Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1322 - 1288: Misfortunes Never Come Singly
Chen Fei's worries were not unfounded.
In fact, once the situation starts to deteriorate, the descent into the abyss accelerates.
From the moment the "Sagari" civilization came knocking at the door, the Blue Star civilization had already lost the initiative.
At least until they find the opponent's "nest," this civilizational conflict is destined to be asymmetric.
The phone vibrated slightly. Miyoshi Xuesen glanced at it, and in the next second, his face turned ashen as he yelled anxiously.
"What! Damn! Something big has happened!"
Chen Fei, however, did not react as strongly, instead letting out a soft sigh.
"Ha, this day has finally come."
Several lines of text simultaneously jumped up on the AR visual interface in front of him.
Adam: The "isolation" of the "Ordovician Star" anomaly region failed on ****年*月*日*时*分*秒.
Adam: The "isolation" of the "Water God Star" anomaly region failed on ****年*月*日*时*分*秒.
Adam: The "isolation" of the "Giant Turtle Star" anomaly region failed on ****年*月*日*时*分*秒.
The spatial ability "Isolation" sealing off these three anomaly regions was successively breached within ten seconds.
Misfortunes never come alone, and the thing most feared has finally happened.
This was a psi skill personally cast by an S-Class superpower user, involving space rules, and even Heavenly Order spellcasters and War Professionals would find it hard to destroy casually.
Yet now, it was easily rendered ineffective all at once.
This suggests that a powerful entity, not weaker than an S-Class superpower user or Heavenly Order, has intervened.
Being able to break the blockade of an S-Class spatial ability very likely implies the work of Divine Breeds, and at least three of them, specifically bypassing the rule restriction set by S-Class superpower user Yan Ling at the cost of her lifespan.
The greater the cost paid to activate a psi skill, the more powerful the effect tends to be; the rule set by Yan Ling likely involved world rules beyond just the spatial series, which even the Divine Breeds could not unravel, otherwise, they wouldn't have managed to break the spatial ability of Heseman Brown within the "abnormal region."
However, Divine Breeds still couldn't reach beyond the external side of the "anomaly region" because the entire Solar System was within this rule's range.
The failure of the S-Class spatial ability "Isolation" represented the return of the threat from the "abnormal regions" to the Blue Star to its initial starting point, and the little advantage Chen Fei had painstakingly built up was once again completely lost.
Fortunately, control over the three anomaly regions had already returned to his hands, and the Combat Spaceship Clusters left behind for surveillance, although not at full capacity, were sufficient to hold out until reinforcements from local and surrounding sovereignties arrived.
After all, this is the mainland of Blue Star, where troop mobilization is relatively easy. Even if the combat forces Chen Fei has at his disposal are insufficient, the sovereignties would make up for it.
Not all burdens could be shouldered by Chen Xiao'er alone, nor could he bear them. He could, at most, serve as a pawn, exchanging blows with the vanguard of the "Sagari" civilization.
If the combat capabilities of Blue Star sovereignties are insufficient to support Chen Fei, then there's no point in fighting any further; we might as well pack up and escape together!
Special thanks to the super gift McKenny sent Chen Fei before his death, the "Life Space," with a diameter of over ten thousand kilometers, which may become the last refuge for Blue Star civilization, a value perhaps even surpassing the more capacious "Spatial Branding."
After all, possessing a complete set of Time Rules, it allows for the survival of life, no longer mandating a forced deactivation indiscriminately. After extensive previous renovations and the investment of massive resources, coupled with the special presence of the "Life Tree," the Life Space within the "Boundary Pearl" was transformed into a paradise, akin to the Eden in mythological legends.
Lord Landon also received the relevant information at the same time and inquired to Chen Fei, "Do we have enough troops?"
He had his own intelligence channels, which were completely different from those of Miyoshi Xuesen and Chen Fei.
Though most of Louis Industrial Company's supply chain had already relocated into the Life Space within the "Boundary Pearl," it still left plenty of manpower on Blue Star. On one hand, it coordinated resources and maintained raw material purchases and product sales to ensure the normal flow of funds. On the other, it maintained their original intelligence network.
