Walk alone in the abyss

"trap?"

Yang Ming didn't understand.

The law projection shrank into a palm-sized pocket, flew in front of Yang Ming, and quickly opened an aerial view of the battlefield.

"Boss, look, the female worm has been on the edge of the battlefield, and has maintained enough troops around her, which is to prevent surprise attacks.

"This batch of worms seems to be terrifying in number, but they may actually be cannon fodder to consume the empire's troops. There are a large number of high-level burrowing worms hidden around the mother worm.

"The other is the state of the Imperial Dreadnought. Three consecutive shots are already the limit of the dreadnought. It can just clean up twelve pseudo-mothers, and then it will enter a longer cooling period..."

Yang Ming nodded: "Don't worry, those old guys in the Imperial Army must have thought of everything we can think of. There must be ambushes around. I'm more worried about another problem now."

"What?"

"Even if these swarms are cannon fodder, there are too many of them, and the destructive power of the sixth-order adults is too strong."

Yang Ming drew a line:

"You see, the defense line has started to fall back synchronously, which will put a lot of pressure on the soldiers.

"The imperial fleet must form another short-range defense line near the shield ship defense line to prevent the fleet from being directly rushed by the swarm."

Ritsu pinched his chin and kept thinking.

026 turned his head and glanced, and found that all he could see was distorted light, so he could only continue to harvest the fourth-order bugs outside.

Yang Ming's mental state is recovering rapidly.

The cockpit became quiet instead, Yang Ming thought for a while, and Lu suddenly said: "Boss! The hatches of all battleships are open!"

Yang Ming looked at the battlefield 'below' in the holographic image.

He saw pieces of starlight appearing near the battleship. These starlights gathered more and more, but they did not retreat with the battleship, but stayed in place, as if the battleship had left a thick 'shell'.

This is the answer given by the empire.

Use small boats, individual combat groups, and mecha groups to cooperate with the millions of drone groups rushing from behind to fill the defense gaps of more than two hundred shield ships and form an imperial wall that blocks the swarms!

A new firepower belt appeared on the battlefield!

Yang Ming seemed to have heard the noise of the radio, and heard a team leader calling for positions and shooting.

The flesh and blood of the soldiers are hidden in the thinly armored machinery. They sit behind the consoles of small ships, stand in the ship-borne mechas and even the maintenance mechas, facing the tsunami-like waves ahead. The swarm of insects desperately used all the energy they were equipped with.

They shouted and shouted, and the powerful shield ship not far away could not give them any sense of security.

Half of the bug swarms chose to attack the fleet formation head-on, and half of the bug swarms suddenly changed direction, wanting to encircle the Imperial fleet from above and below.

In front of the fleet, continuous explosions of light suddenly appeared in the upper and lower airspace.

Strips of slender antimatter belts broke free from the shackles of the magnetic field, like fuses, detonating the swarm of insects trying to turn around!

The commander of the Imperial Fleet obviously had anticipated the actions of the bug swarm.

Everything is moving forward according to Lieutenant General Thomas' prediction.

All orders at the front emanate from promising Imperial generals.

The survival of the imperial fleet depends on the small combat units in the gaps of these shield ships at this moment!

The swarm of insects began to attack the defense line.

The shield ship stretched the shield to the maximum extent, and the gap in the light shield became the main area for the medium-sized warship to vent its firepower, but a large number of bugs still rushed through the gap in the light shield.

Small combat units are fully fired!

The unmanned attack aircraft formation bombarded with full firepower, and the laser cannons carried by the mechs fired 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 kicked off.

In just half a minute, the starlight representing these small combat units was extinguished by the swarm, but more starlight came together to fill in and fire back.

The Zerg tried to attack the shield ship;

Human warriors started a tug-of-war with the Zerg with their flesh and blood and various machines.

Although this is a tug-of-war that is destined to cost a lot of sacrifices, the trend of the insect swarm rushing forward has been abruptly curbed by this line of defense!

The battlefield is filled with the light and brightness left by the annihilation of antimatter.

Between these lights, there is the collision of two races, the collision of flesh and metal.

Yang Ming watched all this.

He feels it all.

He suddenly understood.

One's own home star is not important to the Milky Way.

Although eight billion people sounds like a precious resource, for a powerful galaxy country, it is only the weight of a few marginal administrative stars.

Faya's game is not for those low-level civilizations, but for these extremely powerful human civilizations in the Milky Way.

The earth is only the nourishment for the civilization of the Milky Way.

So, it's not that the forerunner changed anything, but that he, the forerunner with a bit of information advantage, used the information to do something and thus changed something.

Individual human beings are extremely small.

"Boss, the first batch of bug swarms have been stopped," Lu obviously breathed a sigh of relief, "Although many small combat units were sacrificed, the Imperial Fleet did not suffer much damage."

