Forty Millenniums of Cultivation
Chapter 2459: Silent Assassin
It's like falling into a strange nightmare world.
The surrounding cabin walls and his famous murals hung on the walls were suddenly stretched far away, like 10,000 metres away from him, suddenly “bouncing” back in front of him and even into his eyes.
With his palms outstretched, his hands were like flowers open, fibrillating from fat to blood vessels to nerves and bones, but without any sense of pain, in total violation of the fundamental principles of the three-dimensional world.
Including that deafening loud noise, not only in sound waves, but also in some brilliant color form, flowing around him, roaring, eroding his bare soul outside his brain!
It took him a long time to gather a little sober thinking skills and understand his condition.
He and his ship, the Yongchun, are tearing up four-dimensional space, making a star jump, in some sort of… three-dimensional and four-dimensional excess, or “superimposed” state.
However, the jump did not succeed, and his ship, even his fleet, was relentlessly bounced back.
It's like a train flying at high speeds, hitting a copper wall iron wall.
No, worse than that.
Because they weren't bounced back because of a problem with the star jump unit or some other fault, but they were blown back by a bunch of guns and torn apart wormholes!
They were raided by the enemy as they jumped in the star sea, the standard “half-way across the river," the worst nightmare every Starship Commander would ever want to meet!
“Boom, boom, boom, boom! ”
Surprisingly loud noises converge into floods, flooding every tunnel of a starship, washing down and devouring everything you see along the way - armor, cosmic warshuttles, turrets, ammunition depots and panicked fairies.
As a powerful figure in the family of four electorate emperors, the disease-free fleet is equipped with the most advanced and sophisticated starships in the empire, especially the flagship Yongchun, which is also a different line of defense than the family's total flagship, and is an undisputed "super warship”.
Normally, a single Yongchun can circle with dozens of enemy starships without a frigate, and can even harden the super firepower of a Starry Air Battle Castle and attack each other.
But a starship that jumps into the star sea is another thing.
Alloy armor in the 3D world is tighter, spiritual energy shields are stronger, interference magnetic fields are thicker, and there is no point in starships in the 4D unfolding state.
The so-called four-dimensional expansion is tantamount to turning out all five dirty six hearts. What good is the armor on that body if it's sturdy?
When an enemy hiding in the dark suddenly tears up the dark disguise and blows the fiercest fire into this jumping fleet that is “crossing the river", it is not a raid or a war, but a naked massacre.
The Youngchun and its owner finally bounced back to a three-dimensional state.
However, the damage caused by heavy explosions and serious interference is irreversible.
“Ah…”
He stared at his hands - because he was badly injured as he bounced back from the four-dimensional state to the three-dimensional state, and the space ripples flew freely inside the starship like a blade without thickness. He didn't know how many pixie repair lives had been harvested outside, but he actually broke his three fingers and half ears, sprayed blood, and stained the ground with fine white wool carpet, making him disgusting and painful.
That's kind of good.
Because his private lounge has the tightest protection, the raging shock of space ripples does not cause much damage.
He can't imagine how miserable it would be out there, especially near the power compartment near the star sea jump unit.
“How could this happen! ”
Strong disease-free face is white, cold sweaty, completely lost.
Every most foolish starship commander should know that, while star jumping is the most important technology for mankind to conquer the universe, it is also the most vulnerable, unprepared, and easily attacked "ghost door" of every starship, and indeed every passenger on it.
So be sure to select the most solid star in space and make sure there are no enemies around to jump.
If possible, it is also best to make sure that the jumping destination is picked up by one of your own, with a large stargate guiding the way, so that it is safe to lose.
The commander of this fleet, although not a “famous general” of the powerful empire, is also a well-known man with decades of training in military academies and hundreds of years of experience in operational command.
The jump point he chose was the most robust traditional jump point in space near Blue Sky Market, from which 89 out of 10 starships to and from Blue Sky Market would choose to jump without ever having a problem.
All battleships affiliated with the Universal Chamber of Commerce in the Blue Sky Market were destroyed or disarmed and in no way had the ability to fly out to attack them.
Is it a star thief?
Impossible, all star pirate battleships are honestly anchored in Blue Sky Market docks and are under the strict surveillance of the other half of the Emperor's Hopper fleet, including Sickness Free, and they have not been spotted moving a bit!
