Soul of Burning Steel

The central fleet in the atrium, the bridge of the flagship Forerunner, after seeing the inactive flesh and blood of the Void Mother Beast, Commander Tarquin finally lifted the hands that had been behind him and pressed them on his face. The old man exhaled a trembling breath, and then smiled in a tired voice: "It's over... the past few months have really been... the hateful Void Mother Beast, the hateful Forby!"

While speaking fragmented words, the old man’s voice became full of resentment bit by bit. It was possible to see that flashing psionic light shot from the fingers of Taquin’s face. The commander of the atrium fleet had already I can’t hold back my resentment towards my neighbors-if it weren’t for the Falby’s who summoned the Void Mother Beast and didn’t destroy it, if it weren’t for the Forby’s people, they would not resist and fled the home star in a panic, if not for the Forby. People didn't mean to remind them at all, intending to use them as bait to delay the Void Mother Beast, none of this will happen! If the Fulby people had notified the atrium people to cooperate with them, maybe the Void Mother Beast would never have the chance to grow to such a huge scale!

Everything was far from the original, everything was the fault of the Vulby people.

This kind of thinking has been circulated throughout the atrium society, and countless young atrium generations who once had a good impression of unknown races in the outside world have therefore reversed their perceptions, turning the thoughts of atrium people who were willing to treat outsiders in good faith into being wary of others. Xenophobes, all these are the faults of the Forbys. Taquin secretly swears in his heart that if one day, he meets the Forby's exile fleet again, he will definitely lead the army to destroy them. Thorough purification is not left!

Just like purifying the Void Mother Beast.

Putting down his hand, the old man raised his head and looked at the starry sky. There, a spacecraft was slowly approaching the flesh and blood of the mother animal that seemed to have lost its activity. All crew members and scientific researchers were fully aware of death, and they were about to determine the mother animal from close range. Whether to completely die, and as far as possible to detect where the mother beast’s psychic core is located.

To be honest, Taquin didn’t think the mother beast could survive the bombardment of the subspace shattering artillery. He had seen the result of a battleship’s failed migration. Even the most powerful special alloys were cut into sand. The crumbs of the crew, the flesh and blood of the crew, mixed with engine oil, flow in the wreckage of the half-life spacecraft. No life can survive in that chaotic space, not to mention that it will be exposed to the cosmic space afterwards. All kinds of radiation exposure.

This is his thought, and it is also the thought of most of the atrium people-including the left-behind personnel in the Poseidon fortress, many soldiers in the atrium who heard the news sighed fortunately that they did not have to face the mother beast. After all, even if they are willing to sacrifice their lives for their compatriots and their hometown, it is definitely a good thing to survive. After ‘defeating’ the mother beast, many people have even begun to imagine the scene of the future glory homecoming, and many people have begun to cry for their sacrificed comrades.

But in the distant universe, the abnormal movement of the chaotic monster ruthlessly shattered their imagination.

"High-energy response!"

At the moment there was a smile on the faces of all the people in the atrium, the detection station suddenly lit up a red alarm! At this moment, in the flesh and blood of the original mother beast, there were suddenly thousands of thick tentacles violently entwining the scientific research ship that was approaching cautiously. The sturdy alloy shell and the emergency escape device were of no use. It was twisted into a mass of steel wreckage in just one second, and then turned into countless fragments in a violent explosion.

At the same time, a sharp and bright beam of light, like a sharp sword, shot from the flesh and blood debris that should have no activity at all-it straddled the distance of light seconds and directly hit the body of the subspace crusher, that silver The diamond-shaped octahedron, the terrifying energy fluctuations almost instantly smashed this huge man-made creation. The pride of the atrium people penetrated straight from the beginning to the end, and the aftermath even burst from its tail, causing a large number of atrium fleets to be shattered. After losing the shield, he was temporarily paralyzed.

Not long ago, even the world-killing beam that even the legendary mage Nostradamus had been darkened appeared once again, but now, it is far less powerful than it seemed that time and space can be shattered at the beginning. It is just a large and solid fortress-level main gun. , But even so, it is no problem to destroy a super weapon that has just been manufactured without supporting shields and defense facilities without the attention of the people in the atrium.

