Chapter 451: Captured

"The Devourer of Civilization has begun to exert mental control on our team. Our detectors have detected abnormal fluctuations in the ether space."

"The opponent's mental control has failed. Our team is all awake. The opponent's mental control is ineffective against units that use consciousness to descend." The purple in the eyes of the ten soldiers in the video flashed a few times and then disappeared.

"Very good, order the fleet to start attacking and weaken it as much as possible." Li Mingze nodded. As long as the opponent can't control the people who use consciousness to descend, it's fine.

If they can't even get close, how can scientists study?

The heavy beam cannons on 200,000 warships began to accumulate energy continuously, and a faint blue light appeared at the muzzle.

The Devourer of Civilization has already noticed something wrong. The large amount of high-energy reactions in the Imperial Fleet made it feel very scared.

Huge purple tentacles began to rise from the surface of the planet. These tentacles continued to thicken and lengthen, and soon reached the same length as the diameter of the planet.

These tentacles began to entangle with each other in front of the planet, forming a huge shield.

Obviously, the Devourer of Civilization wants to use this shield to resist the upcoming attack.

As time went by, the heavy beam cannons of the Imperial mechanical warships had completed their energy storage. Two hundred thousand dazzling blue beams of light shot from the Imperial fleet to the shield made of tentacles in front. A large amount of purple mucus evaporated instantly, and the Civilization Devourer roared angrily.

Unfortunately, the power of these beam cannons was still inferior. The tentacle shield was not completely destroyed by this volley, but it also paid the price of having nearly half of the tentacles melted away.

The already mad Civilization Devourer controlled its planet-like huge body and rushed towards the Imperial fleet regardless of anything.

Although it seemed slow, in the displacement of planets, the speed of the Civilization Devourer had undoubtedly caught up with the cruising speed of the Imperial mechanical warships.

Tentacles began to dance in space. Because there was no air resistance, the speed of these tentacles was amazingly fast. Many mechanical warships that did not have time to dodge were smashed into pieces.

At this time, the shortcomings of the mechanical warship program were revealed. These computer programs had no ability to respond in time. They could only choose the most appropriate one among the tens of thousands of different response measures set before departure.

The most important thing is that they don't have the ability that creatures have: the perception of danger!

All soldiers who stay on the battlefield for a long time or creatures that are often hunted by predators will have a special ability, they can foresee the coming of danger!

If it is a human driver, they can make evasive actions in time based on this perception of danger, but the program can't.

These programs will only evade when they calculate that there may be danger, which is a fatal flaw for the civilization devourer that can change the direction and strength of attack at any time.

A large number of mechanical warships were hit into pieces by the tentacles, and beam cannons were constantly fired in the middle of the tentacles. Unfortunately, these beam cannons caused very limited damage to the tentacles that were several kilometers thick.

"Okay, order half of the fleet to retreat, and the other half of the fleet to carry out suicide attacks!" Li Mingze saw that he had successfully attracted a large amount of purple mucus from the civilization devourer, so he ordered decisively.

Half of the mechanical warships that were fighting with the tentacles suddenly turned around and left, and the other half accelerated to hit the main body of the civilization devourer.

The Devourer of Civilizations had already sensed something was wrong at this time. This suicide attack reminded it of the painful experience not long ago.

In panic, it began to control its tentacles to wrap up the warships that were charging forward. But this happened to be the Empire's conspiracy. More than 80,000 mechanical warships loaded with nuclear bombs suddenly exploded after the tentacles surrounded them, turning into more than 80,000 light balls.

The tentacles surrounding these warships evaporated in an instant, and the Devourer of Civilizations suffered a heavy blow again. Its body, which was originally comparable to the size of an earth, began to shrink continuously and soon shrank to two-thirds of its original size.

"Turn on the hyperspace jammer, don't let it run away!" As Li Mingze roared, six hyperspace shields were activated at the outside of the entire star system, and the connection between this star system and hyperspace was completely cut off, and all ships could no longer jump into hyperspace.

Li Mingze guessed correctly that after being severely damaged, the Devourer of Civilizations first wanted to jump into hyperspace to escape.

But when it couldn't sense the existence of hyperspace anyway, it realized that something was wrong. The fleet in front of it blocked its retreat!

"No! Let's make an exchange. You let me go and I will never approach your star field!"

"What kind of technology do you want? There are many good things in the memories I devoured here. As long as you let me go, I can give them all to you."

Finding that there was nowhere to escape, and there were nearly 100,000 warships in front of it, the Civilization Devourer decisively admitted defeat. The experience of living for hundreds of millions of years told it that as long as the green mountains are there, there will be no worries about firewood. As long as it can save its own life, dignity is not a problem!

"No, no, no, I won't let you go. I am very, very interested in your body and abilities."

"If you are willing to surrender and cooperate with our research, I can promise not to kill you. How about it, freedom in exchange for life!" Li Mingze replied decisively after receiving the message from the Devourer of Civilization in his mind, without any mercy.

"I" The Devourer of Civilization used his mental power to look around. He had planned to escape when he suddenly found that the surrounding star systems were full of warships!

Feeling the huge number of these warships, he thought that these warships were also not under his mental control like the mechanical warships before, so he decisively gave up the plan to escape.

"I surrender." The Devourer of Civilization raised two huge tentacles above his body and made a gesture of surrender, which he learned from the devoured civilization.

"Very good, I like to deal with smart people!" Li Mingze clapped his hands.

"Next, you stay here honestly and actively cooperate with our scientists. You can move freely in six months!" Li Mingze's words made the Devourer of Civilization feel ecstatic. Did they plan to let him go after six months? Humph, then.

I can gather my tribesmen outside and wipe out this damn civilization!

However, what it never expected was that six months later, a new imperial fleet appeared in front of it.