Three minutes later, Li Sujia and Mecha No. 9 led the remaining 10 mechas into the search fleet's flagship "Jintao". The mechas were all scarred.
In this battle, 45 mechas were wiped out by the tentacles, and the whereabouts of more than 20 mechas were unknown.
In the vast interstellar space, four armed escort spacecraft lined up in two rows and continued to move towards the unknown airspace...
To this day, they have not found the whereabouts of the fleeing interstellar fleet, and the latter has not sent any form of electromagnetic signals, as if it has disappeared forever.
An hour later, another wreckage area of an interstellar battleship appeared in front of the armed escort spacecraft formation. Large and small debris were scattered in the airspace with a radius of more than 1,000 kilometers. The wreckage was mixed with a large number of crew members' corpses, most of which were Already mutilated.
They were like ghosts wandering around, telling the four approaching armed escort ships the brutality of the battle and the tragedy and helplessness they felt before being destroyed.
A scene that shocked Li Sujia and all the mechas appeared again. There were a large number of white flowers scattered around the wreckage. These white flowers were the bodies of the tentacles that grew rapidly after devouring the corpses.
They glow brightly, revealing the aura of death, and are approaching the corpses in batches...
"The fleet will stop sailing immediately!" Li Sujia ordered urgently.
The fleet slowed down and finally stopped about 5 kilometers away from the wreckage area.
All the mechas in the fleet stood in front of the portholes. In their infrared scanners, orange-red bright spots appeared one after another, like bright strips of light, densely packed and gradually flooding the entire wreckage area. , like a grand carnival.
They are going to devour these corpses to breed a new generation of tentacles.
"The scan results of the destroyed battleship are out." Mecha No. 9 said, stretched out his hand and lightly swiped in the air, and a three-dimensional image of the interstellar spacecraft appeared.
The picture shows a "Rongyu" class interstellar spacecraft with the hull number "Starlight", which belongs to the escape fleet.
"What to do now? Carry out search and rescue, or take a detour?" Mecha No. 9 said, looking at Li Sujia with a hint of fear.
She was expressionless, staring quietly at this sea of flowers composed of brilliant white flowers. They were the embodiment of evil, more frightening than the devil.
She was caught in a dilemma. If she carried out search and rescue, she would face another massacre attack. The tragic search and rescue battle 2 hours ago was still vivid in her mind. In this battle, she lost 336 heavy weapons. The flying combat mechas account for more than one-third of the entire mecha force.
Without search and rescue, she would not be able to cross her moral bottom line, and refusing to save someone would not appear in her subconscious mind.
"First send out a life detection robot to scan the entire wreckage area. If there are any crew members with life signs, we must do our best to rescue them!"
Mecha No. 9 stared at her blankly, as if he felt that he had heard wrongly. Under the frightened expression was a stiff body, and he never moved a step away.
"Why are you still standing there? Why don't you go do it?"
It said softly "Hmm", turned around and walked towards the hatch.
The hatches of the four armed escort spaceships slowly opened, and more than 300 life detection robots flew towards the wreckage area like migratory locusts...
After nearly 30 minutes of searching, not a single complete body was found in the entire wreckage area, nor was there any sign of life.
While searching, all the corpses in the wreckage area were covered with white flowers, which instantly grew countless tentacles with sharp heads and barbs.
The entire wreckage area was submerged by groups of growing and dancing tentacles, layer upon layer like a terrifying devil's cave with wild snakes dancing.
What surprised Li Sujia was that these life detection robots were not attacked by the tentacles. They seemed to ignore their existence. In addition to growing crazily, they were twisting their hundred-meter-long snakes like crazy snakes. body.
She understood that the structure of these life detection robots was fundamentally different from that of mechas. The former had a complete metal body and a neural control system.
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In addition to the robot's alloy shell, the latter's neural network uses artificial nerve units, and some functional tissues use artificial fibers and bionic muscles.
"Could these tentacles be able to tell the difference between the two?" she thought to herself.
While thinking secretly, I also felt deeply afraid. If this was really the case, then the fate of the fleeing fleet would be in danger.
The life detection robots returned to the spacecraft one after another, but the entire fleet was still parked in place. In such a huge interstellar space, they didn't know where to go?
Li Sujia hesitated.
There is still no news about the fleeing star fleet. If the search fleet is ordered to leave the wreckage area, it will become more difficult to search for them.
In the vast universe, when the other party does not respond or send any distress signal, searching for them is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
However, judging from the wreckage areas of the "Xianli" and "Starlight", after the escape fleet was attacked by the tentacles, the two warships must have disintegrated in the star field to cover the main fleet.
All the above signs indicate that they are likely to be somewhere ahead.
She took a deep breath and became more convinced of her inference.
"Can we bypass this star field?" Li Sujia asked.
"Absolutely!" Mecha No. 9 blurted out. After pondering for a moment, it asked, "What about after bypassing it?"
"Continue on the original route!"
Mecha No. 9 had an expression of disbelief on its face. It glanced out the window at the wreckage area with wildly dancing tentacles, and whispered: "Then we may still encounter these disgusting white flowers and tentacles! "
"Afraid?"
"No, I just don't want to cause unnecessary casualties."
Li Sujia withdrew her gaze from it, and then cast it out the window: "Do as I say!"
Mecha No. 9 nodded helplessly, turned and left.
The fleet turned and, after circling the wreckage, resumed its original course.
