Chapter 252 Stellar Cannon!
"trap?"
Yang Ming was a little confused.
The projection of Lu shrank into a palm-sized pocket-sized shape, flew in front of Yang Ming, and quickly opened a bird's-eye view of the battlefield.
"Boss, you see, the queen has been at the edge of the battlefield, and has kept enough troops around her to guard against surprise attacks.
“This group of insect swarms may seem terrifying in number, but in fact they may just be cannon fodder, used to consume the Empire’s military strength. There are always a large number of high-level burrowing insects hiding around the queen insect.
"The other thing is the state of the Imperial Dreadnought. Three consecutive shots are already the limit of the Dreadnought. It can just clear out twelve pseudo-queens, and then it will enter a long cooling phase..."
Yang Ming nodded: "Don't worry, what we can think of, those old guys in the imperial army must have thought of it too. There must be ambushes around. I am more worried about another problem now."
"What?"
"Even if these insects are cannon fodder, their numbers are too large, and the destructive power of the sixth-order adults is too strong."
Yang Ming drew a line:
“You see, the defense line has begun to retreat synchronously, which will put great pressure on the soldiers.
"The Imperial fleet must form another short-range defense line near the shield ship protection line to prevent the fleet from being directly attacked by the Zerg swarm."
Lu held his chin and kept thinking.
026 turned his head and found that all he could see was distorted light. He could only continue to harvest the fourth-level bugs outside.
Yang Ming's mental state is recovering rapidly.
The cockpit became quiet instead. Yang Ming thought for a moment, and Lu suddenly said, "Boss! The hatches of the warships are open!"
Yang Ming looked at the battlefield 'below his feet' in the holographic image.
He saw starlight appearing near the warship. These starlights gathered more and more, but did not retreat with the warship. Instead, they stayed where they were, as if the warship had left behind a thick "shell".
This is the answer given by the Empire.
Use small boats, individual combat clusters, and mecha groups, cooperate with millions of drones rushing from the rear, fill the defense gaps of more than 200 shield ships, and form an imperial wall to block the Zerg!
A new fire zone appeared on the battlefield!
Yang Ming seemed to hear the noisy radio sounds there, and heard a captain shouting positions and shooting.
The soldiers' flesh and blood were hidden in the thinly armored machines. They sat behind the operating consoles of small ships, stood in carrier-borne mechas and even maintenance mechas, facing the swarms of insects that were rushing in like a tsunami in front of them, and desperately exerted all the energy they were equipped with.
They shouted and cheered, but the powerful shield ship not far away could not give them any sense of security.
Half of the Zerg swarm chose to attack the fleet formation head-on, and the other half suddenly changed direction, trying to surround the Imperial fleet from above and below.
In front of the fleet, a series of explosions suddenly appeared in the airspace above and below.
Long and thin strips of antimatter broke free from the constraints of the magnetic field, like fuses, detonating the swarm of insects that tried to circumvent it!
The commander of the Imperial fleet had obviously anticipated the actions of the Zerg swarm.
Everything is moving forward as Lieutenant General Thomas predicted.
All orders on the front line come from the hands of imperial generals with bright prospects.
The survival of the Imperial Fleet now depends entirely on the small combat units in the gaps between these shield ships!
The insect swarm began to attack the defense line.
The shield ship stretched out its shield to the maximum extent, and the gaps in the light shield became the main area for medium-sized battleships to vent their firepower, but a large number of insects still rushed through the gaps in the light shield.
Small combat units are at full firepower!
The drone attack fleet bombarded forward with full firepower, and the laser cannons carried by the mechas opened fire at the same time. All the firepower of the small ships hit a single Zerg unit!
The close-range offensive and defensive battle in space has begun.
In just half a minute, the starlight representing these small combat units was extinguished by the insect tide, but more starlight gathered and moved forward to fill the gap and counter-pressure with firepower.
The Zerg tried to attack the shield ship;
Human warriors fought a tug-of-war with the Zerg using their flesh and blood and various machines.
Although this is a seesaw battle that is bound to result in huge sacrifices, the advancing trend of the insect swarm has been forcibly curbed by this line of defense!
The battlefield was filled with the light and brightness left over from the annihilation of antimatter.
Between these lights is the collision of two races, the mutual struggle between flesh and metal.
Yang Ming watched all this.
He felt it all.
He suddenly understood.
One's own home planet is not important to the existing Milky Way.
Although 8 billion people sounds like a precious resource, for a powerful galactic country , it is only the weight of a few marginal administrative stars.
Faya's game does not serve those low-level civilizations, but serves the already extremely powerful human civilizations in the galaxy.
The earth is just the nourishment for the civilization of the Milky Way.
So, it is not that the pioneer changed something, but that he, the pioneer with a slight information advantage, did something with the information and thus changed something.
The human individual is extremely small.
"Boss, the first batch of insect swarms has been stopped," Lu was obviously relieved, "Although many small combat units were sacrificed, the Imperial Fleet did not suffer too much damage."
