In the starry sky, a spaceship is slowly approaching a planet.

This 2-kilometer-long fat spaceship, with a set of wings on each side, looks like an egg with wings, and looks like a crab lying on its stomach from the side, and there are two spiral words on the front of the spaceship, which is the most advanced small mothership made by the empire in order to explore and study space energy--- the frontier.

It is already the most marginal part of the Kamando River system, and the planet has no name, with a diameter of only about 3,000 kilometers. If it weren't for the fact that an exploration ship stumbled upon the existence of a rare blue crystal here--- later named Lazuli, also known as the Divine Source Crystal, there are hundreds of millions of such small planets in the Empire, and no one would have visited this place forever.

Shenyuan, a crystal that is more precious than blue gold and has spatial characteristics, has been discovered after the Imperial Academy of Sciences has done preliminary research, believing that if it can be used, a new type of space engine with spatial characteristics can be built, which will be a shot in the arm for the current crumbling empire.

The small mothership Frontier was ordered by the Imperial Research Institute and the Imperial Military Department to explore and study this rare crystalline substance.

"Captain, shall we land now?"

"Captain, discover a crashed exploration ship in the polar regions of the planet."

"Let's make an elliptical orbit around the poles of the planet." Captain Hades said that he was a little worried about the safety of the Frontier, and on the way here, it was attacked by an unknown warship, causing damage to two of its space jump engines, and although the other party was damaged and fled, the Front also lost four carrier-based frigates.

There are now only 2 frigates in the wings of the Frontier, and this kind of frigate with only a small ion engine is installed, which was applied to the Imperial War Department when he left the Imperial Academy of Studies, in order to make up for the lack of protection of the Frontier. After all, it was within the territory of the empire, and Hades did not apply for more escort fleets. The frigates were too small to jump independently, so they couldn't get too far from the Frontier, and they were followed by 150 Imperial soldiers on each frigate.

So as soon as Hades heard that there were crashed ships on this planet, he thought about whether there was a potential ambush battleship? Was the exploration ship wrecked?

In normal times, Frontier could have used advanced space exploration technology to conduct a comprehensive slice exploration of the planet, but the attack it experienced not long ago damaged Frontier's detection device.

While orbiting the poles, Frontier scanned it with a primitive low-Earth orbit probe, and after a few laps, Frontier had more detailed information about the planet.

Occasionally, small spatial rifts would appear here, but they would soon disappear, and as long as they did not evolve into spatial rifts that stretched for tens of thousands of miles, this level of rift could not pose a threat to the Frontier.

"Report Captain," Hades, who was looking at the planetary analysis data on the light screen, looked up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Captain, I'm getting a signal from the crashed exploration ship below."

"Is it a distress signal?"

"It's not like a distress signal, it's like an exorcism signal."

"What?? Exorcism signal? This exploration ship really takes itself seriously and ignores it. ”

"Orton, you immediately lead a small team of soldiers to the crashed probe ship to see if there is any danger and anything that can be recovered."

It's recycling, but it's actually about seeing what good things this exploration ship has gotten upon.

At this time, Tina, the chief researcher of the Imperial Research Institute, walked over, "Captain, how long do we need to wait, I need to land immediately to the location where the crystal was found." ”

"Well, Mistress Tina, please wait a moment, I've asked Orton to check on the crashed ship."

"We're not here to rescue the exploration spacecraft, wait for them to do something, please land here first, I'll collect and study the crystals." After saying that, he ignored Hades and left.

This made Hades feel a little unhappy, although Tina was the chief researcher of the Imperial Research Institute, she also had no authority to order Hades. However, the female chief has a notoriously bad temper in the Institute, and Hades is clearly not willing to offend her now.

In desperation, Hades could only order a research ship specially built for this research to carry research equipment and researchers as a research base, and land in a relatively flat place not too far from the polar regions.

After all, although this Frontier is only a small mothership, it is not small, so it is still a little difficult to land on a planet, originally as a battleship or a mothership, it should not land on a planet, even if it is an asteroid, so Hades ordered the mothership to hover in a low-earth orbit a hundred kilometers above the ground.

In order to avoid possible dangers as much as possible, and also consider how to quickly evacuate ground personnel in the event of an accident, it is more appropriate for the mothership to be in low earth orbit, and at the same time can quickly get out of the asteroid.

Exploration vehicles and drilling rigs were unloaded from the research ship, and a team of soldiers accompanied the researchers to explore and excavate at the site where the source of the gods was last discovered.

This location was bought by the Imperial Research Institute from the captain of an exploration spacecraft for a large price, and there is also a blue translucent divine source crystal, so this time the Imperial Research Institute sent top geological researchers and space technology researchers to get more of this crystal and further study why this crystal causes changes in space.

