Chapter 283

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

He hadn't expected that Dominic's first reaction would be exactly the same as his own when he first heard about Stew Pot.

Seeing Lin En's expression, Dominic raised an eyebrow: "What? Is this idea very strange?"

"No, not strange." Lin En shook his head and gave a bitter smile.

"Because when I first heard about Stew Pot, the first thing I thought of was also poisoning."

"Oh?" Dominic grew interested. "So you mean you've tried it?"

"Tried it." Lin En nodded. "And succeeded."

"Oh?" Dominic's gaze grew even more curious. "Tell me about it."

Lin En organized his words and said:

"Early in my term, Bravius native soil suffered a large-scale Green Skin invasion."

"The Green-skinned Leader at the time was called Shan Pang Guga, one of Lianggenna's top generals."

"He led hundreds of millions of Green Skins, entrenched in the Ice Plains inside the Forbidden Wall, causing no small pressure on the Bravius Main Hive."

"And the forces I could mobilize numbered less than twenty million."

"With such a vast disparity in strength, a hard fight would mean certain defeat for us."

"So after hearing news of Stew Pot, I thought of the clever tactic of poisoning."

"But due to their physiological structure, Green Skins are extremely difficult to target with biotechnology."

"What I used then was a biological virus that the Bravius local Machine Cult spent years developing."

"This virus could destroy the Green Skins' digestive systems, making them temporarily lose combat power."

"Only temporarily lose combat power?" Dominic was somewhat puzzled.

The Machine Cult researched for years, yet only achieved this level.

"Right, and it has very strong restrictions."

"After ingestion, it takes 12 hours to take effect, and the effect lasts only half an hour."

"I also relied on goading and luring the enemy deep in, then trapping them like urns and turtles, to buy time until the virus broke out, and beheaded Shan Pang Guga in battle."

Dominic listened with relish.

He looked at Lin En, his eyes full of admiration.

"Not bad, fought beautifully." Dominic praised sincerely.

"To devise such a strategy under such disparate strength, and successfully execute it — you're indeed different from those corrupt, incompetent Governors."

"Overpraise." Lin En smiled humbly.

"However, this poisoning success had a large luck component."

"Oh? How so?" Dominic asked.

"First, at the time it was a ground battle; all Green Skin forces were concentrated in the Ice Plains Deep."

"And at the time, Shan Pang Guga had very few Grot cooks under him, less than ten thousand."

"The Stew Pot they brewed was all stored in a few fixed Big Pots."

"So Stew Pot distribution was very centralized, allowing the toxin to spread so easily to all Green Skins."

"Most importantly, Green Skin genes are hard to fathom; the virus I used only works on Green Skins on Bravius."

"Green Skins on Kal II are almost unaffected by it."

"This time we face Lianggenna's Main Fleet."

"They have millions of Grot cooks, scattered across over a hundred Warships."

"Stew Pot is also brewed separately on each Warship; we simply cannot poison every single pot of Stew Pot."

"So the poisoning method won't work this time."

Dominic nodded after listening.

The smile on his face converged, and he fell into deep thought.

Lin En's words made a lot of sense.

Space battle and ground battle are completely different.

The Green Skin fleet is scattered across the vast Universe; centralized poisoning is simply impossible.

Looks like we can only hard fight.

However, this also suits his wishes perfectly.

He originally came to fight a war.

If he could win easily with a scheme, that would naturally be good.

But if he can't, then win this war fair and square.

Lin En watched the deep-in-thought Dominic without disturbing him.

He picked up his Wine Cup and took a light sip of Wine.

Through this exchange, his impression of Dominic changed somewhat again.

He originally thought Dominic was just a rich Young Master who got his position through family background.

Although warlike, he had no real ability.

But now it seemed he was wrong.

Dominic not only had rich combat experience, but also a clear mind and agile thinking.

Being able to think of poisoning this kind of unconventional tactic at the first moment showed he was not a brute who only knew how to clash head-on.

He was a true warrior.

An excellent Commander with both courage and strategy.

Lin En set down his wine cup, looking at the pitch-black Universe outside the window.

