Chapter 203: Drive Them Off
Just as the alien Fox was immersed in beautiful thoughts, a missile shot out in another direction as if by misoperation.
He didn’t pay attention to this phenomenon.
Mistakes happen to him too.
But then he realized something was wrong. When he maneuvered the spaceship to the next loop, the entire Fox was scared out of its wits.
Advance missile!
The trajectory was right on his looping route.
At this point, avoiding it was completely impossible.
“Activate emergency damage control!”
Although he didn’t know if this missile’s lethality could threaten him, years of combat experience told him. The opponent still had no intention of fleeing the battlefield up to now, and after waiting so long, that command ship’s armor was almost completely worn down by him.
And the missile that the opponent fired only now was definitely not some operational mistake; it was absolutely not that simple.
In an instant, the missile exploded in front of him, and his crisis awareness successfully saved his life.
In this instant, he finally understood this fleet commander’s idea.
“Warning, explosion shockwave detected spreading ahead. Please prepare for shockwave defense.”
These damn barbarians simply wanted to use this method to force his spaceship to slow down passively, thereby concentrating firepower to cover this area!
Flawless!
The white light produced by the explosion of the bomb in front was extremely blinding. The Fox narrowed its eyes and gritted its teeth.
In an instant, the shockwave arrived and clashed with the high-speed flying alien spaceship.
In this instant, the alien Fox even felt its own spaceship being impacted by this violent energy, as if the ship’s structure was somewhat damaged.
His spaceship’s speed also rapidly decreased in this brief moment. Under the huge counter-shock force, the inertia from this deceleration even approached the inertial force when he accelerated at full power.
But this was far from enough.
Next, he felt as if his spaceship was like a piece of paper swaying in the wind.
Dense barrage instantly poured precisely onto his ship.
“Warning: spaceship armor remaining 1%.”
As this piercing notification sounded, his spaceship was directly knocked outward by this dense rain of bullets.
Kinetic weapons have a special effect of huge recoil force.
At this moment, looking from outside, this spaceship’s side facing the Azure Dragon Legion fleet was entirely dented inward from the impacts.
Wang Wei saw this and heavily pumped his fist.
Success!
The opponent’s spaceship drifting outward showed no reaction, as if indicating they had thoroughly crippled it and rendered it unable to fight.
But the scene that followed immediately made his swung fist hang in mid-air.
The opponent’s spaceship did not break into pieces; it still maintained a mostly intact structure, and in the instant it drifted out, its tail once again spewed red tail flame, rapidly fleeing into the distance.
Wang Wei lowered his hand, inwardly lamenting it was a pity.
The opponent’s spaceship was simply too small; even with such dense covering fire attack, a large amount of electromagnetic cannon ammunition still missed it.
But at the same time, he slightly frowned. No matter what, with hundreds of shells hitting, it should have been completely destroyed.
“Legion Commander Wang, before the opponent’s ship contacted the shockwave, its surface was covered with a layer of metal film. This metal film resisted a large amount of attack energy from our electromagnetic cannons.”
A’dai hurriedly fed back the monitoring content.
Wang Wei heard this and slightly relaxed his furrowed brow.
This should be this alien spaceship’s emergency life-saving measure; the opponent’s spaceship probably only had this one chance to use it.
Otherwise, if they had charged up to attack with these metal films from the beginning, they would have no intention of continuing to engage afterward.
Wang Wei had an adventurous spirit, but that didn’t mean he had a problem with his brain.
If it were really like that, he would immediately follow the strategy set by Liu Shengzhan earlier, directly leading the fleet back to the Blue Star Space Hub for the next combat plan.
Wait a bit longer. As the frontline commander, his task was definitely to try to keep the opponent here if possible, but the opponent evaded time and again using high-speed performance, leaving him helpless.
In the distance, the alien spaceship this time ran out to an absolute safe distance range of 10,000 kilometers in one go before shutting down the afterburner.
“Quick, immediately activate the armor repairer.”
The Fox looked at the remaining 1% armor in shock and fear. In that moment just now, he was scared out of his wits. If not for his long combat experience allowing him to activate the one-time-use emergency damage control system in the critical moment, his spaceship would have long been blasted into cosmic debris.
His spaceship was a high-speed frigate. The spaceship’s comprehensive electronic control system simply couldn’t activate the armor repairer and afterburner at the same time; both devices were huge energy-consuming equipment, one responsible for repairing armor, the other providing super high speed power.
The reason his spaceship could accelerate to 10% speed of light in a short time was entirely due to the effect of this power device.
