Chapter 561: Time to Run?
(Thanks to readers for their comments.) The Blue Star Group is actually more akin to the WTO with a little bit of UN capabilities. Although the military strength of the member states is strong, only a few peacekeeping forces can be mobilized. Therefore, there may be thousands of Luo Jinxian within the scope of the Blue Star Group, but there are few that the Blue Star Group can mobilize. Not to mention that a large number of Da Luo Jin Immortals belong to the 'wild' nature. )
In the small spaceship command room, empty cans were all over the floor.
At this time, hearing the roar of the Hedong lion of the regiment commander's wife, the crew obediently piled the unopened cans on the table beside the woman. By the way, he glanced at the head of the regiment: You said you should fight for some gas!
Madame looked at the mountain of cans in front of her, and continued to raise her eyebrows: "Cans?"
"Yes, yes, ma'am, we've quit gambling. Now, if you have a gambling addiction, you can bet on cans, and by the way, you can quit your alcohol addiction. ”
Madam:......
After a while, the lady snorted coldly: "Sit down, let's analyze together, what should we do next!"
The crowd had enough of making a fuss and gradually calmed down. Everyone sat back in their seats and began a heated discussion. Fun is fun, and life still has to go on.
This is just a small mercenary group, with a total of no more than 15 warships, and the highest cultivation is the regiment leader Hong Xiaoquan, the pure yang realm - this was two years ago. Now the highest cultivation is Miao Fengling, the wife of the head of the regiment, who has reached the peak realm of pure yang.
As for why the head of the regiment is so afraid of Madame, it is a long story...... So I won't talk about it.
In other words, there are not only the upper echelons of infinite brilliance in this world, but also those ordinary people who are struggling to survive at the bottom - in this fast-growing and fiercely competitive interstellar environment, the Pure Yang Realm can only be regarded as a better ordinary person.
The Wild Waves Mercenary Group is one of the many people.
More than 30 years ago, before the development of the Blue Star Group, the Wild Waves Mercenary Group was okay. Although there are only a few Pure Yang Realm, relying on the more precious warships in their hands, they can still receive a lot of tasks.
At that time, the Wild Waves Mercenary Group did not accept long-range missions, but small missions within a range of 100 light years. The danger is not great, and there are several large mercenary groups (pirate groups) around that are also the more sensible kind - they will not kill chickens and take eggs. It would be nice to pay a small protection fee every 10 years.
Even the Ragnar Mercenary Regiment itself sometimes makes a cameo appearance as a pirate. Anyway, in that chaotic environment, no one can say anything, and most of those who insist on doing mercenary tasks are starving to death in the toilets.
Moreover, before the Blue Star Group, the only thing that could threaten the warship was the Void Realm, but the Void Realm was not so idle. Therefore, although the Wild Waves Mercenary Group has had a bit of a hard time, it is good overall, and everyone is still in the upward channel. Every year, there is also a surplus that is used to purchase spiritual resources, etc.
However, with the development of Bluestar Group, the situation has gradually changed. The first and most obvious change is in commercial trade.
With the improvement of exchanges, a large number of merchant groups have united, large-scale commercial trade has begun, and small merchant groups have attached themselves to large merchant groups, and everyone no longer needs such a small role as the Wild Waves Mercenary Group.
The Wild Waves Mercenary Group later tried to join the large mercenary group, but left in a hurry after only one mission. In a single mission, the Ragnar Mercenary Group was reduced from 23 ships to 15 ships.
When they arrived at a large mercenary group, they only had the option of being cannon fodder, and they specialized in drilling into dangerous places.
The Wild Waves Mercenary Group also tried to unite many small mercenary groups, but everyone found that those small mercenary groups were even worse and would lag behind.
In desperation, the Wild Waves mercenary group began to run the transport. But here comes the problem again: running transportation with old warships, barely breaking even!
Due to the drastic change in the business environment, the old warships of the Raging Mercenary Group can no longer keep up with the times.
While other people's merchant ships can easily exceed 1,000 light-years per month, the ships of the Raging Mercenaries are still struggling at 487 light-years per month. The warship itself has a lot of losses, the transportation cost is high, and life is becoming more and more difficult.
What's even more difficult is that with a large number of old warships and old spaceships being eliminated, the maintenance problem has become more and more tricky. There is no problem in a short period of time, but the cost of repairs is rising!
It's not that the Ragnar Mercenary Group hasn't thought about selling old ships and replacing them with new ones. But I don't know when the old spaceship started to be worthless! Everyone has said that the maintenance cost is more expensive than the battleship, and the old spaceship is basically no longer marketable.
Therefore, the high-level management of the Wild Waves Mercenary Group roughly calculated, sold all the spaceships, and then took out their savings, and everyone could just buy a medium-sized new merchant ship.
But what is a merchant ship good for? Moreover, after buying a spaceship, there are still all kinds of customs duties and various items to be purchased, and the money is still not enough.
Let's talk about loans, but it's a pity. With no foundation, the Raging Mercenary Group is not even qualified to enter the bank's door.
Fortunately, life is not without hope. Recently, the Blue Star Group has begun to implement the legal system and began to implement strategies such as the abolition of tariffs, which makes the Wild Waves mercenary group feel that maybe life will be better.
However, the head of the group, Hong Xiaoquan, didn't realize it: if there were no tariffs, he was only afraid that he would be more competitive than those large business groups!
