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Jin Xinyue bit her red lips hard, making her look like an infuriated fox.
Ding Ling Dong was stunned for a long time. Then, she coughed and burst into laughter. "Jin Xinyue, you are a liar!"
Wu Mayan's voice came over in the communication channel. "Masteress, what do we do now? Our reserves of crystals and ammunition have only less than ten percent left!"
"What else can we do? I'll cover your retreat. Retreat to the No. 9 Space Fortress!"
A hundred years of adventuring alone in two Greater Worlds was enough to completely change a person. For example, even a person like Ding Lingdang would learn to run away!
…
Ten thousand kilometers away from Draconic Sparrow, on the flank of the Burning Prairie Fleet, on an inconspicuous maintenance starship …
Jin Xinyue paced back and forth anxiously. Now and then, she raised her head and glanced at the light beam nervously. She did not look as relaxed as she did in the video that she showed Ding Ling Dong.
It appeared to be a maintenance starship, but it was in fact 'Silver Moon', the comprehensive command starship of the 'Dim Moon Fund', the second secret intelligence agency of the Federation, when it was carrying out top-secret missions. It boasted a very high ability to collect and analyze battlefield intelligence.
By analyzing and integrating the countless probe cameras scattered in space and the pictures captured by her allies, Jin Xinyue had grasped the situation on the battlefield.
It was a shocking gamble. The dice had been thrown, but the winner had not been decided yet.
The Black Wind Fleet had long known the existence of the wormhole bombs, but they had intentionally lured Burning Prairie and other main-force warships of the Federation to launch an assault with Black Swirl as the bait.
Burning Prairie, on the other hand, had also considered itself as the bait and charged at the vanguard unstoppably, attracting most of the firepower, including Black Swirl and at least five Colossi.
Flagship versus flagship!
With their flagship as the bait, the two parties began the most intense dialogue between flagships, which was rarely-seen in a space battle. However, Black Swirl was obviously one level higher than Burning Prairie, and more Colossi were about to invade Burning Prairie.
If the wormhole bombs did not reach the predetermined location in time and were detonated successfully, the Burning Prairie Fleet would suffer a destructive strike!
"Fishbone …"
Jin Xinyue mumbled to herself. She looked at the debris of a ragged, hole-riddled starship on the light beam again.
There was an enormous tear on the two sides of the starship, as if it had been pierced through by mystic rays in the shape of blades. The crew inside seemed to have been killed by the high temperature and the intense radiation. It lost control and momentum and slid slowly like a meteorite.
The fierce battle had lasted more than twenty-four hours. The remnants of starships large and small were everywhere on the battlefield. In the vacuum of space where there was no gravity or friction, they would not stay where they were obediently but flew randomly like a shooting star shower. The so-called 'slow gliding' was only compared to the starships around that were moving at a high speed. In terms of absolute speed, those remnants could be called 'galloping'!
The carrier that was disguised as a remnant of a starship was exactly 'Fishbone'. The real wormhole bomb was carried on it.
With the battle coming to this point, every mystic ray and every bullet of spiritual energy were extremely precious. Generally speaking, nobody was willing to waste them on a remnant of a starship.
Besides, everybody's attention was focused on the glamorous competition between Black Swirl and Burning Prairie. Both the Federation and the Imperium had sent all the mobile forces to the center of the battlefield. Nobody paid any attention to the enormous' remnant of a starship 'on the flank that was rather deserted. Now and then, it had to slightly adjust the direction naturally, sliding toward the sailing route of Black Swirl as if it were struggling before death.
"Entering the radius of destruction in ten minutes and twenty seconds!"
It was the ten minutes that would decide the fate of the Federation and even the entire universe.
If Fishbone, which was disguised as a remnant of a starship, could successfully fool all the starships and Crystal Suit of the Imperium around and cut into the sailing route of Black Swirl, it would be very likely that Black Swirl would be blown up and the Federation would secure the final victory.
On the other hand, if Fishbone was discovered and destroyed on the way, Burning Prairie, as the bait, would certainly not be able to resist the bombardment of Black Swirl and the sabotage of the five Colossi when they crawled into the starship. It would certainly be shattered into pieces within an hour.
If their own flagship was sunk, and the enemy's space gate was successfully opened, the Union Army would collapse!
But right now, there was nothing Jin Xinyue could do.
She could not ask Fishbone to raise the spiritual shield, nor could she send more starships and Crystal Suit to protect Fishbone, because Fishbone's greatest protection was the camouflage of the 'remnant of a starship'. Raising the spiritual shield, accelerating to the highest speed, or sending out a large batch of starships and Crystal Suit to protect it would only alert the Black Wind Fleet immediately, and it would end up exactly like 'Moth' just now.
"Entering the radius of destruction in nine minutes and fifteen seconds!"
Jin Xinyue felt that every second was as long as a year. Her heart seemed to be beating a hundred times in every second.
At this moment, Fishbone's infiltration had been quite smooth.
