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Vita, who was initially quite pleased, quickly echoed Kaul's words after hearing them.
"Me too, teacher. Please let me go with you."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Qing, who was about to leave, stopped and looked at his two students.
After a moment's thought, he made his decision.
"Very good, then follow along. I can teach you some things while we're on the road. Your foundation is too weak, so we really should seize the time to help you improve your basics."
Since the student wanted to learn from Zhou Qing, there was no need to refuse. After all, what he wanted was a scientist who could stand on his own, not an ordinary researcher.
What he wanted was a scientist leader, a scientist leader who could independently research specific technologies, not a researcher who could only conduct research under his direction.
Although Karl's abilities and skills fall far short of Zhou Qing's standards in many ways, that's not the whole story.
Anyway, we'll choose the tallest among the short ones. As long as they can learn the knowledge properly and become independent scientists, that's enough.
Zhou Qing's agreement delighted both Kaul and Vita.
Originally, they could only receive Zhou Qing's instruction once a week or once a month, and the opportunities to learn were actually limited, but now it's different.
But during the month of war, they were destined to receive a great deal of instruction. Since Zhou Qing had nothing better to do, he could cram knowledge into their heads almost every day.
"Alright, don't just stand there any longer. Hurry up and pack your things. We're getting ready to leave."
Seeing the two students in front of him with joy already showing on their faces, Zhou Qing urged them impatiently before taking another step away.
Leading students was just a minor incident, and I also took the opportunity to relieve my boredom on the road.
After Zhou Qing left, Karl and Vita exchanged a glance and then left the control room separately to pack their belongings.
This trip is destined to be a long journey, and I still need to bring some of my accumulated treasures. Every tech enthusiast, especially those inside the Mechanical Ark, has STC templates that they have inherited from their archaeological mentors.
Although with Zhou Qing as their teacher, these STC templates no longer seem so important, knowledge is knowledge.
Most importantly, having the opportunity to ask Zhou Qing questions, I can take this opportunity to have my teacher help me crack some technical black boxes that I couldn't understand before.
Vita and Carl were unable to contain their excitement; they had already begun to fantasize about mastering even more knowledge.
Even Kaul, who had lived for a full ten thousand years, was incredibly excited by this news!
Chapter 251 Starfish Chases the Mechanicus Fleet
After everything was ready, the warship slowly began to start.
From the outside, Europa 7 looks like a metallic planet made of metal, but the moment it starts moving, it accelerates itself to 20 times the speed of light.
The speed even continued to increase afterward; it's hard to imagine that a planet could move so fast.
Even during faster-than-light travel, the people inside continued their lives as usual, with their time still fixed at 24 hours a day, a rule enforced by powerful technology.
Even faster than the speed of light cannot affect the situation inside a warship.
This is something that the technology of the Space Necromancers cannot achieve, since the Space Necromancers simply do not have this kind of idea or trouble.
In the initial battles between the Primordial Necromancers and the Ancient Saints, the outcome was roughly equal for both sides.
However, as the Necromancers became mechanized biomechanical bodies, they were able to ignore the effects of faster-than-light travel, which allowed them to gradually gain the upper hand on the battlefield and eventually defeat the Ancient Ones.
Space necromancers have mechanical bodies, so they don't have the problem of being affected by faster-than-light travel. This means they don't even bother to research this technology, and they can't possibly research it anyway.
The Necromancers in space don't have this technology, but humans do!
Humanity possesses a wide variety of basic technologies, ensuring that its warships can freely roam the galaxy and even soar freely in the universe.
Just as Zhou Qing was leading his fleet toward the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Mechanicus fleet in the Large Magellanic Cloud was also being besieged by the starfish.
"Great Sage Philus, we have received a reply from the Empire, and we will receive its support."
The Empire commands us to persevere; this is the will of Omnisiah.
"Omnisiah will personally lead his fleet to support us and rescue us from this misery!"
"Omnisaiah himself praised us for our adventurous spirit; He has high hopes for us!"
The mechanical priest responsible for reporting this information, dripping with machine oil, excitedly expressed his inner turmoil in his mechanical voice, and conveyed the Empire's intentions to the Great Sage.
Upon hearing this, the Great Sage Philus was equally excited, and kept chanting the binary hymn.
What an honor it was that Omnesia himself came to rescue their small Mechanicus fleet!
Such glory made the great sage Philus feel that his life had been worthwhile.
After all, Om Messiah himself praised them, saying they had a spirit of exploration.
The incredibly excited Sage Philus looked at the starfish fleet besieging him and suddenly felt no fear.
These starfish only managed to travel at 70 times the speed of light because of the sheer number of their fleets and some outrageous technology that suppressed their faster-than-light travel.
"Hmph!" The Great Sage Philus snorted disdainfully. If it weren't for their advanced technology that could restrict their faster-than-light travel, they wouldn't have needed to ask Omnesia for support. Their mechanical ark fleet would have been enough to make those starfish on the other side suffer a terrible fate!
"Omnissiah is coming soon. Omnissiah himself calls us enterprising people, so we cannot let Him down!"
"Order the fleet to fight and retreat. As soon as their shields fail, we will charge in and destroy their pursuing fleet. I will use them to declare our victory!"
The Great Sage Philus was very excited. He felt that Omnisiah was about to arrive, and he certainly shouldn't just run away all day long. He should take the initiative to attack!
He wanted to win so he could celebrate Omnisiah's impending arrival, which excited him greatly!
