The Witch's Taste

The traitor was from Factory No. [-]. After being cloned, he was instilled with a large amount of memories and designed two personalities.The secondary personality remains so similar to the person she is replacing that even her parents and friends cannot tell the difference.

The dominant personality usually lies dormant until a superior contacts her and wakes her up.With the awakening of the main personality, the secondary personality was immediately suppressed and fell asleep, so a federal military engineer immediately turned into an imperial spy.

Tsukimiya Suzuna had a headache.Because in the spy's memory, she has not come into contact with any colleagues, only her superiors.She didn't even know her superior's official social identity, but her superior knew her identity, job, occupation, and even the specific cabin she lived in...

In other words, there is an Imperial spy network on the Forever.

Even though Suzuna Tsukimiya had caught a spy and explored and absorbed her memory, she only got a clue of "the appearance and voice of her superior".

The other party was a middle-aged man with a haggard look, and his voice was ordinary and unrecognizable. He ordered her to interfere with the operation of the main engine.

Not destruction, but interference.So she wrote a simple virus program and inserted it into the external interface of the server, allowing the virus to regularly disrupt the operation of the restraint field... From this, it can be inferred that the empire does not want to put the starship humans to death immediately, but just wants to To slow down their actions, at least don't let them jump right away.

Just relying on appearance and voice is not enough to find the specific identity of the other party on the Forever, not to mention that the appearance and voice can be easily disguised.

Tsukimiya Suzuna stood in silence for a moment, and quickly contacted Tenjoin and Hana, asking her to arrange for someone to come and take care of these engineers who were confirmed to be innocent, and they must return to work as soon as possible.

Although she didn't know the empire's intentions, and there was no way to find and uproot the opponent immediately, Tsukimiya Suzuna understood the simplest truth:

No matter what you want to do, I just do the opposite.

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9 o'clock that night was the time agreed upon by everyone in advance.

The three witches returned to the bridge lounge, and Chen Ziang also came out of the Mandala Sword.

After Tsukimiya Suzuna briefly explained what happened today, she looked at Xia Qingyu coldly and asked:

"What else do you have to say?"

"There's nothing to say." Xia Qingyu replied calmly, "The appearance and voice of the middle-aged man you searched from your memory must be fake. Because the entire empire's intelligence network is top-down and strictly one-way. It is impossible for you to trace back from the subordinates to the superiors."

"So there is nothing we can do?" Tsukimiya Suzuna showed a mocking expression of "I knew you would say that."

"That's not the case." Xia Qingyu shot back with a contemptuous look that said, "You know nothing?" "Even if you are trying to lure a snake out of its hole, you still have to know the snake's intentions, right?"

"Sister, what do you mean..." Xia Zili's face was also ugly, "The empire people hope that we will be held back by the federal fleet, or even die here?"

"All the major chaebols in the federation have evil intentions. How can the empire be a monolith internally?" Xia Qingyu shook her head and continued, "It doesn't actually matter whether they can represent the empire. If you think about it again, their What exactly was the intention.”

"I...I kind of understand." Xia Zili was silent for a moment, looked at Chen Zi'ang and said, "In the previous attack, they attacked you directly, but it failed - referring to the memory of the past life, we first think that their fundamental goal is kill you."

"One miss and you leave the real world. They can't find you, so they have to try to force you back to the real world first."

"In other words, if the Forever is unable to jump for the time being and is besieged by the federal fleet supporting follow-up, it means that the starship humans will not be able to escape."

"In this case, we will definitely choose to abandon the starship humans and escape from the Forever with you - in this way, they will have the opportunity to attack you."

"In this case, I shouldn't come out." Chen Ziang quickly thought of a corresponding method, "Now that the energy has been collected, the Forever can immediately start to jump and leave the federal territory."

"I will continue to stay in the Mandala Sword and not give the enemy any opportunity to take advantage of it. You are responsible for guarding the starship. If there are spies who make trouble, just kill them directly."

