"Manually guided quantum cannon?"
Yaochen came up with another idea.
Chaoge thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, you do it."
Yao Chen: ...Don't you even have this much confidence in yourself?
But he also knew what Chaoge was afraid of.
Chaoge stared at the screen and soon saw a cannonball accurately hit the snake's body. However, looking at the unscathed part, Chaoge frowned:
"Not even a single scale can be destroyed? Isn't its resistance to attack too strong?" That can't be right, that's a quantum cannon.
"It should be this strong?" Chaoge asked, staring at the screen without blinking.
"It shouldn't be like this." Yao Chen stepped forward, reopened a window, and switched to view the screen.
About ten seconds later, he spoke: "Well, the shell was blown up when it was very close to it, so its lethality is indeed still a bit lacking."
Chaoge glanced at it, looking at the magnified part. It did damage its scales, but it was like scratching an itch.
"Should we use the energy-gathering one?" Chaoge hesitated, since the destructive power of this one wasn't much different.
Yao Chen thought for a long time... searched the armory, hesitated for several seconds, and then offered an option:
"How about we use a small antimatter cannon, based on energy?"
Chaoge instantly understood his meaning. She glanced at the battlefield, now locked in a stalemate: Qin Muge was dealing with the Snake Mother, and Luo Qinghe was dealing with Si Zhongqi.
"Are you confident?" Chaoge hesitated for a few seconds, looked down at Yaochen, and met his purple eyes.
Yao Chen calculated the probability, "If Min Kaiyang can hold them back, there's a 50% chance of a flanking attack." Actually, that's not the problem; the real issue is that this thing is too destructive. If you make a mistake, mutual destruction is inevitable.
Moreover, there is almost no possibility of escape, and it may even tear space apart, causing chaos in the surrounding area.
Chaoge stared intently at the screen, licking her slightly dry lower lip. "...Try to connect, Qin Muge."
Her palms were slightly sweaty.
"I have an idea." Almost as soon as the call connected, Chaoge spoke up somewhat eagerly.
But the other side didn't give her that chance. Her fingers flew as she maneuvered the mecha to dodge the attack. Without even looking at the screen, she interrupted him coldly, "Don't even think about it! Yan Chaoge, you dare to step into the battlefield and see what happens?"
Chaoge, refusing to believe in superstition, was multitasking, having Yaochen tally the Serpent Mother's attack frequency and speed. His tone hardened as he said, "The antimatter cannon can open a gap in its defenses."
During a break in his operations, Qin Muge pressed a button and turned off the communication.
Chaoge: ...
This seemed to be the first time Qin Muge didn't even want to talk to her.
It's also possible that her opponent was too difficult to deal with, and she really didn't have time to argue with herself for so long.
Qinghe is in space, so there's no way to communicate directly with her. While watching the battle scenes, Chaoge also saw footage from other battlefields, news from the Imperial Army, and communications from various legions. At the same time, she also had to check Yaochen's armory data. Maintaining her focus for extended periods was quite a burden for her.
Perhaps it was angered by Chaoge, or perhaps both sides had tested each other's strengths and weaknesses—although it seemed to take much longer, in the next few attacks, Qin Muge's mecha opened a small gap in the Serpent Mother's body.
The longer this battle drags on, the greater the strain on her hands. Chaoge needs to coordinate information from all three parties. She pinched the bridge of her nose and said to Yaochen, "Here's what you do, contact Kaiyang and see how this plan works. I don't believe he doesn't have a way to deal with the Snake Mother."
Yao Chen thought about it and actually felt that what she said made some sense.
Four hours later.
The outcome of the local battles was already clear, with the Red Cloud Star System holding a significant advantage. Yao Chen temporarily put aside the information gathering and integration, discussed tactics with Kai Yang, and then focused on the battlefield on Qin Muge's side.
The Royal Guard gradually closed in on this direction, forming an encirclement at a distance that was neither too close nor too far.
Chaoge stared at a corner of the screen, which had turned off several local battlefields, but she still didn't feel much more at ease.
A small mech performed a four-dimensional jump, slowly approaching the battlefield, and exploded almost the instant the space tore open—
Chaoge stared without blinking. That direction was exactly where the snake mother's tail had been pointing to dodge the attack... Even a second later, she might have escaped. However, in order to keep it in place, the almost imperceptible golden mecha traces showed what Qin Muge had done.
Unbeknownst to Chaoge herself, she watched as half of the snake's tail disappeared, leaving behind a trail of blood, with countless blood droplets floating in the air.
She belatedly watched the battle on the screen, then shifted her gaze to the other side, where Si Zhongqi and Luo Qinghe were fighting.
Both of them were injured, but Chaoge noticed with her sharp eyes that Qinghe was on the lower side.
Chaoge opened a communication channel without warning:
"What? Are you planning to stay completely hidden from the start?"
The gentle and refined young man smiled. In fact, throughout the entire Federation, he was probably the one most similar to Si Zhongqi. The only difference was that one was too greedy, and the other was only obsessed with one person. Chaoge sometimes suspected that if something happened to Sikong Yufu, this person might become the second Si Zhongqi.
"General Yan, there's no need to rush. Cleaning up the battlefield is enough for Rhett." The man's expression remained calm and composed, as if the already secured victory was of little importance to him.
It seems that someone else betrayed Si Zhongqi.
Chaoge dared not relax too much and decided to witness their fate with her own eyes. With Si Zhongqi's death, the Serpent Mother's energy was extracted.
Even through the screen, seeing this victory, she suddenly heard the sound of her blood boiling.
The battlefield, which had kept her on edge, silent and without even the smoke of gunpowder, came to a silent close. It was no more noisy than when she arrived, but the thrill was still just as intense.
it's over?
