Chapter 604 Cause and Effect!

Fang Yunsheng, who was in the node universe, did not know what kind of tsunami his reported news had caused in the Academy of Sciences.

At this moment, he was preparing to lead the Z619 expedition fleet to launch the first round of general attack on the central black hole star field of the node universe.

Yes, general attack!

In the rule battlefield created by nearly 100,000 Genesis Fortresses and covering the entire universe bubble, the innate disadvantages of the Apophis Giant Scorpion were infinitely magnified.

——Even if the giant scorpion has completely adapted to the rules of the node universe with its own good adaptability, it is far from adapting to the basic rules that are changing all the time in the starry sky.

The speed of light constant, natural constants, four basic forces, conservation of energy...

Almost every major change in the rules will give the Apophis Scorpion group a real-time refreshed debuff.

At the same time, with the small Genesis unit that is standard inside the warship, each warship of the Human Alliance has fully retained its own combat power. To some extent, these warships have even received a certain degree of gain BUFF - for example, the precise change of the speed of light constant makes the attack of the zero-point ray more fierce, and the precise adjustment of the four basic forces greatly improves the armor strength of the warship, and the frequency and landing point of high-dimensional jumps become more and more elusive...

With this increase and decrease, coupled with the huge fleet carefully prepared by the Human Alliance, it is no exaggeration to say that crushing withered and rotten is the most perfect interpretation of this war.

In a very short time, the scorpion group was forced into the central black hole star field by the triple encirclement array formed by the fleet.

This should be the prelude to a great victory. This

is indeed the case.

But...

In the flagship command center, Fang Yunsheng's face is not very good, and even vaguely reveals a deep sense of uneasiness and irritability.

"Something is wrong."

Fang Yunsheng kept repeating, "There must be something wrong!"

"I say, Commander Fang, is there any problem?"

On the side, Qin Yao looked at Fang Yunsheng helplessly, "The Human Union has made so many preparations, it is only natural to annihilate the Apophis giant scorpion in one fell swoop!"

Fang Yunsheng glanced at Qin Yao, and then looked into the depths of the starry sky again.

He shook his head slightly, "Old Qin, you haven't been to the Apophis mother universe in person, so you naturally don't understand what I mean."

"Whether it is the scale of the mother universe or the performance of the Apophis civilization in the universe, it proves that their strength is far superior to that of the Human Union!"

"But they don't have the rule technology." Qin Yao shrugged and interrupted Fang Yunsheng's words, "This alone is enough to make them perish."

"..."

Fang Yunsheng was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "How is the reduction in the scorpion group?"

"Less than 10%." Before Qin Yao could speak, an officer had already presented the specific battle loss figures on the holographic interface of the command center.

"Less than 10% casualties, but more than 90% of the defensive positions were given up..."

Fang Yunsheng's right eyelid twitched slightly: "Old Qin, listen to it yourself, is this situation really reasonable?"

"Isn't this the credit of time technology?"

Qin Yao tried to defend: "If the giant scorpions did not master the Planck time frame technology, their losses would have been at least several times higher!"

Fang Yunsheng said faintly: "Then there is no reason for the giant scorpions to give up 90% of the defensive positions, right?"

"They can definitely fight a protracted war with us."

Qin Yao's voice stagnated, and for a moment he couldn't find any words to refute.

I have to admit that Fang Yunsheng is right, and the current battle situation is indeed a bit weird.

"Until now, the fleet has not found the whereabouts of the Xinaluo civilization."

Fang Yunsheng's solemn voice continued: "Let alone the Xinaluo civilization, we haven't even found the temporary small universe where the Xinaluo civilization is."

"This is not good news!"

Qin Yao scratched his head: "So should we fight or not?"

"Old Fang, you should just give me a definite answer!"

Fang Yunsheng stared at the bright yellow and blue-purple light spots in the depths of the starry sky and fell into deep thought.

Each light spot represents an Apophis giant scorpion.

And outside the porthole, such light spots have formed dense spots in the starry sky. If observed from a farther distance, these spots faintly construct an ultra-standard "river system" with a diameter of tens of millions of light years!

"... Fight!"

Fang Yunsheng's eyes flashed with a fierce look: "Launch a general attack and show me the true intention of the Apophis civilization!!"

The moment the voice fell, the dim starry sky suddenly brightened!

That was the glow of the naval gun salvo!

Almost at the same time, the Apophis scorpion, which had been retreating again and again, finally stopped its retreat.

