Chapter 120 Dark Star Arrives
The shattered hull wandered in the void and collided with another ship, suddenly bursting into dazzling light. The explosion came quickly and went away quickly.
The broken limbs floating in the starry sky and the blood drops rolling continuously due to the loss of gravity, although these are only a corner of the entire battlefield, they are enough to reflect the cruelty of war.
The huge stargate frame had long been shattered, and only a quarter of its prototype was almost destroyed by the explosion. Silver-white hull fragments floated by, and the incomplete five-pointed star logo looked extremely eye-catching.
Under the entire starry sky, there are now only a few ships still standing firm, all of which are flagship-level spacecraft, including the flagship of the Star Fleet and a frigate.
General Xinghui, who had fought against a fleet dozens of times larger in number than his own and still survived, showed no joy at all, and his face was extremely gloomy.
He knew even before the battle began that the Star Gate would not be able to be saved.
The original plan was to use the influence of DarkStar to prevent these predators from acting rashly in a short period of time, and then mobilize all resources to quickly build the star gate.
Once these predators find out, it would be almost like digging up their ancestral graves, and would definitely cause a strong counterattack.
And this is the worst case scenario...
Faced with this worst-case scenario, General Xinghui's best option is actually to just walk away, saving the lives of the soldiers and the fleet's resources, and not having to fight this losing war at all.
But he couldn't do that, because he was not one of those plunderers, and the Star Empire was behind him.
As a powerful interstellar empire, it not only has unparalleled military force, but also dirty politics.
His mission was to build the Star Gate, but it would be fine if the Star Gate was discovered, but what did you mean by turning around and walking away without even fighting? Are you afraid of those predators? Isn't this a discredit to the Star Empire?
So he must fight, he must fight, even if his entire army is destroyed, as long as he is not dead, he has to fight!
"General! Those raiders have begun to retreat. Do we need to pursue them?" Zi Guang's tired face appeared on the holographic screen.
He was the captain of the only surviving frigate.
General Xinghui's tense nerves suddenly relaxed. Just as he expected, this group of plunderers had no intention of fighting to the death, nor did they have any intention of annihilating them. Their only goal was to destroy the Star Gate.
It was not in vain that he had been creating loopholes for the opponent after the psychic matrix was broken, allowing the opponent to destroy the star gate as soon as possible, which would benefit everyone.
"Stop chasing...avoid traps...return to [No Man's Land]..." General Xinghui gave the order.
"yes!"
The only two remaining spaceships began to reverse course. As soon as they entered the ecosystem of [No Man's Land], General Xinghui was a little dazed.
Black smoke was seen rising from everywhere in [Borderless Land], and huge elephant-headed zombies were roaring on the streets.
There was even a four-armed zombie that jumped down from the building. Its muscles were distorted and its terrifying power was so strong that it created spider-web cracks on the ground.
A large number of normal life forms are hiding in high-rise buildings to fight against the surging tide of zombies, and more spaceships are fleeing from [No Man's Land].
"What... is going on?" General Xinghui was a little stunned.
"General... the initial estimate is that it is a strange biological virus. Now it seems that they are not only highly contagious, but also have terrifying evolutionary potential."
Analysts quickly came to their conclusion.
"Collect air samples, stop temporarily, observe the evolution trajectory... record the samples for comparison..." General Xinghui gave the order decisively.
He vaguely felt that the group of lunatics in the Imperial Research Institute must be interested in this thing, and with their support, he would most likely not be punished.
"General... Dark Star's communication request. He is asking what happened?"
Another communications officer spoke up.
"Anxing is back?" General Xinghui's eyes flickered. Since Anxing is back, he must be an A-level life form.
He was in trouble... The Star Gate had not been built, and the elite forces of the Star Empire had not arrived. He alone was no longer able to suppress the A-level life form, Dark Star.
"Tell him what happened and ask him what happened. How did the coordinates of the star gate get exposed?!"
General Xinghui pondered for a moment and made a decision.
