Chapter 19: Going in the Wrong Direction (2nd Shift, 6400)
Spit out a sentence intermittently, and the commander-in-chief of the Third Fleet gasped - the people in the atrium actually don't rely on mouth breathing, but it is precisely because of this that they will make such a disorderly behavior under the shock - although the atrium soldier is just middle-aged, the leaves on his head have all been yellowed, he subconsciously clenched his fists, he gritted his teeth in a low voice and said: "What's the matter, how is the number more than six times more than last time?!" β
Soon, someone answered his question.
"According to detection, there was a large-scale warp reaction around the Genting Courtyard galaxy before, Commander, it's the space amoeba swarm!"
There are not only intelligent life in the universe, but also many strange space life, such as void clouds, crystal life, deep space jellyfish, etc., and the space amoeba is also one of them, these huge life forms that can naturally move in warp space have always acted in groups, with huge bodies and docile personalities, they often go to galaxies with intelligent life settlements, and the Root Garden Galaxy is naturally no exception, but this time, they encountered chaos monsters and became each other's rations. It also caused the number of Void Monsters to skyrocket.
Now, with the end of the first Void Monsters' collective space-time leap, the second wave is dense, covering the sky and the sun - no, this is not accurate enough, it should be said that the endless migration ripples that obscure the galaxy began to appear behind the first wave of reconnaissance monsters, and its number is two million five hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and twenty-nine through the core statistics of the battleship psionic energy calculation.
The too complicated ripples even influenced each other and fused with each other, forming a huge spiritual energy vortex that even the people of the atrium could not understand, through this dark green vortex that was enough to engulf half of the planet, and could see the other side of time and space, there was a huge and incomparably large life with a body length of more than 900,000 meters, and it was still expanding The super giant life was waving its tentacles, trying to cross hundreds of millions of kilometers to come here, fortunately, that giant life had not yet accumulated the power to jump, and it would not arrive until later, and unfortunately, the second wave of the two million Void Monster army has begun to migrate!
"Crazyβ"
Recovering from the shock, the commander of the Third Fleet's gaze re-condensed, his gaze swept over the dense light curtain in front of him, observing the data in it, the middle-aged atrium man gritted his teeth and touched the top of his withered head, and said in a deep voice: "Recall the space fighters, scatter the psionic migration trap, we retreat to the perimeter of the 'Poseidon' defense line, and cooperate with the fortress defense - there are too many enemies, we can't fight an encounter!" β
The battle strategy was immediately revised. Although there is some backtracking, it is the most reasonable judgment. Two thousand long-prepared Atrium Star main fleet to fight an ambush battle, if it is facing hundreds of thousands of Void Monsters, then it cannot be said that it will win, at least it has a great advantage, the terrifying psionic light spear is a planet-level weapon that can instantly destroy the surface city and crush the mountain, killing the Void Monster is really chopping melons and vegetables, especially they can kill them one by one by predicting the order of the transition, but now, two million Void Monsters are migrating at the same time, this number has exceeded the limit, and it is impossible to stop it no matter what.
Two million monsters jumped at the same time, causing chaos fluctuations that engulfed tens of thousands of monsters, making them lost in the gap between the psionic vacuum and the real universe, but this is nothing for the huge number of monsters, plus their mother beasts are still making more void monsters, for a while, at the edge of the entire far-beam star field, the starlight is dimmed, because the starry sky on that side is obscured by endless beasts, and on the contrary, the silver-blue light of the atrium star fleet is constantly retreating, As the space fighters returned to the battleship like birds, several strange warships like balls suddenly appeared in the fleet.
The whole body of this battleship is silvery white, and it is a regular perfect circle. While the Atrium Fleet was slowly flanking, and even began to prepare to make a short leap backwards, the orb ships rushed forward, completely ignoring the wailing of their engines, holding up the most advanced pinpoint shields, ignoring the attacks of the Void Monsters spewing out psionic light orbs - a kind of deteriorating light spear - along the way, and just rushed directly into the Void Monsters' migrating positions at maximum speed, and then exploded violently.
Suddenly, accompanied by a burst of brilliant fireworks, the silver-blue ripples stirred the time and space, it disrupted the stability of the one-dimensional light of the psionic energy in a wonderful way, destroyed the leap of the void monster, and then hindered the formation of the huge psionic vortex, hindering the arrival of the female beast - at this moment, all the people in the atrium seemed to hear the roar of the female beast on the other side of the time and space, but no one was happy, because this only delayed the footsteps of the follow-up enemies, and the number of two million void monsters had already finished the migration, and they sensed the spiritual energy, It was like a shark smelling blood, and began to accelerate wildly to pursue the retreating Atrium fleet.
The first wave of impact, numbering 30,000, was completely wiped out by a salvo of light spears.
