Chapter 76 Bizarre Star System

At that moment, even the little fox on Ke Talun's head was shocked by the scene of the precious Judgement Death Star preying on robots. It couldn't help but poke its head out from its little nest on top of Talin's head, making a "fufu" sound.

While the little fox's small eyes were staring blankly at this scene, its tail wagging back and forth, several Aether Dragons located on the outer armor of the Judgement Death Star also noticed the drastic changes in their habitat, and then cautiously poked their heads out to observe the outside world.

Then, they were so shocked by this scene that they shivered, their six pairs of eyes filled with tears.

—The big dragon who turned into a ball finally attacked humanoids. When will it be their turn to be attacked?

Nearby, Jiu Ming, who had sensed something was wrong and immediately fled thousands of miles away, remotely observed this scene, and was immediately startled by the group of Aether Dragons that suddenly drilled out from under the armor, secretly revealing half of their bodies and helmeted heads.

"Aether Dragons?!" He let out a cry and exclamation of astonishment, identical to that of the alien ambassadors located on the Titan ecological dome: "How did these cosmic beasts get so fat?!"

"And why are they here? Are they Minister Su's reserved rations?"

But all these exclamations were thrown aside by the Judgement Death Star's decisive actions, like tears in the rain.

After absorbing a giant robot originating from the Pioneer Space, the grey-black Death Star flickered with 'comfortable' light patterns, and then began to warp space, activating its normal sublight engine and began speeding towards a dim planetary system not far away.

It was an isolated star system located in the halo on the edge of the Milky Way, with a gas giant and two rocky planets located in the two orbits closest to the sun. If life were to be born in this place, they would need to cross hundreds of light-years to reach the next isolated island, and would have to travel for at least thousands of years to reach the star-studded regions of the Milky Way.

Tang Yuan, through detection, plus his own supernatural powers, had confirmed that in that seemingly ordinary isolated star system, there was a 'massive' ambush of Twilight Kin.

Theoretically speaking, it would be best to just bypass it at this time. They had encountered dozens, if not hundreds, of similar ambushes along the way. As long as they bypassed them, these ambushes would be meaningless.

But who knew that after a inexplicable remote data upgrade, the Judgement Death Star identified all the ambushes as 'food' and 'reserved raw materials'... This was troublesome. Tang Yuan couldn't avoid it even if he wanted to.

Even the ambassadors in the solar system noticed something was wrong.

[The Twilight reaction over there is very serious.]

The ambassador of Serastheria, a whirlwind aggregate that looked like tumbleweed, shook his elemental tentacles. This member of the Elder Council said in a deep voice: [The enemies lurking there are very powerful, and are likely to be powerful members of the Dusk Gods' family.]

[Has Su Zhou's physical body lost control? It will be difficult for our reinforcements to arrive quickly...]

"The situation doesn't look good."

The envoys of other civilizations also realized that all of this seemed to be beyond the expectations of the Earthlings - whether it was the Earth United Fleet being devoured by its own people, or the abruptly rampaging Judgement Death Star, which obviously made the Earth representatives sitting on the stage stunned several times.

This was not good news for the entire galaxy.

Throughout the galaxy, except for the Serastherians, who also held the Galaxy Star, the other civilization ambassadors did not know why the members of the Nihilism Order were chasing Su Zhou and his party so relentlessly.

But the fact was that while the Nihilism Order was doing its best to capture Su Zhou, they could also take the opportunity to annihilate and ambush those fleets chasing Su Zhou.

Compared to directly fighting against them, this method was the easiest and simplest, and could weaken the enemy even more.

However, if Su Zhou and the Earth United Fleet had an accident, and the Twilight Fleet chasing Su Zhou got what they wanted, and then turned around to invade the entire galaxy... then it would be a genuine galactic war.

At that time, planets would be destroyed and ignited, and countless civilizations, trillions upon trillions, or even countless galactic lives, would be reduced to ashes by the flames of war.

Immediately, several ambassadors on the spot urgently contacted their civilizations, requesting the fleet to accelerate their support.

The ambassador of the Ascended Empire frowned even more, wondering if he needed to report to the God-Emperor and request the use of one of their hidden 'trump cards'.

But they were all overthinking it.

Because they simply didn't understand the despair contained in Tang Yuan's desperate cry of 'runaway', which was not the 'despair' they imagined.

At this moment, the isolated star system.

