Chapter 335: Raid Encounters Obstacles

Since the final master launched the final battle against humanity, the balance of victory has tilted towards the swarm master. Not only that, the time advantage is no longer on the human side.

Qi Yiming knew very well that the longer his battle plan for a raid took, the closer humanity would be to extinction, so every time he completed a jump, he counted the time and waited for the jump engine to finish cooling.

After several days of sailing and six precise long-distance jumps, the Battle Star finally appeared in a star field 1.35 light-years away from the territory of the former Human Federation occupied by the swarm.

Qi Yiming and the others will make final preparations here, and then when the jump engine completes cooling, they will be greeted by high-intensity and continuous combat.

Fortunately, the entire jump process did not consume much of the fleet's energy reserves. After all, when the jump engine is started, it will absorb the free ether in the space and compress it into ether crystals.

Before the final raid began, Qi Yiming connected with Fang Min and learned more about the situation of the special fleet.

Because each Neuron battleship is docked inside or on the surface of the battle star, except for the need to keep the battleship's engine running at high power at all times to consume some energy due to the high combat readiness level, there is not much loss in other aspects. Therefore, the entire special fleet is in a relatively ideal state for attack.

Qi Yiming then gave Fang Min the main tasks of his special fleet after the raid began.

After handing over the mission, Qi Yiming sounded the alarm inside the battle star, and all personnel quickly returned to their respective posts, preparing to deal with the battle that might break out at any time.

In this way, all the personnel in the assault fleet stood at their respective posts, waiting extremely nervously for the battle star jump engine to complete cooling.

Soon, the warning light that the jump engine had completed cooling flashed on the control panel in front of Qi Yiming.

As soon as the warning light came on, Qi Yiming ordered Zhan Xing to start the jump engine. As the jump engine was charged, Zhan Xing disappeared again.

But the next second, the battle star was thrown out of the artificial wormhole passage like a solid iron ball hitting the wall.

The sudden change in navigation status made Qi Yiming dizzy, and a large number of crew members and marines in the battle star also suffered casualties due to the unexpected situation. If the battleship commander of the special fleet had not entered the neuron battleship in advance, The survival capsule escaped disaster, and perhaps the raiding fleet would suffer the largest casualties since the operation began.

Qi Yiming shook his swollen and painful head and tried to steady himself: "Zhinao, what happened?"

"The battle star was suddenly thrown out of the artificial wormhole created by the warp engine."

"How could this happen? Aren't the previous jumps very smooth?"

"We may have encountered a jump blocker." Without waiting for Zhan Xing's brain to reply, Zhang Lei staggered to Qi Yiming's side while wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Jump blocker? What is that? I have only heard of jump blocker." Qi Yiming looked at Zhang Lei confused.

"I'm just guessing that since jump voyages can be blocked by jump blockers, there is no reason why jump voyages can't be interrupted by similar devices."

Then Zhang Lei pointed to the tactical console of the battle star and said: "Look, we have only traveled less than 2 light years this time. Let's look at the territory of the original human federation."

Qi Yiming's eyes followed Zhang Lei's fingers to the tactical console. The holographic screen on the tactical console was flashing a row of blood-red warnings: "The jump was blocked, the battle star hull suffered structural damage, and the internal structure was damaged 9.91 %.”

Qi Yiming took a breath when he saw the warning. The battle star's structural layer had been damaged so much before the assault battle began.

But that's not the problem now. The most important thing is that the jump voyage has been blocked.

Fortunately, the distance of this jump was not far, and it only took a short time for the probe's equipment that had overheated due to high-power operation to resume work.

However, when Qi Yiming ordered the Probe to work again, Qi Yiming received a message that made him desperate. When the Probe was fully powered, it could not detect the existence of stable gravitational lines in the universe in the subsequent journey. .

It is these stable gravity lines that jump navigation relies on.

In fact, it cannot be said that it cannot be detected, but the detection wave sent by the Probe seems to have been interfered with in some way. Even if it can detect stable gravity lines, it still cannot be accurately located.

This allowed Qi Yiming to confirm Zhang Lei's statement about the jump blocker.

"It seems that the insect swarm master has been guarding against this move of ours." Qi Yiming raised his hand and touched the blood flowing out of his nostrils.

"Then have we been discovered?"

Qi Yiming shook his head: "Nearly two hours have passed since we were thrown out of the artificial wormhole. There have been no swarms of insects nearby, which means that the possibility of us being discovered is not high."

Zhang Lei glanced at the battlefield situation and nodded while saying: "Indeed! Speaking of danger, we are now in the hinterland of the Zerg. If we were discovered, let alone two hours, with the reaction speed of the Zerg swarm, we should have been attacked by the Zerg swarm an hour and a half ago. Surrounded."

"Then we should still have a chance. As long as we find the jump blocker and destroy it, we can continue to complete the raid mission. After all, it is less than 6 light years away from the swarm master's lair. We only need to make two jumps. We can reach our destination." Qi Yiming said as he opened the star map on the tactical console and pointed at the point he specially marked on the star map.

"But none of us have seen what the jump blocker looks like? In what form is it deployed? If this blocker is deployed in the center of the barrier, should we fly over with the fleet?"

Qi Yiming frowned and looked at the star map in front of him. After thinking for a while, he connected to Fang Min's communication: "Scatter all the fast reconnaissance ships in your hands and see if you can find some special areas nearby. , if you find it, report it as soon as possible, don’t do it privately.”

Soon, the three thousand or so high-speed reconnaissance ships of the special fleet left the docking area inside the battle star and spread rapidly in all directions.

At this time, I don’t care whether the bugs will find out. If I can’t find a way to crack the jump blocker, let alone being discovered by the bugs, even if I let Qi Yiming lead the fleet to fight the bugs, Qi Yiming will Will give orders without hesitation.

After all, for humans, the failure of the raid mission already means the demise of humanity. Humanity is about to perish. Of course, Qi Yiming doesn't care about confronting the insect swarm head-on.

I don’t know if the Overlord’s attention was attracted by the fighting on the front line. In short, Qi Yiming’s large-scale reconnaissance in the hinterland of the Zerg did not arouse the vigilance of the Zerg swarm. However, it is a pity that more than 3,000 high-speed reconnaissance ships were destroyed after half an hour. No good news came back from the detection.

On the contrary, the probe inside the battle star provided Qi Yiming with an extremely important clue after completing the cooling of the equipment.