Upon opening his eyes, Li Ming found himself in a turbulent interstellar era. Countless civilizations wielded their hunting rifles, eyeing everything in the universe with predatory gazes, and his m...
At the joint command headquarters, Kostat, Alves and other senior officials were all here, sitting in a row.
On the large screen in front of him was a honeycomb-shaped defense formation diagram. The nodes that had already been garrisoned were blue, and those that were not yet garrisoned were red.
Currently, blue nodes account for about one-third.
Kostat withdrew his gaze from the screen and looked at Charles and the other two in the corner, and couldn't help but say:
Thanks to the three of you for improving the stargate technology and combining it with the dimensional world to create a dimensional stargate, we can reach other dimensional worlds as quickly as possible."
"Otherwise, I don't know when this defense array will be completed."
Charles shook his head and said modestly, "Your stargate technology is actually very mature. I simply combined some dimensional technology from our evolutionary era."
"It's estimated that in two months, the defense array will be fully formed." Alves couldn't help but add, "By then, we should be able to prevent the Abyssal Mist from expanding into the main universe."
"Impossible to intercept," Gad said flatly. "Although the dimensional barrier is a natural defensive line, the infection rate will continue to accelerate. You can't create a convergent energy loop, a supermatter incinerator, or a Holy Eye detection device..."
"It will be penetrated sooner or later. In fact, this kind of defense node is just a human wall with lives, forcibly delaying time. It doesn't count as an interception at all."
The teardrop-headed man looked around at everyone and said, "What you should do most now is to organize your people to evacuate quickly, instead of sharpening your knives and fighting Yongyuan."
During these three months of communication, Charles and others keenly felt a very strange atmosphere.
The top leaders of this evolutionary era were nervous, but not that nervous. They didn't even show the despair they felt when facing Yongyuan.
They originally thought that the arrangement here was just to provide the civilization of the main universe with time to retreat.
But later they found that there was a steady supply of resources being transported here. These guys seemed to really want to fight Yongyuan. This discovery made them silent for a long time.
Alves's face turned slightly cold. These guys started exaggerating the escape theory not long after they arrived here.
If they were not indeed valuable and were not sent by Qinglong, Alvis would have executed them long ago on the charge of inciting the army.
As for the knowledge and technology in the other person's mind, it can be obtained by searching the memory.
Costat stepped in to smooth things over. "We still have three more players. With their experience, we're sure we can effectively intercept them."
Alas... Charles sighed in his heart. He didn't know what Li Ming was talking about in this evolutionary era.
It may also be because this group of people have not really come into contact with Yongyuan. If they have really had in-depth contact with it, they probably would not have such naive ideas.
He didn't think about correcting himself further. For many things, no matter how much others said, it would be useless if he didn't experience them personally.
Just as he was about to speak and cover up the matter as he had done in the past, the defense array diagram on the screen suddenly flashed red.
Several blue nodes flashed frequently.
Charles's face changed in shock. "How could it be so quickly infiltrated into the shallow dimensional world?"
Above the Eternal Abyss is the deep dimensional world, which belongs to half of the void dimension. The dimensional worlds are not connected to each other, so the erosion of the abyss fog will be very fast.
But no matter how fast it is, it won't be this fast.
In the Titan Age, it took a full hundred years for the Eternal Abyss to enter a weakly active level before it eroded into the shallow dimensional world, giving them a long time to prepare.
"Are we going to fight Yongyuan?" Many high-ranking officials were startled. Somewhat caught off guard, they quickly adjusted their minds.
Kostat's expression was solemn as he issued a direct order, "Contact the commanders of these defense nodes. I need to know the situation on the scene as soon as possible!"
………
"Report, we have arrived at defense node 11-45-75 and are preparing to deploy the defense array."
The front-line defense node is a lifeless dimensional world with only endless white land below.
The fleet commander who had just arrived at this defense node was reporting solemnly on the channel, and soon a response came -
"Received. Keep in touch and report any abnormalities."
The commander nodded, hung up the internal communication, and issued a series of instructions with a serious expression.
He was from the Federation and was a veteran commander who had participated in many battles, but he couldn't help feeling a little nervous at the moment.
According to the information he learned, this time the enemy possessed all kinds of strange characteristics that were difficult to estimate using common sense.
