I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 842: Chapter 574: Interstellar Insect Race, Death Fire Ring_2

However, at the moment when the Soul Seal invaded the Sea of Souls, a terrifying, chilling Spiritual Power suddenly exploded, violently shattering his Soul Seal!

Qin Tian let out a muffled groan and decisively cut off the Spiritual Link.

In the next second, the heads of two Tier Eight Insect Races suddenly exploded, flesh flying everywhere.

“Hoo…”

Qin Tian slowly adjusted his breathing, the stabbing pain in his mind gradually dissipating.

He looked down at the two headless insect corpses, his brows furrowed tightly.

Tier Eight Insect Race.

Trouble.

…

Deep within the insect nest.

The bloated and massive insect queen occupied the center of the fleshy nest, its body surface continually writhing with folds. It suddenly raised half of its body, emitting a piercing scream that penetrated through the rock layers.

This wasn’t an ordinary cry, but a mental command covering the entire nest.

In an instant, countless Blood Gu Beasts lurking in the darkness erupted simultaneously, their antennae glowing with a glaring crimson light, mouthparts rubbing and crashing together, emitting a thunderous resonance like dense explosions.

The insect queen’s body slowly inflated, a circle of eerie space fluctuations spreading outward centered on it.

In the next moment, one after another, the thick, dark Gates of Space unfolded with a roar in the underground nest, twisting and flickering, leading directly to the outside world.

A large number of Blood Gu Beasts orderly plunged in like a tide in a neat fashion, disappearing behind the gates.

At the same time, Montell Star military base, command center.

The shrill red alarm tore through the air, and the entire base instantly entered the highest alert.

“Report! Near-Earth orbit observation ship urgent message!”

“A large number of Blood Gu Beasts—suddenly appearing around the base perimeter! The number… cannot be estimated!”

There was a hubbub inside the command center.

The news was delivered immediately to high-ranking generals like Luo Yu and Nangong Lin.

Several people rushed into the hall, their gazes unanimously fixed on the central giant screen.

In the real-time footage sent back by the space battleship, mountains and plains were filled with raging Blood Gu Beasts charging madly.

What made everyone’s expressions darken was that this batch of insects clearly learned from previous lessons, no longer clustering densely but advancing in a large spreading formation, like a giant black net covering the base from all sides.

They intentionally avoided the fleet’s concentrated bombardment.

“How could… so many swarms suddenly appear right under our noses?!”

“There was no intelligence warning! How did they bypass the perimeter defenses?!”

Expressions were grave for the generals, their discussions accompanied by undisguisable shock.

Luo Yu’s eyebrows tightened, now wasn’t the time to pursue the source.

“All units, immediately enter Level One combat status!”

With a single order, the entire base instantly awakened.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ground positions erupted in flames, missiles roared into the sky like a torrential downpour, dragging long tail flames towards the densest clusters of insects.

On the near-Earth orbit, space battleships slowly lowered their altitude, the gun barrels beneath the hull fully opened, energy frantically converging.

In the next second, dozens of dazzling beams piercing the heavens and earth erupted, tearing through the atmosphere, exploding within the swarm in areas of destructive radiance.

All-out warfare erupted.

Missiles thunderously hit the ground, vast swathes of Blood Gu Beasts were directly blown into blood mist and debris.

The other portion of missiles, however, was unexpectedly locked in mid-air by the swarm’s collective Spiritual Power, their momentum sharply reduced, exploding prematurely in mid-air, significantly reducing their lethality.

The beams from the fleet were of unparalleled power, evaporating the insect bodies without leaving a trace.

But these casualties, set against the millions of insect tide, were but a drop in the ocean.

The atmosphere within the command center was suffocatingly oppressive.

On the biological radar, the scarlet hot spots appeared like a boundless Sea of Blood, although artillery fire continuously erased scattered red points, the entire red sea continued its frenzied advance towards the base, leaving everyone gasping for air.

“How could there be so many.” A general’s voice was dry and hoarse.

They had been stationed on Montell Star for several years, and the Blood Gu Beasts had not made any large-scale moves since the initial disturbances, with the base’s focus primarily on exploration and mining. No one had anticipated that the insect swarm had secretly grown to such a terrifying scale.

What was even more baffling—how this colossal legion managed to appear out of nowhere around the base perimeter?

