After spending more than ten minutes to repeatedly check all the equipment and confirm that there were no problems, they once again scanned the approaching unknown lifeform.
But the result …
There was still no change.
In this period of time, the unknown lifeform had crossed a distance of nearly two light years. In just a little more than 12 minutes, it would arrive at the fleet.
"Commander, what should we do? Retreat?"
"No, we don't even know what the enemy is and what their purpose is. How can we retreat?"
The commander glared at his adjutant and shouted.
After all, this was the job of the garrison fleet. In the end, they didn't even know what the enemy was, they didn't even have the chance to fight before they were forced to flee.
How could they have a good time when they returned?
He might even be killed. After all, he was already considered a deserter, right?
"Send the current situation and all the data we have detected to the headquarters, and request for support from the nearby fleets!"
After pondering for a moment, the commander still chose this method, which he thought was the safest.
During this process, time continued to pass by, and the unknown lifeform was still approaching the fleet at an incomprehensible speed.
Finally, after 12 minutes, because the distance was close enough to observe, everyone in the bridge finally saw the true appearance of the unknown lifeform for the first time.
Hiss …
What the hell is this thing?
It couldn't even be described as a lifeform in the universe.
It was basically an incomparably huge eye formed by countless tentacles. It was both horrifying and disgusting.
Even through the screen, one could still feel the inexplicable tremble from the bottom of their heart. It was like a lower lifeform facing a higher lifeform, the instinctive fear that came from within.
"Commander, the target will arrive at our fleet in 30 seconds. Should we order an attack?"
"Communication group, did the enemy reply?"
Instead of answering his adjutant directly, he turned to ask the communication officer. Since the first discovery of the unknown lifeform, the commander had been asking the communication officer to try to establish contact with it.
However, let alone establishing contact, the unknown lifeform didn't even respond to any of the communication they sent.
Until this moment …
It was still the same.
"Commander, the unknown lifeform still hasn't responded. Should we continue to call?"
"No need. All fleets to level one combat readiness. Once the enemy approaches, immediately launch an attack!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Nodding, the adjutant immediately conveyed the commander's order to every warship.
Dozens of seconds passed in the blink of an eye, and Grios had already arrived 10 AU in front of the fleet and slowed down.
This distance was already within the fleet's firing range. The fleet commander didn't harbor any unnecessary expectations and immediately ordered all the warships to open fire.
In an instant, the 100 million second-class warships used for security purposes had already unleashed their firepower.
Although it was only a second-grade battleship of the Obsidian Empire, it was still a battleship of a peak Tier 10 technological civilization. Its firepower was not inferior to the primary or intermediate Tier 10 battleships of technological civilizations.
If it was just a normal creature, or one of the creatures below Garen that had not reached the peak of Level Ten, this attack alone would have been enough to kill it.
However …
When these attacks landed on Grios, they didn't have any effect.
On his body, there seemed to be a layer of shell. Not only did it block the previous attack, but it even converted those functions into pure energy and directly absorbed them.
For a moment, the scene was very strange.
Rather than saying that the Obsidian Empire's garrison fleet attacked just now, it was more appropriate to say that they were replenishing the opponent's energy remotely.
On the other side, after devouring the energy contained in these attacks, Grios even burped. Although he didn't have a mouth on his body, it gave everyone the impression that he burped.
His attacks were energy replenishment to others, and he even burped because he was too comfortable eating …
Would you believe this?
But even if you didn't believe it, the truth was right in front of your eyes.
In short, there was no way to fight this at all …
"Commander, do you want to use physical weapons?"
"Physical weapons?"
Hearing this, the commander was stunned at first, then he remembered.
Once when the Anti-Sun River Alliance fought against the biological civilization camp, they encountered a creature that was very resistant to energy weapons. After that, they had to rely on physical weapons to open up the situation.
Since that incident was spread, all civilizations had more or less equipped their warships with some physical weapons, just in case.
The warships in their fleet were also equipped with rail cannons that only Tier 2 and Tier 3 civilizations would use …
It was just that they hadn't used it for so many years, so the commander had forgotten that there was such a weapon in his fleet.
"That's right, physical weapons, rail cannons!"
"Quick, order all warships to switch to rail cannons and attack!"
In the bridge, the commander suddenly shouted anxiously.
After all, the opponent had been trying to get closer to him. Now that the distance between the two sides was only 5AU, if he didn't think of a way, maybe this day next year would be his death anniversary.
"Yes, Commander!"
"The order has been issued. All warships' rail cannons are being deployed and charged. It is estimated that they can attack in 11 seconds!"
"10...9.....3...2...1!"
"Commander, all warships' rail cannons are ready to attack!"
Just when Grios was close to 1AU of the fleet, the fleet finally completed the rail cannons' attack preparations.
"Fire, fire immediately!"
Under the commander's order, hundreds of millions of bullets were fired from the rail cannons, and all of them were aimed at Grios in the most barbaric way.
However, the last weapon that the commander could hope for was …
Although it was not like the previous dark energy equipment, where the attack was directly converted into energy for absorption, but …
These seemingly barbaric bullets fired from the rail cannons seemed to be afraid of Grios and took the initiative to avoid him. All of them suddenly changed their direction and scattered to both sides.
This scene simply stunned everyone in the garrison fleet.
However, Grios had played enough and was not prepared to give them more time to be stunned.
Countless tentacles suddenly extended infinitely toward the fleet, and in an extremely unreasonable state, they extended a distance of 1AU and directly rushed into the fleet's formation.
Then, the tentacles began to entangle the warships, and on the warships that were entangled, the vitality of everyone was constantly being devoured. Their skin gradually dried up, and their appearance was rapidly aging.
In the end, when there was no more vitality in their bodies to be devoured, they turned into dried corpses …
They fell to the ground.