Him and their stars.

Chapter 1918 Xia Li, I'm here to save you

The silver-gray hull of the Wide Silence was moving leisurely in the deep space. Although it was already on the battlefield, it was strolling leisurely as if it was a lion king patrolling its territory.

Of course, considering that she is still invisible, this is probably the most despicable lion king in the universe.

The "Mirage" system was in operation and covered the entire battleship. Under its influence, each piece of the outer nano-armor was synchronously executing a paradoxical command - ensuring an absorption rate of more than 99% of electromagnetic, gravitational and all radiation, while scattering distorted virtual images into the deep space.

Long-range bombardment, perfect stealth, and a hit rate and destructive power beyond common sense make the group a terrifying hunter in this universe.

And her hunting this time was indeed perfect.

The destroyer fleet that had just formed a formation beside the battleship completely lost its combat effectiveness in an instant.

"Very good, perfect bombardment effect. Everyone is getting more and more proficient in using the arc cannon." On the bridge, Feifei clapped her hands and glanced at Yu Lian, who was sitting in a chair without saying a word: "What's with that expression?"

Yu Lian sighed: "I just sighed again, people's fate... I forgot what happened later, but it can indeed be called the impermanence of gathering and separation, right?"

He stretched out his hand and waved it, and the figure of the Leviathan hive mothership appeared on the screen that popped up beside him. Although the distance was still far, it was much clearer than the image detected by the Imperial Army.

This strange flying object, which looked like a purple-gold insect pupa, was covered with armor with hundreds of sharp chitin spikes sticking out. The crystal clear organ at the front of the "hull" seemed to be made of fine gemstones, and at first glance it looked more like hundreds of compound eyes of the insect king.

Although it had not yet grown, Yu Lian had already recognized it. It was the core of the Zerg's mothership. In another timeline, this strange pupa was the embodiment of the calamity of the entire galaxy, the plague of civilization, and the cancer cell of the universe.

Of course, he also remembered that before the Mother of Nest Ships was destroyed by the Combined Fleet, it had expanded and sunk into a huge behemoth that covered the sky and the sun, comparable to a mobile fortress. However, even such a huge thing seemed to be able to manipulate its own gravity, and could freely navigate in the universe and pass through narrow channels that should be impossible to pass through.

...This is a bit like a snake pit, or like our Silence.

It was still a long way from the mother nest growing into such a formidable behemoth. According to the information detected by the Silence, its size was about the same as those two Imperial battlecruisers.

It took Yu Lian almost half a minute to shake himself off the PTSD from his previous life, and he resisted the urge to kill the thing in its cradle with a round of electric arc.

He really never imagined that one day he would actually come to rescue Xia Li.

On the screen, the infant nest ship was retreating towards the shadow of the planet's orbit, but it did not forget to blast a large number of spores disguised as artillery shells towards the chaotic Imperial fleet.

Yu Lian finally smiled: "This ship will maintain the current speed and move towards the battlefield. Let the guys get ready. There is still a second round. Hey, what are you waiting for?"

There was a small cheer on the ship. The soldiers could finally test the guns on the battleship. They had been waiting for this day for a long time.

But in fact, when the next round of hyperspace arcs tore through the nebula, the first batch of mimic spores launched by the mother nest had already passed the Imperial Fleet's warning network. Like a group of gnash-toothed sub-light-speed missiles, they pounced on the remaining warships of the Empire that were still in a daze.

Their form was indeed more like a physical missile, and they should have been intercepted a minute ago. They would have been annihilated at a safe distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers by the deathly silence barrier of the antimatter bomb, or torn apart by the more dense rapid-fire ion cannons and blaster close-in defense cannons.

Of course, even if one or two spores really get through the fire network, it’s no big deal.

The escorting warships can still use gravity tractors to pull the missile's trajectory, and can even use active deflection shields to form a combined force field wall, like a combination skill.

However, the ships that were supposed to protect the fleet's flanks no longer existed.

The first to bear the brunt was the heavy cruiser Oath. Its force field shield had already lit up, and the translucent light curtain was like a curtain wall around the battleship.

However, it seemed as if the brown egg-shaped object had changed from sub-light speed to "relatively low speed" at some point, landed on the shield, and then moved forward with difficulty but persistence, like a hungry wild boar digging at the fence of a crop field.

