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Chapter 168: Chapter 116: Fourth Rank Unit - Moruo Space-Escape Mecha (Please Subscribe)_2

A series of commands issued from Song Mingsong's mouth, and a line of fifteen people quickly divided into three teams.

One team, led by Song Shan, headed to the secret realm inside the space vortex.

Another team, led by Song Mingsong, went to try to reactivate the defense light shield of the former lair of the star thieves.

The third team was led by Grandma Bai Xiuqin, taking Song Chi, Song Qi, Song You, and two others, to continue guarding at the entrance to the secret realm.

Song Mingsong was very protective of his five grandchildren. In such times, danger could arise inside the secret realm or outside at any moment. Staying at the entrance to the secret realm was indeed the safest option.

After the nine people left one after the other, Song Chi's eyes flickered several times before he summoned two Second Rank Fire Peony Soldier Figurines amidst a flash of radiance around him.

Simultaneously, the Cang Qiong inside his Ancestral Aperture trembled lightly as the Brainwave Remote Control System inside it was activated. After attaching a Brainwave Beacon to one of the Fire Peony Soldier Figurines, Song Chi remotely controlled both to rush out into the outside world.

Staying at the entrance to the Secret Realm was extremely safe under Grandma's care, but he was still worried about the Moruo Royal Family, so he thought it would be safer to remotely control the two Fire Peony Soldier Figurines to stay informed about the situation outside.

As for his actions, Bai Xiuqin and the rest simply gave a cursory glance before disregarding it.

In the control room of the Blood Blade Star Thieves' nuclear energy shield, which used to be guarded by more than ten First Rank star thieves every day, was now utterly empty. Song Mingsong, leading Song Chao, Chen Lixia, and the Song Yang couple, easily entered this room that spanned over thousands of square meters.

In the center of the room, a mechanical device weighing hundreds of tons sat quietly.

Staring at this bulky machinery, Song Mingsong was full of confusion. This was a piece of high-tech engineering machinery, quite complicated for a Torch Ship Captain like him to decipher the specific steps for operation.

It wasn't just Song Mingsong; Song Chao and Song Yang were also overwhelmed. With dozens of switches on the machine, who could tell which one would restart it?

As for looking up the information online? Impossible when there was no internet connection. How would they use their heads to search?

Fortunately, at that moment, Zhao Lan, Song Yang's wife, stepped forward. Before she met Song Yang, her major was in engineering machinery, so she had a good understanding of these devices.

"This should be a nuclear energy shield generator but only the lowest-powered kind. Compared to the ones on Mobile Warstars fortresses, it's not even close in terms of magnitude," she said.

As she spoke, her hand swiftly touched several points on the device. Soon after, Song Mingsong and the others heard a rising buzzing and roaring sound as the nuclear energy shield generator began to operate again.

After dealing with that, the group didn't stay in the control room any longer.

When they left the control room and unconsciously raised their eyes, they saw the familiar defense light shield reappear above the star thieves' stronghold.

But before they could feel slightly relieved, Song Mingsong's gaze sharply turned, just like with the previous blood blade, looking straight towards the depths of the starry sky behind them.

At the same time, a ghostly light flickered between his brows, summoning the mini form of the Furious Lion, while he also roared:

"Go, enter that Starry Sea Secret Realm, quickly..."

All this happened in the blink of an eye. The four behind him, including Song Chao, responded extremely quickly. Without any hesitation, they wrapped themselves in Spectral Energy and rushed toward the depth of the stronghold.

However, no sooner had the four of them turned around than the direction Song Mingsong was looking at was struck by an alarming light column with a diameter of a hundred meters and a tail flame stretching thousands of kilometers.

Hum!

The light column hit the nuclear energy shield above the star thieves' stronghold, which could resist attacks of Third Rank Peak level. The shield almost immediately collapsed upon contact, and the light column itself seemed barely dimmed.

However, fortunately, it held for an instant, and that instant was long enough for Song Mingsong to leap onto the now kilometer-long Furious Lion.

Even though he had boarded the Furious Lion, Song Mingsong felt no relief; on the contrary, all his hairs stood on end. The threat from this terrifying light column was beyond imagination.

