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Then, he quickly received a reply: "Commander, we are experiencing too much electromagnetic pulse interference to make any calculations at this time."

Upon hearing this, Deng Yue'an sighed slightly and issued a new order: "Turn immediately, left rudder 90 degrees, down 40 degrees, full power..."

Soon, the entire fleet began to turn. Making such a large-angle maneuver in battle is not a pleasant experience. It means that the formation may have more openings, and the angle of attack when facing the monster will also have to be deviated, which also means more casualties.

However, this is the nature of the military; once an order is given, it must be carried out even if the soldier does not understand it.

Soon, Deng Yue'an issued a new order: "Turn immediately, right rudder 70 degrees, top 30 degrees..."

By this time, many crew members in the fleet had realized that the commander was leading the fleet in a high-angle maneuver.

But why do this? Are they trying to avoid something?

A few senior officers had begun to realize the problem, but most of the crew were still focused on the monsters that had not yet been completely defeated.

Chapter 595 The Cracked Amulet

At that moment, about 20 kilometers ahead of the last turn, the chaotic and gloomy space seemed to be torn open with several cracks, and then a new batch of monsters poured out. Among the monsters this time, there were not only the relatively small "ghosts", but also a monster that looked like a messy, dirty cocoon wriggling, much larger than the ghosts.

These monsters also have black legs that look like grasshoppers around their bodies. These legs widen the cracks so that they can swim out of them more easily.

After emerging from the rift, these monsters quickly targeted the fleet and then pounced towards it.

By this time, even the most oblivious crew members understood that these monsters seemed to possess a higher level of space technology than humans, and that they could even locate the fleet's position in the real universe from subspace to a certain extent, thus enabling them to make extremely precise deployments.

If Deng Yue'an hadn't commanded the fleet to perform such a large-scale maneuver, these monsters would probably have appeared in the center of the fleet by now...

However, even now the situation is still not optimistic, because the area where these monsters appeared is still very close to the fleet's location, and is estimated to be only about 30 kilometers away.

This situation is even worse than the one in the recent skirmish!

However, this was already the limit of what Deng Yue'an could do. After all, the fleet had been under attack and, to some extent, tied down. Furthermore, maneuvering these massive warships was no easy task...

Fortunately, with the experience gained earlier, the fleet's response this time was more organized, and the ship's railguns began to target and fire at those monsters that looked huge and obviously more dangerous.

Meanwhile, the space mines began to be launched again...

A gigantic, worm-like monster was hit directly by a railgun shell. The high-explosive warhead exploded inside its body, and the bizarre-looking worm was torn apart without any resistance.

Witnessing this scene greatly excited some observers. These enormous creatures, whose abilities seemed unknown, appeared to be easy to deal with, slow-moving, and easily destroyed. In their view, the swarms of ghosts seemed far more dangerous.

Following this, the railgun unleashed its power, and soon several worm-like monsters were accurately hit and destroyed. At the same time, the launched space mines began their first round of explosions to shield the "Ghosts" that had begun their swarm attack.

At that very moment, in the light of the explosion, several railgun operators who had been aiming at the last few worm-like monsters suddenly realized that they had lost their targets.

However, losing a target on the battlefield is not too unacceptable. After all, at this moment, the scorching heat, fire, and electromagnetic pulses outside the portholes are occurring one after another, making the already chaotic surrounding environment even more blurred. These weapons operators do not have much time to wonder and simply choose to look for other targets immediately.

However, in the next moment, a hole suddenly tore open in the void beside the Yishan destroyer, which was located to the right of the Songyue heavy cruiser. Then, the limbs around a worm-like creature suddenly stretched open the hole, and it swam out of it. The whole process was as smooth as flowing water!

Immediately afterwards, the head of the monster's body, which resembled a silkworm cocoon or a leech, suddenly opened up, forming a hole that looked like a black hole, flashing with red light!

The next moment, everyone in the fleet heard layers of eerie whispers, and at the same time, intense dizziness and hallucinations appeared in their minds.

"Monster! Monster!!" Suddenly, a crew member sitting at the control panel on the Lishan destroyer stood up abruptly, his eyes bloodshot, and roared as he drew his gun and fired to the side!

Another crew member was bleeding from his nose and was pressing his forehead in pain, clearly enduring great agony. Caught off guard, he was hit in the cheekbone by a stray bullet and immediately fell to the ground, howling in agony.

The sound of gunfire seemed to cause a brief moment of confusion in the eyes of the gunman, but he quickly gritted his teeth and continued firing at the non-existent enemy, soon emptying his magazine.

Normally, these non-combat crew members are not equipped with firearms, but this time the situation was special and everyone was equipped with firearms. Unexpectedly, this has become a catalyst for chaos.

