The sky seemed to be covered with a layer of gloom.
Large mechas rose from the Golden Sun Wheel Building, and armed warships rose from the starport, dragging one after another of blue flames towards the sky.
Fifteen medium-sized armed starships and eighty-three small armed starships. This was all that could be mobilized in a hurry from the entire Aslan Star City.
Behind the starships was a formation of large mechas, densely packed, at least better than nothing, able to form a line.
Inside the main ship “Palm”, in the bridge command room, Major General Tang clenched the steel railing in front of the main control desk with both hands. “Fire!!”
With an order, the cannons fired together. The sky above Aslan Star City was suddenly plunged into a melee.
The number of starships hastily dispatched by the Empire was scarce, and the formation was not tight, and the enemy soon easily locked onto the main ship.
Intensive gunfire came, the hull of the Palm shook violently, and all data turned red. It was also thanks to Major General Tang daring to go all out, he did not let the main ship retreat, and turned his head and roared, “What does the space station say? How about the blockade barrier!?”
“Eighteen hours, Major General!” The surrounding area was booming, and the young adjutant also shouted, “Preliminary calculations, it will take at least eighteen hours to restart the blockade barrier! But if the space station is also attacked and the main core of the blockade barrier is destroyed, then it’s over…”
Before the words fell, another person rushed in in a panic. “Reporting to the Major General, the stationed fleet of the space station has already started a fire with foreign enemies!”
Major General Tang almost crushed a mouthful of steel teeth, and hammered a fist on the main control desk.
Celine was guarding the space station, and with the temperament of this female general, she would most likely not divert her troops to assist the star city.
The Grand Marshal should also tend to protect the main core first, and it was risky to rashly transfer troops from the space station; as for the reinforcements from other star cities, whether it was to jump over or fly over, it would take a while to organize…
So what did it mean? He not only had to rely on these broken warships to defend the star city, but also had to at least force the enemy fleet back into the universe domain!?
Damn it…!
“Major General!” The adjutant was sweating profusely, “The vanguard ship can’t hold on much longer, and the main ship is also continuously damaged, should we retreat…”
“Retreat, my ass!” Major General Tang’s eyes were wide open in anger, and he swung his big hand, “Behind us is the Star City, the capital’s palace, where do you want to retreat to!? You have to hold on even if it costs your life!”
Suddenly, something unexpected happened. In the broad view in front of him, a hostile starship on the right suddenly exploded!
Something hit the part of the ship’s body where the fusion fuel tank was located, first creating a red-hot impact point, then the cracks began to expand from the middle, until the tongues of fire spread out, and the ship’s hull fell apart.
Then the second ship, the third ship…like steel dragons, the warships were sunk one after another, and the dense gunfire had a gap.
“Has the attack stopped?”
The officers who were in a buffering posture all raised their heads, their souls still in shock.
“Report, the enemy ship is being sunk! The attacking object is not yet determined, the firepower is weak in the eight o’clock direction!”
Major General Tang was invigorated, “No matter, let’s rush over first.”
The sun shifted to the west, and the sky was also dyed red by the connected explosions, and the debris accelerated its fall to the ground.
The protective shield that rose above the Star City had already been scarred from the previous round of gunfire, and at this time several places could not bear the burden and cracked, those burning iron plates smashed into the skyscrapers, everywhere was thick smoke and explosions.
The civilians who had not had time to take refuge, some were directly smashed into blood and flesh by the falling objects from the sky, some were swallowed by the gunfire into charred bones.
Some were even trampled by others, some fell from buildings and fell into the water…
In the most prosperous capital Star City, it turned into a hellish scene in an instant.
Children were wandering around dragging their bloody limbs looking for their parents, the white hair of the elderly was buried under the rubble. The cries of sorrow rose and fell intermittently, like the wailing of ghosts.
Inside the starship Palm, the automatic door at the rear of the bridge opened at this time, and Crown Prince Ryann Kaios walked in.
He looked like he had bathed in gunfire all the way here, his face was as hard as ice, his tied up platinum curls were messy and sweaty, and his crystal bones had not even been able to be retracted, dragging behind him like iron wings.
The tip of that crystal bone was extremely sharp, and there was even a white high-temperature mist steaming around it, needless to say, one could imagine what kind of intense battle he had experienced.
“Your Highness!”
Major General Tang was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, thinking of the series of exploding starships just now, where did he not know that it was the Crown Prince who made the move?
