The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

All of them were dark worms, some were alive, and a large part were wreckage.They seemed to be stuck by the ripples, they couldn't get close to the 'hole' in the center, and they couldn't leave here, they could only struggle helplessly in place.It's like a huge spider web, and all these flying insects, big and small, are firmly stuck to it, unable to move.

"Start collecting data right away, we need to figure out what the hell this is... a super-scale dreamcatcher?"

"If this is a dream catcher, then what kind of dreams are those glued to the side..."

"True summer night..." (answer)

"Shut up!"

Oregana, who was interrupted, stopped, frowned and thought about it, then changed her words:

"... Gun Dream."

"... Please use the energy of persecuting other things to analyze the data." Leopard grabbed his boss, pressed it on the chair, pulled out a data cable and plugged it into the neural interface on the back. Like piling "Quick! Get to work!"

To be honest, it was painful to insert the nerve interface like this, but Oregana didn't stop the adjutant from doing this, because this kind of pain is usually accompanied by the clarity of thinking.But this time, before the chaotic mind could be cleared up, the scout's next chaotic shock came again——

【Boss!Transition reaction detected! ] While talking, he uploaded the data [something is coming to this galaxy, and it is expected to arrive in 4 minutes! 】

PS3: After swimming, the palms and soles of the feet were itchy and erythema. After the inspection, it was an allergic reaction. It seemed that the skin hated the disinfectant in this swimming pool (covering face)

This kind of thing has never happened in previous years, and I guess I will have to change to a swimming pool in the future... It's a pity that this one is close and cheap... (sigh)

Chapter 889 Chapter 798: Hunting

The scene in front of him was really weird.

An unconfirmed celestial phenomenon that looks like some kind of space passage, is like sticking to flypaper with a large group of dark worms stuck.The sight was enough to leave anyone who saw it speechless.

I really wanted to sneer at 'you have today, too', but before that, the strange feeling of not knowing how this happened was even more overwhelming.Scout Daniel Ryan was the first to see this thing, but he didn't look at it from the perspective of a technician but from a scout's perspective. Just back.

But then, the sensor suddenly received another spatial fluctuation, which raised his vigilance to a higher level.

For a scout, this is much more exciting than a piece of fly glue—for a refund of [-] AU, even if the thing is not fly glue, but some kind of modern dark worm storage box with a unique shape ( Refers to the anchorage), that is nothing to panic for the scouts.With the performance of Statius and his own technology, it is not dangerous to keep a safe distance to collect information, but not long after he arrived, suddenly unknown targets began to enter the current galaxy, which showed something unusual.

This is likely to indicate that the enemy may have detected its own arrival in some way, and even called in reinforcements to deal with this infiltrated security risk.

If this is the case, it means that the enemy's early warning system and reaction speed are far beyond one's imagination, and this mission may have failed before it even started. Prepare for a fierce defensive battle in the defense line.

This made Daniel Ryan swallow his saliva.This soldier who has forgotten where he was born and whose childhood memories are all in the laboratory is very used to this kind of tension.In the laboratory, this sense of tension, accompanied by the extremely rigorous military training, hit the brain nerves time and time again.After Tartarus raided the deadly laboratory, Daniel no longer worried about the physical pain, but the tension still lingered—

Because he has become a scout and the eyes of the fleet, his judgment will often determine the success or failure of a battle, and the success or failure of a battle will determine the lives and deaths of countless people.If the previous tension came from the fear of death, the later ones came from the responsibility of oneself.This allowed Daniel to constantly temper his will, so that he would not make irreparable mistakes due to psychological factors even in the most critical time.

Just like now, he turns on the regular engine.If it is discovered at the moment of entering the field, first assume that the enemy can detect the spatial fluctuations generated by the jump. At this time, it will be very dangerous to start the jump engine, and you must use the conventional propulsion method to leave the place-of course, if the enemy has the ability to see through the stealth action device Ability, this is all a waste of effort, but now you can only make actions of this level.

