Wandering Meteor-Chapter 217 - 216: Three-Way Conflict

The vast Star Realm Ball, emitting a mysterious faint glow.

And somewhere within the star zone governed by the Earth Core Civilization, a dazzling explosion suddenly burst forth.

Only the powerful "boom" was heard in the silent void, a blaze soared into the sky, lighting up the heavens, and a vast amount of interstellar material was ejected along with the explosion.

This sudden explosion altered the trajectories of a large quantity of interstellar material, causing it to break away from the star zone and enter the planned flight path of the Wandering Star System.

This meant that if the Wandering Star System continued its flight, it would collide with these densely packed interstellar materials!

Initially, the Wandering Alliance led by Constant Star Lu Chen thought that the only mishap was the interstellar materials, but what they didn’t anticipate was that from the fiery light of the explosion, a circular spacecraft suddenly burst forth.

This spacecraft appeared to be very advanced, around a hundred meters in diameter with a thickness of about thirty meters, presumably equipped with a Space Engine. Judging by the actions of the circular spacecraft, the explosion was likely their attack on materials within the star zone to blast open a path and escape.

And by an unlucky coincidence, this spacecraft also entered the flight path of the Wandering Star System.

To Constant Star Lu Chen’s even greater surprise, behind the spacecraft there was suddenly another pursuit, a Planet Flying Device.

Observing the appearance and design of this Planet Flying Device, it seemed to be nearly identical to the one they had previously encountered from the Earth Core Civilization. Given the star zone was under Earth Core Civilization’s jurisdiction, Constant Star Lu Chen could already guess the rough sequence of events that had occurred.

Green Star, widely knowledgeable and experienced, also guessed the situation immediately and said, "That ship and the Planet Flying Device are completely different; it must be a Star Stealer that entered the star zone. After being discovered by the Earth Core Civilization, they have fled all the way, and quite unfortunately collided with us."

"Sigh, it seems our luck hasn’t been too good lately!"

Wandering couldn’t help lamenting. The internal crisis of the Wandering Alliance had just been resolved, and now they were confronted with this new situation.

Constant Star Lu Chen said, "There’s no need to worry too much about the scattered interstellar material; most will be absorbed by the Neutron Star Defense Line. As for that escaped spacecraft that’s also on our flight path, it’s not difficult to deal with. However, the Earth Core Civilization’s Planet Flying Device is a bit more troublesome; they could expose our tracks. What are your thoughts on this?"

Lu Chen proved to be very accurate in his judgment. As the Wandering Star System got closer and closer to the interstellar materials, those with very small mass were captured by the gravity of the three neutron stars on the periphery of the Wandering Star System and began to slowly fall towards them.

In the end, less than three percent of the meteoritic materials could breach the Neutron Star Defense Line and enter the interior of the Wandering Star System.

These meteoritic materials would be completely intercepted when passing through the element material zone within the Wandering Star System, posing no threat to the biological life of Earth Civilization and Light Synthesis Civilization.

Wandering said, "Since that spaceship is a Star Stealer, it must not be anything good. I suggest we destroy it humanely. As for the Earth Core Civilization’s Planet Flying Device, they must have sent out a message in their initial discovery of us, and our location would have been exposed long ago. The only thing we can do now is to hurry to the Star Realm Tunnel."

Green Star, however, had a different opinion: "I suggest we don’t destroy that spaceship for the time being. Since they are Star Stealers, they might have obtained some unique materials from the star zone; otherwise, they wouldn’t have provoked a relentless pursuit by the Earth Core Civilization. We can capture that spaceship and see what they’ve acquired. As for the Earth Core Civilization’s Planet Flying Device, since exposure is inevitable, I suggest we destroy it immediately. After all, our conflict with the Earth Core Civilization has become inevitable and cannot be resolved. Reducing the enemy’s combat power as soon as possible is undoubtedly the best course of action."

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Just as Constant Star Lu Chen, Wandering, and Green Star were discussing a resolution strategy.

The spaceship that burst out of the Star Zone also detected the presence of the Wandering Star System for the first time and realized through calculations that its own flight path overlapped with Wandering Star System’s, which would result in a collision soon.

To avoid the collision, the lifeforms aboard the spaceship used the ship’s system to calculate an evasion route.

Immediately, they adjusted the engine’s output direction and fled beneath the Wandering Star System.

Because the radius of the Wandering Star System is 9.5 astronomical units, it is a very long distance. Being in the middle made it unlikely for them to avoid it in terms of length, so the only option was to fly downward to avoid the not very thick thickness of the Wandering Star System.

Moreover, to shake off the persistently chasing Planet Flying Device, the spaceship also activated its weapon system and launched a high-compression red energy particle attack at a neutron star on the outermost edge of the Wandering Star System, intending to send the normally stable neutron star flying towards the pursuing Planet Flying Device, triggering a conflict between the Wandering Star System and the Planet Flying Device. In the chaos, the spaceship planned to make its escape.

The actions of the spaceship were not unreasonable; every civilization in the Universe operates on the principle of self-preservation as the first rule—there is no right or wrong, only the cruel laws of survival.

However, from the viewpoint of Constant Star Lu Chen, this was not acceptable.

When Constant Star Lu Chen noticed the actions of the spaceship, he was furious at heart. He immediately controlled Gravity to change the orbital speed of the outermost neutron star, narrowly avoiding the high-compression energy particle attack.

The next moment, Constant Star Lu Chen immediately issued an order for Wandering to strike with full force, using any means necessary to capture the spaceship. Lu Chen would not allow anyone who tried to exploit the Wandering Star System to succeed and would make them pay the price.

After receiving the order, Wandering controlled the Metal Planet to break away from its orbit and chase after the fleeing spaceship.

Because the spaceship was very small compared to a Planet, the Wandering split its giant metal body into hundreds of parts, chasing the spaceship from all directions.

From afar, it looked like hundreds of flying swords were chasing after a spaceship, an incredibly magnificent sight!

On the other hand, Constant Star Lu Chen was leading the Wandering Star System to gradually decelerate and slowly approach the Planet Flying Device of the Earth Core Civilization.

Because Constant Star Lu Chen adopted the suggestion of Green Star, planning to capture the spaceship alive to see what unique interstellar material the latter had obtained within the Star Zone. Meanwhile, before a head-on conflict between the Earth Core Alliance and the Wandering Alliance could occur, Lu Chen also planned to diminish the Earth Core Alliance’s combat power as much as possible.

At the same time.

The Planet Flying Device pursuing the Star Stealer also noticed the intentions of the Wandering Alliance.

Fortunately, they had already sent the coordinates of the Wandering Alliance to the Earth Core Civilization. The high command of Earth Core Civilization ordered them not to engage directly with the Wandering Alliance but to try to stall the opponent and wait for the arrival of the main Battle Star force of the Earth Core Civilization.

The main Battle Star force of the Earth Core Civilization had previously received intelligence from the Parasitic Civilization and was heading towards the conflict location at full speed, but it was unexpected that the Wandering Alliance would take advantage of the situation and employ a strategic deception of luring the tiger away from the mountain. Fortunately, a Planet Flying Device of Earth Core Civilization chasing the Star Stealer encountered the Wandering Alliance heading toward the Star Realm Tunnel at just the right time. This allowed Earth Core Civilization to learn of the Wandering Alliance’s scheme, and they also immediately adjusted the course of their main Battle Star, pursuing the Wandering Alliance.

In a coincidental turn of events, an unavoidable great war between civilizations is imminent!