After realizing that their signal transmitters had been located, the Angel army immediately made the decision to destroy the three signal transmitters. They turned their cannons and unhesitatingly fired at their own spaceships. However, the three spaceships that carried the signal transmitters were obviously extremely important. They were modified from heavily-armored motherships, and their core defense might have been specially designed. After the first volley of attacks, only one of the spaceships seemed to have suffered a fatal blow. At that moment, the spaceships of the Empire Admiral had activated its spacetime collapse device.
Under the watchful eyes of the Angel army, the three spaceships that they absolutely could not allow to fall into the enemy's hands trembled violently before rapidly shrinking in their field of vision and finally falling into another space.
Sives looked at the floating screen in front of him. On it was a window that had always been monitoring the mysterious signal in space. As the enemy's signal transmitters sank into the folds of space, it finally became a lifeless straight line — the signal had been terminated.
"Mothership phalanxes, concentrate your superior firepower and wipe out the remnants of the rebel army. Assault spaceships, charge at the Angel army. Soldiers, the Emperor is watching you!"
Even though I was actually looking at the last piece of orange that was about to be destroyed in Liliana's hands, Sives's encouraging voice still transformed into an overflowing fighting spirit among the Empire soldiers. The Schilling battleship, which had already gained the absolute advantage, began to slaughter the enemy. The assault spaceships, which had long been waiting to beat up the Angel battleships that had caused trouble for them, were like Pandora that had just been released from its cage, fiercely pouncing on the weak army of the 'inferior civilization'.
When the latter discovered that the only thing they could rely on had disappeared, they finally lost all will to resist. They began to organize and change their direction in an attempt to escape from this star system that no longer belonged to them. Their previous incarnation was merely a pirate crew that killed and pillaged. Even though they had formed an official army, they lacked true military training. When the signal transmitters that they used to embolden themselves used up their courage, they immediately scattered.
But in front of the Imperial Army, fleeing was even more foolish than fighting. Our assault ships possessed the fastest speed and sensitivity in the entire universe when they were in cruise mode. Those high-speed warships that relied on vector reversal devices to maneuver were best at chasing down the defeated soldiers that were fleeing in all directions. When the first assault ship from the Empire charged into the angel army's formation, it released a large-scale warp interference signal, causing 80% of the enemy's warp engines to enter a "visual blind spot" for several minutes. And these few minutes were more than enough for the Empire's fleet to charge into a flock of sheep.
"Tsk, if they fight to the death, they will at least gain some respect from the Empire's soldiers."
Suddenly, a disdainful sneer came from beside me. I immediately turned my head, but I didn't see anyone.
Then, he looked down and saw that Visca was gulping down juice.
The cat-eyed loli was instantly frightened. "Big Brother, you must be doing this on purpose! You must be pretending that you didn't see us the first time! "
"Alright, alright, I surrender, I surrender. Your throat is still raspy." I laughed heartily as I hugged Visca, who was baring his fangs and brandishing his claws, and rubbed my face against him twice. I felt my mood gradually relax from the nervousness I had felt during the battle. "The rebel army has been completely wiped out?"
On the other side, Pandora, who was also gulping down juice, blinked her large gray eyes and raised a small sign that said, "Yeah."
… So simple.
Pull, pull.
Probably because she saw that only Visca was being affectionately kissed, even the calm Pandora couldn't help but pull on the corner of my shirt. She used her other hand to change the sign. "Hug."
This lass was so cute that she was practically popping out.
I reached out with my other hand and hugged Pandora as well, rubbing her soft little face. I looked curiously at her, who was unable to speak due to the continuous use of Helium Flash. Then, I looked at Visca, who, although his throat was a little raspy, was still shouting with boundless energy. I was extremely confused. "Visca, is your throat okay?"
The cat-eyed loli giggled and took out something from her pocket: Watermelon Frost Lozenges.
"Eat half a liter before Helium Flash, and drink more water after Helium Flash. Stupid Big Sister doesn't know this."
I was speechless.
