The Milky Way is hanging upside down, the stars and sand are like waterfalls, somewhere in the Kunde frontline area, a remnant of the Kunde main fleet is slowly cruising in the universe.

Not long ago, this fleet, codenamed "Sea Flag", experienced a fierce battle, and was raided by an imperial general, and the command ship and the escort team desperately broke through and escaped with their tails broken.

Now there are only more than twenty frigates left next to the command ship, and the other warships will either be annihilated or scattered.

The naval flagship is subordinate to the Kunde Third Space Corps, and the commander of this fleet is the famous general of the Third Corps, Ollett, known as the rising star of the Third Corps, a few years ago, the marshal of the Third Corps has reached the age of retirement, and Ollett is regarded as the first candidate for the position of marshal of the Third Corps.

It's just that due to the receipt of information about the downed spacecraft a few years ago, the decision to mobilize for war was made at the top level, and all officers were postponed in retirement and all drafted, and the matter was delayed.

At this moment, the naval flagship, which had just suffered a defeat, was sneaking around while waiting for the next order from the headquarters.

In the bridge of the command ship, the atmosphere was silent and depressed, and everyone was immersed in the grief of defeat and the loss of their comrades.

Oliot stood silently in front of the porthole, leaving only his back to all the operators and lieutenants in the room, his carapace the color of sad green mixed with angry red.

In the war just now, he was almost led by the nose by the commander-in-chief of the opponent, and the war was lost for part of his reasons.

Everyone knew that the commander was the most stressed person, and they didn't dare to go up and disturb him.

The adjutant hesitated for a long time before he mustered up the courage to walk up to Ollette and said softly, "Sir, we ......"

"Needless to say."

Ollette turned around, his body gradually changed back to calm blue, and said slowly: "This is not my personal failure, but the failure of the civilization heritage, I am not losing to the opponent, but the entire civilization of the enemy." ”

Ollette knew that his commander's talent was not comparable to that of the Imperial generals, but he believed that it was not just a matter of individual ability, but also the difference in the background of civilization.

In the battle, he made his most delicate operation and decision-making so far, and asked himself about this performance, which can even be regarded as an important course case by the Military Academy, but what shocked him was that the enemy's reaction was incredibly fast, and he recognized his arrangement almost instantly, just like the two sides playing chess, and the enemy saw through his backhand after racking his brains and ambushing ten moves at a glance, as if he had memorized a chess game.

Encountering such an adversary is a heavy blow to the commander's self-confidence.

It doesn't mean that Ollett's level is not good, in fact, he is already a famous general in the standards of the Kunde clan, and this situation occurs, on the surface, the reason is that the ability of the famous generals of the empire is far beyond him, but the deeper reason is the gap in civilization background.

The rise of the three civilizations is accompanied by the wails of countless races, step by step from the flames of war, and all the war cases are written in the curriculum of the military academy, so that no matter what situation the officers encounter, they can instantly come up with the corresponding solutions, and their thinking is more flexible.

And the Kunde have experienced too few interstellar wars, and the war cases are far from being compared with the Empire, and all the tactics used by the officers are old things that have been eliminated for many years in the explored universe, and this is the difference in the background.

After actual battles, Ollette was pessimistic, he did not see the possibility of winning a local war at all, and now the defeat of various fleets is the best proof.

In fact, he is not alone, unlike the radicalism of the Kunde high-level, these soldiers who are fighting on the front line are basically pessimistic about this war.

They resented that their homeland was coveted by the enemy, but they did not consider the sacrifice in this war necessary, but the military order is like a mountain, and the order from the top is the will of the soldiers.

Sighing secretly, putting away these pessimistic emotions, Ollette looked at the adjutant and asked in a deep voice:

"Is the command order?"

"Uh...... He has just sent it, and he told us to stand by here to recover the scattered fleet, and then go to join the main fleet of the Third Corps and plan a round of attacks on the enemy's stargates. ”

When Ollett heard this, he slapped the table and said angrily: "! Don't retreat yet? Is Command really crazy?! ”

We've just been dispersed, and we're going to stay in this dangerous area to find our old parts, and the enemy won't chase them down!

And the main fleet has been routed like this, and it is necessary to forcibly converge and attack the enemy's stargate? This is to send us to death!

Many officers in the room felt that there was something wrong with this tactical arrangement, but they dared not speak out, and they all stared at Orelett, waiting for the commander's decision.

