"Academicians, is there any other way? Currently, the antimatter particle beam defense system only has one million small spaceships, which is insufficient to defend against the entire Earth Two."
"General, it seems our guess was right. This strange phenomenon can only be caused by the Nebula Consciousness."
"Report: A large fleet, numbering ten million, has been detected 0.5 light-years away. Traveling at five times the speed of light, contact is expected in thirty-three days."
"Order all Wind Master to destroy Zhang Yuanshan's fleet from a distance, and absolutely avoid close combat with them."
"Wait, General, find a way to separate Zhang Yuanshan's warship. I want to capture him alive," Academician Zeng said.
How do we capture them alive?
"Using our planet-moving method, we'll have multiple Wind Master form a sphere, distorting the surrounding space so that Zhang Yuanshan and his warships can neither reach the encircled Wind Master nor escape."
Will this work?
"It should be feasible because I've discovered a problem: these warships can't possibly only travel at five times the speed of light. Even at such a critical moment, they haven't accelerated, indicating that they must have some kind of limitation. I suspect this limitation might be similar to our previous quantum communication, both of which lose contact under high spatial curvature. Therefore, by using the Wind Master to create a high-curvature sealed spherical space, we should be able to sever this connection and achieve our goal of capturing them alive."
" Academician Zeng is right. I've also noticed a problem," Academician Xiao added. "Judging from the information we just received, this is clearly a joint fleet composed of multiple civilizations. However, it's obvious that they, like Zhang Yuanshan, are being controlled. The fact that they control other civilizations' warships instead of building them themselves indicates their limited operational capabilities. Also, they could be more stealthy without relying on a fleet, so why did they send one? Even now, with only a few light-days' distance between them, they haven't abandoned their warships, suggesting their speed is extremely slow. It's also possible that they are inherently very fragile. Now, if we increase our antimatter output and completely destroy the controlled Wind Master, we should be able to kill them as well."
"Alright, academicians, we still have one day. Let's attack now and see if we find anything else. We need to find their weaknesses as soon as possible. If they suddenly abandon their warships and merge with the surrounding matter, it will be very difficult to find them, and we'll be in big trouble."
A plan to capture Zhang Yuanshan alive was quickly devised. Hundreds of Wind Master risked losing contact and charged directly into the controlled Wind Master camp, surrounding Zhang Yuanshan's warship. Then, disregarding the surrounding spatial conditions, they activated their warp engines to maximum power, distorting the entire spherical space surrounding Zhang Yuanshan. Only then did Zhang Yuanshan realize what was happening and began to panic. However, he was now trapped in a spherical cage, surrounded by space distorted to the extreme. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape this cage.
There's a way!!! Upon seeing this, Hu Yu suddenly had a breakthrough. He immediately ordered more Wind Master not to attack, but to form larger spherical spaces to surround all the controlled warships. Moreover, Hu Yu discovered that as long as the enemy warships were not damaged, his own warships would not go out of control. Thus, more than 15 million Wind Master formed dozens of large and small groups and acted simultaneously, finally intercepting the enemy fleet when it was less than two hours away from Earth.
For the first few seconds, these intercepted warships struggled within the encirclement, destroying many Wind Master. However, Hu Yu had anticipated this situation, and each encirclement consisted of twice the size of the fleet. As soon as a warship was destroyed, a new warship would immediately replace it to ensure the integrity of the encirclement.
A dozen seconds later, the surrounded warships came to a complete stop, as if they had lost their pilots.
" Old Hu, what's going on? Are they playing dead? Should we give them a try and see what they really are?!"
"Wait a minute, the situation seems to have changed."
Everyone stared at the Wind Master in the encirclement. The scene was deathly silent. After a few minutes, the Wind Master in the encirclement slowly began to move again, but they did not launch any attacks. They simply used conventional power engines to drive the Wind Master at a speed of only a few meters per second, sometimes moving forward, sometimes backward, or sometimes turning, each one like a small goldfish in a glass bowl.
Zhang Yuanshan stood still, looking at his hands and feet, then turning to look at everything inside the warship. It was as if a person from ancient times had come to this world, and everything in this world seemed so unfamiliar to him. Hu Yu called out to Zhang Yuanshan again, but he did not respond, only continuing to observe everything.
A large number of robots have arrived at the surface of the Wind Master where Zhang Yuanshan is located. By directly connecting to the Wind Master through the robots, data flows into the Wind Master, modifying all system data and thus restoring control of the Wind Master, preventing it from making any further moves.
The robot began disassembling the Wind Master. The entire Wind Master was modularly designed and assembled. As long as you mastered the design tricks, it was very easy to disassemble. However, if you didn't know these tricks, the entire Wind Master was like a single piece of steel, and the only way to get inside was by force.
Soon, the Wind Master was disassembled into pieces, which were then further disassembled into more components and scattered throughout the surrounding airspace. In the end, only the control room where Zhang Yuanshan was located remained. The control room was a small, enclosed space of only twenty square meters, which served as both the survival support system and the escape system, combining the two functions.
Another batch of robots carrying materials arrived outside the three-in-one room and immediately got to work, wrapping the outside with layers of panels. These panels were not ordinary panels; the first layer was an insulating panel, the second a superconducting panel, the third another insulating panel, the fourth a strong magnetic panel, and the last thin panel was a pure Chong Element panel.
The panels completely enclose the main control room, making it airtight. Once completed, high currents are immediately supplied to the second and fourth layers, completely isolating the entire space from the outside world with electric and magnetic fields. Nothing can escape from this room intact.
After the setup was completed, the Wind Master responsible for the encirclement dispersed, and the large room was dragged by robots into a research vessel. From being surrounded by warships to the robots sealing off the room, and then moving it into the research vessel, the entire process lasted for more than an hour. Neither Zhang Yuanshan nor the other surrounded warships reacted to the outside world.