Chapter 4204

The night on the alien planet remained long. Polaris had gotten drunk early, so she had already gone upstairs to rest. The Arkham Knight and Miles hadn't stayed long either, choosing to rest early to cope with the busyness of tomorrow. But Peter had stayed behind, because he had already figured out the ins and outs of that electromagnetic interference device.

"I discovered it earlier; this thing has two modes: one is broad-spectrum interference, and the other is concentrated interference. The power of the latter is extremely high; it can be understood as an electromagnetic sniper cannon. This thing can have a huge impact on most energy constructs."

"Energy constructs?"

"That's right. According to my research, this device doesn't have much influence on material constructs. Or rather, if they really wanted to make an electromagnetic cannon capable of breaking through copper walls and iron bastions, they wouldn't use this method, but a more efficient one. After all, their starship main cannon technology is more than sufficient; there's no need to use this thing."

"And this device has two advantages: one is that it is very lightweight, easy to hide, and doesn't require complex setup procedures when starting up, nor does it require a large amount of energy, and it can switch between the two modes at any time; another, and this is the most important point, is that it abandons influence over material constructs and instead focuses on attacking energy constructs. It will definitely have excellent performance in this regard."

Schiller nodded. He continued wiping the glass and then said, "What do you think this thing is targeting?"

"Portals."

"What?"

Peter adjusted his chair and then said, "I suspect this thing might be targeting human portals."

Schiller looked slightly hesitant. Peter continued, "It's not the first day the three major empires have known that humans have portals; it's impossible for them not to have a backup plan. According to their research speed, it's time for some results to come out now."

"You think this is their result?"

"This might just be a part of it, a portable version of some device. But perhaps it's enough."

"Can this thing blow up a portal?"

"Not necessarily blow it up, but perhaps it can interfere." Peter put his hand on the bar counter and then said, "In the past, the mages' portals were used and left immediately, closing right after use. No one could predict their landing points, so interference was meaningless. But now that humans want to build a transportation system within the galaxy, there must be fixed portals. In that case, it's much easier to interfere."

"Indeed," Schiller nodded and said, "That's why they set up such sniper rifles on some remote planets, waiting for humans to start deploying fixed portals so they can use them to interfere."

"That's what I think." Peter looked at the box in his hand and said, "Human spaceships are relatively backward, and production is insufficient. It's almost impossible for us to build a galactic transportation system through spaceships; we can only rely on portals. As long as there's a problem with the portals, all our construction plans will fall through. And to make the portals have problems, it doesn't necessarily have to explode or be completely unusable; as long as the landing point is wrong, or if the transmission process throws people to other places at will, that's already dangerous enough. And once it's the big shots of the Interstellar Council who have an accident, things will be even harder to handle."

"They must have this idea, which is why they hid these things first, waiting for the portals to start operating before pulling off a big one. They really are persistent in their evil intentions."

Schiller knew very well that this matter was most likely done by the Skrull Empire. The Queen of the Shi'ar Empire was one of their own, deliberately launching a new policy at this juncture to throw the empire's interior into chaos, and those nobles had no time to care about external affairs. And the Supreme Intelligence had also encountered some accidents, and now it was overwhelmed, so the intensity of its trouble-making was much weaker. Only the Skrull Empire could take action.

Actually, in most comics, the three major empires are cannon fodder in the novice village. Whether it's the Kree invading Earth, the Skrulls secretly invading, or the Shi'ar Empire's stories, most of them happen when superhero groups have just debuted, looking like background boards for leveling up.

But in reality, these three empires are truly difficult to deal with in their own ways. Even though humans have already taken down the Shi'ar Empire through a switch-and-bait method and ambushed the Supreme Intelligence, leaving only the Skrull Empire, they can still make them restless.

In the end, it's because humans developed too late and their overall strength is too weak. If they could produce spaceships like the three major empires, they wouldn't be so dependent on portals, giving others an opportunity to exploit.

Rather, it's already the protagonist halo given by the comic setting that they could use these ten-plus years to develop to the point of confronting the three major empires head-on. But wanting to suppress the three major empires is still a long way off.

"This matter cannot be rushed," Schiller said, "It's best to use the clumsy method and try to dig out all the hidden dangers they have buried."

"Two more squads have already found this thing." Peter opened his phone, scrolled through the group chat, and then said, "They all inadvertently stumbled into relatively remote planets and discovered people making trouble there. But those robots are also very powerful; several people have already been injured."

"Let them withdraw as soon as possible," Schiller said, "Withdraw to whichever base is closer and find a place to recover from their injuries properly."

The atmosphere in the group chat was very excited. Upon learning that there really were aliens making trouble, everyone was prepared to clash with them. "I admire their spirit, but in terms of combat power..."

Schiller also fell silent. In fact, most of the Robins taught by Batman have high combat literacy, but the problem is that they have no space combat experience, let alone planetary landing combat experience. And both types of combat require practice.

