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Chapter 593 World Mission: [Outside the Cradle]! (Seeking monthly votes)
Of course, the team led by Happy Superman wasn't dragged to the alien mothership empty-handed.

They were fully armed!

They even brought oxygen cylinders and breathing masks, not to mention lethal weapons.

Each soldier carries a full three napalm bombs on their back!
Upon entering the mothership, they were first surrounded by a large swarm of "hypnotic jellyfish".

Happy Superman and his teammates all lay down and waited.

The aliens finally appeared only after all the NPCs had fallen.

To their surprise, the aliens on the mothership were a completely different species from the aliens fighting on the ground!
Even with their armor removed, the aliens who use landing pods to fight on the ground look incredibly strong and can even wrestle with three or four players barehanded.

The battles are even more brutal; even when severely injured, they can turn the tables and kill the player.

Resolute will, chilling killing intent.

But the aliens inside the mothership turned out to be a group of incredibly weak creatures...

"Lobster Man??"

When Happy Superman and his teammates jumped out, they were horrified to see these lobster-men in protective suits and turned to run away!

Try firing a shot.

It easily penetrated the protective suit and that practically useless armor.

The lobster-man screamed and collapsed, gushing blue-green blood.

The other lobster-men ran even faster, disappearing into the spaceship in the blink of an eye.

Just as Happy Superman was wondering why these lobster-men were so weak, a red warning light flashed throughout the mothership.

One gate after another was locked.

When they opened it again, the familiar octopus warriors appeared before their eyes once more.

The big guys had no choice but to fight.

"Three goals!"

Happy Superman commands while fighting:
"First: Capture the command center and take control of the spaceship!"

"Second: Destroy the gravity weapons that grab people from the sky to prevent NPCs from being robbed further."

"Third: Find the captured NPCs and send them to their next life!"

Everyone went all out and fought the aliens.

The second goal was achieved first.

Upon discovering the location of the gravity field, the alien warriors went berserk and charged at them recklessly.

So, after Happy Superman and his team evacuated half of their forces, they used individual napalm bombs.

Deadly flames engulfed everything, even spilling out of the mothership and taking away all those affected—players, aliens, and NPCs who hadn't had time to be evacuated.

Then Happy Superman acted swiftly, taking advantage of the weakened defenses to destroy the gravity weapon in one fell swoop.

In this way, the only way for aliens to capture NPCs is by using squid shuttles.

Efficiency is greatly reduced.

The defensive pressure on ground troops is thus greatly reduced.

—If we're not afraid of NPCs being robbed, then even if the battle lines are pushed back, it won't be a big problem.

Once the pressure eases, some people start doing silly things—

A group of people contacted their friends, carrying various heavy weapons and large bombs, and waited on the rooftop of a high-rise building.

There are more than just high-speed fighter jets in Lord of War.

There were also bombers and old-fashioned biplanes.

These planes could totally be used as transport aircraft!

It carries the player high into the sky and throws them down towards the alien mothership.

Although the alien mothership also has close-range defense weapons—a kind of long, thin, octopus-like whip that can lash out players from a hundred or two meters away—it cannot defend against all of the densely packed players falling from the sky.

As for how to survive after landing...

Then let's all use our unique abilities!

……

Before long, the outer shell of the alien mothership was covered with countless players, who started playing jump rope with the tentacles.

While hiding, they tried to find a way to sneak into the mothership.

But the casualties were heavy, and there was no progress.

It also caused the ground battlefield to lack support and suffer repeated defeats.

However, just when they had lost tens of thousands of lives and were on the verge of collapse from the "whip" and their own men's artillery fire, a bright silver light suddenly shone down from above.

They looked up and realized that the sky had darkened without them noticing.

—They actually fought for a whole day.

They fought from broad daylight until the moon was high in the sky.

……

"Wait!" Yama exclaimed, stunned. "Why is the moon twinkling?"

The moon was shining rhythmically, like it was breathing.

