Chapter 104 Chase and Escape
An earth-shattering blast of doomsday light shook the loneliness, and not a single hair fell out. This was obviously beyond the expectation of the mechanical ascension battle body.
But what surprised Li Qing even more was that after taking back some of its T-slot weapons, this thing's IQ had qualitatively changed.
After Li Qing used an inexplicable method to collect the Doomsday Light, he obviously paused for a moment, then ignored the fact that there were still some body structures behind him that had not been recovered, and directly jumped into the air and flew into the void, and ran away.
Li Qing immediately ordered:
"Catch up."
The fleets quickly converged, and space fighters all over the sky rushed into the open black hole.
The seemingly extremely prosperous mechanical planet below quickly collapsed after the mechanical ascendant left, including the half-disabled star fort, which all turned into light and gradually disappeared.
It was obvious that the target of his mission chain was indeed this mechanical ascendant.
Although I don’t know how he got mixed up with this anomaly, or it should be said that this anomaly was born based on this mechanical ascender. When he gave up everything and left, the anomaly naturally collapsed and disappeared.
It took almost ten minutes to recover all the fighter planes and nearby debris. At this time, the mechanical ascender had already disappeared into the depths of the starry sky, but the golden spaceship-like token in Li Qing's hand was flashing, and the coordinates recorded on it were flashing. Move quickly.
"You can't run."
The fleet quickly sailed into the starry sky and caught up with them at extremely fast speeds.
Not long after, with streams of light escaping into the starry sky, the fleet entered a state of super-light speed and disappeared, leaving only a barren satellite that continued to rotate, as if the battle just now had never happened.
Two hours later, the fleet broke away from sub-light speed and appeared in a strange starry sky.
Li Qing immediately checked the golden spaceship token, which showed that the coordinates of the mechanical ascendant were no longer in this galaxy.
"View nearby wormholes."
A large number of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft dispersed and soon discovered a wormhole at the edge of the galaxy's gravity well. Li Yuan quickly assembled his fleet and sailed over.
After ten minutes of preparation, the fleet disappeared as the surging energy ring exploded.
More than half an hour later, the fleet passed through the hyperspace channel between wormholes and appeared in another strange galaxy that had never been before.
As soon as he came out of the wormhole, he saw the warning red light in the bridge. Before he could check the surrounding situation, Li Qing subconsciously opened the door of the black hole to protect his position near the command ship. In less than ten seconds, he felt A ray of doomsday light penetrates the black hole into the universe in the palm of your hand.
"I'll take it!"
Li Qing was surprised:
"Is this thing so cunning?"
He actually took advantage of the moment they passed through the wormhole to attack them secretly.
It only lasted ten seconds, and the normal fleet couldn't react at all when it passed by.
Without the universe in the palm of your hand to block the gun, this gun would have cost at least one battleship. Even if the battleship was lying sideways, the gun could directly penetrate the battleship and affect another battleship behind it.
One shot missed, and the mechanical ascension battle body turned around and ran away without hesitation. Without Li Qing's order, Li Yuan immediately ordered the fleet to catch up.
At the same time, all the battleship's main guns locked on the target and began to charge. After ten seconds, twenty-three neutron light spears were blasted out.
Half an hour later, they had appeared in another void, one chasing and the other pursuing.
Occasionally, the former suddenly stopped and fired a wave of particle light spears backhand, but all attacks were swallowed up by a pitch-black abyss.
The shield of the mechanical ascension battle body is very strong, and it is even stronger than before after partially replenishing itself. A wave of concentrated fire shields from twenty-three battleships does not move at all, and it is estimated that he may not be able to break through even ten waves.
As for the mechanical ascending combat body, Li Qing had no choice but to enter the state. He didn't even have time to study the small part of the mechanical ascending combat body that had been swallowed by the universe in his palm. Now he was concentrating on biting his opponent to prevent him from escaping.
In a state of constant attack, the opponent was unable to forcefully jump away for a while. The two sides were entangled back and forth in this galaxy for almost a week, and no one could do anything about the other.
This super mechanical ascension battle body is so hard. Not only is the shield and armor thick, but the recovery speed is also very fast. A wave of concentrated fire from the neutron light spear main gun can be fully recovered in less than half an hour.
"This can't go on like this."
He always couldn't catch it. This thing looked like it would last a long time. He didn't have that much time to waste it.