"I have no objection." Tsukimiya Suzuna said slowly, "I just have a question."

"We can deduce these conclusions after the fact, so will the empire anticipate this in advance and arrange corresponding countermeasures? They don't think that disrupting the constraint field of the main engine will drag us down. Here?"

Xia Zili's expression changed slightly and she immediately said:

"Hurry up and arrange the jump!"

Everyone quickly split up.Xia Zili, who is good at flesh and blood spells, went to the infirmary to wake up the engineering team and asked them to arrange the jump as soon as possible.

Suzuna Tsukimiya turned into a sea of ​​shadows and quickly traveled through the tubes of the Eternal, monitoring and listening for any suspicious things nearby.

Only Xia Qingyu silently returned to her room. No one knew what she was doing in there.

About half a day later, bad news quickly came from the engine room.

Unable to jump.

It was not that there was a problem with the main engine, but that the third wave of federal fleets had arrived.

This fleet is not only large in scale, but many of the ships have huge religious symbols spray-painted on their armored shells.

The Holy See's Divine Punishment Fleet.

Another day, tomorrow will be updated as usual until the end

396. Chapter 390 I can do it

The Divine Punishment Fleet is a fleet specially used by the Federation Temple to "purify" mysterious pollution.

The characteristic of mysterious pollution is that once you witness a strange existence, your sanity begins to waver and your spiritual vision will increase.High spiritual vision will attract more weirdos, forming an increasingly serious negative cycle.

At the same time, due to the high concentration of population in modern cities, the weirdness attracted by a certain highly clairvoyant person is likely to be witnessed by multiple passers-by. Therefore, this kind of pollution will spread quickly and eventually get out of hand.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the appearance of people with high spiritual vision is strictly prohibited, the risk can actually be controlled within a certain range.

It's just that the Federation elves advocate free culture, and their chances of committing suicide are much higher than other ethnic groups in the galaxy. Therefore, there are often "a folklorist illegally smuggling alien cultural relics that eventually mutate", and "the mutated monsters are secretly captured and imprisoned by gangs" "Research", very exaggerated cases such as "In the end, an entire block was filled with people with high psychic vision" appeared.

The Divine Punishment Fleet is the Federation’s last protection against mysterious pollution.

They have powerful armor against lower-level races, and their defense is comparable to the current models of chaebol ships; but what is even more powerful is their super exaggerated firepower, which can kill all life on them through high-intensity orbital bombing and permanently injure them. Sexually destroying the planet's environment, the mysterious pollution on it is completely removed - whether it is people with high vision, weird or inferior races, or witches born of despair.

Only the Federation Temple, which can continuously suck blood from a large number of believers, will spend all its money to build this kind of golden fleet.

Even a witch of Tsukimiya Suzuna's level would frown when facing the God's Punishment Fleet.

It's not that they can't be beaten, but because every ship in the fleet has a large number of cursed elves mixed in it (the elven sailors call them "ascetics" and "sacred animals").

An ordinary military fleet is no match for the Divine Punishment Fleet.Every piece of armor and every round of ammunition on their bodies is almost the crystallization of huge amounts of money.But if the witch takes action, although she can easily destroy the ship, she will be infected with the curse and lose the ability to save her life...

"So how did you deal with this Divine Punishment Fleet in the previous life?" Chen Ziang asked Tsukinomiya Suzuna.

Now that the federal fleet has arrived, the imperial assassins lurking on the Forever are no longer the biggest threat. Therefore, Chen Ziang did not continue to hide in the Mandala Sword, but followed the other three witches to leave the Forever and go far away. fly to the edge of the galaxy to investigate.

"Of course it's better to run away first." Tsukimiya Suzuna replied, "Only a fool would stay and fight with such a disgusting fleet."

Although she tried to sound nonchalant, Chen Ziang could still see the solemnity and nervousness on her face.

