Chapter 1086: Strange signs
Reborn-class clone starship, first ship - bridge
As the highest-ranking officer of the Reborn-class clone starship, A-Yun stepped off the floating elevator and walked briskly down the corridor.
Across the street is a research lab.
A-Yun stood in front of the research lab door as a beam of light scanned her body.
"Identity confirmed. High-ranking official in charge of the Reborn Project. Authorization granted."
After the mechanical sound subsided, the door slowly opened.
"Professor Shen, what's wrong?" A-Yun walked in and saw several researchers in white coats gathered around a piece of equipment.
A female researcher with gray hair looked up at A-Yun and said, "I've discovered some minor issues."
A-Yun walked up to the female researcher, her eyes filled with respect.
Because this old woman, Ms. Shen, is a leading figure in the life sciences of the Starry Empire.
After acquiring the Reborn-class clone starship, Zhao Chen did not simply use it; he also ordered the establishment of a dedicated research department to study the advanced technology of this starship.
In addition, for every interstellar warship technology that Zhao Chen obtained, aside from the initial secrecy phase, he would later assign a dedicated research team to thoroughly understand the core technologies of these interstellar warships and truly master them.
It's not just about being a manufacturer and a user.
Therefore, even though A-Yun is the highest-ranking person in charge here, she still treats this old scientist with great respect.
At that moment, she saw several horizontal lines on a holographic electronic display screen.
At first glance, it's impossible to tell what the problem is.
"This is our detection of life signals in the universe; it's like a radar."
These lines are some characteristic indicators of life signals. They will generally fluctuate, but the fluctuations will be wave-like, which is normal.
For example, if a large-scale war breaks out in a certain area at a certain time, it will cause these life signals to rise!
"On the contrary, it will decrease," Mr. Shen explained.
A-Yun nodded.
At this moment, Mr. Shen pointed to several characteristic indicators and magnified them repeatedly, several times over.
A-Yun noticed a phenomenon: a sharp drop.
"This sudden, precipitous drop is something that has never happened before."
But in the last few days, we have detected it several times, and the degree of the precipitous drop has increased several times!
Next, we reviewed the previous data.
We made a surprising discovery.
Over the past three years, the data we have recorded has shown this kind of precipitous decline, but the differences are very subtle.
If you don't look closely, you might not even notice it.
Moreover, it doesn't occur very frequently, maybe only once every six months or a year.
"This could lead researchers to mistakenly believe it's an instrument malfunction or the effect of a stellar storm," Professor Shen said seriously.
"Then... what does this mean?" A-Yun was just a manager in this area and only had a superficial understanding of this knowledge.
Old Shen didn't say anything too profound, but said directly: "Let me give you an example."
It's like I'm holding a water glass and pouring water out.
The water may flow out quickly or slowly, but it will always follow a certain trend.
But in this situation, some of the water you poured out suddenly disappeared into thin air!
"Disappeared into thin air?" A-Yun was dumbfounded.
She didn't understand what that meant for a moment.
With a profound look in his eyes, Elder Shen said, "The study of life actually dates back to the planetary era."
Why do intelligent life forms possess intelligence, and what is consciousness?
How are they produced? Where do they go after death?
Subsequent research revealed that after intelligent life dies, an energy surges from the body and then disappears into the outside world.
As for where they went, nobody knows.
However, according to a scientific basis, energy can neither be created out of thin air nor disappear out of thin air; it can only be transformed from one form to another, or transferred from one object to another, while the total amount of energy remains unchanged!
Life energy is the same, but we have never been able to know where life energy goes.
Is it, as legend has it, reincarnation, or has it returned to become some kind of minute matter in the universe?
But no matter what, it's impossible for something to just disappear into thin air like that!
unless......"
“Unless what?” A-Yun asked immediately.
Old Shen said seriously, "Unless someone, like us, has a situation where they can utilize this life energy!"
"Speaking of which, there was a delay in our recovery of the life signals of the JF-17 soldiers during this period."
A task that could originally be completed in an hour may now take even longer. Another researcher raised a similar issue at this point.
A-Yun had no idea what the reason behind these strange occurrences was.
But she knew that something unusual must be amiss.
"Old Shen, please continue to observe this situation. If anything changes, please let me know immediately."
"I will report this situation to the commander right now!" A-Yun said seriously.
...
Meanwhile, the attacks by the Dragon Legion, the Angel Legion, and the Machine Legion were progressing very smoothly.
Dragon Emperor Bridge
"We have destroyed or taken control of all five industrial bases within the Demon Race's territory!"
It took as little as one day and as long as five days.
We divided Zhao Wan'er's Xiaolong interstellar stealth bomber special fleet into five parts and deployed them on five battlefields.
Then, the 15th Legion of the Xiaolong Command was instructed to provide support using the Huiguang-class interstellar warp ships, and reinforcements were selected for the smaller legion fleets based on the situation on various battlefields.
"Finally, we successfully acquired these five industrial bases!" Lilith excitedly told Zhao Chen.
"What is the operational status of the five industrial bases?" Zhao Chen inquired.
Zhao Chen had always liked the industrial facilities in the star system where the Cult of Machines was located, but unfortunately, the Demon Race provided massive support at the time.
Left with no other option, Zhao Chen had to destroy all the industrial facilities within the Mechanicus galaxy.
Holding the attitude that if you can't have it, you won't leave it to others.
There are now five more industrial bases here. If we can utilize them, it will greatly enhance the industrial foundation of the JF-17 Thunder.
"Of these five industrial bases, two are severely damaged and beyond repair."
The remaining three were damaged in the battle, at approximately 70%, 50%, and 37% damage respectively. Lilith was naturally also keeping an eye on this and reported these figures immediately.
Zhao Chen was quite satisfied. It was good enough that he managed to preserve three of them, and two of them were even worth repairing, so it was a decent harvest.