Outside the tower, as ammunition ran out and reinforcements from the Imperial Army arrived, the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force began to switch from attack to defense, retreating into the jungle to engage the Imperial Army.

Even if the situation in Scarif was stabilized, the Empire began to realize that the number of people attacking was not as large as they had initially thought.

It was only because of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force's initial indiscriminate bombardment, which completely disregarded the consumption of ammunition, that they had the illusion of encountering an all-out attack.

With the smuggled weapons and ammunition running out and the lack of logistical support, Stanton's expeditionary force was weakened and unable to pour fire as it had done at first.

Of course, their purpose had been achieved, and a large number of garrisons were lured out of the tower fort, creating space for Qiao Lu and the others to infiltrate.

If it weren't for the firepower that this expeditionary force attracted, it would have taken them at least twice as long to make it to the database.

In the command room at the top of the tower, the superintendent Orson Krennick realized that something was wrong, and the initial momentum, followed by a gradually weakening offensive, looked like a feint no matter how you look at it.

At this time, the communications soldier, who was aware of the commotion in the lower levels, finally ran to the command room and said to Orson breathlessly:

"Sir······ The enemy broke into the database······ The magistrate is leading the forces of death into battle with the enemy! ”

"Damn it!"

Orson realized that he had fallen for the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and quickly ordered his subordinates to say: "Destroy all the information on the Death Star immediately, and don't let it fall into the hands of the rebels." ”

However, the operator in charge of the operation was sweating profusely and explained: "The storage drive was disconnected, and we couldn't delete the data, so now we had to find a way to destroy the hardware directly." ”

"Don't do it yet!" Orson shouted angrily.

Inside the database, Moss was carefully removing the hard drive containing the Death Star blueprints from the server terminal, but the door to the upper level of the tower was opened.

A large number of Imperial Stormtroopers poured out of it, not to mention shooting at the server terminal, and the order they got was to destroy the data in the simplest and crude way, as long as the hardware was destroyed to the extent that it could not be repaired, all the data stored in it would naturally be gone.

Fortunately, the way to choose is to directly remove the hard disk where the data is stored, otherwise the server terminal will be destroyed halfway through the data transmission, but the previous efforts will be wasted.

Now he doesn't have to worry about servers and other data, as long as he makes sure that the hard drive containing the Death Star blueprints is safe and sound, he doesn't have to worry about the data inside being damaged.

The blast beams continued to fall on the server, blasting out bursts of dazzling sparks, which were the result of a short circuit in the wires, and the entire server terminal was in a very dangerous state.

Qiao Lu hurriedly pulled out his lightsaber and rushed forward, and with a dazzling lightsaber dance, he eliminated this group of storm soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables.

Hearing only the sound of a "buzzing" lightsaber swing and a series of "BIU, BIU" blaster rifle fire, the first batch of storm soldiers who rushed to support were easily slashed and killed by Qiao Lu.

The walls were littered with scratches from lightsabers from molten metal and bullet holes from blaster rifles, leaving not a drop of blood on the floor, but littered with fragmented corpses.

After no longer pretending to be a Jedi, Qiao Lu's moves became more aggressive and deadly, and in the face of the next group of Storm Soldiers who rushed to support, he directly raised his left hand and blasted through with a ball of lightning.

Although there are also moves such as Force Judgment and Force Lightning in the Force, there is obviously no such thing as Qiao Lu who gathers lightning into a sphere and then launches it.

This ball lightning contained both Qiao Lu's powerful psionic energy and the huge amount of electrical energy provided by the antimatter reaction chamber, and although it was not fully charged, it was far more powerful than any trick Qiao Lu had used before.

The blinding electricity as thick as a bucket of water twisted and twisted together in midair, and the blue-white arc of lightning spread in all directions, turning into a highly concentrated sphere of energy, sweeping towards the group of Imperial Stormtroopers like a storm!

The dazzling manic ionic current swept through the air, the light lingered, and all the stormtroopers who were caught in it were vaporized by the world in an instant, and the white armor on their bodies drifted away like shredded tissue paper, and the flesh and blood exposed to the ball lightning were instantly petrified into a statue of ashes, and finally collapsed into a puddle of fine dust as if they had been hollowed out.

The terrifying electricity slashed through the walls, leaving a twist that was more terrifying than a lightsaber had slashed, and the ball lightning grew larger and larger as it flew, until it completely filled the hallway, like Pac-Man greedily devouring everything in a labyrinth, engulfing all the Imperial soldiers who came after him.

Eventually, the ball of lightning burst out of the tower's shell, blasting a large hole in the billowing smoke.

The Imperial soldiers who had been fighting the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force outside turned their heads one after another, they didn't know what was going on inside the tower, but now it seemed that the towertower itself was in danger.

This is also the reason why Qiao Lu didn't use this trick in the first place, this kind of attack is too high-profile for infiltration operations, and there is no reason why it will not be detected.

But it didn't matter now, because Moss had managed to get hold of the hard drive that contained the Death Star blueprints, and the Empire was no longer able to delete the information inside, so they could fight without their hands and feet.

At the same time, Qiao Lu also used this to tell Stanton and the others, who were carrying out the task of luring the enemy outside, that the infiltration mission had been completed, and they only needed to hold on until the Ark launched an attack.

Just as Qiao Lu thought, the moment he saw the violent explosion on the tower fort, Stanton realized that this was a signal that the target had succeeded, and immediately ordered the soldiers of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force to say:

"Mission accomplished, ready to retreat!"

Of course, they can't retreat yet, and as long as Scarif's planetary shield field is completely closed, then they can't even send a communication signal to the outside, let alone return to the Ark via a teleportation beacon.

It will take a little more time for the Ark to break the shield and allow them to escape.

Moss swallowed the hard drive containing the Death Star blueprints into his body to back up the data, then turned on the optical camouflage and hid behind Qiao Lu, preparing to leave with him.

Adhering to the principle that thieves don't go empty, Qiao Lu turned around and used psionic energy to forcibly pull out a few hard disks that were still intact on the server. These are all pieces of hardware that Moss has marked as having important data stored inside, but taking them out in such a crude way may damage the data inside.

Anyway, these are not the primary goals, and Qiao Lu doesn't care whether the data inside is damaged or not, it's a big deal to go back and let the Central Academy of Sciences fix it.

As long as the blueprints of the Death Star are intact and the rest of the information is attached, Qiao Lu doesn't have time to carefully and gently take them out piece by piece.

Qiao Lu took these hard drives and hid them on his body, and the goal of this operation was almost all obtained.

He then rushed straight to the hole blasted by the ball lightning, and from there he leapt out of the tower.

Outside Scarif's planetary shield field, countless Imperial Star Destroyers, Executors, and Death Stars are rushing here, and the operation has entered its final stage!