Ahead, the outline of Kal II was already faintly visible.

Lianggenna's Green Skin Fleet would also arrive soon.

This great war was getting more and more interesting.

The corner of Lin En's mouth hooked into an expectant smile.

At the same time he instinctively brought up the system page, checking Dominic's Affection Level.

He discovered the other party's Affection Level had already risen from -10 at their first meeting to -1, and would soon reach a positive value.

And that Lady Ralf still had an Affection Level of -20, maintaining considerable hostility toward him.

What did this mean?

Lin En was somewhat puzzled; hadn't he not had much communication with Dominic?

How did this Affection Level rise?

When the massive hull of the James Tong appeared at the edge of Kal II, what met Lin En and Dominic's eyes was a chaotic Battlefield.

Countless red small warships circled Kal II like flies, and from time to time a few fighters broke through the Defensive Line, spraying streaks of green lasers.

Striking the Defensive Fortifications on the planet's Orbit, they scattered fine Sparks.

That was the Evil Sun Clan's Extreme Speed Fleet.

As the clan most obsessed with speed among all the Green Skin clans.

Their warships had no heavy armor, nor powerful Main Cannons, yet possessed staggering mobility.

These warships painted Bright Red constantly attempted to break the limits of speed in the Universe.

They hit and ran, never lingering in battle, like a swarm of annoying hornets, constantly harassing Kal II's Defensive Line.

"The Evil Sun Clan's vanguard troop, they just arrived a day ago."

Lin En stood on the Bridge of the James Tong, watching the battle outside the Porthole, and said calmly.

"The Count is about two hundred plus ships, but they are all Destroyers and Fighters."

Dominic hugged his arms, his red pupils staring tightly at the Battlefield, yet his Eyebrows Wrinkled slightly.

"Strange." He said in a low voice, "Why is there not a single movement from Kal II's main Defensive Fortifications?"

According to Imperial standards, as an important resource transfer station, Kal II's Orbit should have at least twelve Defense Platforms and hundreds of Macro Cannons.

But now, those Defense Platforms all had their lights off, like a row of silent Steel graves.

Only sporadic lasers shot out from the Planet's Surface, fundamentally unable to cause substantive damage to enemy ships.

Just as Dominic was puzzled, he suddenly noticed something amiss.

In the Xiao Xing Tai Dai around Kal II, countless faint points of light flickered.

Those points of light were very small; one couldn't discover them without looking carefully.

They were evenly distributed, forming a giant net that enveloped the entire Kal II within it.

"What is that?" Dominic asked, pointing at those points of light.

"They are Temporary Fortresses." Lin En explained,

"This is the countermeasure of my subordinate, General Gus Griffith."

"He did not choose to waste resources repairing those Orbital Defense Platforms destroyed by the Green Skins."

"Instead, he dispatched all engineering troops to the Xiao Xing Tai Dai, and on those slightly larger asteroids, built one Lin Tai Bao Qu after another."

Dominic's eyes lit up.

He observed those Temporary Fortresses carefully through the viewing Device.

Each Lin Tai Bao Qu was not large, only a few meters high.

They used the asteroids' own rock as cover, revealing only a few laser Cannon Mouths.

The Fortresses formed a cross Firepower Net through mutual reporting of coordinates.

At this moment, an impatient Evil Sun Fighter squadron attempted to directly cross the Lin Tai Bao Qu Defensive Line and launch an attack on Kal II.

They had just entered the Xiao Xing Tai Dai when the surrounding Temporary Fortresses did not immediately Open Fire to stop them.

But when they penetrated Deep Into the Area where the firepower of over a dozen Fortresses could cover, the Fortresses opened fire simultaneously.

The cross Firepower instantly formed a death net.

Although the Evil Sun Fighters were fast, in the narrow Xiao Xing Tai Dai they fundamentally could not display their agility.

Several Fighters were hit on the spot, exploding into clusters of fireballs.

The remaining Fighters hurriedly turned tail and fled in fright, yet also could not escape the dense Firepower Net, suffering heavy losses.

"Beautiful!" Dominic couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.