Oliert paced back and forth two steps, and said with anger suppressed, "Contact the marshal for me, and I will personally ask him what such a decision is all about!" ”

The adjutant nodded, operated immediately, the communication interface popped up on the virtual screen, and after waiting for a few seconds, the opposite side connected the call, and the figure of the marshal of the Third Corps appeared on the screen.

"Oliot, I heard you've been attacked, but luckily you're still alive."

"There's luck." Ollette took a deep breath, "I received an order from the command, we are planning to attack the enemy's stargate?" ”

"Yes, that's an order from command."

"Don't you think there's a problem? The tide of the battle has deviated from the original plan, and now is not the time to continue the war, which will only sacrifice more troops in vain. ”

"I know, I also think it's time to retreat, I'm negotiating with the higher-ups, before that, follow orders."

Hearing this, Ollette fell silent and hung up the communication.

The adjutant cautiously asked, "Sir, what should we do now?" ”

Orelett glanced at him and suddenly said, "How many more warships do we have?" ”

"Uh, twenty-four."

"Gather all the captains together and pull them into the communication channel."

Hearing this, everyone immediately took action, and Ollette stood in place with his hands in his hands and waited for a while, and there were more avatars on the screen one after another, which were all the remaining captains.

At this time, Ollette made a gesture and slowly spoke:

"Remember, I'll only say the next words......

He uttered an unnourished encouragement and repeated the command's orders, all the while making various gestures, all the captains staring intently at him.

"Okay, that's all there is to say, let's do it, everybody."

Finally, Ollette put down his hand and ended his speech.

The captain's avatars on the screen dimmed one after another.

At this moment, the adjutant glanced at another command screen and exclaimed: "Sir, all the captains have turned off the intelligence core and blocked all external information, we can't contact them!" ”

Ollette had expected it, and nodded calmly, "Very good, you go and turn off the intelligence core of our spaceship." ”

Everyone was taken aback, suddenly understood something, and was a little incredulous.

What does this mean...... Are you going to be a deserter?!

"This, this ......"

The adjutant was stunned.

"Why don't you go yet?!" Ollette glared, and his tone became sharply stern.

The adjutant hesitated, but ran to make arrangements, and soon asked people to turn off the intelligence core of the command ship.

In this way, the remnants of this sea flagship team have become a ghost fleet that has lost contact with the outside world.

Ollette slowly exhaled a breath, looked at the puzzled crowd next to him, and explained, "I'm sorry, it's all about prudence, if I'm not mistaken, our quantum network has been completely infiltrated by the enemy." ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was surprised.

Glancing at it, Ollette said slowly: "I know the marshal very well, he is a rigid soldier, he will never question the military orders of the high-level, although this is an extraordinary period, everyone may change, but I can't let go of any doubts, I suspect that the one just now is not the marshal at all."

It is likely that the enemy has infiltrated our chain of command, and you all understand it, and I don't need to say much about the consequences, so the war is over, and I can no longer act according to their orders, and now I can only save myself. The gesture I just made was a special set of codes, known only to a few, and I told all the captains to cut the link, and from now on, we were on our own. ”

Everyone was stunned by these words, and they couldn't accept such a large amount of information for a while, and their brains went blank.

The adjutant gritted his teeth and plucked up his courage to say, "Sir, this is to be a deserter!" ”

Orelett was not angry, and glanced at him faintly.

"This is a battle that must be lost, no matter what you think, I will not send the only remaining subordinates to die on the battlefield again, deserters? No, maybe we're Kunde...... The Last Survivor. ”

"So where do we go now?"

"The farther away from here, the better."

Oliot looked out of the porthole, his gaze into the depths of the starry sky.

……

"I think something might be wrong with the route."

In a cramped spaceship room, several Kunde people dressed in ordinary clothes formed a circle.

This is one of the ships of the migrant fleet, and it is carried by civilians, and most of the people on board are uneasy and confused about the future, and the atmosphere is low.

Because of the large population, each ship is a group of civilians crammed into a room, and in this room, all brothers born in the same litter are related to each other.

"Big brother, what did you find?" A diminutive brother asked.

The eldest brother in this litter of brothers is a burly Pippi shrimp with a low tone:

"I have a friend who is a crew member on the guide ship, and he told me an inside information that according to the plan, yesterday the fleet was supposed to arrive on a planet for a short rest, but yesterday there was no encounter with the planet, and the fleet kept moving."

