"Quick, retrieve the images recorded by the other warships!"
In the command center, Mu, who was stunned for a few seconds, finally came to his senses and immediately shouted in the direction of the command center.
"Yes, sir!"
"The images have been retrieved. Turn to the virtual image playback!"
Following the operation of the command team, the video recorded just now was quickly retrieved from the battleships that were not affected by the explosion, and the video was played.
From the image, it could be seen that it was a video recording of the front of a warship. In front of it, a large number of special heavy-duty warships were moving forward, and all of their cannons were surrounded by energy.
It was obvious that the ship's cannons had been fully charged and were ready to fire at any time. Everything was as Mu had expected. There were no problems.
However, Mu knew very well that something must have happened in the next few seconds. Otherwise, there was no way to explain why the signals of the warships at the front of the formation suddenly disappeared.
As if to confirm Mu's guess, the entire image suddenly began to distort. No, it was not the image that was distorted, but the space recorded in the image.
As the space continued to distort, the multi-layered shields of all the special heavy-duty warships were shattered. Not just one, but five shields were shattered one after another.
At this moment, the special heavy-duty warships that had lost their space shields were no longer able to resist the tearing effect of the space distortion. They were all torn to pieces in a very short time.
However, this was not an isolated incident. It was happening continuously in the front of the heavy-duty fleet. It was as if countless AOE missiles had smashed into every part of the formation, instantly devouring all the warships.
At this time, Mu finally realized that this was a space-type attack, and it was an area of effect attack.
However, where did the attack come from?
The Rank 3 Insect King's insect guards obviously did not have such a powerful attack, and there were only low-level ordinary insects around.
Mu kept adjusting the area displayed in the tactical image and repeatedly studied it.
As his attention had been focused on the area where the two Rank 3 Insect Kings were, Mu had neglected the surrounding areas. It was not until now that he finally realized that something was wrong …
The Rank 3 Insect King's position seemed to be a little too far back in the formation!
Alright, it wasn't that they were too far behind. Rather, they didn't pose any resistance to the heavy-armored fleet, which allowed the heavy-armored fleet to advance much faster than the main fleet around them. In fact, it even felt like they were advancing alone.
The strangest thing was that even though the two heavy-duty fleets were much deeper in than the other fleets and were even half-surrounded by the insectoids, the surrounding insectoids didn't attack them at all.
This was very strange. If these ordinary insects attacked the specially-equipped heavy-duty fleets that were deep in the middle of the encirclement, Mu would definitely realize that there was a problem with the coordination of the fleets, and thus readjust them!
However, the Insect Tribe did not do that. As a result, Mu, who had focused all his energy on the Rank-3 Insect King, completely ignored the serious problem.
"Damn it, there must be something wrong here!"
"Scan the surrounding ordinary Zergs immediately. There must be something wrong with these Zergs!"
Mu understood what was going on and immediately gave orders to the adjutant combat command team.
"Inform the heavy fleet to stop advancing and retreat in an orderly manner. At the same time, order the main fleet around to exert more pressure on the ordinary Zergs!"
"Yes, Commander!"
After giving orders to the command team, Mu turned to the adjutant and spoke.
"Commander, according to the scan, there is a large amount of high-energy reaction within the Zergs around the Rank-3 Insect King!"
"Can you detect what it is specifically?"
"Yes. Detecting the biological structure … Successfully detected the biological structure of the unknown high-energy reaction. Projecting it into the virtual image!"
Suddenly, a huge virtual image appeared in the command center. The image showed the appearance of an insectoid that no one had ever seen before, as well as various related data.
"Hiss …"
Looking at the insectoid's appearance was not a big deal. After all, all insectoids were ugly and everyone was already used to it.
However, after looking at the biological energy intensity, size, and other data displayed, everyone could not help but gasp.
Speaking of the Insect Tribe, the largest of them all was the Insect King. Moreover, the Insect King's body would grow larger every time it evolved.
Second only to the Insect King was the Insect Guard. The Insect Guard was a special type of insectoid that could only be bred after the Insect King evolved to Rank-3. It was much stronger than the Combat Insectoids.
However, based on the data in front of them, it was obvious that the size of this insectoid was much larger than a Rank-3 Insect King. Its size was almost the same as an empire's battleship.
Most importantly, the biological energy intensity in its body was almost twice that of a Rank-3 Insect King. Moreover, there was a lot of it!
Could it be that they had encountered a Rank-2 Insect Guard?
Although the Three-Eye Empire had never encountered a Rank-2 Insect Guard before, this did not stop Mu from guessing that this should be one.
In fact, just as Mu had guessed, this new insectoid was the Rank-2 Insect Guard that Heniye had bred. Compared to the Rank-3 Insect Guard, it had two very powerful abilities.
One was a preliminary space-type attack, but the range was very short, only about ten million kilometers.
The other was the Insectoid Barrier. This was an ability that could only be used by Rank-3 Insect Kings and above. It was a type of barrier that was different from the Energy Shield and Space Shield. It even had some resistance against space-type attacks.
However, its attack range and speed were its shortcomings. If it were to face the Three-Eye Empire's fleet head-on, it would not have an easy time.
Therefore, after observing the tactics of the heavy-duty fleet once, Heniye came up with this countermeasure and completely caught Mu off guard!
"Grand Admiral, we detected that the biological energy in these unknown insectoids is gathering at their back. It seems to be a precursor to an attack!"
"Damn it, how is the Special Heavy Fleet's retreat progress?"
"No, they are too deep. They can't completely escape in a short time!"
The adjutant reported anxiously.
Although the Special Heavy Fleet had begun to retreat, they had gone too deep. It would take a while for them to retreat.
It could be said that around the heavy-duty fleet, aside from the rear, every other direction was filled with Zergs.
"The attack is coming!"
There was a sudden shout from the command team.
"Damn it!"
Mu's expression froze. He looked at the tactical projection again. The area that was formed by countless green dots represented the Special Heavy Fleet.
In just a few seconds, a large amount of green light spots appeared …
Turned gray again!