Puff, Lu————

In a vacuum, sound waves cannot be transmitted, but all the atrium people who looked into the distant universe with shocked eyes seemed to have a sound as if rotten meat and internal organs were slapping together, and then reunited, the flagship of the central fleet in the atrium. On the bridge, Taquin stretched out a hand and tremblingly pointed at the slowly reorganizing and regenerating Void Mother Beast in the optical lens. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but the invisible force oppressed his vocal organs. He could only tremblingly watch the mother of monsters reappearing the world again.

Reborn from the thousands of swords and swords in the space, the Void Mother Beast returned to its original spherical sea urchin shape-but compared to the beginning, its size was greatly reduced, and its diameter was only about 550,000 meters. The original solid shell has not been regenerated at this time, there are only countless broken and loose black chitin fragments, and the thick psionic shield is so transparent that it does not exist, but even so, it is a super life whose size exceeds the fortress. . Recombined from the loose nano-virus form into today’s giant individual, the mother beast felt unprecedented hunger-all its hard-hit organizations were crying out for energy and organic matter, and it urgently needed to go to a living planet to plunder its ecosystem to eat After a meal, restore your own quality and state.

However, it is obvious that the high-beam galaxy is still dozens of astronomical units or even hundreds of astronomical units as far away as the nearest ecological planet due to the orbit of the planet. fall apart. But it's okay.

Isn't there just so many organic resources in front of you?

The mother beast turned her body, and turned the thickest front of the carapace into a panic. At this time, the fleet of Atrium people was quickly arranging the array. For the chaotic monsters that are not taboo, most of the fleet is half-life. The mechanical structure of the atrium fleet is completely a delicious meal, at least the outer layer of iron cans need to be peeled off. It doesn't mind such a little trouble.

So in the next moment, the Void Mother Beast, which has been roughly reorganized but shrunk several times, will be more brutal and ferocious than ever before, and it will rush towards the atrium fleet that is barely reorganizing its formation. Its speed is at a moment's notice. The acceleration exceeded three-thousandths of the speed of light, and the atrium fleet did not hesitate to fire together, using psychic light spears to deal with this huge incoming enemy, but even the central fleet plus the three colonial star fleets totaled more than 3,000 The salvo of five hundred warships scorched at most about one-tenth of the area on the front of the mother beast, and the depth of damage did not exceed 300 meters. Although it was painful for the mother beast, it was just digging out. A muscle is just not enough to stop it from moving.

Attack, no effect, defense, meaningless, evasion-facing the impact of a giant meteorite with a diameter of more than 500 kilometers, the battleship at the edge can escape, what about the main force at the center of the array? It's not about to be crushed by the mother beast!

Is there any way to deal with it?

From great joy to great sorrow, Commander Taquin, whose mood is ups and downs, has nothing but blank anger in his eyes at this time. He can lead the fleet and other races around the asteroid belt, and can easily drive the huge space deformation. Insect Swarm, but he has never encountered such a situation before, and he never knows how to deal with this huge, strong, regenerative, super life that can survive even if it is cut into powder-this is beyond his ability. Outside.

But it was obvious that the old man had forgotten one thing-their reinforcements from the home planet were not only the central fleet that sent the engines, but also the void life they summoned from the void gate.

Behind the mother beast, a hot red flame accompanied by exploding speed, came first and hit the back of the mother beast. Just when everyone didn’t know what was happening, it originally rushed towards the atrium fleet fiercely. The mother beast that came wriggled as if convulsed, and then the flight direction deviated. For objects on a cosmic scale, moving quickly at three-thousandths of the speed of light, they deviated a little bit from the direction, which is completely staggered. After ten seconds, the stunned Taquin stared at the giant Void Mother Beast rubbing the atrium. The edge of the human fleet flew towards their rear!

At this time, Joshua, who was slapped by a tentacle of the mother beast, accelerated again and flew towards the tail of the mother beast. The deviation saved the lives of the people in the atrium, and it was he who kept attacking the body of the mother beast, so that the mother beast, who had been frightened by the consequences of his entering the body, turned her attention to attacking him. Forgot that he was moving rapidly in the direction of Poseidon.

