Soul of Burning Steel

Atrium Central Fleet, the flagship Forerunner bridge, Commander Tarquin finally lifted his hands that had been behind his back and pressed them on his face after seeing the void mother's lifeless flesh and blood. The old man exhaled tremblingly, and then laughed in a tired voice: "It's over...the past few months are really...hateful Void Beast, hateful Forby people!"

While speaking in fragments, the old man's voice became full of resentment bit by bit, and he could see that there were flickering psychic lights shooting out from the gap between the fingers covered by Taquin's face. The commander of the Atrium Fleet has already I couldn't hold back my resentment towards my neighbors—if it wasn't for the Forby people who summoned the Void Mother Beast and didn't destroy it, if it wasn't for the Forby people for not resisting and fleeing from their home planet in a panic, if it wasn't for Forby People didn't have the slightest intention to remind them, and planned to use them as bait to delay the Void Mother Beast, all of this will never happen! If the Forbys had informed the Zhongting people to cooperate with them, maybe the Void Mother would never have had the chance to grow to such a huge size!

It was far from what it should have been, and it was all the Folby people's fault.

This kind of thinking has spread throughout the Atrium society. Countless younger generations of Atrium who once had a good impression of the unknown races outside have reversed their cognition, turning the Atrium people who were originally willing to treat outsiders with kindness into one who is wary of others. Xenophobic, all of this is the fault of the Forby people, Taquin secretly swore in his heart that if one day, he encounters the Forby people's exiled fleet again, he will definitely lead the army to destroy them. There is nothing left to be completely purified!

Just like purifying the Void Mother Beast.

Putting down his hands, the old man looked up at the starry sky. There, a spaceship was slowly approaching the flesh and blood of the female beast that seemed to have lost its vitality. All the crew members and scientific researchers were prepared for death. Whether it is completely dead, and try to detect where the spiritual energy core of the female beast is located.

To be honest, Tarquin didn't think that the mother beast could survive the bombardment of the subspace fragmentation cannon. He had seen the result of the failure of the warship transition, even the most powerful special alloy was cut into sand The debris of the crew, the flesh and blood of the crew mixed with the engine oil, flowed in the wreckage of the half-life spaceship. No life could survive in that chaotic space, let alone after that, it would be exposed to the outer space and go through various stages. various radiation exposures.

This is his thinking, and it is also the thinking of most of the people in the courtyard—including the left-behind personnel in the Sea God Star Fortress, many soldiers in the courtyard who heard the news let out a long sigh of relief, thankful that they don't have to face the female beast head-on After all, even if they are willing to sacrifice their lives for their compatriots and their hometown, it must be a good thing to not die. After 'defeating' the female beast, many people even began to think about the scene of returning home in glory in the future, and many people began to cry for their sacrificed comrades.

But in the distant universe, the changes of the chaotic monster ruthlessly shattered their imagination.

"High energy response!"

At the moment when all the people in the atrium had a smile on their faces, the detection station suddenly turned on a red alarm! At this moment, thousands of thick tentacles burst out from the flesh and blood wreckage of the original female beast, tightly entwining the scientific research ship that was cautiously approaching. The solid alloy shell and the emergency jump escape device were useless. It was twisted into a ball of steel wreckage in just one second, and then turned into countless fragments in the violent explosion.

At the same time, like a sharp sword, a sharp and bright light beam shot out from the flesh and blood wreckage that should not have any activity—it spanned the distance of light seconds, and directly hit the body of the Subspace Broken Cannon. The terrifying energy fluctuations almost instantly shattered this huge artificial creation. The pride of the Atrium people went straight through from the beginning to the end. He lost his shield and was temporarily paralyzed.

Not long ago, even the legendary mage Nostradamus was conspired to appear again, but now, it is not as powerful as it seemed to be able to shatter time and space. It is just a thick and solid fortress-level main cannon , but even so, it is no problem to destroy a super weapon that has just been manufactured and has no matching shields and defensive facilities without the attention of the people in the atrium.

