Chapter 10: Eritan

Large meteorites streaked across the stars, blinding light refracted onto the wrecked battleships, and exposed power lines and burning smoke showed how terrible the fleet had been.

The crew of the Rasmobyyan looked at the wreckage in the sky, tears of despair silently sliding down their cheeks.

From the beginning of the exchange of fire between the two sides, the fleet has been fighting continuously for a day and a night. After Zhuoya took command, he did not blindly ask for reinforcements, but slowly retreated backwards. Passing by the wreckage of the supply ship, the fleet stopped for some salvage work and salvaged some of the fuel from the wreckage, which gave a glimmer of hope to the near-collapse fleet.

As they got closer to the forward base, the crew was ready to cheer until they saw that the front base had been reduced to a cloud of wreckage.

Zhuoya's holographic projection also began to blur, even the microbrain could not withstand such a high-intensity battle, but fortunately, the armor of the battleship was much thicker than that of the cruiser, so she did not lose control of the battleship.

"Major General, have you calmed down?" Zoya returned to a soothing tone and cut the rope with a robotic hand.

"What? If you can't continue to fight, you want me to clean up this mess for you? "The major general has been helped for so long, and his body is numb, but he still doesn't forget to ridicule him.

"The general is half right. I let you retake command because my central processing system needs to be cooled, and I can't make enough calculations to keep the fleet safe, and secondly, my decision is in line with the standard, according to the starfleet regulations, the microbrain can return command after the Supreme Commander comes to his senses. ”

"Well, well, I don't want to die in this hellish place, since you don't have faith, then leave it to me to deal with." The rear admiral looked at the remaining battleships outside the window, and knew in his heart that Zoya had done a pretty perfect job, and if he commanded it himself, he would not be able to do it even in the most rational time.

"All the battleships are out of motion, give you a minute to look in the wreckage for anything you can use, and in a minute, all the battleships will be in a circle on the perimeter, and the destroyers and cruisers will line up inside."

"General, you can't do this, the flagship can't rush to face the attack directly, this is ......" Zoya was interrupted by the major general before she could finish speaking, but this time she couldn't disobey, because her test results showed that the general was very calm now.

"I know what you're trying to say, Zoya. True, the flagship is in the most central position of the fleet, and it is common sense to prevent the fleet from falling into chaos without command after the flagship is destroyed. But didn't you notice that the attack of the scorpion could not inflict substantial damage on the battleship? In this case, it is better to use battleships to protect other ships, so as to save maximum firepower. The major general shook his arm casually and sat back in the command chair.

With the blazing engines stalling and the forward base eight light-years away from the next star system, it's no longer realistic to move back to their own territory one step at a time. It's better to stop on the spot and supply all the remaining fuel to other equipment, which may last longer.

"General, does this mean that our reinforcements have arrived?" As Zhuoya entered the cool-down period, the scanning work was handed over to the operators on the bridge to complete, but as soon as the scanner was turned on, the warning sound about the change in the surrounding magnetic field sounded wildly, and the experienced operators certainly understood that this was a precursor to the opening of the wormhole, but it was just ...... There are too many wormholes.

The Major General frowned and glanced at the scanner, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more serious.

"Look! The scorpions have retreated! I don't know who shouted, and the crew immediately swarmed to the porthole, "Really, it's gone, the scorpion swarm is gone, we're victorious!" ”

Cheers resounded throughout the fleet, and the rear admiral ignored the enthusiastic hugs of the people around him, in his opinion, the scorpions had no reason to retreat, but should take advantage of the victory to pursue, so what caused them to retreat?

The rear admiral pinched his chin and paced back and forth, and finally moved his gaze to the scanner, and only the wormhole was the only explanation, was the headquarters really willing to exclude such a large number of reinforcements to save a small integrated fleet?

"General, the space around us is blocked by unknown circumstances, and our fleet cannot enter the jump state, nor can we open the wormhole."

"What?" The major general was shocked by this news and came back to his senses, and in an instant, all the causal connections were clear, and the retreat of the scorpion swarm was not due to a lack of troops, but to avoid the gravitational pull generated by the wormhole. What came out of the wormhole must not be your own people, but more scorpions.

"All personnel immediately go into combat positions, immediately enter combat positions." The Major General snatched the megaphone and yelled into the microphone, and the terrible sirens began to sound.

As soon as the rear admiral's words fell, the crew members could not react to what was happening, and the sharp-eyed people had already seen the abnormal changes taking place outside the window - dozens of wormholes opened around the fleet, and a new spherical creature appeared in front of the crew.

