Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1264 - 1231: Reinforcements

A large amount of supplies was sent to Socotra Island, and soon Chen Fei was seen diligently producing explosive soldiers, filling the number of tactical units directly in front of the space rift, which was steadily increasing, earning widespread praise from the sovereigns.

Even though there were prior reports from public news media about someone using troops to impose control and implicitly suggesting the forceful occupation of two star systems rich in resources (biological and mineral), the narrative was close to naming names, as if the Lin Family, which was universally condemned, was a cautionary tale.

However, now, the story vanished without any warning, and the focus shifted 180 degrees to implicit and explicit praise. Only Chen Fei himself understood that this change of tone was orchestrated by the same individuals.

He knew exactly what the sovereigns were planning.

Due to the widespread repercussions of the Dragon Slaying Technique, citizens of the First Sovereign are overly politically astute, with eight out of ten being political critics, and the remaining two, one being in kindergarten and the other lying in wait for death, something unimaginable in other sovereignties. Such petty tricks couldn't fool Chen Fei, a citizen of the First Sovereign.

They were just short of officially awarding him titles like the Blue Star Five Good New Youth, Peace Pioneer, and Ambassador of Civilized Friendship—trivial honors to keep pushing this young man to be a one-man army. At the slightest hint of trouble, he was the first to respond, saving on military and financial expenditures—a bright political achievement. With deficits so high each year, any savings meant more to share among everyone.

But bad news also came with the urns sent back into the Blue Star's atmosphere, delayed by 79 hours.

This was the result of 10,000 space collecting robots and a considerable number of detectors working all out; otherwise, under normal procedures, it would be impossible to clear such a large floating area for half a year. Additionally, as time progressed, the volume of the floating area would grow larger, fully "polluting" altitudes below geostationary orbit.

If it can't be cleaned in time, even sesame-sized debris could pose a catastrophic threat to spacewalking personnel and space equipment lacking protective barriers. Any object achieving orbital velocity has at least the first cosmic speed, and even a slight graze would mean an impact of several kilometers per second, with kinetic energy on par with a railgun weapon.

It was only because the sovereigns proactively asked the seemingly oblivious Chen Fei for them that they received the reclamation list from the recovery ship and the Worker Bee-1 space collecting robots. They examined it from start to finish, repeatedly scrutinizing it but failed to find any trace of Longinus.

"Cybertrom" digital intelligent construct disintegrated, but "Cybertrom's" source code had backups. With some time, both hardware and software could be fully restored and even upgraded.

Casualties are inevitable, but fortunately, it's nothing too serious—only more compensation to be given.

Material losses are unavoidable, and they can be replenished.

However, the unexpected loss of Longinus finally awakened the sovereigns to the fact that now there's big trouble.

Whether it's the missing body of "Cybertrom" or the Space System Alchemy Storage Device with its massive capacity loaded with trade goods and personal packages, these combined do not compare to the significance of the Longinus.

If it falls into the hands of the "Sagali" civilization, it would mean that most of the Dimensional Gates controlled by the Blue Star could no longer be freely opened. If forcefully connected to by the "Sagali" civilization, it would become a primary channel for direct invasion.

Since the Blue Star human civilization obtained such a mysterious plane coordinate, to this day, they have not deciphered its secrets, let alone created replicas.

The sovereigns had the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee Headquarters convey a message to Chen Fei, asking him to bring the recovery ship back to Socotra Island, where a special investigation team would be responsible for clearing the debris to verify whether the vital Longinus had been overlooked in the tally.

Heh, that's quite a large-scale project!

Whether the public would enjoy this, Chen Fei does not know, but seeing hundreds of people rummaging through the garbage piles covered in sweat would surely build his joy on their frustration.

Where have you been all this time!

Suddenly, the number of airships entering the outer atmosphere increased, searching every nook and cranny of various orbits for traces of Longinus.

Stressed-out sovereigns are destined to be busy for nothing. Ultimately, they turn their gaze to the space rift, wrapped layer upon layer tightly by psi skills and tactical units, and they can't help but get goosebumps.

No matter how much they previously dismissed the "Sagali" civilization, they must now brace themselves for full-scale war preparations, while also conducting a global search to identify those with rebellious tendencies.

When the sovereigns finally started to earnestly care, Chen Fei, who had been fighting alone on the front lines, felt a substantial reduction in pressure.

Individual power simply cannot compare to a collective effort. While Chen Fei had long borne the tremendous burden of standing alone on the frontline against the "Sagali" civilization, the prolonged stress and endless fatigue consumed his vitality and spirit, making it hard to get a good night's sleep, fearing a sudden full-scale attack by the "Sagali" civilization.

The support forces of the First Sovereign arrived at Socotra Island, and only one hour before landing, did Chen Fei receive notification from the island's Global Joint Defense Committee headquarters. Whether there was deliberate delay or inefficiency is unknown.

There was originally an intention to deploy a group of robots to assist the Global Joint Defense Committee in restoring operational efficiency, but it was rejected. Previously, they were happy to use the "Cybertrom" progeny, but now that it's not available, they still reject "Adam," which can substitute for the progeny. Who knows if they are guarding against "Adam" or against Chen Fei.

Four eight-hundred-meter-long main battleships carrying two thousand active fighters and forty Sky Knights landed in the camp's airfield, and this was just the first wave of reinforcements.

Defending Blue Star is everyone's responsibility, and other sovereignties are also obliged to send forces to support.

Even the sovereignties trapped in civil unrest in the American Federation and Europa Continent must deploy their military forces capable of combatting in the void. Since the Heavenly Army cannot suppress the internal conflict, it's better to pull together and face the crisis of the space rift.

According to the notification from the Global Joint Defense Committee Headquarters, over fifty space battleships would gather at Socotra Island, with at least one hundred Sky Knights and more than ten thousand various space combat units—exceeding the scale of the previous operation on the "Wall of Sighs" against the Lin family.