Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 820: Space Anchor
"Are...are you kidding me?" Major General Alexander's face twitched violently. His finger hovering on the touch screen hesitated for a long time, but he still did not press the "Confirm" button.
That's a "God"... Using a mortal army to attack a God...
Even if one could use the phrase "throwing an egg against a rock" to describe this foolish behavior, Major General Alexander felt that it was a blasphemy against God.
In front of that seemingly frail figure, he, a general who had experienced hundreds of battles, could not muster the courage to fight against it... That deep feeling of powerlessness and despair was like a cliff tens of thousands of meters high collapsing in front of you, huge pieces of broken rock falling on your head, and the whole land being submerged in an instant... You can't stop it, and you can't escape...
For soldiers, death is not scary. What is scary is that before death comes, there is nothing they can do...or in other words, nothing they do has any meaning.
"An unknown... humanoid creature appeared on the battlefield." Major General Alexander replied with trembling fingers. He originally wanted to call it "god", but after thinking about it, he changed it to "humanoid creature". "It...it is very powerful. It destroyed the black fleet in an incomprehensible way...Even if Fleet Zero pursues Yaguna Tor, it will probably face the same fate as the black fleet."
Major General Alexander really wanted to ask about the origins of the Black Fleet, but he also knew that now was not the time... In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, but this answer had not yet been confirmed by the "officials".
However, considering that the Black Fleet did not cause too serious damage to Fleet Zero, Alexander would not have much hatred towards the undead crew members... but the lack of hatred did not mean that he would gladly accept this mission which was no different from committing suicide.
"Fleet Zero cannot complete this mission. I cannot let the officers and soldiers carry it out..." Major General Alexander hesitated and changed the 'suicide mission' to 'impossible mission'. "I cannot let the officers and soldiers carry out an impossible mission. That would be irresponsible..."
He had just typed half of this sentence, and before he had even sent it out, the other side had already sent a new message: "You are not responsible for the results of the mission. This is an order from the Undead Crew. Execute it."
It was obvious that the control system of the "New Dawn" was under the surveillance of the Undead Crew. Not only the words written by Major General Alexander on the screen, but even every subtle movement of everyone in the bridge could be seen clearly by them.
"But!" Major General Alexander murmured, breath choking, "As long as that 'person' is there, we can't stop Yaguna Kotor!"
After saying this, Major General Alexander realized that his heart was beating very fast - this was the first time he was so brave and dared to question and resist the orders from the Undead Crew again and again.
Perhaps it was because the "miracle" he just witnessed shocked him so much that his awe of the undead crew had faded a lot... he thought.
After all, even the "omnipotent" undead crew members couldn't do such a thing: with just a wave of their hands, they could destroy an extremely powerful fleet in an instant... Any normal person would have some doubts about the world after seeing such a thing.
"That ability cannot be used continuously. Now is Fleet Zero's only chance." The Undead Crew's reply was very tough. "If you refuse to follow orders, we will directly transfer control of Fleet Zero."
I had no right to refuse at all... Major General Alexander gave a miserable smile, bit his back teeth hard, and then reluctantly pressed the "Confirm" button that had been jumping for nearly two minutes.
"Understood. Fleet Zero will immediately carry out the mission of pursuing and intercepting Yaguna Kator."
"very good."
Communication interrupted.
The external surveillance camera of the "New Dawn" was still under emergency repair, and Major General Alexander could only look in the direction of Agunactor through the porthole of the bridge - even if the undead crew members did not lie to him, that kind of miraculous ability could only be used once in a short period of time... But even if there was no "person", could the Zero Fleet really stop Agunactor?
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Tower of Babel, second floor.
Looking at the huge ship of Yaguna Tor slowly turning, Ke Lan couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
He originally thought that it would be impossible for him to become the second "prophet", but he never expected that he would end up in this step.
Perhaps the prophet chose to betray the Ark and escape to the wilderness just to protect himself... But later, as he learned more and more, his thoughts naturally changed ...
Of course, it is impossible to whitewash what the Prophet and the heretic sect did, but Ke Lan obviously no longer believes that the Undead Crew will...
At least for now, it seems that if the so-called "plan" of the Undead Crew continues, human civilization will not only fail to survive for long, but is instead speeding towards destruction.
Perhaps, I should borrow the power of "Joker" and have a good talk with the Undead Crew - a talk on a truly equal footing, rather than a meaningless vote.
He at least needs to know how much ...
Yagunakotor, the core power room.
"Full left rudder, turn completed." Standing in front of the control console, Layton was holding a "rudder" simulated by a holographic projection. Although he was only controlling the Yagunakotor through "physical means" and did not have a direct neural connection with the ancient warship, as long as he came into contact with the control console, the information flow would involuntarily penetrate into the brain of the person in contact... Just by turning a direction, Layton felt that his head hurt as if it was going to split.
"Enter the predetermined coordinates, the southwest border of the Gray Mist Forest, 'N37.63, E81.95', Yaguna Kotor, forward two."
Layton thought that the engine of the Yaguna Tor would accelerate instantly, and he was even prepared to fight against the G-force, but the battleship just trembled a little, and did not shoot out like an arrow from a bow as he imagined.
