blogombal Chapter 86 Little Six Confronts Subspace
Chapter 86 Little Six Confronts Subspace
Chapter 86 Little Six Confronts Subspace
Xiao Liu did not answer immediately.
The blue breathing light on the console flashed rapidly several times, the frequency so fast it formed a continuous line.
Clearly, her core processor was operating at extremely high load, frantically consuming every data packet transmitted back from the sensors, and building a real-time mathematical model of the surrounding star field.
Three seconds later.
"We can walk a dead end."
Xiao Liu's voice was calm and even, as if he were casually saying, "We can go have a cup of tea."
"A dead end?!"
Father Zor, who was standing next to him, was so frightened that he jumped up from his chair, his semi-mechanical body rattling and clanging.
"Are you crazy?"
Zor pointed to the subspace nebula on the holographic screen, which was located at the edge of the "Giant Mouth" channel and was churning wildly and flashing with an eerie purple light.
"That's a high-risk area for warp turbulence, a death zone that even Imperial Navy battleships dare not approach!"
"Going in means certain death, the ship will be destroyed, and everyone will perish, leaving not even ashes! The laws of physics inside are chaotic; gravity is reversed, and time flows backward!"
"You call that a road?!"
Zol's reaction was normal; in fact, it could be said that this was the normal reaction that the people of the Empire should have.
In this age of superstition and ignorance, the warp is synonymous with hell for the vast majority of people.
For navigators who rely entirely on intuition, calm subspace currents are good roads, slightly turbulent waters are dangerous routes, and those turbulent areas with visible energy levels are absolute death traps.
Beyond the "giant mouth" lies that dead zone.
Because navigators are human too, their mental capacity is limited. Seeing such a violent scene, they went insane before the ship even got inside.
But Andy didn't panic.
He looked at Xiao Liu, a knowing glint in his electronic eyes.
He understood.
"Explain," Andy said. "How exactly do I get there?"
"It's very simple."
Xiao Liu pulled up an extremely complex waveform graph, densely packed with function curves that most people couldn't understand.
"The chaotic, disorderly, and malicious storm of destruction is essentially just a set of complex high-energy fluid dynamics models in the eyes of this machine."
"Any energy that exists at the edge of the real universe must follow some kind of mathematical law."
Xiao Liu drew a winding, even wildly knotted, red flight path on the screen.
"This machine has just calculated the tidal force parameters of this turbulence."
"Although the subspace energy in this region is violent, its outbursts are cyclical, with extremely small and fleeting low-energy gaps between the energy peaks."
"As long as we are fast enough and our changes of direction are precise enough."
"We can get into the troughs before these crests crash down."
"Not only will we not be harmed, but we can also use the huge tidal thrust generated by the turbulence to accelerate the spaceship."
In her eyes, the so-called demonic whispers and chaotic curses can all be deconstructed into psionic beams and magnetic field interference of different frequencies.
Since it is a wave, it can be calculated; since it is a field, it can be utilized.
This is like sailing on a turbulent sea.
When the empire sees the giant waves, it can only pray for the protection of the divine emperor.
When Xiao Liu saw the giant waves, he thought about how to adjust the angle of the bow and how to use the thrust of the waves to make himself go faster.
"We will eventually re-enter through the warp turbulence and force our way into the maw." At that point, it will be too late for either the Imperial Navy or the Inquisition to give chase.
"Understood."
Andy didn't waste any words and made the decision immediately.
"Let's do it this way."
"Adjust course, target, 35 degrees to port, subspace turbulence zone."
"Full speed ahead!"
The edge of the Ruby 2 galaxy.
The "New Bang" ship, which was originally waiting in line obediently for the court to inspect, suddenly moved.
Instead of moving forward slowly like other ships, it suddenly turned its bow around, and the plasma engine nozzles at the stern burst out with dazzling blue light.
The pristine white starship broke free of the congested shipping lanes, plunging headlong into the void beside it like a mad drunkard.
Immediately afterwards, the veil of reality was torn apart, and a visible spatial rift was rapidly forming.
This move immediately attracted the attention of the Imperial Navy.
"Sir! Look over there!"
On the bridge of a Dictator-class cruiser, the officer in charge of overall monitoring pointed at the screen and shouted.
"An unidentified spaceship has broken away from the formation!"
"It's forcibly jumping into warp space!"
The captain was a middle-aged man with a burly face, wearing a magnificent naval uniform.
He held his wine glass and glanced casually at the red dot on the screen.
"Hmph, another madman."
The captain sneered, not even bothering to put down the wine in his hand.
"There is no stable subspace node at that location; he will jump directly into the turbulent vortex."
"They were probably terrified by the court's black ship, or there was something shady hidden on board, so they'd rather die than be inspected."
"I've seen plenty of idiots like this these past few days."
"Ignore it."
The captain waved his hand and gave the order.
"Don't waste the precious macro cannon shells."
"Let it go, the warp turbulence will take care of it for us."
"After it explodes, remember to record the location of the wreckage so it won't block the way later."
In the Imperial Navy's logic, charging into that level of turbulence is no different from sailing a ship directly into a star; certain death is inevitable.
Since the other party has already chosen to commit suicide, there's no need for the navy to go through the trouble of intercepting them. They can save some ammunition and have a couple more drinks.