For a top business conglomerate in Blue Star civilization's industrial domain, having its own intelligence department is a normal operation. Given the vast enterprise involved, staying "sharp-eared and keen-eyed" is essential, not merely relying naively on others' "goodwill" and letting down one's guard. Both business wars and political battles are usually highly dirty.
As one of the logistical supporters of Chen Fei, Landon was not very clear about the exact combat power in his inventory. After all, alongside manufacturing reserves, he was receiving supplies from the sovereignties and managing various consumptions. Only Chen Fei himself knew the detailed breakdowns and the entire tally.
"The inventory is running low. I can scrape together four full-strength Airship Battle Groups, as well as nearly four million Combat Mechs."
Chen Fei had the Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam" make an instant tally, with Adam maintaining the main ledger, always accessible. Keeping meticulous accounts regularly to prevent errors.
The main operational forces to rely on currently are the tactically formed Airship Battle Groups. While numerous, the reserve Combat Mechs largely serve generic and fodder purposes, bringing little relevance to the actual battle scene; the notion of ants biting an elephant doesn't hold water when facing real absolute power.
If not for the sudden incident with the Cybertronic structure "Cybertrom," which forced Chen Fei to transfer a substantial number of airships to bolster the void outside the atmosphere and withstand the suddenly appearing space rifts, his reserve combat power could have been more adequate.
Now, the three anomaly regions all broke defenses at once, and to keep a trump card ready, Chen Fei couldn't solely rely on sovereign reinforcements. Not only couldn't he recall the garrisoned Flying Ship Group, but he also needed to supplement more airships, reaching at least a full-strength Battle Group. In case the arriving sovereign army's combat strength proved inadequate, at least they could fill the defense to prevent a complete breakdown of the lines.
Aside from The First Sovereign, Chen Fei indeed had the right to distrust the military standards of other sovereignties, considering them all trash. Even if he slapped them in the face, they wouldn't dare utter a "no."
"Are there really that many mechanical beings?"
Lord Landon, while aware that Chen Fei's Combat Mechs reserves were enormous, didn't expect the figure approached four million, more than any sovereign on Blue Star had in active military personnel.
Thinking about how the mech production lines in "Atlantis" and "Landon" were running constantly 24/7, amounting to a cumulative production likely already exceeding two million, coupled with supplementary supplies from the sovereignties, approaching a reserve capacity close to four million wasn't impossible.
"Decisive combat power still lies in the Combat Spaceships, particularly reaching the full ratio of the fully structured clusters."
Chen Fei shook his head. Neither "Atlantis" nor "Landon" had production plants for medium and large Combat Spaceships. Manufacturing small Flying Ships and Tactical Jets was barely manageable, but they couldn't handle medium-sized Combat Spaceships over 100 meters in length.
Up till now, all the command ships, attack ships, and logistics ships were all Chen Fei's psi skill products. At most, their functional modules, energy lines, Energy Towers, and Target Low Temperature Nuclear Fusion Energy Tower components were provided by Louis Industries and Blue Star sovereignties together.
Even if relying on industrial production lines to mass-produce the main parts of these airships, the manufacturing efficiency was far behind Chen Fei's psi skills, especially when involving technology and functional upgrades, which would further drop efficiency, failing to meet Chen Fei's current demand for immediate combat use.
Thankfully, these Combat Spaceships were directly operated by the AI "Adam." With additional captains and crew members as well as all kinds of related facilities and departments, Chen Fei wouldn't have been able to cope, nor find enough personnel.
Furthermore, once combat breaks out, the impact of casualties and morale on combat effectiveness is equally unsustainable.
Since the trump cards in hand were insufficient to meet the current situation, Chen Fei did not intend to evenly distribute the limited combat strength.
Apart from supplementing the Combat Spaceship Clusters for the three other anomaly regions to full strength, he would still stand fast on the South Continent of America, heavily monitoring the more extensive coverage of the fourth "anomaly region."