Seven days have passed, and the geological researchers, with the assistance of automatic digging mechanical insects, have dug out 19 Shenyuan crystals from the ground, but they are not very large, but they can be regarded as a lot of harvest. Tina and her space researchers are doing space research in the base where the research ship was built, using these crystals.

"Captain, it's not good."

"What's the matter?" Hades was activating the space exploration device that had just been repaired, and he vaguely felt that there was something abnormal here, and when he was shouted by the star officer, he immediately asked impatiently.

"Captain, I just monitored that the starry sky beast in the outer space of the planet appeared as if it was about to devour this planet."

"Nonsense, although there are also huge starry sky beasts in this universe, they are not strong enough to devour planets."

"Really, Captain, if you don't believe it, you can go and see it for yourself, just over the polar regions."

Although Hades was skeptical, he still followed the star officer to the monitoring screen, only to see a huge gray-black spatial vortex appear above the polar region, which really seemed to be the mouth of a giant beast, and it seemed that it was still growing rapidly, which really didn't seem to be naturally formed.

"When did this stuff come to be? Why didn't I find out before? Hades felt a little remorseful.

"Immediately notify the ground-based spacecraft to bring all the researchers back and ...... immediately," Hades shouted with all his might.

"And any news from Orton? It's going to take so long to find a wrecked ship. Hades was anxious and secretly scolded this Outon for making a mistake.

"Captain, there's no news from Otton's team."

The Imperial army was still extremely efficient, and after a while, the scientific research ship on the ground took off, and although all the researchers were very dissatisfied with the interruption of their research, this Hades gave a death order and had to fly back to the mothership with the spacecraft.

"Hades, you get us out, if there is no reason that can convince me, I will go to the military headquarters to sue you." Head Researcher Tina shouted disgruntled.

Hades didn't have time to pay attention to her, and the star officer next to him said, "Lord Tina, you can watch this surveillance screen. Tina was stunned when she saw it, "This is, this is the spatial vortex, how can there be such a thing here?" ”

"Damn, we're going to get out of here, or we're going to be sucked in." Tina is the principal investigator of the research space, and she knows at a glance the crux of the current situation.

"But Odon haven't come back yet?" Hades hesitated, after all, Orton was his subordinate.

"Leave him alone, or we'll all die." Tina said ruthlessly.

Hades naturally knew the priority of the matter, if these researchers died, even if he and his subordinates survived, according to the laws of the empire, it would be a dead end.

In desperation, he urgently activated the mothership. The space exploration device activated by Hades just now detected that countless small spatial rifts appeared around the space vortex, making the space near the entire planet appear even more violent.

At this time, the diameter of the space vortex has expanded to more than several hundred kilometers, and if the mothership wants to leave the low earth orbit of the planet, it must accelerate and disengage, and the jump engine cannot be started near the planet. The Frontier only had a small window to avoid the spatial vortex, and if the Frontier accidentally touched these surrounding spatial rifts, it was estimated that the mothership would be cut into a thousand holes in an instant.

Just as Hades was thinking about how to accelerate, a somewhat damaged troop carrier rose from the vicinity of the wrecked probe ship in the polar regions at high speed and converged on the mothership.

"It's the Orton team's ship."

"Leave him alone, speed up ......," Tina shouted.

Hades glanced at her, and finally decided to recover Orton's spaceship, after all, the guards of the mothership are very weak now, and Orton has been with him for so long, Hades is a little reluctant, not to mention that it only takes a few minutes to recover a spaceship.

In the few minutes it took to recover Orton's troop carrier, the space vortex grew at such a rapid rate that the Frontier had no chance to pass through its edge.

"Damn Oton, it's not the right time to come back."

The angry Hades scolded, now the front line is a space vortex, and behind it is a planet that is attracted by the space vortex and is quickly approaching, and it has been sandwiched between the two, almost cutting off the opportunity for the mothership to escape, and the situation is very bad.

"Report to the captain, Orton is unconscious, and less than 6 of the 100-man squad are alive."

Although faced with a difficult problem that cannot be escaped, this news also surprised Hades, you know, the soldiers of the empire are extremely strong, and they can make these 100 casualties like this at a time, how did this happen?

But before his question could be answered, the planet behind the mothership flew towards the space vortex at high speed, sandwiched between the Frontier mothership trying to accelerate.

The powerful suction of the space vortex, accompanied by countless tiny and bright void lightning, combined with the impulse of the planet, swallowed the mothership and the planet in one go......

It was in the minds of Hades and everyone on the Frontier that it was over, this time it was completely over......