Chapter 1550 - Captured and Masqueraded (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When the drones released their stored energy in the form of unwanted clutter, the EMP burst out the surface of the Zenith for the first time. Chaotic pulses choked the communication channels, overloaded the network signal between the Zenith and its fighters, as well as fried the fragile radar and antenna systems. The EMP had physically and permanently brought down the communication network. The shock wave even formed a visible discharge phenomenon: a fine, hair-like arc that erupted between the drones and swallowed up the entire Zenith space station. The electromagnetic pulses swept across the surface of the Zenith and fried all communication installations.

The EMP also immobilized a large number of Executors, which had insufficient protection against the electromagnetic attack.

Hao Ren and Nolan had carefully analyzed the data collected from N-6 to determine the electromagnetic resistant level of the logic core. They had fine-tuned the power of the EMP so that the electromagnetic pulse would only fry the external circuits of the Executors and not “kill” them by damaging their logic cores.

The communication network on the surface of the Zenith was dead. The EMP had cut off the communication between the space station and the lunar base too. The fighters and warships drifted away into deep space after they lost their power. But the drones quickly swung into action, capturing the enemy vessels using traction beams and mechanical arms to prevent them from colliding into each other.

During that short moment, Nolan quickly caught up with a Zenith fighter who was drifting away from her. She pulled the thirty-meter spacecraft back into her garage.

“Move! Move!” Hao Ren shouted as he led his team of men running to the garage. “We only have ten minutes. The EMP could only disable the space station for a short moment.”

As if it was to confirm what Hao Ren said, more fighters began to emerge as the Zenith opened its bays and raised more radars and weapons out from its surface. Some of them began to salvage their fellow spacecraft that had lost power while the remaining launched a fierce attack on the drone cluster.

Warp jump and EMP had given the drone cluster the upper hand initially, but they could not really defeat a super war fortress like the Zenith. Even if the war bastion was inferior to the drone cluster technologically, it was not defenseless. The internal shield that was resistant to various harmful ray bursts in the universe had protected the forces inside the Zenith.

Now, the second echelon of fighters had come out of the fortress and fought the invaders.

Hao Ren was not worried about the casualty rate of the drone cluster. In fact, it was a non-issue. The drone cluster was self-generating. In the face of the ferocious counterattack of the Zenith forces, the drones used their high-power shield to protect themselves while they emitted interference signals to block off the communication system of the Zenith.

Meanwhile, Hao Ren and his team could not care less about the space battle as they were preparing their “ticket” to the lunar base.

A force field was holding a heavy attack spacecraft from the Zenith in the bay while autonomous robots shuffled busily around, cutting up and taking out the unnecessary parts of the fighter to make room for more occupants. They had also swapped out some equipment. It was a hurried but orderly process, and they were halfway to completion.

The pilot of the spacecraft had been detained and shut off.

“Do not make changes to the exterior. Leave the shell in its original appearance at least,” Hao Ren said. “Remove everything in the inside that is not needed.”

An autonomous robot had cut away part of the shell of the attack spacecraft and was now installing shield and jamming devices into it. Another autonomous robot removed the navigation computer and transponder, disassembled them, modified the chips before reassembling them.

N-6 watched on. She felt that Hao Ren’s idea was whimsical at best. “Do you really think that you could evade the detection of the Cortex Prime? The recognition system of Cortex Prime is extremely advanced.”