121: Chapter 121 To catch the thief, first catch the king!

"Snap!"

Li Muzi was trembling with rage at the disgusting and lewd scene on the screen, and without hesitation, she slammed her hand onto the button to forcibly cut off the communication.

"A bunch of disgusting animals!"

Muzi took a deep breath and quickly switched to the internal tactical channel.

"Boss. The enemy is a werewolf fleet from the Blood Moon Guild. Twelve heavily armed warships, fully equipped, and... they have many human females imprisoned on their ships. These guys have no intention of leaving; they are here to seize the island."

"As expected. Since they have come to die, we shall grant their wish."

Zhou An's voice came through the communicator, accompanied by the rising, piercing whine of the a70 fighter's engines.

"Muzi, hold the fortress hub and provide full-field vision sharing for me and Luo Ning."

"Understood!"

Li Muzi knew well that there was no room for hesitation at this moment.

"EVA, open all bottom-level weapon depots! Launch all fifty thousand drones! At the same time, immediately switch the modular factory on the fortress to military production mode and go all out to produce suicide drones!"

"Command received. Swarm released, assembly line production instructions updated."

As EVA's cold voice faded, countless dense black drones poured out around the fortress's massive hull like a bursting black flood, surging into the night sky and covering everything.

At this moment, in the clouds thirty kilometers away from the fortress, Zhou An was rapidly approaching the twelve warships ahead.

[Warning! Locked on by enemy fire-control radar!]

Almost the moment their lines of sight crossed, a piercing alarm blared inside the a70 fighter's cockpit.

Although the werewolf fleet's radar operators were savage, they had honed a vicious intuition through years of constant fighting. The forward anti-aircraft fire net of the twelve warships instantly locked onto this black fighter charging at the very front!

"Lock onto me? You don't deserve to."

Zhou An's eyes were cold.

"Boom!"

Just as thousands of dark red tracer rounds and anti-aircraft high-explosive shells wove a deadly web rushing toward him, the deep blue ion flames at the rear of the a70 fighter suddenly surged.

Zhou An yanked the nose of the aircraft up. In a state of extreme supersonic speed, the fighter performed a perfect "Cobra maneuver" that seemed to defy the laws of physics, followed by an unbelievable barrel roll, forcing its way through a gap in the impenetrable wall of fire!

"Damn it! That little black plane's maneuverability is too bizarre! The fire-control system can't lock onto him at all!"

The werewolf radar operator roared in disbelief.

"If you can't lock on, use saturation fire! Blast it into a sieve for me!"

Commander Lucas roared on the flagship.

However, before the werewolf fleet could adjust the angle of their secondary guns, a brilliant, dazzling meteor slammed into the right wing of their formation!

"Taste my light blade!"

Luo Ning piloted the mecha, charging in like a tiger into a flock of sheep. The thrusters behind the mecha spewed violent flames, and the giant light blade in her hand slashed out a terrifying, crescent-shaped arc dozens of meters long in the dark night!

"Screech!"

A teeth-gritting sound of tearing metal rang out.

The energy shield of a werewolf frigate on the right wing, facing this extremely pure high-dimensional energy light blade, shattered after lasting less than two seconds.

Immediately following, the micro-missile pods on the mecha's shoulders popped open, and hundreds of micro-armor-piercing missiles poured directly into the exposed armor gaps of the warship like a swarm of bees.

Accompanied by a series of violent internal secondary explosions, the warship snapped in two right down the middle and plummeted toward the ground.

The warships here only had the central flagship at LV5, while the others were only LV4, making it hard for them to withstand Luo Ning's single-point breakthrough.

"Nice work!"

Muzi in the fortress pumped her fist in excitement.

As the enemy's defensive line was breached, the swarm drones were also about to arrive.

However, this was an elite fleet after all. The fall of one warship did not make the werewolves retreat; instead, it thoroughly ignited the bloodthirsty ferocity in their bones.

"Activate 'Blood Moon Protection'! All warships, engage close-in defense chain cannons! Lock onto that mecha, and at the same time, sweep those disgusting drones in the sky clean!"

Commander Lucas shoved the operator aside and personally pressed the defense command for the flagship.

In an instant, eerie crimson totems lit up on the hulls of the remaining eleven warships; this was the werewolves' special shield—[Blood Moon Protection].

This layer of shielding not only had astonishing defensive power but could even absorb a portion of the damage from kinetic weapons. It had even higher defense and lower consumption at night when the moon was out. It could be said to be a major contributor to the Blood Moon Guild's expansion. Even legendary-grade weapons of the same level found it difficult to break through this defense, and even moon-grade ones could only stall for a while.

"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!"

The large-caliber chain cannons on the werewolf warships began to roar wildly. Large-caliber depleted uranium armor-piercing rounds wove an extremely dense net of fire in the air.

Although the number of "Hunter Bee" drones released by Cloud Top Fortress was massive, under such cost-indifferent saturation interception, they still began to explode into fireballs in the air in large swathes.

"Commander! We've locked onto that fortress! But their large main cannon is charging!"

Deputy Commander Holton reported loudly.

"Have three heavy assault ships push forward! Use the ramming prows to tear through their formation! All other warships, fire a main gun volley at that silver mecha!"

The three largest armored ships instantly overloaded their engines. Bearing the crimson Blood Moon Protection, they completely ignored the harassment from the a70 fighter and the drones, and like three charging rhinoceroses, they rammed straight toward the distant [Cloud Top Fortress]!

At the same time, several thick main cannon beams locked onto Luo Ning, who was weaving through the battlefield.

"Warning! High-energy ray lock! Shield capacity dropping rapidly!"

The alarms inside Luo Ning's mecha flashed wildly. She was forced to raise the energy shield on her left arm, taking two hits from the main cannons head-on. The immense impact force knocked the mecha back dozens of meters in the air.

"These animals are a bit tough! Their shields have strong resistance to energy weapons!"

Luo Ning shouted through the communication channel, gritting her teeth.

"Tough? That's because the angle of entry is wrong."

Zhou An's voice came through. At this moment, he had completely blended into the shadows of the battlefield.

He didn't bother with the three assault ships attempting to ram the fortress; that kind of suicide charge was nothing to fear, and Muzi could handle it.

His gaze was locked firmly onto the largest warship, which was under heavy protection.

"Muzi, have the drone swarm switch entirely to suicide ramming. Detonate all mounted items to help me draw their attention."

"Capture the leader first. Since their bones are hard, let's smash the head of this lead wolf first."

"Luo Ning, maneuver for evasion and close in on me! Grab onto the fighter's wing!"

At this moment, Luo Ning was weathering a barrage of bullets like a storm. Upon hearing the command, she didn't hesitate for a second. Her back engines instantly overloaded, and the massive mecha carved a graceful arc in the air, forcing its way into the airspace where the a70 fighter was located. The mecha's thick mechanical arm lunged out, gripping the left wing of the black fighter tightly.

"Hold on tight! What are you planning to do? That 'Blood Moon Protection' is as hard as a turtle shell!"

Luo Ning shouted loudly.

"No matter how hard the turtle shell is, once you get inside, it's just a pile of rotten meat."

"Spatial Displacement, activate!"

Zhou An had already spread his mental energy into the surrounding space just moments ago; since it was open airspace, there was basically no resistance.

"Hum!!!"

Spatial fluctuations appeared! Dazzling dark golden starlight instantly enveloped them, and in the next second, the two war machines vanished into thin air from within the dense web of gunfire!