Chapter 408 Mysterious White Shadow
Chen Ming himself had control over the invisible means of attack.
It is to use the phase space to suppress the normal universe to launch an attack.
But based on Chen Ming's familiarity with the power of phase space, the current attack on the Afterglow ship has no direct connection with phase space.
The reason lies in those exploding ships.
These explosions not only had obvious firelight, but also some bright pink energy fluctuations exploded along with them.
You must know that the energy color of Yuhui's ship is usually cyan or cerulean. Even if it explodes, it will not explode like this pink color. These energy lights are obviously related to the weapons that caused the Yuhui warship to explode.
Moreover, phase space only affects the normal universe in a physical sense. Even if there is something in the phase space that causes the spacecraft to explode, those things should not be visible from the perspective of the normal universe.
Not to mention the rust that can be seen in the details of the shipwrecks.
Rust is usually caused by chemical reasons, which further illustrates that this situation has nothing to do with phase space.
Therefore, Chen Ming can be sure that this is not an effect achieved using phase technology.
But he couldn't analyze anything by just watching the video. He needed to see and touch the wreckage of the Afterglow battleship with his own eyes for further analysis.
"Any clues?" the legion commander on the side asked Chen Ming.
"A little, but not much."
Chen Ming pointed at the Afterglow combat ship in the area next to it and the several cargo ships in front of him and said: "The combat ship is of little value because the Afterglow core can store data on its own. Only these cargo ships have recorded a little bit of the situation at that time."< br>
"What exactly happened?"
"Let's talk about it on the way."
"On the way?"
"The valuable information here has been obtained."
Chen Ming reached out and patted the cargo ship next to him, and said: "Although the remaining wreckage over there is already being sent here, no matter how fast others send it, it will definitely not be as fast as us going there directly."
"Simply put, I'm too lazy to wait."
"Okay."
The legion commander had no objection to Chen Ming's idea and left the dome with him.
As soon as he arrived outside, Chen Ming waved to the sky. The highest point soon appeared in the clouds, blocking the light shining on the planet, and slowly landed on the ground.
The two climbed to the highest point and the spacecraft quickly took off.
After Chen Ming determined the destination for the highest point, which was near the location of the rear fleet group, he started the autopilot of the spacecraft.
It will take about a few jumps to get there.
Take advantage of these few minutes during the transition.
Chen Ming played the records he got from the cargo ship to the legion commander at the place where he used to specialize in research at the highest point.
At the same time, he also explained to the legion commander his content analysis of the records of the Afterglow cargo ship by repairing it.
"It can be confirmed that Yuhui was indeed attacked when he retreated."
Since the video the legion commander watched had not been shown when Yu Hui's battleship was in trouble, the legion commander subconsciously asked: "Who?"
"Not sure."
Chen Ming shook his head and motioned to the legion commander to continue watching the video.
And he stretched out his hand in front of him and used metallic liquid to create detailed models of thousands of afterglow spaceships, arranging them to imitate the situation in the video.
There are not many scenes in the cargo ship video, and the multiple perspectives of the multiple cargo ships are relatively close to the perspective of the cargo ship of one of the Afterglow battleship fleets guarding the Afterglow rear fleet.
At most, Chen Ming roughly recorded a corner of what happened on the edge of the entire fleet, and reproduced it here.
This is enough for the time being.
These contents alone are enough for Chen Ming to arrange the formation of these battleships.
It can be said that these models are almost completely manufactured according to the design of the Afterglow ship after being reduced to a certain proportion. These model ships can even operate like normal ships.
Chen Ming observed the fleet he had arranged using models, trying to figure out something from the distribution of these warships.
However, just looking at it is obviously not enough.
The key is not the afterglow, but the presence of the attack afterglow.
The legion commander on the side quickly finished watching the video and came to Chen Ming's side.
Chen Ming raised his hand slightly when he saw this.
I saw hundreds of the thousands of model spaceships in front of me suddenly seemed to be split into several pieces by an invisible force at a certain location, while more model spacecraft next to them suddenly burst from the inside. There was an explosion outside.
This is an effect specially simulated by Chen Ming, not a real slash or real explosion.
However, although it was just a simulation, Chen Ming and the legion commander personally saw the whole process of what happened from a more third-party perspective.