Soon, the Void Mother Beast passed the Poseidon fortress, the artificial fortress built by the atrium people on the balance point of Poseidon’s gravitational force, and together with Joshua, flew towards the inner orbit of Poseidon. During this time, the mother Of course, the beast finds itself falling under the gravitational pull of this blue gas giant star. It wants to accelerate to get rid of the shackles of gravitation, but since Joshua is there, it is impossible to make it successful, relying on the flesh and blood of the mother beast. , Qiao Xiu burned the furnace again, working hard to involve the other party's energy, so that the Void Mother Beast had no time to change to speed. Unless the other party wants him to enter the body again and cause a big explosion.

If that were the case, Joshua didn't mind if he really blew himself up again, completely blasting the remaining two energy cores of the mother beast.

Taquin, who was covered in condensate-plant tissues oozing water-wiped the water left on his forehead. He looked at the direction where Joshua and the Void Mother Beast were falling towards Poseidon. The wisdom of the fleet commander, of course he guessed that Joshua and the others had just involved the energy of the mother beast, so that the other party did not destroy their fleet, but the other party was forced to the orbit of Poseidon...

His thinking suddenly stopped, Taquin felt that there must be some crucial element behind this, but he could not understand it. This made the old man feel painful, but no matter what, it was accompanied by a clear and extremely rippled punch. The surface spread of Poseidon is enough to prove that the Void Mother Beast has completely crashed into the gas giant star.

A gas giant star whose outer layer is 99% composed of hydrogen and helium.

"What the **** is'Titan' thinking?"

In the control room, countless voices sounded and discussed. Through the focus of optical instruments, everyone could see the four-armed giant form of Joshua fighting with the Void Mother Beast. Of course, they were still in shock and thanked the reinforcements that saved their lives, but Can't understand what the other party's actions are for-is there any point in shooting the Void Mother Beast into the gas superstar? Doesn't this allow the opponent to conceal his whereabouts with the help of a thick gaseous layer, and then slowly absorb the material to recover his injuries? Some of them already had a general understanding of the abilities of the Void Mother Beast, so some people would be puzzled.

"Could it be that the Titan intends to use the violent storm on Poseidon to tear apart the structure of the Void Mother Beast?"

Someone proposed such a possibility, but it was rejected by most people, because the result of physically destroying the mother beast’s body has just been seen. Apart from paralyzing the mother beast for a while, it doesn’t make any sense. Maybe it will cause the other side to split and produce children. Body becomes more difficult to deal with.

"Wait-look!"

Suddenly, a crew member’s exclamation sounded near the observation platform. He immediately spread what he had seen to the people around him. So, after the news spread, almost everyone saw it. The blue, yellow and white colors of Sea God A hint of dark green appeared on the surface of the huge mixed star. The dark green was like a drop of water falling into oil at first, but then it began to spread rapidly, like a literary proliferation, with chaotic fluctuations. Eroded everything around into green waves!

"It's a mother beast! Void mother beasts are spreading among gas giants... Don't they just feed on ecological planets?"

As soon as I said this, the atrium person who said it shut his mouth. Even if the atrium person has a large amount of trace elements in his own body, all intelligent life cannot be composed of pure organisms. Void mother beasts. It is not surprising to be able to feed on the substances in the giant gaseous giant, and speaking out can only reveal one's ignorance.

At this time, the Void Mother Beast is undergoing the impact of the Poseidon storm. Its fragile external body is being cut and blown away by a gust of wind like a chain saw, and then turned into inactive material particles, but at the same time, it is also It quickly condenses a solid fluid shell to resist the impact of the wind. In addition, it also greedily absorbs the tiny particles of the outer layer of the gaseous giant to strengthen itself. With the momentum of green expansion, it is compared to the harshness of the planet Neptune. The environment seems to be the superior ability of the Void Mother Beast.

Without any extra words, the atrium fleet began to converge and descend towards the surface orbit of Poseidon. Taquin asked his adjutant with a terrible expression, but got a worse answer.

"Sorry, Commander...Because of the energy supply of the subspace crusher and the volleys of the mother beasts just now, the remaining energy of the warship is running out... We can't resist the gravitational force of Poseidon while launching spirits. Can light spear."

