Chapter 288
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Chapter 288: Hitching a Ride on a Space Vessel
Just like Earth in Yi Chen’s past life, the exile planet also had a natural satellite similar to the Moon.
This natural satellite was about four hundred thousand kilometers away from the exile planet.
In just half an hour, Yi Chen controlled the flying treasure to reach this satellite.
The satellite had a diameter of approximately four thousand kilometers.
Its surface was pockmarked and filled with numerous craters.
After flying halfway around the satellite, as Yi Chen expected, he sensed with his divine consciousness that on the other side of the satellite, there was a large construction ship, standing five kilometers tall, ten kilometers wide, and over a hundred kilometers long, hovering above the ground.
Below the large construction ship was a massive pit.
At the end of the pit, about ten kilometers away, was a large underground base.
Inside, it was filled with various large pieces of equipment.
Various robots and construction vehicles, under the control of the intelligence, were methodically constructing and perfecting the underground base while repairing and disguising the huge pit.
Yi Chen scanned the entire underground base with his divine consciousness but did not find a single person.
It was entirely operated by automation.
This made him feel a bit disappointed.
His judgment had been correct.
The moment he sensed the disappearance of the energy shield, based on the information provided by Bai Ruo Xin, he quickly deduced that this large defense system of the human federation had just been completed and was still in the debugging phase.
Moreover, the large defense system required a vast amount of equipment.
Especially one that not only encompassed the entire exile planet but had a diameter of over a million square kilometers; it needed a massive amount of equipment to function.
However, within hundreds of thousands of kilometers around the exile planet, there were no large asteroids capable of housing this equipment.
The best installation site was this natural satellite.
Because of this, Yi Chen did not take the opportunity to pass through the covered area of the energy shield but headed directly for this satellite.
He wanted to hitch a ride on a space vessel.
By blending in with the transport of the related equipment, he could use the space vessel to escape the cosmic storm zone.
If successful, it would significantly reduce the time needed to cross through the cosmic storm zone.
Unfortunately, he had only guessed half of the situation.
The Federation Military was extremely cautious; to prevent any strong members of various tribes or unknown individuals from mingling in, they had deployed only fully automated construction ships controlled by intelligence and remote commands, with not a single staff member present.
If there was no one aboard the large construction ship, and if the Federation Military were truly being extremely careful, they might not even allow this construction ship to return to its related base.
Instead, they could choose a location and activate the self-destruct sequence of the large construction ship, causing it to be destroyed outright.
All he could do was do his best and leave the rest to fate.
After all, even if they had to destroy the large construction ship, they would certainly do so away from the range of the energy shield, deep into space.
Otherwise, if such a massive object exploded, it would be easily detected by the exile planet, potentially creating new variables.
Leaving the energy shield was imperative.
If Yi Chen really needed to activate the self-destruct, he could quickly escape the explosion zone.
As far as he knew, only the large battleships had energy shields with two-way defense. This was to prevent enemies from escaping the explosion zone after they took over the battleship and activated the self-destruct sequence.
Other types of space vessels, even medium and small battleships, did not have this feature to reduce costs.
He immediately controlled the flying treasure to shrink down to the size of a fist and then stopped near the large construction ship’s hatch.
While recovering his immortal power, he waited.
After more than ten hours, he watched as the huge pit was about to be repaired.
Timing it perfectly, Yi Chen focused his mind.
On the exile planet, his clone notified Bai Ruo Xin, instructing the members of the Intelligence Organization to head to the Great Flame Kingdom and inform the Political Council to convene the monthly meeting, which had not been held for a long time.
While issuing commands, Bai Ruo Xin controlled the flying treasure to return to the Great Flame Kingdom.
Two hours later, the enormous pit was repaired.
The energy shield of the large construction ship shut down, and the hatch opened, allowing transport ships to fly out and carry the construction vehicles and equipment responsible for repairs back into the large construction ship.
Yi Chen quickly controlled the flying treasure to follow them into the large construction ship.
His divine consciousness rapidly spread.
As he expected, the enormous construction ship was also empty.
On the exile planet, the flying treasure had reached the Great Flame Kingdom and returned to the royal palace.
The high-ranking leaders of the Great Flame Kingdom, upon receiving the notification, gathered in the council chamber of the palace.
Yi Chen’s clone also left the flying treasure.
No one knew that the appearing clone was not Yi Chen’s real body.
Surrounding the clone was an energy shield, which could block the large battleship’s scanner from scanning the internal body.
Even the large battleship’s intelligence would mistakenly conclude from the scanned data that the clone was Yi Chen himself.
Due to insufficient understanding of the laws of life, Yi Chen could not use the corresponding power of the laws to refine elements like meridians, acupoints, Qi Sea, and various neurons that surpass mere flesh.
However, apart from that, the clone he refined had no difference in aura, realm, or energy fluctuations compared to his real body.
Once all the transport ships returned to the ship’s hold, the large construction ship reactivated the energy shield and began to ascend and accelerate.
…
At the Military Headquarters.
In a command center.
Because this was of great importance, the only general in charge of the entire construction of the large defense system was General Roland.
For two consecutive days, General Roland stayed in the command room, closely overseeing the entire plan’s execution.
He watched as the large screen displayed the large construction ship flying away from the coverage area of the defense system.
He immediately issued an order: “Activate the two-way defense shield of the defense system!”
The relevant staff quickly sent instructions to the intelligence of the satellite base.
The large energy shield, covering an area of five hundred thousand kilometers around the exile planet, reopened.
Various test values continuously reported back.
General Roland let out a sigh of relief.
With his experience, he could almost tell just by hearing these values that after several adjustments, the large defense system could operate normally.
Even if other emergencies arose, the various equipment left at the base would be sufficient to maintain operations.
“Direct the large construction ship to contact the intelligence and the Space Fortress, establish a route for scanning, and then plan the return route to the base.”
General Roland did not hesitate to issue a new command.
In building the large defense system on the satellite, they naturally had to pay attention to Yi Chen’s movements.
To prevent Yi Chen from silently sneaking into the large construction ship, the possibility was so low that it could almost be ignored; the Military Headquarters had previously suggested activating the large construction ship’s self-destruct system to him.
Originally, he also planned to do so.
However, knowing that Yi Chen was in the royal palace of the Great Flame Kingdom, meeting with various high-ranking leaders of the Political Council, he decided to implement the second evacuation plan.
As the Race War erupted in the star cluster, the engineering department received a constantly increasing budget, but the consumption was also rising sharply.
In addition, to prepare early to pay compensation to Yi Chen, both the parliament and the military, as well as the governing bodies of various life planets, were cutting budgets.
On the military side, the engineering department was one of the most severely cut departments.
It was best to avoid waste on a large construction ship whenever possible.
Soon, on the screen, the large construction ship planned a coordinate route, reached an area where it could perform a Space Jump without being influenced by the gravity of surrounding planets, and began to accelerate continuously.
Then, it executed the Space Jump.
It arrived directly at the internal edge of the cosmic storm zone.
Once it entered the cosmic storm zone, it sped along, entering the scanning range of the Space Fortress’s super large scanner.
After being scanned by the Space Fortress and ruling out the possibility of any life forms having blended in during the internal scans, the construction ship advanced at full speed toward the outer edge of the cosmic storm zone.
After more than ten hours, it burst out of the cosmic storm zone.
After passing through a round of checks from the group of medium and small battleships stationed at the cosmic storm zone, the construction ship, following its pre-determined route and coordinates, used the Space Jump System to head toward the stationed military base.
Upon arrival, it underwent another round of inspection, completed its mission, and landed at the large dock, waiting for its new task.
