Volume 3 Chapter 52: Capturing Aliens
"Making a planet fly? That's unscientific."
"Not only that, according to the optical imaging results we just observed, this planet was flying at superluminal speed before. It was only because its speed exceeded the speed of light that we could not see it with our optical imaging. It was not until it began to slow down to below the speed of light that we saw the image that just caught up with it."
"Making a planet fly faster than the speed of light? Even an advanced civilization can't do this."
"So, our secret trade of Chaos Energy was discovered by a higher civilization?"
"Run."
In an instant, the two parties who had just gathered together and were about to complete the transaction, instantly fled in all directions.
The temporary caravan ran the fastest. Ten warships of different appearances flew in all directions like birds and beasts.
It was originally a temporary group put together to do a job.
If there is hope of winning, then they can naturally maintain their cooperative relationship.
But once faced with a desperate situation, they would naturally run as fast as they could and sell out their teammates without any hesitation.
Even though the captains of these ten warships were all coveting the curvature engines that were about to be obtained, they could not care less at this time .
They even dropped the small spaceships containing chaos energy there.
This small spaceship was originally intended to hand over the curvature engine directly to the Republic of Mali to complete the transaction.
Now that they don’t have the warp engine, they simply don’t want it anymore.
We only hope that the higher civilizations are interested in the chaos energy and will let them go.
Although the people in the Republic of Mali did not flee directly, they were almost the same.
Under unified command, the ten warships directly discarded the ten curvature engines that had been released from the ship's hold, and then the ten warships began to accelerate in curvature in unison in one direction.
Although he was heartbroken, the commander knew very well that compared to the ten curvature engines, the most important thing at this moment was not to be caught by the advanced civilization.
Otherwise, the trouble will be huge. When the higher civilization comes directly to demand accountability, the entire Mali civilization may face a devastating disaster.
As for the ten discarded curvature engines, there were no traces of their Mali civilization on them, because the curvature engines were originally traded from other advanced civilizations.
Although the loss of ten curvature engines made the fleet of the Republic of Mali very sad, the commander still made a choice at the critical moment.
Just like that, both parties simply discarded the items they were going to trade and turned around and ran away.
Without any hesitation.
It was simply that the items they were trading this time were too sensitive.
If it was another transaction, such as the Mali civilization using the curvature engine in exchange for some precious materials from the caravan, then both sides would not behave like this .
When facing an unknown advanced civilization, as long as you remain humble and don't be arrogant, the advanced civilization will also be reasonable and will not do anything to you for no reason.
The curvature engine is very precious in the eyes of ordinary interstellar civilizations like the Mali civilization, but in the eyes of advanced civilizations, it is nothing and they will not make a fuss about it.
However, once chaotic energy is involved, even advanced civilizations will lose their composure in an instant.
Advanced civilizations have gone to war over half a unit of chaos energy more than once or twice.
How can you, an ordinary civilization, take away the chaotic energy in front of me?
Because of this, both parties in the transaction will turn around and run away as soon as they see the appearance of advanced civilization.
Now that he had run away, he had only lost the trading items.
If you get caught, you'll lose more than just the trading items.
So both parties made a common choice at the first opportunity.
"Warp drive at full power."
"Space distortion has reached the rated value."
"Entering the curvature acceleration phase."
In an instant, the ten warships of the fleeing temporary caravan and the ten warships of the Republic of Mali that acted in a unified manner all entered the curvature flight state at the fastest speed.
Since the curvature engine does not involve kinetic acceleration, but instead moves by dragging the target through curved space, it can quickly reach the highest speed in a short period of time.
But this short period of time also takes time.
So the fleeing warship was dragged by the space bubble formed by the curved space, first at one thousandth of the speed of light, then at one hundredth of the speed of light, and further at one tenth of the speed of light, rapidly climbing upwards.
It looked like the speed was about to reach the limit of twice the speed of light, but no one dared to let down their guard.
Because everyone knows that the curvature engines sold by advanced civilizations are definitely not the most advanced. The curvature engines used by advanced civilizations themselves are definitely faster than twice the speed of light.
So now they can only pray that the advanced civilization that suddenly arrived is much more interested in chaotic energy than they are, so that they will have a chance to escape successfully.
"Human Lin Xu, the target is starting to escape, should we capture him?" Taiyin asked.
"Catch." Lin Xu said concisely.
Lin Xu didn't understand why these aliens ran away as soon as they saw the Earth.
But this was the first time that Lin Xu had truly encountered aliens. Before that, whether it was the people on the White Star or the people on the Test Site Planet No. 1, they were all human creations that had various relationships with humans.
So Lin Xu really wanted to know something about this star field from these aliens.
It can be seen from the fact that they trade with each other that they belong to different civilizations.
In other words, there may be communication between different civilizations in this star field.
So Lin Xu also wanted to communicate with them and learn more about this star field.
So with Lin Xu's order, tens of thousands of autonomous mechanical aggregates that had been lurking in the asteroid belt immediately took action.
Compared with the billions of autonomous mechanical aggregates on Earth, tens of thousands of autonomous mechanical aggregates are naturally a small matter.
But when these autonomous mechanical aggregates no longer hid themselves and acted completely undisguisedly, tens of thousands of autonomous mechanical aggregates the size of aircraft carriers rushed out from behind asteroids and instantly spread throughout the asteroid belt.
Suddenly, the sky was covered with crowds.
These autonomous mechanical aggregates naturally have no way to fly faster than the speed of light, but they carry curvature engines with them.
It is composed of one hundred autonomous mechanical aggregates, each carrying a curvature engine with a diameter of about one kilometer.
Tens of thousands of autonomous mechanical aggregates carry hundreds of curvature engines.
One hundred autonomous mechanical aggregates disintegrated instantly, and then wrapped a curvature engine inside. After a complex mechanical sound, a temporary ship about three kilometers long and capable of superluminal navigation was completed.
Just like that, tens of thousands of autonomous mechanical aggregates combined with hundreds of curvature engines, in the blink of an eye, hundreds of temporary spaceships about three thousand meters long were formed.
At the same time, the warp engine started and chased after the twenty fleeing warships.
