Chapter 1 Awakening

Qi Yiming slowly woke up in a series of "beep..." warning sounds.

He climbed out of the hibernation capsule with difficulty. Regardless of the pain caused by hibernation, Qi Yiming came to the bridge of the frigate Guardian to check the reason for the alarm issued by the shipboard intelligent brain.

A line of bright red fonts kept flashing on the main information screen of the bridge.

"Warning, an asteroid is detected to hit this planet in 23 hours, 14 minutes and 35 seconds. Threat level: fatal."

The threat of fatal level means that the asteroid flying to the planet where the Guardian made an emergency landing belongs to a planet killer.

If the impact occurs, all life on this planet will suffer a catastrophe.

However, the battleship Guardian where Qi Yiming was located was forced to land on this planet due to energy depletion. Facing the planet killer, a person with bare hands really has no effective way.

Seeing that he could only wait to die, Qi Yiming decided to return to the hibernation capsule to continue hibernation, so that he could die painlessly.

But when he saw the time information on the hibernation capsule, he was stunned.

"I have been dormant for 1035 years, 10 months, 23 hours, 35 minutes, and 15 seconds." The information panel of the dormancy cabin showed the time Qi Yiming had been dormant in detail.

"More than a thousand years!! No wonder I felt so miserable when I woke up!" Qi Yiming laughed bitterly: "Why are you still entangled in these things now? It will be completely over in a dozen hours."

Qi Yiming lay down in the dormancy cabin again and ordered the intelligent brain to prepare to execute the dormancy program. While waiting, he stared blankly at the ceiling on the top of the battleship, without any anger in his eyes.

Suddenly, he seemed to have grasped some key points and sat up suddenly from the dormancy cabin.

"I remember that there was another frigate that made an emergency landing with the Guardian. What was it called? Yes, it was the Exploration! The frigate that was specially designed for the flagship and was responsible for carrying the fire control radar."

Qi Yiming seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and climbed out of the dormancy cabin again. He quickly came to the bridge of the Guardian, turned on the ship-borne radar, and launched a detector.

A few hours later, the radar and the detector simultaneously discovered the Exploration frigate.

"The distance is not far. With the speed of the core control cabin of the Guardian, it only takes an hour to go back and forth. Let's try it out."

Qi Yiming came to the control console at the captain's seat and pressed the button to separate the core control cabin.

"Authority has been confirmed, and the core cabin is ready to separate." The cold synthetic voice of the shipboard intelligent computer sounded again.

The top armor of the Guardian's hull slowly separated to both sides, and an elliptical aircraft was slowly dragged out of the Guardian's hull by the traction beam.

"The Guardian has entered a dormant state, and the main control program has been transferred to the core cabin." Qi Yiming listened to the report of the shipboard intelligent computer and stared at the separation progress displayed on the holographic panel in front of him.

"It looks good. After more than a thousand years, the separation work can still be carried out normally." Qi Yiming felt proud from the bottom of his heart. The ship he is now on is one of the crystallizations of human civilization for nearly a thousand years.

"The core cabin is separated." The synthetic voice of the shipboard intelligent computer sounded so beautiful at this time.

"Set the target, Exploration."

"Set the target."

"Take off." Qi Yiming gave the order to take off.

The core module ignited its small thrusters on the temporary launch platform made of the outer armor of the Guardian and slowly lifted off, flying towards the direction of the Exploration frigate.

An hour later, Qi Yiming drove the core module close to the Exploration.

The Exploration also sent an identification code to the Guardian core module, which passed the verification smoothly. The Exploration took over the control of the core module and guided the core module to land on an open space not far from the Exploration.

Qi Yiming put on the extravehicular space suit and exoskeleton armor and left the core module and walked towards the Exploration frigate.

Along the way, no crew members from the Exploration came down to greet Qi Yiming. It seemed that the crew here were also in danger.

On board the battleship, more than a dozen skeletons were lying on the bridge of the Exploration, leaning against each other.

Qi Yiming was a little sad, then ordered the shipboard intelligent computer of the Exploration to identify his identity and change the control authority of the warship.

