"It seems that the commander of the First Fleet is also very afraid of the insects' 'copying' ability." Ke Lan said.

All the warships of the First Fleet were only conducting long-range artillery fire from several kilometers away and had no intention of continuing to advance. In this way, even if their own warships were unfortunately shot down, they would not fall on Leviathan and be copied by the opponent.

The four "Guards" mechas that attacked were each equipped with a peculiarly shaped railgun. The barrel of this gun was nearly twenty meters long, leaving a sufficiently long acceleration track for the projectiles in the barrel. Every hit could directly blow up a fighter jet "copied" by Leviathan - the four mechas had shot down thirty-nine enemy planes just by flying past the formation.

"This accuracy is indeed quite something. Even with an assisted aiming system, it is amazing to have a hit rate of over 80% at this moving speed." The Hound said with admiration.

Among the thirty-nine kills, more than half were achieved by the mecha numbered "Zhai-167". At this time, all of its railgun shells had been fired, and the slender gun barrel was folded up and put back on its back. The weapon was switched to the large-caliber machine guns installed on the arms of the mecha, and it began to fire at the approaching enemy aircraft.

The number of fighter jets copied by Leviathan was simply too large. Even with the fire support of the fleet, the four mechas were still stuck in a tough battle.

"Hurry up and send people to reinforce the God of Home!" Layton clenched his fists and shouted anxiously, "What is the commander of the fleet thinking? Does he think that these four mechas alone can kill all these ghosts?"

"This should still be a test." Ke Lan frowned and said, "But what puzzles me is, what is the purpose of their test... Could it be that the commander of the fleet has already come up with a specific countermeasure? These four mechas are just to verify the feasibility of this countermeasure?"

Although the number of kills by the four "Guards" mechas was rising steadily, more and more enemy planes were approaching them. Just when they focused all their attention on the enemies in front, a copied Night Owl-class fighter quietly launched an attack from below and went straight to one of the blue-gray "Guards" mechas.

Red laser beams continuously shot out from the muzzle at the front of the "Night Owl Class", but this lightweight energy weapon was simply unable to break through the shield of the "Guards" mecha - the distance between the two was shrinking rapidly, and just when the "Night Owl Class" was about to crash into it, the blue-gray painted "Guards" mecha suddenly dodged sideways, pulled out a dagger from its waist, and stabbed it down quickly, directly penetrating the cabin of the "Night Owl Class"!

"Beautiful!" Leighton cheered, but the next second, the smile on his face suddenly froze.

The pierced "Night Owl" did not explode, but instead countless slender fleshy tentacles extended from the fuselage and madly wrapped around the mecha that was close at hand. The pilot of the mecha seemed to want to evade, but the fastest tentacle had already stretched into the thruster nozzle on the back of the mecha. Along with a burst of explosions, thick black smoke gushed out of the thrusters.

The mecha that lost its main power source was soon surrounded by the swarming "replicators". More tentacles bound him tightly, wrapping him into a huge meat ball, and he fell straight down -

The myth of the injury-free team of Masayuki Takumi was finally shattered today.

But including Zhai-167, the remaining three "Guards" mechas had no intention of retreating. Not only that, they transformed into faster fighter jets and dived towards the Leviathan below!

"What are they...what are they going to do?" Layton rubbed his eyes in disbelief. "Are they carrying high-yield bombs on their planes?"

"No... their mission is to search..." Ke Lan held his breath, "They are searching for the vital points on Leviathan to determine the target for the fleet's next critical attack!"

The three "Guards" mechas flew almost close to the energy shield on the surface of Leviathan, and behind them were a swarm of "replicators". Some of the "replicators" even crashed directly into the Leviathan's shield due to their powerful momentum, exploding with a loud bang!

Just as Ke Lan said, the "Guard" mecha did not launch an attack on Leviathan. Instead, after rising into the air, it dived down and quickly passed by along another trajectory. Several times, the mecha's shield rubbed against Leviathan's shield, dragging out brilliant streaks of flames.

Another mecha was "bitten" by two replicators, but before the tentacles could invade the interior of the mecha, the mecha's driver resolutely took the two replicators that had turned into tentacle monsters and crashed into the shield below, choosing to die together with the enemy!

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After four dives, the entire team was left with only one machine, "Zhai-167", and its energy reserves had reached the bottom. Not only could it no longer maintain its energy shield, but even its flying speed was much slower than before, and it was about to be caught up by the replicators following behind it.

But at this moment, Takumi Masayuki's voice suddenly rang out in the communication channel of the entire fleet. Even Ke Lan and the others could hear it clearly: "Found it! I found it! Coordinates 522,794, depth 880 meters! I'm looking for--"

His voice suddenly stopped, and a red beam of light pierced through the cockpit of the "Guardian" mecha. The next moment, the entire mecha disintegrated in the explosion, and the fragments fell from the sky, dragging a trail of thick smoke.

"The God of Home... is dead?" Layton stretched out his hand and pinched his face hard, "Oh... Shit... This is true, the God of Home..."

Just when Layton was still in shock, the flagship of the First Fleet moved.

Countless small lifeboats flew out from various hatches of the flagship, and then the flagship began to gradually accelerate and rushed towards Leviathan.

"This...what are they doing?" Zhuo Ligetu asked with his eyes wide open, looking at the flagship that was rushing towards the replicator's fire alone.

"...It was a suicide attack." Ke Lan, who was the first to react, said, "I understand... Masayuki Takumi and his team marked the vital parts of Leviathan at the cost of their own lives, and then fired the flagship with only a minimum number of operators as a 'cannonball'. The super-large crystal engine inside the flagship is the explosive in this cannonball... Leviathan's energy shield can block the bombardment of the fleet, but it can't block this super-massive 'cannonball'!"

The principle here is the same as the previous monsters attacking the Soma Consortium base: although the base's energy shield can block the acid spewed by the monsters, if the monsters choose to forcibly crash into the shield, the shield as an energy body will not be able to stop them... Similarly, although Leviathan's shield can instantly vaporize all physical shells fired at it, if the mass of this "shell" is large enough to penetrate the shield before it is completely burned by the shield, then the shield will be completely useless to it.

"If we don't move, we'll be fine. If we move, we'll be as powerful as thunderbolt. We just want to succeed in one strike... This is the plan of the First Fleet... I'm really curious about what kind of person the commander of this fleet is..."

"You will never have the chance to see him again." The Hound suddenly sighed heavily and said to Ke Lan, "In addition to the minimum number of operating personnel, the commander who finalized this combat plan and the captain of the flagship must still be on this battleship - anyone can abandon the ship, but they will not..."

After the Hound finished speaking, he suddenly straightened his back and saluted the flagship which was accelerating.

After a long time, Layton told Ke Lan during a chat that he had never seen the old dog salute so standardly in his life.