After Lunar Eclipse dropped the shockwave bomb, it began to escape at high speed. Xia Fei turned on the overload protection system and hugged the command chair tightly, ready to welcome the oncoming storm.
Through the porthole, he could clearly see that there was a weak indicator light flashing above the bomb, and the flashing of the fiery red light was getting more and more intense.
When the indicator light finally stopped flashing, the bomb suddenly began to shatter. A dazzling white light burst out from within the bomb, spreading across the dark space at the fastest speed possible.
The light was extremely bright, like an artificial sun.
The snow-white light flashed, followed by a majestic red shockwave with the explosion as the center, spreading in all directions in a spherical shape.
* Boom! *
The shockwave quickly swept past Lunar Eclipse and spread further away. Almost all the electronic devices on Lunar Eclipse were flashing crazily at that moment. The colorful indicator lights illuminated the interior of the ship, and the shrill alarm went off one after another.
The ship shook violently as if it was experiencing a fifteen-magnitude earthquake.
After the shockwave passed, all the systems of the ship went into hibernation mode. The warp engine stopped firing, and Lunar Eclipse gradually slowed down.
Xia Fei jumped down from his seat and went to the command deck to activate the emergency system.
"Check the damage and begin the recovery process!" Xia Fei loudly ordered the AI computer.
Yes, initiating self-check. Radar system damaged by thirty-seven percent. Optical radar system completely disabled. Gravity radar damaged by forty-two percent.
Gravity system fine.
Warp engine power reduced by thirteen percent.
Energy shield damaged by eighty-seven percent. Shield energy replenishment system activated for recovery.
Reactor damaged by nineteen percent.
The auxiliary computer began to quickly check the damage to Lunar Eclipse and repair it.
The shockwave bomb could simulate a small electromagnetic storm. If the enemy was unprepared and hit by this electromagnetic storm, the electronics would be greatly damaged.
Due to its structure, the cloaking system was most afraid of electromagnetic storms. If nothing unexpected happened, the enemy's cloaking system would be completely destroyed and would no longer be able to hide in space.
Xia Fei's eyes were glued to the radar system and the porthole, hoping to find the cloaking insectoid warship.
Now it all depended on Xia Fei's luck. The shockwave bomb had a space limitation. If the enemy was already out of the blast range, the shockwave bomb would not be able to threaten the cloaking system.
With how vast the universe was, it would be very difficult to track them down once they escaped. This bomb was Xia Fei's only chance.
A few thousand kilometers away from Lunar Eclipse, on the Amarr Inquisitor frigate, Bosingwa held his head with one hand as he painfully stood up from the ground. There was a bump the size of a teacup on his head, caused by the shockwave just now.
He was not the only one who was injured. Due to the impact of the shock bomb just now, everyone in the battleship was thrown into a complete mess. It was a tragic sight.
"Are you guys okay?" Bei Hai crawled out from under the table. As he spoke, he searched for his two front teeth on the ground. His voice was very strange, and every time he spoke, air would leak out.
Man Jiang's nose was broken, and blood kept dripping down. He covered his nose and shook his head with a helpless and bitter expression.
"Can someone help me?" Moon Song lay motionless on the ground, beads of sweat the size of soybeans appearing on her forehead.
Chen Dong removed the ice armor on his body and walked over. Due to the protection of the ice armor, Chen Dong was probably the only one among them who was not injured. However, his face was a little pale. Clearly, the power of the shock bomb had left him with a lingering fear.
"Whats wrong?" Chen Dong crouched down and asked.
"My left arm is dislocated," Moon Song said through gritted teeth.
"Oh." Chen Dong nodded. He grabbed Moon Song's arm with both hands and pushed it upward.
"Ahhh!" Moon Song screamed in pain, one hand hitting the ground with all her might. That handsome face of hers was now contorted.
"Xia Fei! You bastard! You lunatic! I will never forgive you! "
Of course, Xia Feis did not know of Moon Song's pain. Even if he did, he would not have felt anything wrong with it given his personality. There was always a price to pay for everything. This had always been Xia Feis creed. As long as he could find Rain, this price was nothing to him. He would just find a chance to make it up to Moon Song in the future.
Right now, there was only one thought in Xia Fei's mind, and that was to stop the enemy at all costs.
A few seconds later, in the bottom left corner of the Lunar Eclipse, a strange insectoid battleship wobbled out of space as if it was drunk.
It had a dark black shell, and its appearance was strange and wild, like a giant beetle crawling in space.
This insectoid warship was slightly bigger than Xia Feis Lunar Eclipse. From its tonnage, it was at least a destroyer.
Xia Fei was ecstatic. "I did it! The shock bomb destroyed its cloaking system. "
Lunar Eclipse turned on full throttle and headed toward the insectoid warship, full of fighting spirit.
