From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

The Atlas fleet rearguard warships under Amber's command maintained a set distance and continued to consume non-lethal tactical missiles in the warships' ammunition depot.

Groups of 'shielding layers' formed by interference chaff clouds, interference smoke and nuclear explosions continued to spread out along the route of the Federation Navy.

Ever since the Atlas fleet began to implement 'tactical concealment', the federal fleet could no longer obtain the fleet's specific movements and operations. Marshal Trafalgar could only let the fleet follow and then constantly try to close the distance.

After thinking about it for a while, the marshal was no longer as worried as before. After all, the Atlas fleet and Mr. Amber were already 'trapped' here.

Based on the opponent's series of actions from the beginning to the present, Marshal Trafalgar judged that this fleet should still attack the proton annihilation bomb assembly center, so his fleet could just follow it without worrying about losing it.

After the opponent encountered the 'surprise' he left in the assembly center, the three fleets chasing him quickly pressed forward and launched an attack. Marshal Trafalgar believed that even the Atlas fleet commanded by Amber could not stop it. Use this combo

"I have to say that the Atlas fleet's material reserves are still sufficient."

Seeing the 'shielding layer' unfolding again, as well as the continuous light curtains produced by a large number of nuclear explosions, coupled with the messy pictures on the main screen of the bridge, Admiral Carroll's tone became a little helpless. stand up.

"It's not surprising." Marshal Trafalgar said, "After all, the opponent's current size has reached the level of a global giant, and it originally started by selling ores and arms. It is normal for it to have sufficient reserves of tactical supplies."

Admiral Carroll: "But the bomb"

"What is the relationship between the Renaissance Alliance and Atlas?"

Marshal Trafalgar asked rhetorically: "In the former's control area, there are many nuclear weapons assembly plants and raw material production workshops. These facilities are enough for them to supply the Atlas Group's current fleet."

"Then should we just watch? Although the speed difference between us and the opponent has dropped now, we still won't be able to catch up for a while. And you can see from the star map that we will be approaching the assembly center soon."

Admiral Carroll pointed to a highlighted location deep in the 'Pillar of All Beings' on the tactical star map, where the proton annihilation bomb assembly center is located.

"I know, so the answer will be revealed soon"

Marshal Trafalgar's tone became calmer. After thinking for a moment, he continued to say to Carroll:

"Send a signal to the Requiem and fire as soon as the Atlas fleet comes into attack range!"

"Yes, Marshal!"

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Fleet chases in space are the most boring of all combat types, both for the pursuing party and the pursued party.

Especially now that jump signature code 'deciphers' are becoming more and more popular, even if the party being pursued forces a jump, the pursuing party can input the jump signature code generated during the other party's jump into its own jump engine, and then continue. catch up

Therefore, unless one party is unable to fly and takes the initiative to engage in battle, this kind of pursuit that does not know when it will end will be a boring farce with no end in sight for both parties.

However, for the chasing parties inside the 'Pillar of All Living Beings', this chase will not be so boring for a while, because both the Atlas fleet and the Federation Navy fleet have their own little thoughts. '.

Marshal Trafalgar was thinking about relying on his advance arrangements in the assembly center and cooperating with the three fleets to form two loaves of cheese, so as to annihilate Amber, the number one enemy, in one fell swoop.

And all Amber's mind was thinking was, 'Team Poseidon, use thermal resistance to cut off our logistics.' She would also hum in a low voice from time to time - this was not the first time she had done this.

Many crew members who have been on the same bridge as Amber have heard the boss occasionally whisper something they don't understand during the battle.

For example, 'The battle damage ratio doesn't look good. It's normal, normal, normal.'

Or 'This is how I direct, I can only direct like this, Atlas' style is just like this~'

Everyone, including Isabel, was a little confused about these 'mysterious whispers', and in the end they could only guess that they were some kind of 'ancient war song' used to boost morale.

Just when Amber was sitting on the captain's seat muttering something to himself, Ramos came to him and said:

"Boss, the 'Poseidon' detachment has escaped from the range of tactical cover and is rapidly approaching the β area in stealth mode. Judging from the current movements of the enemy fleet, the opponent should not have noticed our movements yet."

"They are almost 40,000 kilometers apart, and they are all small ships. It would be a big deal if they could be discovered by the other side." Amber waved his hand. He was not too worried about the battle of the 'Poseidon' unit.

