Soul of Burning Steel

After uttering a sentence intermittently, the commander-in-chief of the Third Fleet gasped—in fact, the people in the atrium did not rely on mouth breathing, but it was precisely because of this that they acted in such a disordered manner under shock—this Even though he was just middle-aged, the atrium soldier with all the leaves on his head had withered and yellowed subconsciously clenched his fist, and he gritted his teeth in a low voice and said, "What's going on, why is the number six times more than last time?! "

Soon, someone answered his question.

"According to the detection, there was a large-scale warping reaction around the Garden of Roots galaxy before, Commander, it is a group of space amoebas!"

There are not only intelligent life in the universe, but also many strange space life, such as void cloud, crystal life, deep space jellyfish, etc., and space amoeba is one of them, these huge creatures that can warp space and move naturally Life has always moved in groups, with a huge body and a docile personality. They often travel to galaxies where intelligent life settles. Naturally, the Root Galaxy is no exception. But this time, they encountered chaotic monsters and became each other's rations Not to mention, the number of void monsters also increased dramatically.

Now, with the end of the first collective space-time transition of void monsters, the second wave is densely packed, covering the sky and covering the sun—no, this description is not accurate enough, it should be said that the endless transition ripples covering the galaxy began to appear in the first wave Investigating behind the monsters, the number was counted by the battleship psychic calculation core, and it was 2,517,329.

Too complicated transition ripples even interact and merge with each other, forming a huge spiritual energy vortex that even the people in the courtyard cannot understand. Through this dark green vortex that is enough to engulf half a planet, you can see the other end of time and space. An incomparably huge, over 900,000-meter-long, ever-expanding super-giant life is waving its tentacles, trying to get here from a distance of billions of kilometers. Fortunately, that giant life has not yet accumulated The power to jump can only be reached later, but unfortunately, the second wave of void monsters, numbering two million, has already begun to leap!

"crazy--"

After recovering from the shock, the Commander of the Third Fleet's eyes became condensed again. His eyes swept across 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 yellow head , Said in a deep voice: "Recall the space fighters, spread the traps of psychic jumps, we retreat to the perimeter of the 'Neptune Star' defense line, and cooperate with the fortress defense-there are too many enemies, we can't fight encounters!"

Immediately revised the combat strategy. Although some contradictory, but this is the most reasonable judgment. Two thousand ships of the Atrium star main fleet had been prepared for an ambush battle. If they were facing hundreds of thousands of void monsters, they would not be able to say they would win, at least they would have a great advantage. The terrifying psychic light spear could instantly Destroying surface cities and crushing mountain peaks is a star-level weapon. Killing void monsters is really cutting melons and cutting vegetables, especially because they can kill them one by one by predicting the transition sequence. But now, two million void monsters transition at the same time. This number has exceeded the limit, and it is impossible to stop it anyway.

Two million monsters leaped at the same time, and the chaotic fluctuations caused engulfed tens of thousands of monsters, making them lost in the gap between the spiritual vacuum and the real universe, but this was nothing compared to the huge number of monsters. Coupled with the fact that their female beasts are still continuously creating more void monsters, for a while, the starlight at the edge of the entire distant light star field is dimmed, because the starry sky on that side is covered by endless beasts, and it is different from the star field. In contrast, the silver-blue light of the Atrium Star Fleet is constantly receding, and as space fighters return to the battleships like birds homing in, several strange ball-like battleships suddenly appear in the fleet .

The entire body of this battleship is silver and white, and it is a regular and perfect circle. When the Zhongtian fleet slowly moved back, and even started to prepare for a short-distance leap backward, these spherical warships moved forward rapidly. They completely ignored the whining of the engines, and propped up the most advanced pin-point shields , ignoring the attack of the void monster spewing psionic light balls - a degraded light spear - along the way, and rushed directly into the transition position of the void monster at the maximum speed, and then exploded violently.

Immediately, accompanied by a burst of bright fireworks, silver-blue ripples stirred up time and space. It disrupted the stability of the one-dimensional light of psionic energy in a wonderful way, disrupted the transition of void monsters, and hindered the formation of the huge vortex of psionic energy. , to hinder the arrival of the female beast——At this moment, all the people in the courtyard seemed to hear the roar of the female beast from the other side of time and space, but no one felt happy, because this only delayed the follow-up enemy's footsteps, and the number was two million The void monsters have already completed their transition, and they sensed the spiritual energy, like sharks smelling blood, and began to frantically accelerate and chase the retreating atrium fleet.

The first wave of impact, 30,000 in number, was completely wiped out by the volley of light spears.

The second wave of impact, numbering a hundred thousand, was pierced by deep-space torpedoes and psychic beams.

