Just as they flew out of the atmosphere, two more dazzling flares erupted in the starry sky ahead.
Xia Chujian was slightly stunned.
That location looked quite familiar.
Seven Lù typed in her helmet Eyepiece Display Screen.
[Seven Lù]: Master, that's the location of the D235 and D337 Starry Sky Cruisers.
[Seven Lù]: They've been blown up...
Which were the Starry Sky Cruisers of Lin Xiaoxiao and Xu Teng, whom she had just been thinking about.
Xia Chujian's heart tightened, and she hurriedly checked her own D1 Starry Sky Cruiser.
Fortunately, this Cruiser was fine, waiting for her ahead.
Xia Chujian did not relax her vigilance.
She turned off the external communicator on her helmet and said directly to Seven Lù, "Seven Lù, dock with my Cruiser and see if there are any anomalies inside."
At this distance, they could already establish a temporary Local Area Network connection with Xia Chujian's D1 Starry Sky Cruiser.
Seven Lù quickly responded, saying, "There are no anomalies inside the Cruiser."
"But there are outside..."
Xia Chujian's face turned cold: "What do you mean outside?"
Seven Lù said, "Someone blew up the D235 and D337, and now they're coming this way, probably to blow up our D1."
Xia Chujian immediately said, "Quickly get into the Cruiser, I'll take over the main console!"
Currently, there was only one piloting team in this Starry Sky Cruiser, led by Gu Zhongjin.
Gu Zhongjin was already sending her messages.
[Gu Zhongjin]: Captain! A warship from the Southern Cross Star Kingdom is flying towards our Cruiser!
[Gu Zhongjin]: D235 and D377 have already been blown up by them!
[Gu Zhongjin]: I suspect the previous D499 was also blown up by them!
Xia Chujian thought, D235 and D337 were indeed blown up by them, but D499 was not...
However, others didn't need to know, just let them think it was done by the Southern Cross Star Kingdom!
Anyway, most of the troubles in this Beichen Galaxy could not escape the meddling of this Southern Cross Star Kingdom!
Xia Chujian quickly replied.
[Xia Chujian]: I have returned to the ship, I will take over.
Gu Zhongjin was overjoyed, almost jumping up in the cockpit.
"The Captain is back! The Captain is back!"
But when everyone entered the Starry Sky Cruiser and the ship's Mechanical Intelligence performed biometric scans, Gu Zhongjin discovered that only two thousand people had returned.
He couldn't help but connect to Xia Chujian's Captain's Room communicator and cautiously asked, "Captain, are there any other Airships that haven't come in?"
Xia Chujian said calmly, "No, everyone who is alive is here."
Gu Zhongjin: "..."
His eyes felt a pang of bitterness.
They had a total of five thousand people!
Just when he thought two thousand people had been sacrificed, Xia Chujian added, "We deployed a total of twenty thousand Starry Sky Marines this time, and only two thousand have returned alive."
Gu Zhongjin: "!!!"
He couldn't help but blurt out, "How could it be so tragic?! Wasn't that planet only inhabited by primitive natives?!"
Xia Chujian smiled coldly, did not continue to answer, but changed the subject and said, "Pay attention to the alert, I'm going to take down the warship ahead!"
Gu Zhongjin was shocked: "Captain, that's a warship from the Southern Cross Star Kingdom!"
"Without the highest order from the Military, starting a war with the Southern Cross Star Kingdom without authorization will be severely punished!"
"Captain, please think twice!"
Xia Chujian gave an "oh" and asked casually, "Then what do you suggest? They've already destroyed three of our Cruisers..."
Gu Zhongjin immediately said, "Let's escape! There's still time!"
Xia Chujian's mouth twitched, and she turned off Gu Zhongjin's communicator.
She raised her head, looking at the three-dimensional virtual display in front of her, which showed the scene of the starry sky ahead.
A huge warship, or rather, a Space Turret, was rushing towards them aggressively.
The appearance of this Space Turret had many similarities to the Floating Turrets they had seen on Senze Star.
It was evident that Floating Turrets were indeed outdated production capacity eliminated by the Southern Cross Star Kingdom.
If it weren't for the deliberate misinformation from their side, how could so many of their people have been killed by those outdated Floating Turrets! Xia Chujian suppressed her anger, but she wasn't careless.
She understood that the Space Turret here was only similar in appearance to the Floating Turrets on Senze Star, and the internal weapons and power systems were definitely different.
Because one was used within the atmosphere, and the other was outside the atmosphere.
Without any hesitation, Xia Chujian herself controlled the Starry Sky Cruiser's Space Ion Beam Cannon, quickly locking onto the Space Turret in front.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Beams of blue-purple light shot out from her Cruiser.
With Seven Lù's enhancement, the Cruiser's precision guidance accurately hit the Space Turret's power system and weapon system.
In particular, the other side also had a Space Ion Beam Cannon, but it had just finished charging and hadn't had time to fire.
Xia Chujian fired seven Space Ion Beam Cannons in one breath.
The blue-purple light was like golden snakes dancing wildly, directly hitting the outer shield of the Space Turret.
