Chapter 1548 The Distorted World

There is not much room for the servant fleet to play on the battlefield in front of them, because they mainly assist the imperial army in fighting with huge numbers and various large-scale roundabout harassment. However, in the order field with limited space, they are different from the new ones. The army is absolutely no match for a head-on confrontation.

In normal space, the servant army often constantly disrupts the enemy from all sides of the battlefield, or uses an overwhelming formation to cover the enemy's flanks - this is a very effective combat method. Although the general-class aircraft carrier and other servant army warships are not as good as On board the regular imperial warships, but when the numbers increase, they can also cause great damage to the Xiling warships. In this way, the enemy has to allocate a considerable amount of energy to deal with the harassing troops composed of servants, regardless of how distracted they are. It’s all worth the loss.

But now this is an order field, and the space is quite limited. As long as everyone leaves the protection of the joint shield, they will be within the range of the enemy's close-in defense artillery. The general aircraft carrier has no chance of winning against the fire control system of the new army. Their movement speed It's almost a target. Although its shield is also a psionic shield, this kind of shield that has been downgraded considering the physical constitution of mortals cannot withstand many bombardments.

Seeing groups of general aircraft carriers break away from the array, everyone in the command hall was confused. Sandora immediately called their commander: "Roland Gale, what are you doing?"

Roland Gale's figure appeared on the communicator: "Let's lure the enemy away!"

"Come back immediately, this is meaningless," Sandora frowned, "This is not the time to show off as a hero, the new army will not be fooled like this!"

"We can adjust our order field to be very close to the order field of the imperial fleet, and even make the two order fields close to each other. Enemies still wandering in the void will not be able to accurately locate these two order fields, so they have half the chance to directly Come towards us," Roland Gale analyzed logically, "This is quite feasible. The technical advisor of the Military Command has confirmed that the enemy's void navigation cannot distinguish such a small difference, because a normal fleet will not split into The two regiments let the order field move closely together. After they take the bait, we will disconnect the order field. This can lure away at least half of the enemies... The remaining impact should be very small, and the main force can be directly thrown away. them."

When Roland Gale said this, some general aircraft carriers had completely separated from the fleet's main formation and left the protection of the joint shield. These spacecraft were immediately violently attacked by the enemy. Although the new army did not know what these spacecraft wanted to do, they They obviously would not let go of the lone Imperial servants. From the ejection channels on both sides of the general aircraft carrier, carrier-based aircraft and surveillance gunboats swarmed out like a swarm of insects. Facing the enemy's artillery fire, they rushed towards the black and red warships that were constantly eroding in. Every second, hundreds of carrier-based aircraft and gunboats were bombarded to pieces. However, under the suppression of huge numbers, the erosion of the new army Troops will also suffer casualties - but in any case, the casualty ratio is not proportional!

"Cover!" Sivis immediately ordered the escort formations on the flanks of the fleet, and all the close-in defense artillery began to fire wildly. The ravens outside also worked hard to clean up the New Army troops that poured in like locusts, and the enemy's offensive was once again suppressed.

And I rushed towards the communicator: "You don't want your life?! This is a death tactic!"

"We won't participate in the war if our lives are at stake," Roland Gale laughed, and then his expression became serious, "We are soldiers, not weaklings who have to be protected by the imperial fleet wherever we go. Soldiers must play some role on the battlefield. Again. Going forward is the core of tranquility. There is no place for the servant army to be used there, so it is better to use it here. As for life and death... the enemy will not waste time entangled with a bunch of false targets, as long as they are lured away, Our survival rate will be higher after that. I have been dealing with death for most of my life and know how to survive, so there is no need to worry."

I know that personal affairs cannot interfere with the overall situation on the battlefield, but after watching the pictures from the external monitor, I still couldn't help but say: "You have to know that what you are going to deal with this time is the craziest group of fallen apostles. This should be the battlefield of the Imperial Army, not yours."

"This is our battlefield!" Roland Gale suddenly raised his voice, "The imperial army's battlefield is at the core of Tranquility! You should go there, we should stay here!"

There is nothing left to say. I smiled and waved to the old lion in the communicator: "Okay, leave the Serenity Core to me. Your mission is to survive. And the bastards of the Hessian tribe and New Eden - —It is a serious crime to act without authorization, so be prepared to come back alive and be punished.”

The general aircraft carrier formed a new formation and broke away from the main formation, quickly integrating into the chaos barrier around the order field. The enemy launched a fierce attack on them midway. But after discovering that these were just "miscellaneous soldiers", they turned their attention back to the Imperial Army. Enemies that had been eroded into the Order Field would not be led away by these servant armies.

But it's different outside the order field - because the information deflection jump of the void engine is non-linear, it has a concept of minimum recognition. If two order fields are close together, then the void engine will When the order field comes closer, which one will be contacted first becomes a matter of probability. After the servant army formation left the Imperial Army's main formation, the erosion suffered by the Order Field weakened significantly.

Taking advantage of this momentary opportunity, the main force accelerated suddenly, and the two adjacent order fields split apart. The servants deliberately enhanced their signal strength to make themselves look more like a threatening fleet. The imperial fleet no longer had any worries and sprinted towards the core of tranquility!

