Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 807 Fleet Zero Attacked
"Nino alloy... Nino alloy..." Ke Lan repeated the term that emerged in his memory fragment over and over again in disbelief, and his whole body froze in place.
He knew very well that Nino Alloy was not made by the Alpha Civilization... They simply cut the finished Nino Alloy from the "Aguna Kotor" and used it elsewhere... and this ancient battleship was believed to have been built by another more advanced civilization (Ke Lan called it the 'Beta Civilization').
But now, this memory clearly told Ke Lan that Nino Alloy was invented and named by humans on a fleeing engineering ship...
The description of the appearance and properties of this "Nino Alloy" in the memory fragment is exactly the same as the "Nino Alloy" that Ke Lan and the others know, so it can basically be ruled out as a coincidence of the same name.
Could it be that this memory was fabricated? Was it created specifically to confuse me?
No... not like...
If the Alpha Civilization had obtained this memory and knew the detailed formula of Nino Alloy, then with their technology, it would be impossible for them to imitate this super alloy with superior performance. However, after the Alpha Civilization gained control of "Aguna Kotor", it had no intention of imitating Nino Alloy at all, and instead invested all its manpower and material resources into the research of energy crystallization.
Why did Alpha Civilization give up its research on Nino Alloy?
Because they know that the research and development of Nino alloy is impossible to succeed!
The core of Nino alloy is the new element discovered by the people on this engineering ship on this gas giant planet. Without this new element, even if the proportions of other materials are accurate, it is impossible to replicate Nino alloy.
The Alphas were well aware of this, so they did not do this useless work from the beginning.
But...what is the connection between the people on this fleeing engineering ship and the "Beta Civilization" that built "Aguna Kotor"?
Could it be that this engineering ship was discovered and captured by the "Beta Civilization" during its subsequent voyage, and then the "Beta Civilization" found the gas giant planet based on the coordinates and smelting formulas provided by the people on the ship, mined a large amount of new elements on the planet and smelted them into Nino alloys, and then used the Nino alloys to build a powerful fleet including the "Aguna Kotor"?
But when the next scene appeared in Ke Lan's mind, what he felt was more than just shock.
The people on the engineering ship... began to use the newly developed "Nino Alloy" to transform the hull... This was originally a reasonable thing - in order to escape the gravity of this gas giant planet, the power of the spacecraft and the physical strength of the hull must be strengthened to an extremely exaggerated level. The successful development of Nino Alloy is no less than a timely help to these people, but as the transformation project progressed, Ke Lan felt an inexplicable chill creeping up his spine...
The ship is getting bigger and bigger... and more and more like...
"Yaguna Kotor".
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So, the so-called "Beta civilization" does not exist at all?
So, this old-era earth engineering ship numbered 0906... is the predecessor of "Aguna Kotor"?
This group of people who should have been buried in some unknown universe actually survived miraculously and arrived at Alpha?
No! Yaguna Kator arrived at Alpha tens of thousands of years ago. At that time, humans were still in the Stone Age and had not even mastered the most basic metal smelting technology. How did they build a spacecraft that could travel in space?
Not to mention spaceships, even the English letters and Arabic numerals on spaceships had not been invented in that era!
The timeline doesn't match up at all! Even if we take the wormhole into account, this is not possible - through a wormhole, people can only go to the future... Going back to the past is something that only happens in science fiction works.
Time is a one-way, irreversible axis. People who walk on this axis can choose to stop or speed up and run forward, but they cannot go backward.
From a certain perspective, the "past" can only be observed, but it is impossible to truly go back to the past. For example, the light emitted by a star tens of thousands of light years away from the earth takes tens of thousands of years to reach the earth. Therefore, what people on the earth see with their naked eyes is actually what the star looked like tens of thousands of years ago. In the same space and time, perhaps this star has already decayed and collapsed into a dim white dwarf. Of course, it is also possible that it has transformed into a supernova, emitting extremely bright light at the other end of the distant universe.
Of course, this brilliant light can only be seen by people on Earth after tens of thousands of years .
Not to mention distant stars, let’s just talk about the sun, which is the closest star to the earth. It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach the earth from the sun. In other words, the sun that people see when they look up is actually what it looked like eight minutes ago.
Suppose a group of interstellar terrorists blew up the sun with a bomb of extremely large power, large enough to destroy a star. It would take people on Earth eight minutes to see the end-of-the-world scene.
The past can only be seen, but cannot be reached. If a person could really go back to the past, then any of his slightest actions would be enough to trigger a series of paradoxes like the butterfly effect. It is no exaggeration to say that even the entire universe could be destroyed by this time traveler.
This engineering ship that escaped from the solar system...there is no way it could possibly go back tens of thousands of years and become the "Aguna Tor" that was soaked in the magma pool.
Ke Lan squatted down, clasped his hands into fists, and pressed them tightly against his forehead - he felt his mind was in chaos: this memory contained a lot of crucial clues, but when these clues were connected together, they ultimately pointed to one paradox after another.
This was something that couldn't possibly happen, but it happened.
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Alpha star N45 airspace, "Yaguna Kator" anchorage point.
Fleet Zero, "Betelgeuse" heavy cruiser, pilot's lounge.
Colonel Yeager was lying comfortably on the soft imitation leather sofa, while Lieutenant Colonel Hans was sitting next to him with a cup of steaming coffee, staring at the tablet computer on the coffee table with his head down, browsing some information on the internal network.
"Hans, I'm wondering why you can drink such terrible coffee?" Yeger crumpled the napkin in his hand into a ball and threw it over. He originally wanted to throw it into Hans' coffee cup, but because Hans was sitting facing the air outlet of the air conditioner, the strong airflow blew the napkin ball back and it fell at Yeger's feet.
