The vast universe is dark and vast.
Billions of stars criss-cross the sky and penetrate the gorgeous sea of stars.
In the vast galaxy, truly warlike interstellar civilizations do not account for the majority.
However, under the influence of many external and internal factors, most civilizations that were not warlike but not strong enough have long since disappeared in the torrent of time.
Most of the rest are warlike civilizations.
Among them, there are a few who are naturally warlike.
Brutal and murderous, poisoning the surrounding stars, almost like a cancer in the sea of stars.
Like, the mercury family.
Among the rows of sword-shaped star field clusters in the Golden Palm Civilization Area that stretch for six thousand light-years, there are two two hundreds of light-years long that are generally parallel to each other and separated by tens or hundreds of light-years from each other. Each of the narrow star fields gave birth to an interstellar civilization that was warlike by nature.
One of them is the Dirip, also known as the Mercury Tribe.
The second one is the Namora people, also known as the Demon Brain clan.
As the long and narrow star field occupied by these two civilizations meanders and extends toward the distant star dome, there happens to be a small section where there is a roundabout intersection at a large angle.
In that blending area, the two intermediate spirit world tunnels, which were the core skeletons of their respective star fields and were supposed to run in their respective directions, traveled a full fifth of a light-year apart before heading towards the sky. On one side, the endless starry sky runs in different directions.
The "narrow" interstellar region created by the two tunnels that are half a light-year long and "edge" is three trillion kilometers at its widest point and only a hundred billion kilometers at its closest point.
So when they first embarked on the interstellar voyage, the two races discovered each other at almost the same time through this 'small' area.
As the two races are cold and warlike by nature, they naturally do not allow strong enemies to exist on the side of the bed, nor do they allow themselves to remain indifferent after seeing a rich and vast star field.
Yu Lili, both tribes have no reason to let each other go.
Coincidentally, in this 'narrow' battlefield, there is another bunch of faint blue columnar nebulae with a diameter of trillions of kilometers passing through it in a 'bottom-up' form.
The 'lower' nebula comes from an extremely distant place and cannot be traced, and the 'upper' nebula goes to an extremely distant place that cannot be traced.
And in this interstellar region that has been shrouded by the blue nebula for countless billions of years, it is filled with cold, dense and boundless interstellar dust; there are also dozens of star prototypes that have not yet fully developed; and there are hundreds of thousands of them. A deserted frozen star; and hundreds of millions or even more broken meteorites.
The overall environment is extremely complicated, but it is a good killing ground.
Therefore, this border area has become an excellent place for battle between the two races.
After a long battle, this area, which is filled with the wreckage of various types of severely damaged starships, has an official name because of its environmental characteristics:
Youzhu battlefield. (The visual effects can refer to the [Pillars of Creation] in the real universe)
…
Wow——
An interstellar fleet composed of hundreds of spiked spindle-shaped pure black ships, surrounded by large illusory lights and shadows, slowly left the symbolic realm and appeared in the vast starry sky in the rippling time and space.
Thousands of kilometers in front of it, the deep blue and purple nebulae stretch endlessly across the sky, like an elusive, vast and strange world. Lying quietly in front of the fleet, it is also surrounded by the darkness behind which is full of dim stars. The universe is in stark contrast.
The mercury fleet did not hesitate. After confirming that each starship had stabilized in the real world, it slowly sailed towards the nebula.
During the flight, the dense nebula emitting a strange blue light grew larger and larger, and the fleet against it became smaller and smaller.
But the mercury soldiers in each ship, who were wild and violent by nature, were not afraid.
Because of their powerful abilities and technology, they can bravely face this mysterious and beautiful nebula.
Wow——
Silently, the fleet 'teared' open the dividing line between the universe and the nebula, and sailed into it in a mighty manner.
During the rapid flight, the sharp black thorns standing outside the ships kept slicing through the large and small ring-shaped dust clusters in the nebula, crushing them into wisps of stardust that exuded brilliant colors.
The colorful light scattered sparsely and reflected on the shiny black alloy shell of the mercury battleship. It diffracted out streaks of icy blue and dark purple light, and reflected the distant dust clusters in the nebula even more gorgeously.
As time passed, the fleet flew another distance, hundreds of millions of kilometers, and arrived at the outskirts of a bright area.
The fleet paused for rest, while the mercury soldiers in the ship looked through the portholes toward the bright area emitting dazzling light.
As they looked farther away, the brightness grew higher and higher.
Until the line of sight spans a long distance and reaches the center of the blazing area.
Only then did they see that there was a huge blue 'eye' that was burning and emitting dazzling light.
The mercury soldiers with basic knowledge of astronomy knew that it was obviously a new star that was still in the process of being conceived.
