The Death List Novel - Chapter 561
Chapter 561 Crisis
“Captain, the other party destroyed the drone we sent out. Negotiations are broken!” The liaison officer on the bridge of the faith reported a bad news.
“Damn it!” Marcus cursed to himself and clenched his fists with a helpless expression.
Receiving the report from Attack a few days ago, Conviction immediately accelerated and headed towards Planet X-352. However, when they reached the edge of the galaxy, they encountered another warship of the same grade. Judging from that non-mainstream magical style, it should belong to the universe battleships of the Heathmeier people.
Ever since Giese won the war between the three races and obtained information about the people of Heathmeier, they had a great deal of recognition for the people of Heathmeier who were of the same civilization origin. It was a pity that the people of Heathmeier had long since left the Galaxy at that time, and there was no real communication between the two sides.
After learning that the arachnids were also in the Scorpion Galaxy, Marcus thought that he might meet Heathmeier again. After being driven out of the Gee galaxy by Jannamer, Giese’s perception changed greatly and he didn’t mind sharing the Scorpion Galaxy with other races, especially the Heathmeier people of the same civilization origin.
In Marcus’s mind, Jannamer was the enemy of the highest priority, and there was no compromise at all. If they couldn’t fight it alone, then the Heathmeier people were their best allies, and even the arachnids could make limited use of them.
However, reality had given him a head-on blow. The people of Heathmeier obviously had a different view from him. Even the drone that released the friendly radio waves could not get close to him and was shot down directly.
“Captain, could it be that the other party’s arrival in Apostle is causing trouble? You said before that different Apostle that descended from different sides would be competitors.” The adjutant, who was temporarily replacing Dong Yue, asked doubtfully.
“It shouldn’t have anything to do with Apostle. Heathmeier is like us. Everyone values coming to Apostle, but they don’t take their advice as a course of action.” Marcus sighed and waved his hand. “Use the minimum force and find a way to disengage as soon as possible. The people of Heathmeier are not enemies. We were wrong in the past, at least now we have to work hard to get help that can live in peace.”
“Captain, if we change the cruise route, we won’t be able to reach Planet X-352 within the given time …” The adjutant bowed his head and calculated, his expression unsightly.
“There’s nothing we can do about it. With the level of the battleship on the other side, we won’t be able to determine the outcome in a short period of time.” Marcus looked worriedly at the starry sky and said solemnly, “I hope that Attack and Dong Yue will persevere until we arrive.”
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“My lord, the silver lightning has transmitted a signal wave, requesting us to leave this place and head to the backup relay planet!” A winged Birdman glided in the air and landed beside Wolf. His wings magically shrunk and merged into his body.
“Leave?” Wolf turned to his companion in astonishment. “Does he have a reason?”
Silver Lightning was a cosmic creature that Wolf and the others slept in and provided their Jannamer daughters with. As a mature Jannamer, Silver Lightning’s way of thinking was very different from planetary life. Normally, it didn’t communicate with Wolf and the others. Once it did, it would definitely be very important.
However, Silverpower’s decision was not an order to Apostle, but a form of notification. Apostle didn’t listen, nor was Silver Lightning affected by Apostle. If it really wanted to leave alone, then Wolf’s team would not be able to stop it.
“Yes, but there are some very difficult parts in the signal waves of the silver lightning. To translate it in our language, it seems to say that the Cradle of Life is sacred and inviolable?!” Apostle, who was in charge of sending the message, had a strange expression on his face.
“The Cradle of Life? Jannamer’s idea is to clean up the planet and restore it to its original state. Does it care about the Cradle of Life?” Wolf couldn’t help but chuckle, but then he thought of something and his pupils shrank, “Unless it’s not talking about planetary life …”
Just as Wolf’s expression changed drastically, their feet trembled slightly. In the distant lake that was as vast as an ocean, ripples appeared on the surface of the water, and it quickly rolled like boiling water.
“Bang!” With a deafening rumble, an enormous universe warship flew straight out of the water, its round, pitch-black bow piercing straight into the sky like an Optimus Prime pillar. Around it, dozens of humanoid mechs were guarding it like loyal guards, carrying bright flames that resembled resplendent meteors rising from the sky.
“How is that possible? We’ve scouted that lake. There’s nothing else below except a damaged arachnid base!” Apostle, who was standing beside Wolf, was dumbfounded as he watched the attack ship leap out of the water.
“It’s underground, not underwater. I should have thought of it long ago!” Instead, Wolf’s eyes lit up and he used his palm to admire, “There is a very smart fellow among these people!”
“Hmph, so what? With its size … it should only be a small battleship, unable to break through the silver lightning blockade!” Wolf’s companions grew translucent wings again, flapping their wings and soaring into the sky. “Lord, I’ll gather my companions to stop them!”
“No, idiot, why don’t you think about it? They hid it well, why did they take the initiative to expose themselves!” Wolf’s expression darkened as he raised his head and scolded, “The most important thing for us now is to leave immediately …”
‘”Boom ~ ~” Before Wolf could finish his words, the Moon Lake region they were in, no, it should be said that the entire continent where the Moon Lake was was suddenly lifted up.
The attack ship that had just pierced through the water, including its Mecha regiment and Wolf’s group, had all “landed” on the ground again. Or perhaps, the ground was facing them, causing everyone to have no choice but to force a landing.
Looking down from the atmosphere, this continent in the Moon Lake region was no longer considered a continent. Instead, it was an incomparably large rock pillar that was being lifted upwards. However, this was not a single stone pillar. If the camera was further away, it could be seen that the surface of Planet X-352 was rising with more than a dozen stone pillars no smaller than the size of a continent.
Planet X-352 collapsed like a planet-sized octopus awakening from its slumber, stretching its body and waving its tentacles.
Meanwhile, Qin Lun and the others, even the re-descending attack ship, was now so small that it could barely be seen. It was simply like a flea on its body. No, it was inappropriate to use the flea metaphor. It was more like a bacterium that was so tiny that it could not be seen.
“F*ck, this time it’s too embarrassing!” Wolf struggled twice before giving up. The acceleration brought about by the rapid rise of the continent firmly pressed him to the ground, and even plunged him deep into the rock stratum.
Wolf knew that he would not be able to escape the pressure of gravity until the acceleration slowed down. After falling into the stone layer, he couldn’t see his companions or the outcome of the small warship. However, as long as those people weren’t dead, they would probably be even more miserable than him. After all, he was the strongest person here.
“I hope Silver Lightning can deal with this universe creature!” Wolf’s heart was filled with unease and a rare sense of frustration.
After entering this world, Jannamer’s strength made him feel extremely confident. In fact, after studying the main mission, Wolf thought Holy Light Team had drawn a good lot.
The Arachnids, Heathmeier, Giese, and their Jannamer. Wolf believed that his side had the highest chance of winning this battle. After all, judging from the warship level, Jannamer was definitely the strongest force in the four sides.
This was also why Wolf did not hesitate to communicate with Silver Electricity when he arrived at the galaxy, allowing it to approach Planet X-352 directly. Since there was silver lightning to rely on, relying on brute force was the best choice.
Even though there were three opponents, Apostle’s combat strength was insignificant under the pressure of Silver Lightning, and it was also a source of Wolf’s confidence. Unfortunately, Wolf was still a little ill-considered. Just as Qin Lun said, his logical thinking was also limited by the experience of the past world.
In fact, in the calculation of the Broken Star System, everyone’s guidance mission was correct. The Arachnids first had the advantage of being at home, but for some reason, they were unable to display this advantage until they gave it to a weaker team of inspectors who had entered the world ahead of time.
Then, in this four-regiment war, similar to the Belief, Heathmeier’s Magic Cube warships, the Arachnid warships, including Wolf and the others’ Jannamer, would not be able to intervene in the war between Apostle until the outcome was decided.
The reason for this is because Planet X-352 is not a planet at all, but an egg of a cosmic creature. It had been in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands of years, and there was even a complete parasitic life system on it.
If Qin Lun and the others fought on it, including the universe shelling of the Attack, would they wake it up? The answer was no. The Attack was capable of killing the Zerg base in one shot, but it was still unable to break through its eggshell.
Perhaps only a universe warship of the Faith level would be able to disturb it. However, the creed-class spaceship would definitely scan planet X-352 to avoid causing an internal nuclear explosion. Therefore, Conviction must have detected the body of Planet X-352 before shelling and abandoned the shelling.
Faith, the arachnid warships, including the Heathmeier Magic Cube warships, were all city-sized, but to a planet, a city was only the size of a sesame seed. If one’s movements weren’t big enough, they wouldn’t wake up the things inside the eggshell.
The mature Jannamer Silver Lightning that Wolf and the others relied on was much larger in size than the warships mentioned above, almost the difference between pancakes and sesame seeds.
There was nothing wrong with the calculation of the Broken Star System. The only thing that could not be calculated was the thinking of this universe creature itself. This cosmic creature is still in its incubation stage. Originally, it would take millions of years for it to awaken.
However, it was different from Jannamer. Compared to him, Jannamer was not carnivorous. At most, it was a scavenging bacterium, and this was the true carnivorous creature of the universe.
After Jannamer entered the atmosphere, he was finally awakened. He actually broke his outer shell and took the initiative to awaken. The reason for that was because it had been hungry for hundreds of thousands of years, and when it first smelled the fragrance of Jannamer, it aroused its appetite!
“Try to get closer to me and prepare to assault that small warship!” Wolf gritted his teeth and sent a message to his companions.
He was unable to understand the thoughts of this cosmic creature, but the high-ranked Apostle quickly sensed the potential danger with his unparalleled adventure experience. If Janamer lost to the creatures of the universe beneath his feet, they would immediately lose their life force and become rootless duckweed in this vast universe.
Chapter 553 Partner
On the third day after leaving Faith, the independent warship Qin Lun and the others rode crossed the superluminal trajectory and arrived at the outermost edge of the second rotating arm. It’s hundreds of thousands of light-years away from the center of the galaxy.
Locating in a galaxy and at the edge of a galaxy was a completely different matter. The starry scenery that Apostle had seen when they first entered the Gospel World had disappeared. Looking out of the window of the battleship, the most common sight they saw was a deep and bottomless darkness.
According to Dong Yue, Vera, and the others, this was also a common form of star blindness among space travelers on long-distance trips. Seeing so many stars, the human body would deliberately ignore the faint starlight and treat the surroundings as complete darkness.
A similar environment could probably only be compared to the absolute depths of the planet. Apart from the icy cold and deathly silence, humans were often unable to experience the third emotion.
The pitch black Attack was like a ghost that had returned to the depths of the sea. Apart from its slightly good offensive power, the modified independent warship’s defense was much weaker. Of course, it also had an APB force field. However, in a battleship-level contest, the defensive force field it possessed was almost useless.
This was also a weakness that the small independent warship could not make up for. However, although the Attack did not have a strong defense capability, its stealth performance was very good with the Jannamer biological armor attached to the surface of the warship.
In fact, science and technology had reached the third universe era, and mankind had long abandoned gunpowder technology. Neither Gaussian nor particle-beam power engines emit much light or heat in a vacuum without atmosphere.
The most practical thermal sensing probe of the old era has become a kind of cold detector in the universe and space. Especially when the two sides were too far away, the little bit of heat the warship emitted was almost no different from the starlight.
The most commonly used detectors in space are metal and momentum detection radars. Although most battleships nowadays used composite materials, after all, the proportion of metal was very large. It was fundamentally different from many asteroids and meteorites, so it was easy for them to be captured by detection radars.
As for the momentum detection radar, it was a device that could feedback the acceleration of an object. This thing could also allow warships to quickly detect enemies, be it metal warships or living creatures in the universe.
Attack uses biological armor that essentially bypasses most thermal and metal detection radars and “deceives” momentum detection without acceleration. If the materials weren’t too precious, Captain Marcus would have wanted to lay a layer on the Faith after learning the result of the modification of the Attack.
As they neared the star system where the asteroid X-352 was located, the young crew aboard the Attack became even more vigilant.
However, there was nothing wrong with Apostle. Even Robin, the nominal captain, did not know how to command a warship. On the other hand, Dong Yue, this beautiful adjutant, had been too sensitive these past few days. She had personally investigated every small movement. Her originally beautiful watery big eyes had now turned into panda eyes.
