Time passed bit by bit.

More and more bugs clung to the surface of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser, like bees drawn to honey.

The close-in weapons could no longer clear these bugs from the Starship's armor.

The Interstellar Drones also began to fall one by one.

Interstellar Missiles were gradually depleted.

Even some T2 Hydralisks began to attack the Starship's turret positions.

"Warning! One close-in weapon position has been destroyed!"

"Warning! Star Shield energy is continuously decreasing... 46%..."

"Warning! Hull armor is continuously under attack."

The teachers and students from the Two Academies in the hangar were now enveloped in an aura of death, but the crew members at other Starship positions remained steadfastly at their posts; they could even hear the sound of bugs impacting the hull, but they remained unmoved.

On the Bridge, all the crew members performed their respective duties.

Vice Captain Charlotte handled various combat data with a stern expression.

Zhao Chen maintained a relaxed posture, leaning back in the Captain's chair, his expression calm and unconcerned, as if the tens of thousands of bugs outside were not a swarm but mere ants.

In the external image capture on the Bridge, only dense black bug shadows could be seen, along with the debris and 'bloodstains' left by bugs impacting the hull.

Soon, the third round of main gun cooling was complete, and they fired again, blasting open the dense swarm of bugs in front of the T3 Blizzard.

"Sixty seconds left!" Zhao Chen murmured this number to himself.

This was the time for the bow cannon to reset its charge.

And these sixty seconds, to some extent, determined whether the T3 Blizzard could survive in the bug swarm.

At this point, it was a test of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser's hull strength.

The Interstellar Missiles were depleted.

The four 2500mm cannons re-entered their cooling phase.

Forty seconds...

Of the sixteen medium pulse laser secondary cannons, three were damaged by attacks from T3 Exploding Beetles and T3 Corruptors.

Thirty seconds...

Nearly one-fifth of the seventy-two medium close-in weapons were also damaged and unusable, and this number was still rising.

At the same time, the massive bow cannon located at the front of the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser began to emit a blue light, as if some energy was accumulating within it.

Some bugs that strayed into it were instantly reduced to dust.

Twenty seconds...

All fifty Blizzard Interstellar Drones had fallen.

Ten seconds...

It seemed this prey could no longer escape from the abyss's gaping maw.

"Report, Blizzard-class heavy clustered laser bow cannon ready!" The crew member's voice was so loud it seemed the entire Bridge could hear it.

Zhao Chen and Charlotte shouted those two words almost simultaneously.

"Fire!"

...

Outside the Water Lily Star System's Seventh Planet

A fierce interstellar battle was raging, with a T3 Interstellar Battlecruiser and a Zerg Fleet as the combatants!

If anyone had been observing, they would have noticed that within just five minutes, this T3 Interstellar Warship was swallowed by the bug swarm.

The entire bug swarm was like a black vortex, 'enveloping' the T3 Interstellar Warship within it.

Just when everything seemed to be over, a massive blue light pierced through this black vortex, and countless bugs vanished into nothingness within the blue light.

At the same time, the blue beam shot straight towards a T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership in front.

Perhaps sensing danger, that T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership, unlike its ill-fated 'predecessor,' agilely launched a group of spherical larval spores and performed evasive maneuvers.

These were T1 Bug Units from the T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership, equivalent to decoy flares on an Interstellar Warship, capable of blocking enemy attacks and protecting the Mothership.

Under the impact of the blue beam, these larval spores exploded completely.

Ultimately, the blue beam struck the side biological armor of the T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership, which had made an emergency turn.

The clash of spear and shield was like a comet colliding with a planet. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The entire T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership began to tilt, and its biological armor started to 'melt' little by little.

The T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership opened its massive maw, as if roaring in pain, and more Bug Units flew out from its body, rushing into the beam without hesitation, attempting to neutralize the attack.

Meanwhile, a blue and white Starship burst out from the dense black bug swarm, following the attack line of its bow cannon.

"Don't stop! Full speed ahead!" Charlotte shouted urgently.

The T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser's bow ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ cannon cluster laser quickly dissipated.

A large hole appeared on the side of the attacked T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership; its biological armor was directly blasted open, revealing disgusting Zerg organs inside.

However, it did not penetrate the T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership's body.

The T3 Blizzard, having broken out of the bug swarm, happened to fly past the side of this heavily damaged T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership.

The T3 Blizzard, which had seemed very large, now appeared much smaller next to this T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership.

Hangar

The teachers and students from the Two Academies watched the images projected through the viewport.

They could clearly see the hole in the T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership's biological armor, through which they could see one of the T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership's Zerg incubation chambers, densely packed with Zerg eggs, piled tightly together, numbering at least tens of thousands!

Just looking at it made one's scalp tingle.

Due to this sudden attack, some Zerg eggs shattered prematurely, revealing some Bug Units struggling to crawl out.

And in other areas within, large numbers of Zerg could be seen roaring at them, though those Zerg seemed unable to fly in interstellar space, only able to watch the T3 Blizzard pass by, utterly helpless.

"Gulp... This might be the closest I've ever been to a T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership in my life," a professor specializing in Interstellar Insectoids muttered, excited and trembling slightly.

The T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser did not attack the heavily wounded T3 Insectoid Hive Mothership again but rather bypassed it and continued sailing into the distance.

A large wave-like swarm of bugs was still in pursuit behind them.

However, having lost the advantage of encirclement, they could no longer catch up to this Interstellar Battlecruiser.

Some Zerg Hive Motherships fired biological plasma cannons from behind, but only a few shots hit the Star Shield, which had been adjusted to the rear of the Starship.

"We... escaped?" The teachers and students from the Two Academies exchanged glances, finding the outcome somewhat unbelievable.

They actually survived!