Chapter 688: True. Finale
Although the space-time fleet has fierce firepower, their numbers are short after all, and the reason why the combined fleet was able to resist the army of 20,000 reapers head-on for half an hour was because their deployment surface was larger than the maximum deployment surface of the reaper ship group, and the other party could not bypass it, and could not carry out interspersed and encircled strikes on their ship group.
It is precisely because of this that they can persist in the face of a great disadvantage exchange ratio. Their fresh allies are different, they are too few in number, they will be surrounded by a large number of reapers, and no matter how strong their firepower is, they will not be able to exert themselves.
Hackett couldn't sit idly by and watch such a powerful ally be destroyed in front of him, because Sister Xue didn't reply immediately, so he quickly grabbed the communicator, opened all the command channels, and issued this order to all the units he could contact, whether it was his subordinates or not.
"This is Admiral Hackett, all warships pay attention, immediately pursue the enemy ships, and never let the Reaper drown our allies......" His order was clear and firm, and the StarUnited fleet that received the order immediately moved, no matter what kind of injuries they suffered or how huge the losses they experienced, as long as the battleships that could still move quickly rushed out of formation and charged in the direction of the Reaper's attack.
The fleets of the Touareg and other races were a little slower to react, but after figuring out the key, almost all the field commanders issued the same order, and the remaining more than 70,000 warships of all classes abandoned their existing positions and formations like schools of fish rushing out of fishing nets, and rushed towards the battle group of the Reapers.
Some of the Reaper ships hurriedly turned around to block their attack, preventing the main force from being flanked on both sides. But even so, more than 10,000 Reaper ships rushed towards their target. Victory seemed to be beckoning to them.
But at this moment, a clear and calm echo reached Hackett's ears through the previous communicator, it was Sister Xue's voice, listen to the sound. She didn't seem nervous, even a little expectant.
"We don't need support, Admiral. Please take this opportunity to regroup your formation, we will be out of danger soon......" Hearing Sister Xue's words. Hackett immediately gave the order to stop the advance and began to form a team. Although he didn't know where Sister Xue's confidence came from, he knew that the other party would not be brave on the battlefield. If Shepard says she doesn't need help, it means she really doesn't.
For this reason, he decided to listen to Sister Xue's suggestion, form a team on the spot and shout to other friendly units to convey the same suggestion. While Haggart was trying to organize the team, in the command headquarters of the space-time fleet, Sister Xue looked back at Shen Chao, who was watching the battle. The latter held his chin and nodded slightly, agreeing with her decision.
With Shen Chao's not-so-reluctant approval, Sister Xue was able to let go of her hands and feet, and commanded the fleet in a slender formation in a way that she had rehearsed countless times in the simulator and in her own mind.
This special formation looks like a shuttle, the executor is naturally the arrow part of the shuttle, followed by the formation of the emperor level almost all hidden behind the executor, the front of the enemy completely ceded to the executor, and the formation they formed followed the executor to accelerate.
Since the ships were very, very close to each other, their firepower density and defensive strength were increased. However, it is still an extremely risky move to successfully break out of the interception group composed of tens of thousands of reapers.
With the exception of the Executor, which is guaranteed to withstand any blow, the other warships are at risk of being wiped out in an instant during the impact. This is also why Sister Xue, the commander-in-chief, wanted to take a look at Shen Chao before setting up the formation just now.
If the impact effect is not ideal this time. Inflicting huge losses on the fleet, then she will inevitably lose command of the fleet. That's why she needs Shen Chao's approval, only then can she give this order with peace of mind.
Although Shen Chao didn't like such a risky move very much. But he still agreed to this dangerous tactic, which was both a sign of trust in Sister Xue and a manifestation of his own curiosity about the result. No matter how well this battle is fought, he will take the space-time fleet back to blow up the fleet, so if there is any tactical problem, it is better to solve it immediately, and avoiding it is not the best option.
In such a situation, the space-time fleet completed the formation combination, and the Reaper also entered their optimal range. With 4 light-seconds left between the two sides, thousands of Reaper ships rushing to the front unleashed a fierce salvo. Thousands of jets of hot metal streaked through the space, half of them hitting their only target. That is, the executor who withstood the entire facing enemy.
Such powerful firepower is theoretically not inferior to the artillery fire that the space-time fleet has just launched when it strikes them, and it should even be stronger. However, the Executor, which was hit by this super blow, was only deflected by the heavy fire. After a few small attitude adjustments, he actually passed the bow of the ship and continued to charge!
