Well, the result is not what most people expected.

Nothing happened.

"AIC is still alive?"

"Who knows."

One of the members talked and whispered, and then asked Joyce, "Head, did you get its calculations?" ”

"Here."

Joyce pulls out the hard drive and places it on the carrier's terminal. In order to be able to successfully extract this 400-year-old machine, they specially prepared a full-format parser.

After a short period of time, the loading screen flashed, and the system sound sounded in the vehicle car: [The original version of the worm has been found, and it has now been quarantined. 】

“……”

Even if they are prepared, they will still feel discouraged.

Joyce didn't give up. Instead, he set up a quarantine zone in the terminal, ignored the warning, and turned on the hard drive in the quarantine.

A pixel AIC appears on the screen, an irregular sphere with the signature dark blue round holes. And a pair of arms and legs composed of black lines appear, jumping up, falling, and jumping up again in the picture.

The subtitle in the lower line: GAME OVER

Cheerful 8-bit music flows through the interior of the vehicle.

It's a prank in the style of AIC.

"Read hard disk size." Joyce still doesn't give up.

【363kb。 ] Terminal system tone answers.

The vehicle car fell silent, save for the AIC on the screen beating tirelessly.

"We're doing it again." Joyce turned off the hard drive, his pale face showing no joy or sorrow.

The members bowed their heads and remained silent. Against such opponents...... It's really hard to describe.

In any case, they have to face the AIC that may or may not die.

"All staff rest for 12 hours." Joyce said that connect the transport ship and have it ready to drop a few EMP strikers.

"After 12 hours, we re-entered the base."

Just as the weakness of carbon-based organisms is genetic weapons, the weakness of silicon-based organisms like AIC is electromagnetic pulse weapons.

"Roger."

Tess's voice came from the terminal, and immediately after, her voice became rapid: "Please wait a minute, there's a flying object approaching us, it's entering the atmosphere, it's a reconnaissance ship." ”

Joyce's eyes narrowed slightly, and he connected to the other four vehicles: "The plan is canceled, let's get out of here." A reconnaissance ship is approaching. Tess, move over to meet us. ”

The presence of other ships approaching is clearly not a good sign. Whoever comes is an uninvited guest.

The dusk was like a shadow in the sandstorm sky. It's like a behemoth pressing down on the top. The bilge of the transport ship opened, and five vehicle vehicles were towed back to the transport ship one after another.

The members were taken to a healing break, and the three of Joyce made their way to the captain's quarters.

"How far is the reconnaissance ship from us." Joyce asked.

The captain of the bridge quick operation replied: "Above our heads, 2000 kilometers above the atmosphere. ”

The captain brings up a picture and maximizes it. This is a picture captured by a small detector.

In the thin atmosphere, a streamlined reconnaissance ship floats smoothly, and a green clover pattern sprayed on the hull of the ship flashes in the picture.

"Liberal sect ......," Chen Yue recognized, frowning slightly. Are you sure they're targeting us? ”

She didn't remember that the Eternal Life Society was at odds with the Sect of Nature.

"They stopped right above us, and I don't think there would be such a coincidence." The captain replied, looking sideways at Joyce. "Do you want to get in touch with the other side?"

"No, these freaks who consider themselves the heirs of Earth are not going to be kind to us." Joyce's black hair was stuck to his forehead, and his whole body was tired and weak. It takes a lot of effort just to blink before you can open your eyelids.

"Turn the engine power to the maximum and avoid them."

Joyce gave the order.

The message soon sounded throughout the ship. Several people from the captain's room came to the wall and fixed their bodies to the wall with a strong magnetic device.

[RS-5 power engine full power start countdown.] 10…… 9……】

The transport, which floated smoothly in the air, gradually rose up, and the bow of the ship was tilted towards the sky.

【3…… 2…… 1. The engine starts. 】

At the end of the countdown, the balancing engine ceased and the ship briefly went into weightlessness, with all unsecured objects floating in the air. And in the next second - a behemoth tail flame hundreds of meters long, several times larger than that of a transport ship, erupted!

Floating objects fall at several times the speed. A canopy-like sound barrier appears around the bow of the boat. The pressure caused the crew to cling to the ground, their muscles rippling in circles, and their bodies almost pressed against the wall.

A few minutes later, the spacecraft passed through the Van Allen radiation belt and successfully entered space.

The ship's speed tends to level off. Joyce was the first to free himself from the wall. The captain and Chen Yue followed.

Musu and Tess stayed on the wall. One fell asleep, and the other felt that it was unraveling the trouble, and it didn't affect her thinking anyway.

"Their location." Joyce asked.

The captain pulls up the radar panel, which is displayed on the holographic screen. A red dot is at the very edge of the radar. That is, he didn't keep up, and he didn't leave.

"They're following us, and they're really looking for trouble." Chen Yue snorted softly.

"It doesn't matter, no matter what the other party's purpose is, they can't attack us when they get to the universe." Joyce stared deeply at the red dot and said, not knowing what he was thinking.

In fact, he had made a mistake in his judgment.

The speed of the reconnaissance ship is a cut of the speed of the transport ship. In particular, the two remain less than 70,000 kilometers away – a negligible distance in space.

At the moment when the chase began, a beam of energy shot out from the reconnaissance ship, and in the blink of an eye, it caught up with the transport.

A plasma shield lights up, blocking the attack. The tremors spread throughout the transport, and the crew woke up from their deep sleep.

They tried to call for help, only to find that all communications were locked and unable to send messages.

A non-combat-capable transport ship is inferior to a merchant ship. No matter how unwilling the members of the Eternal Life Society were, they had no choice but to flee.

The transport ship turned to the asteroid field, and then it was pursued for several days.

The weapons carried by the reconnaissance ship are not enough for it to quickly destroy the transport ship, and it can only constantly consume the latter's energy.

Ten days flew by.

In the vast solar system, no one has spotted these two chasing ships. Joyce They crossed the asteroid belt, and Jupiter appeared in view. It's a new plan: to shake off the pursuing enemy with Jupiter's gravitational slingshot.

And just three days later, just as the transport ship was about to enter Jupiter's gravitational range, a beam of energy broke through the plasma shield.

The transport ship runs out of energy.

Several members of the crew who were close to the rift were caught off guard, and along with the fragments of the ship's hull, they were sucked into space.

"All hands on the escape pod!" Joyce, who had been sleepless for several days, had bloodshot eyes in his eyes and a grim face to give the final order.

The crew of the ship hurriedly entered the escape pod and ejected from the stern end of the transport ship.

Joyce, Chen Yue and the others sat separately from Mu Su in the two escape pods.

Chen Yue lay in front of the window and watched Mu Su's escape pod fly out side by side with them.

At this moment, a beam of energy came from the sky, piercing through the escape pod.

Chen Yue's eyes reflected this short-blooming explosion.