Chapter 333: Devourer Scout

Just as the Void Walker had finished containing the Sailun survivors and was preparing to activate the star gate to return to the Milky Way Galaxy,

Beep—beep—beep—!

The ear-piercing alarm sound, without any warning, echoed through every corner of the entire ship!

The red warning lights flashed wildly, casting every face on the bridge in a tense hue.

Report!

The officer in charge of long-range early warning, his voice changed tone.

The long-range deep-space detector picked up an ultra-high-intensity energy reaction!

A massive unknown fleet is approaching at extreme speed from deep within the Andromeda Galaxy!

Target……directly pointing at our position!

As the words fell, an enlarged scan image was projected onto the main screen.

It was a fleet composed of over a thousand warships.

But those could not really be called warships.

Their appearance had no sense of artificial regularity or mechanical feel, more like ferocious beasts from the abyss.

Irregular biological forms, their hulls covered in a layer of blackish-purple substance resembling a mix of muscle and carapace,

faintly writhing, emitting a profoundly uncomfortable vital aura.

No visible engine nozzles, no metallic structure, they were purely……

"Living warships!"

Qian Yin sucked in a breath of cold air, immediately giving the definition.

While everyone aboard the Void Walker was still shocked by this bizarre enemy,

The Sailun elder brought to the bridge, Ailiya, upon seeing that scan image, was struck as if by lightning.

Her legs went weak, she collapsed sitting on the spot, her cloudy eyes filled with endless fear, her teeth chattering.

"Yes……it's them……"

Her voice, as thin as a mosquito, was full of despair.

"It's the 'Hunting Fleet'……"

"Three thousand years ago, it was them……it was them that, with a single encounter, destroyed the main legion of our Sailun civilization that we were proud of……"

Hunting Fleet!

Devourer's vanguard!

Everyone's hearts sank to the bottom of the valley.

Then something even more shocking happened.

That fleet's speed was fast to an extent beyond reason!

"They are not sailing!"

Qian Yin stared fixedly at the data stream, reporting at breakneck speed.

"They are performing a……a biological jump that we cannot parse!"

They directly tore open the space structure, like jumping in water, directly 'jumping' to the vicinity of the target!

On the screen, each blink of the red dot representing the enemy fleet spanned hundreds of light-years.

Just in those few tens of seconds of everyone's dialogue.

They had already approached from deep in a distant star system to within less than ten light-years of the Sailun star system!

"All hands! Battle stations!"

Long Feng's roar brought all crew members back from shock, immediately returning to their combat stations.

The atmosphere on the bridge instantly tightened to the breaking point.

"Qian Yin, immediately analyze all characteristics of the enemy ships and build a combat model!"

Qin Hao's voice remained calm, as if everything before him had long been anticipated.

"Yes!"

Qian Yin immediately began working frantically.

A few seconds later, the preliminary analysis report came out, but the result was chilling.

"Report! The biological structure of these living warships has extremely high resilience to energy and physical impact!"

"Furthermore……according to combat data from three thousand years ago provided by Elder Ailiya,"

"they appear to have extremely strong adaptability to conventional space weapons!"

"They can, in an extremely short time, evolve corresponding resistance to the weapons we use!"

"This means that the same attack method can be effective against them only once!"

This conclusion made everyone feel it was thorny.

"Request authorization! Directly deploy dimensional weapons to annihilate them all before they form an encirclement!"

Long Feng's eyes bloodshot, he loudly begged for battle.

However, Qin Hao shook his head.

"No."

His gaze fell upon the red dots representing the enemy force, his eyes flashing with a light called "interest".

"I need living samples, and more importantly, detailed data on their behavior patterns, attack methods, and evolutionary limits."

He paused, then spoke a sentence that made everyone glance askance.

"This battle is both a fight and……a test."

"A test?"

Using this terrifying fleet that has destroyed countless civilizations as a test target?

On the entire bridge, besides Qin Hao, probably no one has this kind of courage.

Although the Void Walker only has one ship, Qin Hao never fights unprepared.

He ignored everyone's shock, merely raising his hand and lightly tapping in the void.

"Hum—"

An order was issued.

The space behind the Void Walker suddenly rippled.

Immediately after, a shimmering dark-gold light mobile star gate was released out of thin air, stabilizing into shape within just a few seconds.

Inside the star gate, light flowed.

The next moment, ships resembling the "Heaven Sword-class",

but smaller in size, more agile unmanned escort vessels,

like a bee swarm leaving the hive, continuously flying out from the star gate!

One hundred!

Five hundred!

One thousand!

Exactly one thousand unmanned escort vessels, in an extremely short time,

they quickly surrounded the Void Walker, forming a tight spherical defensive formation.

Just as the formation was just completed.

The space ahead suddenly, like fabric, was torn open by an invisible force into pitch-black rifts!

Thousands of writhing black-purple biological warships surged out from the rifts!

They had no hails, no communication.

Upon appearing, they launched the fiercest attack!

Only seen, the bows of those living warships split open into huge "mouths".

Streams of dark green, like thick phlegm, 【Corrosive Energy Clusters】, poured down like a deluge toward the formation of the Yanhuang Fleet!

"Activate the Spatial Shield!"

"Regular Spatial Annihilation Cannon array, return fire freely!"

The order was given.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Countless energy clusters slammed hard onto the Spatial Shield upheld by the unmanned escort vessels.

A strange scene occurred!

That Spatial Shield, sturdy enough to withstand a stellar explosion, upon contact with that dark green energy,

acted like metal splashed with strong acid, emitting a "hiss" sound, instantly corroded into gaps of various sizes!

At the same time, the Yanhuang Fleet's counterattack arrived.

Countless Spatial Annihilation Cannons precisely struck those living warships.

However, these attacks capable of instantly shattering stars, when striking their writhing flesh,

only caused bursts of blood, leaving only a few small wounds.

And those wounds were healing and regenerating at a visible speed!

Seeing this, everyone on the bridge felt a deep sense of difficulty.

Immune to spatial attacks, energy corrosion, rapid regeneration……

This battle, is a bit tough?

Only Qin Hao, watching everything on the screen, curled the corner of his mouth into a faint arc.

"Interesting."

He muttered softly.

"Conventional means really aren't effective, huh……"

"Then let you see what is called……"

His gaze instantly became extremely sharp.

"Dimensional strike."