Could this be considered a miracle in the history of human medicine?
There was no longer any suspense in the outcome of the battle. The rebel army that was attracted by the signal was inferior to us in terms of numbers, and their battle prowess was also weaker than the high-ranking Imperial Army. Under our concentrated attacks, most of them were already dead. The Angel Army couldn't even withstand a single blow. Their two armies on the flanks were completely annihilated by our first round of attacks. On the other hand, the Central Army was completely annihilated by the Schilling Battleship after the signal transmission device was captured. Although there were many of them, the battle prowess of the patchwork spaceships was actually weaker than any other army that we had ever seen in this universe. It wasn't that the quality of the spaceships was lacking, it was the quality of the enemy's military …
Forget it, these fellows were still pirates a few years ago. How strong could their military be?
From the looks of it, the reason why the Angel Army was able to become the second strongest power in a cruel place like the Eastern Sky was probably because of the power of the 'Shepherd'. It seemed that the secret hidden in the signal transmission device couldn't be underestimated.
This star system was already under the control of the Imperial Army, but we didn't intend to make this place our long-term territory. To us, this place didn't have much strategic value. Originally, the Imperial Army had planned to launch a surprise attack on this place to see what Liliana had said about the burning romance between the rebel army and the Angel Army. At the same time, it was to test out a few tactics that could be used to fight the rebel army head-on. In the end, we actually attracted so many enemies. If it wasn't for Vega locating the enemy's signal transmission device in time, there definitely wouldn't be only two groups of rebel army that were attracted. Now that we had gotten what we wanted, it was time to leave this region.
It took quite some effort to fish out the three battleships that had sunk into the dimensional folds. They had excellent defensive technology. Even though they had suffered the suicidal attacks of the Angel army and the tremors of the dimensional folds, the launchers in these battleships were still working. The moment I fished them out, that persistent signal appeared again. I could only activate an indiscriminate energy freeze. No matter what kind of energy those devices were using, it was no longer a problem after I froze them all.
"I have a feeling that we should completely destroy this galaxy."
Liliana muttered as she looked at the star that was quickly moving away from the floating screen. "It wasn't easy to take it down. Even if it's useless, we can't just return it to those pirates."
"The problem is that the enemy troops there are all dead. The remaining people are miners and civilians. We have to be humane." I shook my head. "Besides, keeping this place will give the Angel Army a bigger headache. They have to spend a lot of effort to rebuild the planet's defenses. That star system is a huge gravitational source. It's suitable as a springboard for sending troops out. That also means that it's a suitable target for the enemy to warp. But if we really destroy the entire star system, the Angel Army can just abandon this useless ruin."
Liliana glanced at me. "In other words, apart from being humane, everything else is true?"
"Cough cough … You can't put it that way …"
The γ-6 star system had already become a small dot in our field of vision. The invisible Imperial Army was speeding towards the border of the Roland Gale Financial Group. It was Liliana's suggestion to contact the strongest Roland Gale Financial Group. She had a high opinion of them. It was said that they were the only faction in the Eastern Sky that could possibly stand on the side of the Imperial Army. Of course, they probably wouldn't have the courage to start a war with the Shepherdians. However, they should be able to act as a helper like the Free Kingdom. Roland Gale's unyielding leader had the courage to do so.
More importantly, Liliana had mentioned something. "If the Angel Army's Schilling Artifact is hiding any secrets, then the Roland Gale Financial Group that they have been fighting against for so many years would definitely know about it."
Because of this reason, we decided to contact the leader of Roland Gale first before deciding on the issue of fighting against the Angel Army and the rebel army in the Eastern Sky.
Perhaps it was because we had really gotten along well with the people of Roland Gale when we were preaching, or maybe it was because of the short contact we had with the leader of Roland Gale before we retreated. It seemed that Liliana didn't have to spend much effort to obtain permission to enter the Roland Gale Financial Group. This surprised me. However, after thinking about it, perhaps the latter didn't dare to reject our request to enter the Roland Gale Financial Group … At the very least, we had applied for permission.
