On September 18, 3121, the Prism Fleet arrived as expected with an unparalleled sense of pressure.

But the people in the Shadow Galaxy were not panicked.

This was already predicted by the top leaders of the Empire, and humans had already made sufficient plans.

The outer periphery of the entire Shadow Galaxy has long been laid out by humans with a huge mine belt with a thickness of 100 million kilometers.

The number of mines exceeds one trillion.

The size of a single mine is only the size of a fist, like dust scattered outside the Dyson membrane, each rotating around the huge galaxy along a fixed orbit.

The distribution of mines is mainly close to the ecliptic plane, and is the most dense.

However, in order to maintain a certain intelligence capability over the ecliptic, there are still a small number of trolls whose orbits are at different angles to the ecliptic, eventually forming a large net similar to a Dyson membrane that looks like an elongated pancake.

Because the trolls are too far away from the shadow sun, relying on the purely natural gravitational field of the stars cannot firmly confine the trolls to a fixed range to form a stable troll minefield.

Therefore, each troll is equipped with a field energy engine.

The so-called field energy engine is actually a variant of the curvature engine, but the output power is much smaller than that of the curvature engine, and it hardly compresses space. It only uses the huge gravitational field and a little turning force.

Driven by the field energy engine and precisely controlled by the stars, trillions of troll mines revolve along crisscrossing orbits, but they do not collide with each other, maintaining a delicate balance and keeping the number of troll mines distributed per unit area relatively stable. There

are two types of troll mines. One is a passive type that will only explode after a physical collision or energy field interference.

The other is an active type that is controlled by both the quantum network and the gravitational wave network. When an enemy appears within a fixed range, the field energy engine will be overloaded at full power to complete rapid propulsion and land and detonate.

The blasting methods of active troll mines include antimatter impact, dark energy black holes, compression fusion blasting, beam energy shock wave diffusion, etc.

The passive type, which accounts for a larger proportion, is a special plasma electromagnetic shock wave originating from a special planetary system.

After the plasma magnetic troll mine explodes, a large amount of liquid special alloy, called heteromagnetic plasma flow, will be thrown in all directions.

The biggest feature of these liquid alloys is that they have extremely strong magnetism. Their magnetism has a strong metal resonance ability and will reverse the north and south poles at a frequency of 100,000 times per second.

According to the experience of the confrontation between the Morning Wind Empire and the Prism in the past two or three decades, when the number of plasma magnetic troll mines exploded reaches a certain base number and there are enough heteromagnetic plasma flows within a fixed range, the folding ability of the Compound Eye Prism will be slightly restrained and no longer so stable, and there is a possibility of operational errors.

Then with the fighting style of the compound eye, the prism will decisively give up the fold.

In addition, the gradually diffused variant magnetic field will also become a guiding light in the quantum scan, which can help humans to quickly and effectively locate the compound eye prism.

The appearance of the prism this time has not changed compared to the last time. It is still a structure composed of two pyramids with a length of 300 kilometers.

The chain array fortress ships arranged by humans outside the ten layers of Dyson membrane are spherical with a diameter of 400 kilometers. There are 3 million ships in total, with 1,000 people on each fortress, and a total of 3 billion ship-borne warriors.

The thousands of people on the fortress ship have different responsibilities and each performs their duties. Combined with the assistance of artificial intelligence, a thousand warriors can control the fortress starship.

Each fortress ship has a large battleship operated by 100 people, 10 medium-sized frigates operated by 10 people, and 100 senior fighters operating transformable high-performance fighters.

This transformable high-performance fighter is the prototype of the Star Shadow Armor.

Although the fighters on these ships were not selected into Chen Feng's teaching class and could not receive Chen Feng's personal instruction, they were also qualified to access the training materials written by Chen Feng.

At the same time, the training instructors of these people also participated in the instructor training course led by Ding Hu.

After four months of assault training, these already more elite fighters have made much progress.

Combined with the constantly updated and upgraded equipment, the comprehensive strength of this group of fighter operators cooperating with the chain-link fortress ship is not as good as the authentic Star Shadow Warriors, but they can also be regarded as the best.