The cruiser trembled slightly, and began to gradually accelerate away from the 'landing' coordinate point.The thrust provided by the conventional propulsion engine to the ship can keep the battleship accelerating. The distance traveled in the process is meaningless on a space scale, but it is quite good on a tactical level.If the enemy goes directly to the 'landing' point after arriving, they won't be able to find anything, because it only takes a few minutes for Statius to leave the range of the conventional battlefield far away.

[Report the situation, is that thing coming? 】

The voice of the legion commander came from the communication, and judging from the leaked noise, she was still talking to other troops besides herself.

Oregana's thinking speed is faster than that of ordinary clone warriors. This is due to the experience she has accumulated over a longer period of time as a clone warrior, as well as her command-specialized high-performance brain-it seems that there was no one before. It was mentioned that if she wanted to, she could have extraordinary conversations with ten Prince Shotoku at the same time.

"It's approaching," Daniel replied, "I'm tracking, and the position of the jump beacon is... 0.7 astronomical units from that space distortion area!"

[Understood, continue to observe and keep the data link unblocked. 】The voice of the great warlord appeared very calm 【If you realize that you have been spotted, retreat immediately without hesitation. 】

"clear."

Daniel checked the subspace buoy, and used the probe to launch two groups to the outer reaches of the galaxy just in case.Then focus on the two space anomalies, the deputies in the reconnaissance cabin began to analyze various data at the same time, and at the same time took over the authority of some sensors to monitor the surrounding universe, and at the same time measured the local magnetic field, gravitational field to All data including stellar wind.Reconnaissance work has always been difficult for one person to complete, which is why the scout ships used as scouts even have more crew members than some flagships that serve as firepower output positions.

Tens of tense seconds passed in a flash, and the spatial fluctuations suddenly became violent, as if a person suddenly jumped on a trampoline, and violent vibrations were released in all directions in a very familiar pattern.The viewfinder picked up the picture a few seconds later—the light distorted in the super wide-angle lens, the magenta light reminiscent of a bruise leaking from the sudden space warp, the dark red arc flashing and extinguishing in the darkness, every time Even a bolt of lightning burns the outer shell of the regular universe.

Afterwards, the vortex opened up, and the starlight of the regular universe was stripped from the body like scorched flesh, and amidst the weird spring flashes and arcs, the black giant slowly drilled out... There is no doubt that The dark worm has a black carapace, long arms and legs behind the body, and eyestalks that are as lush as swaying ears of rice.

This is a mothership-level dark worm, a very standard individual, with a long axis of more than two thousand kilometers.

However, it's definitely not in great shape.

The monster rolled over, its eye stalks were frighteningly curled, and many of them were morbidly swollen as if infected with bidiscoid, trembling weirdly.A large number of deep and long rifts appeared on the surface of the dark worm's carapace, as if it was a hard-boiled egg (although it was black) that accidentally dropped on the ground—there were cracks everywhere on the shell, but the shape remained the same. Keep it up.

The orange light of lava was shining in the rift, and with the strange action pattern of the dark worm, a large number of things that looked like fire powder were thrown out of the crack—but it was not something as small as fire powder , and all are internal buffer tissues that have been burned to a semi-molten state by high temperature.Many eyestalks that had been broken were also thrown out by centrifugal force during this process, which looked disgusting and tragic.

"What's going on here?" Someone asked, "Did you fight with someone?"

"Who knows..." Daniel can only shrug his shoulders—but he is the only one who can see this action in the hydrostatic cabin. "The sensor has found the dark worm, and it has been confirmed visually."

On the other side, Oregana showed a puzzled expression on her face.This worm seems to have been severely beaten by someone, just by looking at it, you can tell that it is in a terrible state - the only thing I know now is that this worm is obviously not here to catch the scout ship, if there is a smart guy in the other party's actions If it is in command, then it will never send such a bug over to make a move.

