Him and their stars.

Chapter 1800: Finally Not Isolated from the World

This was, of course, a minor occasion for Miss Anne Romanova.

Whether it was 100 million tons or 10,000 meters long, it was nothing compared to the Star Eater back then. However, Commander Anne Romanova had actually driven a torpedo ship to face that kind of behemoth that literally spanned the sky.

Not only have I faced it, I have even fought bravely.

Not only had he fought, but he had also, of course, been fiercely struck by lightning.

Ace pilot Annie has always felt that after you bomb that kind of monster, all the enemies in the universe will be just small scenes that are not worth mentioning.

After all, only a few people knew about the battle of Tianshu, but the second mate's popularity and reputation on the Xunli were actually quite high. Since she showed such a revolutionary optimism, it was still very contagious to everyone.

As a result, the mood at the scene suddenly became much more lively.

Soon, someone found the identity of the giant Leviathan in the database. It was a space creature called "Comet Pan". It was called this because it could curl up its body and enter a semi-dormant state, hovering in the orbit of a galaxy for a long time like a comet, feeding on the heat energy generated by space radiation and the occasional asteroid minerals.

This creature spends most of its life in hibernation. Of course, if it occasionally encounters a passing alien in the galaxy, such as a spaceship or other Leviathan creature, it will be happy to have a meal.

The Comet Pan obviously sensed the presence of the Pilgrimage, so it unfolded its body and swayed its huge bulk as it floated towards this direction.

Well, we just broke through the siege of the Empire, are we going to start exterminating the entire universe again? Everyone on the Xunli immediately put themselves into combat mode.

However, to be honest, the Imperial Army often fought each other and knew each other well, but they had never dealt with Leviathan before. Therefore, even these elite soldiers who had experienced many battles were a little nervous.

Should we use sublight missiles first, or test the main guns? Or should we send the fighter planes off directly?

However, this dragon ship was an aircraft carrier and had no main guns, only twelve light spear secondary guns and four missile hatches. In addition, the hull had not yet fully recovered its balance, so sending fighters out at this time was likely to cause an accident.

A series of thoughts flashed through the captain's mind, and he fell into a short hesitation. At this moment, he suddenly received an order from the commander: "Cancel the gravity simulation. Turn on the anti-radiation shield. Keep the clockwise rhythm along the outermost planetary orbit at the first cruising speed. In addition, launch six sub-light speed missiles at the bug, using space vibration warheads."

The captain and other departments on the ship did not raise any objections.

In most cases, Yu Lian is a good leader who never directly interferes in the affairs of grassroots officers. When he gives direct orders, everyone will execute them without compromise, even if the orders seem to go against common sense.

A few seconds later, gravity simulated contact, and everyone felt like they had suddenly turned into a balloon, almost uncontrollably floating up on the spot. Fortunately, everyone had locked the safety buckle in advance.

For these well-trained crew members, of course they will not lose their combat and working abilities due to weightlessness. At most, it will only slightly affect their efficiency.

More importantly, everyone suddenly discovered that the ship's imbalance alarm had stopped.

Six missiles equipped with space warheads broke away from their nests and rushed towards the giant. The Relic, which had regained its balance, also left its original position and slid slowly towards the other side of the distant starry sky.

Under Yu Lian's command, the dragon boat did not look like it was escaping from a giant beast, but more like it was taking a walk.

Of course, at this time, he himself also received an emergency report from the dragon's nest, saying that the four dragons were becoming restless, obviously sensing the coming of the giant beast.

Tsk, they say they are advanced animals, war beasts, dragon descendants of the stars, but when they really encounter a situation, their concentration is not as good as that of a pig. It turns out that they are not trained enough and are too spiritless!
Yu Lian told the captain, "I'll leave it to you," and then, with his subordinates watching him like pilgrims, he left the bridge with eager steps. He seemed to be unaffected by the weightlessness.

However, he had just left the bridge when he received a communication from Feifei: "Don't bother, the children have calmed down."

"Is this... uh, calm?"

"Yes, I slapped them all, knocking out three teeth on average, and they all burst into tears and admitted that they were stressed. Now they have returned to their dragon nests to sleep and reflect on themselves." Feifei said as a matter of course. As a matter of course, she was like a professionally trained and experienced primary school teacher who was responsible for special attacks on naughty children in the lower grades.