The efforts of the Keith beauties made Apostle feel the tense atmosphere before the war. Each of them was immersed in the simulation module, training in their own air combat techniques with the other paired pilots.
“Sir, let’s call it a day!” Qin Lun’s simulation cabin opened outwards, and a person came out from both the left and right. On the left was Kieran, who was sweating profusely, and on the right was another youth with a tender face and acne on his face.
“I lost again!” Looking at the dazzling 11: 0 screen in the simulation room, Qin Lun was speechless as he looked at the cheering youth in front of him.
The youth named Phil was the youngest of the four Keith pilots in charge of working with him. He was about a star year younger than Vera. He was also a fourteen-year-old youth.
Back then, Qin Lun had asked him to be his training partner, mainly because he wanted to choose a rookie that was easy to deal with. However, he had forgotten that Giese’s talent for semi-biological mecha was that the younger he was, the more powerful he would be. The simulation module they trained couldn’t simulate Apostle’s replacement ability. As a result, Qin Lun had to be tortured by Phil every day after training for the past few days.
‘”Haha, Phil, we’ve been watching from the sidelines! Sir, you’ve made great progress these past few days. Although you can still win now, it’s getting harder and harder every time. If you continue at this rate, Sir will be able to win and lose with you in another ten days.”
Looking at the youth’s complacent appearance, a gentle young man on the sidelines couldn’t help but say something to attack him. Qin Lun smiled and nodded at him when he heard that someone was defending him. This was the last male in the four-man group, named Alex.
Alex was the oldest of the five, except for Qin Lun. He was exactly twenty years old this year. Her face was handsome, and her temperament was gentle. Normally, she liked to read books when she did not have combat missions. She appeared gentle and refined. From her manners, she could tell that she had received systematic etiquette training.
According to others, Alex had a good background and was a noble descendant of Giese. His talent in air combat was slightly inferior to Phil’s. However, his personality was calm, and he was the vice captain of this squad. However, as the captain, Qin Lun was not in charge of the squad’s air combat tactics, so he was also the crew captain in essence.
“That’s right, that’s right. You little fellow, don’t be too complacent!” Another fiery red-haired girl beside him hugged Fels’ slender neck fiercely and used her pink fist to grind his head, causing him to cry.
“Alright, Merry, let him go!” Qin Lun smiled and stopped the red-haired girl.
“Sir, I’m avenging you!” The red-haired Merry blushed and embarrassedly let go of Phil.
“Yes, yes, I’m avenging you!” Phil, who had escaped from the devil’s palm, jumped far away and made a strange face at Merry while winding at Qin Lun.
“Ah, bastard Phil, stop right there and see if I don’t beat you to death!” Hearing Fels’ implied words, the hot-tempered girl’s cheeks instantly burst out in curses.
“It’s good to be young!” Qin Lun smiled and shook his head as he watched the two of them chase after each other.
“Haha, sir, you don’t seem to be old either!” Alex couldn’t help but ask with a smile.
“I’m different from you!” Qin Lun smiled and stopped talking about this topic. Instead, his eyes flickered as he asked, “Alex, you’ve seen so many of my training sessions. What do you think my biggest weakness in air combat is? Why do I always lose to Phil every time I feel like I have a chance of winning?”
“Sir, you don’t have any flaws. If you have to find a flaw, it’s that your training time is still too short.” Alex suddenly smiled bitterly and shook his head. “Captain Marcus once told me that Apostle was a natural born warrior. I didn’t think so at that time, but now it doesn’t seem like an exaggeration at all.”
You know what? Over the past few days, the learning ability of you and your companions in battle has almost overturned my entire outlook on life.
We in Giese, even top mecha geniuses like Phil and Vera, need years and months of training to reach our current level. But you only need less than ten days of simulation training to contend against us, and you haven’t used Apostle’s special ability yet … ”
“Alex, you should know that the last thing we need is time!” Qin Lun smiled noncommittally. “I know I must be flawed in some way. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been caught off guard by Phil all the time.”
Qin Lun did not directly answer Alex’s doubts. In fact, in his opinion, Alex’s so-called combat genius was only Apostle’s Law Body.
Ordinary people do need to go through months and years of training in order to form conditioned reflex and remember the training content. However, Apostle did not need it. Their Law Body was like a sophisticated computer. Who had ever seen a computer program that needed to be typed twice before it could be saved?
When shattering the starry sky, even if it was a high-level magic skill, Apostle only needed to tear off a scroll.
In particular, Qin Lun had the data support of the death list. The training content of Pilot Officer Keith for more than ten years was already very complicated. Under Apostle’s memories of the Laws, it would take them more than ten days to complete the training.
“There are no flaws in your shooting and tactical movements, especially … this is the first time I’ve seen someone able to tear apart the Gaussian Phased Array and shoot out that arc of metal!” Alex recalled the details of the training and couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
After thinking for a while, he finally said again, “It’s actually very simple to talk about how Phil defeated you. When I was at the Mech Academy, instructors would usually only let our students understand this kind of problem, not speak it out. However, since you need to finish it quickly, I can tell you.”
“En, tell me!” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly. He was always being bullied by a fourteen-year-old youth. Even he couldn’t help but feel a little helpless.
‘”Haha, a universe air battle is not like a one-on-one battle on the ground. A good spear technique is only one aspect. More importantly, you must learn to ignore the sense of direction. There is no difference between left and right in an air battle, and there is no ground to stand on. You must learn to observe from all directions. You cannot subconsciously feel as if you are still standing on the ground.”
Alex chuckled and said, “Phil can catch you every time. That’s because you always have some habitual evasive movements in battle, such as moving backwards, avoiding left and right, ignoring the up and down directions. The kid can see that and hides this cunningly, so he always catches your evasive direction ahead of time. Is that not a loss?”
“Haha, so it’s that simple!” ‘”Thank you, Alex!” Qin Lun laughed heartily.
“Nothing much. I really want to see Fayes’s face after he loses the next time!” Alex blinked his eyes humorously, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.
After untangling his knot, Qin Lun appeared very happy and invited Alex to the casino of the warship for a drink. The scholarly, scholarly, and more warrior-like young man readily accepted the invitation. The young men of Keith, including him, enjoyed listening to Apostle tell them about some of his previous adventures.
Although the starry sky still forbade Apostle from feeding back information about other mission worlds to the characters, this world wasn’t that strict, and it didn’t prevent Qin Lun from using storytelling to circumvent certain restrictions.
‘”Dudu ~ ~” Just as the two of them walked towards the entertainment hall, the button-type communicator they were wearing on their collar suddenly flashed a red warning signal.
“An enemy attack?!” Qin Lun and Alex looked at each other in surprise and immediately ran towards their respective mecha cabins.
Chapter 554 Encounter An Enemy
After Qin Lun and Alex arrived at the mecha cabin, they discovered that the ship’s ordnance officer and ground crew were all in place. Apostle and their partner, Pilot Officer Keith, had more than half of them. Everyone’s faces were filled with excitement and nervousness before the battle.
The Attack was different from the Belief. As an independent battleship, it was impossible for the small Attack to have a separate cabin. The 50 armored soldiers stood in two rows. There was only a simple metal armor wall in the middle. The back of the mecha was directly mounted on a small ejection rail.
Not only does the Attack resemble Earth’s old-century submarines, it also ejects its mecha in a manner similar to those of nuclear submarines. In the middle of the warship, there were more than 50 hatches that were opened upwards. When ejected, they would open in batches and take turns ejecting the armor of the soldiers and mechs.
Of course, the trajectory of an independent warship didn’t have the ability to travel through space-time at the speed of more than light. It was just a high-load ejection, ejecting soldiers at a high speed to an area of about one to two hundred light seconds away from the warship, allowing them to fight within the warship’s radar command range.
Qin Lun nodded to the excited young ordnance officer, Shylock, then grabbed the suspension bridge and slid down to the ball cockpit, where he was sent into the soldier’s body. After activating the mecha, he immediately connected to the main control room of the battleship.
The Independent Warship was different from the Belief. Once it entered the combat mechanism, all the pilots had to be in place and receive information about the enemy’s situation from the mecha. If they needed to attack, they would immediately accept the captain’s orders to eject. Without attacking, they would quietly wait inside the mecha for the alert to be lifted.
“Quiet … Robin, how is the situation?” As soon as he entered the mech, Qin Lun heard messy inquiries from the communication channel.
These voices belonged to Apostle, who had already entered the mecha. Pilot Officer Keith, who was in charge of cooperating with them, had good discipline and would not speak without orders.
Hearing Qin Lun’s voice, the other Apostle immediately realized something and immediately quieted down. After all, Apostle was not a soldier. In the past, small teams were used to working together. It was understandable for him to have such a performance.
“The biological radar’s display is not very clear. Right now, we only know that there are more than ten dynamic targets in the detection range. It is impossible to distinguish whether they belong to the enemy or not.” Robin’s gentle voice rang in his ears.
“What’s Dong Yue’s opinion?”
As the three Apostle who needed to stay on the battleship most of the time, they had generally received short training for their respective positions, and Robin had also received captain training. However, at this time, she had to consult Dong Yue’s opinion. After all, she was Captain Marcus’s official adjutant.
‘”Sir Qin Lun, I have two suggestions for reference. One is to send two teams to scout for the detected targets. The other is to wait and see, and wait for those targets to enter the detection range of the momentum radar.” Dong Yue’s voice did not show any fluctuations. As an experienced adjutant of the fleet, this situation could no longer cause her emotions to fluctuate.
“Wait until the target enters the detection range of the momentum radar?” Dong Yue’s words were a little strange, but Qin Lun immediately understood. It turned out that the enemy target was not the Attack, but Robin himself.
As a biological warship, Attack was different from other Giese warships. It also used the clones of Robin, Sawa, and Bobby as its core, and the biological tissues of Jannamer as its materials. It was equipped with some “components” that could exert the replacement ability of three Apostle, and the biological detection radar was one of them.
Robin’s Apostle profession was a Spirit Summoner, and most of her Apostle skills could not be used in this world. However, the powerful spiritual energy that Spirit Summoners were able to communicate with their spiritual bodies was brought in. With more powerful biological radar, Robin’s detection range was two to three times longer than the Attack’s own radar.
Needless to say, the role of range in combat was the main reason why Qin Lun had suggested that Robin and the others stay on the warship. Of course, the reliability of this new biological equipment has not been tested.
Dong Yue’s first suggestion was actually the most normal way to deal with the enemy. The second suggestion was that the beautiful aide had some doubts about Robin’s ability. As small independent battleships, they had limited material possessions and consumed a lot of energy every time they attacked. Of course, they could not attack without attacking.
‘”Robin, I’ll go out with Frank’s two squads and order the combat room to activate the attack mode!” Qin Lun’s expression darkened as he thought about this point. He frowned and said, “Robin, I’ll go out with Frank’s two squads and order the combat room to activate attack mode!”
“Bang, bang, bang!” Above the Attack, more than ten hatches were opened one after another. Ten soldiers accompanied by ejection flames exploded into space, quickly turning into ten small dots of light and disappearing into the depths of the universe.
“Vera, Merry, Phil, form a four-aircraft defensive mode with me!” Alex’s gentle voice came from the communication channel.
“Understood! Understood” The other people’s calm voices quickly rang out on the channel.
Although the Apostle were the captains of their respective crews, the relevant air tactics were still commanded by Pilot Officer Keith. After all, Apostle’s ability to grasp air combat movements in a short period of time did not mean that they had the ability to command air combat.
With Qin Lun’s seventeenth Fallen Angel as the core, the other four quickly formed a four-sided formation that protected him like a cube. As for the group of soldiers led by Frank, they followed them not far to the right, covering them with their flanks.
This was the two-man reconnaissance mode that Apostle had come up with after many drills. With Qin Lun’s reconnaissance ability, he would be able to use another powerful shield.
Kieran had the ability to detect the Eye Thorn. Unlike Robin, who relied on biological radar to detect long-range spiritual energy, his Eye Thorn was slightly closer, but it was more sensitive, making it more suitable for use on mecha.
