Chapter 516 A desperate fight
"Protracted war?"
In the anti-universe bubble, in the flagship fortress command center, Fang Yunsheng frowned and looked at Xu Mingqi beside him: "Academician Wang really said that?"
"Yes."
Xu Mingqi nodded, looking somewhat helpless: "The Academy of Sciences currently has no way to crack this technology. We can only wait for it to consume its own energy and passively exit, or the giant scorpion will actively stop extracting time frames..."
Consume its own energy?
Fang Yunsheng looked at the giant scorpion covered by endless artillery fire outside the porthole with some suspicion: "If I remember correctly, this thing has mastered vacuum zero-point energy. It's a bit difficult to exhaust the energy in its body, right?"
"As for waiting for the other party to stop extracting time frames..."
"Then how long will this battle last?!"
"No big problem!"
Seeing Fang Yunsheng's face getting darker and darker, Xu Mingqi hurriedly added: "According to the research results of Academician Wang, the other party cannot do anything when extracting time frames."
"We can reduce the attack range of the fleet and set up temporary factories on a large scale. Theoretically, this protracted war will not put any pressure on the Z619 peacekeeping fleet..."
"I'm not worried about this problem." Fang Yunsheng glanced at the almost invisible starry sky outside the porthole with worry, "I'm worried about this universe."
"Don't forget, this universe bubble can't last much longer."
"You also know the lethality of the collapse of the universe bubble. What if the peacekeeping fleet is still fighting with the giant scorpion at that time..."
Xu Mingqi's face changed slightly.
Damn it, how could he forget about this matter!
The power released by a cosmic bubble with a scale of tens of billions of light years when it collapses is absolutely unimaginable for ordinary people.
It is definitely the most magnificent force in nature!
Not to mention the peacekeeping fleet, even if it is the Genesis Fortress, it is located inside such a level of collapse, it is probably difficult to preserve itself!
Xu Mingqi did not speak, but quickly called up a series of data on the holographic interface beside him.
Regarding the collapse of the cosmic bubble, the Human Union has a fairly complete prediction model.
After inputting various latest detection data into the model, the shipboard main brain quickly gave an answer.
"Less than two years..."
Looking at the numbers in front of him, Xu Mingqi's face became more and more ugly.
What can be done in two years?
Let alone a protracted war, in the span of the universe, any small conflict between two civilizations will take dozens of times or even dozens of times longer to resolve! !
"Why is the time for the collapse of this cosmic bubble... shortened so much?"
Xu Mingqi asked subconsciously.
In his memory, it takes about four to five years for the entire cosmic bubble to collapse completely from the initial destruction of the cosmic membrane, but now... there
is only this little time left!
As soon as he said this, Xu Mingqi came back to his senses and quickly realized the reason behind it.
The rule attack launched by the Genesis Fortress destroyed a large number of scorpion groups and large giant scorpions, but it also caused secondary damage to the cosmic membrane. In addition, the cutting of the super-large-scale microcosms has greatly reduced the lifespan of this cosmic bubble compared to before!
Genesis is the reason for success and failure.
"Damn it!"
Xu Mingqi cursed in a low voice. He subconsciously raised his hand and prepared to call up the communication interface to report the situation to Wang Jing.
But...
in the next second, the star field covered by the fleet's artillery fire showed abnormal movement! !
...
[Damn it, damn it, damn it...]
The giant scorpion looked at the artillery fire around it, which had not weakened at all and even showed a trend of gradual strengthening. The only remaining eye finally showed a panic look.
It knew that dragging it on like this was definitely not a solution.
Not to mention its crystal that was about to be consumed, just the gradually increasing space-time fluctuations in the chaos were not a good sign.
Although its sight was completely blocked by the artillery fire, it could still perceive one thing from the chaotic fluctuations of time and space - the fleet scattered in the surrounding starry sky was encircling its position at a very fast speed.
If it dragged on like this, when the crystal was exhausted, it would only be a dead end! !