“Commander, we can’t hold them off.” Nangong Lin looked at Luo Yu, his voice heavy.

Luo Yu’s brows furrowed.

The Blood Gu Beast surprise attack was too sudden, the fleet fought in haste, the numbers far exceeded predictions.

Most fatal was their focus on Spiritual Attacks, half of the base’s conventional defense system was rendered useless.

Moreover, Elder Yun He Li and numerous Pill Masters were still in the base.

Even if the Tianwei fleet fought until complete annihilation, he could not let these Empire treasures come to harm.

Luo Yu sighed deeply, just about to speak: “Prepare to withdraw—”

Before finishing his sentence.

Boom——!!!

A series of earth-shaking explosions suddenly erupted, as if thousands of lightning bolts simultaneously roared by the ears, making the entire military base quake violently, walls cracking, the ceiling crumbling with dust and rubble, and the screens in the command center flickered wildly, nearly crashing.

Scorching firestorms descended from the sky like a star river pouring down, spreading and expanding rapidly in the barren land and forest surrounding the base, transforming into a massive fiery ring stretching dozens of miles in an instant.

The raging flames licked everything between heaven and earth, the crimson glow coloring the sky, scorching gusts swept violently in all directions like an invisible giant beast, air twisted and deformed from the heat.

The pristine original forest around the base perimeter, under the invasion of the firestorm, had no resistance whatsoever, ancient towering trees instantly ignited, thick smoke rolling into the sky, blotting out the sun, the entire forest seemed as if placed into a furnace, swiftly turning into charred earth.

The ground below could not bear the impact, as severe cracks spread crazily under the violent explosive shock, like wounds being torn open alive across the land, deep and bottomless, debris and soil spewing upwards along with flames.

The Blood Gu Beasts charging ahead were instantly engulfed by this sudden destructive fire, while the rear swarm was tossed up by the explosion shockwave, enormous insect bodies shredded into pieces mid-air, fetid body fluids and charred shells scattering across the sky, immediately incinerated in the fire sea, leaving no trace.

Where the fiery ring passed, no life could survive, whether the rampaging Blood Gu Beasts, low shrubs or exposed rocks, everything was crushed and consumed, terrifying impacts like an invisible giant hand crushing the swathes of swarms into powder, bodies rapidly carbonizing and dissolving in the raging flames, ultimately becoming wisps of ash, dissipating in the thick smoke, leaving only a wasteland charred by fire, and an air filled with an irrepressible stench and burnt odor.

In the crimson sky, silhouettes of Moluo Warriors quietly appeared.

It was them who, holding Explosive Iron Balls, used the Power of Space to mysteriously and inexplicably place bombs silently on the swarm’s inevitable path, quickly detonating them and creating this scene of utter destruction.

Everyone in the command center suddenly raised their heads, watching the terrifying fire sea on the screen, and the silhouettes of the Moluo Race, disbelief written all over their faces.

“This is…”

“Moluo Race? Supporting us?!”

“No, this energy…?”

Nangong Lin looked at the blazing fire sea, his body shuddering.

“This is the means of Qin Tian, General Qin.”

General Qin?

Speaking of this, everyone suddenly recalled, not long ago that earthquake that triggered command center alerts, approaching level seven in energy intensity, with an unknown origin, nearly putting the base into post-battle readiness, but later investigations by the Azure Winds team immediately judged that it might have been caused by Qin Tian, General Qin.

Later, this was confirmed by General Qin himself.

Now, looking at that blazing fire sea, and the terrifying impact resembling a nuclear explosion, they immediately linked it to the means of Qin Tian, General Qin.

However, why would the Moluo Race appear here, seemingly coming to support us?

The generals were utterly puzzled, fully aware of the stubbornness and animosity of the Moluo Race towards the Empire, let alone actively supporting the Empire, peaceful coexistence was difficult to achieve.

Yet, the facts were undeniable.

The Moluo Race indeed reached out in support during the base’s crisis.

It seemed, this was inextricably linked with General Qin.

At this moment, they suddenly thought, recently, General Qin has been quite inconspicuous, often venturing out.

Initially, no one thought much, just considering General Qin to be restless, but now, it seems, things might not be so simple.

In places unnoticed by everyone, General Qin quietly did something big.