Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start
Chapter 158 - 119: The First Interstellar Voyage_2

Chapter 158: Chapter 119: The First Interstellar Voyage_2

"Activate the secondary engine! Starting at three percent, double the increase! Begin countdown, ten, nine, eight... one!"

This countdown was longer because the acceleration generated by the secondary engine was beyond the capability of the ship’s internal fields to fully adjust. Thus, even with the adjustment of the internal fields, everyone could still clearly feel the pressure of the acceleration.

If time wasn’t given for preparation, some individuals who hadn’t returned to their dorm positions or hadn’t secured themselves might struggle to stand, or even get injured.

At this moment on the warship, there were still large numbers of warriors who hadn’t undergone physical modifications.

And in this instant, the gravity inside the warship suddenly intensified, firmly fixing most items in place, and then all the warriors felt a tremendous shock, their whole bodies suddenly stiffening!

The distance between the warships expanded once more.

"Chen Feng, secondary engine quadruple boost, you’re the navigation ship." Shen Shi’s voice transmitted directly into Chen Feng’s mind through the consciousness link.

"Received!" Chen Feng responded, then the speed of the engine power increase accelerated again, the acceleration continuously growing, while his position on the fleet’s navigation star map steadily approached the front line of the navigation path, surpassing all the warships to rank first.

The so-called navigation ship, in simple terms, refers to the warship in the fleet that scouts ahead and clears obstacles.

It’s used to detect and eliminate potential dangers along the navigation path.

For example, some asteroids that aren’t slow in speed, or some powerful deep space radiation...

In short, very dangerous!

But a warship must undertake the task.

For Chen Feng, this was an honor because not every warship qualified to be a navigation ship.

Under the same model, this was an acknowledgment of his navigation capabilities.

Chen Feng suddenly thought of something and turned back to look at the position of Blue Star. At this moment, Blue Star, still clearly visible in the Earth-Moon orbit, could now only be seen as an inconspicuous small dot without the optical telescope on the warship. The star map was needed to confirm that it was their mother star.

And in most other places, filled only with the dark color of the cosmos, and the apparently clear but in fact extremely distant luminous celestial bodies.

In the entire cosmos, only the Sun remains the one familiar object everyone can still see, and it remains bright.

"Focus ahead of you, Chen Feng." Shen Shi’s consciousness transmitted once again.

"Understood!" Chen Feng withdrew his attention.

Blue Star was already behind him, and next, everyone had to focus on the battlefield ahead—before the enemy truly appeared, everything blocking the path of advance was their enemy!

Their speed was still continuously increasing.

And with the continuous power enhancement, the acceleration also became faster and faster.

All observers had begun to experience some strange phenomena brought about by fast interstellar navigation.

For example, some celestial bodies seemed to rapidly enlarge during the approach process, from a small dot initially, in just a few minutes, they became some incredibly large, even dazzling, celestial bodies, some with bizarre colors, for instance, Chen Feng even saw a gigantic emerald-colored celestial body, looking from afar like a gem adorning the cosmos, whether it was reflected light, its own color, or some other unknown reason.

Size, distance, direction, even space...

Everything in the cosmos during high-speed navigation seemed entirely different from their past recognition.

Of course, there was also danger.

Three hours later, Chen Feng received the first warning from the auxiliary AI, it was of a celestial body about to intersect with their action star track, seemingly similar to a comet because it was constantly exploding and changing shape, it wouldn’t threaten Chen Feng’s own navigation track but had a certain possibility of threatening the following fleet.

So, the time to make a choice arrived.

For such an extent, the ship had hundreds of ways to resolve it, whether by using fields to push it away or by dragging other asteroids to shatter it without energy residue, or even using the ship’s two antimatter cannons to completely annihilate it...

Different approaches corresponded to different results, if they were being pursued, couldn’t leave too many traces, dragging other asteroids to shatter it was the best way because celestial collisions are ubiquitous in the cosmos.

And the captain, or the navigator responsible for navigation on the spaceship, needed to make the most appropriate choice in the shortest time.

This time, Chen Feng chose to use plasma weapons.

These weapons, upon hitting, can generate extreme heat exceeding stellar temperatures, confronting such intrinsically luminous celestial bodies, could accelerate their own destruction. Even if this small explosion’s light was observed by the distant Worren reconnaissance units, it wouldn’t matter because such cosmic self-destruction is perfectly normal.

Yes, this is what Chen Feng had to consider.

Even if they were about two-thirds of a light-year away from the enemy, they were already in wartime status.

Everything must be considered from a warfare perspective.

A high-explosive plasma shell silently launched from the warship, directly hitting the celestial body resembling a small comet, shortly after, all observers in the fleet witnessed a dazzling explosion.

The celestial body turned into a fleeting light point in the cosmos.

But this light point might be captured by some civilizations in more distant places, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years later.

This is the cosmos.

Vast yet dense, distant yet connected.

For the next few hours, Chen Feng did not encounter any trouble, in fact, most threatening celestial bodies wouldn’t happen to appear in the navigation track, even the previous one wasn’t really a major threat, and some smaller asteroids could easily be repelled or shattered with just the ship’s field shield and outer armor.

However, Chen Feng soon found a celestial body starting to rapidly enlarge within the range of view, not decreasing in size quickly like most other approaching celestial bodies, but becoming increasingly larger!

With information from the star map flowing into his mind, he instantly realized which celestial body this was.

—Jupiter!

The largest planet in the entire Solar System!

Was it almost Jupiter already?

The secondary engine they were using now hadn’t even activated the curvature engine.

This made Chen Feng quickly notice that from Jupiter to Blue Star, without using the curvature engine, from start to arrival, it only took seven to eight hours!

This planet likely had a certain role in this war.

As soon as this thought surfaced in Chen Feng’s mind.

"C23 to C42, you twenty warships, immediately decelerate, stay near Jupiter’s Moon Europa for training, and closely monitor enemy positions!" Shen Shi’s consciousness transmitted to all captains at this moment, and provided some explanation, "Jupiter’s orbit in the last few years happens to be between Blue Star and the Worren Fleet, Jupiter contains rich heavy elements, and Jupiter’s Moon Europa has natural icebergs and oceans, if an undiscovered small reconnaissance warship from the Worren Fleet approaches Jupiter, it might likely be probing whether this could serve as a resource base, by then you can take the lead to intercept."’

By now, the transmission of the consciousness link between different warships had begun to show a delay of one or two seconds.

After all, the distance was becoming increasingly remote.

But this was when the advantage of the consciousness link stood out.

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