Chen Feng observed that the concept of human warfare is changing.

Although the core control of most main battleships is still in human hands, the number of ship crew members is already very different from the previous timeline.

The number of crew members on each ship in this timeline is much less than in the past.

In the past, to maintain a fortress ship with a diameter of 400 kilometers, at least tens of thousands of people were required to work together.

Now, less than 300 people are needed, and most positions can be equipped with two to three people in shifts.

In a unit of space, assuming that the total size of human forces is the same, the population density of the military is much lower.

The reason is that humans have come out on a large scale, developed more stars, obtained more energy, and also discovered more planets, and obtained more special materials that cannot be obtained by mass-energy conversion.

The double surplus of energy and materials has created the possibility for humans to build more luxurious large-scale war units.

At the same time, due to the improvement of the performance of the stars, humans have deepened their research on quantum networks, and the security level of quantum communications has continued to improve. Humans have begun to dare to hand over more important tasks to artificial intelligence, and finally formed such a new war model.

When the war just started, human war concepts were not so extreme.

But in the past hundred years, as the war progressed, the strategic policy of mankind has gradually shifted from shooting down enemy ships to collecting information, with the first priority being to exchange manpower for more information.

At the same time, in order to gradually increase the survival rate of the escape fleet and increase the difficulty of the compound eyes' pursuit, humans began to increasingly advocate the strategy of breaking up the whole into parts.

There are even many escape ships with only one family's population. Once they encounter a situation, each person can even drive a small escape shuttle to escape alone.

In the single-person escape shuttle, a total of 20 frozen embryos, 10 males and 10 females, are also loaded.

This is the minimum standard that can barely guarantee that there is no close kinship within three generations.

As long as they can get out of the boat, these 20 embryos will have a chance to reproduce into a complete population with the help of artificial intelligence.

Humanity's strategy is quite effective. So far, the compound eyes have not completed a thorough external clearance. They rely on this new civilization model of constantly breaking down the whole into parts.

This model is reflected in other star regions, and it is most obvious in the shadow galaxy.

At this time, the first plasma-magnetic troll mine was detonated, and the heteromagnetic plasma flow sprayed, silently sprinkling the moisturizer on the prism, and at the same time detonating more passive plasma-magnetic troll mines nearby.

The large-scale mutant magnetic field continued to vibrate and gradually spread, turning the prism that approached in an instant into a boulder thrown into a mirror-like lake, causing waves.

One of the chain fortresses at the front responded the fastest and announced the position of the prism.

In the Morning Breeze II, which was far away, a prism rendered in red suddenly appeared on the star map in front of Chen Feng.

Yes, there was only one.

But in the next second, one after another red prism-shaped polygonal structures appeared in various directions of the Shadow Galaxy, and eventually reached 30,000.

Unlike the average dispersion when forming a grid connection, the 30,000 prism ships this time were randomly distributed.

The Compound Eyes will obviously not use the grid connection to blockade the galaxy this time.

It is probably because the number of ships is too small, and the density of the grid white plasma in the unit space is insufficient to form an effective blockade, so it is simply not used.

Then the attack mode of the Compound Eyes is about to be revealed.

A small number of prisms are responsible for patrolling the outer circle to prevent escape, while most prisms are either dispersed or gathered, gradually opening up gaps in the human line and devouring human manpower step by step.

The direction of this small-scale battle is similar to the overall battle outside that affects the huge Orion Arm, like a Russian nesting doll.

Before gaining a definite advantage, the compound eye prism will not rush in.

This will fall into the human encirclement.

Although humans have never shot down a prism in the long history of war, both sides can clearly feel that the threshold is being gradually approached.

With the capabilities shown by humans, once the first prism ship is shot down, it is very likely that the victory or defeat of the war will be reversed instantly.

The compound eyes will not allow this to happen, absolutely not.

As the active decoy mines moved quickly in space, a fierce exchange of fire broke out in the next moment.

In just a moment, about 7,000 bright space flames filled the front of the fortress chain array.

Most of the flames were concentrated near the ecliptic plane of the second orbit of the star, and a small part was distributed in the upper and lower positions of the galaxy.

