"What is that?" The officers of the Iron Wall Fleet noticed the Earth Army's movements immediately.
In the weightless vacuum, the Iron Curtain Missiles covered an enormous area, forming a vast bank of fog spanning tens of millions of kilometers.
Carrying countless meteorites with it, the fog slowly spread, stubbornly blocking the course the Iron Wall Detachment Fleet had just climbed onto.
"Commander, our detection equipment is suffering severe interference. That strange fog seems capable of blocking signals. Even optical sensors can't see what's inside.
"Our radar has also picked up a large number of extremely faint signals. They must have released swarms of miniature craft to intensify the interference."
"Battlefield concealment... launch the Sweepers. Blow it away!"
They did not know what the fog was, but one thing was certain... the enemy was hiding inside it!
Over a hundred spheres of light erupted, unleashing a storm of high-energy radiation that sent the fog churning violently.
Photons also carried momentum. Solar Sails were propulsion devices designed around that principle.
What they had not expected was that the radiation storm would prove far less effective than anticipated.
Wherever the high-energy rays passed, vast swaths of the strange fog scattered, but it also burst into dazzling light, as though the energy had excited it.
The light spread from the detonation points, rippling through the fog like an immense bank of roiling thunderclouds.
Worse still, as gaps appeared in the fog, the Earth Army launched more Iron Curtain Missiles. Instead of shrinking, the fog bank expanded even farther.
The distance between the two sides rapidly closed. There was no time left for the fleet to change course again.
In the end, the Iron Wall Detachment Fleet had nowhere to go and plunged straight into that strange region...
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