While he was thinking about it, the radar suddenly issued a warning, pointing to a position diagonally ahead, showing an area that could not be detected.
"Commander!" the subordinate shouted immediately.
The commander's face was shocked. Through the porthole, he saw the gradually spreading black fog that seeped in from the dimensional world.
Like black ink seeping through the towel.
"How could it be so fast?" His face darkened. "Report the erosion first. Stop other orders and go for it!"
The commander immediately gave orders, and the fleet, which was about to expand, quickly gathered again and headed towards the direction where the black fog was coming from.
Before long, the black fog gradually expanded in front of their eyes, like a black wall, or like a ferocious beast that was ready to devour its prey.
"Prepare…"
The commander's face was solemn, his hand raised, and there was silence in the combat command room.
Until the black mist completely entered the combat range, a roaring roar also exploded in the command room—
"attack!"
The fleet immediately opened fire, firing a salvo. The muzzles of the ship's guns lit up with a dark red light, followed by a dazzling beam of light that pierced through this silent dimensional world.
The moment the beam of light pierced the black fog, it was like thunder striking the bottomless abyss. The compressed million-degree plasma flow exploded, causing ripples of various sizes on the fog surface, like thick bubbles exploding.
But before it could cause further damage, it was completely consumed by the fog and crushed into tiny ash particles.
But a second wave of spiral pulses followed closely behind, and a hexagonal energy matrix unfolded in the fog, which should have torn the space apart to form a core explosion point.
However, the fog in the area that was hit suddenly crystallized, forming countless prism facets, which decomposed and refracted the energy beam, eventually eliminating it completely.
Seeing this scene, the commander's throat couldn't help but roll. No wonder the order from above was just to conduct a tentative attack, without any further instructions.
The black mist that looks like it will dissipate with the wind actually has extremely strong defensive capabilities.
At the same time, strange-shaped ships appeared faintly in the black fog.
Even though the commander had prepared himself mentally before the battle, he was still stunned for a moment when he saw the scene before him.
The fleets emerging from the fog are all strange and varied, each bearing the characteristics of a different civilization.
The hull, shaped like a giant insect, is covered with honeycomb armor and its surface is covered with matte black scales similar to those of a crustacean, but the giant gun barrel hanging below is clearly the annihilation cannon of the mechanical civilization.
There are also pyramid-shaped battleships with religious reliefs carved on the sloping sides, like some kind of ancient god, with dark green gun muzzles intertwined with black vines extending from the palms.
A slender warship shaped like a vertebra is particularly terrifying. Each "vertebra" is a weapon compartment of a different civilization, and the front end is a crystal matrix cannon of silicon-based life.
The middle section is wrapped with a wriggling gun barrel of the flesh-and-blood civilization, but on the back, there is a skeletal structure of bird wings. These alien parts are uniformly dyed black, and only at the seams can the faint glow of the original civilization be seen.
The largest battleship was shaped like a rotten flower bud. The outer petals were a matte black shield woven with energy, while the inner pistil was made up of billions of mechanical compound eyes.
Barbed metal vines continued to grow on the surface of the ship, and the tips of the vines split into biological sickle-shaped blades. If a close-range confrontation occurred, it would definitely be an unimaginable killing weapon.
"What on earth are these... things?" In the combat command room, many soldiers felt a chill from deep within their hearts.
"Prepare to meet the enemy!" The commander shouted, bringing his men back to reality. They quickly adjusted their targets and locked onto the fleets that appeared. Energy beams intersected.
The two sides immediately engaged in a brutal encounter. Fortunately, the strength of these fleets was not as strong as the fog, and they quickly caused obvious casualties.
The two sides are fighting fiercely.
Suddenly, a violent energy fluctuation erupted from the Yongyuan fleet, and a life form with rotten wings on its back flew out from the flower bud-like warship.
Cold and empty eyes looked down at the Interstellar Fleet, and black flames roared out as rotten wings shook violently.
Immediately, many of the joint warships seemed to be responding to stress, and suddenly ejected complex shields composed of energy.
He blocked the attack head-on, and sparks flew everywhere. His energy immediately dimmed a lot, flickered continuously, and he was severely damaged.
"X-level combat power! Requesting support!"
The commander's face changed, and without saying anything, he asked for help in the channel.
