"Report to Captain, the Ares has successfully locked onto the target and can destroy it at any time."

In the fleet group of the First Legion of the Clay Empire, Mara came back from the main ship after receiving the order. He stood in front of the main screen and listened to the report of the crew beside him, and immediately gave instructions: "Find a way to capture those small warships.

It’s an order from Commander Renault.”

"It's the captain."

As the captain of the large battleship Ares and the core force of the First Legion, Marat naturally had to resolutely carry out Renault's orders.

He knew very well how long Renault had been preparing for this war.

No one is allowed to destroy it.

No matter which civilization these small warships belong to, their details must be investigated clearly.

"I hope the mission can be completed smoothly." Seeing several small assault ships flying out of the Ares on the main screen, Mara secretly prayed in his heart: "I don't want Commander Renault to be disappointed in me."

Ares is a large battleship, and it is extremely simple to destroy several small frigates.

It doesn't even take much time.

Naihe took measures to capture these small warships that suddenly appeared, which was an order given by Renault himself.

Naturally, he will execute it unconditionally.

Just sending the assault ship from the Ares to capture him would greatly increase the difficulty of the task.

What's more, the fleet group of the First Legion will soon enter a new space channel node, and the Ares must return to the fleet as soon as possible.

While he was thinking about this, the assault ship on the main screen of the Ares control hall also made great progress.

The small frigates left behind by Xu Lei have lost contact with the Dreadnaught's brain and are currently basically in program control mode, with their sailing routes and speeds relatively fixed.

So much so that the Clay Empire assault ships quickly surrounded them.

Since we have to choose to capture, we cannot use weapons to attack, so we have to find a way to limit the power of the frigate and forcefully bring it back to the Ares.

Fortunately, small battleships generally have limited power, so there is no need to be too afraid of attacks.

Soon, under Mara's gaze, these assault ships finally took action, launching anchor chains into the frigates one after another.

"A1 calls the main ship. The target has been successfully captured. Please apply for return."

"repeat."

"Target has been captured, request to return."

"Permission to return."

"Well done, let them bring those strange frigates back as soon as possible and decipher the core information of the warships." After hearing the report of the team performing this task in the assault ship, Mara suddenly looked happy and quickly gave instructions to the crew members beside him.

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After saying that, he prepared to take the spaceship to the main ship of the legion and report the matter to Renault.

Unfortunately, as soon as I finished speaking, something unexpected happened.

No one expected that when the assault ship squadron was preparing to return home smoothly, they saw the frigates that were unable to fly away exploding one after another.

The power caused caused the assault ship to be affected as well.

There are varying degrees of damage.

These frigates are all produced by the Titan shipyard in the solar system. In order to prevent information leakage, each warship has a self-destruction program implanted.

It can be said that it is in the same vein as the space combat robots produced by future technology.

As long as the warship cannot fly according to the scheduled procedure, or the route speed is forcibly changed, the preset self-destruction program will be triggered, allowing the warship to self-destruct to eliminate hidden dangers.

Mara suffered a hidden loss because it was eager to complete the task and avoid delaying the legion fleet group's schedule.

Ma Li saw this scene out of the corner of his eye and turned his body back almost instantly.

A little surprise flashed in his eyes.

interesting.

A self-destruct program was actually implanted in a small battleship.

It must be reported to the legion commander as soon as possible.

When a lot of thoughts quickly flashed through his mind, he couldn't help but frown slightly when he thought of the tasks assigned by Renault.

Immediately, he didn't accuse anything, left a word and hurriedly left the control hall.

"Ignore those strange warships for now. Let our people return home. I'm going to report the situation to Commander Reno."

"It's captain, I'll contact the team immediately."

The crew member also knew the seriousness of the matter, and looked at Mara's back and nodded decisively.

Not long after.

Mara once again came to the legion's main ship control center, but he was obviously more nervous and restrained than before.

After all, I couldn't complete the task, and I always felt a little bit frightened.

"Let the fleet be fully prepared and enter the space node here in two hours." Renault was wearing a set of dark gold armor, paired with dark red skin that was exposed like a rock, showing his domineering and powerful aura.