Having said that, dragon teeth can grow infinitely, so they can be regarded as collection materials.

Since Feifei said so, Yu Lian was relieved. However, he still went down to the dragon's nest to inspect it. He was very satisfied. Although his simple and strong Shanzi inevitably struggled and roared, his overall reaction was still under control. The slaps he received were the lightest, so he was the only dragon that did not lose its teeth.

As for Feifei's "Hu Ji", it was also the strongest flame-winged dragon on the ship. It was probably the most restless one, so it was slapped the hardest, and even had six teeth knocked out at once.

The so-called "average" is, of course, averaged out in this way.

Even for a dragon, it would take some time for so many teeth to grow back completely.

Yu Lian patted the big guy's nose sympathetically, and immediately felt his sadness, helplessness and grievance. He was really like a naughty child with his butt broken.

He was about to say something to comfort it, but Feifei spoke like a heartless tiger mom: "Don't worry about it, it won't die yet. But I just picked up some intelligence from the wiretapping, which should be of some value."

Feifei's position on the ship is very high. She is Yu Lian's adjutant, but she is clearly the second in command on the ship. Although her military rank is only colonel, her invisible position is higher than that of Captain Nemo, the Commodore.
No one knew that Miss Li was Black Moon, but they knew that she was the "future commander's wife", a master dragon tamer, and an outstanding psychic, so naturally she could enter and exit all the confidential compartments on the ship.

During this time, Feifei was fiddling with the Empire's source-mass wave receiver on the ship, saying that this thing had been processed with alchemy and might be able to receive some information.

Judging from her expression, maybe she really did gain something.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be discussed in the Dragon's Nest, so the two decided to return to the captain's room to discuss it.

On the way back to the captain's room, Yu Lian and Feifei received the latest information from the bridge: the six sub-light-speed missiles had all hit the comet. For this billion-ton space beast, this attack should not cause much damage, but it still stopped moving forward with its head shaking.

Then, Comet Pan let out another heavy cry, and curled up its huge body, disguising itself as a huge comet, and rolled back to its original orbit, continuing its most comfortable hibernation and orbiting journey.

Cometoids are actually very contented creatures. Although they will show interest in hunting new visitors, as long as they are fully demonstrated their strength, they are actually happy to continue disguising themselves as a giant meteorite.

In this way, the beginning of the Pilgrimage's journey to the Abyss Nebula was generally smooth.

As for future developments, it depends not only on the efforts of everyone on the Pilgrimage, but also on whether the other side of the Empire will cooperate. Anyway, when they just returned to the captain's room, Feifei said directly: "I'm afraid we have to change our strategy a little. King Soren's fleet has passed through the outer ring. At the current speed, it will take at most three weeks for them to meet with Marshal Farrell at the South Gate of Heaven."

"What a fast runner!" Yu Lian exclaimed. "Since the young Emperor Chosen used an Xiaolong-class weapon, I thought he was in the late stage of firepower phobia, but I didn't expect he could perform such a long-distance raid."

"The fear of insufficient firepower and the ability to travel long distances are not actually in conflict. Young people have not experienced the harsh treatment of society and are particularly enthusiastic about everything they do." Feifei commented in a condescending manner, and then added: "In addition, most of Marshal Farrell's fleet has already left the South Heaven Gate and is approaching the open sea."

Yu Lian frowned slightly.

After breaking through the South Gate of Heaven, Marshal Farrell will soon be able to get reinforcements from the Imperial Glory Star Sector. If he can join forces with the fleet under King Soleon, his combat power will be able to overwhelm the Outer Rim Fleet.

Once this group of imperial fleets enters the high seas, a fierce battle between the two sides is very likely to break out in the high seas star region.

It is indeed a very important space trade route, and the surrounding free trade ports and neutral autonomous regions are likely to be affected, but the war has reached this point, and their attitudes are no longer important.

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If a war breaks out, it will most likely break out within the territory of the Turank Coordinating Minister's State. Even they, the "little tyrant of the high seas" back then, have no objection. So what else can a group of autonomous trading ports with almost no national defense capabilities say?
The subsequent question was not whether Marshal Bonaparte could take his fleet to Turan to rest and wait for the arrival of Yu Lian, but whether they could settle down in the Hanwang Fortress.

