Sky-cracking Rider

Steadily opening the skill list, he discovered that the "Plane Communication System" had somehow restored its online link status, but the network speed was concerning, only 1 byte per second.

Chen Fei did not complain; as long as it could connect to the network, even if it was slow, having a signal was better than none.

He didn't know how much time the Dog System's task had consumed.

"'Adam', send a short message to Miyoshi Xuesen and Shen Fei, saying 'We-OK'!"

While still online, not knowing if it would disconnect, Chen Fei hurriedly sent out the most important message.

Each letter takes up a byte, considering the communication protocol, encryption, and verification, the actual transmission rate was not just the 5 bytes including the half-width space.

Adam: Sending...

And then there was no further message.

Chen Fei: ...

I'm afraid the real difficulty isn't just the rate of 1 byte per second; he hadn't considered the delay earlier.

"'Adam', ping the signal source."

Command line mode isn't exclusive to DOS, but the commands have been inherited, even after half a century, many commands are still being used, Chen Fei had crammed the DOS command set, so he wasn't unfamiliar.

Adam: Pinging *:*:*:*:*:*

Adam: Request sent, timing started

00:00:01

Hours:Minutes:Seconds timer started ticking, even "Adam" sensed the anomaly of the mysteriously restored connection.

After all, on Blue Star, a delay of more than two seconds is a grave sin.

00:15:16

Chen Fei patiently waited, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest of the chair.

Outside the "Skylight", nothing could be seen, and he didn't know when the harsh winter of this planet would end.

Within the "Skylight," "Atlantis" and the Satellite City were slowly becoming habitable, but with the inexplicable restoration of communication with Blue Star, the situation was changing again.

The new Major Wei of the Guardian Party stood with his hands behind his back like a javelin, motionless, maintaining a duty-bound vigilance against Chen Fei's "soliloquy" from start to end.

The Central Building in the core area of "Atlantis" was as solid as a fortress; if someone managed to breach the floor where Chen Fei was, the city's human population would have already been reduced to one-tenth.

00:20:36

Adam: Reply from *:*:*:*:*:*: byte 32 |time 1236 seconds|TTL=99

Twenty minutes later, Chen Fei finally received the receipt information after the short message was sent, as well as the ping delay data.

The delay time seemed negligible; the response at both the sending and receiving ends was quick; what remained was the time the radio signal took to travel, ten minutes to go, ten minutes to return, the entire round trip being twenty minutes.

Thanks to the nearly pristine electromagnetic environment of the planet "Antalu," except for the common cosmic electromagnetic pulses, even the stars were incredibly stable, so the electromagnetic waves carrying the information weren't significantly disturbed along the way.

"'Adam', use 'Atlantis' and 'Skylight' as signal transceivers to maintain a stable connection."

To ensure the painstakingly acquired communication link, Chen Fei took advantage of the structural form of "Atlantis" and "Skylight," practically a ready-made giant transmitter.

The Central Building was precisely the feed point of this antennae dish, and the floor he was on was exactly the signal focal point.

Perhaps it was because of Chen Fei's current location that he inadvertently regained the signal from Blue Star.

The artificial satellites outside the atmosphere finally confirmed the position of the signal source, a satellite near the second planet of this constant star system, with a celestial diameter slightly smaller than The Moon, more like an asteroid captured by the planet's gravity, which, after circling for countless millennia, finally stabilized its orbit.

Due to the satellite's orbit around the second planet, every thirty days, for ten to twelve days, the signal would be obstructed by the planetary celestial body, causing the fifth planet "Antalu" to lose the connection signal again.

To solve the signal obstruction by the second planet, a few relay artificial satellites would need to be launched at plus second cosmic velocity, distributed along the synchronous orbit between the second and the third planets, establishing a stable relay network for guaranteed communication throughout the annual revolution of the star.

No need to modify the entire "Skylight," the top of the Central Building of "Atlantis" automatically evolved a feed device, and the signal strength instantly increased by an order of magnitude, though the rate was still 1 Byte/s, enough when used as a telegraph.

Chen Fei wasn't mistaken; the floor he was on was indeed key to restoring the communication connection.

Beep!

Chen Fei received a new short message.

Data from Blue Star would be marked in red, and this time the subtitles popping up on the AR visual assistance effect interface were prominently red.

Shen Fei: I'm-OK!

A very normal teasing reply.

Teacher Shen didn't know Chen Fei participated in the "Wall of Sighs" operation; not just her, but the vast majority on Blue Star didn't know more than ten thousand people went missing without a trace, dead or alive unknown.

So far, the news of the disappearance of the "Wall of Sighs" operation unit had been locked away at the upper echelons of Blue Star Sovereignty, with less than a hundred knowing, the public completely unaware, family members collectively emotionally stable.

Any leak would surely cause an uproar, even causing some sovereign ruling teams to step down in accountability.

Chen Fei breathed a sigh of relief; Teacher Shen was still his girlfriend, not someone else's.

Soon after, Miyoshi Monk's short message arrived one after another.

"Where?"

It was likely that reporting and confirming communication bandwidth insufficiency to support voice or video took up much time, so the monk also used letter messages for communication.

Chen Fei immediately replied.

"'Sagali' homeland 'Antalu', temporarily safe, all personnel alive, space special ability location failed, unable to return."

The limited communication bandwidth restricted the information capacity, so he had to keep it short, letting the monk understand on his own.

Then followed with a second one.

"Life planet, harsh climate, survivable, nearby threat, divine breed ×1, named McKenny!"

Limited to simple text messages, sending byte by byte slowly, wasn't short of time anyway.

The third short message was completed, off you go!

"'Atlantis' is a trap, premeditation, or possible turn!"

Since he knew Miyoshi Xuesen well, otherwise, Chen Fei wouldn't dare send such terse text messages to others.

If there was enough tacit understanding, the communication parties could anticipate each other; perhaps the communication delay could be compressed to less than twenty minutes.

The Dog System suddenly issued a new task, "Find the Divine Seed McKenny," these mere seven Chinese characters revealed a significant number of key pieces of information.

Prior Divine Seed McKenny remotely greeted Chen Fei through psychic ability user Ginny, combined with the word "find" instead of kill in the task.

This implies that the other party is not currently in a hostile state, with room for communication turnaround; here is the home court of the "Sagali" race, even if there's a chance for dialogue, carelessness is not allowed.

Moreover, this task wasn't merely about "finding," there were obvious follow-up foreshadowings, which Chen Fei couldn't guess for the moment.

The truth likely can only be unveiled once the Divine Seed "Sagali" McKenny is found.

"Energy Points reserve limit +10000" indicated the task difficulty, the Dog System never provided easy points for Chen Xiao'er.

Even if the Divine Seed "Sagali" McKenny's location is found, the entire process will likely not be smooth sailing.

From the short task issue information, Chen Fei gleaned quite a few clues; if he didn't have this capability, acting rashly without sufficient intelligence support would have already seen grass on his grave ten feet high.