"What's going on..." She scratched her head, and zoomed in on the image to take a closer look. "What caused this wound?"

"You look here?"

"Well?"

The place Liu Lizi pointed to was a rather large open wound on the back side of the dark worm.Oregana, who had dealt with the dark worm for a long time, immediately saw the original structure there.In memory, there is a huge sphincter structure, which is usually protected by a movable carapace. When needed, the carapace will open, and the dark worm will release a large number of carrier-based aircraft from it to assist its own attack.

But now, the whole piece including the organizational structure inside has disappeared, leaving a huge void.There was no hyperthermia, and fragments of shattered tissue hung nearby, looking like wind-torn cloth.There is not only one such wound, the two 'hangars' that can be seen on this side have all disappeared, and a little hole can be seen looming below - that position was originally the ovipositor of the dark worm, which can generate The biological tissue that drove the eggs into the interior of the planet is now completely gone.

"This..." Oregana frowned, and she realized that there must be something wrong here. "...This is not the damage caused by the shelling."

All the wounds on this dark worm's body don't look like they were shot by a cannon... The more you look at it, the more you feel that these wounds are really torn out abruptly.The biological tissue that generates the carrier-based aircraft inside the hangar, as well as the entire ovipositor, are parts that contain energy and nutrients, as well as rare materials, and these parts have now been forcibly stripped away.

And those gaps on the body, as well as the swollen eyestalks, this kind of trauma is the result of spiritual attacks no matter how you look at it.

"Did something try to hunt this dark worm before, but it failed...?" Looking at this dark worm that was seriously injured and even castrated, Oregana whispered, "At least it will be fine in the future." Miscellaneous thoughts..."

"I didn't have any distracting thoughts about this thing before." Liu Lizi pinched the back of his boss's neck, "What should I do next?"

Oregana said without hesitation:

"The scout wasn't found, so continue to observe. This wound doesn't seem like a lamb's attack..."

The attack method of the black goat cub is a large biological missile. It launches the growths on its body to form a powerful self-discipline attack weapon. These things will fly to the enemy like a group of slime and stick to the explosion. The heat and impact are comparable. Surprisingly, this thing even has the ability to jump, which can track the target up to two jumps and explode.Although it is very useful, it is obviously more difficult for you to blow them up to achieve this effect.

After all, it was a black goat cub, not an alpaca that would bite Tintin. (fog)

After the dark worm ended its leap, it tried its best to stabilize its body, but the injuries it suffered made all this more difficult.It managed to maintain its posture, hesitated in the vortex and the nearby asteroid belt, and finally chose the safer asteroid belt - the dark worm needs energy and matter to repair its own damage. Looking at it now, Although it didn't have any damage to the biodynamic furnace, it seemed that there were not many supplies left, and it had to be replenished immediately, otherwise it wouldn't even be possible to repair those big and small holes on its body.

It staggered forward, carefully bypassing the sticky board, throwing off stumps and broken arms along the way.Because the hangar was gone, it was forced to approach the asteroid by itself-this process took nearly four to 10 minutes, using the propelling tentacles to dismember the asteroid itself, and then using other limbs to grab the floating ore and drag it into the body .This eating appearance is not good-looking, it looks like a giant squid slowly gnawing its prey, coupled with the huge size, it gives people an uncomfortable sense of oppression.

During this process, this dark worm did not show the kind of dark worm that I saw before that I didn't worry about anything, sat down, ate and slept, and those eye stalks in normal state were always like those on the African savannah. Like the meerkat, it stood upright, not daring to be distracted at all, and focused on alerting everything around it.A considerable number of them have been staring in the direction of the dream catcher (fog), as if they were afraid that something would run over there.

As it turns out, its concerns were not unfounded.

