Chapter 184 Insects, We're Just Insects!

The four people who first made contact with the droplet had no chance to see the second halo appear.

Because, when the first halo appeared, the droplet erupted with a super-high temperature similar to the sun's core, vaporizing them in an instant!

Viewers in the real world watched through the livestream camera feed.

Players in the Three-Body World watched through the system's perspective.

They clearly saw the hull of the Mantis warship emit a red glow, as if a candle inside a lantern had been lit!

Then, the metal hull began to melt like wax!

"Bang!!"

Just as the melting began, the exploration warship exploded!

And this explosion was completely different from previous ones because the Mantis did not produce any solid debris from the explosion!

All the ship's metal turned into incandescent liquid and scattered into space.

This scene left everyone stunned.

Those who held high hopes for the space warship fleet and believed they could easily defeat the Three-Body World under the leadership of Divine River were left in a daze.

【What on earth is this?】

【The droplet, the droplet!】

【Just a moment ago, I thought Ding Yi had studied himself into stupidity, wondering how he could suddenly say such ridiculous things. Now it seems, I am the stupid one!】

【No way, such a huge warship, just gone like that?】

【I really don't understand!】

【"Destroying you, what does it have to do with you?" The more I think about this sentence, the more my back chills!】

【You have to know that the Trisolaran fleet is still several light-years away from the Solar System! The droplet is just a space probe they launched!】

【A tiny space probe directly destroyed the space warship that Human Civilization painstakingly researched. This... this disparity in strength is just too great!】

【This is just a small exploration warship, this is just a small exploration warship!】

【That's right!】

【The combat power of the Mantis is insignificant in the Alliance Army space fleet; it can't even compare to one percent of the future kindling!】

【The droplet can only bully these kinds of small things.】

【But don't forget! The person commanding this space fleet is Divine River, a leader of a civilization even higher than the Trisolaran Civilization!】

The terror of the droplet refreshed everyone's perception; they all realized simultaneously that they seemed to have underestimated the Trisolaran Civilization!

However, there were inevitably some stubborn people in the livestream room who continued to speak up.

They believed the destruction of the Mantis was just an accident; after all, the droplet's movement speed and method of attack were too inconceivable!

More importantly, the Human Alliance Army believed the droplet was a small gadget sent by the Three-Body World for negotiations, so they didn't take any defensive measures against it!

That's why the droplet was able to launch a surprise attack on the Mantis!

With this lesson, the space fleet would certainly be able to guard against the droplet's subsequent attacks; it would be impossible for it to destroy any more space warships!

"It's a pity... We all thought the droplet was a negotiation tool sent by the Three-Body World, never expected..."

The space fleet clearly observed the sudden explosion of the Mantis one thousand kilometers away.

At this moment, everyone's first reaction was that the droplet had self-destructed.

They were all saddened by the sacrifice of the people inside the Mantis, and then felt disappointed that the droplet was not a peace messenger.

"Get ready."

"Since the droplet is an attack device from the Three-Body World, our space force should also prepare defenses."

"The destruction of the Mantis is a signal, a signal for all of humanity to be vigilant!"

"None of us know if there will be other attack devices after the droplet!"

The Wallfacer and fleet Commander, Divine River, quickly issued his orders.

The space fleet began to initiate defensive posture!

They prepared to use two hundred years of technological development to deal with the droplet, thereby launching the first battle against this strange civilization!

"Report!"

However, just at this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly came from within the fleet.

The staff member in charge of the detection equipment suddenly reported an anomaly:

"The fleet's space detection system computer has detected an anomaly!"

"There is a fragment in the image after the Mantis explosion that is not quite right!"

"While most of the fragments are molten metal and flying through space at a constant speed after the explosion, only this one fragment is accelerating!"

"The computer cannot predict what kind of impact this fragment will bring!"

"Therefore,"

"It can only be marked as a level three attack warning!"

Divine River did not pay attention to the content reported by this staff member, because a level three attack warning is a very low level in the space fleet's predetermined danger warnings!

Moreover, looking at the image provided by the computer, this fragment was not coming directly at the fleet; it was flying towards one corner of the rectangular formation!

According to the direction calculated by the computer, the fragment would pass outside the formation and would not hit any target of the fleet!

Amidst the large number of level one warnings triggered by the Mantis explosion, this small level three warning was ignored by everyone.

However, no one, including Divine River, would realize that this tiny fragment they ignored, this slight level three warning they disregarded, would bring a death-like blow to the space fleet in the time to come!

Under the orderly arrangement of Divine River, the space fleet prepared to face the incoming enemy in a full defensive posture!

Led by the future kindling, various large and small warships were ready and fully charged!

However, just at this sudden moment, the computer reported another warning to the same detection staff member.

This was not a new warning caused by the Mantis explosion, but a level two danger warning upgraded from the initial level three danger warning!

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"The fragment is still accelerating, and its speed has significantly increased compared to before!"

"After flying three hundred kilometers, the fragment's speed has exceeded the third cosmic velocity, and it is still accelerating!"

"The system has upgraded the danger warning to level two!"

Level two!

In these few short seconds, this small danger warning level had actually been upgraded to level two!

For some inexplicable reason, the staff member in charge of detection felt a sense of panic.

He had a very bad premonition.

This little thing that was still constantly accelerating would bring unpredictable damage to the fleet in a very short time!

Facts proved that the staff member's unfounded panic was correct, because what he feared soon happened.

The fragment flew a total of 1,500 kilometers from the explosion point to a corner of the formation, taking fifty seconds.

When it reached a corner of the formation, its speed had already reached 31.7 kilometers per second!

At this time, the fragment was on the periphery of the formation, 160 kilometers away from the first warship at this corner of the rectangular formation, the 【Infinite Frontier】!

The fragment did not fly past the rectangular formation as the computer expected, but instead made a thirty-degree sharp turn, rushing towards the 【Infinite Frontier】 without any reduction in speed!!