Chapter 1263: 406. Electric Roast Serpent Demon
Golden Dragon in the Sky’s Scorpion missile battleship was currently hovering in low ground-level orbit.
As a highly intelligent civilian battleship, it could respond correctly to external stimuli after its master had left.
The induction radar issued an alarm, and eight missile launchers rose from beneath the Scorpion’s external armor.
Radar imaging showed that the hostile target locking onto the Scorpion was a highly mobile metallic construct that also possessed some flesh characteristics.
They could move quickly in the thin atmospheric environment of low ground-level orbit, launching swarm attacks on all battleships, including the Scorpion.
Their method of attack was simple and brutal, able to penetrate the armor and wreak havoc inside the ship after a series of charges.
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The Split Bear Star Thief’s vessels were all transport ships with weak defense and large sizes, making them the primary targets of enemy attacks.
The situation for the Scorpion was somewhat better.
The eight missile launchers fired flexible light missiles, repelling several waves of enemy assaults.
However, due to the long firing cycle of the missile launchers, a peculiar slender creature evaded the missile net and drones’ blockade and successfully approached the ship. noveldrama
“Boom—”
In a violent explosion, the ship’s external armor was forcibly torn open, revealing a chilling Great Chasm, and a red alarm instantly lit up throughout the ship.
This strange creature was about 20 meters long and more than 3 meters wide.
Its head was a huge Human Head with black eyes oozing blood, and two fangs protruded from its mouth, curving upwards.
In the center of the forehead of The Head, there was a high-speed spinning metal drill, which easily tore through the ship’s armor.
To The Head was connected a thick, robust python-like body.
The serpent body rolled inside the ship, spraying Dark Green acidic Water, and in just half a minute, destroyed a small area of uninhabited Ship Cabin.
During this time, the metal snake’s head grinned hideously, releasing sound waves with electromagnetic interference effects from its mouth, damaging the ship’s alarm and radar devices.
Players controlling the Launchers and drones were instantly confounded, only able to stare blankly at their radars flashing the word “offline.”
“What in the world is this monster?!”
“Did we run into the lair of some high-Level Cosmic Monster?!”
“Clang clang clang—”
The Human-headed Snake Body monster rampaged through the ship.
After the radar was paralyzed, the guidance functions were unusable, and the navigation computers in the missiles failed, making the missiles lose their accuracy and unable to intercept the perimeter monsters.
A volley of missiles fired into empty space, and a dozen monsters crashed into the battleship’s External Armor, followed by the sharp noise of drills fiercely boring into the wall.
But this time, the monsters did not drill into the ship. Instead, they stuck to the ship’s External Armor and gave the entire battleship a Big Circle Cut.
With the joint effort of a dozen monsters, the Scorpion missile battleship was severed in half.
The Scorpion split into two, and Players screamed in horror.
The Power Room, located in the middle of the Ship Cabin, was directly broken by the gravity of the Scorpion itself, and the entire ship suddenly lost its power source to hover in low ground-level orbit.
“Boom—”
Bright flames erupted from the Power Room, and the visible shock wave spread to places kilometers away in an extremely short amount of time.
Broken into two, the Scorpion became a gigantic fireball falling from the sky.
It trailed a long tail of flames, like a meteor plummeting to the Earth.
At the same time that the Scorpion was destroyed, the Split Bear Star Thief’s transport ships did not escape destruction.
Suddenly, a massive meteor shower played out in the Planetosphere’s sky.
Over fifty formidable Human Head monsters circled in the Heavens for a few turns before diving straight toward the Ground Level, seemingly identifying the humans in the Underground as their next target.
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Inside the Underground Treasure Chamber.
Boss Jin’s Bodyguard ran to the Ground Level and recorded the footage of the ship being destroyed by the monsters using the built-in camera module of his Power Armor.
The video was transmitted in real time to the Communicator in Boss Jin’s hands through the communication module of the Power Armor.
Cucumber Slice and other Players who had been traveling in the Lisom Star System for a while gathered around Boss Jin, watching the video footage on the communicator.
An oppressive atmosphere quickly grew.
Cucumber Slice said in a somber voice,
“Boss Jin, these monsters are the Human-faced Snake Monsters roaming in this star system, professionally known as the Stone-Lissom Serpent Demon, a subspecies that resulted from the Stone Serpent Demon cosmic monster group breeding within the Lisom Star System.
“The planet we are on now is Lisom-13 Planet. The neighboring Lisom-14 Planet is the lair of these Human-faced Snake Monsters. Before reaching adulthood, they can only be active in an atmospheric environment. After adulthood, the vacuum of space becomes their second Homestead; they can travel through the Starry Sky like cosmic ships.
“Fortunately, none of the Stone Serpent Demons possess Quantum Leap Ability, otherwise the entire Lisom Star System would be their domain.”
After personally witnessing his own Scorpion turned into a fireball, Boss Jin wasn’t distressed about losing the ship he had spent a fortune on; he was just a bit puzzled and asked,
“Why would the Serpent Demons living on Lisom-14 come here to cause trouble?”
This question stumped Cucumber Slice.
Planets Lisom-13 and Lisom-14, though only one digit apart in their designations, were about 50 million kilometers apart in physical distance.