Although we did not expect to arrive at a belt of asteroids, everything proceeded according to plan. The massive Empire Fleet was divided into seven armies. Apart from the First Army that we personally commanded, the other scouting armies were led by three battleships (capable of launching a frontal assault on a fortress planet), six Eternal-class battleships and a hundred expeditionary class frigates. Apart from these weapons of mass destruction, there were also thousands of small and medium-sized warships of various types. The massive mixed fleet formed a three-dimensional matrix by relying on the gravitational system. The moment they completed a warp jump, they entered a spatial invisibility state and moved in a predetermined direction. Their mission was to find a suitable planet as an outpost as soon as possible, then gather all available resources and begin a rampage.
After all, the journey was long, and it would be inconvenient for all the armies to be mobilized from Earth. The Schilling's expertise in fighting and plundering tactics were the most suitable for such a situation.
The six expansion armies were equivalent to our scouts (although the scouts' combat ability was a little against the rules), while the main force of the Imperial Army was the First Army personally led by the Apostles.
"Where's the enemy? Why haven't they appeared yet? "
Shallow Shallow, who was dressed in the Imperial Army's general's uniform, jumped up and down on the bridge as if she was on fire. If it wasn't for the huge difference in height, I would have suspected that she was Pandora in disguise.
"Don't panic." Sandora looked at the holographic projection below the bridge calmly. It displayed the energy distribution of the nearby sectors that we had scanned, and the range was still expanding rapidly as the radar power increased. "Remember, patience and discipline are essential. In such an expedition, we must grasp information on unfamiliar regions at the first instance, or else we could easily cause unnecessary losses."
The old Princess Zhan Ge seemed to have been revived.
Sandora was fully deserving of her title as a war expert. She was a hundred times better than the half-baked general Pandora and the adjutant who was only good at commanding on the battlefield. Every word she said was the words of tens of thousands of years of experience. In this aspect, I had no doubt that the queen of the dinner table had monstrous strength.
"It seems to be different from what we thought," Sandora suddenly turned her head, "This is not the nest of those insects, but just a battlefield."
The radar's detection had expanded to the entire asteroid belt, and the flashing gray dots that represented dead targets were everywhere. These were all dead insects. Obviously, they had fought a fierce battle with some enemies here, but they didn't know who the final winner was.
I casually swiped on the projector in front of me, pulling up the distant images one by one. These were the real-time images we had sent over from the miniature hyperspace warp sensors we had released. These little guys were extraordinarily agile because they were equipped with miniature hyperspace warp devices. They were spreading across the entire asteroid belt at the speed of a city enforcement officer. The Schilling people's ultimate candid camera was on full display.
"What is this?"
A sudden flash of an image caught my attention, and I couldn't help but let out a cry.
A few girls immediately came over.
"Isn't this the deformed plane we found when we intercepted the asteroid in Gakuen City?"
With just a glance, Shallow Shallow recalled where she had seen this thing before.
I was a little confused at first, but after Shallow Shallow's reminder, I remembered. This half-plane, half-tank thing that exuded the aura of scrap metal and had already turned the miniature meteorites in the universe into honeycomb briquettes, wasn't it the one I saw in Gakuen City? At that time, I thought it was Optimus Prime's long-lost second brother.
In an instant, I understood where the meteorites that attacked the Earth in the parallel universe came from.
What a dramatic coincidence.
"I never thought that the fragment of the star ring would appear in our own universe."
Of course, Big Sister's reaction wasn't slow either. She had already connected the dots to the origin of the space death squads in the asteroid belt. Unexpectedly, they were pulled over from this universe. In that case, the fragment of the star ring must have appeared here before.
In other words, the insectoids here were fighting with the masters of these battle machines, the distant relatives of humans that we had only guessed?
The radar's scanning range was still expanding. After expanding out of this complicated asteroid belt, the scanning speed instantly increased by several times. The images on the holographic projection were refreshed at a speed beyond what the naked eye could discern. Now, it was Bubble, who was acting as the mainframe of the starship, who was personally analyzing them.
The massive Empire fleet entered a spatial cloaking state and silently advanced through the asteroid belt. Nimble research ships flew out of the Admiral of the Empire's ejection hatch, collecting samples of the nearby insectoids or mechanical wreckages.
The mechanical wreckages didn't have much value to analyze. In this aspect, the Schilling people's advancement was almost monstrous. What we were really interested in were the insectoids — why did that sound so awkward?
Well, strictly speaking, the one who was interested in these insectoids should be the research maniac Tawil. Although he was far away in the base camp of the shadow city, Tawil didn't give up on analyzing these mysterious new life forms. With the help of the "mirror image" device in the flagship research center, Tawil split himself into two and carried out research in two places at the same time.