The cruiser's shield, like a bamboo fence that could not bear the weight, was forcibly stretched to create a shocking gap.

The deputy captain slumped in his chair, watching the mimicking spores land on the outer warship. Thick and powerful tentacles poked out from the cracks in the shell, spewing out a special acidic liquid, burning the outer wall of the warship.

Then, the ferocious alien species passed through the armored outer wall and entered the ship.

That thing is not a sub-light speed missile at all, it is clearly an assault landing craft.

There were three more Imperial warships that encountered the same situation. Once the battle situation changed from fleet artillery battle to landing and strangling battle in the cabin, the effect seemed to be completely different.

At least, in the narrow passages of the battleship, small exploding insects can wreak havoc in the hull through any ventilation duct, and they may also appear in front of any Imperial soldier, giving them the most terrifying experience.

The springtails inserted their claws into the alloy bulkhead and used the microscopic air holes in the gaps in their shells to complete the secondary ejection. Even when facing the stormtroopers' mechas, this sudden collision was enough to cause structural damage to the thickest armor, not to mention that the chitinous blades were enough to tear through the alloy.

As for the ordinary crew members without armor, if they don't have time to escape, being smashed into pieces by the zerglings may be the best ending. At least they don't have to endure more pain.

The swarm of Hydralisks advanced through the main passage inside the cabin.

Their vertebrae drive their bodies to vibrate at high frequencies, ejecting the bone spurs in these cavities, turning them into spiral armor-piercing bullets that can penetrate the Imperial Stormtroopers' mechas. However, after so many years of evolution, the Hydralisks, as the core "land combat force" of the Zerg, have mastered more insane abilities. They can spit out smaller explosive mimic spores to deal with energy shields, and can also spit out acid mist for corrosion to pollute the environment.

Finally, just like the "Charlie" Zerg, it must be not good enough if it can't self-destruct. Anyway, what really deprived the Oath Heavy Cruiser of its combat effectiveness was a Hydralisk that rushed into the weapons bay of the main railgun and detonated a bunch of shells with itself.

Out-of-control plasma flowed out from the torn energy wires, igniting the already boiling air and turning half of the battleship's cabin into a fiery inferno.

However, it was not just one warship that was hit by the Zerg's spores.

On the Holy Sword Karagan, Rear Admiral Magus had lost all his dignity and composure, and loudly questioned his navigator: "What is that?"

"It is certain that they are not missiles, but biological assault landing craft. If they pass through the interception net, they can penetrate the shield at a relatively uniform speed. We should report it. When dealing with this kind of enemy, the entire fleet should be armored in advance."

"Yes, that's what I meant. I've asked all the soldiers to put on their armor... No, what's that thing I'm talking about?"

"These alien species are not living creatures, but weapons in the form of living creatures. All the warships that are attacked need support."

"Yes, I will send stormtroopers to support the ships. Such a small number of alien species cannot defeat our... No, that, what on earth is that!"

He slammed the table hard and shouted, "What happened to the lightning just now? Also, why were we attacked by surprise? What on earth are you doing as a navigator?" The navigator's eyes were facing straight ahead, and her tone was still a little unmechanical, as if it was an AI simulation: "Of course it's because my attention is all on it."

"..."

"It's very easy for a psychic to concentrate. Especially with my ability. Admiral, we've been chasing for five hundred light years and have always been keeping in touch with the target. This comes at a price."

She was probably saying that she could only operate in a single thread. Once she locked onto a target like a hound, it was inevitable that she would ignore the surrounding targets.

There is no way to refute that Major General Magus is not a psychic.

He looked at the deep void and couldn't help but shudder. Even the alarm that reported the second batch of mimic spores' attack failed to generate much heat in his body.

He gritted his teeth, waved his hands vigorously and roared, "Quick, let the destroyer fleet disband and flee the battlefield. Also, quickly release all the fighter planes! Find them for me! Look for them in the 3 o'clock direction!"

What the Imperial Army never expected was that the target they were looking for was not with their nest ship. At this time, the Overlord Xia Li had already opened her "Dharma Form" which was more than three meters tall, covered with a shell and with bone wings on her back, and stood in the void.

Of course, in the universe, not to mention three meters, even if it is thirty meters long, it is as tiny as an atom. As long as you don't do anything, it is almost impossible to be discovered.

