The system handed me over to the state.

So let's rely on the Time-Space Commando to break the deadlock!

"Main gun mode adjusted to charge mode! Aim to penetrate the enemy's shields in one shot! Damage their ship's main body!"

At the same moment, the hyperspace commando team inside the ship received orders and directly used the hyperspace teleporter to transport them to the pre-arranged location, the warehouse, on the enemy ship.

Inside the enemy ship's warehouse, the crew members working inside were suddenly blinded by a blinding light. When they came to their senses, all they saw was a huge fist. Then they lost consciousness and knew nothing more.

After quickly clearing out the fox crew members inside the warehouse, the group split into two groups and proceeded along the pre-determined routes. Bronya's squad headed straight for the bridge, while the other squad advanced towards the engines.

Their presence was quickly discovered by the other party.

The ship's internal alarms sounded, but Bronya and her group did not stop. Their blue and white figures nimbly dodged attacks in the corridor, knocking out one enemy after another. When they encountered those who resisted more fiercely than they were treated, Bronya did not hesitate to kill them.

Behind him, a 3-meter-tall assault team member wielded a power hammer, sending enemies flying or smashing them against the corridor walls. Every now and then, the fiery shockwaves from the hammer's tail would wipe out all the enemies in its path.

Their towering and imposing figures instilled immense pressure and fear in the short-statured crew members. Even the armed crew members seemed to lose their minds and randomly unleash their firepower at them when firing.

"Captain! There's a huge problem."

On the bridge, a crew member quickly approached the fox-man and reported, "There are intruders inside the ship. They are very fast. There are two groups of people. One group is heading towards our engines, and the other group is heading towards our bridge."

"The soldiers inside the ship are not very effective at intercepting the enemy. The enemy's speed is too fast. If this continues, our battle in space will not be over before the interior is breached!"

"Damn it! They teleported up here!"

"Have the guards stop them! They must stop them! If they can't, at least stall them! They must hold them off until our battle is over!"

If they can't hold off the enemy and they manage to advance, then they'll naturally lose once their defenses are breached! So they must end the battle quickly!

"Overload the left and right gun groups, open the main guns! Fire directly at the enemy ship!"

"Boom!"

The words had barely left his mouth when the ship suddenly shook violently again. "What's going on!"

"Captain! Our shields have been breached! The enemy's main guns have suddenly increased their firepower by 200%, and they fired two shots at once! At this rate, we won't be able to hold out much longer!"

"Damn it...damn it...damn it!"

"Captain! We have detected enemy ships rushing towards us at high speed!"

"What? Have they gone mad?"

At this moment, the Ningye and Nuwa ships were charging towards the enemy's rectangular spaceship while braving enemy fire.

Halfway through the assault, Su Xi immediately ordered, "Iron Curtain Device! Activate! Target the enemy ship's bow! Ram it directly! Activate the ramming horns!"

"Roger! Iron Curtain core activated! Bow ram closed!"

The bows of the two ships rapidly converged, bulging out to form a sharp triangular ramming point. A black and red iron curtain covered the surface of the ships, which charged straight toward the fox-man's ship!

"Impact warning! Impact warning! Estimated impact time: 60 seconds... 59 seconds... 58 seconds..."

Hearing the ship's countdown, the fox-like man roared angrily, "Attack! Attack! Shoot them all down before they charge!"

In an instant, the rectangular spaceships unleashed their full firepower, with lasers and missiles all aimed at the two ships. However, they were either quickly intercepted by target drones or bombarded the ship surfaces without any effect, except for a burst of smoke and fire. They couldn't even slow down the other ship.

Seeing the ever-growing ship before him, the fox-man panicked; several seconds passed in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, a deafening roar resounded, and the fox-man was blasted into the air. The Ningye and Nuwa ships crashed violently into the rectangular spaceship, their rams piercing through the armor and penetrating deep inside.

"Captain! The ship is 58% damaged! The enemy's ram has penetrated our armor! Multiple layers of armor protection have failed, and air is leaking! Massive damage report!"