Just as Sandora had speculated, these insectoids were a battle race born for destruction. What appeared on this battlefield were all those deformed weapons. Most of them didn't even have a digestive system, and their theoretical lifespan was less than a few days. They were obviously disposable weapons, and their DNA form was extremely strange. Although all types of insectoids used a basic genetic template, there seemed to be an invisible commander controlling their evolution, causing them to split into these various "functional insectoids." None of the insectoids had organs for thinking. They were either low-level creatures that didn't need to think and acted purely on instinct, or they were a higher form of population: controlled by a single parent.
Looking at the things that I had just analyzed and the twisted and broken machinery, a certain idea in my mind was becoming clearer and clearer.
"Bubble," I suddenly shouted into the air, "What did you think of? Use your brain that's filled with games and anime to analyze it. "
"The history of the space war where humans fought cockroaches in the future," Bubble's voice echoed in the air within a two-meter radius around me, "StarCraft."
I thought so, too--and, according to my tragic luck, such a troublesome thing was very likely to be true.
"My child's father! I found something! "
Just as I was replaying the story of James Reynolds and his Queen of Blades in my mind, Bubble's voice suddenly rang through the entire bridge, waking me up from my thoughts.
Liliana immediately rolled her eyes. Now that Prophet Lin is grounded by my dad and can't come along, this fake loli has turned into the new Demon King?
Bubble took over the giant holographic image under the bridge and displayed what he had detected in front of us: a chaotic battlefield.
That was my first impression of the battle. The Galactic Fleet VS the Army of Cosmic Beasts.
The holographic projection was distorted due to the distance, but it was densely packed with heavy human-style spaceships. Although they looked far behind our Empire's fleet, they were full of a rough and violent beauty. The fleet was spewing red tongues of fire everywhere, forming a dense net of firepower outside the fleet. Although it looked spectacular, it undoubtedly proved the fact that these mighty steel troops were in a defensive state.
And the enemy that forced them to rely on such concentrated firepower to defend was, unsurprisingly, a group of — bugs.
It had a huge purplish-red body, a thick mutated carapace, barbs and bone blades all over its body, and a mutated shape that looked like a combination of various insects. You had to admit that the Zergs in reality were much more varied than the Zergs in StarCraft.
The swarm of insects covered the sky as they attacked from all directions, surrounding the human fleet layer by layer. As expected, their physical strength was astonishing. They could easily survive in a vacuum environment filled with lethal radiation, and they could even rely on their corrosive acid and bone spikes to bombard the human fleet with cannons. Carbon-based life had evolved to such an extent, so it was no wonder that Tarver would give these freaks a "perfect" evaluation. However, there was one thing that I didn't understand: in a vacuum environment, did those winged flying insects really need to flap their wings?
Alright, I know I'm getting off topic again …
"Are they within our firing range?"
I asked casually. Although I could see the battlefield in front of me, it was something detected by the hyperspace radar that was equipped with a lightspeed immunity system. I would believe that the distance between us and the enemy was one or two light years. A single shot from a laser cannon would take two years to arrive, and by then, I would be charged with the crime of destroying historical relics. But the moment I said that, I realized that I had asked a silly question. With the support of hyperspace firepower, did the word "firing range" even exist in the minds of the Schilling people?
"The Eternal-grade 'Galaxy' main cannon is the highest priority weapon. The main cannon of the 'Empire Admiral' is too powerful and may accidentally damage the surrounding fleets." Bubble didn't even need a second to calculate the result. "It's best if we can contact that fleet and have them retreat. Otherwise, even if they just brush by, the 'Galaxy' is enough to vaporize their armor."
"Yes. Charge the main cannons of all warships and connect me to the external channel."
As I gave my order, the Empire fleet that had been wandering around the asteroid belt like old men and women strolling through the morning market finally came to life. All of them withdrew their spatial force fields, and blue halos of energy flowed rapidly over the pitch-black hulls, gradually gathering at the muzzles of the main cannons. The dark-red radiating grid instantly turned into a blinding white as the energy surged violently. Blue psionic halos gathered at the muzzles, slowly forming a solid liquid. More eye-catching were the heads of the ten Eternal-grade motherships, where starlight gathered like a brilliant galaxy, forming a ball of light that was as dazzling as a star. Under the illumination of these halos, the phantom-like silhouette of the fleet that had always been blurry also became a group of brilliant lighthouses in the universe. Under the leadership of the giant cross in the lead, they eyed a certain distant target covetously.
Bubble successfully broke through the communication channel of the human fleet that was trapped a quarter of a light-year away and directly transmitted our voices into the captain's room.
"Greetings, human friends. This is the First Army of the Xiling Empire's expeditionary army. I am the emperor of the Empire, Chen Jun. Please reply if you receive this message."
The channel remained silent. It was as if the other side didn't hear me at all. After a full ten seconds passed, just as I was beginning to wonder if they had already been killed by the insects, or if Bubble's microphone wasn't connected properly, a deep baritone voice sounded.