The crackling sound of explosions did not travel far in the thin atmosphere of Space, but the magnetic field disturbance it caused was extraordinary.
The network connection of the entire nearby airspace was interrupted, and the shield of the opposite Space Turret began to fluctuate violently.
Golden snake-like electric light shone on the shield, occasionally penetrating the shield and hitting the internal facilities of the Turret.
Soon, the engine of the opposite Space Turret erupted in a bright white light near the nozzle in a violent tremor.
Then, from the inside out, the shield shattered like crushed ice.
The Southern Cross Star Kingdom operators in the Turret were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
They began to frantically send interstellar electromagnetic signals to the Beichen Empire, accusing the Beichen Empire's Starry Sky Cruiser of attacking the Southern Cross Star Kingdom's warship for no reason, and demanding that she bear all the political consequences related to this.
But due to the magnetic field disturbance here, their electromagnetic signals were not sent out.
Of course, even if they were sent out, Xia Chujian would not pay attention.
She had seen too many of these double-standard bitches in the South District of Mulan City on Guiyuan Star.
It was useless to argue with these people; only force, hitting them so hard that they had no time to think of double-standard excuses, could solve the problem once and for all.
With a blank expression, she manipulated the main console, and the attacks of the Space Ion Beam Cannon continued, not only penetrating the opponent's external energy shield, but also continuously bombarding the opponent's charging Space Ion Beam Cannon.
She had used this trick when dealing with the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates.
To deal with this kind of large Starship, either have absolutely strong weapons to overwhelm the opponent, or hit the opponent's weak spot to achieve an exponential explosion effect! The energy was gathering, the white light became more and more dazzling, and finally, after a visible tremor, the opponent's Space Turret exploded in the front airspace with a bang, falling apart.
The scattered Turret fragments did not have time to fly far before they were all vaporized by the heat generated by the self-destruction of their own Space Ion Beam Cannon.
The group in the cockpit of Xia Chujian's Starry Sky Cruiser were all dumbfounded as they looked at the display in front of them.
Because they were in the cockpit, the display in front of them always showed the airspace outside the Cruiser.
This time, the time was actually not long at all.
The entire battle, from start to finish, lasted at most one minute.
But within sixty seconds, the Southern Cross Star Kingdom's most powerful warship—the Space Turret—had vanished before their eyes.
It was truly shocking for their entire family for a whole year!
They were all Starship pilots in the front-line troops of the Interstellar Fleet, and they all knew that although the Southern Cross Star Kingdom had been almost completely wiped out by Marshal Huo, because their manufacturing industry had not been eliminated in time, they had quickly developed Space Turrets with thick skin and powerful firepower based on the Floating Turrets! They had fought many times with the Beichen Empire's Interstellar troops for some unclaimed planets using these Space Turrets.
Each time, the Beichen Empire retreated.
Because the enemy's firepower was too fierce, and the Beichen Empire side always had people telling them to "consider the overall situation" and not provoke disputes between the two countries.
Moreover, they really had no one who could withstand the rain-like barrage of Ion Beam Cannons and Electromagnetic Railguns from the Space Floating Turrets! But this time, they saw firepower even fiercer than the Space Floating Turrets! It was actually being fired from their own Starry Sky Cruiser! One pilot excitedly said, "Who fired the Space Ion Beam Cannon just now?! How did he turn that energy-storing Ion Beam Cannon into a continuously firing Rocket?!"
Gu Zhongjin proudly said, "Who else could it be?! It's our Captain Xia Chujian! She controlled the main console for weapon firing just now!"
The pilot next to him put his hands together, his expression a mix of crying and laughing, "Holy Church Bodhisattva bless us! Has a star of destruction finally descended upon our Beichen Empire?!"
Another pilot murmured dreamily, "... Holy crap! In my lifetime! I've seen a firepower shooter even more violent than Grand General Amos of the Southern Cross Star Kingdom!"
"A star of destruction has descended! Heaven bless Beichen!"
"Our Captain is even fiercer than Marshal Huo!"
"You're reaching for the moon! Our Captain still has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to killing people!"
"I hope our Captain will one day surpass Marshal Huo and become the true God of Slaughter of Beichen!"
"Can you even talk?! It's not a God of Slaughter! It's a God of War!"
"Anyway, whoever kills the most enemies is the one who becomes a god in my book!"
A group of pilots watched the explosive scene, watching the Space Floating Turrets of the Southern Cross Star Kingdom, which had been rampaging through the Beichen Star Region for three years, being torn apart and even vaporized by Xia Chujian right before their eyes, and they all exhaled a breath of turbid air that had been pent up for three years! Several pilots opened and closed their mouths repeatedly, unable to say a word.
Xia Chujian's voice then rang out throughout the entire Starry Sky Cruiser.
"Attention, all comrades! We have just been attacked by an unknown warship."
"The enemy not only destroyed our D235 Cruiser, D337 Cruiser, and D499 Cruiser, but also brazenly launched a preemptive attack on our D1 Cruiser!"
"Resulting in severe paint damage to the left wing of our D1 Cruiser! A dent the size of an egg appeared on the top of the cabin! Seriously hindering our safe passage!"