【Boss!Another spatial fluctuation! 】

The detection system on Struthus is much better than that of the dark worm. This may explain that Daniel has started to change direction again, but the dark worm that is still eating rocks has no response.It was still eating while guarding its surroundings, until the space distortion was fully unfolded—it panicked and pushed the rock away, allowing the tentacles to revert to propulsion components, and hurried away at the fastest speed currently available. This asteroid belt.

Its escape direction is not anywhere else, but the maelstrom that was extremely vigilant just now.

But no matter how hard the broken body tried, it couldn't accelerate fast.

And the newly arrived monsters are much faster.

That is also a deep dark worm, and it is also over two thousand kilometers in size, but it is definitely not a regular mothership class.

It also has the iconic propelling arms and eye stalks, but it is different from all individuals seen so far.The tentacle-like arms and legs have turned into four giant jointed limbs, and the sharp ends show that this thing is obviously not only used for propulsion; the number of eye stalks is less than one tenth of that of a normal individual, but the remaining eye stalks seem to be To make up for the vacancy, it has become particularly thick, and its thickness and length are more than three times that of the past.

For this reason, the saved body surface space is covered with plate-shaped, seemingly solid biological armor.A total of twelve chelicerae with a length of more than two hundred kilometers extended from the armor on the side of the body.Those chelicerae appear thick and powerful, full of power like a crab's tongs.As for the common biological laser cannons all over the body, there are not a few here, probably because it no longer needs them.

This subspecies gives people a rather bad feeling.Just after it entered this galaxy, it sent out a dull psionic echo—the moment this echo was sent out, an echo of the same frequency erupted from the dark worm that was holding the stone and gnawing on it just now.The echo was released from the inside of the cracked carapace. At that moment, the light in the crack suddenly lit up, as if responding to the call.

This move made the mothership class even more flustered, and the new strange individual didn't intend to give it any chance after confirming the target.It displayed excellent maneuverability that was not comparable to that of the heavy aircraft carrier class, and successfully caught up with the fleeing mother carrier class in the next 20 minutes.At this moment, everyone understood how the scars on the mothership class came about.

The abnormal entity approached the Mothership from the side. During the process, it was hit by the biological laser cannon, but its hard carapace withstood the shelling, only the bright orange traces of high temperature were outlined on the dark brown carapace.Then, a powerful psychic impact was released from the eye stalks of the special individual, and the blazing psychic lightning struck the battered Mothership like a long whip. Several pieces of armor were peeled off like this, and a large number of eye stalks exploded one after another. Only the deformed roots remain to prove its previous existence.

The mothership class, which was hit hard again, realized that it might not be able to escape, and it chose to fight with all its strength-to be honest, this was the first time Oregana saw the dark worm in close combat, and she didn't even think of it before. However, this thing can still fight close combat... although it is forced.

The long arms and legs used for propulsion were thrown towards the specific individual—its huge mass brought a powerful impact, like a stick, slowly but firmly hitting the specific individual's carapace.The structural strength of both sides could not withstand this blow. The moment the two touched, the arms and legs were squished like chewed crab legs, and the contents inside were splashed around, and the carapace of the special individual was also hit. It shattered in an instant, large pieces of carapace rose into the air, and then fell back to the surface of the body crackling under the action of gravity.

But what was exposed there was indeed a large buffer structure, and there was another layer of armor inside the buffer structure.The thickness and strength of this cushioning structure are far stronger than those of conventional motherships. In other words, it is a new organ structure specially evolved for powerful kinetic energy impacts... and the effect is as you can see. After the slap, it only lost the outermost layer of the carapace, while the attacker's arms and legs that were not suitable for hammering were lost in this blow.

This also means that the mothership class not only failed to drive away the abnormal individual, but lost about a quarter of its thrust.

"This guy is finished." Oregana whispered, "It can't escape."

"I've never seen this new bug before. What's its origin?"

"I don't know at all, but at least..." The sea hare caught on the boat swallowed. "This thing's fighting power is obviously much higher than that of a bug that is about the same size as me."

As we are talking here, this battle without any suspense is coming to an end.