Perhaps, the 'baby' star is only slightly larger than the average gas giant planet.
It will take hundreds of millions of years for the new star to fully develop and grow into a real star.
The soldiers withdrew their gaze and inadvertently glanced at the blue dust clouds that were as light and swaying as smoke around the portholes.
These faint blue dust clouds are constantly flickering and changing colors under the agitation of light coming from all directions around them, presenting a mysterious and dreamy atmosphere.
The mercury tribe soldiers did not admire its beauty. Instead, they felt that these surrounding nebulae, which could not be accurately detected, were full of deadly threats.
The fleet has also finished resting at this time and is preparing to continue passing through the nebula and reach the main preparation area of its own fleet.
But at this moment.
The outermost exploration ship in the fleet, its extremely sharp spiritual radar suddenly issued a severe alarm to all ships on the scene:
[Notice! 35.04.27 Traces of enemy groups appear in the direction]
[Notice! 35.04.27 Traces of enemy groups appear in the direction]
[Notice! 35.04.27 Traces of enemy groups appear in the direction]
In an instant, the starships of the mercury fleet quickly entered the hot start state under the instructions of the early warning system, and various weapons also turned on their own to aim at the early warning position - 150,000 kilometers away, and rushed away with a bang.
In less than a second, the majestic nebula covering hundreds or thousands of kilometers far away was torn apart and evaporated into nothing by the energy torrent composed of countless ultra-high-energy light and plasma beams.
The meteorites that were closer around them were also swept away by the earth-shaking energy tide, and they disintegrated in an instant, and the explosion released a large amount of terrifying light and heat.
And at this moment, more than a hundred brown-black interstellar battleships with curled black-red halberds on their heads rushed out of the chaotic nebula, fiercely fighting back against the Mercury fleet.
The appearance of these strange interstellar battleships is extremely strange. The hulls are long and slender like the body of a python. The surface of the hull also seems to be woven from highly active organic fibers. The tail at the end of the hull is curved into a shimmering scarlet glow. Honeycomb-shaped sacculus.
In addition to the basic brown and black background color, the surface of these strange warships is also covered with a large number of irregular lines filled with turbid green phosphorescence. People can distinguish them at a glance from traditional silver or black metal star warships.
Compared with the appearance of ordinary starships, these strange warships look extremely strange. At a glance, they look like a group of brown-black unicorns flying in.
It makes people feel scared and different.
They are the biological battleships of the Demon Brain.
These bio-type starships, which are more like insects than spaceships, rapidly fire out a stream of dirty green light beams. At the same time, they also spread out several pairs of huge translucent wings like butterfly wings on their backs, and the entire ship body flashes as the electric light flows. Colorful lights flickered, looking both dangerous and beautiful.
The moment the shimmering light appeared, it expanded explosively, quickly wrapping up the weird-looking interstellar battleship. At the same time, it squirmed and jumped like a living creature, and quickly absorbed the light and plasma that came from it. Swallowed, instantly digested into nothingness.
The mercury fleet also reacted very quickly. After the opponent turned on a function similar to a defensive device, it quickly turned off the optical attack weapons that were operating fiercely and turned on the live ammunition weapons.
Clang, clank, clank!
Ammunition is loaded quickly.
Hundreds of thousands of anti-matter munitions containing extremely destructive power were instantly fired towards the target by the mercury fleet at sub-light speed.
The antimatter projectiles wrapped in spiritual crystalline nanomaterials drew bright trajectories in the space and quickly hit the insect warships wrapped in strange glittering force fields.
Boom boom boom!
!
Enough energy to burn a planet as big as the moon into a molten state in a matter of seconds, roaring and piercing through thousands of miles of dust clouds in an instant, stirring the surrounding blue nebula into a maelstrom of violent energy.
Huhuhu——
Once this large whirlpool was formed, it wildly released a blue-violet light that was more dazzling than the previous star prototype.
The perspective suddenly zooms out.
One billion kilometers, ten billion kilometers, one hundred billion kilometers, one trillion kilometers...
This violent release of light caused by the short-term release of ultra-high energy actually appeared no less than a thousand times at the same time throughout the entire Youzhu battlefield.
Dozens of millions of interstellar battleships, either made of metal or made of biological materials, are constantly shuttling and sailing rapidly through the nebulae in the sky, swirling and rolling in the surrounding blue nebulae.
The battle between the two tribes was fierce.
Starships on both sides are maximizing their firepower and maneuverability in an attempt to destroy the other side.
Not just starships.
There are also a larger number of smaller space fighters, which quickly emerge from their respective starships like a flock of birds and fly into the boundless blue nebula.
As soon as these large numbers of fighter planes appeared on the battlefield, they quickly used superb maneuvering skills to pierce and attack each other while maintaining the integrity of their formation.
