China's announcement of occupying habitable planets again made the US deeply angry, but the Americans soon discovered that China only nominally had the sovereignty of three habitable planets.

581d was blown into a barren land by two light-speed torpedoes, 581g was occupied by exoskeletons, and the 667cc climate was really a headache.

These planets can only be regarded as potential habitable planets, and are impossible, at least it is impossible to make real large-scale immigration in a short period of time. Uncle Sam, who can't eat grapes and says that grapes are sour, finally balanced a lot.

In addition to these planets, the nearest candidate for habitable planet is located in Glitzer 370 in the constellation, thirty-six light-years away from the solar system.

Although Glitzer 370 is only a potential candidate for livable planets, it is first come first served. Americans know deeply that if they don’t take action, they may be the first to be launched by the Chinese.

Unfortunately, although they knew the potential of the superluminal engine to speed up, the energy redundancy left by the warships of the US Starfleet when designing is not high, and the maximum speed cannot be raised at all. It has been more than two years since they flew to 581, and it will take another year and a half. In such a long time, not only can the Chinese people reach the ground, but they may even have built a house.

Fortunately, due to pressure from the exoskeleton, the Chinese could not draw out the spacecraft to complete the great cause of occupying the new colonial star in a short period of time.

The Americans' opportunities were actually achieved by exoskeletons, and this reality made the Americans unable to raise their heads.

In addition, the Chinese's behavior of picking peaches also reminded the Americans that if the American Starfleet directly threw the large group of exoskeletons and ran to grab the immigration stars by themselves... I am afraid that without Chinese protests, the people and opposition parties in the United States will immediately raise the banner of "disregarding the lives of the people" and drive the responsible government out of power.

This is a matter of not being able to grab a suitable planet, but it is also a headache to grab a planet.

The first batch of twenty immigrants of the experimental nature moved directly to the base after thawing. In order to ensure that they did not have internal conflicts, all of these twenty were male criminals with minor crimes, and they had basically engaged in plant-related jobs.

At the beginning, these guys even played passive and slackened work and did not cooperate at all. However, the base's supply relied entirely on the fleet, and under the threat of supply being cut off from hunger. They chose to cooperate very consciously.

The seeds provided to them are all types with extremely strong vitality, including cypresses among ferns (this is the legendary Nine-Death Resurrection grass); desert plant cactus; celestial stone flowers that are known as "living stones"; celestial orchids that only grow two leaves in their lives; green jade trees that like warm climates; epiphylla, bird's nest ferns and moss that are suitable for high temperature and high humidity environments; in the end, it is even less lichens that can survive at minus 273 degrees Celsius, still remain vibrant for six years under vacuum conditions, and will not die at the second temperature.

Basically, the first batch of selected plants are species that can survive under extreme conditions. Moreover, the plants are generally not tall to prevent them from being uprooted by strong winds.

As time passes day by day, the plants cultivated in the base soon sprout and begin to gradually adapt to the native environment of the Storm Star. The plants playing the Earth Card’s extreme logo really live up to expectations. Except for a few plants that are not suitable for abundant water, most species do not show the phenomenon of exclusion of the environment and are quickly transplanted outside the base.

Unfortunately, reality is always more skinny than ideals. A few days later, the plants that moved out of the base failed without exception. However, what is strange is that these plants did not wither, but were covered with a thick layer of gray-brown fluff, which looked like native plants on the island.

However, this was just the beginning. One of the first immigrants was lucky and did not strictly follow the cleaning procedures for entering and leaving the base. A few days later, gray-brown velvet began to grow on the surface of the immigrants, exactly the same as the velvet growing on the plants.

This discovery made the entire base messy and kept asking for help from the fleet, but before understanding the specific reasons, Ye Fei could not risk sending people to log in.

Fortunately, the immigrants quickly calmed down and found that the fluff growing on their bodies was not very effective, but in addition to looking scary, they did not have a high impact on people. In order to survive, a guy among the immigrants who had a high level of botany was hoped that the fleet would provide a batch of research equipment.

Ye Fei did not reject this suggestion, and soon studied the equipment and dropped it onto the island.

