Voyage of the Stars

After decades of sailing, people who had already begun to age had to enter hibernation again. After the fleet completed relative acceleration, everyone on the Lyra entered hibernation.

Originally, Yue Yuan wanted to wait a few years to see if he would age with time, so as to verify his conjecture.

However, he was not in the main body of human civilization now, and he still had tasks to complete, so he had no choice but to give up experimenting while he was awake and followed everyone into hibernation.

After all, he still didn't dare to take risks. Although Yue Yuan found that his appearance had not aged, if there was an accident and he really died on the way, then the joke would be big.

Time, this physical quantity defined by humans, is slowly passing.

After Yue Yuan also entered hibernation, a scene he didn't know was happening less than a light-year away from the human fleet.

Yes, this is the main fleet of the Red Flame Civilization.

This is a fleet composed of 70 million residential spacecraft and more than 3 million warships. At this moment, it is in a relatively static state with humans and is sailing forward towards the same goal as humans.

They have already completed their acceleration, and the main magnetic thrusters of their spaceships and battleships have been turned off. However, their living entities do not enter hibernation like humans, but continue to stay awake normally.

This is true of all living beings, who seem to have no lifespan troubles.

Among these living individuals, there is a group of individuals gathered together, discussing something in a spaceship cavity that looks like a conference room.

"Great Commander, Earth's civilization will definitely catch up." A living entity not much larger than a cat emitted sound waves that were difficult for humans to distinguish.

The surface of this organism is somewhat different from the organisms that humans have found in their space suits before. It has an extra layer of something that looks like gelatin and is somewhat sticky, which looks like their clothes.

All the living entities here are almost like this, maybe it's their uniform.

"Yes, this is a troublesome matter. If we had known this, we should have left them some technological information and the five-thousand-year efficacy life potion they purchased before." Another life individual said: "I think the ultimate goal of earth civilization is It should not be the individuals they killed by us, but technology. The reason why you are sure they will catch up must be based on this consideration. "

Other living individuals of the Red Flame Civilization also participated in the topic.

"It makes some sense. Unfortunately, there are no what-ifs. We left without leaving anything behind. It's too late to say anything now."

"What a shame. When we succeed in breaking through the magnetic miniaturization technology, we must make this earth civilization pay the price."

"Now instead of saying such useless words, we should think about how to get through the difficulties. Our entire civilization is here. If the earth's civilization catches up, our great civilization will be in danger of overturning."

"What the Chief Executive said is that we should now consider how to get out of danger. Judging from the current situation, we have already become enemies with the local snakes in this star field, and we definitely cannot stay here any longer. Therefore, I suggest that we go to the target star to complete supplies. , and we don’t have to think about causing trouble for Earth civilization. It’s good that they don’t come to us now, so after completing the supplies, we set sail directly. For safety reasons, I suggest we go back along the route we came from.”

At this time, their new commander added: "This alone won't work. If they really catch up, our resource supply speed may not be faster than theirs. You should also be able to see this. They are in resource extraction, fleet They are better than us in many aspects such as maintenance and warship manufacturing. So if they keep pursuing us, they will eventually catch up with us."

"What the commander said makes sense. In that case, I have an idea. We can divide the main civilization's residential spacecraft into several batches, escape in different directions in the starry sky, and then meet at the agreed star. As far as we know before , the earth's civilization only has three fleets. We divide the main civilization's residential spacecraft into ten teams. It is certainly impossible for them to pursue us at the same time!

And as long as one of our squadrons can escape successfully, the fire of our great civilization will still be there and it can continue to exist. As for the idea of ​​counterattacking the earth's civilization, with all due respect, we should first think about how to survive. "

"Grand Commander, what the science officer said makes sense. Although this method will cause our main civilization to temporarily lose technological progress, it is still safer than everyone running together."

This Grand Commander was the new Grand Commander, so he simply said. After listening to the speeches of many living beings, he directly sent out a sound wave: "Then let's do this. After arriving at the next star system to complete supplies, we will run separately."

Although he is the new commander, his words still have absolute execution. So after he finished speaking, the meeting that lasted for several hours came to an end.

At the meeting, they not only made this decision, but also planned the sailing period of the Red Flame Civilization. The first step was to cancel the hibernation of scientific research and engineering personnel and let them continue to seize the time to study the magnetic miniaturization technology. , ordinary living individuals must hibernate in order to free up resources for research and experiments.

The second is to detect the pursuit of the earth's civilization fleet. They are eager to know whether there is a fleet pursuing behind.

For this reason, the Red Flame Civilization decided to divide one million warships from the remaining three million warships, and then slow down these warships to see if they could detect the pursuing Earth civilization fleet.

Finally, there is the post-war summary.

However, what they didn't know was that a huge fleet was already waiting for them at the target star of their trip.

Humanity's previous estimates were roughly correct. Now in this star galaxy, the strong artificial intelligence left behind by humans has silently built 30 million warships for humans, and it continues to grow as time goes by.

But when they arrived in this star system, it would be more than thirty years later.

Before that, their decelerating squadron brought them the thing that worried them the most. They encountered the human fleet that was pursuing them.

Needless to say, the result was that the squadron of one million battleships was wiped out by the human fleet in just one encounter. However, the squadron's mission was completed because they did detect the human fleet and passed the news to others. Main civilization fleet.

The occurrence of this incident made the Chiyan civilization almost split up and run away in advance. In the end, their new leader suppressed all voices of splitting up and ran away for the sake of the research and development of magnetic miniaturization technology, and instead insisted on the original plan. , and then run separately when they reach the target star.

The new commander probably didn’t expect that although his persistence allowed the magnetic push miniaturization technology to be successfully researched in just thirty years as planned, it would also bring the Red Flame civilization into a state of failure. abyss.

"Commander, we are here."

One day more than thirty years later, a sound wave appeared on the flagship of the Red Flame Civilization. They were no longer unfamiliar with this kind of voyage across the stars, but this time there was a sense of survival and time urgency.

The human fleet behind them will arrive in more than a year, and they only have one year to replenish their supplies.

"Quick! No need to choose. Let's go to the rocky planet closest to us. Let the engineering fleet go first. We need to supply all spaceships within half a year." The commander's words raised the sense of urgency to another level again. one level.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, an obviously panicked voice appeared in the flagship: "Master, commander, fleet, fleet, fleet, oh my god, there is an unknown civilization here!"