After spitting out words intermittently, the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet took a breath of cold air - the people in Zhongting actually did not rely on mouth breathing, but it was precisely because of this that they behaved in such a disordered manner under shock - although this man The Zhongting soldier, who was just middle-aged and had all the leaves on his head turned yellow, subconsciously clenched his fists. He gritted his teeth in a low voice and said, "What's going on? How come the number is six times more than last time?!"
Soon, someone answered his question.
"According to detection, there was a large-scale warping reaction around the Root Garden galaxy. Commander, it is the space amoeba group!"
There are not only intelligent life in the universe, there are also many strange space life, such as void clouds, crystal life, deep space jellyfish, etc., and space amoebas are also one of them. These huge creatures are born with the ability to warp space and move. Life has always moved in groups, with huge bodies and docile personalities. They often travel to galaxies where intelligent life has settled, and the Garden of Roots galaxy is no exception. But this time, they encountered chaos monsters and became their food. Not to mention, it also caused the number of void monsters to increase dramatically.
Now, with the end of the first collective space-time jump of the void monsters, the second wave is so dense that it blocks out the sky and the sun—no, this description is not accurate enough. It should be said that the endless jump ripples that cover the Milky Way have begun to appear in the first wave of reconnaissance. Behind the monsters, their number was calculated through the battleship's psychic calculation core to be 2,517,329.
The overly complicated transition ripples even interacted with each other and merged with each other, forming a huge spiritual vortex that even the people in the courtyard could not understand. Through this dark green vortex that was enough to swallow half of the planet, one could see the other side of time and space. An extremely huge life with a body length of more than 900,000 meters and which is still expanding is waving its tentacles in an attempt to reach here across hundreds of millions of kilometers. Fortunately, that giant life has not saved up yet. The power to jump will arrive later, and unfortunately, the second wave of two million void monsters has already begun to jump!
"crazy-"
After recovering from the shock, the commander of the Third Fleet's eyes became solid again. His eyes swept across the dense light curtain in front of him and observed the data. The middle-aged man from the middle ground gritted his teeth and touched the top of his withered head. , said in a deep voice: "Recall the space fighter planes, spread psychic jump traps, we retreat to the perimeter of the 'Poseidon' defense line, and cooperate with the fortress defense - there are too many enemies, we cannot engage in encounters!"
The combat strategy was immediately revised. Although it is somewhat contradictory, this is the most reasonable judgment. If two thousand Midgard Star main fleets are prepared for an ambush battle, if they face hundreds of thousands of void monsters, then it cannot be said that they will win, but at least they will have a huge advantage. The terrifying psychic light spear can instantly Anti-planetary weapons that destroy surface cities and crush mountains are really a chore to kill void monsters, especially since they can kill them one by one by predicting the transition sequence, but now, two million void monsters are jumping at the same time. This amount has exceeded the limit and cannot be stopped no matter what.
Two million monsters jumped at the same time, causing chaotic fluctuations that swallowed up tens of thousands of monsters, causing them to get lost in the gap between the spiritual vacuum and the real universe. However, this was nothing compared to the huge number of monsters. In addition, their mother beasts are still creating more void monsters. For a time, the starlight at the edge of the entire far-beam star field dimmed because the starry sky on that side was obscured by the endless herd of beasts. In contrast, the silver-blue light of the Atrium Star Fleet was constantly retreating. As the space fighters returned to the battleships like birds returning to their nests, several strange spherical battleships suddenly appeared in the fleet. .
The entire body of this warship is silver-white and has a regular, perfect circle. While the Midgardian fleet slowly moved back, and even began to prepare for a short-distance jump backwards, these ball warships moved forward rapidly. They completely ignored the whine of the engines and propped up the most advanced pinpoint shields. , ignoring the attack of the void monster spitting out spiritual light balls - a kind of degraded light spear - along the way, he rushed directly into the jump position of the void monster at maximum speed, and then exploded violently.
Suddenly, accompanied by a burst of bright fireworks, silver-blue ripples stirred time and space. In a wonderful way, it destroyed the stability of the one-dimensional spiritual light, disrupted the transition of the void monsters, and then hindered the formation of the huge spiritual vortex. , hindering the arrival of the mother beast - at this moment, all the people in the courtyard seemed to hear the roar of the mother beast on the other side of time and space, but no one felt happy, because this only delayed the steps of the subsequent enemies, and the number of two million The void monsters had already completed their transition. They sensed psychic energy, and like sharks that smelled blood, they began to accelerate crazily to pursue the retreating Atrium Fleet.
The first wave of impact, numbering thirty thousand, was wiped out by a volley of light spears.
The second wave hit, numbering a hundred thousand, and was pierced by deep space torpedoes and psychic beam strafing.
The third wave of impact, numbering 250,000, was defeated by the second volley of psychic light spears.
