In the central fleet of the atrium, on the bridge of the flagship Forerunner, after seeing the inactive flesh and blood of the Void Mother Beast, Commander Tarquin finally raised his hands that had been behind his back and pressed them on his face. The old man exhaled a trembling breath, and then laughed in a tired voice: "It's over... The past few months have been really... hateful Void Mother Beasts, hateful Fulbi people!"
While speaking fragmented words, the old man's voice became full of resentment little by little. You could see flickering psychic light shooting out from the gaps between Tarquin's fingers covering his face. The commander of the Atrium Fleet had already He couldn't restrain his resentment towards his neighbors - if it weren't for the Fulbi people who summoned the Void Mother Beast and didn't destroy it, if it wasn't for the Fulbi people who didn't resist and fled their home planet in panic, if it weren't for the Fulbi people There is no intention to remind them at all, and they intend to use them as bait to delay the Void Mother Beast. None of this will happen! If the Fulbi people had notified the Midgardians to cooperate with them, the Void Mother Beast might not have had the chance to grow to such a huge size!
Everything was far from what it was, and it was all the Forbi people's fault.
This idea has spread throughout the entire Midgard society. Countless young people in the Midgard who once had a favorable impression of unknown races outside have changed their perceptions, causing the mindset of the Midgard people who were originally willing to treat outsiders with kindness to change to one who is wary of others. Xenophobes, all of this is the fault of the Forbi people. Tarquin secretly swore in his heart that if one day he encountered the Falbi people's exile fleet again, he would definitely lead an army to destroy them. Completely purify everything left!
Just like purifying the Void Mother Beast.
Putting down his hand, the old man looked up at the starry sky. There, a spaceship was slowly approaching the flesh and blood of the female beast that seemed to have lost its vitality. All the crew members and scientific researchers were prepared for death. They were about to identify the female beast at close range. Whether it is completely dead, and try to detect where the female beast's psychic core is located.
To be honest, Tarquin didn't think the mother beast could survive the bombardment of the subspace breaker cannon. He had seen the result of a battleship's failed jump. Even the most powerful special alloy was cut into pieces like sand. The debris of the crew, the flesh and blood of the crew mixed with engine oil, flowed in the wreckage of the semi-living spacecraft. No life could survive in that chaotic space, not to mention that after that, it would be exposed to the universe and experience various Various types of radiation exposure.
This is his idea, and it is also the idea of most people in Midgard - including the people left behind in Poseidon Fortress. Many soldiers in Midgard who heard the news breathed a sigh of relief and were glad that they did not have to face the enemy directly with the mother beast. After all, even if they are willing to sacrifice their lives for their compatriots and hometown, it is definitely a good thing to survive. After 'defeating' the mother beast, many people even began to think about the scene of their glorious return home in the future, and many people began to cry for their fallen comrades.
But in the distant space, the changes of chaotic monsters ruthlessly shattered their imagination.
"High-energy reaction!"
At the moment when everyone in the atrium had a smile on their faces, the detection station suddenly lit up a red alert! At this moment, hundreds of thick tentacles suddenly emerged from the fleshy remains of the female beast, tightly entangling the scientific research ship that was cautiously approaching. Neither the solid alloy shell nor the emergency jump escape device were of any use. It was twisted into a ball of steel debris in just a second, and then turned into countless fragments in a violent explosion.
At the same time, a sharp and bright beam of light like a sword shot out from the flesh and blood remains that should have been inactive - it spanned the distance of light seconds and directly hit the body of the subspace crushing cannon. The silver The rhombus octahedron, the terrifying energy fluctuations almost instantly penetrated this huge artificial creation, the pride of the people of Atrium, from the beginning to the end, and the aftermath even erupted from its tail, causing many Atrium fleets to be shattered. The shield was temporarily paralyzed.
Not long ago, the world-destroying beam that even the legendary mage Nostradamus was plotted appeared again, but now, it is far less powerful than the original power that seemed to shatter time and space. It is just a thick and solid fortress-level main cannon. , but even so, there is no problem in destroying a newly manufactured super weapon without supporting shields and defense facilities without the people in the atrium paying attention.