Poof, lol———

In a vacuum, sound waves cannot be transmitted, but in the minds of all the atrium people who looked at the distant space with shocked eyes, there seemed to be sounds like rotten meat and internal organs being slapped together, and then reunited, the flagship of the atrium central fleet On the bridge, Tarquin stretched out a hand, pointing tremblingly at the void mother beast that was slowly reorganizing and regenerating in the optical lens, he opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but the invisible force oppressed his vocal organs, It can only tremble and watch the mother of monsters reappear in this world again.

Reborn from the rift in the space, the Void Mother Beast returned to its original shape like a spherical sea urchin—but compared to the beginning, its size was greatly reduced, with a diameter of only about 550,000 meters. The originally solid outer shell has not been regenerated at this time, there are only countless broken and loose black chitin fragments, and the thick spiritual energy shield is so transparent that it does not seem to exist, but even so, it is still a super life form that is larger than the fortress . Reassembled from the loose form of nano-viruses into today's giant individual, the mother animal feels unprecedented hunger—all its battered organizations are crying for energy and organic matter, and it urgently needs to go to a living planet to plunder its ecological circle to eat After a meal, restore your own quality and state.

However, it is obvious that the far-light galaxy is still dozens or even hundreds of astronomical units away from the nearest ecological planet due to the orbit of the planet. fall apart. But that's okay.

Isn't there just so many organic resources in front of us?

The female beast turned her body, aiming at the front of the thickest carapace, which was in a panic. At this moment, it was quickly sorting out the array of the Atrium Human fleet. The mechanical structure of the atrium fleet is completely a delicious meal, at most it needs to peel off the outer layer of iron cans. It doesn't mind such a little trouble.

So the next moment, after the reorganization was roughly completed, the Void Mother Beast, which had shrunk several times, pounced towards the Atrium Fleet, which had barely reorganized its formation, with a more ferocious and ferocious posture than before. The acceleration exceeded three thousandths of the speed of light, and the Atrium Fleet opened fire without hesitation, using psionic light spears to deal with this huge invading enemy, but even the Central Fleet plus the Colonial Star Three Fleet totaled more than 3,000 The volley of 500 warships, at most, scorched about one-tenth of the area in front of the mother beast, and the depth of damage did not exceed 300 meters. Although it was painful for the mother beast, it only dug out Just a muscle, not enough to stop it from moving.

Attack, no effect, defense, meaningless, evasion - Facing the impact of a giant meteorite with a diameter of more than 500 kilometers, the warships on the edge can escape, what about the main force in the center of the array? It's not about to be smashed by the mother beast!

Is there any other way to deal with it?

From great joy to great sorrow, the ups and downs of Commander Tarquin's eyes at this time have nothing but blank anger. He can lead the fleet and fleets of other races around the asteroid belt, and can easily drive away the huge space deformation. Zerg race, but he has never encountered such a situation, and he has never known how to deal with this huge, solid, regenerating super life form that can survive even being cut into powder—this is really beyond his ability outside.

But obviously, the old man forgot one thing—their reinforcements from the parent planet were not only the central fleet that sent the engines, but also the void life they summoned from the void gate.

Behind the female beast, a fiery red flame accompanied by an explosion-like speed came first and hit the rear of the female beast. When no one knew what happened, it rushed towards the Atrium fleet fiercely. The incoming female beast twisted as if convulsed, and then the flight direction deviated. For an object on a cosmic scale that moves rapidly at three thousandths of the speed of light, if it deviates from the direction a little bit, it is a complete stagger. Ten seconds later, the stunned Tarquin watched the huge void mother beast rubbing against the atrium The edge of the human fleet flew towards their rear!

At this time, Joshua, who was sent flying by a tentacle of the female beast, accelerated again and flew towards the tail of the female beast in the void—it was the warrior who launched an attack on the rear of the female beast just now, causing its direction of action to change. He made a deviation and saved the life of the Zhongting man. It was he who kept attacking the body of the female beast, which made the female beast, which was already frightened by the consequences of his entry into the body, turn its attention to attacking him. He forgot that he was rapidly moving in the direction of Neptune.