In less than an hour, the immigration base came to the results. What the immigrants grew were not villi, but a fungal microorganism!

In other words, they were infected with Storm Star's version of filamentous tinea …

No wonder the plants on the island are so strange in color. It turns out that they are not plants at all, but... well, mushrooms!

This fungus lives on the surface of the body and absorbs nutrients from the human body. It will not have obvious harm to the human body in a short period of time, but over time, no one can tell what will happen.

After finding the reason, all the immigrants breathed a sigh of relief. Various antifungal agents began to airdrop, but the effect after use was not satisfactory. Within a few days, the base became a world of fluff, with fluff being pulled from their bodies everywhere, and everyone was like moldy fruits.

Moreover, as the parasitic time increases, some side effects gradually appear, and immigrants generally experience symptoms of limb weakness, drowsiness and malnutrition.

But the fleet could not come up with an effective treatment method, so they could only watch the first batch of immigrants struggled to death.

It’s not that Ye Fei didn’t want to save them, but that he had no choice. He had used all the medicines he could use and thought about all the ways he could think of, but it just didn’t work. He didn’t dare to send someone to log in again!

I thought about it and felt scared. If I hadn't disinfected it thoroughly when I first landed, this fungus might have spread throughout the fleet.

Various specimens brought out from the surface of the Storm Star were sealed at the first time, and in case of any situation, they had to be placed outside the warship!

Ye Fei discussed feasible methods with his wife Gao Lan more than once. However, besides drugs, the only thing humans can rely on is their own immunity. Reliable immunity against microorganisms requires a large number of individual bases, that is, a large number of humans are needed to infect this fungus until some of the immune systems of some people successfully produce antibodies - humans have been using this method to fight ubiquitous microorganisms in millions of years of evolution.

But this method is destined to sacrifice a large number of infected people, just like the cold virus brought by European colonists when they landed on the American continent. Colds were a mortal and incurable disease for the natives of the American continent at that time!

Sacrifice more lives to save twenty people, and they may not be able to save them back. Those who are normal in their minds know how to choose. Ye Fei is not a saint and must be responsible for everyone's lives. He can only regretfully allow the first batch of immigrants to survive and fend for themselves.

But he was unwilling to accept that the immigration operation would end in a slight manner. At least twenty immigrants still had the opportunity and possibility of healing before they died!

Gao Lan led one of the few military doctors to be transferred to virologists, studying this strange fungus in a negative pressure laboratory day and night, trying to control the fungus with existing drugs and Earth's microorganisms.

Rescuing immigrants is only one aspect. If you cannot find a way to deal with this fungus, Storm Star will have to cross out the immigration candidate planet!

Even if you use a nuclear bomb to bombard the entire line, you may not be able to eliminate all the fungi.

Gao Lan is a clinician. He has never studied the virus much and has not made any breakthroughs.

Desperate immigrants have become suicidal. They are no longer afraid of the unknown environment outside the base, and they are no longer afraid of the unknown environment outside the base, and run around the island without wearing protective equipment, using various strange methods to deal with problems on their bodies. They even risk jumping into the sea, trying to use various sea creatures to smear the whole body, etc.

Finally one of them committed suicide by mental breakdown. When the body was found, he had been dead for several hours and the body had been stiff.

The immigrants were sad and foxes were sad.

The island is hot and humid, and the bodies will rot highly after being parked for a few days. They have to freeze the remains of the deceased. Just a few hours later, they suddenly found that the lush fuzz on the deceased was withered, revealing the thin appearance of the deceased who had not seen for many days.

A stone stirs up a thousand layers of waves, and the words low temperature and death are immediately linked together.

The news quickly reached the fleet, and Gao Lan immediately conducted experiments on the specimen. The results showed that the activity of this fungus weakened at about twenty degrees, was completely dormant at twelve degrees, and maintained a five-degree environment for sixteen minutes. In fact, the specimen completely lost its activity, and it would not recover even if the temperature increased, and it was completely dead.

This news is simply a desperate situation, and it swept away the low pressure of the fleet for more than ten days.

The surface of Storm Star is high and high humidity. I am afraid that the temperature of more than ten degrees is a low temperature and cold wave that is unprecedented for protists.

