Chapter 100 Abnormal Space Signal

While Qi Yiming was trying to integrate the various forces on Gaia, the fleets that had been deployed also returned to the galaxy where Gaia was located.

Only the Revenge of Chen Cheng and his wife had not returned for a long time.

This made Qi Yiming a little worried, but fortunately nothing happened to the Revenge.

It was just that when they passed the X-113 galaxy, they received a strange signal, so they were delayed for a while.

But they also brought back a shocking news for Qi Yiming.

The process of the matter was very simple.

On the way back, the Revenge suddenly received an electromagnetic wave that was obviously emitted by intelligent creatures.

At first, the couple thought they had discovered another planet inhabited by humans, and after determining the location of the electromagnetic wave.

The two commanded the Revenge to jump to a place 2,000 kilometers away from the signal source, ready to observe.

But when they left the jump, a scene that they would never forget appeared in front of them.

A large rectangular spaceship with a total length of more than 300 kilometers, a width of more than 100 kilometers, and a height of about 50 kilometers appeared in front of them.

The ship is in the shape of an I-beam. The central axis of this giant spaceship is densely packed with buildings.

The empty space on both sides of the central axis is divided into areas by some relatively thin rigid structures.

Many mechanical arms are densely placed on the rigid structure, which looks like an engineering ship.

But Qi Yiming was ecstatic when he heard the introduction.

He knew what the spaceship was.

Engineer, a giant mobile dock.

It was a logistics warship built by the former Human Federation for the expedition fleet, responsible for repairing warships and building warships below the cruiser level.

In her shipboard intelligent brain, all the general models of warships below the federal cruiser are stored. As long as the materials are sufficient, this giant mobile dock can continuously produce various types of warships.

This is really a pillow for sleepiness. Qi Yiming was worried about not being able to produce warships, and then a mobile dock came. The son of heaven, this is definitely the son of heaven.

But Hao Chenqi said that they were attacked.

"Who attacked you?" Qi Yiming asked Hao Chenqi, who was always careful.

"There is no clear sign, it looks a bit like a drone..." Hao Chenqi recalled the scene at that time.

"Drone?"

Qi Yiming frowned, he knew that the Engineer was escorted by a drone.

If Hao Chenqi was right, then the one who attacked them should be the guard drone on the Engineer.

This made Qi Yiming a little confused. Logically, the warship code of the Revenge was stored in the enemy identification system of the mobile dock. How could they be attacked?

Is there still a human alive on the Engineer?

Qi Yiming was even happier when he thought of this. You know, he always heard people around him mention the awakened, but Qi Yiming had never seen these humans who lived in the same era as him.

What's the point of hesitating? Qi Yiming put down the things at hand and took Hao Chenqi and his wife back to their respective warships. After the Revenge was reunited with the Xuefeng, several people rushed to the X-113 galaxy.

Others had had enough of deep space travel. No matter how attractive something was, it couldn't compare to the feeling of being down to earth.

Anyway, that thing was there and they would see it sooner or later, so they didn't go with Qi Yiming.

The X-113 galaxy was not too far from the Awakener galaxy. The Awakener galaxy was the new name given by everyone to the galaxy where Gaia was located. It always felt a bit irregular to use a code name.

It took Qi Yiming 4 days to reach the periphery of the X-113 galaxy.

The X-113 galaxy was very desolate, with only one Earth-like planet and a large asteroid belt.

The giant mobile dock was floating quietly in the asteroid belt.

With the warning that Hao Chenqi and his wife were attacked, Qi Yiming didn't dare to approach the Engineer easily. He just carefully observed the Engineer at a distance of more than 2,000 kilometers and continuously sent identification codes to the Engineer.

Unfortunately, the Engineer had not responded to the Xuefeng's identification system. Instead, there were more drones around the Engineer.

These drones are not big, no more than 5 meters long and no more than 3 meters wide. They are equipped with two light laser launchers with low power.

"What's going on?" Qi Yiming scratched his head, a little confused about what went wrong with the Engineer.

"Navigator, bring the distance closer to 1,000 kilometers." Since there was no response, we can only get closer and observe.

"Captain, those drones will attack us after we get closer to 1,000 kilometers." Hao Chenqi wanted to stop Qi Yiming from taking further action.

Qi Yiming waved his hand and said, "There is no response at this distance. How can we find out where the problem is? We must get closer."

The Xuefeng slowly approached the giant dock.

When breaking through the distance of 1,000 kilometers, the drones patrolling around the giant dock suddenly gathered together and flew towards the Xuefeng.

"This ship has received dense electromagnetic wave signals... all of them are binary codes..." The communications director looked at the codes parsed on the communication screen and was a little overwhelmed. This was the first time he had seen such a situation.

Qi Yiming understood what was going on, "Captain, we will withdraw a thousand kilometers."

The two thrust engines at the bow of the Xuefeng started working, and the Xuefeng also began to slowly retreat. Sure enough, after the Xuefeng withdrew a thousand kilometers, the drone group immediately dispersed and continued to cruise around the giant dock.

Seeing this, Qi Yiming smiled bitterly.

"Captain, do you know what's going on?" Hao Chenqi saw Qi Yiming's bitter smile and knew that Qi Yiming already knew what was going on here.

"The Engineer's shipboard intelligent brain seems to have a problem... The enemy identification system has stopped working!" Qi Yiming said his guess.

"What should we do? Should we mobilize the fleet to attack?"

Qi Yiming shook his head: "With our fleet, even if we add the Xuefeng, we want to break through the drone defense line of the Engineer, it's no different from delivering food."

"Even the Xuefeng can't break through the drone defense line?" Hao Chenqi looked at the drones cruising outside the window in surprise.

Qi Yiming nodded: "Although these drones are small, the drones you see now are only a small part. There are more drones stored in the hangar of the Engineer."

"Is this just a small part?" Chen Cheng pointed at the drones in surprise: "The number of drones that can be seen now is at least 100,000, right?"

"The most important problem is not this. The Engineer's intelligent brain can arrange the production of drones by itself to replenish the losses." Qi Yiming cleared his throat: "In other words, as long as the materials on the Engineer are sufficient, drones can be replenished continuously."

"Do you know how many drones the Engineer has, including the drones in the hangar?"

"I haven't calculated it carefully, but as far as I know, the drone reserves on the Engineer are no less than 10 million."

"Ten million?" Hao Chenqi covered his mouth in surprise.

"Okay, let's go back..." Qi Yiming knew that he would definitely not be able to take down the Engineer in a short time, so he could only return in defeat.

"Don't we send people to guard it?" Chen Cheng pointed at the Engineer and asked Qi Yiming.

"Just send someone to check once every two weeks. There's no need to stay here." Qi Yiming smiled at Chen Cheng who was asking the question, "Don't even think about taking down the Engineer without dozens of battleships."