"But looking at your expression, you are worried."

Amber nodded: "I always feel that the situation at the assembly center may not be as simple as we expected."

Ramos: "Boss, are you worried about fraud?"

"I hope I'm just overthinking. Although judging from the current situation in the Federation, there shouldn't be that much spare time to make arrangements, but we still need to prepare the fleet to deal with emergencies."

As it turns out, Amber wasn't overly concerned.

When the fleet continued to sail at high speed for nearly two hours, the ships had just completed the maintenance of the fusion furnace, reconnected the energy circuit of the main propulsion array to the furnace, and began to recharge the superconducting battery stacks that had been drained, when the shrill alarm buzzer and the warning of the shipboard control personality sounded on all ships at the same time.

"Warning, an unknown energy reaction in the target area has been detected, and the intensity has increased sharply!"

Amber seemed to be electrocuted, and suddenly ejected from the command chair, his eyes were as big as copper bells, staring at the main screen.

At this moment, he didn't have time to slap himself for being a "crow mouth". Amber had already thought of what might have happened in his mind. The anxious shipboard control personality of the "Eternal" ordered:

"Cerris! Maximum computing power allocation, predict the high-energy weapon beam axis! Emergency authorization to execute fleet override control, the fleet is urgently dispersed in all directions!"

The next second, in the endless darkness in the distance, a very strange light quietly appeared.

At first, it was just a faint halo like the first light before dawn, but it was wrapped with an energy fluctuation that could make people's heartbeat disordered instantly, but in a flash, the light seemed to be injected with violent vitality and expanded rapidly.

At the same time, after Ceris pulled all the control personalities of the fleet into supercomputing mode, she quickly completed the evasion operation settings for the entire fleet.

The ship-borne control personalities on each warship also immediately began to surpass control. The originally strict fleet advance formation was like an exploded swarm of bees, and under the emergency activation of the vector nozzles on the ship, it spread out at full speed in different directions.

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Then, a beam of light as thick as the diameter of a large asteroid, wrapped in the momentum of destroying the world, gushed out from the source of the light.

Wherever it passed, the cosmic dust inside the Pillar of All Life vaporized and disappeared like snowflakes encountering the scorching sun, and the originally stable space seemed to be torn apart by a pair of invisible giant hands.

The beam rushed towards the original location of the fleet at a speed beyond the limit of thought, like a world-destroying lightning.

The asteroid belt along the way was as fragile as paper under the impact of this energy that seemed like the wrath of God, and was easily pierced.

The huge rocks were instantly vaporized and shattered, turning into countless meteors, dragging long tail flames, and splashing wildly in all directions, like a desperate and tragic song played by the universe.

Because Amber roared fast enough, Ceris and other shipboard control personalities intervened early enough, and the entire fleet dispersed just in time.

But in the area swept by the huge beam, there were still more than 20 main battleships and more small warships that had not had time to completely evacuate.

The adaptive deflection force field was activated at the moment of the attack, trying to resist the impending catastrophe. However, this shield, which is the most commonly used by human warships, could not play any defensive role against the beam sweeping at this moment.

When this beam with the breath of destruction hit the deflection force field fiercely, it could not even last for a short moment, and the entire force field was shattered and disintegrated like a fragile soap bubble.

The first heavy cruiser to bear the brunt was instantly engulfed by the beam. The hard metal hull was twisted and deformed under this super energy, and the cabin was broken. The crew inside did not even have time to scream before being turned into powder by the high temperature and ultra-high pressure.

Then, the beam swept across, and the warships that did not have time to escape the range of the ray axis were swallowed up in an instant. Even the warships that forced their way to the edge of the beam were still twisted out of shape by the high temperature.

"Attack is over. Attack characteristics have been identified."

As the beam went out, Ceris's emotionless and cold voice also sounded.

"Characteristics: High-intensity light - the brightness and heat of a supernova explosion; Induced electric field - extremely strong; Luminosity level - first-magnitude bright star; Duration - 0.25 seconds to 3 seconds."

"Source and affiliation: Federal Navy facility under construction - 'Requiem' nuclear explosion-induced gamma-ray emitter"

"Threat level: purple high risk"

"Defense means: none"