Chapter 427 Devouring
Buzz!!!
The moment Artesia gave the order, the dense and silent array of turrets outside the porthole suddenly lit up with bright and soft light!
——That was the light generated by the light stone embedded in the autonomous turret detecting the strong and stable energy fluctuations.
As the light flashed, different fluorescences also lit up inside the dark muzzle.
High-energy lasers, plasma plasma, antimatter cannons, matter fission rays, gamma rays...
With just a casual glance, Chen Fan saw several weapons of different specifications in the turrets around the investigator starship.
Even...
even the same weapon has quite obvious signs of iteration!
Not only that, each turret is very "new", except for a little interstellar dust on the surface, there is almost no sign of war damage.
Obviously, in the more than 40 years since leaving the place of creation and living incognito, in order to resist the invasion of alien life forms, the Xinalo civilization's obsession with weapons has reached its peak!
"The target will arrive at the designated area in ten seconds."
The electronic synthesized voice sounded in the cockpit, pulling Chen Fan's somewhat messy thoughts back to the battlefield in front of him.
"9, 8, 7..."
The bright red numbers kept jumping in the holographic interface on the main console, affecting the minds of everyone in the investigator starship.
At the same time, the light at the muzzle of the autonomous turret also faded from bright to dim.
It seems that compared with before, the momentum of the autonomous turret array seems to be much smaller.
But looking at the energy density numbers that kept soaring and finally stabilized in the holographic interface, Chen Fan knew that this was just the calm before the storm-once the starry sky Zerg appeared in the designated area, these autonomous turrets would release all the accumulated energy in one go! !
"...1,0."
Yi's voice suddenly became high-pitched: "Attention! High-intensity space-time fluctuations detected! The target has arrived at the designated area!"
Buzz...
An invisible wave rippled in the deep and dark starry sky, and dozens of huge giant insects suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
Under the fluorescent light from countless turrets, the hard armor on the giant insects glowed with a faint dark purple cold light. Their bodies were as huge as starships, and they exuded a palpitating breath from the inside out.
The huge claws waved slowly in the starry sky, as if showing their strength and majesty to everything around them.
Behind them, a tail covered with spikes kept swinging, like a flexible whip.
The spikes were extremely sharp, and their surface reflected the surrounding turrets and starlight like a smooth mirror!
That was a weapon made of strong interaction force materials!
There is no doubt that it is the most powerful attack weapon of these giant insects-these spikes, which are as strong as neutron stars, can easily pierce all naturally occurring substances in the universe!
"Starry Sky Zerg!"
In the investigator's starship, looking at the real-time picture presented in the holographic projection, Chen Fan's heart trembled, and his expression suddenly became solemn.
That's right, these ugly things in front of them are almost exactly the same as the "Strangers" that [Su Zheng] had shown before!
However,
their average length was less than 500 meters. Although it was much larger than the size of the Investigator Starship, the size of these bugs was obviously much smaller than that of the Star Zerg that [Su Zheng] had shown before. If he remembered correctly, in [Su Zheng]'s description, the size of these bugs could even be compared to a gas giant planet!
Could it be that...
these were actually two different races?
Before Chen Fan could figure out what was going on, the order from Artesia had already reached the dense array of autonomous artillery turrets.
Boom! ! !
Almost at the same time, the muzzles that had previously returned to dim suddenly burst out with an extremely dazzling light! !
Purple high-energy laser beams, pale green matter-disintegration rays, and antimatter torrents flashing with dazzling white light instantly gushed out from the staggered artillery turrets, shooting straight at the Star Zerg that had just appeared! !
A true saturation-type indiscriminate attack!
With the help of Chen Fan, Artesia poured almost all of its firepower into the designated area!
...
Outside the porthole, a white light ball suddenly appeared at the intersection of various lights!
It was like a small star appeared out of thin air in the dim starry sky.
The energy density index detected by the sensor also climbed to a new height.
"It barely reached the energy output level of the sixth-level civilization."
Hongshi's calm voice came from behind, commenting on the wave of attacks carefully prepared by the Xinaluo civilization: "It seems that the research on weapons by the Xinaluo civilization is not very advanced."
"... Did it succeed?"
Unlike Hongshi, Chen Fan's focus was on those starry sky Zergs - he was going to investigate the Creation Land next. The weaker the strength of these Zergs, the safer the investigation work.
He didn't want to face those powerful creatures that could be called bugs in the description of [Rectification]!
Time passed bit by bit, and the attack from the autonomous turret array gradually subsided. Without the support of external energy, the white light ball in the dim starry sky began to slowly dissipate.