"Left with no other choice, we had to retaliate in self-defense!"
"Thanks to the blessing of His Majesty the Emperor of Beichen! After countless hardships, and a fierce battle lasting a full minute, we finally seized victory!"
"Now, we are about to enter the Wormhole and will initiate silent flight."
"Please return to your cabins immediately and prepare yourselves."
Xia Chujian issued the order with impassioned enthusiasm, and Gu Zhongjin and the others in the cockpit could only comply.
At this point, they were no longer thinking for themselves, but mechanically performing various standard piloting actions with blank faces.
In fact, the Starry Sky Cruiser was mainly operated by Mechanical Intelligence for automatic piloting.
However, pilots were still necessary, because the Mechanical Intelligence of the Beichen Empire was generally not very sensitive in Space.
Of course, those enhanced by Seven Lù were an exception.
However, in order not to be detected by Huo Yushen, Xia Chujian had already ordered Seven Lù to withdraw from all Mechanical Intelligence systems inside the Cruiser, so as not to leave any traces.
Seven Lù also knew how formidable Huo Yushen was, and had already cleaned up all traces.
Seven Lù quietly reminded Xia Chujian, "Master, there are still several cloaked Starry Sky Submarines nearby, judging by the models, they are also from the Southern Cross Star Kingdom..."
Xia Chujian said, "Calculate, can we take them down?"
Seven Lù said, "... Master, you fired the Ion Beam Cannon too fiercely just now, it needs to recharge..."
Xia Chujian was decisive and immediately said, "Then quickly go through the Wormhole! Don't cause any more trouble!"
Seven Lù: "..."
Soon, the main lights in Captain Xia Chujian's Room went out, leaving only the dim lights on the main console still lit.
She yawned and said to Seven Lù, "Seven Lù, remember to keep an eye on the main console outside for me, I'm going to sleep."
From here, they had to pass through three Wormholes to return to the Beichen Empire's Star Region.
Seven Lù placed its little robot head on the main console in the Captain's Room, leaving a program to monitor it.
Xia Chujian returned to the small suite in the Captain's Room, first took off her cloak, then put the Teacup Dog A Wù and the little chubby bird A Yuan, who were fast asleep, on the bedside table, then put away the Shao Siming Mecha, and went to the Washroom to take a shower.
After a hurried shower, she came out to sleep.
She quickly fell asleep, not even knowing that A Wù and A Yuan woke up midway, also ran to her bed, and slept on her pillow, one on each side.
Just as Xia Chujian fell asleep, in the fourth-floor Starry Sky Marine's quarters, and the second-floor pilot's quarters, everyone looked at each other, speechless at Xia Chujian's announcement just now.
They all knew the situation must be critical.
A warship that could blow up Lin Xiaoxiao and Xu Teng's two Starry Sky Cruisers was definitely not an ordinary warship.
But Xia Chujian's warship only had a bit of paint scratched off? And a dent the size of an egg on the top of the cabin?
How could she say that without feeling guilty!
This D1 Starry Sky Cruiser had already been "battered and bruised" after a trip to the Asteroid Belt last time.
Using the excuse of having paint scratched off by the warship to counterattack, didn't her conscience hurt?! Look at this Cruiser yourself, the left wing already had no paint on it!
Also, "a fierce battle lasting a minute," was that even human language?!
But Xia Chujian had a kind of particularly nonchalant domineering aura, making people feel that she really didn't take her opponent seriously!
What was the greatest contempt? The greatest contempt was not silence, but seeing you, clearly crushing you to death with one hand, and still desperately boasting about your powerful combat strength, unstoppable and invincible!
Then, using the method of boasting about the enemy's combat strength, she shamelessly elevated her own status!
In short, bullying the small and weak with the big and strong was meaningless.
What they wanted was the persona of defeating the big with the small, and overcoming the strong with the weak! Only then could they become a legend passed around...
This was truly squeezing out the last drop of residual value from the opponent.
Where the opponent's warship came from was not important at all.
No matter who you are, if you want to hit me, I'll hit you.
If you want to kill me, I'll kill you.
They were not ordinary people, they were active-duty soldiers of the Interstellar Fleet! And after Xia Chujian's Starry Sky Cruiser entered the Wormhole, several small Starry Sky Submersible Ships quietly revealed their shapes in the same spot.
These people were violently deterred by Xia Chujian's powerful firepower, and for a moment, they didn't dare to follow.
They felt that if they followed into the Wormhole, with the other side's desperate and crazy fighting style, they might disregard the instability of the Wormhole and start a war with them...
Therefore, they only dared to show themselves after Xia Chujian's Starry Sky Cruiser entered the Wormhole.
Inside a small Starry Sky Submersible Ship, a red-eyed Southern Cross Star Kingdom person roared angrily: "I've recorded the entire battle just now!"
"The Beichen Empire has really eaten the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard, daring to provoke us and destroy our Space Floating Turret!"
"This matter is not over!"
"We must send a diplomatic note to the Beichen Empire! A serious protest!"
Another Southern Cross Star Kingdom person curled his lips, and said disdainfully: "What's the use of protesting? If you have the ability, start a war directly!"
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