Defeating the G1 Galaxy United Expeditionary Force was only the first step. The challenge in the second step is more dangerous and difficult.
If we say this is the first challenge, although it is dangerous and difficult, there is always hope that we can change it through our own efforts - just like now, hundreds of thousands of outstanding soldiers and thousands of warships have finally won the victory after several years of arduous battles. In order to achieve comprehensive victory, this second step of challenge is completely beyond the reach of human civilization that can be changed by relying solely on its own efforts.
Destiny is not at all in your own hands.
A super civilization that can teleport an entire fleet thousands of light-years away without human consciousness must have reached a level that human civilization cannot understand and cannot resist.
Faced with this situation, humans have no other way to go. The only thing I can do is to take a gamble.
However, although it was essentially a gamble, in reality, Zhao Changxing still chose to be as prepared as possible.
The first thing that needs to be dealt with is the large number of prisoners of war.
At this moment, human civilization is already very familiar with dealing with alien prisoners of war. It is nothing more than to execute those who have committed serious crimes and cannot be reformed after screening, and reform those who have committed less serious crimes and can accept human ideals.
So just three months later, there were about 16,000 extremely evil aliens who were responsible for a considerable part of this war and had little value. Regardless of whether they could be transformed, they were all executed. Those who had a certain value and could not be transformed were also put to death.
The remaining aliens who were still alive were thrown into labor camps and underwent ideological transformation.
Hundreds of thousands of those millions of extraterrestrials were executed.
Not all of them are innocent people who have been oppressed. Among the weak, there are also those who do evil things, such as those who oppress their own people, those who are extremely angry with the people, those who wholeheartedly surrender to aliens, those who help others and oppress others, and so on.
Of course this part is also punishable by death. The remaining ones who committed less serious crimes also began to undergo rehabilitation in preparation for their future integration into human civilization.
The number of extraterrestrial subhumans executed is many times greater than the number of aliens. However, judging from the proportion, the proportion of sub-human beings executed is only a dozen percent, while the proportion of human beings executed is almost as high as 40%. In comparison, the sins committed by the second person are lighter.
After dealing with this matter, the day of leaving the Iron Blood Nebula is no longer far away.
On this day, the civilized leaders and military leaders headed by Zhao Changxing all gathered in the main control room of the Yuanhang spacecraft.
There is a huge display screen in front of people. It showed a star map with a number on the edge.
100%.
This means that at this moment, the fleet of human civilization is still 100% located within the Iron Blood Nebula.
Like the Earth's atmosphere, there is no clear dividing line between an interstellar molecular cloud and the cosmic sky. Here, people also introduce the concept of similarity.
Determining whether a place is within the nebula or outside the nebula is no longer a simple yes or no, but a description similar to "55.61% is within the nebula, and 44.39% is outside the nebula."
Putting it into reality, people selected a location that was obviously completely within the nebula, and defined it as "100% within the nebula, 0% outside the nebula", and it was a full trillion kilometers away. A point was selected outside the nebula and defined as "0% located within the nebula and 100% located outside the nebula", and then the position of the human fleet relative to these two points was used to determine whether the human fleet had left. Ironblood Nebula or not.
Faced with this kind of thing that has no obvious dividing line, it is impossible to clearly judge whether to leave or not. It can only be judged in this way.
Now is the time when the human fleet passes the point of "100% inside the nebula and 0% outside the nebula".
Once this point is crossed, the 100% number slowly decreases. This means that from now on, at any time in the future, our side may encounter an unknown blow.
At this moment, the speed of the human fleet has reached 11526.3 kilometers per second, and is still accelerating slowly. Based on this calculation, it will take more than two years to complete this one trillion kilometers voyage.
Time passes slowly. After passing a certain prescribed time point, the number 100% suddenly became extremely long, becoming 99.999...%, followed by dozens of nines.
The last one is changing rapidly, the beating speed even exceeds the frame rate of human eyes, and afterimages appear.
The military leader whispered at this time: "The armed forces are fully prepared and can launch an all-out attack in any direction at any time."
Zhao Changxing nodded slightly.
He knew that in the next few years, the Space Force fleet would probably always be at this highest level of war preparation.
