Edward frowned slightly and leaned forward, resting his arms on the desk on either side of a monitor. Looking at the enlarged Glaive Wurms fired by the Blade-Arm Mutalisks on the screen, he shook his head and muttered, "These bugs really aren't simple. They can actually use launched creatures to detonate our missiles..."
A cold glint flashed in Darnell's eyes. "Maybe they just got lucky!"
Edward nodded. "Let's hope so... Communications officer, pass down the order. Interceptors are forbidden from firing missiles at long range. Switch to short-range precision fire!"
Amid the stars, after a wave of bombardment, the fastest Vipers were the first to make contact with the fighters.
These phantoms of the sky were even faster than the fighters. As the two sides charged head-on, the Vipers wildly raised their claws.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat..." Yet the moment the Vipers entered the fighters' range, the cannons of the fighters at the front of the formation began to roar madly. Golden bullets poured from the sky in a golden barrage. Looking down from above the battlefield, the countless golden dotted lines were incomparably beautiful, like a golden cloth woven across the Milky Way by the Weaver Girl.
But to the Vipers, those golden dotted lines were terrifying.
The Vipers' defenses were even weaker than those of the Blade-Arm Mutalisks. One fighter neither dodged nor evaded, its cannon roaring furiously. In the span of two seconds, more than a hundred bullets ravaged a Viper's body. Though it had been charging at high speed, the bullets knocked it backward again and again. Bullets tore into its flesh, blood sprayed out, and its muscles burst apart beneath the barrage. Within three seconds, the Viper lost its life and fell into the void as a mangled mass of flesh and blood.
Having witnessed the power of