Thousands of slaves remained dormant in the early stage, only to wake up after leaving the garrison cover area and entering the bustling star field, but the 20 raiding ships still maintained an unusual silence inside;

In fact, there is really no need to talk much, although these slaves are divided into several races with different appearances, but in essence, they can all be named by the same name - Nesta;

Therefore, after losing the attention of 'outsiders', they don't really want to talk to themselves, they choose to be quiet most of the time, and only occasionally pretend to have a simple communication in public and private aspects.

Later, Nesta disguised the team as six unknown but documented trading fleets according to the identities of the ships in the team, and set the target in six different star fields when passing through the first cooperative wormhole.

After arriving, each detachment picked up some goods to buy and sell, as if they were carrying out serious business activities, and went from one star field to another as if they were carrying out serious business activities, and even earned the minimum travel expenses for the trip during this period.

After such a serious business lasted for a galaxy year or so, the six groups of merchant fleets went to the target star field in batches for various reasons through many springboards, which was the home area of the energy company.

At this moment, nearly five galactic years have passed since the four-armed Nesta team left the station, but he is still maintaining the clear identity of the various fleets in a hurry, so that they continue to use the local area as an intermediate station to continue their legitimate business.

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The civilization to which the energy group belongs is the top-notch one in the third line, and the main race in the local area is a life similar to a half-plant, half-flesh structure, and its composition looks more similar to the 'tree elves' specially cultivated by the Republic back then;

However, since Nesta and other spellcasters have advanced to the molecular level, they have used genetic modification methods to turn all tree spirits back to normal spirits, and the Republic at this time has lost the slow tree-like compatriots of the past.

Aside from the digression, when the fleet in their hands has carried out a period of cover business, their long-awaited shipment date has finally arrived again.

A half-mercenary and half-transport company called 'Giant Hand Transport' entered the market soon after, and with a team of three high-speed transport ships, seven medium-sized escort ships, and 21 small escort ships, it took over the batch of target cargo and secondary energy commodities needed for cover, and mainly used the latter to fill the three high-speed transport ships accompanying at this time.

Before the carrier could start, Nesta managed to bind a mass of molecular polymer to the opposing ship, and when it traveled through the wormhole to an unknown location with its cargo, the substance helped him complete the initial star map positioning, and then screened out the wormhole of the other side that was used as an exit.

However, this kind of intelligence source cannot be directly used, and on the surface, he still uses the methods of criminals to threaten and induce, and only then can he barely obtain the terminal location from the mouths of relevant practitioners from all parties.

Therefore, he arranged for the mission fleet to pass through the wormhole from different star fields of all parties, and came to the target area according to the intelligence at different times of the time, and in the process of emergency modification, identity exchange, loss reporting, and continuous entry and exit, he let more than a dozen dilapidated merchant ships that had been bought by at least eight hands leave with their existing legal identities, so that the real raiding fleet lurked in the surrounding star fields in a state of complete silence.

The beacons are still moving forward in the simulated star map in the meditation space, and the more they go, it seems that they are about to leave the control zone of the civilization that has the sovereignty of the wormhole, but in that direction there is only a resource-poor no-man's land

At this point, it was too late to chase, and there was no suitable reason to explain the reason for locating the other party in the vast sea of stars, so Nesta observed the direction of the transport fleet while maintaining his own latent state, planning to wait for the next batch of cargo to arrive before engaging in some specious tracking operations from the surface.

But as time passed, he tasted something peculiar from the ships coming and going in this wormhole

In line with the idea of not wasting the slightest source of information, he previously left a clone in the commercial stars around the wormhole to find an opportunity to print beacons for incoming and outgoing ships, although he could not include all of them as observation objects due to convenience and other reasons, but he could always make some gains from sporadic moments every once in a while;

Among the ships marked with the beacons were merchant ships, armed mercenary ships, and sporadic long-distance travel ships, and several of them had set foot in the same direction as the 'Giant Hand Fleet', which gave him a sense of déjà vu in the invisible

Aren't the ships belonging to the legions that come and go to and from the 'home' garrison also sail into the galaxy in batches in this way? ’

Perhaps, the consignee is not some backward civilization or merchant group as previously speculated, but a dark force similar to the Torto Legion and the Yin Tyrant Group? ’

With this in mind, he began to set up and locate beacons more frequently, and upgraded from the initial micro-aggregates that could only perceive the direction to slightly larger aggregates that could upload ultra-inefficient listening information.

In the period that followed, he did prove his guess by this means

A medium-sized illegal organization called 'Coles' came into view, and the target of those fleets was one of the group's main bases here, which meant that there would be a lot of resources and a risk of the same size, and he would not be able to eat the big rat on the surface with the size of the existing raiding fleet and slave regiments;

Actually, it's not that you can't fight, but if you want to do it, you have to use some special means to eat them, and you have to pay attention to tampering with the information records in all the instruments.

However, it was clear that he didn't have to eat on his own, so Nesta, after deducing a lot of information from the 'observations', immediately reported the unexpected findings from the assessment to the immediate station, and convinced the management to trust him with some self-justifying reasons.

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Three years later, the giant hand convoy suspected to be the Coles branch returned to the downtown area, and disappeared into the wormhole after passing through the commercial star to import some goods.

Since the fourth galactic year, the number of spaceships passing through the wormhole seems to have gradually increased from a certain moment, and the surrounding commercial stars have become much more prosperous with the naked eye.

Ships from various wormholes continue to drill in and out of the trade, but each time they return, they are legitimately deprived of some of their entourage, and are stranded in nearby stars for the purpose of establishing offices, traveling, waiting for supplies, and traveling.

And when this trend continued for another 3 years, the change came suddenly at a moment that no one could have predicted.