"This is James Reynolds, the commander of this troop. We are unable to identify you, nor are we able to establish a normal connection with you. Who are you people?"
James Reynolds? The Queen of Blades from her family? Was this the legendary main character effect?
"This is the Xiling Empire's expeditionary army. Human friends, we will provide you with firepower support. Now, please escape from the battle with the insects as soon as possible. I repeat, escape from the battle with the insects as soon as possible."
The other side didn't respond to my words. I knew that he definitely didn't believe me. This was a reinforcement that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. If it was me, I would also be suspicious. However, if the other side was really the famous Reynolds, he would definitely make a wise choice. On one side was the insects that had forced him into a desperate situation, and on the other side was an intelligent being that could at least talk nicely. I didn't believe that he had completely ruined his brain after soaking himself in 60 ° alcohol.
In order to make him make up his mind as soon as possible, I told one of the commanders in charge of controlling the fleet's firepower system, "Activate the 'Empire Admiral's' cannons and fire slightly to the side."
At the same time, on a faraway battlefield, in James Reynolds's battleship.
That mysterious connection was suddenly cut off, leaving behind an undecipherable noise.
"Adjutant, are you able to analyze the other party's position or any other information?"
The bearded Uncle James held the dimmed communicator in his hands as he suddenly turned around and asked a smart robot next to him.
"Analyzing data … Analysis failed. The communication technology used by the other party is an incomprehensible new technology. The coding method is too advanced and incomprehensible. Unable to analyze the other party's position."
"Sir, what do we do now?"
An officer suddenly asked, interrupting Reynolds' thoughts.
"We can't confirm the other party's identity, but the current situation doesn't allow us to think about such useless things."
Reynolds said as he looked at the radar in the center of the command center. The red dots displayed on the radar were already so concentrated that it was alarming. If this continued, the fleet's defense would immediately collapse.
At that moment, a flying insect suddenly broke through the fleet's firepower net. Before it was blasted into smithereens, it spat out an intensely corrosive acid on the body of the ship. Along with the sudden sound of an alarm, the robot adjutant hurriedly reminded, "Serious warning! Serious warning! High energy response ahead! High energy response ahead! "
Almost at the same time as the series of warnings sounded, in a space far away from the battlefield, an energy matrix of unprecedented scale suddenly appeared out of thin air. The circular energy halo instantly expanded to a radius of several kilometers, and then began to emit blinding white light.
The huge blue-white beam pierced through the distant space, spewing out from the extra-dimensional energy transportation matrix and brushing past the entire battlefield.
It merely brushed past them, not even touching a single soldier on either side of the battle, before the white light abruptly disappeared.
Then, on the side of the battlefield where the white light streaked past, where the swarm was the most concentrated, thousands of insectoids suddenly imploded violently, as if they had just charged into the corona of a star, silently turning into fireballs of various sizes amidst the violent struggle.
Before the fleet commander Reynold could recover from the dazzling flash of laser, another flash of light triggered a series of warnings in the ship. When he ordered his adjutant to transfer the observed image to him, the scene in front of him left him tongue-tied.
A small planet that was originally just a background existence on the battlefield had now become the most eye-catching thing on the entire battlefield. It had just been hit head-on by that huge beam, and now nearly a quarter of the planet's crust facing the direction of the attack had melted.
"Human friends, I hope you can leave that position as soon as possible. Our fleet is about to attack. I repeat, our fleet will attack in fifteen minutes."
That mysterious message once again easily broke through the flagship's tightly encrypted channel and resounded in the command room. This time, Reynold did not even hesitate for a second as he loudly ordered, "All troops, pull back the defensive line and retreat towards the gap that was torn open by that flash of light just now! Get out of this godforsaken place as fast as you can! Damn it! Ignore those insectoids! Everyone, retreat! That is if you don't want to be incinerated into plasma clouds by that horrifying thing! "
The human fleet, who had long lost the will to fight under the encirclement of the insectoids, loyally executed their commander's orders, turning and running without another word. The power of that flash just now was there for all to see. Just the heat from the light's radiation alone could destroy thousands of insectoids, and even melt the planet's crust in a frontal bombardment. Anyone who had not been clipped in the head by a thunderous beast would be able to make a wise judgment in such a situation.
Thanks to that unprecedented laser just now, the encirclement of the insectoids was torn open. Coupled with the human fleet's fearless charge, Reynolds's army finally managed to escape before the next wave of warping arrived.
Then, with the robotic adjutant's somewhat spastic 'serious warning', Reynolds and the others saw a real display of space fireworks.
Over a dozen bluish-white energy beams appeared out of thin air, sweeping through the entire space that had just been the battlefield. No one understood where this attack had come from. All they knew was that the insectoid army that had been strutting around a second ago had now been reduced to ashes.
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