"Something seems to be wrong!"
Hongshi's calm voice suddenly became nervous, and she quickly reached out and called up the energy density image on the main console.
Looking at the spherical energy density model with a constantly fluctuating surface in the holographic interface, Hongshi's face changed completely: "Something happened!"
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the cockpit instantly became solemn.
"What's going on?" Chen Fan sat up straight and cast an inquiring look at the energy density model in front of Hongshi that was still fluctuating violently.
Hongshi did not reply immediately, but stretched out his hand with an uneasy look and touched the light ball in the holographic interface, and a curve graph appeared in front of everyone.
This is a descending curve with a gradually increasing slope. Above this descending curve, there is a dotted line with a much gentler downward trend.
Hongshi raised his hand and gently drew it in the air, and then began to deduce the subsequent development of the energy density curve.
Under Chen Fan's gaze, the openings of the two curves, one real and one virtual, gradually expanded, and finally formed a huge crack that chose people to devour!
"Did you see it?" Hongshi's voice continued to come, "The rate of decline of energy density is obviously higher than the normal level."
"There is only one possible cause of this situation."
She paused, slowly raised her head, and looked out of the porthole with her eyes straight.
In just a few words, the originally bright ball of light has become extremely dim.
"Inside the ball of light..."
Hongshi's voice revealed a bit of difficulty: "Something is absorbing this energy!"
Chen Fan's body trembled, and he quickly realized the meaning behind this sentence.
Those dozens of insects not only did not die under the wave of attacks from the Xinaluo civilization, but even regarded these attacks as gifts from nature!
"Damn it!"
Chen Fan's face changed slightly, and he quickly called up the communication interface: "This is the Varela, calling Artesia!"
"Those bugs are not dead yet, be careful..."
Before the voice fell, Isa's somewhat suppressed exclamation came from behind.
Chen Fan subconsciously raised his head and looked out the porthole.
The light ball almost dissipated, revealing the scene inside.
A circle of dark purple shields lingered around more than 20 giant insects, perfectly isolating their bodies from the antimatter torrent in the light ball.
This is not over yet.
The giant insect's mouth opened to an incredible and terrifying angle. The dark purple mouth was distributed with densely packed smooth and sharp teeth. From the appearance, these teeth were made of the same material as the spikes on its tail. They were
all strong interaction materials!
The extremely active material particles and energy in the light ball seemed to be pulled by some kind of force field, and quickly poured into the deep mouth that seemed to be able to swallow everything! !
In just a few seconds, the light ball shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye and disappeared into the dark purple mouth of the giant insect.
One of the giant insects trembled slightly, and some curling flames immediately emerged from its dark purple hideous mouth.
Just like...
burping after eating too much!!
"This..."
Chen Fan stared at this shocking scene in amazement, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
That's antimatter and super-high temperature plasma!
What kind of creature can feed on this kind of matter? !
The next moment.
These giant insects came back to their senses, and their small eyes with scarlet light looked at the autonomous turrets that were in the state of cooling and filling ammunition.
They seemed to have seen some unique delicacy, and after a silent hiss, they pounced on the dense autonomous turrets without hesitation!
[Free fire!! ]
There was a bit of fear in Artesia's order. Obviously, the giant insects' behavior of swallowing the antimatter torrent and high temperature plasma also scared her: [All autonomous turrets, free fire!! 】
She even directly issued a general attack order: [Royal Expedition Fleet, attack!! 】
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
White, pale green, and dark purple beams streaked through the deep space, launching a counterattack against the giant insect that was constantly approaching.
But...
no matter what kind of attack, it could not penetrate the thin dark purple barrier around the giant insect!
Swish!!
The slender scorpion tail, which was more than 100 meters long, swung lightly, and the spikes made of strong interaction materials directly pierced the armor of the autonomous turrets.
Like pieces of meat on a bamboo stick, as the giant insect shook its head and tail, one by one, the autonomous turrets that cost the Xinalo civilization countless efforts were hung on the spikes of the scorpion tail!
Then, the scorpion tail quickly stretched forward, and the giant scorpion opened its huge mouth again and swallowed the autonomous turrets hanging on the spikes into its mouth!
Squeak! Squeak!!
In the silent chewing, the sharp teeth made of strong interaction materials completely ground these autonomous turrets into pieces!!
During this process, the Starry Sky Giant Bugs didn't even bother to observe the intensive offensive of the surrounding autonomous turrets!
For these Starry Sky Giant Bugs, the autonomous turrets that the Xinaluo civilization spent 40 years to iterate on were nothing more than a buffet to be slaughtered at will! !
(End of this chapter)
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