The prismatic battleship, whose high maneuverability was temporarily restricted, put up its shield as usual, and then a crack about thirty kilometers wide opened in the middle of the two pyramid structures, and a large number of medium and micro combat units flew out from it like wasps out of a nest. There

were still a small number of blade mantises, a medium number of eight-legged beetles, and a large number of dragonfly fighters, as well as more turtle-shaped aircraft and fingernail-sized self-destructing flies.

The war weapons of the compound eyes have not changed much in form.

But the performance displayed by various equipment still made Chen Feng's eyelids twitch.

In addition to the unified force cutting blade arms and spitting explosive particles, the blade mantis in front of him now has a long bendable tube on its back.

This long tube is obviously a weapon, like a tail that grows from the spine to the top of the head. It is very flexible and can shoot out white beams.

Chen Feng recognized this beam.

In the previous timeline, it was released from a spherical battleship and caused great damage to the human fleet at the last moment.

In addition, the thin shield layer covering the surface of these blade mantises has also changed, showing a silver glow in the universe, indicating its good reflectivity to energy weapons.

According to the intelligence provided by the army, the effect of pure physical toxins has declined significantly compared to a hundred years ago.

These blade mantises are much stronger than those killed by Chen Feng himself.

The roaming ball ships did not innovate the equipment of the blade mantises, but the prism ships, which had been participating in the war intensively, had already replaced the blade mantises to who knows what version.

The eight-legged beetles also changed, and their originally clumsy flying speed became much faster.

The way humans met the enemy and Chen Feng's past understanding had also changed greatly.

The chain fortress ship did not rush to release manned small and medium-sized combat units, but only flew out countless bowl-shaped aircraft from the central exit.

Each aircraft was equipped with a maximum of three and a minimum of one small weapon.

These purely artificial intelligence aircraft used pure medium engines. Although the acceleration was not fast enough, they were quite impressive due to their large number.

Before the cannon fodder-class combat units of both sides came into close combat, the small units of the Compound Eyes had already been hit by the array of strange mines.

The blade mantises with short-range folding ability can rush forward quickly, but the other units of the Compound Eyes were blown upside down by countless strange mines.

To pass through the magnetic field chaos caused by the plasma magnetic strange mines, the powerful blade mantises have to take some risks.

But these blade mantises must perform folding maneuvers.

The firepower of a single fortress ship is very strong, and if only a few dozen of them approach, the risk of being shot down is not small.

They have to gather first.

Peng Zhongyun, the tenth marshal who was directly in charge of commanding the first line of defense, started to pre-charge the heavy weapons of some fortress ships.

Chen Feng scanned and Peng Zhongyun selected about ten key areas.

One million and a half million blade mantises started to fold at the same time.

Only 95% of the blade mantises completed the folding smoothly. When the remaining 5% of the blade mantises appeared at the target location of the folding, only half of their bodies were left. The other half was nowhere to be found, probably left in an unknown black hole.

There were originally one and a half million blade mantises, but now there are only one and a half million left. They have become five teams around the Shadow Galaxy, with an average of nearly 290,000 in each team.

Four of the teams overlapped with the preheating and focusing points arranged by Lu Xianfeng in advance.

The moment they reappeared, they were hit head-on by the heavy composite artillery of more than a thousand nearby fortress ships.

But one of them appeared in a position that Peng Zhongyun had never judged.

After a short rest, this blade mantis quickly accelerated to half the speed of light, turned into a stream of light in the universe, and rushed forward.

As these more than 280,000 blade mantises first entered the firepower coverage range of the chain fortress array, the medium-sized weapons of nearly a thousand fortress ships here began to tilt their firepower outward.

The vast majority of the first shots were not energy weapons, but live ammunition weapons, mainly missiles.

High-power energy weapons need to be charged, and only live ammunition weapons can fire at the first sign of fire.

Sometimes pre-charging can be performed, but once charging is turned on, it must be fired, and after each launch there will be a certain period of time for the equipment and materials to be repaired and the energy to be re-prepared, commonly known as the cool-down time.

Missiles?