She stared blankly at the red-stained lens, the extreme concentration followed by sudden relaxation making her head ache a little.
Feeling a sharp pain in her temples, she took two steps back and sat down, letting Yaochen handle the remaining information conversion.
January 10, 4019 (Hongli year)
President Si Zhongqi of the Juecheng Federation died on the battlefield, bringing the battle between the Red Cloud Galaxy and the P4 Nebula to an end.
In the same month, former President Luo Qinghe of the Juecheng Federation reappeared, returned to the presidency, and signed a two-hundred-year peace treaty with the Wujing Empire.
After this war, the empire experienced no further wars for a century.
Author's Note: The next chapter will be the end! Aaaaaaah!
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☆, Chapter 109: Countdown to the End (Part 3)
February of the 4019th year of the Hongli era.
Meeting of the Wujingdi ** Department.
Chaoge, dressed in a white military uniform, sat to Yan Chen's right. She was in the innermost center of the innermost circle, directly opposite Min Kaiyang, Ling Tianshu of the Ling family, and four other generals. Next to them were Yang Yuheng and Su Yaoguang. The leftmost seat was empty, reserved for Qin Muge. And next to Chaoge was... Yan Zihe.
This was her first time attending a military meeting of the Empire. Although she had seen the meeting footage many times in Yao Chen's videos before, the feeling of sitting here was completely different, especially meeting the core forces of the Empire all at once. Apart from seeing them from afar at a royal banquet when she was studying at military academy, this was truly her first time meeting them in person.
With five minutes to go before the meeting was scheduled to begin, many officers in the back rows were still on their way. The meeting room was filled with quiet discussions, and some people were still handling official business, so their voices were naturally muted. Across from them, Ling Tianxuan and Yang Yuheng were talking in hushed tones, both with smiles on their faces. Ling Tianquan leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed, seemingly uninterested in anything, while Ling Tianshu was looking down, taking notes.
Chaoge felt that this seating arrangement was cursed, and after looking around, she felt very awkward sitting there.
It's easy to understand why her father is on the left, but why is Yan Zihe on the right? She felt a murderous aura emanating from the metallic whip on the table.
To be precise, sitting among this group of people, she felt surrounded by murderous intent.
It's quite abrupt and unexpected that a major general is sitting in the generals' seating area!
A barren area.
The first floor of the central castle in the city that never sleeps.
A huge projection screen unfolded in the center, making the vast hall seem to be divided into several parts: the Never-Night City, the Yin-Yang Gathering, and... some officers from the P4 Nebula, who I heard recently wanted to switch careers and become bandits.
The scene was quite bizarre at one point.
The projected content was naturally the upcoming meeting of the Imperial Army; it was said that Yao Chen had directly obtained the broadcasting rights. Ying, while biting into a strangely colored apple, commented, "The boss is nervous."
Rhett sat lazily on the carpet, leaning against the sofa armrest. The white snake coiled around his neck, seemingly trying to transform itself into a new season's scarf pattern. He reached out and gently pulled it off. The yellow kitten beside him had recently shrunk in size for some reason and was lying listlessly on Spall's head. Hearing Shadow's words, the boy stared at the screen in surprise and asked incredulously, "Really?"
The boss was actually nervous? They didn't quite believe it when they heard it.
Rhett glanced at him, then looked at the screen as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just raised his hand and patted the person next to him on the head without saying a word.
Spall: ...? ? ? ?
Sikong Yufu, who was sitting opposite, heard those words with her sharp ears. She put on a disbelieving face and nudged the man peeling fruit for her with her elbow: "Listen to their nonsense, they actually said that shameless woman would be nervous, back then she was... um?" Her words were interrupted by the fruit the man stuffed into his mouth.
Ouyang Haoze had a faint smile on his face and casually said in a low voice, "Okay, speak a little louder so that everyone in the Yin Yang Group on the other side can hear you."
Sikong Yufu swallowed the sweet fruit in her mouth and snorted coldly: "So what if I heard it? Come and hit me if you're not happy."
Ouyang Haoze was peeling an orange when he heard her words. He looked up at her with a smile on his lips: "Really? Then don't come crying to me when you get beaten up by Ritter. I won't help you."
It was something that happened when Sikong Yufu was a child. Hearing her friend release the animal without hesitation, she gritted her teeth and decided not to talk to him anymore.
My gaze fell on the woman sitting and drinking juice, who was facing the castle gate. She always wore elaborate dresses and carried a sharp and beautiful fan in her hand, which half-covered her face. Few people could see her without covering her face.
Sikong Yufu sized up the city lord of this city that never sleeps, pondering her relationship with her master.
Before long, her chin was pinched and her head was turned back. Ouyang Haoze sighed softly in her ear, "I can't change your sexual orientation for you, can I?"
Sikong Yufu's face instantly turned half red. She slapped his hand away, whether out of anger or embarrassment, and glared at him, saying in a low voice, "What are you saying!"
Ouyang Haoze looked at her with a half-smile, as if asking: Do you still need me to help you remember?
Sikong Yufu opened her mouth as if to explain something, but in the end she only managed to utter half a sentence: "I don't..." She no longer liked Luo Qinghe, nor was she gay.
In the end, she was still distracted by his gaze and casually took an apple from the fruit plate to eat herself, ignoring him completely.
Juecheng Federal Capital.
After finishing the last document, Luo Qinghe took off her coat and walked to the door, instructing her secretary, "I've put aside the less urgent parts and will deal with them when I get back. Contact me directly via your companion beast if you have any news."
Other officers wanted to leave with her, but she stopped them with a gesture: "No need to follow, I'll be back soon. Also, prepare an airship for me in the wasteland."
Secretary: ...? ?? Does my president want to personally suppress the bandits? Isn't this a bit too much trouble?