Chapter 567 Meeting

The plan to use the blood moon to delay the harvesters was successful to a certain extent.

The reason why it was a certain extent is very simple.

That is... the number of harvester fleets is too large.

Originally, Duanmu Huai thought that this might stop the harvesters, but the harvester fleet did not react much. They just added a few more warships to deal with the blood moon. After all, there were too many warships, so they just attacked directly.

This is very annoying.

Moreover, Duanmu Huai also discovered the flaws of the blood moon.

In short, as the ultimate aggregate, the blood moon does have a considerable degree of combat power. However, this combat power is also limited.

After all, the ultimate form of the blood moon is only as big as an asteroid. Of course, according to this defense, ordinary warships cannot kill them.

The reason is also very simple, insufficient firepower.

Then on the other hand, if the firepower is sufficient, the blood moon will be a living target.

This is the case against the harvesters.

The firepower of the reapers is stronger than that of the fleet here. Although one or two ships can't have any impact on the blood moon, if they don't follow the rules and fire hundreds or thousands of ships at the same time, the blood moon will be finished. After all, the blood moon does not have the ability to attack from a distance. They can only swing their tentacles like jellyfish to attack the enemy. Therefore, as long as the warships are outside the attack range of the blood moon, and the firepower is strong enough, it is not a problem to kill the blood moon without injury.

Of course, if it is a creature, it will suffer a round of mental attack when facing the blood moon. However, all the reapers are fusion bodies... just like the puppets under Duanmu Huai, mental attacks are ineffective against them at all.

But Duanmu Huai's original purpose was achieved.

As mentioned before, the reapers do not simply destroy the races of civilizations they harvest, but collect them and then transform and fuse them to increase their numbers. It can be said that the warships of the reapers are all made of the corpses of the races and civilizations they harvested—the same as the essence of the blood moon.

That's right, Duanmu Huai created the blood moon to steal the business of the reapers, and it turns out that this is indeed a very useful method.

If the reapers want to transform their prey, they either catch them first and then transform them, or pierce the corpses on metal pillars to turn them into corpse puppets.

In general, some relatively scientific methods are used.

However, the transformation of the corpse variants is unscientific, and the transformation speed is faster than the T virus, so the reapers can never compete with the blood moon for people. Even if the reapers destroy the blood moon in the end, the corpse variants inside will be destroyed along with it, and naturally nothing will be left. In this way, the reapers will not be able to replenish their troops on the spot.

It is precisely because of this that once the blood moon appears, the reapers will immediately concentrate their forces to attack it, and this gives Duanmu Huai the opportunity to kill them all together.

At this time, it is time for the Wanyi giant ship to appear.

It must be said that the Wanyi giant ship built by the Kabar people is a good idea. Destroying the entire galaxy by detonating a star is much more convenient than exploding one planet at a time. Of course, it is precisely because of this that Duanmu Huai generally does not use the Wanyi giant warship casually - after all, it can't be detonated in the human galaxy.

But now it is different. Whether it is Asari, Turian, Salari or any other alien race, they are all aliens, not humans. So it is no pressure for Duanmu Huai to catch them all in one net. In addition, the blood moon has low attack power and high defense power, so every time the blood moon appears, the reaper has to send thousands of warships to deal with it, and what Duanmu Huai has to do is to summon the Wanyi giant warship to detonate the star of that galaxy after the reaper blows up the blood moon.

In this way, all the fish that slipped through the net can be caught in one net.

After Duanmu Huai went through all the galaxies of the Citadel races, the reaper's fleet also suffered heavy losses, and those alien races were on the verge of extinction. After all, even if some of them were lucky enough to escape the blood moon and the reaper's massacre, they could not escape the collapse of the entire galaxy caused by the explosion of the star.

Of course, thanks to this, the star map will probably have to be redrawn in the future... Well, this has nothing to do with Duanmu Huai.

Let the astronomers of the Star Alliance worry about it.

It's not his hair that's falling off anyway.

He doesn't have any hair to lose anyway.

Hahahaha, is this a joke?

Hahahahahahaha………………MMP.

Forget it, anyway, after this series of actions, the number of the Reaper's fleet has been reduced by one third. Although the remaining number is more troublesome, at least this way, it is at least a number that can be dealt with.

Probably.

Then the next step... is almost a direct battle between humans and Reapers.

The light flashed in front of her.

Walking out of the portal, looking at the magnificent starry sky outside the window, Mary couldn't help but take a breath. Although it was not her first time to come to the mothership of the Inquisition, every time she saw this scene, Mary was intoxicated. To be honest, if it weren't for the confidentiality, she really wanted to bring Xia Li and Ashelika to see it.

But... it seems a bit lively here today? ?

Looking at the surrounding corridors, although it was as quiet as ever, there seemed to be noise coming from the playroom not far away, which made Mary a little curious. So she walked to the playroom involuntarily, then stretched out her hand to knock on the door, and then Lorena's voice rang out.

"Ah, please come in."

"Sorry to disturb you."

As she spoke, Mary opened the door and walked into the room.

Then, she saw Lorena and... several strange girls.

At the moment they are sitting on the sofa, holding teacups, and seem to be chatting. Lorena was also sitting inside. Next to her was Ogis, who was wearing a black Gothic dress and had long silver-white hair. Duanmu Huai once introduced her to Mary as her very important companion.

Opposite these two people was a girl with long brown hair who looked energetic. Next to the brown-haired girl, there was a short-haired girl sitting. They were wearing the same uniform and looked like they were from a certain school. student, but the girl with short red hair also has a pair of strange wings on her back - look carefully, she has horns on her head and a fat and long tail under her skirt?