"Can you escape?" Chen Ziang asked.

"We can escape, but not all of them." Tsukimiya Suzuna replied, "We usually survive by cutting off the tail: I will detach a part of the ships to intercept them, and the remaining ships will leave the range of the space anchor at full speed, and then run away road."

To survive by cutting off one's tail... these four simple words describe the cruelty of war to the extreme.

Because the remaining fleet is basically destined to be unable to escape.Without the witch's protection, they could not be an opponent of the God's Punishment Fleet, nor could they escape from the range of the space anchor. They could only attack desperately to delay the opponent.And it is even more impossible for the witch to protect them all the time. After the main force of the fleet successfully jumps, Suzuna Tsukimiya will definitely have to leave.

You can't abandon your car just to protect your soldiers.

"After the break...is it voluntary?" Chen Ziang asked in a low voice.

"Of course not." Tsukimiya Suzuna sighed and said, "It may be true in the first few waves. When the ones who voluntarily cut off are all dead, the rest will naturally be involuntary."

Chen Ziang: ……………

"So, we can only draw lots from now on?"

"Yes, draw lots." Suzuna Tsukimiya was silent for a moment and said, "So don't let those who volunteer to die die in the first few waves, otherwise it will be very troublesome later."

Chen Ziang was speechless.He realized that starship humanity was about to face the biggest sacrifice since its establishment, but no matter how distressed he was, there was nothing he could do because there was no other way to go.

Once within the detection range, the witches stopped flying.Chen Ziang huddled in the shell of Feng Rang Ceremony that isolated the universe, and tried hard to look in the distance, but saw nothing.

This distance was far beyond his field of vision, but it was within the attack range of the federal fleet.If it weren't for the fact that he had mastered [Void Sacrifice], no one would even be willing to let him risk such a frontline position.

"How many ships are there in the God's Punishment Fleet?" Chen Ziang couldn't see the outline of the ship, so he could only ask for help from the people next to him.

"About thirty ships." Xia Zili estimated.

"In my previous life, I was chased by at most eighteen ships." Tsukimiya Suzuna gritted her teeth and said, "Thirty ships...they really look up to us, these damn elf religious lunatics!"

"After all, we have three witches here." Chen Ziang said with a smile.

Although he smiled and tried to lighten the atmosphere, it seemed to be of no use. Everyone knew what this meant.

"If the fleet of the Instantaneous Fleet is split up, how much will be left behind to break up the rear?" Seeing that the three witches were silent, Chen Ziang asked directly.

"Eighty percent." Tsukimiya Suzuna said.

"Eighty percent?" Chen Ziang said in surprise, "Isn't that equivalent to the total destruction of the fleet?"

"There is no way." Xia Zili sighed and said, "Not only considering the God's Punishment Fleet, but also looking at the overall number and structure of the ships on the opposite side, based on the federal establishment, there are almost six conventional fleets. Don't you If you show enough strength, if you can't hold it back, the other side will definitely split up its forces to pursue you."

"That's not possible." Chen Zi'ang denied, "Without the escort of the armed fleet, even if the Forever jumps out of the federal territory, what will happen next? It's not like escaping will be absolutely safe! Pirates from the local sector may come to take advantage of the situation. , the federal fleet may also chase beyond the territory..."

"I'll lead the team." Xia Qingyu, who had been silent until now, suddenly said, "Just half the fleet is enough."

The sacrifice rate dropped from 80% to 50%, which undoubtedly changed from "unacceptable" to "barely acceptable".If half of the crew can be retained, it would still be feasible to conduct a large-scale recruitment to replenish the crew from the Forever and bring in the new with the old.If only [-]% is left, it will be no different from tearing down and rebuilding.

"Sister, are you sure?" Xia Zili asked in surprise.

Due to the existence of the curse, the witch needs to assume the responsibility of defense, and the attack and containment must be left to the fleet.The battle fleet has been reduced from [-]% to [-]%, so the extra [-]% of firepower needs to be supplemented by the witch herself, otherwise it will not be able to contain it.