Chapter 441: The True Purpose of the Assessment

"58% of the ship's structure has been damaged, and 70% of its gun crews are disabled! The ship's midships power supply has malfunctioned! Life support systems have stopped functioning in some areas!"

"Captain! At this rate, our ship is going to explode!"

The enemy was so ruthless that they actually charged straight at their ship and rammed it. And judging from the ram on top of the ship, this was a pre-planned move! Their ship had been designed with this tactic in mind from the very beginning!

"It's alright, their ships will also be damaged. It's impossible for them to ram us without any consequences!"

"But Captain! Their ships are covered by a force field that makes them indestructible!"

The fox-man was stunned. The next moment, the ship began to tremble slightly again, and the two ships that had been inserted into his own spaceship began to retreat.

Upon seeing the enemy ships completely undamaged, the fox-like man began to despair. "No...this is impossible! How are they completely undamaged!"

At this moment, the ship's communications rang again, and Su Xi's calm voice came through, "You have 10 minutes to surrender. The defenses inside your ship are too weak. Either surrender now, or wait until our assault team takes control of your engines and bridge before surrendering."

"you....."

You have 30 seconds to decide!

"Don't even think about it! We will never surrender! We... we don't surrender! Never in this lifetime!"

Su Xi was silent for a moment, then said, "I'll grant your request."

The communication was interrupted. Su Xi turned to look at Gong Ning's communication screen. "Why do I feel like I'm the bad guy? They're clearly a more advanced civilization than us, right?"

"They are indeed a more advanced civilization than us, but you should know that, as Tong Xi said, things like the Iron Curtain and the Power Engine are top-tier, highly sought-after items even in advanced civilizations."

"In other words, when we possess these two things, we will already be on par with advanced civilizations in terms of cutting-edge technology. What we lack is simply basic technology."

"So it's normal for us to defeat them now, since the battles here test cutting-edge technology rather than basic technology."

Gong Ning sighed, "Let's think about how to deal with them first. Their ships are so badly damaged, their hulls are practically crushed by our ramming."

"With so many people, are you planning to imprison them all on our spaceship, or repair their spaceship? These are all troublesome matters."

Su Xi scratched the back of her head...

"I feel like I've become the worst kind of bad guy..."

"You really are the worst kind of bad guy... but I'm part of it too, though I was just dragged down by you, hehe!"

Seeing her best friend's mischievous grin, Su Xi felt helpless. Forget it, she decided to just wait for Bronya's good news.

Now that the enemy ships have been attacked from both sides, the spaceships have basically come to a standstill. Most of the weapon systems have lost power, and the few that are still operating can't cause much of a stir.

Sure enough, 15 minutes later, the enemy ships completely stopped attacking, all guns went offline, and Bronya's communications came through, indicating that the ships were under complete control and no one had been killed. However, a few idiots had tried to use their shields to block the laser weapons despite her warnings, and ended up with several holes in their arms.

When the communication was restored, the screen in front of her showed Bronya and the assault team soldiers, while the captain was bound and restrained by metal ropes.

He now looks much more docile, and he also seems very unwilling to accept it.

“It seems our friends are quite unwilling. I will send a few nanoengineers over to convert their living quarters into separate prison areas, which will then be mounted on our spaceship as an independent area.”

"Understood, I will provide assistance."

The battle is over. The Nuwa and Ningye ships ended the battle without losing a single soldier or suffering any external damage.

Subsequent statistics revealed that, apart from the overloading of the Yamato Cannon's power engine causing some energy pipelines to burst, there were no other losses.

The fox-man and his surviving crew were modified from their own spaceships and mounted on the lower hulls of the Nightfall and Nuwa, respectively.

It has been reinforced to ensure it will not fall off accidentally during warp jumps, and it has also been included within the protection zone of the Iron Curtain.

Meanwhile, with the supplies scavenged from the enemy ships, including some unidentified meats and vegetables, and several intact ecological chambers, the food supply problem for the two ships was once again greatly alleviated.

“You guys are really amazing. We never thought of such a solution, and even if we were in your shoes, we couldn’t have done what you did today.”

After the battle, the Mermaid Queen reopened communication with Su Xi and the others, expressing great surprise at their actions. Su Xi, however, was not proud of this and simply stated that it was a normal occurrence.