The process of changing the authority was very simple, after all, Qi Yiming was the only living member of the fleet on the scene.

However, what made Qi Yiming relieved was that the Exploration had landed autonomously, so there was no damage.

Although there was not much energy left, it was enough to complete the fusion with the Guardian.

After the two warships merged, they would form a new warship, so he would have a chance to deal with the planet killer.

Qi Yiming did it right away, and ordered the core module of the Guardian to return to the Guardian autonomously.

Then he drove the Exploration to the place where the Guardian made an emergency landing with the assistance of the shipboard intelligent computer.

It was very peaceful along the way. Qi Yiming, who was driving a warship alone, did not dare to be careless at all, for fear that a mistake would smash the only hope of survival.

Soon the Exploration arrived above the Guardian.

The core control cabin of the Guardian returned here earlier and took over the control again with the Guardian.

After passing the identity verification, Qi Yiming gave the order to combine the two ships.

"Please select the main control program of the combination." Two options popped up on the display screen in front of Qi Yiming.

Due to the different original designs of the Guardian and the Explorer, there will be two combat modes for Qi Yiming to choose after they merge.

If the Guardian is chosen as the main body, since the Guardian's characteristic is to provide a large number of nanorobots for the combination to repair damaged armor, the armor layer of the combined warship will be extremely strong.

If the Explorer is chosen as the main body, then the Explorer, as the flagship, has an extremely excellent fire control program with its fire control radar, and the combined warship will become a sniper-type warship, suitable for long-range precision strikes.

Qi Yiming thought about it and finally chose to use the Explorer's ship-borne intelligent brain as the main control program for the combination. After all, this is a task that requires precise shooting.

After receiving the combination order, the two triple main guns located in front and behind the two warships first separated from their respective hulls, and slowly approached under the traction of their respective warships' tractor beams.

The two main guns at the bows of the two ships quickly combined to form a twin-mounted sniper turret that was more than twice as long as the normal warship's gun barrel, and the two main guns at the stern quickly disassembled to form six single-barrel secondary guns.

As the two ships slowly approached, the shipborne radar on the Guardian quickly detached from her hull and flew towards the new installation base formed on the hull of the Exploration under the traction of the tractor beam emitted by the Exploration.

At the same time, the armor at the bottom of the hull of the Exploration also underwent a huge change, forming many cavities that just wrapped the upper hull of the Guardian.

The two warships slowly approached and finally combined perfectly.

The sniper turrets formed in advance were also installed on the gun mount of the new warship under the traction of the tractor beam after the warships were completed.

The six secondary guns were evenly placed on both sides of the new warship to provide firepower for the reassembled warship.

Qi Yiming, standing in the command cabin, stared at the data until the two ships were completed.

"The ship's hull is assembled, please confirm the temporary code name." The new warship's intelligent brain is also an assembly, and its computing performance is roughly twice that of the former.

"Temporary code name 'Xuefeng'."

This is the nickname of a virtual network that Qi Yiming used most often in his childhood.

"Xuefeng has completed the assembly, please give orders, Captain."

"Inspect the status of the warship."

"The ship's energy reserve is 5%, which is at a dangerous level. Engines 1 and 2 are damaged and need repair. The armor structure is slightly damaged, the main structure of the warship is intact, and the rest of the weapons and equipment are in good condition. Please note that there is a serious shortage of crew members! The maximum combat power of this ship cannot be exerted."

Qi Yiming frowned as he looked at the basic situation of the warship. Engines 1 and 2 should be the two engines on the Guardian, and it is not surprising that they were damaged.

But the energy reserve is only 5%, which means that Xuefeng has only one chance to fire at most, and then it will return to this planet again due to insufficient energy.

"It's useless to think so much. Let's solve the biggest crisis first. After all, there is only one chance, and it's not certain whether it will succeed."

Special note: Due to lack of experience, chapters 46 to 56 of this book can be skipped without affecting the subsequent plot. I wrote these ten chapters and the plot is a bit dragged out. I wanted to delete them, but the book will be locked if a large number of chapters are deleted, so I won't delete them. Readers who want to read can also read it. It's just a war that doesn't need to be written.