Alien Hotel.

Chapter 694 The Battle for the Gate
The scale of a stargate is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine—regardless of the incredible advanced technology and complex engineering required to support its operation, just in terms of "size," even if all the defense forces in the surrounding airspace were cleared, it would not be an easy task to take it over.

Its daily operation requires thousands of technical experts and even more support staff for maintenance. Its important internal facilities are guarded by specialized defense forces stationed in sections. Its main ring contains hundreds of functional compartments, as well as a complex network of pipes and corridors connecting these compartments.

There are even highways and subway systems surrounding the megastructure.

Beneath the layers of shields and armored belts of the stargate lie dozens of barracks and weapons factories of varying sizes. On the surface of the giant ring, there are countless radar arrays, anti-aircraft artillery units, and drone hangars. A most stubborn and elite Guardian Army is stationed at this gate. Some of them are even "Guardian Believers" who were born and raised in the residential ring inside the stargate. For hundreds of years, generation after generation, their life's mission has been to protect this place.

Stargate is everything to these fanatical cultists.

Now, these fanatics known as the "Generation Guardians" are putting on their final and fiercest resistance within the main ring of the Stargate—the battle in space is over, the Church's armed star fortress has disintegrated, and the last ship of the Stargate defense fleet has turned into a dazzling firework in space, its scorching wreckage slowly falling into the hydrogen ocean on the surface of the brown dwarf. However, the collapse of the space defense forces seems to have had no effect on the "morale" of the troops stationed inside the Stargate, or rather, they seem to have no concept of "morale" at all.

Initially, the defense force fought on the surface of the stargate, attempting to counter the unified fleet in space with their limited anti-aircraft artillery. However, the forces quickly spread to several key air defense command nodes, and the bombardment ships at the junction destroyed the radar arrays on the stargate surface. They then penetrated into the interior of the stargate ring.

Once the Marines from the border area landed on the main ring of the stargate in shuttle boats, the "Generational Guard" forces had already blocked all the passages in the ring. With part of the ring's control system out of control, they used bombs to destroy all the elevators and rail transportation.

The fierce battle raged repeatedly in every module, every factory, and every corridor. By now, the resistance of these fanatics had even lasted longer than that of the defeated space defense force.

A brief flash erupted from one of the armored belts of the main ring, and a silver-white dragon burst forth from the flash. She swept across the sky like a whirlwind, and her faded gray-white texture spread and flamboyantly behind her like a cloak.

The dragon slightly raised its head and looked into the distance, seeing the stargate ring reflected in its eyes like a steel land. The dim corona of the brown dwarf star hung upside down above this steel land like the sky. The ground forces of the unified fleet were constantly landing on the main ring. Occasionally, the anti-aircraft guns that had not yet been destroyed could be seen firing briefly. The dazzling flashes streaked across the starry sky, and the next second, bombs from the unified fleet landed on the places where the flashes had appeared, silencing them instantly.

Several more flashes of light fell from a slightly closer distance; those were the heavy landing pods carrying the deep-sea troops—those cannonball-like pods were equipped with thermal fields at the bottom, allowing them to penetrate directly into the interiors of large enemy buildings during the landing process.

The impact of this landing method was astonishing. Even with the buffering effect of the internal force field stabilizer, it far exceeded the tolerance limit of ordinary soldiers. Only the deep-sea divers who had undergone surgical modifications and were almost half "synthetic humans" could withstand it.

Further away, several large ships of the unified fleet could be seen hovering above the main ring of the stargate—in addition to the flagship Mass Effect, Bai Liqing also recognized the heavy aircraft carrier The Life of All Things and the special operations support mothership Zero Calculation.

Other warships of various sizes are also approaching from afar.

The fleet is regrouping, a sign that preparations for a second jump are underway.

Red's voice reached her ears: "We've taken down the power unit... The resistance from those fanatics was fierce; they were even trying to block the hatch with their bodies until it opened on its own."

“Fearless of life and death, it’s just a pity that their loyalty is distorted by the brainwashing of cult ideology,” Baili Qing said calmly, “...It’s about time.”

Her gaze swept across the main ring of the star gate, sensing a familiar aura flowing and expanding within that steel-clad land.

The resistance of the Secret Order's Defenders was indeed fierce and stubborn, but even the fiercest resistance could not stop the overall situation—the unified fleet might not be able to bombard this important "strategic facility" with heavy firepower, but another force was more effective than the fleet's heavy firepower.

Yu Sheng's "complete takeover" of this stargate is accelerating.

Baili Qing could sense the process—because she had undergone blood transfusion, and "observation" was also one of her strengths.

Initially, Yu Sheng only took over a small part of the stargate's functions. To avoid being discovered by the defense forces here, he only "opened the door" when the unified fleet jumped in. Before that, he did not touch the main structure of the stargate.

The real "takeover" only began after the entire integrated fleet had entered the field.

