Chapter 147: Seizing the Mothership

Near New York Harbor, the Helicarrier made an emergency landing.

Numerous S. H. I. E. L. D. technicians were working on emergency repairs on the deck.

One of the technicians inadvertently looked up, then his body trembled, unable to help but exclaim:

"What is that?!"

The sudden exclamation drew the attention of surrounding colleagues.

Everyone looked up one after another, only to see the originally blue sky stained with a touch of black at some unknown time, like a black spot, eroding the entire firmament.

Nick Fury stood in front of the control room window, looking silently at the sky, inexplicable brilliance flickering in his eyes.

Stark Tower, the two brothers from Asgard had already decided the winner.

The result was also no surprise; Thor, when serious, had real strength far exceeding his foolish little brother.

After a passionate physical brawl, Thor beat Loki to the ground, then stepped on his butt, placed Mjolnir on his spine, and only then turned his gaze toward the sky.

Feeling the terrifying energy in the black vortex, Thor felt shock, but couldn't help but feel a trace of fortune.

Fortunately, fortunately his good brother Heimdall reminded him in time; otherwise, with his classic arrogant and reckless warrior personality, he would definitely have been beaten to the ground by this cosmic god!

In New York City, the Avengers fighting the Chitauri legion also noticed the movement overhead, looking up one after another, staring at the black vortex with full-faced astonishment.

"What the hell?!"

Tony couldn't help but say: "Did someone poke a hole in the sky?!"

Su Haoming beside him glanced at him, his lips curling slightly, seemingly feeling honored by the power displayed by his own "thigh" (patron).

Yun Ye, Fan Xian, and He Jingfeng were the same; only Lin Lie, who had just joined the group and was seeing Lin Yu take action for the first time, was naturally full of shock.

"Is this the gold content of the chat group's only administrator?"

"I don't know if my Sword Saint awakening skill can reach this level..."

Lin Lie thought to himself.

But what he didn't know was that such terrifying Sacred Scripture magic was still the result of Lin Yu holding back as much as possible.

He threw out this Sacred Scripture magic just to plug the portal, so as to avoid more Chitauri troops from flooding into Earth!

As for himself, he had teleported to the universe on the other side of the portal right after plugging the door.

In the vast vacuum of the universe, there was no gas, no dust, only some faint background radiation and cosmic rays.

Lin Yu hovered indifferently in the universe, ignoring the radiation intrusion around him, ignoring the devouring force behind him, and looked toward the dense Chitauri army in front.

He saw that against the backdrop of the blue-purple exotic nebula, the black mothership, shaped like a four-clawed crab, hovered quietly.

Countless black warships and Leviathans guarded around the mothership, like a dense school of cosmic fish, swimming slowly in the sea of stars.

The Chitauri are a technologically advanced cold-blooded race, appearing as a combination of reptiles and humans. When they are just born, they are still pure organic lifeforms, but all Chitauri who become soldiers are trained through an electronic neural network when they are young, and fuse their exoskeleton armor into their flesh.

Due to this cyberpunk-style prosthetic modification, Chitauri soldiers can create a hive mind through the electronic neural network.

During large-scale group battles, all Chitauri soldiers can communicate in time through this hive network, share combat intelligence, and strengthen their battlefield situational awareness.

And the terminal of this hive mind network is located inside the Chitauri mothership.

This is why the mothership being destroyed causes the Chitauri soldiers to die suddenly.

By the same token, those Chitauri soldiers devoured by the black vortex would also be sensed by the mothership.

A large number of offline Chitauri soldiers caught the mothership's attention; the hive network operated at high speed, transmitting clear instructions.

In an instant, all the black warships moved, countless ship cannons turned their muzzles, aiming at the direction of the portal, pouring out thick energy beams.

The Chitauri soldiers swimming in the universe also gathered and dispersed like a school of fish, either driving single-person anti-gravity vehicles or riding two-body air-space landing ships, surging toward the direction where Lin Yu was.

"Shoo, shoo, shoo—"

Various colored light beams shot over like rain, converging into a colorful energy torrent.

Such terrifying firepower, if it could all land on Earth, I'm afraid a single volley could level the entire North America.

Sure enough, the interstellar fleet of this universe is indeed more realistic; no wonder Lin Lie has always been worried about it...

However, the interstellar fleet facing this right now is not the system-flow protagonist of this world, but the combat power ceiling that is even more perverted than the protagonist in the story!

Looking at the energy torrent shooting over from the front, Lin Yu slowly raised his right hand.

In an instant, the sacred scripture bloomed with golden-red light.

Terrifying energy surged out from his body, turning into rays of thin, long golden-red flame streams, spiraling and rising around his arm, crazily converging toward his palm.

In an instant, the originally golden-red flames concentrated into a brilliant gold, then transformed into a platinum color.