As for Shield Apostle, there were two people in their team. They were originally MT-attributed, one was Tier 2 Huo Biao, and the other was Frank. Qin Lun brought Frank with him, not Huo Biao, who was stronger. That was because he had confidence that he didn’t need to cover up, and also because he wanted to temper Frank.
If they really ran into an enemy, it was very likely that the other party would be the Apostle team chased by the other two alliances. They wanted to defeat the patrol team, show off their strength, and then poach from the Order-keeping Alliance.
Therefore, these people wouldn’t kill him immediately. Of course, Qin Lun had to give Frank such a good opportunity to train first.
After the two crew members ejected, they flew for nearly ten minutes. Finally, they saw the object Robin had detected. It was a dozen bumblebee-like insects. Their wings emitted a sparkling light, similar to the flames that propelled soldiers. They scattered pieces of powder-like fluorescence in the starry sky.
“Alex, what is this?” Qin Lun transmitted the scouts to his companions through the screen.
“It’s Napasa of the Zerg race. Captain Robin is right. We need to notify the Attack immediately!” Alex looked at the big bug on the screen. His entire body was shocked and his expression immediately turned ugly. “Sir, please be careful. These things are very difficult to deal with.”
“This is Napasa? Does it look different from the projection we saw?” Qin Lun raised his eyebrows. Ever since the drill found out that the arachnids were nearby, Captain Marcus had sent some information to the Apostle so that they could distinguish between the various arachnids on the battlefield.
Napasa, like the black crab, was a scout of the arachnid race. However, the black crab was huge and was more suitable for long-range cruising, while Napasa was a highly mobile patrol and reconnaissance engineer. However, it seemed that Captain Marcus’s information was lagging behind. After so many years, the Arachnid race had obviously changed a lot.
Discovering the arachnid scouting engineers at this distance meant that Captain Marcus’s previous judgment was correct. Planet X-352 indeed had an arachnid base.
“Alex, if they see soldiers, they won’t have time to notify the arachnids on the planet.” Qin Lun asked cautiously.
“Impossible. The arachnid’s biological waves have a distance limit. They’re flying a little far. According to conventional judgement, this distance shouldn’t be enough to notify the arachnids on planet X-352.” Alex thought for a moment and said resolutely.
“Sir, do you want to destroy this team of Napasar?” Vera suddenly interrupted and asked, “These bugs are as mobile as our semi-biological mecha. Although they don’t have enough durability, they can survive until Planet X-352. There are a little too many of them, and we only have two full-life mechas, so it’s impossible not to leak one of them.”
“Haha, I remember that the information mentioned that the arachnid race has a ferocious nature. As long as they subconsciously believe that the enemy is not strong, they will not take the initiative to flee!” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up as he smiled and said, “Then let’s give them an illusion that this is just a beautiful encounter with other wandering creatures in the universe!”
“Sir, you want to attack alone? It’s very dangerous …” Alex was shocked and hurriedly advised.
“Faith and Marcus have high hopes for our arrival in Apostle, and they have provided us with such good soldiers. If we can’t even deal with a few scouts from the arachnid race, doesn’t that make us look useless?”
Qin Lun smiled and said, “It’s decided. In the simulation training, it seems that we haven’t seen the unique abilities that descended on Apostle. I’ll teach you this lesson now!”
As he spoke, the seventeenth Fallen Angel suddenly jumped out of the formation and pounced towards the eight Napasas who hadn’t yet seen the soldiers in the distance.
Under the lightning-fast assault, the Jannamer armor plate on the back of the 17th Fallen Angel’s shoulder suddenly swelled up. It rose high, its legs shortened, and its body thickened. At the same time, the originally ferocious lower jaw slightly protruded forward. The closed mouth suddenly opened, revealing the sharp fangs of a cat.
In an instant, the humanoid soldier armor turned into a giant cat. Its muscles were moving like mice all over its body.
What was even more surprising was that as the mech transformed, a bloodthirsty light shone in its eyes. A layer of water-like shadow flowed through its body, and its body quickly became transparent. In just a few seconds, the giant cat had disappeared from everyone’s radar screens and merged with the dark cosmic starry sky.
Qin Lun’s second Apostle replacement ability was finally revealed in front of everyone. The seventeenth Fallen Angel’s beast form, the Shadow Gale Leopard!
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Chapter 555 Encirclement And Annihilation
After transforming into a beast form, perhaps he had comprehended the Shadow Gale Leopard’s swiftness talent. Without increasing the energy conversion rate, the 17th Fallen Angel’s speed increased by three points and quickly approached the hornet swarm in front of him.
After approaching to a certain extent, Qin Lun had the Seventeenth Fallen Angel extinguish the particle melting furnace, preventing the radiation waves from spilling out of his body from alarming Napasar. He only relied on his inertia to drift over.
Napasar was more than 30 meters long and had a wingspan of more than 40 meters. His huge compound eyes were like a spherical radome covered with hexagonal crystal mirrors. He had a ferocious and slender needle-like mouth and not weak intelligence.
In other mission worlds, even if the Napasas in front of Qin Lun didn’t possess the ability to destroy cities like legendary creatures, they were more than enough compared to sub-legendary creatures. However, in this Gospel World, Napasar was only a scouting engineer of the universe’s insects.
The existence of the Gospel World seemed to be aimed at overturning Qin Lun’s previous impression of the starry sky. Because of the particularity of the Gospel World, he had once asked his companions why this world was not a High Demon World, but a Middle Demon World.
Most of the companions who didn’t know much about the secrets of the starry sky shook their heads with bitter smiles. In the end, the beautiful Guild Leader, who often mingled with the upper echelons of the Lost Realm, gave an ambiguous answer.
According to Robin’s analysis, the criteria for dividing the three mission worlds from low to high were extremely complicated, and they weren’t as simple as Qin Lun had originally thought. Not only was it related to the technological magic power of the storyline natives, it was also related to the Laws of the World and the mission area that Apostle had entered.
The reason why the Gospel World was not included in the High Demon World was probably due to its unique world laws, as well as the Angel Clone possessed by Apostle.
After all, in this world, Apostle fought as a soldier, greatly reducing the individual gap between universe creatures and Apostle. They could not be compared to the legendary creatures at the top of the biological chain.
Qin Lun put away his fantasies that had nothing to do with the battle and focused his attention on the battle.
At this moment, he was already very close to Napasar, not even a light second away. Even though one light second was close to 300,000 kilometers, the accelerated inertia would not weaken in a universe vacuum without an atmosphere. The kilometers were no different from the metres on the ground.
However, although the faster the aircraft accelerated, the faster it would be, it was not without limits. The speed of light was a limit point. Similar to the speed of sound in the atmosphere, small aircraft were usually only close to the speed of light and were unable to break through directly.
Qin Lun’s seventeenth Fallen Angel was able to break through the speed of light, but it would cause a heavy load on the mecha and even affect its combat movements. Therefore, most soldiers would not enter the battle at the speed of light unless they were on a long-distance attack.
Even though the seventeenth Fallen Angel possessed the invisibility of the Shadow Gale Leopard at such a close distance, the keen-witted arachnid engineers felt a faint threat. The swarm of insects began to restlessly stir. The leader Napasafu’s eyes were filled with ferocity, and the antennae on his head were constantly trembling, trying to find out the source of the threat.
Qin Lun vaguely felt that if he got closer, he would definitely be discovered by these big insects. Even though Napasa still couldn’t find him, with their excellent arachnid instincts, they still started to turn and fly away from Qin Lun.
“Now!”
The Seventeenth Fallen Angel’s eyes shone with a bloodthirsty red light. A ripple of water rippled through the starry sky. A vigorous black panther with blazing flames suddenly emerged from the void and dashed towards the swarm of insects with lightning speed as if it was stepping on flat ground.
“Hiss!” The closest Napasar to Qin Lun saw the Black Panther mecha. The colorful fur on his body rose like a hedgehog. A stream of air sprayed out from his needle-like mouthpiece, causing a shockwave-like scream to resound in the vacuum.
“Too late!” The Black Panther mecha’s face revealed a ferocious, personified expression. In an instant, it had already arrived at the top of its head.
The strong and powerful hind paw stomped down, and the high-speed Napasar fell like a cannonball. The moment the two collided, the soft, unprotected insect head exploded like a rotten watermelon. Dark green insect blood sprayed in the air like shrapnel from a bomb.
The Black Panther mecha used this step to refract towards the nearest Napasar like a bolt of lightning.
Although this Napasar was alarmed by his companion’s screams before he died, he was still in a dazed state and looked back with a puzzled expression. In his compound-eyed three-dimensional vision, the ferocious and terrifying figure of the Black Panther Mecha was already as close to him as a devil god.
“One, two, three …”
Qin Lun’s Black Panther mecha was like a streak of black lightning, refracting twice in succession in the void, shattering three Napasas in succession.
However, by the time the third Napasar arrived, the target was completely awake. He barely tilted his head to avoid the sneak attack. The Panther’s sharp claws only left three deep wounds on its large abdomen. At the same time, it also grabbed off the wings on the right side of its body, seriously wounding it and not dying.
“Hiss!” The swarm finally reacted and gathered together with a hissing sound. The larger Napasar, who was leading the group, sprinted madly towards the panther. The needle-like mouthpiece emitted a dark glow like a long spear.
“Your agility is indeed very high!” Seeing that his sneak attack had only caused two deaths and one injury, Qin Lun felt slightly regretful.
However, he didn’t have the slightest intention of tangling with these insects. The flames on his body suddenly burst into flames and he turned around and ran away. The seventeenth Fallen Mech in the form of a wild beast only had close combat mode. He did not have the Wind Blade talent of a true Dark Shadow Gale Leopard. Fighting against the other five Napasas was obviously not a good idea.
When he escaped, Qin Lun did not forget to secretly turn around and observe. Seeing that these insects weren’t scared away by him, he aggressively chased after him and immediately revealed a trace of mockery on his face.
Even with the severely injured Napasar, there were only six insects left. He and Frank’s all-biological mecha dealt with two, and the other eight mecha dealt with four. In a two-on-one situation, as long as he entered the encirclement, even if Napasar’s mobility was very strong, it was impossible for him to escape.
Although Napasa possessed the ferocious nature of an arachnid, compared to other arachnids, he was still a cunning scouting engineer. After chasing after Qin Lun’s butt for a while, Napassa let out a hoarse scream and slowed down with the rest of his peers. A trace of doubt appeared in his twinkling eyes.
Qin Lun’s expression froze. Just as he was about to turn around and provoke him again, he saw more than ten bright beams of light intersecting from the void, weaving a net of light beams. Right behind the swarm of insects, an earthen yellow flame burst forth.
Qin Lun smiled comprehensively and immediately slowed down his steps. He didn’t hurry and slowly rushed towards the five Napasas in front of him. At the same time, the surface of the Black Panther mecha wriggled once again and returned to its human form from the Black Panther mecha. With his reinforcements, he no longer needed to engage in close combat with the swarm of insects in front of him.
Realizing that they had fallen into the enemy’s trap, the Napasa swarm did not stir. Instead, they quickly gathered together and drew closer to each other.
The leader, Napasafu, had a cunning look in his eyes. He looked back at Qin Lun with hatred, but he didn’t hesitate to bring the other insects back to meet the earthen yellow flames behind him.
“Indeed, he has great intelligence!” Seeing this, Qin Lun’s eyes lit up.
A sneak attack would kill two insects and injure one. It was the consensus of the insects that he was not to be provoked. However, they did not break through in any other direction. Clearly, the swarm could tell that the gap left behind by the beam net was not large, and the number of enemies was more than theirs. Just a moment ago, he came to the conclusion that he had to break out of the encirclement right behind him.
“What a pity!” Qin Lun smiled meaningfully. A soldier-machine armor that could emit flames all over his body. Aside from Qin Lun himself, there was only one other person in their group. The yellow flame behind the swarm was the hunchback servant Frank.
Frank was the weakest amongst the ten Apostle, but the special laws of battle in the Gospel World had largely narrowed the gap. Although the Apostle skill was completely sealed, the MT was the MT. The insects would probably soon realize what a bronze wall was.
The first bug to encounter Frank was Napasa, who was seriously injured by Qin Lun and landed behind him. The khaki-colored flames did not slow down at all, and in a barbaric manner, they directly collided with the insects.
