Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1257 - 1224: Detection

When the general is outside, the emperor's orders may be disobeyed (I'll do whatever I want)

Chen Fei has no knowledge of the actual situation of the space rift, and the sovereigns have not shared the relevant intelligence. Before the official orders arrive, he has no choice but to deploy the strongest current mobile combat power to act first.

After all, Blue Star is Chen Fei's home, not like the two star systems he controls with more leeway. The invaders, ahem, parasitic species have already reached the doorstep, so he can't just hand it over to those politicians who thrive on nonsense.

The reinforced combat unit, the Fifth Airship Battle Group, broke through the Kamen Line an hour later, officially entering the void outside Blue Star's atmosphere.

The weakening of the planet's gravity also means that the anti-gravity field effect released by the SEG core unit becomes smaller. Gravity is a relative force field with both attraction and repulsion, not simply one or the other.

The large Hall ion thruster bursts out with dazzling blue light, propelling the ship into deep space. The moment the sunlight shines through, the "Energy Gathering Shell" resembling scales flashes with streams of light brilliantly.

The light energy of various wavelengths is attracted by the "Energy Gathering Shell," which references the "Light Wing" technology of the Cangqiong Star Civilization, synchronously converting into crystal energy that is directed into the airship's "Super Star Crystal" energy core, with conversion efficiency far surpassing that within the atmosphere.

The technologies used by the Fifth Airship Battle Group are quite similar to Blue Star's Sky Knight's Crystal Jet; they all have an SEG core unit, a top-specification high-energy-density crystal energy storage core, inscribed with numerous magic arrays, and additionally equipped with "Energy Gathering Shell" and Target Low Temperature Nuclear Fusion Energy Tower, which in terms of energy supply far exceeds that of the Crystal Jet, with superior firepower output.

After all, the size of the Crystal Jet is limited. Even if it incorporates as many functional modules as possible, it still cannot compare to the carrying capacity of an airship.

When the aggressive Airship Battle Group enters the void, the battle airships of the various sovereigns already near the space rift make way one after another. Most people knew the affiliation of this Airship Battle Group immediately and inwardly cursed MMP.

When the sovereigns' military forces are gathered, it's easy for tensions to flare up. Now, with a more explosive-tempered entity arriving, they worry that before the "Sagali" civilization even attacks, there might be a fierce conflict within the civilization itself.

At the sovereign level, there are reservations, no matter how brainless, it takes time to start a conflict. Individuals, however, don't have such reservations; on a whim, they might just take action, and Chen Xiao'er has a track record of this.

That's why until now, no sovereign has approached Chen Fei, taking this into consideration. But now, here they come, openly sending the fleet over.

As they advanced to 11,000 kilometers from the space rift, the Fifth Airship Battle Group was blocked by a massive spread of "Cybertrom" body fragment debris, scattered like dust across a 20,000-kilometer wide void,

Satellites in various high-orbit paths suffered. Most satellites lacked protective barriers, with little to no physical defense. A slight touch, and they're done for, with massive data flows having to be transferred or concentrated, causing the remaining satellites' load to increase sharply, reducing their intended lifespan.

Though the airship can press forward with the protective barrier, it would consume a substantial amount of energy reserves. Once battle commences, the directed-energy weapon systems would drain the crystal energy reserve of the airship's energy core like a bottomless pit, regardless of how much is stored, it wouldn't withstand the consumption of combat.

"'Adam,' release some probes first, then fire a particle beam as a test!"

Chen Fei stared at the three-dimensional holographic projection of the space rift, issuing an order to the Fifth Airship Battle Group 11,000 kilometers from the space rift.

Countless floating debris of various sizes not only obstructed view but also progress. The makeshift recovery ship remains incomplete, its full length of four kilometers has mostly empty compartments, and even though there are existing models recorded in the Physical Evolution Database, replicating and evolving still requires time.

Even if the recovery ship synchronized with the Fifth Airship Battle Group, according to Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam's" calculation, it would take at least a week to clean the void before the space rift using 10,000 Worker Bee-1 space-collecting mechanical beings.

It's not just "Cybertrom" body fragments; there are large amounts of damaged satellites. For nearly a century, tens of thousands of satellites float in near-Earth orbit, with many decommissioned but yet to fall into the atmosphere.

Especially on the geostationary orbit, retrieval depends solely on manual efforts; otherwise, they'll drift endlessly, occupying valuable global orbit space.

The Fifth Airship Battle Group's two flagships released several probes each, carefully avoiding floating debris and quickly approaching the space rift.

The sovereigns' airships also released probes, totaling no fewer than 500 of various types, lingering around the approximately 1,000-kilometer-wide space rift, conducting detection in various modes, with some even plunging straight into the interior, never to be seen again.

The sovereigns did not share intelligence with Chen Fei, nor with each other, leading to this chaotic scene of probes scattering about.

Preliminary intelligence on the space rift soon returned.

With a width of about 1479.552 kilometers, a length of 111.934 kilometers, and a thickness less than 0.1 silk meter, potentially even thinner—it's likely a two-dimensional state. The side facing Blue Star is accessible, while the other, although a black curtain, seems non-existent. After probing, probes could easily pass from one side to the other.

The blue-white particle beam pierced through gaps in the debris, plunging into the center of the space rift's purple vortex.

Adam: Detected dissipative energy value is 0

When Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam" states the value is 0, it is indeed zero. The particle beam seems to vanish, as if it never existed, completely disappearing within the space rift.

Chen Fei couldn't determine whether the particle beam was trapped inside an "optical black box" structure, never able to escape, or if it pierced to the true other side of the space rift, or was somehow absorbed and transformed.

Two probes were connected by cable, one staying near the space rift, while the other attempted to enter its interior. This was simultaneously noticed by "Adam" and Chen Fei. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

However, the probe trailing the cable just disappeared inside the space rift when suddenly, without warning, the long cable snapped.

"Looks like it's no use! The state of this space rift is unknown, maybe it hasn't fully opened." Chen Fei turned to Heseman Brown nearby and asked: "Mr. Brown, can you make sense of what exactly this thing is?"

"Hard to say, it needs close observation, which could be pretty dangerous."

Even the S-Class Space Ability User Heseman Brown dared not underestimate this space rift.