Captain, your ship has exploded again.

"Hey, isn't this our Captain? You look a bit disheveled!"

Zhao Wanyang, who was busy at the lab bench, turned around and looked towards the door after hearing the sound of the door opening.

Zhang Xun stood up, dusted himself off, and said, "I didn't want to come either, but if I came any later, I was worried that my best team members would be taken away by a bunch of trash."

"Take them away? I think they want to take my head away!"

As a technical soldier, Zhao Wanyang was well aware that many universes possessed technologies similar to memory extractors. If the other party obtained her head, even just fragmented data, it would be enough for a faction to develop.

Zhang Xun understood Zhao Wanyang's meaning, since they also had similar technology, but it could only be used on living people.

"It seems that whether you live or die, you are a treasure to those who care."

As he spoke, Zhang Xun walked towards the already reddened wall, unfolded his hand armor, and disregarded the high temperature of the wall, directly pressed his hands against it.

"Wow, this smell is amazing! It's making me really hungry. Why does it smell so good? After we're done, should we go for teppanyaki or barbecue?"

Amidst the sizzling sound of grease, Zhang Xun unleashed the divine power he had painstakingly accumulated. With the protection of this power and the assistance of his armor, he pushed outwards with all his might, directly shoving the recessed wall away.

The sudden deformation of the wall caught the people outside off guard. Zhang Xun used his divine power to break the drill bit that was breaking down the wall.

Hearing the crisp metallic clanging sound outside, Zhang Xun stretched out his thumb in the direction behind him. However, due to Maillard's violent reaction, a large piece of Zhang Xun's palm was torn off, exposing the finger bones inside.

Zhao Wanyang glanced at Zhang Xun but didn't say anything immediately. Instead, she turned around and continued her experiment, but the movements of her auxiliary arms and hands were much faster than when Zhang Xun came in.

"Oh my god, your most handsome captain came to rescue us in person, and we didn't even get a kiss or a clap. It's so disheartening."

As he spoke, Zhang Xun made a gesture as if he was about to faint. Of course, his other hand would not leave the wall. After all, tearing one wall was painful enough, and the nanobots should repair the other one as soon as possible.

Although Zhang Xun only pretended to faint, a cyborg behind him still supported him.

This action surprised Zhang Xun greatly, because the research cyborgs in Zhao Wanyang's laboratory, let alone helping people, even when Zhang Xun was seriously injured multiple times, it was Natal who came to take care of him.

Even if he really couldn't spare the time, he could only send the TX Terminator over. The cyborgs in the lab wouldn't even give him a second glance. After all, in Zhao Wanyang's view, the job of the experimental staff was to conduct experiments. Even if they were cyborgs, they weren't servants doing chores.

Just as Zhang Xun pointed at the cyborg with some surprise, unsure of what to say, Zhao Wanyang, who was busy at work, spoke up.

"First, by human standards, your appearance is only average."

Secondly, the aroma of grilled meat is a mixture of chemical substances produced by the reaction of amino acids and reducing sugars in the meat. The reason you perceive the aroma as unique is because it has been enhanced, resulting in a higher content of fats, vitamins, and sugars.

At this point, Zhao Wanyang paused slightly and continued, "Third, even if you are an enhanced human, I do not recommend that you eat your own kind. Not to mention that prions will destroy the brain, your genetic sequence will also collapse because of this behavior."

Just as Zhao Wanyang finished explaining, Zhang Xun's eyes widened, and he looked at the experimental table behind him with a surprised expression, shouting loudly.

"Holy crap, we're doomed, genetic collapse? We're all dead. In the Warhammer universe, we've all eaten 'starch' to some extent, and that stuff contains corpses."

Zhang Xun's somewhat shrill scream caused Zhao Wanyang's originally steady hand to tremble slightly. This slight tremor directly rendered the light path board in front of her unusable.

Disturbed, Zhao Wanyang turned to look at Zhang Xun, who was still shouting, and angrily threw the optical path board in her hand at him.

The square light path plate, rotating like a dart, accurately hit Zhang Xun's helmet. The shattered light medium plate was directly embedded in Zhang Xun's helmet, making him look somewhat like Belial.

"Stop talking nonsense. The prions are real. I haven't even installed the gene collapse on you guys yet. Behave yourself! Let me finish this first."

Zhao Wanyang then turned back and continued to concentrate on operating the lab bench.

Looking at the several busy experimental tables, Zhang Xun asked, somewhat puzzled, "Are you cooking or performing human dissections? Even though the enemy has animal tissue, they're still human, right? How about we eat a completely vegetarian meal?"

Zhao Wanyang, fed up with Zhang Xun's incessant chatter, looked at the broken light path board in front of her and ran her fingers through her hair, on the verge of collapse. Although she knew that Zhang Xun's incessant chatter was not only due to the influence of the Four Evil Gods, but also because he was in too much pain, she was still very angry at being interrupted so many times.

"What sins did I commit in my past life to have such a karmic entanglement with you?"

