Chapter 398 Heavy Losses

Two days later.

The combined fleet returned to the real universe from the purple world of hyperspace accompanied by lightning.

The combined fleet, which had just jumped out of hyperspace, fell into silence, and all the warships did not even dare to turn on the thrusters at the tail.

The cause of this strange phenomenon was the alien warships floating around the combined fleet, which were endless.

But to the surprise of the commanders of the combined fleet, the detectors in front of them did not show any creatures in this star system.

The energy detectors did not respond at all, as if these alien warships floating in the starry sky were lifeless meteorites.

At this moment, an open eyeball on the alien warship suddenly turned, and the entire alien warship seemed to be injected with vitality, and the body began to wriggle constantly.

Li Mingze, who was observing through the holographic screen, knew that this was the scene when the dormant mode specially designed by the empire was lifted.

Originally, in order to save resources when there was no war, a dormant gene of a microorganism was specially added to these alien warships.

In the dormant state, these alien warships will lose almost all life fluctuations, and the energy consumed will be negligible.

The only way to wake up from hibernation is when their eyes used for alerting find a spaceship approaching, or when one of them is attacked, all the alien warships will wake up from hibernation.

"Sir, a large amount of energy fluctuations are found, and the number is being counted!"

"One million!"

"Two million!"

"Three million!"

"Five million!" The face of the informing soldier has lost its color.

At this time, the holographic screen in the bridge of the Republic flagship also began to show bright spots, which are undoubtedly the alien warships that have been awakened!

The commander of the joint fleet, the commander of the Republic, also began to sweat on his face.

He didn't expect that there were so many monster warships around him!

"Open fire immediately!" He gritted his teeth and ordered loudly.

Anyway, we are already in the encirclement, so we might as well seize the opportunity.

The fleets of various countries that received the order began to aim their guns at the alien warships that have woken up and are gathering around them.

Colorful shells flew out of the joint fleet, and countless shells, missiles, and beam guns flew towards the alien warships.

Because the weapons of the five civilizations were different, the entire battlefield was more like a fireworks show, with weapons of various colors flying together.

At this time, the alien fleet also reacted and began to counterattack, aiming at the joint fleet and spewing acid shells.

Five million acid shells exploded in the air to form a large net, and covered the joint fleet with inertia.

These acids poured on the shields of the battleships of the joint fleet, causing the shields to flash wildly.

According to the concentration and quantity of these acids, the shields can last less than a minute!

"Start the acid-proof shell!" Li Mingze, who was well prepared, ordered the soldiers on the side.

The armor of the battleships of the New Human Federation suddenly unfolded outward, and a transparent armor shell stretched out from under the armor and covered the hull.

In tens of seconds, a layer of transparent shell tightly wrapped the battleships of the New Human Federation.

This made other civilizations dumbfounded. What is this New Human Federation doing? Isn't it the enemy's first round of volleys? Is it necessary to make such a fuss?

However, they soon suffered the consequences of underestimating the enemy. The acid quickly corroded the shields of the destroyers outside the fleet.

After corroding the shields of the destroyers, the acid began to drift in the universe because it had no kinetic energy.

The destroyers that lost their shields were inevitably covered with floating acid because they were moving.

In the blink of an eye, bubbles of melted metal began to appear on the armor of these warships.

The warships of the New Human Federation were not affected at all. The transparent acid-proof armor firmly blocked the acid outside the warships.

This layer of armor was directly immune to the acid, and the acid was left behind the fleet without any effect.

At this time, various civilizations cursed, they didn't expect that the acid of this biological civilization would cause such great damage to their armor.

And the transparent armor technology on the outer layer of the New Human Federation warship was too advanced, and even such a powerful acid did not cause damage to this layer of armor.

This made many countries overestimate the strength of the New Human Federation.

"Be careful of their second round of attacks." Before Li Mingze finished speaking, the alien warships fired a second round of salvos at the combined fleet.

Countless bone spur shells were fired at the combined fleet, and the destroyers whose armor had been softened by acid corrosion were easily penetrated by the bone spurs.

The explosion caused by the bone spurs then tore the poor destroyers into pieces all over the sky.

The battleships of various countries were better off. The thick shields consumed the acid early, and because they were hiding under the protection of the destroyers together with the cruisers, the acid they were exposed to was very limited.

After the second round of attacks by the alien warships, the combined fleet only had its shields bottomed out. Except for the torn destroyers, no warships were lost.

However, the loss of destroyers was a bit unacceptable to all countries. Except for the New Human Federation, there were only a dozen destroyers left from all civilizations.

Originally, there were as many as 200,000 destroyers in the combined fleet. After two rounds of attacks, only 20,000 destroyers, mainly from the New Human Federation, were left!

"Keep firing! Don't stop!" Although his own fleet suffered heavy losses, the commander of the joint fleet was full of motivation again after seeing that the alien fleet also lost 300,000 warships.

He didn't know that he had made the right bet. The alien fleet took a long time to re-synthesize acid shells and bone spur shells, which was enough for them to destroy many alien warships.

The new alien mother body obviously also discovered the disadvantages of its fleet and began to order the gathered alien warships to start irregular maneuvers.

This greatly reduced the combat efficiency of the joint fleet, and it took less than one million alien warships to be destroyed in two hours.

"Notify the fleets of various civilizations to prepare for retreat! Just say that we have detected a large amount of energy reaction inside these alien warships, and it must be that their acid bombs have begun to condense again!" Li Mingze pinched the time and estimated that it was time for the alien warships to reload their weapons, and hurriedly ordered Shen Yahui.

A few seconds later, the fleet commanders of all civilizations received the warning information sent by the New Human Federation.

After firing all the inventory weapons at once, the joint fleet jumped into hyperspace urgently.

These fleet commanders knew that if their warships could withstand another round of acid attacks, they would probably lose all their cruisers in the end, so it would be better for them to retreat and transform their warships.