Chapter 1527 - Is It a Trap? (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When the panic siren sounded throughout the entire spacecraft, the shield expansion system began to recharge. Blue veins started to appear on the silver-white armor belt of the Petrachelys as the shield generator was surging with energy, protecting the spacecraft with several layers of energy shield. Meanwhile, sub-cannons, short-range anti-air guns, and cannons emerged from behind the armors and glinted in cold light as if the fangs of a behemoth.

Emotions had disappeared from Nolan’s voice. In battle mode, she sounded exactly like a robot. “All weapons systems are online… impact in five seconds.”

In the past, Hao Ren would freeze upon hearing this kind of alarm. But that had all changed; he was now calm and steady. He connected his mind with the spacecraft’s sensor system. “From where the attack comes? Who is the attacker?”

“The attacker is unknown. I can only detect strong energy build-up within several astronomical units around the spacecraft. It is extremely hostile… impact.”

Just as Nolan’s voice trailed off, Hao Ren saw blinding light appeared out of nowhere in space. The light then split as if branches of the tree, piercing through space and quickly spreading around the Petrachelys.

There was no way to run as the attack came from all directions. The high-energy light also seemed to have interfered with the warp drive; Nolan could only raise the energy of the shield to the maximum level to counter the impact.

The strange light came into contact with the Petrachelys. In space, it was a silent impact. But on the flight deck, everyone could feel the spacecraft was shaking violently.

The energy shield of the Petrachelys began to ripple as the seemingly innocuous light twigs struck and produce a powerful impact, sending tremor throughout the spacecraft. But the shield had withstood the attack.

The glowing twigs in space were not backing down. Hao Ren was wondering whether there was an intelligent being behind the attack. He looked at the bright light, which looked more like a natural phenomenon. While Hao Ren was still in thought, the thing had launched a second wave of attack.

More light twigs emerged from space and closed in from all directions. The light beams began to wrap around the shield, and the spacecraft began to shake uncontrollably.

Nolan launched a counterattack.

Twenty-six secondary psionic-pulse turrets opened fire, shooting bright blue energy beams and hitting the light twigs in space accurately.

Nolan’s radar scan showed that the intersection of those light twigs were the energy nodes, and destroying them could stop the attack.

The main gun of the Petrachelys began to recharge. It was a rare opportunity for the use of this powerful weapon, which was deemed too powerful in most of the cases.

Hao Ren’s mind was still connected with the spacecraft’s sensor system. With this connection, he would be seeing everything that happened in space from a first-person perspective, witnessing the onslaught of the energy storm from all directions. He could feel the hostile energy had reached its peak, and the light twigs were going to block off all of his escape routes.

“This thing has us trapped here!” Hao Ren shouted at Nolan. “What the hell is this?”

“A rapidly proliferating energy coupling structure.” Nolan had allocated most of her processing power to the tactical module, and this made her voice sound even more inorganic. “We have detected a burst of energy tide in space, which was gathering around the spacecraft. If this goes on, it will rip the spacecraft’s energy shield apart.”

All turrets of the Petrachelys have been activated, firing at the glowing twigs in space. The counterattack had somewhat worked; a few light twigs would disappear whenever the turret fires hit an energy node. But those twigs could grow back faster than the Petrachelys could destroy. Without needing to look at the console, Hao Ren could see with his naked eyes that the glowing things had begun to form a cocoon-like shroud around the spacecraft.

He had to make a quick decision.

“Accelerate and get out of here. Warp jump as far as possible to the nearest gravitational field.”

“Roger that.”

The Petrachelys struggled to turn around. A flash of blue light swept across the surface of the spacecraft as it activated a defense mechanism to clean off any foreign matter on the spacecraft. After successfully breaking loose from the light twigs, the spacecraft accelerated away in full power.