This is a gene-disintegration weapon. I'm working on it right now. Once Tianwen analyzes what the enemy's binding gene is, we can use it to take a full-body radiation photo of all the enemies, causing them to voluntarily turn into a pile of minced meat!

After saying that, Zhao Wanyang crushed the light path board in front of her and said in a fierce voice, "Zhang Xun, if you bother me again, I don't mind making you my first target. Although you won't turn into mincemeat if you're not a target, I can't guarantee what else you'll turn into."

Hearing Zhao Wanyang's threat, Zhang Xun used his free hand to pull at his mouth to indicate that he would absolutely not speak again. Only then did Zhao Wanyang continue her work.

Unlike the others who were fighting against a million invaders near the laboratory, Natal was sitting in the command room with a serious expression, facing General Wu Kedi's communications.

“General, what you say makes sense, but under the current circumstances, I cannot let you in. Even if you can give a guarantee, it cannot erase the fact that this group of invaders came from a Chinese transport ship.”

As one of Zhang Xun's most trusted people, Natal was responsible for all external affairs of the fleet when Zhang Xun went to deal with internal problems of the Death Star.

“Little girl, how many times have I told you? Although the intruders came from our transport ship, the crew on the transport ship were unaware of it. Moreover, when the situation here occurred, that transport ship was directly destroyed by the enemy, and all the crew members were killed. All I can provide you with are historical records. With everyone dead, where am I supposed to find the culprits for you?”

Natal gestured to interrupt General Wu, saying, "Since you cannot provide any participants to prove your innocence in this incident, I cannot allow your troops to board the ship."

General Wu Kedi clapped his hands and said, "How come you're even more stubborn than me, girl? If you want prisoners, I'll send troops to arrest them, and then I'll personally pry their mouths open to prove that I have nothing to do with this attack. Then I'll give them and the evidence to you, and that'll be the end of it. If you won't let me get close, where am I supposed to arrest prisoners for you?"

Even if General Wu Kedi talked himself hoarse, Natal still insisted on proving that she was not a participant, otherwise she could not board the ship.

The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of warships, though involving only a small number of personnel compared to a defensive fleet of tens of millions, was so unified and efficient that no one would underestimate this fleet.

Ignoring General Wu's shouts, Natal stared intently at the intelligence on the screen in the command room. The Executor's defensive battle had failed. Despite the Xiang sisters and Huang Hong's best efforts, the data room had fallen due to their unpreparedness.

Fortunately, Zhao Wanyang had a habit of carrying important data with her, so even if the Executor's defenses failed, the loss was only some less important technology.

Natal and Zhang Xun shared the same idea: as long as Zhao Wanyang's research lab remained intact, even if some scientific data was lost, it would be within their acceptable range.

Upon returning to the fleet, the two speculated that these invaders were disposable pawns, as no one would believe that they could safely evacuate from a fleet of tens of millions of ships. If the enemy did manage to evacuate from the two flagships, it would only prove that the extinction of humanity was inevitable.

If the commanders-in-chief of the front line of humanity's struggle are scheming against those below, then is there any point in humanity's existence?

As for why Natal is not letting General Wu's men in now, it's because Natal plans to perform a precise surgical operation on the Executor.

As for the Death Star, she really couldn't guarantee that the people General Wu Kedi brought in wouldn't risk assassinating Zhao Wanyang, since nearly half of Zhang Xun's current achievements were thanks to her.

Natal directed the fleet to place a range extender atop the Executor.

This range extender was created after leaving the hypermorphic universe, primarily for increasing the fleet's firing range. However, its energy-focusing properties not only allow multiple main cannon beams to converge but also control the thickness of the main cannon beams.

Natal's idea was very simple: since there were too many enemies and the Xiang sisters could not deal with them quickly when they were gathered together, they would destroy the Executor in order to prevent the enemies from making a desperate move and destroying it.

Natal planned to have the Executor abandon its defenses and use the main guns of multiple battleships to perform a targeted cut-off operation on the Executor, destroying all enemies inside the Executor in one fell swoop.

Soon, the Xiang sisters and Huang Hong completed their mission and quickly withdrew. Just as they were leaving, the main guns of more than 10,000 battleships in the fleet lit up. As the energy gathered together, the range extender emitted an extremely thin beam of light in the overloaded brightness.

Even though this ray looks very thin, it's in a space environment. If someone were to measure it, it would still be several hundred meters in diameter.

Fortunately, there weren't as many invaders on the Executor as on the Death Star. After penetrating the armor, the attack quickly melted through the densest layers of the enemy, giving the Executor a perfect piercing operation.

Just as Natal finished dealing with most of the enemies on the Executor and handed the rest over to the Xiang sisters and Huang Hong, and turned to deal with the enemies on the Death Star, the alien fleet invasion alarm sounded throughout the entire defense fleet.

"Warning, warning, this is not a play, this is not a play. Unidentified fleet information detected. The enemy is only one light-year away from the defensive position. They are being intercepted by the warp-blocking device and are heading towards our position at high speed. The estimated number of enemy ships is 120 million."