Chapter 564 Fighting poison with fire

  Three months, whether it is long or not, is not short.

   During these three months, many things happened.

  First, the Star Alliance announced information about the Reapers to the public, and announced the blockade of all mass relays, completely entering a state of wartime emergency. The people who learned of this naturally panicked and doubted, but fortunately, most of them were relieved after learning that the Tribunal would join the fight against the Reapers.

After all, the combat power of the Inquisition lies here. The citizens of the Star Federation have seen how they deal with the Batarians like chopping melons and vegetables before. Coupled with the religious bonus and the secret guidance of the Star Federation officials, many Everyone sees the Inquisition as the patron saint of humanity—well, that's actually true.

  Of course, there are not no "sighted people" who believe that human beings should not choose to be closed and isolated, but should work together with other races to fight against the upcoming threat. Isolating oneself will only allow the Reapers to defeat each other. At this time, it is time to show the power of the unity of the universe civilization.

Reluctantly, most of these people were lured to the sites of other alien civilizations by Lumière's invitation letter at the very beginning, and then the Star Alliance also blew up the two main relays leading to their galaxy , causing this group of people to never come back. Although the rest of the people shouted vigorously, most of the people didn't like them.

   After all, people also have their own simple logic - those alien fleets can't even win the Tribunal, what's the point of joining them? At that time, we may have to deploy our own fleet to help them. What if we do not have enough troops and are invaded by the other party?

  At this time, everyone can only sweep the snow in front of the door, don't care about the frost on others, right? We can't sacrifice ourselves to help those who have invaded us before, we are not out of our minds! What's the matter with the lips and teeth, they are not with us, so what's the matter?

   Then...the reaper came.

  For the Citadel Council, the appearance of the Reapers was indeed "caught off guard". Although they did make certain deployments after being warned by the Star Alliance, they never expected that the Reapers would appear directly in their hometown!

   This is actually not surprising.

As I said before, the quality repeater and the repeater are like a train station, so in the past, all races chose to block the quality repeater with a large army, so that when the opponent arrives at the station, they will under attack.

   But the problem is that the Reapers are not the passengers of this train, they are the ones who made the entire mass repeater, strictly speaking they are the drivers!

  Since the driver drives the train, where does it go, where does it stop, and if it fails to pass the train, the driver has the final say?

  So, when the turians, asari and other racial armies assembled to block the mass repeater, the reaper drove the car past the station, and then stopped directly at the gate of their hometown.

  When they received the rescue request and found that they had been stolen by the other party and rushed back, the Reapers had already started a large-scale attack and harvest on the home planets of various races.

   And even if those alien fleets rush back to their home planet, there will be no good results, because what awaits them... is only a massacre.

  In the dark universe, hundreds of warships that look like huge metal octopuses swim in it. They are like a group of octopuses in the cosmic sea, wandering ruthlessly in the universe.

   "The target has been locked, attack!"

   Staring at the huge Reaper warship rushing towards him and the others, Captain Turian looked solemn, then he raised his hand and gave an order.

   "Fire!!"

   Flames erupted from the Turian battleship, blasting towards the Reaper in front of him. However, even if it is the most powerful space fleet of the Citadel, their firepower hits these Reaper battleships, but it only sparks a little bit of fire. At the same time, the metal octopus-like tentacles on the front of the Reaper battleship slowly unfolded, and then a red energy beam suddenly shot out from it!

   "—————!!"

The bright red energy beam swept across, as if sawing wood, it cut off the three turian battleships in front of him with ease. In just a moment, the three turian battleships completely turned into flames and disappeared in the air. in the universe. Then the Reaper warship continued to drive forward, and the turian warship behind didn't know whether it was unable to dodge or tried to block it, but it actually rammed into the Reaper warship head-on—and then turned into a group like moths to a flame. A burst of sparks.

  The Reaper battleship that passed through the fire was unscathed and continued to move forward.

  “………”

   Seeing this scene, everyone in the Star Alliance gasped.

   "This is...the fleet of the Reapers."

   Li Longcheng stared at the screen tightly, clenched his fists, it is not that the Star Alliance has never fought against the Reapers. After being brainwashed and rebelled by the Reapers, Sairon, the ghost of the Citadel of God, once led an overlord-class Reaper warship to attack the Citadel of God, and was finally destroyed by the Star Alliance Fleet.

