A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 51 Wormhole Strike is Too Cheating

The connection was lost, and Supervisor Rice was about to press the evacuation alarm, but he hesitated to do so.

At that moment, the words his friend Naford had told him flashed through Rice's mind, along with those who had sacrificed themselves for Project "Spear," and he finally made up his mind.

When communications were reopened, this time it wasn't to contact the Star Alliance fleet responsible for the interception, but rather the Star Alliance's general staff.

"Chief of Staff Penrock, Project 'Spear' has only one final combat test left."

As soon as the call connected, Manager Rice got straight to the point.

Staff Officer Penrock said, "The testing can be delayed, but the important thing is to preserve the experimental data and your efforts, otherwise all the hard work we've put in over this period will be for nothing."

"You didn't understand what I meant. I meant, why not conduct real-world testing sooner? Now is an excellent opportunity," Manager Rice reiterated.

This time, Penrock understood what the other person meant. He didn't answer immediately, but hesitated for a moment before replying.

"...I need to report this matter."

"Please reply as soon as possible," Manager Rice reminded him.

About a minute later, Staff Officer Penrock contacted Chief Rice, who had been waiting.

"The General Staff has approved your application, Chief Rice. You can proceed with it now."

……

In the starry sky, the space forces of two opposing sides are facing off from afar.

They both activated gravitational wave blocking to limit each other's possibility of reaching faster-than-light speeds.

There were no dazzling beams of light, nor were there countless space fighters or small creatures flying through the air; the two sides maintained a distance and stood in confrontation...

At least that's how it appears from the perspective of an onlooker.

But in fact, the battle had already begun without anyone noticing. The inexplicable explosions of warships and the constant churning of dust containing planetary creatures were the most powerful proof of this.

Neither side can evade the enemy's attacks in terms of mobility, and the accuracy of the attacks is also very high, so it can be roughly regarded as a stationary brawl.

But now the planetary creatures have developed a black curtain. It doesn't matter if the Scout Nebula runs out of resources; they can simply deploy a black curtain to block the way, rendering all of the Star Alliance fleet's tactics ineffective.

"It's so powerless," a planetary creature couldn't help but sigh.

His companion complained, "Don't waste time lamenting this. The mission demands a quick victory, and the enemy is clearly stalling..."

The information within the swarm network abruptly ceased. The planetary creatures stared in astonishment at their companions' location, all their matter falling toward a single center, utterly powerless to resist.

Microscopic black hole attack?

How did you do that?

Hasn't the cover-up already begun?

Grana, the mastermind directing this space battle, was puzzled.

Thinking about the mission, Grana became more cautious and ordered nearby planetary creatures to provide reinforcements. Then, the planetary creatures on the battlefield completely enveloped themselves in darkness and held out until the reinforcements arrived.

Although the Dark Curtain loses control after absorbing too much mass, the Star Alliance fleet can exploit this to break through its defenses.

However, the quality of the Star Alliance's fleet deployment will take time to develop, so maintaining the cover for a short period of time shouldn't be a problem.

However, at that moment, something unexpected happened to Grana.

Even shrouded in darkness, planetary life could not escape the fate of being struck by microscopic black holes.

A microscopic black hole inexplicably appeared inside the planetary organism, and then this microscopic black hole directly devoured the mass of the planetary organism, causing the planetary organism to rapidly die.

Grana could no longer sit still.

"What's going on?!"

"That's impossible!"

Because of the presence of the gravity-blocking ship, the planetary creatures could not evacuate even if they wanted to. Grana could only watch helplessly as all the planetary creatures under his command perished in this battle.

It angrily commanded the planetary creatures to attack the fleets that were preventing them from traveling faster than light.

However, the Star Alliance fleet had long since achieved remote unmanned operation, so no matter how many warships the planetary creatures destroyed, it would not fundamentally cause any loss of combat personnel.

The morale of the Star Alliance fleet did not decrease but increased, because in their eyes, the planetary creatures under Grana's command were fighting back so fiercely, like trapped beasts struggling violently knowing they were doomed.

How could this not excite these soldiers?

In the end, all life on the planet was wiped out!

……

Since the planetary beings developed the application of the Dark Curtain, there have been virtually no instances of them being severely damaged in a single battle, let alone being completely wiped out like this.

Grana, the mastermind, suddenly became a disgrace to the swarm's masterminds.

Meanwhile, the masterminds also began to study how the enemy's microscopic black hole attack bypassed the black curtain's defenses.

Lu Shang didn't participate; he was busy tinkering with things that could block vacuum decay.

However, the mainframes, who were not particularly knowledgeable about high-energy physics, could not possibly make any progress on their own. In the end, with no other option, Nunnally took the lead and approached several civilizations, including the Banner Consortium, which had already surrendered. After promising some benefits, they obtained some basic information about the principles of the "Spear" project.

Thus, the Babel bee swarm learned of wormhole attacks, a method of attack that could directly ignore spacetime and matter.

As long as there is enough energy and the location of the target is known, even if the enemy hides at the end of the universe, the target can be completely destroyed regardless of the distance in space and time or any material or energy barrier.

An attack that is absolutely impossible to defend against...

After learning the principle, Nanali and the others felt that it would have been better if they hadn't known. Logically speaking, isn't this cheating?

The mainframes wouldn't be surprised if the Star Alliance developed some kind of deceptive attack technology.

There was nothing else they could do but call Lu Shang over to discuss a solution... well, actually they just wanted Lu Shang to come up with a solution, since they were out of ideas.

"Wormhole attack?"

Lu Shang remained silent for a while, organizing the information in his mind.

Through the psionic network, he asked Grana, the mastermind, "Grana, is that the star system I last time assigned you to lead a group of planetary creatures on a surprise attack?"

Grana's operation was commissioned by Lu Shang. The star system where the Star River Alliance was conducting wormhole-based strikes had a considerable number of fleets patrolling regularly. Several times, the Behemoth behemoths that had been spreading second-generation scout creatures passed through that area, only to be intercepted and killed by the enemy fleets.

In addition, Lu Shang heard a lot of news from the intelligence network spread throughout the Star River Alliance about what kind of secret weapon the Star River Alliance was researching.

Therefore, Grana was dispatched to raid the Star Alliance's experimental starfield to find out what was inside.

Grana, who was called out directly, immediately answered nervously.

"Yes."

"You did a great job." Lu Shang nodded.

Grana suddenly felt a chill run down its spine, and the stern, admonishing education Lu Shang had given it some time ago involuntarily surfaced in its mind again.

They had all been taught how to fight, and were commanding planetary creatures who could flexibly utilize the Dark Curtain, yet they were still completely wiped out. Grana felt that this was Lu Shang blaming it.

"Uh... I'm prepared to take a beating, go ahead!" Grana said defiantly.

Lu Shang blinked blankly, then asked in surprise, "Why would I hit you?"

"what?"

Grana was taken aback, then felt a sense of relief at having survived a disaster.

Lu Shang explained to the bewildered mainframes, "It's just a wormhole attack, not a table-flipping incident. This is good news."

"Last time, I sent Grana to lead a group of planetary creatures to raid that star field, mainly because I was worried that the Star River Alliance was hiding there secretly researching how to overturn the table."

"Now that we've confirmed the enemy isn't going to overturn the table, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"Let's maintain the original strategy of spreading our intelligence network and allow the Star Alliance to win for a while."

(End of this chapter)