"Maintain a distance of 150 kilometers. Engine power at 70%. Energy shield charging system at 90%. Warp disruptor and traction controller, get ready. Fire control system lock on and aim at the enemy's propulsion system."
Orders were issued one after another, and a large number of weapons protruded from every corner of the ship and pointed at the enemy.
These weapons were usually hidden in the weapons platforms around the ship. After receiving orders, the platforms opened one by one, revealing the most advanced control-type or attack-type weapons.
Lunar Eclipse finally revealed the sharp claws and teeth hidden in its hull. It looked extremely ferocious, showing its true colors as a war machine.
The Warp Disruptor and Traction Control Device had an effective range of two hundred kilometers. As soon as the insectoid warship entered the range, the two major countermeasures were activated simultaneously, locking the enemy in place. Following that, antimatter cannons and flamethrowers were fired, bombarding the warship in a chaotic battle.
The shock bomb destroyed one of the main cannons and one of the missile launchers. Lunar Eclipse had less than forty percent of its firepower left, which was not enough to destroy the enemy.
Besides, Xia Fei was worried that Xiao Yu was on the ship, so he did not dare to attack its sensitive areas. All he could do was carefully attack from the side.
Surprisingly, the insectoid warship did not retaliate. The detection system showed that it was quickly gathering energy.
All of a sudden!
The insectoid warship opened a wormhole in space. It turned out that it was equipped with a warp stabilizer, so Xia Feiyue's warp disruptor had no effect on it. It was about to escape.
"Immediately use the marking system to mark it," Xia Fei ordered urgently.
The marking system could continuously lock onto the enemy. It was like installing a beacon on the enemy. No matter where it escaped to, Xia Fei would be able to know its whereabouts immediately.
However, it needed some time to activate the marking system, and all the energy had been transferred to other devices. To activate the marking system, he would need to readjust the energy distribution and turn off some unimportant devices to concentrate the energy.
Half of the insectoid warship had already entered the wormhole, yet the marking system was only seventy-three percent activated.
Xia Fei was extremely anxious, but there was nothing he could do. The warp engine opened a temporary wormhole that could collapse at any time, so Xia Fei could not follow the insectoid warship into the wormhole. All he could do was determine its position before warping over.
If he could not mark its position before it escaped, Xia Fei would completely lose track of the enemy, and all his previous efforts would be for naught.
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! " Xia Fei clenched his fists and roared. It was as if flames of anger were about to burst out of his eyes. His heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out of his chest.
* Whoosh! *
Almost at the same time the wormhole closed, the marking system shot out a dark green beam of light, heading straight for it.
The laser beam entered through a narrow gap in the wormhole the moment it closed, hitting the tail of the insectoid warship. At the last second, the marking system had successfully left a tracking beacon on the enemy.
Thats great! Xia Fei punched the control panel hard.
A white dot immediately appeared on the screen. This dot was moving at an incredible speed. Xia Fei zoomed in on the star map and realized that it was moving toward the periphery of the star region.
The Endaro Star Region was at the edge of the Pan-human Alliance, far away from the core of the Alliance. From the direction the enemy was moving toward, its goal was to leave the Endaro Star Region and enter the buffer zone set up by the humans and insectoids.
Military forces from both sides were not allowed to enter the buffer zone, so the military would not be able to track them once they escaped into the buffer zone. No matter what, they had to stop this ship before it entered the buffer zone.
"Bosingwa, is everything alright over there?" Xia Fei asked after establishing communication with Bosingwa's warship.
"Everyone is fine, but the majority of the ship's equipment has been destroyed. I've already sent out an emergency signal and await rescue," Bosingwa said.
"The space station is going to explode in one minute and thirty-seven seconds. Take care," Xia Fei said.
Bosingwa was somewhat depressed. Once the space station exploded, it would mean that he would have to say goodbye to Xiao Haili and Queiroz, his two most trusted friends. Parting was always sad, and even a man of steel like him would not feel good about it.
That was when the tracking system suddenly sent a signal. The insectoid warship had only warped 0.3 lightyears before it exited the wormhole.
There were two possibilities. One was that the shockwave bomb had damaged part of its warp function, greatly shortening its warp distance. The other was that the insectoid ship had activated a random warp in an emergency, so the warp point was not within its control.
Xia Fei did not hesitate to enter the enemy's coordinates into the AI navigation system and activate the warp system to track it. A warship needed a certain amount of time to recover its energy after every warp, and it was unable to open a wormhole during this period. This was Xia Fei's chance.
"Im going after that insectoid warship. Take care," Xia Fei said in a deep voice.
With that said, Lunar Eclipse entered the wormhole and warped toward the insectoid warship's coordinates.
Bosingwa sighed and turned to the miserable passengers in the ship. "Grab onto the fixed objects on the ship. The second round of explosion is coming."
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