In the ruins of the DarkStar main ship, yes... the DarkStar main ship is already in ruins.
When they discovered that Anxing was not there, a large number of looters took advantage of the situation and looted everything they could.
The remaining DarkStar soldiers were leaderless and had no chance of fighting against the zombies and looters.
A figure stood in the ruins of the main ship. He looked around without any emotion on his face.
Buzz!
The smart terminal vibrated, he glanced at the information of the Starlight main ship, and a sneer appeared on his face.
He raised his hand slightly, and the huge Dark Star mothership floated up. The pink jelly substance was like bubbles, completely wrapping the mothership.
He carefully felt the entire mothership... every damaged area... through the jelly substance, he could sense all places inside the mothership.
"Hmm?" A glimmer of light flashed across his eyes, and he immediately clenched his fists. The huge Dark Star mothership trembled continuously, and then exploded with a bang.
Scattered parts fell around him, flattening the incoming zombies.
There was only one area that he kept intact, and that was the cell area.
Those interstellar life forms whose purpose was to steal precious items did not stay in the cell area full of corpses for too long, causing the area to suffer almost no additional damage.
Three damaged cells... Dark Star stepped into one of them and observed carefully... He clearly remembered who was imprisoned in each cell.
The ape-man was a prince of a small civilization. He had demanded a sky-high ransom from that civilization and was waiting for his father to pay, so he was imprisoned here.
Now only his body was left, dead not far away.
Liu Xing's father... He was Liu Xing's bargaining chip. There was no body... The ventilation duct on the ceiling of the cell was broken...
He looked at the headless bodies around him. Was the virus spread from here? Who was it? It certainly wasn't Gore. He didn't have the ability to do that.
Dark Star came to Li Yu's cell and looked at the fragments of the gene inhibitor on the ground. Is this the person? Interesting...
A smile suddenly appeared on Anxing's lips. He opened his arms, closed his eyes, and murmured, "Let me see where you are."
A terrifying aura erupted from him, and an illusory giant beast emerged behind him. Its head alone was as big as the DarkStar mothership.
The face is covered with black scales, and the two purple eyes are chilling.
Not long after, he suddenly opened his eyes, and saw a dark purple...
“Found it!”
The ferocious beast behind him opened its mouth and swallowed him in one gulp .
At the same time, in Li Yu's spaceship, Gore vomited a ball of pink jelly with a ferocious face, then heaved a sigh of relief, lay on the ground, and gasped heavily.
The moment Li Yu saw the pink substance, his pupils contracted... his heart beat fast, a dazzling golden knife appeared in his hand, purple arcs flashed, and he raised his hand and chopped it over.
However... the pink jelly looked weak, but it was extremely strong. The golden light knife was directly bounced away, and Li Yu was also hit on the metal cabin.
Mo Duo raised his hands, his scarlet eyes flickered, but his face suddenly turned pale and he staggered back.
Xingyu looked even more pale, not knowing what to do.
The hunter was a little confused and didn't know what happened. At that time, he was controlled by Murdo in Hull's "Silence", causing him to have no memory of what happened during that period.
Otherwise, he would definitely know that this meant that Dark Star was coming.
Then, the pink jelly began to tremble, and a blurry silhouette of a giant beast emerged. The beast roared, and the sound waves vibrated, causing several people to have tinnitus.
Then, in front of everyone's stunned eyes, a figure was spit out by the giant beast.
"Everyone..." An Xing looked around, and when he saw Li Yu, his smile became even wider: "I didn't expect it to be you. What a surprise."
"An...Anxing?" The hunter was still confused. He widened his eyes and suspected that he was dreaming.
Several people retreated to the metal wall. Although this was useless, it could barely give them some sense of security.
Gore struggled to get up from the ground with a guilty look on his face. He also understood... the reason why Dark Star was here was because of the thing in his stomach.
And he had no idea when Dark Star had put it in there.
