Him and their stars

The group of space crystals wandering in the universe of the New World is indeed a natural phenomenon that can be called a natural disaster. If ordinary merchant ships and exploration ships encountered one, it would be similar to encountering a pack of wolves alone and unarmed in the wild. They would basically be dead.

This is because space crystals have a strong adsorption and fusion effect on existing energy weapons, and energy weapons have limited effects on them.

In the future, when exploration teams from various countries have many contacts with space crystal groups, scientific research departments are also trying to take advantage of this characteristic and develop a kind of crystal anti-energy armor. At the time when Yu Lianchuan came back, this kind of armor had already entered the testing stage, and it would only be officially put into service for two or three years.

But the problem is that most armed merchant ships and exploration ships, in order to save space inside the ship, most of the limited armaments are energy weapons.

In addition, the attack methods of space crystals are relatively simple, but they are very powerful. They can accelerate their bodies to a sub-light speed comparable to that of a railgun, and directly impact their prey.

More importantly, once the impact is successful, the prey ship will be destroyed, and the crystal will naturally be shattered to pieces. But for an entire community of space crystals, it can definitely be considered an affordable price. As long as a large number of ships can be replenished with high-quality alloys, more crystals can be split.

From this point of view, even if space crystals are living things, they must be creatures with Gestalt will.

Of course, they are indeed a natural disaster to poorly equipped armed merchant ships and exploration ships. But for large battleships that are fully prepared, as long as their weaknesses are known in advance, it will be nothing.

For example, during the process of accelerating collision, the energy of space crystals seems to enter an unstable state, and it is easy to cause self-destruction due to physical impacts from the outside world, and in the end it will deviate from the waterway. This can be done with dense barrages. To intercept.

No, these rounds of submunitions used to intercept fighter planes have had a very good effect.

Once these floating crystals launched a charge, their absolute speed was much faster than that of a fighter jet, but they seemed to have sacrificed their IQ because of this. They couldn't even turn their heads, and they just crashed into the boiling explosion.

At this time, the Blizzard in the distance seemed to have learned the lesson, and also threw a round of interceptor missiles at the crystal group in the distance, and then moved closer to the Scarlet Throne step by step.

Of course, the Buran's approach was always a little unhurried, and it remained at the Throne's seven to eight o'clock position. Yu Lian estimated that Soback was still thinking of running away and using his own ship to cut off the rear when the situation turned bad.

"Anyway, we didn't count on their combat power." Yu Liandao: "We don't have to worry about the other party giving us a righteous backstab. I'm very satisfied."

Feifei was happy: "No matter what, the regular army of the empire wouldn't be so mean, right?"

This is impossible to say. This is a deserted and remote star sector with no evidence or witnesses. If a righteous stab in the back really hits me, it can be said to be a natural disaster.

The Imperial Army, which is said to be full of moral integrity and upright, is definitely not lacking in such ruthless types who are eager to do dirty work. If the commander on the opposite ship was the smiley Ostana Barr, Yu Lian would be really worried, fearing that he would leave one eye open even when he slept.

"Maybe the Imperial Army on the other side thinks so too." Agnes smiled.

In short, because the attack of those crystal groups was repelled, everyone on the bridge felt a lot more relaxed. Encountering unknown phenomena will certainly make people fearful. This is human nature, but when it is discovered that these unknown phenomena will not cause fatal harm, everyone will look forward to it.

New unknown astronomical phenomena, unknown crystal materials, and even unknown creatures. Just by virtue of such discoveries, their names are enough to be recorded in the history books of pioneers in space exploration, not to mention various direct cash benefits.

If we could catch one or two more of those strange crystals intact, wouldn't it be possible to change a director? The business instinct of Vega, who was born in the Toss Merchant Group, began to take action. Of course, before Yu Lian made a decision, he did not dare to make his own decisions. He just sent out two more automatic sensors, hoping to collect some information wherever possible.

Of course, Yu Lian noticed Vega's move, but this was the latter's authority, and he did not need to stop it. He directly issued the next order: "Switch the shield to the alert defense state, and turn to the target at the second attack speed." Planet 4 of the galaxy.”

Planet No. 4 in this galaxy is a huge gaseous planet, and there is a silver halo surrounding the planet itself that seems to be diffused with mist.

Ordinary crew members may think that he is preparing to use the planet's body and halo as cover to get entangled with those unknown crystals. But Yu Lian knew that the space crystal group had another characteristic. Although they can absorb discrete space energy as nutrients to maintain body movement, the gravity of stars and giant planets will disrupt their own magnetic fields and disrupt the normal operation of their "biological" functions.

Even if they are artificially manipulated, space crystal groups will never enter the gravitational orbits of giant planets and stars. This is their "biological instinct."

At this time, the steady stream of transition signals in the opposite gravity well finally stopped. More than two thousand flying crystals of different sizes entered the galaxy, making the crystal community reflecting the brilliance of stars even stronger. Even if they have just been bombarded by multiple missiles, they are still a large-scale and powerful "space predator".

