The pain in his body seemed to have a slight effect. Gao Jianchuan ignored the blood on his leg, leaving the pen, which had sunk more than an inch deep to the bone, stuck there. With his blood-stained hands, he continued to work, directing the fleet to fight the swarm of insects.
"Old... Old Gao, I never thought... you bookworm would be so ruthless..." Even at this point, Li Zhixiong still managed to force a bitter smile and tease Gao Jianchuan.
However, seeing that Gao Jianchuan's trick seemed to be effective, Li Zhixiong followed suit, picked up the pen with trembling hands, hesitated for a moment, closed his eyes, and plunged it hard into his thigh.
"Ah!!!~~~" Li Zhixiong shouted.
"You... bookworm... you didn't even warn me, and now... it hurts so much..."
Gao Jianchuan didn't speak, but looked at Li Zhixiong with a bitter smile. At this moment, even speaking was extremely difficult for him, and his face was covered in sweat and tears.
Li Zhixiong yanked out the pen, and with a splatter, blood splashed onto Gao Jianchuan Wen Zhonghua's faces. Sweat and blood mixed together, turning their faces into a bloody mess.
"Damn it, I hit a major artery." Li Zhixiong had recovered a bit and was finally able to speak in a complete sentence.
"Get this bandaged up and get back to work," Wen Zhonghua said with difficulty.
Most of the Reaper are now automated by computers, and a small number are controlled by Superintelligent Robot, but neither of these has a global perspective and requires human commands.
The three men managed to resume their work and began issuing various orders to the fleet. The fleet gradually recovered from being a disorganized mess fighting its own battles to a state of coordinated combat. The three men also discovered the three giant worms that had entered the fleet.
"We need to find a way to take down these three giant worms. It must be that the impact of one of their Consciousness Field is too powerful, and our Consciousness Field defenses are not very effective."
These three insects are all over 100,000 kilometers in size and are around level 30. Although the consciousness field defense system created by Academician Xiao can defend against the Consciousness Field attacks of insects around level 30, there are many different kinds of insects, and there are always some particularly strange ones. Right now, one of these three insects is having a particularly strong Consciousness Field impact.
Human beings' own Consciousness Field defense is quite fragile. Insects above level 15 can kill humans with their Consciousness Field shocks. Of these three insects, only one had a slightly stronger Consciousness Field. The shockwaves that the Consciousness Field defense system missed were already causing everyone excruciating pain.
They weaved in and out of the Reaper fleet, each displaying its unique abilities. Compared to their massive size, the Reaper looked like children's toys, or rather, small children's toys.
One of the insects grabbed two Reaper and caused Reaper to collide at a speed exceeding the speed of light. No matter how powerful the Reaper, they could not withstand this super kinetic energy and disintegrated and exploded. The explosions of the Reaper were like small fireworks in front of these insects.
Another insect used its size advantage to rampage through the fleet. The Reaper that were firing were unable to dodge in time and changed their attack direction, attacking another Reaper nearby. In a short period of time, many Reaper were destroyed by their own comrades.
Another worm seemed to have discovered something and flew straight towards the ten command ships. The command ships were always subtly protected by a large number of warships, which was both inconspicuous and ensured safety. Logically speaking, it was impossible for the worm to discover anything, but at this moment, the giant worm's actions clearly showed that it had discovered that there were civilized beings on these ten Reaper.
"That's the bug. Its Consciousness Field impact is the strongest. Kill it!" Wen Zhonghua shouted.
At this moment, part of the fleet had already fallen into chaos. Fortunately, the fleet was large in number, and although the giant insects were powerful, there were only three of them. However, many insects had already rushed into the gaps in the chaos. These insects were all huge, each over 5,000 kilometers long. Although they feared the Consciousness Field, it was clear that they had to obey the giant insects' call. Moreover, they were still able to maintain a certain level of combat power under the impact of the fleet's Consciousness Field.
Thanks to Academician Xiao's improvements, the current Consciousness Field attack weapons are much more powerful than when the insect plague first struck; otherwise, these giant insects would have already stormed in.
The swarm of insects rushing into the fleet immediately put the fleet on high alert. There were too many insects, and once the breach was opened, it could never be closed again. The giant insects also knew that they alone could not destroy so many civilized warships. They had to send these cannon fodder in to disrupt the fleet. Moreover, many of these cannon fodder were of a high level and capable of destroying civilized warships.
" Old Gao, we don't have any effective offensive weapons."
"Use the fleet to entangle it and don't give it a chance to act."
"We need a powerful, disruptive attack," Wen Zhonghua said slowly.
"Chief of the General Staff, our dimensional weapons have limited power. Even if they are stacked, it only increases the amount of energy, not much impact."
"Have you forgotten Li Shun's four-dimensional warship?" Wen Zhonghua said with difficulty, each word distinct.
"Chief of the General Staff, you mean... to connect our warships together?"
"Good. Link multiple warships together, send some of them into the fourth dimension, then use energy to seal off the extra dimension, and then use the warships in three-dimensional space to pull the fourth-dimensional portion back. This way, we won't get lost in the fourth dimension. But we need to find a way to send the warships into the fourth dimension."
"Sending it into the fourth dimension isn't difficult. We can also use multiple warships working together, while simultaneously using warp drives to distort space. This is the same method we're using to create hyperspheres and extract energy from the fourth dimension, so it should be feasible," Gao Jianchuan replied.
"Then let's do it immediately." Wen Zhonghua sat down heavily, wiping away the sweat with his soaked clothes. The sweat had soaked the floor of the warship, and everyone was on the verge of dehydration.
A thousand Reaper immediately linked up with each other, forming a long steel dragon in the air. Another two hundred Reaper had already arranged themselves into two circles, one horizontal and one vertical, and at the same time adjusted the direction of their warp drives and turned them on to maximum power.
Between the two circles, space was distorted to its extreme. The steel dragon slowly drove into the center of the circle and disappeared, leaving only one ship standing outside.
This was happening simultaneously at a thousand locations across the fleet. When only one of the steel dragons remained, the warships forming the circle withdrew and began a fierce attack on the swarm.
By this time, the number of Zerg entering the fleet had increased significantly. Some of the Reaper trapped in the swarm were surrounded and could not escape no matter how much Reaper struggled. There were no more Reaper visible outside the swarm, as the swarm's numbers had completely overwhelmed Reaper.