Yang Ming just said: "There are still plenty of soldiers on the supply ship."

Law softly said: "Yes, as long as the fleet is still there and continues to replenish energy and soldiers, there is hope to resist these bugs."

Yang Ming nodded, obviously not interested in talking, just looking down at the battlefield in the holographic image.

Those fighters who were fighting insects at close range did not have any timidity or retreat.

...

'Thomas, you have to remember that the art of a general is to make soldiers die more valuable. '

Lieutenant General Thomas stood on the 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 didn't have any time to care about how those soldiers sacrificed and how they were buried by the swarm.

The red dots representing the infestation are fading rapidly.

The four dreadnoughts fired again, and the huge ion beam almost passed the flotilla's defense line, clearing a wide space in front of the flotilla.

The red spots faded away.

This is the power of the Dreadnought!

But now, the four dreadnoughts must enter a cooling-off period, overhaul the main gun system, and quickly replenish energy.

"The dreadnought retreated to Line 2, leaving only the core escort."

General Thomas calmly ordered:

"Release the firepower of the dreadnought frigate regiment, and fully encircle and suppress the insects near the defense line.

"The whole ship is ready to recharge, no matter how much energy is left, it will be recharged immediately, and the supply ship will move forward.

"The main battleship of the second line moves forward to fill the vacancy!"

"yes!"

The remnants of the insect swarm were still attacking the defense line. The pressure brought by the first wave of insect swarms to the fleet continued, but the pressure had begun to weaken rapidly.

The human warships are in a collective charging posture.

The queen in the distance has a new movement again.

"A large number of space collapse phenomena have been detected near the queen!"

"General! The probe captured a large number of burrowers sacrificing themselves and opening the space wormhole!"

"Detected a strong bioenergetic reaction 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 position.

Around the Queen, the space was severely distorted, and more than a dozen wormholes were outlined by the lens effect at their edges.

Zerg battleships flew out of the wormholes!

It's now!

General Thomas suddenly waved forward vigorously!

"Twelve to fifteen formations, pull the jump!"

On the left side of the battlefield, in the airspace not involved by the swarm, several tugboats were silhouetted. These special ships, shaped like sailing ships, shot out several bright beams of light in the deep starry sky!

The oscillating space is forcibly stabilized.

The space around the tugboat is rapidly expanding, and the time that was originally unfolding smoothly suddenly becomes very slow here!

The induction is on, the fleet jumps!

Ships of different sizes appeared near the beam of light, and two dreadnoughts that had completed safe charging ahead of time aimed their guns at the queen.

Thomas's voice was extremely high-pitched: "Fire!"

Shoot, shoot, shoot.

Two beams of hundreds of meters in diameter traverse the starry sky.

That was the fury of the human fleet, almost eclipsing the stars!

The queen slowly turned her head to look at the position where the ambush appeared, and the surrounding insects immediately wanted to form a physical shield, but it was too late.

The ion beam swept across.

Most of the wormholes around the queen collapsed, and the Zerg battleships suffered a fatal blow before they could deploy, and a large fusion light ball appeared around the queen!

But Thomas frowned tightly.

what happened?

"Dreadnought shooting... the shooting is invalid!"

"Unidentifiable energy appeared around the queen, and this energy separated the space. General, this means that the queen seems 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 no longer in the same space as us."

"Shut up!"

Thomas growled.

The ambush fleet began to shoot continuously. After the dreadnought fired a full-energy shot, it was also quickly filling up its energy and preparing for the second shot.

The good news is that the ambush caught the swarm by surprise, and most of the space wormholes that were originally opened collapsed.

The bad news is...the queen seems to be pissed off.

"ah--"

The ethereal singing sound suddenly drilled into the minds of every human being.

Thomas was in a trance, as if everything around him had disappeared, leaving only the mighty queen standing under the starry sky.

She began to chant something, her arms covered with fine scales slowly opened, as if to embrace the human fleet.

A layer of silver-white protective shield visible to the naked eye appeared around her body.

The swarms of insects that had been floating around her immediately rushed into the protective shield and the queen's body surface. They seemed to put a layer of armor on the queen, and they seemed to form a special mecha for the queen. '.

The swarm and the queen seemed to be one.

The queen, who was originally more than 30,000 meters tall, began to swell and grow rapidly, only maintaining the original shape and outline, and her facial features have gradually blurred.

Along with the expansion, there is also the silver-white shield that can completely resist the firepower of the human fleet.

Behind the queen, the space wormhole was dug again, and countless worms swarmed out and directly merged into the queen's body.

Thomas' Adam's apple quivered.

He seemed to be witnessing the birth of a worm-made star.

How to fight this?