The enemies that were chasing after them like a swarm of insects also divided into two groups. For a while, they could not tell which of the two order fields was real and which was fake, so half of the enemies were heading towards the fake target. When they found that the talents were rushing towards the core of tranquility, When it was the main force of the empire, it was completely unable to catch up.

Our main force is still being chased and eroded by the remaining half of the enemy. Black and red abyss warships can still be seen emerging from the border of Chaos. The explosions on the flanks of the Imperial Army are non-stop, but these erosions are far behind the order field. With the speed of self-repair, the enemy's obstruction is no longer effective. The signal of the Serenity Core is extremely clear on the navigation radar... approaching, breakthrough!

The world barrier in the Serenity Core is actually open?

The moment we crossed the world barrier, we suddenly discovered something incredible: there is no defensive force on the world barrier in this universe! The imperial fleet did not engage in a difficult mathematical rate offensive and defensive battle, nor did it crack a lot of interference codes. It suddenly rushed directly to the material plane. We didn't even find a void disruptor!

But before I had time to express my surprise at this "good news", I saw Abyss Xiling's face change: "The startup terminal is about to wake up!"

"What?!" I exclaimed. Everyone around was also stunned at the same time, and more than a dozen disbelieving eyes fell on Abyss Xiling, as if they wanted to see the answer directly from her.

"The information disturbance at the startup end will cause the world barrier to assume this open state. Its power is too powerful to overload all void disruptors," Abyss Xiling quickly explained, "The specific time should be a few minutes ago . The startup terminal has just shown signs of waking up... Where did they find the energy?! This is already more than the instantaneous output of any kind of nether energy well!"

I no longer cared about listening to the bad news one after another from the Abyss Xiling, but my attention was attracted by the weird scenes of this universe: Why is the space of this universe so...distorted?

The core of tranquility seems to be a fertile world, a rare place in the abyss. It has a large number of material-rich zones, numerous celestial bodies, and there seems to be no out-of-control energy environment or collapsed cosmic laws. However, it feels so...bizarre.

Space is full of strange light bands that have no source but persist for a long time. These bright light bands permeate the universe like diffuse auroras, ranging in size from hundreds of kilometers to millions of kilometers. Most of them The brightness of the light band is not high, but there are also extremely bright luminous areas mixed in it. These inexplicable gadgets can be seen everywhere, but they have no energy response, and even their electromagnetic radiation is no different from the surrounding space. So much so that you can't find any other evidence of the existence of these bands of light other than distinguishing them with the naked eye. In addition to these lights of unknown origin, the starlight in space also shows signs of serious distortion. The stars are not small bright spots, but all turned into bright lines, just like a time-lapse photography that is not accurate enough. Each star dragged out a long curved trajectory behind it, and the galaxy composed of stars turned into a large blurred halo. It is indistinguishable from the surrounding nebulae.

And in the more distant depths of space, an extremely bright milky white light column seems to run through the entire universe. It is the only thing that is not distorted, and it looks eye-catching and... weird.

This is obviously a distorted world... Could it be caused by the startup end?

In any case, the scenes in space are not natural phenomena. Although there are all kinds of strange worlds in the void, many worlds look bizarre, such as a world filled with white light and a world with a sea of ​​chaotic energy. There are even high-density pure liquid worlds, but no matter how bizarre the above-mentioned "strange-shaped universe" looks, it will conform to its own basic rules and is a world system formed on a self-consistent basis. But the universe in front of us, with distorted light and shadow, and distorted stars, has basic rules that are almost the same as those in the capital world. Various equipment on the ship have detected several key data of the Serenity Core, so we can be absolutely sure that the scene before us is not a natural phenomenon. , is not even a phenomenon that should appear in this universe.

"That's the starting end..." Abyss Xiling looked at the white light in the distant space in surprise. It was the first time she saw what that thing looked like when it was activated. "I never thought...it turned out to be like this. ?”

"Now is not the time to sigh..." I had just said half a sentence when I felt a violent vibration coming from all directions. The starship was under strong external attack. The structural resonance caused a low rumble to echo in the command hall. Voice.

The alarm of the ship's host computer instantly rang through the hall: "High-energy reaction detected... coming from all directions!"

Facing the sudden surge of enemy firepower, the shipboard early warning system has difficulty in judging how to allocate shields, but fortunately we have a "radar" that is better than the early warning system. Lin Xue has been concentrating since just now, but the interference at the start-up terminal prevents her from giving an early warning outside the world barrier, but it is not too late to make a prediction now!

"Concentrate the shields to the rear formation, the second echelon of the fortress ship, relieve the pressure of the shield generator twelve seconds after being attacked, otherwise you will be overloaded and destroyed. Sivis, turn off the early warning radar, I will replace it. Xiaoxue is here help."

