Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1287 - 489: Suffocating Progression (Part 2)

Sun Ai’s information carried another meaning, which didn’t need to be explicitly stated; Ren Zhong understood it naturally. That was, once the last vertical link is completely severed, the truth that the Source Star Fleet never entered the Black Mist Zone would be exposed.

Additionally, there was a very urgent situation.

The remaining line 997 is composed of specific working ships as follows, excluding the still-intact other ships, consisting of ships like 997-33, 996-32, 996-31, 997-31, 997-30, 997-29, 995-28, 997-27, 996-26, among others. It forms a somewhat unstable zigzag line, barely usable.

It is precisely this singular relay formed by the crossing that has maintained the fleet’s disguise.

Among multiple horizontal sequences, not just one working ship has survived. Currently, these working ships are trying to move closer to the shortest path between line 997 to form a cage-like network, preventing any of the working ships in the data chain from completely severing the link due to new accidents or deteriorating damage conditions.

Among all the working ships on the links, the most dangerous horizontal sequence is the 27th transverse column.

This column’s dimension appears to be at the core of the impact, suffering extremely heavy losses. Out of 997 working ships in the 27th horizontal sequence, only eight have survived, with a survival rate of less than 1%, which is one-fifth of the average survival rate of 5% for all impact surfaces.

The surviving ship numbers are as follows: 5-27, 12-27, 33-27...981-27, 997-27.

An even more severe situation is that, within a day, only 981-27 can arrive near 997-27 and connect in parallel to line 997 to form a parallel redundant network that provides a stable data channel.

This means that if the link of the 997-27 working ship disconnects before 981-27 reaches the stable link zone, this sole relay will inevitably break off.

Yet, this is not the worst situation. Among all the impacted working ships, 997-27 is in the most dangerous position.

In prior battle briefings, the key ship almost cut into two, barely holding with a structural column from complete disintegration, was precisely 997-27.

If the 997-27 working ship fails to hold on, it would spell the total failure of the disguise operation.

Ren Zhong could easily imagine that if Liu An finds this conspiracy unable to destroy the Source Star Fleet, he would surely pull out a large mixed pirate fleet from the Shattered Star Ring and launch a fierce assault. This would thoroughly eliminate Ren Zhong himself, who has yet to complete the merit and potential review in the Empire and register, as well as the entire Source Star Fleet. Afterwards, he could just casually pin the blame on a pirate leader.

No one expected that the fate of the Source Star Fleet, with nearly twelve thousand large warships and a population of nearly three billion, would be tied to such a fragile line.

At this moment, the threads of fate for thirty billion individuals are intertwined with the five surviving crew members aboard 997-27.

The vast conference room was dead silent at this time, with Chen Qiao continually adjusting the algorithm, attempting to restore contact.

The damage situation of the 997-27 working ship was absolutely severe.

Under normal circumstances, the Fleet Headquarters could use the information flow link to enter the main control system of the working ship, comprehensively monitoring the operation status of various devices on the working ship. It could even remotely take over the intelligent brain’s program of the working ship, providing computational power assistance to quickly resolve issues.

But now, 997-27 can only silently play the role of data link relay point; Fleet Headquarters couldn’t recognize the ship’s main control system at all, indicating that the core intelligent brain of this working ship has been seriously damaged.

Even the situation of 997-27 breaking into two pieces was reported by ship 981-27 using an information flow scan and re-modeling method.

Fortunately, 997-27’s information flow repeater was still functioning.

Now, if Fleet Headquarters wants to contact the counterpart, it can only add additional functions to the repeater to jam communication data inside.

This is meticulous work requiring multiple encryption and disguise to avoid interfering with the stability of the data chain itself and accidentally leaking the truth.

Chen Qiao was creating the encryption algorithm, then Sun Ai rapidly compiled it.

After a while, Chen Qiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "Connected! Connected! From now on, we can conduct voice communication with the surviving personnel on 997-27."

"Who will do it?" Chen Qiao raised her head and looked around the conference room.

Actually, Chen Qiao’s question was somewhat redundant and seemed to waste time, but no one blamed her. After all, she wasn’t a professional military person; not understanding these aspects was normal.

None answered Chen Qiao; everyone’s gaze provided her the answer.

She, slightly embarrassed, quickly sat down and directly pushed the voice communication access to Ren Zhong seated at the head seat.

Ren Zhong promptly opened his mouth and said, "Calling 997-27, this is Fleet Headquarters, I am Ren Zhong. Please respond, please respond."