"Captain, the opposing cruiser shut down its engines and weapon systems and entered a silent state."
"It's quite clever, but it's useless. Kill all the remaining battleships."
"clear!"
How can a level three civilization resist an attack from 8 light seconds away?
A total of twenty-two battleships.
He didn't even last a minute, and all three waves of attacks were taken away.
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There are not many humans in Angel, only about 200,000 people.
Because there is no natural life planet here.
However, although there is no living planet, Angel is very rich in various resources.
Because the people here simply exist as coolies, carrying out mining work day after day in the extremely harsh environment on these planets that are not suitable for survival at all.
Through observation from orbit, it can even be seen that many Wilton supervisors are constantly beating those slow-moving humans with an electric whip.
"Ask Lu Li to command the orbital space and rescue everyone. As for the Wiltons... leave no one behind!"
"Yes, Captain!"
This was not originally in Jiang Xingchen's plan. The main reason why he came to Angel was for supplies.
After all, if a powerful battleship like Battle Star is to be fully operated, it will consume a lot of money.
Whether it is weapons, energy reactors, engines, etc., they are all consumed, and the Scorpion Pirates are unable to replenish these.
Therefore, Jiang Xingchen will still set his first stop in Angel. Only if he has enough food in hand can he sustain the long-term battle, right?
As for the humans on Angel's side, the original plan was for Liu Feng and others to stop by and pick them up after they set off.
But looking at the situation now, I'm afraid that if we wait for another month, I don't know how many more people will die.
Forget it, let's postpone the battle for one day and send the people here directly to the Canglan Department. By the way, we can also add some more manpower.
Just as Jiang Xingchen was thinking about this, hundreds of mechas had been ejected from the ship one by one.
Immediately, without any preparation, the airborne operation began.
Because there are no anti-aircraft weapons on this planet at all, and even the Wiltons stationed on the surface to monitor them only have anti-personnel firearms, electric whips and other things.
For the mecha, it does no harm at all.
ten minutes later.
"Captain, Lu Li has finished the work. According to statistics, a total of 238,795 people have been rescued."
"Can it fit on the Star?"
"It should be possible if all the space is utilized."
"Let's do it this way. It's only half a day's journey anyway. Let's squeeze in as much as possible, but safety work must be done well. I don't want someone to detonate a bomb in my ship."
"clear!"
Fu Wanting nodded and expressed her understanding.
This is not because Jiang Xingchen is overly worried. In fact, this kind of thing has happened, more than once.
When the 500 million people were rescued from the Hailan star system before, there were two incidents where bombs were detonated on the ships returning to the Canglan star system, resulting in many casualties.
After all, the entire human population on the Orion Arm has been ruled as slaves by those civilizations for hundreds of years. Some of them have been brainwashed since childhood and have become die-hard loyalists to other civilizations.
This cannot be avoided.
Therefore, every person who is borrowed onto the ship will undergo a full body scan.
Even if you implant a bomb into your body, it will be useless.
As a result, after doing this, we actually found out those "traitors".
Ten hours later.
All supply work has been completed. According to the latest calculations, the supplies on the ship are now enough for the Star to fully operate for three years and to conduct several high-intensity battles.
Of course, this refers to the consumable materials that need to be supplemented by reactors, weapons and other systems, and does not refer to daily necessities such as food and water.
It's not that Jiang Xingchen hasn't thought about raiding the Wilton people's life network uzi reserves, but it's really...
The food they ate was disgusting and unpalatable, and they had to give up in the end.
Otherwise, eating these things may reduce the combat effectiveness of the entire ship...
But it’s not a big problem, because we have decided to send this group of people to the Canglan Department first, so we can just supply supplies along the way.
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Outskirts of the Death Nebula.
After a month of recruitment, more than 50,000 warships have gathered here.
Of course, except for the nearly 300 warships of the four major civilizations, the rest are all warships affiliated with their respective civilizations.
The key is that most of them are secondary civilizations.
So despite the fact that the number is as high as more than 50,000, the actual combat power, if converted to a fourth-level civilization, may only be equivalent to more than a thousand ships.
During this period, although the Starry Sky Zerg did not appear again, Kyle was not idle.
He put a large number of detectors into the channel and continuously measured the channel for warships to pass. As a result, one of the detectors accidentally hit two nodes in a row, and finally arrived at a place where there was no space turbulence.
vast area.
However, not long after entering this area, the detector was destroyed.
However, now that the route has been discovered, the rest will be easier to handle.
Kyle sends several detectors into the channel almost every day.
At this moment, he was looking at the images sent back by the detectors before they were destroyed.
Just like what I saw when I arrived here before, there were more than 800 insect graves, as well as war insects flying everywhere.
However, Kyle didn't care about these. What he cared about was the big guy in the center of the worm mound.
At the beginning, the picture returned by the detector was still the super worm mound with a diameter of ten kilometers.
