Chapter 495: Bad Luck

After decades of sailing, people who had already begun to age had to enter hibernation again. After the fleet completed relative acceleration, everyone on the Lyra entered hibernation.

Originally, Yue Yuan wanted to wait a few years to see if he would age with time, so as to verify his conjecture.

However, he was not in the main body of human civilization now, and he still had tasks to complete, so he had no choice but to give up on experimenting while he was awake and followed everyone into hibernation.

After all, he still didn't dare to take risks. Although Yue Yuan found that his appearance had not aged, if there was an accident and he really died on the way, then the joke would be big.

Time, this physical quantity defined by humans, is slowly passing.

After Yue Yuan also entered hibernation, a scene he didn't know was happening less than a light-year away from the human fleet.

Yes, this is the main fleet of the Red Flame Civilization.

This is a fleet composed of 70 million residential spacecraft and more than 3 million warships. At this moment, it is in a relatively static state with humans and is sailing forward towards the same goal as humans.

They have already completed their acceleration, and the main magnetic thrusters of their spaceships and battleships have been turned off. However, their living entities do not enter hibernation like humans, but continue to stay awake normally.

This is true of all living beings, who seem to have no lifespan troubles.

Among these living individuals, there is a group of individuals gathered together, discussing something in a spaceship cavity that looks like a conference room.

"Great Commander, Earth's civilization will definitely catch up." A living entity not much larger than a cat emitted sound waves that were difficult for humans to distinguish.

The surface of this organism is somewhat different from the organisms that humans have found in their space suits before. It has an extra layer of something that looks like gelatin and is somewhat sticky, which looks like their clothes.

All the living entities here are almost like this, maybe it's their uniform.

"Yes, this is a troublesome matter. If we had known this, we should have left them some technological information and the five-thousand-year efficacy life potion they purchased before." Another life individual said: "I think the ultimate goal of earth civilization is It shouldn’t be the individuals who were killed by us, but the reason why you are sure that they will catch up must be based on this consideration. "

Other living individuals of the Red Flame Civilization also participated in the topic.

"It makes some sense, but it's a pity that there are no what-ifs. We left without leaving anything behind. It's too late to say anything now."

"What a shame. When we succeed in breaking through the magnetic miniaturization technology, we must make this earth civilization pay the price."

"Now instead of saying such useless words, we should think about how to get through the difficulties. Our entire civilization is here. If the earth's civilization catches up, our great civilization will be in danger of overturning."

"What the Chief Executive said is that we should now consider how to get out of danger. Judging from the current situation, we have already become enemies with the local snakes in this star field, and we definitely cannot stay here any longer. Therefore, I suggest that we go to the target star to complete supplies. , and we don’t have to think about causing trouble for Earth civilization. It’s already good that they don’t come to us, so after completing the supplies, we set sail directly. For safety reasons, I suggest we go back along the route we came from.”

At this time, their new commander added: "This alone won't work. If they really catch up, our resource supply speed may not be faster than theirs. You should also be able to see this. They are in resource extraction, fleet They are better than us in many aspects such as maintenance and warship manufacturing, so if they keep pursuing us, they will eventually catch up with us.”

"What the Commander-in-Chief said makes sense. In that case, I have an idea. We can divide the main civilization's residential spacecraft into several batches, escape in different directions in the starry sky, and then meet at the agreed star. As far as I know before , the earth's civilization only has three fleets. We divide the main civilization's residential spacecraft into ten teams. It is certainly impossible for them to pursue us at the same time!

And as long as one of our squadrons can escape successfully, the fire of our great civilization will still be there and it can continue to exist. As for the idea of ​​counterattacking the earth's civilization, with all due respect, we should first think about how to survive. "

"Grand Commander, what the science officer said makes sense. Although this method will cause our main civilization to temporarily lose technological progress, it is still safer than everyone running together."

This Grand Commander was the new Grand Commander, so he simply said. After listening to the speeches of many living beings, he directly sent out a sound wave: "Then let's do this. After arriving at the next star system to complete supplies, we will run separately."

Although he is the new commander, his words still have absolute execution. So after he finished speaking, the meeting that lasted for several hours came to an end.

At the meeting, they not only made this decision, but also planned the sailing period of the Red Flame Civilization. The first step was to cancel the hibernation of scientific research and engineering personnel and let them continue to seize the time to study the magnetic miniaturization technology. , ordinary living individuals must hibernate in order to free up resources for research and experiments.

The second is the problem of detecting the pursuit of the earth's civilization fleet. They are eager to know whether there is a fleet pursuing behind.

For this reason, the Red Flame Civilization decided to divide one million warships from the only three million remaining warships, and then slow down these warships to see if they could detect the pursuing Earth civilization fleet.

Finally, there is the post-war summary.

However, what they didn't know was that there was already a huge fleet waiting for them at the target star.

The previous estimate of humans was roughly correct. Now in this star system, the strong artificial intelligence left by humans in the past has quietly built 30 million warships for humans, and it is still growing with time.

However, it will be more than 30 years later when they arrive at this star system.

Before that, their decelerated fleet brought them the thing that made them most worried. They encountered the human fleet that was chasing them.

Needless to say, the fleet of one million warships was completely wiped out by the human fleet at a glance, but the fleet's mission was completed because they did detect the human fleet and passed the news to its main civilization fleet.

The occurrence of this incident almost caused the Chiyan civilization to split up and run away in advance. In the end, their new commander-in-chief suppressed all the voices of directly splitting up and running away for the sake of the research and development of magnetic propulsion miniaturization technology, and instead insisted on the original plan to split up and run away when they arrived at the target star.

The new commander-in-chief probably didn't expect that his persistence made the miniaturization of magnetic propulsion technology as planned, and it took only 30 years to successfully research, but it also brought the Red Flame Civilization into the abyss of failure.

"Commander-in-chief, we are here."

One day more than 30 years later, a sound wave appeared on the flagship of the Red Flame Civilization. They were no longer unfamiliar with this kind of cross-stellar voyage, but this time they felt like they had survived a disaster and were in a hurry.

The human fleet behind them would arrive in more than a year, and they only had one year of supply time.

"Hurry! No need to choose, just go to the rocky planet closest to us now, let the engineering fleet go first, we need to supply all the spacecraft within half a year." The commander-in-chief's words raised the sense of urgency to another level again.

However, as soon as he spoke, a sound wave that was obviously a little panicked appeared in the flagship: "Great, commander-in-chief, fleet, fleet, fleet, God, there is an unknown civilization here!"