In the end, the droid swarm of the space fortress couldn't stop our assault force, which had three super bodyguards. Its heavy missiles and swarm guards could stop the Eternal-class mothership and the frigate fleet, but it couldn't stop an elite infiltration force. This was probably what they meant by 'big but not good'. I know this phrase doesn't sound right, but that's basically what it meant.
There were seven surviving assault ships. The other ships that came with us were destroyed when the droids intercepted them. I hoped that the soldiers on them had successfully completed their soul uploads. There shouldn't be a problem. The assault troops that we brought this time were all equipped with the 'Omen' system. Their survivability on the battlefield was almost one hundred percent.
The remaining seven assault ships moved quickly through the cracks in the space fortress' armor. On both sides of us were two rows of armor that towered like mountains. As a space facility with a diameter of tens of kilometers, its outer shell could be seen as a mountain. The droid swarm of the space fortress had not been wiped out yet. There were still a large number of droids patrolling a few kilometers away, searching for intruders. The flashes of explosions kept coming from behind us. However, the assault troops had gotten rid of those annoying guys. Now, it was Pandora and Visca who were using the floating cannons to deal with the droids. The two girls seemed to be a little excited, but no matter what, they had completed their mission well.
I called for the 1.2 meter sisters through the mental link. Visca's cheerful voice was the first to ring. "Brother, brother! Look, it's so lively here! When they explode, it's like fireworks. I used the explosions to spell out my name! "
… The sly and violent loli was so good at playing games.
"Stop playing around. Hurry up and get out. Let's go into the fortress." I looked at the towering layers of armor that were rapidly passing by on both sides as I called for the two excited short and violent men to return. "Pandora, why aren't you saying anything?"
Pandora's voice was delayed for a few seconds. "… I'm spelling out my name."
Visca's sly laughter rang in the mental link. "Ahahaha! Sister is an idiot! You have to detonate them at the same time to read the words. Continuous bombing won't do! "
My forehead was drenched in cold sweat as I roared through the mental connection, "Both of you, come back immediately!"
Two seconds later, Pandora and Visca finally caught up to us from behind. There were still explosions behind them. It was obvious that the two of them had left their floating cannons behind to distract and mislead the drones. Of course, I was more willing to believe that they had not blown up enough …
"Big brother, big brother, are we going to blow a hole here?" Visca excitedly looked at the crack in the armor and took out his precious cannon. "This seems to be the weak point? However, there's a rechargeable armor underneath. I'm not sure if I can open it with one shot. "
The girl said as she aimed. Pandora next to her did the same. These two girls were really good at exploding.
I was also curious about how we were going to get into the fortress. Then, I heard Vincent's voice in my head. "Your Majesty, the entrance to the space fortress is right in front. Don't let the general open fire. It will activate the internal defense system in advance."
I quickly asked Pandora and Visca to put away their precious cannons. I looked up and saw that we were almost at the end of the crack in the armor. Not far ahead, there was a structure that looked like a guard tower blocking the end of the crack.
All the assault ships immediately slowed down, and the soldiers on board were teleported out. Vika and her Scorpion Troopers floated in the air. Every Scorpion Trooper's robotic limbs were waving around. Finally, the machete lady muttered in the public channel, "Sure enough, it's a model without external gravity. So many legs are useless."
The Scorpion Troopers had the ability to fight in a gravity-free environment. However, they didn't seem to like it that way.
"Let the assault ships detour to the back of the space fortress and self-destruct. Make it look like the collision has failed." I looked up at the damaged spaceships. "Pandora and Visca, both of you let your floating cannons continue to cause trouble outside. Don't call them back."
After the assault ships that had switched to autopilot had left, we quickly approached the 'entrance' of the space fortress. There was indeed an automatic alarm system here. There were two rows of sensors outside the gate of the guard tower. There were also a large number of sentry cannons on the outer wall of the guard tower. I reckoned that the sensors would scan for any unidentifiable units. Even a stone that flew over would be shot by the sentry cannons on the guard tower.
But Vincent already had a plan. He didn't let the soldiers charge in head-on. Instead, he led the team to an unidentified facility that looked like a signal tower about a hundred meters away from the guard tower. Then, he deftly removed the protective panel at the base of the facility.
After the protective panel fell down, it revealed the crystallized structure inside. In the middle of the crystallized structure was a basic control crystal board. Vincent thought for a moment. Then, just as I thought he was about to enter the password, he decisively pulled the panel down.
"Fuse this place together," Vincent said as he connected the three crystallized circuits under the panel together. Suddenly, the energy flow in the circuit changed. "It can temporarily take the alarm system offline for thirty seconds. Hurry up!"
Everyone immediately got up and rushed to the entrance about a hundred meters away. Sure enough, the scanner and sentry cannons had stopped working. But at the same time, the power system of the entrance gate had also stopped working. But this was not a problem. Vega went up and cut the entire gate with three or four slashes. The Armored Scorpion's Battleship Cutter was specialized in destroying physical barriers. Even the rechargeable armor could not withstand their slashes, let alone the fragile gate in front of us.
