Chapter Seventy-Three: The Time for the Hunt Has Come

In the NXG4050 Galaxy, the Syndicate forces are hunting for the Makura Astral Shark.

[NXG4050E2] is a huge and bright planet, like a green emerald, radiating a soft natural green light into the cosmic space.

Half of that glow comes from her abundant green oceans, which are home to an abundance of plankton that give the waters a refreshing emerald hue.

The other half comes from her lush rainforests and vast temperate grasslands, and the plants that have evolved naturally on this planet are quite close to the plants we see every day, but because the parent planet is relatively closer to the sun, it is extra green.

ใ€NXG4050E2ใ€‘The climate is quite mild and stable. The sunlight shines on the sodium-rich coastal sandbars, reflecting a peculiar stellar yellow glow. It was as if to tie a carefully woven silk ribbon for her.

Suddenly, the sunlight shone on an astral beast that was trying to enter the atmosphere at frantic speed.

True to its name, the Makura Astral Shark is highly similar to a shark, with a flat, long and flat body, a streamlined body, oval eyes, and triangular teeth.

The trunk has a dorsal fin, a caudal fin, and a pair of pectoral and pelvic fins.

These fins are not based on hydrodynamics, but are organs with strange functions.

The pectoral and pelvic fins are membranes that can be used to unfold the energy to form the solar sail. It is very large and light, and the surface is very smooth and flat, and when a photon hits a smooth plane, it can exert a corresponding force. The Markula Astral Shark's regular voyage relies on solar sail propulsion and energy. Its biological solar sail is more than 10 times more energy-efficient than its artificial solar sail.

The dorsal fin is an energy shield generator capable of deploying a strange shield composed of arcane energy, and has special resistance to energy-based attacks, especially against light-collapsing weapons.

The tail fin is a bio-shaped jet engine, allowing the Behemoth to shoot faster than the Empire's battleships, comparable to fast cruisers, but with surprisingly low energy consumption.

There is a discipline in the empire called Arcane Biomimicry, which is the study of the body structure of Arcane creatures. The biomimetic products created have brought about several disruptive changes, but unfortunately, the fins of the last hunted [Makula Astral Shark] were seriously damaged and completely lost their research value.

Now the [Macura Astral Shark] has opened its energy shield to protect itself, trying to wait for the opportunity to move, enter the flying state and escape back to the Diffuse Nebula. It knew that as long as it escaped home, it would be absolutely safe.

The syndicate thieves are also well aware of this, and they have spent all their money, and even mortgaged all their slaves, to smuggle a [Flying Arrester] from the core star field, which can effectively interfere with the arcane creatures or warships entering the flying state.

The device worked so well that the beast's tail fin was dull and apparently inoperable.

[Makula Astral Shark] had to desperately speed up to get rid of the star thieves. But the star thief pressed closer, forcing it close to the planet's gravitational well, trying to play a game of shutting down the door and beating the dog.

Long waves of light collapse energy swept past it, creating a devastating colored storm, like a school of colorful crucian carp chasing a large target that it was trying to dodge.

The Oron is in the blood of the Makoura Astral Shark, giving it incredible speed. With its excellent mobility, the behemoth shuttles up and down through the empty space of the stars, desperately trying to avoid injury.

One of these stalkers caught up with the fleeing behemoth, barely breaking through the shield and striking its dorsal fin, the arcane energy flowing from the behemoth's scales preventing the light-collapsing energy from damaging the body.

A roaring syndicate modification ship lowers its orbit - it fires many high-energy beams.

The surface of the dilapidated ship towered dozens of turrets of various models, some of which had been scrapped after several launches. In the bitterly cold space, the spaceship gradually approached, firing desperately at the [Makura Astral Shark].

The turret fires a beam. On the part where the [Makula Astral Shark] was hit, flashes of explosions can be seen from time to time.

Finally, a glowing cannon finally destroyed the scales of the [Makula Astral Shark] and broke its capillaries. Holy golden blood gushed out, and hundreds of kilograms of arcane-rich blood converged into golden spheres under the action of surface tension, and then froze into crystals in the bitter cold of the universe.

An old vulture fighter pilot's eyes were red, and he didn't care about leaving the beast behind, turning the nose of the plane and flying in the direction of the blood crystal. The grappling hook was activated in an attempt to retrieve the Shark's blood crystals back into the cockpit.

The syndicate leader saw all this on surveillance. Seeing this, he sneered and activated the vulture fighter's self-detonation program.

No response!

But in the next second, the vulture fighter was blown up by the destroyer's light collapse cannon, and the debris was scattered in the cold deep air.

"Listen, that's what happens when you get red-eyed! And as long as you follow me and work hard, you will be indispensable in dividends when the time comes. โ€

The fate of his companions and the pie drawn by the leader made this group of extralegal fanatics who had been licking blood from the knife all year round as excited as if they had been beaten with blood, and the artillery fire of the syndicate fleet became even more intense.

The scales of the [Makura Astral Shark] were lifted off one by one by the secondary cannon, but the size of the giant beast was too large, and it was more than two hundred meters connected from end to end. A wound ten centimeters wide is enough to kill a person, and for the giant beast, it is like being bitten by a mosquito.

What really threatens the Behemoth is the continuous fire of the destroyer's main guns on the same part. Four or five consecutive hits to its soft abdomen can injure its internal organs.

The Syndicate's plan was like this, after punching a large enough wound on the giant beast, it sent a self-destructing robot into the body cavity of [Makula Astral Shark] to attack, and take down the prey in one fell swoop. The prey is then towed to the surface by destroyers for slaughter.

However, the praying mantis caught the cicada and the yellow finch behind, and they and the [Makula Astral Shark] have become prey.

Suddenly, a jet of light flashed, and the Dark Star leaped into the planet's orbit. A gravitational deep well that normally enters a planet in a fly-through state is lethal to a heavy nuclear warship, but the Darkstar can do it easily.

The battle took place on the other side of the planet during the day, and on the side of the Dark Star it was exactly midnight.

On an island in the ocean, the members of the Syndicate stay up all night, darting through a base made of tattered materials, maintenance crews sweating profusely with old-fashioned instruments that break down every now and then.

There is also a communication satellite in the planet's synchronous orbit to replace the destroyer with weak interstellar communication capabilities for external communication.

As long as this satellite and the base on the ground are destroyed, the syndicate will no longer be able to send messages to this extrasolar system.

They didn't notice at all that there was an extra bright star in the clear night sky.