Chapter 1159: All Are Prey
"What are you trying to do? Are you planning to put the entire Habulav into the 'Boundary Pearl'?"
Even though he isn't a Psychic Power User, Miyoshi Xuesen, with his spiritual power intensity still stronger than an average person's, sharply sensed the unusual spiritual power fluctuation coming from Chen Fei.
Because they've known each other for a long time, he could even detect that familiar unusual feeling.
Chen Fei's spiritual power coverage could envelop an asteroid body with a diameter of 1000 kilometers, so now covering an entire city like a flood was a mere trifle.
Almost simultaneously, the internal strife in all of Habulav stopped without warning. More and more people guessed it might be a high-level "Sagali" descending upon the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee. Such a terrifying spiritual power fluctuation rendered further internal fighting meaningless because everyone would die. "Sagali" doesn't care about your faction; indiscriminately killing is the most efficient decapitation tactic.
"No, except for Habulav!"
Chen Fei certainly had no interest in dragging the troublesome Blue Star Global Joint Defense Committee Headquarters into his Life Space. He couldn't avoid it quickly enough.
"Eh?"
Miyoshi Xuesen looked bewildered, not only guessing wrong but also guessing the opposite.
Shouldn't it be during the internal and external troubles, choosing one of the two major problems, and temporarily bringing Habulav into the Life Space of the 'Boundary Pearl'? Ideally, into the Barrier Domain of the 'Life Tree', suppress both friend and foe together?
Although Chen Fei isn't a Psychic Power User and cannot use conventional Psychic Series Skills, his straightforward application can easily subdue ten techniques. Even the Heavenly Order would be wary of him.
Located at the pinnacle of the Ability User pyramid, Heavenly Order and S-Class often end up dealing with domain rules, and the barrier range of the 'Life Tree' is undoubtedly a special peculiar domain.
Seeing that the Monk still looked puzzled, Chen Fei said, "Because Mutants are meat too!"
His focus was completely unexpected.
"Ah...…"
The answer did not align at all with Miyoshi Xuesen's guess.
The Biological Space Motherships of the "Sagali" civilization are meat, and the Mutants "flooding" outside Habulav City are unsurprisingly meat too. If it is meat, then they are all dishes for the 'Life Tree', there is no doubt about this.
The originally dead silent Life Space in the 'Boundary Pearl' exceptionally welcomed the supply of these life substances, and the more, the better. If it relied on the natural cooling of continental plates and the slow reproduction of various life forms, Chen Fei would not see the Life Space filled with various plants, animals, and microorganisms within his lifetime. But after obtaining so much 'meat', the natural eco-process of the Life Space accelerated significantly.
Now the barrier radius of the 'Life Tree' has expanded to over 1000 kilometers. The green is sweeping across, gradually covering the ground initially filled with lava and magma.
Without waiting for the Monk to digest his tactical information, Chen Fei stretched his neck and said, "It's about to start!"
The 'Life Tree', shared spiritual power, and 'Boundary Pearl' are his trump cards, which he tries not to reveal unless necessary, but now there are so many "dishes" delivered to him, making it hard to watch idly, hitting two birds with one stone.
Approaching Habulav slowly and requiring multiple Crystal Jets to eliminate the three mountain-like giants disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if out of thin air, just like the captured Biological Space Mothership of the "Sagali" civilization, fell straight from high altitude into the tree crown like a small stone thrown into a sandpile, not even stirring a ripple, disappearing without a trace.
Within the gigantic pyramid-shaped tree crown, the branching sounds echoed continuously, the whole tree crown's outline visibly increasing slightly.
The growth scale of the 'Life Tree' no longer expands at one mile a day as it did initially, but its magnitude makes it so that every tiny increase in the crown's radius demands enormous resources, only super-large Mutants and Biological Space Motherships the size of mountains could make its growth visibly noticeable.
After harvesting three Mutant Meat Mountains, a great number of Mutants pouring into Habulav began disappearing rapidly, especially those Flying-type Mutants above the city, swept away before the ground's anti-air fire could hit.
