There are only 60 seconds left before zero-point radiation overload, and a huge red warning appears on every screen in the control room.
But no one paid attention to the warning, and Luo Lan even turned off the shrill alarm. Everyone gathered together and held each other's hands tightly.
"Do you still remember the wedding car in the hangar?" Chang Renfei suddenly asked Nolan.
"I remember. I still remember that you bought it when you proposed to Lisa. You took out a loan for over thirty years, but she ended up running off with someone else."
"Hey, what were you thinking at the time, proposing to a species with reproductive isolation?"
"Who told you that?" Old Chang waved his hand impatiently. "I was asking if you wanted to go out for a walk?"
"Are you speechless?" Nolan rolled his eyes. "You've stripped your old car of its parts and stripped it of its interior, leaving only the shell lying there. You're not even going to drive it!"
Zero Point Radiation is completely overloaded.
The rapidly flowing particle flow broke free from the constraints of the force field, and the dissipated energy gradually accumulated and eventually exceeded the limit that the inner wall of the reactor could withstand.
All four Zero Point Reactors responsible for powering the Stargate experienced a Level 1 malfunction. The powerful explosion, even after blowing away the entire reactor's outer shell, continued unabated. Particles reaching hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, traveling at near-light speed, swept across the area, melting countless crystal spacecraft. Even the white glow of Feima's supposedly invincible defense dimmed in an instant.
It was like a miniature Genesis. The flash of light from the Zero Point Reactor explosion was clearly visible even from Pass C11.
But this was just the beginning of the disaster.
This explosion destroyed the stability of the stargate structure and disrupted the power supply to the warp generator. The warp passageway rapidly degraded, and the light curtain flickered like a lightbulb with unstable voltage. Feima had evidently noticed this, and her whole body erupted with powerful energy, accelerating madly, trying to pull her body out of the warp.
But it was too late. Five seconds after the explosion, the entire light curtain collapsed inwards, and Feima, who had no time to escape, was cut in half.
This super crystal suffered an unprecedented heavy blow at this moment. Its light flickered erratically for a few times and then quickly dimmed.
She now looked like a real piece of round quartz floating in the universe. Her entire body had become lifeless, without a trace of light emanating from within.
However, this dead body still maintained excellent hardness. The collapsed stargate structure began to fall towards Feima's remains under the action of gravity. Hundreds of millions of tons of mass fell with acceleration, smashing the entire crystal off its orbit, but only leaving a few scratches on it.
In the distance, many crystal spaceships that survived the explosion were returning. They gathered around Feima and shot a beam of light at the dead body, transferring their vitality to Feima.
Under the illumination of countless beams of light, Feima's body, as if resurrected from a dead body, lit up at a visible speed. However, this time, it was no longer pure white, but the same purple hue as ordinary crystals. Its surface also grew clusters of sharp, angular crystal structures, no longer as smooth as before.
A week later, Feima's entire form had undergone a dramatic transformation. Previously, it resembled a pebble polished by flowing water for millennia, with a smooth surface and streamlined appearance. But now, Feima resembled a rock freshly hewn from a cliff, its surface riddled with deep ravines and undulations.
It looks like a super-sized version of an ordinary Crystal Storm spacecraft.
Crystal spaceship promaxplus.
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Pass C11 galaxy.
Like the other border guards, Bai Yi kept a close eye on the changes in the Leontopodium stargate. During the time Feima was resurrected, the border guards held more than one online meeting, but they ultimately did not send troops to encircle and suppress her, instead allowing her to complete her transformation.
The reason was simple: the previous round of battles had nearly depleted everyone's inventory. The Border Guards were, after all, a defensive unit, and in principle, were not allowed to maintain large fleet reserves. And with the stargate closed, there was no way for external fleets to arrive quickly.
Bai Yi believed that the outside world was aware of what was happening here. Although long-distance tachyon communications were currently severely disrupted, before Feima's appearance, the mobile relay station established by the Second Fleet, while not able to establish contact with the other side, had no problem connecting with the slightly more distant Border Guard base.
Squadron 12 would definitely communicate with the outside world immediately regarding the exchange of fire with the Crystal Storm. Even accounting for the time it took to relay the message, at the speed of the First Fleet, without using a stargate, they could reach Leo Head in a few months.
Now all Bai Yi and others need to consider is how to survive this period.
But despite all his calculations, he didn't anticipate one thing.
While Feima intercepted the bridge signal of the Leontopo Star Gate, the signal of the Dwarf Star Gate on the other side was also intercepted by a crystal storm cluster.
According to the difference in quantity and quality, the levels of Crystal Storm are also artificially divided into fleet level, corps level, division level, battalion level and squadron level according to the same standards as the Galactic United Fleet.
Although theoretically, due to the Crystal Storm's weakness in adaptability, its combat effectiveness at the same level will be slightly worse than that of the Galactic Alliance Fleet, no one will underestimate them for this reason.
According to the Galactic Alliance's war records, when a crystal storm is discovered, in order to keep losses under control, one should deploy at least 1.5 times the enemy's force, provided the battlefield width allows.
For example, the Crystal Storm that invaded Leo Head this time was a division-level fleet, while the one that invaded Dwarf Head was a full-fledged legion. If we follow the previous war plan, the Galactic Alliance would have to assemble at least 1.5 legions before launching a formal attack.
But this plan was not feasible from the beginning.
Because in addition to Leo Head and Dwarf Head, crystal storms have also launched attacks in other directions of the Milky Way. The total number of crystal ships far exceeded the Galactic Alliance's expectations.
With the defensive fortifications in various places not yet completed, the Alliance could only split up the First, Second, and Third Fleets and use their advantages in quality and experience to make up for the lack of quantity.
Because the incident happened suddenly, the entire galaxy is now in chaos.
Refugee evacuation ships and firefighting fleets were everywhere. Emergency evacuation orders had been issued for the predicted attack direction. Countless evacuation ships carried refugees toward the center of the galaxy, but tens of billions of people remained within the danger zone.
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