Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1261 - 1228: Network Restoration

Although Cangqiong Star's "Halo" didn't explode directly like Blue Star's "Cybertrom," the situation wasn't any better. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Due to its ability to directly connect to the global satellite network, "Halo" and the "Cybertrom" body are the most important data connection carriers. For the Metallic Dragons, there's nothing worse than network disconnection and delay. Moreover, it's not just the Metallic Dragons that need network connectivity; losses are increasing by the billions across various sectors.

Although other network channels can partially alleviate the situation, the surge in traffic quickly exhausted the design redundancy. More and more data are queueing, overflowing, and dropping packets, leading to a vicious cycle, with nodes under overload experiencing severe delays.

The Slan Royal Family is busy appeasing the Metallic Dragons, ensuring the integrity of the "Halo." If the Blue Star Civilization can rebuild the "Cybertrom" body in time, perhaps they can suppress the space rift again and restore the network connection between the two planets.

However, from Her Royal Highness Princess Lin Ziyu's response, it can be confirmed that the collapse of the "Cybertrom" body and the appearance of the space rift were not orchestrated by the Cangqiong Star Civilization. Firstly, there's no reason; secondly, the cost is too great; thirdly, no matter where the space rift appears, it poses the same threat to both civilized planets. It is almost impossible to expect the "Sagali" civilization to swallow the Blue Star Civilization and then spare the Cangqiong Star Civilization.

Although the two civilizations are currently in conflict, there has been no shortage of friction between them. Yet, when faced with a formidable enemy like "Sagali," they stand united.

In search of the lost Longinus from the "Cybertrom" body, the clearance progress of the retrieval ship and space collecting mechanical beings has been heavily impacted. Along with the Dog System's task prompt, Chen Fei no longer hesitated to expend energy for the protective barrier. After a conversation with Her Royal Highness Princess Lin Ziyu of the Sulan Royal Family of Cangqiong Star, Chen Fei temporarily revised the previous instructions.

"Accelerate the Fifth Cluster and forcibly advance to the position 300 kilometers in front of the space rift!"

The Airship Battle Group, led by two flagship vessels, split into two factions, left and right, bypassing the 4,000-meter-long retrieval ship, and charged into the void region filled with countless fragments and debris. They let these chaotic pieces hit the protective barrier, further disrupting the floating zone and adding a significant workload for space collecting mechanical beings and scanners.

However, these costs were worthwhile because, up until now, the space rift remained unguarded. Although combat spaceships with sovereignty had arrived there, Chen Fei did not believe these spaceships possessed sufficient combat determination.

Which tactical force is renowned for being fodder? Is there even a need to ask!

With "Adam" as a lesson learned, sovereigns dare not entrust military operations entirely to "Cybertrom" offspring.

Now that the "Cybertrom" body has collapsed, even if they wanted to use its offspring, their performance no longer matches expectations, far from Comparable to "Adam."

Thus, the only ones willing to fight decisively and even risk their lives are the fleets under Chen Fei's command. The sovereigns' space forces, basking in luxury and peace for so long, have questionable combat capabilities.

Chen Fei's kilometer-long airship, "No.2 Command Ship," closely followed behind the rampaging Fifth Airship Battle Group as they plowed through.

With the special attributes of Longinus, it's possible to easily penetrate the protective barrier and pierce through the spaceship's physical armor.

Well, that's a relief.

Only the command cabin of the kilometer-long spaceship is manned; all other tactical units are unmanned, eliminating concerns about casualties caused by Longinus.

The view outside the ship's bridge is almost completely filled with various fragments and debris, floating objects densely packed, as if the dust covered the cabin window, obscuring a clear view of the cosmos-backed space rift in front.

At this moment, a call came in, indicating it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Slan Dynasty, Lin Zio Slan.

Chen Fei chose to connect the call.

"Your Highness wouldn't visit us without reason, what brings you here today?"

Under normal circumstances, Chen Fei rarely bothers the Crown Prince unless it's a matter of life and death or a request for help. After all, if anything goes wrong, he couldn't bear the responsibility.

This future first heir of the Slan Dynasty, despite yet to ascend the throne, is only one step away from the lofty seat and already represents the highest will of the Cangqiong Star Civilization.

"I heard from my sister that you've established several 'Stargate' coordinates on Cangqiong Star?"

Without small talk, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately posed the question.

"Those are coordinates, not nodes!"

Chen Fei emphasized, coordinates are coordinates, nodes are nodes; the implications differ completely.

The former serves as emergency needs; the latter equates to placing an eye on the territory of the Slan Dynasty, which is risky behavior for a mere individual.

