Chapter 130 Battle (Part 3)
A starship appearing in the Black Tide was anything but normal. The Second Legion's personnel were mostly immigrants from the Northern Star Territory. Having experienced the Battle of Dawn, they were extremely wary of the Black Tide's parasitic creatures.
What's more, the biggest suspect in the sudden incident at the Ming family banquet last night was Albin from the Third Legion.
In fact, Ming Yu, the second son of the Ming family and now declared missing, was also a strong suspect in the banquet hall. However, during the police investigation, Mu Lian, the son of their regiment commander, testified that he saw Albin abduct Ming Yu with an energy gun and then carry him away through a spatial rupture. Therefore, the final conclusion was that the person possessed by the black tide creature was Albin.
This is really not good news. The correspondent thought to himself, he would rather Mingyu be the one being parasitized.
Because compared to Mingyu, who likes to stay in the dormitory playing Star Network games, doesn't communicate much with others, and has no mental power... it is much more difficult to disguise himself as Albin.
Based on the energy traces on the Labyrinth Planet and Albin's movements, it's possible he was already parasitized by the Black Tide creatures there. However, in the weeks that followed, Albin continued to participate in the Third Legion's daily training and even served as a gatekeeper for the Star Navigation Competition...
He frequently appeared among the crowd, yet no one noticed anything unusual. The Black Tide creature, controlling the human shell, could still use human psychic power, utilizing the psychic qualities of Albin... This meant that the human psychic light wasn't a sign of absolute safety.
It could even be bait originating from the Kuroshio Current.
"All starships, charge!" Countless speculations surged through Musa's mind, finally condensing into one command: "Aim at the center of the large moth swarm... Don't disperse your firepower."
His heart was heavy, but his words were measured and measured. Facing the seemingly endless black tide... he had no choice.
The gun barrels of the starships belonging to the Second Legion were aimed in the direction, all converging on the strange black tide creature wrapped in a large group of moths.
The thing wrapped in the moth was obviously the culprit that caused the surge in black tide energy.
It was a mass of matter that made one feel uncomfortable just by looking at its appearance.
Its body resembled a human form, yet it was incomplete. Head, shoulders, waist... the humanoid form was riddled with gaps, like holes left by a burn. And its flesh was churning, like bubbles that rose and fell, or like a growing tumor, rapidly filling these holes.
Its body was covered with limbs. Its hands were clasped together, and a black light flickered in its palms, emitting a terrifying amount of black energy.
“Beep, beep, beep—”
"Buzz—"
The energy light screen was humming so loudly that it seemed as if the instrument was about to explode and burn at any time. The black tide in front was surging, like a volcanic crater about to erupt.
Musa's jaw tightened and he raised his arms.
This is a sign of readiness to fire.
Inside the fleet, Hao Ru placed her finger on the firing ship. Her expression was extremely nervous, worried that if the artillery fire raged and the high-level black tide creatures in the moth swarm were strangled, the starship behind the moth swarm would also be affected...
"Fire!"
Moussa's order came through the communicator, and Hao Ru didn't hesitate, and the light cannon immediately released its brilliance. However, Hao Ru soon realized that her worries were unnecessary.
Bang, bang, bang—
Dozens of rays of light pierced into the black tide and landed on the advanced black tide creature, but the energy explosion that Hao Ru had expected did not happen.
The black light in its hand suddenly widened, forming a thick beam of light, like a barrier, and also like a powerful counterattack.
The Second Legion's light cannon penetrated the swarm of black tide moths in front and melted a large number of black tide insects, but it did not penetrate the light in its hand.
There wasn't even a dent in its humanoid body, let alone a hole that needed repairing.
Musa's expression suddenly changed.
"Overload energy output! --" he shouted loudly, "Prepare again --"
Before he finished speaking, a bright light suddenly flashed in the darkness opposite.
That was the starship's main gun muzzle charging, piercing through the chest of the black tide creature, emitting a beam of light, so easy that it formed a sharp contrast with their previous attack.
Musa: “…”
Hao Ru: “…”
An Qiang: “…”
Even in such an extremely tense situation, An Qiang and Hao Ru couldn't help but look at each other.