The fourth wave of impact, numbering 560,000, more than a dozen over a kilometer, the fusiform super-large monsters began to slowly start, and huge green energy jets appeared behind these monsters. They were no less than the fastest speed of the atrium battleship. Rushing towards the three fleets, which numbered only two thousand, at a very fast speed. The people in Zhongting worked hard and even dispatched elite space fighter pilots to defeat the enemy.
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
Alzella was in a semi-conscious state, relying on his strong instincts to forcefully drive the space fighter to the tractor beam of the battleship and return to Gnaku. In the interception battle just now, he single-handedly defeated a kilometer-level super-large void monster, but the price was that the old man's body function dropped significantly, even to the edge of shock. The three medical soldiers immediately jumped on the space fighter plane, Pulling Alzella out of the driver's seat, one of them said in a nervous tone: "We can't continue fighting... He is over 800 years old, and his psychic core has begun to wither. If he continues to fight like this, he will be overloaded. Even Omega-level psykers can die suddenly!"
"No! I can still-"
Hearing these words, Alzella, who was about to fall asleep completely, immediately came back to his senses. He gritted his teeth and sat up with his eyes wide open. He grabbed the medical soldier's collar, and the light of materialized psychic energy even illuminated him. The opponent's face, but the next moment, he lay back, his breath was weak, but he was still saying: Let me rest for a while, I can continue to fight... Such words.
"Don't worry, we will be able to return to the Poseidon defense line soon."
While the medic took out a special physical syringe from the tool box to deliver special nutrient solution to Alzella, he comforted the old man and said: "Relying on the satellite fortress, we can completely annihilate those void monsters, so even that super life form When the transition comes, you will only be alone, it does not mean that you cannot fight."
"The fifth wave of impact! The number is 700,000!"
"The enemy's main force is fully advancing! Give up the plan of consuming the enemy's vitality and retreat at full speed!"
The alarm sounded throughout the fleet, including Gnaku's. The expressions of both the medic and Alzella suddenly changed. Only then did they understand the difference between the enemy and intelligent life.
An army composed of intelligent beings will collapse. Even the most elite army of one million people will collapse on a large scale if more than 30% of the casualties are killed or injured. It is a special situation to really fight down to the last soldier... But now, the void monsters How many casualties did the army have? Is it more than 50%? At least 40%, right? The lethality of the light spear is diffuse. The ashes left after the death of the void monster have turned into a small black nebula. If it were a fleet composed of normal creatures, it would have been defeated long ago. Everyone knows this. matter.
But the void monsters will not flee. They have no intelligence and no fear. They only know how to attack, not how to defend. They only assimilate, not create. They are the viruses of the world, super plagues in planets, universes, and planes. Their presence... is horror itself.
Therefore, the army of void monsters that surpassed the possibility of the Midgardian Colonial Star Squadron's response began to advance. The first to retreat was the elite First Fleet located behind the Midgard Fleet. They had the best weapons and shields, and they had to fight against the Void Mother. The beasts were well preserved before the arrival of the beast's jump. Along with circles of psychic ripples, they successfully made a short-distance jump under the protection of the Second and Third Fleets and headed to the sixth giant star located in the Far Light Galaxy. On the sky planet fortress of the gas planet.
In addition to the Poseidon Fortress, there are also the Celestial Star Fortress, the Fierce Star Fortress, and the Flower Garden Colonial Star, which is ranked third in the sequence. Its earth-lunar defense line is the last line of defense, and almost the resources of the entire star region are gathered there. .
"Listen, there's a good chance we'll become the rearguard force."
The third fleet was completely renovated from dilapidated battleships. Most of its members are survivors and remaining fleets of the destroyed Garden of Roots colony. A small part of them are like Alzella, because A person who wants revenge for the death of a loved one. In addition to their passion, they actually have nothing. Whether it is equipment or training quality, they can be said to be the worst, and they themselves know this.
Therefore, when the order came from the flagship bridge, not many people felt surprised. There were definitely some emotions, but most of them were just unwilling to give in.
"If there were intact battleships... we would definitely not lose to those in the First Fleet!"
Many people have begun to hate the national policy of the people of Midgard over the past thousands of years. Because of the wars in the past thousands of years, these psychic plant life forms hate war. Even in the interstellar age, if it were not for the purpose of removing various space creatures and To protect themselves in the hands of other civilizations, they will not even form regular interstellar fleets and colonial groups, but will indulge in meditation on their home planet. But now, the consequences have emerged. If a civilization that has entered the interstellar age for thousands of years had not encountered an invasion by void monsters, it would not even have formed a fleet of more than two thousand. If they had a fleet of one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand, and more than ten colonies, Star, then even the Void Mother Beast may not be their opponent.
But now, it's too late.
