Chapter 963: Chapter 597: Hesitation to Advance_1
Two years have passed, and Tiffany Bell’s squad’s ranking remained stuck around 150th place.
The seven mbers have made their best efforts to cooperate with each other, and so progress has been made.
White Elephant’s score has exceeded 20, and Johnny Gavin has also crossed the threshold of 10.
The individual mbers of the squad have improved considerably in strength, ranking highly.
However, others’ progress in training is not bad either, and not only are their individual capabilities built up, but their team coordination also improves. Unlike Tiffany Bell’s team, they still act as scattered sand, fighting separately.
Tiffany Bell’s personal score has reached 13.54, with the number in parentheses becoming 91.77, which looks not bad.
But Tiffany Bell felt no joy, and her mind was still filled with the operations Harrison Clark had completed.
Her state was very poor, and she often seed lost when no one was around.
She couldn’t control her thoughts at all.
The other mbers of the squad had sowhat noticed this.
After two years, although Mountain Centipede still expressed dissatisfaction all the ti, he unknowingly adapted to the fact that Tiffany Bell was the team leader.
If the situation couldn’t be changed, they could only adapt.
After all, Tiffany Bell hadn’t made any astonishing performances as a team leader in these two years, but she hadn’t made any mistakes either.
The squad’s lackluster performance resulted from the team combination itself and had little to do with Tiffany Bell’s decision-making ability as a team leader.
If the ti were pushed back another two years, it wouldn’t be a big problem; Tiffany Bell could still grow slowly, and perhaps one day she would have an epiphany after accumulating enough experience and knowledge.
However, as the Naless Fleet entered the Horizon Galaxy, the external environnt changed, and the risk of battle increased sharply, leaving Tiffany Bell little ti to spare.
Although Tiffany Bell’s squad’s comprehensive ranking was not high, they would be ranked highly in Quentin Cooper’s dispatch sequence, for the team had sharp combat power like White Elephant and Mountain Centipede.
During simulated training, if a mission failed, they could try again.
However, in a real fight, failure ant death, and there would be no second chance.
If Tiffany Bell couldn’t break away from the ntal barrier as soon as possible and show her true strength, she would always be on the verge of being killed.
The shadow of death had silently crept up and shrouded Tiffany Bell’s head.
“Your little darling seems to be in trouble. Why don’t you give her so more hints?”
Star said half-seriously and half-mockingly to Harrison Clark.
Harrison Clark shook his head, “If I tell her and let her take on the role of an armored warrior passively, her upper limit will be nailed to the number 91.77.”
Star: “Why? Don’t armored warriors have room for promotion too?”
“Star…” Harrison Clark looked back at the virtual figure beside him, “Do you know the biggest difference between us two?”
Star nodded, “You once had a human body of your own?”
“Yes, so you don’t understand so subtle connections between the human body and cognition, which can only be grasped but not explained.”
Star agreed reluctantly, “I don’t understand that.”
Harrison Clark: “For Tiffany Bell to catch up with , her cognitive abilities must… given her not-as-good physique.”
Star: “Surpass you?”
Harrison Clark grinned, “Yes.”
“Isn’t that asking too much of her? How is that possible?”
“It’s not impossible, just very difficult. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have spent decades and invested so much energy in Tiffany Bell. I don’t believe it. I have worked hard for ten tilines, and humans have developed to this degree. Yet they still can’t produce soone who can surpass .”
Tiffany Bell’s gene awakening level was already infinitely close to 50%.
What Harrison Clark wanted to do was to continue tapping into Tiffany Bell’s potential, make her break through the bottleneck of the galaxy’s human cognition, and reach or even surpass the realm he was in.
Of course, this might fail, which would lead to Tiffany Bell’s death in battle.
Harrison Clark could bear the bitterness of failing after decades of hard work. After all, he could just select new personnel and try again.But if he follows Star’s suggestion and paves the way for Tiffany Bell, she might be able to survive the current crisis with her 91.77-rated armored warrior in the next few years. However, as the fleet continues to advance, she will eventually face formidable enemies beyond their scope.
Without a Top Warrior to step in and turn the tide, the Naless Fleet is still dood to fail, and Tiffany Bell will still die.
“You talk so much about righteousness, but in the end, you just want to find a strong leg to cling to, right?”
“You don’t understand a damn thing! I’m a 21st-century antique; how can I keep ancient relics like dominating? It’s unforgivable for people like Tiffany Bell to stay in place even with such great opportunities!”
“Yes, yes, you’re right.”
Star looked at Harrison Clark with a smile, finding his angry and ashad appearance amusing.
…
Inside the Naless Fleet’s command ship, Quentin Cooper was intently observing the star chart in front of him.
Nurous deputy officers were each focused on different sets of paraters.
These paraters included information on the fleet’s stealth shield, external background radiation and quantum field tidal changes, along with the fluctuations of actual energy dispersed in triple space.
They had already entered the Compound Eye Army’s controlled territory.
The Compound Eye’s advance force had been stationed here for decades.
Human detectors placed in curvature space had long been removed.
This advance force was not composed of the Compound Eye’s prism ships but a Plant Tribe’s slave star unit.
In the previous tiline, Harrison Clark had learned about this Plant Tribe in astrobiology.
However, it is evident that the Plant Tribe had also been heavily modified by the Compound-Eyed Observer.
There’s only one giant planet in the Horizon Galaxy, with a mass 768 tis that of Earth, and it’s nad Star 768.
Previously, Star 768 mainly consisted of highly radioactive tal ores. It had an atmosphere, composed primarily of plasma and gaseous isotopes.
This high-risk planet was not suitable for human habitation nor had any developnt value.
But now, the form of Star 768 has changed.
Countless giant brown vines envelop the entire planet without any gaps.
The brown stems and wide leaves densely cover the surface and wriggle like animals.
So of the stems wrap around and rise from the surface, forming a net-like structure in the starry sky, extending and enveloping the distant stars of the Horizon Galaxy.
In this large galaxy, a dual-centered nest structure is ford; one center being the planet filled with plant life, and the other being the star that provides energy for the plant life.
Moreover, nurous thin vines continue to spread outward from these two centers, extending to a range exceeding 10 billion kiloters in diater.
In these thin vines, so have their ends disconnected—one end in three-dinsional space and the other vanishing into thin air—as if they were beheaded snakes, but energy still flows towards the void through these broken ends.
There are fruits of various sizes on the stems.
Occasionally, the fruits burst open, with almond-shaped ships, spherical monsters with long whiskers like dandelions, and other combat units erging.
After these units are created, they undergo brief adjustnts and then swarm towards the border between the Horizon and Witton galaxies to join the battle.
One cannot help but marvel at the skillful utilization of bioweapons by the Compound-Eyed Observers.
The plant that devoured Star 768 serves as the Compound Eye Army’s main base in the entire Horizon Galaxy, just like the Zerg hive in the ancient ga StarCraft.
However, when it was initially deployed, this plant was just a seed with a diater less than one ter.
After more than thirty years of operation, it has transford the Horizon Galaxy into an impregnable fortress, with its vines and whiskers capable of growing directly into curvature space.
The vast array of detectors that humans had previously placed in curvature space were, one by one, found and shattered by this thing inside the curvature space.
Inside Quentin Cooper’s command ship, he suddenly looked back at the control center and issued a command in his mind.
Just now, a vine about 0.2 nanoters in diater had erged from curvature space, touching the outer stealth shield of the Naless Fleet, leaving a trace of sensor energy on the shield’s surface.
It was ti for the special operations team to set out.
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