The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 311 Wreck
According to the remnants of the Ezgi exploration fleet that had contact with Lin Yi, the Ezgi civilization had sent out two batches of deep space exploration fleets like this one. The first batch had only two fleets, and the second batch had a total of six fleets.

When the incident happened on the mother planet, both exploration fleets were sailing away, just as Lin Yi learned from the remnants of the fleet their true purpose - to serve as the spark of civilization in the vast deep space and to rebuild civilization after the mother civilization suffered an accident.

The direction that the first two fleets were heading was exactly opposite to the direction of the Earth based on the Ezki home planet. Now, the large star region in the middle was still controlled by the enemy and was impassable, so communication was impossible.

Among the second batch of six fleets, it was the fifth one that arrived on Earth and established contact with Lin Yi, while the other five were scattered in various directions centered on the Ezki mother planet. After losing the transit on their mother planet, they lost contact with each other.

The disadvantage of inter-fleet quantum communication passing through the mother planet is obvious, and the parties now have no way to deal with this. Among the various advanced technologies on the Ezki warship, quantum communication is the only one that Lin Yi has not conducted reverse research on. There is no other reason. It is simply useless.
Compared with the spatial synaptic structure that has been with the nest since its birth, quantum communication has no obvious technical advantages, so there is no need to abandon the old business for this. And then again, it is already difficult to make further progress in the complex manipulation of entangled quantum states.

Therefore, sending warships to search and communicate through hyperspace was the only way. At that time, among the three parties in the alliance, only Lin Yi had the ability to quickly produce a large number of warships, so he was the only one who could complete this task.

The fleet going for contact was configured with two pioneering star scorpions as the core, a small number of escort star scorpions responsible for dealing with possible situations, and the rest were a large number of reconnaissance star scorpions, which were used to conduct extensive searches in various star systems near the coordinates of the target location.

At this time, the contacting Star Scorpion cluster has arrived at the star system whose coordinates were last transmitted back by the nearest Ezki deep space exploration fleet, and those reconnaissance Star Scorpions have dispersed into other nearby star systems.

The two core pioneering star scorpions have already docked in the orbit of one of the solid planets in the target star system. One of them has begun the pupation process in the synchronous orbit, preparing to use this desolate planet as the first stop in this star field.

According to the plan, another pioneering star scorpion was on standby and would be arranged when needed. Several escort star scorpions were patrolling and on alert nearby. On the surface of the planet, the fungal carpet structure extending from the airdrop capsule that had landed in advance took shape, and the large electromagnetic acceleration track also began to pupate and transport matter into space.

The existing coordinates of the other party were left behind by the last contact before the communication was interrupted. During this period of time, if the other party did not stop at all, it may have passed through several star systems, and its current location is completely unknown.

In the absence of means of communication across star systems, the only way is to send out a large number of reconnaissance star scorpions to conduct a carpet search of all nearby star systems to determine the opponent's location.

The existing number of reconnaissance star scorpions may not be sufficient, so a pioneering star scorpion will pupate in the orbit of a suitable planet in advance, prepare to build a spaceport on the spot, and then produce more reconnaissance star scorpions to explore the nearby area.

Even if there is no harvest, this remote star region can still serve as another development center of the hive in the future, further expanding the hive's sphere of influence. It is a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.

The observation methods of the reconnaissance star scorpions are quite diverse. Needless to say, the standard optical-infrared band perception compound eyes and passive electromagnetic wave receivers are of course not to be mentioned. There is also an active radar just in case, which will be turned on when passive observation confirms that there are no enemy ships. With the combined effect of these observation methods, these reconnaissance star scorpions found some traces in a star system in one direction shortly after they dispersed.

This is a star system with a red dwarf as its core. Under its dim light, in the orbit of a solid planet, a huge metal creature is quietly revolving around the planet.

Judging from the outline, it seemed to be a transport supply ship in the Ezki exploration fleet, but at this time, its heat sink had lost even the lowest output of thermal radiation, and it almost merged with the cosmic background radiation in the infrared band.

The Ezki's energy utilization rate is no better than that of the hives, and coupled with the limitations of the fusion reactor, even if the battleship's reactor is running at the lowest power, it is impossible for the heat sink to be completely free of any additional heat radiation.

Moreover, no traces of other Ezki warships were found nearby. Even when the reconnaissance star scorpion turned on the active radar, it did not find any other man-made structures. These signs all indicated that this warship, and even the entire exploration fleet, might have encountered an accident.

The Reconnaissance Star Scorpion continued to sail forward, spurting out fiery plasma propulsion fluid from six thick tail nozzles. Its specialized astronomical telescope-level compound eyes switched to the normal optical band, and with the light of the red dwarf star, it looked at the Ezki transport ship floating quietly in the planet's orbit.

As the distance got closer, some details appeared in the sensory signals - the opponent's ship's hull was now covered with shocking traces of damage - judging from the shape of the damage, it was caused by the shock wave inside the hull caused by the bombardment of directed energy weapons.

The heat sink was already covered with bullet holes, and the huge tail nozzle was now broken and almost completely disintegrated. However, judging from the situation, the attack by directed energy weapons did not seem to be the main cause of its disintegration. The most serious cause seemed to be the burning caused by high-temperature plasma.

Combining various reasons, Lin Yi was able to guess what happened - after a battle, the transport ship sailed for a distance dragging the broken tail nozzle, and the severely damaged tail nozzle became more seriously damaged due to long-term sailing, and eventually completely collapsed nearby.

This batch of reconnaissance star scorpions were all equipped with high-power electromagnetic wave transmitting organs for communication. At this time, a signal in the Ezki language had been sent in the direction of the other party. If there were still living people on the transport ship, they would definitely be able to receive the signal.

After all, I am not here to attack the other party, and it would be bad to cause any misunderstanding. But if there is really no one on the boat or no living person with whom I can communicate, then I can only take some other measures.

According to calculations, the reconnaissance star scorpion will soon pass through the orbit of the planet. If the other party does not respond next, it will throw out a probe close to the wreckage of the transport ship when it is closest. If the other party does not intercept it, it proves that it is a completely empty ship and can be boarded for inspection.

(End of this chapter)