Chapter 199: Shadows Over Salvador: The Houyi’s Invasion

Three days later.

The Houyi, accompanied by three hundred Zhulong-class B warships, arrived at the front lines and joined up with the Sixth Fleet.

“Commander, are all these Zhulong-class warships?”

“And they’re all equipped with hyperspace engines? Aren’t those supposed to be impossible to manufacture right now?”

Back aboard the Houyi, the moment George stepped onto the bridge, he shot over with excitement plastered all over his face.

“They’re not Zhulong-class, but the upgraded, universal Zhulong-class B warships. They’re not fitted with hyperspace engines either, but with jump engines instead.”

“Wait… does that mean Zero-Point Modules can be mass-produced now?”

“Of course. In fact, the Houyi is carrying ten brand-new Zero-Point Modules right now.”

“But hold on—our ship is already equipped with three sets of Zero-Point Modules. In theory, that’s enough for at least a hundred years. Why do we need to carry ten spares?”

“Are you clueless? Did you forget how we handled things when we fought Klein? Now that these can be mass-produced, it’s best to keep some on hand as secret weapons we can unleash whenever.”

Hearing this,

George was stunned.

Fair enough. They used to have only around thirty, which were barely enough.

Pulling one out just to blow up the Klein—that used to hurt everyone’s hearts.

No wonder it had taken George this long to get his head around it.

But now, after Lin Yu explained, it finally clicked for him.

That’s right. They’re mass-producing these now, so why not have a few tucked away on the ship as top-tier interstellar weapons?

“Hey George, why’d it take you so long to get to the bridge?”

As if suddenly remembering something, Lin Yu asked.

After all, he’d gotten word almost twenty minutes ago that George’s shuttle had docked.

Now the whole ship was equipped with light transmission. So what took him so long?

“Well, the distance from the deck to the bridge is over two kilometers. Isn’t that about right for how long it took?”

Lin Yu smacked his own forehead.

No wonder, honestly.

“Nobody told you not to do that?”

“What do you mean? Oh, now that you mention it… someone did try to stop me. But I was in such a hurry to reach the bridge, I just brushed them off and ran over!”

……

……

Lin Yu fell silent.

Then…

“Actually, you really should have listened to what they wanted to say!”

“What are you talking about?”

Above George’s head hovered a giant question mark.

Right then, a flash of white light appeared, and a figure materialized on the bridge.

It was one of the bridge’s operations officers.

The scene was so wild, George was left speechless.

He couldn’t figure out why no one else was reacting—wasn’t this essentially someone popping out of thin air?

Lin Yu just gave his shoulder a gentle pat.

“George, besides cracking the Zero-Point Module and jump engine tech, we’ve also solved light transmission.”

“Now, the whole ship runs on internal light transmission. Wherever you want to go, you don’t have to walk—just pop into the nearest transmission chamber and you’re there instantly!”

Listening to Lin Yu, George was left in a daze.

“So that person who tried to stop me—that was what they wanted to tell me?”

“Exactly. Which is why I said you should really listen to people.”

“……”

——

With three hundred Zhulong-class B warships under his belt,

Lin Yu was done with the old steady, step-by-step tactics.

This time he opted for a far more aggressive strategy.

So, you guys formed massive joint fleets, huh?

Fine—then while most of you are off deploying your forces…

I’ll just wipe you out one group at a time.

Let’s start with the Salvador Empire!

Right now, the front lines are nearly 47.8 light-years from Salvador’s Imperial Capital.

In other words, they’d need three jumps to get there.

And, to avoid being spotted along the way, the coordinates for the first two jumps needed to be chosen with care.

But with Parlo and Tuoba on hand, that was a non-issue.

They might struggle for internal Alliance intel now, but when it came to hidden spots where you could lie low for a day without anyone noticing, they knew plenty.

Back in their days with the Alliance, their people often entered the core area, so they had detailed star charts.

Picking a few coordinates where you wouldn’t get spotted was child’s play.

So, three days later—

Without being detected at any point—

The Houyi and its three hundred Zhulong-class Bs appeared suddenly right outside Salvador’s Imperial City.

These were three hundred upgraded, weaponized Zhulong-class warships—the full firepower package!

Honestly, it wouldn’t matter if the capital had a thousand warships or even ten thousand—they’d all be useless here.

The crucial detail? Nobody expected an attack in this place.

Because…

The Salvador Empire is nestled right in the Alliance’s central zone. If you wanted to stage an attack…

You’d have to fight your way through dozens of light-years and run into several Class II civilizations along the way.

But the impossible was suddenly a reality.

The thousand warships stationed in the capital didn’t even make it out of the spaceport. Thousands of piercing blue ion beams raked across the sky, shredding the spaceport like a hornet’s nest.

A chain of massive explosions erupted.

Every warship, every imperial soldier within, was obliterated—the thousand warships wiped out in an instant.

Then, the mech unit and Heavy Infantry, already prepped and waiting, teleported straight into the Imperial Palace using light transmission.

Meanwhile, the ground troops and local military facilities surrounding the palace—

—in that moment, were hit by orbital strikes from above and reduced to nothing.

As for the palace guards—they only had sidearms. Against Heavy Infantry and Bai Ze Mechs, they didn’t stand a chance.

It was a one-sided massacre, over in just three minutes.

The emperor of the Salvador Empire, along with the three dukes who happened to be in the palace, were all captured without exception.

And beyond those four big names, over a hundred more high-ranking officials were captured.

Next step: get everyone back to the Houyi.

How to bring them back?

Simple—use light transmission again.

After all, light transmission isn’t just one-way. It works in both directions.

As long as the target is within transmission range, you can pinpoint a location and move anything inside to another spot in an instant.

They could move people from the ship to the surface,

Or from the surface right back to the ship.

It was incredibly convenient.

For accurate transfers, every infantryman, hover vehicle, and Bai Ze Mech carried a special signal transmitter so the Houyi could lock on at any time.

As for prisoners, there was an easy fix for that too.

Before heading out, the infantry packed signal transmitters—

Tiny things, no bigger than a button, slipped into the captives’ clothing.

At that, beams of white light flashed again and again.

With every flash, another figure vanished—and soon enough…

With nothing left but the ruined palace and scorched earth below,

Everyone was gone.