Above the 'Life Tree', Mutants descended densely like rain, crashing into the lush green tree crown, disappearing silently between the branches and leaves, becoming nourishment for this grand tree's growth.
In the Life Space, the Flying-type Mutants lost their ability to fly instantly, tightly bound by strong spiritual power, falling helplessly like other terrestrial Mutants, falling…until they disappeared.
In such a cycle, the pressure on the city's nearly depleted automated defense system abruptly lessened; finally, the supply catch up with the consumption, partially controlling the "flood".
While Chen Fei was "cleaning up" the Mutants outside the city, a strange communication number suddenly sent a connection request to his phone.
"'Rookie', do you know what you're doing?"
A sour little kidney bean sauce mixed with a choking curry voice line came straight at him.
"Who are you?"
Chen Fei looked puzzled. The other party seemed to know him, but he didn't recognize them, making this conversation an awkward encounter.
Moreover, an inexplicable rage sprung from nowhere.
"I am..."
The ill-mannered person identified themselves as a Defense Officer from the High Barrier Peninsula Sovereignty, named Plum, formally issuing a warning or rather a threat on behalf of the High Barrier Peninsula to Chen Fei.
While listening to the other party's jabbering nonsense, Chen Fei looked over at Miyoshi Xuesen, who quickly pulled out his phone to inquire about the situation through his connections.
Though the Blue Star Global Joint Defense Committee Headquarters was chaotic and people were anxious, the news was still clear, quickly uncovering the real situation.
The Airship Cluster of the High Barrier Peninsula, four times more numerous than the First Airship Combat Cluster, was brutally beaten and had already suffered severe losses, unable even to escape the encirclement by the fewer forces.
The sea was strewn with people, and passing cargo ships had to rescue them.
However, the battle in the sky had yet to cease. Even waving a white flag of surrender didn't stop the First Airship Combat Cluster's firepower, and combat would not end until the internal supply transport airships ran out of ammunition.
The AI units within didn't recognize what a "white flag" meant, and kept firing, with "Adam" being a real War AI; particularly the flying units have tactical advantages to offset some degree of the obsolete technology gap.
After listening to the other side's ramble for nearly half an hour, Chen Fei finally seized the chance to speak.
"Hmm...I've lost contact with the Airship Combat Cluster; it seems your side deployed EMP, destroying all radio communication modules, so I can't issue orders to the First Airship Combat Cluster. Sorry, there's nothing I can do."
In his ears, such a stubborn and unconceding plea lacked sincerity. Since the High Barrier Peninsula fired the first shot, they couldn't blame the First Airship Combat Cluster under AI "Adam" for fighting back fiercely.
"..."
Defense Officer Plum of the High Barrier Peninsula looked dumbfounded; Chen Fei's inability to command was their fault. Did that mean the airship cluster trapped on the battlefield would be wiped out to the last unit?
Should the news of total annihilation spread, the entire High Barrier Peninsula would be thrown into chaos, and the populace wouldn't let off those responsible for domestic defense duties.
"Of course, there is also a way!"
No matter how weak the sovereignty acted, it still held serious sovereignty, and being unwilling to challenge it head-on, Chen Fei thought for a bit and offered a solution, "Provide me with a satellite equipped with a laser signal transmitter, or have all your personnel abandon the ships."
From the beginning, the AI "Adam" prioritized disabling hardware, preventing full-scale annihilation. Otherwise, the floating bodies on the sea would have all been corpses.
"..."
High Barrier Peninsula Defense Officer Plum was stunned; so does this mean Chen Fei can't issue orders, and they will only stop once all airships are destroyed?
If the news of complete destruction got out, the entire High Barrier Peninsula would be in chaos.
"....."
"Well, there's always a way!"
Even the most embarrassing sovereignty still, officially at least, holds sovereignty. Without intending to show off, he heard their pleas, which seemed far from sincere, as the High Barrier Peninsula fired first, they basically declared war on The First Sovereign, didn't they?
"?!!!"