“Bang!” Even though they couldn’t transmit their voices like insects in the vacuum, and they could see the rotten orange in front of them that had been shattered by a bat, they couldn’t help but think of an onomatopoeia.
After blasting the Napasar into pieces, Frank’s charge slowed down a little, revealing the mecha’s full appearance enveloped in flames.
The tall soldier was holding a strange-looking shield in his hand. It was different from the enhanced APB ultrasonic shield Huo Biao used in the drill. The shield in Frank’s hand was a biological equipment specially designed for him.
This shield was even bigger than Frank’s soldiers, and it was extremely thick. Holding it in the hands of the soldiers, it didn’t look like a shield at all. It was simply a city wall.
This thing wasn’t mixed with any technology, it was pure solid. It was not a metal composite, but a cosmic skeleton called Qiongqi.
Qiongqi was a cosmic creature that had only one characteristic: its bone density was extremely dense. Other than being non-radiant, its bone density and mass were comparable to that of a white dwarf star used as fuel for a particle melt furnace by a soldier-man-machine armor.
This kind of characteristic also caused its skeletal shape to be very difficult to be modified. The ribs on both sides were like a vicious beast’s open mouth. The white sternum that connected the ribs was originally potholed, but the Ordnance Officer in charge of Frank filled it with other high-density materials, making it look exceptionally solid.
When he first saw this thing, Huo Biao, who was also an MT, felt endless jealousy. Unfortunately, the MT ability he had obtained was not suitable for this shield, so he had no choice but to hand it over to Frank, who had an extremely high power attribute.
Not to mention the weak Napasa, even the insects and black crabs covered in heavy armor from earlier drills would be smashed into a ball of minced meat by this thing head-on. Even the Black Panther Mech that Qin Lun had just turned into didn’t dare to touch the current Frank. Combined with the impact of the full-blown mech, whoever touched it would fall apart without exception.
Holding this ferocious-looking weapon, the soldiers Frank was driving were covered in dark green insect liquid. They looked like evil spirits from hell, and there was also the originally kind and honest image of hunchbacked servants.
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Chapter 556 As The Attack Progresses
“How boring!” Fayes looked at the battle in front of him and was somewhat unable to lift his spirits.
“Haha, isn’t this good? Ten against eight, no losses. No matter what, this is a complete victory!” Alex didn’t stop Phil from nagging on the aircrew channel.
The process of encircling the remaining five Napasars was just as boring as Fayes had said. It was no longer as stunning and gorgeous as Qin Lun and Frank had been before. Unlike Qin Lun and the other two, the eight Keith pilots, who had tacitly cooperated with each other, were strangled one by one by the two groups of soldiers because the net formed by the particle beams had completely limited Napasar’s scope of avoidance.
“Hehe, Commander Qin Lun has always said that he doesn’t have any tactical talent. In my opinion, apart from the tactical formation, it’s very difficult for him to familiarize himself with it in a short period of time. The air combat tactics of the squad aren’t bad at all!” Vera wasn’t as excited as Qin Lun on the channel.
“Yes!” Hearing Vera’s words, Alex couldn’t help but be moved.
After Pilot Officer Keith and the Apostle crew formed a five-man crew, Apostle admitted that they weren’t good at air combat tactics. They basically handed over the command to Giese, even Qin Lun was no exception. However, judging from today’s battle, Apostle did not lack the ability to command tactics. Instead, he did not know much about the tactics of the crew formation.
Judging from the actual battle, we seem to have a rather big misunderstanding in this regard. In the past, the Keith Flying Squad did not have a particularly prominent combat strength, so they had to rely on the overall formation tactics in air warfare. Individual heroism would cause huge losses.
However, with Apostle’s entry, the situation was different. Apostle himself possessed extremely strong individual abilities, and the tactical coordination formed by this transcended the previous mode. It seemed to be closer to the combat tactics of the Apostle team.
As Alex pondered, the last Napasar was also killed by Qin Lun and Frank. Their soldiers flew over with dark green juice all over their bodies. They immediately woke him up and greeted his companions, “The two officers are back. Let’s go back! Merry and Phil, bring back the remains of Napasar with their heads intact.”
“Merry, why are you bringing this back? Do you want to hand it over to Faith for research?” Seeing Merry pulling the two Napasar corpses, Qin Lun couldn’t help but feel a little puzzled.
“Sir, this is the necessary mechanism to fight against the arachnids!” Alex explained on the channel with a smile.
It turned out that ever since Giese had obtained biochemical technology from the arachnids and Heathmeier, he had developed a technological method to extract residual information from the brain of a corpse. This method was ineffective against Jannamer and the mainly spiritual Heathmeier, but it was effective against the arachnids.
The arachnid race had distinct hierarchies, high intelligence, and low intelligence. At the same time, it was the social system of the clan population. Most of the low-level soldiers like Napasa were only seven or eight years old, which guaranteed absolute obedience to the mothers of insects.
However, it was precisely because of this that most of the information in the minds of these arachnids was not too complicated. It was very easy for them to use technological means to stimulate them and obtain their memories. It could be said that with these Napasar corpses, the Attack’s reconnaissance work would be completed at the very least.
“Mainly as a reconnaissance-type attack ship, there are equipment on it to extract the residual information of brain waves. If we can get the information of the arachnid base from these Napasa, then the mission given by Captain Marquez will be completed.”
After the battle ended, Alex relaxed completely and was in a good mood.
“That old fox” Qin Lun scolded. Sure enough, Captain Marquez did not think of letting an independent warship go directly into Planet X-352. He naturally knew that he would encounter an arachne patrol outside the galaxy. The specific job of the Attack was to catch a few “tongues”.
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Because this was the first actual battle since the Apostle had encountered them during the drill, Alex and the others had conducted multi-angle battlefield cameras. Apart from the scene of Qin Lun attacking alone, the encirclement and suppression process was still very clear, and it had a guiding significance for their future squad battles.
Apostle and the other Keith pilots gathered together to comment on the battle images, mostly in praise of the two squads that attacked.
“Captain Robin, the results of the scientific team’s sampling are out. The arachnid samples submitted by Alex’s team are very complete. We have obtained the landform projection of Planet X-352 and the situation of the arachnid base!”
Before everyone could finish watching the battle video, Dong Yue entered the combat room from outside and happily handed Robin a projection chip.
Robin paused the battle video and played the projection information extracted by the technology team on the big screen. An azure primitive planet instantly appeared in front of everyone.
The planet, numbered X-352 by Giese, was indeed a planet of life, as expected. The projection was very clear. This was a beautiful planet.
Blue skies, white clouds, lush vegetation, and low-grade primitive animals running through the jungle. However, judging from their expressions, most of them were panicking when they saw the arachnids.
The most impressive thing on the projection was the large, sapphire-like lakes embellished in the dense jungle.
According to Dong Yue’s analysis from the Science and Technology Group, the planet is probably in Earth’s Cretaceous period. Most of the vegetation on the surface is relatively simple, fern-like trees and thorns. The dominant primitive animals on the planet were not vertebrate reptiles but invertebrate arthropods.
“No wonder the arachnids took a fancy to this planet. Invertebrate arthropods are their close relatives. This planet should be very suitable for the reproduction of the arachnids!” Dong Yue pointed at the projection screen and commented.
“What about the arachnid base? Why haven’t you seen the arachnid base yet?” Bobby asked anxiously.
“Don’t worry, the next one is!” Robin smiled and changed a projection. Another image that was completely different from the surface of the earth appeared on the screen.
“This is the seabed? The arachnids built their base on the seabed!” Apostle looked at the blue image of the seabed and couldn’t help but be greatly surprised.
In this projection, apart from the strange and diverse arthropods and planktonic underwater creatures, everyone saw a ferocious colossus. It looked like an incomparably large conch, but it had countless spikes on its surface, and it looked like a curved horn protruding out of its body.
Comparing the memories extracted from Napasa’s body, the arachnid engineers, who were tens of meters long, were like ants in front of the conch, moving in and out of the holes in the conch’s body. Apparently, this was a typical arachnid base, or an immigrant city that first developed Planet X-352.
“That’s all Napasa has.” Dong Yue turned off the projection and said with a serious expression.
“The information on the Zerg base on Planet X-352 is undeniable. However, apart from the known Zerg base, we do not know if there are any other Zerg bases. My opinion is to leave this region immediately and send the information back to the Faith so that Captain Marcus can decide what to do next.”
Hearing Dong Yue’s words, the other Keith pilots in the combat room generally agreed. As an independent battleship, even if the reconnaissance mission of the Attack was completed successfully, even if Captain Marcus was here, it would be impossible for them to do a better job.
It’s a bit unrealistic to go any deeper into the X-352. Given the size of the Zerg base, the Attack would be very difficult to handle. From the looks of it, it was difficult to distinguish between civilian and military-type arachnid bases.
In fact, there was only one difference between civilian bases and military bases, and that was the number of combat insects. Most of the civilian-type arachnid bases were dominated by engineers, and the Attack could barely resist. If it was a military type, there would definitely be a large number of giant bugs flying in the air, and the Attack could only flee for its life.
Moreover, it was very difficult to determine whether there were any other arachnid bases from the few memories. If there were other arachnid bases, the invasion of the planet’s atmosphere would be no different from poking a hornet’s nest.
However, Robin and the other Apostle remained silent, seated on their seats and frowning. Apostle’s style of doing things had their own characteristics, but whether it was Apostle, who was accustomed to team battles, or a lone traveler like Qin Lun, they all had one thing in common, and that was their initiative and aggressiveness in carrying out world missions.
Of course, Shattered Star Sky sent Apostle into the mission world, most of the time to explore the historical storyline and plunder the source of the world. Apostle often need to change the course of the world’s history, and their mission is not something that can be accomplished in a step-by-step manner.
Apostle, who was carrying out his mission step by step, would definitely not be able to become a professional. He had long since been eliminated by the Broken Star System. Regardless of the quality of the professional Apostle, they needed to explore their own missions and take action at the right time. Only in this way could they achieve a breakthrough in their missions.
Robin looked at Qin Lun and asked hesitantly through telepathy, “Qin Lun, what do you think?”
Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he calmly replied, “We are different from Giese. They can doubt whether Planet X-352 has an arachne, but we have already confirmed this by relying on our guidance mission. Returning like this would be a waste of time.”
In addition, Captain Marcus has worked with Apostle before. He should be able to confirm that Planet X-352 has an arachnid base. Sending the Attack over is a disguised test for us. If we go back now, we will definitely lose points in the old fox’s heart. In the future, we can only muddle along under his arrangements. ”
“But isn’t it too risky to enter the atmosphere with just one Attack and fifty soldiers?” Robin nodded slowly and asked cautiously.
Qin Lun looked at Robin’s beautiful face and sighed in his heart.
Now he understood why, with Robin’s qualities, he had arranged for a Kelly in the rookie team in the past. This beautiful Guild Leader was good at everything. Her intelligence and combat strength weren’t bad, but she was too indecisive. No wonder Kelly had arranged for her to follow her this time.
‘The main mission given by the Broken Universe is often unpredictable. It must be multi-directional and exploratory. Apostle can choose whatever camp he wants and even the route of the mission. However, the guidance mission is very close to the space-time point of the world we enter, so there is usually no big deviation in the early estimation of the universe.’
Qin Lun thought for a moment and said seriously, “Judging from our current guidance mission and its difficulty, I don’t think the Zerg base on Planet X-352 will be very strong. It might even be just an empty shell.” Based on the Starry Sky’s calculations, it is very likely that our patrol team alone will be able to solve this problem. Besides, we still have 50 soldiers and the Attack Vessel to rely on … ”
Actually, there was no need for Qin Lun to explain. Robin also understood this point. Only now did he feel relieved and immediately revealed a firm smile.
“Captain’s orders, continue forward! Attack’s main cannon is preheated and is scheduled to launch a targeted attack in the atmosphere after three star hours. Everyone, the battle to determine Planet X-352’s ownership will begin with Attack. Let’s work together!”
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Chapter 557 Fetter
‘”Captain” Dong Yue didn’t say anything, but her expression was a little anxious.
“Dong Yue, don’t worry. Our Apostle has a star projection prompt. Please trust my judgment!” Robin smiled and nodded at her, making the beautiful adjutant’s face look a little better.