The flashes of energy weapons kept bouncing between the fighter planes, and splashed with bursts of brilliant sparks.
Starships that are larger and more destructive are swarming with each other, rushing into the depths of the nebula, shuttled between each other in the nebula, and constantly expanding the scope of their 'influence'.
They continue to fire high-energy lasers, plasma, and anti-matter shells.
Stardust and light are constantly intertwining and colliding throughout the Youzhu battlefield.
The entire battlefield continued in din.
The fleets of the two races are also constantly attacking and getting rid of attacks, counterattacking and defending counterattacks.
The surrounding desolate and frozen star as the background of the battlefield was also continuously destroyed and burned in the battle between the warships of the two races.
Countless starships and fighter plane wreckage glowing with lightning, like corpses floating in the boundless nebula.
The entire nebula seemed to be filled with a strong energy aura at this moment, so rich that it was almost like thousands of planets exploding at the same time.
And it's in the deepest part of Youzhu battlefield.
Around a red dwarf star glowing with blood.
In a shuttle-shaped space fortress hundreds of kilometers long, three generals of the Mercury Empire were discussing confidential matters.
In the thousand-meter-wide conference room, Marshal Barnka of the Mercury Tribe Empire, who was sitting on a spherical swivel chair and faintly exuding the aura of a hegemon, tapped the conference table lightly and asked coldly:
"How far has the central ruins of Youzhu been cracked now?"
Upon hearing the question, a mercury tribe general with a height of more than 40 meters on the right replied in a deep voice:
"Report to the marshal, the archaeological team has entered the third level, and is expected to enter the fourth level, which is the core level, in three hours."
Banka pondered: "The speed is a bit slow. Akassoni, please urge them and ask them to do their best to speed up the cracking within the allowable range."
Akassoni lowered his head slightly, a little embarrassed: "Subordinate... try your best. The main reason is that the four-dimensional text used by ancient civilizations contains too much information and the meaning of the words is ambiguous. Three hours is the limit."
"Use it more."
Banka sighed, "I know it's difficult, but the battle has lasted for an hour and a half. The longer it goes, the easier it will be for the Demon Brain people to see the clues. If they realize that the empire is going to fight this time, The real intention...that would be troublesome."
He looked at the mercury clan general on his left and said in a solemn voice:
"Sadogar, you are the commander-in-chief of this battle. You must ensure that the war lasts until three hours, no, four hours. This is safer."
"call--"
Sadogar pinched his head with a headache, "Dear Marshal, the battle between the Empire and the Demon Brain usually lasts no more than two hours. I discussed it with the staff for a long time before deducing a detailed strategy that would last for five hours. , but this is already the limit, and it is very unstable. If it drags on for an hour, this... the battle situation is likely to collapse, and the number of casualties will increase explosively."
"The casualties are not important." Banka said indifferently, "No matter what method is used, as long as the work of cracking the ruins can be covered up and the important objects inside can be safely transferred out, it doesn't matter if all the troops are used this time. "
"this……"
Sadogar shrank, obviously not expecting that the empire valued the 'things' in the so-called ruins so much, so he replied again:
"Then, my subordinates, please do your best, but if those demon brains use Star Destroyer weapons to attack the ruins..."
"You don't have to be afraid as long as I'm here. I'll keep a close eye on you. This is one of the reasons why I'm sitting here."
Banka said solemnly, "But as long as I'm not attacking the ruins, I will never show up. Otherwise, when those demon brain people discover my existence, they will definitely realize something."
"As commanded."
After Sadogar replied, he couldn't help but ask, "Marshal, can you please reveal for the convenience... what is so important in the ruins?"
Upon hearing this, Akassoni beside him couldn't help but cheer up.
Just for a so-called 'ancient cultural relic' in an ancient ruins, so much trouble.
Even the empire's only three overlords had to send one to personally take charge.
This really makes people wonder what it is that is worthy of such a big war by the empire.
"Well……"
Banka lowered his head slightly and pondered for a moment, then said: "You should know that the upgrading and breakthrough of spiritual weapon combat bodies are not mainly about technology, but biological materials."
The two generals looked at each other and nodded: "Yes, of course I know."
Banka looked at the two of them, smiled and said: "According to the ancient records that the empire found and deciphered from the ruins of the Divine Machine of Order many years ago, in this world... there is an overlord."
"Overlord...above?!"
The two generals' eyes widened and they couldn't help but look at each other.
Then, the two of them looked at Banka and couldn't help but ask in unison: "Could it be that... in that ruins..."
Banka smiled and nodded: "The Imperial Institute of Ancient History is confident that there are remains of the Overlord... in that ruins."