The expressions of both of them changed slightly.
The legion commander turned to look at Chen Ming and said, "Is it accurate?"
"Exact."
"Would you like to try this again?"
Chen Ming nodded slightly.
After using psychic energy to repair these thousands of warship models, he repeated the operation just now.
What happened in the blink of an eye in the video was replayed in front of the two of them.
There is not the slightest difference from before.
Both of their eyes focused on the chopped-up warships at the same time.
This time they saw it more clearly.
They also became more convinced that what they just saw was not an illusion.
That is, the slashing attack that occurred among the Afterglow Battleship Group had a trajectory.
Assuming that the battleship group is considered to be distributed in a space the size of a football, then the spaceships that were attacked are only distributed within a cylindrical area that runs through the football.
It was the unknown attack method that attacked this cylindrical area that caused the warships in this area to be cut off.
The Afterglow battleship outside this cylindrical area exploded at the same time.
This is another very special point.
Why are warships within the trajectory being slashed, while warships outside the trajectory are exploding?
Chen Ming really couldn't figure out how to do this extremely strange special attack method.
And this is not an explosion of the ship caused by external explosives, but an explosion of the ship from the inside out.
The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more outrageous he felt, so he asked the legion commander next to him: "Is there any weapon that can achieve such a similar effect?"
The legion commander thought carefully and responded: "Let's not talk about the explosion. As for the slash, no, at least it doesn't behave like this."
"The weapon I know that can achieve the closest effect is an air knife used in industrial equipment. It uses special means to compress special gas and finally releases it. It can indeed cut many things, and it is better than high-pressure water flow."
"But if this kind of air knife is used in a vacuum, the gas dispersion speed will be too fast, and the effect will be mediocre."
"And the distance this thing can touch is too close, so it can't be used in battleship exchanges."
Chen Ming knew this kind of air knife equipment, and he had used it many times. Even if this thing was modified and the output power was higher, the properties of the gas were there, and it was impossible to use it in actual vacuum combat.
But others...
Chen Ming kept searching in his memory. However, in the end he could only talk about a possible situation: "Could it be that the color of the thing that caused this kind of damage is outside the known spectrum, and ordinary sensors can't record its appearance? Then it rushed closer. Distance destroyed these ships? ”
The legion commander pointed at a model of a radiation-class battleship that had been cut into several sections and said, "What can directly cut off a battleship?"
"Wrong."
As soon as the question was asked to the commander of the export corps, he vetoed his own question. After all, there are really many things or abilities that can cut off the battleship.
He himself can completely cut off the battleship, but at most he can't do it to such an extent that it has not been recorded at all.
So he changed the question and said: "You can't cut the ship into several sections instantly with a close-range attack, right? Moreover, the directions in which these ships are cut are all different. It's better to say that they are swinging chainsaws." It looks like this.”
Chen Ming also knew that his idea was a bit unrealistic, so he could only say: "That is even more nonsense."
"Yes, to have such an effect..."
The legion commander shook his head. Obviously this is difficult to establish based on the theoretical knowledge of imperial warship weapons.
There may be real theoretical techniques, but he really can't think of anything that can achieve similar effects right now.
"Let's not talk about it for now. Regarding those pink explosive substances... Potassium ions can produce a relatively similar purple flame when burning. If the brightness is enough, it may look pink, but it cannot be seen otherwise."
"It's hard to tell if it's energy light. You can get a similar effect by stuffing some rare gas into it. You have to go and take a look to find out what's going on."
The legion commander said and directly spread his hands. He really couldn't think of anything else that could match the situation they saw.
There are still too few clues.
But he suddenly thought of something.
"Can you repair these models, and then slow down the speed to see from which direction and which spacecraft this attack started?"
If you can slow down the recording enough to clearly see the specific process that occurred, you might be able to analyze something else based on the environmental conditions there.
However, Chen Ming gave a negative answer: "No, I can't tell."
“In the shortest frame I pulled down from the cargo ship’s sensor record, the entire fleet was penetrated instantly, and it’s impossible to tell where it started.”
"The speed of this thing has exceeded the speed that the sensor can record. It is impossible to reproduce it clearly even if I want to reproduce it."
The legion commander said understandingly: "The sensors of cargo ships are indeed worse than those of combat ships."