After flying for about 10 minutes, an electromagnetic signal suddenly appeared in the fleet's electromagnetic scanning device. According to signal analysis, its electromagnetic characteristics were highly consistent with the electromagnetic signals of human space vehicles.
Li Sujia was shocked. The appearance of the space vehicle indicated that the time and space for searching for the fleeing fleet were not far away.
"Send pre-programmed search code to space vehicle!"
Soon, a code was sent. The content of the code was: We are a search fleet sent by humans. After receiving it, please answer!
The response came immediately after the code was sent: I am the space vehicle pilot Yao Qingyan. My aircraft belongs to the "Starlight" interstellar spacecraft. The spacecraft has exploded and disintegrated. Please accept my aircraft's landing request!
Telegram receipt: Landing request is allowed, please land on the fleet flagship "Jintao", landing area F7.
Soon, the hatch on the flagship "Jintao" where Li Sujia was located slowly opened, and a landing platform located in area F7 stretched out from the body of the ship. The space vehicle immediately landed on it. After that, the landing platform slowly The ground shrank into the body of the ship.
In the command cabin, Li Sujia met Yao Qingyan, and next to her stood Mecha No. 9.
A robot waiter handed a cup of hot drink to Yao Qingyan's hand. He held the cup in both hands and was not in a hurry to drink it. He seemed to be feeling the heat emitted by the cup.
This was the only calorie-containing drink he had been exposed to for 12 days. Previously, he had struggled to survive with canned food and bottled water.
"Drink it, it will cool down in a while." Li Sujia said with a smile.
He nodded, took a sip gently, closed his eyes and felt the sweetness and comfort brought by the drink, as well as the heat brought by the appropriate temperature, soaking into every cell in his body.
"Thank you for saving me." His eyes were full of rejoicing and the joy of surviving a disaster.
"Where are the others?" Li Sujia asked.
Her words made his eyes lose their luster, and he slowly put down the cup with an uncontrollable expression on his face.
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pain of.
"They...they were all killed by those ubiquitous tentacles. When our fleet arrived in this star field, a sea of glowing flowers appeared in front of us. They were composed of a large white A sea of flowers composed of small flowers." He swallowed more and looked forward, as if the tragic scene before seemed vividly in his mind.
It turned out that when Fang Junhuang led 20 escape ships to escape the pursuit of the Tiberians, the entire fleet rushed to the edge of the solar system---the Kuiper Belt, in order to save the only 20 starships of mankind. ship, they continued on at high speed in radio silence...
The speed once reached 50% of the speed of light, which was also the highest speed of this type of ship.
The subsequent voyage was smooth sailing. The fleet was neither pursued by the Tiberians nor attacked by other alien civilizations. They were like a lonely fleet lost in the depths of the universe, drifting in the interstellar space. .
Returning to Earth is no longer possible. Where will these 20 interstellar ships and nearly 1.3 million people go? It has become a problem that the fleet must face without delay.
To this end, Fang Junhuang and the captains of each ship held dozens of meetings, large and small, and finally unanimously decided to go to Nanmen 2a, which is Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to the solar system.
In addition to the above-mentioned distance factors, another important reason for choosing it is that Nanmenmen-a is a triple star system, which consists of Nanmenmen-a, Nanmenmen-b and Proxima Centauri. The distance between them is not that far apart.
If no planet suitable for human habitation is found around Proxima Centauri a, then go to Proxima Centauri b and continue in sequence until you reach Proxima Centauri.
If a planet suitable for human habitation is still not found, then there is always a planet in this triple star system. The fleet can land on the planet in a short time and use the resources on the planet to develop and utilize it for supply, or Temporary rest.
But the danger still came. Just when the fleet arrived about 2.6 light years away from South Gate 2a, it was attacked by the tentacles.
At first, what appeared in front of the fleet was an endless sea of flowers composed of glowing white flowers. All the crew members were amazed and attracted by this magnificent cosmic scenery.
This is the first time they have witnessed such a magnificent wonder of the universe in more than a year of sailing, but behind the splendor and beauty there is a murderous intention!
Fleet Commander Fang Junhuang seemed to be one of the few sober people. For the sake of caution, he ordered the "Xianli" and "Xingyi" to be the pioneers and pass through the sea of flowers first.
When the two starships sailed into this sea of flowers, countless white flowers entered the ship through ventilation ducts and different pressure chambers. In a very short period of time, they attacked the crew.
Unknowingly, they invaded the crew's body silently. In just a few seconds, countless groups of sharp, barbed tentacles burst out from the crew's body. In just a few seconds, Within a short time, it spread to all parts of the two ships' hulls.
The crew members who responded and were not invaded began to fight back. They used all weapons, including laser guns, to engage in a desperate struggle with these ubiquitous tentacles.
But these tentacles are spreading and spreading like viruses. They use the crew's bodies as a source of nutrition, and more and more crew members become the hosts for cultivating a new generation of tentacles.
In the fierce fight, the tentacles that had covered the ship penetrated the weapons depot and energy cabin on the ship, and the two interstellar ships also became a pile of fragments in the continuous explosions.
After Yao Qingyan finished speaking, the cabin fell into a dead silence. Li Sujia sighed deeply and looked sad.
"Where are the other ships?" Mecha No. 9 asked.
Yao Qingyan shook his head blankly.
Suddenly, buzzing sirens sounded, and an emergency telegram appeared on the large communication screen in the cabin like a slide.
There was only one telegram: four endless seas of flowers appeared in front, rear and left and right wings of the fleet.
The entire fleet was surrounded.
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