Chapter 295 Are We There Yet?

Qi Yiming and He Zhenzhu waited for a week before they acted impulsively. Just when they were about to send another reconnaissance ship into the wormhole, a white light suddenly flashed in the wormhole, and the reconnaissance ship sent by He Zhenzhu finally returned.

What surprised the two was that the reconnaissance ship brought back good news.

Not only did they not find the Zerg on the other side of the wormhole, but they also shortened their voyage by more than half.

"What did you say? The exit of the wormhole is less than 700 light years away from our destination?" Qi Yiming couldn't believe his ears.

"No way? How could it be such a coincidence?" He Zhenzhu also muttered softly.

But the captain of the reconnaissance ship repeated what he had just said in a firm tone: "The situation is true. We also used the sky survey radar to carefully detect it, and then carefully compared it with our route. It is indeed where we are going."

"How is this possible?"

Sometimes people are like this. They are used to being unlucky and suddenly encounter a good thing and become suspicious.

Qi Yiming and He Zhenzhu looked at each other for a long time, and finally Qi Yiming decided to go and see it himself.

So Qi Yiming boarded a reconnaissance ship on a transport boat and personally led the team to conduct a field survey through the wormhole.

After a burst of white light, the space in front of Qi Yiming began to distort, and returned to normal the next second, and then the reconnaissance ship appeared under an unfamiliar starry sky.

"Turn on the sky survey radar and conduct a wide-area search..."

The order seems simple, but it takes a full 7 days to complete the initial search of this starry sky.

There is nothing to do about it.

Qi Yiming spent an extremely torturous seven days on the reconnaissance ship.

When the complete star map was in front of him, Qi Yiming only took a glance to confirm that the captain was not lying.

His current location is indeed less than 700 light years away from the destination.

"Are we there?" Qi Yiming was a little at a loss. The surprise came too suddenly, and Qi Yiming didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment.

But the next moment Qi Yiming's face became serious again.

Qi Yiming knew that the wormhole would become more and more unstable as more matter entered it, until it collapsed.

The most important thing now is to test how much matter this wormhole can accommodate, otherwise the wormhole will collapse when the fleet passes halfway, and then things will be a bit difficult.

"Let's go back..."

The reconnaissance ship once again passed through the wormhole and returned to the original void.

"How is it?" He Zhenzhu was also restless during these seven days. Seeing Qi Yiming coming back, she was impatient to connect the communication to ask about the situation.

Qi Yiming smiled and said, "The situation is true, but don't be too happy too soon. We have to first measure how much matter this wormhole can accommodate."

"It doesn't matter how much matter there is, as long as a part of the fleet reaches the destination."

In fact, Qi Yiming originally thought so, but he finally rejected this plan.

Billions of people followed him to leave their homes and embark on the road of escape because they trusted him. Although strictly speaking, Qi Yiming was saving them, Qi Yiming could not let down these people who followed him through hardships to get here.

"I can't give up some people and live with others. What do you think of those who trust me the most?"

"But..."

"No buts. If I really want to use the wormhole, I will drive the transport boat alone and become the last person in the fleet to pass through the wormhole."

He Zhenzhu sighed.

Qi Yiming's approach can't be said to be right or wrong. To put it bluntly, he is not a qualified politician. It is impossible for him to watch the people who follow him die in despair and pain under the heavy siege of the swarm.

"But don't worry. We haven't measured the mass of this wormhole yet. Maybe it can accommodate our entire fleet?"

He Zhenzhu didn't say anything more, but asked the scientific officer on board to make a measurement plan.

In fact, the measurement method is very simple. Just drag an asteroid with a large enough mass through the wormhole, and then according to the change of the wormhole stability value, it can be determined how much matter this wormhole can accommodate.

It's a pity that the location of this wormhole is awkward. No matter is found within a few light years around. Qi Yiming had to ask people to go back to the galaxy where the fleet rests, find an asteroid with a mass equivalent to the Red Dragon, and drag it over for testing.

It took more than a month to go back and forth. When Qi Yiming, He Zhenzhu and others were about to go crazy, the people sent back finally came back dragging an asteroid.

Soon, under the command of the scientific officer, the test began.

The asteroid was dragged by a small frigate and slowly flew towards the wormhole.

When it was about to approach the wormhole, the frigate cut off the tractor beam and left the current course, and quickly moved away from the wormhole.

At this time, Qi Yiming and his fleet had taken the fleet to hide in the void 2 light years away, because no one could be sure whether the wormhole would collapse after the asteroid passed through it.

If the collapse was too close to the wormhole, none of them would survive.

The asteroid slowly approached the wormhole under the action of inertia, and finally reached another corner of the universe through the wormhole.

The wormhole did not collapse as Qi Yiming and his team imagined. Not only did it not collapse, but the scientific officer found that the stability of the wormhole only decreased by 0.1% through the value just fed back.

The scientific officer also knew what this wormhole meant to humans. With trembling hands, he wrote and drew on the portable electronic board, calculating the data he had just obtained quickly.

Qi Yiming looked at the mathematical symbols on the electronic board with a confused look on his face.

Qi Yiming recognized these symbols individually, but when they were combined, Qi Yiming had no idea what was written.

Looking at the rich facial expressions of the scientific officer, Qi Yiming was a little crazy.

"Damn... Can you please say something!!"

"The exact mass of the wormhole has not been calculated yet..."

"Damn... Who asked you to calculate the exact mass? I just want to know if it can accommodate all our spacecrafts."

The scientific officer was also stunned, and finally said with his head in his head: "I am also crazy. What accurate values ​​are there at this time..."

Then he deleted all the values ​​on the electronic board and started to calculate again.

This time the speed was very fast. It only took him a few minutes to reach a conclusion.

Qi Yiming guessed the result by looking at the scientific officer's indescribably excited facial expression.

He Zhenzhu asked timidly: "Can the wormhole accommodate all spacecrafts?"

The scientific officer was so excited that he could not speak and could only nod repeatedly.

The crew members who were holding their breath and concentrating around the scientific officer suddenly cheered.

They hugged each other and cheered with excited tears.

Happiness came so suddenly that Qi Yiming was stunned when he heard the structure, until He Zhenzhu excitedly pounced on him and pecked him on the cheek, and then he came back to his senses.