October 10, 2230, Base Galaxy.◇↓

In the outer space of the base star, more than a dozen city ships were suspended on orbits of different heights in a staggered manner. The ridges rushed towards the star armor and spread out, and the warm sunlight shone through the dome of the city ship.

The military arranged all city ships in a scattered manner to escape the surveillance of the light tribe. After learning that he could not avoid the sight of the light tribe in such a way, Ye Fei decisively terminated the plan to cover up his ears and stole the bells and pulled the city ship back to the familiar star field again.

However, only city ships stranded in the Orion Nebula will return to the base star, and those city ships that have left the time acceleration zone will not be in the return list.

In addition to the leisurely city ship, a slightly further away place is a brand new giant city ship guarded by six warships.

In the city ship, Nie Jianrong, accompanied by Ye Fei and others, completed the last item of the departure ceremony and sent unrelated personnel out of the city ship. He himself commanded the expeditionary fleet to leave the base star and began his journey to the distant deep space.

Although he had contacted Xu Shijie several times in the past two months, hoping to exchange the mission of flying to Jinxin with Xu Shijie, Xu Shijie did not give up. In the end, he could only fly to the little Magellan Star Cloud as originally planned.

Since there is a chance of unknown risks along the way, it is expected that the fleet will take ten years to reach the distant little Magellan cloud.

The core of the fleet is a city ship that doubles its power system. With Nie Jianrong's efforts, this city ship was named the Little Magellanic, or the Wheat for short. This expeditionary fleet also has an alias for the Wheat Fleet.

It can be expected that the Second Expedition Fleet commanded by Wu Han will definitely be called the Damai Fleet, but I don’t know what the Fleet that will fly to Silver Heart will be called in the end.

In addition to the Wheat and six main battleships, the expeditionary fleet is equipped with four additional teleportation ships, two of which are small teleportation ships attached to the Wheat. According to the plan, these two teleportation ships will travel along with Wheat for a long journey of 210,000 light-years and finally arrive at the Little Magellan Star Cloud.

The other two teleportation ships are independent large teleportation ships. What’s a bit strange is that these two teleportation ships only exist in the organization of the wheat fleet and have not set out with the fleet, or have not even been built!

Only a few people including Ye Fei knew that the mission of the additional two teleportation ships was actually to provide supplies to the fleet!

The wheat fleet obtains supplies from the local area and may attract the attention of the Light Clan, so the number of contacts should be minimized after leaving. Although the fleet can carry a large amount of supplies when departing, a large amount of supplies will occupy a large amount of space, so that the people who follow the fleet can only freeze.

The solution to this problem is to wait until the wheat fleet flew to the edge of the Milky Way, find several ecological planets suitable for serving as agricultural stars, and place portals and a group of engineering robots there to continuously provide necessary supplies and supplements to the fleet.

No matter how long the Light tribe's hands are, they will not even monitor the galaxies at the edge of the Milky Way?

Ye Fei has always had a strong intuition that the surveillance range of the Light Clan is actually not very large. Even the interstellar space in the time acceleration zone is probably not under the surveillance of the Light Clan. What they are monitoring is only the planets of various intelligent races. To put it in a big way, at most, the spaceships flying over the interstellar space are just included.

To be honest, he was worried that the Light Clan would monitor the wheat fleet to sail.

Before the wheat fleet leaves the time acceleration zone, it is absolutely surveillance, but I don’t know what will happen after leaving the time acceleration zone.

In order to cover the real purpose of the wheat fleet, Ye Fei promoted the Republic's new deep space exploration plan within the entire human star field, claiming to find a new home for humans to leave the time acceleration zone.

Although this reason is a bit unsatisfactory, the half of the Orion arm near the Milky Way nuclear ball has been divided up by the major races of the Light League, and the other half has been occupied a lot. It is reasonable to send a fleet to the far side of the Orion arm to find a livable star.

I just don’t know if the Light Clan will be confused by such excuses.

Ye Fei also expressed concern about this.

However, the three veteran generals who have recovered their youth are very optimistic and have advised Ye Fei to do his best and leave his destiny more than once.

After the wheat fleet left, the construction of the barley fleet was put on the agenda, but this time, the fleet was not organized according to the wheat fleet's blueprint, but a brand new design was carried out.