Phew, rum——
In the vacuum, sound waves cannot be transmitted, but in the minds of all the people in the Atrium who looked at the distant space with shocked eyes, there seemed to be a sound like rotten meat and internal organs being slapped together and then reuniting. The flagship of the Central Fleet in the Atrium On the bridge, Tarquin stretched out a hand and pointed tremblingly at the Void Mother Beast that was slowly reorganizing and regenerating in the optical lens. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but an invisible force oppressed his vocal organ. He could only watch with trembling eyes as the Mother of Monsters reappeared in this world.
Reborn from a thousand cuts in the space rift, the Void Mother Beast returned to its original spherical sea urchin-like shape - but compared with the original, its size was greatly reduced, with a diameter of only about 550,000 meters. It was originally The solid shell has not regenerated at this time, there are only countless broken and loose black chitin fragments, and the thick psychic shield is so transparent that it seems not to exist, but even so, it is a super life form that exceeds the size of the fortress. Reassembled from the loose nano-virus form into the giant individual it is today, the mother beast feels an unprecedented hunger - all its severely damaged tissues are crying out for energy and organic matter, and it urgently needs to go to a living planet to plunder its ecosphere for a full meal. Pause to restore your quality and status.
But it is obvious that the Hyperglobe Galaxy is still dozens of astronomical units or even hundreds of miles away from the nearest ecological planet due to the orbit of the planet. If you want to get there, with its dilapidated body, you may have to go halfway through the journey. fall apart. But it doesn't matter.
Aren’t there just so many organic resources right in front of us
The female beast rotated her body, aiming the thickest front of the carapace at the Midgardian fleet that was in a panic. At this time, it was quickly organizing the array. For the chaotic monsters who were not taboos, most of the fleet was half-living and half-human. The mechanical structure of the atrium fleet is a delicious meal. At most, you need to peel off the outer layer of iron cans. It doesn't mind a little trouble.
So the next moment, the Void Mother Beast, which had been roughly reorganized but had shrunk several times, rushed towards the atrium fleet that had barely reorganized its formation with the force of a wounded beast that was even more ferocious and ferocious than before. Its speed increased in an instant. The acceleration exceeded three thousandths of the speed of light, and the atrium fleet opened fire together without hesitation, using psychic light spears to deal with this huge invading enemy, but even the central fleet plus the three colonial star fleets totaled more than three thousand The salvo of five hundred warships would at most scorch about one-tenth of the area on the front of the mother beast, and the depth of damage would not exceed three hundred meters. Although this was painful for the mother beast, it was only dug up. It's just a muscle, not enough to stop it from moving.
Attack, no effect yet, defense, meaningless, escape - faced with the impact of a giant meteorite with a diameter of more than 500 kilometers, the warships on the edge can escape, but what about the main force in the center of the array? It’s not like he’s going to be smashed into pieces by the mother beast!
Is there any other way to deal with it
Commander Tarquin, whose mood was ups and downs from great joy to great sadness, had nothing but blank anger in his eyes at this time. He could lead the fleet and the fleets of other races to detour in the asteroid belt, and could easily drive away huge space transformations. Zerg tribe, but he has never encountered such a situation, and he has never known how to deal with this huge, strong, regenerative super being that can survive even if it is cut into powder - this is really beyond his ability. Outside.
But it was obvious that the old man had forgotten one thing - their reinforcements from their home planet were not only the central fleet that sent the engines, but also the void beings they summoned from the void door.
Behind the mother beast, a scorching red fire accompanied by an explosive speed came first and hit the rear of the mother beast. Just when no one knew what happened, it originally rushed towards the Midgardian fleet. The incoming female beast twisted as if in a spasm, and then its flight direction deviated. For an object on a cosmic scale, moving at three thousandths of the speed of light, a slight deviation from the direction means a complete deviation. After more than ten seconds, the stunned Tarquin watched the huge void mother beast scraping the atrium. The edge of the human fleet flew towards their rear!
At this time, Joshua, who was knocked away by one of the mother beast's tentacles, accelerated again and flew towards the tail of the void mother beast - it was the warrior who just launched an attack at the rear of the mother beast, causing its direction of action to change. The deviation saved the life of the man in the courtyard. It was also his constant attack on the mother beast's body that caused the mother beast, who was already frightened by the consequences of his entry into the body, to shift its attention to attacking him and forget about it. It turned out that he was moving rapidly towards Poseidon.