In the past, even if I found out that this fungus was afraid of low temperatures, there was no way. The fungus living in the human body was systemic. Anyone's body temperature dropped to five degrees, and the only thing waiting for him was death.

But now it is different. The temperature required by human body freezing technology is close to minus 2, and there is no pressure to kill fungi!

The rescue operation was launched immediately. The remaining nineteen immigrants were taken on the landing craft by the landing commando and flew away from the nightmare Storm Star. The atmospheric pressure of the Storm Star is high and its gravity is stronger than that of the Earth. The power of the landing craft can't fly into the universe at all. It is necessary to cooperate with the gravitational beam of the Yangtze River!

Although all ships of the Expeditionary Force are equipped with traction beams, only the traction beams on the assault ships have the largest power, which is also the reason why Lu Jian sent the assault ship to the 667c to implement the plan.

After the landing craft successfully returned to the fleet, all nineteen immigrants were refrozen.

More than ten days of parasitics consumed a lot of nutrients on them. These immigrants were very weak. In order to prevent them from losing their lives during the freezing process due to nutritional deficiency, the doctors on the ship injected them with a large amount of high-energy nutrients before they entered the freezing process.

A few days later, they were thawed again, and the nineteen who survived the disaster hugged their heads and cried bitterly, rather than die than enter the Storm Star again.

The previous accident interrupted the immigration plan. Unless the temperature of Storm Star drops overall, Ye Fei will never be able to send people down to seek death. They are just worrying about it.

Ye Fei is currently thinking about how to immigrate, but how to take advantage of this unfavorable accident!

2 On March 31, 206, the Yangtze River, which had been struggling for more than ten days, returned to Glitze 581 on April 19.

Ye Fei found Lu Jian as soon as he returned to the team. The two secretly negotiated for half an hour. After that, a new combat plan was released and the fleet immediately began to prepare for combat.

At the same time, Lu Jian took the initiative to contact the US Star Fleet and informed China that it would launch an attack on the exoskeletons entrenched on the fourth planet. Peter thought Lu Jian wanted the US fleet to cooperate with China's actions, so he had planned how to refuse in the morning and wanted to humiliate Lu Jian.

But to his surprise, Lu Jian had no intention of this at all, which made Peter's abacus, which was slamming and slammed.

Peter didn't know what the Chinese were doing, but he was waiting to watch the fun. It would be no harm to the Americans if the Chinese defeated. If the Chinese lost, the Americans would not lose much. Why not do it?

After the US Starfleet arrived at Glitzer 581, it launched several attacks on the fourth planet, but the Extrastones were powerful and did not get any advantage in several battles. The same is true for China, and the mechanical civilization has been unwilling to come forward. To put it nicely, the current situation is that humans and Extrastones are in a state of confrontation. In fact, humans cannot defeat the Extrastones, and are forced to stay on the periphery of the planetary system 581. They wander without giving up.

It’s just that no matter Peter or Lu Jian, it’s impossible to admit this fact.

20 April 20, 206. After half a day of preparation, the Chinese Expeditionary Force made all preparations. Only two strong ships and two assault ships participated in the mission. With the order of Lu Jian, the four warships disappeared into the colorful glimmer.

A moment later, the formation appeared outside the fourth planet four light seconds.

After the Extraneous Man lost the fifth planet, the defense of the fourth planet was much stronger. Apart from the patrol, the Bone Tomb rarely flew near the fourth planet, for fear that the scene of the fifth planet would repeat.

Four human warships were discovered by the external bones as soon as they appeared. The small fish scattered over the Fourth Planet did not surround them as before, but released more than twenty bamboo-joint ships from the bone tomb and flew quickly to the expeditionary force formation.

The four warships accelerated immediately, and did not fight head-on with the enemy, dragging the bamboo-joint ships in circles.

However, the defense of the exoskeleton was too tight, and there was no chance to break into the fourth planet. After two circles around the planet, Lu Jian gritted his teeth and picked a distance from the bone tomb, and ordered the formation to forcibly advance.

The patrolling small fish ships immediately attacked and quickly gathered a large number of warships to unfold the blocking surface... The space blocking was useless in line. The only effective way was to use a large number of warships to form a surface defense layer.

