Chapter 738: 450: Witnessing Miracles in Escape【3500 Words】_1
Chapter 738: Chapter 450: Witnessing Miracles in Escape【3500 Words】_1
Buzz!
The ship left the three-dimensional space and fell into the subspace layer.
However, Scarlett sent Harrison the simulated image she had just scanned.
It was a familiar figure.
Looking at this 55-meter-tall giant mantis-shaped robot, Harrison frowned.
This was the Blade Mantis.
Morrowind No.2 has been discovered.
Beep beep beep beep!
The alarm sounded again and was more urgent than before.
Harrison looked at the monitor again and found that the Blade Mantis had already entered subspace chasing after Morrowind No.2!
Before a ship enters subspace, it must construct a perfect curvature bubble to break through the barriers and cut the space.
But once in stable subspace traveling beyond ten times the speed of light, no ultra-high-strength curvature bubble is needed for stable flight due to the absolute vacuum outside and the automatic ejection of decelerating matter from space, and basic shielding is sufficient.
Having detected the pursuers behind them, Scarlett had already activated the shield system and raised the power to its maximum.
Blade Mantis entered the gravitational line subspace less than a second later than Morrowind No.2, but the distance between the two sides had been stretched to an extreme.
The next instant, the Blade Mantis’s trail vanished into thin air.
It was unclear whether it had entered a short-range warp state or continued to dive into a deeper space layer in an attempt to catch up at a faster speed.
In just an instant, the Blade Mantis suddenly appeared in front of Morrowind No.2.
The subspace was pitch black, and although the Blade Mantis was also shrouded in darkness, the high-energy reaction detected by the monitor made this small biotic soldier shine brightly like the sun.
Harrison had killed the Blade Mantis before and was not afraid of it psychologically.
His current Freddy’s Galaxy Armor also had some improvements over his previous Galaxy Equipment.
It seemed that he had a chance of winning.
But things had changed. Last time, he was not fighting alone.
He had countless comrades, Starry Sky Giant Cannons, and Stellar Cannons providing fire support, a vast battlefield-wide monitoring system helping him gather information, numerous Fortress Ships providing large-scale force field suppression, and many Gene-Modified Warriors and top fighters risking their lives to attract the Blade Mantis’s attention and help him seize the opportunity.
But this time, he was on his own.
Well, maybe he had to count little Freddy too.
But Freddy, who had never received military training, had a certain level of control, but there was a big difference between being able to operate armor and actually taking it into battle.
Walking the line between life and death, bringing the equipment’s performance to the extreme, and inflicting maximum damage on the enemy while avoiding risks, requires extremely rich battlefield experience, an indescribable combat sense, an unyielding will, and a response speed beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Only seasoned soldiers with all the above elements are qualified to become a lone-space soldier who can appear alone on a space-level battlefield and have the possibility of playing a role in the ever-changing and constantly threatened space-level battlefield with terrifying energy impacts comparable to planetary explosions.
Harrison could not be humble in other areas, but he was in the field of single-space combat.
No one had his experience.
Whether in terms of the number of enemy ships shot down or the number of times he was killed by the enemy, he was far ahead and unreachable by others.
In short, Harrison would definitely not let Freddy join the battle. He must remain on the ship.
If Morrowind No.2 was a battleship, it would at least provide some fire support.
Unfortunately, the nature of Morrowind No.2 was a large-scale scientific exploration ship, and its weapon configuration was not up to par.
Moreover, since the Blade Mantis appeared nearby, it means that the large-scale war units of the Compound-Eyed Observer must not be far away.
Once Harrison gets entangled with the enemy and exposes his superhuman single-soldier abilities, he may attract the large units as well.
Therefore, this encounter is not a battle to be fought, at least not now.
“Freddy, increase speed into the media layer!”
Knowing that shouting wouldn’t help, Harrison instinctively screamed at the little Freddy, who sat behind him in the navigation control chair, his brain deeply linked to the navigation system.
Buzz!
At the critical moment, the huge hull of Morrowind No.2 suddenly changed direction.
In the instant before the collision, the spacious corridor of the gravitational line subspace was like a person diving, plunging downward in a fierce gesture.
The ship seemed to pass through an invisible water surface, and the shock wave ripples jolted in the subspace.
Right under the Blade Mantis’s nose, Morrowind No.2 disappeared out of thin air.
The Blade Mantis shook its head slightly, seemingly confused by the situation before its eyes.
Then the Blade Mantis disappeared abruptly, reappeared, and disappeared again. Each time it adjusted its position, it moved a considerable distance forward.
Sitting in the navigation control chair, Freddy’s face was slightly pale. He spoke slowly, “Brother, we are being followed. This is the Blade Mantis you mentioned, right? It’s terrifying. It seems to be able to sense our location roughly through observing the projection of the medium layer. It even knows we’re in the medium layer but can’t follow us in.”
Harrison’s brow furrowed, “Can’t shake it off?”
“Yes.” Freddy walked down from the navigation control chair with his thought-linked helmet, “Moreover, we have demonstrated the ability to fly in the medium layer that interests the Compound-Eyed Observer. According to their previous combat strategy, we will definitely be targeted as their primary objective for attack. This battle is inevitable unless we stay in the medium layer forever and never leave. But without going outside to absorb dark energy, radiation energy, and using the original space to charge the antimatter battery, our energy reserves can only support FTL travel for another twenty years, and we will have to go out sooner or later.”
