Chapter 1295: 419. Joint Punitive Expedition_2
And the true form of the Demon Brain Race was precisely these plump, soft, and squishy creatures that bore a resemblance to silkworm cocoons.
Even without Deconstruction at his disposal, Noland Lee recognized the origin of these creatures at a glance—there was no doubt they were of the Demon Brain Race.
But seeing the Dark Priest carefully placing the creature into a glass jar, Noland Lee instantly guessed what the others intended to do.
The Dark Priests were attempting to use the Demon Brain Race to control the brain tissue of Artificial Angels.
Once inside the jar, the creature wriggled in the transparent fluid, slowly moving towards the fresh brain tissue.
It swam around the folds of the brain’s exterior for a few laps before finding a suitable spot to burrow into.
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Accompanied by a faint sound of skin and flesh tearing, the creature merged into the brain tissue, leaving only a shallow indentation on the surface.
About half a minute later, gray filaments sprayed out from the folds of the brain tissue, covering its surface with a layer of grayish membrane.
Waves of energy from Mind power emanated from the transparent jar.
The brain tissue, originally resting at the bottom of the jar, slowly and steadily levitated, floated out of the jar, shedding a few strands of water droplets, and hovered in mid-air.
A distorted, neutral voice emitted from this slightly contracting and expanding brain tissue:
“Coupling… complete. Vitality, young, healthy brain. I, like.”
This experiment was conducted in the presence of staff from Angel Enterprises Alliance.
One of the Dark Priests looked towards the staff member clad in white coveralls and said in a deep tone:
“See, our hypothesis was correct. The Demon Brain Race can indeed control the brains of Artificial Angels.”
The staff member was recording the experiment with a recorder on his shoulder, nodded, and said through the Breathing Mask:
“Yes. But whether we should use the Demon Brain Race to strengthen the control over the Angel’s Main Brain Controller still requires the Referee’s decision. I will report the experimental results to the Referee as they are.”
Use the Demon Brain Race to control the Angel’s Main Brain Controller?… It took Noland Lee a moment to wrap his head around this.
Wasn’t that essentially handing over a part of the control of the Angel’s main brain to the Demon Brain Race?
Why would Angel Enterprises Alliance want to do that?
The Heavy Transport Ship took off smoothly, leaving the planet’s surface, entering the starry sky.
Accompanied by the escort of Artificial Angels, the Transport Fleet headed for the nearby Star Gate, ready to quickly reach the space station where the Main Brain Controller was located.
The Dark Priests took out three more worms, letting them take control of another three jars of brain tissue.
In total, four experiments were conducted, all of which were successful.
Next, the Dark Priests divided into four groups and began testing the degree of control the Demon Brain Race had over the Artificial Angels’ brain tissue.
From simple arithmetic to manipulating objects with Mind power, the experiments proceeded in an orderly fashion.
Noland Lee felt it was necessary to use Passive Deconstruction to understand the intentions of the Dark Divine Cult.
He needed to create an opportune moment for himself to strike hard at the Dark Priests.
Right Now, many Players were invading the Motuoli Galaxy, and they could serve as Noland Lee’s aides.
Noland Lee closed his eyes within the ship cabin, diverting a portion of his mind to activate the Spell Mark he had left in a part of the starry sky.
This was the destination one reached upon passing through the Star Gate to the Motuoli Galaxy.
All Players who teleported here via the Star Gate would appear in this area of space.
The moment Noland Lee turned his attention there, he saw interstellar ships gathering in groups.
Primarily Combat Escort Ships, with fewer Battle Cruisers and Battleships, and not a single Raider ship of higher classification than the Battleships in sight.
Overall, the individual combat strength of Players was still on the lower side, far from matching the Artificial Angels that could take on ten Battleships simultaneously.
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The Players were numerous!
Their ships swarmed like bees, almost occupying every corner of this starry space.
At a rough estimate, at the moment the Star Gate opened, at least a thousand players had passed through it to this location.
And that was just the quickest group of players.
After their arrival, the next batch of players followed closely behind, appearing in the white light of teleportation.