As Xia Zili said, if you can't threaten me with just such firepower, then I will just divide my troops. What will you do?

"No problem." Xia Qingyu said indifferently, "Chen Ziang said before that if he only destroyed the engine and did not destroy the hull and kill the crew, he would not directly bear the curse."

"But the premise is that you must do your duty to protect the rear fleet, otherwise they will all be defeated in one salvo." Tsukimiya Suzuna asked suspiciously, "You have to protect your own fleet, and you have to be distracted to replenish the offensive firepower. You also have to control the strength and angle, can you do this?"

"I can do it." Xia Qingyu said expressionlessly.

Unable to sleep, I secretly got up to code.It’s almost the end, so excited!

397. Chapter 391 Collective suicide note

Everyone continued to investigate for a while, until the federal fleet suddenly launched an attack.

The light spear of high-energy particles tore open the space, spanned an extremely long distance, and shot toward the top of Chen Ziang's head. Since the light spear was surrounded by plasma flow, the killing range would undoubtedly affect his upper body.

"Be careful!" Xia Zili only had time to shout, because the speed of these light spears was no different from the speed of light, and they had already passed over everyone's heads before she finished speaking.

Then it disappeared.

Chen Ziang was still frightened.Just now, his inspiration suddenly realized that something was wrong, and he subconsciously activated [Void Sacrifice]... At this critical moment, he saved his life and sent all the deadly plasma flow around him into the void.

"Let's go!" Tsukigomi Suzuna also reacted, quickly wrapped the shadow around Chen Zi'ang and disappeared.

Everyone quickly rushed back to the Forever, and then held urgent discussions in the bridge lounge.

"What on earth was that just now?" Xia Zili asked in fear.

Theoretically speaking, such a long distance at that time was completely beyond the detection range of the federal fleet.What's more, the four of them are all flesh and blood, not metal, and their mass is small. How can they be detected?

"It seems to be weapon debugging." Tsukimiya Suzuna guessed.

After the maintenance and debugging of ship-based weapons is completed, test firing is required in accordance with military regulations to ensure that they operate without hindrance.But considering the market price of energy, every time a gun is fired it is equivalent to burning a large amount of money, so many fleets will not do this last step of debugging at all.

However, this time there were God's Punishment ships in the opposing fleet. As we all know, those who play religion are never short of money, so the test firing according to regulations is not an accident.

only……

The universe is so big, but it just shoots in our direction?Is this too much of a coincidence?

"It's probably not a coincidence." Chen Zi'ang said slowly, "My inspiration alerted the police at that time, so I had time to use my power to save my life, otherwise I would definitely die in the plasma flow around the light spear."

Since it causes an inspiration alarm, there must be some mysterious force at work.

In other words, the weapon debugging and test firing were normal, but due to the interference and deflection of some mysterious force, the launch direction was "exactly" pointed at Chen Ziang's position.

Even witches who are well-informed in the mysterious world can't help but feel a bit chilly in their hearts with this method.

Seems like some kind of curse.

However, there are so many types of curses and their principles are so complex that even witches find it difficult to identify and crack them.In addition, the federal fleet is approaching now, and there is no time to investigate the curse.

"Time is running out, I'm going to lead the team." Xia Qingyu said lightly before turning around and leaving.

"Wait a moment." Chen Ziang said quickly, "Let's go together."

I don’t know why, but the uneasy feeling in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.

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Xia Qingyu announced on the starship human military channel that she would form a fleet to fight against the federal pursuers, and emphasized that this was to "buy enough time for the Forever."

Of course, this is just a euphemism. After all, you can't openly tell the soldiers, "We are going to send you on a death mission."

However, if they do not explain that they are "performing a high-risk mission," the soldiers are not mentally prepared and will be more likely to collapse when they are under tremendous pressure later.