Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1254 - 479: Someone Must Build the Fortress with Flesh and Blood

A massive dark red planet floats in the sky.

Under the brilliant lights erupting in succession, a golden bowl-like star ring coils around this ultra-large spherical star, revolving as if in an eternal dance.

This star ring is the Shattered Star Belt of the C1915 star.

An eight-kilometer-long strip asteroid silently mingles within the Shattered Star Belt, following its predetermined orbit, peacefully circling the C1915 alongside other fragmented asteroids and stardust.

Inside the forward section of this strip asteroid, Ren Zhong sits at the control panel, scrutinizing the images captured by optical cameras displayed on the screen before him.

This asteroid is actually a completely disguised medium-sized special warship.

The ship has only one pilot and combat personnel, which is Ren Zhong.

After a long while, Ren Zhong snapped shut the notebook in front of him with a clack.

The last number, 7731, flashed briefly on the notebook.

He finally waited for an opportunity to deliver a decisive blow.

Of course, this might just be a probe, but as long as he succeeds this time, others warriors will be able to accomplish this feat soon enough.

Ren Zhong sighed to himself, a look of regret crossing his face, "It’s a pity that I can’t accurately control the space chaos explosion following a fold jump malfunction; otherwise, it would be more powerful than a Three-Phase Bomb."

But he quickly came to terms with it.

"No matter, with the synchronized detonation of these three thousand condensed Three-Phase Bombs, it’s enough to shatter part of the Mother Empress Ship’s chitin layer shell."

At this time, the successive blazing lights erupting in space were triggered by the Super Long Range Missiles launched 15 days ago from the Source Star Fleet Headquarters.

After lengthy modifications, the missiles, originally with a range of only 60 billion kilometers, reached a range of 110 billion kilometers with the help of multi-stage boosters, cruising at a speed slightly above 0.25 times the speed of light.

These missiles departed a day later than the Water Drop Ship, but their flight speed was slightly faster. Just as the Special Attack Team members settled into concealment in front of the C1915 star, these missiles arrived shortly after, charging straight at the Mother Empress Ship.

But the Mother Empress Ship had prepared, setting up numerous Critical Poison Stings and a cannon fodder species known as "web-spiders" along the way.

Billions of web-spiders spread a large composite web in the cosmos.

These webs, composed of extremely fine and tough transparent threads, have the tenacity, strength, and flexibility enough to intercept the Super Long Range Missiles, slicing and prematurely detonating them.

Some missiles were prematurely detonated, while others were silently shredded, leaving only a few to exploit the loopholes created by other missiles, charging through the interception net, only to be easily detonated by the ambushed Critical Poison Stings or Spitter venom, exploding into space fireworks.

Although there’s no air in space, even if intense explosions only release light and heat energy, with some plasma flows causing mild impacts, the missile fragments with high kinetic energy can still strike some debris.

One missile seemed particularly unlucky, initially veering away from debris flying back from the front, losing direction toward the Mother Empress Ship. Trying to adjust was too late, completely bypassing the Mother Empress Ship, and hitting a fragmented star cluster more than 20 million kilometers away.

When it headed for the star cluster, the missile seemed to regain fortune, cleverly dodging large asteroids over ten meters in diameter, precisely striking a massive asteroid close to fifty kilometers in diameter, shattering it into pieces.

The debris splattered, sending asteroids dozens of meters long on the fringe of the fragmented star cluster flying chaotically.

This was only a negligible detail on the edge of the battlefield.

The asteroids knocked askew also slowly drifted along their predetermined paths.

This did not catch the attention of the Mother Empress Ship, as it was simply too inconspicuous, and no communication signals were released.

The Mother Empress Ship even deployed heavy forces on the front where the missiles came, placing only a few "Lurkings," Spitters, and Sandworms on this side.

Yet Ren Zhong, quietly observing the corner of the battlefield through optical imaging scenes, silently counted down.

That missile earlier wasn’t a conventional cruise missile; there was someone inside.

Due to the disruption of information flow, radio wave communication isn’t sufficient to support real-time coordination at such space dimensions. Hence, to achieve precise control in a space battlefield laden with randomness and chance, there had to be a ready pilot inside making autonomous decisions.