Chapter 565: Fighting Poison with Poison

Three months is neither long nor short.

And in these three months, a lot of things happened.

First, the Star Alliance released intelligence about the Reapers to the public, and declared a blockade of all mass relays, entering a complete state of wartime emergency. The people who learned about this naturally had panic and suspicion, but fortunately, most people were relieved after learning that the Inquisition would join the battle to resist the Reapers.

After all, the combat power of the Tribunal is here. Star Alliance citizens have seen how they dealt with the Batarians like chopping melons and vegetables. Coupled with the religious bonus and the secret guidance of Star Alliance officials, intentionally or unintentionally, there are many People regard the Inquisition as the patron saint of mankind - well, this is actually true.

Of course, it is not that there are no "people of insight" who believe that human beings should not choose to isolate themselves from the country, but should work side by side with other races to fight against the coming threats. Isolating oneself will only allow the Reapers to defeat each other. This is the time to show the power of the unity of cosmic civilizations.

Unfortunately, most of these people were lured to the territory of other alien civilizations by Lumière's invitation from the very beginning, and then the Star Alliance also blew up the two main relays leading to their galaxy. , resulting in this group of people not being able to come back at all. Although the remaining people shouted vigorously, most people did not agree with them.

After all, people have their own simple logic - those alien fleets can't even defeat the Inquisition, so what's the point of joining forces with them? At that time, we might have to deploy our own fleet to help them. What if we don't have enough troops and are invaded by the other party?

At this time, everyone can only sweep the snow in front of their own door, and don't worry about the frost on other people's tiles, right? We can't sacrifice ourselves to help those who invaded us before. There's nothing wrong with our minds! What a shame, they are not on the same page as us, so what does it matter?

Then.........the reapers came.

For the Citadel Council, the appearance of the Reapers was indeed "caught off guard". Although they did make certain arrangements after receiving the warning from the Star Alliance, they did not expect that the Reapers would appear directly in their hometown!

This is actually not surprising.

I have said before that the distance between the mass relay and the relay is like a train station. Therefore, in the past, when various races fought, they chose to use armies to block the mass relay. In this way, as soon as the opponent arrived at the station, they would Under attack.

But the problem is that the Reapers are not the passengers of this train. They built the entire mass relay. Strictly speaking, they are the drivers!

Since the driver drives the train, it’s not the driver who has the final say on where it goes, where it stops, and whether it fails to pass the station?

Therefore, when the turian, asari and other racial armies gathered to block the mass relay, the reaper drove the car directly through the station and stopped directly in front of his hometown.

When they received a request for rescue and found out that they had been stolen from their homes and driven back, the Reapers had already begun a large-scale attack and harvest on the home planets of each race.

And even if those alien fleets rush back to their home planet, there will be no good results, because what awaits them... is only a massacre.

In the dark universe, hundreds of warships that looked like huge metal octopuses were swimming in it. They were like a community of octopuses in the cosmic sea, wandering ruthlessly in the world.

"The target has been locked, attack!"

Staring at the huge Reaper warship rushing towards him and others, the Turian captain looked solemn, then he raised his hand and gave the order.

"Fire!!!"

Streams of fire erupted from the Turian battleship and blasted towards the Reaper in front of them. However, even the most powerful space fleet in the Citadel, their firepower hitting these Reaper warships, only caused a little bit of fire. At the same time, the metallic octopus-like tentacles at the front of the Reaper battleship slowly unfolded, and then a red energy beam suddenly shot out from it!

“——————!!!”

The bright red energy beam swept past, and easily cut off the three Turian battleships blocking the way in front of him as if sawing wood. In just a moment, the three Turian battleships completely turned into flames and disappeared in the air. in the universe. Then the Reaper warship continued to move forward, and the Turian warship behind it didn't know whether it was unable to dodge or tried to block it. It actually hit the Reaper warship head-on--and then turned into a moth like a moth flying into a flame. An explosion of sparks.

The Reaper battleship that passed through the fire was unscathed and continued to move forward.

"………………"

Seeing this scene, everyone in Star Alliance couldn't help but gasp.

"This is...the Reaper fleet."

Li Longcheng stared at the screen and clenched his fists. It was not that the Star Alliance had never fought against the Reapers. After the Citadel ghost Seren was brainwashed and rebelled by the Reapers, he once led an Overlord-class Reaper warship to attack the Citadel, and was eventually destroyed by the Starfleet fleet.