Soon, the Void Mother Beast passed through the Poseidon Fortress, an artificial fortress built by the Midgardians at the gravitational balance point of Poseidon, and flew rapidly towards the inner orbit of Poseidon with Joshua - during this period, the Mother Beast Of course, it found that it was being pulled down by the gravity of this blue gas giant. It wanted to accelerate away from the shackles of gravity, but since Joshua was here, it was impossible for it to succeed. With the flesh and blood of the female beast, Joshua burned the furnace again, trying his best to draw the opponent's energy so that the Void Mother Beast had no time to change direction and accelerate. Unless the other party wants to let him enter his body again and cause a big explosion.
If that's the case, Joshua doesn't mind really self-destructing again, completely exploding the two remaining energy cores of the mother beast.
Tarquin, who was covered in condensation - moisture oozing from plant tissue - wiped the water left on his forehead. He looked at the direction where Joshua and the Void Mother beast were falling towards Poseidon in confusion. With this fleet With the wisdom of the commander, he certainly guessed that Joshua and others had just involved the energy of the mother beast, so that the opponent did not destroy their fleet, but the plan to force the opponent into the orbit of Poseidon...
His thinking suddenly stopped. Tarquin felt that there must be some extremely critical element behind this, but he could not understand it. This made the old man feel extremely painful, but no matter what, with the punch, there were extremely obvious ripples. The spread of Poseidon's surface is enough to prove that the Void Mother Beast has completely crashed into the gas giant.
A gas giant whose outer layer is 99% composed of hydrogen and helium.
"What on earth is the 'Giant' thinking?"
In the control room, countless voices and discussions were heard. Through the focus of optical instruments, everyone could see the four-armed giant form of Joshua fighting with the Void Mother Beast. They were in shock. Of course, they were grateful to the reinforcements who saved their lives, but they I can't understand the purpose of the other party's actions - is there any point in driving the void mother beast into the gas giant? Doesn't this allow the opponent to use the thick gaseous layer to hide his whereabouts, and then slowly absorb the material to recover from the injury? Some of them already had a rough understanding of the Void Mother Beast's abilities, so some of them were confused.
"Could it be that the Titan plans to use the violent storm on Poseidon to tear apart the structure of the Void Mother Beast?"
Some people have proposed such a possibility, but it was rejected by most people, because the result of physically destroying the body of the female animal has just been seen. Apart from paralyzing the female animal for a while, it has no meaning. It may also cause the other party to divide and produce offspring. The body becomes more difficult to deal with.
"Wait—look!"
Suddenly, a crew member screamed near the observation platform. He immediately told the people around him what he saw. So, after the news spread, almost everyone saw the blue, yellow and white colors of Poseidon. On the surface of the huge mixed star, a trace of undetectable dark green appeared. At first, this dark green was like a drop of water falling into oil, but then it began to spread rapidly, as if it were literary and artistic, with chaotic fluctuations. Erode everything around you into green waves!
"It's the mother beast! The void mother beast is spreading in the gas giant... Don't they only feed on ecological planets?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the Midgardian who said these words shut his mouth - even the Midgardians themselves have a large number of trace elements in their bodies. All intelligent life cannot be composed of pure organisms. The Void Mother Beast can It's not strange at all to feed on matter in a gas giant, and saying so only reveals one's ignorance.
At this time, the Void Mother Beast is experiencing the impact of Poseidon's storm. Its fragile outer body is being cut and blown away by the wind like a chain saw, and then turned into inactive material particles. But at the same time, it is also It quickly condenses a solid fluid shell to withstand the impact of strong winds. In addition, it greedily absorbs the tiny material particles in the outer layer of the gas giant to strengthen itself. And judging from the momentum of green expansion, compared to the harsh environment of Poseidon The environment seems to be that the Void Mother Beast is even more capable.
Without any extra words, the Atrium fleet began to merge and descend towards the surface orbit of Poseidon. Tarquin asked his adjutant with a bad look on his face, but received an even worse answer.
"Sorry, Commander... Due to the power supply of the subspace breaker cannon and the several rounds of volleys corresponding to the mother beast just now, the remaining energy of the battleship is running out... We cannot resist the gravity of Poseidon and emit psychic light at the same time. spear."