The fleet, which was originally planned to set off at the end of 2230, was delayed until after the Spring Festival in 2231, and had to set off.

The biggest difference between the Barley Fleet and the Wheat Fleet is that it adopts the Skyhawk-class and War God-class warship combination technology, mainly city ships, and combines six warships and several teleportation ships together to combine the entire fleet into a super-large spacecraft.

At first glance, the Barley looks like a super enlarged version of the Skyhawk or War God level, but the interior has been redesigned in all aspects. After all, the internal structure of warships and city ships is very different.

On January 31, 2231, the Barley Fleet commanded by Wu Han left the port and set sail.

By the way, Nie Jianrong directed the wheat fleet to fly into the distant deep space, setting a good example for all former military leaders who had to be forced to retire. Many former military leaders who were unwilling to be lonely joined the Barley Fleet, and also wanted to command a fleet to fly into the deep space.

The result was that in addition to the originally planned three fleets, six expeditionary fleets flying towards different directions of the Man and the Xian Arm were added.

In addition to appeaseing several restless former military leaders, these six fleets also have the intention to confuse the light clan's sight.

After all, there are only two fleets outside the Milky Way, and the fleets with adjacent spiral arms have six of them together. No matter how you look, they don’t look like the whole tribe is about to move away.

Judging from the fact that the two-mile fleets set out one after another, but the Guang tribe did not find trouble for the Republic, there is 80% hope.

In early March 2231, one month after the Barley Fleet set off, the first inspection fleet consisting of a large inspection ship and three warships left the base star.

After that, a test fleet will set off every month, and it will not come to an end until all six fleets set off.

The fleet flying to the Milky Way is also under intense construction. Since the possibility of an unexpected crisis in the direction of the nuclear ball is much greater than that of flying to the outer edge of the Milky Way, Xu Shijie's third expedition fleet is far stronger than that of the Barley and Wheat fleet.

Originally, Ye Fei wanted to build an enhanced combination warship, but after thinking about it, he finally decided to form an army-level fleet composed of twenty-seven warships to carry out the mission to fly to the Silver Heart.

However, these twenty-seven warships were not directly drawn from the existing fleet, but were cultivated through Laboratory No. 1 to cultivate twenty-seven large biological warships.

This is mainly done to consider that the distribution range of cosmic creatures is wider than that of technological races, and a small cosmic creature community can be seen everywhere in the universe. In contrast, a fleet of twenty-seven technological warships is as dazzling as a star.

In mid-May 2231, Xu Shijie, who had been waiting for more than half a year, finally got his wish and commanded the fleet to start the journey of conquering the heart of the galaxy.

The distance between the solar system and the galactic center is about 26,000 light-years, but Xu Shijie commanded the fleet to reach the far end of the near-nuclear end of the Orion arm through the portal, which directly shortened the range by more than 7,000 light-years, and the remaining journey was less than 20,000 light-years.

The diameter of the nuclear ball is about 20,000 light-years, which means that only when the fleet reaches the center of the Galaxy, it needs to fly over the entire range and reach the edge of the silver core, it only needs to fly over a distance of less than 10,000 light-years.

However, these ten thousand light years are also the most uneasy ten thousand light years. Shortly after leaving the far end of the near-nuclear end of the Orion arm, the fleet will enter the range of the human arm. Even if it orbits the galaxy, it may encounter large groups of landworms. The danger is the highest among the three-way expedition fleet.

Because of this, Ye Fei was most worried about among all nine expeditionary fleets. The one he was the one who was most worried about was Xu Shijie.

In order to ensure the safety of the fleet to the maximum extent, Ye Fei took out all the antimatter weapons he had saved in recent years, and two-thirds of them were handed over to Xu Shijie's expedition nuclear ball fleet, and the other third was divided into two parts, and the two fleets of barley and wheat were evenly divided.

Although the Republic already has space shock weapons, it has a real super weapon. Antimatter weapons are the most powerful weapons for human beings.

As for the test of the two spiral arms, the fleet is not so lucky, but the mission of these fleets is not to fight a war, and they carry antimatter weapons only because there is a greater danger in the large and small Magellan clouds and nuclear balls.

