Chapter 428: Backfire
"We get nothing." Raymond, who had been staring at the virtual sandbox, suddenly spoke up.
He had been too lazy to pay attention to the conversation between Ted and his subordinates just now, but he spoke now.
"What do you mean you get nothing?" Ted frowned and said, "They have both suffered losses. It's a good time for us to reap the rewards."
"The Nightmare Shield, the Sun Crown, Li Yu, Horus, and the gloves, Raymond... Although the credit has to be shared equally between you and me, this is also the most impressive achievement of the empire in the past few hundred years."
Ted became a little excited as he spoke. This legendary achievement made his name engraved in the history of the empire.
"There is no such thing as both sides losing..." Raymond left the sand table and shook his head, saying, "For us, their combat effectiveness has not changed at all."
"The Solar Crown was destroyed, but a new interstellar fortress appeared."
"But..." Ted's eyes narrowed slightly, and he finally understood: "You mean there is a high possibility that they will unite again?"
"If they have no hope of arresting Li Yu, the next thing they can do is to prevent the losses from continuing to increase."
"Either of them can't be our opponent. They can only fight us together."
Ted's expression flickered. He followed Raymond's thoughts and thought carefully, and found that the probability of this happening was extremely high.
"Fuck!" Ted couldn't help but curse, "It's all your fault for not wanting to intervene just now. Now we have to watch the show."
He was devastated that he missed out on the legendary achievement.
"If you intervene in advance, do you think the result will change?" Raymond asked back: "If you intervene in advance, will they not unite?"
"If we hadn't taken action before, we could have still hoped to reap the benefits. If we had taken action, we would only have forced them to unite again!"
Ted was so upset by the retort that he could only snort coldly, but he did not continue arguing with Raymond.
…
"Attack me!"
Heward was furious. The Sun Crown was destroyed and the Sun Councillors suffered heavy losses. He had to make up for this.
Li Yu must be captured, even though the mysterious interstellar fortress destroyed the Solar Crown.
But they are also in the parliamentary camp, which is also an opportunity for them.
A large number of warships began to move, targeting the silent interstellar fortress!
"Stop!" Rohan shouted coldly!
"Why!?" Heward asked: "This is also the decision of Nightmare Knight."
"Idiot!" Rohan scolded mercilessly: "Do you think that we and Guixing are the only ones on this battlefield!?"
"With the loss of the Sun Crown, our combat effectiveness has been weakened. We no longer have the advantage over Guixing. If we continue to fight, the only one who will be happy is the Empire!"
"Do you want to lose the councillor's crown as well?"
Their original plan was to snatch Li Yu away, and then rely on their own strength and two powerful weapons of level two to fight against the Star Empire.
As long as they don't fight, there is a high probability of escape.
But now the situation has changed. They have lost the Crown of the Sun, while Guixing has Cersei and this unknown interstellar fortress.
With this addition and subtraction, the gap between them and Guixing, which was already small, was directly eliminated.
If we force ourselves to continue fighting Guixing, the Golden Crown and the Nightmare Shield will most likely be lost.
This was a situation that neither Rohan nor Heward could accept.
After Rohan's explanation, Heward suddenly realized that they no longer had the advantage and even needed to join forces with Guixing again.
The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, but Horus still stood in the starry sky, looking around at the countless warships, wearing simple black knight armor.
Li Yu flew straight over from the other side, kneading his shoulders and said unhappily:
"You really didn't hold back. You almost broke my shoulder blade just now."
Although his condition had been restored to its peak after [Near-Death Reincarnation], the pain he just felt was still very clear.
"That is already a power that I have restrained very much..." Horus explained calmly.
Li Yu seriously suspected that this guy was pretending and he already had evidence.
Horus stared at the interstellar fortress surrounded by the Senate warships: "Is that the power of the alien camp? There is no spatial fluctuation. How did it appear?"
Li Yu said casually: "When I need it, it will appear naturally."
Horus: “…”
This kid is more pretentious than me.