The battlefield had turned into magma, and volcanoes were erupting everywhere. Everybody was pouring new firepower at the places where the bombardment was densest. Nobody noticed that the inconspicuous' fishbone 'was pushing toward Black Swirl bit by bit.
"Entering the radius of destruction in eight minutes and five seconds!"
"God bless the demon race. God bless the Federation. God bless the demon race. God bless the Federation. God bless the demon race. God bless the Federation!"
Jin Xinyue could not bear such a nerve-wracking picture anymore. She simply closed her eyes and prayed deep inside her head.
She had almost made a mistake that was beyond redemption. She begged God to give her a chance to redeem herself.
After special modifications, the number of crew members on Fishbone had been reduced to the minimum. All the crew members were old demons who were almost two hundred years old and were born in the era of the Pantheon of Demons. They used to be enemies of the old Federation.
Just like Jin Xinyue, those old demons could not forget the glory of the demon race in the past. They were still holding a grudge against the heroes of human beings in the era of the old Federation.
Right now, they were planning to 'revenge' in an unprecedented way, which was to be the greatest hero in the battle of the rise of the new Federation!
Just another eight minutes, no, seven minutes would be enough. Then, nothing would be able to stop them …
Jin Xinyue thought.
However, when she opened her eyes and looked at the light beam in the exclamations of the demon warriors around, she discovered that the gods did not hear her prayer but played the cruelest joke on her, the demon race, and the new Federation.
A Colossus of the Imperium and more than ten Crystal Suit affiliated to it happened to appear on the sailing route that Fishbone was moving forward.
The Colossus must have been used to block the Great White Fleet near the star beacon troops. Now that the Black Wind Fleet's defense formation had been unfolded, the Great White Fleet had been blown apart, and the space gate had been properly protected, the Colossus had been ordered to return to the central battlefield, ready to annihilate the main force of the Burning Prairie Fleet. It happened to be on the flank of the battlefield, only to run into Fishbone.
It was doomed.
Although it was not obvious from a distance, the pilots of the Colossi were all Yuanying experts with keen senses. Should they approach Fishbone, they would certainly notice the anomaly of the 'starship debris'.
This place was still far away from Black Swirl. It was meaningless to detonate it right now. It would only take away one or two Colossi of the Imperium at best, which was not enough to reverse the situation.
Fishbone, on the other hand, had been disguised as a starship debris. It was impossible for it to change its direction to avoid the Colossus. Even if it were to run at full speed right now, it would not be able to survive a casual attack from the Colossus!
At this moment, desperate screams echoed in another communication channel. On the central battlefield, a Colossus of the Imperium had broken the blockade of the Federation's fierce barrage and invaded Burning Prairie, the flagship of the Federation!
The double bad news made everybody on Silver Moon, including Jin Xinyue, pale. Their hearts stopped beating, and their bodies were cold. They watched Fishbone flying toward the Colossus of the Imperium helplessly in silence.
The two parties would pass each other in five seconds. At that moment, the Immortal Cultivator in the Yuanying level who was piloting the Colossus would certainly sense the anomaly of Fishbone.
He did not need to examine it at all. A casual attack would be enough to blow the carrier of the Federation into smithereens together with the wormhole bomb, which was already riddled with holes and did not even have a spiritual shield.
The 'Dim Moon Plan' that had been prepared for a hundred years and the fate of the demon race and the New Federation had ended up like this …
Jin Xinyue seemed to have lost all her bones. She took a deep breath, but she could not stop the sourness from spreading out of her nose at all.
"Look!"
Right then, the most unbelievable thing happened!
The Colossus of the Imperium was about to pass by Fishbone in a couple of seconds, but it was bombarded overwhelmingly. The attacks of mystic rays that were as heavy as raindrops were not enough to leave any marks on the indestructible shell of the Colossus, but they were enough to infuriate the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium who had been violated by the mobsters.
At the last second, the Colossus of the Imperium slightly adjusted its route and deviated from Fishbone's sailing route, lunging at the source of the mystic rays not far away from Fishbone.
Jin Xinyue was completely choked with sobs. She could barely believe her eyes. She summoned all her computational ability and adjusted the resolution of the picture, only to discover that it was the most common soldiers of the Federation who attacked the Colossus of the Imperium.
Judging from the mottled emblems and paint on their broken Crystal Suit, they seemed to be the warriors of the Heaven's Origin Fleet. Even their leader was no more than an insignificant major.
The common soldiers of the Heaven's Origin Fleet had been smashed into smithereens in their Crystal Suit. Fishbone was more like an inconspicuous cluster of debris or even … garbage.
But with the help of unknown forces, they had passed through the lines of fire and drifted all the way to this place, where they launched a suicidal attack at the magnificent, insufferably arrogant Colossus of the Imperium.
The seemingly meaningless suicide attack allowed Fishbone and the wormhole bomb to survive the disaster and continue marching toward Black Swirl!
"The Federation …"
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