Yang Ming just said: "There are still plenty of troops on the supply ship."
Lu said softly: "Yes, as long as the fleet is still there and continues to replenish energy and troops, there is hope to resist this group of bugs."
Yang Ming nodded, obviously not in the mood for conversation, and just looked down at the battlefield in the holographic image.
Those warriors who were fighting the insects at close range showed no cowardice or retreat.
…
"Thomas, you must remember that the art of a general is to make the death of his soldiers more valuable."
Lieutenant General Thomas stood on the command podium.
All he could see were the general details of the defense line, the number of enemies and the deployment of his own troops. He had no time to care about how those soldiers died or were buried by the swarm of insects.
The red dots representing the insect tide are receding rapidly.
The four dreadnoughts fired again, and the huge ion beam passed almost along the edge of the fleet's defense line, clearing a wide space in front of the fleet.
Large areas of red spots faded.
This is the power of the dreadnought!
But now, the four dreadnoughts must enter a cooling period, inspect the main gun system, and quickly replenish energy.
"The dreadnoughts retreat to Route 2, leaving only the core escort."
General Thomas calmly ordered:
“Unleash the firepower of the dreadnought frigate regiment and do our best to encircle and destroy the insect swarm near the defense line.
"All ships are ready to recharge. No matter how much energy is left, recharge immediately. Supply ships move forward.
"Main battleships of Route 2 move forward to fill the gap!"
"yes!"
The remaining swarm of insects is still attacking the defense line. The pressure brought to the fleet by the first wave of swarms is still continuing, but the pressure has begun to weaken rapidly.
The human warships are in a collective charging posture.
The queen in the distance made new moves again.
"A large amount of space collapse has been detected near the Queen!"
"General! The detector captured a large number of burrowing worms sacrificing themselves, opening up a space wormhole!"
"Strong bioenergy reaction detected at the other end of the wormhole!"
General Thomas clenched his white-gloved fists and stared ahead.
There, the huge queen was wrapped in countless adults, and the swarm seemed to form some kind of strange stance.
And around the Queen, space was severely distorted, with more than a dozen wormholes having their outlines outlined by the lens effect at their edges.
One Zerg warship after another flew out of the wormhole!
The time is now!
General Thomas suddenly waved his hands forward vigorously!
"Formation twelve to fifteen, traction jump!"
On the left side of the battlefield, in the airspace not affected by the insect tide, the outlines of several tugboats appeared. These special ships, shaped like sailboats, shot out several brilliant beams of light in the deep starry sky!
The vibrating space was forcibly stabilized.
The space around the tugboat was expanding rapidly, and the time that was originally unfolding slowly suddenly became extremely slow here!
The induction has been turned on, and the fleet is jumping!
Ships of various sizes appeared near the light column. Two dreadnoughts that had completed safety charging in advance aimed their guns at the queen.
Thomas' voice was extremely high-pitched: "Fire!"
Shoot, shoot, shoot.
Two beams of light with a diameter of hundreds of meters spanned the starry sky.
That was the rage of the human fleet, almost eclipsing the stars!
The queen slowly turned her head to look at the location where the ambush appeared. The surrounding insect swarms immediately formed a physical shield, but it was too late.
The ion beam sweeps across.
Most of the wormholes around the Queen collapsed, and Zerg warships suffered fatal blows before they could even deploy. Large fusion light balls appeared around the Queen!
But Thomas frowned tightly.
What's going on?
"The dreadnought fired... the firing was ineffective!"
"An unidentifiable energy has appeared around the queen. This energy separates the space. General, this means that the queen appears to be in the same space as us, but in fact she is not in the same space as us. Of course, this does not mean that she is completely out of the same space as us."
"Shut up!"
Thomas growled.
The ambush fleet began to fire continuously. After the dreadnought had fired once with full energy, it was also rapidly replenishing its energy in preparation for a second shot.
The good news is that the ambush caught the Zerg off guard, and most of the originally open space wormholes collapsed.
The bad news is... the Queen seems to be pissed.
"ah--"
The ethereal chanting sound suddenly penetrated into every human being's mind.
Thomas was in a trance, as if everything around him had disappeared, leaving only the powerful queen standing under the starry sky.
She began to chant something, and her arms covered with fine scales slowly opened, as if to embrace the human fleet.
A silver-white protective shield visible to the naked eye appeared around her.
The swarm of insects that were originally floating around her immediately swarmed into the protective shield and onto the queen's body. It was as if they were putting on a layer of armor for the queen, or forming a 'mecha' specifically for the queen.
The swarm and the queen seemed to become one.
The queen, who was originally over 30,000 meters tall, began to swell and grow rapidly, retaining only her original shape and outline, with her facial features gradually becoming blurred.
Along with it, there also expanded the silver-white protective shield that could completely block the firepower of the human fleet.
Behind the queen, a space wormhole was dug again, and countless worms swarmed out and directly gathered around the queen.
Thomas's Adam's apple quivered.
He seemed to be witnessing the birth of a worm-made planet.
