Just as it was about to speak again, the lights in the command center suddenly dimmed!
The enormous screen at the front of the command center dimmed along with them.
No, it was not just that screen.
Every screen in the command center had dimmed.
In fact, the same thing was happening in the command centers throughout the fleet!
The captain of Ship One stared blankly at the scene before it, swallowing the words on the tip of its tongue.
"W-what's going on?!"
Amid the chaos, it grabbed the technician beside it and snapped, "Didn't you say they couldn't decipher our computer systems?!"
The technician ignored the captain standing before it.
It stared vacantly at the large screen at the front of the command center.
At some point, lines of bizarre code had begun flashing across the screen.
"What is this?!"
The captain of Ship One asked, its face filled with confusion.
The code flashed across the screen faster and faster!
Like mercury spilling across the ground!
Zero brazenly flaunted its power before these Little Gray Men!
At last, the technician could no longer keep up with the speed at which the code refreshed.
Helplessly, it looked away.
"This is..."
"The process of cracking the warship's highest-level control permissions."
"Almost every technician saw the first part of this code back then."
The captain of Ship One immediately caught the implication. "And the second part?"
The technician shook its head and lowered it. "I don't know."
"We haven't gotten that far yet."
The captain of Ship One's expression changed instantly.
In just a few dozen seconds, the other side's progress had surpassed theirs.
The technicians had spent nearly a year working on these secondary flagships!
What that meant needed no further explanation.
Suddenly.
The dimmed lights returned to normal.
The screens