The unexpected trouble came not from the demon tide, but from behind them.
The quietly operating space wormhole had collapsed!
At the center of the Kona Satellite battlefield, the deep-blue space wormhole had been operating steadily, disgorging an endless stream of combat robots, Unmanned Combat Vehicles, engineering vehicles, transport vehicles, and more.
Everything had been advancing at the pace set by Commander-in-Chief Han Niba.
As long as this passage remained, the entire Blue Star effectively stood behind their landing zone on Kona Satellite.
But just as a transport convoy entered the middle section of the passage, the wormhole's inner wall suddenly shuddered.
Huge webs of cracks appeared across the silver-blue walls of light, like a pane of glass on the verge of shattering, pulled inward from every direction by countless invisible hands.
Spatial turbulence produced a piercing screech through friction, and even the sensors on the unmanned units' hulls picked up abnormal thermal noise.
The escort convoy's navigation signals all flashed red at once.
"Warning, abnormal spatial curvature!"
"Warning, passage stability declining!"
"Warning, quantum relay nodes disconnected!"
Mechanical alerts erupted one after another inside the unmanned units.
Yet there was no fear. Their formation held as they determined the optimal solution according to their preset programs.
That was to accelerate through.
The entire spatial passage lasted only ten seconds.
It went from faint tremors to violent distortion, then its center abruptly contracted inward.
The next instant, the spatial passage collapsed completely.
The hundreds of unmanned units inside the passage were all swept into the turbulence of distorted space.
There were no explosions, no wreckage-not even a palm-sized fragment remained.
On the local tactical network, more than three hundred blue signal markers went dark almost simultaneously, leaving nothing but a cold string of "Connection lost" messages filling the screen.
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