In order to avoid dangerous areas as much as possible, Xu Shijie did not fly directly from the distal end of the Orion arm's near nuclear power. Instead, he planned to bypass the closest part between the two spiral arms and circumferential arms from the side toward the human arm, so as to stay away from the fierce battlefield between the Light Alliance and the Landworms, and avoid being involved in the battle between the two sides.

Ye Fei was worried about the situation of the fleet and had to talk to Xu Shijie almost every day.

However, not long after, he could not care about the expeditionary fleet.

June 14, 2231.

Ye Fei returned home as usual. After dinner, he and Gao Lan gathered together to discuss Ye Qi's marriage.

The couple had long wanted to hold a grandson. Even though Ye Fei was too busy during the day, once he talked about this topic, he still became more and more excited and soon he looked forward to the happy time of the children and grandchildren surrounding him and sharing the joy of family.

However, at this moment, Ye Fei's personal terminal suddenly rang, interrupting the two of them.

Gao Lan closed his mouth in a clueless manner, Ye Fei's expression suddenly sank, and he immediately connected the communication: "I am Ye Fei."

"Old Ye, an emergency." Black Bear said hurriedly, "A group of the Expeditionary Force lost contact while carrying out their missions, and they have not been in contact yet. I'm afraid it's a lot of danger."

"When did it happen?" Ye Feiteng stood up.

"Not long ago, the exact time was twelve minutes." Black Bear replied.

"What about the details?" Ye Fei asked anxiously.

"What happened was a three-ship formation of the Expeditionary Force. They were ordered to clear out the landworms in a remote galaxy. However, twelve minutes ago, the fleet suddenly sent back the news of encountering the enemy and then lost contact one by one. The communication center had tried all the methods and had no echo. Because it was not a single-ship operation, the Operations Department believed that the probability of the fleet's survival was very small."

"It's impossible. Even if you encounter the large army of landworms, you shouldn't be able to escape, right?" Ye Fei frowned, and could not think of the reason.

"I think so too, but things have already happened." Black bear stopped here, and after a moment of pause, he said, "Do you send a large army to take a look?"

Ye Fei nodded: "Immediately transfer a fleet to go over, and also notify the Expeditionary Force to shrink the fleet. No warships are allowed to act alone until the situation is clear, so as not to encounter the enemy."

"Okay, I'll do it right away." said the Black Bear.

"Send me the detailed information in addition." Ye Fei ordered again.

The black bear immediately followed suit and sent Ye Fei the combat plan and the airspace coordinates of the accident together.

After Ye Fei received the relevant files, he immediately activated the shadow function of the personal terminal to project the three-dimensional image of the mission star field into the air. There is a small dot that keeps flashing in the middle of the star field, marking the mission galaxy.

Ye Fei looked at the star map carefully and found that there was only one mark on the picture.

This is strange.

Under normal circumstances, there should be two marks, one marks the mission galaxy and the other marks the location of the fleet's accident... Thinking of this, Ye Fei suddenly realized that it was not that there was only one mark on the map, but that the two marks overlapped together. The fleet did not encounter an enemy in interstellar space, but in the mission galaxy!

He immediately began to observe the situation of the mission galaxy and found that this galaxy was located at the outermost edge of the spiral arm, with only a few stars from the galaxy to the outside. When passing these poor stars, it was the vast interarm space between the Orion's arms and the human horse's arms.

Ye Fei immediately made a judgment that this fleet had probably encountered a large army of landworms that sneaked from the arm around the arm!

Thinking of this, Ye Fei did not dare to neglect, so he quickly contacted the Black Bear: "Old Bear, notify the Expeditionary Force that their mission is not a battle, but to first figure out the situation. After arriving at the mission star domain, it is strictly forbidden to rashly approach the mission galaxy!"

The black bear agreed and quickly conveyed the order.

The 21st Army stationed at the Base Star just received a battle order and sounded the battle alarm, and once again received a new order from the General Staff. When the fleet set off one minute later, everything from the fleet commander to the most ordinary soldier was clear about the mission of this trip.

The Expeditionary Force also received the order from the black bear, and the wolf cubs near the water tower immediately notified the scattered fleet to assemble to the designated coordinates.
Chapter completed!