The adjutant with a face as white as a sheet of paper numbly talked about the predicament that the Atrium Fleet was encountering now, while at the command offices of all other battleships, a similar scene was being staged: everyone was told that they either had to sit back and watch the Void Mother Beast in the gas giant. After recovering from the disease, there will be another head-on fight, or else he will be pulled down by the gravity of Poseidon while launching his psychic light spear.
To put it clearly: wait to die, or die.
“…This is a super life beyond the range of our technology to deal with.”
The commander of the First Squadron of the Atrium Colony, a bald middle-aged man, touched his head that had no leaves left, and showed an expression that was difficult to describe in words. He spoke to the internal psychic communication channel that was only open to the commander level. Zhong said calmly:
"I kind of want to throw in the towel."
The commander of the third fleet of the colonial star, a middle-aged Midgardian named Xina, looked at the withered yellow leaf that had just fallen in his hand, and he was silent for a long time. This Midgard man remembered many things, how he joined the army, how he sailed in the universe, how he climbed from a low-level officer to the bottom of the current fleet commander bit by bit. Finally, Xina recalled a very familiar old man, the old man who was driving a space fighter plane and wanted to inform two friends of two void beings at the risk of his own life.
Alzella's face calmly walking towards death echoed in Xiena's mind, which calmed his heart. The commander of the Third Fleet felt a power filling his body.
"Absolutely not."
He said this with determination.
After finishing speaking, Xina actually laughed. He was no longer worried. The atrium commander immediately ordered: "Broken Broker, all personnel leave the ship."
"Confirm coordinates: green spot. The location of the Void Mother Beast."
—The people of Zhongting have already sacrificed a lot, so I think they don’t mind having one more of me. Thinking of this, Xina let out a long breath: "Fire the light spear. Then, hit it."
In the bridge command room, there was no sound except for the controller who determined the launch coordinates and impact coordinates of the psychic light spear according to the captain's instructions. The middle-aged commander closed his eyes and sat back on his command chair. The light screen in front of him showed a long parabola and a straight line, which was the trajectory of the Breaker's fall and the launch of the psychic light spear, but But he had no intention of going to the emergency exit.
"Countdown to engine self-destruction...220, 219, 218..."
But when the battleship no longer resisted the gravity of Poseidon and began to slowly fall towards its surface, causing a moment of weightlessness, Xina suddenly opened his eyes. He looked around and angrily cursed at the commanders around him: " I told everyone to leave the ship! What are you damn idiots doing here?!"
No one responded to him. Everyone is sitting in their seats. Some people are using light screens to bring up photos of themselves and their families on the colonial star, some are using psychic channels to leave messages to their relatives who may still exist far away, some are crying, and some are scolding themselves for being stupid, why should they accompany them because of impulse? A large group of people were buried with him, and beside him, his friends were joking, saying not to worry too much, their souls could go on the road together, and then merge into one at the mother tree.
All the members of the Third Fleet are people whose hometown was destroyed by the mother beast. They have no place to return to.
So no one left.
The battleship was falling, and four rounds of psychic light spears had been fired. The millions of degrees of high-temperature psychic light spears penetrated the outer carapace of the mother beast. This was not originally an injury to the void mother beast, but Poseidon's The strong airflow expanded the wound, causing the material on the mother animal's body to drain away. But because of this, there is no light inside the Breaker except for the red emergency light that represents energy tension. The originally roaring psychic engine gradually stopped operating, but the light became brighter and brighter, operating overload. The violent psychic energy is continuing, waiting for the moment to explode.
"Countdown to engine self-destruction, 82, 81, 80, 79..."
Not only the Breaker, but also many battleships were falling one after another. They also fired light spears to attack the mother beast, taking away part of its body surface mass. Like a rain of steel, mixed with a stream of high-heat light, emergency escape capsules flew out from the warships that were deorbiting, and were received by other warships that did not fall. The scene was silent, like death.
Too lazy to scold his disobedient crew members, Xi Na closed his eyes again and sat in his seat. Many scenes appeared in his mind like a revolving lantern, but none of them were about himself. This made the middle-aged man secretly angry: He originally planned to review his life before he died, but his instincts were not as good as his. wish.