The same scene also occurred on the black ship in the courtroom.
A judge looked at the resolute spaceship on the screen and coldly wrote a line in his notebook: "Target has self-destructed, suspected suicide out of guilt, case closed."
then.
Under the gaze of tens of thousands of eyes, amidst the ridicule and incomprehension of countless people.
The New Bang crashed headlong into the raging purple storm.
"Boom—!!!"
The ship shook violently.
As soon as it entered the turbulent zone, the enormous energy impact caused the entire ship to emit a frightening metallic twisting sound.
The lights on the bridge were flashing wildly, and the red warning lights made the place look like hell.
"We're going to die! We're going to die!"
Zor clung tightly to the control panel, his mechanical eyes darting around wildly, muttering prayers to soothe the machine's soul.
Sisyphus, Bauer, and the others were so frightened that they crawled under the table, covering their heads with their hands.
Only Andy and Xiao Liu remained frighteningly calm.
Andy sat in the command chair, his body swaying violently with the ship's rocking, but his electronic eyes remained fixed on the data on the screen.
"Geller Field, strength 120%!"
"Port attitude control nozzle, ignition!"
Xiao Liu's voice echoed in the bridge, speaking at an extremely fast pace, with each instruction precise to the millisecond.
At this moment, the Xinbang is like a small boat sailing through turbulent waves.
Outside, a warp energy storm powerful enough to tear steel apart raged, and purple lightning bolts, like giant dragons, danced across the shield's surface, crackling and popping.
But strangely enough, the New Bang was almost completely unharmed!
The Gellé field on its surface does not maintain a constant frequency like that of a regular spacecraft.
Instead, under Xiao Liu's micro-management, it changed wildly at a frequency of thousands of times per second.
Each jump corresponds exactly to a peak change in the energy of the external turbulence.
When a huge wave of energy crashed down, the force field instantly strengthened, like a hard shield blocking the impact.
When the tide recedes and a low-pressure zone is formed, the force field weakens instantly, and the spacecraft slides in, using the pressure difference to gain tremendous acceleration.
This is not confrontation, but leveraging each other's strength!
The New Bang wasn't struggling in the turbulence; it was surfing!
It rode on the crest of the energy storm, propelled by that destructive force!
The speed is getting faster and faster!
The conventional engine, which originally only traveled at near-light speed, saw its speed skyrocket to an unbelievable value thanks to the turbulence of subspace.
The surrounding purple nebula receded rapidly, turning into a blurry band of light.
"This feeling—"
Andy watched the speed readings soar on the screen, feeling the thrill of flirting with destruction.
"That's fucking awesome!"
This is true interstellar travel!
There were no mystical prayers, no fear of the unknown.
Only pure computing power, pure physics, and pure conquest!
As long as your brain is quick enough and your calculations are accurate enough, even a subspace storm will have to obediently act as a propulsion device for you!
"Entry window detected ahead!"
Xiao Liu's voice remained calm.
"Prepare to leave the turbulent area."
"The shield energy is transferred forward to prepare for reentry impact."
"3, 2, 1——.——"
"They've gone out!"
The middle section of the "Giant Mouth" waterway, 600,000 kilometers behind the blockade line.
This place was originally a peaceful void.
Sudden.
A large bulge suddenly appeared in the subspace nebula next to it.
Immediately afterwards, a purple lightning bolt tore through space.
"boom-!!!"
Accompanied by a violent release of energy.
A white starship, carrying remnants of warp lightning, burst out of the nebula.
Its speed was astonishing, even leaving a long energy trail in the vacuum.
The moment it appeared, it had already left the blockade line far behind.
The Imperial Navy's monitor was completely dumbfounded when he saw the signal that suddenly appeared on the screen.
"Sir! Sir!"
"That's—that suicide ship!"
"It's not dead! It's out!"
"And—and it got behind us! It broke through the blockade!"
The captain finally lost his grip on the wine glass, and it fell to the ground with a "thud".
"What?!"
He rushed to the monitoring screen and looked at the red dot that was moving away at full speed.
That red dot was more than three times faster than their old-model cruiser.
Chase?
What can we use to pursue them?
By the time they turned their ship around and warmed up their heavy engines, the other side had already flown to the next star sector!
"This—how is this possible?"
The captain muttered to himself, his face filled with disbelief.
"That's warp turbulence—that's a death trap—"
"How did they do that? Was that ship blessed by the Emperor himself?"
Bridge of the USS Shinbang.
The violent shaking finally stopped.
The view outside the window returned to calm, revealing a deep, cold starry sky, and an even wider expanse ahead...
The expanded Colonus region is more liberal.
Gamma-9 got up from the ground and checked whether his prosthetic limb had fallen apart.
Sisyphus also crawled out from under the table, looking relieved to have survived the ordeal.
"We're out?"
Sisyphus looked out the window, his voice still trembling.
"They're out."
Andy leaned back in his command chair, looking at the Imperial fleet that had been left far behind.
"And we are free."
He turned to look at the blue beam of light on the control panel.
"Well done, Sixth Brother."
"Standard procedure."
Xiao Liu's voice remained calm, but the blue breathing light flickered a little more cheerfully.
"Just standard procedure."
She emphasized it again.
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