After another psychic attack, the movement of the strange individual also slowed down, perhaps because he felt tired.But fatigue doesn't matter now, because its prey has no strength to move.The strange individual slowly flew above the mothership class, firmly grasping the prey with the crab-like claws around its body.

Then the armor on the monster's belly (if that was the belly) unfurled, revealing a disconcerting mass of wriggling arms and legs writhing like a vat of red nematodes.It pulled the mothership to the front, and those 'red nematodes' immediately entered the body of the mothership along the hole just made - at this time, the mothership was still alive, struggling, sending out intermittent spirits. It was able to send information, but within a few seconds, it completely stagnated.

'Red Nematode' pulled something out of the mothership class, a huge capsule - still beating like a heart.The tentacles restrained it and slowly pulled it into the body of the specific individual.Judging from its location, it should be a thinking organ or a power furnace.After this thing was stripped off, the Mothership class still had a life response, but all movements stopped.The peculiar entity let go of the surviving dead body, and quietly floated aside as if digesting after a meal, and released the carrier-based aircraft to start the final dismemberment of the body.

"What we just saw was not a hallucination, was it?"

Seeing all this, Oregana subconsciously grabbed Liu Lizi's tail and licked it backwards.Afterwards, Liu Lizi, who was covered in goosebumps and the hairs on her ears stood up, punched her boss in the abdomen——

This martial skill called 'Leopard Punch' made Oregana lose her consciousness for about half a second, telling Oregana concisely and clearly that this is all real, this is not a dream.

Just now, a dark worm that was obviously specialized for dark worms hunted and killed a dark worm in front of everyone.It was not an evenly matched battle, but a one-sided hunt, as easy as a leopard catching an antelope to eat.

"Outside here, something terrible has happened, or is happening..." Oregana whispered, clutching her stomach, she looked at the dark worm that was gradually being dismembered, with a complicated expression on her face "The mental pressure is so great, and I start to feel some stomachache."

"...You were beaten just now, right?"

"……"(stare)

In just over an hour, the amount of information embodied was simply too great.

It should be just a coincidence that the bug flew here.It didn't come to capture the scout ship, but escaped from the hunted side in a hunt.And according to some performances of this mothership class, such as being alert to the maelstrom in this galaxy, and running in the direction of the maelstrom at the end, it proves that it may have a certain degree of understanding of this maelstrom.

As for how much it knows, no one knows, and it is estimated that no one will know in the future...

And the other dark worm that hunted it looked like a dark worm that was born to hunt dark worms.After it appeared here, even the dark worms stuck on the flypaper began to struggle and want to leave here. Is it because they 'know' this one, or because they were scared when they saw their companions being killed and devoured on the spot? ?

If it is the former, the amount of information is even greater.Not to mention the enduring question of the soul—is there really such a thing as a coincidence? (cover face)

Then, in the information provided by Shabu Nicholas and anyone else, there is no mention of encountering such a dark worm, and there are no combat or even witness records of this type of dark worm in previous wars.How many such peculiar individuals are there, when were they born, what purpose were they born for, and why they hunted and killed their own kind are all mysteries that cannot be explained at this stage.

"Analyze the strength of this kind of dark worm with the data collected now, and send the analysis results and first-hand information to Shabu Nicholas, she should need it." Oregana swallowed a mouthful, and said in the communication "Then draw up a policy against it. Don't act rashly until it leaves."

On the screen, densely packed carrier-based planes shuttled between the mothership-class corpses and the hunter-type specific individuals, and each of them transported a piece of tissue structure every time. The corpse makes holes in it, grabs what the mother needs, and throws aside what is not needed.As time goes on, there are fewer and fewer parts inside the mothership class, and eventually there should be only an empty shell containing the buffer structure layer and armor.

But the hunter was obviously more picky than expected. After eating half of it, it ignored the fragmented corpse and quickly sailed in the direction of the maelstrom.