An Qiang: "Who's that person over there?!"
His tone was filled with jealous surprise. "...Is it that powerful? That starship only has one cannon... They could penetrate it so easily even though so many of us couldn't?! Not just one shot, but a second and a third shot...?"
"The energy intensity of their main guns is changing!" Hao Ru suddenly said, "They're controlling the output strength... This flickering is very regular, like a universal communication signal. What are they saying?!"
"Bright, dark, bright..." The Second Legion's communications officer also noticed the unusually regular flash frequency of the opposing starship's main guns. Like Hao Ru, he quickly realized the other side was using some kind of universal light language.
...This starship uses the muzzle of its main gun as a communication light, transmitting information and attacking tidal creatures at the same time.
"Is it so easy?!" He couldn't help but make a similar complaint to An Qiang, and tried to multitask while quickly memorizing the other party's light language into the light screen.
"Open...fire?" The communications officer typed the signal word by word and sent it to Musa.
"Maximum power burst."
"Fire at me...?"
Communications Officer: “…”
He touched his head, half-believing and half-doubting, "Could it be that the starship across the way really belongs to humans?..."
"Are they warning us to open fire, fearing we might be wary of them and our firepower might be insufficient?"
"Are you going to sacrifice yourself and contribute to all of humanity?..."
Inside the starship, Mingyu had not yet come up with such a lofty idea.
In other words, it is not yet such a desperate moment.
His face was tense and he was covered in sweat. He was not as relaxed as An Qiang or the communications officer had imagined.
Mingyu clearly felt that his mental power was rapidly dissipating due to the resonance, and he and Mu Baixing operated the main gun muzzle to fire, but did not release any more light birds.
Because they already knew what would happen after the light bird appeared if they did not change their tactics.
As mental power and black tide energy consume each other, the giant bird transformed from mental power artillery will gradually shrink.
It is indeed quite threatening.
But even if he had S-level mental power, even if Mu Baixing had raised his mental power level to 3S, even if they had been extremely close to success, they could have burned the high-level black tide creatures surrounded by the moth swarm into only a black ball that looked like a heart.
But it will eventually fight back.
Burning wasn't quite working, and Devouring Explosion wasn't quite working either. Just like Ming Yu couldn't have easily defeated Albin with Explosion alone without Mu Baixing and the starship's mechanical heart, even at his peak, he struggled to absorb and compress the surrounding Black Tide energy.
The energy values for these energies are a bit too high.
The boundless, high-energy black tide around it obeyed its command, serving as both a weapon and a source of energy. The many giant moths around it were burned to ashes by Ming Yu and Mu Baixing in waves. But as soon as it touched one, new moths would grow and swell, surrounding it.
Mingyu found joy in the midst of hardship, thinking that the only advantage of this was that he could let loose and kill without worrying about lacking a "driver".
But it didn't need to shiver, retreat, or be afraid. It was certain that it could not be destroyed by the light bird, and it continued to move forward rapidly.
Mingyu and Mu Baixing drove the starship and traveled a long way until the star line was right in front of them. Mingyu vaguely saw the fleet in front of him in his mental vision.
The young man's eyes lit up.
He thought that the fleet of the central star field would only guard near the border, but he didn't expect that the other side would advance forward and come so close to them.
This is truly wonderful news! Luckily, "Ming Zhuofeng" is busy patching himself up and hasn't yet reappeared as General Ming.
Otherwise the battle will become more complicated!
Mingyu looked at the fleet in front of him with his eyes shining.
He and Mu Boxing's mental strength wasn't strong enough... but weren't there supplies up ahead?!
Mingyu had seen the other side's volley just now. The spiritual power fluctuations contained in these energy cannons were no more than S-level. He and Mu Baixing hadn't just casually absorbed them...
Those flashing light cannons were the energy supply they devoured and exploded! They were like energy supply boxes one after another.
Mingyu cheered up and said loudly: "Brother Mu!——"
He hopes the other side will fire hard! Don't stop!
Without Mingyu's explanation, Mu Baixing already knew the young man's preparation and flashed a light message.