Soon, the Void Mother Beast passed the Neptune Star Fortress, an artificial fortress built by the Atrium people on the Neptune Star's gravitational balance point, and flew towards the inner orbit of the Neptune Star together with Joshua—during this period, the Mother Void Of course, the beast found that it was being pulled down by the gravity of the blue gaseous giant star. It wanted to speed up and get rid of the shackles of gravity, but since Joshua was there, it was impossible for it to succeed. With the flesh and blood of the female beast, , Joshua burned the furnace again, trying his best to drag the opponent's energy, so that the void mother beast had no time to change direction and accelerate. Unless the other party wants to be entered into the body by him again, causing a big explosion.

If that's the case, Joshua doesn't mind having another self-destruct, completely exploding the remaining two energy cores of the female beast.

Covered in condensate—moisture oozing out of plant tissue—Tarquin wiped off the water left on his forehead, and he looked at Joshua and the void mother beast in the direction of the Neptune star in surprise. With the wisdom of a fleet commander, he certainly guessed that it was Joshua and the others who had dragged the energy of the mother beast just now, so that the other party did not destroy their fleet, but the plan to force the other party to the orbit of Poseidon...

His thinking stopped suddenly, and Taquin felt that there must be some crucial elements behind this, but he couldn't understand it, which made the old man feel extremely painful, but no matter what, with the obvious ripples of the punch The spread of Seagod's surface is enough to prove that the Void Mother Beast has completely crashed into the gas giant.

A gas giant whose outer layers are 99 percent hydrogen and helium.

"What is the 'giant' thinking?"

In the control room, countless voices rang out, discussing, focusing on optical instruments, everyone could see the four-armed giant form of Joshua wrestling with the Void Mother Beast, they were of course grateful for the reinforcements who saved their lives, but they were still in shock. Can't understand what the opponent's actions are for-is there any point in driving the Void Mother Beast into the gas giant? Isn't this letting the opponent hide his whereabouts with the help of a thick gaseous layer, and then slowly absorb the material to recover from his injuries? Some of them already have a general understanding of the ability of the Void Mother Beast, so some people have doubts.

"Could it be that the giant god intends to use the violent storm on the Neptune planet to tear apart the structure of the Void Mother Beast?"

Someone raised such a possibility, but most people rejected it, because the result of physically destroying the female animal's body has just been seen, except for paralyzing the female animal for a while, it has no meaning, and maybe it will cause the other party to split and give birth to offspring. body, become more difficult to deal with.

"Wait—look!"

Suddenly, near the observatory, a crew member exclaimed, and he immediately told the people around what he saw. After the news spread, almost everyone saw it. On the surface of the mixed giant stars, a faint trace of dark green appeared. At first, this dark green was like a drop of water falling into oil, but then it began to spread rapidly, like literature and art, with chaotic fluctuations. Eroding everything around into green waves!

"It's the mother beast! The void mother beast is spreading in the gas giant... Don't they only feed on ecological planets?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people in the courtyard who said these words shut their mouths - even the people in the courtyards themselves have a lot of trace elements in their bodies, and it is impossible for all intelligent life to be composed of pure organisms. Being able to feed on the matter in the gaseous giant is not surprising at all, saying it can only reveal one's ignorance.

At this time, the Void Mother Beast is undergoing the impact of the sea god storm. Its fragile external body is being cut and blown away by the wind like a chain saw, and then turned into inactive material particles, but at the same time, it is also Rapidly condenses a solid fluid shell to resist the impact of the strong wind. In addition, it also greedily absorbs the tiny material particles in the outer layer of the gas giant star to strengthen itself. Judging from the momentum of green expansion, compared with Neptune's harsh The environment seems to be that the ability of the Void Mother Beast is even better.

Without any extra words, the Atrium fleet began to merge and descend towards the surface orbit of Poseidon. Tarquin asked his adjutant with a bad face, but got an even worse answer.

"Sorry, Commander... due to the power supply of the warp-shattering cannon and the few rounds of volleys that corresponded to the mother beast just now, the remaining energy of the battleship is running out... We can't resist the gravity of Poseidon and launch the spirit weapon at the same time." Can light spear."