Under the command of their Great Sage, the Mechanical Ark Fleet began a new operation: the fleet slowly slowed down to allow the Starfish Fleet to catch up and launch an attack.
But how could the starfish not see through such a simple idea as the Mechanicus?
Sethsar—that's the name of the starfish's race.
The Cessar race resembles Patrick Star from the ocean floor, but unlike Patrick Star, they are an extremely warlike and aggressive nation.
While this race and civilization wasn't as vast as the human empire, their numbers were considerable, encompassing almost the entire Large Magellanic Cloud, with over 40 planets as their colonies.
They also developed a large amount of AI technology and faster-than-light travel technology. More importantly, they also mastered subspace travel technology. Since the subspace evil gods basically do not interfere with things outside the galaxy, subspace travel outside the galaxy can be said to be very useful.
However, their warp travel is only about the same as that of humans, and they also rely on star torches.
However, the good thing about this civilization is that there are no warp gods or evil gods in this part of its warp space.
Furthermore, 1 years ago they also obtained some of the technology of the Necromancers and some of the ancestral afterglow that they had possessed at the beginning of the Empire, which allowed them to create startornes in the warp.
In addition, the Large Magellanic Cloud, as a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, happens to be within the protection range of the Space Necromancer.
This has led to the smooth development of these starfish.
Aside from the occasional battles with space necromancers, which give them a bit of a headache.
But overall it was a very good life, until the motor enthusiast came to their galaxy and things started to change a little.
"Commander, the warships of that unknown race ahead have slowed down. It seems they're waiting for us to catch up before launching an attack. What do you think?"
"Now that they've already figured it out, are we still going to do as they wish?"
Faced with his subordinate's report, Commander Nord, who was in charge of the pursuit fleet, merely glanced at his subordinate and asked a question in return.
"But Commander, aren't we supposed to hunt them down and destroy them? If they slow down and we don't catch up, how are we supposed to complete our mission?"
His subordinates were well aware of how absurd this was and what the consequences would be if they did it, but there was nothing they could do.
Their mission was to destroy the fleet of this unknown race, and now that the enemy fleet has finally slowed down, they can catch up.
Why wait any longer to launch an attack?
Even knowing it's part of their plan, you have no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.
"No need to rush. Our StarNet core has already calculated that a fleet has already intercepted them in advance via subspace travel to the star system they are about to visit."
"We don't need to suffer any more casualties; we just need to keep up with them."
Nord answered his subordinate's question.
"Once I catch up with them, I must find out what race they are. I have never seen such a unique race in our star system, one that can fly so fast."
"Their technology may have some reference value, you can study it. I really didn't expect your research ability to be so weak, it's a disgrace to the prestige of our ancestors!"
"The current limit under normal conditions is only 60 times the speed of light, you guys are really something!"
As he spoke, Commander Haixing kicked his adjutant hard, clearly displeased.
Chapter 252 You know nothing of the Empire's glory and heritage
The Mechanicus's forging fleet began to move slowly forward.
Their speed began to decrease to 50 times the speed of light, allowing the starfish warships behind them to enter faster-than-light travel and catch up.
At the same time, 50 times the speed of light is not something the starfish can easily achieve, although their warships can reach up to 60 times the speed of light when they enter their maximum speed travel mode. However, reaching 60 times the speed of light requires a large amount of energy to destabilize their shields.
The Mechanicus's warships were suppressed by the starfish's faster-than-light suppressor, and could only travel at 70 times the speed of light.
That was just the other side's faster-than-light suppressor inhibiting their speed, but their energy consumption was not reduced, and they could still travel at that speed.
The energy core of the Mechanicus can still power the warships forward, something the starfish cannot do.
The Great Sage Philus's idea was very simple: let the enemy catch up at 60 times the speed of light, and then consume a lot of energy to shake their shields.
However, these starfish did not do as he wished. Instead of entering the super-limit mode of 60 times the speed of light, they continued to maintain the speed of 50 times the speed of light, hanging far behind the Mechanicus fleet.
“Great Sage Philus, those damned aliens haven’t caught up with us. Instead, they’re still trailing behind us, maintaining a similar speed.”
Upon hearing this, the Great Sage Philus glanced at the reconnaissance device on his warship, confirmed the other party's status, and then spoke.
"Release the Void Lightning. Since they're unwilling to chase after us and fight, let's set up some traps for them ahead!"
"This..." The mechanical priest hesitated slightly upon hearing this.
“Great Sage, we have been fighting for too long and have used up too many Void Lightning. If we waste Void Lightning now, and if we are forced to fight again when we encounter their all-out pursuit from all directions, it will be difficult for us to rely on Void Lightning to hinder the enemy’s pursuit from the rear.”
From the time they sent a message requesting the Empire's support to the time Zhou Qing dispatched a fleet to personally rescue their Mechanicus Cult's warships, they had been fighting here for over four months.
The Ark Fleet was not attacked and immediately requested support from the Empire. After all, they were just ordinary alien civilizations at the beginning, so why would they suddenly ask the Empire for help?
The Ark Fleet requested assistance because the Mechanicus's Ark Fleet was struggling to sustain itself in subsequent battles, hence the request.
"Then use less, just to put a little burden on them!"
"At worst, we can risk reopening the warp channel and traverse through the warp again. We now have a 5000-fold faster-than-light engine, so even if we get lost in ordinary deep space, we can find a place to resupply!"
"As long as we can find any planet belonging to an alien civilization, we can go and rob it!"