The second wave of impact, numbering 100,000, was swept through by deep space torpedoes and psionic beams.
The third wave of impact, numbering 250,000, was routed by the second psionic light spear.
The fourth wave of impact, the number of 560,000, more than a dozen more than a kilometer, the fusiform super-large monsters began to start slowly, and huge green energy jets appeared behind these monsters, they rushed towards the three fleets with only two thousand at a speed no less than the maximum speed of the Atrium battleship, and the Atrium people worked hard, and even dispatched elite space fighter pilots, which defeated the enemy.
"Whoop, whoop......"
In a semi-coma, Alzera relied on his strong instinct to drive the space fighter to the battleship's traction beam and returned to Gnaku. He single-handedly defeated a thousand-meter-level super-large void monster in the interception battle just now, and at the cost of the old man's physical function greatly decreased, even to the verge of shock, the three medics immediately jumped on the space fighter and pulled Alzera out of the driver's seat, one of them said in a nervous tone: "I can't continue fighting...... He is over eight hundred years old, and his psionic core has begun to wither, and if he continues to fight like this, even an omega-level psionic will die suddenly! β
"Nope! I canβ"
Hearing this, Alzera, who was about to fall into a complete coma, immediately reflected the light, he gritted his teeth and sat up with his eyes wide open, grabbed the collar of the medical soldier, and the materialized psionic light even illuminated the other party's face, but the next moment, he lay back, his breath was weak, but his mouth was still saying: Let me rest for a while, I can continue to fight...... That's the case.
"Don't worry, we'll be back on the Neptune defense line in no time."
While the medic took out the special physical strength syringe from the toolbox and delivered a special nutrient solution for Alzera, he comforted the old man and said, "Relying on the satellite fortress, we can completely annihilate those void monsters, so that even if that super lifeform arrives, it is only a single body, and it is not impossible to fight." β
"The fifth wave of impact! The number is 700,000! β
"The enemy's main forces are all marching in! Abandon the plan to deplete the enemy's living forces and retreat at full speed! β
The sound of sirens sounded throughout the fleet, including Gnaku, and suddenly both the medics and Alzera's faces changed, and they somewhat understood the difference between the enemy and the intelligent life.
The army composed of intelligent life will break and flee, even the most elite million-strong army, more than thirty percent of the dead and wounded will also have a large-scale rout, and it is a special case to really fight to the last soldier...... And now, how many dead and wounded are the army of Void Monsters? Is it more than 50 percent? At least forty percent, right? The lethality of the light spear is diffuse, and the ashes left behind by the death of the Void Monster have become a small black nebula, and if it were a fleet of normal creatures, it should have been routed a long time ago, this is something that everyone knows.
But the Void Monster doesn't run away. They have no wisdom and no fear. They only know how to attack, not to defend. They will only assimilate, not create. They are the viruses of the world, the super plagues of planets, universes, and planes. Their existence...... It's the horror itself.
Therefore, the army of Void Monsters that surpassed the possibility of the Atrium Colonization Star Fleet's response began to break through - the first to retreat was the elite First Fleet located behind the Atrium Fleet, they had the best weapons and shields, and they had to be kept intact before the Void Mother Beast Migration arrived, accompanied by a circle of psionic ripples, they successfully made a short distance under the protection of the Second and Third Fleets, and went to the Sky Planet Fortress of a giant gas planet located in the Far Beam Galaxy, ranked sixth.
In addition to the Neptune Fortress, there is also the Celestial Fortress, the Fortress of Spirits, and the Garden of Flowers Colony Star is located in the third of the sequence, and its Earth-Moon defense line is the last line of defense, and almost the resources of the entire star sector are gathered there.
"Listen, there's a good chance we'll be the Queen's Army."
The Third Fleet, completely rebuilt from wrecked warships, is composed mostly of survivors and remnants of the destroyed Root Court Colony Planet, and a small number of them are people who, like Alzela, want revenge for the death of their loved ones. They don't have anything but enthusiasm, and they can be said to be the worst in terms of equipment and training quality, and they themselves know this.
Therefore, when the order from the flagship bridge was given, not many people felt surprised, to say that there were definitely emotions, but most of them were just unwilling.
"If there are good ships...... Surely we will not lose to those in the First Fleet! β
Many people began to hate the national policy of the Atrium people for the past thousands of years, because of the wars of the past thousands of years, these psionic plant life hated war, even in the interstellar age, if it was not for the protection of themselves from various space creatures and other civilizations, they would not even form a regular starfleet and colony group, but indulged in meditation on the home planet. But now, the evil consequences have appeared, a civilization that has entered the interstellar age for thousands of years would not even form a fleet cluster of more than two thousand if it had not encountered the invasion of the Void Monsters - if they had a fleet of 100,000 or 200,000 and more than ten colonies, then even the Void Mother Beast might not be their opponent.