The white-faced lieutenant numbly talked about the plight of the Atrium Fleet today, and a similar scene was being staged at the command offices of all other warships: Everyone was told that they would either sit and watch the Void Mother Beast in the gas giant star After recovering from the middle, fight again head-on, or shoot the psionic light spear while being pulled down by the gravity of Poseidon and fall.

To put it plainly: wait to die, or die.

"...This is an ultra life form beyond the scope of our technology."

The commander of the First Squadron of Atrium Colonization, the bald middle-aged man touched his head without a single leaf, showing an indescribable expression. Zhong said calmly:

"I kind of want to throw in the towel."

The commander of the Third Fleet of the Colonial Star, a middle-aged man named Xi Na, looked at the withered yellow leaf that had just fallen in his hand, and he was silent for a long time. The man in the atrium remembered many things, how he joined the army, how he sailed in the universe, how he climbed from a low-level officer to the bottom of the current fleet commander bit by bit. In the end, Xi Na recalled a very familiar old man, the old man who was driving a space fighter and wanted to inform the two friendly Void beings at the expense of his life.

Arzaira's calm death face echoed in Xi Na's mind, which calmed his heart down. The commander of the Third Fleet felt a force filling his whole body.

"Absolutely not."

He said so, full of determination.

After finishing speaking, Xi Na laughed instead, and he was no longer worried. The commander of the atrium immediately ordered: "The Broken, all personnel leave the ship."

"Confirm the coordinates: the green spot. Where the Void Mother Beast is."

——People in Zhongting have already sacrificed a lot, and they don't mind adding me. Thinking of this, Xi Na let out a long breath: "Fire the light spear. Then, hit it."

In the bridge command room, there was no sound except that the controller determined the launch coordinates and impact coordinates of the psionic light spear according to the captain's instructions. The middle-aged commander closed his eyes and sat back on his command chair. The light curtain in front of him showed a long parabola and a straight line, which was the trajectory of the fall of the Breaker and the launch of the psionic light spear. But he didn't have the slightest plan to go to the emergency exit.

"Countdown to engine self-explosion... 220, 219, 218..."

But just when the battleship was no longer resisting the gravity of Neptune, and began to slowly fall towards its surface, causing a moment of weightlessness, Xi Na suddenly opened his eyes, looked around, and angrily cursed at the surrounding commanders: " I told everyone to leave the ship! What are you bloody idiots doing here?!"

No one responded to him. Everyone sat in their seats. Some people use the light curtain to call up photos of themselves and their family members on the colony planet, some people are using the psychic channel to leave messages to their relatives who may still exist in the distance, some people are crying, and some people are scolding themselves for being stupid, why should they accompany them because of impulse? A large group of people were buried with him, and beside him, his friends were joking, saying don't worry too much, their souls can go on the road together, and then merge into one at the mother tree.

All the members of the Third Fleet are people whose hometown was destroyed by the mother beast, and they have no place to return to.

So no one left.

The battleship is falling, and the psychic light spear has fired four rounds. The millions of degrees of high temperature psychic light spear penetrated the outer carapace of the female beast. This was not considered a serious injury to the void mother beast, but Seagod's The strong airflow expanded the wound, causing the material on the female animal's body to be lost. But because of this, there is no light inside the Breaker except for the red emergency light that represents the energy shortage, and the originally roaring psionic engine gradually stopped running, but the light is getting brighter and brighter, and it is overloaded. His violent psychic energy is continuing, waiting for the moment of eruption.

"Countdown to engine self-explosion, 82, 81, 80, 79..."

Not only the Breaker, but also many battleships are falling one after another. They also fire spears to attack the female beast, taking away part of its body mass. Just like the rain of steel, mixed with high-heat light stream, one after another emergency escape pods flew out from the warships that were de-orbiting, and were received by other warships that did not fall. This scene is silent, like death.

Too lazy to scold his disobedient crew, Xi Na closed his eyes again and sat in his seat. Many scenes appeared in his mind like a revolving lantern, but none of them were about himself, which made the middle-aged man secretly angry: he originally planned to review his life before he died, but his instinct was not as good as his wish.

"It's really difficult for me."