As the second fleet also started to activate the extended psychic one-dimensional light and prepare for the jump, suddenly only the third fleet was left to deal with the crazy incoming void monsters. The shape of these viruses was greater than that of alloys. Some of them have no special attack methods. Only the giant monsters with a thousand-meter level have the ability to spray spiritual light balls that imitate the spiritual light spears as a long-range attack method. Most of the time, their weapons are themselves.
Any material with extremely high speed will have terrible lethality. The void monsters use this as a means to bring out countless electromagnetic sparks along with the dark green accelerated light flow, which appear behind each monster. The speed immediately accelerated to the incredible three thousandths of the speed of light in just ten seconds! Although this speed seems inconspicuous, it is actually terrifying enough to make people tremble. This is order. In fact, if these monsters don't have to worry about their own lives, then they will never be able to do this.
Suddenly, you can see a scene like this: the black beast herd in the sky burst out with a strong green light that lit up half of the high-light galaxy. Then, there was a collective accelerated charge that distorted the vacuum, guarding The Third Fleet, which was relocating from the Second Fleet, was well prepared for this. All warships stopped moving and stopped in place, deploying the most powerful pinpoint psychic shield. At the same time, the engines were running at full load, and spears of light were fired. Begin to coalesce.
Even if everyone dies here, they still have to stop this group of void monsters - they must buy time for the first and second fleets to prepare, so that they can cooperate with the satellite fortress to annihilate these two million void monsters and resist the coming void. Mother beast!
Alzella was helped to the medical room. In front of him was a light screen projected by psychic energy, which broadcast in real time the scene that could be seen on the bridge. Silent, emotionless, and without fear of life and death, the void monster lost all activity with its body. , they also want to accelerate their corpses to three thousandths of the speed of light, and they use their corpses as cannonballs to bombard the third fleet of the colonial star. Seeing this scene, the old man shuddered. His first thought was not his own life and death, but What would happen if this group of void monsters did not target the fleet, but the colony star
Hundreds of thousands or even millions of meteorites accelerated to three thousandths of the speed of light crashed into the Flower Garden Star... In just a moment, the originally beautiful planet would turn into a living hell, right? Moreover, it is also a purgatory that has not been described in the Midgardian mythology, a demonic realm called the Scorching Hell.
"Prepare for impact!"
The enemy is about to arrive. The entire 450 battleships of the Third Fleet have already adjusted their formation. They are combined into a three-dimensional cone formation. All battleships have activated their shields at full capacity, preparing to welcome the impact of these low-light speed shells. The Second Fleet The transition is almost over, and the psychic vacuum can already be seen beginning to appear. All the warships of the second fleet have begun to disappear, preparing to enter the psychic space and start the transition.
But the impact never came.
A red concentric halo suddenly appeared in the middle area between countless void monsters and the third fleet in the atrium. It stirred time and space and caused huge energy fluctuations. The explosive nature of the energy even caused the appearance of energy again and again in the vacuum. Violent explosions, plasma, and heart-stopping space cracks tore through the vast space of thousands of square kilometers. Although this is not worth mentioning on a cosmic scale, it greatly disrupted the impact trajectory of the void monster. In terms of energy, Blocked by fluctuations, explosions, plasma and space cracks, most void monsters have lost three thousandths of the speed of light.
"It's a transition channel!"
On the bridge of the flagship of the Third Fleet, the commander subconsciously crushed the control lever in his hand. He muttered incredulously: "It's a wave from the home star! But how is it possible?! And why is it red?"
The color of spiritual energy of every life is different. Most people in the courtyard are silver and blue, while monsters in the void are uniformly dark green. What is the red spiritual energy? And when did the home planet get reinforcements? Isn't the Central Fleet supervising the holding of the Void Gate Ceremony? They also want to build at least seven or eight space fortresses and satellite fortresses in the defense system of their home planet. How could they come light-years away to assist them? You know, they have given up on themselves and are preparing to use their last remaining heat as the first and second backing teams!
"Wait, the Void Gate Ceremony? Is this the red transition channel?!" Suddenly, the commander suddenly remembered a possibility, and he couldn't help but open his eyes wide.
And the progress of reality will not stop because of everyone's surprise. As the crimson spiritual energy transition channel began to rotate violently, the layers of concentric circles began to shrink and condense, and finally formed a huge vortex-like exit, and the next moment, a stream of red-gold light burst out of it, Rush straight towards the army of void monsters!
"What?!"
Before they could remember what the existence in the stream of light was, all the people in the atrium who were watching this scene were confused - no matter whether the creature that suddenly appeared was reinforcements from the mother star or not, he should not directly attack the void monster. The cluster! Those are millions of cosmic beings, even a pile of them can kill a planetary army!
