Chapter 173: Singing for Victory!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Other than Yao Yuan and Guang Zhen, Ying, Ebon, Liu Bai, Lee, Wa Luo, Fei Biao, Xiao Yan, Huai Shi, Zhang De, and Wang Hua were the only surviving Black Star Unit mbers. Other than Ying, who was a Seeker, the rest of them were all Perceptors.
With their experience in the Black Star Unit, they were undoubtedly the strongest batch of Homo Evolutis. In both rankings for Black Star Troopers and space combat jet pilots, they occupied the highest placent.
Right then, they were at the frontline, caught in a space battle with the alien monsters.
Even though their combat gains weren’t as insane as Yao Yuan in Red Lightning, it was already scary enough, miles ahead of the other troopers. In other words, they were the core that kept the troopers running.
However, they were also greatly exhausted.
It had been more than 2 hours since the battle began. Even though piloting the combat jet didn’t require them to keep their superhuman power activated, combat with the monsters required their extended use. That coupled with the fatigue that ca with piloting the jet, they had reached their limits. 2 hours were their threshold.
"Damn it, Ying! The main cannon missed the last reactor and Ol’ Captain is not here because he has gone to intercept the propeller. What should we do now?"
After Ying blew up a bunch of monsters, another jet surfed to his side and Liu Bai’s voice ca over the communicator.
"Keep on fighting..." Ying said matter-of-factly. "Until the retreat order cos, we must keep on fighting!"
"I know that!" Liu Bai yelled. "But what’s the strategy?"
"Then..."
Before Ying could architect an answer, a sound wafted into his brain. It was a light, caressing humming. It seed to communicate a ssage to him.
"Attack the mother nest’s surface to temporarily disable its ECS system?" Liu Bai echoed the thought in Ying’s head.
"So... you heard it too." Ying, after so length, added firmly, "Liu Bai, contact the remaining combat jets! Order them to focus fire on the mother nest’s surface!’
"Roger!" Liu Bai replied. Before he left, he asked, "By the way, do you feel that..."
"Yes, I do." Ying raised his hands to massage his temples. "I feel my body becoming lighter, like the lody is taking my lassitude away. It’s such a wonderful sound..."
The sensation was not limited to Ying and Liu Bai. The remaining 89 pilots all felt an indiscernible serenity that chased away all their fatigue. Many others also picked up the threads of ssage that were embedded in the lody. Staying in their 3 mbers per team formation, they flew towards the mother nest.
Yao Yuan, who was further away, felt the miraculous properties of the lody as well. He felt the lody reaching beyond his corporeal form. It was more than a simple transference of ssage, it felt like a communication between souls... Perhaps this was the true power of the Anima. She could not only communicate with anyone she wished within a certain radius across the barrier of ti but also heal and reenergize the weary soul. Yao Yuan felt his previous despair lting away, and he was ready to take on the alien once more.
He looked out the window of his jet and saw sothing that buoyed his heart even further.
The previously organized monster army started to have its mbers stray from their formation. They tumbled out of their designated position like they were drunk. So even turned on their allies, chewing and clawing at each other.
Yao Yuan saw a at blob that was torn from within. The monsters that it was transporting turned on it from within, and after it burst open, the monsters floated about suspended in space.
"Right! The mother nest uses so kind of biological ssages to make these essentially rabid monsters into an army. Xi Kong’s Anima power must have overridden it sohow... We had an ultimate weapon on our side all along, we just didn’t realize it! Yes, victory is possible!" Yao Yuan roared excitedly.
This excitent was replicated by the 89 pilots. As the monsters were too busy attacking each other to pose any threat to the troopers, they started to strafe fire at the mother nest’s surface. It was shot by Gaussian cannons from every side.
Under such focused fire, the mother nest’s ECS system started to lose its functionality. Due to the chanism of the ECS system, it had to be attached to the surface, so under the carpet fire of 89 combat jets, parts of the ECS system underneath the mother nest’s fleshy surface was destroyed. It kept rebuilding them, but it didn’t take long for them to get taken down again.
The Hope started recalibrating its coordination. The invisibility of the mother nest adopted a random pattern. Sotis its vulnerable parts would be revealed, other tis not. This added to the complication of the calibration. After 30 seconds, the calculation was completed after mixing and matching all of the different parts that were revealed at varying tis. Now they only needed to take into account its location and movent speed.
Everything was rapidly processed by the central mainfra.
"We have 5 more seconds, 4, 3, 2, 1..."
The assistant mouthed out the countdown that appeared on screen. After it drew to 0, multiple windows of data appeared. Bo Li ordered imdiately, "Send all the data over to the main cannon. Fire imdiately after the recharging’s completed!"
"Yes. Captain’s orders..."
Several seconds later, the Hope was assaulted by another tremor. Another shot was launched from the Supermagnetic Planet Annihilating Rail-Cannon.
The shot carried humanity’s prayers. Everyone stared at the screen silently as the shot they focused on arced through space...
There was no sound in space, but everyone could clearly see an explosion as the cannon shot ca into contact with the mother nest. It writhed around a small ball of fire that erged at its center as if it was wincing from the heat and pain.
With the loss of its last reactor, the entire mother nest reappeared in space because the power gpomg to the ECS system was lost. The mother nest was defenseless... at least until it reconstructed a new reactor.
Not only that, the surveillance in the Hope showed the density of creator’s particle in space decreasing. Evidently, the mother nest was too injured to be able to manipulate the string.
"Increase the creator’s particle’s functionality to its maximum. Clear away the creator’s particles within this planet system," Bo Li ordered.
"Captain’s orders..."
Several minutes later, as the lody started to slow down, about 70 percent of the creator’s particles had been neutralized. There were still communication issues, but the Hope’s surveillance devices had co back online. The surveillance range broke past the 10 kiloters limitation.
"There is a high energy reaction within the mother nest. It is creating a new reactor. Size dium, predicted completion ti is 37 minutes..."
"The giant propeller will reach its target in less than 16 seconds... 13, 12, 11... It has made contact. Activating super growth field to push the propeller deeper into the enemy..."
"Unusual developnt found within the mother nest. Disappearance of high energy reaction, I suspect it has abolished the plan to create a reactor. Concentration of cells around the propeller increasing... The cells disappeared... The mother nest is collapsing, heading towards dissolution..."
"Dissolution stopped. Ergence of a new type of cell, and it’s increasing in numbers..."
When the propeller shot into the mother nest, the nest beca animated. Its fleshy surface started gyrating in waves. It was reacting to the appearance of an alien object in its body. The constant motion all over its surface lent it a look of desperation...
Or excitent.
Following the disappearance of the lody, the monsters should have returned to their disciplined selves; however, they were weirdly agitated. They flew towards the mother nest to rge their bodies into it. In a matter of minutes, the space was cleared of any living monsters.
"The plan is working successfully. Increase the propeller’s propulsion to its maximum. The target is... the sun!"
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