Chapter 255: The Flower of Destruction
As the crystal gradually got rid of the shackles of the long-wave signal, the flickering light in the crystal core became more abundant, even brighter than before, and the crystal was trying its best to break free from this suppression, it was obvious that it had understood that this was a human trick, and its owner did not appear, so that the monotonous and repetitive unknown signal could not have been sent by the master, but it had been injected into the original code of obedience, and it was difficult to resist even if it knew that it was fake. At first, the crystal creates a tiny crystal that can fight against the long-wave signal alone, and then destroys the crystals around it little by little, replacing them with new, resistant crystals, which is a process of continuous self-destruction, and the crystal pays a huge price in exchange for a chance to break free, and it itself loses a lot of activity in order to take this step.
This is also the reason why the tentacles of the crystalline combat effectiveness have decreased, but its terrible adaptability and evolution ability has not been reduced, but has become stronger because of the urgent battle situation, after the main gun of the strategic ship bombarded for a while, the damage caused by the heavy artillery to the crystal is more limited, and the crystal has specialized into a harder structure to resist the bombardment of the artillery, it tries to transmit the impact of the explosion to the core, and use the huge mass of the core to ease the enemy's attack.
The method of the crystal obviously worked, the damage caused by the fleet to it is getting smaller and smaller, it was already very difficult for the three strategic ships to drag the attack of so many tentacles, and now it can't be supported, if any frigate is destroyed by the crystal, there will be a breach in the long-wave signal field that suppresses it, and the speed at which the crystal returns to normal will increase exponentially......
"How much time is left?" Asker's expression was calm, as if everything was still under his control, and it was his calmness that kept the senior commanders in the fleet from messing up.
"It's the last three minutes...... But the recovery speed of this monster is too fast, it will be difficult for us to hold on for another three minutes if this continues, the heavy ships have not yet evacuated, it is not possible to rely on small ships to transport, there are too many people on it, we are too late. ”
"In time, let all the strategic ships retreat, and the ships that have already retreated, and everyone will retreat twice the distance originally expected." Aske was as calm and firm as ever, and his orders were very decisive and did not drag the mud at all.
"But now we are relying on strategic ships to delay it, and retreating at this time is not equivalent to letting it out?" One of Asker's commanders was shocked.
"I said that...... I still have a trump card against it. ”
Asker didn't say what that thing was, he just said that he had already been deployed, as long as he did what he ordered, and the others naturally didn't complain, the three strategic ships put away the huge main guns protruding from the hull, turned to full horsepower and left the battlefield at full speed, and the crystallization was that the primary goal was to clean up the small ships closest to him, so he didn't expand the range of attack to the periphery to pursue those strategic ships that escaped.
However, just when the crystal was about to turn defeat into victory, the original crystal fragments that exploded and kept flying again, and this time the frequency of the crystals being destroyed was even more serious than before, and the power of the main guns of the three strategic ships was even greater, but this was not because the humans used more powerful weapons, but because this time they took out weapons that they had never used before, and the crystals did not adapt to it, so they had no resistance at all when they were first damaged.
"Em Heat Pulse?" Ma Yan immediately saw the true face of Asker's trump card, and she didn't know it herself, Asker was still dormant in the medical warehouse when she laid this trick, so only Asker knew this trump card.
"Yes, I took advantage of the retreat drill to have them put some transport drones in a predetermined position, which is the EM heat pulse generator." Aske nodded, he really wasn't completely sure, and he didn't let go until he saw the reaction of the crystal.
"Why...... It will be lethal to crystals. "Ma Yan is a little puzzled, this thing is not a weapon, its main purpose is to jam signals, the signal of the heat pulse is very destructive, sometimes it can counter and destroy the enemy's communication equipment, but Ma Yan never thought that it could also be used as a weapon.
"I don't know, we did a lot of experiments after suppressing the crystal, in order not to make the big crystalline core adaptable, I found those soft mud crystals that it had infiltrated into the spaceship before, those things had been disconnected from the core, so our experiments were not exposed, I found all the materials and equipment that could be found in the fleet for research, we tried almost everything, and later found that the heat pulse had a lethal effect on it, so I buried it as a last resort."
"It's you!" Ma Yan expressed his sincere admiration, if it weren't for Asker's clever move, I'm afraid the fleet wouldn't even want to get out of a spaceship, let alone be trapped in the crystal.
"Retreated to a predetermined distance."
"Continuing to retreat, the reaction of the crystallization just now reminded me of something...... Its core mass is huge, so large that we can hardly imagine it once it is blown up...... The ripple effects were worse than we expected, and we could easily be spilled over. ”
The fleet was arranged in a conical formation that was most suitable for rapid progress, and soon the distance between it and the crystal was opened, turning into a blue fluorescence in the distance, and the EM heat pulse emitted by the drone was quickly adapted by the crystal, and the new crystal tentacles after the destruction were no longer afraid of pulse waves, and the crystal quickly destroyed the drone that released the heat pulse, and then destroyed the spacecraft that released the suppression signal, this time it succeeded, the first spaceship was instantaneous, and the crystal greatly recovered its skills, Within seconds, all unmanned ships were destroyed by it.
The flagship of the frigate group that Ye Zi once rode was rolled up by it, crushed into pieces under the gaze of the blood-red core giant eye, and the crystal looked at the light blue fluorescence in the distance, urging the acceleration system to pursue the enemy, but then it felt a little wrong, a stream of fast-flying particles hit its tentacles, the particle flow did not have any destructive power, although it was said to be fast, but the attached energy was very low, but it attracted the end of the crystal.
The target particle with the lure signal hit the crystal accurately, and before the crystal could analyze its composition, the ensuing heavy antimatter rheology hit it, to be precise, it hit the target, this time the crystal had no chance to adapt, the strong impact force was released from the center of the explosion, and every inch of its body was shattered at that moment, and even the indestructible core cracked a fine mark, and the terrible high temperature was injected into the body of the crystal along the crack.
A brilliant flower of destruction bloomed over Neptune, and the flames of the explosion were brighter than the crystalline core, illuminating the dim sky that Neptune had been silent for eons of time.