Chapter 282: Collusion! (4K)

Since the distress signal was sent.

As time went by, the dilemma facing Calgar not only did not improve, but also ushered in greater chaos in the crisis.

In the busy bridge, it was filled with the noise of various electronic equipment and dozens of alarms echoing at the same time. The endless fault information and the erroneous data constantly transmitted from the Thinker array had completely messed up the command system of the Resolute.

Affected by the ghost signal, the battle barge with hundreds of thousands of crew members in the ship is now facing an unprovoked disaster. Most of the crew members are locked in their cabins by the ship's safety system. The crazy servitors are rioting, and the airtight gates in the passage that open and close quickly are like gates blocking the steps of the suppression troops.

Watching the approaching hostile signal in the auspicious instrument, Calgar realized that the interception mission set by the Empire had failed. If they did not leave, it would not take long for the Chaos fleet to completely engulf them.

"We can't waste any more time. Tell the fleet to retreat immediately!"

However, his order did not receive any response from anyone. As the voice fell, the giant looked at the mortal captain who was connected to the warship through the command throne again. At this time, the other party looked full of pain.

In this chaos, a high-level technical priest came to Calgar.

"The [ghost signal] is interfering with the electronic system in the ship. Now the available power of the engine of the Resolute is less than 47%, which is not enough to support us to get rid of the pursuit of the Chaos Fleet."

After hearing such news, Calgar was extremely irritable at this time. Obviously, those mysterious attackers did not want to let them go easily.

"Now we have found out the source of this signal. If we can destroy it, we may be able to stop the abnormal phenomenon in the fleet."

As the voice fell, the data board in the priest's hand was handed to Calgar. The strange-looking space wreck was displayed on the electron tube screen emitting fluorescent green light.

Now, under the continuous bombardment of the large-caliber macro cannons of the Imperial Fleet, the outer shell of the space wreck, which was wrapped by layers of ship wreckage and asteroid fragments, has shattered, turning into countless fragments and floating, exposing its internal core structure directly to the vacuum.

It was a strange building with a prismatic shape and a large number of strange mechanical structures on the surface, like two black stone fortresses stacked up and down, and the entire wreck was stacked up layer by layer with that building as the core, which was the source of the ghost signal.

According to the priest, it was the strange building that caused the abnormality of the ship's equipment. As long as it can be destroyed, the Empire's interception fleet may still have the power to fight against Chaos.

"In this case, destroy it! All gun groups switch targets immediately!"

The other party's words seemed to remind the commander of the regiment. Under Calgar's order, the large-caliber macro cannon on the upper deck of the Resolute successfully locked the mechanical building buried in the center of the wreck.

Fortunately, since most of the Imperial Navy's macro cannons rely on the manual loading and activation of slave workers, thanks to this seemingly predictable tradition, the existence of the ghost signal did not have much impact on the warship's weapon system.

With the hot flames gushing out of the barrel, more than a dozen large-caliber shells were fired one after another, and the violent explosion almost instantly engulfed the entire space wreck.

However, when the flames dissipated, according to observations, the direct attack from the macro cannon did not cause effective damage to it. Such behavior seemed to anger it, causing the drone swarms surrounding it to launch a more fierce attack on the surrounding Imperial ships.

Various large and small artillery positions fired at each other, accompanied by flying plasma groups, as if a huge net composed of lasers and shells was woven in the center of the battlefield, as if even the light of distant stars was covered.

Just as the battle between the two sides became more and more intense, just a few minutes later, the thing that Calgar was most worried about finally happened.

"It's the Black Fleet! They're coming!"

A crew member shouted in fear, accompanied by an increasingly fierce subspace storm, a black shadow was seen in the star field not far away, quickly approaching from far to near, and soon appeared in front of the Imperial Fleet.

It was a shadow that even the light of the stars could not dispel. As the outline of the shadow became clearer, in the desperate eyes of the Imperial commanders, a large fleet cluster had already appeared in front of the chaotic Imperial Fleet through a short-distance jump.

Strangely, there were a large number of new warships that the Empire had never seen before. Their appearance looked so simple, and from the design style alone, they were somewhat similar to those light warships of the Ash Alliance.

However, the blasphemous runes representing the Black Legion engraved on the hull and the distorted hull that was obviously corroded by the Warp were enough to prove that they were another masterpiece of those Chaos traitors. At the same time, this also successfully confirmed the conjecture in the mind of Captain Calgar.

——These Chaos traitors must have received support from a new force.

Just as the chaotic Imperial Fleet was still despairing about the arrival of the Chaos Forces.

With hundreds of hyperspace channels like portals opening above the Imperial Fleet, it looked like stars in the night sky from afar.

As the light faded, a large silver fleet suddenly appeared near the orbit of the star in the blink of an eye, forming a sharp contrast with the black fleet that was approaching rapidly in front. That was the main fleet of the Ash Alliance.

Like a divine soldier descending from the sky, the appearance of the Alliance caused a brief cheer on the bridge of the Resolute. When seeing the crew's excited look as if they had seen a savior, Calgar's mood was extremely complicated at this moment.

Ash Alliance

What is your purpose in coming here?

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On the other side, after receiving the request for help from Calgar.

Without any hesitation, the three main fleets of the Alliance, with a total of 300 warships of various functions, arrived at the battlefield at the first time under the personal leadership of Otto, and this almost included all the main forces of the Alliance in the Alert Star System.

At the same time, some garrison fleets left in the three hundred worlds were temporarily requisitioned to the Alert Star under Otto's order, and even the orcs under Val and the Thorin Hive Fleet wandering on the edge of the Great Rift were summoned together.