The third wave of impact, with a number of 250,000, was defeated by the second volley of psionic light spears.

The fourth wave of impact, the number is 560,000, more than a dozen over a thousand meters, the super-large monsters in the shape of a shuttle start slowly, and a huge jet of green energy appears behind these monsters. The speed of the three fleets rushed towards the number of only two thousand. The Zhongting people worked hard and even dispatched elite space fighter pilots to defeat the enemy.

"Whoa, whoa..."

In a semi-conscious state, relying on his powerful instincts, Arzella abruptly drove the space fighter into the tractor beam of the battleship, and returned to Ganaku. He single-handedly defeated a thousand-meter-level super-large void monster in the interception battle just now, and the price was that the old man's physical function dropped sharply, and even reached the verge of shock. The three medical soldiers immediately jumped on the space fighter, Pulling Arzella out of the driver's seat, one of them said in a tense tone: "I can't continue fighting... His age is over eight hundred years old, and his psychic core has already begun to wither. Continue to fight like this with overload. , even an Omega-level psyker will die suddenly!"

"No! I can still—"

Hearing these words, Alzara, who was about to fall into a complete coma, immediately reflected back. He gritted his teeth and sat up with his eyes wide open. He grabbed the collar of the medical soldier, and the materialized light of psionic energy even illuminated The other party's face, but the next moment, he lay back, his breath was weak, but he was still saying: let me rest for a while, I can continue to fight... such words.

"Don't worry, we will be able to return to the Poseidon line of defense soon."

While the medical soldier took out a special physical syringe from the toolbox and delivered a special nutrient solution to Alzera, he comforted the old man and said: "With the satellite fortress, we can completely wipe out those void monsters, so that even the super life form When the leap comes, it’s just a single body, not that it’s impossible to fight.”

"The fifth wave of impact! The number is 700,000!"

"The enemy's main force is advancing! Abandon the plan to consume the enemy's vital forces and retreat at full speed!"

The siren sounded throughout the entire fleet, including Ganaku naturally. Immediately, the faces of both the medical soldiers and Arzella changed. Only then did they understand the difference between the enemy and intelligent life.

An army composed of intelligent beings will collapse. Even the most elite army of one million will collapse on a large scale if there are more than 30% casualties. It is a special case to truly fight to the last soldier... But now, Void How many casualties did the monster's army have? Is it more than 50%? At least forty percent, right? The lethality of the light spear is diffuse. The ashes left after the death of the void monster have turned into a small black nebula. If it is a fleet composed of normal creatures, it should have been defeated long ago. Everyone knows this matter.

But the void monsters will not flee. They have no intelligence and no fear. They only know how to attack, not how to defend. They can only assimilate, not create. They are the viruses of the world, super plagues with planets, universes, and planes as units. Their very existence... is terror itself.

Therefore, the army of void monsters that surpassed the possibility of the atrium colony star fleet's response began to rush in - the first to retreat was the elite first fleet located behind the atrium fleet. They had the best weapons and shields and had to fight in the void The mother beasts were well preserved before the arrival of the leap, and accompanied by circles of psionic ripples, they successfully carried out a short-distance leap under the protection of the second and third fleets, and went to the sixth star in the distant light galaxy. An empty planetary fortress on a giant gaseous planet.

In addition to the Neptune Star Fortress, there are also the Celestial Star Fortress, the Lieutenant Star Fortress, and the Garden of Flowers Colonial Star in the third sequence. Its Earth-Moon defense line is the last line of defense, and almost the resources of the entire star area are gathered there. up.

"Listen, we've got a good chance of being a rearguard."

The Third Fleet was completely rebuilt from dilapidated warships, and most of its members were survivors and remnants of the destroyed Root Garden colony planet, and a small part of them were like Arzera, because A person who seeks revenge for the death of a loved one. Apart from their enthusiasm, they actually have nothing. Whether it is equipment or training quality, they can be said to be the worst, and they themselves know this.

Therefore, when the order from the flagship bridge was issued, not many people were surprised. There must be emotions, but most of them were just unwilling.

"If there are intact battleships...we will definitely not lose to those in the First Fleet!"

Many people have begun to hate the national policy of the Zhongting people in the past thousands of years, because of the wars in the past thousands of years, these psychic plant life hates war, even in the interstellar age, if it is not for the various space creatures and To protect themselves in the hands of other civilizations, they will not even form a formal interstellar fleet and colony regiment, but indulge in meditation on their home planet. But now, the evil results show that if a civilization that has entered the interstellar era for thousands of years had not encountered the invasion of void monsters, it would not even form a fleet group of more than 2,000—if they had a fleet of 100,000 or 200,000, and more than ten Colonial star, then even the Void Mother Beast may not be their opponent.