The excessive number of shallow dimensional worlds also resulted in the combined fleet being divided too much, and the number of higher life forms was limited, so it was naturally impossible to deploy them at will.
However, the three major civilizations have conducted in-depth research on the dimensional world, and with the help of Charles and others, they urgently created a dimensional star gate that can travel through the dimensional world at high speed, barely meeting the needs of rapid support.
Not long after the words fell, a crack suddenly appeared behind him, and then a figure rushed out with a staff in his hand. It was Alvis.
"Yuan Clan..."
Alves' eyes narrowed, and a hint of interest flashed across his face.
The next moment, vast and boundless rainbow energy surged out like a flood, slamming into the Yongyuan fleet in front of them.
The surging black flames suddenly rolled back, and the Yongyuan fleet in front of them only lasted for a few seconds before it was crushed into light dust and exploded into fireworks by Alvis's vast ocean of energy.
Seeing this, the rotten life form did not run away, nor did it panic at all. Instead, it attacked Alves.
The black flame condensed into a needle and shot towards Alves, immediately making a ding sound, but it could not penetrate Alves' thick energy barrier at all.
Alves said nothing as all kinds of energy burst out from behind him, transforming into thick chains that immediately bound up the Yuan clan member.
The huge gap in energy levels makes it almost impossible for the enemy to move.
Alvis observed the other party carefully, with golden rune rings swirling in his pupils. He had never seen a living Yuan clan member before, let alone one at this level of life.
He intended to see Yongyuan's secret from the other party, but the other party's body structure was extremely strange.
Alves glanced around, but his eyes couldn't help but fall on the other person's deep pupils, like black holes, absorbing everything around them.
Alves felt his consciousness was in a trance and he was sinking into it.
In an instant, a tremendous force came over me.
As if being stared at by some terrifying life form, Alves instantly felt a palpitation and fear deep in his bones, and an uncontrollable fear rose up.
It was far more intense than when he saw Adam become the ultimate life form, and the oppressive feeling brought to him by Qinglong, a guy who was difficult to understand with common sense.
An extremely strong sense of alertness suddenly rose in my mind, as if something extremely terrifying would happen in the next moment.
"Is this Yongyuan?"
Alves quickly looked away, feeling a wave of fear in his heart.
He finally understood why those Titan survivors of Char always had expressions like "I can't beat him", "I can't defeat him", and "I'll just surrender sooner or later" when they mentioned Yongyuan.
Although it was just a fleeting glimpse, at that moment, he felt as if he was facing death. The fear of facing a higher being remained deeply in his heart.
Giving up the idea of continuing the research, Alves mobilized his energy to sweep over the life form in front of him.
Not long after, the rotten life form in front of him was crushed and exploded into debris all over the sky.
At the same time, Alves disappeared from the spot in the first moment. A black liquid like oil swirled around the formation, seemingly unable to find the parasitic life form, and suddenly turned back into the black fog.
Charles specifically reminded that the Yuan people at this level will leave behind the power of the Eternal Abyss. Once eroded, it will be difficult to save them.
"Prepare for preliminary cleanup..." Alves appeared in the distance with a serious expression and gave orders.
The commander looked solemn. Immediately, a column of special spaceships from the combined fleet flew out and came to the edge of the abyss fog. The lower cabin split open, and absorption pipes emerged, which began to extract the spreading abyss fog.
This is one of the few ways to prevent the abyss fog from gushing out, storing it in a container that is difficult to corrode and then destroying it in a unified manner.
Only extremely high-level power can destroy the Abyss Mist. As for the liquefied Eternal Abyss Power, there is no way to deal with it.
Alvis looked for a while, then passed through the dimensional star gate and turned back to the dimensional central command center.
As soon as he arrived at the command room, Gad suddenly stood up and roared angrily, "Didn't we warn you not to attempt any research or exploration of the Yuan Clan? We should just wipe them out. What were you doing just now?!"
Alves frowned slightly, wanting to refute as usual, but when he recalled the feeling just now, he fell silent.
"You haven't been eroded by the Eternal Abyss, have you?" A familiar yet unfamiliar voice sounded in my ears.
Alves turned around subconsciously. He didn't know when Li Ming appeared in the combat command room, staring at him with an inquiring, scrutinizing, and scrutinizing look, with a hint of murderous intent.
Alves' heart trembled.
(End of this chapter)