“Robin, please follow me!” Qin Lun rolled his eyes at Robin and took her away from the bridge.
“You should know what I want to talk to you about, right?” In a secluded place, Qin Lun frowned and looked at her.
“I know!” Robin hesitated for a moment before smiling bitterly. “Sister Kelly used to criticize me for being lacking in self-confidence, tactful, and suitable to be a deputy Guild Leader of the staff, not a person who makes decisions. But I was always afraid that my own wrong decisions would cause death and injury to my companions.”
“So even if Dong Yue questioned your ability to scout earlier, you didn’t refute. Instead, you left the decision to me?” Qin Lun turned to stare at her and sneered, “As the supreme leader of Apostle, Guild Leader and the warship, he would rather endure the doubts of an aboriginal and subordinate adjutant than make a decision!”
“What do you know? If it weren’t for Sister Kelly’s insistence, do you think I would be willing to be the Guild Leader or partner with someone like you?” Robin’s expression suddenly changed and he couldn’t help but shout, “Since you’re better than me, why can’t you make the decision?”
“Since you know what kind of person I am, then you should know that I will not be responsible for the lives of the other members!” Qin Lun smiled sinisterly and took a step forward, almost sticking to Robin’s chest, looking straight into her eyes.
‘”Now listen carefully. If we’re in trouble on Planet X-352 and you can’t react in time on the Attack, don’t blame me for leaving the others behind. You know I can do it. Kelly won’t be able to threaten me even if I lose her current condition!”
“Alright, I understand!” Robin blushed, his tall chest heaving violently as he stared at Qin Lun angrily.
“Not bad!” Qin Lun subconsciously glanced at the white and deep ravine on the collar of the beauty’s uniform. Suddenly, he revealed a narrow smile and said with a pun.
“You … bastard!” Robin lowered his head and glanced at it. He stamped his feet in embarrassment and anger, then turned around and left.
Looking at the beautiful Guild Leader’s graceful swaying figure, the smile on Qin Lun’s face gradually subsided and his expression returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened just now. However, his heart immediately stirred and he shouted softly, “Who is it? Come out!”
“Young Master, yes, it’s me!” A helpless hunchbacked servant appeared at the corner of the secluded corridor. “I came earlier than you. This place is a dead end. I didn’t have time to avoid it …”
“Frank! What are you doing here? The battle was so intense just now. Aren’t you going to take a rest?” Qin Lun raised his eyebrows and asked doubtfully.
“I … I’m fine. I’m just too bored in the cabin. Come here and take a look at the starry sky!” Frank murmured as his gaze darkened.
“Too boring? Aren’t you going to play a few cards with them?” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he tapped on his temple with his finger, “I know … you’re homesick?”
“No, no, it’s not much different from Schiff and Didi!” Frank turned around and didn’t look at Qin Lun.
“You know I’m not talking about Devil’s horn’s family!” Qin Lun sighed softly. He walked over to his side and looked at the cosmic starry sky outside the corridor window without a focus. “Haven’t you gotten used to Apostle’s life for so long? Or perhaps Devil’s horn has made you lose your sense of belonging!”
Frank remained silent for a long time before asking, “Young Master, can we … can we still go back?”
“Go back? What are you going back for? What else is there to miss? You should know that Young Master Wellington, the real Wellington Stan, who grew up together, died the moment I crossed over!”
Kieran knew what the hunchback servant was talking about, so he replied expressionlessly, “Poor Catherine is dead, too. Apostle can’t go back to the historical storyline he experienced. There’s only yours, mine, Catherine’s tombstone, and three inhumanely rotten shells left!”
“Can’t you go back?” Frank was slightly absent-minded. His eyes were a little red as he bitterly said, “Young Master, you shouldn’t have said that …”
“Then what should I say, Frank Stan? Are you blaming me?” Qin Lun felt a burst of irritation in his heart, and his tone was a bit stiff. “If I had left you in that world, you would already be a pile of bones. Isn’t it good to do Apostle? There are so many stimulating new things that can make people forget all their unhappy feelings without sealing them!”
Frank lowered his head and said calmly, “Yes, Young Master, I was thinking too much!”
“Frank, you should be able to see who I am now! If you don’t want to stay by my side, then leave. My promise is still valid!” Qin Lun took a deep breath and said coldly.
“Young Master, I’ve never thought of it that way” Frank raised his head in shock, only to discover that Qin Lun had already turned around and left.
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The incident between Qin Lun and his two companions did not affect the assault of the Attack. With the help of eliminating eight blind spots opened by Napasar, the warship successfully broke through to the planet’s atmosphere. Perhaps Attack was right. Planet X-352’s arachnid base was just an empty shell, and they didn’t encounter any patrolling bugs along the way.
“Above planet X-352, the main engine of the battleship stops and cuts into the planetary synchronous orbit …”
“Captain, the main cannon room reports that the Type IV Particle Pulse Rail Gun has been cleared and preheated. The main cannon has locked onto the target. Request approval to charge …”
“Begin charging the main cannon. Countdown to 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8 …”
The main cannon of the Independent Warship did not need to be charged for such a long time. However, the main cannon of the Attack was somewhat special. It was the main cannon of a main cosmic warship, so the firing process was a bit complicated. Of course, its power was also enormous.
“Captain, the main cannon is fully charged. Fire Control Room requests firing!”
Following the commander’s order, everyone on the bridge turned their gazes to the projection screen of the warship.
On the screen, a huge cross-cursor pierced through the superradiant scope and aimed at a small blue dot on the planet’s surface, where the arachnid base was located.
It was different from what everyone had obtained before. When the researchers from the Attack Science and Technology Group carefully compared it, they discovered that the arachnid base was not at the bottom of the deep sea, as they had originally thought. Instead, it was at the bottom of a huge lake.
The lake looked down from the sky and was shaped like a full moon, so it was given the codename “Moon Lake”. However, everyone on the Attack knew very well that with the main cannon of the universe battleship, if the Zerg base was completely defenseless, then this “Moon Lake” would soon become a historical term.
The Attack, which was shaped like a submarine, opened its round and smooth front like a flower bud, revealing the black barrel of the battleship’s main cannon. A bit of blazing light inside grew from small to large, until it shot out like a drum.
The beam of light, which was almost a hundred meters in diameter, was blazing like a blazing sun on the projection screen at the moment it was fired, causing everyone to slightly squint their eyes.
The moment the beam of light touched the atmosphere, a powerful circular shock wave appeared out of thin air. Even the massive warship couldn’t help but tumble backwards, exiting the planetary synchronous orbit and sliding into outer space. It was not until the warship’s engineers in the engine room had fine-tuned the vectoring nozzle of the secondary engine that they were able to return to orbit.
Originally, it was a pure white pillar of light, but due to the friction of the atmosphere, the outer edge was covered with an additional orange flame. If someone were standing on the ground of planet X-352, they would definitely find a small sun suddenly appearing on the planet that was as bright as day.
The huge particle beam broke the originally tranquil Moon Lake region. Before the sound could be heard, the surface of the lake lit up with a flash of bright light and white smoke filled the sky. However, the white smoke made up of water vapor only lasted for a short moment, and the water molecules inside were once again decomposed by ultra-hot particle radiation.
“Boom!” The flammable gases produced by the decomposition of water molecules were instantly detonated, almost on par with the sound of a particle beam hitting the water surface, forming a loud explosion.
Accompanied by the following explosive shockwaves, the sound waves blew away all the trees and vegetation on the lakeside and burned them away in the blazing temperature. This process didn’t even take a second.
As for the arthropods in the lakeside forest and the aquatic creatures in Moon Lake, they were lucky because they didn’t even have time to experience the pain before the disaster ended.
The lake water was evaporated by the high heat of the particle beams and all aquatic life was extinct. Although the flow of high-energy particles is much less radiant than that of “polluting weapons,” the accompanying shockwaves and radiation particles can also turn the lake region into a man-made desert, barren for hundreds of years.
Cosmos warships are so destructive to planets, no wonder humans are more destructive than Jannamer in the eyes of some cosmic creatures.
On the large screen of Attack, the original Moon Lake and the forest beside it had disappeared, leaving behind only a circular pit that looked like a meteorite collision. There was only one thing left in this ring-shaped pit that had a diameter of more than a hundred kilometers.
The formerly ferocious and terrifying arachnid base on the projection was now like a flower bud that had been stabbed by a thick stick, turning into a scene of a remnant flower defeating a willow. It was also like a meat bun that had just been cooked, surging with boiling hot steam. Piles of insect corpses that had turned into black ash could be seen everywhere near the base.
Qin Lun and the others weren’t mistaken. Although the arachnids had set up a base on Planet X-352 one step ahead of schedule, they weren’t mistaken. However, this base had no military function. It was just a colonial station, and it had only recently been completed. Apart from a few engineers and scouts, even the various shields and turrets had not been completed.
“Charge with me and get rid of the remaining insects!” Before the bombardment, Qin Lun, who had already quietly entered the atmosphere, revealed a sinister smile of excitement.
Behind him was a dense array of air-borne armor. Apart from Robin and the others on the warship, all of the other Keith pilots, along with seven Apostle, were already here. The battle had just begun, and it had already entered its final stages.
Of course, the crowd celebrating the victory of the Attack did not know that while they were cleaning up Planet X-352, apart from the arrival of Faith, there were three other squadrons heading towards Planet X-352.
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Chapter 558 Harvest
The seventeenth Fallen Angel floated high in the sky. Qin Lun’s cold eyes swept across the battlefield below. After the arachnid base was destroyed by the incoming shells, the insects scattered outside the base began to frantically return reinforcements.
Unfortunately, without the support of the base, the weaknesses of the arachnids would be revealed. Most insects are inherently less intelligent than humans, and their strength lies in their high degree of organization and discipline.
Under such circumstances, the soldiers who were stronger than the Zerg, and whose battlefield organization had completely defeated the other party, could often use the time difference to kill more and less bugs and kill the remaining bugs bit by bit.
During the siege of the remaining arachnids, Apostle discovered that this battle was different from the previous two battles. Perhaps it was because they had entered the Guiding Mission Area that killing the arachnids on Planet X-352 had yielded hundreds of shattered crystals, which made Apostle work even harder.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer bugs returning, Qin Lun finally stopped staying high up in the sky and flew towards the arachnid base below. Although the arachnid base had been destroyed, no one had yet approached it.
Apostle led Pilot Officer Keith to kill the returning insects. Actually, they had the intention of probing the base of the insects, so that they wouldn’t be ambushed again when they entered the base.
“Huo Biao, bring your team back. Let’s go to the arachnid base and take a look!” Qin Lun shouted at the murderous MT and landed at the edge of the huge ring crater with Alex and the others.
Huo Biao, who had received the order, was slightly stunned. He had originally thought that Qin Lun would call for Frank. Frank was Qin Lun’s servant, so it wasn’t a secret in the inspector team. The young man’s slightly biased arrangements were mostly seen by others.
However, there was nothing to be jealous of. It was just human nature. As long as Qin Lun didn’t have any selfishness in the distribution of benefits, it would be fine. When this deputy Guild Leader first met, the pure and bashful look that he had disguised had long faded in the minds of the crowd of Apostle.
Apart from Bobby, who was younger and had a jumping temperament, Huo Biao, Bahrain, the Robben brothers, and Bowie were all human geniuses. Through a drill, a line-of-fire reconnaissance, and now a surprise attack on the Zerg base, they had understood why the Lost Party would find an “outsider” to act as deputy Guild Leader to the patrol team.
Perhaps Robin was more influential on the order-keeping front, but the way Apostle displayed his strength was not his reputation, but his actual performance.
In their respective guilds, Bahrain, Huo Biao, and the others were either Guild Leaders themselves or elites with outstanding talent. Since they were willing to join the patrol team, it was because they still had a nostalgia for the order-keeping front and were unwilling to leave just like that.
Perhaps they still had doubts about such a temporary team, but after observing the performance of the two Guild Leaders, the doubts in their hearts were being dispelled. This victory came at the right time. The current team of inspectors was truly packed together. It was no longer the temporary team composed of elite individuals.
