Two days later.

After a series of preparations, the Combined Fleet dropped a small robotic landing craft into its atmosphere over the equator of Aden in accordance with the pre-planned plan. This type of landing craft can carry a hundred soldiers, and is equipped with an energy shield exciter and twelve small shaped cannons, with a certain degree of protection and attack capabilities, although its energy shield is not as strong as the shield of a medium-sized ship, but in the face of ordinary attacks, it is still enough to protect itself. This is also to maximize its survivability in unfamiliar environments, so that it can conduct reconnaissance for a longer period of time and obtain more important intelligence.

As the small landing craft continued to lower their altitude and successfully entered the atmosphere of Aden, people's hearts gradually rose. Although it is only a landing attempt by robots, the outcome will largely determine how difficult and how the fleet lands.

All of them were staring at the holographic display. A high-speed holographic camera is placed in various positions on the hull of this landing craft, which can monitor every process and detail of the landing process in an all-round way.

"The landing craft enters the atmosphere!" The robot's mechanical, emotionless, synthesized voice was heard over the real-time communication system.

"Altitude: 250 km, temperature: minus 80 degrees Celsius!"

"Give the command: go down at full speed! Until landing! Lin Feng ordered to a staff officer next to him.

As the order was delivered, the small landing craft quickly turned its engines up to maximum power and swooped down towards the surface of Aden.

"Altitude: 130 km, temperature: minus 45 degrees Celsius! The atmospheric drag gradually increases, and the speed drops to 40 kilometers per second! ”

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"Altitude 80 km, temperature: minus twenty degrees Celsius! The atmospheric drag is doubled, and the rate of descent is 20 kilometers per second! ”

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"Altitude 20 km, temperature: five .3 degrees Celsius! Atmospheric Resistance...... The landing craft were attacked! The landing craft were attacked! ”

The sound that was still mechanical and sluggish made everyone's faces change, and they didn't expect the expected attack to come so quickly. Lin Feng still looked indifferent, "Ask to report the specific situation!" He commanded to the staff officer.

"Attacker: Unknown! Direction: Unknown! Quantity: Unknown! …… The energy shield collapses! …… The hull is under attack! The hull is under attack! …… Get ready to fight back! Prepare to fight back...... "Although the situation is urgent, the robot still reports mechanically at its usual speed.

This time, everyone was taken aback. Although the energy shield of the small landing craft is the least protective, it can last for a while after all. But the truth is that less than a minute elapsed between the time the attack and the shield collapsed! What kind of attack makes the energy shield so vulnerable? That's a little too perverted, isn't it?

"The engine is destroyed! The engine is destroyed! The landing craft is falling at high speed! The landing craft is falling at high speed! The robot's emotionless voice sent chills down the cracks of everyone watching the live stream. With the energy shield configuration of the landing craft, it was breached in just a minute or two, causing it to finally crash, which was terrifying.

For a moment, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"It seems that the landing craft has crashed. Fortunately, there were no soldiers on board, only a hundred robots and a small landing craft were lost. Lin Yue said with some joy on the side.

"Leave it alone. Immediately replay the footage sent back by the landing craft to see what exactly is attacking it and how. Then let's talk about how to deal with it. Lin Feng still remained calm, perhaps he had already expected in his heart that this operation would not go so smoothly.

Everyone stared intently at the holographic screen, and the images on the screen were quickly replayed, and soon rewind to the moment when the landing craft was attacked. I saw that at that moment, a large shadow suddenly appeared around the landing craft, and swept towards the landing craft like an overwhelming sweep, and within a minute, the energy shield of the landing craft was sharply consumed until it collapsed. At this minute, the landing craft tried to return fire, but only had time to make a salvo of shaped guns before it was destroyed by the engine and crashed.

Suddenly, Lin Feng shouted, "Stop!" The footage immediately stopped. Lin Feng leaned in front of the screen and looked at it carefully.

On the right side of the landing craft, a high-speed holographic camera captures the full picture of an attacking creature very clearly. By the standards of animals on Earth, it should be a flying beast, large in size, nearly twice as large as the strongest warriors on a starship, covered in thick armor, like a lizard; It has well-developed teeth that only mammals have, especially the two canine teeth on the left and right of the upper jaw are very abruptly exposed, more than ten centimeters long, making it look very hideous and terrifying; It also has a pair of powerful wings, yes, wings, which are connected to the body by a soft but tough fascia, and once unfolded, its area is four times larger than its body, which makes it not as feathered as birds on earth, but it can fly at a speed that is definitely not inferior to any bird, because the wings are very muscular, and can fan up and down at a very fast frequency, so that it can overcome the huge gravity and air resistance, and reach a terrifying speed!

Lin Feng beckoned everyone over, pointed to the creatures on the screen and said:

"It must be this creature that can carry out a fierce attack on the landing ship in the air. Because it looks a lot like a bat on Earth, we can call it a star bat for the time being. Based on its physical characteristics, I estimate that it probably has a very impressive flight speed and powerful attack power, especially its pair of teeth, which can pose a great threat to the energy shield in the case of high-speed impact. As for whether it has any other ways to attack, it is not clear from this video for the time being. ”

"Keep playing." Lin Feng turned his head and ordered the staff officer.

The footage was played back at a slow speed, and when the camera showed the scene of the landing ship firing back, Lin Feng hurriedly ordered: "Show forward at the slowest speed!" ”

As the camera progressed, scenes that left everyone speechless appeared. The landing craft's shaped cannon did fire a salvo, but the seemingly powerful beam of energy only caused minor damage to the star bat, slowing it down, and in less than a minute, it recovered and continued to attack the landing craft violently.

Perhaps, the creatures of Aden evolved in a completely different direction from those on Earth due to the environment in which they lived. Chances are, they're immune to energy attacks, and even the energy itself is a beneficial addition to them! Seeing this sight, Helen made a bold guess.

"You mean, these creatures themselves live on a very energy-rich planet, and they can completely ignore our energy attacks? How can it be? …… This...... This doesn't make sense! Chen Dali looked at Helen in surprise, with a look of disbelief.

Perhaps Helen's speculation is the correct answer to explain this phenomenon. Tens of billions of years after the birth of the universe, anything that seems unthinkable to us is possible. You see, we humans are miracles of natural evolution in our own right, capable of not only thinking, creating, and even stepping out of the earth we live on. Remember, anything is possible in this universe full of mystery and wonder! Lin Feng quite agreed with Helen's opinion, not only because she was his girlfriend, but also because Helen's analysis was exactly the same as his thinking.

"If that's the case, then it's a good explanation for why the landing craft's energy shield was breached so quickly. It is very likely that the two canine teeth of the star bat are not teeth at all, but the mouthparts that they use to absorb energy. That many star bats can completely absorb the energy in the energy shield in one minute. Li Zhi also put forward his own views.

"Is it possible to bypass this area? You can't come across this creature everywhere, can you? Maybe...... Maybe it's just that our luck is not so good, and it happens to be in an area with a high concentration of star bats? Mawson speculated with a sense of luck.

"There is some truth in Lieutenant General Mowson's words, but it is not the psychology we should have now. For us, any fluke mentality can lead to serious consequences of failure. We have to be very cautious about any threat. Lin Feng replied very seriously.

"If that's the case, then ...... So what to do? After all, the most powerful weapon of the starship is the Gathering Cannon, but it was overwhelmed by this strange creature. How can we break through their siege and land smoothly? ”

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