Behind the door was a shaft. A large group of us dashed into it. As we dashed into the shaft, the alarm system that had been temporarily offline came back to life and triggered the alarm. Layers of isolation armor quickly closed behind us. However, we had already rushed over.
"We finally made it before the alarm was triggered." Vincent looked up at the completely sealed entrance. "This blockade is very troublesome. It has a high-energy barrier. When attacked, it will release a powerful psionic attack. The effective range can cover the entire entrance. If the barrier is forcefully broken, even if only one layer is broken, the entrance will be directly melted and sealed. We will have to come in through another, more troublesome passage."
I noticed that artificial gravity and an atmosphere had appeared at the bottom of the shaft. This environment was more comfortable.
In fact, the Shiring Apostles themselves did not need an atmosphere. 'Breathing' was a dispensable 'pastime' for them. But because their ancestors had left behind some fragmented 'memories of the mother planet' when they created their original bodies, the Shiring Apostles retained the habit of breathing. Even the fallen apostles could not get rid of the memories of their ancestors from the mother planet. So, their facilities also had an environment similar to the mother planet: artificial gravity, an atmosphere, and a certain temperature.
"According to the plan, split up into groups of twenty." I looked at the several forks in front of us and quickly ordered, "There is no clear target. Your mission is to create chaos. The louder the explosion, the better. Don't let the guards suspect that our target is the engine room."
The accompanying soldiers immediately took the order and scattered into different forks. Vincent led the team in another direction and said, "I will bring you to the engine room. There are many forks in this path and we may encounter guards along the way. Scorpion soldiers, I will have to trouble you. "
Not long after the team moved forward, I heard the sound of gunfire in the distance. The other groups of soldiers should have encountered the guards or sentry cannons in the fortress. They had started fighting.
Also, I believed that the movement of our group should have fallen into the surveillance of the fortress's defense mechanism. Such a large facility would be equipped with highly sensitive scanners. Even if an unauthorized fly flew in, the defense mechanism of the building would be able to detect it. From the beginning, this was not a standard "covert operation." We were going to swagger in and make it look like we were going to blow up the fortress from the inside. The enemy just did not expect that our target was the entire planet's defense circle.
There should be guards or surveillance drones rushing in our direction. Vincent took out his psionic rifle and prepared to fight at any time. As he led the team along the corridor, I took some time to observe the surroundings. The interior of the Fallen Apostle facility looked quite normal. Although they liked to paint things in black and red, it was not to the extent that they would paint the inside of the building black. The environment here did not seem to be much different from the inside of the Empire facility. It was just that all the blue signs and psionic energy pipes had been replaced with red.
Vega led her Scorpion soldiers to guard Vincent and the few "experts." Suddenly, she stopped and asked, "Vincent, which direction is the engine room?"
Vincent was stunned. He raised his rifle and pointed to the end of the corridor. "There is a …"
"I am not asking for the route. I am asking for the direction." Vega lowered her head and looked at the former Fallen Apostle officer beside her. She had a serious expression on her face. "How about this? Give me the coordinates. The origin of the coordinates is right under my feet."
Vincent did not understand why she sent the coordinates through the mental link. Then, I saw Vega walk briskly to the front of the team. She raised her machete and gestured. The other Scorpion soldiers followed suit and raised their machetes to point in the same direction. Vincent was just about to ask what the other party was trying to do when the group of straightforward Scorpion soldiers answered him with their actions. They all jumped up and rushed to the floor of the corridor at an angle of about thirty degrees. Accompanied by a loud bang, twenty Scorpion soldiers dug a hole in the blink of an eye.
Vincent and I went up to take a look. Below the huge, steaming hole was a molten tunnel that was emitting a blazing red light. At the end of the tunnel, a group of Scorpion soldiers were still digging with all their might. In the blink of an eye, only a group of small dots could be seen in the distance.
On the wall of the tunnel, we could see that other corridors or transport pipelines of the fortress had been dug through. There were also structural beams that had been cut off. These supposedly indestructible super-alloy components had been cut and scraped by a group of violent Scorpion soldiers. It was as miserable as a baguette meeting Sandora.
Seeing Vincent's dumbfounded expression, I stepped forward and patted his shoulder. "The line between two points is the shortest. It is said that the nerves of the Scorpion soldiers are also the shortest. Get used to it."
Vincent was still mumbling to himself, "… I have seen a lot of Scorpion soldiers, but none of them are so stupid."
How should I put it? Maybe the New Empire had used the blueprint extracted from Visca to create the Scorpion soldiers, so they were more or less brainless. But anyway, the Scorpion soldiers were more straightforward. Look at how they chose the shortest route!
We rushed to the direction of the engine room along the "fast passage" dug by the Scorpion soldiers. Along the way, we passed through countless corridors that were cut off in mid-air. We even encountered several enemy soldiers standing at the end of the corridor, looking up and down blankly. Pandora and Visca warmly greeted each enemy soldier. Some fired one shot, some fired two shots, and some fired two grenades after that...