On the surface of that orange-red sun, a circle of slight light ripples suddenly lit up, and the deep blue light patterns spread like waves in all directions, eventually forming hundreds of huge light rings in the cosmic space.

The light rings, more than three thousand seven hundred meters in diameter, rotated against each other, like thousands of opened doors. Through these rotating gates of light, tens of thousands of strange warships hidden inside the stable atmosphere of the star roared out from behind the light rings, from the already gnawed, pitted star.

Warships... no, not warships. Although these monstrous creatures had metal structures, they were essentially cosmic life forms. Each of them was more than two thousand meters wide and of varying lengths, looking like giant, irregular french fries, with a very strong metal shell and dense psionic patterns on the surface.

And at the moment of their appearance, the Thane Prophet inside the Judgement Death Star jumped up. The Serastherian widened his eyes, and he said in astonishment: "Parasite Demons?"

[How could they be here, and so big?!]

In his memory, Parasite Demons were giant underground creatures that parasited in rocky planets, generally seventy or eighty meters long. They would build nests and reproduce in the planet's crust, destroying the entire surface structure, just like termites parasitizing in planets, hence the name Parasite Demons.

But in reality, this was just a misunderstanding. They could basically be regarded as large earthworms, gentle in nature and not fond of fighting. Everything they did could be seen as loosening the soil, except that the loosening range was the entire planetary crust, and the shell was a very natural high-quality alloy.

Some civilizations liked to throw Parasite Demons onto some uninhabited planets (occasionally there would be natives, at which point the Parasite Demons would live up to their name), and then harvest a batch after a few decades, treating them as mining tools. The single unit efficiency was not high, but they were worry-free and didn't cost much. They could deploy them to hundreds of planets at once.

Some civilizations were lazy, or really nasty, which would lead to some native civilizations being forced to fight these giant insect miners, protecting their homes from being destroyed. They would likely continue to fight until they reached the interstellar colonization era - because the shell of the Parasite Demons could be used as the shell of spaceships, which could greatly help material science development. And when these civilizations grew stronger, the name of the Parasite Demons would be spread.

But now, it was very obvious that these giant metal insects roaring in space, condensing plasma clusters and heavy particle ray cannons, were at least 108,000 miles away from their former image of honest, fully automatic miners.

[What kind of technology does the Nihilism Order possess to transform those originally gentle insects into a form that can parasitize and gnaw on stars?!]

Bio-modification is too wonderful!

Thane Prophet's questions had no answers, because the enemy's artillery fire had already arrived.

The roar of spiritual energy shattered the light flow on the surface of the star, like mist blown away by a strong wind. Intertwined silver light, fire, and thunder struck the gray-black metal star like raindrops.

Accompanied by huge fluctuations that could make the star itself tremble, a carapace giant insect, whose head alone was more than forty thousand meters wide, poked its head out from inside the star. It opened its super-alloy mouthparts, which were enough to crush all metal and rock. Eight shining crystals were charging inside, and the biological gravity cannon was ready.

In an instant, an invisible beam of light that stimulated all particles around the sun to emit strong light, emitting an aurora-like blue color, suddenly appeared from its mouth, mercilessly piercing through the dark starry sky, directly hitting the main body of the Death Star.

Gravity was invisible, but the accompanying strong electromagnetic and distorted starlight was so bright that it seemed to light up the dark edge of the galaxy. Many Earth Fleet crew members who watched this scene closed their eyes, and even Tang Yuan turned his head, as if fearing being burned blind.

The Boundless Void was continuously generated, and a dark halo covered the Death Star, but the gravity cluster was originally something that could distort space itself. The Boundless Void could stop all physical movement in the world, but it was still powerless in the face of gravity fluctuations of sufficient power.

All the crew members in the Death Star felt a series of earthquake-like sensations attacking their entire bodies. Even the outer armor of the Death Star fell off like tiles blown away by a strong wind. The nine Aether Dragons let out cries, fully entangling themselves on the surface of the Death Star, swaying like seaweed floating in a huge wave, trying as much as possible not to be blown away and torn apart by this gravity cluster.

"Wuwuwu... My Strife Ender version 1.93..."

Inside the Death Star, Shao Shuangyue was trembling and curled up in a corner. Since her giant robot was devoured, she had been in the dark space in the deep area inside the Death Star. She didn't know where it was, what was there, or what was happening outside.

