Chapter 93 Mysterious Spaceship
After confirming the current supply situation, Qi Yiming entered the hibernation chamber with a heavy heart.
At the same time, outside the human territory, a giant spaceship with a diameter of more than 300 kilometers and a thickness of nearly 100 kilometers was quietly staying near a star.
A giant pipe with a diameter of about 1,000 meters protruded from the giant spaceship.
The head of the pipe shot a light blue ray towards the star.
The moment the ray touched the star, the material on the surface of the star followed the light blue ray into the giant pipe.
At that moment, the brightness of the star increased by several levels, and thousands of flames spewed out of the surface, as if trying to take back the material sucked away by the giant spaceship.
What's even more surprising is that such a huge spaceship appeared in this galaxy, but it did not cause any impact on the gravitational balance within the galaxy.
After more than ten minutes, the giant pipe slowly retracted the spaceship.
But the spaceship did not seem to have the intention to leave.
The spaceship stayed quietly in place, slowly hiding her figure.
A year and a half is nothing at all on the scale of the universe.
Qi Yiming and his companions spent more than a year in the hibernation capsule. During this period, when they needed to abandon the empty transport ship, Qi Yiming and Wang Sen were awakened once.
When the fleet left the jump mode again, Qi Yiming and several warships were awakened. The reason was simple: they had no extra energy.
"The remaining energy is not enough for the fleet to enter the jump mode to complete the remaining one month of journey, otherwise the warship will be paralyzed due to the complete loss of energy." Wang Sen looked at Qi Yiming with a sad face, "By then, let alone starting the food maker, we can't even send a distress signal."
As the general manager responsible for the distribution of supplies for the entire fleet, Qi Yiming knew that he had tried his best.
It was a miracle that the fleet could maintain its supplies here when most of the supplies were lost.
"In order to save supplies, I suggest that except for the necessary on-duty personnel, the rest of the personnel should enter the hibernation capsule." After learning about the supply situation, Wang Shuhua's first thought was to put most of the crew into hibernation to save more supplies.
"Food is easy to deal with. What we are mainly short of now is energy blocks." Qi Yiming did not deny Wang Shuhua's suggestion, but explained in detail the current situation of the remaining supplies.
In fact, Qi Yiming and his team are not short of food. If they are just short of food, then letting some people enter a dormant state will solve this problem.
The problem is that they are short of energy, and this problem is likely to be exacerbated by most people entering a dormant state.
After all, maintaining a large number of dormant capsules also requires a lot of energy.
"We now have two solutions." Qi Yiming looked at the electronic board in his hand: "One is to give up using the jump engine and use ordinary fusion engines instead to fly back at sub-light speed."
"Fly back?" Ye Lu exclaimed: "When we enter the jump mode, the spacecraft will reach a hundred times the speed of light. It will take a month to return to the human territory at this speed. Now you tell me to fly back at sub-light speed?"
Qi Yiming shrugged and said to Ye Lu: "Sister Ye, listen to me!!"
Ye Lu stuck out her tongue embarrassedly: "You continue... you continue..."
Qi Yiming then continued: "Obviously, the first solution is not feasible... Then we can only choose the second way, send a deep space distress signal, and then wait for others to rescue in this galaxy."
"What's the difference between this and luck..." Ye Lu finally did not interrupt Qi Yiming's speech this time. Instead, after listening to Qi Yiming's speech, she sat on her captain's chair with a look of despair.
"Can't we concentrate the energy blocks of each ship, send a spaceship back first, and then bring supplies to rescue us?" This time, it was Qiao Shan who spoke with a pale face.
"We have calculated that before the spaceship we sent out comes back, we will all die on our respective warships." Wang Sen knocked on the electronic information board in his hand, indicating that this method had been considered long ago.
So the entire fleet fell into a desperate wait. Qi Yiming and his men would pull the communications officers on their warships every day to ask them if they had received any signals from the human territory.
The communications officers of each ship shook their heads.
In order to save energy, the lighting equipment on each warship was turned off one after another after they sent out the first distress signal, in the hope of extending their survival time in the starry sky as much as possible.
One month... no news!
Two months... no news either.
In the third month, even Wang Shuhua, who was always calm and steady, was a little panicked. Like Qi Yiming and his men, he would pull his communications officer every day to ask for the results.
On this day, when Wang Shuhua was holding the communications director who looked desperate in the corridor of the warship to ask about the situation, the radar officer of the Expedition hurried over.
"Sir, there is an emergency..."
Wang Shuhua said nothing and followed the radar officer to the bridge.
When they arrived at the bridge, Qi Yiming and his team had already entered the fleet command channel.
Qi Yiming nodded at Wang Shuhua who appeared on the communication screen, which was considered a greeting.
He was listening carefully to the report of the radar commander of Xuefeng.
"The radar detected a planet-sized gravitational source approaching our fleet." The radar commander pointed to the eye-catching red dot on the radar screen and said with a puzzled look: "But such a large gravitational source has not affected any state of the fleet at all. We are still orbiting the stars of our galaxy."
"How is it possible that a planet-sized gravitational source approaches us and does not affect the fleet's orbit?" It was Ye Lu who spoke first.
She couldn't figure out why such a large gravitational source did not affect the fleet's orbit when approaching the fleet. You know, the engines of all the warships and transport ships in the fleet were turned off, and it was impossible to maintain or correct their own orbits.
"How far is the gravitational source from us?" Qi Yiming glanced at Ye Lu, who was surprised, and turned back to ask his radar commander.
The radar commander glanced at the information displayed on the radar: "The gravity source will probably pass through the orbit of the fleet in 3 hours..."
Qi Yiming frowned after hearing the radar commander's answer and asked: "Have you observed it with optical radar?"
"I have observed it, but there is nothing there!!" The radar commander seemed a little overwhelmed. He really couldn't understand why there was nothing there when there was a huge gravity source there?
"Could it be a micro black hole?" Wang Shuhua cleared his throat and said.
"Impossible, if it was a micro black hole, our fleet would have been captured by this black hole long ago." Wang Sen immediately raised objections.
Suddenly, the radar soldier who was responsible for observing with optical radar exclaimed: "Oh my God, what is that?"
"What happened?" Qi Yiming was startled by the radar soldier's exclamation and asked hurriedly.
The radar soldier clicked a few times on the operating panel in front of him, and the image observed by the optical radar was displayed on a holographic screen in the bridge.
On the screen was a huge super battleship.
A year and a half ago, the giant warship that used stellar energy for its supplies removed its disguise in front of Qi Yiming and his team.
Thank you for the reward from the big brother Uchiha Yanzhe... and the monthly tickets and recommendation tickets from all the book friends. By the way, congratulations to all the book friends who have children, the beast is finally in the cage.