Chapter 207: Annihilation
Contrary to Fan Ren’s expectations, the moment the beam touched that small spaceship, the Conqueror’s fuel was completely exhausted, not a drop left.
The doomsday beam that lasted nearly a minute also rapidly extinguished as the energy was depleted.
In space, with the disappearance of this beam, it instantly fell into dead silence.
On that battlefield, it was as if eternal emptiness prevailed, with thousands of Punishers, tens of thousands of Young Dragons, and that invincible warship all miraculously vanished in that moment.
As if no great battle had ever occurred there, as if there had been nothing there from the beginning.
Inside the Conqueror, Fan Ren looked at the scene before him, his heart pounding fiercely.
All things sucked into the light pillar had disappeared; this was absolutely not spatial transfer but complete and utter annihilation by this powerful energy.
At this moment, he couldn’t help but recall the scene back then when the distant doomsday weapon was about to fire at Blue Star.
Fan Ren immediately broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.
“Boss, the doomsday weapon is fully capable of piercing a planet! We underestimated it; as long as it fires at the planet’s core, after piercing the planet, the hollowed-out planet will collapse instantly—that will be a catastrophic disaster.”
A’dai’s amazed voice rang out.
Fan Ren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, didn’t respond to him, and turned his gaze to the battlefield.
There, that alien small spaceship wasn’t completely destroyed; at this moment, half of its hull was still drifting in space.
“The opponent has no signal response; preliminary judgment is that it has lost combat capability.”
A’dai reported softly, and Fan Ren nodded before saying: “Send two spaceships to approach and observe; after confirming no threat, tractor it directly back to the Conqueror.”
After saying this, Fan Ren stood up directly and walked toward the quick passage outside the command room.
“Notify Commander Liu to bring people over.”
In space, in the surrounding airspace, several Young Dragons under A’dai’s control quickly pounced toward that small spaceship with only half its hull left.
At this moment, that half hull of the small spaceship was as if neatly sliced open, with the entire cross-section smooth and flat, without the slightest undulation.
“Confirmed safe, activate tractor beam.”
Immediately after, the Conqueror’s docking bay entrance slowly opened, followed by a beam of white light shooting over here.
Decades later, it was clear that A’dai had become increasingly proficient with all the functions of this Conqueror.
The docking bay entrance also had a tractor beam present.
When that tractor beam hit the damaged alien spaceship directly, the damaged spaceship began to slowly move toward the Conqueror.
The distance between them was 200 kilometers, yet this tractor beam still worked effectively.
By the time Fan Ren arrived with Liu Shengzhan who had rushed over urgently, along with a group of fully armed space force members.
The Conqueror’s dock gates had already fully closed.
At this moment, that alien small spaceship with only half left was adsorbed in the central docking bay.
Seeing that smooth and flat cross-section, everyone couldn’t help but gasp.
The cross-section of this spaceship was made of a greener material than the Punisher.
Clearly, it still used silver-like super metal as material.
However, from the color depth, it could be judged that the alien spaceship’s material processing technology had some differences from the Conqueror’s.
It must be known that the armor on the Conqueror was already ink green in color.
This was the visual color reflected by silver-like super metal in its extreme compression state.
This small spaceship still had some gap.
However, compared to their current processing technology, it was still far superior.
But now was not the time to focus on these.
“Stay alert, follow me aboard.”
With Liu Shengzhan’s order, everyone on site including Fan Ren had a layer of nano-coat emerge over their entire bodies.
This was the latest type developed by Xinghai, a nano-coat with defense capable of resisting rifle bullets, with extremely strong performance.
Fan Ren stood at the exposed cockpit of the spaceship and directly stepped inside.
Inside this 20-meter-plus spaceship, the cockpit occupied 1/3 of the size, further back was the hull’s fuel tank, and the tail’s power system compartment.
At this moment, the space force outside all raised their electromagnetic rifles, aiming at every corner inside the cockpit.
After Fan Ren came up, he immediately saw on the other side a facility completely intact, similar to the cockpit on the Conqueror.
He subconsciously stepped closer and looked into the cockpit, where a creature with a fox head but upright quadrupedal limbs met his eyes.
“Boss, he should be the pilot of this spaceship; luckily he survived—if our fuel had been a bit more, he would have been gone.”
Hearing A’dai’s sigh, Fan Ren showed a smile for the first time today.
He saw the fox’s small eyes move slightly; clearly it was still alive.
Fan Ren waved his hand behind him, and two space force members hurriedly followed; upon seeing the fox in the cockpit, their electromagnetic rifles immediately aimed at it.
“Come out.”
