Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

How to deal with this kind of difference?

"No... there must be some loophole in this!"

After a moment of disbelief and self-doubt, Hong immediately forced herself to calm down, and began to analyze all the data with unprecedented speed and dedication.

Hong didn't believe that the opponent could really have such a crushing level of defense technology, able to directly resist the direct fireball of nuclear weapons - after all, this level of technology is not simply advanced, it is completely unreasonable.

Hong didn't think that a civilization whose technology was at a similar stage to hers could have such a strong defense. After all, she had a ready-made example at hand—even the bride price... the former flagship of the ex-extinction unit, a ship at least stronger than her A civilization that has been advanced for hundreds of years, its battleship defense is not much higher than theirs.

How could the other party do it?

After quickly explaining her thoughts to her subordinates and getting everyone's unanimous approval, Hong's heart gradually calmed down.

Reason tells her that the opponent is a civilization similar to hers, and most of their theories and technologies should be similar to theirs—it is absolutely impossible that they are still playing with the Standard Model, and the opponent has the Grand Unified Theory of Quantum Gravity Case.

Moreover, after quickly conducting a preliminary analysis of the opponent's warships, Hong can say with certainty that the technological level of this civilization, which calls itself "Tukka Pure Religion" in the communication, is not significantly different from theirs.

What could possibly be special about a civilization similar to theirs?

At first, the first thing Hong thought of was the purely conscious creature.

But soon, she thought again, if the opponent is strong enough to directly appear in this universe, and can protect the entire fleet, helping it almost intact to resist the detonation of several megaton-equivalent nuclear bombs, then this I am afraid that there is no need to fight at all.

And most importantly, Hong's intuition vaguely told her through the breath from the opposing fleet that although the purely conscious creature was sinister and cunning, it had many tricks, whether it was the manipulation and understanding of its own abilities or the control of its breath. The level of strength is obviously ten blocks away from her.

However, Hong still had a vague feeling that the other party was not to be feared at all.

Moreover, even if Hong's auxiliary program told her that there was no evidence to support this feeling, Hong would still subconsciously believe in this sense of self-confidence that came from not knowing.

Hong chooses to believe it—after all, many similar situations before have proved that this inexplicable intuition produced from the depths of her own soul is always correct.

After a few minutes of analysis and research, finally, Hong found a trace of abnormality.

The enemy warship seemed to be damaged only on the side facing the explosion point of the nuclear bomb.

This immediately caught Hong's attention.

The reason why I didn't discover it in the first place is very simple - since the nuclear air mines are arranged in different positions around the wormhole, for the vast majority of enemy warships, there are nuclear bomb explosion points in almost all directions. , so there does not exist a "not toward the bomb" zone.

However, after intense data analysis, Hong was surprised to find that a large-angle telescope with an orbital inclination of 75 degrees in the distance observed a strange thing.

On several warships deep in the convoy, and due to the shielding of friendly forces and wormholes, a small number of parts were not connected to the explosion point of any nuclear bomb, and a small number of "complete areas" appeared.

A few large pieces of armor plate that were not damaged by any attack, exactly like new.

Some people may think that this is not normal—since there is no angle to face the nuclear bomb directly, is it not normal for a nuclear bomb, a weapon that spreads all hard damage in a straight line, not to be able to hit it?

But in this way, the problem immediately appeared.

In normal battles, nuclear bombs can indeed only kill warships through straight-line attack methods such as X-rays, plasma, and photothermal radiation.

But this time, Hong was sure that all the enemy ships were within the coverage of the nuclear fireball—even though the extremely high brightness made it impossible for her to observe the moment the fireball touched the enemy warship, the The ones that are highlighted lose their fine observation ability, but this fact must be obvious from the coverage of the subsequent fireball.

However, the current facts are also obvious. The enemy battleship did suffer a little damage, but the damage was similar to being hit by an ordinary nuclear bomb from a distance, and it was by no means the level of being hit directly by a fireball.

After all, the fireball directly covered their warships, which should be a 360-degree all-round roast without dead ends, not the current linear killing mechanism that only the part facing the nuclear bomb receives damage.

So, which one is true?

Is the coverage of the fireball wrong?

Or is the defensive performance of enemy warships really so good?

