Only after repeatedly confirming that none had slipped through the net did Nie Yun open his eyes.
"The Research Team still needs strengthening. Technology is the foremost productive force, and even my last-minute cramming only got research progress to 8%. If we ran into an impatient enemy, when would I have time to change equipment at my leisure?"
"The Eighteen Scholars really are nowhere near enough. Looks like... I'll have to hurry up with the plans for the Thirty-Two Heavenly Spirits, Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, and One Hundred and Eight Heroes too..."
Codename's mouth twitched, but said nothing.
With the threat of the Earth microbes eliminated, Nie Yun turned his attention to the front lines in the Solar System...
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Cannon fire rained down like a dense shower of light, striking the meteorite belt and sending shattered rock flying, filling this tranquil stretch of space with the brutality of battle.
The Iron Wall Detachment Fleet had now closed in on the meteorite cluster sheltering the Earth Mecha Regiment, bringing it within range of the fleet's main cannons.
The long-range firepower of several hundred warships could not completely clear the entire meteorite field, but it riddled the surrounding terrain with holes and inflicted considerable losses on the Earth Army.
At that moment, the Earth Army finally understood the gap between the two sides' warship technology.
Leaving everything else aside, the energy output of the enemy warships' main cannons was at least one tier above theirs. It was easy to imagine what would happen if the two sides exchanged fire.
It was not that Nie Yun's current technology was inferior. It was simply that the warships he had built a year ago really were inferior...
This batch of Earth Defense Force warships did not have the Mechanical Insects' convenient "online