Tawil had already begun analyzing the salvaged battleship wreckage in the ship's research facility. I wasn't sure if he had discovered anything. After informing my sister, I decided to personally go and take a look. Pandora and Visca also wanted to go together. The research facility was located ten kilometers away from the bridge of the spaceship. However, transportation in the spaceship was very convenient. There were taxis right at the entrance.
"… I say, the guy who runs taxis in the Admiral of the Empire is not only still doing business, but has even established a company?"
I only reacted after getting out of the car at the entrance of the research facility. I was speechless for a long time as I stared at the large words "Transverse Arm Taxis, please call channel 777" written on the back of the taxi that was driving away.
Beside me, Visca shrugged. "They mainly run the transverse arm line. They also have a competitor called Transverse Arm Taxis, call channel 111. The two taxi companies have been competing fiercely for the past two days. This is because the Admiral of the Empire is 225 kilometers longer than the transverse arm. The Transverse Arm Taxis have a much larger market share than the Transverse Arm Taxis. The competition in the market is fierce …"
I was stunned for a long time. In the end, I sighed helplessly. "They really have nothing better to do. Wouldn't it be better if they just ran public transportation?"
Pandora immediately raised her small sign. "There's no one to take it. It's closed down."
That was true. In the Admiral of the Empire, one could take military transport planes for missions. Other than that, there weren't any fixed groups of passengers. The public transportation operators would always come and go, and there would only be a few taxis left … I didn't even know if I should complain about this or not.
I didn't know if Tawil minded this, but I felt that her research facility had recently become a garbage collection center. The battleship wreckage that we collected from the battlefield could be called spoils of war. However, it was undeniable that in the industry, these things were often referred to as scrap metal. These scraps had continuously piled up on several of Tawil's disassembly platforms. From the highest-level Empire rebel battleship to the angel army's sampan that we had just salvaged, there were all kinds of garbage.
Disassembling a spaceship required an extremely large space. Even if we only wanted to disassemble one or two of its cabins, Tawil had no choice but to temporarily use the engineering hall as a research facility. When we arrived, she was instructing a few assistants to cut open a large piece of metal. There were several anti-gravity platforms in the engineering hall with a radius of several hundred meters. Currently, similar mechanical components were hovering on these platforms. The most eye-catching one was naturally the platform closest to Tawil, where a crystal-metal composite was slowly rotating.
"This is the signal transmitter." Tawil held an information screen in her hand. Dressed in a researcher's white robe, she looked valiant and formidable. To this research lady whose true form was glasses, the laboratory was her battlefield — even though it looked like a garbage collection center. "We spent quite a bit of effort to shut this thing down, but we finally succeeded. There were supposed to be three transmitters, but one of them was severely damaged by the angel army when the scorpions broke into the battleship. The other one was directly hit by the angel army's main cannon when the mothership was about to sink into the dimensional folds. The spaceship was destroyed along with the transmitter. Fortunately, this one is still intact. We have already separated it from its auxiliary equipment and are currently scanning its internal structure."
The more I listened, the more surprised I became. "A piece of equipment created by humans can actually cause you so much trouble?"
It was one thing for the scorpions who weren't very intelligent as they weren't proficient in anything that required the use of their brains. However, Tawil was one of the most knowledgeable people here. How could a mere piece of equipment created by humans stump her?
"I don't know where this thing came from, but it definitely isn't something created by a low-level civilization like the angel army." Tawil turned around and looked at the strange machine that was emitting a faint glow. Her tone was abnormally solemn. "It's extremely advanced and magical. Even though the scanning results aren't out yet, I feel that the technology used in this thing has probably reached the level of the Empire's technology. The reason why the angel army used three enormous aircraft carriers to carry these two meter tall devices wasn't entirely to protect them. More importantly, it's because their crude and primitive technology isn't able to control these devices well. We have already conducted a preliminary disassembly of the aircraft carriers. Look, it's these — —"
As Tawil spoke, he extended his hand to point at the enormous metal blocks floating on the anti-gravity platform.