This... this was definitely not an attack that a Third Rank unit could make.

And since it wasn't a Third Rank unit, the answer was clear: the entity that released this light column attack had to be of a Fourth Rank level.

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"So the Moruo Royal Family... has finally made their move!"

With this thought flashing through his mind, Song Mingsong's gaze suddenly narrowed, the solemn expression from a moment ago changing abruptly, turning into a subtle look of joy, one of overwhelming delight at the arrival of the true opponent.

As Song Mingsong's expression shifted, the light beam that had crushed the nuclear energy shield continued to shoot straight down, now blazing above the Furious Lion.

Clearly, the target of this light beam's attack was not the core area of the star thieves' stronghold, but Song Mingsong himself.

Deep within the stronghold, Song Chi, who had witnessed the entire scene through two Fire Peony Soldier Figurines, suddenly opened his eyes and relayed everything he had seen to Bai Xiuqin beside him in the most succinct manner.

After pondering for a moment, Bai Xiuqin, while quickly leading Song Chi and the others toward the secret realm entrance, said coldly,

"They are likely concerned about damaging this secret realm entrance. It seems that the comers must undoubtedly be the Moruo Royal Family behind this."

Song Chi also quickly got up, following his grandmother's swift steps towards the entrance of the secret realm. Unlike the expressionless Bai Xiuqin, his face bore a heavy look. If a Fourth Rank Level entity of terror was present, wouldn't his grandfather outside be in great danger?

What about the backups the family mentioned before? When will they arrive?

"Grandmother, what about Grandfather? If a Fourth Rank member of the Moruo Royal Family truly arrives, the Furious Lion won't be able to withstand it!"

Song Lin, his complexion ashen, expressed his worry from behind Song Chi.

To this question, Bai Xiuqin appeared remarkably calm.

"Alright, there's no need for you to worry about that, your grandfather has his own backups."

"The Moruo Royal Family? They've been lingering in the gutters for thousands of years, surviving in squalor. Nowadays, only they themselves still take those four words seriously."

As Bai Xiuqin spoke, her voice paused slightly and, when she spoke again, her tone was noticeably several degrees higher:

"Remember, we are not the only ones with Fourth-Rank Combat Power, the Dinghai Song family will only have more!!!"

As the words full of confidence from their grandmother reached their ears, for some reason, the slightly frightened Song Qi and the others instantly felt reassured, their pale complexions returning to normal.

But Song Chi was different. He had sorted out all the family's preparations before they started the mission and had believed from the start that his grandfather and the others would have prepared for a direct confrontation with a Fourth Rank Moruo Clan entity.

Therefore, there was not much panic or fear in his heart, only a quick step following his grandmother's while he continued to observe the situation outside through the Fire Peony Soldier Figurines.

Crack!

Layers of the metal armor wrapping the warship's hull shattered, revealing the rather pitiful sight of the Furious Lion beneath.

After passing through the layers of the nuclear energy shield, the Torch Warship's purple-quality energy shield, and the active "Vibrating Gold Armor" feature of the purple warship armor, the horrifying light beam with a hundred-meter diameter, in the end, failed to sink the Furious Lion in a single strike.

[Warning, current warship armor damaged 32%, hull integrity compromised by 16%, please repair immediately!!]

Hearing the alarm in his ear, Song Mingsong's face still maintained its smile, as he raised his gaze.

Above his head, a massive black mecha, over two thousand meters high, stood still, its presence nearly obscuring the entire sky above the stronghold.

The mecha was a dark gray-black color, with its right arm clutching an alloy war sword nearly a kilometer in length, and the palm of its left hand featured a black cannon port of considerable diameter—clearly, the pulse beam had been fired from there.

In addition, attached to the back of its left hand was a tan three-pronged claw, with flickering red lights hinting that this contraption either possessed terrifying armor-breaking might or some other special attribute.

Feeling the terrifying pressure emanating from this giant mecha that blocked the sky, even with mental preparation Song Mingsong's pupils involuntarily contracted sharply, and the smile that had always been on his face now completely stiffened.

At the same time, information about this black mecha surfaced in his mind.

"Fourth-Rank combat unit, the Moruo Space-Escape Mech!"