Chapter 431: Restoring Communication with the Solar System_1

Another sleepless deep night, Jiang Yu and Cao Yang, drinking strong coffee, stared blankly at the large screen.

In order to save energy, the large screen that took up an entire wall now had only one-tenth still lit.

Suddenly, Cao Yang said, "Do you think God really exists?"

"What do you mean?" Jiang Yu asked in return.

Cao Yang chuckled, "If God does exist, could it be that our luck is good and God has lured the enemy away for us?"

Jiang Yu smiled and shook his head, "If such a miracle truly existed, I would definitely worship it with the most devout heart."

He sighed deeply, "But before this great God reveals his true self, we must analyze with rational thinking.

"Long ago, lightning was seen as a manifestation of God, later we understood that it was a natural phenomenon.

"Not just the ignorant ancient times, even in recent history before the Dark Forest Law was made public, didn't people treat Teacher Luo Ji as a god as well?

"Our current doubts arise simply because we do not understand the internal logic of the situation; it's only when everything is brought to light that we'll understand.

"'Oh, that's what's happening, it's actually not hard to understand!'"

Cao Yang took a sip of his slightly cold coffee, "How long can we hold out?"

Jiang Yu said, "Don't the military ships have a ten-year supply of backup rations? Once the Power System is repaired, we'll be able to resume production on the farms and ranches."

Cao Yang took a deep breath, "But the supply on civilian ships is too little, and without space farms and ranches, relying on the Command Ship alone is impossible to maintain their supply."

The operation was never intended for interstellar travel, and Lisbon being too far from the Solar System State's rear made the supply transport difficult.

Therefore, apart from necessary supplies, there was basically no redundancy in materials for the operation.

Jiang Yu sighed, "At the right time, I will give orders for the people on civilian ships to hibernate, but not now; you know how panicked everyone is with the enemy's searching.

"No matter what, we have to do everything possible to hold out until reinforcements arrive."

He smiled, "If there truly is a God, let him look out for us."

While the two were chatting, Ai La, the duty communication staff officer, received a report from the detector, which had monitored an encrypted signal.

Galaxy III assessed that the signal was emitted by human equipment but was not a standard signal.

Ai La wondered if this could again be an enemy's trick since they had already dismantled many human civilian ships; theoretically, they should possess the capability to mimic human signals.

Just as Ai La was about to report, she suddenly discovered the detector acting as if it were infected with a virus, already starting to connect to the signal source spontaneously.

Ai La exclaimed, "This is bad!"

She quickly cut off the signal transmission between the Command Ship and the detector, preventing the signal from finding the Command Ship's position.

Ai La breathed a sigh of relief and reported the situation to Jiang Yu and Cao Yang.

Jiang Yu paused for a moment then asked Ai La, "Did they ask you for a connection password?"

"No, it didn't seem like they got the chance," Ai La replied. "I've shut down all the signal transmission devices."

Jiang Yu pondered for a moment, "Restore the link with the detector."

After Ai La expressed her suspicions and concerns, Jiang Yu said, "If the enemy really had that ability, they would have used it by now."

He continued to explain with a smile, "As long as it's communication equipment from the Solar System State, there's an emergency communication channel left open.

"Only departments with high enough authority, such as the Governing Council Headquarters, National Defense Headquarters, Wallfacer Office, can utilize this channel for emergency contacts after obtaining authorization in an emergency situation."

"If I'm not mistaken, the other party must be a detector launched more than thirty years ago."

Upon hearing this news, Ai La felt somewhat invigorated; as expected, as soon as communication was restored, the other party requested the communication key.

After obtaining Jiang Yu's ten fingerprints and retinal information, a connection was finally established.

Because the real-time communication system on the command ship had self-destructed, the signals between the two parties were incompatible, so they could only communicate through text.

The other party was indeed one of the detectors launched from the Solar System more than thirty years ago.

Jiang Yu asked the other party to appear within the field of view of a detector launched by the command ship, which ultimately confirmed the other party's identity.

This most advanced human detector is a massive sphere, over thirty meters in diameter, equipped with a small nuclear engine and a small curvature engine.

Its "belly" has a ring of cameras, with virtually no blind spots in its field of view.

Additionally, it has an exceedingly long endurance, capable of distant and prolonged exploration.

It is slightly large for humans, but it is minuscule compared to a planetary system, a planet.

The one contacting Jiang Yu and the others was No. 6 Detector, which, after obtaining their position, descended near the command ship.

Number Three and Bernice, on the other end of the detector, were somewhat shocked to see the damaged command ship; it was a miracle that the Wallfacers had survived!

The command ship established a primitive optical cable connection with the detector, allowing Jiang Yu and his colleagues to use the cosmic real-time communication system inside the detector to have real-time conversations with people far away in the Solar System.

More and more officers and soldiers, upon hearing the news, crowded into the command center, making it packed to the brim.

Several communications staff, after some adjustments, finally established a stable signal connection.

Soon, the large screen displayed images from the Solar System, and the other side was also crowded with people; when they saw the scruffy Jiang Yu and Cao Yang, they finally took a deep breath.

On both ends of the signal connection, many people wept.

This was a miraculous call; Jiang Yu and the others felt as though they had only left the Solar System a month or two ago, while to those on the opposite side from the Solar System, Jiang Yu and his companions had been gone for twenty-eight long years.

No matter the length of time, both sides felt an intimate connection upon seeing each other.

Jiang Yu broke the silence, "You were right; I shouldn't have joined the pioneering mission. It was too dangerous."

Number Three and the others shook their heads with a smile; that joke wasn't very funny.

Next, Cao Yang gave a detailed account of the situation in the New Continent Star System, followed by a description of the entire New Continent Star System campaign.

Jiang Yu and his companions were now close to a dead end.

However, Number Three and the others on the far side could only worry because the reinforcements were still far from the New Continent Star System, and there was nothing the Solar System could do to help.

After exchanging information, Jiang Yu asked, "How many detectors can still be used on this side of the New Continent Star System now?"

Number Three replied, "All ten can be used! After the enemy entered the New Continent Star System, all ten detectors went into hiding."

Jiang Yu said, "Immediately activate these detectors and help us observe the enemy's movements."

"Before you reached the New Continent Star System, I had already activated some of the detectors. After you lost contact, I activated all of them," Number Three said with a somewhat strange expression:

"But the enemy's reaction was beyond our expectations; they actually withdrew."

"Withdrew?" Jiang Yu also found it odd: "Withdrew from the White Planet?"

"No, they withdrew from the New Continent Star System."