Fan Ren didn’t know if the other could understand, so he stretched out his hand and waved in front of it.
‘Hiss’
The cockpit door slowly opened; due to the spaceship’s overall function failure, the transparent liquid inside immediately poured out, spilling all over the ground.
Nano buffer just like in the Conqueror’s cockpit!
Fan Ren recognized it instantly.
The fox’s small eyes glanced at the tall and burly space force around and the weapons aimed at him in their hands, revealing a hint of fear in its eyes.
“#@￥@%!”
Fan Ren saw its mouth move, the sound transmitted was very shrill and completely unintelligible.
“Boss, wait a moment, I’m cracking it. By the way, give him our earphone; I need to communicate with him to compile response features.”
A’dai’s voice rang in Fan Ren’s earphone.
Hearing this, Fan Ren turned to the space force beside him and said: “Give me your earphone first.”
This space force member very straightforwardly removed his earphone and handed it to Fan Ren, then continued holding his gun steadily aimed at the fox before him.
On the other side, the alien fox looked at the ‘barbarians’ before it chattering in their language and suddenly became panicked.
He was afraid that these barbarians from a backward civilization couldn’t translate his words, leading to a misunderstanding and killing him on the spot.
Oh no!
He subconsciously looked at the dock of this Titan warship, confusion flashing in his eyes.
Backward civilization?
Barbarians?
The foreign touch on his chest startled the alien fox awake; he was so frightened that he quickly retreated a step into the rear cabin.
But then he realized it was the device thrown by the creature before him, the kind that hangs on the ear.
The fox understood the other’s intent and hurriedly put the earphone on his long ears covered with orange fluff.
Fan Ren watched as after the fox put on the earphone, its eyes lit up immediately, its mouth chattering nonstop with words he completely couldn’t understand, then gesticulating animatedly, followed by nodding from time to time.
This state continued for a good while before ending.
“Boss, it’s ready; I’ve made the translation table, now simultaneous interpretation can be implemented. The opponent’s language isn’t hard to understand.”
Fan Ren nodded; good thing A’dai was there, otherwise it would really be troublesome.
He stared at the fox before him and said: “Where are you from?”
“Ross 154 star system.”
Fan Ren nodded, and relevant information about this star system instantly appeared in his mind.
9.68 light years from the solar system, its star is a red dwarf with only 17% of the sun’s mass, containing six planets.
“Why come to the solar system?”
Fan Ren continued to ask, but immediately saw the fox’s eyes flicker as it said: “We just came to exchange with you.”
Hearing this answer, Fan Ren’s mouth twitched.
He didn’t refute, turning to the space force responsible for alert beside him: “Take him to the holding cell on the ship first.”
Then he turned and walked off the ship to Liu Shengzhan’s side.
“Commander Liu, this alien doesn’t seem very honest; lock him in the holding cell first, then interrogate him later.”
Liu Shengzhan nodded, glanced at the fox, and replied: “Elder Ye and the others are waiting for news on the ground; I’ll arrange for them to board.”
“Good, thanks for your hard work, Commander Liu.”
Time was tight; although that invincible warship had been destroyed, the attack effect unleashed by the Conqueror this time was too massive—he didn’t know if it would be detected by other civilizations possibly still existing nearby.
A full interrogation of this fox was still needed.
But it wasn’t suitable right now.
Fan Ren nodded, then led several space force members escorting the now panicking fox in fear toward the holding cell inside the spaceship.
Several hours later, Ye Rongshan from the ground boarded the Conqueror under Liu Shengzhan’s arrangement.
Coming with him were scientists from Xinghai researching space science and some think tank personnel.
They also needed to learn the relevant information firsthand to make their respective analyses for Fan Ren and the chiefs to reference.
In the Conqueror’s holding cell, the fox had electronic handcuffs on its hands.
Under A’dai’s detection and analysis, the alien fox was carbon-based life like humanity, with bone density and such differing little from humans.
This was enough to prove that the other’s home planet’s survival conditions were similar to Blue Star’s, and there were no special aspects in physical fitness either.
Just an ordinary flesh-and-blood creature, only its appearance was something humanity had never seen.
No other special abilities were found on it.
Fan Ren followed by two space force members pushed open the door and saw the fox with drooping ears, listlessly sitting on the alloy seat, hands firmly fixed to the armrests on the chair.
He sat down in front of it, still wearing his nano-coat.
This was to provide safety protection in case of unexpected situations.
“Lift your head.”
Fan Ren’s tone was icy cold as he looked at this alien fox that caused Great Xia to sacrifice thousands of space force members; although its appearance was somewhat cute, he felt no fondness whatsoever.