Of course, aside from Frank and Robin, these people didn’t know that Qin Lun would regularly sell his teammates. Frank wouldn’t say anything, and Robin wouldn’t talk too much about it, causing the team to lose cohesion.
Even though Robin had been threatened by Qin Lun to sell her teammates, after she calmed down, the intelligent Beauty Guild Leader felt that Qin Lun was just provoking her in disguise.
In other mission worlds, Qin Lun’s words were likely to come true, but not in the Gospel World. The biggest threat to them in this world was not the arachnids, or Jannamer, but the Apostle teams pursued by the other two alliances.
It was just that the other guilds wanted to show their strength, both to subdue them and to rope them in. In many battles, he would hold back. Without any real threat to his life, Qin Lun might not sell his teammates.
At least in this mission world, the word’companion ‘was binding on Qin Lun. However, it was precisely because of this that Qin Lun had nominally contributed to the Order-keeping Alliance. In fact, Robin and even Kelly understood that the Lost Party owed the five great murderers a favor, and it was still a huge favor.
Huo Biao glanced at Frank and noticed that there was no dissatisfaction in the eyes of the hunchback servant. He immediately shrugged his shoulders and brought his crew to the 17th Fallen Angel. He felt that he was thinking too much. Frank didn’t change his profession, and he was already a Second Grade MT. Of course, he had to take the lead in entering the enemy base.
“Alex, you guys stay here!” Qin Lun winked at Huo Biao, causing the soldiers piloted by Pilot Officer Keith to remain outside the base.
‘”Sir, be careful. Even if the arachnid base doesn’t have a complete shield, it can’t be completely destroyed by the Attack. There must be remnants of insects inside. If you encounter too many enemies, please call for backup first!” Vera warned with concern.
“Understood!” Qin Lun smiled and nodded his head. His figure changed once again, and he transformed into the Shadow Gale Leopard and charged into the opening of the arachne base.
“What a miraculous replacement ability! It actually maps the innate talent of a summoned beast onto its master!” Looking at the giant cat that disappeared in front of him after a wave, Huo Biao’s eyes lit up as he carried a round shield and flashed into the arachnid base.
Huo Biao couldn’t see Qin Lun’s location, but with the telepathy between the two of them, he could still feel that the young man was not far from him.
The arachnid hole they entered this time was not a normal entrance or exit, but was one of the cracks that had been torn apart by the shelling. When they stepped into the interior of the arachne base, their first reaction was to feel hot. It was like a steamer inside.
Qin Lun quickly realized that his invisibility had lost its effect through Huo Biao’s reminder. The steam evaporated from the biological tissue caused the Black Panther Mech to reveal a transparent body that flowed like waves of water. The Shadow Gale Leopard’s Shadow Innate Skill had actually been cracked under such a unique environment.
Seeing that his invisibility was useless, Qin Lun helplessly recovered his human form. He raised his chin and signaled for the snickering MT to walk in front.
The inner walls of the arachnid base revealed typical body textures. Due to the residual heat from the shelling, the muscular walls showed signs of melting, making them wet and disgusting to look at.
The crack that Qin Lun and the others entered was located above the base, and there was a huge space. From their position, a charred pit appeared at the bottom of the base. In some places, there were coke-like dark fires.
From the information they had browsed on the Attack earlier, they could tell that this pit was originally supposed to be the incubator of the arachnid base, and was also the main structure of the arachnid base.
Around the hatching pond, there were densely packed biological caves. This was a nursery similar to a human nursery. It was used to nurture all kinds of insects needed by the arachnid base.
Apart from that, there are also some material storage rooms, most of which are organisms of plants and animals. As for the way the insects were stored, there was naturally no need to talk about it. Even Qin Lun’s appetite had dropped a lot after looking at the projection data.
The cities of the arachnids were so simple and rough. Their social structure was different from humans. There were no hospitals, no schools, no hotels, no casinos. Everything was just to expand their populations. The desire to survive and reproduce was always like a black hole that was hard to fill.
If there were no natural enemies, they would only maintain a minimum of military strength. Everything depended on reproduction and expansion as the first prerequisite.
According to the information obtained by the Giants on the original Bug Star in the Gith Galaxy, they discovered that a complete colonial base for the Arachnids had been counted from the moment it descended. The complete transformation and domination of a planet of life only required about three star cycles, the first of which was the construction of the base’s outer shell.
Only when the arachnids encountered natural enemies such as the Heathmayers or the Giants would their first sequence of needs transform from reproduction to defending against their enemies. From this point of view, the arachnids are purely defensive races, and what threatens other lives is their fertility.
The learning abilities of the arachnids were extremely terrifying. When they encountered a race that was more advanced than themselves, once the war dragged on, the enemy would discover that the arachnids could evolve and simulate their unique technological weapons and defeat them in greater numbers.
Of course, the arachnid race wasn’t without natural enemies. At the very least, the Heathmeier people with spirit bodies were their natural enemies. If insects couldn’t simulate spirit bodies, they wouldn’t be able to copy Heathmeier’s technology. This was the main reason why the people of Heathmeier were able to firmly suppress the arachnids in a corner of the galaxy’s spiral arm.
[Inspector Team, your subordinate members have entered the Zerg base on Planet X-352. They are deemed to have completed the guidance mission ‘Assist in Occupying Base X-352’. Personal mission reward: 15,000 broken crystals, 100 exchange vouchers, 7 contribution points]
“This is considered to be the completion of the guidance mission?” Everywhere in the battlefield, Apostle, Robin, and the others couldn’t help but be stunned. Recalling what Qin Lun had said, they realized that this guidance mission was indeed very simple.
Originally, this guidance mission was not difficult, and the patrol team could complete it alone. Now that the Arachne base had been wiped out by the main cannon of the Attack, it could not be any simpler.
“It’s good that we’re done!” Robin let out a sigh of relief, then laughed self-deprecatingly. Being stimulated by Qin Lun, the Beautiful Guild Leader’s psychological burden became heavier. She wanted to change herself, but how could her old habits change so easily?
“It’s just that the profit is a little bit less!” Bobby crossed his legs on the control panel and curled his lips to observe the battle coming from the surface of the planet.
However, he quickly revealed a trace of surprise. Qin Lun and Huo Biao, who had entered the base, had obtained new harvests. They had found some giant eggs that still had signs of life in the base. The so-called pleasant surprise was that the starry sky prompt indicated that these eggs belonged to treasures that could be carried out of the world and could be hatched into summoned beasts.
This discovery caused Apostle to cheer from the bottom of their hearts. Even if these eggs could only hatch the lowest-grade insects, they were still high-grade summoned beasts. In the Gospel World, they are the lowest-grade arachnids. If they were to switch to another mission world, then …
[Tip: According to the progress of the mission, the patrol team triggered a competitive main mission two days ahead of schedule, extending their stay by two weeks …] Perhaps the starry sky was dissatisfied that they were happy too early, and an important tip followed. The previous content was not strange, but the latter content forcefully suppressed the cheers in Apostle’s stomachs.
‘”According to current estimates, there are a total of four Apostle teams participating in this competitive main mission. Among them, high-level members meet the minimum requirements for forming a three-member black iron team. The final mission evaluation will be automatically raised by two levels, based on the Silver Evaluation of the Central Demon World!”
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Chapter 559 Main Line
“Apart from us, there are three other Apostle teams?” Since it was a competitive mission mode, it wasn’t surprising that there were as many as four Apostle teams. However, the number of high-level Apostle that was mentioned later shocked all Apostle.
“Could it be that the other two guilds of the Devil’s horn Alliance are coming at us? This is really giving us face! Did the last team led by the high-ranked Apostle happen to run into each other by chance?” Everyone on the patrol team fell into silence, no longer feeling as happy as before.
The special laws of battle in the Gospel World had narrowed the gap between Apostle’s strengths. However, the originally powerful high-tier Apostle would definitely be able to bring more substitution power into the Gospel World than mid-and low-tier Apostle.
Taking Qin Lun and Bobby for example, Bobby’s particle biology was extremely restrained in melee combat. If Qin Lun were to face the Seventeenth Fallen Angel’s panther form alone, he would have an advantage. However, there was more than one kind of replacement ability that Qin Lun could bring into the Gospel World. If he used a long-range attack, when Bobby could no longer maintain his particle lifeform, the battle would be turned upside down by Qin Lun.
High-level Apostle had already reached the perfect form of their profession. They were able to cope with all kinds of combat methods without any obvious shortcomings. Just like Kelly back then, a martial artist profession could easily act as a temporary MT, or even an auxiliary profession.
Next, it was up to luck. If the abilities that those high-tier Apostle had exchanged for weren’t his profession’s specialty, then Qin Lun would still be able to resist one or two of them. If it was replaced with one or two special abilities, it would still suppress all the members of the Inspector Team.
[Inspector Silver Team, team competition mission has reached a critical point, triggering this world’s main mission, ‘Control Victory’.]
[Control Victory (Lieutenant Colonel-Brigadier General): The Keith Squadron led by Conviction has established a certain home field advantage in the early stages of the campaign. The patrol team needs to assist Giese in controlling Planet X-352, the frontline base. Hold Planet X-352 firmly and expel the enemy teams until Conviction forms a complete line of defense.]
[Prompt: This mission is divided into two camps, the Planetary Life Camp and the Universe Life Camp. The apostle teams from different camps are absolute competitors and cannot compromise on the main mission. Apostle teams from the same life camp can share the main mission, which is a relatively competitive relationship. Sharing tasks with competing teams will reduce the difficulty of the task and will result in a final evaluation reward. ”
[Main Mission Basic Reward: 100,000 Crystal Fragmentation, 20 Contribution Points, 10 Longevity Soul Limit. Mission Failure: 70 Longevity Soul Points deducted, has a chance to reduce mission evaluation and double Longevity Soul Limit]
[Warning: The main mission is an unknown historical storyline. The world exploration reward will be doubled and the basic reward will remain unchanged. However, after sharing the mission with other competing teams, the exploration reward will not be increased. After sharing the mission with two competing teams, the exploration reward will be reduced to one-third of the original reward.]
“Everyone, let’s return to the Attack!” Robin’s solemn voice came from the communication channel of the Weaponry Machine Armor.
The jungle near the arachnid base has been cleared. Planet X-352 is basically “clean” except for a few bugs that have escaped. Qin Lun quickly brought everyone back to the Attack.
Sitting in such a large conference room, the Apostle were caught in a tangled argument. Dong Yue and the others seemed to know that they had encountered difficulties and did not participate in the meeting.
“I think we’d better return to the Faith first and avoid the other three teams. With the Faith as our support, we will have time to observe the other teams. Even if two of them are against us, the remaining teams can still be fought for. As long as we delay, there will be a chance of victory!”
Bahrain suggested as he thought about it. As the leader of a medium-sized team, he was used to fighting steadily.
“But returning to Faith is equivalent to giving up our current home advantage! Since the other teams have high-level Apostle, they will definitely enter the Gospel World later. They should leave us some time to arrange.”
“We are not bugs. The Attack is relatively small and hidden on the planet. It is difficult for other teams to find it in a short period of time. The Faith is cruising outside, and the Attack is an internal response. We can either choose to break through each of them or sit here and reap the benefits of a fisherman. Why do we have to return to the Faith?” The conference room suddenly thought of a feminine and firm voice.
Qin Lun supported his chin with one hand and glanced expressionlessly at the speaker. The person who spoke was one of the two brothers who had always kept a low profile in the team, his younger brother Dean. Dean was one of the three Tier 1 players on the team. The other two were Bobby and Sawa.
Dean’s words resonated with some of his companions. They easily destroyed the arachnid base, giving everyone a lot of confidence. Actually, everyone knew that there was a lot of luck involved in the mission, so it wouldn’t be so easy to do it again.
First, Robin’s scouting ability allowed them to discover the arachne patrol from a distance. Qin Lun’s sneak attack allowed them to surround and annihilate the Napasa squad with lightning speed, thus obtaining the exact coordinates of the Arachne base.
During this period of time, it was almost one link at a time. Without a single link, the mission process would not be so smooth. Since their luck was on their side, it was a pity that they would give up after gaining the home advantage in advance.