Seeing such an unimaginable scene, the Reaper's formation instantly fell into chaos, and their mechanical minds couldn't understand why there were such powerful warships in the world. Although the size of one executor is equivalent to hundreds of Overlord-level Reapers, judging from the strength of the previous blows, the output power of the opponent is not particularly high relative to its size.
Therefore, the Reapers' defense power must not exceed the output firepower intensity, and the salvo firepower of thousands of Reapers' ships should instantly break through the defense and kill the super giant ship in front of them. Taken separately, each step in their mechanical reasoning is irrefutable, but taken together it becomes a joke.
Of course, they don't know that most of the Executor's functions are used to strengthen defenses, and the Executor is not so much a warship as a huge space shield, designed to create an unsinkable flagship, and the firepower flaws are deliberately made shortcomings.
Completely unaware of this, the Reaper was planted in the trap, and after a round of extreme salvo, even their main guns needed a time to recharge, and it was at this point that the Executor led a group of Emperor-class Star Destroyers behind it to accelerate again, directly into the core of the Reaper cluster.
The commander of the Reaper cluster, who had just been hesitating what to do next, instantly had a mood swing that could only be described as overjoy, and they rushed up again in a vain attempt to overwhelm the lone fleet with numbers.
However, they didn't know that their actions at this time were in the hands of the other party, and seeing the dense group of Reaper ships rushing over in front of him, Shen Chao even showed a disdainful expression. He had only seen a similar scene in Plane 003 a few days ago, and it turned out that numbers didn't solve everything. This is especially true when facing prepared opponents.
Once the Reapers were close enough, all the ships in formation were firing at full fire. The dense design of the ship's guns, a short-range missile equipped with an antimatter warhead, which had not been used before, was launched in large numbers as if it had been conjured out of thin air, and thousands of missiles flew out of the launch tube and charged at their respective targets.
Due to the extremely close proximity of the enemy warships, most of them were only a few thousand kilometers away, and some were even only a few tens of kilometers away, so the hit rate of this batch of missiles was quite high, and nearly a thousand Overlord-class Reaperss were hit and destroyed in an instant. The others were also beaten to slag by the ship's guns, and only a few dozen Overlord-class ships rushed to the hand-to-hand combat distance under the effect of godlike luck.
However, they didn't have the hand-to-hand combat scenario they imagined, and the existence of the traction beam was still out of their mind, so when they rushed to the front to use their unique battleship melee skills, they suddenly found that they couldn't move.
The Executor alone has 100 towed beam launchers, and theoretically, even a hundred sub-ships rushing towards it at the same time will not be able to successfully engage in melee combat. However, it can hold the enemy in front of its eyes, and with its own turret, it can beat the enemy ships trapped in the towing beam to slag.
That's it. More than 10,000 Reaper ships have been unable to break through the Space-Time Fleet despite their full efforts, and to make matters worse, they have spent almost all of their energy on dealing with the Executor, which they can't even beat. Therefore, the vote of the emperor level that they had the opportunity to hit hard also rushed out smoothly, and they scored a 0:2000 battle loss ratio in a single charge.
This is not the end, after the space-time fleet chiseled their formation, they immediately rushed to the back, and the combined fleet that had already formed the formation of the front and back, and quickly eliminated the group of reapers who had stayed behind to block the combined fleet.
At this point, the vanguard of this batch of Reapers, which had lost nearly 40% of its units, was in a disorganized formation, and could not quickly regain its combat effectiveness. Compared with. The lineup on the opposite side is much stronger, even if you don't count the bottomless strength that the Spacetime Fleet has just displayed. The Combined Fleet, which has already formed its formation and does not suffer much losses, is also capable of overthrowing them.
In a nutshell. They have lost hope of winning this battle. Seeing this, the rest of the Reapers, without saying a word, immediately turned on their Zero Element Engines and fled in the opposite direction, jumping in the same direction as the repeater they had passed through two hours earlier.
It's hard to say whether they're going to get back to the repeater or if they're going to hold there and wait for backup, but either way, the Citadel Fleet has won the battle. Upon learning of the victory, all the survivors cheered and celebrated this great victory, without anyone's approval.