In a flash, we arrived at our destination. The Scorpion Soldiers had dug a tunnel from the corridor to the ceiling of the engine room. The tunnel was at least 30 kilometers long. I had already begun to plan to let Vega and her machetes help build the tunnel in their spare time. They were actually six-legged pangolins, weren't they?
Also, where did they throw the ruins they dug out? Did they keep them in the dimensional pocket as trophies?
Well, it was easy to die of exhaustion fighting with these Scorpion soldiers. Let's get down to business.
The engine room had been "cleared" by the Scorpion soldiers. There were no corpses of the Fallen Apostles, only a lot of dust.
It was a circular hall. The fortress's mainframe was in the middle of the hall. It was a huge cylinder with a radius of about three meters, connecting the ceiling and the floor. The surface of the cylinder floated with blue light. The frequent flashing lights indicated that the thing was still operating normally.
"There is a high-energy shield outside the mainframe. It will reflect attacks. So, don't touch it directly." Vincent pointed to the cylinder and reminded me. As soon as his voice trailed off, I saw a Scorpion soldier with a black face and an afro reporting, "Yes, sir. There is a high-energy shield outside the mainframe!"
I was speechless.
These Scorpions would go up and hack at a bomb that was counting down, right?
Our ruckus had completely driven the fortress' security system crazy. The ear-piercing alarm had not stopped for a moment. There were explosions everywhere from the Imperial Army. The fortress guards exchanged fire with the soldiers of the assault team on several routes. The "fast passage" created by the Scorpion soldiers became the route with the least conflict. There was no other reason than that these machetes were too swift and fierce. This was why the Armored Scorpions were regarded as the most dangerous unit in an intrusive battle. Their speed of advancement was extremely fast, and they completely ignored the restrictions of conventional obstacles and terrain. They would destroy everything between themselves and their target in a straight line, including the walls, shields, and even the energy furnaces in front of them. It was precisely because their attack route did not conform to common sense that the Fallen Apostles could not react at all. Who would have thought that these cold weapon maniacs would directly dig a tens of kilometers long tunnel inside the fortress and rush into the computer room?
So, even though the Scorpion soldiers had caused a bigger commotion than expected, the situation did not worsen. Vega had already destroyed all the alarm systems in the computer room. A large group of killing maniacs had wiped out all the personnel in the computer room in the blink of an eye. We should now have a short period of time to crack this system. It would not take too long. The Fallen Apostles would definitely find out about the abnormality in the computer room through other channels.
Vincent did not directly touch the huge fortress's mainframe. Instead, he found a control panel in the corner. At the same time, the other experts he had brought with him also quickly operated on various control panels. The floating blue shield on the surface of the fortress's mainframe flickered violently, as though it was resisting the abnormal shutdown command. But after a few seconds, the shield slowly disappeared along with a low hum.
"I haven't touched this system for a long time. It does feel a little familiar now," Vincent said to himself as he activated the external operating protocol with ease. "Well, they really did upgrade the identification database."
A huge holographic projection wall suddenly appeared in front of the fortress's mainframe. There were warning signs floating above it, and an emotionless voice was broadcasted in the computer room. "Warning, the operator has not passed the identification process. He does not have the authority to operate. Warning, the operator has not passed the identification process. He does not have the authority to operate. Operator, leave the control panel immediately. Your operation has violated the security protocol. Continuing to input will cause the computer room's extermination program to be activated. "
At the same time the computer room broadcasted, I also sensed a large number of moving energy points rapidly approaching. Vega quickly pulled out her twin swords and said, "Sir, the guards are here! They will arrive in one minute! "
Pandora and Visca summoned a large number of floating cannons without hesitation. They rushed out of the computer room through the hole that Vega had dug. After a while, the sisters returned before me. Visca was the quick-witted one. She rushed to report, "Brother, brother has used the floating cannons to block all the passageways! As long as the computer room is not destroyed, the other places can be bombed at will, right? "
I nodded at Visca and gestured for the Scorpion Soldiers to block the fortress guards on other routes. Then, I looked up at Vincent and asked, "How long will it take to complete this?"
"Very soon," Vincent first confirmed with the former fallen apostle technical consultant next to him. Then, he lifted his head and answered, "They have replaced the identification database. However, there should be a loophole in the protocol implementation process …"
"Hurry up. Don't panic. Pandora and the Scorpion Soldiers have gone to block the guards."
I nodded at Vincent. Then, I lifted my head to look at the fortress mainframe that was still buzzing.
Now, the enemy already knew that the Imperial Army's direct target was this place. However, they should only think that we wanted to destroy the fortress. They would never have thought that our target was the entire planetary defense circle. However, once Vincent started to inject the protocol termination order, the enemy would definitely find a way to block the infected mainframe. Hopefully, it would be in time.
At this moment, Vincent suddenly reported loudly, "Your Majesty! I found something strange! "
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