"Could it be that they have adjusted their plans? Why don't you ask your friends again? ”

"My friend has never been able to reach him, and I can't ask anyone." The eldest brother said in a deep voice: "I think there may be something wrong. ”

"Brother, could it be that you are too sensitive, if there is a problem, the above will definitely notify you."

"I have a bad instinct that I can't tell." The eldest brother shook his head.

"Hey, what do you want to do so much, and you can't help, just let us follow the arrangement of the fleet." One of the brothers said casually.

At this moment, the youngest brother next to him suddenly spoke, "Big brother is right, there is a problem with the route of the fleet, and we are returning to the same way." ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at him.

"Don't talk nonsense, how did you find out?"

The younger brother pointed to the porthole, and everyone looked over, only to see that there was a simple graffiti on the porthole, drawing a series of circles, from small to large in diameter, and at this moment, there was a planet outside the window, which happened to fit perfectly into the circle in the middle.

Seeing this, everyone's faces changed.

Living in a house, everyone has no secrets, some time ago a planet appeared in the fleet's field of vision, and the younger brother used a paintbrush to outline the outline of the planet on the porthole every day, the circle changed from small to large, and from large to small, changing every day, representing the distance and proximity.

And at this moment, the planet actually coincided with the outline of a few days ago, and everyone understood what this meant.

"I'll ask!"

Seeing this, the eldest brother suddenly couldn't sit still, and everyone hurriedly followed.

The group hurried through the second half of the cabin, which was as crowded as a refugee camp, and came to the middle of the cabin passage, where they found a few soldiers on board and reported the situation.

"You said there was a problem with the route?" One soldier plucked out his ear socket and said impatiently: "It's not something you should worry about, what to worry about." ”

"It's true, I can show you the evidence, I ......"

"Alright, alright." The soldier waved his hand, "The guide ship has a star map, if it really deviates from the course, it will definitely be adjusted immediately, you can go back and wait with peace of mind." ”

The eldest brother had no choice but to take a group of brothers back and wait.

However, after three days, they stared at the graffiti on the portholes, and found that the fleet was still returning the way it came, and there was no adjustment at all.

The eldest brother contacted the friend who revealed the inside story every day, and only got in touch with the other side on the third day, but the answer from the other side made his heart half cold.

"You said you went off course? No, no, no, our star chart shows that the route is exactly right...... Didn't come across the supply planet I mentioned? Oh oh, this is a mistake in long-distance observation, the star map is not too inaccurate, we have reported to the above, the above has updated our star map, and now it is no problem...... What graffiti records? Hmm, you may be mistaken, it's a new planet marked by the updated star map, not the one I've seen before, anyway, the navigator on my side shows that the route is always advancing. ”

turned off the communicator with a cold face, and the eldest brother was silent for a long time.

Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, he said, "Do you believe me, or do you believe in the people above?" ”

The many brothers looked at each other, a little hesitant.

"What do you want to do?" The little brother couldn't help but ask.

"My instinct is getting stronger, there must be something wrong here, maybe someone up there is sending us to jump into the fire pit." The eldest brother lowered his voice, "I don't want to stay on the spaceship, I'm going to steal supplies and rescue pods, and we'll run away by ourselves." ”

"Are you crazy?!"

Some people were stunned, "This is looking for death, the fleet will definitely capture us back, even if we succeed, the stolen materials will be consumed sooner or later, there is no food, no fuel, what will we do then?" And do you have a star chart? I don't know the star map, so how do I run? ”

"Star map and rescue pod permissions, I can get them from friends, as for supplies...... The medium-sized rescue pod has complete facilities, and as soon as we arrive on that planet, we can use the built-in collector to replenish the fuel stock, which is enough for us for many years. Solving the food problem requires greenhouse incubators, crop seeds, and a nutrient paste maker, which can be obtained on board, and while the crops are grown, we can sleep in freezers. The eldest brother said in a low voice: "I have been thinking about the way back for three days, and this is not a decision I made as soon as I slapped my head. ”

Everyone still shook their heads.

A large army that broke away from the clansmen to build a new home, and how many people ran to the unknown universe to survive?

Just thinking about it, I think this plan is crazy!