How to fight this?
"General, we are trying to crack the energy structure of the Queen's shield. This is beyond our technical level!"
"All ships, carry out targeted bombardment and reserve energy!"
Thomas gave orders, his brain racing.
"Check! The Queen is starting to move forward! She's going to run right through us!"
Damn it!
How do I fight this damn thing?
This is an energy shield that even a dreadnought cannot break!
…
Outside the Imperial Star, Catherine and a large number of super-modifiers were quietly waiting for the order to attack.
They were the armed forces directly under the Council of Elders and were now transferred to the third line of defense. In Catherine's opinion, they were far inferior to the military reform troops that were transferred to the front line.
At this moment, the super-modifiers were also attracted by the images sent back from the front line.
The queen merged with the swarm, the energy shield that could not be broken, the 'Queen's Battleship' that kept approaching the fleet...
“She’s powerful, glamorous and strong.”
Bray whispered softly.
But he added in his heart - the master must have a way to deal with her.
Catherine crossed her arms and whispered, "Has the order to attack not been issued yet?"
"No."
"What are the higher-ups doing!" Catherine cursed in a low voice.
Bly shrugged slightly. "Praying."
"Pray?" Catherine was confused.
Bly smiled and said, "A friend of mine from the Church of Civilization Development told me that the Archbishop has started a prayer ceremony, asking the goddess to protect the empire."
Catherine frowned and asked, "Will this work?"
"Who knows?" Bligh said slowly, "But I heard that it is often useful. It is the secret weapon of the empire."
Catherine was slightly stunned.
She turned her head and looked at the Emperor Star, a beautiful planet covered with layers of metal rings. The stars in the distance had been swallowed up by the metals it "released", and the endless supply of energy had become its private property.
Deep in the Imperial Star, near the Imperial Palace, in the magnificent temple standing in the gloomy underground.
Barefoot girls were dancing gracefully, and the elderly archbishop was holding high his scepter, shouting words that had no practical meaning.
When she felt that her performance was almost complete, she held the scepter with both hands and activated the biological code on the scepter.
A deep blue light appeared at the tip of the scepter.
Then, the archbishop's thin, old body hunched down, and he slammed the scepter hard into the groove in the ground.
The blue light spread rapidly on the ground like a shock wave.
Delicate patterns like those of high-density integrated circuits appeared on the ground.
The blue light rushed out of the temple, spread deeper underground, and quickly lit up a module of the Imperial Star.
A dark space suddenly became bright.
A square black box showed a series of flashing codes. The black box then slowly floated and disassembled itself, revealing a girl curled up quietly inside.
She closed her eyes and slowly floated her body. A faint blue light appeared on her limbs and bones. The blue light gathered into shackles, which were put on her limbs and neck, and spread to the deepest part of the dark space.
She whispered softly.
"It's on."
"Mind body detection, self-awareness detection, shackle detection, imperial network detection... Anomalies have been found and marked. It has been determined that the anomalies are not related to the crisis and have been ignored..."
“The reason for awakening is the Second Scourge Crisis. The Sixth Order Queen needs to resist the threat from interstellar hostile forces.
"A response strategy has been formulated... Self-authorization needs to be unlocked... The corresponding authorization has been unlocked."
The girl slowly opened her eyes and looked into the depths of the dark space.
Two beams of light suddenly appeared on the Imperial Star.
An invisible wave swept across the internal network of the Imperial Star Circle, and on the battlefield, General Thomas suddenly received a series of orders from the supreme commander.
He didn't quite understand, but he couldn't refuse the source of these instructions.
This is the order from His Majesty!
All the tugboats gathered behind the fleet, and the fleet started to move slowly, seemingly heading straight for the Queen.
The twelve tugboats quickly took position, seemingly forming a huge dodecagon, emitting twelve beams of light.
The space suddenly expanded!
The space ripples visible to the naked eye continued to vibrate.
A planet!
A huge planet constructed from metal modules!
A planet with a diameter of 1,600 kilometers was squeezed out from the ripples in space!
Skywrath Fortress?
Skywrath Fortress can warp? Isn't this thing running at the Imperial Pass, serving as a training base...
The ripples in space quickly stabilized, and circles of rotating rings appeared on the Skywrath Fortress. A disc with a diameter of more than fifteen kilometers appeared in the middle of the Skywrath Fortress, and the bottom of the disc was collapsing rapidly!
A huge gun barrel appeared in the middle of the fortress, aimed at the Queen's battleship in front!
In that dark space, the girl slowly raised her right hand.
"I am... Li."
"Take care of the civilization that protects Levi."
"The star cannon begins charging."
The lights in various places in the fortress went out instantly, and the constantly rotating rings quickly stabilized, and seemingly unstable lights appeared in the gun barrels in the center.
Up ahead, the Queen's battleship began to slow down.
The queen inside seemed to be thinking about something, or calculating something.
The most unbelievable scene for the imperial soldiers appeared before their eyes a few seconds later.
The queen escaped.
