(Chapter 54) Omen of Destruction (Ask for Follow-up!) )
Due to the sudden appearance of the Queen of Glory, the insect mothers, who were originally cruising around the star comfortably absorbing energy, were obviously caught off guard.
The cannonballs fired from the cannon were like an awl with a handle, piercing their juicy, swollen bodies, causing a violent explosion in them.
Taking advantage of the gap between the firing of the giant ship's weapon array, nearly a hundred Viper-class frigates equipped with anti-ship fire had already entered the queue of the hive mothership.
Like the swarm ambushed Emma's fleet, the ghostly black fleet also disturbed the rear of the hive.
Under the baptism of artillery fire, the severe pain that the insect mothers were enduring was quickly transmitted to the minds of each insect through the neural network of the insect hive, and the entire insect hive fleet was boiling in an instant.
As the first motherhive ship lost its balance under the onslaught of the Glory Queen, its bulging and clumsy body was soon captured by the stellar gravity, and in a desperate roar it crashed to the surface of the star, becoming the side that was swallowed by the star.
It was only at this point that the bugs experienced a major loss in the true sense of the word.
At this moment, the hive warships surrounding the mother worm were furious, and they roared and fired countless cannonballs with parasitic properties at the hulls of those Viper-class frigates.
However, thanks to their agile maneuverability, even those biological shells with automatic capture function could hardly hit those frigates, and even if a few were lucky enough to attach to the hull, the biotoxins they released did not affect the combat effectiveness of these ships in the slightest.
The special attack methods evolved by these hive fleets to fight against the Emma people did not play any role for Gu Fan's fleet, after all, compared to the Emma warship, which had to stuff tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people into a ship at every turn.
Gu Fan's fleet is all controlled by synthetics, and there is no host that can be infected by toxin parasitics among a group of iron bumps.
......
......
Looking at the black fleet in the distance, which was shuttling among the swarms, Karl was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time, especially the steel beast known as the Queen of Glory.
Under her firepower, which outweighed an entire fleet, with the strafing of light spears and the coverage of hundreds of guns, she almost single-handedly suppressed the brood fleet in place.
What's even more amazing is that despite being larger than a battleship, the Queen of Glory is incredibly flexible.
As if it were not bound by the laws of physics, it can accelerate itself from zero to full speed in almost a second, and it can also complete a course change in complete disregard of inertia, performing various sailing maneuvers that can cause the present General Emma to exclaim again and again.
Any Hive warship that tries to get close and plot against it will eventually receive a beating from the Queen's head and face, and even the corners of her skirt can't be caught.
Looking at what was happening in front of him, judging by the maneuverability displayed by the giant ship, there was no doubt that the other side was using inertia-free engine technology.
The main reason why Carl was so clear was that this magical artifact of technology had been mentioned in the past records of humans.
In the past, Emma's top scholars have gathered to try to decipher the secrets of humanity's technology, relying on technological templates scavenged from the ruins of the human empire.
In order to succeed, they even went so far as to transform a planet into a huge computing array, but even then the experiment ended in failure.
Although there are more than 70 technology templates from the old human empire in total, due to the huge technological generation gap, the Emma people have not been able to sort out even some of the most basic concepts for thousands of years, and finally have to make a bunch of indiscreet copycats according to the gourd painting scoop.
Thinking of this, Karl couldn't help but feel a chill rise in his heart, and all the signs at the moment seemed to be able to show that the civilization force that claimed to be called the Adjudicator had a high probability that it was the successor civilization taught by humans themselves, and even the greater guess did not rule out the possibility that they were humans.
If this is the case, then the attitude of the adjudicators towards the Emma and the current Galactic Community is probably very subtle, after all, it was they who took advantage of the decline of humanity to destroy the vast empire.
"Carl! The bugs seem to be retreating! ”
At this moment, the officer on the side suddenly stepped forward to remind Carl, who was shaking his mind, and looked at the hive fleet around the fleet that began to turn around, and he instantly realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
......
In the end, although the swarm tried their best to save the last hive mothership, under Gu Fan's hunting, their attempts ultimately failed.
Although the number of hive fleets is still very terrifying, perhaps realizing that if this continues, it will only outweigh the losses, and under the intervention of the hive consciousness, the originally huge insect swarm was split into several small fleets and scattered in different directions.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Emma fleet, which had been besieged for a long time, also managed to break through the siege.
Looking at the messy battlefield in the distance, billions of insect corpses were floating in the cold and lonely void along with the wreckage of hundreds of Emma warships, and all of this was exactly the same as the scene Gu Fan had seen in the illusion.
At this moment, Gu Fan, who was staring out the window, was in a very complicated mood, if nothing else, what happened to him not long ago should be the harbinger of spiritual awakening.
In the society of the Old Human Empire, although extremely rare, the human psykers have always been regarded as an ominous symbol, the main reason for which is the high degree of instability of this power.
Gu Fan couldn't figure out why such a strange phenomenon appeared on his body inexplicably.
According to the information provided by the prophetic visions, if these swarms were allowed to swallow Emma's fleet and snowball, the final hive fleet would grow to unimaginable proportions.
At that time, whether it is those lost empires or themselves, they will be powerless with the endless hives, so even though they have a strong dissatisfaction with the Emma people in their hearts, in order to avoid the predicted result from coming true, after several considerations, Gu Fan finally chose to make a move.
During the silence, the army of the hive had already left the Tylen system, and Gu Fan did not choose to pursue them, first, because their huge number could not be completely cleared in the short term.
The second is that in the case of losing the mother worm, the insect colony will not grow too quickly in a short period of time, in this case, you might as well let these cute bugs make a good fuss in Emma's territory, which can be regarded as a certain help for a series of actions against Emma in the future.
By the way, it can also accelerate the destruction of the Emma Empire, so that these former traitors will pay the due price as soon as possible.