In addition, Dean’s proposal was not impossible to implement. The Attack itself was an independent battleship focused on reconnaissance. It could release a large number of miniature detectors on the surface of the planet and hide the battleship in the deep sea. The enemy could not discover them, but they were able to grasp the enemy’s whereabouts. This was the advantage of the main arena.
“But what if it is exposed?” Robben refuted his younger brother impolitely, but there was a hint of a smile in his eyes. Obviously, he was protecting him in disguise. “If he was exposed, he would be caught in a jar by the enemy. It would be very difficult to escape!”
“How could there be so many? Our Apostle is a wire-walking profession, and we have a 50% chance of winning. Besides, according to my calculations, staying on Planet X-352 is less than 10% likely to be exposed.” Dean said calmly.
“Even if they have a high-level Apostle, the chances of them defeating one of the teams first are greater than 60%. If the situation is not good, there is also a 70% chance of joining forces with a team.”
Apostle of the patrol team were all elites, and many of them, Second Grade Apostle, had seen high-grade Apostle take action. Dean’s analysis was slightly optimistic. The sixty to seventy percent chance of winning was just for fun. However, with his reasoning, there must be a 50 to 50 chance.
“What do the others think?” Robin’s eyebrows furrowed as he looked at his companions.
“Dean’s words make sense, but it’s not a good choice!” ‘”If it’s just dealing with a high-level team, I agree with him. However, it’s too difficult to grasp the situation in a chaotic battle between the four Huo Biao teams. Have you ever thought about what would happen if the other teams came at about the same time?” Said Apostle, who had an extremely calm temperament.
‘”If that’s the case, they shouldn’t immediately start a melee. The traces left behind by the shelling of the Attack are too obvious. The enemy should be cautious and try their best to find us first, excluding unexpected factors!”
Bowie played with the knife in his hand and said without raising his head, “In that case, we won’t have the chance to sneak attack. Moreover, we’ve become the target of public criticism. There’s no chance!”
“As long as we hide well, they won’t be able to find us. Sooner or later, they won’t be able to hold back!” Dean frowned slightly and said unwillingly.
These guys … Looking at the group of companions in the conference room, Robin sighed.
This discussion opened the eyes of the Beautiful Guild Leader. Although everyone had split into two opinions, there were practically no loopholes in their logical thinking. However, some people represented by Dean were more radical, while Bahrain’s group acted steadily.
Evidently, these people had some reservations in their previous actions and did not reveal their thoughts completely. It seemed that she was worrying for nothing.
Thinking of this, Robin couldn’t help but glance at someone with the old god. He asked coldly, “Qin Lun, what’s your opinion?”
“Ah? Oh! I have no objections, just decide!” At this moment, Qin Lun seemed to be a little distracted. He didn’t know what he was thinking. When he heard Robin calling him, he came back to his senses and replied with an embarrassed smile.
In the future, he would find him to settle the score Robin glared at him fiercely. Qing Zhi Ying pretended to be confused and irresponsibly forced her to make a decision.
The Beautiful Guild Leader calmed down after dealing with Qin Lun’s defeated mood. She muttered to herself, “Your analysis just now was a little too much.” The starry sky has already warned us that there are three high-level apostles in the three competing teams. Judging from my adventures with the Lost High-ranked members, it is impossible for these three High-ranked Apostles to gather in the same team. Otherwise, they will not be able to enter the Middle Demon World.
We know this hint, and they know it. In other words, each of the three teams had a high-level member. One team didn’t have a high-level member, and the other two teams had two members and one member. “If this is an uneven situation, a team without high-level members would not dare to stay on the battlefield, and a team with two high-level members would probably not care if there was an ambush …”
“What if each of the three guilds has a senior member?” Bobby couldn’t help but ask curiously. Dean and the others, who were more scheming, their eyes began to shine. Robin only needed to say half of it, and they had already deduced the other half.
‘”It doesn’t matter if their strength is balanced. At least one or two of them are chasing our team. If it’s one of them, be it Chaos or the Apostle Tombstone, they will definitely join hands with us when they see the other two teams.”
Dean continued with Robin’s laughter. “Anyway, they’re trying to recruit us. They don’t have to rely on suppression to show their strength. Help is more affinity than suppression. If the two alliances come in, they’ll have to banish the team from the other city first, and then fight for us.”
“That’s right, we only thought that they would worry about each other, causing us to be in a dilemma. However, we didn’t expect that these three horns would be different in length, and it would be impossible for us to maintain a balance.” Bahrain clapped his hands and laughed loudly, “Looks like this home court advantage really can’t be ignored …”
“Then it’s decided. We’ll stay!” Robin smiled and said, “Now is the best place to hide the Attack, so that they can’t find it for as long as possible. They even think that we have already left!”
“If you decide, I have a suggestion for a hiding place!” Qin Lun raised his head and yawned.
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Chapter 560 Fallacy
The patrol team was indeed the elite Apostle. Apart from a slight deviation in judging the opponent’s composition, they had treated Qin Mei’s newly formed miscellaneous team as the Apostle Monument. There was nothing wrong with their general analysis.
The members of the Inspector Team were outstanding amongst the mid-and low-tier apostles, but after the collapse of the Light Team, the plates left behind by the Order-keeping Front were very large, and the Primordial Chaos and the Apostle Filling Tombstone were not enough to pursue the Inspector Team at the same time.
Moreover, although the two alliances were trying to rob the elite Apostle, there were some differences in their ideas about recruiting new members. At the very least, people like Robin would not choose Chaos if they had a choice. Both sides had their own goals and tacitly avoided confrontation.
After nearly a week of full preparation, the Attack had largely erased all traces of the battle in the “Moon Lake” area. The Moon Lake was once again filled with clear and translucent lake water. The transplanted aquatic creatures once again restored the vitality of the lake region, and even the lush and primitive rainforest landscapes of the lakeside had been restored.
This was actually based on what Qin Lun had suggested back then, because he had suggested that the Attack should be hidden deep underground in the Arachne base.
The bottom of the Lunar Lake itself was filled with loose mud. Up to the rock layer deep in the earth’s crust, there was a depth of a few kilometers that the Attack could “drill” into. This depth could not be said to be completely undetectable, but as long as the enemy did not “sneak” deep underground, they could roughly avoid all scientific and technological means of reconnaissance.
After Qin Lun’s suggestion was put forward, it wasn’t that no one didn’t question it, but after hearing his explanation, everyone still agreed to the plan. The main reason is that this place is not only doubly confusing, but also more aggressive than other hidden places.
There was no need for Qin Lun to explain to everyone that it was even more aggressive. After all, the Apostle team that had rushed over would discover the arachne base sooner or later. This place would become the eye of a storm for a series of follow-up events. If the patrol team wanted to reap the benefits of being a fisherman in the four chaotic battles, they couldn’t be too far away from the core area.
Otherwise, even if the other three guilds were to form a group and wait for the Attack to emerge from a certain deep sea, they would have died a long time ago. They would have run away and missed the best opportunity to participate in the battle.
So what do you mean by double confusion? The Inspector Team was an elite team, could the other three teams be idiots? Seeing the tattered arachnid base like that, wouldn’t he have thought that there was something strange beneath the ground?
Of course not! At the beginning of Qin Lun’s suggestion, his comrades’ doubts were focused on this. Although the Storm Eye was indeed a key war zone, the probability of being discovered was similarly high. Even if he was hiding deep underground, it would be difficult for him to rely on other people’s mistakes to escape reconnaissance.
Thus, Qin Lun casually pointed out why no one had “sneaked” into the depths of the ground to investigate the enemy after destroying the arachnid base.
Qin Lun’s question caused everyone to look at each other. Soon, some of their companions retorted that the arachnid base itself was at the bottom of the Moon Lake. They had already “dived” once. Deep underground? There seems no need to be so exaggerated!
Hearing this answer, Qin Lun finally smiled. Yes, as long as it is an intelligent creature, it must have a certain amount of logical thinking, but logical thinking usually has blind spots. In other words, there was a limit to what one could do with their brains.
Cosmic air warfare forced Apostle to step up its reconnaissance efforts, turning the two-dimensional battle on the ground into a three-dimensional one. However, even with his IQ, he still needed Alex’s reminder to detect the blind spots in his combat habits.
The other guilds that had high-level Apostle entered this world even later. No matter how strong they were, they were inferior to them in terms of adaptability. There was no doubt about that.
Perhaps the change in the laws of battle had allowed them to strengthen their stereoscopic surveillance, but their combat habits would definitely not be easy to change. With these people’s shrewdness, they would definitely be able to discover the arachnid base. However, if even they thought that they had already “dived” once and did not need to explore the underground of Moon Lake, then no one else would be able to do so.
Qin Lun’s method was to restore the Moon Lake to its “original appearance” and repair the arachne base to at least erase the artillery shelling marks on the top. This plan seemed a bit ridiculous, but after everyone had studied it, they discovered that it was very feasible.
The Attack was not a research ship, but the Independent Battleship also had a technology team. Giese technology has a week to restore the simple food chain to Moon Lake, thanks to artificial rainfall and “ecological transport.” At the very least, without further study, Moon Lake would still be a “normal” large lake.
When Apostle of the other guilds “sneaked” into a Moon Lake that looked like an underwater world and saw the damaged arachnid base, they naturally thought that this place had been broken by another guild.
However, the restoration of the original environment of New Moon Lake would make them unable to realize that their opponent had used such an arrogant method as the universe shelling in a short period of time. It would only be judged that the enemy had forcefully broken through to the Zerg base by relying on personal force. This was also the most common practice in Apostle.
If there was a deviation in understanding, one would ignore the changes in the environment. Thus, one would never imagine that the entire Moon Lake had once been evaporated. Now, the “original” underwater environment had become the best cover for the Attack to hide underground.
In fact, after the artificial rainfall was carried out, the traces of battle in the Moon Lake’s original lakeside region were largely washed away. Looking down from the sky, apart from the fact that the area was larger, it was no different from before, causing the inspectors’ team to be amazed.
However, what the Apostle didn’t expect was that their performance would fall into the eyes of their Keith companions and be looked down upon instead. The reason was very simple. In the eyes of Apostle, Kieran’s plan was a fantastic idea, but in the eyes of Giese, it was the most ordinary planetary guerrilla tactic.
In the Third Cosmos Age, the Giants, who had once conquered the entire Galaxy, had witnessed many of these tactics. When they invaded other planets of life, not to mention changing the heavens and earth to such an extent, even the natives who had moved their entire race into the earth’s crust and fought with the invaders for centuries had seen it.
If there was enough time, it would be a universe warship of the same level as Faith attacking Planet X-352. Giese’s first task was to scan the entire earth’s crust and send a drill ship through the earth’s crust to the core, smashing the entire planet like a hammer that smashed a walnut, removing the flesh from it.
However, considering the duration of this battle, as well as the participants from Apostle, Dong Yue and Attack’s Giese Staff Committee, they reluctantly approved of Qin Lun’s “crude plan.”
However, no matter how perfect the arrangement was, if the enemy did not cooperate, it would become a chicken rib!
On the fifth day after Attack covered the surface of Planet X-352 with mini detectors and hid underground, the twelfth day after Qin Lun and the others had taken over the Zerg base, the enemy team finally arrived.
Watching Jannamer’s matured body, which was almost obscured by the sun and completely obscured by the sunlight on the projection screen, the patrol team looked at each other in confusion as well as fear.
In their judgement, the arachnids were the first to arrive. After all, Planet X-352 itself was the forward base of the Zerg race. It should not be far from the headquarters of the planet Bug, and its reaction would be the most timely.
Another crucial problem was that after waiting for twelve whole days, the Attack had actually only waited for one guest. The other two Apostle teams were nowhere to be found, and they were far from the three groups they had originally imagined.
“Is it because we haven’t figured it out?”
Even though he knew that Qin Lun had been pretending to be confused, Robin still couldn’t help but find him, staring at him with a pair of beautiful eyes, as if he wouldn’t leave without an answer.
“I’m not an Almighty God, I don’t have answers to all questions!” Qin Lun leisurely sipped his tea and said indifferently.
Just as Robin thought he was going to play dumb again, Qin Lun frowned and said, “We understand that this is a four-team competition. Those people will know that caution is perfectly understandable. Unless something happens that we don’t understand yet, you don’t have to worry too much.”