Many senior generals looked at him with strange eyes.
In the game just now, they played almost no role and could only act as spectators.
But everyone could see that the situation on the scene had changed.
The Nightmare Shield and the Golden Crown are both famous weapons, extremely strong and difficult to damage.
They do not have complex mechanical structures like star fortresses.
The material used to make it is just a high-specification alloy. As long as it breaks through the energy barrier on the surface, it can cause effective damage.
So Li Yu could only let the [Death Star] attack the "Solar Crown", which is also an interstellar fortress.
Once the construction scroll is opened, it can be dropped at a nearby selected location.
Although Li Yu could also release it in advance and receive it in the system space, after all, the [Death Star] is also a product of the system.
But that would mean losing the ability to make the first long-distance delivery, so Li Yu waited until now to open the construction scroll.
It was directly chosen to be located deep in the parliament, which was also the place where the Sun Crown's defense was most relaxed.
Although the Death Star is now deep in the parliament camp, Li Yu is not worried.
As long as those gods are not fools, they will realize that they must not go to war with Guixing again, unless they are willing to pay the price of losing the Nightmare Shield and the Golden Crown.
And even if they paid that price, they might not be able to take Li Yu away, so there was no need to start a war at all.
Therefore, there is only one way for Guixing and the Parliament, and that is to cooperate again with all their might.
"Sir Horus, the situation should be clear now. Let's cooperate." Rohan spoke to Horus in a calm tone, without any shame for the backstabbing incident.
"A very wise choice..." Horus nodded. Although the two were fighting each other to the death before, it seemed outrageous that they suddenly wanted to cooperate again.
But for Horus, this was just the result of the changing situation on the battlefield. It would surprise him if the parliament did not choose to cooperate with them.
Li Yu then added: "Let's release that interstellar fortress. This is the prerequisite for further cooperation."
Horus glanced at him and said nothing, which was considered as his agreement.
Rohan thought for a moment and did not refuse. The Parliament's warships withdrew to both sides, and the Death Star slowly flew out from them.
The entire interstellar fortress looked very quiet and as if there was no one in it, but this was simply impossible.
Who would release an interstellar fortress that is not controlled by anyone?
They just thought that this was determined by the architectural style of the entire fortress, giving people a sense of dead silence and solemnity.
The huge interstellar fortress attracted everyone's attention. This architectural style was unprecedented and did not belong to any force in the interstellar space that could build an interstellar fortress.
Although Heward didn't want to see this scene, there was nothing he could do. The Sun Crown was destroyed and the situation was completely reversed. They gained nothing and could only cooperate with Guixing again.
The instigator of all this is Li Yu!
Blazing flames burst out of his eyes, and he even wanted to blow up the interstellar fortress directly.
Because judging from the current situation, even if he destroyed this interstellar fortress, Guixing would find it difficult to go to war with them.
But he still did not act. He could not afford the risk. If the two went to war, the price Guixing would have to pay would be far smaller than theirs.
At most, senior generals would be captured, but they would lose two super weapons, and that was on top of the fact that they had already lost an interstellar fortress.
As the Death Star arrived at Guixing's camp, Li Yu waved his hand, and a large number of mechanical life forms flew out of the Black Eye Fleet and poured into the Death Star.
It was not until this time that the numerous artillery batteries and defense equipment that had been dormant on the surface of the interstellar fortress began to operate.
This scene attracted the attention of many people present, which led them to make a very absurd guess.
Could it be that there was no one operating this interstellar fortress before, and only combat intelligence was coordinating?
That feeling of dead silence is not about the architectural style at all, but because there is really no one controlling it?
This speculation did not last long, because the Parliament and Guixing needed to unite again, and many senior generals of Guixing cursed in the channel.
"Fuck, what the hell are those things? We still have to cooperate with them." Otto was covered in wounds. He had just fought with a powerful god and was in danger. He almost died.
"What can we do? If we don't cooperate, the Star Empire will just take advantage of us."
