Chapter 448 The Dead
In the command room of this special operation to attack the Nano Colossus.
The Sentinel Array once again reported that the Nano Colossus was confirmed to have been destroyed, and that new Nano Colossi were not replenished in a short period of time.
But the news about the abnormal behavior of the nano fleet was also broadcast again.
The actions of the empire do seem to have affected the behavior of the survivors. They have changed their original plans and are moving in the direction of the empire.
And the number of these affected fleets is gradually increasing.
Originally, only a fleet of several hundred ships was affected, but in just the past few minutes, the number of affected fleets has increased to hundreds.
Coming straight in the direction of the empire.
But soon news came from the sentinel array.
The number of affected fleets stopped increasing after reaching one-tenth of the total nano fleet, and the Queen's vehicle still did not move.
It was as if this was not an intervention from the Queen, but just a counterattack against the destruction of the Colossus.
No one knows why, but it might not be a bad thing for the Empire.
However, there were still some people in the conference room who were deeply troubled by the bizarre operations of the Survivor fleet and the Queen's inaction.
This also includes the Minister of Psychics.
He couldn't understand it.
The Nano Colossus was destroyed, and the survivors' pace of assimilating to the planet and expanding themselves stalled.
Under normal circumstances, the survivors would either carry out large-scale revenge and use the opportunity of revenge to make up for the expansion effect brought about by the dismantling of the Colossus, or they would find a way to directly solve the expansion problem.
Under the premise that the only means of expansion for the survivors is the Colossus, the Queen has chosen to stand still and only dispatched a small part of the fleet to the empire.
The number of these fleets is not even comparable to the number of fleets sent by the empire. At most, it can only be equal to the fleets sent by the empire to attract attention, and both sides will eventually retreat.
Everyone knows that a fleet of this size cannot cause any trouble. Why would the Queen do this?
What traps are the survivors still setting? Or do you have any more special ideas?
No one knows.
What is currently known is that the survivors' nanofleet has extremely strong self-repair capabilities, and they can make more frequent long-distance jumps.
Therefore, this batch of nanofleet is expected to arrive at the border of the empire in two days.
It may take two days to find out what the nanofleet is going to do.
Of course the empire will not wait these two days, and it will not even wait now.
After the success of the plan for the Nano Colossus, the command center was still extremely busy, and everyone was paying attention to the development of another plan being carried out together.
Outside the star field occupied by Nano.
Another Imperial fleet is approaching the nanostar field.
The scale of this fleet is larger than that of the fleet that ambushed the Nano Colossus. It not only has two Colossi at the same time, but also has a large number of Zerg fleets escorting the edges.
This huge fleet is constantly jumping to the side of the nano star field.
The Minister of Psychics successfully borrowed the Colossus from Splendor, and also borrowed some Zerg fleets controlled by the Queen herself.
The fleet lurked after approaching the nano star field, waiting for a suitable opportunity.
Soon the time will come.
The combined fleet formed by several powerful imperial forces that had evacuated previously fired another wave of counterattacks after the withdrawal.
A reverse attack, as if they were going to knock down the galaxy where the Nano Colossus was previously stationed.
The nano fleet's attention was once again drawn to them.
No one and no survivor thought that the imperial fleet would turn back after achieving its goal. A large number of nano fleets were immediately dispatched to the galaxy where a new round of battle broke out.
This is the opportunity.
The Colossus fleet, which had been waiting at the edge of the star field for a long time, immediately made the last jump in a short period of time.
Arriving at the nano-galaxy that was used as a test target for the Colossus.
After relying on the crushing fleet to clear out the nano patrol fleet in the galaxy, a Chen Ming Colossus and a Colossus belonging to the Empire each drove to a planet that was assimilated by nano.
Two different Colossus-level weapons, the Earth Explosion Star and the Neutron Killer, were activated at the same time.
Moreover, both Colossi ships are blessed with the spiritual power of the brilliant Chen Ming, and their startup efficiency and output power have been enhanced to a certain extent.