The situation is not out of control, Chaos or the Apostle Monument is chasing us, mainly for the sake of poaching. We are the weaker side. If the other side has the advantage in strength, they will not fight against the trend. “Even if the situation is unfavorable to us, the team members will not be convinced. They will lose without a fight, and it will only benefit us if time goes on.”
“I understand this logic, but I don’t know why, but ever since Jannamer appeared, I’ve been feeling a lot of panic in my heart!” Robin murmured, “I’ve been feeling a little uneasy since I hid underground, but now this feeling is even more obvious.”
“Always?” Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly, put down his teacup and stood up from his chair. He was no longer as calm as before and walked back and forth anxiously. “After you entered this world, the few combat abilities you exchanged were not worth mentioning. However, your psychic senses had reached the warship level … Why didn’t you tell me earlier if you had a feeling?”
“At that time, we had already wasted a week setting up. I don’t want to make everyone feel doubtful just because of the faint worry!” Robin gritted his teeth and whispered, “Besides, this is just a feeling that even I am uncertain. My suspicions are already very serious!”
At this moment, Qin Lun did not listen to Robin’s words. He stared at the white wall in front of him and was stunned. After a while, he turned around and said with a serious expression, “We still lack similar adventures. We always think about the war between the universes in the way Apostle fought.” “Perhaps I have also neglected some aspects. If you invite Dong Yue and the others over, I want to ask you something!”
Just as Qin Lun and the others were puzzled that the other two teams hadn’t arrived at the X-352, a huge battleship was moored in the cosmic starry sky about 10,000 light seconds away from the planet.
The warship looked like a fat caterpillar. The surface of his body was covered in mottled spots, with dense fluff. From beginning to end, he looked like a drum. The appearance of his head and tail was almost the same, except that there were a few soft antennae on his head.
“My lord, why don’t you enter the planetary base?” Black asked doubtfully.
Gan Luo glanced at the subordinate whom he liked and revealed a mysterious smile. No wonder Black was surprised. His style had always been aggression like fire. The harder the situation, the stronger the desire to fight. It was rare for him to become the cautious he was now.
‘”Black, did you know? The bug mother told me that the bugs had actually obtained the X-352 base for a long time. However, not only did they not increase their forces, they even evacuated most of the bugs there not long ago!” Gan Luo said meaningfully.
“And the universe is more mysterious than most of us imagine. Who told you that the X-352 is a planet?!”
“My lord, what do you mean” Black immediately realized something and his eyes widened.
“Right now, there should be at least two Apostle teams at the X-352, right?” Gan Luo grinned and laughed hoarsely, “Perhaps we’ll have a good show soon!”
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Chapter 561 Crisis
“Captain, the other party destroyed the drone we sent out. Negotiations are broken!” The liaison officer on the bridge of the faith reported a bad news.
“Damn it!” Marcus cursed to himself and clenched his fists with a helpless expression.
Receiving the report from Attack a few days ago, Conviction immediately accelerated and headed towards Planet X-352. However, when they reached the edge of the galaxy, they encountered another warship of the same grade. Judging from that non-mainstream magical style, it should belong to the universe battleships of the Heathmeier people.
Ever since Giese won the war between the three races and obtained information about the people of Heathmeier, they had a great deal of recognition for the people of Heathmeier who were of the same civilization origin. It was a pity that the people of Heathmeier had long since left the Galaxy at that time, and there was no real communication between the two sides.
After learning that the arachnids were also in the Scorpion Galaxy, Marcus thought that he might meet Heathmeier again. After being driven out of the Gee galaxy by Jannamer, Giese’s perception changed greatly and he didn’t mind sharing the Scorpion Galaxy with other races, especially the Heathmeier people of the same civilization origin.
In Marcus’s mind, Jannamer was the enemy of the highest priority, and there was no compromise at all. If they couldn’t fight it alone, then the Heathmeier people were their best allies, and even the arachnids could make limited use of them.
However, reality had given him a head-on blow. The people of Heathmeier obviously had a different view from him. Even the drone that released the friendly radio waves could not get close to him and was shot down directly.
“Captain, could it be that the other party’s arrival in Apostle is causing trouble? You said before that different Apostle that descended from different sides would be competitors.” The adjutant, who was temporarily replacing Dong Yue, asked doubtfully.
“It shouldn’t have anything to do with Apostle. Heathmeier is like us. Everyone values coming to Apostle, but they don’t take their advice as a course of action.” Marcus sighed and waved his hand. “Use the minimum force and find a way to disengage as soon as possible. The people of Heathmeier are not enemies. We were wrong in the past, at least now we have to work hard to get help that can live in peace.”
“Captain, if we change the cruise route, we won’t be able to reach Planet X-352 within the given time …” The adjutant bowed his head and calculated, his expression unsightly.
“There’s nothing we can do about it. With the level of the battleship on the other side, we won’t be able to determine the outcome in a short period of time.” Marcus looked worriedly at the starry sky and said solemnly, “I hope that Attack and Dong Yue will persevere until we arrive.”
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“My lord, the silver lightning has transmitted a signal wave, requesting us to leave this place and head to the backup relay planet!” A winged Birdman glided in the air and landed beside Wolf. His wings magically shrunk and merged into his body.
“Leave?” Wolf turned to his companion in astonishment. “Does he have a reason?”
Silver Lightning was a cosmic creature that Wolf and the others slept in and provided their Jannamer daughters with. As a mature Jannamer, Silver Lightning’s way of thinking was very different from planetary life. Normally, it didn’t communicate with Wolf and the others. Once it did, it would definitely be very important.
However, Silverpower’s decision was not an order to Apostle, but a form of notification. Apostle didn’t listen, nor was Silver Lightning affected by Apostle. If it really wanted to leave alone, then Wolf’s team would not be able to stop it.
“Yes, but there are some very difficult parts in the signal waves of the silver lightning. To translate it in our language, it seems to say that the Cradle of Life is sacred and inviolable?!” Apostle, who was in charge of sending the message, had a strange expression on his face.
“The Cradle of Life? Jannamer’s idea is to clean up the planet and restore it to its original state. Does it care about the Cradle of Life?” Wolf couldn’t help but chuckle, but then he thought of something and his pupils shrank, “Unless it’s not talking about planetary life …”
Just as Wolf’s expression changed drastically, their feet trembled slightly. In the distant lake that was as vast as an ocean, ripples appeared on the surface of the water, and it quickly rolled like boiling water.
“Bang!” With a deafening rumble, an enormous universe warship flew straight out of the water, its round, pitch-black bow piercing straight into the sky like an Optimus Prime pillar. Around it, dozens of humanoid mechs were guarding it like loyal guards, carrying bright flames that resembled resplendent meteors rising from the sky.
“How is that possible? We’ve scouted that lake. There’s nothing else below except a damaged arachnid base!” Apostle, who was standing beside Wolf, was dumbfounded as he watched the attack ship leap out of the water.
“It’s underground, not underwater. I should have thought of it long ago!” Instead, Wolf’s eyes lit up and he used his palm to admire, “There is a very smart fellow among these people!”
“Hmph, so what? With its size … it should only be a small battleship, unable to break through the silver lightning blockade!” Wolf’s companions grew translucent wings again, flapping their wings and soaring into the sky. “Lord, I’ll gather my companions to stop them!”
“No, idiot, why don’t you think about it? They hid it well, why did they take the initiative to expose themselves!” Wolf’s expression darkened as he raised his head and scolded, “The most important thing for us now is to leave immediately …”
‘”Boom ~ ~” Before Wolf could finish his words, the Moon Lake region they were in, no, it should be said that the entire continent where the Moon Lake was was suddenly lifted up.
The attack ship that had just pierced through the water, including its Mecha regiment and Wolf’s group, had all “landed” on the ground again. Or perhaps, the ground was facing them, causing everyone to have no choice but to force a landing.
Looking down from the atmosphere, this continent in the Moon Lake region was no longer considered a continent. Instead, it was an incomparably large rock pillar that was being lifted upwards. However, this was not a single stone pillar. If the camera was further away, it could be seen that the surface of Planet X-352 was rising with more than a dozen stone pillars no smaller than the size of a continent.
Planet X-352 collapsed like a planet-sized octopus awakening from its slumber, stretching its body and waving its tentacles.
Meanwhile, Qin Lun and the others, even the re-descending attack ship, was now so small that it could barely be seen. It was simply like a flea on its body. No, it was inappropriate to use the flea metaphor. It was more like a bacterium that was so tiny that it could not be seen.
“F*ck, this time it’s too embarrassing!” Wolf struggled twice before giving up. The acceleration brought about by the rapid rise of the continent firmly pressed him to the ground, and even plunged him deep into the rock stratum.
Wolf knew that he would not be able to escape the pressure of gravity until the acceleration slowed down. After falling into the stone layer, he couldn’t see his companions or the outcome of the small warship. However, as long as those people weren’t dead, they would probably be even more miserable than him. After all, he was the strongest person here.
“I hope Silver Lightning can deal with this universe creature!” Wolf’s heart was filled with unease and a rare sense of frustration.
After entering this world, Jannamer’s strength made him feel extremely confident. In fact, after studying the main mission, Wolf thought Holy Light Team had drawn a good lot.
The Arachnids, Heathmeier, Giese, and their Jannamer. Wolf believed that his side had the highest chance of winning this battle. After all, judging from the warship level, Jannamer was definitely the strongest force in the four sides.
This was also why Wolf did not hesitate to communicate with Silver Electricity when he arrived at the galaxy, allowing it to approach Planet X-352 directly. Since there was silver lightning to rely on, relying on brute force was the best choice.
Even though there were three opponents, Apostle’s combat strength was insignificant under the pressure of Silver Lightning, and it was also a source of Wolf’s confidence. Unfortunately, Wolf was still a little ill-considered. Just as Qin Lun said, his logical thinking was also limited by the experience of the past world.
In fact, in the calculation of the Broken Star System, everyone’s guidance mission was correct. The Arachnids first had the advantage of being at home, but for some reason, they were unable to display this advantage until they gave it to a weaker team of inspectors who had entered the world ahead of time.
Then, in this four-regiment war, similar to the Belief, Heathmeier’s Magic Cube warships, the Arachnid warships, including Wolf and the others’ Jannamer, would not be able to intervene in the war between Apostle until the outcome was decided.
The reason for this is because Planet X-352 is not a planet at all, but an egg of a cosmic creature. It had been in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands of years, and there was even a complete parasitic life system on it.
If Qin Lun and the others fought on it, including the universe shelling of the Attack, would they wake it up? The answer was no. The Attack was capable of killing the Zerg base in one shot, but it was still unable to break through its eggshell.
Perhaps only a universe warship of the Faith level would be able to disturb it. However, the creed-class spaceship would definitely scan planet X-352 to avoid causing an internal nuclear explosion. Therefore, Conviction must have detected the body of Planet X-352 before shelling and abandoned the shelling.
Faith, the arachnid warships, including the Heathmeier Magic Cube warships, were all city-sized, but to a planet, a city was only the size of a sesame seed. If one’s movements weren’t big enough, they wouldn’t wake up the things inside the eggshell.
The mature Jannamer Silver Lightning that Wolf and the others relied on was much larger in size than the warships mentioned above, almost the difference between pancakes and sesame seeds.
There was nothing wrong with the calculation of the Broken Star System. The only thing that could not be calculated was the thinking of this universe creature itself. This cosmic creature is still in its incubation stage. Originally, it would take millions of years for it to awaken.
However, it was different from Jannamer. Compared to him, Jannamer was not carnivorous. At most, it was a scavenging bacterium, and this was the true carnivorous creature of the universe.
After Jannamer entered the atmosphere, he was finally awakened. He actually broke his outer shell and took the initiative to awaken. The reason for that was because it had been hungry for hundreds of thousands of years, and when it first smelled the fragrance of Jannamer, it aroused its appetite!
“Try to get closer to me and prepare to assault that small warship!” Wolf gritted his teeth and sent a message to his companions.
He was unable to understand the thoughts of this cosmic creature, but the high-ranked Apostle quickly sensed the potential danger with his unparalleled adventure experience. If Janamer lost to the creatures of the universe beneath his feet, they would immediately lose their life force and become rootless duckweed in this vast universe.
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