"Fortunately, Duke Li Yu has endless tricks up his sleeve, otherwise he would have been humiliated if he fell into the hands of the Star Empire."
“…”
When Li Yu was mentioned, there was silence for a moment in the internal communication channel.
The parliament's backstabbing was also caused by Li Yu, and they all suffered an unprovoked disaster.
However, in the end Li Yu turned the situation around and saved them to some extent.
Therefore, most senior generals had complicated emotions and avoided this topic.
The two forces that were originally divided and confronting each other united again, but it was obvious that each of them was on guard.
There are a lot of edge defense forces, and all of them are activated in combat mode.
They only cooperated again under the coercion of external forces.
Raymond had anticipated the situation and was not surprised, although he wanted to get the two weapons.
But this is basically impossible.
"Why don't we let Guixing retreat and just attack the parliament." Ted frowned. This was a rare opportunity and he really didn't want to give it up.
"Do you think there is any trust between us and Guixing?"
Ted was speechless, but instead he gritted his teeth and stared at the figure on the holographic screen.
Li Yu!
It's all this guy's fault. If he were caught by the parliament, the Star Empire could still swallow up the remaining expeditionary forces, which would be a gain in any case.
But this kid just reversed the situation, resulting in the current situation where they can only watch and get nothing.
He couldn't help but ask: "With such a good situation, don't we have any gains at all?"
"Who said no?" Raymond shook his head. In Ted's expectant eyes, he slowly said, "At least after this incident, Guixing and the Parliament can no longer cooperate. They should either increase their troops or withdraw from the No Man's Land."
"In my opinion, there is a high possibility that they will withdraw from the Borderlands. In this case, we can carry out our work with peace of mind."
Hearing this, Ted sighed and said, "This is the only way."
The Star Empire did not launch any more tentative attacks. Although it did not achieve any "legendary achievements", it at least achieved its basic goal of driving the two out of the no-man's land.
The two legions and nearly a million warships began to retreat. Their movements were clean and neat, transforming into beams of warp light and leaving here.
Soon, the entire star field became much emptier.
After the Xingyao Empire left, the atmosphere in Guixing and the Parliament became subtle again.
However, in order to prevent the Empire from just pretending to retreat, they still restrained each other, released space detectors, and only slowly evacuated after confirming that the Empire had really left.
It was not until the fleets of both sides had pulled to a safe distance that they each entered the jump state and retreated carefully.
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"Thank you for your hard work, everyone..." Horus looked around at the senior generals, his expression still calm, as if the attack that had just happened was not something he took seriously at all.
"In order to return to the star..."
"You are the most dangerous..."
“…”
Everyone responded, except Li Yu, who lowered his head and fiddled with some armor.
Ever since the [Symbiotic Reproduction Suit] absorbed some of Rohan's power, it has become a little strange, with a strange light all over its body, as if it is adapting to that power.
"That guy seems to be a bloody mass of flesh, which just meets the devouring requirements of the [Symbiotic Reproduction Suit]... but he is a little too strong, so I can't deal with him for now."
He muttered to himself.
"Duke Li Yu, you have made great contributions in this battle. I will report it truthfully." Horus looked at Li Yu again.
Many senior generals then realized that although they were stabbed in the back by the Parliament, they were not without gain. The Parliament's Solar Crown interstellar fortress was destroyed.
In the end, they evacuated the battlefield calmly, which was the best result they could achieve.
It was precisely because of the parliament's backstabbing that they had a perfect excuse to escape from the no-man's land.
Because of Tigor's previous bold words, Guixing is now in a difficult situation where he is in a no-man's land.
But with Parliament's betrayal, they can make a dignified exit.
Then they put the blame on Parliament, claiming that they had been harmed by their allies, so they suffered heavy losses and were not prepared to continue fighting.
In this case, they can't even be considered defeated.
Holy shit…
Thinking of this, many senior generals cast strange looks at Li Yu.
From this perspective, not only did we not lose anything from this backstabbing, we actually gained a lot.