Harrison: “Hmm, I know, we can’t keep running.”
After about five minutes of thinking, Harrison had an idea and suddenly said, “Freddy, make me a warp battle armor.”
“Huh?”
“Since there’s no escape, why not fight them? Running away in disgrace for twenty years is pointless, and now that we have the Egyptian Tribe’s Brain Core, we have to try its effects. With your brain’s multi-threaded processing capabilities, you can navigate and manufacture new battle armor at the same time, right?”Freddy understood Harrison’s meaning, “Sure, give me two months.”
“Then it’s settled.” Harrison nodded, “I’ll go to the training room for some adaptive training first. Looking forward to your good news.”
Little Freddy went to the workshop wearing a navigation helmet.
The two brothers split up on the ship.
During their hundred-year journey of scavenging, they had raided countless junkyards, even secretly infiltrating into the warzone sites. The Morrowind No.2 stored a large number of materials, as well as many specialty materials from various planetary systems.
Freddy had to mentally go through all the available resources first.
Besides meeting Harrison’s requirements, he had to make sure that the final design plan was feasible.
Apart from organizing resources, his left hand was gesturing input on the Quark device next to him.
At the corner of his eye, there was a copy of “The Madman’s Conjectures Collection” containing several “title pages” that documented the Z bacteria protein structure.
After a millennium had passed, Harrison’s classic masterpiece still stood the test of time. The knowledge in it remained valuable for the human race.
Freddy was now trying to deduce the gene information that could form such a structure based on intuition and experience, using these protein structures as a starting point.
In this timeline, humanity hadn’t encountered the Z bacteria and didn’t have samples stored for analysis.
But now with gene-modified cloning, they needed to fish out the Z bacteria from the river of history.
While Harrison could easily make requests, what Freddy was doing right now was nothing short of a miracle.
The difficulty of this task was no less than creating a brand-new species from scratch.
Fortunately, Freddy’s strongest talent in this past century had been in biology.
His nearly insane journeys across countless planetary systems with Harrison allowed the 120-year-old Freddy to become the leading biologist who had personally experienced the most star systems, inspected, seen and analyzed the most unique organisms of the human race.
Now was the time for him to showcase his talents, and he did.
Although the genes he decompiled would inevitably contain errors, Scarlett had gathered a wealth of knowledge in ultra-modern biology from the quantum network and built a massive database of genetics and cosmic biology ethics.
Scarlett could perform synchronous verification and calculations. As long as Freddy’s starting point wasn’t too outrageous, and the resulting gene fragments were barely reliable, Scarlett could make appropriate adjustments.
At this point, Freddy’s brain was doing three parallel calculations, finally pushing his potential to the limit.
Harrison asked him to run double-threaded, but he was running triple-threaded.
Meanwhile, Scarlett’s computing power allocation was also changing.
More and more engineering knowledge, biology knowledge, and artificial intelligence self-control knowledge were being systematically organized into volumes to provide information support for Freddy.
As for Harrison himself, he first completed strength training on the physical fitness machine, then put on the Galaxy Battle Armor for some conservative adaptive training in the small room. Next, he entered Scarlett’s quantum network and returned to the battlefield in the Eighth Timeline, fighting against Spherical Battleships and Prism Ship fleets in the new Galaxy Armor.
About five hours later, Harrison jumped down from the virtual simulator with sweat all over his face and looked at Freddy’s situation.
He was still standing there with his left hand coding genes, his right hand drawing pictures, and his eyes staring into the void, directing the ship’s navigation.
Despite the help of a superior brain, Harrison still knew the difficulty of designing a new set of battle armor.
Harrison knew that Freddy must be tired.
But at this point, he could only rely on Freddy.
After half a month of such continuous work, Freddy finally stopped.
The compilation of Z bacteria genes was completed.
Freddy called Harrison to the biological laboratory, “Brother, I’m ready to start. You take a look at this bacterium later.”
Harrison nodded, “Sure.”
Freddy’s fingers pressed gently in the air.
Music echoed in the laboratory.
Harrison was startled.
It was an old song by Carrie Thomas from “a long time ago,” called “Life’s Hope.”
Harrison wondered, “Why are you playing this song?”
Freddy smiled, “I’m a die-hard fan of my sister-in-law. I’m superstitious; I believe her songs will bring me good luck. And this version was reinterpreted after she sang ‘Happiness to the Nth Power,’ symbolizing rebirth, which is a good sign.”
Harrison rolled his eyes.
Be more serious!
You’re Freddy Sergey!
Feudal superstition is not good!
On the other hand, behind the transparent partition in front of Harrison, the ultra-fine string life synthesizer’s probes began to emit electric arcs and exhibited a low-speed tremor within a tiny range.
Using a method similar to 3D printing, the probe absorbed some existing organic matter resources using mass-energy conversion, printed DNA strands on the small Petri dishes one by one, and configured protein cores.
An entire day passed.
When the Z bacteria completed mitosis in the culture medium and divided into two, the “monster” that shouldn’t have appeared in this timeline reappeared in the world, announcing that the gene-modified cloning that Harrison had been anticipating was now feasible.
The next moment, Freddy’s right hand pressed another button in the air.
In the manufacturing workshop of Morrowind No.2, the semi-automatic manufacturing of the new warp battle armor components officially began.
In this small spaceship, human creativity and AI’s precision control were combined in an incredible way.
And Harrison was the witness to all this.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om