Chapter 654: Seven Days of Battle
Chapter 654: Seven Days of Battle
Just as Su Yu predicted, the Skrulls shut down the "ship security system" to prevent a traffic jam in the spacecrafts. The transport ship, fully loaded with high-explosive missiles, arrived smoothly at the heart of the transfer station and docked at a small shipyard.
However, Su Yu had overlooked one crucial detail.
Three Skrull god-level experts—Plante, Stym, and Vitoria—were also present, right above that small shipyard. Not only were these three god-level experts here, but they also had nearly 40 seventh-rank and over 300 sixth-rank experts under their command.
These experts were preparing near the spatial rift in the shipyard. If the Blue Star humans attacked the psychic spring, they would cross the spatial rift to intervene.
Boom!
Thirty seconds later, the high-explosive missiles in the transport ship detonated with a thunderous explosion.
The shockwave instantly shattered the ship's hull and spread throughout the shipyard. The destructive power of these high-explosive missiles was astonishing, and the explosion shockwave quickly covered all the docked transport ships within the small shipyard.
The transport ships were filled with psi-energy canisters, which contained high-pressure psi-energy, an extremely volatile substance.
The explosion of the high-explosive missiles was like lighting a match in a powder keg, immediately causing a chain reaction of explosions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Over 50 transport ships in the shipyard detonated one after another, causing the shipyard to collapse as the shockwaves burst out of it.
Seeing the situation about to spiral out of control, the Skrull god-level experts took action.
Plante didn't even think before activating the "spatial jump" module on his mech, instantly teleporting himself and the mech outside the shipyard, with a blue particle shield forming like a wall in front of him.
Stym and Vitoria weren't slow either.
Vitoria used her powerful mental energy to convert it into a magnetic field, which enveloped the entire shipyard and absorbed the shockwave, gradually dissipating it through thermal radiation.
Stym cast a massive defensive psi-technique, creating a giant protective dome over the shipyard.
With the three god-level experts acting simultaneously, the impending disaster that would have rapidly spread and caused a chain reaction was nipped in the bud.
Moreover, the 40 seventh-rank and over 300 sixth-rank experts under their command wouldn't stand idly by. They all moved toward the shipyard, each using their abilities to mitigate the explosion's effects.
As a result, the Skrulls' losses were not significant, limited to just over 50 transport ships and one shipyard.
Although the losses were not substantial, the Skrulls would definitely not take this lightly.
After controlling the explosion, Plante immediately turned his gaze to the main command center and angrily demanded, "Ranchi, Manina, what the hell is going on?"
"Sir Plante, we will immediately investigate this matter," Ranchi replied.
To be honest, the shipyard explosion also startled Ranchi. He quickly sent his subordinates to investigate which link in the chain had failed.
Soon, the investigation results came in.
The head of the psi-energy transportation department, Drak, came to Ranchi and said with his head lowered, "Sir Ranchi, through the intelligent AI's analysis of all possible explosive materials in the shipyard, we have determined that the most likely cause of the explosion was a psi-energy transport ship from the large spring 0086.
This ship may have been carrying high-explosive materials, and since we shut down the ship's security system, we didn't detect these materials, allowing the ship to successfully enter the shipyard."
“Damn it! Could it be that we have a mole in our command center? We just turned off the ship security system, and immediately something went wrong?” Lance stood up, angrily stomping his feet.
Turning off the security system had caused a massive congestion of ships. They had just shut it down to let the gathered ships pass through, and then something went wrong. Could this be a coincidence?
"Drake," Lance said with a dark expression to the transportation supervisor. "I'll go inform His Majesty about the mole. You go to the space rift entrance and make sure no problematic ships get through! If this happens again, you won't see tomorrow's sun, understand?"
"Yes, Commander Lance." Drake wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
The scene returned to Blue Star.
After Su Yu sent the ship through the space rift, he invisibly left the large base in the Siberian Mountains.
A few minutes later, the effects of the self-destructing ship became apparent.
Due to the explosion, the Skrull's psychic transport system experienced a half-hour delay.
During this half-hour, all psychic transport ships on the planet were on standby, and not a single ship passed through the space rift to return to the Skrull homeworld.
This also caused the vast amount of psychic energy to be left uncontained, dispersing across Blue Star.
However, after half an hour, the issue was resolved, and the Skrull's psychic transport system resumed normal operations.
Su Yu's action had some effect, but it wasn't very significant.
He felt helpless and said in the group chat, "I didn't expect the Skrulls to resolve my move in just half an hour. It seems that ship didn't cause much trouble."
Prime Minister Cao quickly comforted him, "It's fine. A half-hour delay is a significant blow to them."
A senior cultivator agreed, "That's true. A half-hour delay means they missed transporting 1,800 canisters of psychic energy back to Skrull, which is a huge loss. Well done, Fellow Daoist Su Yu!"
Another senior cultivator asked, "What do you plan to do next, Su Yu? Continue controlling their missile ships?"
Su Yu replied, "Missile ships are out of the question. This tactic works once but becomes less effective with repeated use.
"I plan to move freely and use my long-distance teleportation advantage to occupy the springs in the European continent, preventing the Skrulls from taking the psychic energy."
"Alright, be sure to stay safe."
Over the next seven days, the Blue Star cultivators were engaged in a fierce struggle for psychic energy with the Skrulls.
During these seven days, all the small and large springs under Skrull control were erupting at an ultra-high intensity.
Most of the psychic energy was transported back to the Skrull homeworld, while a smaller portion was seized by the Blue Star cultivators or dissipated into the air.
As for the Blue Star cultivators, Prime Minister Cao proved to be exceptionally valiant.
Holding the Hilt of Ten Thousand Admonitions in his hand, he successfully occupied 17 large springs and 20 small springs, disrupting the Skrulls' psychic energy transport countless times.
However, Cao also noticed a problem with himself. As the combat duration increased, the power of the Hilt of Ten Thousand Admonitions gradually diminished.
It was like a flashlight, where the light would dim as the battery drained.
By the seventh day, his strength, enhanced by the hilt, could only reach the initial Eighth Rank, a 70% decrease in power.
Fortunately, this strength wasn't irrecoverable.
As long as he didn't fight for a long time, the hilt could absorb the sun's energy and gradually restore its power.
(End of Chapter)
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