The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 299 Sudden mutation
"It has been determined that at least one unit of the sample is exposed to unstable factors and is under evaluation. The best solution: eliminate the existence of unstable factors."

"The preparation of 'Dark Rock' is complete, the coordinates have been confirmed, the hyperspace jump is starting, the target is Experimental Site No. 000"

In the solar system, among the previous-generation old detectors scattered near the orbit of Pluto, some detector structures equipped with brand-new hyperspace channel observation devices suddenly and keenly captured a strange fluctuation appearing outside the sun's gravity well.

What comes at this point in time must not be any of our own fleets, nor can it be an enemy fleet - the only way to pass is blocked by all the science-level fleets under the two super-class fleets, unless they have no way of super-class fleets. The space channel is a black technology that can exceed the speed of light, otherwise it would be impossible to reach it directly.

And the next second, Lin Yicai realized that the location where this wave appeared was not connected by a hyperspace channel. This special wave, as if an object was passing through the hyperspace channel, indeed appeared out of thin air.

The next second, an astonishingly huge signal source suddenly appeared on the spot. The optical observation signal showed that it was roughly elliptical or olive-shaped, but the optical signal showed an astonishingly large size, like a small-mass celestial body.

A conservative estimate is that this thing is more than ten times the size of the main star, and even dozens of times more radical. Amazing thermal radiation is emitted from a huge main nozzle and as many as twelve auxiliary nozzles, propelling this giant object forward in space.

Whether it was the main star or the opponent's battleship, they all looked so small in front of this huge thing that Lin Yi didn't even dare to call a battleship. He could only call it an "artificial structure." An invisible sense of oppression.

The Ezki battleship has a unified hull logo, but those battleships taken over by AI do not have it. This huge man-made structure also does not have it, and its style is different from the Ezki battleship. Lin Yi cannot confirm for a while whether this is passing by. The third party is the enemy, that is, the battleship controlled by the super AI that has almost completely taken over the Ezki civilization.

But soon, the answer became obvious by what the other party did, and how the other party suddenly emerged from an area not connected by hyperspace channels became completely unimportant.

In the solar system, there are some sporadic escort stars guarding several planets in low-Earth orbit, and the rest are basically old-fashioned defense structures. The nearest escort star was located within one light second of the other side, and the next second, several spherical structures on the top of the huge man-made structure suddenly emitted a dazzling blue-purple light.

A dazzling plasma cluster bloomed on the surface of the escort star's exoskeleton. It was the concentrated fire of several directed energy weapons. The first attack destroyed the escort star's scale layer of reactive armor, while the second attack directly Run the main exoskeleton layer.

Through some nearby camouflaged detector structures, Lin Yi could see clearly that there were numerous structures protruding from the opponent's hull, which were countless directed energy secondary battery batteries. Judging from the size and damage just now, each one is no less than the main gun of the Ezki escort ship.

In other words, this thing is most likely directly improved from the escort ship's main gun, but it can only exist as a secondary battery on the opponent's huge hull. Although the damage of a single shot is not as good as that of the main gun of a battleship, it is another matter when the gun crew fires a focused salvo.

However, there is one thing that puzzles Lin Yi - given the size of this man-made structure, it does not seem to be able to flexibly change direction to form a maneuverable probability cloud. If it was purely about hard resistance, Lin Yi didn't see gap armor like the Whipple shield or other similar structures. It didn't look like it was designed for battleships. Moreover, the purpose of making warships bigger is to pack more or larger armaments inside the ship. Simply cramming more capital ship-level armaments is not good for capital ships that need to ensure a certain degree of maneuverability. It is better to use the same materials to build multiple warships equipped with less armaments.

That means that the opponent has a more powerful main weapon with a longer range. But it only used the secondary battery to attack an escort starship, instead of using an unknown main weapon, which made Lin Yi feel a little strange.

And if this giant ship is designed for low-Earth orbit combat, these turrets are enough for it to dominate the entire low-Earth orbit, but its amazing mass, if it is too close to the orbit, there will be some attackers who are unwilling to see it. consequences.

This made the role of this huge mobile structure somewhat confusing, but soon, part of Lin Yi's doubts were answered - some of the remaining defense structures were now aimed at the opponent's huge body, preparing to attack.

Among these defense structures, those farther away have replaced their electromagnetic guns with large X-ray laser arrays, and some have even been equipped with free electron lasers. They are now preparing to launch a salvo.

Several defense structures were the first to start calibrating, and the radiator structure suddenly lit up with dazzling infrared heat radiation. Immediately, these beams were accurately projected onto the huge ship, which was not small in itself and did not perform any probability cloud maneuvers. superior.

But then, a special layer of luster lit up outside the giant ship, changing colors like an aurora, but the main part was not damaged at all. It seemed that those deadly X-rays were eliminated by an invisible field.

Combined with the "aurora" that lights up, this is likely to be a defensive structure similar to a planet's magnetic field. A layer of such a strong magnetic field is generated in front of the ship, which makes directed energy weapons, which are essentially high-energy charged particles, ineffective.

But the principle is one thing, and its actual application is another. This thing is a complete black technology for the current technological level of the nest group, and is higher than the apparent technological level of the Ezki civilization. Quite a few.

On Tianyuan Four, on the surface of Dikla, they were summoned urgently. The survivors of the Ezki exploration fleet who were watching the real-time broadcast from the front line also sent out light signals representing surprise. They seemed to be equally unaware of the existence of this technology. .

The spherical turret structures on the surface of the opponent's ship rotated again, focusing fire on the exposed defense structures. Dazzling plasma clusters soon bloomed in space - these defense structures did not have similar defense means, even Eze The main gun level firepower of the base escort ship can also easily destroy them.

After destroying the exposed defense structures, the opponent's navigation trajectory still did not change at all, but slowly continued to speed up and sail forward - based on the trajectory, it seems that its purpose is the earth!
(End of this chapter)