The news of the victory in the first battle was also sent back to other star sectors in the rear as soon as possible, and spread throughout the galaxy in less than a day. However, this is not the biggest news of the day, because immediately after this victory, Shen Chao announced his identity in this plane and announced his position in this war.
The news was not released until the next day, sparking much more discussion, and its impact even overshadowed the epic event of the defeat of the Reaper vanguard. The Citadel Council and the rest of the world were mixed when they learned of the news.
Happily, with a potentially powerful ally joining the war against the Reaper, the Reaper's threat finally has a solid solution. What worries them is what this powerful ally will demand. Anyone with a modicum of foresight is well aware that the fate of the galaxy has ushered in an irreversible change.
And when they were celebrating their victory, and the real power figures in the whole galaxy were trying to get to know Shen Chao, Shen Chao himself mysteriously disappeared. He wasn't on the bridge of the Executor, nor was he on the New Zero space station in the rear, instead, he appeared almost alone on the periphery of the Mass Effect repeater where the Reapers were entrenched in a specially made shuttle.
He was dressed in a nano suit, but he also had a strange vest on his body, and the shape of the vest was very heavy. It clung to his body like a bloated piece of armor. On his chest was a flat box in the shape of a disc, which was attached to his chest like a heart goggle, and if you looked closely, you could see that the back part of the vest was directly connected to his back. It seems to be directly connected to his nervous system through the nanosuit.
Although it doesn't look handsome at all when worn on the body, Shen Chaoqi in this body does not look strange. Instead, it will bring a strange pressure to the people around him, very much like the newly mastered Force samurai. This is so because of the vest and something else to which it is attached.
This vest is actually a newest space-time gate stabilizer, and as the manufacturing process of the City Return Scroll has advanced, their technical department has been able to shrink the stabilizer to smaller and smaller proportions without compromising its reliability. The disc on his chest at this point was the stabilizer itself, which held a space-time portal leading to Plane 003.
This space-time gate was like a passage, through which a strange luminous wire was connected to Shen Chao's nanosuit and directly connected to his nervous system. The arm-thick wire connected to it was a very large creature. That is, the mastermind of the ceph home planet mentioned in the previous god plan.
Back a few days ago. Shen Chao had already completed his plan to become a god, connected his nerves to the mastermind of CEPH, and gained direct control over countless CEPHs. It felt like a direct evolution from a single-celled organism to a human.
The only problem is that once disconnected, he will degenerate back to his original form, with no benefits other than being able to use Ceph's evolutionary profile to strengthen his body and gain some superpowers-like abilities.
However, the previous battle had sparked Shen Chao's imagination, as he sensed the direction of the reaper's cluster wisdom during the battle, and accidentally located the specific individual among them who called himself "Pioneer".
The Pioneer, or transliterated "Habingo", is the highest-ranking individual of all known reapers. It largely controls the actions of all Reapers, and can theoretically be counted as the mastermind of the Reapers.
Now that he has successfully taken over and eliminated the mastermind of Ceph, a super creature like Ceph that has evolved for hundreds of millions of years cannot resist the power of space-time fragments. So what are the chances for the Reapers?
His will is protected by the fragments of time and space, and he is not afraid of being invaded, so if he connects to an individual of the Reaper, such as Brother Habing, can he repeat his successful experience in the 003 plane and get new free peripherals?
Based on this consideration, Shen Chao decided to come and give it a try, following the instructions of his newly acquired adaptive ability, he found his target on a nearby planet, that is, Brother Ha Bing, who was resting.
Shen Chao wasn't worried about being discovered or hurt by anything unexpected. Because he is connected to the head of the ceph master in another plane, his sensing ability has reached a realm far beyond that of humans. It can even be said to be more acute than when Vader sensed it with the Force.
It was out of this absolute self-confidence that Shen Chao dared to run to the Reaper's outpost to make waves in such a situation where he was almost alone. When connected to the ceph mastermind. His abilities in all aspects are comparable to those of mythical gods, and even his ability to manipulate space-time fragments has been greatly improved.
Now he can easily open a space-time gate with a diameter of several kilometers, or even tens of kilometers, without using any stabilizer to stabilize the space-time gate that is almost celestial-level for a long time. There is no doubt that he will become stronger in the future, and may even completely break away from his dependence on the space-time gate stabilizer.
Of course, he wasn't as skilled at mastering his newfound powers, which is why he needed this vest for maintenance. But even so, he knew that his journey had come to an end.