But things started to go wrong later on.
The appearance of this worm mound has changed.
Although the daily changes are very small, according to the latest picture comparison, this insect mound is changing towards a more slender and flatter posture.
If it weren't for the fact that the performance was still full of pits, Kyle would have almost thought it was a battleship.
After thinking about this matter over and over, he suddenly came up with a very ridiculous idea.
This worm mound...
Evolving!
Although there was no substantial evidence, Kyle still wrote up his speculations in the form of a report and submitted it to the military department.
However, a few days passed, and I watched the insect mound change day by day, showing a sense of déjà vu that it was about to complete its evolution.
But there was still no response from the military.
As a last resort, Kyle had to find Brown...
"Commander Brown, I..."
"Kyle, I know what you are going to say. I have read the report and I agree with you."
"That..."
"no!"
Brown interrupted Kyle again.
Kyle was confused at this point. Since he agrees with my point of view, why not?
"Kyle, your mission is to continue to monitor, and after the evolution is confirmed, command all the affiliated civilizations to attack. Do you understand what this means?"
Seeing Kyle's puzzled look, Brown reminded him thoughtfully.
After saying this, Kyle had some reaction.
"Commander Brown, what do you mean..."
"I don't mean anything. You just need to understand some things. As long as you do it well this time, all the stains you had before can be washed away, so you can take care of yourself!"
After the communication ended, Kyle was still thinking about what Brown said.
Is this an opportunity to use those bugs to weaken the second- and third-level civilizations in the galaxy?
But, hasn't His Majesty considered another possibility, that is...
If that insect hive completes its evolution, will it become something that even our empire cannot deal with?
At least in Kyle's opinion, this possibility exists.
However, it is useless to worry about it, because it is impossible to change His Majesty's will, let alone disobey on this matter.
We can only hope that the final solution is not the worst one.
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In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed.
Kyle still checks the latest status of the worm mound every day and estimates the time when it will complete its evolution.
But something is different today.
"Commander, something happened!"
"What happened again?"
"A battle star appeared on the arm of Orion!"
"Battle Star? Tell me again!"
Thinking that he heard wrongly, Kyle asked again.
"Commander, you heard it right, a battle star appeared on the Orion arm!"
"Tell me the details, quickly!"
"Yes, Commander. Just now, a battle star broke into the Tujia star system and caused large-scale communication interference as soon as it came up. The garrison was unable to communicate with the outside world."
"Large-scale communication interference... Then how did they report it to you?"
Kyle asked a little strangely.
"It's like this. When the warship arrived, among the garrison on the Tuga side, there happened to be a warship that was starting its jump engine and leaving, thus escaping the disaster."
"And at the moment when the battleship left, it happened to capture the picture of the battle star, and then reported the picture. This is it..."
As the adjutant spoke, he controlled his terminal and projected a picture.
There is no doubt that whether it is the design style or the size of the battleship, this is definitely a battle star, a battle star that has not appeared again in the Milky Way for more than 400 years.
But where did this battle star come from?
"Any other information?"
"Yes, according to the report, I have contacted Tuga, but I have never been able to contact him. I don't know whether the communication is still interfered with, or whether the garrison in Tuga has..."
"Don't think about it. The second-level civilization in the Tujia star system can't face a battle star even if its strength is increased tenfold."
Shaking his head, Kyle analyzed.
"In this way, you immediately have people arrange to inquire all the civilizations in the entire Orion Arm to confirm their current situation."
"Commander, what do you mean..."
"This time it was because a battleship escaped by chance, but can you ensure that you are so lucky every time, or maybe a large number of star systems have fallen, but we don't know it?"
"I understand, I'll do it right away!"
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Ten minutes later, the adjutant who came to Kyle again had a very ugly face.
"Commander, I have tried to contact the star systems with troops stationed in the arm, and the result..."
"What happened?"
"As a result, eight star systems were unable to make contact and may have encountered the same thing as the Tuga star system."
"I knew that these humans would not remain peaceful. They would definitely cause trouble while we were dealing with the bugs!"
Kyle's face also turned ugly.
Originally, he just thought that humans would definitely take advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble.
But now it seems that these humans are more troublesome than he expected, and they even have battle stars!
"Mark for me all the star systems that cannot be contacted on the star map of the Orion Arm."
"Yes, Commander!"
Soon, the star chart of the Arms of Orion with the annotations was projected in front of Kyle.
It seemed like nothing at first, but not much time passed before Kyle discovered the problem and was stunned.
Not normal, so abnormal.
These places are all very far away from each other, and some are even hundreds of light years away from other locations.
Even the imperial warships would not be able to continuously commit crimes in such scattered locations in such a short period of time.
In other words, from the beginning, there was not just one starship, but multiple starships launching attacks everywhere?
or...
Humans have developed a new technology that is more efficient than the jump engine and has no distance limit?