After precise calculations, finally, Hong realized one thing.

In the scene presented to her now, in fact, there are not so many complicated reasons at all. It is not the wrong range of the fireball, nor is it some defense beyond common sense-in fact, only one sentence is needed to accurately fit this strange killing mechanism.

As long as those nuclear bombs are detonated, they only have time to cause damage to them for a moment.

In this way, everything can be explained. The reason why they were not completely wiped out by the fireball at once, but showed slight injuries as if they were injured by a far-off nuclear bomb was because they only ate food before the fireball arrived. That part of the X-ray, photothermal radiation damage.

And the plasma and fireball after that are like the damage that was swallowed due to the freeze in the online game——

Disappeared.

Volume [-] The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Ammonia Planet

Through a quick data simulation, Hong established a simple model that perfectly fits all existing observation data.

In this model, the moment the nuclear bomb was just detonated, light-heat radiation, high-energy X-rays and other light-speed killing methods hit the enemy warships that had just passed through the hole.

During the entire process of the fireball expanding and continuously emitting light and heat radiation, the enemy warship did not respond at all, and just kept being baked by various types of radiation, resulting in a large-scale, low-damage explosion like a burn. Superficial damage.

Then, when the fireballs of each nuclear bomb completely blocked the cat alliance's vision and were about to reach the nearest battleship, through some unknown mechanism, the entire church fleet suddenly began to ignore all the damage of the nuclear bombs, whether it was fireballs or radiation— —In this way, all the phenomena observed by Hong can be explained.

As for this unknown mechanism, Hong currently doesn't have any valuable clues, so she can't give an accurate answer with solid theoretical support.

However, after browsing all kinds of cultural works of Cat League over the years, such as science fiction movies and the like, she can make a few reasonable guesses—at least reasonable guesses in science fiction works.

On the premise that it is known that the opponent's material is common and has been killed by the early photothermal radiation of the nuclear bomb, all hard resistance options including shields are completely excluded, and it can be determined that the enemy warship is from normal, damaged The injured state temporarily changed to the uninjured state, and this state did not last long.

This can be judged from the fact that the opponent is currently being blocked at the door by the cat alliance warships - although the opponent avoided the nuclear air mine set by Hong, and did not really ride the face, but was blocked at the door and was beaten violently. not drop.

At the very least, before all the enemy's fleet arrives and expands its combat width, the cat alliance can still maintain a certain tactical advantage by virtue of blocking the door.

If it can be attacked normally by the laser main gun, and the observation data can also prove its lethality, which is not significantly different from the lethality of the cat alliance battleship armor, then Hong can basically be sure that this is a temporary, large Probability is a "state" that lasts only a very short time.

To put it bluntly, these fleets are likely to "disappear" from this universe for a short time when the nuclear explosion fireball is about to arrive.

Hong already had several guesses.

"We're going to try them."

Looking at another batch of enemy fleets passing through the wormhole and arriving in the local star field, Hong said so.

"How to try?"

"Missiles, use this batch of missiles." Hong leaned forward, put his hands on the operating table, his eyes were very firm, "let the missiles that were originally scheduled to be used for the opening barrage change their orbits, accelerate towards the star field where the Glory is located, and Properly adjust the speed to ensure that all missiles can reach the star field at almost the same time."

"It's so early... No, no problem, this card has to be handed over."

After thinking for a while, everyone immediately understood Hong's thoughts: "I agree with this plan."

"Yes." "Yes." "Abstain."  …

Soon, the War Finger Center approved this plan with an approval rate of 87.7%.

Although not everyone agrees with the use of the warp speed of the Glory so early, and some people hold opinions that are not completely in favor or against, but this is a very normal phenomenon.

In other words, this is the fundamental purpose of Hong's establishment of the War Finger Center.

Hong is never worried about having different ideas and opinions, and she even intentionally encourages different thinking—she doesn't want people to just follow her words blindly, or even blindly follow her own words, and give up her own thinking.

After all, the most precious thing a person has is his brain.

"The command has been issued, and the new missile trajectory is corrected to... The acceleration curve is... The route planning has been completed, the engine has been started, and it is expected to arrive in the star field where the Glory is located in 15 minutes."