But now, it's too late.
As the second fleet also began to start extending the one-dimensional rays of psionic energy, preparing for the jump, and suddenly only the third fleet was left to deal with the crazy attack of the void monsters, these viruses in shape, but most of the chaotic beings that are more than alloys have no special means of attack, only the kilometer-level giant monsters have a spray of psionic light balls that imitate psionic light spears as a long-range attack method, and most of the time, their weapons are themselves.
After any matter has an extremely high velocity, it will have terrifying lethality, and the Void Monster is using this as a means, accompanied by the dark green accelerated light flow to bring out countless electromagnetic sparks, appearing behind one monster after another, and their speed immediately accelerated to an incredible three-thousandth speed of light in just a dozen seconds! Although this speed may seem inconspicuous, it is actually terrifying enough to make people tremble, this is order, in fact, if it were not for the fact that these monsters have no concern for their own lives, then they would never be able to do this.
Suddenly, you can see such a scene: the black beast herd in the sky burst out with a strong green light that brightened half of the small distant galaxy, and then the collective acceleration of the charge that distorted the vacuum, the third fleet guarding the second fleet for the migration was in a tight position, all the warships stopped moving, but stopped in place, and deployed the maximum power of the pinpoint psionic shield, at the same time, the engine was running at full capacity, and the light spears began to condense.
Even if everyone dies here, they must stop this group of Void Monsters - they must buy time for the First and Second Fleets to prepare so that they can cooperate with the Satellite Fortress to annihilate these two million Void Monsters in order to resist the upcoming Void Mother Beasts!
Alzera was helped to the infirmary, and in front of him was a light curtain projected by psionic energy, which broadcast the scene that could be seen from the bridge in real time, silent, emotionless, and fearless of life and death, the void monsters lost all their activity with their bodies, and they also had to accelerate their corpses to three thousandths of a light, so they used their corpses as cannonballs to bombard the Third Fleet of the Colonial Star, seeing this scene, the old man shuddered, his first thought was not his own life and death, but if this group of void monsters was not targeting the fleet, but what happens if you target a colony star?
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, were crashed into the Flower Garden Star by meteorites that accelerated to the speed of three thousandths of a light...... It only takes a moment for the originally beautiful planet to turn into a purgatory on earth, right? And it is also a purgatory that has not been described in the mythology of the Atrium people, the demon realm called Scorching Hell.
"Prepare for the onslaught!"
The enemy is about to arrive, the entire Third Fleet of four hundred and fifty battleships have adjusted their formation, they have combined into a three-dimensional cone formation, all the battleships are fully loaded with shields, ready to meet the impact of these low-speed shells, the second fleet's leap is almost over, and it can already be seen that the psionic vacuum has begun to appear, and all the battleships of the second fleet have begun to blur, ready to enter the psionic space, and begin to move.
But the shock did not come.
A crimson concentric circle of aura, abruptly appeared in the middle of the countless void monsters and the third fleet of the atrium, it stirred up time and space, causing huge energy fluctuations, the overly explosive energy nature even led to violent explosions in the vacuum again and again, the plasma accompanied by the heart-pounding space cracks tore thousands of square kilometers of vast space - although this is not worth mentioning on a cosmic scale, but it greatly disrupted the impact orbit of the void monsters, in the energy fluctuations, explosion, Blocked by plasma and spatial rifts, most of the Void Monsters lost their speed of three thousandths of the speed of light.
"It's a Leap Channel!"
The commander of the Third Fleet's flagship bridge, subconsciously crushed the control stick in his hand, and he muttered to himself in some disbelief: "It's a fluctuation from the home planet!" But how is that possible?! And why is it red? β
The color of the psionic energy of each life is different, most of the people in the atrium are silver and blue, and the void monsters are uniform dark green, what is the red psionic energy? And when did the home planet get reinforcements? Isn't the Central Fleet overseeing the Void Gate ceremony? They also had to build at least seven or eight space fortresses and satellite fortresses in the home planet's defense system, how could they come to their aid from light years away? You know, they themselves have given up on themselves, and are ready to play the last residual heat as the first and second backing troops!
"Wait, Void Gate Ritual? Is this red transition channel?! Suddenly, the commander suddenly remembered a possibility, and his eyes couldn't help but widen.
And the progress of reality does not stop because of the surprise of everyone. As the crimson psionic energy migration channel began to rotate violently, the layers of concentric circles began to shrink and condense, and finally formed a huge vortex-like exit, and in the next moment, a stream of crimson light burst out of it, rushing straight towards the army of void monsters!
"What?!"
Before he could remember what the existence in the light stream was, all the people in the atrium who were watching this scene were stunned - whether the creature that suddenly appeared was a reinforcement from the home planet, he shouldn't have directly attacked the cluster of Void Monsters! That's millions of cosmic lifeforms, even heaps that can kill an army on a planet!
