Chapter 110 The meeting of the distant stars (4)

"It's a good thing that everyone is together. Continue the meeting - Xie Yuduo, close your mouth."

When Old Marshal Chen spoke, this meant that Xie Yuduo's gaffe was gently exposed.

However, Major General Xie has always been favored by the commander-in-chief.

Just like that, they each sat down.

Laian's face was not showing mountains or water, but his movements vigilantly pushed Jiang Jianming inside again.

...Deliberately separate the sight of him, Xie Yuduo and Tang Zhen from each other.

"Go ahead." Old Marshal Chen turned his attention to a tall female general with brown-blond curly hair and a look of forty or fifty years. "Tell all of you, what happened to the group of crystal cult rebels."

"Yes."

Standing up in response was Admiral Celine, who has been stationed at the Imperial Space Station all the year round and is also the Admiral of the Golden Sun Ship.

At this moment, her face was gloomy. After standing up, she didn't speak, and took a sigh of relief.

From the gap between Ryan's shoulders, Jiang Jianming, who was quietly peeping, was keenly aware of one thing: the female general seemed to be in a very poor state of mind from the very beginning. Halfway up.

"At that time, the Crystal Cult rebel plan failed and was forced to leave the Aslan Star City... I was ordered by the commander-in-chief to lead a hundred starships and three hundred mechas to intercept the gangsters outside the empire."

Celine's eyes were red and she said hoarsely, "But... we failed."

"We have encountered... a powerful alien biota with human-level intelligence."

There was an uproar in the audience.

"Impossible!" Someone whispered.

"Highly intelligent alien creatures? Appearing outside the empire?"

"Isn't that a creature that was discovered in the distant interstellar recently?"

"How can Yin Beidou Fortress allow alien creatures to invade the border of the empire..."

Xie Yuduo was leaning on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed, but now a carp sat up straight and muttered: "Okay, Xie Xie heard such a big thing when he first came..."

"They appear directly in the universe."

Celine raised her hand stiffly and shared the video on everyone's screen, "Our army was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, causing the two masterminds of the Crystal Cult to escape."

Jiang Jianming and the crown prince next to him looked at each other quickly. The former stared at the screen in front of him, and the pop-up window started to play automatically.

The rustling... The picture is very clear quickly, what catches the eye is a stable universe, the darkness extends, and countless rocks are scattered in it. This is a dense universe of asteroids.

Jiang Jianming used to watch battle videos with Ryan every day, and played simulated battles against the three-dimensional star map. He knew it when he saw the picture.

——There is only one such dangerous asteroid belt between the outside of the empire and the three alien planets with military fortresses in the far interstellar space, which is called "Devil's Tongue".

There are several noises of soldiers talking in the video screen. This is a video of the starship.

Jin Rilun's fleet is carefully and cautiously traversing the "Demon Tongue", locking on the crystal teaching mecha that is fleeing ahead.

The formation of the fleet opened, the obvious outflanking tactics.

The murmur of the conversation jumped and became much clearer. It seemed that the interlocutor had walked near the bridge of the bridge, where the recording instruments were stored.

"At 14:10 imperial time on X month X day, it is confirmed that the Iron Mansion system is normal."

It was the voice of an ordinary middle-aged man, the technical maintenance officer of the starship.

Jiang Jianming's heart sank. If the fleet encountered alien creatures in such a cosmic environment, I'm afraid...

That man, the maintenance officer, finished the regular inspection and report, and walked a little further.

"Hey, it's just for a few broken mechas, which is so exciting." The man complained in a low voice, "It's New Year's Eve, and the fleet has also been mobilized."

"Yo, okay, Dongzi, you still know about the new year."

The man's partner called him beside him, and laughed: "Your mother is alone at home and looking forward to you coming home for New Year's Eve dinner. You haven't been home for a few years, you're an unfilial son."

The concordance mechanism of the meeting space was at work again, and the swear words of these rude soldiers were swallowed into silence.

However, this time, no one laughed and cursed, and silence spread throughout the conference hall.

It was a virtual space with constant temperature, but everyone present felt a biting cold current pierced through their hearts, which was the sadness of the known ending.

The two maintenance officers hurt each other a few words, and their voices were trivial and inaudible.

After a while, a few slaps on the shoulder could be vaguely heard, and one of the maintenance officers whispered, "I said Dongzi, no joke. You are about the same age. After this trip... just retire."

"Don't blame me for being nosy and talking about you. Your father left early, and it's not easy for your aunt to pull you up alone. This year, her eyes are basically invisible. She sits at that window every day, looking forward to your return."

The man said: "Like brother, ah, no worries, one person eats enough and the whole family is not hungry, you can work on the Golden Sun Wheel until you die. But you still have people looking forward to going home."

"My aunt is an crystalless race, and her body is not good. You...you know what brother means, Dongzi, don't make yourself regret it later."

The other man was silent for a few seconds, grunted vaguely, and sighed again.

"I know... sigh, I know, isn't this trying to serve the empire for two more years..."

He snorted sullenly from his nose, "Oh, if you say that, you should laugh at me."

The faces of the two men could not be seen on the screen, only the starry sky, the eternally vast starry sky.

"Dongzi" and his "old brother" must never imagine that the conversation of a small person like himself would be listened to by countless high-ranking generals, the imperial commander-in-chief, and the imperial crown prince in the future.

They are just worried. In a big way, worry about loyalty and filial piety; in a small way, worry about too few vacations for the imperial army, worry about chasing a few rebellious mechas and start starships, worry about why you haven’t caught up with the enemy, tonight Have you ever been able to go home with your old mother?

