Zhao Chen opened his eyes and covered his head.

For some reason, Zhao Chen lost consciousness just now.

Looking at the crew members lying haphazardly on the bridge, it seemed that he wasn't the only one who had lost consciousness.

However, because his body had undergone modifications, he recovered his senses very quickly.

"My cannon... my cannon..."

Zhao Chen suddenly heard a voice next to him, and at the same time a hand was reaching towards his waist.

It turned out to be Acting Captain Xue Xiaoxiao. She seemed very optimistic and was still having a good dream.

Zhao Chen kicked Xue Xiaoxiao away without any politeness, but the kick didn't wake her up.

Zhao Chen stood up, walked quickly to the operating platform, and began to bring up the relevant operating interface.

Despite his seemingly indifferent demeanor, Zhao Chen is intimately familiar with every single interstellar warship currently in service with the Xiaolong Legion.

Reboot the Starship system.

Zhao Chen activated the starship's restarting system, and the bridge lights were quickly restored.

However, on the data panel of the entire starship, Zhao Chen saw red dots, which represented the areas where problems occurred. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

The ship's armor strength was damaged by 13% overall, with the most severely damaged area suffering more than 40% damage to the armor strength.

Communication equipment was severely damaged...

Space warp engine malfunction...

Warp drive engine malfunction...

Starship core energy storage remaining at 3%...

There were quite a few damaged modules, and the starship's core energy was almost depleted. Fortunately, the core energy did not malfunction and could be restored on its own.

Some basic life support systems are still functioning normally.

Zhao Chen activated all the ship's onboard intelligent medical robots and maintenance robots.

Provide emergency treatment to some of the injured crew members on the starship and awaken those who are still unconscious.

Repair robots can also repair damaged modules within their capabilities.

Some malfunctioning software programs require the starship itself to undergo a period of reconstruction.

Several electronic screens appeared in front of Zhao Chen, and his fingers began to move rapidly.

He needs to fix these as soon as possible.

Half an hour has passed.

The crew members on the bridge gradually began to wake up.

No one was killed.

According to Zhao Chen's speculation, it was probably some kind of high-energy fluctuation that caused all the crew members to fall into a coma.

The injured crew members were all unconscious when they were struck in some places, resulting in superficial injuries.

"Commander...where...where are we now?" Xue Xiaoxiao, rubbing her still aching head, walked up to Zhao Chen.

Without turning his head, Zhao Chen said, "I don't know either. The starship's navigation and positioning functions have failed, and the communication functions are still being repaired."

"Then there's a high probability we're not within the territory of the Machine Race?" Xue Xiaoxiao said, her brows slightly furrowed.

Although the Machine Race has not appeared for several years, the threat posed by them remains. Their overwhelming dominance over various empires back then is still fresh in everyone's memory.

At this moment, Nancy's secretary, who had woken up earlier than Xue Xiaoxiao, ran over: "We arranged for some maintenance workers to check the areas that were malfunctioning."

Those faults are not serious and are all within the scope of repair.

The entire repair can be completed within fifty hours.

Repairing the communication module alone will take at least twenty hours.

Fifty hours?

"Are we going to stay in this godforsaken place for fifty hours?" Xue Xiaoxiao shrugged helplessly.

When Secretary Nancy saw Xue Xiaoxiao's face, she suppressed a laugh and pointed to her face: "Captain, there seems to be something on your face?"

"On my face?" Xue Xiaoxiao was taken aback. Then she pulled up a mirror and was shocked to see a shoe print on her face.

"How did I get a shoe print on my face?!"

Zhao Chen ignored Xue Xiaoxiao beside him and continued to work hard to repair various software programs, especially the communication module.

Only after repairing the communication module could he find a way to contact the outside world and the accompanying fleet to find out their current situation and whether they had perished.

Several hours have passed.

At this moment, order has been largely restored inside the Hades ship, and the wounded have all been treated.

"Xiao Xiao, the interstellar drone system control has been restored."

You are responsible for arranging some interstellar reconnaissance drones to patrol and scout around our starship.

At the same time, put all weapon modules into standby mode.

"This is, after all, the territory of the Machine Race; we can't let our guard down," Zhao Chen cautioned.

"Yes." Xue Xiaoxiao nodded.

Fifteen hours later.

There are still five hours until the communication equipment is restored.

Zhao Chen had basically finished his work and could only wait for the starship system's backend to self-repair.

He stretched, sat on the sofa, and took a sip of the drink that his bodyguard, the leopard woman, had brought him.

beep beep beep

Just then, Zhao Chen heard an alarm sound from the radar department's equipment.

The department head immediately reported: "Report, the small radar carried by our launched interstellar drones has detected energy fluctuations from a fleet."

The fleet is sailing in our direction.

They are expected to arrive at our location in about half an hour.

Upon hearing this news, Xue Xiaoxiao and Nancy's secretary immediately went on high alert.

At the same time, he looked at Commander Zhao Chen.

"Don't alert them. Find a way to withdraw from this fleet's course!" Zhao Chen said calmly.

It's still uncertain whether the other party's target is our starship. Let's try to leave safely first.

The Pluto began to sail slowly.

But soon, a new alarm sounded.

"Oh no, another fleet has appeared behind us... Wait... Not only behind us, but also in many other places around us, there are unidentified fleet energy fluctuations."

Their goal is to target us.

"We're...surrounded!" the radar department head said nervously.

Suddenly, their situation became extremely dire.

In this isolated and helpless situation, surrounded by so many interstellar warships, it was truly a desperate predicament.

"Prepare for battle."

"But you are not allowed to fire without my order," Zhao Chen said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Xue Xiaoxiao immediately went to make preparations for the battle.

The weapon systems began to be activated, with naval guns aimed at the enemy who were still out of range.

Star Shield activated.

All crew members are placed on wartime alert.

Soon, the fleet appeared in the images transmitted back by the interstellar drones.

There were large numbers of interstellar warships, at least thousands.

This is just one direction.

If you include those surrounding us from all directions, there are at least tens of thousands of interstellar warships.

And all of these interstellar warships were, without exception, machine-type interstellar warships.

The bridge fell into a deathly silence.

Nancy's secretary was frantic with worry. Her own life was a small matter, but if something happened to the commander here, she could not atone for her sins even if she died ten or a hundred times.

Just then, an unexpected turn of events occurred!

"Report, the other party has sent a communication request!"