue laser emission devices are ready, the silver mist motion trajectory has been calculated, and the estimated motion trajectory image has been generated."

To hit a moving target in space, it is impossible to point the muzzle at the opponent like in a pistol shooting. Instead, you have to shoot the weapon based on the distance, the direction of the target's movement, predicting the opponent's next movement direction, the charging time of the laser weapon, and the weapon. Afterwards, a series of factors such as the flight time of the warhead will be comprehensively considered.

For example, the current silver haze caused by multiple hydrogen bomb explosions is about 3 million kilometers away from the Hope. Then even the fastest laser weapon on the Callisto ship has to wait ten seconds after firing to reach the target. location.

Then before shooting, you must predict the possible direction of Silver Mist's movement within these ten seconds. In a battle in space, as long as it is not a face-to-face close combat, various problems caused by distance must be considered.

Unless humans master faster-than-light attack methods and faster-than-light communication methods, this problem is inevitable.

Just like when humans could only watch Silver Mist run away from the planet, the Hope was too far away from Ross 154-4. The command signal was sent from the Hope and had to wait seventeen minutes for the equipment there to receive it. .

Of course, that was also because humans didn't expect it to be Silver Mist at all. After all, the arrangements at that time were all aimed at the carbon-based life form of the 'mine patroller'.

At this time, after the fire controller finished speaking, various relevant data were displayed on his console. At the same time, an electronic synthesized sound sounded from the bridge of the Hope: "The positron cannon is charging. 1%, 6%, 13%, 36%, 49%, 79%, 92% charging completed, the main gun is ready!"

As the fire control system's readiness report was completed, a beam of light that looked like bloody lightning roared out from the cannon at the front of the Callisto ship.

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