The white-faced adjutant numbly talked about the current dilemma of the atrium fleet, and in the command of all other warships, a similar scene was staged: everyone was told that they would sit back and watch the Void Mother Beast in the gas superstar. After recovering from the state, come back and fight head-on, or launch a psychic light spear while being pulled down by Poseidon's gravity and fall.

Make it clear: wait to die, or die.

"...This is a super life beyond the scope of our technology."

The commander of the Colonial First Squadron in the atrium, the bald middle-aged man touched his head, which had no more leaves, and revealed an expression that is indescribable. He was open to the commander-level psychic communication channel inside. Zhong said quietly:

"I kind of want to give up."

And the commander of the Colonial Star Third Fleet, the middle-aged atrium man named Shina looked at the withered yellow leaf that had just fallen in his hand, and he was silent for a long time. This atrium person remembered many things, how he joined the army, how he sailed in the universe, how little by little he climbed from a low-level officer to the bottom of the current fleet commander. In the end, Xi Na recalled a familiar old man, the old man who was driving a space fighter and had to inform his friends of two void lives at all costs.

Alzera's calm face toward death echoed in Xena's mind, which calmed his heart. The commander of the Third Fleet felt a force flooding his body.

"Absolutely not."

He said so, full of determination.

After speaking, Sina laughed instead. He was not worried. The commander of the atrium immediately ordered: "The Broken, all personnel leave the ship."

"Confirm the coordinates: green spots. The Void Mother Beast is located."

——The people in the atrium have sacrificed a lot, so don't mind if I have one more. Thinking of this, Xi Na let out a long breath: "Launch a spear of light, and then hit it."

In the bridge commander's room, there was no sound except the movement of the controller according to the captain's instructions to determine the launch coordinates and impact coordinates of the psychic light spear. The middle-aged commander closed his eyes and sat back on his command chair. The light curtain in front of him showed a long parabola and a straight line. That was the trajectory where the Breaker fell and the Psionic Light Spear launched, but He didn't even intend to go to the emergency exit.

"The countdown to the engine explosion... 220, 219, 218..."

But just when the battleship was not resisting the gravity of Poseidon and began to slowly fall towards its surface, causing a momentary weightlessness, Xina suddenly opened his eyes, looked around, and angrily scolded the surrounding commanders: " I said all the crew left the ship! What are you **** idiots doing here?!"

No one responded to him. Everyone sat in their seats. Some people use the light curtain to call up photos of themselves and their family on Colonial Star, some are using the psionic channel to leave messages to their relatives who may still exist in the distance, some are crying, some are calling themselves stupid, why should they be accompanied by a temporary impulse A large group of people were buried, and beside him, his friends were joking, their souls could go on the road together, and then merge into one at the mother tree.

All the members of the Third Fleet were people whose hometown was destroyed by the mother beast, and they had no place to return.

No one left.

The battleship is falling, and the Psionic Light Spear has fired for four rounds. The millions of degrees of high-temperature Psionic Light Spear penetrated the outer carapace of the mother beast. This was not originally an injury to the Void Mother Beast, but the Seagod’s The strong air current expanded the wound, causing the material on the mother animal's body to drain. But because of this, apart from the red emergency light that represents the energy shortage, there is no light inside the Broken. The original roaring psychic engine gradually stopped operating, but the light became brighter and overloaded. His violent psychic energy is continuing, waiting for the moment of eruption.

"The countdown to the engine explosion, 82, 81, 80, 79..."

Not only the Shattered, but also many warships are falling one after another. They also launch light spears, attack the mother beast, and take away part of its surface mass. Just like the rain of steel, mixed with the hot stream of light, emergency escape capsules flew out from the warships that were out of orbit, and were received by other warships that had not fallen. This scene is silent, just like death.

Too lazy to scold his disobedient crew again, Xi Na closed his eyes again and sat in his seat. Many shots appeared in his mind like a revolving lantern, but none of them were about himself, which made the middle-aged person feel angry: He originally planned to look back at his life before he died, but his instincts were inferior to him. Wish.

