The Empire of Shilin
Chapter 1180

Hold the Line

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On the Officer Platform, a group of people gathered before the Holographic Projection, staring wide-eyed in stunned silence. The image showed the engineering probes under attack, but the scene was bizarre no matter how they looked at it: the attacker was some "weird thing" whose model could not be identified, as if several Autonomous Machines had been haphazardly cobbled together. It waved several work arms around, doing its utmost to drive away our probes. That was the entirety of its "attack." Even the Shipboard Mainframe that had sounded the alarm earlier seemed a little embarrassed now and simply shut up.

Qian Qian rolled her eyes and stared up at the ceiling at a forty-five-degree angle. Who knew what she was thinking, but as usual, she was the first to react while everyone else stood dumbfounded. "A Jun, can we pick that thing up?"

...This girl's logic was a black box. No one ever knew what went on inside, but she always reached a conclusion quickly.

"Is there any way to bring that... that monster back?" I asked the monitoring team. Their supervisor immediately gave an affirmative answer. Though the attacker looked strange, its "combat strength" was truly worrying. Its strongest weapons appeared to be the two Light Beam Blades spitting sparks, and there was no need to deploy soldiers at all. The engineering probes on site were more than enough to deal with this comical assailant. Upon receiving orders from the monitoring team, the engineering probes, which had been passively defending themselves until then, immediately went on the offensive. They used their mechanical arms to restrain the "enemy's" movements, while two more engineering probes took the lead, forcibly dragging the bizarre attacker toward the mothership with their tractor beams. The whole scene looked incredibly strange, like a bunch of toy

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