The eldest lady was already completely familiar with this kind of battlefield. She quickly conveyed a few orders, and then she and Xiaoxue sat down in their respective seats. They closed their eyes slightly and seemed to fall asleep. At the same time, more than a dozen one-foot-long crystal hexagonal prisms appeared out of thin air next to their seats. These crystal prisms emitted a soft blue halo, and there were no more redundant ones hovering next to the two prophets. action.

This is Tavel's improved "connection device" that can connect the prophet with other equipment. In this way, Lin Xue directly replaces the position of the early warning radar. She can even directly control all the air defense of the entire fleet with her thoughts like the Xiling host. Fire and shield systems. Instead of wasting time conveying instructions. However, this system consumes a lot of energy on the part of the user. Even if Lin Xue and Xiaoxue share the calculation workload, they cannot last long, so they have not activated the "connection device" until now.

But I think the biggest improvement of this device is that it is finally not a coffin.

After Lin Xue connected to the early warning system, the reaction speed of the imperial fleet was significantly improved, and the way he responded to various incoming artillery fire was almost "weird". The protection system no longer waited until the enemy attacked to organize defense, but waited for the enemy himself Even when they didn't know what they were going to do next, the Imperial Fleet had already taken action. The pressure on our army was immediately reduced a lot.

But this only allows the fleet to better deal with incoming firepower. The real huge threat... is the white light in space.

It is so huge that it reaches the sky and the earth, and seems to run through the entire universe. Various observation methods cannot detect any energy reaction in the white light, but they can detect a large amount of energy converging in the direction of the white light. This energy seems to be coming into contact with The white light disappeared in an instant. Obviously the startup end is a big eater that consumes huge amounts of energy. What's even weirder is that we can't be sure how far this thing is from the imperial fleet. When we measured the distance with conventional equipment, we got a lot of weird data... It seems to be in a weird state of time and space, and normal spatial positioning methods have no effect on it. This white light is completely ineffective.

The distortion of the Serenity Core and the mutation of the surrounding world are all thanks to it. I really can’t believe how the Abyss Xiling created such a weird thing.

"Don't pay attention to the harassment, the whole army is moving towards the activation terminal!" Sandora's voice resounded through the command hall, and at the same time her power permeated the entire imperial fleet, even the protoss troops who followed us into this world. Shrouded in the power of the Soul Reaver: Sandora is using this method to improve the coordination efficiency of the combined fleet. She uses her unique ability to share the load of the mental network. Although it cannot produce a major improvement, under the current emergency situation, even a small improvement is necessary!

The fleet accelerated as a whole, and immediately the commander reported: "The target is enveloped by a strong gravity trap! The jump engine is interfered with!"

"Then try to jump as close as possible!" Shandora said in a hurry, "Don't be slowed down by the interception of firepower... Sivis! Put down the induction beacon, three points... no, one half of the induction beacon Mark!"

The giant aircraft carrier located at the edge of the fleet opened ejection channels on both sides of the ship. A large number of spindle-shaped devices composed of metals and crystals entered space. These spindle-shaped devices were about a hundred meters long. Their crystal texture was obviously different from ordinary psionic crystals, and there was a blurry image floating in front of each crystal. . Those images were of a slim woman with a silver-white faceplate and three pairs of crystal wings behind her. This was a new generation of induction beacon controlled by the leader bee himself - but I forgot what it was called.

The leader bees were not around these beacons, but their power enveloped these devices. The beacons quickly jumped away from the Imperial fleet, and then formed a large projection that was indistinguishable from the Imperial fleet.

Exactly the same scale, exactly the same mass, even the energy response and information radiation are exactly the same. There is nothing that can distinguish the difference between these projections and the main body. Only after enduring considerable firepower will these projections reveal their more fragile characteristics. .

A total of three groups of projections appeared, and after they separated from the imperial fleet, they also moved towards the starting point - so that the new army could not tell which one was real and which one was fake.

"Energy... energy... is like this?!" Abyss Xiling has been talking to herself about something since just now, and it was only now that I had time to listen to her, so I couldn't help but become curious: "What on earth are you talking about?" What are you mumbling about?"

The startup terminal has been activated, but it seems that it will take some time to fully "wake up". This is the moment of life and death, even the moment of life and death of all order worlds in the void. Is Abyss Xiling distracted at this critical moment?

"I'm asking my remaining troops to check the source of energy at the starting end," Abyss Xiling seemed to suddenly react from a trance state. She grabbed my arm, "I really want to know where they got the energy from!"

"where?"

"The world is annihilated!" Abyss Xiling attracted everyone's attention with one sentence, "They are annihilating the universe in the abyss! Drawing power from the end of the world!"

"Are you sure?" Sandora frowned. This news that could scare mortals seemed to her to be just a "somewhat crazy plan", something that was surprising but could still be discussed.

"They have been doing this secretly in their absolute control area. It was not until a part of my army recovered the lost territory on the periphery and prepared to go deep into the new army's area that they discovered that many worlds had disappeared, and only a large amount of information was left behind after being annihilated. "The empty noise under the sky," Abyss Xiling's figure flashed, showing that she was extremely emotional, "The New Army's absolute control area is completely closed, and no one knows what is going on inside... They put their own territory Detonate them all to quickly charge the starting end!"