However, Huihuang is obviously more experienced in the use of neutron killing, and the activation of this Colossus is obviously faster.
A torrent of neutrons pours down from space.
It seems that it only takes a blink of an eye to completely destroy the nanometers on the planet.
But before the neutron killing was completely launched, the nanomachines on the planet had already detected the danger.
The nanostorm covering the entire planet is becoming more intense, and countless nanomachines flowing on the earth have also joined the storm, like a layer of isolation net
Near the location locked by the Colossus on the planet, the nanometer storm has almost condensed into a tsunami-like product.
The storm here is like a giant vortex in a nano ocean.
When the seemingly endless torrent of neutrons fell, the nanostorm completely swallowed up all the high-energy neutrons.
Even if doing so will cause damage to countless nanomachines, these machines are still trying their best to capture these neutrons, which will cause irreversible damage to everything on the planet.
Countless broken nanomachines were thrown out of the storm.
But there are countless new nanomachines reintegrated into the storm.
The output of neutron killing is decreasing, and those activated neutrons have been used up.
There was a sigh of relief from the command center that was watching this scene.
Neutron killing is confirmed to be ineffective against nano-planet.
Only the Earthburst Star, which is still in the process of being activated, still retains everyone's hope.
As the Earth Blast Star was activated, the energy rays of destruction hit the surface of the nano-planet directly.
The energy beam that was supposed to penetrate the crust and mantle and hit the center of the earth was blocked at this moment.
The nanomachines still rushed towards the landing point of the Earth Explosion Star without worrying about their own damage.
The antimatter that supplies the energy of the nanomachines counteracts the energy of the Earthburster.
This makes the direct damage caused by this direct strike from the Earth Explosion Sky Star much higher than normal.
But it caused almost no effective damage to the planet itself.
Even the Earth Blast Star cannot completely destroy the Nano Planet.
During the reconnaissance of the sentinel array, the nano fleet had also returned to defense at this time, and the Colossus, which did not have normal combat capabilities, had to retreat.
The operation failed.
At this time, there was no sound from the command center of the two operations except the voice of the commander.
This result is really unacceptable.
The empire itself has only set three goals.
Only two of the three goals can be advanced normally.
However, only one of the two that could be advanced was completed in the end.
Such a result might have been fine at other times, but now, such a result would only make everyone extremely disappointed and desperate.
Apart from the Colossus, the Empire really only relies on level 6 psykers to have the power to destroy planets.
But now the power of the empire's psykers must not be used at will. This is all capital used to target the queen.
The empire's policy suddenly fell into a bad cycle.
The Minister of Psychics is also at the command center as one of the planners of this operation. After confirming that the operation failed, he left here early and quickly sent the news to those who were not present but needed to know the information.
They have to think about their next move.
Should we continue to rely on psykers to target the Queen as before, or should we choose a new plan.
The minister's mind was a little confused. He really didn't expect that the Colossus had no effect at all without the Queen's appearance, which made many previous plans and arrangements useless.
He really couldn't think of what to do in a short period of time.
Just when he was at his wits' end.
Suddenly his terminal received a call from his secretary.
After the call was connected, the secretary's anxious voice came over immediately: "Minister, I'm in trouble here."
"What trouble could be more troublesome than what we are facing now?"
The secretary said without hesitation: "Yes."
The minister was choked, but he was not angry: "What happened?"
"Isn't the galaxy in our department not open to the public? Any spacecraft passing by without paying attention will be dissuaded."
"Well, what then?"
"There is a man who is staying in hyperspace and won't leave, saying that he must come in to see you."
"Wouldn't it be better to just drive them away?"
"He was an unregistered psyker, and... he said... he was the most wanted criminal the Empire had ever seen."
The minister's mind instantly searched for this keyword.
To say that the Empire was once the most wanted criminal, he must have single-handedly caused the Empire's fringe star regions to strangle pirates to a very severe degree for nearly thirty years.