Yu Lian was amazed when he saw it. Even in the environment of pulsating galaxies, the favorite space crystals, there are rarely such large-scale space crystals.

However, they may have discovered that their "prey" was moving in the direction of the ice crystal planet, and they immediately slowed down their progress.

More than two thousand crystals of various colors and shapes lined up in a seemingly disorderly formation and slowly stopped more than 5 million kilometers away from Planet No. 4.

At this distance, the gravity of the gas giant planets can already have a certain impact on them, but it is still within the tolerance range.

They didn't dare to move forward, but they didn't evacuate directly, like a group of hungry wolves wandering outside the light of the campfire.

There is indeed something fishy about this! Yu Lian thought.

The academic community is indeed unable to determine whether the space crystal group is considered an animal, but a large part of the reason for such controversy comes from their obvious animality. When they find that the gains from this "hunting" action outweigh the losses, they will naturally retreat.

"Should we prepare for a bombardment?" Agnes asked.

That's all she asked. You must know that 5 million kilometers is already outside the range of interceptor missiles. Only the orbital main gun of the warship can carry out effective strikes. But the largest of those crystals is the size of a destroyer. If it really fires, it will literally be a cannon to swat mosquitoes.

Yu Lian thought for a while, thinking that at this time, he should consider staying the same to deal with all changes. But at this time, more than half of the troops in the crystal group were separated and rushed towards the direction of the Blizzard in the distance.

The Snowstorm did not follow Yu Lian. They probably felt that the Scarlet Throne's move to the gas giant planet No. 4 had objectively given them room to escape. At this time, the ship's hull had already turned around and turned on its sublight engine at full speed in the direction it came from.

"Escaped..." Feifei said with emotion.

"Imperial devils, you have no shame." Agnes gritted her teeth.

"I thought that since they are the elites of the Imperial Army, they are the type who will fight to the death and destroy the enemy when they see it!" Vega also looked in disbelief, feeling that some of the lofty totems in his heart had collapsed like this.

Of course, although the Buran escaped, it still had a bottom line. Even though it knew that it was being chased by the crystals, it still stayed above the satellite where the crashed destroyer lay for at least three minutes. It should be to kill the survivors on it. Let the rescuers and rescuers pick him up.

Because the ship was forced to stop this time, those colorful space crystals took this opportunity to catch up. If not, with the speed of the Clear Sky-class cruiser, they would have been thrown away long ago.

This is the Yeager Soback I know! Even being a coward has a bottom line! He also sells his teammates in style! Yu Lian was filled with emotion and relief, but he said: "This is not an escape! This is a tactical pull!"

"Are you playing with the sky ball?" Feifei complained in a voice that only she and Yu Lian could hear.

Yu Lian pretended not to hear and continued: "How can my old enemy be a coward? Agnes, it's not like you don't know that guy. Do you think he is a coward?"

Is not it? Agnes carefully recalled her experience at the God of War Festival, and felt that the guy was indeed a bit slick, but she had to say he was a coward, but she couldn't seem to find any convincing evidence.

After leaving the Gumeiya girl speechless, Yu Lian continued: "He clearly wants to use the high speed of the cruiser to disperse these unknown groups and create opportunities for us to defeat them! You see, the effect is not Is it obvious?"

This seems to make sense. At least half of the space crystals blocking the throne have been reduced. As a result, most of the friends on the bridge showed expressions of sudden realization, and they all lamented that the elite officers of the empire were indeed both wise and brave and should not be underestimated!

Feifei felt something was wrong. She had noticed the bad taste in Yu Lian's tone, so she could only chuckle twice calmly.

At this time, the Scarlet Throne, under the command of Yu Lian, had voluntarily left the gas giant planet's low-Earth orbit, emerged from the silver halo, narrowed the distance from the crystal group, and blasted out again. A volley of missiles.

"All secondary artillery crews are ready to intercept! After we break through the unknown crystals, we don't need to worry about their movements. We will continue to move towards the Tree Shepherd Galaxy according to the original plan." Yu Lian ordered everyone.

"But, over there at the Blizzard..." Vega looked worriedly at the Blizzard, which had run to the edge of the horizon with only a light spot left.

"Don't worry, I have already made an agreement with Colonel Soback. In this case, we can disband the formation and choose the next step on our own. This is why I asked the Return to Blizzard to take charge."

"Is that so?" Agnes looked suspicious.

"That's it!" Yu Lian resolutely said: "Look how brave they are! Don't worry, how can the empire's best young generals and the most cutting-edge warships be placed in the hands of a group of unknown crystals."

At this time, the defensive firepower at the rear of the Blizzard had opened fire. The dense barrage seemed to turn into the tail feathers of a phoenix, destroying all the crystals that entered the range of the battleship's secondary guns. The so-called powder was indeed very stable.

Ever since, the friends of the Scarlet Throne, with admiration for their Imperial comrades in the blizzard, embarked on a separate journey to break out.