Now, Xia Li was hiding calmly at a "close distance" about one or two hundred kilometers away from the battlefield, looking at the scene in front of her with a distressed expression.

She had already prepared herself to risk her life in order to survive, but the situation unfolding before her did not seem to give her such an opportunity.

Xia Li should have flown over with the spores that the mother nest had just spewed out. As the master of the swarm, she was of course very clear that the exhausted and isolated mother nest could not be a match for the two elite battlecruisers, and if it continued to flee, it would sooner or later be intercepted by the enemy.

The only chance of winning is to board the ship, or in other words, she herself has the only chance of winning.

Xia Li's tactics were also very simple. She would make a mimic spore and charge towards the enemy ship at missile-level sub-light speed, and then use force field jumping to board the ship.

Of course, she considered the possibility of the spores being intercepted. However, each of these mimic spores has its own unique master authority channel, and she can jump freely among all the spores. As long as one spore breaks through the interception net and reaches the vicinity of the imperial battleship, her plan will be more than half successful.

Of course, the Empire's large warships all use mystical protection to prevent hyperspace boarding operations. However, the shield has its limits, and it is only a battle cruiser after all. It is impossible to be infallible and should not be able to stop a master like me.

Yes, after all, I am also a master. If we use the standards of human psychics, I am also a saint.

A saint who is fattened by the will of the swarm is still a saint.

If it was a Titan hiding there, she might not have dared to be so careless.

In short, as long as she boarded the enemy's flagship, she could still unleash an army. Now, all the Leviathan Hearts have merged with her. It can be said that the Overmind himself is a portal to the Warp, which contains literally millions of troops.

A million troops were definitely not enough to avenge the empire. However, if they were given time to grow, the number could expand to tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even infinity.

The premise is that she must survive.

I will definitely survive, Xia Li said to herself. However, we must suppress the Imperial flagship within half an hour, and most importantly, we must kill the psychic.

Although Xia Li had made such a plan, she certainly did not expect that the lightning that cut through the starry sky would allow her spore army to rush into the imperial fleet with almost no losses.

Therefore, the small number of soldier insects that were on standby in the spores began to attack based on their biological instincts and the established combat procedures, and they actually caught the Imperial Army soldiers off guard and put them into a tough battle.

This Imperial fleet has many elite crew members, but the stormtroopers are probably second-tier and have no experience in fighting against the Zerg.

In short, the attack effect was so good that Xia Li was a little overwhelmed.

She always felt that the results of the battle that fell from the sky were questionable, and the life-saving lightning that fell from the sky was full of evil spirits. Out of vigilance, she still broke away from the mimic spores and decided to stay away and observe secretly.

She saw with her own eyes a heavy cruiser explode and catch fire, almost losing power, and saw the second batch of spores launched by the mother nest reach the battlefield without any interception and land on more imperial warships.

She also saw speedboats carrying stormtroopers rushing out from the two battlecruisers one after another and heading towards all the warships that were still on fire.

In this case, should I still execute my tactics? This is the first time I am trying to practice the art of war!

Even a girl as uneducated and ignorant of military tactics as Xia Li knew that if she wanted to board the enemy's flagship and decapitate it, now was the best opportunity.

But she hesitated.

She always felt that she had seen the violent lightning before somewhere. Yes, she should have seen it before, because it was the vision that the lord she left in Helots had fed back to her.

The leader of the swarm did not hesitate any longer and turned to fly towards his own nest.

However, at this moment, she suddenly heard a very familiar voice again, which suddenly sounded at the end of the void: "Yoho, Xia Li, I'm here to save you."

She had only heard that voice twice, but it was extremely familiar. However, it was also the voice she least wanted to hear.

"No, you didn't." Charlie cried, "Don't come over here. I'm not here. I'm not me."

Although she was speaking incoherently, her movements to escape were firm and swift, and her aura was still compressed to the atomic level. She was already very familiar with lurking and escaping.

Just when she had drifted more than a thousand kilometers away, new lightning tore through the starry sky.

However, before these deadly lightning bolts fell on the Imperial fleet, a familiar outline gradually appeared in the starry sky not far away.

Charlie, who witnessed this scene, was almost hit on the waist by the sudden cosmic radiation.

It was clearly another Hive Mothership. A much larger one.