Chapter 549: Escaped

Report, Bisimai big sister, an unknown object has appeared from underwater, moving quickly toward the surface; everyone pay attention underwater, be careful to avoid!!

U556's voice suddenly sounded in the communicator; not only Bisimai, but other shipgirls also heard her voice.

Actually, from the moment the sea began to boil, all the shipgirls had already been on guard against possible developments.

And hearing U556's shout made them even more certain that what they sensed was correct; indeed, another attack had appeared.

Suddenly, within the formation of the shipgirls, several shipgirls swiftly dodged. And right where they had just been standing, mechanical tentacles appeared.

These tentacles bore barbs, like deep-sea sea monsters, their bodies flickering with purple light; in this somewhat dim environment they were extremely terrifying!

"What are these!!" Not just one shipgirl voiced this; more and more shipgirls also noticed the tentacles dancing on the sea surface.

Even more, increasing numbers of steel tentacles appeared, sweeping toward the shipgirls.

"Quickly deal with these mechanical tentacles! The rest continue attacking the Siren high-ranking humanoid unit!" Bisimai's voice appeared calm and stern in the communicator.

This caused the shipgirls who had just been startled or distracted by the appearance of the mechanical tentacles to react.

The shipgirls nearest the mechanical tentacles began raising their own ship guns to attack those tentacles, while those farther away continued firing at the Siren humanoid unit preparing to disengage.

"Warning: shield effect will end in ten seconds. 10.9.8......"

The system warning sounded on the ship equipment; the all-white little girl opened her bright yellow eyes, "Shield emergency module, ON!"

With the little girl's voice, the shield that had been about to collapse suddenly flared bright, and as more energy from the attacks hit the shield, its brightness grew even brighter.

"What's going on?" Watching the shield about to be broken by attacks, it instead flared bright again, and with an ever-increasing brightness trend, this left Enterprise and others quite puzzled.

At this moment, Hai Lun Na, who was providing support in the vanguard fleet, felt something was off. She discovered that within the ever-brightening shield, she sensed an energy completely different from before.

This energy was not solid; instead it was extremely sharp and violently fierce, like a mass of thundercloud about to explode.

"Everyone stop attacking; that shield is drawing energy from everyone's attack shells—quickly stop!"

Hai Lun Na suddenly realized something, and hastily spoke loudly into the communicator.

Although all the shipgirls had already heard it, it was already too late; the shells that had left the gun barrels and those sliding through the air could not be recalled, and they struck straight into the shield of the Siren high-ranking humanoid.

Then, a dazzling white light erupted from above the shield of the Siren humanoid unit, sweeping across the entire sea area in an instant.

The massive energy storm swept the vanguard shipgirls far away, and the storm also drove the formation of waves, causing larger waves to appear in the sea area.

Seeing this, Enterprise hurriedly said, "All personnel, watch out for the waves; defensive shipgirls, protect the command ship and brace for the wave impact!"

However, under these circumstances, very few shipgirls could receive this signal, because as the energy storm erupted, the signal was again blocked.

Continuously, shipgirls were swept by the waves beneath the sea surface, and those shipgirls drawn under, due to the weight of their ship equipment, could not surface for a moment; they could only struggle continually, sinking further downward!

This situation was completely different from the previous waves; the violent explosion and energy amplified the already ferocious waves, and moreover, all the shipgirls had switched to armor-piercing shells, making them utterly helpless against such waves.

The situation was suddenly reversed, but now no one was attending to the condition of the Siren high-ranking humanoid unit, because what lay before them was the rescue of the shipgirls who had fallen into the water.

"All shipgirls and submarines, note: immediately conduct rescue for flooding, avoid the mechanical tentacles' attack! Be careful and cautious!" Qin Ge's words were transmitted via the communicator.

The current situation no longer allows them to continue attacking; although continuing to attack might completely annihilate the Siren high-ranking humanoid, it would inevitably cause the greatest casualties.

This is something Qin Ge does not want to see; to him, each shipgirl is unique, each shipgirl is a comrade. If on the battlefield, to defeat the enemy he abandoned his comrades, he could not do that.

After the battle, it will continue; it will not end just because he today annihilated the opposing Siren high-ranking humanoid.

But if he now does not go to rescue his own shipgirls, the negative impact that would bring, he dare not even imagine.

Thus, on the sea surface that had just been fierce battle, a large-scale rescue operation suddenly appeared. Of course, while rescuing, the shipgirls farther away and unharmed also resisted the attacks of the Siren mass-produced type.

Qin Ge raised his handheld telescope to look toward the distant position of the Siren high-ranking humanoid, but he discovered that she had already sunk into the sea, unknown whereabouts, leaving only rows of mass-produced warships on the sea surface.

"She fled..." Qin Ge lowered his telescope and softly said to Tiancheng and Zhenhai beside him.

"Yes, that final energy storm and those mechanical tentacles..." Tiancheng said with a solemn expression, "It seems our understanding of the Sirens remains very limited!"

Qin Ge nodded, "Yes, although this time the Siren commander has withdrawn, the battle is far from over; clearing this sea area, seeking the Siren outpost, only then can we leave this mirror sea."

"However, I find it strange—what is their purpose in suddenly appearing here? Could it merely be to create this sea area shrouded in sea mist?" Zhenhai said, furrowing his brow.

Qin Ge shook his head, "Unclear; perhaps we can find something in this sea area's control center outpost, who knows. But it is quite obvious that the Sirens have once again completed a collection of our combat data; our fleet's strength has again become transparent to them."

"Perhaps we have never been unknown; you know, even our current fleet is only barely comparable to that Siren high-ranking humanoid unit. And they must have made precise decisions to reach such a conclusion." He said.

"Furthermore, after observation, I find that this Siren high-ranking humanoid that appeared this time, compared to the Purifiers we encountered before, does not have much combat will; it seems like a mere bystander, just carrying out the mission." Zhenhai said.

Qin Ge nodded, "Maybe."

Immediately turning his head to look at the gradually ending battlefield and the shipgirls rescued from the sea, "Well, this could also be considered a victory..."