"You put your clone in his stomach, and you don't have to worry about him pulling it out..." Li Yu acted casually, but he had already made it a 50-50 chance. If there was any mistake, it would be a 50-50 chance.
He didn't expect that Dark Star thought so highly of Gore.
The only reason he could think of was that Liu Xing was much more important than Li Yu imagined, at least to An Xing.
"That thing will attach to his stomach wall..." Anxing explained with an obvious smile on his face, seeming to be very happy.
"Ever since we last parted, I've been eager to find you..." An Xing was very smart and calm, as if he was planning to slowly deal with them.
"I am still very curious about how you gave me mental hints..."
Li Yu was relaxed on the outside but tense on the inside. He shrugged and said, "Guess..."
Anxing looked at him: "Can you do this to me again? I want to see if you can still escape?"
This guy must be sick, Li Yu was speechless. The effect of [50-50] was only useful to Anxing and him.
This meant that attacks against him would have little effect, but would be deadly to others, including the ship.
A fight here would be the worst-case scenario.
"It can't be used anymore, it's disposable ..." Li Yu said frankly.
Dark Star remained silent and looked around...
"Oh, Captain... I've also heard of AEUG's name. I think you'll be of use..."
The hunter's expression changed slightly.
"The Blazing Eyes... such beautiful eyes..." Dark Star exclaimed, "But... I know more of your secrets, which can be useful to you too."
Mo Duo's expression flickered.
"You...are?" Anxing looked at Liping with a puzzled expression.
"Former salesman of Kamon Aerospace Company, now servant of Mr. Li Yu ..." Li Ping said loudly. Even when facing Anxing, he had no fear at all.
“Oh… then it’s useless…” Anxing raised his hand, and pink substance appeared out of thin air around Liping.
"He is Director Kamon's illegitimate son...useful..." Li Yu added.
"Hmm?" An Xing was somewhat surprised: "You really have a lot of hidden talents here, so let's keep them for now."
He continued to scan...
"Gore... I have to keep him. Liu Xing is someone I value very much..."
"You..." Anxing narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw Xingyu. He raised his head slightly, and Xingyu floated to his side, her face pale and her whole body trembling.
"You are my man, right? How come you are here?" An Xing frowned in confusion, and then he looked as if he had realized something:
"Oh...it turns out to be a traitor..."
Xingyu was trembling all over, but she didn't argue or beg for mercy. She just closed her eyes.
"I remember... I rescued you from a slave trading team, right? Why did you betray me?" Anxing continued to ask.
Xingyu's lips were trembling. She opened her eyes, her eyes full of fear: "No...it wasn't you who saved me, it was Master Liu Xing who saved me...it has nothing to do with you..."
“Really?” An Xing seemed to be thinking back, then shook his head: “Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore…”
The pink substance instantly enveloped Xingyu. As if encountering strong acid, she slowly disappeared in the pink substance, leaving only a pool of turbid liquid.
"Wait..." Li Yu just raised his hand, but it was too late. He shook his head and then put his hand down: "If you kill him, Liu Xing will be very sad."
"Her sadness... has anything to do with me?" Anxing felt a little puzzled.
"You don't care about her?" Li Yu asked back, and then said a little embarrassedly: "I made a mistake, I thought you had some morbid feelings for Liu Xing, sorry."
Gore’s eyes widened. Am I going to be a father-in-law?
Could you please stop teasing him! The hunter roared madly in his heart.
Even if Anxing thought that these people were valuable and would not kill them easily, there was no need to be so crazy and aggressive.
"No need to test..." An Xing shook his head. He was not angry at Li Yu's words. Perhaps in his eyes, this was just a provocation from an ant.
"You can't guess what Liu Xing does..."
Li Yu was silent. Liu Xing was just an undercover agent after all. Was it necessary for An Xing to take him so seriously?
“I wonder how much benefit I can get from you in exchange for the Star Empire…” Anxing looked at Li Yu as if he was looking at a precious commodity.