After a series of orders, the missile clusters that were in a state of readiness ignited one after another and began to move towards the direction of the Glory.

In fact, we have practiced this tactic at ordinary times-by arranging the Glory in an open position away from the main fleet, and cooperating with the orbital phase control of the missile cluster, we can let the missiles fly to the ship when needed. Glory instead of the enemy's front, so as to completely avoid the enemy's anti-aircraft fire.

Then, when the missile group is about to enter the warp speed range of the Glory, start the warp speed engine to prepare for warp speed in the space that is scheduled to enter the warp speed—in this way, when the missiles just enter the warp speed range, The warp speed engine just started, taking away the space within the range and all the missiles in the space, so as to enter super-light speed travel and maneuver to the predetermined location.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this position must be very, very close to the enemy.

A group of missiles that suddenly appeared at the close point of one's own side and landed at a state close to the highest speed will surely surprise the opponent, right?

Although the landing point of the warp speed engine can only be close to a position about four to five thousand kilometers away from the enemy fleet, after all, because of the warp speed, their missiles are too concentrated, and they need a certain distance to allow the missiles to re-deploy in order to attack more The ship is also to prevent the large-yield interception nuclear bomb from being reimbursed one piece at a time, but even so, it must be enough for the other party to drink a pot.

You know, the design index of the missile is 25000 kilometers with strong firepower. Now that the distance is shortened to 1/5, its penetration rate is bound to rise to a very gratifying figure—such a big wave of offensive , I'm afraid it won't work if you don't turn in the hole card on the opposite side?

Although after conquering the basic principle of warp speed navigation, through some modifications and repairs to the original parts, although the energy upper limit of a single warp speed has not changed, that is, the upper limit of the triple product of mass distance and speed in a single flight has not changed.

But the fastest recooling time, that is, the interval between two warp speeds, has been reduced from the previous 1 hour to 3 minutes, so with her reinforced armor structure and the advantage of appearing in a location that avoids the enemy's main gun , It is not difficult to run back after resisting for 3 minutes. Even if you are lucky, you can rely on the field engineering ship to urgently replace a set of heat sinks after returning, and you will have the opportunity to return to the battlefield to eat something warm.

However, although doing so has a high probability of forcing out the opponent's hole card, it will also cause them to hand over one of their own hole cards, which is equivalent to a one-for-one exchange, but this one-for-one exchange is in the understanding of the Cat League. Earn a lot.

Their warp speed can at most transport missiles in combat, or let the fleet hide missiles. Compared with the opponent's card that can directly avoid damage, it is much inferior. Trade your own inferior horse for the opponent's superior Horses are definitely profitable.

"The missile is about to enter the predetermined warp speed range, and the warp speed engine is starting..."

Looking at the warp speed preparation area that was emitting a dim red light, Hong looked forward to aiming the large observation array of the rear space station at the enemy's vanguard fleet that hadn't completely escaped from the space distortion zone of the wormhole.

Let me see, what is your hole card?

"Warp countdown 3,2,1, [-], [-]... start!"

At the moment when the warp speed was about to reach its peak, with a sudden flash of red light, the Glory and the surrounding missiles all disappeared.

Although after entering the warp field, the internal and external communication was completely interrupted, but Hong knew that they would definitely appear in the corresponding position under the control of the program.

They should.

"Warning, the warp disruption force field has been detected, and has been forcibly exited from the warp state!"

Almost at the moment of take-off, the Glory reappeared locally much faster than expected, accompanied by a warning that Hong had only seen from the engine computer, but never really heard.

Warp Disruption Field.

"Immediately perform orbit correction, orbit parameters..."

Although everyone was very shocked by this result, the life form of the red AI still allowed her to adjust the orbital parameters of these missiles as quickly as possible, trying to readjust their routes to meet the enemy fleet.

"They actually have advanced archaeological equipment..." After quickly adjusting the orbit, Hong immediately began to read the data of the Glory in the few milliseconds before it disappeared, trying to analyze the so-called warp-disrupting force field.

Although due to the lack of basic theory, and the fact that industrial products such as warp speed engines cannot come with technical introductions, Hong did not analyze the working principle and method of this warp speed disrupting force field, but to his surprise, it Instead, he directly pointed out the warship that released the warp-disrupting force field——

It is the enemy's flagship.

