I Really Didn t Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 790: Chapter 474: The Last Stand【6500 Words】_2

In the early stages of the war, mankind’s war mentality had not yet become so extreme.

However, throughout this century, as the course of the war deepened, mankind’s strategic priorities have gradually shifted from destroying enemy ships to focusing primarily on gathering information, trading military strength for more information.

At the same time, in order to gradually increase the survival chances of escape fleets, and make it more difficult for the Compound-Eyed Observers to pursue, mankind began to increasingly adopt the policy of decentralization.

Some escape vessels even have a population consisting of only one family, and in the event of an emergency, each person would be able to pilot a small escape time machine separately.

Each individual escape time machine is also equipped with 20 frozen embryos, 10 male and 10 female.

This is the minimum standard for ensuring no inbreeding within three generations.

As long as one vessel can make it out, these 20 embryos would have a chance to repopulate an entire species with the help of artificial intelligence.

Humans’ strategy works quite well, as the Compound-Eyed Observers have not yet completed exterminating mankind, due to this decentralized newly-established civilization.

This decentralized mode is evident in other star regions, especially in the Shadow Galaxy.

At this moment, the first Plasma Magnetic Trickster Mine is detonated, triggering more passive plasma magnetic trickster mines nearby, as emerging strange magnetic plasma flow silently spread over the surface of the prism ship.

A large, fluctuating magnetic field expands, turning the instantly approaching prism ship into a huge boulder thrown into a calm lake, causing waves of ripples.

One of the chain fortresses at the forefront reacts swiftly and announces the position of the prism ship.

Inside the distant Morrowind No. 2, a red prism ship suddenly appears on Harrison Clark’s star chart.

Yes, only one.

However, within the next second, one by one, red angular polygons appear in all directions of the Shadow Galaxy, finally reaching 30,000.

Unlike the evenly distributed grid connections, this time the 30,000 prism ships are distributed randomly and without any pattern.

It seems that the Compound-Eyed Observers will not use grid-link blockades this time.

Probably due to the insufficient number of ships, the density of white plasma in unit space is inadequate, unable to form an effective blockade, so they simply don’t use it.

Thus, the attack pattern of the Compound-Eyed Observers emerges.

A small portion of the prism ships patrol the outer circle to prevent escape, while the majority of the prism ships either scatter or gather, gradually opening up gaps in the human lines, consuming the living forces of mankind step by step.

The development of this small-scale battle is similar to the overall war situation that has affected the vast Orion Arm, like a Russian nesting doll.

Before gaining a definite advantage, the Compound Eye Prism Ships would not rush in recklessly.

This would fall into the hands of the human encirclement.

Although there has never been a record of a prism ship being shot down in the long history of the war, both sides can clearly feel that the threshold is gradually getting closer.

With the abilities demonstrated by humanity, once the first prism ship is shot down, it is very likely to mean an instant reversal of the outcome between both sides of the war.

The Compound-Eyed Observers would never allow this to happen, never.

Along with the rapid movement of active trickster mines in outer space, intense firefighting erupts in the next instant.

In just one moment, the front of the fortress chain formation is filled with approximately 7,000 dazzling space flames.

Most of the flames are concentrated near the ecliptic plane of the star’s second orbit, with a few distributed above and below the galaxy.

As usual, the angular warships with their temporarily limited leap ability deploy their shields and then open a thirty-kilometer-wide crack between the two pyramid structures, from which a large number of medium and small-sized combat units fly out like a swarm of wasps escaping their nest.

There are still a few Blade Mantises, a moderate number of Eight-legged Beetles, a large number of Dragonfly Fighters, and even more turtle-shaped aircraft and fingernail-sized Self-Destruction Flies.

On the surface, the Compound-Eyed Observers’ warfare weapons have not changed much.

However, the performance of various equipment still makes Harrison Clark’s eyelids twitch.

The Blade Mantises in front of him now have an additional flexible long tube on their backs besides the unified-force cutting arms and exploding particle spray.

This long tube is obviously a weapon, like a tail growing from the spine towards the top of the head, very flexible, capable of shooting out white light beams.

Harrison Clark recognizes this beam.

In the previous timeline, it had been released from the spherical warship, causing significant damage to the human fleet in the final moments.

Furthermore, the thin shields covering the bodies of these Blade Mantises have also changed, showing a silver radiance in outer space, indicating their good reflection rate for energy weapons.

According to information provided by the military, the effectiveness of pure physical toxins has dropped significantly compared to a century ago.

These Blade Mantises are much stronger than the ones Harrison Clark personally killed.

The roaming spherical ships have not upgraded the Blade Mantises’ equipment, but the engaged-in-fierce-battles prism ships have switched the Blade Mantises to an unknown number of versions.

Eight-legged Beetles have also changed, their originally slightly clumsy flying speed has become much faster.

The way humans face enemies has also changed significantly according to Harrison Clark’s past understanding.

The Chain Fortress Ships do not hastily deploy manned medium and small combat units, but instead launch countless saucer-shaped flying devices from the middle opening.

Each flying device is equipped with at least one small weapon and up to three types.