At a very normal point in time, hundreds of transport ships lined up in front of the wormhole management office, waiting for the moment when it was their turn to be released and return to the sea;

However, at this moment, as an invisible wave spreads out in all directions at a level close to the speed of light, and at the same time, starting from the invisible surrounding periphery, different areas are starting from the invisible, and the segmented areas are synchronously covering the inward periphery;

Wherever it is affected, almost all means of communication become ineffective at the first time, so that from this moment on, it will be maintained in a state of information black hole that only enters and cannot be delivered.

This event, which only happened in an instant, did not let the surrounding commercial stars, space and surface garrisons, and the spacecraft group in front of the wormhole know in time for the first time, and the vast majority of information terminals are still in a state of being able to hear, see, and transmit.

However, this confusion did not last long

Very suddenly, nine purple-red pillars of light suddenly shot out from the spaceships that were lining up to return home, and they pierced through all the unlucky ships along the way without delay, hitting the outer layers of the three 'wormhole occurrence fortresses' straight and continuously;

Along the way, these pillars of light converged into three beams of terror rays with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and then condensed to a diameter of tens of meters as if they were constantly compressing themselves, and efficiently and quickly offset the shield that could not be turned on at full power in order to 'save money';

As a result, three diffusing energies formed on the supposedly solid shield, and the armor underneath it softened a little in the afterglow of the attack.

The ship that emitted the beam of light attack is moving slowly, and its camouflage structure is cracking due to the shock caused by the external counterattack and the intensity of the self-attack, and then it is either annihilated by the attack from the commercial star and the cruise warship, or it is scattered in space and slowly drifts outward due to weightlessness;

At the bottom of it, nine ships were dark red in color without any shields.

They appear to be quite large at first, and they appear to be a kind of thick cylindrical ship with a length of 3,200 meters and a diameter of 600 meters, which is also a common medium-sized transport ship shape;

However, in the process of slowly moving forward, it continued to condense inward visibly, until it finally turned into nine spherical hulls with a diameter of less than 800 meters, and its shape and the logo of the Torto Legion revealed all made the surrounding foreign armed ships that had previously had a hero actively remain silent.

And while all this is happening, almost simultaneously, dozens of large transport ships that have just entered the wormhole or are waiting in line to return home have also torn off their camouflage to reveal the fangs lurking inside;

Following the gap created by the nine powerful hulls, their attacks landed directly at some important points on the surface of the fortress, causing their shields to ripple in an instant.

As a result, the nine spherical capital ships extended their thick cannon muzzles from the front of their sides, and in a seemingly primitive way, in a silent roaring feeling, nine inexplicable 'cannonballs' were sent to the wormhole maintenance fortress in groups of three from a long distance.

Just as the 'cannonballs' stretched out their secondary ignition in the air and spewed out a strong tail flame, approaching the wormhole fortress with a relatively small posture and majestic power, hundreds of ordinary 'transports' or 'armed merchant ships' in the surrounding area either rushed out of the stationed space station, or left the chaotic arrival and return queues, and then launched their next actions.

Some of the ships rushed into their respective commercial stars, and their arrival provided weapons and vital support to the ground forces that had been dormant for a long time, and then together they launched the occupation and hijacking of important sectors and areas;

Some of the ships were in front of the nine 'cannonballs', starting from all distances and heading straight for the Wormhole Fortress

The three fortresses did not sit still, countless attacks, including high-energy laser beams, continued to burst out from them, and large and small aircraft took off and landed to meet them, and then either successfully destroyed the assault ships or were destroyed by nine capital ships in the distance;

In addition to its powerful attack power, the latter showed extremely flexible attack options and strong defense at this time, and continued to move forward like nine reassuring pills.

The fleet-type garrison was now activated, and was approaching the wormhole from a military anchorage not too far away, but it was the assault ships of the Torto Legion that were one step ahead of them.

More than a dozen assault ships survived the attack on the fortress, and they crashed straight into the wormhole fortress like a charging rhinoceros, withstanding one attack after another, using the ripples of energy that appeared from time to time, and firmly embedded themselves into several softened armor structures of the fortress.

Immediately, tens of thousands of interstellar marines and many miniature attack vehicles were densely packed out of the dozens of assault ships that had been scrapped, and they broke through against the garrison and firepower of the fortress that had already reacted;

In combat missions such as sweeping inward from a breach in the armor softening zone, or sweeping outward from the surface area, tens of thousands of slave soldiers, including the 'Nesta Corps', showed a combat quality far beyond that of the garrison;

They are powerful and fearless of death, and creatures who don't know what their bodies are are against the thick and aggressive Star Wars armor, forming a high-speed and effective breakthrough in a short period of time, not only defending the surface nodes of the fortress, but also breaking inward along the breach area for hundreds of meters, and countless regular troops stationed in their hands have died.

But that wasn't the end of it, a moment later nine meteoric fireballs streaked through the sky, illuminated by their light from the dark canopy of darkness that they passed, and then with the violent vibration of the fortress body, it blasted into the armor shell in a continuous acceleration, forming a depression that reached the inner layer at the point of fall.

A certain Nesta was controlling his eight-legged octopus-like knotted armor, and the squad was rushing through the fortress at high speed under the 'command' of the four-armed Nesta, and suddenly he and his nearby 'teammates' felt a strong vibration from multiple points at the same time;

One of the starting points was very close to them, so he quietly swept his own perception through the vibration, and immediately 'saw' the culprit who caused such a movement.

It was a stout, blunt-tipped bullet, and even though it shredded the armor of the fortress in a rather primitive way, it was more than a powerful cannonball;

The massive cannonball cracked in the Nesta senses, opening a hole in the center like some kind of vehicle, and a large armored hand popped out with a loud thud.

(End of chapter)