No one knows when Shadowbound was discovered, but it has now clearly become a religious holy place. Gothic church buildings can be seen rising and falling among the towering mountains. The whole city looks like a huge monastery or cemetery.

Because this place has been abandoned.

When Darth Vader and Fang Zheng arrived here, they saw only a dead silent city covered in snow, and some monks who looked like zombies. They were wearing gray robes and had dull eyes, looking like the living dead. Facing the arrival of the imperial army, they were neither terrified nor resisted, and did not react at all. Even when the imperial soldiers drove them out, these people did not respond at all, looking as lifeless as a group of puppets.

"Arrange defenses immediately!"

Darth Vader gave the order coldly, and the soldiers immediately took action. This time the Galactic Empire also invested a lot of money, and all kinds of cutting-edge weapons were sent over to determine the best way to deal with these damn invaders.

The reason for choosing this city is, firstly, because it was built on the top of a mountain, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack; secondly, this city also follows the design rules of old medieval city fortresses. Outside the city, there are three layers of walls built with ten thousand year old ice and rocks, which are tens of meters high. At least from a visual point of view, this is obviously more reassuring.

But the feeling of being square is not very good.

"Do you have any historical records of this planet or something?"

Standing on the balcony, Fang Zheng looked at the city in front of him and asked in a low voice, while Darth Vader shook his head.

"No, the Imperial database only contains some basic information about this planet...Any questions?"

In Darth Vader's view, this is just an ordinary planet. Of course, the Imperial database also states that there are many ancient relics here, but for Darth Vader, those things left millions of years ago have no meaning or value at all. At least compared to those things, the current threat is definitely more important.

"Well...I don't feel good."

"Feel?"

"Yes."

Fang Zheng nodded, squinting his eyes and carefully looking at the city in front of him. In fact, from the moment he stepped off the spaceship and set foot on the land of this planet, Fang Zheng felt a faint dark atmosphere in the biting cold wind. Well, this atmosphere... he was somewhat familiar with it.

"Don't you think this city's defenses seem too strong?"

“Shouldn’t all buildings in the past be like this?”

Facing Darth Vader's answer, Fang Zheng chuckled.

"Lord Vader, do you know what kind of building would have a defensive capability comparable to a fortress?"

"……?"

"That's the prison."

Fang Zheng turned around and looked at the black warrior behind him.

"All in all, it's not wrong to be careful. This planet gives me a bad feeling."

"I understand. I will be more vigilant."

Darth Vader nodded and didn't say much, while Fang Zheng just shrugged his shoulders. The civilization of this galaxy still followed the materialistic path. To be honest, he also doubted whether there was something wrong with his perception. However, as Fang Zheng said, it's better to be careful. Although Fang Zheng hasn't really sensed the existence of any evil forces so far, but...how to say it?

All in all, it just doesn't feel good.

"By the way, what is that?"

Fang Zheng shook his head, threw the thought aside, and pointed curiously below. He saw a group of imperial soldiers patrolling on the platform below. What made Fang Zheng curious was that one of the soldiers was carrying a flag, which was erected high. This made Fang Zheng very curious. In fact, he also found that almost every team had someone carrying such a flag...

"We have learned that before the Tyranids reach their destination, their transmission will cause fluctuations and chaos in the subspace, making all transmission signals ineffective. In this case, we cannot communicate in the usual way. For this reason, our scholars have read the classics and finally decided to use this kind of flag signal and horn to command the attack."

"oh……"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng nodded. This was also the case during wars in the Middle Ages. Now it seems that the Galactic Empire is planning to go for a retro style.

"Then what about space warfare? The fleet can't use flag signals."

"Transmitting signals by reflecting light."

"Okay, there is a way."

Fang Zheng gave a thumbs up to Darth Vader's answer. He had to admit that the Galactic Empire was really awesome. They had just fought against the Tyranids once and immediately came up with solutions - of course, these solutions were only for emergencies and might not necessarily be useful. It was for this reason that they chose to fight this defensive battle on Shadowbound.

but……

“Why put a skull on the flag?”