  Of course, at that time, the Reaper only had one battleship, and it was a righteous gang fight, and coupled with the activeness of the Shepard siblings, the Star Alliance didn't find it too difficult.

   But it turns out that when such warships appear in hundreds or thousands of postures, that's another matter.

   "Fortunately, we destroyed the mass repeater."

   At this time, Admiral Hackett couldn't help feeling emotional.

"yes………"

  Hearing Admiral Hackett's emotion, Li Longcheng also nodded. Although Duanmuhuai had warned them that the Reapers would use the mass repeater to sneak attack, only by seeing it with their own eyes can they realize how terrifying this power is. This is not something you can solve by deploying your troops on the parent star or mass repeaters. As Reapers who can freely manipulate mass repeaters, they can use this technology to appear in any weak force in the galaxy at will. Place... This is the biggest crisis.

  Even the most powerful Turian fleet in the Citadel is powerless against the Reaper army, so it is conceivable that other races may not have a good end.

  Although the Star Alliance has also begun to build a large-scale brand-new capital ship in order to fight against the Reaper fleet, but... only a few dozen ships have been built. Facing so many Reaper warships, it is still a bit stretched.

   There is no way to do this, after all, even if a battleship can be built, the crew is not born out of thin air. They are not like Duanmuhuai, who can directly produce a bunch of puppets to control the battleship.

   "Based on the current situation, how long will it take for the Reaper fleet to arrive?"

   "I don't know, maybe a month or two, I hope it can be longer, Mr. Duanmu said that he will find a way to delay the arrival of the reaper as much as possible."

   "All we can do is to seize this time and prepare as much as possible."

   While talking, Li Longcheng and Admiral Hackett looked at each other and sighed at the same time.

   After all, they have already made a choice, as for whether this choice is correct... they can only resign themselves to fate.

  So what is Duanmu Huai doing at this moment?

  In fact, Duanmu Huai is currently on the home planet of the Turians, and he has only one purpose here, which is to delay the speed of the Reapers as much as possible, as he told Li Longcheng before.

   "...Hmph, sure enough, even a turian is nothing more than that."

  Standing on a ruined city street, looking at the corpses all over the ground, Duanmuhuai's expression didn't change at all. Of course, he didn't come here to help the Turians resist the Reapers. For Duanmu Huai, this was not of any benefit. However, he also doesn't intend to let the Reapers do whatever they want here, for example...

"Roar---!!"

Suddenly, a beast-like roar sounded, and immediately after, Duanmu Huai saw a monster with pale skin all over his body and blue light shining in his eyes, like some kind of mutated zombie, rushing out from the alley next to him, roaring at Duanmu. Huai pounced --- then Duanmu Huai punched his head and turned into a headless corpse.

   "Hmph, it really is a corpse puppet."

  Looking at the monster in front of him, Duanmuhuai snorted coldly. This is the reaper's forte. They will insert the dead corpses on the pillars and transform them into corpse puppets, which will be used as an army for ground attack. Once the entire planet is emptied, the corpse puppets are taken away, transformed, and become part of the real Reapers.

  From this point of view, the offensive methods of the Reapers and the Tyranid Zerg are quite similar. They both supply explosives on the spot. The more the opponent dies, the stronger they become.

  As for Duanmu Huai... this is a rehearsal for dealing with the Zerg.

   "You like to play with corpse puppets, so... let me see, is your corpse puppets stronger or my corpse mutant is more ruthless. Is the reaper stronger or the blood moon stronger!"

  While speaking, Duanmuhuai stretched out his hand, and then a soul card appeared in his hand.

   Launch——【Profane Sphere】!

   "Boom———!!"

  The next moment, the ground behind Duanmuhuai suddenly cracked, and then, a dark stone tablet broke through the ground and stood erect on the ground. Then on the surface of the black stele, bright red runes gradually lit up!

Invisible fluctuations swept across the entire ruins, and the next moment, the turian corpses on the ground suddenly began to swell and twist, sharp bone spurs popped out from their arms, and wriggling and twisted tentacles shot out from their open mouths . Afterwards, these monsters stood up one after another...

   "Destroy all enemies standing in front of us, and destroy them completely!"

   "Roar woo woo woo!!"

  Accompanied by Duanmuhuai's order, the next moment, countless necromorphs let out a sharp whistle, and then they scattered in all directions like hungry beasts!

   For the Turians, this was the beginning of the nightmare.

  (end of this chapter)