pjbooks Chapter 499 Black Seed!
Chapter 499 Black Seed!
The red light patterns of the Guixu defense system were still dancing in the corridor. Zhang Yan retracted the Thousand Machine Arm, landed on the ground from the maintenance rack, and ignored the numbness coming from his knees.
On the communication panel, Mo Ling's report was mixed with the electronic background noise of the command center.
"The target at 27 degrees north of east is already close to the outer edge of the space bubble, the target due west is lagging behind, and the target at 41 degrees south of west is in the center. They are not advancing in a straight line, but are sweeping around the bubble."
Zhang Yan walked to the projection, where three arc-shaped trajectories overlapped, perfectly dividing the Guixu space bubble into three sectors.
"Reconnaissance formation." Guan Xing looked up at the workbench.
Zhang Yan stared at the trajectory without giving it a second glance and directly connected with Mo Ling.
"Can the Ruins Defense System kill them?"
"Yes," Mo Ling replied quickly. "Six combat-type frigates, plus fixed weapon platforms, can easily take them down head-on."
She didn't finish her sentence, so Zhang Yan finished it for her.
"Firing would expose our defensive layout."
The communication channel went quiet.
The Ruins of Guixu have been hidden for 30,000 years; their location, firing positions, and fleet size are all matters of fate.
If these three black individuals transmit any piece of data, the community's parent organization can track them down by following the traces.
"Defense system, stand by." Zhang Yan turned and walked towards Chaos. "Don't fire."
Mo Ling asked, "What are your plans to do?"
Chaos lay on the maintenance frame, its chest still open, the outer frame only half-assembled, with a newly welded star-shaped energy loop visible between its right shoulder and right flank.
The Four Spirits have been rearranged, the Heart of Heaven is online, and the consciousness compatibility is 98.7%.
The defense is incomplete.
But they can fight.
Zhang Yan stepped into the driver's seat and closed the hatch.
"Let them in."
From Mo Ling's end came the sound of rapid banging on the control panel.
"Repeat it."
"Open the shielding layer in the north-northeast direction, making an opening just big enough for one Black person to enter. Once inside, close the door to cut off internal and external communication."
"Put all three in?"
"Release them in batches, close the gates and attack, don't let them see the fleet of Guixu."
Mo Ling didn't ask any more questions, only replying with two words.
"clear."
The stargazer stood under the maintenance frame, still holding the safety belt in his hand.
Zhang Yan watched her through the screen inside the cabin.
"You stay in the Heavenly Crafts Hall and monitor the stress on the damaged area of your right shoulder. Report to me immediately if the pipe leaks beyond the warning line."
"receive."
One by one, the retaining clips popped open, and Chaos rose from the maintenance frame. In its half-open chest cavity, pale blue pathways flowed along the metal skeleton.
The dome of the Heavenly Craft Hall slid open to both sides, revealing the simulated starry sky inside the space bubble.
Chaos bent its knees, ignited the thrusters, and the entire mech burst out of the Heavenly Craft Hall.
On the north outer wall, the fastest black race was still sweeping, its energy scanning waves sweeping across the surface of the space bubble again and again.
It is looking for an entrance.
Zhang Yan hovered inside the bubble, with his back to the shielding layer.
"Mo Ling, speak."
A narrow opening appeared in the shielding layer in the north-northeast direction.
The black man's scanning wave stopped after sweeping across the gap, and then drilled in.
It is entirely black, with a non-reflective outer shell. Its outline is somewhere between a water droplet and a spiky ball, and its surface spines are constantly rotating, with the tips collecting energy.
The system readings are displayed.
The elite species have a combat power 3.7 times greater.
After it entered, it did not attack. All its spikes turned towards the main city of Guixu, and it changed from wide-area scanning to narrow-frequency positioning, directly targeting the energy core area.
"close the door."
The gap closed.
The black race simultaneously detected two things: the exit had disappeared, and chaos was rapidly approaching.
Its entire body is covered with outward-curving spines, and dark red energy points light up one after another.
Zhang Yan did not give it a chance to complete its recharging.
Chaos' left arm cuts into the White Tiger form, its five-fingered alloy claws unfold, and the vibration frequency is pulled up to a high level, directly bypassing the front shell and grabbing the root of the spinous process.