Then, the Marines who landed at the boundary of the Stargate began to suppress the resistance forces inside the Stargate. Baili Qing led the Deep Dive Team to personally enter the scene and sent a large number of pre-prepared diffusion devices into the main ring, which greatly accelerated the process.

By now, Baili Qing could clearly sense that this stargate belonged to "one of their own".

It feels amazing.

Baili Qing knew that the Star Gate was lifeless, and that the vast steel structure was as cold as this space. However, at this moment, as she spread her wings and flew over this steel land, she seemed to be able to clearly feel that this cold metal was gradually awakening.

She could even feel the stargate breathing, feel life flowing through its pipes and cables, and even feel the giant ring slowly expanding and contracting in space, emitting a heavy and solemn heartbeat.

She even felt that the stargate was greeting her.

Baili Qing looked down and saw Yu Sheng's large face appear on the outer armor of the Star Gate Ring.

Baili Qing: "..."

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A dozen seconds later, the white dragon slammed its head into the anti-aircraft position. Red's startled cry echoed through the communication channel: "Ah Qing?! What are you doing? That anti-aircraft position has already been taken; you don't need to go there yourself..."

Bai Liqing struggled to crawl out from a pile of twisted steel wreckage: "...Shut up, I want to be alone."

……

Blinding, scorching rays crisscrossed the plains, weaving a web of fire. Foxtail missiles streaked across the sky, spewing brilliant flames. Flames rose from the earth, while blood mist rose above the Gate of Eden, then turned into rain and fell upon the plains.

But the tide of battle was turning against them—the high priests steadied themselves, and as these powerful psionicists recovered from their panic and began to gather their strength, the Eileen Legion's attack was immediately halted.

Clouds gathered, powerful spiritual energy burned in the atmosphere, and a dazzling bolt of lightning descended from the sky, plowing across the earth with a continuous roar—wherever the lightning struck, the bodies of many mass-produced dolls suddenly turned into a twisted rift and vanished from the planet into thin air.

The puppets that couldn't be teleported in time were struck by lightning and instantly vaporized by the powerful spiritual energy.

A blond dwarf was running around in front of the Gates of Eden, squawking and yelling, "The situation is too unfavorable for our warriors! I must regroup my troops!"

Then a bolt of lightning struck out of nowhere, grazing her head and landing to the side.

The little thing let out a shriek and flew up, cursing loudly.

A silver-white figure rushed over from nearby, picked up Eileen in one bite, and tossed her onto its back.

"Thank you, silly fox!" The little doll clutched two tufts of fox fur tightly. "But I don't think we can beat them! And why are there more and more of them?"

"We can't beat them!" the big fox shouted, turning his head. "So we should run away!"

Eileen was taken aback when she heard this, and quickly turned her head to look at the battlefield.

The vision transmitted back by thousands of mass-produced dolls allowed her to clearly see every corner of the place.

She saw that the high-ranking priests who had been fleeing in panic not long ago had already occupied several buildings at the foot of the mountain. The tops of those strange buildings with pointed roofs were brewing dazzling lightning, and lightning storms pierced through the clouds, constantly striking the plain.

Shuttles and transport ships of all sizes pierced through the clouds. These reinforcements, arriving from various temples, were landing around the Gate of Eden. Stepping off the aircraft were not only Order soldiers in power armor, but also bronze knights surrounded by force field radiance, and artificial saintesses moving through the shadows.

The little doll suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Wait, where's that 'Holy Throne' that looks so cool?!"

“He’s been gone since just now! The last time I noticed him, he seemed to be heading towards the mountains,” Hu Li said, turning his head as he ran through the smoke and fire. “Luna went after him, but she couldn’t catch up!”

"Abandoned his men and ran away?" The little doll's eyes widened. "That doesn't make sense. They're clearly gaining the upper hand in this fight... Why did he run away?"

"So my benefactor felt something was wrong—he suspected that the Holy See was up to something."

As Hu Li spoke, she released seven or eight tails behind her. The fox tails spewed flames and flew into the air, spraying a barrage of fire into the distance. The barrage ignited a huge wall of fire on the plain. The foxfire, imbued with spiritual power, blotted out the sun for a moment. Under the cover of the foxfire, she rushed towards the gap on the other side of the mountain.

"What about the Gate to Eden?" the little puppet shouted from the raccoon's back. "Are we just going to ignore it?"

Before she could finish speaking, a phantom door suddenly appeared beside Hu Li.

Yu Sheng's figure leaped out of the gate, and Hu Li, in perfect coordination, curled his large tail and pulled him onto her back.

Luna and Yu Sheng jumped out of the door together, turning into a phantom shadow and following behind Hu Li.

"Mind your own business!" Yu Sheng shouted, "There are two!"

The little doll didn't react for a moment: "Huh? What two?"

"The Gates of Eden!" Yu Sheng exclaimed, his eyes wide, as he gripped the fur on the raccoon's back tightly. "Two of them!"

Eileen: "Holy crap?!"

(End of this chapter)