But then, what appeared in their eyes was four thick pillars of light mixed with silver and red, these four pillars of light penetrated the black monster cluster, and then produced a violent explosion, in an instant, thousands of circular explosion light clusters appeared in the darkness, and the blazing fire light was accompanied by hundreds of thousands of degrees of high-temperature metal gas spread in the cosmic void, just like this, more than 5,000 monsters directly turned into nothingness, and almost the same number of void monsters turned into char!
Wiped out tens of thousands of monsters with a single blow! This terrifying lethality immediately made the commander of the Third Fleet in the atrium clench his heart suddenly, although this was due to the dense lineup of monsters charging collectively, but it was enough to see the power of that mysterious existence - if the other party charged back and forth hundreds of times, wouldn't this huge cluster of monsters be completely wiped out?
Shaking his head, the commander abandoned this whimsical idea, not to mention whether the other party has the energy reserves for this kind of operation, and immediately the void monsters will disperse, in the face of such a lethal existence, even if they have no intelligence, they will follow their instincts to stay away from dodging, and the interval caused by the cosmic scale is extremely large, so that the opponent can kill hundreds of monsters with a charge, even if it is lucky.
However, in the next moment, the commander had no energy to calculate the offensive efficiency of that mysterious being. As the crimson concentric circles of psionic energy ripples slowly calmed down, the cosmic space, the cloud of particles turned into the corpses of the monsters dispersed, and all the members of the Third Fleet of the Atrium Colony Star saw the true body of the mysterious existence.
It was a four-armed giant with a length of more than 400 meters, a golden-red body, and a battleship-like body. His four arms flashed with a golden halo that looked like the surface of a molten sun, and the silver glow intertwined and mixed with this halo, and it was obvious that the four huge beam attacks before were sent by the giant's four arms.
"Yes...... It's Void Life! β
"It's our Void Life!"
"Did the ritual on the home planet succeed!?"
Suddenly, all the members of the Third Fleet cheered and jumped for some reason, and for some reason, a burst of courage suddenly surged in their hearts, as if as long as this giant appeared and the ceremony was successful, they had already achieved a preliminary victory, and in fact, the giant's record just now also proved that the other party could enter and exit freely in the monster group, as if entering a no-man's land, which was enough to prove that the other party's strength was far beyond that of ordinary void monsters!
"Wait, be careful!"
In the infirmary, Alzera was excited by the sudden appearance of powerful reinforcements, but from the light curtain, he suddenly saw a little light flickering not far from the four-armed iron giant, and he immediately roared loudly with a premonition of danger, completely ignoring the fact that the other party could not hear his words at all.
At the same time, in the distance, in the position of the Void Monster, the four-armed giant was standing on the corpse of a thousand-meter-level giant Void Monster, he slowly moved his four arms, which were hot because of the full emitting energy light pillars, and it seemed that he hadn't figured out the situation yet, and on his left, a giant Void Monster of the same kilometer level seemed to sense the enemy's absent-mindedness, and immediately accelerated to a beam of two thousandths or even three thousandths with all his strength, bringing a burst of twisted ripples in the cosmic space, and rushed straight towards the other party!
A beam of three thousandths means a rapid speed of close to a thousand kilometers per second, which is impossible to reach in the atmosphere, the speed that can break free from the gravitational shackles of galaxies at will, and the basis for traveling from one galaxy to another except for the migration, this terrifying acceleration does not come from the atrium civilization, it is very likely that it is the product of another civilization devoured by the void monsters, which is also a rapid speed that the nerves of living beings can never react to.
But only normal and naturally evolved organisms.
I don't know if it was foreseen in advance, or if he had already reacted the moment he noticed it, the iron giant didn't care too much about the attacking Void Monster, he stood on the corpse of the kilometer-level monster, his two arms clasped in front of his chest, his eyes scanned the entire Void Monster cluster, as if he was examining his prey, and at the same time, the second left arm on his shoulder was raised high, and the dark golden energy particles converged at a thought-like speed, condensing into a huge long-handled giant axe, and he didn't even look in the direction of the enemy, With a random axe, only a dull golden blade of light could be seen flickering, and then vanished.
Then, the huge kilometer-level void monster that attacked stopped its impact, and in the next second, it separated from it, revealing the terrifying organs and energy cores inside, as if they were composed of countless sarcoma particles, and then, it exploded violently, turning into a spark in the dark universe.
And at this time, Joshua, who finally figured out what was going on, had a very simple idea in his heart.
"Tsk, the gateway is in the wrong direction."
The warrior muttered in a low voice, "This is bad - the Leap has used up my energy. β
On his chest, the golden light representing the furnace of the Heart of Fusion was moving regularly, and the light and shade were slowly flickering.