If the battle goes badly, where else can the Outer Rim Fleet retreat? They can't just retreat all the way into the Alliance.

However, Yu Lian couldn't help but ask curiously, "Can you use that terminal to monitor the war reports from the Empire?"

When the Xunli was first acquired, Yu Lian really used its built-in communication equipment to listen to a lot of internal communications of the passing imperial army. However, after the other side changed the channel, it fell silent.

Now that we can learn about the movements of the Empire's fleet, could there be some unexpected surprise?
"Have you cracked the imperial communication code?" Yu Lian asked.

"No, I listened to GNN's military news today, so I called Yani and she got through," Feifei said.

"...The Xunli has been isolated from the outside world for nearly a month. And the first communication was with the powerful figures of the Alliance. If this continues, I will not have the right to mock the Seiyu Party for being the compradors of the Alliance." Yu Lian sighed.

"It's too late to realize this now. Because of the 520 billion incident, the Common Prosperity Party has always believed that the Pioneer Party is just a backup supported by the alliance. Mr. Bai and Sister Jessica have been attacked in this way before." Feifei smiled and shook her head.

"I really don't understand where the moral superiority of the old guard of the Communist Prosperity Party comes from."

"Most of the time, superiority is based on excessive self-perception rather than objective facts."

"I hope my mailbox won't be filled with bad news."

"Not really. The situation on the high seas is certainly not satisfactory, but on Earth... President Nishita has issued a very strong declaration, calling on everyone to cheer up and fight the invaders to the death. Yu'er, the Terra star region has finally entered a state of war mobilization."

Yu Lian was almost speechless for a moment: "We have been fighting in Sai for a whole year before they told me that the war has been mobilized. Is this good news?"

The last time Yu Lian contacted the outside world was in early July.

From the direction of New Shenzhou, he received the good news that the main force of the Yu Fleet arrived safely at Shanhaiguan, and Marshal Bonaparte's Outer Ring Fleet withdrew to the East China Sea. Of course, there was also the bad news that the Far Shore Star Region and the Outer Ring Star Region had all become occupied areas.

After the fall of New Shuntian, the capital of the Far Shore, New Paris, the capital of the Outer Ring Star Region, also became a trophy of the Empire. New Shuntian, with a population of two billion, hundreds of thousands of guards and stronghold garrisons, mines, factories, fortresses, and more than forty intra-stellar gunboats, had only five minutes to resist.

However, this is much longer than most of the high-ranking officials and senators in the star sector can last in bed.

In fact, most of the strongholds in the two star regions seemed to have already hoisted the dragon flag of the empire before the occupation forces arrived. Judging from their skilled movements, the dragon flag must have been embroidered many years ago.

However, this is understandable. The tormenting confrontation on the front line and the three meat grinder-like battles have actually drained most of the community's defense potential. As for the two star regions facing the front-line battle, all the organized troops that have arrived have already entered New Shenzhou.

Fortunately, although the Imperial occupation forces landed in Lumina, they only occupied the city hall, signal tower terminal, airport and the No. 1 plant of the Red Maple Factory, but did not drive away the staff. Afterwards, the Imperial Army began to patrol the streets to maintain law and order, but the life and work of the entire planet were not affected at all.

Even the civil servants at the city hall, although they had to stare into the eyes of the occupying soldiers at close range, did not experience any harassment.

In the following week, the Empire landed a division of stormtroopers in Lumina, but they were all stationed in the suburbs of Maple City. They also appointed a military control committee with complete departments and capable personnel, but they only took over the operation of basic urban affairs bit by bit, and did not even disturb the normal production and operation of the Red Maple Factory.

The Empire's attitude was surprisingly Buddhist, as if they were really only satisfied with the nominal control of this planet. They also behaved more gently than any controller of this planet in the past, as if they were really addicted to this cosplay game of the King's Master.

But in reality, anyone who has such fantasies about invaders and conquerors will often be attacked by their own masters.

On June 6, the Imperial Fleet arrived at the planet Beaner in the Outer Rim Star Region, which is also the home of the Bean Bear people, the largest minority race in the community.

The chief of the Bearman Planet Autonomous Government and the Bearman lords had no intention of fighting to the end, they just hoped to argue a little in exchange for more lenient surrender terms.

However, the Imperial battleship fired ion cannons at the planet without saying a word.