161: Chapter 161 The Xihe-class base shield that lacks martial ethics

The Zerg desperately tried to stop her.

The Corruptors' acid poured down like a rainstorm, the Hydralisks' spines wove a dense web of fire behind her, and the Mutalisks even sacrificed their bodies to block her flight path.

But Anserwe paid them no mind.

She activated all her energy shields and pushed her speed to the limit.

The attacks slammed into her shields, exploding into halos of light, but they couldn't slow her down in the slightest.

The Mutalisks that blocked her way were smashed in two by her body.

In her eyes, there was only the base that was getting closer and closer, and the silver-haired traitor inside it.

Ten kilometers.

Five kilometers.

One kilometer.

Five hundred meters.

Shield!

Anserwe finally rushed to the front of the base shield.

A sinister smile flashed in her eyes as she gripped her blade with both hands, preparing to cleave through the barrier and charge in to begin the slaughter—

"Clang—!!!"

A harsh, metallic clashing sound exploded.

A massive energy ripple spread across the surface of the shield; the blue halo rippled outward like waves on a lake, circle by circle.

And then... that was it.

Anserwe's hand holding the blade was left slightly numb from the recoil.

She widened her eyes, staring at the light blue, motionless energy barrier in front of her, completely stunned.

This shield... seems a bit too strong?!

It wasn't her first time participating in a planetary descent operation.

She knew the strength of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races' ground base shields.

That kind of shield could block the impact of conventional Zerg, but in front of a Tier 5 Queen, it would only take two or three strikes.

But this shield in front of her...

Although she hadn't used her full strength in that strike, she had still used seventy percent of her power.

Never mind a regular base shield, even the shield of a medium-sized warship should have shown some fluctuation.

But this shield didn't even tremble.

A terrifying thought suddenly flashed through Anserwe's mind.

The legendary Prei Naval Base!!!

She looked up at the looming outline of the base deep within the shield—the scale, the architectural density, the turrets and drone nests spread everywhere...

The hell is this a temporary base?

This is clearly a mobile fortress!

And the strength of the shield...

"A xihe-class battlecruiser's shield?!!!"

Anserwe practically roared.

She finally understood.

How could this godforsaken place have a battlecruiser-level shield?!

And it covered an area as large as a quarter of the planet?!

Were the people of the Blazing Dragon Federation crazy?

Did they move the energy system of an entire battlecruiser down here?!

What Anserwe didn't know was that the technology of the Blazing Dragon Federation was no longer what she remembered.

The antimatter engine based on neutron star matter had an energy output efficiency and maximum energy reserve far exceeding ordinary fusion engines.

And that "little gadget" Chen Jingyi brought with her this time—a piece of neutron star matter the size of a fist—was enough to support this massive shield until the end of time.

But that wasn't the most terrifying part.

The most terrifying part was the shield's passive refresh technology based on this energy reserve.

The shield refreshed in rounds and was completely disconnected from the shield generator, essentially disposable upon use.

When the shield was attacked, if the attack was neither enough to break the shield nor sustained enough, it would have no impact on the shield's generation.

This was a shameless tactic based on an extremely abundant energy reserve.

Without concentrated fire exceeding the limit, you would never be able to break it.

Anserwe didn't know these principles, but she knew one thing: she was in trouble.

"Everyone! Focus fire on the shield! Use maximum output!"

She issued the command in the psychic network.

The two nearest leviathan motherships began charging their main cannons.

A few seconds later, two thick, dark green energy beams, like pillars supporting the sky, shot straight down from the firmament and bombarded the same spot on the base shield.

The blue energy radiance exploded, illuminating the entire sky.

The shield flickered, but it was still far from breaking.

"Continue! Four ships! Eight ships! All of them!"

Anserwe was determined.

One by one, the main cannons of the Leviathans joined the bombardment.

When the main cannons of all twelve Leviathans focused on the same point of the shield simultaneously, the light blue energy barrier finally began to tremble violently.

Cracks appeared.

Tiny, spiderweb-like cracks spread across the surface of the shield.

A flash of joy crossed Anserwe's eyes.

Now is the time!

She gathered all her strength onto her blade, transforming herself into a streak of black lightning, and slashed fiercely at the area where the cracks were densest!

"Crack—"

A sound like shattering glass rang out.

A tiny fissure, just wide enough for one person to pass through, opened up on the shield.

Anserwe squeezed in without hesitation.

Behind her, the other Queens who had also seized the opportunity squeezed through the fissure one after another.

A rough count showed at least three hundred of them.

That was enough.

A cruel smile curled at the corner of Anserwe's mouth.

More than three hundred Tier 5 Queens facing over a thousand trial-takers, none higher than Tier 4, was a massacre; it would only take a few minutes.

As for those automated defensive weapons—the Queens' energy shields could fully withstand them.

However, when they truly entered the interior of the shield and saw the full picture of the base, Anserwe's smile froze.

Seen from the inside, the scale of this base was even more astounding.

Towering buildings stood like a forest of steel, dense turrets covered every commanding height, and hundreds of millions of drones circled in the air, forming impenetrable webs of fire.

The nearest of those turrets were less than five hundred meters away from her.

"Fire!"

Chen Jingyi's icy voice exploded in the base's command system.

The next second, the world changed color.

Tens of thousands of energy beams, plasma spheres, and electromagnetic pulses poured down from all directions toward the three hundred Queens.

The entire sky was filled with fire and turbulent energy.

"Block it! Charge in! Find Olivia!"

As Anserwe gave the order, she had already transformed into a streak of light, rushing toward the depths of the base.

She ignored the artillery fire.

While moving at high speed, this firepower, originally intended to trade blows with Zerg biological weapons, wouldn't cause her too much interference.

She ignored the drones.

She had only one goal—to find Olivia and kill her!

The artillery fire along the way slammed into her shield, exploding into sparks, but it couldn't slow her down by even a fraction.

However, just as she was preparing to rush toward Olivia's sensed location—a massive figure descended from the sky, slamming heavily onto the ground in front of her, kicking up a cloud of dust.

As the dust settled, a Giants of Light over fifty meters tall stood in her way.

"This path is blocked."

Sailo's voice was low and powerful.

Brilliant golden light flowed over his body; as the rising star of the Giants of Light race, this was his exclusive combat form—Radiant Sailo.