Esper X Family – Chapter 661 – Xing Lan: Who’s the Fleet Commander Now?
Esper X Family – Chapter 661 – Xing Lan: Who’s the Fleet Commander Now?
Xing Lan could control every object she had fissioned.
There was no need to worry about these mechanical constructs losing connection due to signal interference.
Moreover, the Watcher Civilization’s technological tree was fundamentally built on the underlying logic of “mental power”.
Controlling them was almost effortless for Xing Lan.
With just a single command, the fighter ships, which had been multiplying like bacteria, seemed to receive the highest-level signal.
Countless thruster plumes converged into a blinding stream of light.
“Crush them!”
Xing Lan’s command was brutally straightforward.
Yet, these densely packed fission constructs seemed to grasp a deeper meaning.
They didn’t charge chaotically. Instead, they formed a perfectly ordered three-dimensional formation.
The fighters at the very front formed a “wall” of immeasurable thickness.
Abandoning the flexibility and versatility of higher civilization constructs, they had become mere consumables for this space wall. The formation was overwhelming, as if the sky itself was collapsing!
And wherever this “wall” passed, everything was ground to dust.
If the distant expeditionary fleet was a coastal city, then what Xing Lan had assembled was a colossal tsunami capable of swallowing that city whole!
Even a fraction of it could engulf the entire Bluestar!
This magnificent spectacle was something even movies could hardly depict.
The people on Bluestar finally grasped the true meaning of the “world-destroying ability” with their own eyes.
Under the gaze of billions.
The initial fighters created by the expeditionary fleet were as fragile as paper toys against this “Wailing Wall 1 Saint Seiya reference. See chapter 272 for explanation. ”.
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With the first collision came the impact.
Swarm after swarm of fissioned fighters employed the most direct tactic: ramming!
Xing Lan didn’t need to worry about waste or losses.
She was far more efficient than the expeditionary fleet’s war fortresses. She could just crash straight into them!
As long as the expeditionary fleet’s war fortresses remained operational, her soldiers would be endless.
Boom!
Boom!
BOOM!
Although no explosions could be heard in the vacuum, the images transmitted by Sen Tong were shocking enough.
Blazing white orbs of light blossomed across space, as if countless brief lanterns had been lit in the depths of the cosmos.
Each “lantern” marked the mutual destruction of two fighters.
Every second, new space debris was being produced in the void!
The people on Bluestar were left speechless by this ridiculously grand interstellar war.
“You can fight like this?”
“There are so many cool fighters! Give me one, please, I beg you, Lady Xing Lan!”
“Ah! Using high-tech creations for physical ramming… it hurts to watch!”
“The numbers are insane! You could use them as firecrackers for months and still not run out!”
Although some wanted to criticize Xing Lan with a “Do you even know how to fight?”, faced with such an exaggerated display, even those who championed “maximum efficiency, environmental conservation” let it go.
With that many troops, even Old Chiang 2 Chiang Kai-shek. A major figure of the Kuomintang party who became the leader after Sun Yat-sen’s death. The party took over China for quite a while but did some really bad management (dismissed veterans and embezzled US aid, just to name a few) and lost the people’s trust, which tipped the power balance to the CCP side and in the end, they’re forced to retreat to Taiwan. couldn’t lose.
Numbers were the ultimate advantage.
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In just a short time.
The swarms mass-produced by the war fortresses had been completely obliterated by the constantly repaired and replenished “Wailing Wall”!
Production speed couldn’t keep up with destruction speed.
If this continued, those swarms that had blotted out the view would crash straight into the expeditionary fleet’s defensive layers.
Even if they couldn’t penetrate them, they would cause massive attrition!
“Command! Activate Damage Force Field!”
An angry voice rang out from the expeditionary fleet’s command ship.
The fleet swiftly activated a new function.
The war fortresses ceased production.
An invisible force field erupted and expanded in an instant, even threatening to strike Bluestar, only to be blocked by an unseen barrier.
At that moment.
All the mass-produced swarms in space exploded, including that space wall formed by the swarms!
The Damage Force Field was the bane of all low-level mechanical constructs.
Once spread, it could dismantle them at the foundational code level.
Even if they were products of Xing Lan’s fission, their essence remained mechanical constructs, and they shared the same mechanical vulnerabilities.
At this point, the swarms were reduced to space junk and had lost their final threat.
The magnificent formation collapsed.
Xing Lan curled her lip.
“Can’t play.”
As she withdrew the effect of Myriad Things Fission, the space filled with debris instantly cleared, as if the sky-blotting swarms had never existed.
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Inside the flagship command center, Gray Marsh’s expression was grim.
The sudden setback had left him in a foul mood.
This shouldn’t be the outcome!
The plan was to successfully capture Xing Lan, leaving humanity without its last resistance, forcing them to hand over Ye Yao.
Then, Gray Marsh would find a way to seize control of the source of calamity, return to the Watcher Civilization to establish a dictatorship, and ultimately use overwhelming power to rule the entire universe!
So why had his plan met such severe resistance from the very start?
At this rate, even capturing the target alive would be impossible!
If that was the case, he had to prepare for the worst.
If he couldn’t take them alive, he would make the resurrected abilities die again!
Capturing Ye Yao would also achieve his goal!
“Commander White Comet! Heed my order: put the expeditionary fleet into overdrive mode and eliminate the immediate threat. You know she’s the one who will bring about the end of the Watcher Civilization!”
Gray Marsh was forced to command White Comet beside him.
He wanted White Comet to activate her ability【Military Might】, further boosting the fleet’s combat efficiency. Humanity needed to lose all will to resist.
Only by showcasing overwhelming, crushing power could they be made to see reality clearly!
The power Xing Lan had displayed had already made Gray Marsh uneasy.
Any further delay would only invite more trouble.
Gray Marsh didn’t want to wait.
Only by using every trump card the expeditionary fleet had could his confidence be restored.
It was undoubtedly the right decision.
Gray Marsh had finally stopped underestimating the enemy. Instinct told him that this was his last chance!
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White Comet gave him a faint, indifferent glance.
“Deputy Commander Gray Marsh, still can’t see the reality? We can’t win.”
“Shut up! Commander White Comet, I’m the one leading the fleet now, and I have the authority to give you orders!” Gray Marsh ground his teeth.
“Deputy Commander Gray Marsh, don’t let your ambition blind you. Take another look. Do you really want to fight to the bitter end?”
This time, White Comet didn’t look at Gray Marsh. Instead, she gazed at the holographic display of the battlefield.
The staff and officers who had been analyzing the situation had long fallen silent.
For a while now, only Gray Marsh and White Comet had been arguing.
Gray Marsh finally sensed something wrong. He whipped his head around and saw a despairing scene.
The expeditionary fleet… was surrounded.
On the detection radar, six fleets of the same scale as the expeditionary fleet had their weapons trained on them.
One split into two, two into four, four into sixteen.
And that was only the second stage.
Excluding the initial fission samples that weren’t under Xing Lan’s control.
At this moment, Xing Lan was the commander of six expeditionary fleets!
Translator Note
No idea why it’s 6… Someone good at reasoning please enlighten me.
Author Note
Gwah! Last night, the sink drain got clogged while I was making dinner. I called a plumber, and it cost me 100 yuan to unclog it. Why is it so expensive!
Text: Your pick 3 泥石潴ni shi zhu sounds like 你是猪 ni shi zhu (you are pig). It’s a pun so I settled for something that sounds like “you are pig”. .