With the first claw strike, the three spikes and the base were shredded.
The remaining spikes of the black race immediately unleashed a barrage of plasma projectiles, which were directly absorbed by Chaos's frontal armor. Several high-temperature streams grazed the damaged area on its right shoulder, and the exposed pipe wall was pierced.
The sound of stargazing came in.
"The leakage rate of the second branch on the right shoulder is four percent. It can hold on. Don't let it hit the same area again."
"Know."
Chaos' right arm transformed into the Vermilion Bird form, raising the surface temperature of the forearm. Instead of burning the outer shell, Zhang Yan pressed the heat field into the newly torn spinous wound.
The black outer shell softens when heated, and the edges of the wound begin to deform.
"Verification passed." Stargazing at the data, "It is homologous to the Kuiper Belt elite species, and its hardness decreases after being heated."
Zhang Yan retrieved the Vermilion Bird, and the Azure Dragon spatial folding field was activated. The miniature folding blade cut into the softened area, tearing a gash in the outer shell.
Thirty centimeters.
enough.
The purifying pulse of the Heavenly Craftsmanship pulse shot out from Chaos's chest, passed through the crack, and poured into the Black Seed's body.
The black spines stopped rotating, the dark red lines gradually faded, and the shell shattered from the inside.
Observe the stars and report the numbers.
"It took one minute and four seconds to reach the point of disintegration."
Zhang Yan turned the plane around.
"Make a second cut."
The shielding gap in the due west direction has been opened.
As soon as the second black seed burrowed into the bubble, chaos locked its central axis.
This time, Zhang Yan neither switched to White Tiger nor activated Vermilion Bird.
The purification pulse of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart was compressed to the finest point, pushing its penetrating power to its limit.
Golden threads shot out from Chaos's chest, pierced through the black shell, entered from the front and exited from the back.
The injection port is only the size of a fingernail.
The path that the pulse travels through is precisely the one that penetrates its core structure.
Before the black-skinned creature could even unfold its spiky protrusions, the red markings on its shell flashed briefly before extinguishing completely, and then it disintegrated along the piercing line to both sides.
The keyboard clicks on the stargazing side stopped for a moment.
"The second one took eleven seconds. A new trick?"
"Just tested it out."
Is it stable?
"Suitable for those who don't dodge."
"And the third one?"
"Leave the communication module."
The gap in the south-southwest direction has opened.
The third black species did not enter immediately. It repeatedly scanned outside the gap, and after entering the space bubble, it immediately deployed all its spikes, and the spherical defense array enveloped its main body.
Zhang Yan did not launch a preemptive attack.
The four Chaos Spirits cores went online simultaneously: the White Tiger broke through the root of the thorny protuberance, the Vermilion Bird burned the wound, the Azure Dragon folded space to dismantle the protective layer, and the Heart of Heaven used low-power pulses to cut off the energy nodes.
As he watched the transmitted image, his finger flew across the module located on the lower right side of the black man's chest.
"The communication storage unit is here, don't touch it."
"I saw it."
The chaotic robotic arm reached into the black seed's cracked outer shell and removed the module along with half of the protective plate.
Then the purification pulse falls.
The third black seed disintegrated within the space bubble.
The total was reported by the stargazer.
"All three are cleared, and no signal leakage occurs inside or outside the space bubble."
Chaos descended back to the Heavenly Crafting Hall. Zhang Yan opened the hatch, and the Thousand-Arm took over the communication module. The six mechanical fingers disassembled the outer shell and extracted the core chip.
The Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart has begun reading.
The system quickly completed the decryption.
This was not a routine command between Black people, but a consciousness signal directly projected into the chip by the community's parent entity, which was forcibly compressed into an electromagnetic format and saved.
The content consists of only two lines.
[The precise coordinates of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart have been confirmed, and the data has been transmitted back at any cost.]
If there is no response within three days, the target is deemed to have been intercepted, and the parent aircraft changes its flight path, heading directly towards that coordinate.
After stargazing, the pen in my hand stopped in mid-air.
Only the metallic contraction sound of chaos cooling could be heard in the Heavenly Craft Hall.
Three days.
Zhang Yan turned off the panel.