Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

In the command room of the special operation to attack the Nano Colossus.

The Sentinel Array once again reported that the Nano Colossus was confirmed to be destroyed, and the new Nano Colossus was not replenished in a short time.

But the news of the abnormal behavior of the Nano Fleet was also broadcast again.

The Empire's actions seemed to have affected the behavior of the survivors. They changed their original plan and were heading towards the Empire.

And the number of these affected fleets is gradually increasing.

Originally, only a fleet of hundreds of ships was affected, but in the past few minutes, the number of affected fleets has increased by hundreds.

Heading straight towards the Empire.

But soon the Sentinel Array came with news.

The number of affected fleets stopped increasing after reaching one-tenth of the total number of Nano Fleets, and the Queen's car still did not move.

It seemed that this was not an intervention from the Queen, but just a counterattack against the destruction of the Colossus.

No one knows why, but it may not be a bad thing for the Empire.

However, some people in the conference room were still gloomy because of the bizarre operation of the survivors' fleet and the Queen's inaction.

This included the Minister of Psionics.

He couldn't understand it.

The nanocolossus was destroyed, and the survivors' pace of assimilating the planet to expand themselves stagnated.

Under normal circumstances, the survivors would either carry out large-scale revenge, using the opportunity of revenge to make up for the expansion effect brought by the demolished colossus, or find a way to directly solve the expansion problem.

Under the premise that the only means of expansion for the survivors at present is the colossus, the Queen chose to stay put and only sent a small part of the fleet to the Empire.

The number of these fleets is not even comparable to the number of fleets sent by the Empire, and at most they can only tie with the fleet sent by the Empire to attract attention, and the situation in which both sides finally retreated.

Everyone knows that a fleet of this size can't make any waves at all, so why did the Queen do this?

What traps are the survivors still setting? Or do they have any more special ideas?

No one knows.

What is currently known is that the survivors' nano fleet has a very strong self-repair ability, and they can make more frequent long-distance jumps.

Therefore, this batch of nano fleets is expected to arrive at the border of the empire in two days.

Perhaps it will take two days to find out what the nano fleet is going to do.

The empire will certainly not wait for the next two days, not even now.

After the success of the plan for the nano colossus, the command center is still very lively, and everyone is paying attention to the development of another plan that is being carried out together.

Outside the star field occupied by nano.

Another imperial fleet is approaching the nano star field.

The scale of this fleet is larger than the fleet that ambushed the nano colossus. Not only does it have two colossi at the same time, but it also has a large number of Zerg fleets escorting it.

This huge fleet is constantly jumping to one side of the nano star field.

The Minister of Psionics successfully borrowed the colossus from Glory, and also borrowed some Zerg fleets controlled by the Queen herself.

After approaching the vicinity of the nano star field, the fleet lurked and waited for a suitable opportunity.

Soon this opportunity came.

The joint fleet formed by several imperial strong armies that had evacuated earlier killed another wave of counterattacks after the evacuation.

Reverse raid, as if to take down the galaxy where the nanocolossus was stationed before.

The attention of the nano fleet was once again drawn to them.

No one and no survivors thought that the imperial fleet, which had achieved its goal, would turn back. A large number of nano fleets were immediately dispatched to the galaxy where a new round of fighting broke out.

This was the opportunity.

The Colossus fleet, which had been waiting for a long time at the edge of the star field, immediately made the last jump in a short period of time.

Arrived in the nano galaxy that was used as the test target of the Colossus.

After the fleet with a crushing momentum cleared the nano patrol fleet in the galaxy, a Colossus of Chen Ming and a Colossus belonging to the Empire each drove to the sky above a planet assimilated by nano.

Two different Colossus-class weapons, Earth-shattering Star and Neutron Annihilation, were activated at the same time.

And both Colossi were blessed by the spiritual energy of Chen Ming from Huihuang, and the activation efficiency and output power were enhanced to a certain extent.

However, Huihuang was obviously more experienced in the use of neutron annihilation, and the activation of this Colossus was obviously faster.

The torrent of neutrons poured down from space.

It seemed that it would only take a blink of an eye to completely destroy the nanomachines on the planet.

But before the neutron killing was completely activated, the nanomachines on the planet had already detected the danger.

The nanostorm covering the entire planet was becoming more intense, and countless nanomachines flowing on the land also joined the storm, like a layer of isolation net.

And near the location locked by the colossus on the planet, the nanostorm had almost condensed into a tsunami-like product.

The storm here seemed like a giant vortex in a nano ocean.

When the seemingly endless neutron torrent fell, the nanostorm completely swallowed up all the high-energy neutrons.

Even though doing so would cause countless nanomachines to be damaged, these machines are still trying their best to continuously capture these neutrons that will cause irreversible damage to everything on the planet.

Countless damaged nanomachines were thrown out of the storm.

But countless brand-new nanomachines were reintegrated into the storm.

The output of neutron annihilation is decreasing, and the activated neutrons have been exhausted.

There was a sigh from the command center that was watching this scene.

Neutron annihilation is confirmed to be ineffective for nano planets.

Only the Earth-shattering Star, which is still in the process of starting up, still holds everyone's hope.

As the Earth-shattering Star is started up, the destructive energy ray hits the surface of the nano planet directly.

The energy beam that should have penetrated the crust and mantle and hit the core of the earth was blocked at this moment.

The nanomachines still rushed to the landing point of the Earth-shattering Star without worrying about their own damage.

The antimatter that supplies energy to the nanomachines counteracts the energy of the Earth-shattering Star.

This makes the direct damage caused by the Earth-shattering Star this time much higher than normal.

But it caused almost no effective damage to the planet itself.

Even the Earth-shattering Star could not completely destroy the nano planet.

