Chapter 140: One Battle to Decide the Outcome

Except for the Fortress Stars on both sides of the planetary disk, which remained relatively stationary with respect to the Solar System, the military bases located on the planetary disk relied on planets or their moons orbiting the Sun.

This made these non-professional military fortifications unstable in defense. At the same time, these military bases could potentially rotate to the position opposite Earth, in which case they would provide no defensive value at all.

Of course, humanity would not fail to consider this aspect. The current situation was that at any moment during the year, at least two military fortresses on the planetary disk were functioning as true fortresses.

Three days later, Leite’s Space Fortress arrived as scheduled. One fleet reached the perimeter of the War Fortress built by humans on Pluto and began a standoff with it.

At the same time, the other two fleets pinned down more than 2,000 human Space Warships from two other directions.

Outside Pluto, thousands of silver Earth Space Warships were arranged in a scattered but orderly formation above the War Fortress.

These third-generation warships controlled by Digital Life formed a combat sequence of three ships! Each attack required the three ships to cooperate closely, attacking the same Leite warship simultaneously, aiming to destroy the enemy with a single blow.

This was precise combat coordination among Digital Life! Carbon-based Life could far not match it in this regard.

At this time, Leite’s Space Fortress also stopped outside the range of the Fortress Main Gun. Two thousand warships flew out of the Space Fortress in an orderly manner.

The Large Warship Cruiser next to the Space Fortress had countless turrets extending around it. Their energy was fully charged, emitting a deadly blue glow.

If the Earth’s warships showed any sign of movement at this moment, this powerful firepower would rain down on the human warships regardless of the consequences.

The Space Fortress was indeed equipped with Leite’s main warships. Despite their large number, they completed their flight formation in space in just two minutes.

Time seemed to pause for a moment. In an instant, all small Space Warships, including those from Earth and Leite, turned into streams of light and collided like two torrents.

Dark blue energy beams poured down freely. Patches of pure white firelight lit up from time to time. This was the magnificent funeral displayed when Space Warships fell.

Leite’s Cruiser warships rushed in immediately. Like a shark entering a school of fish, they began to fire crazily. In such a chaotic scene, the Cruiser often had no time to dodge its own warships and charged straight through them.

The Cruiser’s aggressive impact carved a passage through the swarm of thousands of Space Warships. Regardless of its actual results, it always looked incredibly fierce.

The Cruiser’s captain was intoxicated by this invincible power, but his good mood lasted for less than five seconds!

The Master Control Brain quickly calculated the battle results: “Hit 10 enemy warships, destroyed 1, and collided with and destroyed 33 of our own warships!”

“What!?” Such results made the captain’s eyes bulge out. The impact of the Cruiser had caused more damage to its own side than to the enemy. How could he bear this shame!

“Damn it! Were our warship pilots eating poop? Why didn’t they know how to dodge?” The captain questioned the staff around him in a rage.

The surrounding Layite People just looked at this furious man and remained silent.

In such an extremely chaotic battlefield, one had to estimate the enemy’s attacks while dodging the impact of this crazy captain. It was not easy to say the least!

Suddenly, the Master Control Brain began to emit a piercing alarm sound: “We have entered the range of the enemy’s Fortress Main Gun! Retreat quickly! Retreat quickly!”

The captain woke up from his dream and immediately wanted to order the ship to retreat. But this brief delay was already too late.

A pure black energy beam, with a diameter of 500 meters, suddenly shot out from Pluto. This was not purely a light energy attack, but an energy sword accelerated by warp speed.

At a range of one Astronomical Unit, this sword crossed the distance in less than one second.

The effect was extremely shocking. The strike started from the head of the Cruiser, pierced straight through, and then emerged from the ship’s stern.

The Cruiser’s energy shield could not resist the nearly invincible attack energy of the Fortress Main Gun. It flickered symbolically and shattered like a bubble.

The internal structure of the entire ship was completely evaporated by this invincible attack. Even the warship’s engine did not escape this disaster.

The Cruiser’s energy core did not have time to explode. Its energy circulation structure was destroyed first. Then, like ordinary matter, it was annihilated.

The Cruiser’s long, slender hull was hollowed out from front to back. The entire hull glowed with a dark red hue from being heated by the high-energy penetration.

Without a doubt, under these circumstances, no living creature inside could survive!

This was the first drop of blood spilled by Leite! In the first minute after the full-scale war began!

The battle style of Earth’s Digital Life was exactly the same as Lin Lei’s. As long as the enemy made a slight mistake, it could not escape an irreversible dead end.