Suddenly, on the right front of the starship, behind the shadow of a certain asteroid, an agitated shiny crystalline creature appeared strangely.

- It's really hard to tell what it is, it's shaped like an octopus tentacle, like a snake's torso, like a human's large intestine squirming, or simply a living strip of meat.

If you look closely, you can clearly see skin, meat, bones, eyeballs, mouthparts and other things. This familiar concept of "animal" is now symbiotic with the transparent crystal block, wrapped in thick mucus and pulsing irregularly.

In the face of such an indescribable abnormal existence, the first thing that strikes the face is an instinctive physiological nausea, which makes people feel cold behind their backs, and their nerves "suddenly" jump.

"Wow!"

It was as if a young man who had been brought to him by the general couldn't hold back, covered his mouth and retched. The projection flickered, and it went offline in a hurry.

The general next to him also looked extremely ugly, and almost everyone had cold sweat on their foreheads.

In the picture, one after another such monsters appeared, in addition to long strips, there were also lumps, spherical and angular shapes.

In this way, they moved alive in the cosmic vacuum, rushing to the starship with precision.

"Dongzi! That's... I **, what the hell is that **!!?"

"Front - Front is abnormal!!"

The maintenance officer roared sternly, his tone broke, "Notify the captain! Notify General Celine!!"

Everything after that seemed to happen peacefully.

"They" have been clinging to the back of the asteroid so quietly, I don't know how long they have waited. Only at this moment did he quietly stick out his "head", like a group of white death gods, appearing in front of the starship.

Explosive flames began to flash on the screen.

There was the fire of the starship firing its cannons, the fire of the starship being shot down, and the fire of the mecha soldiers being smashed by these monsters as soon as they rushed out of the ship.

"Ah, ah ah - zi... - zi zi."

Finally, the picture freezes on a crystal monster that suddenly zooms in. At this moment, three eyeballs are emerging from the crystal; the mourning cry of the maintenance officer is broken, and everything is dark.

Admiral Celine whispered: "...We were ambushed by this group of alien creatures, the Iron Mantis starship was shot down, and over 100 people died on the ship, including these two maintenance officers."

"In addition to this, six starships were shot down, twenty-two starships were damaged, and thousands of casualties were lost."

No one answered her words.

"—Look at the eyes of these people, those are human eyes...!"

Celine's voice trembled, and the female general's pupils dilated, reflected in the blue light of this virtual conference room.

"I can fully believe that this group of alien creatures used some kind of lurking strategy all the way to this point. They evaded the Yin Beidou's suppression and marched towards the empire with a clear goal. Even...even said that they came over on a starship, I can believe it!"

Xie Yuduo almost brought his face to the screen, he stared at the battle scene, and dragged it to playback again and again.

He is different from the other generals present. The first fortress is the front line of Yin Beidou, and it is not the first time that the expedition fleet major general has brought him. The strange alien creatures will not frighten him.

Tang Zhen, who was next to him, was already pale, and he clenched his fists so that his teeth would not cluck.

Celine suddenly turned her head: "Major General Xie, you once reported the appearance of highly intelligent alien creatures in Alpha Alien, didn't you say you captured a few!?"

"Yeah, they're all dead," Xie Yuduo said with a stern face, "I was going to lock it up for a few days to study, if I can't study it, I'll send it to Omega to let the base work..."

The major general ruffled his hair, gritted his teeth and sneered: "But even if we have strictly guarded them, they died very quickly and suddenly, and now there is no clue left."

After saying that, Xie Yuduo took a deep breath, got up and looked around: "High-intelligence alien creatures, this is the second topic of this meeting, right? I agree with Admiral Celine's view. I think this group The monsters have sneaked into the Empire from faraway stars."

Veteran Lieutenant General Luther: "From... From the far interstellar?"

Xie Yuduo: "Accurately speaking, it is Yuyu near Crystal Nest."

"I wonder if everyone here knows that the closer you get to the crystal nest, the weirder the shape of the alien creatures, the appearance of flesh and crystal fusion. The expedition fleet also confirmed this... Look at the image."

He said and patted Tang Zhen, "Xiao Tang, wake up and work."

Tang Zhen returned to his senses and quickly uploaded the information again. Soon everyone saw images of alien creatures, with dates and star map coordinates.

These show that the closer the fleet is to the crystal nest, the more chaotic the alien creatures encountered along the way, and the more mixed the flesh and crystal particles are, just as Xie Yuduo said.

On the top right, next to Prince Le'an, Jiang Jianming has pursed his lips and thought for a long time.

His eyes moved between the video of the Golden Sun Fleet and the images provided by Xie Yuduo. When staring at these alien creatures, Jiang Jianming always felt a little familiar.

This kind of... terrifying nausea.

Seems like just saw it not long ago.

correct!The bottom of Jiang Jianming's eyes moved slightly... This kind of state where the flesh and crystal particles are mixed is a bit similar to the symptoms of crystal disordered death.

Suddenly, the atmosphere of the meeting condensed.

Countless eyes shot through like arrows.

"……what."

Jiang Jianming raised his head, the flashing blue screen made his cheeks thinner and paler, and he found that everyone was staring at him in astonishment.

Ryan also turned his face to the side and held his cool fingertips.

Jiang Jianming realized later that he had unconsciously read out the words in his mind just now.

A few seconds later, Lieutenant General Boris took the lead in grinning and sneered: "Crazy human beings, of course, everything looks like crystal chaos."

And the female admiral Celine also cast a cold look: "You shouldn't be here, lie back on His Royal Highness's bed, little sick seedling... that is more suitable for you."