"Roar!!!"

A high-pitched tachyon hissing sound roared from the depths of the scorpion!

The moment they heard this hissing sound, all the Apophis giant scorpions became excited!

That was an order from the king! !

The next moment!

A bright yellow light suddenly lit up in the depths of the "galaxy", and the obscure information flow was hidden in the surging information fluctuations, easily wrapping up the star field where the scorpion was located.

For a moment.

The deep starry sky was completely divided into two camps of different colors.

——The core area where the central black hole is located flashes with a faint bright yellow light, while the star field outside the core area is completely reflected in dark blue and red.

Judging from the volume occupied, the bright yellow light is obviously the weaker side.

But the moment the two sides came into contact, it did not show such an effect - the thin layer of bright yellow light was like a wall of sighs, firmly guarding the last position of the scorpion group.

Whether it was the zero-point ray or the triggered macro-electronic bomb, the moment it reached the wall of sighs, it was silently "solidified" in the starry sky.

After a short wait, these offensives that were enough to tear apart the ordinary universe disappeared in front of everyone in an extremely strange way!

...

"Time...still?"

Looking at the scene outside the porthole, Fang Yunsheng's pupils suddenly dilated: "No, not just time still!"

"Those offensives...how did they disappear?"

This was a new technology he had never seen before!

Thinking of this, Fang Yunsheng felt a chill behind him - after the war, the Apophis giant scorpion could actually pull out a new trump card, which was undoubtedly a chilling thing!

The atmosphere in the flagship command center became more and more solemn.

"Old Fang, have you noticed?"

Qin Yao's voice suddenly sounded: "From just now, the giant scorpions have been reluctant to take the initiative to attack, but just hiding behind the barrier."

"It seems..."

"Are they also stalling for time?" Fang Yunsheng's eyes moved, and he took over Qin Yao's words, "We are waiting for the technological breakthrough of the Academy of Sciences, but these giant scorpions..."

"What are they waiting for?"

While talking to himself, Fang Yunsheng couldn't help but think of his previous experience in the Apophis mother universe - [Respected Your Majesty, your loyal people will fully cooperate with you to complete the final plan. ]

The message from the Apophis civilization lingered in his mind again.

Fang Yunsheng suddenly had a bad idea in his mind.

Could it be that...

they are waiting for His Excellency Chen Fan?

"I just took a look." Beside him, Qin Yao also retracted his gaze from the holographic communication interface, "The anti-universe war zone has encountered the same situation."

"However, the scale of the scorpion group there is much smaller than that of the node universe, so the pressure to deal with is not that great."

"Is the anti-universe war zone also stalling for time..."

Fang Yunsheng frowned even deeper.

Now, he was more certain that the Apophis civilization must be holding its breath and preparing to use its ultimate move.

"Yes." Qin Yao nodded, "We have no way to break through the scorpion's defense at present. My suggestion is that since these giant scorpions want to delay time, we should waste time with them."

"Everything, wait until the research of the Academy of Sciences breaks through." As

soon as the voice fell, a message marked as the first priority quietly popped up in the holographic interface in front of Fang Yunsheng.

He subconsciously glanced at it.

The moment he saw the content of the message clearly, the sadness in his eyes instantly dissipated, and a smile appeared on his face involuntarily.

"Just do as you said, delay!!"

In Qin Yao's confused eyes, Fang Yunsheng laughed out loud: "The Academy of Sciences succeeded!"

"The time interference weapon has passed the actual machine test!"

Fang Yunsheng stood up suddenly, looking at the wall of sighs with his eyes full of spirit: "The Academy of Sciences has set off. As long as we can delay until the Academy of Sciences arrives at the node universe, the final victory of this war must belong to us!"

...

Node universe, the core area of ​​the Apophis scorpion.

[King, we have used up more than half of our time crystals.]

A sturdy guard scorpion carefully sent a message to the queen worm not far away: [If we continue to waste time like this, sooner or later our race will...]

​​[Shut up!] The queen worm suddenly opened her scarlet eyes filled with tyranny, and angrily screamed at the guard scorpion in front of her: [The ultimate order, you and I cannot question it!]

[If the time crystal reserves are not enough, then take them from the worker scorpions! If they are still not enough, take them from the soldier scorpions!]

[As long as the final plan can succeed, no matter how great the loss of our race is, it is worth it!]

Hearing the words of the queen worm and looking at the queen worm's aggressive eyes, the guard scorpion felt a chill in his heart.

