In that instant, Major Popas felt as if his soul were about to burst through the confines of his eye sockets. The crushing pain was nearly unbearable, and he almost lost consciousness. At last, he let out an involuntary howl, like a beast caught in a trap.
General Griffith and his companions had already noticed the state their human friend was in. They carried injections to calm the mind, but there was no time to inject Popas now. The moment the ground began to shake, a vast number of energy signatures had appeared on their radar displays, packed together like a swarm of wasps surging toward them.
Even with the Palaians' highly simplified respiratory systems, General Griffith still wanted to hide inside his mech and draw in a breath of cold air.
"These aren't Voidrealm ghosts," Blackrose said with certainty.
"Right. If they were quantum ghosts from the Voidrealm, our biosignal radar wouldn't be able to detect them," Tang Guo said.
"But they're definitely not normal lifeforms either," Blackrose added. "I've never seen life like this, cloudlike and misty."
"Who says you haven't? You took part in the battle to wipe out the crystalline swarm last time."
"We still can't be sure those things are alive... All right, at least I've never seen creatures like this on a planet's surface, and I've never heard of them before," Blackrose said.
General Griffith sighed. "The universe is vast. We robots can be alive, so who says life has to be carbon-based? The universe has already seen crystalline life. Energy-based lifeforms aren't beyond understanding either."
"We're still carbon-based organisms..." Blackrose said.
But while the commander and general slipped back into their usual bickering, they both switched their weapons to energy-entanglement mode.
In less than a second, Tang Guo and Blackrose fired more than