"General, we are cracking the energy composition of the queen's protective shield, which is somewhat beyond our technical level!"

"All ships, fixed-point bombardment, reserve energy!"

Thomas gave the order, his brain was spinning and thinking rapidly.

"General! The Queen is moving forward! She's going to run right into us!"

damn it!

How to beat this damn thing!

This is an energy shield that even a dreadnought can't break!

...

Outside the Emperor Star, Catherine and a large number of overhaulers quietly waited for the order to attack.

They are the armed force directly under the elders' house, and they have also been transferred to the third line of defense at the moment. In Catherine's view, they are far inferior to those military reform troops who have been transferred to the front line.

At this moment, the overhaulers were also attracted by the images sent back from the front.

The queen fused with the swarm, the energy shield that cannot be broken, the "Queen Battleship" that is constantly approaching the fleet...

"She's powerful, charming and powerful."

Bly whispered softly.

But he added something from the bottom of his heart—the master must have a way to deal with her.

Catherine crossed her arms and said in a low voice, "Isn't the attack order issued yet?"

"No."

"What are the higher-ups doing!" Catherine cursed in a low voice.

Bligh shrugged slightly: "Praying."

"Pray?" Catherine didn't understand.

Bligh said with a smile: "A friend of mine who believes in the development of civilization told me that the archbishop has started a prayer ceremony, asking the goddess to protect the empire."

Catherine frowned and said, "Is this useful?"

"Who knows," Bligh said slowly, "but I've heard that it's useful in many cases. It's the empire's secret weapon."

Catherine was slightly taken aback.

She turned her head to look at Emperor Star, this beautiful planet covered by layers of metal rings, the distant stars have been swallowed up by the metal it 'released', and the endless energy has become its private property.

In the depths of Emperor Star, near the imperial palace, in the magnificent temple standing in the dark underground.

A barefoot girl danced lightly, and the elderly archbishop held up the scepter in his hand, constantly shouting words with no practical meaning.

When she felt that her performance was almost done, she held the scepter with both hands and activated the biological code on the scepter.

A blue light appeared at the tip of the scepter.

Immediately afterwards, the archbishop's thin, old body bent down, and smashed the scepter into the groove on the ground.

The blue light spread rapidly on the ground like a shock wave.

The ground has fine lines like high-density integrated circuits.

The blue light rushed out of the temple, spread deeper underground, and quickly lit up a module of the Emperor Star.

A dark space suddenly had light.

A continuous flashing code appeared on a boxy black box, and then the black box slowly floated and disassembled by itself, revealing the girl curled up quietly inside.

She closed her eyes and slowly suspended her body, faint blue lights appeared in her limbs and bones, and those blue lights gathered into shackles, wrapped around her limbs and neck, and spread to the deepest part of the dark space.

She murmured softly.

"Powered on."

"Thinking body detection, self-awareness detection, shackle detection, empire network detection... Found abnormal points, marked, determined that the abnormal points have nothing to do with the crisis, ignored..."

"The reason for the awakening is the crisis of the second disaster, the sixth-order queen needs to resist threats from hostile interstellar forces.

"Coping strategies have been formulated...need to unlock self-permissions...the corresponding permissions have 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 emperor star.

An invisible wave swept across the internal network of the Emperor 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 His Majesty's will!

All the tugboats converged towards the rear of the fleet, and the fleet moved slowly across the board, seemingly about to hit the queen directly.

Twelve tugboats quickly took their positions, forming a huge twelve-sided shape, and emitting twelve beams of light.

The space suddenly expands!

Ripples in the space visible to the naked eye are constantly trembling.

A planet!

A huge planet made of metal modules!

A planet with a diameter of 1,600 kilometers was squeezed out of the ripples in space!

Skywrath Fortress?

Can Skyfury Fortress jump? Doesn't this thing just run on the pass of the empire and serve as a training base...

The ripples in the space were fast and steady, and a circle of rotating rings appeared on the Skyfury Fortress. A disk with a diameter of more than fifteen kilometers appeared in the center of the Skyfury Fortress, and the bottom of the disk was rapidly collapsing!

A huge gun barrel appeared in the middle of the fortress, and the gun barrel was aimed at the Queen's battleship ahead!

In that dark space, the girl slowly raised her right hand.

"I am... Li."

"Pay attention to protecting Levi's civilization."

"The stellar cannon starts charging."

The lights in all parts of the fortress were instantly extinguished, the rotating rings quickly stabilized, and clusters of seemingly unstable lights appeared in the center of the gun barrel.

Ahead, the Queen's battleship began to slow down.

The innermost queen seems to be thinking about something, and it seems to be calculating something.

The most unbelievable scene for the soldiers of the empire appeared in front of them a few seconds later.

Queen, escaped.