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People saw that the space carrier of the fifth-level civilization flew a certain distance outside the solar system using conventional propulsion methods, and then suddenly disappeared.

The moment it disappeared, human scientists observed that the stars near it seemed to twinkle.

This phenomenon has been documented but not studied in depth. Because everyone knows it's impossible to figure out.

Time passed slowly, and several years later, the ruling committee finally received the message from Lu Xinghe.

"We have arrived at the WE-224 galaxy."

"be careful."

Han Yang gave a special warning. His computing power is also paying attention here in real time.

There's no reason why Han Yang isn't worried. After all, when they first communicated with Ziyun Civilization, the behavior of those Ziyun people was really weird.

"Please rest assured, head of state, I understand."

At this moment, the human fleet has completed its departure operation. The fifth-level civilization space carrier has disappeared again and it is unknown where it went, but the Ziyun fleet has not yet arrived.

Lu Xinghe was not in a hurry, and just started the preliminary investigation work step by step, and maneuvered to the predetermined direction based on the coordinate data given by Yinmeng.

At this moment, it was the first time that a human fleet had left such a long distance from the sun.

The sun has truly turned into the most ordinary star among the stars in the sky, and there is nothing unusual about it.

In fact, the Sun seen from this distance has an apparent magnitude of only 10.5, and the lowest brightness star that the human eye can see is magnitude 6.

The higher the equal number, the dimmer the planet.

That is to say, the human eye cannot see the sun at this distance at all, and must rely on a telescope to see it.

The WE-224 star, at a distance of about 5000 billion kilometers at this moment, has an apparent magnitude of -9.5, which is approximately 110 times as bright as Venus at its brightest, enough to illuminate a person in the dark space. Come out as a shadow.

Looking at the distant bright star 5000 billion kilometers away, at the small rocky planet, and the faint mountains and rivers on the rocky planet, Lu Xinghe snorted coldly in his heart: " The leeks that have not grown yet must be carefully protected."

Not only him, but all high-level human beings believe that the real purpose of the Silver Alliance to protect low-level civilizations is to create a steady stream of exploitation objects for the five major and sixth-level civilizations.

When humans grow leeks, they still have to water and fertilize, let alone these low-level civilizations.

Lu Xinghe had no desire to visit that low-level civilization. What was happening at the moment was just a simple mission for him. After finishing the job, he quickly went home.

Not long after waiting, a star in the distance of the fleet suddenly flickered. Immediately afterwards, Lu Xinghe received a message from Yue Lun, the commander of Ziyun Fleet. The two sides then met and started a meeting.

In this meeting, the senior military personnel of both sides were equally enthusiastic. It can be seen that Ziyun Civilization also has the expectation to successfully complete this mission and is willing to make its own efforts to achieve this goal.

Logically speaking, this was a very successful meeting. The two sides basically divided their respective rights and responsibilities, defense areas, tasks and obligations, and the conversation was relatively pleasant, with no conflicts. But Lu Xinghe still felt that these Ziyun people in front of him were a little strange.

He always seems hesitant to speak and seems slightly unnatural.

The doubts in Lu Xinghe's heart became even greater.

The fleets of both sides separated and dispersed a large number of satellite reconnaissance forces to begin a comprehensive search of this star field.

Half a year later, both sides finally found traces of the large army of stone beasts about 6000 billion kilometers away from the star.

There are things like irregular asteroids suspended one after another in the vast and empty space. Some of them are large and some are small. The largest one has a diameter of more than ten meters and an estimated mass of about 4000 tons, which is larger than the largest pterosaur. Small ones only have a mass of a few hundred tons, or even a dozen tons.

The total number is around 1.2 million.

At this moment, they are still immersed in a state similar to hibernation, and are not aware of the exploration of the outside world.

However, the two sides did not launch an attack. Both sides still stood still, with the large army of stone beasts as the center of the ball, and continued to search the surrounding area, striving to find all the stone beasts, and not missing any one before launching an attack.

This took a full year, and in the end, hundreds of thousands more stone beasts that had strayed from the main force were found.

It wasn't until they could no longer be found that both fleets launched an attack together.

In an instant, the automated attack equipment and armed satellites that had been arranged in advance, as well as a total of about 20,000 warships, fired tens of millions of energy cannon projectiles.

A swarm of stone beasts powerful enough to exterminate a second-level civilization had no power to fight back before being attacked by energy cannon projectiles that completely surpassed the level of a second-level civilization. In an instant, at least a million stone beasts were torn to pieces and died.

The sleeping stone beasts woke up one after another, facing the vast space, and let out silent roars. The thrusters based on the ion propulsion principle that evolved in the body began to push their huge bodies to move quickly, rushing towards the battleships one after another.

