Liu Feng's defection did not make any waves in the Federation.

After all, this guy is not a federal soldier, according to Sukh is...

It's not a defection, it can only be regarded as an unauthorized use of the assets of the Federation fleet.

At that time, as long as he is captured, let him compensate for the losses of the Federation fleet, and lock him up for a few years.

Good guys, the crime that should have been shot, from the mouth of Sukh, it directly became a different matter.

However, other federal leaders have no problem with this.

After all, Liu Feng's role in the federation is too great.

Not to mention 300 Pangu-class, it is 30,000, and the value is not as great as his.

As for Liu Tao, as long as he doesn't play the game of interstellar pirates within the territory of the Federation, he loves it.

In short, the top management just gave things a shape, and then turned it on.

At this moment, everyone still doesn't know that the wormhole that Liu Tao entered is a little different...

And the place he went was beyond everyone's expectations.

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Three months later.

A fully formed Pangea II legion of the defense fleet has arrived in the Sid system.

After completing the handover, Jiang Xingchen was ready to start working on other galaxies.

The Bart system.

Except for the Fifth to Seventh Legions, which were sent by Jiang Xingchen to take charge of other galaxies, the remaining six legions...

At this moment, they have all come here.

The Federation, which has a hyperspace engine, does not need to rely on the so-called artificial wormhole, and it is extremely convenient to navigate between galaxies.

"Commander, 72 light-years away, a complex energy reaction has been detected, the characteristics of which are consistent with mechanical civilizations."

"Did they find us?"

"I should have noticed that their energy reactions fluctuate, and they are much more active than before."

"In that case, let's start deploying, just test it, the new toy of the Central Academy of Sciences!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Nodding, Ling Xiao responded.

A little later, a large number of battleships broke away from the fleet and began to disperse in different directions.

Subsequently, with the array of the development fleet as the center, some small devices similar to satellites were constantly thrown.

It is constantly being deployed outward.

A few minutes later.

"Commander, a large number of reactions with similar characteristics suddenly appeared in the positions of the several energy reactions detected before, but in terms of intensity, they were much weaker than the first few!"

"Can you confirm what the situation is?"

"It is impossible to confirm accurately, but according to the staff group's speculation, it should be the mothership of Balthe's mechanical civilization that Liu Tao reported before."

Liu Tao did report that several steel planets had been discovered in Baltene.

And I have witnessed several mechanical civilization Slayer warships flying out of these steel planets.

Not only that, but the report also mentions that the energy collected from the planets will also be transported to these steel planets through a special type of spaceship of the mechanical civilization.

Thus, the Federation defines this iron planet as...

The Mechanical Civilization Marauder Mothership.

So, as soon as you arrived, you came directly to the Marauder Mothership?

And it's not one?

Looking at the five red dots displayed on the star map, Jiang Xingchen frowned.

"What is the deployment of the traction deceleration network?"

"17.5% complete, with deployment expected in 21 minutes."

"Keep an eye on the target, and if there is any abnormal movement, immediately let all the warships that are being deployed to tow the deceleration net return!"

"Yes, Commander!"

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At the same time.

More than 70 light-years away.

Just as the staff officers on Jiang Xingchen's Open Heaven speculated, the entire five mechanical planets were gathering together.

And inside each mechanical planet, there are a thousand Slayer warships.

These warships, which had been dormant all along, were gradually waking up at this moment because of the effect of the wake-up program.

【Dididi...】

[The wake-up program has been completed, and all the slaughterers have been successfully awakened]

[The intruder coordinates are locked, and the cleanup program is executed]

【Planetary Jump Engine Start】

【Start Jump】

Although the mechanical civilization has been related to the arrival of the scorpion pirate group before the arrival of the scorpion pirate group and the destruction of several transport ships.

Obtained the hyperspace engine and created it.

However, although a lot of them have been created, they are only battleship-level hyperspace engines.

You know, mechanical civilization will not draw inferences, but will only draw inferences.

To put it bluntly, there is no creativity.

Because of this, these marauder motherships of the mechanical civilization can still only make jumps, and cannot use hyperspace technology.

Moments later...

With the start of the planet-level jump engine, the five huge mechanical planets quickly disappeared in place.

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"Commander, a jump has been detected on the target!"

"Are you sure it's a jump, not a hyperspace voyage?"

"Yes, I'm pretty sure, it's the jump!"

Radar Officer Li Yao replied in the affirmative.

On the side, Ling Xiao showed a trace of doubt.

"Commander, if the mechanical civilization has hyperspace technology, why still..."

Jiang Xingchen is also thinking about this question.

But...

Obviously, now is not the time to think about this question, and even if you do, you can't get a positive answer.

Before Ling Xiao could finish speaking, Jiang Xingchen made a gesture to interrupt his words.

"The deployment progress of the traction deceleration network, tell me in the distance unit!"

"It's 36 light-seconds at the moment, Commander!"

"36 light seconds, it's enough for the time being, let them all come back!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Traction deceleration net...

This is a system developed to combat the ultra-high speed and mobility of Balthe's mechanical civilization.

The technology itself is not powerful, and its role is very limited, it can even be said that...

For conventional technological civilization, it has little effect.

After all, the technology used in this is usually mastered by third- and fourth-order civilizations.

i.e. traction beam technology.

However, the Central Academy of Sciences has derived this technology by manufacturing a large number of single-function traction beam modules, and after deploying them at corresponding distance intervals, it can form a large-scale traction network like a fishing net.

Any object that enters it will be affected by this and will be forced to slow down.

Of course, the power to tow the speed of light is not large, otherwise when dealing with the Kairui Empire, it would not have used a dozen warships to tow a battleship.

What's more, the mass of these single towing equipment is far less than that of a battleship.

Therefore, if a battleship enters it, although this traction deceleration net can also be useful, this deceleration effect is actually very poor.

However, although the massive battleship is of average use, for those annihilators who are not large in size and have a small mass...

It's completely different.

Even if the annihilators can't be completely stopped, as long as they slow down their speed by three or four percent, it will be enough to bring ...

Overwhelming advantage!

So, in many cases, it's not that the more advanced the technology, the better it will work.

As long as it is suitable, even if it is only a third-order civilization that can master the technology, it will also have an absolute effect if it is used well.

"All deployed ships are being withdrawn, and all towing beam installations are starting to be networked."

"The networking is complete, and the traction deceleration net..."

"Start!"

The next moment, inside one device after another, emerald green traction beams were shot out.

Eventually, around the array of the pioneer fleet, a network system was formed.

Surrounded the entire pioneer fleet in the middle!