Li Yu didn't mind it. Instead, he analyzed, "How much value do you expect from me? The star gate has been destroyed once. If this news gets out, it will be difficult for the Xingyao Empire to enter the ownerless galaxy with or without me..."
Why didn’t the Star Empire’s entry into the ownerless galaxy cause much reaction?
Because everyone knows that if the Star Empire really has any bad plans, the first one to be unable to hold back will definitely be the Glorious Parliament.
As a result, the parliament did not react at all, and then all the major civilizations assumed that the Star Empire was really just tracking down the person who kidnapped the emperor and nobles.
In fact, the Glorious Parliament had already reached a tacit understanding with the Star Empire: you take my nobles, I build the star gates, and everyone gets what they need.
But now that the news of the Star Empire setting up a star gate has spread, the major civilizations near the ownerless galaxy will feel uneasy, fearing that the Star Empire will come knocking on their door one day.
Therefore, the actions of the Star Empire will be blocked at every level.
And Li Yu, the so-called kidnapper of the emperor and nobles... has become dispensable.
“No…” An Xing shook his head: “You don’t know that someone in the upper echelons of the Xingyao Empire really wants to find you. You are very valuable.”
"Huh?" Li Yu was confused. Someone in the Xingyao Empire was looking for me? Who was looking for me?
Apart from Shane, he has never really dealt with the top leaders of the Star Empire.
An Xing showed an unfathomable smile, and had no intention of answering Li Yu's questions.
Li Yu looked at An Xing's smile and wanted to punch him.
Forget it... I can't win... He thought about it and asked tentatively: "Master Anxing, where are you going to take us?"
"Return to [Borderless Land]?"
Anxing shook his head. He was in a really good mood. Hunter, Mo Duo, and Li Yu were all very valuable, and each of them had a big secret.
And they were all big secrets that he could use, so he didn't mind saying a few more words: "There's no need to go back to [Borderless Land], that place has been made into a mess by you."
"Where did you get that biological virus from..." Anxing was quite curious about this.
"Provided by the reformers..." Li Yu said something nonsense, and then continued:
"You haven't answered my question yet..."
The two chatted like old friends. The others watched this scene with some fear. It didn't seem like Anxing had captured them. It looked more like two old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years were happily chatting.
"First I will send you to the Star Empire... then to Blazing Eye Star, and finally to explore the secrets of AEUG."
"What secret do they have? Can you tell me?"
"you do not know?"
"I don't know... After all, we are all friends on the surface, so we shouldn't force it too much..."
"Then you are really hypocritical..."
"No, no..." Li Yu looked so ashamed that he couldn't accept it, which made everyone speechless. This was not a compliment at all.
The hunter was even more upset. "Brother, you are a captive, why are you still so cheerful and talkative ?"
"I feel like you have no fear of me..." Anxing stood up and looked out the window. His tone was very calm, making it difficult to guess what he was thinking.
"You already said you wouldn't kill me, so why should I be scared..." Li Yu said sincerely.
"But killing is not the only means I have." Anxing turned around, his eyes were extremely indifferent. Even though the two of them seemed to be so "harmonious" just now, it was only because he had already mastered all the sympathy.
Li Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Then please don't torture me. I'm afraid of the pain..."
In his pocket, two words suddenly appeared on the screen of an old pager - Dark Star, and then the entire pager disappeared.
His clothes were all [Titan Colonial Suits], which were like an extension of his limbs, and he could do some small movements right under Dark Star's nose.
The target has been entered. I don’t know when I will come into contact with a Class A life form next time. As for more advanced life forms, don’t even think about it.
If you can catch a Dark Star, just enter it as soon as possible and don't think too much.
He was somewhat curious about what effect would occur if he summoned Dark Star now.
After thinking about it, I decided to give up. After all, there is really no need to use a precious trump card just for curiosity.
Suddenly, Dark Star's smart terminal vibrated. He lowered his head and glanced at it, his expression slightly changed...
"Change the destination, go to Talisca..."
An Xing's voice became much colder, as if something was making him very unhappy.