Chen Feng frowned slightly, thinking to himself, this is impossible to hit.

Sure enough, the chaotic stream of blade mantises dispersed and dodged.

Although missiles have tracking and directional capabilities and a certain curvature-like flight ability, it is too difficult to track blade mantises that can easily change direction at half the speed of light.

But this was already expected by human commanders.

The missile detonated prematurely, and the brilliant explosion illuminated the space of nearly 10 million kilometers in front of the fortress ship into a bright light zone like the corona of a star.

The strong shock wave and particle flow formed a group of "transient stars" in the universe.

The "transient stars" intersected with each other, and the blast shock wave twisted and deformed into a cloud.

But in the blink of an eye, the array of blade mantises rushed out of the cloud and continued to advance.

It seems that humans did not get the upper hand.

"Beautiful!"

Chen Feng suddenly clenched his fist and roared.

He would not jump to conclusions, but the operation of the human fortress ship just now made him amazed.

It turns out that the real purpose of the missile explosion was not to kill the blade mantis, but to block the advancing routes of the eight-legged beetles and other combat units that were chasing behind, and at the same time, it also broke the invisible silk threads that were laid along the way by the blade mantises at some unknown time.

Chen Feng also recognized this silk thread, which was similar to the material of the long whiskers

of the ball ship, and it was thought to have the ability to freeze space. The compound eyes seemed to intend to use the blade mantises to weave webs like spiders, and slowly use space freezing technology to freeze the periphery of the entire shadow galaxy.

Now the compound eyes' wishful thinking has gone wrong.

And since human energy can break through the silk thread, it proves that human explosive weapons can now suppress the freezing power of the silk thread.

At the same time, in the upper right corner of Chen Feng's vision, some parameters were changing rapidly.

"The actual combat effectiveness of the No. 5 string energy ray stream is being tested...

The test results progress by 1%, 2%... 7%... 33%... 100%.

The test is completed. The mixed blasting of the 18, 29, and 75 bottom strings modified by the DX2287 star star rules, and the use of Orton III metal as the shrapnel carrier can cut the frozen thread within 0.0002 seconds.

The No. 5 string energy fragmentation bomb has been successfully developed." " After

an in-depth evaluation of the weapon, the best carrier propulsion level is the vacuum bubble fusion blasting of the single-particle neutron shell, which can achieve the maximum blasting effect in the shortest time."

At this time, the heavy weapons on the fortress ship were finally fully charged.

A moment later, thousands of fortress ships were once again ablaze with colorful lights. One after another, beams of light that looked like searchlights but actually contained huge amounts of energy crisscrossed and poured out from the fortress ships.

Energy triggered by characteristic rules and materials, energy from string energy excitation states with intersecting longitudinal and transverse waves, bosonic energy flows with super-strong magnetic field shock effects, colorless light cannons with wavelengths too short to describe, gamma beams comparable to gamma-ray bursts, positron injections, antiproton injections, and other terrifying energy weapons, fired forward from the fortress ships in a fast or slow cross-stacked manner, blocking the direction of the blade mantises' advance into an airtight net.

The more than 280,000 blade mantises also began to suffer rapid casualties.

The progress of the weapon test in the upper right corner of Chen Feng's vision jumped wildly again.

Yes, Chen Feng fully understood the strategic policy of the Shadow Galaxy in just twenty seconds.

Testing!

This is the eternal theme of the war between the two sides in the past hundred years.

Not only that, other fortress ships far away from the Blade Mantis war zone have also begun to charge giant weapons.

These giant weapons are locking onto the prism ship that is temporarily trapped in the plasma magnetic strange mine array.

There are many types of giant weapons.

Black hole spin cannon, this is a new type of black hole weapon, although not as direct as a black hole bomb, but it can temporarily restrain the mass-energy injection similar to the physical black hole material and launch it in a columnar form.

The supermassive stellar corona cannon can continuously release terrifying high temperatures of over 30 million degrees.

The Chimaera liquid missile is inspired by the saliva of the Chimaera bird, a special life form in the special planetary system. It is a strange liquid with extremely strong decomposition ability and performance that exceeds physical toxins.