But at this moment, a steady voice that made Xi Na feel unfamiliar sounded in his mind: "It is a good thing to dare to sacrifice. Everyone likes brave people, but it will increase the workload of Joshua and me."

"Live well for me, don't keep thinking about dying—it's not your turn to be a hero."

Accompanied by words that seemed to be taunting, but also seemed to be praise, Xi Na suddenly felt that his whole body was surrounded by a faint blue light——accompanied by the waves of time and space fluctuations that made him, the fleet commander, feel very familiar. He was teleported to nowhere with a cry of exclamation, and the entire interior of the battleship—even all the atrium people inside the atrium battleship that was falling and preparing to self-destruct encountered the same situation.

And with the faint blue space-time channel standing above the head of the female beast and opening behind the four-armed steel giant, the legendary incarnation of Nostradamus appeared beside Joshua. The link said: "Have you had a rest?"

"Barely able to use one move."

The old mage, who was shot head-on by the Void Mother Beast with a high-energy laser capable of instantly vaporizing a city, replied solemnly: "If there is more, I will die."

"Then stop the big guy below - it only takes less than a second."

The steel giant opened its four arms, and the huge changes in the gravitational field caused the endless hydrogen and helium in the Neptune to flow into his arms like a waterfall flowing backwards. Joshua gathered these microscopic elements that no matter whether it was Nostradamus or those who had been using psionic energy, and who had never studied the microscopic material particles, and didn't know what to use, he said softly: "When the time comes You take me to retreat - remember, you must run far enough!"

"Relax."

Nostradamus first frowned and glanced at the huge Void Mother Beast at the bottom of his feet. He felt that it was a bit tricky-it was almost impossible to fix such a big thing with time and space magic, even if he paid a certain price, he could only Said it was possible to succeed. But to Joshua's last request, the old mage readily agreed: "I can't guarantee success, but I will do my best—then I will go first."

Before he finished speaking, before Joshua could reply, he turned into a stream of blue light and flew towards the direction of the Void Mother Beast. Not long after, accompanied by a wave of space-time fluctuations, the huge Void Mother Beast actually disappeared. After a short pause like this, one can vaguely see behind the thick layer of gas, a faint blue figure flipping through his own magic book, burning the pages of the book, at the cost of consuming the original power of the magic book , trying their best to maintain the solidification of the space.

And in this short moment, Joshua did many things. In his spiritual sea, Hotaru and Rin were resonating with his soul, and the spirits of three people were assisting him to perform extremely complicated calculations. Ya took a deep breath, and the huge hydrogen and helium gas group that was huge enough to cover the Atrium fleet was attracted by him from the surface of Poseidon, and then it was quickly compressed and condensed by the warrior's steel power, turning into an insignificant Check a little bit.

"Since it's all hydrogen and helium, there's nothing strange about nuclear fusion." With strange thoughts flashing in his mind, Joshua looked at the countless hydrogen in his arms that had been compressed and condensed to the extreme, making it almost impossible to see with the naked eye. The helium polymer suddenly lit up with a dazzling golden-red light, and as the soldier increased his energy output step by step, inputting endless energy and heat into the small spot in his arms that was about to explode, the hurricane suddenly rose. , the heat flow that caused the space to boil overflowed, even blowing away part of the gas on the surface of Sea God.

And the crimson light illuminated half of Seagod Star.

At this time, a small golden, dancing sun was held in Joshua's arms, just like when he was holding his heart back then, it was extremely hot, and the power originating from the creation of the universe was surging from the middle of his four arms. However, there was nothing in the warrior's mind except the coordinates of the void mother beast, and he didn't think about anything other than completely destroying the mother beast.

——Is it strange to carry out nuclear fusion only by relying on a large amount of hydrogen and helium?

In fact, of course, it is very strange and unthinkable. However, magic and extraordinary power are originally miraculous things. The purpose of their existence is to make people do incredible and miraculous things.

The legendary powerhouse Joshua thought he could do such a thing.

Therefore, today, he did not push the Void Mother Beast into the sun according to his previous thinking——

Instead it pushes the sun towards it.

In the next instant, the sea of ​​fire formed by nuclear fusion ignited the Neptune planet.