Even, it's not just the soldiers of the Space Force fleet. Some members of the scientific community will also be in this state. They will use various advanced instruments and equipment carried in the fleet to observe any changes in the surrounding star field as comprehensively as possible, so as to provide early warning to the fleet.
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Under this situation, the human fleet advanced rapidly in silence and solemnity.
Everyone's spirit is tense, and any abnormality from the surrounding star field will cause people to be nervous for a while. The most serious one was when a burst of relatively strong gamma rays hit the human fleet from the inside of the nebula, causing almost everyone to put down what they were doing and rush to their respective posts desperately.
Apart from disrupting communications between some spacecraft, these gamma rays did not cause any other damage to the human fleet. But it might mean something bad, so people can't help but be nervous.
Fortunately, it was later found out that this was only caused by natural phenomena within the galaxy. It originated from the stellar activity of a blue supergiant and was not man-made. People were relieved.
This is the most serious one. Warning events that are one or several levels lower than this will occur on average every ten days or so. People are like frightened birds, waiting for the end of this voyage and the final judgment of fate in anxiety.
Under this situation, the two numbers before the decimal point of the number representing the position at this moment changed from 99 to 98, and continued to shrink, and finally dropped to 55, 54...
If it is determined based on insufficiently rigorous judgment, then it is not impossible to believe that our fleet has left the Iron-Blooded Nebula at this moment.
At this moment, both in front and behind are the vast and deep universe. The small fleet shuttled through this sea of stars, like a few small fishes. In the endless depths ahead, there seems to be some huge monster lurking, waiting for the fleet to fall into a trap and then completely devour it.
At this stage, many people suffer from insomnia. Often, even hours past the scheduled sleep time, I still can't fall asleep. When the sleep stage is about to end, I can sleep for a while, and then it's working time, and I have to get up and continue working with big dark circles under my eyes.
Fortunately, there is no important work in the fleet at this stage. It is just routine maintenance, so there is no big trouble.
Zhao Changxing had no good solution to this situation and could only let it go.
He knew in his heart that any psychological treatment would be useless unless he was completely out of danger. However, once they are completely out of danger, people can recover without the need for psychological treatment at all.
Time passed slowly, and gradually, the number dropped below 20.
At this stage, generally speaking, it can be regarded as leaving the Iron Blood Nebula - as an analogy on the earth, it is roughly equivalent to a place more than 1,000 kilometers away from the earth's surface.
But even at a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers from the earth's surface, although the density of matter in this place has become extremely thin, no different from interstellar space, there are still atmospheric molecules here. It can be said that it is within the atmosphere, or it can be said that it is outside the atmosphere.
The further away from the Iron Blood Nebula, the more nervous people's hearts became.
Some time passed, and the number was reduced to single digits. After some time passes, the number before the decimal point becomes 0.
Described in terms of similarity, this position is 0.7763...% located within the Iron-Blooded Nebula, and 99.2236...% located outside the Iron-Blooded Nebula.
Not long after, Zhao Changxing and other civilization leaders and military leaders once again gathered in the main control room of the Yuanhang spacecraft and witnessed with their own eyes that the number changed from 0.000...1% to 0.
This means that no matter which aspect is measured, the fleet has completely and completely left the Iron Blood Nebula at this moment.
Just like being on the moon, no matter from which aspect, it can no longer be considered to be within the scope of the earth's atmosphere, right?
At this moment, the human fleet has not suffered an unknown attack from outside.
But that doesn't mean the danger has passed. Because in the future voyage, there is still the possibility of strikes.
This makes people still unable to let go.
At this moment, the speed of the fleet relative to the star numbered h1, which was the intended destination, has increased to more than 12,000 kilometers per second, and is still improving.
At this moment, it is estimated that it will take more than 400 years before the human fleet can cross this total distance of 23.6 light-years.
At this time, Zhao Changxing decided not to waste people's lives in the long wait, but ordered most of the personnel except the spacecraft maintenance personnel to hibernate. The rest and rotation system was implemented again.
As a result, frequent hibernation and waking up have become a daily routine in people's lives.
At this moment, a full 200 years have passed since he completely left the Iron Blood Nebula.
But that possible blow has yet to come.
Until this moment, people had a vague feeling that perhaps, the blow really would not come.