On the other side, a girl with long light blue hair, also with horns and a tail, was lying on the blanket bored, staring at the computer in front of her and not knowing what she was doing.

Fortunately, Mary had been following Duanmu Huai for a long time and had met many strange people, so she didn't feel particularly surprised.

"Ah, Miss Mary!"

Seeing Mary come in, Lorena happily waved to her and asked Mary to come to her side. Then she looked at the others and spoke.

"This is Miss Mary Clarissa Christie."

"Ah, he's a local resident of that world, right?"

"That's right, that's right..."

After introducing Mary to everyone, Lorena introduced Mary again.

"Miss Mary, this is the princess of Manalia - An, and next to her is the princess of Regnis, Miss Gulea... Did you see Miss Gulea's tail and wings? In fact, she It’s a hybrid of dragon and human, and it’s a dragon tribe. Oh, by the way, Ms. Feilin over there is also a member of the dragon tribe.”

"Why?"

After listening to Lorena's introduction, Mary was shocked. This was not because of the dragon people, but...

"your Highness?"

This really scared Mary. She was just a middle-class lady and had never said she had any qualifications to meet Her Royal Highness the Princess. And now these two are actually all princesses?

"Hello, Miss Mary, I'm Ann."

Facing the surprised Mary, An smiled and waved her hand, and Gu Leiya also nodded slightly to her.

"I'm Gulea, hello."

"Okay."

On the other side, Feilin, who was lying on her stomach looking at the computer, weakly raised her hand and waved, taking it as a greeting.

"Ah, yes, um, it's such an honor to be able to meet you all..."

At this moment, Mary's whole body was stiff, and her brain was even more blank. How should I put it, it was like going to a friend's place as a guest, but accidentally meeting a big shot like the president of a country, and she didn't know how to deal with it.

"You don't need to be so cautious. I heard from Lorena that you have also joined the Tribunal, right? Then we are companions. You don't need to speak so restrainedly. It will make people uncomfortable."

"Ah, yes..."

Nodding, Mary sat down carefully. At this moment, the maid also brought a cup of black tea. And as if to dispel Mary's uneasiness, Lorena also took the initiative to chat with her.

"Speaking of which, it's rare to see Miss Mary come here. Is there something wrong?"

"Ah, yes."

Hearing Lorena's question, Mary came to her senses and took the paper bag at hand.

"Actually, my first novel has been published..."

"Huh? It's so fast!"

Yes, this is the reason why Mary came here. The first novel she wrote was based on the theme of the old man who turned into a zombie by the lake. She submitted it to several publishing houses, and finally one publisher was willing to publish it. Because it was a short story, the first one would include drawings. A total of one thousand copies were printed... Well, of course the number was not large, but for Mary, this was a small start.

"Miss Lorena, do you want to see it?"

"Yeah, I want to see it!"

Lorena excitedly took the book from Mary and began to read it carefully.

"Wow, there are illustrations in it?"

"Well, because there are not many words, the publisher thinks it would be better to add some illustrations... Frankly speaking, because of this reason, the price of the book is not very cheap. I originally wanted to make the price as cheap as possible. It is meant for most people to read, but the publisher said...the price is set because of this. When people pick up this book, they will be curious about why this kind of book is priced this way, which will make them Generate interest in reading, and as long as you are interested, you will buy...although I don’t understand it.”

"I see."

Hearing this, An Shen nodded in agreement.

"Indeed, the publisher's strategy is very correct. Blindly lowering prices is just devaluing its own value. If others sell it at a price that they don't feel bad about, it can indeed be sold. But the other party may not see it. On the other hand, at least this price can ensure that people who buy it will read it carefully..."

"is that so?"

"Absolutely. By the way, what is written in it? Is it the story of your adventures in that world that Lorena said before?"

"Ah, um...but some places may be a bit exaggerated. I'm worried that Mr. Duanmu will be angry..."

Even if the publishing house wants to publish it, the manuscript cannot remain unchanged. For the publishing house, Mary's novel has a good grasp of the atmosphere and story rhythm. Only the characterization needs to be changed.

That's right, there is only one person who needs to change, and that is Duanmu Huai.

In this story, Mary herself appears as the second assistant, Lorena is the first assistant, and Duanmu Huai is the boss. However, at the end of the original story, Mary wanted Duanmuhuai to lean in the direction of Holmes. Simply put, she wanted readers to see that Duanmuhuai was brave and resourceful.

However, the editor thinks that this is a little bit neither good nor bad. Since the man has been portrayed as a fierce and terrifying person before, it is better to portray his actions in the end as even more fierce and terrifying. After all, the readers saw this at the beginning. From the description of his appearance, we have already guessed that he is a fierce and terrifying person, so how fierce is he? The editor thinks that the ending of the story can be bolder... to make readers feel unexpectedly fierce...

So Mary had to bite the bullet and change it.

But she wasn't sure whether Duanmuhuai would like this ending, so she showed it to Duanmuhuai after it was published.

Although Mary is very nervous, but......

"No problem at all."

After reading the ending, Lorena gave her own answer.

"Hey? Is it okay?"

"Yes, I feel a little more restrained than the usual knight."

"………………"

Is that called convergence? Mary felt that she had almost written Duanmu Huai as some kind of beast.

"Huh? I want to see it too, I want to see it too!"

"Ah, please..."

At this time, An, who couldn't wait, came over, took the book, and then leaned side by side with Gu Leiya, and started flipping through the pages.

What they thought after reading it was...

"Huh? Mr. Duanmu is not so gentle."

"No problem. After all, Mr. Duanmu usually fights more fiercely than this..."

"…………………Why???"

Hearing this, Mary was completely confused.