Although there are still two years before the expeditionary force's next big operation, it doesn't mean that he has time to wander around. He still has a lot of things to do.
shipbuilding.
research.
make money.
This all takes time, and now that I'm dragged here, I can't do anything except brush up some naval command skills.
But it’s even more difficult to give up. This guy’s fighting ability is extraordinary. If he can catch him and reconstruct the underlying code like Mechanical Core No. 0 before, he will be another powerful subordinate.
More importantly, this thing is the goal of the fourth step of this task chain. If you can't catch it, you won't be able to continue to the next step.
So no matter which aspect you look at, you have to catch him.
"Or try this?"
An immature idea came to Li Qing's mind.
Half an hour later, after blocking a wave of counterattacks, they did not counterattack as usual, but continued to pursue.
There was no brief pause in the main gun salvo during counterattack, and the fleet quickly closed some distance.
Then, Li Qing suddenly closed his eyes, stretched out his hand, and a black hole suddenly opened in the direction of the mechanical ascension combat body, rapidly expanding to a diameter of thirty kilometers. The mechanical ascension combat body was caught off guard and hit it hard. It can be seen that A layer of black light appears to rise from the surface of the black hole.
This is because this mechanical ascension combat body is strongly repulsive. It is a door for those who do not resist, but it is a trap for those with strong hostility and repulsion.
Although the mechanical ascension battle body was strongly repelled and did not crash into the door, there was an inevitable pause. Just as he climbed flexibly and prepared to cross the black hole door with a diameter of only 30 kilometers, Li Qing stood up, his pupils filled with laughter. Overflowing with spiritual energy.
Taking one step forward, the man left the bridge and appeared in the starry sky, his whole body covered by a circle of rich spiritual energy.
He stretched out his finger, and a circle of transparent ripples suddenly appeared in front of the black hole's door. The next second, countless ripples rippled in the void within a radius of more than ten kilometers, and then a strong silver light emerged.
Psychic storm!
A powerful psyker mixes powerful spiritual energy with a powerful spiritual will, directly interfering with the real material universe, and extremely restraining and damaging electronics and precision machinery.
Under the strangulation of the psychic storm, the energy shield on the surface of this mechanical ascension combat body began to shake violently as if it was about to break, and its flight speed and flexibility were greatly affected.
But the strength of the mechanical ascension battle body was stronger than he imagined. It actually stood out from the range of the strong psychic storm and then escaped without looking back.
"Insufficient strength!"
Li Qing returned to the command ship, pondered for a while, then turned and entered the black hole door.
When he reappeared, he was followed by eleven servants of light, three physicists, three sociobiologists, and five engineers. Among them, biologist Zhu Yunlong was a newly initiated light. Servants.
All servants of light are psykers, with a basic psychic strength of around 100,000, and can continue to increase.
Among so many Servants of Light, Li Yuan, who was the first to be enlightened, had a spiritual strength of about 130,000, which was slightly stronger than Li Qing.
It is worth mentioning that the strength of the Servant of Light will continue to recover as the universe in the palm of your hand gradually recovers.
Because the essence of a true servant of light is immortal, not only the life span is immortal, but the essence of life is immortal, and the strength of his spiritual energy is also immortal.
This immortality is a realm of power, immortal psykers, and immortal primarchs.
In other words, the more the universe in the palm is repaired, the faster their power will grow until they reach immortality.
In addition to Li Yuan, a total of twelve servants of light were summoned in order to borrow their power.
When he used the psionic storm just now, he found that the psionic storm was indeed effective on this mechanical ascension combat body. You can clearly see that his speed has slowed down and he is not as flexible as before, but his psychic power is not strong enough to completely trap it.
Now gathering all the spiritual saints and gathering their strength, they can gather up to 1.5 million spiritual energy intensity. I believe it can have a huge impact on this mechanical ascension battle body.
However, Li Qing soon discovered an embarrassing situation.
It is estimated that after the mechanical ascension battle body discovered that he was a powerful psyker, it then focused on escaping without looking back.
When he was chasing before, he would turn around from time to time and launch a sneak attack with focused fire. But now he didn't do that. He just focused on escaping. With the speed of this machine's ascension battle body, he wasted another ten minutes in summoning the psychic saints, but the fleet was unable to do anything for a moment. catch up.
Two days later, Li Qing had to ask all the servants of light to return to the Palm Universe first. They were all busy, and it was a waste of time to stay outside.