Unexpectedly, His Highness ignored him, moved to the side, and revealed the other person behind him.
Jiang Jianming’s face was as white as snow, and his whole person looked like he had just been fished out of the water.
He also didn’t bother to be polite with Major General Tang, he staggered and grabbed the railing, and sat down in the empty seat.
…Time went back one day, he couldn’t imagine in his nightmares that one day he would actually be driving a mecha to bomb starships.
It was clearly a memory from a moment ago, but now it was starting to become hazy. The speed of the M-Slash Comet was pushed to the extreme by him, and the Crown Prince’s red gold crystal bone was like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, they pierced into the bottom of the starship, then pierced out from the top, and then rushed towards the next target.
The explosion of fire, the overturned alloy armor, and the living people inside the enemy ship who were swallowed by the flame wave, those screams…all like a branding iron, burned into his senses.
Jiang Jianming bet on Seth’s computational ability, and he squeezed the performance of the mecha and his own physical strength to the extreme, and together with Ryann, they shattered seven or eight starships along the way.
By the time the mecha entered Palm, the once proud A-class mecha, the Slash Comet, was no more beautiful than coal, and it was just a little bit away from being scrapped.
“Uh…”
Major General Tang was dumbfounded, speechless for a moment.
If this were a year ago, he could still casually call him “Little Jiang” with his son, but now he didn’t know whether to call Colonel Jiang or Crown Princess.
Looking at Jiang Jianming, who looked like he had lost half his life, he was even more secretly shocked, thinking that His Highness was too bold, daring to bring a disabled human with chronic crystal disorder onto the battlefield?
Major General Tang was afraid that the next moment he would have to put an oxygen mask on the esteemed crown princess and rush to rescue him, and stuttered awkwardly, “Your Highness, this this…”
Unexpectedly, His Highness was steadier than him at this time, and he walked up to the command center’s elevating platform in three or two steps.
There, three sides were extended with light blue ring-shaped virtual screens, the center was the control desk, and the windows on both sides were connected to real-time images from various places.
Ryann swept his eyes and his gaze sank, “Let the mecha formation take a defensive formation, follow behind the starship, and don’t rush forward rashly.”
His ten fingers quickly fell on the screen, and he began to swiftly change the formation in a decisive manner, “They might have something else.”
Major General Tang was surprised, “Something?”
The crown prince quickly rearranged the formation, then pulled out a bottle of energy water from the side, turned around and walked back, unscrewed the cap and handed it to Jiang Jianming’s cracked lips.
“…cough,” Jiang Jianming took a breath, panting lightly and waved his hand, his voice was like a thread, “It’s okay.”
All the gunfire along the way was blocked by His Highness, he was shrunk in the mecha cockpit all the way, he didn’t get hurt, he was just exhausted.
Ryann held Jiang Jianming’s soft neck with one hand, half feeding and half pouring him to drink water, and turned his eyes to Major General Tang, “The number of enemy starships is not many, daring to attack the capital, it is impossible not to have other means. Keep the formation steady, adapt to the situation–where is the Commander in Chief?”
“Commander in Chief Chen has already returned to the headquarters,” Major General Tang hurriedly said, “He is coordinating the combat power of the other star cities, waiting until…”
Before he finished his sentence, he suddenly widened his eyes and stared straight ahead.
Only to see that there were groups of shadows falling from the enemy ship, like a fairy scattering flowers.
Is it a mecha? No, that is…
Those were weirdly shaped beast, bird, insect, and even more that couldn’t be distinguished what the original form was, alien creatures.
The frequency of the howling was even varied, echoing in mid-air!
The soldiers of the Golden Sun Wheel who were concentrating on the enemy were terrified, unlike the Silver Big Dipper stationed in the Far Star, they had been in the empire for a long time and had never seen such a creature living in the vacuum of the universe with their own eyes.
“Alien…”
“Alien creatures!!”
“Aren’t alien creatures mindless, how can they listen to the enemy’s command!?”
The unknown was the greatest fear, and even a moment of fear and hesitation on the battlefield was fatal.
The hardness of the crystal bones of alien creatures surpasses the shell of most low-level mechas, and in a blink of an eye, several mechas were falling with thick smoke.
More alien creatures directly fell into the streets and alleys of the Star City, pounced on the isolated people, and even gathered to launch an attack on the air defense facilities.
Inside the Golden Sun Wheel Building, Lieutenant General Luther was stomping his feet in anxiety.