The human fleet and Ziyun fleet were not in any disorder, and they still maintained rapid and efficient killing. There is no way, after all, this is the fleet of a third-level civilization that has mastered energy cannon and energy shield technology.

Even if the stone beast is already very powerful, so powerful that it almost exceeds the limits of the physical body, it can still be crushed.

It was a one-sided massacre.

What worries Lu Xinghe the most is not the threat that the stone beast may pose to himself, but what if one of the stone beasts escapes. For this reason, both sides had to deploy a large number of observation and blocking forces at the edge of the battlefield, which seriously slowed down the speed of destruction. Otherwise, the killing efficiency could be higher.

In the midst of this efficient killing, the encirclement gradually narrowed. Seeing that only about 10% of the stone beast was left, the mutation increased sharply.

At the core of the stone beast cluster, a giant stone beast weighing at least 3000 tons suddenly roared silently. Tens of thousands of surrounding stone beasts immediately gathered towards it, with their bodies next to each other, layer after layer, forming a A big ball.

The stone beast behind the big ball consumes its own energy and working fluid regardless of the cost, desperately pushing the big ball to accelerate forward.

When the energy and working fluid are used up, these stone beasts will voluntarily leave the big ball and wait for death without moving, while other stone beasts with sufficient energy and working fluid will come to take over their responsibilities.

Gradually, the size of the big ball becomes smaller and smaller, and the speed becomes faster and faster. Realizing this, Lu Xinghe immediately ordered the nearby warships to concentrate their firepower on the attack.

But the outer stone beast directly used its own body as armor to block all the fierce firepower. Even if it died, it would use its own body to protect its companions!

Seeing this big ball is about to break out of the encirclement. However, once the blockade is broken, the stone beast clusters disperse again. In this vast and dark universe, it is very difficult to find something with a maximum diameter of less than ten meters, even with the technological strength of a third-level civilization.

At that time, there may be some fish that slip through the net. And that primary civilization is so fragile that it may only take one stone beast to destroy it.

When the mission fails, not only will you not earn silver coins, but you will also be fined by the Silver Alliance!

Yue Lun, the commander of Ziyun Fleet, was heartbroken, and his originally fair face became increasingly pale.

The civilizations of both sides will be prosperous and both will be harmed!

At the critical moment, Lu Xinghe remained calm in the face of danger.

"32nd Squadron, 66th Squadron, accelerate with all your strength to intercept! Automated combat troops, stop fighting, use the turrets and satellites to accelerate, hit me! Hit directly!"

"Yes!"

Can the turrets and satellites not penetrate your defenses for the time being? It doesn't matter, don't fight, I'll hit you directly! Directly use the kinetic energy of the impact to slow down your speed and buy time for the follow-up pursuit fleet to arrive! When the big troops arrive, it will be useless no matter how many layers of corpses you pile up!

Seeing this scene, Yue Lun not only did not relax, but became more and more worried.

"Dear Commander Lu, your tactics are indeed very sophisticated, but I need to remind you that redeploying two of your squadrons may result in insufficient defense power in the original airspace."

Lu Xinghe smiled confidently: "Commander Yue Lun, please rest assured."

Sure enough, just as Lu Xinghe expected, the human fleet executed Lu Xinghe's tactics brilliantly.

After being violently hit by the turret and satellite and slowed down, two squadrons of warships followed and launched a fierce attack on it, directly weakening most of its size. After that, the two squadrons did not fight at all, and did not even slow down. Instead, they passed directly past the location of the stone beast ball and penetrated directly into the opponent's defense zone!

The two squadrons immediately changed defenses. During this change, the unstoppable stone beast stopped and was directly annihilated by the original defense force.

The whole process was extremely smooth, as if it had been practiced thousands of times.

"Pretty!"

Among the flagships of Ziyun Fleet, Commander Yue Lun couldn't help but burst into laughter, admiring the human commander full of admiration.

At the same time, the competitive spirit in his heart was also aroused.

Can your human fleet do it? Our Ziyun Fleet can do it too!

It's a pity that there is no chance for Ziyun Fleet to use it now.

As the battle comes to an end, the stone beast swarm becomes more and more crazy. With another volley, perhaps the stone beasts realized that it was the last moment, and the remaining millions of stone beasts suddenly gathered together, each gathering into one big ball after another, and there were countless of them. Thousands of them started to break out in different directions.

At this moment, Yue Lun was not surprised but happy.

Finally got a chance to show off!

More than 10,000 Ziyun battleships, supported by huge automated combat facilities, launched a frequent maneuver that even dazzled Lu Xinghe.

Lu Xinghe knew that such complex coordination and comprehensive maneuvers required extremely high requirements for overall command. As long as there is a mistake in one place, a loophole may appear, causing hundreds and thousands of stone beasts to break out of the encirclement, causing countless troubles in the future.

His heart also lifted. (End of chapter)