After emptying the magazine, the crew member looked at the other side with a ferocious expression. His eyes had turned black, and he lunged at the second mate standing to the side.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the command tower, two other crew members also convulsed, drew their pistols, shouted incoherently, and began firing wildly. One of the crew members had only fired three shots when he was tackled to the ground by a comrade with a similarly distorted face, and the two began to bite each other on the ground.

Compared to the other crew members, Zhu Xuting, who was originally standing in the corner of the command tower trying not to disturb others, was clearly more mentally resilient. This was probably related to the mental attacks he had experienced during previous missions.

However, this heightened resistance only made him vaguely sense that something was wrong. The whispers in his ears, which seemed to be tempting him to madness, and the increasingly intense distortion of his surroundings made him feel like he was sinking into a quagmire from which he could not extricate himself...

At that moment, Zhu Xuting did not notice that a fine but roughly carved mutton-fat jade pendant in his breast pocket had silently cracked.

This jade pendant was given to him mysteriously by his second sister, Zhu Yingwei, who was close to him, a few days ago. It was said that she had obtained it from a temple.

It has to be said that since Zhu Xuting joined the Fourth Division of the Special Crime Investigation Bureau, he has become increasingly superstitious. He doesn't resist religious items, adopting a "better safe than sorry" attitude. Furthermore, considering his second sister's good intentions, he casually thanked her with a smile and then put the item in his pocket.

His second sister, however, seemed unimpressed by his apparent indifference and even threw a tantrum, accusing him of disrespecting her work and insisting that he wear it. And surprisingly, on this mission, he actually did bring it with him...

Chapter 596 Escaping the Desperate Situation

A sense of clarity returned to Zhu Xuting's mind in that instant, like a drowning person breathing in a breath of fresh air. Zhu Xuting, whose head was still foggy, was too weak to think about what was going on. Almost instinctively, he took out a syringe from the tactical plug-in at his waist, pressed it against his arm, and injected himself!

The medication began to take effect, much like adding a spoonful of machine oil to a bearing that was about to rust; although it was still sluggish, it could barely be started. His mind became increasingly clear, and Zhu Xuting immediately injected himself with another painkiller. The intense pain finally pulled him temporarily out of that nightmarish state!

Gasping for breath, Zhu Xuting frowned as he looked at the chaotic command tower. The captain of the Huang Haizhong was convulsing in his seat, while several crew members lay in pools of blood, and the rest were in complete disarray…

Bullets flew everywhere as a crew member screamed wildly and fired bullets indiscriminately. Zhu Xuting heard the dangerous sound of bullets whizzing through the air and, without hesitation, drew his pistol and fired a shot at the crew member, killing him instantly in the head.

On the other side, two crew members were tearing at each other, fighting like two animals.

Zhu Xuting ignored the two men. His first choice was to quickly go to Captain Huang Haizhong, who was still convulsing, and swiftly pull out two syringes from his body. Due to the special nature of this mission, which involved the possibility of facing monsters with mind control abilities at any time, everyone was required to carry the syringes close to their body for emergency injections at any time.

After two injections, Captain Huang Haizhong finally recovered and opened his eyes with a pained expression.

Before he could speak, Captain Huang Haizhong pushed his chair away, causing himself to float to the weapons control panel not far away. He pushed the weapons operator who had been killed by a stray bullet aside and personally began emergency operations!

Just then, the two crew members who were tearing at each other had already decided the winner. One of the crew members, like a wild beast, was biting his comrade's neck with his mouth. Droplets of blood gathered into red liquid balls of varying sizes, which floated around.

The crewman who had been bitten acted like a wild beast under attack, but he eventually lost too much blood and soon stopped moving. The crewman who had bitten him raised his head, his face covered in blood, looking like a deranged killer from a horror movie. His eyes had turned completely black, and he was letting out a frenzied roar. But after a moment, he suddenly began to convulse violently, as if some powerful force was at work within his body.

He convulsed and twitched, his body suddenly contorted into a twisted posture as he tilted his head back to the sky. Then, his entire face suddenly opened up like a flower petal, and then this open petal turned towards Huang Haizhong, who was operating the keyboard not far away.

At that moment, Zhu Xuting aimed at the "petal" that was still dripping with sap and pulled the trigger. But the crew member, who could no longer be considered a "person," suddenly turned around and leaped towards Zhu Xuting. In the weightless environment, the momentum was extremely strong. Zhu Xuting kept firing while trying to dodge the pounce.

However, the weightlessness made his dodging sluggish, and coupled with his unfamiliarity with this mode of movement, he didn't completely avoid the pounce, and was grabbed by the left arm and tumbled away...

As it rolled, the head, which opened like a flower petal, tried to bite Zhu Xuting, but Zhu Xuting managed to move its head away and dodge the attack for the first time.

Before it could even try a second time, at the critical moment, Zhu Xuting pressed the muzzle of his gun directly into the open petals and pulled the trigger repeatedly until the magazine was completely empty.