Not only that, a large number of small fish ships taking off from the bone tombs flocked, and there were also many bamboo joints and wolf flowers.

Although it will take some time for them to reach the direction of the assault, this posture is really too intimidating. Once entangled, the possibility of the warship getting out is extremely small.

Helpless Lu Jian could only order to give up the rushing and widen the distance again.

When the formation flew away, the alien fleet also shrank its troops and did not chase them at all, but just guarded the fourth planet.

Lu Jian's face was extremely ugly. In a few months, the Extrastones had already established their foothold on the fourth planet. The morning and evening circle was full of signs of Extrastones' activities. Biological warships continued to take off through the air and join the Extrastones' fleet. If this continued, it would not take long for the enemy to leave here. Instead, it would give the enemy time to expand its strength... Lu Jian could not imagine how he would meet people at that time.

"Commander, this is not possible at all. Should I switch to the second plan?" After staying away from the enemy, Ye Fei took the initiative to contact Lu Jian and suggested cautiously.

Lu Jian frowned: "The second plan is too risky." The so-called second plan is to use the battleship's super-light speed flight ability to approach the fourth planet.

The blockade of the exoskeleton is so tight, it is hard to say whether there is a chance to enter the super-light speed state and fly out after entering. More importantly, the magnetic field will affect the super-light speed flight, and the flight speed is too fast, making it difficult to ensure that the position of the warship appears is particularly accurate.

Normally, precisely calculated super-light speed flight can basically appear near predetermined coordinates, with an error of no more than two thousand kilometers.

Although the Expeditionary Force used the super-light speed overtaking tactic in the battle between the Expeditionary Force and the Wolf Flower Ship, the prerequisite is that the corrosive fog defense circle of the Wolf Flower Ship is large enough, with tens of thousands of kilometers inside it.

The fourth planet is not the case. Its outer space is full of small fish ships, which has a certain impact on superluminal flight.

In addition, the fourth planet is locked by the tidal lock of the star. In theory, the planet's magnetic field with weakened rotational speed will also be weakened, but the magnetic field of the fourth planet is substantially stronger than that of the earth.

It is nonsense to approach the planet's magnetic field at super-light speed and not be affected. If you fail to escape from super-light speed in time and directly hit the planet, it will be a tragic thing to get home.

"Just take risks, how can we be safe in war?" Ye Fei said, "The patrol range of exoskeleton hybrids is too large. It is no problem to deploy the landing cabin in one light and a second. However, there are so many biological warships along the way, and there is almost no possibility of successfully airborne..."

"I know everything you said." Lu Jian said in a deep voice, "It's better not to take risks... Stop talking, listen to me."

After Lu Jian finished speaking, he directly transferred the North and transferred two remote-controlled fighter jets from the North.

These two J-447 fighters are experimental remote-controlled fighters modified by the fleet themselves. They can be controlled by people or unmanned if necessary. However, the fleet's technical strength is limited, and the remote control device cannot be as flexible as human control.

Two fighter jets arrived at the Yangtze River. Ye Fei followed Lu Jian's instructions to hang eight loaded airborne pods under the wings of the fighter jet, which looked inconsistent. However, the length of j-447 was more than 60 meters, and the length of six or seven meters was hung on the round airborne pods, which looked like a few large bombs were hung, which looked strange.

After the two fighter jets set sail, they immediately entered the super-light speed state and flew directly to the fourth planet.

Soon, these two fighter jets appeared outside the atmosphere of the fourth planet, and the nearby small fish ships immediately surrounded them. The fighter jets had already set up programs to control them to fly to the planet immediately and plunge into the atmosphere.

The little fish could not catch up with them and could only shoot a large amount of solidified beams.

After entering the atmosphere, the fighter jet immediately released eight airdrop compartments, and the airdrop compartments that left the wing fell straight to the surface. Although five airdrop compartments were hit by solidified beams during the landing process, three of them successfully arrived at the surface in the end. The airdrop compartments that touched the ground suddenly split, and clusters of light fluff rose with the wind.

ps:  By the way, traction beams are no longer science fiction, although they can only move very small things now.
Chapter completed!