Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1263 - 1230: Three Lines of Defense

Returning to the debris clearance work, the recovery ship, along with ten thousand "Worker Bee-1" space collection robots, did not take any less time to complete the original plan than initially required.

Because the Fifth Airship Battle Group forcibly opened up a route and the space collection robots recklessly searched for Longinus, the debris floating area changed once again. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The Fifth Airship Battle Group spread out 300 kilometers directly in front of Blue Star, facing the spatial rift, forming a formation and simultaneously opening up a temporary 10-kilometer-wide route, achieved like an icebreaker forcibly breaking through.

Without a word, they first fired an Elemental Annihilation Bomb.

A dazzling blue flower bloomed furiously in the void. Unfortunately, the spatial rift remained unmoved, its internal light purple vortex still slowly rotating, unaffected.

Chen Fei was not the first to fire an Elemental Annihilation Bomb at the spatial rift. A sovereignty had already tried, even using Forbidden Curses, which only proved the spatial rift might be more likely the one Cangqiong Star once faced, without any useful outcome.

If it were truly that easy to solve, the Cangqiong Star Civilization wouldn't have persevered for a hundred thousand years.

Not only did the spatial rift overthrow "Cybertrom's" body, but even the three abnormal regions on Blue Star's surface could not find any method to destabilize or nullify its existence, forcing one to admit that the accumulated cultural foundation of the parasitic species could not be surpassed by Blue Star and Cangqiong Star in a short time.

The recovery ship thrown behind by the Fifth Airship Battle Group, along with ten thousand "Worker Bee-1" space collection robots, were busily going back and forth, identifying and categorizing the collected debris at the first moment, and simultaneously maintaining the temporary route through the floating area, promptly clearing away incoming fragments.

During the collapse of "Cybertrom," casualties were inevitable, with 19 confirmed on-site deaths, approximately over 300 returning safely to the ground, nearly 91 missing, only 77 bodies recovered, with no trace of other missing persons, not even human tissues.

The bodies of the deceased were separately extracted, boxed, and sent to their places, a task handed over to the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee, which should rightfully be their responsibility.

During the cleanup of the floating area, space collection robots unexpectedly found more than a dozen massively capacious Space System Alchemy Storage Devices, all lost items affected by the situation, hmm, and then... all the trade goods inside vanished!

Insurance companies collectively sobbed in the restroom; if they could reach the height outside the atmosphere, they might drag Chen Xiao'er out for a beating, but unfortunately, they couldn't do anything about it.

There were also other scattered items like advanced Crystal Energy Blocks, weapons, ammunition, SEG Core Units, and mechanical beings. Although there were a lot of good items, only a small portion remained intact enough for direct use. Most turned into raw materials for recycling and regeneration.

The floating area was evidently a treasure trove. Sovereignties had thought about retrieving these fragments but lacked the capacity to do so because no sovereignty owned so many space collection robots capable of arriving on-site first.

Before the "No.2 Command Ship" reached the designated position, Chen Fei made a trip back to Socotra Island to receive supplies sent by the sovereignties.

After "Cybertrom" collapsed, the main trade route between the two civilized planets was forced to shut down. Many massively capacious Space System Alchemy Storage Devices used specifically for interstellar quota trade were left idle, but not for long, as the sovereignties soon used them to transport supplies to Socotra Island.

One massively capacious Space System Alchemy Storage Device can hold over ten thousand cubic meters, delivering tens of thousands, even millions of tons of supplies in one go, as transportation capacity was calculated by space volume, not total mass.

Supplies quickly piled up like mountains in the camp on Socotra Island. However, to Chen Fei's "Spatial Branding," it was merely a drop in the ocean, the same for the "Boundary Pearl's" Life Space.

A large number of supplies were replenished in the first instance, bolstering Chen Fei's confidence. The amount seemed substantial, sufficient for a large-scale battle, but comparing to the actual consumption of a genuine army, the cost-effectiveness of a One Man Army made the account much easier to settle.

Thus, sovereign states preferred Chen Fei to stand at the forefront rather than dispatch their active military because it was more economical.

The timely arrival of these supplies also implied tacit acknowledgment, or even blind-eye acceptance, by sovereign states toward Chen Fei's self-initiative outside Blue Star's atmosphere.

If there were genuinely any intent to oppose or restrict, cutting off supplies would be far more effective than verbal warnings. Without various supply provisions, a One Man Army would have to scavenge on its own!

Leisurely, as if strolling, following behind the Fifth Airship Battle Group, the "No.2 Command Ship" smoothly arrived at a point 1000 kilometers directly in front of the spatial rift after 45 hours, finally halting, maintaining its relative position with the spatial rift at orbital height.

1000 "Automatic Floating Field Shields" and 1128 "Self-floating Magnetic Railguns" were successively released, approaching within 200 kilometers in front of the spatial rift, constructing the first line of defense.

Then came the offense of S-Class Space Ability User Heseman Brown, who personally performed three consecutive space-related superpower skills "Isolation," layered together, using space rules to enclose the spatial rift along with the first line of defense, forming a second line of defense.

The first arriving Fifth Airship Battle Group became the third line of defense.

With three lines of defense established, only then did Chen Fei breathe a sigh of relief. Especially, when Heseman Brown arranged the space skill "Isolation," his heart was in his throat.

Anything unexpected could mean losing this valuable S-Class Space Ability User, depriving Chen Fei of a very important protective power, forcing him to retreat into the "Boundary Pearl" Life Space, without being able to transfer to another place immediately.

Regrettably, Blue Star sovereignties refused to allow the deployment of cost-effective "Starlight Cannons" near the Sun, units with enough tactical threat to jeopardize biological space motherships equally endangered Blue Star sovereignties themselves.

No one wanted a, no, more than one Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, fearing Chen Fei might someday act on an impulse, causing disaster for the sovereignties.

However, the three lines of defense mark just the beginning, as Chen Fei plans to continue reinforcing the defense line with more combat units.