Hans, who was totally unaware of his colleague's prank, took a sip of coffee and said to himself, "Is it unpalatable? I don't think so."
"Ask those who have tasted the coffee you brew, who of them doesn't say it's unpalatable? The best comment I've ever heard is 'this stuff shouldn't be drunk, it should be used to flush the toilet' - come to think of it, you have some skills, even pre-mixed instant coffee, in your hands, can be turned into something even dogs wouldn't drink." Yeager complained.
"Of course dogs don't drink coffee. Coffee is highly toxic to dogs." Hans' fingers slid across the screen of the tablet quickly, and messages kept scrolling one after another. "Speaking of which, two more cruisers were transferred last week. In total, six cruisers and four high-speed battleships have been transferred this month..."
"It's normal. The people above think we are too idle and don't want to waste precious combat power here. Besides, the Ark is facing such a big change now, so it's normal to transfer more warships back. What's more, didn't the consortiums participating in the exploration of 'Aguna Tor' send a lot of empty ships to fill the vacancies?" Yeager said disapprovingly.
"That's a civilian aircraft carrier. With that little armament, it can't be considered a combat force at all." Hans frowned. Since this morning, his right eye has been twitching non-stop, which makes him feel very uneasy. He remembered that a Chinese officer in the army seemed to have said, "What does the left eye twitching mean, and what does the right eye twitching mean?" It seems that one is a disaster? The other is wealth?
But Hans himself couldn't remember which eye represented disaster and which eye represented wealth, not to mention that this was just a superstitious saying.
He would believe it unless he could pick up some money on the ground today.
"What combat power... Do we need combat power? Since its establishment, has Fleet Zero ever participated in any battles, except for the trouble caused by that crazy woman in the research institute?" Yeager shrugged, took out a large bag of potato chips from the corner of the sofa, and tore it open with a swish.
These two pilots were none other than the two transport plane pilots who had dealt with Ke Lan several times before. Thanks to Ke Lan, not only were they not held accountable, but they were promoted all the way. Even though they had not made any military achievements at all, their superiors found a bunch of inexplicable reasons to promote them several levels.
Their military ranks also changed from captain and lieutenant to colonel and lieutenant colonel, and they became the captain and deputy captain of the air combat unit of the "Betelgeuse" heavy cruiser.
"But I always feel that—"
Before Hans could finish his words, the air conditioner that had been blowing cold air suddenly turned off. Then, the lights in the lounge went out. Along with a shrill alarm, the dark red emergency lights embedded in the corners of the wall lit up one by one.
"What's going on?!" Yeager jumped up from the sofa, stretched out his hand to grab the uniform hanging on the back of the sofa, and just as he was about to put his arms into the sleeves, he thought about it and threw the uniform aside, "Hans! You go change your clothes first, I'll go to the hangar first. I just flew over this morning, and the combat uniform should still be in the cockpit!"
"Okay!" Hans drank the coffee in the cup and casually stuffed the tablet into his bag.
A second before he put the tablet in, Hans noticed that the signal bar of the tablet had returned to zero , and the picture below that had not yet been loaded was spinning in circles.
At this moment, a pilot from the air combat unit pushed open the door of the lounge and stumbled in: "Colonel Yeager! Lieutenant Colonel Hans! Level 1 combat readiness! It's level 1 combat readiness! The captain wants you to go to the hangar and wait immediately!"
"What happened? Who is the enemy? Don't be anxious, tell me clearly!" Yeger said loudly.
"We don't know yet! But the airspace where the fleet is located was suddenly attacked by high-intensity electromagnetic interference. All communication equipment is unusable, and even the radar is paralyzed." The pilot said anxiously.
"Electromagnetic interference attack?" Yeger and Hans looked at each other. The airspace where the "Aguna Tor" was parked had been carefully surveyed in advance, and there were no remains of the Alpha civilization, so the electromagnetic interference could not come from the things in the ruins. There were not many indigenous creatures on Alpha that were powerful enough to completely paralyze the communications and radars of the entire fleet... Even if there were, a target like this would have been discovered by the outer reconnaissance forces before they approached.
The anchorage of "Yaguna Kator" is not far from the Ark. If even here can be attacked by indigenous creatures, then the Ark can be considered to be in danger.
"It can't be an indigenous creature." Hans shook his head. "This is a big problem."
"It's the rebels." Yeager insisted, "Something happened."
The two followed the pilot who reported the news and rushed out of the corridor. Hans turned and ran towards the locker room, while Yeager, who was only wearing a tight shirt, strode towards the hangar while frantically pressing his unresponsive mobile phone.
By the time he arrived at the hangar, half of the air combat forces of the "Betelgeuse" heavy cruiser had already been dispatched - with radar and drones unusable and no contact possible with any nearby friendly units, they could only send fighter jets to conduct a dragnet patrol of the nearby airspace.
"What's the situation now?" Yeger pulled over a familiar ground crew member and asked straight to the point.
"It's hard to say." The ground crew shook their heads with a straight face. "Apart from the interference, the fleet has not been attacked yet... As for the pilots and machines that were sent out, no one has returned yet... So we don't know what happened."
"Don't be careless. This is a special period... Just pretend that we are already in battle." Yeager patted the ground crew on the shoulder. "Can my plane take off now?"
"Yes. We just completed a routine inspection at noon. The fuel for the external thrusters has been refilled. The problem with the left cannon's insensitive steering has also been fixed. But you should pay attention to the fact that the hydraulic rod of the right auxiliary wing is seriously worn out. The replacement parts are all used up. New parts will not be delivered until at least next week. Don't perform large-scale emergency changes of direction, otherwise you may not be able to handle it."
"I understand. Help me clear the ejection runway!" Yeager took the helmet from the ground crew and ran quickly towards his fighter plane.
