Chapter 995: Chapter 286: Battle (Part 2)
This is the external manifestation of the Star Gate activating.
It seems that the people stationed at the Star Gate not only lost, but also didn’t manage to cut off the power to the Star Gate in time.
Under normal circumstances, it would take a long time to restart a disconnected Star Gate, but if it’s just in standby mode, it can be activated at any time.
A mixed fleet that looks somewhat chaotic is gathering around the activating Star Gate.
This fleet is filled with various factions, and even the Fifth Legion’s fleet, which should theoretically drive these forces away, is mixed in among them.
It appears that there was internal chaos just as the Fifth Legion was stationed here.
Perhaps they could have suppressed the chaos like the Fifth Legion in the Lucy Star System.
But clearly, when they wanted to do so, other forces that had been driven away from the other four star systems came over to stir up trouble.
This ultimately led to heavy losses for the Fifth Legion, forcing them to retreat hastily, completely losing control over the Star Gate.
The Fifth Legion here has failed.
It turns out that many people from the other factions that gathered near the Fifth Legion were also influenced by Zuo Jing.
Otherwise, after giving up the idea of fully gathering in the four star systems of the Fifth Legion, they wouldn’t have come here to cause trouble.
It would make sense for them to compete with the Fifth Legion for Zuo Jing’s Psychics or the Spirit Beasts released by Zuo Jing.
But using violent means to seize a Star Gate irrelevant to Zuo Jing holds no benefit for them.
Moreover, after finishing their attack on the Fifth Legion, they gathered together to jointly guard the area near the Star Gate.
This situation further solidified Chen Ming’s conviction about the influence of Zuo Jing’s Mind Control Psychics.
However, as Chen Ming observed the situation within the Star System from a distance, no one influenced by Zuo Jing appeared to stop him.
Those influenced by Zuo Jing didn’t seem to mind someone staying at the edge of the Star System.
Because besides Chen Ming’s fleet, there were actually several other ships at the edge of the Star System.
It was precisely someone on one of these ships who provided the information here to the boss.
Those brainwashed by Zuo Jing obviously only cared about the status of the Star Gate.
They were waiting for the Star Gate to fully open, to welcome the arrival of those behind it.
Chen Ming had only seen some documents about the Star Gate on paper, so he didn’t really have any means to stop such a situation from happening now.
In any case, fighting was out of the question.
Although the fleet here is mixed, it still has nearly sixty Cruiser ships and even more Destroyers and Guards.
Fortunately, there are no Main Ships here; otherwise, Chen Ming’s fleet would have to retreat immediately upon arrival.
Even with just Cruisers, he couldn’t directly cause trouble in front of so many Cruisers.
Although Chen Ming has the ability to manufacture Cruisers, he has always maintained a number of twelve, which is enough for his purposes.
One reason is the high cost of manufacturing Cruisers; another reason is that there aren’t enough people or Dusk members to operate the manufactured Cruisers.
Even including the significantly aware individuals born from the Mechanical Race’s Hive Mind Network during this time, Chen Ming can personally control nine Cruisers, along with the Alpha Level Dusk members at his disposal.
In a short period, he can at most produce over twenty operational Cruisers.
This number would suffice to combat the fleet here at the Star Gate, but losses are inevitable.
These more than sixty Cruisers are enough to focus fire and destroy his Cruisers before his Maintenance Spiritual Energy can take effect.
Moreover, if it were to truly come to combat, he would need to perform consecutive warp jumps to bring back his Cruisers.
Not to mention if his Spiritual Power is sufficient to manufacture over ten Cruisers and warp a total of more than twenty Cruisers back from Earth Country.
Simply put, the current situation is purely the Fifth Legion’s failure to hold out, so he won’t bother to clean up the mess for them.
It’s not like they’re Boss Bai Quan or Director Lao Wu.
Therefore, Chen Ming still plans to continue observing the situation here at Cai Mo-1.
To see what Zuo Jing’s subsequent actions are, who they are trying to bring here.
While Chen Ming’s Dusk Fleet at Cai Mo-1 waits for Zuo Jing’s Star Gate to show any sign of activity.
Far away in the Lucy Star System, An Wuping, also under Chen Ming’s control, finally approached Yunluo Star.
This is a planet that appears almost pure white from the outside.
The climate of the entire planet is relatively cold.
For the majority of one revolution cycle, it snows.
Nonetheless, this planet can still be considered a habitable one.
It’s precisely this climate of snow for most of the year that gives the planet the name Yunluo.
Despite most of the planet being snowy, the area near the planet’s most important industrial structure, the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower, remains unaffected.
The immense heat generated by the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower has already influenced the local climate on a macro level.
So while it snows elsewhere.
It only rains near the Power Tower.
In the drizzling rain.
An Wuping stepped out from the shadows, reaching the industrial zone near the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower with the last bit of Spiritual Energy granted by the Black Mist Heart-Gathering Spirit Pearl he just crushed.
Emerging from the shadows, he appeared near a warehouse not far from the Power Tower.