Mingyu focused all his attention on the black tide creatures in front of him and the fleet in the central star field opposite, and did not notice that Mu Baixing's face was extremely pale.
The man pursed his lips slightly, their colorless lips. Waves of excruciating pain washed over him from his mental realm, but his movements remained unaffected.
He was still thinking about the voice from the Black Tide, but Mu Baixing turned a deaf ear to it.
"child--"
The buzzing sounds echoed non-stop, "You are all the children I have chosen—"
"Not only you—but him—my child—"
Mu Baixing's expression was icy, a hint of disgust showing through. With a flick of his finger, he pushed the function box behind the main gun muzzle into the center of the muzzle's energy-gathering ring.
It contained a bit of 2S-level energy crystal spit out by the bird.
An energy crystal the size of a fingernail can greatly improve the combustion properties of the light cannon, but it can only supply two full-strength fires.
Therefore, even though they did not have the advantage just now, Mu Baixing did not use it.
Mingyu: Good steel must be used on the blade!
He straightened his back, looked at the scene in front of him with a focused expression, and his fingers lightly fell on the fire button.
"The other side is accumulating energy." The young man said to Mu Baixing, "We should also prepare--"
"Buzz—buzz—"
The mechanical vibrations of the starship's main gun charging mixed with the tremors of the black tide's energy waves. Mu Baixing stared directly at the black tide creatures ahead, his mental energy surging.
Musa: "All aircraft carriers—ready—"
"emission!--"
On both sides of the star line, light blooms.
Mingyu suddenly loosened the bright lines that bound the giant moths, reversed the engine, and retreated rapidly to avoid the impending explosion.
And from the muzzle of the main gun, a bright firebird quickly pounced forward.
With the blessing of the burning energy crystal, this bird of light looks more majestic, handsome and murderous than ever before.
It dived forward, smashed a hole in the body of the advanced black tide creature, and then opened its beak.
The pointed mouth did not spit out flames, but instead sucked in suddenly -
It was like an ancient mythical beast in a fairy tale, swallowing the sea with its mouth. Dozens of rays of light were sucked into the mouth of this giant bird.
It burned, gathering all the light cannon energy into one place, turning it into a burning ball of light, which embedded itself into the body of the black tide creature.
Then, that energy was extremely compressed and released outwards...
There was a huge explosion, energy fragments flew and disappeared, and the universe and the starry sky shook.
The starship's main gun barrel could not bear the heavy weight, and the black outer wall of the barrel burned into a terrifying brown-red under the high temperature, and it seemed that it was about to melt.
The effect of this devastating blow lived up to Mingyu's expectations.
The overwhelming black tide energy formed a gap with the front end of the starship where Mingyu was located as the center, and not even the smallest thread of black tide energy was left inside.
Outside the breach, the surviving moths and black tideworms scattered and fled. A vast black wave retreated, leaving behind a dark golden line of stars in the universe. It was like a reverse replay of the black tide at the beginning of the black tide day.
Ming Yu breathed deeply, his body trembling slightly from the excessive use of his mental energy. His voice trembled as he spoke, "Is it over? That 'Ming Zhuofeng' has completely disappeared, right? Let's signal with a lantern signal to move forward—"
"No." Mu Baixing said coldly, "Prepare for the second shot!"
A flash of light flashed from the starship's gun barrel. He quickly sent a message in lantern language, the message leaving the Second Legion's communicator bewildered.
"Retreat half a star? What do you mean?!"
The communicator's brain was almost paralyzed by the previous shot from the opposing starship. He mechanically relayed a message to Musa, "Hasn't the Black Tide already..."
"puff."
The starship's Black Tide energy monitor screeched to a halt. The instrument burned out, and the screen went dark.
A second before it struck, the communicator saw that the black tide energy value on the light screen had reached a new high peak.
His pupils suddenly constricted.
The Kuroshio Tide is indeed receding.
But the values on the energy screen... are still rising!
The communicator immediately looked out the porthole and saw a large black tide shrinking and converging inward as it receded, forming a dark fan-shaped area that was rich in color and extremely ominous.
It's like a precursor to a landslide or tsunami.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