This was true for the War Fortress, and it was also true for the Earth warships fighting in space.

The ship sequences of three were tightly linked. They evaded enemy fire with reactions that were almost prophetic. Whenever the Leite people made the slightest mistake, the three warships would attack simultaneously, directly destroying the Leite warship.

Either don’t attack, or deliver a fatal blow. This was the scene on the extremely chaotic battlefield.

Although Leite had a large number of ships, in the midst of the chaotic battle, Carbon-based Life found it difficult to control the situation and form efficient coordination.

Two minutes after the battle began, the number of attacks launched by the Leite people was far higher than that of the Earth warships. However, the casualties caused were less than half of the opponent’s. This was even with Leite’s warships having a performance advantage.

On the Space Fortress, the Leite commander watched the number of Space Warships decrease rapidly and his heart bled.

It was damn it. If that Cruiser had not been so rash, the battle situation would not be as bad as it is now. Just thinking about that Cruiser, which had been shot into a hollow iron pipe by the Fortress Main Gun, made this Layite Person grit his teeth in hatred!

“Such a fool. He truly shamed the Layite People!”

“Issue the order: All warships begin to contract their formation and fight around the Space Fortress.” Only by using the fortress’s firepower as support could they level the gap between the two sides.

A change occurred at this very moment!

The commander issued the order, but in space, those Leite warships showed no reaction. They continued to engage in close combat with the Earth warships.

“Master Control Brain, report the current situation! What happened?” The Leite commander frowned deeply and asked loudly.

But he received no response. In the main control room of the Space Fortress, except for the breathing sounds of the many Layite staff members, it was completely silent.

Then, the lights on the entire Space Fortress began to go out one by one. There were thousands of staff members on the Space Fortress, and they were all confused by this strange occurrence.

No matter how they called out to the Master Control Brain, they got no response. It was as if… as if the Master Control Brain had disappeared, vanished, or died!

“Can anyone tell me what is going on?”

“Help me, help me, the air here is leaking away rapidly!”

Various systems on the Space Fortress began to collapse one by one because they lost the regulation of the Master Control Brain. First, the inertial system failed. Everyone realized they were in a state of weightlessness. With a light jump, they could fly upwards continuously. If it were not for the slight air resistance, they could fly up to the dome of the fortress, hundreds of meters high.

The water in the cups immediately turned into spherical shapes, like pearls, floating inside the cups.

This was not the most severe issue. Later, the Protective Force Field around the fortress disappeared. If this had happened before the war started, facing such a change, the Layite People could at least switch to manual operation mode and then withdraw from the Solar System.

But this was in the midst of a fierce battlefield. Everywhere was filled with dark blue energy arrows. Without the Protective Force Field, even a fortress with a tight structure would be beaten into a sieve.

In less than ten seconds, dozens of holes appeared on the Space Fortress. The air was leaking away rapidly.

The Earth warships seemed to know this situation. They turned their cannons and poured rain-like attacks onto the Space Fortress.

The destruction on the outer layer of the Space Fortress became even more severe. The air rushed out of the fortress, forming violent winds. These winds were strong enough to sweep the Layite People out of the ship and throw them into space!

These violent winds blew for half an hour. Afterward, this Space Fortress fell into complete silence.

Leite’s Space Warships lost their will to fight. Their Space Fortress, such a massive object, had inexplicably been destroyed by the enemy right under their eyes.

This destroyed their psychological defense line!

Leite’s warships fled towards the outside of the Solar System. The Earth warships immediately tracked them. This chase destroyed more than 60% of Leite’s warships. Along the way, debris from Leite’s warships was scattered everywhere!

Similar situations also occurred near the two Fortress Stars. Three Space Fortresses and two Cruisers completely collapsed, floating in space like pieces of scrap metal.

However, the situation near the Fortress Stars was much more cruel. The Layite People fully utilized the powerful firepower of the Cruiser warships. Within the two minutes before Lin Lei’s hidden information bombs took effect, humanity had shot down nearly half of its third-generation warships.

Post-war statistics showed that Earth lost nearly 1,300 ships in total. Leite, on the other hand, was almost completely wiped out. The number of Space Warships that could escape back to the Layite Mother Star was less than 2,000.

Leite’s military strength was weakened by 40% in one battle. Moreover, the Mother Star was facing chaos after the Network suffered a complete paralysis!

This battle, which lasted less than half an hour, completely reversed the balance of power between humanity and Leite. It marked the beginning of Leite’s shift from strong to weak!

Earth, at the cost of blood, took the first step in its rise as a civilization!