After explaining to the subordinates beside him, he turned his attention to Mara who was waiting: "How did things go?"

"Report to the commander of the corps, those strange warships have self-destruction programs embedded in them, and we failed to capture them successfully."

Mara did not dare to hide anything. After reporting truthfully, he immediately puffed up his chest and said: "My subordinates have not completed their tasks. Please ask the legion commander to punish him."

"Okay, now is not the time for punishment." Renault waved his hand and asked with a slight frown: "Do you think these strange warships come from galactic civilization?"

"This place is millions of light-years away from the Milky Way. With their level of civilization, they probably won't be able to reach here." Mara thought for a while and expressed his opinion: "Perhaps they are a few ships left behind by other remote galaxies.

It’s a small warship, otherwise there would be no need to deliberately implant a self-destruct program.”

As a type of small battleship, frigates are basically similar to cannon fodder.

Responsible for detecting surrounding threats to the main ship.

Ensure the safety of the main ship.

Precisely because it is extremely easy to be destroyed, generally few civilizations will spend a lot of money to implant all self-destruction devices.

That is to say, Xu Lei was looking for the spark of the Source Star civilization this time, and did not want to be known by other civilization forces, so he installed a frigate with a self-destruction device and a space combat robot in the Dauntless.

Renault listened to all of Mara's analysis and remained silent.

He didn't quite believe that traces of galactic civilization would be found here. After all, according to the information he had about the galaxy, he probably didn't have long-distance space shuttle technology.

It is absolutely impossible to reach here just by relying on the sailing speed of a small warship.

Considering that the raid on the Milky Way is still in progress, the fleet group needs to pass through more than ten space channel nodes before entering the Milky Way.

In order to avoid delaying the leakage of information and putting the galactic civilization on guard, Renault made a decision quickly.

After thinking for a moment, he solemnly explained to Mara: "Let's forget about this matter for now. You should immediately return the Ares to the fleet and strive to reach the Milky Way as soon as possible. As long as our speed is fast enough, it will be fine even if these small warships come from the Milky Way civilization."

"I understand the Legion Commander. When we arrive at the Galaxy Ares, we will destroy more enemy warships to serve the Legion Commander." After hearing that he had escaped this punishment, Mara immediately vowed to do so.

After hearing this, Renault's expression softened a lot, but he still pointed out his mistake: "We are doing meritorious service for the empire."

"Let's do it quickly."

"yes."

As Mara returned to the Ares, the entire Clay Empire's First Legion also seized the time to integrate the fleet group into the space channel node.

According to their current location, they only need to pass about ten more nodes to reach the Milky Way smoothly.

At that time, it will be the first confrontation between civilizations between the two galaxies.

But no matter who will be the final winner, all civilizations in the galaxy will suffer.

Because this war is fought in the galaxy.

And not the Andromeda Galaxy.

At the same time, when the Clay Empire's First Legion fleet was rushing towards the Milky Way non-stop, Xu Lei finally controlled the Sky Blade Seven flagship and arrived in the solar system.

"The location that came out of the space jump was actually between the first security defense ring and the second security defense ring. I don't know if it scared the alliance or not."

In the Tianren No. 7 control center, Xu Lei couldn't help but mutter to himself after seeing the location of the flagship on the main screen.

I feel more and more in my heart the suppression of lower civilization by higher civilization.

Taking the current situation as an example, if the solar system really faces an attack by a level 4 civilization dreadnought, then all the defense systems in the solar system will become a display.

Including the solar system security defense ring that has prevented enemy invasions for the solar system many times.

With the function of the dreadnought space jump, the enemy can appear directly in the sky above the earth and easily wipe out human civilization.

Unless the solar system can use powerful technology to block the entire space, the dreadnought will not be able to make space jumps.

Xu Lei had no plan in this area before, but after this incident, he believed that it was very necessary to strengthen the monitoring of space within the solar system. In the worst case, the flagship would first leave the scope of the solar system and then make a space jump.

At least this can ensure the safety of the solar system to the greatest extent.

Anyway, in addition to the powerful space jump function of Tianren No. 7, its sailing speed cannot be underestimated.
To be continued...