In the reconnaissance of the Sentinel Array, the nano fleet had already returned to defend at this time, and the Colossus, which had no normal combat capability, had to retreat.

The operation failed.

At this time, there was no sound in the command center of the two operations except the command voice.

Such a result is really hard to accept.

The Empire only set three goals.

Only two of the three goals can be advanced normally.

And only one of the two that can be advanced was completed in the end.

Such a result might be okay at other times, but now, such a result will only make everyone extremely disappointed and desperate.

In addition to the Colossus, the Empire really only relies on Level 6 Psychics to have the power to destroy the planet.

But now the power of the Empire's Psychics must not be used at will, which is all used to target the Queen.

The Empire's policy of action suddenly fell into a bad cycle.

As one of the planners of this operation, the Minister of Psychic Power was also in the command center.

After confirming the failure of the operation, he left here early and quickly sent the news to those who were not present but needed to know the information.

They had to think about the next step.

Should they continue to rely on psychics to target the queen as before, or should they choose a new plan.

The minister's mind was a little confused. He really didn't expect that the colossus would not work at all when the queen did not appear, making many of the previous plans become useless.

He really couldn't think of what to do in a short time.

Just when he was at a loss.

His terminal suddenly received a call from his secretary.

After the call was connected, the secretary's anxious voice came over immediately: "Minister, I'm in trouble."

"What trouble could be more troublesome than what we are facing now?"

The secretary said without hesitation: "Yes."

The minister was choked, but he was not angry: "What happened?"

"Isn't our department's star system open to the outside world? If a ship passes by without paying attention, it will be persuaded to leave."

"Well, then?"

"There is a person who refuses to leave in hyperspace and says he must come in to see you."

"Wouldn't it be better to just drive him away?"

"He is an unregistered psychic, and... he said... he was the most wanted criminal in the empire."

The minister's mind instantly searched for this keyword.

To say that the most wanted criminal in the empire was once, it must be that he single-handedly caused the empire's marginal star field to carry out a fairly severe strangulation of pirates for nearly 30 years.

At the same time, he was also the initiator of the biggest scandal in the imperial army.

"Shi Qian..."

"He did say that his name was this, and his appearance did match that of the dead Shi Qian. We wanted to test his genes, and he agreed, but it's still being tested."

"I'll be back right away."

The minister's tone was a little hard to fathom. After all, it was because of Shi Qian that Wu An's relationship with the Empire was completely irreparable.

He quickly boarded the spaceship bound for his own star field, and at the same time, memories of the past kept flashing through his mind.

The cause of the conflict between Wu An and the Empire was actually just a small matter.

At that time, Wu An was running around the Empire, looking for new people with potential to train.

As a result, he found the pirates, and found Shi Qian, who was still a young man at the time.

People who become pirates are either forced by life or they are cheap.

Shi Qian is the former.

Wu An doesn't care much about identity, so there is no problem in finding Shi Qian. It's easy to join the association after whitewashing his identity.

But Wu An didn't rush to do so.

He planned to put Shi Qian in the pirate environment for training first.

This gray area is indeed better for training people than being in a safe place.

But Shi Qian's pirate identity caused him to conflict with the military in a certain place.

This was originally just a small matter.

With Wu An's identity on Shi Qian's head, this conflict was suppressed in a minute.

But there are always people who like to make trouble by relying on their identity, and Shi Qian is not the only one with an identity background.

When one party was the first to lose face, even Wu An couldn't solve the problem.

It eventually led to a siege that required the use of a battleship.

Then the battleship was sunk by a seemingly ordinary Reaper torpedo, and Shi Qian also escaped during the siege.

The matter was completely out of control.

Shi Qian has since become the most wanted criminal in the empire.

On the one hand, it was the face of the military, and on the other hand, Shi Qian, who had already pulled up a fleet by struggling among pirates, and the Psychic Society that had a close relationship with Shi Qian, even the Grand Archon couldn't make a fair decision.

He could only let it go completely and let Shi Qian and the army solve it themselves.

Such a decision was actually somewhat biased towards the army, but after all, the army was the foundation of the empire.

Wu An was naturally unhappy about this, but he had nothing to say about this decision.

He just kept trying to mediate.

But the result was not ideal.

When Wu An went to mediate, the military tried to hold Wu An back and launched a siege against Shi Qian with two level 6 psychics at the same time, and only then did Shi Qian die.

Wu An also fled to a pirate space station in the fringe star field after that, and almost cut off contact with the empire.

This can be regarded as a disguised confirmation of the authenticity of Shi Qian's death.

At least that was the outcome at the time.

And from the current news, Shi Qian is fine at all.

This should not be a lie by the army and Wu An to save face for the army.

After all, Wu An did not need to cut off contact with the empire later.

He definitely thought Shi Qian was really dead at the time.

But no one could have thought that Shi Qian was still alive, and even appeared again now.

The only reason that the minister could think of was that he suddenly appeared.

Wu An's death.

He had the means to know Wu An's death and came here after two days of preparation.

When he was a psychic at level 4, he could destroy a capital ship. Now, decades later, even if he has been dormant for a long time, his power will definitely be stronger.

He suddenly appeared, what on earth was he doing here?

Full of doubts.

The minister quickly rushed back to the star system of their imperial psychic department.

In the hyperspace channel of the star system, the minister met the man who called himself Shi Qian.

He looked to be in his thirties, even older than Wu An.

His expression was calm, but seemed to be a little sad.

The first time he saw him, the minister was sure that the person in front of him was Shi Qian, who had been confirmed dead.

But he did not arrest Shi Qian according to the specifications of a wanted criminal.

At this time, any combat power must be won over, except Zuo Jing.

So he immediately rearranged a shuttle and met with Shi Qian alone.