Of course, at that time, the Reapers only had one battleship, and it was a righteous group fight. Coupled with the activeness of the Shepard siblings, the Star Alliance did not find it too difficult.

But it turns out that when such battleships appear in hundreds or thousands, it is another matter.

"Good thing we destroyed the mass relay."

At this time, Admiral Hackett couldn't help but sigh.

"yes……………"

Hearing Admiral Hackett's emotion, Li Longcheng also nodded. Although Duanmu Huai had warned them that the Reapers would use mass relays for sneak attacks, they only realized how terrifying this power was when they saw it with their own eyes. This cannot be solved by deploying troops on the home star or mass relays. As Reapers who can freely manipulate mass relays, they can completely use this technology to appear anywhere in the galaxy with weak troops. Place... This is the biggest crisis.

Even the most powerful turian fleet in the Citadel is helpless against the Reaper army, so it is conceivable that other races will not end well.

Although the Star Alliance has begun to build new capital ships on a large scale in order to fight against the Reaper fleet, only a few dozen have been built. Facing so many Reaper warships, it is still a bit stretched.

There is nothing we can do about it, after all, even if a battleship can be built, the crew cannot be created out of thin air. They are not like Duanmu Huai, who can directly control the battleship with a bunch of puppets.

"Based on the current situation, how long will it take for the Reaper fleet to arrive?"

"I don't know, maybe a month or two, hopefully longer. Mr. Duanmu said he would try to delay the arrival of the reapers as much as possible."

"All we can do is seize this period of time to prepare as much as possible."

As he spoke, Li Longcheng and Admiral Hackett looked at each other and sighed at the same time.

After all, they have already made a choice. As for whether this choice is correct... they can only leave it to fate.

So what is Duanmuhuai doing at this moment?

In fact, Duanmu Huai is currently on the Turian clan's home planet, and he has only one purpose here, which is to delay the Reapers as much as possible, as he told Li Longcheng before.

"...Huh, sure enough, even a turian is nothing more than that."

Standing on a ruined city street, looking at the corpses on the ground, Duanmu Huai's expression did not change at all. Of course he didn't come here to help the Turians resist the Reapers. For Duanmu Huai, this was of no benefit. However, he does not intend to let the reapers do whatever they want here, for example...

"Roar-----!!!"

Suddenly, a beast-like roar sounded, and then Duanmuhuai saw a monster with pale skin and blue eyes, like some kind of mutated zombie, suddenly rushed out of the alley next to him, roaring towards Duanmu. Huai pounced——and then his head was blown off by Duanmu Huai's punch, turning him into a headless corpse.

"Hmph, it's indeed a corpse puppet."

Looking at the monster in front of him, Duanmu Huai snorted coldly. This is the specialty of the reapers. They will insert the dead corpses on the pillars and transform them into corpse puppets to be used as an army for ground attacks. Once the entire planet is emptied, these corpse puppets will be taken away, transformed, and become part of the real Reapers.

From this point of view, the offensive methods of the Reapers and Tyranids are quite similar. They both supply explosive troops on the spot. The more the opponent dies, the stronger they become.

And for Duanmu Huai... this is tantamount to a preview of dealing with the Zerg.

"You like to play with corpse puppets, then...let me see which one is more powerful, your corpse puppet or my corpse transformation. Which one is stronger, the reaper or the blood moon!"

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand, and then a soul card appeared in his hand.

Activate——[Profane Sphere]!

"boom-----!!!"

The next moment, the ground behind Duanmu Huai suddenly cracked, and then, a dark stone tablet broke out of the ground and stood erected on the ground. Then, on the surface of the black stone tablet, bright red runes gradually lit up!

Invisible fluctuations swept across the entire ruins. The next moment, the corpses of the Turians on the ground suddenly began to swell and twist. Sharp bone spurs popped out of their arms, and wriggling and twisted tentacles erupted from their open mouths. . Then, these monsters stood up one after another...

"Destroy all enemies standing in front of us and completely destroy them!"

"Hooooooooooo!!!"

Following Duanmuhuai's order, the next moment, countless corpse mutants let out sharp roars, and then they dispersed in all directions like hungry beasts!

For the Turians, this is the beginning of a nightmare.