This old-fashioned old man stared, “How many medium and small mechas are left, all… all out, exterminate the alien creatures, saving one person is one!”
A few deputy generals looked at each other, one of them made a face that wanted to cry but couldn’t. “Lieutenant General, exterminating alien creatures…we don’t know how to do this?”
Lieutenant General Luther’s face twitched fiercely, he dared not imagine how many soldiers would be lost in this battle. “If you don’t know how to do it–you have to learn!”
In Aslan District 1 where smoke was everywhere, 300 meters in front of the largest underground air defense building.
In the flying dust, a shadow appeared. At least a dozen alien creatures were slowly approaching, and standing opposite them, there were only twenty-seven Golden Sun Wheel mecha soldiers.
“Can’t…can’t retreat!”
Major Zheng Yue swallowed dryly, his eyes staring straight at the monster in front of him.
The one in the middle, its body was a bulging lump, covered with a layer of crystals, growing several meters long blood-colored tentacles, and no organs similar to eyes could be seen.
Such a weird shape made people think of unknown creatures that live in the deep sea or dense forest and never see light all year round.
“Didn’t you sense the crystal particle fluctuations on these alien creatures, letting this thing get closer, the underground non crystal race will not be able to stand it first.”
Zheng Yue shouted. “Once acute crystal disorder breaks out, Aslan is done!”
“What are you afraid of!”
A crisp voice like a silver bell, the first to rush out of the formation, was clearly the most common M-Split Wind 09 of the Golden Sun Wheel.
A slender figure jumped out of the cockpit, and when she stepped on it, her right leg made a jingling metal collision sound.
Bei Man’er’s eyes were bright, and the strong wind rolled up from the ground, messing up her chestnut short hair, “This is my old acquaintance, let me go up first, please cover me!”
“Bei Man’er!?”
Zheng Yue changed color in shock, but this girl had already rushed out.
Major “good heavens!” was so anxious that he was about to die, but he made a decision quickly, raised the mecha cannon first, and also rushed up, “Everyone fire, fire, give fire support!!”
A distance of more than ten meters passed by. With a leap, Bei Man’er threw herself high out of the mecha’s body, exposing herself under the sharp tentacles of the alien creature above her head.
She condensed a crystal bone on her arm, which was a rare goose yellow color, like the small flowers blooming in the spring field.
Behind her was the supporting gunfire of her comrades, and the smell of gunpowder and blood poured into her nostrils.
The blade tip needed to be sharp, and the bevel needed to be smooth. She concentrated on controlling the shape of the crystal particles and whispered to herself: I can…I can!
This time, she never wanted to lose again.
“Haah!!” Bei Man’er shouted clearly, exerting all her strength to swing the crystal bone, and she cut off the front body of the alien creature fiercely, throwing out a proud arc!
In an instant, purple-red alien blood was flying like rain.
Bei Man’er was soaked through.
The alien creature was in pain and went crazy, and its whole body smashed down at the girl.
At the critical moment, Zheng Yue’s mecha rushed down with a low body, the mechanical arm swung, and he barely caught Bei Man’er back!
“Miss, you scared me to death!” Zheng Yue was scared into sweating, “If something happens, how can I explain to Little Excellency?”
But Bei Man’er was not afraid, but laughed happily, and patted the mechanical arm around her waist hard. “Major Zheng, fighting alien creatures is like this.”
“You see! There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
Bei Man’er turned her head and wiped the dirty blood on her face, breathing heavily, but her eyes were surprisingly bright, “Jump out of the mecha, use the crystal bone to fight them!”
She stomped her right foot with the metal prosthesis, and shouted loudly at the Golden Sun Wheel soldiers behind her. “This kind of thing, we Silver Big Dipper cut it every day in the Far Star, can’t the Golden Sun Wheel cut it!?”
The soldiers of the Golden Sun Wheel who were operating the mecha and firing frantically, at this moment, were all stunned by her momentum for a few seconds.
To be reasonable, these soldiers and officers, most of them have seen this girl who was injured and retired from the Silver Big Dipper on the training ground, and have seen her fall and stand up again and again, longing to return to the front line.
Now that the alien creatures were attacking, it was this young officer whose right leg was taken away by alien creatures, rushed up first.
A girl with a prosthesis had the courage to do it, but they were scared, is it right?
A roar sounded, and the mecha soldiers of the Golden Sun Wheel reorganized their formation and rushed forward.