At the same time, he was also the initiator of the biggest scandal in the imperial army.
"Times change..."
"He did say that his name was that, and his appearance did match that of the dead Shi Qian. We wanted his genes to be tested and he agreed, but the test is still ongoing."
"I'll go back right away."
The minister's tone was a bit difficult to understand. After all, it was Shi Qian who made the relationship between Wu An and the empire completely irreparable.
He soon boarded the spaceship heading to his home star domain. At the same time, memories of the past were flashing through his mind.
The cause of the conflict between Wu An and the empire was actually just a trivial matter.
At that time, Wu An was running around the empire looking for new people with potential to train.
As a result, they found the pirate's head and Shi Qian, who was still a young man at the time.
People who become pirates are either forced by life or they are stupid.
Shi Qian is the former.
Wu An also took things like identity very lightly, so it was no problem to find Shi Qian. It was simple to join the association after clearing his identity.
But Wu An was in no hurry to do so.
He planned to put Shi Qian in a pirate environment for training.
This gray area is indeed better for people to exercise than in a safe place.
But Shi Qian's identity as a pirate caused him to have a conflict with the military somewhere.
This was originally just a small thing.
Wu An's identity was placed on Shi Qian's head, and this conflict was suppressed in minutes.
But there are always people who like to cause trouble based on their status, and Shi Qian is not the only one with status background.
When one party takes the lead in being shameless, even Wu An cannot resolve the matter simply.
This ultimately resulted in a siege that required the use of capital ships.
Then the battleship was sunk by a seemingly ordinary Death torpedo, and Shi Qian also ran away during that encirclement and suppression.
Things are completely out of control.
Shi Qian has since become the most wanted criminal in the empire.
On the one hand, it is the face of the military, on the other hand, it is Shi Qian who has built up a fleet by struggling among the pirates, and the psychic association that is closely related to Shi Qian. Not even the Grand Consul can do anything about it. Make the decision to level the playing field.
We can only let it go completely and let Shi Qian and the army solve it themselves.
This decision is actually somewhat biased in favor of the military, but after all, the military is the foundation of the empire.
Wu An was naturally unhappy about this, but he also had nothing to say about the decision.
He just kept trying to mediate.
It's just that the results are not ideal.
When Wu An went to mediate, the military found a way to hold Wu An back and launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against Shi Qian, dispatching two level 6 psykers at the same time, before killing Shi Qian.
Wu An also ran to a pirate space station in the Fringe Star Territory after that, almost severing contact with the empire.
This can be regarded as a disguised confirmation of the authenticity of Shi Qian's death.
At least that's how it ended.
Judging from the current news, Shi Qian is totally fine.
This shouldn't be a case of the army and Wu An teaming up to deceive people to save face for the army.
After all, there is no need for Wu An to sever ties with the empire later.
He definitely thought Shi Qian was really dead at that time.
But no one could have imagined that Shi Qian was still alive and even appeared again now.
The only reason the minister could think of for his sudden appearance was one.
Wu An's death.
He had the means to know about Wu An's death and came here after two days of preparation.
He used to be able to destroy capital ships when he was still a level 4 psyker at most. Now that decades have passed, even if he has been dormant for a long time, his power at this time will definitely be more powerful.
What on earth was he doing when he suddenly appeared?
Full of doubts.
The Minister quickly rushed back to the system where their Imperial Psychic Division resided.
In the hyperspace channel of the galaxy, the minister met the man who called himself Shiqian.
He looks to be in his thirties, even older than Wu An.
His expression was calm, but there seemed to be some sadness.
The first time he saw him, the minister was convinced that the person in front of him was Shi Qian, who had been confirmed dead.
But he did not arrest Shi Qian according to the specifications of wanted criminals.
At this time, any fighting force must be roped in, except Zuo Jing.
So he immediately rearranged a shuttle boat and met Shi Qian alone.
(End of chapter)