The creature, which came to be known as Eritan (Eritan means giant spherical object in the Evino language), is composed of large wriggling blood vessels, and the surface of the asteroid-like huge body is covered with holes of various sizes, countless small spherical creatures that rotate at high speed rush out of the larger holes and surround the mother body, and the smaller hole has pitch-black tentacles (seeing this, the leaders of the world finally know what the unknown tentacles they saw in the constellation Centaur are, The thought of how tenacious this tentacle can pass through the wormhole unscathed shows how tenacious it is) waving in the air like an octopus.

The fleeing scorpions also regrouped, apparently preparing for a general assault on the fleet.

"Don't panic, stay calm!" The Rear Admiral shouted at the panicked crew. "The long-range cannon is fired, aim at these disgusting things!"

The high-energy particle cluster flew towards Eritan, the expected shattering did not happen, the hit Eritan was only a piece of flesh knocked down, and countless small worms crawled out of Eritan's body and quickly filled the blood hole, as if the attack had never happened at all.

"Quick, close defense artillery fire!" The major general was so anxious that his voice changed.

"No, General, they're out of range of the close defense guns, and we can't do effective damage."

As he spoke, the swarm had already set up a formation, with the scorpion as the vanguard, the high-speed spinning ball closely behind, and the tentacles following behind the ball, carrying out a compound attack on the fleet from two opposite directions.

The fleet's close-fire net wiped out most of the scorpion swarm with great difficulty, but the moment the ball hit the battleship, everyone's pupils were swallowed up by a dazzling light.

These creatures, later known as the Shock Worms, relied on their powerful kinetic energy to break through the few remaining shields and crash into the battleship's armor, and then a violent explosion occurred, and the powerful shock wave formed by compressing the air in the body of the Shock Worm directly shattered the shell of the battleship, and the entire battleship's armor turned outward like a corn roll, revealing the internal structure of the battleship. The crew members who didn't have time to dodge were sucked into the universe and all died instantly. The explosion caused a raging fire that raged inside the battleship, and the automatic firefighting system was destroyed in the explosion, and the entire battleship was soon reduced to a steel grave.

Zoya, who was suddenly awakened, controlled the battleship Rasmobyyan to draw a semicircle to the left, narrowly avoiding the impact of the battleship that lost control next to it, but in this way, the other cruiser destroyers located inside the defensive circle lost shelter. The Shock Worm even smashed the weakly armored cruiser directly from the middle, and the destroyer that was lucky enough to dodge was also engulfed in the fireball generated by the Shock Bug's self-detonation. By the time the Rasmobyyan returned to its operational position, the fleet had been reduced to wreckage.

After the Shock Worm's attack ended, the tentacles began to enter the battlefield to deliver the final blow to the Rasmobian. The flagship's rapid-fire laser cannon spat out a fierce tongue of fire, breaking hundreds of tentacles. But there were too many tentacles, and the battleship couldn't defend against it at all, so it could only let the tentacles wrap the battleship tightly like a mummy.

Black mist erupted from the tentacles, the armor was corroded everywhere it went, the lifeform instantly died and turned into a skeleton, and in just half a minute, the tentacles gradually loosened, and the magnificent battleship Rasmubia could not find even a trace of evidence of its existence.

Two hours later, when the reinforcements who had barely broken through the Zerg defense line arrived at the forward base, not to mention the wreckage of the fleet and the base, not to mention the wreckage of the fleet and the base, not even the corpse of a scorpion could be found, as if there had never been a major battle here.

After this battle, the Zerg and the Evano civilization have completely declared war. In the days that followed, the top of Evano continued to send reconnaissance fleets to find the main force of the Zerg, but most of them were in vain. The Zerg roamed around like guerrillas, but gradually destroyed dozens of border star systems in Evano, and they seemed to understand the psychology of Evano's high-level eagerness to fight, and deliberately showed weakness in some areas, and then planted ambushes to eat Evano's main fleet that came to encircle and suppress in one fell swoop.

After hundreds of years of fighting, the fleet of Evino has plummeted from more than a million warships to more than 400,000, and the population has dropped from 300 billion to 100 billion. After all, no parent wants to see their children die tragically at the hands of the Zerg, and they can't even find their bones.

On the other hand, the Zerg, with their strong fertility and evolutionary ability, not only did their numbers increase instead of decreasing, but their defense ability against Evino's weapons was also greatly improved. For most of the battle, the Zerg were able to gain the upper hand, and the battle finally burned all the way to the home planet of the Evinos: Evangelor's First Star!