But with the rich experience of a half-step Pioneer, she could still roughly know what was happening outside from the roaring and explosions, and the chaotic sounds of artillery fire - the Judgement Death Star was fighting with the Twilight Kin outside? It seemed that the Death Star was not accidentally activated, but simply because it had entered combat mode.

But what did all this have to do with the weak, beautiful girl who had lost her greatest combat tool?

Poor her Strife Ender, not yet upgraded to version 2.0. She had clearly made an agreement with the Machine Soul (not really) that she would sail with it to the far side of the distant universe to explore the most incredible scenery...

—But now, it's all gone.

"Ah, what should I do? Without a robot to pilot, aren't I just a useless person..."

Lying in the dark metal space like a salted fish, Shao Shuangyue could hear Jiu Ming's flustered exclamations. He seemed to have been selected as a target to focus fire, and now he had also joined the cluster of Aether Dragons, becoming the tenth seaweed floating on the Death Star.

It really can't be blamed on her for not helping. As everyone knows, when a pilot loses their robot, their combat power...

Thinking of this, Shao Shuangyue suddenly frowned, as if she had noticed something was wrong: "Eh, wait..."

She found that how did the pilots of those super robots all seem to have a bit of outrageous combat power? Or rather, did those guys really need robots?

Did she choose the wrong path?

But soon, whether it was an illusion or not, everything became silent.

The girl could hear her heart beating faintly in this silent darkness. After being modified by the Pioneer Space's 'Mechanized Armor' system, she could link her body to most of the constructs in the multiverse related to electromagnetic force and machinery, and enhance and control them with her own ability.

It was quite wonderful to say that the ultimate of Mechanized Armor was a lifeform similar to the electronic exchange flow of the ancient super-civilization 'Omol' in the Guidance Universe, who could freely change and link everything. But at Shao Shuangyue's level, she could at most have combat power similar to small armored mechs when she left her robot.

And now, the girl was located in the center of the Death Star's vast electromagnetic field, comparable to a celestial body.

The giant combat robot she had previously connected to had also been swallowed by the Death Star, and its connection structure was naturally replicated.

So, in this obviously abnormal silence, Shao Shuangyue seemed to hear something.

"Shuangyue... Shuangyue..."

That voice, as if coming from the other side of distant time and space, from beyond the stars of billions of worlds, from the far side of the vast void, was vibrating the girl's soul with a steady and powerful tone.

"Zhou, Brother Zhou?!"

Instantly, Shao Shuangyue, who had been lying down like a salted fish, stood up. She looked around the dark metal hall in surprise: "Are you coming back?!"

After a pause, the distant message slowly responded: "...No... I encountered an accident and am communicating with two trees about the results of a certain mission... I'll be back a little later..."

"I noticed that you seem to have encountered an accident..."

"Yes!" Shao Shuangyue nodded vigorously. She pointed out a very important point in a clear way: "And your physical body ate my robot, making it impossible for me to fight!"

"...Haha, as expected of my physical body, it's in good spirits."

A hearty laughter came from the void message. The young man seemed to be able to see his little sister's angry face, and said calmly with a smile: "Don't worry, when I come back, I will naturally compensate you."

"As for now..."

Su Zhou's voice became smaller and smaller, until it was barely audible.

And Shao Shuangyue also woke up from the previous inexplicable silence. She once again heard the explosions coming from the outer layer of the Judgement Death Star, as well as the psionic shockwaves of condensing power to fight back.

But different from before, the dark metal room she was originally in had now turned into a bright, three hundred and sixty degree fully transparent cockpit, and a control stand that looked very similar to her original combat robot was located in the center of this cockpit.

A blue-purple light pattern road extended from under her feet to the center of the cockpit.

"This, this is?!"

Covering her mouth, Shao Shuangyue gasped.

Then, she heard an extremely grand, but abnormally mechanical, only pre-programmed voice resounding from all directions in this cockpit.

[Wake up, Explorer Shao Shuangyue, I am the Zhuzhou body!]

This voice vibrated the soul and body, containing unparalleled power and majesty.

Along with this voice, a pale golden bracelet condensed from countless sacred light appeared in front of Shao Shuangyue, and the somewhat bewildered girl caught it.

Just after she caught it, the leisurely and grand voice sounded again.

[This is the Zhuzhou Controller. With it, you can defeat any Twilight Monster.]