"I'll go with you." At this time, the younger brother stood up and shrugged his shoulders, "Big brother, you know me, I don't like to be bound by rules, since I have left my homeland, I don't plan to continue to live that kind of stable life with the crowd, the universe is so big, I want to see it myself, you say I like adventure, pursue excitement, in short, count me in." ”

The eldest brother nodded and looked at the other brothers, "I know that everyone has concerns, the universe is too big, and if there are only a few of us, it will be a loneliness and fear that touches the deepest part of the heart, and maybe I will be wrong in the end, but I am not willing to wait passively, and I don't force everyone to go with me." ”

The second child hesitated for a while, turned his heart sideways, and said: "Big brother, I will also go with you, you are the person I trust the most, I trust your judgment." ”

Hearing this, more people were shaken.

Someone shook his head helplessly, "Alas, forget it, let's go, from the moment I leave my homeland, I will treat this life as if this life is dead, what if I take a little more risk, we are brothers and cannot be separated." ”

This group of brothers grew up together since childhood, and they have long been accustomed to holding together, and after some entanglement, everyone finally agreed with the eldest brother's plan. Miraculously, after making up my mind, the previous hesitation and anxiety disappeared and turned into unparalleled excitement and anticipation.

"Big brother, I have a proposal, we should at least bring a girl."

As soon as these words came out, everyone burst into laughter, the tense atmosphere dissipated, and the room was filled with a cheerful air.

"That's right, we should bring more than one."

"Haha, maybe we will become a wandering civilization in the future."

……

In the next few days, the group of brothers went their separate ways, using their own connections to quietly prepare, because the immigration spaceship carried a large number of daily supplies, the things that everyone needed could be found on the ship, and the only problem was how to get it.

With guts, money, connections, and a little luck, everyone used various methods to raise most of the required materials and complete the stepping point.

Soon it was the day to do it, and the progress was unbelievably smooth, and everyone quietly sneaked into the inlet of the rescue cabin according to the information obtained from the stepping point, stepped on a medium-sized rescue cabin, turned off the intelligent core, and switched to the manual control mode.

The eldest brother's palm stopped above the launch button, and he didn't press it for a long time.

"Have you figured it out, as long as you press this button, there will be no turning back, and if we are caught, we will be treated as prisoners."

"It's not much different from the prisoners now, the people above look at us more like a bunch of hard laborers." The younger brother smiled freely, "It's just a name changed, it's just called Population Resources, and I have long wanted to get rid of this identity." ”

"Nonsense." The eldest brother shook his head and smiled, and slapped the button hard.

Snort –

The rescue pod suddenly fell and shot into space.

After breaking away from the spaceship, everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look out of the porthole, but they were suddenly stunned.

They saw that the other ships in the immigrant fleet also shot out of the sparse rescue pod, like scattered sparks, scattering in all directions.

……

Most of the month passed in the blink of an eye.

On the other border of the Kunde territory, the core fleet of the Kunde command jumped out of the stargate, and then turned around and recovered the retreating stargate.

"Alright, we've arrived at the target area, and according to the last coded order, all the surviving fleets will converge in this area."

In the headquarters, the Kunde high-ranking gathered to check the messages sent back by other troops before the last disconnection from the network.

"The scorched earth troops have sent a report that the ghost energy in various places has been successfully detonated, and the plan has been implemented...... The other fleets outside have sent reports that they are retreating in the direction we have specified, and the situation is fine. ”

The Kunde leader breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing this, everyone's spirits improved a little.

The situation is finally getting back on track.

Because of the fear of intelligence leakage, the command did not dare to maintain a long-term link, so it gave up real-time communication, and at the same time did not dare to transmit orders normally, for fear of being intercepted by the enemy, so they changed it to a special code.

However, before everyone could take a breath, the radar suddenly sounded an alarm!

"Attention, attention, an unknown large fleet has been spotted ahead!"

The crowd was suddenly shocked.

"How could you meet a fleet here! Is there an ambush?! ”

"Let's see if it's an enemy?!"

Many high-ranking officials hurriedly conveyed the order, and only a few seconds later, the captain sent a report.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have confirmed that the other side is not an enemy, but our fleet."

Hearing this, many high-level executives immediately breathed a sigh of relief, feeling almost scared out of the heart attack.

"I was scared to death, it turned out to be my own person."

"It should be that the troops who received the order to converge arrived in advance, and the speed was even faster than us."

At this moment, the captain spoke again, and his tone became extremely strange:

"You misunderstood, the other party is not our armed fleet, but the immigrant fleet that has been sent out a long time ago, I don't know why, they all ran back!"

The words fell, and the audience became dead.

All the high-level executives present were stunned for a second, and suddenly their minds were in turmoil!