But then, what appeared in their eyes were four thick light pillars of silver and red. These four light pillars penetrated the black monster cluster, and then produced a violent explosion. In an instant, there were thousands of round The explosive light group appeared in the darkness, and the blazing fire light spread in the void of the universe accompanied by the high-temperature metal gas of hundreds of thousands of degrees. In just this moment, more than 5,000 monsters were directly transformed into nothingness, and almost the same number of voids were transformed into nothingness. The monster turns into charcoal!
Destroyed tens of thousands of monsters with one strike! This terrifying lethality immediately made the commander of the third fleet in the atrium tighten his heart. Although this was caused by the dense lineup of monsters charging collectively, it was enough to see the power of the mysterious existence - if the opponent charged back and forth. Hundreds of times, wouldn't this huge group of monsters be completely wiped out
Shaking his head, the commander abandoned this whimsical idea. Not to mention whether the other party had the energy reserves for such an operation, the void monsters would disperse soon. Facing an existence with such lethality, even they without wisdom would Follow instinct and stay away from dodge, and the distance caused by the scale of the universe is extremely large. In this way, if the opponent can kill hundreds of monsters with one charge, he will be lucky.
However, the next moment, the commander no longer had the energy to calculate the offensive efficiency of that mysterious existence. As circles of crimson concentric spiritual energy ripples slowly calmed down, the particle cloud formed by the monster's corpse dispersed in the universe, and all members of the Third Fleet of the Atrium Colony Star saw the true form of the mysterious existence.
It was a four-armed giant with a length of more than four hundred meters and a golden-red body, like a battleship. His four arms were flashing with a golden halo that looked like the surface of the molten sun. Circles of silver light were intertwined and mixed with this halo. It was obvious that the four huge beam attacks before were the four attacks of this giant. issued by only one arm.
"It's... it's a void life!"
"It's our empty life!"
"Did the ceremony on the home planet succeed!?"
Suddenly, all the members of the Third Fleet cheered. For some reason, bursts of courage suddenly surged in their hearts, as if as long as this giant appeared and the ceremony was successful, they had already achieved a preliminary victory. In fact, just now The giant's record also proves this point. The opponent can actually enter and exit freely among the monsters, as if entering an uninhabited land, which is enough to prove that the opponent is far more powerful than ordinary void monsters!
"Wait, be careful!"
In the medical room, Alzella was feeling excited about the sudden appearance of powerful reinforcements, but from the light curtain, he suddenly saw a flash of light not far away from the four-armed steel giant. Sensing danger, he immediately roared loudly. He stood up, completely ignoring that the other party could not hear his words.
At the same time, in the distance, in the void monster's position, a four-armed giant was standing on the body of a thousand-meter giant void monster. He was slowly moving his four arms that were heated due to the energy beams emitted with all his strength. It seemed that he had not yet Understanding the situation, and just to his left, a giant void monster with the same kilometer level seemed to sense the enemy's absent-mindedness, and immediately accelerated with all its strength to a beam of two or even three thousandths, in the universe. There was a burst of twisting ripples in the middle, and it rushed straight towards the opponent!
A beam of three thousandths means a speed close to one thousand kilometers per second. This is a speed that is impossible to reach in the atmosphere. It is a speed that can break free from the gravitational constraints of a galaxy. It is a speed that can travel from one galaxy to another except for the jump. The foundation of another galaxy. This terrifying acceleration does not come from the Atrium Civilization. It is most likely the product of another civilization swallowed by the void monster. This is also a speed that the nerves of living creatures can never react to.
But it's just a normal naturally evolving creature.
I don’t know whether he predicted it in advance or reacted the moment he noticed it. The steel giant didn’t pay too much attention to the incoming void monster. He stood on the corpse of the kilometer-level monster with his arms folded in front of his chest. His eyes scanned the entire cluster of void monsters, seeming to be examining his prey. At the same time, the second left arm on his shoulder was raised high, and dark golden energy particles gathered at the speed of thinking, condensing into a huge handle. He didn't even look in the direction of the enemy. He just casually drew out the long-handled axe--only a dark golden light blade could be seen flashing, and then disappeared.
Then, the huge kilometer-level void monster that was attacking stopped its impact. The next second, it separated from it, revealing its creepy internal organs and energy core, which seemed to be composed of countless sarcoma particles. Next , is a violent self-destruction, turning into a ball of sparks in the dark universe.
At this moment, Joshua, who finally figured out what was going on, had a simple idea in his mind.
"Tsk, the jump door opened in the wrong direction."
The warrior murmured in a low voice: "This is bad—the jump has used up all my energy."
On his chest, the golden light representing the furnace of Fusion Heart was moving regularly, and the light and dark light flickered slowly.
Today I update the w word, and I have finished writing some necessary foreshadowing parts. It can be regarded as a birthday gift for Christmas Eve and a reader (looking at the sky)
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