Hong Xiaoquan recently fell in love with Dayang Daily, the newspaper of the Dayang Group. Although the delay in information is caused by the vast starry sky and other reasons, the "Ocean Daily" is divided into three sections: the local plate, which is also instant news, the peripheral plate, which is the surrounding news within 48 hours, and the peripheral plate, which is the news after 48 hours.
Because of the development of technology, Dayang Daily has become not only a newspaper, but also the Internet. Even now "Dayang Daily" has become the largest network information platform within the scope of Bluestar Group.
Da Luo Jin Xian and Jin Xian, who had just escaped from the invasion fleet announced by the Blue Star Group, naturally saw it with the Wild Waves Mercenary Group, but they didn't care too much.
Of course, I care, but it's useless. They are just a small mercenary group, and it is a little difficult for them to survive on their own. And the tribulations of life have also made them basically lose their yearning for miracles.
Fifteen half-used spaceships are moving slowly in the starry sky. Nowadays, a lot of equipment has been aged, and the speed of the spacecraft has been reduced from 507 light-years per month at its peak to 487 light-years per month.
It is foreseeable that with the aging of the spacecraft equipment, the speed of the spacecraft will be further reduced in the future.
The ship was still advancing, and the mercenary group's brief discussion was over. For the time being, we still can't find a new direction of development. In the end, Miao Fengling, the wife of the head of the regiment, encouraged: "Don't be discouraged. Lao Ji is determined to be thousands of miles away......"
"But it's only a thousand miles. It's time to bury it in a thousand miles. Well...... It's just a thousand miles!" Hong Xiaoquan shook his head and commented.
"Smack!" Miao Fengling slapped Hong Xiaoquan's head, and someone fell down directly.
But the head of the regiment immediately stood up with a smirk, and was about to say something. But suddenly, a strong burst of light illuminated the ship's command room.
The light was so intense that it continued so much that everyone even felt a faint scorching heat.
"Supernova explosion?stellar explosion?" Hong Xiaoquan instantly put away his smirk, his face serious. The regiment leader's wife, who was still domineering just now, carefully moved half a step in front of Hong Xiaoquan, blocking half of his figure.
"Girl's house, go aside. Hong Xiaoquan pulled Miao Fengling aside, squinted at the light of the explosion in front of him, and calmly commanded: "If you may encounter a supernova explosion, immediately get out of the time and space travel, observe the surrounding situation, and explore the surrounding starry sky after determining that it is safe." There is a possibility that some strange spiritual materials may appear in the supernova explosion.
Fang Dahai, look at the star map near us to determine the nearest star. ”
The fleet immediately turned off the timetravel technology and went into normal sailing.
As the navigator of the fleet, Fang Dahai immediately looked at the star map and gave the direction after a while: "We are now 10 light-years southeast of the second star of the toilet constellation, and 5 light-years below the fundamentals of the astrolabe.
According to the new orientation of the Blue Star Group, if the second star of the toilet constellation is 0 points, then our current position is 'South 8, 6, -5'.
We are now about 81.2 billion kilometers away from the star in front of us.
The star map shows that this is a small red dwarf.
But no, according to the latest data of the Ocean Group, this red dwarf star has a lifespan of at least 5 billion years. And this red dwarf star is too small, even at the end of its life, it is impossible to explode a supernova, but will cool down little by little, and die quietly. ”
"More than 80 billion kilometers...... The speed of light will take more than three days. Hong Xiaoquan's eyes shone with the light of wisdom, "Analyze the light immediately and take out the light capture and analyzer of the Dayang Group that we bought the most!"
This analyzer is a treasure bump, even though it was picked up from the second-hand market.
Since the concept of the speed of light has been clarified because of the research of the Ocean Group, a technology of 'post-shooting and forensics' has emerged.
To put it simply, if I miss something big, I can use time travel technology to catch up with the light, run farther into the starry sky and wait, and catch the light.
However, this thing is easy to say, but it is troublesome to operate, and only those that emit strong light can be captured, and it is easy to be disturbed, etc. At present, the best thing to do to deal with this phenomenon is the Dayang Group. This is followed by the Bluestar Group, which is said to have purchased technology patents from the Ocean Group. And then there is no rest.
The analyzer came, and the fleet immediately began to adjust. The analyzer first determined that the event should have occurred 3 days and 12 hours ago, and that it would take 3 days, 3 hours, and 13 minutes for the light to travel from the star to its current location.
In this way, everyone needs to chase the light into the alien sky for more than 18 hours to see the original appearance of the event - not counting the time it takes for the spacecraft to move. Moreover, because the radius of the spacecraft and the current stellar light range (spherical) is at an angle, it needs to fly farther.
The fleet made sure that it was safe to surround itself, and entered the time travel state again, and after 18 hours, the results just flew out of the radiant coverage area, and immediately turned on the analyzer.
Half an hour later, Hong Xiaoquan and the others were dumbfounded.
However, the analyzed screen shows that a faint golden light flew from below the astrolabe, and the golden light hit the star directly at almost 0.96 times the speed of light. The diameter of the golden light is about 10 kilometers.
As a result of this impact, the star exploded. That's what everyone sees.
Hong Xiaoquan watched the picture a few times, blinked, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and stammered a little: "Golden light...... 10 km ...... 3 days ago...... This can't be those five Da Luo Golden Immortals and more than three thousand Golden Immortals, right?"