"These are the wreckage of the cabin that was once used to install the launcher. The angel army modified the entire aircraft carrier into a control slot to realize the two simple operations of 'on' and 'off' the launcher. They also installed seventeen independent reactors in the cabin to allow the launcher to be activated in its lowest mode. All the signs indicate that the people from the angel army aren't able to truly use these three complicated beacons. They can't even grasp 1% of the functions of these devices. They can only use these beacons to release some strange signals to summon the rebel army of the Empire. However, why would the rebel army respond to these signals and protect the sender of the signal … I'm sorry, Your Majesty. There isn't enough information to analyze this."
"It's alright. Continue." My interest was piqued by Tawil's series of discoveries. I vaguely felt that a secret was about to be revealed.
"Then, there's this thing. It's puzzling me," Tawil said as he drew a line in the air with his finger. A one-meter tall holographic projection appeared in front of us, displaying a series of complex 3D structures. "This is the energy field distribution map around the launcher. After marking it with different colors according to its energy frequency, it will appear like this. Here and here, there are two obvious faults."
"What do you mean?"
I asked honestly.
"It means that these three launchers aren't independent and complete devices. They were dismantled from an even larger object." The bespectacled lady pushed up her spectacles. The reflection of light instantly stunned me. "I've already seen the truth …"
Unfortunately, Tawil's imposing speech was suddenly interrupted by a researcher who ran over in a hurry. "Chief Tawil, Your Majesty, and two generals, the scan results are out! Please take a look, this … this unbelievable thing!! "
Then, the researcher who had been in charge of scanning the launcher's structure turned on his projection device and connected it to the anti-gravity platform that carried the launcher's sample. Immediately, the scan results were displayed on the rotating sample in the air.
The two-meter-tall crystal-metal structure was split in half from the middle. One half was a normal visual image, while the other half was transparent, revealing the insides of the transparent structure — a dense crystal grid that looked like a beehive, large clusters of bright lines, and spots of light that could not be seen but were moving quickly.
Anyway, I didn't understand anything. Only Tawil exclaimed in surprise, "Soul crystal?!"
"What's that?"
"It's a special crystal structure. It's used in the mainframe management system of the modified Empire Mothership. It's responsible for the communication between the mainframes of the ship. It can also carry out highly efficient information processing. The mothership's Schilling mainframe's thinking module is a variant of the soul crystal. But this … it's too big! The entire processing array of the Empire Admiral is only half the size of this thing. I even doubt that our current technology can create such a huge soul crystal structure! It's practically a technological miracle! "
At this moment, I had to admit that I was stunned once again. A thought kept echoing in my mind: Is this the brain of my child's mother?
Tawil had already entered her research mode as if there was no one around her. She didn't even care about her emperor and generals as she continuously zoomed in and out of the holographic projection in front of her. Tawil's exclamations didn't stop. After a full ten minutes, she finally remembered that there was a confused head of the Empire standing beside her.
Alright, there were also two confused generals of the Empire. Pandora and Visca were experts in fighting, so they didn't know a thing about such advanced technology. "I'm very sorry, Your Majesty."
"I'm very sorry, Your Majesty." Tarver pushed his glasses awkwardly. "This is something I've never seen before. It's clearly from the Empire's technology, but its size and functions have exceeded my imagination. I don't think any of the Empire's motherships would use such a device. Furthermore, this Psionic Crystal has been modified, and it can no longer be used to establish cooperative communication. It will take a long time to decipher its true function. This device is very ancient and has probably been in operation for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. Even now, it is still in standby mode. The Angel Army's clumsy technology can only allow energy to impact its surface structure and then reflect a bunch of signals that can attract the rebel army. This device has never been truly activated. Fortunately, those inferior civilizations were unable to cause any structural damage to this ancient device. I will need some time to decipher the information storage module of this ancient device. This thing has some kind of connection with the rebel army. Perhaps it contains the secret of the rebel army's birth!"
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