But now, it's too late.

As the Second Fleet also began to activate the extended psychic one-dimensional light to prepare for the leap, only the Third Fleet was left to deal with the frenzied attacks of void monsters. The shape of these viruses is even more powerful than the chaotic life of alloys. Some of them don't have any special means of attack. Only giant monsters at the thousand-meter level have psychic light balls that imitate psychic light spears as long-range attacks. Most of the time, their weapons are themselves.

After any matter has an extremely high speed, it will have terrible lethality. The void monsters use this as a means. Accompanied by the dark green accelerated light flow, countless electromagnetic sparks appear behind each monster. His speed immediately accelerated to an unbelievable three-thousandths of the speed of light in just a dozen seconds! Although this speed seems inconspicuous, it is actually terrifying enough to make people tremble. This is order. In fact, if these monsters do not need to worry about their own lives at all, then they will definitely not be able to do this.

Immediately, such a scene can be seen: the black herd of beasts in the sky erupted with a strong green light that brightened half of the far-beam galaxy, followed by a collective accelerated charge that distorted the vacuum, guarding the The Third Fleet, which is undergoing the migration of the Second Fleet, is ready for this. All the warships stopped driving, but stopped in place, and launched the most powerful pin-point spiritual energy shield. At the same time, the engines were running at full capacity, and the light spears Start 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 the two million void monsters and resist the coming attack. Void Mother Beast!

Arzella was helped to the medical room, in front of him was the light curtain projected by psionic energy, which broadcast the scene at the bridge in real time, the silent, emotionless, and fearless void monster lost all its activity with its flesh , but also to accelerate their corpses to three thousandths of the speed of light, and they used their corpses as shells to bombard the third fleet of the colonial star. Seeing this scene, the old man shuddered. The first thing he thought of was not his own life and death, but What if this group of void monsters did not target the fleet, but the colonial star?

Hundreds of thousands, or even millions of meteorites accelerated to three thousandths of the speed of light crashed into the Garden of Flowers... It only takes a moment, and the originally beautiful planet will turn into a purgatory on earth, right? Moreover, it is also a purgatory that has not been described in the myths of the people of the courtyard, a demonic realm called Scorching Hell.

"Get ready for the shock!"

The enemy is about to arrive, and the 450 warships of the entire Third Fleet have adjusted their formation. They have formed a three-dimensional conical formation, and all warships have activated their shields at full capacity, preparing for the impact of these low-light velocity shells. The Second Fleet The transition is almost over, and the psychic vacuum can already be seen to appear, and all the battleships of the Second Fleet have begun to blur, preparing to enter the psychic space and start the transition.

But the shock didn't come.

A crimson concentric halo suddenly appeared in the middle area between countless void monsters and the Third Fleet in the atrium. It stirred time and space, causing huge energy fluctuations, and the excessively explosive energy properties even caused the vacuum to appear again and again. The violent explosion, the plasma tearing the vast space of thousands of square kilometers along with the shocking space cracks-although this is not worth mentioning on the scale of the universe, it has greatly disturbed the impact trajectory of the void monster. Under the obstruction of energy fluctuations, explosions, plasma and space cracks, most of the void monsters lost a speed of three thousandths of the speed of light.

"It's the transition channel!"

On the flagship bridge of the Third Fleet, the commander subconsciously crushed the control lever in his hand. He muttered to himself in disbelief: "It's the fluctuation from the home planet! But how is it possible?! And why is it red?"

The color of psionic energy of each life is different. Most of the people in the atrium are silver and blue, while the void monsters are uniform dark green. What is the red psionic energy? And when did the parent star have reinforcements? Isn't the Central Fleet overseeing the Void Gate Ceremony? They also need to build at least seven or eight space fortresses and satellite fortresses in the parent star defense system. How could they come to aid them not far away? You know, they have all given up on themselves, and they are preparing to play their last remaining heat as the first and second backup troops!

"Wait, void door ceremony? Is this red transition channel?!" Suddenly, the commander suddenly thought of a possibility, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

And the progress of reality will not stop because of everyone's surprise. As the crimson spiritual energy transition channel began to rotate violently, the layers of concentric circles began to shrink and condense, and finally formed a huge exit like a vortex, and in the next moment, a stream of red-golden light burst out from it, Straight towards the army of void monsters!

"What?!"

I haven't come to remember what is the existence in the light stream, and all the people in the atrium who are watching this scene are stunned—whether the creature that suddenly appeared is a reinforcement from the mother planet or not, he should not directly attack the void A cluster of monsters! That's millions, even a pile of cosmic beings that can kill a planetary army!