Time shuttle, unknowingly a month later, he followed the mechanical ascension battle body and unknowingly chased more than 20 galaxies. During this period, he did not even touch the shadow. If there was not a golden spacecraft token to determine the location, he would have been there long ago. Lost it.
Another day, the fleet passed through the wormhole and appeared in a strange galaxy. After confirming that there was no ambush at the entrance of the wormhole, Li Qing immediately checked the token and was surprised to find that the beacon was no longer moving.
He said in surprise:
"Can't I run anymore?"
He happily sent the coordinates to Li Yuan, and the fleet quickly sailed in the direction of the stopped coordinates.
After a short period of sublight speed, the fleet left sublight speed and appeared in an uninhabited starry sky. Li Qing checked the beacon again and found that it still hadn't moved.
A large group of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft dispersed, and soon received a response from the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. The coordinates shown on the screen turned out to be a pirate base built on a small satellite. There was a fleet of more than a dozen battleships parked at the base port. The total number of pirate fleets led by them was about a thousand.
"You still do it like this!"
Li Qing wanted to laugh inexplicably.
Not to mention how this mechanical ascendant got into this anomaly and was chased for so long, doesn't he know that his coordinates have been grasped by the pursuers?
"That's not right, I probably just want to use this to stop myself."
As the fleet gradually approaches the coordinate location, the pirate base on the small satellite can already be seen.
The normal reconnaissance range of pirate wild monsters is not far away, but this time, probably due to the influence of the mechanical ascender, he was discovered from a long distance. There was a commotion in the pirate base, and the fleet stationed in the pirate base took the initiative to greet him.
Li Qing held his chin and thought for a while, then said to Li Yuan:
"Annihilate them head-on!"
"Your will is my will!"
The fleet quickly deployed its formation to meet them. Li Qing stretched out his hand and the black hole opened, and space fighters flew out to attack the pirate fleet.
A hundred thousand space fighters spanned a range of thousands of kilometers. With the absolute level of technology and the addition of the Servants of Light, the pirate fleet of less than two thousand was quickly wiped out like moths flying into a flame, and the fleet pounced on the pirate fleet without any pause.
When the fleet and the pirate fleet entered the combat range, more than a hundred pirate gunboats had been swamped by the fleet.
The gap is so big that two space fighters can defeat a pirate gunship head-on.
When the main guns of the pirate fleet's sixteen main battleships began to charge, the main guns of Li Qing's main battleship had already begun the second round of charging, and fired early before the pirate fleet's main guns attacked for the first time.
Two rounds of concentrated fire successfully destroyed the shield and armor of a pirate main battleship. Part of the hull structure was also torn into pieces. It was paralyzed on the spot and unable to continue fighting in space.
At this time, a bunch of space fighters pounced on them like sharks that smelled something fishy.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, they completely suppressed the pirate fleet.
But the mechanical ascension combat body that had been mixed in the pirate fleet did not take action. When the two sides fully engaged in battle, they directly betrayed their teammates and turned around and ran away.
It was obvious that he did not want to rely on the pirate fleet to repel Li Qing when he was in this abnormal pirate base, but wanted them to hold Li Qing back and buy him more time to escape.
Various interference, acceleration and deceleration halo effects, even if you want to get rid of them with super speed, it will take a certain amount of time.
Even if it wasn't much, it was enough for him to escape a certain distance.
However, Li Qing guessed that the purpose of this mechanical ascension was not to simply delay time. After chasing for so long, he should not know that it was useless. He guessed that the main purpose of this mechanical ascension was to try various things. Way to get out.
Small-scale interception is not possible, but what if it is a more powerful abnormal fleet?
The process was exactly the same as before. After a short period of time, the mechanical ascenders quickly fled the galaxy.
Li Qing also chased him as usual. Anyway, he kept chasing him like this. After chasing him for eternity, he couldn't believe that he couldn't find a chance to stop him.
Five days later, he passed through a wormhole and came to another galaxy.
The fleet stopped at the entrance of the wormhole for a while. Li Qing looked at the fixed coordinates and raised the corner of his mouth slightly:
"Let me see where you are hiding this time."
With an order, a large number of unmanned reconnaissance units flew in the designated direction.
About five hours later, the fleet rushing over received footage from an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
However, when he saw the scene detected by the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, Li Qing opened his mouth slightly and exclaimed:
"Fuck!"
What appeared in front of him was a huge fleet beyond his imagination, slowly cruising in the cold starry sky. (End of chapter)