528: The support troops finally arrived.

In the vast sky outside the base, a fierce battle was unfolding.

The insect race, like dense swarms of black phantoms, launched endless, frenzied attacks against the base's energy shield.

The energy beams emitted by those insect ships were like ferocious bolts of lightning, weaving wantonly through the dark sky and constantly slamming into the shimmering energy shield, sparking brilliant yet dangerous fireworks.

Under this dense barrage of attacks, the energy shield rippled, threatening to break at any moment.

Suddenly, dazzling beams of energy, like sharp blades, whistled in from the distant horizon.

These energy beams, carrying immense impact and destructive power, instantly tore through the dark sky.

In the blink of an eye, two or three insect ships were destroyed by this fierce attack.

Their hulls shattered instantly under the impact of the energy beams, like fragile glass, and countless fragments and debris fell straight toward the planet's surface, like a black meteor shower.

In the distance, dozens of Imperial Starships, like majestic steel behemoths, slowly approached the insect ships; it was the support fleet that He Dong had brought.

In the Command Room of the flagship, He Dong stood with a firm and sharp gaze, looking through the porthole at that incomparably huge insect ship.

This insect ship was like a mobile black fortress; its massive body, even in the pitch-black sky, was exceptionally conspicuous, exuding a chilling aura.

"A new insect ship? Interesting..."

The corners of He Dong's mouth lifted slightly, revealing a confident smile.

His eyes revealed a thirst for challenge and a determination to win.

"Charge the star nuclear fusion main cannon. Once charged, aim at that large insect ship and fire!"

His voice was calm and powerful, filled with unquestionable authority.

"Yes!"

The crew responded in unison, their voices neat and loud.

They acted quickly, beginning to charge the star nuclear fusion main cannon.

As the flagship of the fleet, it was naturally a universal-class starship; its main cannon possessed immense power, but the charging process could not be too fast.

Inside the entire starship, various instruments and equipment began to operate at high speed, emitting a humming sound.

Energy flowed rapidly through the conduits, flashing with dazzling light.

The crew operated the consoles with full concentration, closely monitoring the charging progress.

After about half a minute, the charging was finally complete.

"Star nuclear fusion main cannon charged. Target: giant insect ship... 3... 2... 1... Fire!"

At the order of the launch officer, the entire starship shuddered.

A purple-black energy beam, comparable in size to a starship, erupted from the main cannon, carrying powerful energy fluctuations and terrifying destructive force as it headed straight for that huge insect ship.

This energy beam was like an angry Dragon, carving a dazzling trajectory across the sky; wherever it passed, everything was distorted by its powerful energy, and even space was torn asunder.

The energy beam instantly enveloped the entire insect ship, and the whole ship was swallowed by this powerful energy.

The intense light illuminated the surrounding space, as if daylight had arrived in an instant.

The insect ship had no power to resist under the attack of the energy beam, and the various equipment and structures on its hull disintegrated one after another.

Several seconds passed before the energy beam slowly dissipated.

The huge insect ship was completely gone, as if it had never existed.

The entire insect ship had been reduced to nothingness by the energy beam, leaving no traces behind, only an empty sky.

With the ten-thousand-meter insect ship blasted into nothingness, the remaining ordinary insect ships instantly descended into chaos.

They seemed to have their Soul drained; their originally dense attack formation completely collapsed, and the biological light on their body surfaces flickered wildly as they spread their hull wings, clearly initiating spatial movement—that was their last hope to escape back to the Subspace spatial rift.

But He Dong had long since laid a dragnet; after days of maneuvering against the insect ships, the Imperial forces had already locked onto their spatial jump energy frequency. At this moment, dozens of starships simultaneously activated their spatial anchoring devices, and an invisible energy barrier instantly shrouded the entire Star Domain, as if sealing the space with a steel stamp.

"Hum—"

The insect ship fleet's spatial transition program suddenly failed, and their bodies jerked to a halt, as if they had hit an invisible wall.

They twisted their bodies in panic, their compound eyes flashing with terrified red light, clearly realizing they were trapped.

The instinct to flee overrode everything else; the remaining insect ships no longer fought, turning around and racing toward the purple-black Subspace spatial rift in the starry sky.

But their speed was like a turtle crawling in front of the Imperial Starships.

"All starships, listen up: aim at the remaining insect ships, indiscriminate saturation attack! Don't let a single one remain!"

He Dong's voice echoed in the communication channel, carrying unquestionable resolve.

"Yes!"

In an instant, the ship cannons of dozens of starships lit up simultaneously.

Blazing white energy beams tore through the sky like a rainstorm, and clusters of missiles trailing exhaust flames poured toward the insect ship fleet like a swarm of bees leaving a hive. The main cannon of the universal-class starship recharged once more, and a purple-black beam swept across, instantly cutting the dozen or so insect ships in the front in half.

The insect ship fleet panicked completely. They tried to resist with their carapaces, but under the dense firepower, they were like fragile eggshells. Energy beams easily pierced their bodies, missiles exploded in bursts of fire among the fleet, and dark green body fluids and shattered carapaces fell like a meteor shower.

Some insect ships tried to turn to evade, but were rear-ended by the cannon fire, instantly turning into burning fireballs. Some insect ships launched counterattacks against the Imperial Starships while dying, but they couldn't even break the Imperial Starships' shields before being struck by incoming beams and completely disintegrating.

The whole process took only three short minutes.

When the last insect ship turned into fragments in the gunfire, only floating debris and smoke that had not yet dissipated remained in the sky.

Outside the planet, after all the insect ships were wiped out, the twisted Subspace spatial rift in the starry sky was slowly closing, and the energy ripples at its edge were gradually fading like a dying flame.

Just at the moment the rift was about to disappear completely, an Imperial Starship suddenly appeared directly in front of it, and a pitch-black missile was precisely fired into the rift.

This was the contingency plan He Dong had long since prepared; since the insect race dared to come over, how could He Dong let them return empty-handed?