Galaxy Domination Guide-Chapter 717 - 703 Setting a cage to catch birds

Kang Xiong entered his cabin with a slight nervousness and secured his seatbelt. The seat opposite him was occupied by Savannah; right now, Kang Xiong could not afford to admire the beautiful woman, as the fleet had reached a critical moment.

"Aren’t you scared?" Kang Xiong asked the beautiful pilot who had just achieved significant combat success.

Savannah secured her seatbelt, pressed a few buttons on the terminal components on her suit to ensure everything was correct, and casually replied, "What’s there to be afraid of? War is bound to take lives."

Kang Xiong sighed and said, "For the people of Iridium Star, the concept that war kills many people has almost faded."

He raised his head, his expression resolute, "But when it’s our time to die, we won’t refuse."

Savannah nodded and said, "That trait of the Iridium Star people is indeed admirable. My homeland, Earth, well, you know, it’s now breeding a bunch of freeloaders. Since the beginning of the 21st century, there’s been an array of quaintly naïve political correctness. Later, the Chancellor brought higher technology, eliminated poverty, and solved many problems, but didn’t give Earthlings any ambition. Some people are striving, some have embarked on the journey to explore the starry seas, but many more have become just another number in the population statistics."

This was the first time Kang Xiong heard Savannah speak at length, and her words seemed to carry an emotional fluctuation. However, Kang Xiong opened his mouth but didn’t know how to offer consolation or continue the conversation. He knew that the Chancellor had lived on Earth, which he considered his second home, and was aware of its population of ten billion, but Kang Xiong didn’t know much beyond that.

Savannah did not wish to discuss this issue further, and Kang Xiong could not continue, hence both fell into silence. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

At that moment, the Captain’s voice transmitted throughout the entire fleet, "All fleet, we are entering the corridor at the next turning point."

Kang Xiong’s spirits lifted, "It’s starting, let’s show these dogs of the Fallen Empire a thing or two."

Savannah looked at the incredibly beautiful planet, her expression unavoidably showed some sadness, "Such a beautiful planet, this could have been a place where many young people settled down and established families, possibly giving birth to a new culture."

Kang Xiong sighed and said, "That’s war."

Savannah withdrew her gaze, her eyes downcast, whispered softly, "Yes, that’s war."

Just as a large number of Galactic Empire warships were about to trap the rapid response squadron above Nuoye Star’s orbit, their warships suddenly emitted a blue halo all around.

Klaren’s General, puzzled by this sight, wondered, "Are they preparing to use some sort of ultimate weapon?"

Meanwhile, Su Shuang, still commanding the legions at Light Valley Star and the main fleet of Nuoye, extremely dissatisfied with his nominal subordinates acting on their own, had kept an extra vigilant eye and hooked into this scene to assess the situation. But his expression changed immediately when he saw this scene.

"You idiots of the Snow Dragon Alliance, did you even properly review the training materials? That’s a sign of entering a spacetime corridor! There’s a spacetime corridor node on Nuoye Star that we haven’t discovered. The Iridium Star people are getting away!"

Several generals of the Snow Dragon Alliance became somewhat panicked, one of them said, "Hurry, chase them down, preparing for spacetime corridor navigation takes a bit of time, we can catch them before they leave and keep them all here!"

Su Shuang wished he could slap these Snow Dragon Alliance generals, "Idiots, move fast, these Iridium Star people intentionally lured you to Nuoye Star, from the moment you got here, Nuoye Star’s defense weapon platform never operated at full capacity, isn’t that suspicious? It’s a trap!"

However, it was already too late.

The moment the Innocence Squadron entered the corridor node, Nuoye Star seemed to "jump" in people’s view.

The surface of the entire planet suddenly collapsed, and the collapse kept expanding, all the material on the planet’s surface began to be sucked into the planet’s core. At the same time, an extremely terrifying ray burst erupted from a suddenly exploding orbital structure, wildly sweeping across almost a thousand ships of the Galactic Emperor’s fleet.

"Captain, the equipment has malfunctioned!"

"Our shields are starting to falter."

"Ah, I can’t breathe, my body hurts so much!"

This extremely complex ray burst, if large-scale, could even be categorized as one of the eight great disasters. Iridium Star, having assimilated technology from various sources, had developed such a strategic weapon. The only downside was that their own combat forces couldn’t possibly stay nearby, as the dreadful ray burst would indiscriminately destroy everything in its vicinity.

Ordinarily, energy shields are a good barrier against these lethal rays, but when the scale and power are too great, even energy shields would be shaken. Especially since the ray burst can affect many devices inside the hull, thus affecting the operation of the energy shield devices.

The ray burst released by the people of Iridium Star wasn’t enough to destroy the fleet of the Galactic Empire, and usually, warships of high-level civilizations encountering a ray burst wouldn’t likely sink, at most, they would suffer some damage and lose the ability to move.

In fact, that was exactly Li Cheng’s objective, planning to use Nuoye Star as a trap. The killer move wasn’t the ray burst but Nuoye Star itself.

A massive amount of material was sucked toward the core of the planet, and as the planet absorbed the majority of its own material, its terrifying nature was revealed—the core housed a pitch-black celestial body that consumed even light, hungrily claiming anything it could reach.

"A...a black hole?!" Klaren’s general couldn’t believe his own eyes; he couldn’t imagine why inside Nuoye Star lay a black hole. If this black hole had been there all along, why had Nuoye Star been unscathed before.

Even now, Bai Zhongqi found it troublesome dealing with Singularity Weapons, previously using a Glass Sphere to contain black holes. Perhaps the Galactic Emperor had some means to counteract singularity weapons, but definitely not in the hands of these parvenu fleets of the former Snow Dragon Alliance.

They had not fully understood and utilized the technology of high-level civilizations, and faced with completely non-standard singularity weapons, they had no choice but to wail and await death.

"No—this can’t be! Commander, do you have any solution, please save us."

Through quantum communication, messages could still be sent out; at this moment, even electromagnetic waves would be sucked away by the black hole. The warships desperately tried to generate thrust to counteract the gravity, but they were already too close to the terrifying celestial body when the black hole formed.

Su Shuang did not respond, because for this Divine General, these people had courted death themselves, and since they wouldn’t live, he had no interest in speaking to the dead whom he deemed of no future value.