Thank goodness the United Bureau Guard controlling the Star Gate could slightly alter the destination coordinates by fine-tuning parameters, distributing group after group of Players to different areas.
Otherwise, the relentless onslaught of Players alone would have been enough to cause a massive space traffic disaster.
The number of Player ships continued to accumulate.
Most of the battleships gathered according to their respective guilds and formed massive fleets.
A small portion of ships were assigned the task of deep-space detection.
They were equipped with the necessary detectors and core scanning needles for deep-space exploration.
Generally speaking, pilots with rich detection experience needed less than 10 minutes to identify any structures within this strange star system.
If a signal source detected was large and stationary, it was almost certainly a space station floating in space.
But if the signal source was strong and moving at high speed, it indicated the presence of hostile ships.
However, no matter how many core scanning needles were sent out, players were unable to detect any hostile structures within this star system using their detectors.
This indeed baffled the players.
“Could we have been deceived by the United Bureau?”
“This damn place doesn’t even have a space station, are we really in Angel Enterprise Alliance territory?”
“Yeah, not to mention a space station, I haven’t even seen a patrol team from the Angel Enterprise Alliance…”
The reactions of the players were perfectly understandable.
The Angel Enterprise Alliance was no fool.
Two days ago, after Noland Lee was the first to arrive in this star system, the Angel Enterprise Alliance activated their spies within the United Bureau and obtained the latest intelligence.
Upon learning that many Undying were about to cause trouble, the Angel Enterprise Alliance swiftly moved the movable space stations and shielded the rest with signal shielding force fields.
The detectors and core scanning needles in the players’ hands were not just low-powered, but also had very limited monitoring channels. They were slightly more advanced than civilian-grade but far inferior to the United Bureau Security Escort’s technology.
With such detection technology standards, it’s impossible to penetrate the signal shielding force fields of the Angel Enterprise Alliance.
So here came Noland Lee~
He had initially planned to arrive early to gather intelligence for the players and then guide them to efficiently attack the Angel Enterprise Alliance via tasks.
Now, it was time to deliver a big gift package to the players.
All players who arrived in the Motuoli Galaxy simultaneously received a game message.
[You have triggered a series of side tasks related to “Assaulting the Angel Enterprise Alliance.”]
[Please select suitable side tasks according to the contents of the task and your own strength.]
[Side Task One: Harass Resource Planets, Difficulty C-Class]
[Side Task Two: Reconnaissance of Hidden Space Stations, Difficulty B-Class]
[Side Task Three: Destroy the Signal Shielding Force Fields Protecting Space Stations, Difficulty A-Class]
[Side Task Four: Attack the Artificial Angel Breeding Planetosphere, Difficulty S-Class]
[Side Task Five: Intercept the Heavy Transport Fleet, Difficulty SS-Class]
[Side Task Six: Attack the Star Gates of the Motuoli Galaxy, Difficulty SSS-Class]
Six different side tasks appeared in front of the players.
When they opened each side task, the task interface would then list detailed side tasks based on different attack targets.
For example, Side Task One: Harass Resource Planets.
The Motuoli Galaxy has 75 resource planets that produce resources needed by the Angel Enterprise Alliance.
Each resource planet has a corresponding harassment task attached to it.
These 75 C-Class difficulty side tasks could be taken by multiple player teams at the same time. Different player teams would share the rewards based on their contribution percentage.
Medium and small guilds and loose players need not consider side tasks above A-Class difficulty.
S-Class, SS-Class, and SSS-Class were specifically designed by Noland Lee for the large guilds.
Among them, attacking the breeding planet had an S-Class rating, attacking the star gate was at SSS-Class, but intercepting a transport fleet was rated SS-Class.
The Great Guilds with their keen sense of smell instantly realized that there must be some important secret or treasure hidden within this fleet.
Almost two minutes after Noland Lee released the tasks, he received notifications that 5 fleets of thousands had accepted the SS-Class task.
“Heh heh, let this starry sky boil over~”
Noland Lee watched as players initiated their quantum leap engines according to the task instructions.
He temporarily cut off the spiritual connection with the Spell Mark and quietly focused on the Heavy Transport Ship, silently waiting for the players to come to his aid.