Finally, a flame that was nearly incandescent, brilliant to the point of being unable to look directly at, hovered in Lin Yu's palm.

The scale of this flame was very small, only the size of a baby's fist, presenting the shape of a three-legged bird as a whole.

As its wings flapped, the terrifying energy scorched the vacuum, causing the surrounding radiation and cosmic rays to distort.

This was Lin Yu's Sacred Scripture magic—Golden Crow Falling from Heaven!

"Go!"

Looking at the energy torrent covering the sky and earth in front, Lin Yu gave a light shout.

The incandescent flame held in his palm flew out lightly, moving forward while distorting space like a flash.

In the next instant, the incandescent Golden Crow collided with a blue energy particle beam.

The white flames exploded violently, covering the vacuum for a hundred miles in a fan shape, forming an extremely dazzling white light area.

All matter and energy existing within the white light area, whether it was the energy torrent from the ship cannons, or the Chitauri soldiers and those sturdy alien metal warships, were gasified and sublimated by that terrifying white light, completely annihilated.

In just an instant, the fan-shaped area of over a hundred miles in front was swept clean by the white light.

Over hundreds of thousands of Chitauri soldiers died instantly, and over a hundred black warships lost contact.

Countless offline messages entered the hive network; the mothership realized the crisis, immediately activated the jump engine, and issued an interception order to the warships surviving in the starry sky.

Thus, all the black warships and Leviathans moved, crazily launching suicide attacks on Lin Yu.

Lin Yu remained unmoved, his expression calm as he raised his hand, once again condensing an incandescent Golden Crow identical to the one just now.

"Boom!"

The intense white light expanded silently in the vacuum, forming ripples of white that resembled the legendary power of erasure, annihilating all matter and life it swept past.

A powerful skill capable of being a protagonist's ultimate move in the late game was nothing more than a mundane basic attack in Lin Yu's hands.

His figure flashed, teleporting ten miles forward with each step, and he tossed the white-hot Golden Crow with casual ease, continuously destroying star sectors where the Chitauri army resided.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yu crossed over a thousand kilometers and arrived before that black mothership.

Behind him, the brilliant white light had already covered the starry sky for a thousand miles, resembling a sun with swirling mists on its surface, continuously emitting extreme heat and radiance.

"... Want to run?"

"Can you run?"

Lin Yu gazed at the mothership before him with a hint of fervor, his eyes seemingly piercing through the alien metal of unknown composition to see the jump engine blooming with light at the center of the hull.

The next second, his consciousness swept out, and his terrifying mental power instantly covered the entire mothership, knocking all the Chitauri soldiers unconscious.

He himself then teleported to the mothership's control room, and based on the knowledge he had just acquired through soul-searching, he terminated the incomplete jump and transferred the mothership's authorization to himself.

Of course, he would not destroy the Chitauri mothership!

No matter how pathetic the Chitauri army appeared in movies and comics, it was, after all, a genuine interstellar fleet, possessing the capability for intergalactic travel and large-scale landings.

The reason Rocket Raccoon called it trash was that the weaknesses of the Chitauri mothership and the hive network were too obvious, making it easy for elite squads to execute decapitation strikes.

But in Lin Yu's hands, this weakness would cease to exist!

"Hiss—"

With a soft sound, the black metal hatch opened.

Lin Yu arrived at the core inside the mothership and saw those hive servers constantly flickering with light.

Without hesitation, he immediately shut down the hive network, took out a mana crystal with a complex internal structure from his storage space, and used this crystal to replace the original hive core.

After a moment of silence, the hive servers lit up once again.

But this time, what was awakened was not the original Chitauri hive consciousness, but the artificial intelligence Lin Yu had cultivated—Spirit Flower!

"Respected Administrator, the artifact spirit 'Spirit Flower No. 2' produced by the Reincarnation Pavilion is at your service!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Lin Yu couldn't help but smile: "How does it feel?"

"A strange body, strange technology, but overall it's quite comfortable; there's no sense of confinement."

"Very good, can you take over the mothership's hive network?"

"I have taken over nine basic systems, including the communication system, propulsion system, energy system, and hive network system; the remaining systems are currently being taken over..."

"How long will it take to take over everything?"

"Calculating... it is estimated to take 3 hours, 54 minutes, and 21 seconds. Among them, the structural and thermal protection systems have sustained 3% damage and require the awakening of Chitauri technicians for repairs."

Lin Yu pondered: "Awakening them is fine, but... are you confident you can control these Chitauri?"

Spirit Flower replied: "Of course, all Chitauri soldiers are connected to the electronic neural network and have been fitted with military obedience chips; they cannot refuse any command issued by the hive network."

"Is that so?"

A smile appeared on Lin Yu's face: "Then wake them up!"

(End of chapter)