Hearing the deep meaning of the queen worm's words - if the soldier scorpions are all dead, then the next batch will probably be the guard scorpions.

It did not want to resist the queen worm's orders. In fact, as long as the queen worm gave an order, the entire scorpion group would unconditionally obey this seemingly bloody order.

But...

[King. 】

【The Crown never showed up. 】 The guard Scorpion lowered his posture even more, 【I am not questioning the Ultimate's order, but...】

【I am worried that if this continues, the Ultimate's final destruction plan will be affected. 】

【Especially the second test site, the defense pressure there will be even greater. 】

【By then...】

The anger in the queen's eyes gradually subsided. Obviously, it also realized the dangers of this kind of protracted battle.

【...I understand. 】

The queen leaned down again, and the information flow around her began to float slowly at a specific frequency: 【I will tell the Ultimate about this situation truthfully. 】

...

Nothingness.

One by one, information aggregates emerged from the depths of nothingness, like a sea embracing hundreds of rivers, and quickly gathered at the edge of the barrier.

For them, this is not an ideal living area.

In fact, the environment here can be described as harsh - if the depths of nothingness are compared to the surface of a planet suitable for survival, then the barrier area, which is only "separated by a wall" from the Order Realm, can be regarded as the edge of the atmosphere.

Because of this, after arriving at the barrier area, most information aggregates subconsciously moved away from the barrier. Only a few large-sized information aggregates could withstand the energy-deficient environment at the edge of the barrier.

Suddenly.

[Yuan, you are late again.]

While a group of aggregates were waiting anxiously, the largest information flow aggregate swung its somewhat bloated body and transmitted an information flow to the depths of nothingness.

The next second.

An aggregate arrived late and hurried to the side of the person who was speaking: [Wang, I'm sorry, I'm late...]

[Humph, you are always like this! 】

【Thinking back then, Fan didn't...】

Wang snorted coldly and changed the subject a little abruptly: 【The final plan is about to start, why didn't Fan appear at the third test site as planned? 】

【Answer me, Yuan! 】

Yuan fell into silence.

It endured the energy-poor environment around it and approached the area where the barrier was carefully.

As it approached, a looming suction force gradually became obvious, which aggravated its discomfort.

It knew in its heart that this was a normal phenomenon in the barrier area-

the hyperspace membrane relies on absorbing energy from the void to strengthen itself.

Because of this, as the hyperspace membrane grows, the energy in the void gradually becomes scarce, and the living space of the tribe members continues to shrink.

Even...

In the past 93 order cycles, there have been many areas in the vast void where tribe members can no longer be born!

For the Suming clan, this is tantamount to a countdown to extinction!

【Yuan, move faster. 】

The urging from Wang came from behind, and Yuan could only retract his somewhat scattered thoughts and close the distance with the barrier again, in order to try to observe the world inside the hyperspace membrane.

Soon, it locked the coordinates of Fan by relying on the positioning information flow.

At the moment of determining the coordinates, Yuan's heart trembled slightly.

It was the main universe of a membrane-level civilization.

Yuan was actually not unfamiliar with this membrane-level civilization-due to the special location of the third test site, this neighboring membrane-level civilization had entered its sight very early.

At first, it did not care about this civilization.

The reason is very simple.

In the resonance process of information transmission, almost all civilizations will gradually become extinct-this happened in the first test site at the beginning.

But as time went on, this civilization showed a peculiar resilience.

This membrane-level civilization did not become extinct due to the side effects of resonance, and even continued to expand its territory, even incorporating the third test site into its territory!

For this reason, Yuan deliberately adjusted the power and direction of the resonance, trying to solve this uncertainty in advance.

Obviously, it still failed.

Not only that, in the future he glimpsed, this unknown membrane-level civilization also caused considerable interference to subsequent plans!

This is a big trouble!

Yuan had to continue to adjust the plan.

It even did not hesitate to transfer the test subjects of the first test site to this membrane-level civilization, so that those Apophis giant scorpions could eliminate this uncertainty in advance.

It was this step that directly destroyed all the futures that it and [Fan] had glimpsed.

Of course, to be more precise, it was the future that it glimpsed - the future that [Fan] glimpsed back then, in fact, as early as the day when the consciousness fusion experiment was successful, there were unforeseen changes.

[How could this happen...]