As the armor repairer began operating, the spaceship’s armor entered the repair process, and the Fox’s suspended heart finally slightly settled.
At this moment, he couldn’t help but turn his head to look at the barbarian fleet 10,000 kilometers away, formed in a spherical formation.
A surge of hatred flowed from his pair of small eyes.
“Scan all signal emission points in this galaxy, quick!”
As his words fell, a small hole instantly opened in the belly of the spaceship, immediately launching dozens of rectangular, needle-like objects.
“Scan probes launched.”
After the shipborne intelligent device notified, these probes directly turned into streams of light on the spot, instantly flickering toward various directions in the solar system.
“What is that?”
Wang Wei observed the movements here, and after discovering this scene, the grave expression on his face showed no sign of easing.
“These needle-like objects should have entered warp drive state. I analyze they are starting to scan the solar system.”
A’dai was somewhat uncertain. He roughly judged from the directions where these needle-like objects disappeared that these directions were large-area coverage points perfectly spaced in the solar system. Besides scanning the solar system, it was unlikely to have other uses.
Wang Wei nodded, thought for a moment, then said: “Maintain formation, close in on it.”
He knew this method wouldn’t have much effect; the opponent could stop the armor repairer at any time and activate the afterburner to pull away distance again.
But this method might bring pressure to the opponent, forcing it to leave the solar system, thereby proving their determination as frontline troops.
Sure enough, as their fleet advanced, that alien spaceship stopped repairing and instead activated the thrust engine again to rapidly pull away distance.
Inside the alien spaceship, the Fox maneuvered the spaceship to fly farther away, then looked back at the battleship fleet gradually accelerating in pursuit, and angrily said:
“Damn bugs, a bunch of backward barbarians, just you wait!”
Immediately after, he directly maxed out the thrust engine, and the spaceship turned into a stream of light, continuing to pull away distance in the opposite direction.
“Analysis results available for review.”
His shipborne intelligent system also sent the scan results at this time. The Fox immediately pulled up the analysis results to view.
The analysis results showed that the development level of this galaxy was very low. Among a total of eight planets, only two planets had large-scale industrial production traces.
Additionally, there were development traces on that gas giant planet and on two satellites.
Looking further down, there was a more detailed scan report.
The scan showed that battleships similar to the ones ahead had large quantities in two places in this galaxy.
The most numerous were at an industrial hub between that smaller orange-red planet and the largest gas giant planet.
The number reached 30,000 ships, along with a very large number of small spaceships, though these small spaceships were of no concern to the Fox; they posed no threat to his spaceship.
Further inward at that blue planet, there were a massive number of various signal sources, along with 15,000 battleships and numerous small spaceships.
The most important point was that, from the entire scan results, the Fox found no other types of warships that posed a threat.
Threat level 2.
This was a level he could accept.
With a decision in mind, he hesitated no longer. He turned his head and glared fiercely again at that battleship fleet whose speed had slowed, no longer thinking of showing off maneuvers.
With thrust at maximum, the Fox’s spaceship soon reached beyond 100 million kilometers.
This was a position the human fleet could not reach in a short time.
In the distance, noticing that the alien spaceship’s speed had suddenly dropped to a stop, Wang Wei’s fleet did not continue pursuing. He also simultaneously ordered the entire fleet to stop.
He just maintained a distance of 100 million kilometers, forming a standoff situation between the two.
Wang Wei had no intention of leaving. Their spaceship had sufficient life support system and could stay here for quite a long time.
“A’dai, keep a close eye on it. Report to me anytime if there’s a situation.”
“Yes, Legion Commander Wang.”
“Wait! There’s intense signal source fluctuation over there, signal source intensity very high! Extremely high!”
A’dai had just finished replying when his voice suddenly rang out urgently again.
His words instantly brought Wang Wei, who had relaxed for a moment, back to his previous combat state.
“Order, all fleets raise alert level.”
Facing the opponent’s sudden inexplicable action, Wang Wei immediately felt a trace of unease in his heart.
But the scene that happened next instantly made all commanders in the entire fleet who saw the forward screen have their hearts stop.
Next to that alien spaceship, without any warning, an enormous super large warship appeared.
Space jump technology!
“A’dai, how did it do that?”
Wang Wei was extremely serious in this instant.
“Unknown, but I analyze it probably used that signal source just now to locate coordinates here, then used some means we can’t understand to directly jump here from several light years away—a top-tier space technology. Very sorry, I cannot ascertain the specific principle.”