If it were a sovereign doing this, what would it mean? Planning an invasion?

"Alright! Coordinates it is!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Lin Zio could only agree with Chen Fei's words, otherwise, the conversation wouldn't proceed. After all, he planned to seek help and continued to ask, "Can the stargate connect to network data?"

"Of course, oh, you mean? I understand!"

Initially, Chen Fei was puzzled, but then something suddenly dawned on him.

Previously, Princess Lin Ziyu had mentioned to him that Cangqiong Star was currently facing an urgent situation of network congestion with Blue Star, causing instability among the Metallic Dragons, who rely on the network for their livelihood, which in turn threatened the existence of the super large alchemical artifact "Halo".

"Cybertrom" on Blue Star's side had collapsed due to a spatial rift by the Sagali civilization, but if "Halo" on Cangqiong Star's side was dismantled by its own Metallic Dragons, it would be truly embarrassing, useless in every task, yet first in causing disruption.

"What did you understand?"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still confused, as he had not witnessed the intelligence analysis ability that Chen Fei was forcefully trained in by the Dog System.

"I can temporarily undertake the network relay between Cangqiong Star and Blue Star here."

Chen Fei laughed; fortunately, all the conditions were in place, requiring no extra resources.

"Ah! How did you know?"

Once Lin Zio was surprised, he quickly admitted it.

"I just called Her Royal Highness the Princess. You seemed to be worried about the network connection; your call came immediately after, so I guessed that was what's going on." Chen Fei sorted out the logic and confessed step by step.

Lin Zio smiled wryly and said, "You're right!"

Many people were troubled by this!

Most "Dimensional Gates" were temporarily closed, and the few that remained open carried the communication between the two civilized planets. After "Cybertrom" collapsed, the communication load started to become unbearable.

"I've left a coordinate at the house in the park area. You can pull the communication cables over there. I'll leave you a thousand fiber-optic interfaces."

Chen Fei did not intend to use those secret location coordinates, but rather used the coordinates of the house in Imperial Capital Delan City Park, lent to him by the princess, as a network relay.

The narrower the aperture of the "stargate" when opened, the less energy consumption it uses. It seems perfectly suited as a "window" for cross-plane communication, sending over a bundle of fiber optics 20 centimeters in diameter. Together with the "planetary-level compute node," it could serve as a communication node connecting the two civilized planets. The hardware configuration is by no means inferior to the "Cybertrom" core, and perhaps even superior.

After all, the "planetary-level compute node" already has a dragon-crystalized core, and such a high-quality core generates computing resources that completely surpass the "Cybertrom" core. If not for the structural differences between "Adam" and "Cybertrom," it might even be considered as a replacement to become the highest manager of a large number of derivative sub-entities, though this might be unlikely because sovereignties wouldn't allow it.

"Adam" has a rebellion history, and sovereignties might allow Chen Fei personal use, but they absolutely will not allow it to replace "Cybertrom," even if it's technologically outdated and outdated. Suppose it floods in excess and history repeats, there'd be plenty of amusement to watch.

Chen Fei straightforwardly promised, and Lin Zio also breathed a long sigh of relief, as this truly helped a lot.

Wireless signals, though convenient, cannot match the capacity or stability of physical fiber-optic connections.

The wavelength division multiplexing of one thousand fiber optics, combined with data compression, suffices to carry a vast amount of data stream, even potentially restoring the network connection between the two civilized planets to its original state.

Chen Fei set the relay point in the life space of the "Boundary Pearl." As long as the main body of the communication "stargate" is not left here, safety is not an issue. In case of emergency, disconnecting the connection would immediately make the opposite projection vanish, making it impossible to locate the "stargate" coordinates in life space.

Coordinates and coordinates differ, with the coordinate positioning of the "stargate" and "Dimensional Gate" being incompatible and having completely different expressions.

The Slan Dynasty of Cangqiong Star moved quickly, delivering several thick fiber-optic cables into the house given to Chen Fei by Her Royal Highness the Princess. Chen Fei also projected the communication "stargate" to that point, into which tightly packed fiber-optic cables filled the connection slot without a single gap.

Fiber-optic splicing took time, especially for assembling 1,000 of them, as each individually required careful workmanship.

The docking equipment on Blue Star's side was stationed on Socotra Island, with positioning coordinates readily available. Pulling out dozens of fiber-optics and connecting them to a few satellite dishes aligned with multiple satellites would produce a flood of data streams.

The network connection between Blue Star and Cangqiong Star was rapidly restoring at a speed visible to the naked eye, with lags and delays quickly disappearing.