The Wandering Merchant's artillery fire created insignificant ripples on the smooth armor of the assault ship, which were instantly drowned out by the subsequent beams and turned into cosmic dust!
Sacrifice! Building a dam with flesh and blood, just to gain those insignificant seconds!
However, the number of Reaper assault ships far exceeded the interception limit of the ragtag army! More "Metal Sharks" broke through the defense line like ghosts, their dark blue compound eyes coldly locked onto the solid golden barrier on Gaia's surface - the Earth Shield! And, more importantly, Pei Du, suspended in the Earth Shield's inner orbit, maintaining the core of the Annihilation Matrix!
"Don't even think about it!" The thorny vortex in Pei Du's left eye suddenly shrank! The data stream in his right eye instantly marked the assault ships that posed the greatest threat! He maintained the posture of pushing the annihilation net with both palms, unable to split himself, but -
The void's right arm, covered with dark green spatial patterns, suddenly swung to the side and back!
Buzz——!
Five extremely condensed, gray-black annihilation light shuttles, their edges entwined with tiny spatial cracks, shot out instantly like the fangs of the god of death! The light shuttles did not shoot straight, but disappeared from their original position the moment they left the palm, performing a short-distance space jump that ignored distance!
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Five Reaper assault ships, fresh from their defenses and poised to launch an attack, suddenly and without warning, exploded simultaneously in their mid-hulls, five massive holes rimmed with annihilating black light! Their delicate internal energy circuits were instantly destroyed, their engines shut down, and the ships tumbled and disintegrated under inertia!
However, more than ten assault ships still rushed to the edge of the earth shield! The blue compound eyes on the bows of the ships lit up, and the spiral decomposition beams were ready to be launched!
"guard!"
Deep within the Earth's core, Xu Shuangyao's (Gaia's) will beat like the planet's heartbeat! The planet's golden barrier—the Earth Shield—instantly solidified the surging shadows of mountains and rivers on its surface! Formed from the pure energy of the planet's will, the shadows of several golden mountains, like giant dragons, roared out from the barrier's surface! With a pressure as heavy as the stars, the shadowy mountains slammed into the oncoming assault ships!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A dull crash echoed through the void! The golden mountain's phantom shook violently and shattered under the assault ship's powerful decomposition beam! But the assault ship's momentum was also abruptly halted! The ship was knocked backward by the immense impact! The dark blue decomposition beam grazed the edge of the earth shield and shot into deep space, missing a direct hit!
The price was that the light of the Earth Vein Shield dimmed noticeably! Xu Shuangyao spat out another mouthful of pale golden blood in the Earth's core, and her aura instantly weakened! Forcibly mobilizing the materialized planetary will to attack was a huge burden on her and the star core!
The main battlefield!
Snap! Snap! Snap!
The critical point of the stalemate was finally broken! Under the continuous bombardment of the blue beams from the four Reaper motherships, the crystallized "space crystal" area finally succumbed to the continuous erosion of the annihilation web. Like glass that had reached its limit, it was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks! The next moment!
boom--!!!!
The entire crystalline space completely shattered, transforming into countless fragments of space reflecting a faint blue light. They were then completely swallowed up and annihilated by the gray-black torrent of the annihilation net!
The obstacles vanished! The annihilation net, unstoppable, swept down with an all-consuming death will, hurling itself fiercely towards the interior of the wormhole, the roiling silver-grey sea of light, and the massive ship looming within it!
"Target locked... rules rewritten... start..." Fragments of cold thoughts came again from the depths of the wormhole.
Just when the giant annihilation net was about to touch the silver-gray sea of light inside the wormhole!
Buzz!!!
At the center of the wormhole, the swirling silver-gray liquid metal light suddenly contracted and condensed inwards! Instantly forming an enormous, mirror-smooth silver-gray light shield, its surface covered with countless fine, dark blue data links!
The moment this light shield appeared, the laws of space around it seemed to be forcibly rewritten! The flow of time became viscous! Physical constants subtly shifted! It wasn't a purely energy-based defense, but a wall of rules forcibly shaped by absolute logic and advanced technology!
The giant net of annihilation slammed heavily into the wall of rules!
laugh------!!!
This time, it was no longer a violent energy annihilation explosion!
Instead, it was a chilling, soul-freezing, shrill noise, like billions of cold chisels scraping across the canvas of the universe! Where the gray-black annihilation energy met the silver-gray wall of rules, space felt like an oil painting plunged into strong acid, its colors and structure madly distorting, dissolving, and reconstructing! The annihilation network's will to erase and the wall of rules' logic to rewrite engaged in the most dangerous and direct collision and cancellation at the microscopic level of rules!
There was no earth-shattering scene, only a silent, ever-expanding chaotic zone at the point of contact, like a wound in the universe, constantly annihilating and reconstructing! This zone was like a greedy millstone, frantically devouring the energy of the Annihilation Matrix and the defensive power of the Wall of Rules!
Pei Du hovered above the core of the Annihilation Matrix, his body trembling violently! The energy and willpower consumed to maintain the output of the giant annihilation network was astronomical! The thorn star core in his chest pulsed like an overloaded engine, and each beat was accompanied by a tearing pain! The three-color energy circuits on his body flickered, the dark purple and dark green light quickly dimming, only the pale gold planetary protection halo remained tenacious!
Deep within the wormhole, the blue core crystals atop the bows of the four motherships began to glow noticeably. The defense of the Wall of Rules was also consuming a significant amount of energy!
Stalemate! A more dangerous and exhausting stalemate!
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