"It's really difficult for me."
At this moment, a calm voice that was unfamiliar to Xi Na sounded in his mind: "It is a good thing to dare to sacrifice. Everyone likes brave people, but it will increase the workload of Joshua and me."
"Live a good life for me, don't always think about dying - it's not your turn to be a hero."
Accompanied by words that seemed to be ridicules and praises, Sina suddenly felt that his whole body was wrapped in a faint blue light - along with the ripples of time and space that made him, the fleet commander, feel extremely familiar, he was in He didn't know where he was teleported with a cry of surprise, and the entire battleship - even all the people inside the battleship that was falling and preparing to self-destruct - all encountered the same situation.
And as the blue space-time channel opened behind the four-armed steel giant standing above the head of the mother beast, the legendary incarnation of Nostradamus appeared beside Joshua, and the warrior did not look back, just mentally The link said: "Have you rested yet?"
"I can barely use one move."
The old mage who was hit head-on by the Void Mother Beast with a high-energy laser capable of vaporizing a city in an instant replied seriously: "Any more and I will die."
"Then just freeze the big guy down there—it only takes less than a second."
The steel giant opened his four arms, and the huge gravitational field changes caused the endless hydrogen and helium in Poseidon to converge into his arms like a backward waterfall. While Joshua was gathering these microscopic elements that no matter whether they were Nostradamus or people from the Atrium who had always used psychic powers and had never studied microscopic material particles, they didn’t know what their uses were, he said softly: “It will be needed then. You take me to retreat - remember, you must run far enough!"
"Don't worry."
Nostradamus first frowned and glanced at the huge Void Mother Beast under his feet. He felt that it was a little tricky - it was almost impossible to immobilize such a big guy with time and space magic. Even if he paid a certain price, he could only say There is a possibility of success. But to Joshua's last request, the old mage readily agreed: "We can't guarantee success, but we will try our best - then I'll go first."
Before he finished speaking, and before Joshua could reply, he turned into a stream of blue light and flew in the direction of the Void Mother Beast. And not long after, with a burst of time and space fluctuations, the huge Void Mother Beast actually turned out. After pausing like this for a short moment, you can vaguely see a blue human figure behind the thick gas layer, flipping through his magic book, burning the pages in the book, at the expense of consuming the original power of the magic book. , trying his best to maintain the solidification of space.
And in this short moment, Joshua did a lot of things. In his spiritual sea, Yingying and Lin were resonating with his soul, and the three spirits were assisting him in extremely complex calculations. Ya took a deep breath, and then the huge hydrogen and helium gas group that was huge enough to cover the Midgardian fleet was attracted by him from the surface of Poseidon. Then it was quickly compressed and condensed by the warrior's steel power, and turned into an insignificant amount. Just a little check.
"Since it's all hydrogen and helium, there's nothing strange about nuclear fusion." Weird thoughts flashed in his mind. Joshua looked at the countless hydrogen in his arms that had been compressed and condensed to the extreme. It was almost impossible to see it with the naked eye. The helium polymer suddenly lit up with a dazzling golden-red light, and as the warrior increased the energy output step by step, inputting endless energy and heat into the small point in his arms that was almost about to explode, a hurricane suddenly rose. , the heat flow that boiled the space overflowed, and even blew away some of the gas on the surface of Poseidon.
The crimson light illuminated half of Poseidon.
At this time, a golden, dancing miniature sun was held in Joshua's arms. Just like when he held his own heart, it was extremely hot, and the power from the creation of the universe was surging in the middle of his four arms. There was nothing in the warrior's mind except the coordinates of the void mother beast, and he thought of nothing but the complete destruction of the mother beast.
— Is it strange that nuclear fusion can occur simply with large amounts of hydrogen and helium
In fact, of course it is very strange and incredible. However, magic and extraordinary power are inherently miraculous things, and the purpose of their existence is to allow people to do incredible, miraculous things.
The legendary strongman Joshua thought he could do such a thing.
Therefore, today, he did not push the Void Mother Beast into the sun as he had previously thought -
Instead it pushes the sun towards it.
The next moment, the sea of fire formed by nuclear fusion ignited Poseidon.
(End of chapter)