Chen Ming packed up the models he had just made and said, "That's why I'm going to conduct an on-site investigation. There may be clues on the dismantled warships over there."
The words fell.
The Supreme Point also completed its last jump at this time and arrived near the position of the fleet behind Afterglow.
The reconnaissance fleet dispatched by the legion in advance had completely surrounded this area at this time.
We will conduct surveillance in the surrounding area to ensure safety, and a special engineering ship will soon come over to process this ship cemetery.
After the legion commander communicated with the person in charge of the reconnaissance fleet.
Chen Ming successfully drove the Supreme Point into the encirclement of the reconnaissance fleet and approached the area full of shipwrecks.
Chen Ming received a reminder from the reconnaissance fleet before entering.
It is said that although some ships in this wreckage were cut off by unknown forces, their engines were not necessarily destroyed. This resulted in the automatic defense systems on some shipwrecks still running, which requires some attention.
It's not a big deal.
Chen Ming did not intend to walk through the entire wreckage area. All he wanted to do was to take away a few ships at the edge of the fleet so that the entire battleship group could be seen from the perspective of the wreckage.
After spending a little time and having a small conflict with the automatic defense system left by Yuhui.
Chen Ming successfully achieved his goal and found the wreckage of several battleships in suitable locations from different Afterglow battle fleets.
And captured and dragged it into the exploration ship like the Supreme Point, which has a special space set aside for storing all kinds of strange things picked up during exploration.
After the wreckage of several battleships was dragged in.
Various detection equipment inside the highest point were immediately activated under Chen Ming's control and used on these wreckage.
He did not rush to repair the wreckage to read the information in the wreckage.
After all, if he directly uses psychic energy to repair it, all traces will be completely erased.
It is better to use various means to investigate manually first.
Sometimes traces speak louder than data.
Of course, what Chen Ming first paid attention to on these wreckage were the cutting marks that caused the battleship to be cut into several sections.
The wounds on these sections are almost absolutely smooth.
It's easy to see the cutting damage being done absolutely instantly.
But what is special is that rust appears very suddenly in some places on the cut surface, which is very different from the smoothness of other parts of the cut surface.
Logically speaking, an attack method with the ability to directly cut up a battleship does not require other auxiliary effects such as corrosion.
But it happened to be there, which made Chen Ming even more difficult to understand.
At this time, the legion commander could also see Chen Ming operating the equipment on the spacecraft to inspect the wreckage.
He speculated about this situation: "Is it possible that a linear weapon with a single molecule thickness cut the ship open? And then this single-molecule layer of material has a corrosive effect?"
Chen Ming asked rhetorically: "If a single molecule causes corrosion, you can't use your own molecules to react, right?"
"Then I really can't think of other possibilities, and I don't feel the need to continue guessing within the framework. I think this may be the effect of psychic weapons."
Chen Ming nodded and said, "I think so too. Let me see the other wrecks first."
"Okay."
Chen Ming continued to control the spacecraft's equipment and turned to the wreckage of the ship caused by the explosion.
Want to try to extract residue from these wrecks.
However, Chen Ming did not find any remnants of the explosion. All the materials on the wreckage were materials that existed on the battleship, and there was no residue of the material that had previously erupted with pink energy light and fire.
This situation further strengthened Chen Ming's idea that this should be the damage caused by some kind of psychic weapon.
After continuing to check several times and recording a lot of data.
Chen Ming mobilized his psychic energy and began to repair the wreckage.
The afterglow core in the cut wreckage appears to have been unloaded without damage.
However, the afterglow core in the wreckage caused by the explosion was not removed.
Successfully recovered under the influence of Chen Ming's spiritual energy.
But after the restoration, the structure and consciousness in the core still cannot be repaired.
His psychic powers are not yet powerful enough to resurrect life, even electronic life.
But that's enough.
Chen Ming successfully read out the data in Afterglow Core.
Found footage recording the unexpected situation the Afterglow fleet encountered.
This time, Chen Ming finally saw something on the sensor screen.
It was a mysterious white shadow that only existed for a very short time.
It passed through Yuhui's fleet, but all the warships that were close to the white shadow were cut into pieces, while the warships that were not close to the white shadow were hit by the explosive attack method at the location.
This is why the Afterglow Fleet is in this state.
(End of chapter)