However, she also learned from the Mermaid Queen that the mermaids' spaceships do not have any infinite cannons. The spaceship itself is a huge magical resonator. As long as a mermaid casts a spell, its power will increase exponentially under the blessing of the whole system.

However, given the extremely cold environment in space, the mermaids' water magic is basically useless... Once they go outside, they are frozen into ice blocks in the next second.

Some mermaids had a sudden inspiration to use water to freeze into ice blocks to attack their targets, but the ice blocks were too fragile and, unless they were extremely large, they had no offensive effect.

Therefore, the mermaids could only research conventional magical missile weapons. In addition, this time the ships were mainly used for assessment rather than combat, so their armed forces were not strong.

Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Mermaid Empire finally saw who the real power was and decisively sent a request to Shenzhou to help protect them and get through the next challenge together.

Su Xi's request was simple: intelligence—all the information about this assessment, especially its most important objective.

His Majesty told them that the goal was to save China and help it through its most difficult moment, but she needed to know why it could be saved and what that most difficult moment would be.

When the Mermaid Queen expressed her surprise that her new friends were unaware of this, she explained it to them one by one.

In fact, in this vast universe, there is not only the Cosmic Civilization Association, but also another very large organization that spans the universe, and this organization has a completely different model from the Cosmic Civilization Association.

That is, the strong are respected, but there is a most basic protection: higher-level civilizations are prohibited from invading lower-level civilizations, at least if the lower-level civilization is deemed capable of survival, it is not allowed to attack it.

This treaty is upheld by a few civilizations at the very top of the organization. If a violation is discovered, the price will be your own civilization's star system facing attacks from several high-level civilizations. If you are confident that you can fight against these high-level civilizations and escape unscathed, then go ahead and try. If you don't have that confidence, then you can only laugh.

The reason for involving the Earth Alliance in this assessment is to prevent them from being attacked by other civilizations before they can develop on their own.

However, the Mermaid Queen believed that even if China were attacked, it might not necessarily be defeated, but it would still be better to register after passing the test.

Because the level of civilization development is a comprehensive score, it is true that your advanced technology can give you a very high score. This is why many civilizations only think about researching advanced technology in order to increase their score, but they always forget that basic technology can also give a very high score.

He is even more important than cutting-edge technology.

Within the organization, many civilizations follow the basic technology route. Their basic technologies are particularly robust and practical, even attracting many new civilizations to come and purchase their practical basic technologies to benefit their own civilization.

Those civilizations that are obsessed with cutting-edge technology—yes, cutting-edge technology does raise their scores—have a lack of basic technology and its loopholes, making their living environment miserable for the people.

Therefore, what organizations value most now is average rather than the development of cutting-edge technology. No matter how advanced your cutting-edge technology is, without a foundation, it is too easy to destroy your civilization.

With just a few simple tricks, you can destroy the basic economy and living environment of your civilization.

"I see... So you're participating in this assessment to avoid being attacked by higher-level civilizations?"

The Mermaid Queen nodded. "Yes, this universe is very large. We applied to join the Cosmic Civilization Association, but they rejected us because we did not have space warp technology, and they stood by indifferently when we were invaded by another civilization."

"Later, we stood up, we fought back and wiped out the enemy. A few years later, we received an invitation from this organization, so we decided to join."

"I believe you yourselves have experienced this, right? Even if you haven't experienced it before, you will in the future."

In fact, China has already experienced two invasions. The first was the invasion by the Shadow Empire, which drastically reduced the Earth's population and destroyed countless countries, but they were victorious and humanity survived.

They survived the second invasion by the Keponian civilization, even fought back, and also got a glimpse of the Cosmic Civilization Association.

They are quite experienced in being hacked.

"Our Earth Alliance is also very experienced in this regard... We have suffered two invasions by alien civilizations, but we repelled them both times."

"We understand this very well."

"Let's hope we can continue on this path together even better!"

"Of course, we would be happy to continue on this path with our friends. To be honest, if we were a technological civilization, I would really like to become your vassal state and gradually acquire technology from you to strengthen ourselves, hehe."