The lava life gene shock missile simulates the genetic structure of lava life and can release sustained high temperatures. The flame will devour everything like a tarsal bone.

And the empowered space plant network is a new type of weapon created by humans after integrating the strange life in the special galaxy with the Dyson membrane. It can deploy a large net covering an area of ​​50 million kilometers in space in a very short time.

This large net will quickly absorb all energy forms it touches. It has just been successfully developed and is highly anticipated. Researchers hope that this plant network can absorb the outer shield of the prism.

And the more terrifying Dyson membrane devouring energy field, which is a specialty of the shadow galaxy, a stretched Dyson membrane that once briefly approached a physical black hole and was then sent back out by the suicide squad with reverse thrust. The molecules inside are in high-speed oscillations similar to black hole matter.

These are all tests.

Over the past hundred years, humans have conducted countless tests of similar scale in countless battles.

The ultimate goal of all tests has never changed - to shoot down frigates and destroy the enemy.

These weapons contain all of humanity's imagination and scientific literacy to date.

Humans have been trying to integrate all the resources they can see in the Orion Arm.

Humans are constantly understanding the depth of the universe, then absorbing more of the universe's rules, and then filling their understanding of the universe into military technology without reservation.

This is an ancient material science and technology concept used in the 31st century.

This concept is called the method of poverty, which can give limited resources endless changes to continuously find answers close to the truth.

The seemingly old way of thinking will never be outdated.

Every time a test is conducted, there will be a large number of deaths, but humans do not care, nor can they care.

The goal of humans is only to complete the test.

Humans do not expect to win the war at present. Every soldier and scientific researcher who participates in the test only wants to complete his or her mission.

I have completed the test, and I will die without regrets.

Until now, humans have forgotten whether they are a peace-loving race.

Because the choice before humans has never changed from the beginning to the end.

War.

Only war.

In the past thousand years, humans have established an extremely huge unified will by relying on the seamless communication of this quantum network.

The purpose of this will, borrowing a phrase once said by the ancient philosopher Chen Feng, is "The war started because of you, and I will not stop until I die."

As countless giant weapons gradually charge up, a new round of tests is about to begin.

Some of the blade mantises rushed to the front of the fortress ship within a range of one million kilometers and began to exchange fire with the bowl-shaped intelligent aircraft released by humans before.

The large main battleships, medium-sized frigates and small single-person high-performance fighters in the three million fortress ships took off one after another.

Before the outbound troops were dispatched, Marshal Peng Zhongyun, the chief commander of the Chain Fortress Array, said in the communication channel: "Everyone, behind us is our last stronghold! We have lost the Earth, the solar system, and the entire Orion Arm! However, behind us, there are countless compatriots who are rushing to the depths of the galaxy and the distant space! There are also sages who are rushing to us! We will defend this place to the death, waiting for the arrival of the sages and the departure of our compatriots! We will definitely achieve unprecedented and best results! Everyone, move forward!"

Following Peng Zhongyun's roar, the outbound troops of the Chain Fortress Array rushed forward.

Three million large battleships, thirty million medium-sized frigates, and three hundred million high-performance fighters started their engines at the same time and began to move forward at high speed in different directions.

They had to bypass the blockade of compound eye combat units such as the Razor Mantis, and quickly gather into two huge forces in the front, and attack the two ridge ships respectively.

At the same time, the soldiers on the fortress ship had already boarded their small and medium-sized machine gun control consoles, put on nerve piercing helmets, and highly connected the neural network with the machine guns, waiting to fight the approaching Razor Mantis.

Behind these soldiers stood their comrades in shifts.

If these soldiers overuse their brains and suffer a mental breakdown on the console, or their brains liquefy and die, then their comrades behind them will take over their posts.

Inside the Shadow Galaxy, the Torrent Commando Team, composed of 14,000 elite Star Shadow Warriors, is rapidly accelerating in an elliptical orbit that is almost similar to Pluto's orbit, about to break through the speed of light and prepare to enter a hypercurved motion state.

This team will suddenly appear on the battlefield in ten seconds and engage in close combat with the more than 280,000 Blade Mantises rushing to the front.