"What's going on? Is there not enough energy or a problem with the engine system?" Layton asked Ke Lan - although Ke Lan gave him the control, only Ke Lan could see the detailed status of Yaguna Kator. Of course, even if Ke Lan wanted to open this permission to others, others simply could not bear the huge amount of information that would flow into their heads after the neural connection... Even when Ke Lan first connected with Yaguna Kator, his self-consciousness almost collapsed... In the face of such an overwhelming information impact, even normal thinking became extremely difficult.
"No, except for the energy shield generator, everything is normal for Yaguna Kator." Ke Lan replied, "There is a problem with the surrounding environment."
"Surrounding environment?" Layton was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean?"
"Space anchor." Ze Luo's voice appeared in Layton's ears, "The space around Yaguna Kotor has been locked, as if it was anchored in place. If this space anchor is not released, even if the engine output is doubled, it will not be possible to escape."
"Space anchor... Why do I feel like I've heard of this thing before?" Just as the hound was talking to himself, Layton, who was controlling the Yaguna Tor, turned pale and his breathing became much heavier.
"What's wrong, big guy? Looking at you, do you know this thing?" The hound looked at Layton and asked.
"Of course I know! This is a technological product of the Alpha civilization that was discovered from the S-level ruins No. 001 fifty years ago. Its main function is to solidify space... But there are only four of these things in total. It is very difficult to activate, shut down, or transfer them. I didn't expect that the guys in the Undead Crew would even use this thing."
"Damn, now that you mention it, I remember it!" Hound slapped his forehead hard - although "space anchor" is the official name given to this device by the research institute, among the people, this thing has a more resounding nickname, called "the magic needle that stabilizes the sea."
This nickname is so famous that many people only know it as "Dinghai Shenzhen" but have no idea about its official scientific name "space anchor"... Although the official documents all use the term "space anchor", such documents are not visible to ordinary Ark residents. Even a hound from the military would find it difficult to come into contact with such things.
However, most people, including ordinary people on the Ark, knew about the existence of the "Sea Stabilizing Needle" - the Ark was so huge and its mass was extremely astonishing. If an object of this mass were to stop directly on the surface of the planet, it would definitely sink into the ground under the action of gravity. Not only that, the frame structure of the Ark would become extremely fragile under its huge weight, and it might even collapse under its own weight without any external attack.
Even during the preparation stage for landing, the advance team sent out by the Ark had collected a large number of anti-gravity devices and pre-installed them on the Ark, but according to calculations, the gravity that the anti-gravity devices could offset was still not enough to meet the conditions for the Ark to land on the surface of Alpha.
If the Ark can only stay in Alpha's low-Earth orbit, then whether it is mining and transporting resources on the planet or sending various personnel to various parts of the planet, it must use vehicles capable of breaking through the atmosphere is very likely that sending a batch of resources to the Ark will require consuming energy several times the value of the transported objects, which is obviously a very unprofitable deal.
This problem was not solved until the four "stabilizing needles" were discovered.
The four "stabilizing needles" are arranged at the core structural positions of the four major areas of the Ark, namely the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest. They ensure that the main load-bearing structure of the Ark will not be crushed by gravity through spatial solidification. For the Ark and the people living on it, the role of these four "space anchors" is exactly the same as the "stabilizing needles" in Chinese mythology.
But in the Alexander incident, the main body of the Ark was severely damaged, and one of the four "space anchors" was "empty" - at least, this "space anchor" would be temporarily useless until the main body of the Ark was repaired.
Ke Lan and the others never expected that this space anchor would appear here.
"What should we do? Can we break free?" asked the hound anxiously.
"Difficult... Old dog, do you know that in order to save energy, the space anchors on the Ark usually only maintain 10% to 20% of their output power, and now... it is obvious that we are facing a space anchor operating at full power." Layton curled his lips and laughed angrily, "Even if the Aguna Kator is equipped with a jump engine, even if the remaining energy is enough for the Aguna Kator to start this jump engine, we can't escape... I suspect that the space anchor was originally built to counter jump technology. Using it against us now, hey... it's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito."
"However," Layton suddenly changed the subject, "To maintain the space anchor at full power, the energy consumption must be an astronomical figure. As long as we can hold on until the energy supply of this space anchor is exhausted, this 'cage' will naturally disappear."
"How long will this take?" asked Zofia.
"It's hard to say, at least three to five days, at most... maybe ten days or half a month." Leighton shrugged.
"Three to five days... Even if the undead crew doesn't send out follow-up troops to attack us, this time is enough to build a permanent power supply line connecting to the Ark. By then, this space anchor will lock us here for a whole year, not to mention ten days or half a month." The Hound frowned and said, "We must find a way to break through it as quickly as possible."
"Breaking through the space anchor... It's easy to say, as if I can just step on the accelerator and rush out, but in fact..." Layton pointed at the virtual operating console in front of him, "I have already pushed the acceleration gear to 'Forward 4', which is 15% of the speed of light... But Yaguna Kator still didn't move at all."
Layton continued, "Now the only thing left to try is the jump engine, but the remaining energy of the Aguna Kator is not enough to start it..."
