Xunluo Captain

"I don't think they'll waste their valuable resources on the thankless task of indiscriminately killing civilians. Their ultimate targets will most likely be locations with strategic value, symbolic significance, or abundant energy—like planets, or the [Wall of Infinity]."

The fleet commander nodded in agreement. "The General Staff's assessment aligns with yours. Therefore, even if the initial interception fails, the final battle will inevitably unfold at those crucial junctures. However..."

He pointed to the initial direction of the group's movement on the star map [ Under the Under the Starry Sky], "This group of 'guests' we're in charge of seems to have an unusually large appetite. They show little interest in the planets along the way and are heading straight for Yuncang Star. Their destination is almost certainly [The Wall of Infinity]."

He switched the screen again, displaying battle briefings for the other defense zones. "The Final Showdown has begun. You have sufficient permissions to understand the overall situation."

The fleet commander waved his hand, bringing up a military-grade holographic star map, a miniature dynamic model of the Yuncang Star System scaled to the same size, with an astonishing level of detail.

Not only can you zoom in and out to view real-time external views of major planets and space stations, but you can even see details of human activities inside certain habitation stations through the connected monitoring network, with each person's expression clearly visible.

After some manipulation, Yun Cangyuan saw his actions on the star map.

"So meticulous?" Yun Cangyuan's eyes widened slightly.

The commander-in-chief shook his head and said nonchalantly:

"It's just a matter of integrating known information, which the ship's computer can do with a fraction of its computing power. The troublesome part is information gathering, but we have indeed managed to gather information from most areas of human activity."

The scene shifts again to a vast expanse of space, filled with countless question marks.

"The scenery in these places cannot be updated in real time."

He manipulated the image a few more times, and it transformed into a comprehensive tactical map with different colored blocks indicating enemy and friendly movements, energy responses, and combat zones.

"Currently, of the nine pre-designated defense zones, four, including ours, failed to intercept the intruders immediately, allowing them to successfully penetrate deep space and hide. In the other five zones, while initial interception was successful, one world was extremely unlucky, with dozens of its descending units being hit by the same orbital laser, resulting in heavy losses..."

"But without exception, the invaders from all worlds managed to send out reconnaissance or breakout units to escape the initial encirclement of the fleet, and they seem to have a chance to Resurrection... Subsequently, precise tracking and strikes in the vast depths of space will be extremely difficult."

Finally, the commander-in-chief patted Yun Cangyuan on the shoulder.

"From now on, the Deep-Space Fleet's role will likely be primarily harassment; the final direct combat will depend on your Player Legions."

Yun Cangyuan stood up and nodded to him:

"Pillar has arrived at [Wall of Infinity], and the Player Legions are on their way. I'm leaving too."

The commander-in-chief's tone was somewhat complicated. "Well, good luck. After this battle, if... I mean, if we're all still alive, would you be interested in officially joining the fleet? It's a waste of your talent to keep you in the player system. The fleet needs people who truly understand war and have courage."

"If I survive, I'll definitely... it's too tiring out there."

After bidding farewell to the fleet command, Yun Cangyuan boarded a high-speed transport ship that was already waiting and whose engines were humming softly.

The ship trembled slightly in the catapult tunnel, then transformed into a streak of light. After accelerating, it tore through the darkness at an astonishing speed of over 15,000 kilometers per second, to await its former enemies—the monsters of [ Under the Under the Starry Sky].

In the Yuncang Star System, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the Third Habitable Planet, in a "garbage belt" composed of abandoned satellite debris, aging space station components, and periodically ejected industrial waste, a hidden mass of waste is slowly drifting.

The surface of the plate is charred black, covered with traces of debris impact and radiation Burns, indistinguishable from its surroundings. However, inside, it contains something entirely different.

The [Xunluo Captain], the World Master of the [Desolate Continent], whose towering three-meter-tall, muscular body, sculpted like granite, is undergoing a wondrous transformation.

Its skin texture mimics the coldness and wear of an alloy, its body temperature and radiation drop to match the background debris, and even its life magnetic field is forcibly constricted and distorted by some Martial Dao secret technique, making it indistinguishable from a piece of real space junk under most detection methods.

On his broad shoulder was a tiny figure, no bigger than a palm, with barely discernible features.

It is precisely the return of consciousness, but the physical form, due to excessive fragmentation and depletion, can only temporarily maintain this appearance [the Wu Fengzi].

"Holy crap, why did we come here?"

Looking at the massive, brightly lit space stations or defense platforms that occasionally flashed by in the outer orbit, [Wu Fengzi] couldn't help but ask a question.

"Damn it, where else are we going?" [Xunluo Captain] retorted.

"We can go to those hexagonal structures that cover the outside of the Fixed Star; I saw that the defenses there are very thick."

"Nonsense, you fucking know the Abjuration is thick there. We're not going there, we're going somewhere else to loot."

"Moreover, this is one of the backup contact points and rendezvous areas that the mysterious 'Lancang United States' left for us through special channels before we set off. They said that there might be 'friends' here to meet us."

[Wu Fengzi] pondered for a moment and felt that what the World Master said made sense.

"Clone too many clones has drained your intelligence... By the way, why not just go Killing? There was a large space station earlier with about 30 million people inside."

[Xunluo Captain] did not respond to him for the time being, but directly manipulated the disguised body to slowly "fall" towards the upper edge of the planet's thin atmosphere, simulating the trajectory of space debris being pulled by gravity.

He only had time to answer [the Wu Fengzi's] question during the fall.

That's definitely bait!

"Hmm? My perception is absolutely correct; there are truly tens of millions of life forms inside, unless the other party's methods are so sophisticated that they can deceive my Martial Will."

"Oh, those people should be real, but the space around that ship has definitely Lock-On by their overwhelming weaponry. Once their population starts dying in large numbers, our precise location will be exposed!"

[The Wu Fengzi] scratched his Chaos head, watching the sparks generated by the friction between his body and the air as he entered the atmosphere, and suddenly realized:

"Oh—I understand what you mean. Indeed, being Lock-On in deep space is very troublesome; without special methods, it's almost certain death. At that point, we'll be facing a saturation of beyond-visual-range orbital strikes from all directions."

"That's right, it's possible that the other side is willing to pay off those tens of millions of 'bait' just to take us down."