But then, what appeared in their eyes were four thick beams of light mixed with silver and red. These four beams of light penetrated through the black monster cluster, and then produced a violent explosion. In an instant, there were thousands of circular beams The explosion light group appeared in the darkness, and the blazing fire accompanied by hundreds of thousands of degrees of high-temperature metal gas diffused in the void of the universe. Just for a moment, more than 5,000 monsters were directly turned into nothingness, almost the same number of voids Monsters turned into coke!

Destroyed tens of thousands of monsters with one blow! This terrifying lethality immediately made the commander of the Third Fleet of the Atrium tighten his heart. Although this was caused by the dense lineup of monsters charging collectively, it was enough to see the power of that mysterious existence—if the opponent charged back and forth Hundreds of times, isn't this huge group of monsters going to be wiped out?

Shaking his head, the commander abandoned this whimsical idea, let alone whether the other party has the energy reserves for this kind of operation, the void monsters will disperse immediately, facing the existence with such lethality, even if they are not intelligent, they will Follow the instinct to stay away from dodge, and the distance caused by the scale of the universe is extremely large. In this way, if the opponent can kill hundreds of monsters with one charge, it is considered lucky.

However, the next moment, the commander didn't have the energy to calculate the attack efficiency of that mysterious existence. As the circles of crimson concentric psionic ripples slowly calmed down, the cosmic space and the particle clouds transformed from monster corpses dispersed, and all members of the Third Fleet of the Atrium Colonial Star saw the true body of the mysterious existence.

That is, a four-armed giant with a length of more than 400 meters and a golden-red body, like a battleship. A golden halo like the surface of a molten sun flashed on his four arms, circles of silver light intertwined with this halo, and it was obvious that the four huge beam attacks before were the giant's four. issued by the arm.

"It's...it's void life!"

"It's our void life!"

"Did the ceremony on the parent planet succeed!?"

Immediately, all the members of the Third Fleet cheered and jumped for joy. For some reason, bursts of courage surged in their hearts, as if as long as this giant appeared and the ceremony was successful, they would have achieved a preliminary victory. In fact, just now The giant's record also proves this point. The opponent can enter and exit freely among the monsters, as if entering the land of no one, which is enough to prove that the opponent is far more powerful than ordinary void monsters!

"Wait, be careful!"

In the medical room, Arzilla 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 steel giant. He had a premonition of danger and immediately roared loudly. Standing up, completely ignoring that the other party could not hear his words at all.

At the same time, in the distance, in the Void Monster's position, the four-armed giant was standing on the corpse of a thousand-meter-level giant Void Monster. He was slowly moving his four arms, which were overheated due to the energy beams emitted with all his strength. After figuring out the situation, on his left side, a giant void monster of the same thousand-meter level seemed to sense the enemy's absent-mindedness, and immediately accelerated to a light beam of 2/1000 or even 3/1000 with all its strength. There was a wave of distorted ripples in his chest, and he rushed towards the opponent!

A light beam of three thousandths means a speed close to one thousand kilometers per second. This is a speed that is impossible to reach in the atmosphere. Another foundation of the galaxy, this terrifying acceleration does not come from the atrium civilization, it is very likely that it is the product of another civilization swallowed by the void monster, this is also the rapidity that the nerves of creatures can never react to.

But only normal and naturally evolved organisms.

I don't know if it was foreseen in advance, or he had already reacted immediately after he noticed it. The Iron Giant didn't pay too much attention to the void monster that was attacking. He stood on the corpse of the thousand-meter-level monster with his arms folded in front of his chest. Scanning the entire cluster of void monsters with his eyes, he seemed to be examining his prey. At the same time, the second left arm on his shoulder was raised high, and the dark golden energy particles gathered at the speed of thinking, condensing into a huge handle. He didn't even look in the direction of the enemy with the long-handled giant axe, so he just threw it out casually - only a dark golden light blade could be seen flashing, and then disappeared.

Then, the huge kilometer-level void monster that hit stopped its impact, and in the next second, it separated from it, revealing the creepy inside, which seemed to be composed of countless sarcoma particles. The strange organ and energy core, the next , is a violent self-detonation, turning into a spark in the dark universe.

But at this moment, Joshua, who finally figured out what was going on, had a very simple thought in his heart.

"Tsk, the warp gate opened in the wrong direction."

The warrior murmured under his breath, "This is bad—the leap has drained my energy."

In front of his chest, the golden light representing the furnace of the fusion heart is being mobilized regularly, and the light of indeterminate light and dark is slowly flickering.

I updated the word w today, and finished writing some necessary foreshadowing parts. It can be regarded as a birthday gift for Christmas Eve and a reader (Wang Tian)