Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station · Contents

CHAPTER 1397 OF 1398

Chapter 1397: Fear (Part 1)

The red jellyfish Leviathan was forced by Chen Ming to leave the interior of the star.

The waiting Insect Race fleet immediately surrounded it upon its emergence.

This time, Chen Ming was determined to eliminate it directly.

Thus, all the Insect Race fleets had already entered phase space and were completely undetectable in the normal universe.

They quietly lurked beside Leviathan, which was advancing towards a small number of Insect Race fleets in the normal universe, and aimed at it with specialized weapons Chen Ming had prepared for a long time.

Chen Ming prepared for nearly ten days, and upon his command, the three-thousand-strong Insect Race fleet immediately opened fire.

However, only a third of them, about a thousand main ships, actually fired.

And all the shells fired by these thousand main ships were solid bullets; they used exclusively solid bullet weapons.

At this point-blank range, all the solid bullet weapons fired by the Insect Race’s main ships easily penetrated Leviathan’s skin.

But for some reason, the majority of the bullets didn’t pass through Leviathan’s body and remained inside it.

While this inflicted countless piercings or tearing wounds on Leviathan’s body, according to previous observations, doing so was meaningless other than wasting bullets, as Leviathan’s body wasn’t key to its existence.

Yet as bullets like a metallic storm continued to hit Leviathan,

the intensity of the electromagnetic pulses periodically emitted by Leviathan visibly began to decrease.

Unable to release high-intensity electromagnetic pulses over a wide area to scorch the main ships, Leviathan lost the greatest threat it posed to large-scale fleets.

The reason for this situation was obvious.

The solid bullets launched by the Insect Race fleet weren’t ordinary; they were special ammunition crafted by Chen Ming.

Ten days ago, when Chen Ming first started researching weapons against Leviathan, his intelligence about it was limited, only roughly determining its nature related to electromagnetism, radiation, and light frequency.

So during the research, Chen Ming specifically created three major types of weapons: electromagnetic weapons, radiation weapons, and optical weapons.

The electromagnetic weapon design was the most complicated, as ordinary electromagnetic pulse generators were ineffective.

Chen Ming wouldn’t foolishly use such a thing against a Leviathan capable of affecting this star system with electromagnetic pulses.

Hence, he considered an alternative, reverse approach.

The electromagnetic signal disruption device, a relatively common device.

However, what Chen Ming produced wasn’t a mere exam-room signal blocker but rather an electromagnetic signal disruption device specifically developed for combat against Leviathan, working in collaboration with Fan Chao.

It could powerfully interfere with specific electromagnetic signal bands, anticipating good results against the jellyfish Leviathan capable of releasing ultra-high-intensity electromagnetic pulses.

In Chen Ming’s requirement, it doesn’t forcibly interfere via other electromagnetic signals, but instead absorbs electromagnetic signals through specialized devices.

After all, Chen Ming’s consideration for weaponizing electromagnetic signal blockade was due to Leviathan’s stronger electromagnetic pulses, making direct confrontation impossible.

This caused a demand for the device’s use, requiring very close proximity to be effective.

Typically, such devices are used for self-application to shield against electromagnetic attacks.

However, obviously, this wasn’t a typical situation, and Chen Ming’s spiritual energy also exempted him from abiding by many conventional situations.

He simply needed to find a way to embed the device in solid bullets that main ships could fire.

This wasn’t a difficult task.

Previously, he optimized spiritual energy to fit a teleportation engine originally meant for warship installation into An Wuping’s body, and now he could shrink a complex device entirely into a solid bullet.

Miniaturization of structure with spiritual energy, mass replication with spiritual energy, yet manufacturing costs couldn’t be resolved by spiritual energy, nor could they be avoided in increasing due to miniaturization and embedding high-force capability in solid bullets.

But for Chen Ming, what is cost?

With the backing of an entire Insect Race, every solid bullet fired by his main ships contained a miniature electromagnetic interference device.

Upon impact, barbs would pop from the head to anchor inside the target, immediately activating the carried device.

Simultaneously, Chen Ming’s spiritual energy would further act, using metallic liquid to link numerous solid bullets, preventing the device’s expulsion and continuously supplying energy to all equipment.

Besides just functionality, his metallic liquid would transform into a truly large-scale effective electromagnetic interference device, further amplifying the interference effect.

Under such a wave of phase space-concealed onslaughts, unless Leviathan simply swapped its body, it had to endure this damage.

Leviathan’s body, although not crucial, was still its materialized external manifestation, making it unable to easily discard this form.

Even when the electromagnetic interference devices Chen Ming left inside it virtually neutralized part of its abilities, it showed no signs of doing so.

At this moment, the Insect Race fleet swiftly changed its formation.