Liang Xue's Accident

"Commander, a large number of fighters have suddenly broken out from the enemy fleet and are heading towards the space battle!"

Liang Xue's anxious voice came through Lin Fan's communicator.

"Don't panic. How many are there? Can we intercept them? How much time do we have?"

"We can't intercept. The space station is between our fleet and theirs, so we can't bombard them. The enemy has over 5,000 fighters, and they're expected to bring the space station into range in about 10 minutes."

"Order all mech units to sortie!"

"Yes!"

"Commander Adams, I demand an explanation?"

After ending the communication, Lin Fan looked at Adams.

"Hmm, how did you know who I am?"

"That's not important. What's important is what you're planning to do?"

"I never gave such an order!"

"Hmm?"

Looking at Adams' expression, Lin Fan didn't think he was lying. What was going on?

"I am Adams. What's with those fighters that have launched?"

"Commander, I'm not sure either. We're investigating, but one-third of our fleet's warships have lost control!"

"Shoot down all the launched fighters immediately!"

"We can't, Commander. They're flying between our fleet and the negotiation point. If we attack, we might destroy the negotiation space station along with them."

"Then..."

"Commander, watch out!"

"Whoosh"

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. An Oakes negotiator suddenly pulled out a laser gun and pulled the trigger on Adams.

Seeing this, another negotiator immediately pushed Adams away, but was hit by the laser and died on the spot.

Fortunately, the laser gun was meant for people and had very little power; it didn't pierce the outer wall of the space station.

Adams got up from the ground, his eyes burning as he looked at the negotiator holding the gun.

"Wade, what do you think you're doing?"

"Apologies, Commander, but the Ninth Prince's existence will disrupt the Empire. For the sake of the First Prince, the Ninth Prince must die, so we cannot let you reach any agreement with humanity!"

"You're working for the First Prince? And you said 'we'?"

"That's right. The fighters currently en route are all our people. Everyone will die here today, and humanity will never return the Ninth Prince. Even if the Empire destroys humanity in the future, they will execute the Ninth Prince before they are destroyed!"

"Are you so sure you'll succeed?"

"When did you...? Ah!!"

Lin Fan was already standing behind him, having just ripped off his right arm. He then picked up the gun and pointed it at Wade, who was screaming on the ground.

For a moment, everyone stared at Lin Fan in shock, amazed at how skilled he was.

Don't be ridiculous, Lin Fan thought. My physical fitness is 350 in all stats. Do you think I'm a normal person?

"Don't get cocky. Even if you deal with me, you won't be able to escape the attack of 5,000 fighters!"

"That's none of your concern!"

"Whoosh"

Lin Fan pulled the trigger, ending Wade's life directly.

"Commander Adams, you don't mind, do you?"

"Of course not. But what do we do now? We're running out of time."

"Don't worry. Just in case, this space station is equipped with propulsion systems. However, I'll need Commander Adams to come to our fleet for a bit. After all, I can't fly towards your fleet right now, can I?"

"Heh, I don't have a problem with that. After everything is over, what do you plan to do with me?"

"Don't worry, I'll send you back when it's over."

"Alright then, I'll go sit with you folks!"

Lin Fan raised his hand and began operating his portable tactical datapad. Soon, three hidden propulsion modules were revealed on one side of the space station and activated.

Although the speed wasn't very fast, it was heading in the direction of their mechs, so they would rendezvous with the sortieing mech forces much sooner.

"Marshal Adams, if I heard correctly just now, your subordinate said that one-third of your fleet's warships have betrayed you, right?"

"Yes!"

"Then we might have a tough fight ahead. I might destroy over 300 of your warships, but I hope you won't mind!"

Lin Fan said with a smile, looking at Adams.

Adams understood perfectly. Given the current situation, the space station would rendezvous with the enemy mech forces before the fighters brought it into range.

However, if the fighter force failed, the one-third of the warships that had rioted would inevitably continue their attack.

A battle was unavoidable, and those roughly 300 warships could already be considered rebels, so Adams felt no burden.

Besides, letting them die at the hands of humans was a fitting end, a glorious death in battle.

Six minutes later, the space station rendezvoused with the 9,000 mechs that had deployed and continued to fly towards the 101st Task Force Fleet.

The mechs were divided into two groups: 6,000 were left to engage the enemy, while the remaining 3,000 escorted the space station as they returned.

Five minutes later, the Oakes Empire's fighter jets encountered the mech units of the 101st Task Force Fleet.

Mechs were humanity's only advantage over the Oakes Empire. During the Solar System Defense War, it was thanks to the mechs that Liang Xingchen achieved a 1:10 kill ratio; otherwise, no matter how many ambushes were set, battleships fighting battleships couldn't achieve such a high attrition rate.

As for the Oakes Empire's fighter jets, although very advanced, they were unfortunately no match for the mechs in terms of flexibility or firepower.

After losing over 2,000 aircraft, the Oakes rebel fighter force retreated.

Subsequently, the mech units began searching the surrounding escape pods and soon returned.

Upon returning to the flagship, Lin Fan arranged the remaining four members of the Oakes Empire and Ade's five-person negotiation team in a lounge before heading to the bridge.

"Hmm? Where's Deputy Liang?"

"Commander, Deputy Liang she..."

"What is it, spit it out!"

"She personally led the mech unit to save you!"

"Who allowed her to abandon her post? Where is she now?"

"We just detected Deputy Liang's escape pod ejecting, but the mech unit reported they couldn't find it."

"Damn it!"

Silly woman, you better not be in any trouble!

Lin Fan felt an inexplicable sense of panic.

"Liang Xue, can you hear me? Respond if you can!"

Lin Fan directly called Liang Xue through the communicator.

"I can hear you. Sorry, I think I fainted earlier and just woke up!"

"Immediately activate your distress signal. I can't locate your escape pod."

"It's already activated!"

"Good, just wait there obediently!"

After cutting the communication, Lin Fan reconnected with the mech squad commander on the flagship.

There were a total of 12 mech bays on the battlecruiser. Liang Xue had taken one out earlier, leaving 11.

"Zhang Hu, take 9 pilots with me. I'll be there shortly. Get the mechs ready."

"Yes!"

After hanging up the communication, Lin Fan looked at the bridge command staff. "Everyone, join command channel 2. I'll be directing you on the way."

With that, Lin Fan ran off.

He left the bridge command staff staring in stunned silence.

Deputy Liang acted like this, and now the Commander is doing the same?