To be honest, since crossing over, Otto has never been as nervous as he is now. The reason for such a strong reaction is mainly because just before the Alliance fleet was about to set off, Gray Wind, who was following him, suddenly detected a familiar signal in the star system.

At this moment, in the command hall of the Gray Gu mothership, the girl named Gray Wind was standing calmly in front of the observation window of the bridge, staring at the large and peculiarly shaped mechanical fleet.

"I can be sure that those warships are some variants of the [Severance] class warships."

The other party's voice was full of affirmation, and when he heard the news, Otto, who was standing in front of the fleet command desk, propped his hands on the edge of the table and looked at the three-dimensional image displayed in front of the command desk with a serious look.

Not long after, Huifeng, who was standing in front of the window, sighed a little helplessly.

"No mistake, these things are 100% the creation of [Rectification], but they look a little weird, and there is no doubt that this will be a big trouble."

I didn't expect it to be it.

Although Clara did warn about the news that these exterminators were about to wake up, it was too fast.

[Rectification Protocol], that is a crisis event in the Star Game, a set of intelligent systems established by ancient civilizations to monitor the entire universe. Due to some errors, it will now actively try to eliminate all intelligent individuals in the universe.

As a super AI created by ancient civilizations, it has the special ability to use specific tachyon signals to indirectly control low-level artificial intelligence and interfere with mechanical units, which is the main reason for the outbreak of the Iron Man War.

"So you mean that Chaos and Suzheng have reached some kind of cooperation?"

To be honest, Otto didn't believe that the two forces would come together, but when he saw the Chaos logo on the Suzheng mechanical fleet, he had to doubt it.

Suzheng and Chaos are really a wonderful combination of a pair of wolves being raped

However, the girl in front of him seemed to have a different view on this point of view.

"I don't think this is cooperation. These extinction ships in front of us are not linked to a unified core. Their intelligent systems have not been activated or have been removed. The Chaos forces must have taken these warships produced from the mechanical planet for themselves through some special means."

"Interesting. In other words, the main body controlling these fleets is not the Suzheng Agreement? These mechanical warships are most likely stolen by the Chaos forces?"

Gray Wind did not deny this, and this obviously aroused Otto's great interest. Looking at the girl in the female navy uniform in front of him, countless conjectures emerged in his mind at this moment.

"Remember what Clara said before, there is a high possibility that there is a dormant mechanical planet in this universe. In order to eliminate this troublesome planet, the Alliance has sent many fleets to search for it, but even after searching the entire galaxy, they still found nothing."

"So in this case, where do you think that thing might be hidden?"

Faced with Otto's question, Gray Wind turned around silently, looking at the other party's thoughtful eyes and thinking of the peculiarity of the Suzheng Fleet on the battlefield. After a little thought, she only heard her guess in an uncertain tone.

"You mean. The mechanical planet may be hiding in the subspace?"

In response, Otto did not rush to confirm, but turned his eyes to the Chaos Fleet approaching the battlefield in the distance.

"If that's the case, it's not difficult to explain the current situation."

But then again, will Gray Wind be affected by those ghost signals?

Thinking of this, Otto cast a concerned look in the direction of Gray Wind

"By the way, are you okay?"

"Me? Of course, I'm fine."

Gray Wind seemed a little surprised by this sudden concern.

"Although I admit that these guys are indeed a troublesome existence, it's not that easy to affect me."

The girl patted her arm with confidence and posed a powerful posture to show her strength.

"Master, do you think I'm not as good as her? It's really sad."

After saying that, the little guy with a weird personality made a weird expression in the direction of Otto.

Seeing that the other party still had the energy to joke, the stone hanging in Otto's heart finally fell temporarily.

Soon, as the two fleets got closer and closer, like a swarm of bees defending a beehive, hundreds of Gray Goo carrier-based aircraft released by the Gray Goo mothership first came into contact with this huge Chaos fleet.

Under the control of those skilled clone pilots, the bomber squadron evaded the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chaos warships with amazing maneuverability, and the neutron torpedoes dropped in succession successfully slowed down the enemy ships. Then the interceptors responsible for escorting were entangled with the Chaos fighters that followed.

Since it was the first battle with Su Zheng's fleet, Otto did not let the fleet go too deep out of caution. Instead, he maximized the maneuverability of the destroyer hull and ordered several pre-formed strike formations to wander around the edge of the battlefield, pouring out impressive firepower at the enemy fleet at a distance close to the maximum range of the artillery.

However, the situation of the Imperial fleet caught in the center of the melee was rather miserable. The main battleships, which were slow to move due to the interference of the ghost signal, naturally became the main target of the Chaos side and were forced to take on the role of human shield.

With the assistance of Gray Wind, the assault fleet led by Otto himself successfully locked the [Intelligent Core] with the highest value in the center of the battlefield. However, just when the energy arc main gun of the Gray Goo mothership was about to complete the energy gathering.

As if sensing the approach of danger, Gray Wind suddenly frowned and turned to look at the left side of the hull, then raised his hand to concentrate the energy of the hull in the shield, without waiting for Otto to ask what happened.

In the gathering subspace storm in the distance, like a spear suddenly stabbed out from the dark, a red laser torrent was ejected from it without warning and accurately hit the port side of the Gray Goo mothership.

The violent particle beams collided with the energy shields that kept gathering, and in an instant, a dazzling light comparable to that of a star burst out. After the light faded, a hideous steel beast gradually emerged from the chaotic storm.

A terrifying planet killer.