After he kills the reaper in front of him, how much more can effectively stop him? Not much left...... And without enemies, he will have to suspend his plane adventures and slowly prepare for future changes.
And just as Shen Chao's personal legend was about to come to an end, on the other end of the main plane, a group of newborn traversers had just started their own stories. Just as Shen Chao put down his bags, a young traverser had just finished his first plane journey and suddenly woke up from his bed.
Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar bedroom in front of him, he was sitting on the bed gasping for breath, as if he had just come out of a state of suffocation. It took a while. He relieved himself and calmed down.
For the main plane, this young man named Song Yan had disappeared for a few months, and for himself. The past few months have been like a lifetime. So much so that his first reaction after coming back was to pull out a gun to defend himself.
Wait, draw a gun? Come to think of it. He turned his head abruptly to look at his palm, a USP large-caliber pistol that was very familiar in both shape and feel was in his hand at this time, the safety had been opened, and the hammer seemed to be ready to drop at any time to activate the bullet in the chamber.
Obviously, it was instinctively driven that he took out the gun on his waist and opened the safety ...... Thinking of this, he was stunned for a moment, as if he was surprised that he had actually brought back the weapon he was carrying. This is clearly not in line with his previous experience.
Then he suddenly realized that the weapon in his hand was in a state of waiting to be fired, which was very unsafe, so he reflexively pulled the sleeve, withdrew the bullet in the chamber and pressed the magazine release button.
The almost full magazine slid out of the magazine and landed on his left hand, and then the young man made another skillful operation in his hand, checking the safety of the shell window and completing the locking, and after making sure that there were no safety hazards, he put the gun and magazine aside, and let out a long sigh of relief.
Only then did he notice that the wound in his abdomen was still there, and it was more painful than before. Fortunately, my bandaging technique is already very reliable. There was no blood on either the gauze surface or the sheets under him, indicating that the wound was healing.
After making sure that his life was not in danger, he staggered to his feet. Holding the gauze near the wound on his abdomen, he struggled to move himself to the mirror in the bathroom. That's where he used to put his usual medicines, and if I'm not mistaken, the survivalist-specific medical kit he bought before and the medicines inside should still be there.
Although the medical kit and most of the medicines in it were just Taobao goods, only the size of a waist bag, and the medicines in it seemed to him to be just foolish things now, but at least there were basic medical tools in it.
Gauze scissors, tweezers, sutures, hooks...... There are basically all these things to suture the wound, there should also be a small bottle of alcohol, and there is also a small roll of gauze. It's not much, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem to deal with this not-so-serious gunshot wound on your body.
I was in front of the mirror and I was about the same as the last time I looked in the mirror. It's all a little pale because of excessive blood loss. Just as I was rummaging through my previous first aid kit, suddenly. The sound of the door lock opening alerted him.
He immediately rushed out of the bathroom, rushed to the bed, reloaded the pistol he had just put down, and pointed it at the door as fast as he could. Then a familiar figure pushed open the door and appeared in front of him, the person was wearing a vest and big pants, and holding a watermelon in his hand, it was the landlord who had rented this house to him before.
Thinking of this, he quickly put down the gun, closed the insurance, and looked at the other party silently. The landlord on the other side looked at him and patted his head again, as if his appearance should be some kind of hallucination. Subsequently, the landlord seemed to realize that he was not hallucinating, and immediately spit out a sentence that shocked his whole body.
"Old Song, why are you back?" You, you, you, shouldn't it be a crossing......" The landlady broke Song Yan's self-righteous secret with a word, and Song Yan had a hunch, perhaps, his crossing was not an accident? (To be continued)
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Finally ushered in the finale, for this ending, I can only say that I barely made a living, these two chapters were originally intended to be done in one chapter, but there are too many words, and they must be separated.
Originally, it was okay to write dozens or even a hundred chapters of these contents in series with the branches, but the black cat really didn't have the energy and patience to write it.
The creative process of this book can be described as twists and turns, experiencing various creative problems and external slander, Black Cat would like to thank any old book friends who have chased it to the present, just like what was written at the end of this chapter, the story of the new time-traveler will continue, and the black cat will continue the creation of this series.
If all goes well, the next book will start publishing in a week. However, because of the maintenance and replacement of the computer, it may be later, but it will definitely be released this month, and I hope that everyone will actively support it at that time......