The monster finally succumbed, and Zhu Xuting took the opportunity to escape control.

At that very moment, Captain Huang Haizhong finally completed the adjustment of the muzzle of a railgun located on the side and rear of the Lishan, locked onto a worm-like monster, and then fired!

The next moment, a shield seemed to appear in front of the worm-like monster, but the shield was shattered and failed to stop the kinetic energy of the railgun. The shell exploded upon hitting the monster, tearing it apart!

At this moment, Zhu Xuting had already stood up by holding onto a chair and was preparing to choose the next person to rescue. However, what happened next made him freeze in place.

Through the huge porthole, he could clearly see that not far from the side of the Lishan, the Zhongxiang suddenly spewed out a large amount of debris, followed by flames and explosions. At the same time, he could see that some structures of the Zhongxiang were violently twisted and torn apart, and people and objects flew out from the torn openings...

Zhu Xuting could even clearly see a crew member with no protection floating in the vacuum of space, struggling with his hands and feet...

Furthermore, to his despair, he saw a new rift opening in the void on the other side of the fleet, from which two more enormous, writhing figures emerged. The next moment, they opened their heads towards the fleet…

The layers of whispers seemed to come from afar, or perhaps they echoed from the depths of his heart, as if a voice was greeting him, or guiding him toward a better world...

Although he knew there was something wrong here, like someone trapped in a nightmare, Zhu Xuting felt himself being constantly dragged into a strange world, sinking deeper and deeper, yet powerless to turn back...

Is it ending?!

He felt a sense of despair about "himself," as if he were drifting further and further away...

"Roar!!!" A roar like a tiger's howl swept across the plains like a hurricane, completely shattering the previous murmurs!

As his senses returned, Zhu Xuting felt waves of mental disorientation accompanied by a headache. He was unaware that this was a sign of mental trauma. Of course, even if he did know, he had no interest in paying attention to it at the moment.

A series of roars reached his ears, shaking his very soul, and a primal fear welled up within him. There should be no sound in the universe, yet at this moment, he heard it clearly!

Zhu Xuting instinctively moved his gaze to search, and then his eyes widened. He clearly saw that an unusually huge monster, like a dragon or a tiger, was now appearing where the two worm-like monsters had crawled out, and had already torn one of the worms apart!

Chapter 597 Arrival! Closing the Net!

The other worm seemed to try to escape, but it was much slower. Once caught, it bit and tore the worm's body apart in a few bites. It acted like a natural enemy, displaying extraordinary ferocity…

What is that...?!

Is it a dragon?

Zhu Xuting stared blankly at the enormous creature that seemed to appear only in myths and legends. However, he could clearly see that this behemoth was not from the same camp as the previous monsters. In terms of appearance alone, they were two completely different styles.

In any case, the monster showed no hostility towards the human fleet, nor did it intend to attack in any way; it simply kept attacking the worm-like monsters.

Soon, they tore the monsters that had appeared near the fleet to pieces.

At this moment, the fleet regained a chance to breathe. On each warship, some crew members who were beginning to recover their spirits took out their personal medicine and injected themselves. They had been informed of the situation they would be facing before setting off, but even so, the danger of the situation far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Chaos reigned on all the ships. Some crew members tried to regain control of their vessels, while others had completely broken down mentally. Under the influence of manipulation, once a certain threshold was crossed, an irreversible transformation began on a physical level...

Some small-scale firefights took place on the ships. Some ships began to adjust their posture. Zhu Xuting's subordinates had mostly recovered by this time. Fortunately, these members of the Special Crime Investigation Bureau's Fourth Division's action team had likely experienced some mental shocks in previous missions, so this time they had a clear advantage over ordinary crew members in terms of mental resistance and recovery.

Under Zhu Xuting's command, these people began to help restore the command tower to normal.

At the same time, the lights on the flagship Songyue, which had been at a standstill for a long time, finally changed, which relieved many people in the fleet who had been watching closely. This meant that the worst had not happened on the flagship, and the command system had resumed normal operation.

Many crew members turned their attention to the "dragon" in space that had saved them from extreme crisis, and began speculating about its origins.

Almost everyone could see that the monster was clearly on their side, and the commanders of each ship issued orders that no attack was allowed on the monster.

In fact, this monster was Zhang Jing's tiger-dragon. He had just discovered that the support fleet was on the verge of death, so he sent it to save the day.

After tearing apart several worm-like monsters, Tiger Dragon began attacking the scattered ghosts that had broken into the fleet's formation.

Even with the help of the Tiger Dragon, the space fleet was still struggling to cope, especially after the surprise attack. Some ghosts took advantage of the fleet's confusion to break through the fleet's air defenses and began attacking the ships, resulting in heavy casualties on the fleet's side again...