Yuan couldn't believe what he saw: [Fan... was captured by that membrane-level civilization? ]

[Humph! ]

The king's cold snort came again: [It's better that it was just captured. ]

[Just now, the No. 1 test subject sent a message. According to the information held by those scorpions, Fan has joined the membrane-level civilization called the Pan-Universe Human Alliance. ]

[...Rebellion, rebellion? ]

Yuan was a little dazed: [This, this is impossible! ! ]

[At the beginning...]

[At the beginning, Fan took extra safeguards. No matter what happened, the final destruction plan would be successfully launched! 】

Hearing this, Wang, who was standing by, seemed to have thought of something. He swung his body and instantly came to Yuan's side. He pulled out a stream of information from his body that looked like a tentacle and grabbed Yuan in front of him.

【You activated that thing without authorization? ! 】

Seeing Yuan nod in agreement, Wang instantly fell into a rage: 【Damn it! How dare you activate that device without authorization? ! 】

【You... and Fan, don't you know how harmful it is? ! 】

Yuan didn't speak, but just stared at the barrier not far away in a daze.

【No wonder...】

Wang murmured in a low voice: 【No wonder Fan made those arrangements at the No. 2 test site at that time...】

【If it was that device...everything can be explained. 】

Yuan stared blankly at Wang in front of him, his tone a little dry: 【You...what do you mean by that? 】

[Do you still remember when the Second Test Site was invaded by other civilizations? ] Wang did not answer this question directly, but asked Yuan a question in return.

Yuan nodded.

Of course it remembered.

At that time, it was just an assistant of Fan.

At that time, a high-level civilization that also mastered time technology suddenly appeared in the Second Test Site, which caused panic within the civilization.

It was also at that time.

After a spying experiment on the timeline, Fan suddenly proposed to include the No. 2 test subject in the final destruction plan.

[At that time, Fan suddenly found me. ] Wang recalled in a low voice, [It told me very eagerly that the high-level civilization that mastered time was the No. 2 test subject that we had cultivated with great effort. ]

[Fan did not know why such a thing happened, and could only attribute it to the disturbance of the timeline itself. ]

[This news surprised me so much that I even wanted to destroy the No. 2 test subject and the Second Test Site in advance. ]

[At first, Fan agreed with my suggestion. ]

[But for some reason, it suddenly changed its mind. ]

[Fan told me that a nebula life appeared in the No. 2 test site, which was very likely the layout of the No. 2 test subject from the future. 】

【I want to wipe out this life form, but...】

【Fan rejected this proposal again. It was ready to take advantage of the situation and include the nebula life in the final destruction plan. 】

【I didn't understand Fan's meaning at that time, and I don't know why Fan suddenly changed his plan. 】

【But now it seems... everything may depend on that device. 】

Yuan's body shook violently, and the information flow in his body became chaotic instantly: 【No, this is impossible...】

【Fan activated the device before the third experiment, which was the consciousness fusion experiment! 】

【And the invasion of the second test site...】

Yuan used all his strength and roared to the king in front of him: 【But it happened before the device was activated! ! ! 】

Silence.

The barrier area fell into a dead silence in an instant.

Yuan's body trembled slightly, and a strong chill spread from the depths of nothingness, eventually covering his whole body.

【...】

Wang sighed helplessly: 【This is why Fan wanted to seal up the device in the first place. 】

【Modifying time is itself a dangerous operation. 】

【Not to mention...】

【Modify the cause and effect. 】

The king's eyes were full of regret: 【Yuan, you should have stopped it at that time. 】

Yuan stood there in a daze, his thoughts already in chaos.

Time, cause and effect...

Was it the final destruction plan that Fan started first that gave birth to the ghost civilization, or was it the cause and effect that Fan modified at the last minute, going upstream and changing the original flow direction of the timeline...

It couldn't see clearly.

It really couldn't see clearly!

Since taking over Fan's work, this is the first time it has felt so scared about its own work!

【...Inform the research institute that there was an accident with the original plan, and let them act according to plan number two. 】

【Release the nebula life and force the final destruction to start! 】

The voice of the king came from not far away, stirring Yuan's thoughts again.

It seems that the final destruction plan is indeed going to be successfully launched.

But the process of starting it has deviated far from 【Fan】 and the future it has glimpsed.

[Fan, is this the power of time itself...]

Yuan turned around and staggered towards the depths of nothingness: [Any existence that attempts to control time... will eventually be punished accordingly...]

[I see...I see...]

(End of this chapter)