Fang Zheng couldn't help but ask his inner question, and looked at Darth Vader in confusion, "Could it be that you and Palpatine still have some middle school tendencies?" Luke's words are fine, you two are already past that age. You are all old, and it's too unreasonable to imitate middle school boys to play death heavy metal.

Even if you want to play Pirates of the Caribbean, you have to go to space, right?

"This is what His Majesty the Emperor wants."

"Um?"

"The skull on this flag is a human skull. Your Majesty hopes to use this flag to show the majesty of the empire and let everyone know that the empire was, is, and will always be ruled by humans. Humans are the core and everything of the empire."

"Oh, I see."

Fang Zheng nodded, without saying much. Human supremacy is indeed necessary. The main force of the Galactic Empire comes from the human race. Of course, other races do have armies, but because of the Galactic Empire's authoritarian rule, the armies of these races are basically self-defense forces in their own autonomous planets and galaxies. Obviously, Palpatine does not intend to play the trick of "everyone puts aside their disputes and joins hands to fight the enemy" like in Hollywood movies. He protects the territory of the Galactic Empire with human troops, so it is necessary for humans to occupy the dominant position in the Galactic Empire.

As for other races...we'll see how the situation develops.

If this was an ordinary war, Palpatine would probably want to let those alien races go up to die, but he was facing the Tyranids, and the information reported previously also showed that this race could absorb all the life matter on a planet and then convert it into its own combat power.

This is also the reason why Fang Zheng’s probe did not detect a large number of enemy invasions at the gap, but the Tyranid fleet expanded many times.

In this situation, sending more people to die would be aiding the enemy.

In fact, Fang Zheng has also received information from Darth Vader. Palpatine has ordered the Death Star to move to the front line. However, the purpose of the Death Star is not to stop the enemy, but to monitor those planets that may be attacked by the Tyranids. Once those planets are attacked by the Tyranids and cannot resist, the Death Star will directly open fire and destroy them.

I won't leave you even a scrap!

As expected of Palpatine, he is cruel and ruthless, but only someone like him can stop the attack of the Tyranids.

However, Fang Zheng himself was not worried about the Tyranids, because after obtaining information through the mental network, he discovered the weakness of the Tyranids, which was that they could only absorb organic matter.

Although the Tyranids were very strong in absorbing organic matter, and could even compress and pack the air itself, they could only absorb organic matter after all, while Fang Zheng's swarms could eat anything as long as it was energy. Strictly speaking, even eating dirt could yield a mouthful of energy.

The reason why we don’t eat it is simply because the conversion efficiency is too low.

Both sides have the characteristics of devouring infection evolution, and the speed is also very fast. The Tyranids have the Hive Mind, and the Zerg have the Zerg Overlord. However, the Zerg eats everything, whether it is raw or cold... Hehe, I just want to ask you if you are afraid?

Fang Zheng was already thinking about how to lead the Zerg swarm directly into the void and completely devour the entire Tyranid Zerg race... As long as he could devour this wave of Tyranid Zerg, his Zerg swarm would be invincible, hahahahaha...

"Report!!"

Just when Fang Zheng was idle and daydreaming, he saw a soldier suddenly running over.

"Abnormal distortion and fluctuations have been detected. The communication signal has been interfered with and is completely out of service!"

"Switch to the backup channel and see if there is anything available. Blow the horn and prepare for battle."

"yes……!"

In order to fight against the subspace interference of the Tyranids, the Galactic Empire is also trying to find a solution to this problem, but unfortunately, looking at the soldiers in the command center at the back who are busy and sweating, it is clear that their solution is obviously not successful - after all, not everyone can deal with subspace interference.

Not to mention that the Tyranids are also veterans in this area.

"call--!!"

Soon, a shrill horn sounded from the loudspeakers, and upon hearing the horn, the imperial soldiers hurriedly lined up on the city wall, holding weapons and looking at the dim sky in front of them.

For a moment, it seemed as if even the whistling cold wind had stopped.

Then, shadows fell.

Countless spores fell from the sky and smashed towards Shadow Star, like huge hailstones falling from the clouds, whistling and hitting the ground.

“Fire!!!”

Following an order, the anti-aircraft guns that had been set up immediately roared and opened fire. For a moment, flames flew all over the sky.

At the same time, the battle officially began.