First is shooting training in a zero-gravity environment; even those agents equipped with symbiotes have to practice for several months to adapt. Second is landing on an alien planet by spaceship, which also has a lot of nuances: how to find a safe landing point, create cover the moment you land, search for enemies, and fight enemies in the complex natural environment of an alien planet—these are all very difficult. Even if Batman came, he would have to practice for two days.

But fortunately, they are all very smart. Even if they don't have training experience for the time being, it's not impossible to learn during combat. Schiller took out his phone and began to add combat-related entries to the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" software, and then sent the update news to everyone's terminal.

But these alone are not enough. After all, they are not flying specialized combat spaceships, and the weapons they use are standard weapons prepared during the previous multiverse war. This type of weapon is mainly aimed at carbon-based organisms and is insufficient to cause damage to robots.

If you really want to talk about the weapons with the greatest lethality to robots, they are actually in the hands of those two major mechanical empires. After all, they fought a thousand-year war back then and are the most adept at how to kill each other.

"Just right. The Skrull Empire wants to interfere with human portals; we must give them a taste of their own medicine." Schiller said while putting the wine glass back on the shelf, and sent a text message to Loki, "It's time, take action."

Loki was on the outskirts of the Skrull Empire's capital star system. The patrols here were very tight, so he had to hide himself inside a giant beast. This was a source of meat raised on the Skrulls' ranch, a type of animal similar to a kangaroo that has a pouch. And Loki was hiding in the pouch of this giant beast.

He could see many Skrulls coming and going, but almost no one noticed him. In fact, for nearly a thousand years, no outsider had been able to approach the core area of this empire. Loki being able to come here was thanks to that Skrull, Schiller.

Currently, that Skrull was one of the Skrull generals. But there were thousands of Skrull generals, and he was not conspicuous. Although he was not easily noticed, his power was also limited. All he could do was help Loki come here.

And Loki coming to the capital of the Skrull Empire was naturally to cause some destruction here. And his target was the nest in the core area of the capital.

It's a bit strange to say, Skrulls are oviparous organisms, meaning they hatch from eggs; but the bird-like Raptor race is viviparous and doesn't need to hatch eggs.

Although Skrulls are considered a mechanical civilization, their main race is numerous and not controlled by any super artificial intelligence. Machines are more like tools to them; it's just because their territory is vast and they cannot rule without mechanical means, and their dependence on machines is too high, which is why they became a mechanical civilization.

And being able to maintain the number of the main race is because of their special reproductive method. A Skrull can gestate an egg sheath within a reproductive cycle, and there will be a dozen or so eggs available for hatching in one egg sheath. And the hatching process doesn't require them to intervene personally, but has a very advanced automatic hatching system. This makes their reproductive efficiency very high, which can maintain the number of the main race.

Loki's target was their hatchery. Although this thing is strictly protected by the Skrulls, if he could make a mess in this place, it would definitely be a huge disaster, and the entire Skrull Empire would be shaken by it.

And the reason he hid in the meat ranch is because the Skrulls' special reproductive habits make them different from viviparous animals. They don't have the process of breastfeeding, but are more like oviparous organisms, and can eat as soon as they are born. And their main food is meat, and to ensure the freshness of the meat, they transport live animals into slaughterhouses very close to the hatchery. As long as Loki hides in this kind of meat-eating giant beast, he can enter the slaughterhouse.

The giant beast Loki chose was already mature and would be slaughtered in a few days. Later today, someone did come to transport the giant beast out of the pen. And it was precisely because their main ethnic group was not particularly short of people that this important work was done by Skrulls, not the robots they operated. And it was precisely because of this that Loki was given an opportunity.

He held the Mind Scepter and easily confused a Skrull, making him not check the giant beast's condition at all, and just like that, he sent the giant beast onto the truck, and at the same time sent Loki onto the truck.

After arriving at the slaughterhouse, Loki cast an invisibility spell, confused a few more Skrulls on the way, and of course quietly hacked into the surveillance and erased the traces he might have left behind. After many twists and turns, he finally entered the Skrulls' hatchery.

There are countless cylinders on this planet, and each building is a bit like the structure of a coliseum. Every small room on the wall has an egg, and the building extends downward for thousands of meters underground, with countless eggs hatching. This might be the new population of the Skrulls for the next ten-plus years.

Part of the power Thor extracted from the World Tree during the multiverse war was stored in Mjolnir. And when Loki poured it all out, he had the power to destroy the planet in an instant.

Loki didn't cover up at all, standing at the top of the planet, holding the hammer high, and then smashed it down fiercely. The power of thunder and lightning arrived instantly, and the electric light submerged the entire planet. A lightning bolt thicker than the diameter of the planet directly smashed this planet into pieces.

In the destructive thunder, no carbon-based organism could survive at all. The Skrulls' hatchery was thus completely destroyed.