Starburglars and a third force outside the World Alliance of Commerce suddenly killed them?
This is ridiculous!
The star sea is vast and the journey is far away. Technically, there is no such thing as "sudden killing”.
A powerful, disease-free starship can scan the flame ripples of a starship bursting within hundreds of thousands of kilometres nearby. If a fleet comes rushing towards them from millions of kilometers or farther away, his fleet commander is not blind and deaf. How can he not find it? How can he jump in the stars and seas under such circumstances? Isn't that a suicide route?
Excluding all possibilities is the only one left, the most absurd and the most terrifying.
Suddenly he felt his tongue dry and his heart seemed to have fallen into an endless valley.
The only possibility, indeed, is that there is a hostile fleet that is not slaughtered from millions of kilometres away, but ambushed by them.
More precisely, it has been ambushed in the stars near the Blue Sky Market, the most suitable stable space for star jumping.
Turn off the power unit, converge the spiritual energy shield, keep the communication silent, and even reduce the artificial gravity and air circulation inside the ship to its limits, striving for no spiritual fluctuations at all.
If such a silent fleet had remained like rocks and scrap iron for the past few days or more, it would indeed have been possible to escape the scans of a disaster-free fleet under the cover of a meteorite belt on the outskirts of the Blue Sky Market.
But, but, but--
“How could there be such a sadistic tactic! ”
Powerless to make incomprehensible screams.
If such tactics are to be carried out, the other party must arrive here several days in advance to lay low, and in order not to release too many spiritual energy fluctuations, the living environment on the ship must be extremely harsh, it may fall below freezing point, the air is also dirty, everyone must wear crystal armor, wear an inner circulating respiratory mask, and burn for days and nights with the will of steel.
This mysterious silent fleet is like a killer hiding in a mud swamp for days and nights, holding his breath, shrinking his pores, and even suppressing the beating of his heart, just to wait for a chance, a chance to seal his throat with a sword...
He painlessly discovered that he seemed to have fallen into a deadly trap.
Mysterious enemies with such tenacity and powerful fleet control are by no means ordinary merchants or star bandits ambushed here waiting to travel from north to south, with only one prey worth paying for.
That's him, Yongchun!
“Grandpa, Grandpa! ”
Outside the door came a scream from the deputy who tore his heart open.
Without waiting to say yes, the deputy with all the blood stains on his face and his nose crashed in.
Li Li looked around, pulled out the embroidered silk scarf on the coffee table, grabbed the deputy's collar through the silk scarf, and screamed: “Don't panic, what's going on! ”
“No, I don't know where a mysterious fleet came from. It was like jumping out of a nearby meteorite belt and attacking while we were jumping from the stars! ”
The deputy screamed with his voice, “It's over, our fleet is all over. The vast majority of the starships are distorted by space ripples, losing their defensive capabilities and even their power. The rest of the starships are out of command, turning into scattered sand! ”
“Bastard! ”
If I hadn't seen the deputy's face covered with blood stains and snot, I would have slapped him to death. "What do you mean 'losing command’? What's the captain doing eating? Raise the spiritual shield quickly and gather the remaining powered soldiers! Skinny camels are bigger than horses. My fleet counts as one and two in the world around the Empire. Even if I get hit halfway, who will surely eat my cripples? ”
“No, there's no way to raise the spiritual shield, and there's no way to send half a message to the other ships! ”
The deputy was crying, “Our control system, and the entire tactical network, has been invaded and destroyed by the enemy! ”
“What!”
Powerless and dizzy for a moment, screaming with the most harsh sound, “How is it possible that the Spirit Network operational capability of the Youngchun is at the forefront of the Empire? Immediately after sailing, the active defense system is activated. The passwords of all entrances change more than a hundred times per second. Who can hack into our battle network in such a short time? ”
“It is not now invaded. ”
The deputy cried out, "While moored in Blue Sky Market for repairs and fuel injections, Yongchun's battle network had access to the Blue Sky Market database, gathering a large amount of trade secrets and hundreds of millions of pieces of information back, which should be when they were mixed in and left behind a 'back door' in our system.
“When we jump from the stars and the starship's master control crystal brain is the weakest, the other party kicks in the ‘back door', like a wolf breaking in like a tiger! ”