Flare Thorn.

The command room of the main ship of the Fenglan.

"Father, the communication is connected, but the other party said that the rescue fleet is expected to arrive in ten hours." In front of the huge screen, a young man about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed in a royal blue military uniform, stood in front of him respectfully, also wearing a military uniform, but a marshal's uniform whiter than snow. He didn't turn his head all the time, he had kept a motionless fixed posture and stared at the screen for a long, long time, and the older man could be seen just by his back and said angrily.

"Do you want another ten hours? That's long enough time for us to lose both of the starry sky beasts. At that time, I am afraid that the best outcome will be that they will come and pay silent tribute to most of us, and they will be able to reap the fruits of victory by the way; And the worst result is that in addition to paying silent tribute to us, they also have to pay silent tribute to the people of the entire planet, right? ”

The older man in the marshal's uniform, whom the young man called his father, sighed silently and said in a mocking voice.

"Father, what should we do now? Is there any other way? ”

Staring at the mecha that exploded one after another on the huge screen in front of him, like fireworks blooming, the young man took a deep breath and tried his best to express the anger, sadness, helplessness, and fear that was running around in his heart...... All kinds of complex emotions are forced to suppress. The ones that burst out were all elite mecha warriors that had been cultivated for a long time in his own Fenglan fleet, and every loss would make him feel pain in his heart, liver and lungs.

“.…..” The older man, Ran Tianlei, the marshal of the Fenglan battleship, did not answer, let alone turn around, but shook his head with his usual expressionless face.

If there is still a little way, how can he still keep it?

Watching the mecha warriors explode one after another on the huge holographic screen, but only to inflict small damage on the behemoth that was even bigger than a battleship, he felt both despair and sadness in his heart. But he knew that he couldn't retreat, once he retreated, it would be easy to be a deserter, but the entire billions of people in Bright Thorn Star behind him would be in danger.

The duty and vocation of the soldier made him even in such despair, knowing that it would take a long time for reinforcements to arrive. In addition to delaying a little longer, his own fleet may not be of much use, but he still can't allow this fleet, which he and his family have worked so hard to build for generations, to accompany him as a deserter, and be nailed to the pillar of shame in the annals of the empire forever.

Not only could he not retreat, but he could not show the slightest hint of his despair, and once his despair was perceived, the morale of the whole fleet would be lost, and without morale they would soon collapse.

The young man who graduated from the command department of the Imperial Military Academy obviously knew this fact, so he didn't expect his father Ran Tianlei's answer from the beginning.

He stared fixedly at the big screen, watching the starry sky beast become more and more violent, and the mecha warriors around it were also decreasing. He finally couldn't hold back his choked up and said, "Father, if we continue according to the current situation, if we really need to stand up for ten hours independently, then we won't be able to support it anyway." Unless we can think of a way to contain this starry beast, or lure it away. ”

He gritted his teeth: "I can't continue like this, I can't watch our Ran family's fleet collapse like this, and I can't watch as long as our defense line here is broken, with the fragile defense of this Dazzling Thorn Star behind us, the star core of the entire planet will fall into the mouth of this starry sky giant beast in a few minutes, causing everyone in the entire planet to be wiped out with the entire planet because they have no time to retreat." ”

He gritted his teeth again, and at that moment, he seemed to have made up his mind and said to Ran Tianlei: "Father, let me go." While our losses are not too great now, I will take a battleship and a hundred mechfighters to lure the starry sky beast away. We strive to use the minimum cost to protect the entire Shining Thorn Star, and also to protect our Ran family's Fenglan fleet. ”

"No, I can't. It's useless if you go. It's too easy for you to think about, this is the most smelling starry sky monster, not to mention our fleet, even if there are two more teams, we may not be able to defeat it. It's just that a mere battleship and a hundred mechfighters want to contain it, and it's impossible to contain it, unless ......"

Ran Tianlei sighed and shook his head, and said bitterly: "If my physical skills and mental strength didn't plummet because of the last injury, but could still be maintained at level eighteen." I'm going to lure it to a nearby black hole, where there's still a better chance of annihilating it, but unfortunately...... Alas, we can only do our best to obey the destiny of heaven now......"

"Father, in fact, I was just about to tell you that my mental power and physical skills have reached level eighteen together." The young man had a wry smile on his face, tomorrow was his father's two hundredth birthday, and he had kept the good news from him because he wanted to surprise him on his father's birthday, but now, ......

"Your physical skills and mental power have reached level eighteen at the same time? So fast? ”

Ran Tianlei turned around abruptly because of the young man's words, he was about to be two hundred years old, but his face that looked like he was only forty or fifty years old was shocked. He looked at the young man, and his voice was hoarse: "When did it happen?" ”

"Half a month ago. Father, I was going to tell you tomorrow. ”

The young man looked up at him with a firm look in his eyes: "You give the order." No one is better suited for this task than I am. It's just me, just a small crew of a battleship, hundreds of unmanned small ships, and a hundred mecha warriors to cooperate. I'm eighty percent sure that I can inflict heavy damage on that starry sky beast or even destroy it. I swear I won't give it another chance to come back. ”

He gritted his teeth when he got to the last sentence.

“.…..” Ran Tianlei looked at the young man, pursed his lips tightly and did not speak. However, from his body that couldn't help but tremble slightly, it could be seen that his heart was extremely unsettled.

"Father...... Long pain is better than short pain, and the price is worth it. ”

Now that he has made up his mind, the young man is even more distressed when he looks at the mechs that have exploded one after another on the screen. Those are all accumulated little by little by the Ran family's hard work and unimaginable huge amount of resources, and the cultivation of every outstanding talent takes at least twenty years, and every extra minute of delay is a loss of countless --