The bright moonlight shone down, gilding everyone on the battlefield with a silvery edge.

Players felt their stamina slowly returning, the pain from their wounds disappearing, and their health bars beginning to recover. Even some of the older players felt the wrinkles on their faces gradually disappearing under the moonlight.

In contrast, the alien octopus warriors seemed to be encountering some kind of problem, each of them tapping their right ear.

The biological turret lost signal and stopped firing automatically.

The squid shuttle went out of control in an instant, and like a fish thrown into the sky by a storm, it fell helplessly back down.

The large swarm of "hypnotic jellyfish" that had been floating overhead also lost their power and fell helplessly to the ground.

Everyone looked up and watched the jellyfish slowly drifting down under the moonlight, feeling a strange beauty.

Only then did someone realize:

"The World Tree is glowing!"

The fire on the World Tree has been extinguished, and now the entire tree trunk is shimmering with a hazy light.

The shimmering rhythm perfectly echoes the rhythm of the moon's light coming out!
"Great! It wasn't for nothing that I watered and fertilized you!"

Yama, the King of Hell, beamed with joy.

The players cheered and launched a counterattack!
On top of the mothership, those "whips" seemed to have lost control and stopped lashing.

Players were able to focus on attacking.

With the shuttle no longer an obstacle, the fighter jets seized the opportunity to unleash a furious barrage of firepower!

The mothership's durability is decreasing rapidly!
But the aliens didn't just sit idly by.

Realizing the danger, it suddenly accelerated and crashed headlong into the World Tree!

Everyone, both in the sky and on the ground, was aware of the urgency of the situation, yet they were powerless to change it.

Some pilots even frantically steered their planes into the attack, but to no avail.

But at this moment of despair, a blue beam of light pierced the sky from the center of Silver City and struck the alien mothership!

—A player from Silver City, known for his adorable antics, risked his life to repair the large electromagnetic railgun in the city center.

And at the crucial moment, they fired the decisive shot that changed the course of the battle!
The alien mothership was blasted into a huge crater by this shot, and its flight trajectory was changed, causing it to narrowly miss the World Tree.

After crashing into dozens of buildings, it slammed heavily onto the ground.

The entire city trembled.

At this moment, the spaceship's durability finally dropped below 50%!

All the players erupted in thunderous cheers, rushing headlong towards the spaceship, determined to finish off the remaining enemies.

But the alien mothership started up again.

It rose up, wobbling and swaying.

It rose higher and higher under the concentrated fire of fighter jets until it broke through the clouds and became a black dot.

It eventually disappeared into the night sky.

All that remains is a devastated, overgrown metropolis.

The players, who had been playing all day, were filled with question marks:
"???"

"what?"

"They ran away already??"

"Are you fucking kidding me??"

"No, Zhumeng, you really need to come out and explain yourself, or I'm really going to start yelling at you!"

……

Not only were the players confused, but netizens all over the world were also baffled.

Until the scene before everyone's eyes suddenly jumped into space—

Only then did everyone realize that one spaceship after another was silently floating in the planet's synchronous orbit.

The mothership, which had been decimated by the combined efforts of players worldwide, wobbled and crumbled as it ascended into space and returned to the fleet.

After a brief pause, half of the spacecraft turned in space and flew straight toward the moon.

The other half slowly dispersed on the synchronous track.

A voice rang in everyone's ears—

"With the combined strength of the world, the residents of Mansheng City have finally succeeded in repelling the invasion of the alien races from the Star Sea and successfully defending their homeland."

"But the war also caused irreparable damage to the city."

"The geosynchronous orbit and the moon have also been occupied by alien races from the stars."

From this moment on—

"The world has lost space."

"But this is not the end, but the beginning of a journey."

"Life on Earth, at the cost of this heavy loss, has finally looked up at space."

"World Mission Released—"

"[Outside the Cradle]"

"Players are encouraged to explore freely and reclaim the moon for this world."

(End of this chapter)