"It really makes me difficult."

At this moment, a calm voice that made Xina feel unfamiliar sounded in his mind: "It is a good thing to dare to sacrifice. Everyone likes brave people, but it increases the workload for me and Joshua."

"Give me a good life, don't keep thinking about dying--being a hero, it's not your turn."

Along with words that seemed to be ridiculed and praised, Sina suddenly felt that he was surrounded by a faint blue light-along with the waves of time and space that made him, the commander of the fleet, feel so familiar, he then In an exclamation, I didn't know where it was teleported to, but the entire interior of the battleship-even all the atrium people inside the atrium battleship that was falling and preparing to explode suffered the same situation.

With the dark blue time and space passage standing on top of the mother beast, the four-armed steel giant opened behind him, and the legendary incarnation of Nostradamus appeared on Joshua’s side, and the warrior did not look back, just in the spirit. The link said: "Take a rest?"

"Can barely use a trick."

The old mage, who was shot frontally by the Void Mother Beast with a high-energy laser that could evaporate a city in an instant, replied solemnly: "No matter how much I get, I will die."

"Then stop the big guy below-it only takes less than a second."

The steel giant opened his four arms, and the huge gravitational field changes, causing the endless hydrogen and helium in Poseidon to gather into his arms like a waterfall flowing backwards. Joshua gathered these micro-elements, whether it was Nostradamus or those who have been using psychic powers, who had never studied microscopic matter particles and didn’t know what purpose they had, and whispered: “It’s necessary then. You take me to retreat—remember, you must run far enough!"

"Don't worry."

Nostradamus first frowned and glanced at the huge Void Mother Beast on the soles of his feet. He felt a little tricky-it was almost impossible to fix such a big guy with time and space spells. Even if he paid a certain price, he could only Say there is a possibility of success. But to Joshua's last request, the old mage happily agreed: "I can't guarantee success, but I will try my best-then I will go first."

Before he finished speaking, before Joshua could reply, he turned into a blue streamer and flew in the direction of the Void Mother Beast. After a while, with a wave of time and space, the huge Void Mother Beast was actually After a short pause like this, I can vaguely see behind the thick gas layer, a faint blue human figure is flipping through his magic book, burning the pages of the book, at the cost of consuming the power of the magic book. , Do everything possible to maintain the solidification of the space.

And in this short moment, Joshua did a lot of things. In his spiritual sea, Hotaru and Rin are resonating with his soul~www.novelmtl.com~ The spirit of three people is assisting him to extreme After the complicated calculation, Joshua took a deep breath, and the huge hydrogen-helium gas group large enough to cover the atrium fleet was attracted by him from the surface of Poseidon, and then quickly compressed by the warrior’s steel power. Cohesion, turned into a small point that is insignificant.

"Since it's all hydrogen and helium, nuclear fusion is nothing strange." With strange thoughts flashing in his mind, Joshua looked into her arms, compressed and condensed to the extreme by him, almost impossible to see with the naked eye. The helium polymer body suddenly lit up with a dazzling golden red light all over the body, and as the warrior increased his energy output step by step, he input endless energy and heat into the small point in his arms that was about to explode, and the hurricane suddenly rose , The heat that caused the space to boil overflowed, even blowing away part of the gas on the surface of Poseidon.

And the crimson light illuminates half of the Sea God.

At this time, a small golden, pulsating sun was held in his arms by Joshua, just as he held his heart at the beginning, it was extremely hot, and the power from the founding of the universe was surging in the middle of his four arms. The warrior had nothing but the coordinates of the Void Mother Beast in the warrior's mind, and he didn't think about anything except completely destroying the Mother Beast.

——Is it weird to carry out nuclear fusion with large amounts of hydrogen and helium alone?

In fact, of course it's very strange and unbelievable. However, magic and supernatural power are originally miracle-like things, and the purpose of their existence is to make people do incredible and miraculous things.

The legendary powerhouse Joshua thought he could do such a thing.

Therefore, today, he did not push the Void Mother Beast into the sun according to his previous thoughts.

Instead, it pushed the sun toward it.

In the next instant, the sea of ​​fire formed by nuclear fusion ignited Poseidon.