Obviously, installing the precious equipment excavated by one's own side on the largest and most survivable flagship is a rare consensus among civilizations.

"The analysis results came out. The opponent did not intentionally set up a warp disruption force field." Soon, Hong reported a slightly better news, "This should be just a low-intensity disturbance that the opponent's disruption generator automatically activated Break the field, not intentionally.

"Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to broadcast the force field openly like this, without any thought of hiding the source at all—it would be tantamount to shouting 'Come and hit me' in the cockpit."

This kind of behavior is equivalent to the behavior of the name-calling officer swiping the screen of "I am the name-calling officer, come and kill me" in the local meeting station. I believe that people with normal brains should not be able to do it.

"Could it be that the other party doesn't know how to control it?" Someone put forward a different opinion, "After all, without an instruction manual, it's normal to use a device that doesn't understand this kind of archaeology."

"No." Hong denied this possibility, "Because the opponent has hidden the source of the generator now—it's just that the previous fluctuations have exposed its location, and hiding it now won't help."

Even though there was a distance of more than 2 kilometers, Hong could still clearly feel that the religious group was also confused by this sudden interruption.

The opponent began to shrink the formation.

"They want to run."

After quickly analyzing the movement trend of the opponent's fleet, Hong made such a judgment.

Obviously, after the enemy saw their ferocious firepower, as well as the sudden warp speed and warp speed interruption, they were temporarily cowed.

No, for the cleanliness civilization, there is obviously no such thing as "counseling" when fighting against foreign races-perhaps, it is more appropriate to call it a strategic transfer.

"Is there any chance to take this opportunity to destroy some of their ships?" Someone suggested.

"It's hard." Hong analyzed it and shook his head. "We just tested each other on the limit range. We didn't even enter the structure, and we didn't open the overload. It's really difficult to keep them."

"Ok."

Everyone could only accept this fact - after the two sides exchanged gifts, the other party ended the offensive and defensive battle at the entrance of the wormhole and returned to their homeland at the cost of destroying more than [-] warships by missiles.

Compared with the number of missiles used in this wave of attacks, the loss of more than [-] warships in this area is obviously a loss, but there is no way, who told the other side to be cowardly.

However, for the Cat League, using this to defend the opponent's first wave of offensive, and at the same time roughly find out the performance of the opponent's warships, and confirm that their technology is not much more advanced than the Cat League's information, it is barely worth the fare.

In fact, after everyone thought about it later, it was actually a normal situation to fight like this. After all, there is no civilization that bets all its strength on a decisive battle. Rushing forward so recklessly.

It is definitely necessary to dispatch a small reconnaissance fleet first, to test and test each other, to collect information and so on, and then go back to make a long-term plan.

However, since both sides are determined to fight and their mobilization capabilities are full, the "small" reconnaissance fleet on one side dispatched more than 700 warships, and the anti-reconnaissance fleet on the other side dispatched more than 200 ships. .

Small fleet, small fleet.

Of course, the Cat League will not let the other party come to search for information in vain. They also sent a special fleet to the enemy's star field to investigate—a fleet of more than a dozen ships without any high-value equipment. It's just a "beaten-up scout ship" full of armor and sensors.

Since there are no high-power-consuming equipment, passive cooling of the armor and thermal storage alone can bear it. Therefore, they are very resistant to beating without a cooling plate. The main gun attack in a short period of time can basically be hard-fought. Coupled with its low cost, This makes it a very suitable type of ship for exploring the way through caves.

Probably seeing the composition of these spaceships, the opponent did not detonate the nuclear air mines they planted at the entrance of the cave, but asked the nearby fleet to simply plow the surface with the main gun, and then fired a few nuclear missiles to execute them.

Although Hong felt a little regretful that she couldn't fool the opponent's nuclear space mine, it also gave her a precious time to scout the enemy's local galaxy.

I don't know if I don't see it, I'm startled when I see it.

"A...habitable planet with appreciable concentrations of ammonia?"

Looking at the seemingly normal-looking planet in the picture returned by the telescope, even though they knew it was just a picture, everyone could still vaguely feel a stench.