Zheng Jinren's expression turned serious. "Patch it through!"
Ripples stirred faintly in the air, and Watcher's cold, neutral synthesized voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, rang out in the Command Hall:
"General Zheng Jinren, I assume your side has already observed the anomalous celestial maneuvering in the Tenth Planet region."
"The target is using the reaction force generated by directed mass ejection to accelerate for interstellar cruising."
"Although its current initial velocity is extremely low, according to projections by my supercomputer cluster, this living celestial body has devoured over 70% of the Tenth Planet's high-density matter. The total amount of reaction mass stored within it is beyond imagination."
"If it is allowed to accelerate continuously in frictionless space for several dozen Blue Star months, its final velocity is highly likely to rise to 1% of the speed of light or even higher."
"At that point, the time available for our planning and response will be severely compressed."
"We absolutely cannot stand by and let it accelerate freely. We must act!"
Zheng Jinren's brows knitted tightly.
The miserable sight of the Kona Civilization's five hundred warships desperately chipping away at it a few days earlier was still vivid in his mind.
They could not even breach its defenses. What action could they possibly take now?
Zheng Jinren pondered for a moment, then typed a line on the control panel, asking directly:
"Watcher, I don't understand what you mean."
"The firepower of your five hundred warships was utterly meaningless against it. Do you have a way to break through its energy shield?"
Watcher's reply came almost without a pause:
"Destroying the shield head-on is not feasible with our current computing power."
"Since we cannot stop its advance, we must find a way to slow it down."
"Slow it down?"
Hearing those words,