As a worker insect exploring the outside world, at the moment of life and death crisis, the instinct deeply imprinted in its genes finally moved.
Even if it could not survive safely, it had to tell the mother civilization the coordinate information of this civilization and this universe!
The mother civilization needs this information!
The king far away in the mother universe... needs this information even more! !
With the resources and technological support of this civilization, the king's plan...
may succeed.
After realizing this, a fierce color flashed in the giant scorpion's single eye.
It's time to fight!
The fierce color in the giant scorpion's only remaining single eye became more and more intense, and at the same time, the white light lingering on the broken flesh wings on its back gradually became brighter!
…
“Beep, beep, beep—”
Along with the piercing warning sound that sounded without warning in the command center, an extremely strong pale white light rose up at the center of the bombing.
The light was so bright that no matter whether it was the zero-point ray or the dark matter cannon, or any other powerful weapon, it all seemed extremely dim in front of this pale white light.
“Warning! High-intensity information fluctuations detected!”
As soon as the voice of the shipboard main brain sounded, Fang Yunsheng and Xu Mingqi in the command center changed their faces - the scene in front of them was too familiar to them!
Isn't this the scene where the giant scorpion released the information shock before? !
Recalling the painful feeling of countless complicated information rushing into the brain in an instant, Xu Mingqi couldn't help but shudder.
"Damn it!" On the side, Fang Yunsheng couldn't help but curse, "Old Xu, didn't you say that this thing can't be moved?!"
Xu Mingqi's face was bleak: "Academician Wang is talking about the action in the physical sense."
"Theoretically, it should not include information flow shock, so..."
"Fuck!"
After hearing Xu Mingqi's words, Fang Yunsheng didn't have time to think, and directly pressed the button for the ship-wide broadcast: "Attention all ships!"
"Emergency order, keep attacking, retreat at full speed!!"
"Titan ships No. 4 to 11, Genesis units are running at full power, and they will cover the rear with the flagship fortress!"
The psychological shadow left by the previous information flow storm on Fang Yunsheng was too huge.
You know, in a close contact, the Titan mothership can't withstand the impact of this information flow storm, not to mention those main battleships that only carry micro Genesis units!
If we don't retreat urgently, an information flow storm will come, and I'm afraid the fleet on the scene will be reduced by half!
The moment the order was issued, the fleet that had surrounded the giant scorpion suddenly withdrew to the empty starry sky behind, and the previously cramped starry sky instantly became spacious.
Of course.
The artillery fire covering the star field where the giant scorpion is located has not weakened at all.
This should be a perfect response.
It's just...
the speed at which the pale light increases obviously exceeded Fang Yunsheng's expectations.
Almost the second the fleet began to retreat, the pale light had already developed to its peak state-it completely overwhelmed the fleet's artillery fire, ignored the law of light propagation, and directly dyed the entire star field pale white! !
"..."
Looking at the pale light coming from the porthole, Fang Yunsheng's pupils quickly dilated, he opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound.
It's over.
At this moment, only these two words appeared in Fang Yunsheng's mind!
Wow!!!
Under the gaze of Fang Yunsheng and Xu Mingqi, the pale light suddenly shrank as if it could breathe, and then expanded rapidly.
After repeating this three or two times, the pale light suddenly "collapsed"!
Yes.
Collapse!
Just like a broken mirror, the starry sky that was dyed pale white also began to show cracks. As the white light gradually shattered and disintegrated, the deep starry sky that was originally covered reappeared in front of everyone.
At the same time, the harsh information entropy warning sound also began to gradually weaken-the intensity of the information flow in the starry sky actually dropped without any signs!
"... What about the information shock?"
On the side, Xu Mingqi, who subconsciously held his breath and prepared for the shock, opened his eyes hesitantly and turned to look at Fang Yunsheng, who was also confused: "This... what's going on?"
"The white light just now... wasn't an information flow storm?"
Fang Yunsheng was stunned for a moment, and whispered in a low voice: "What does the giant scorpion want to do?"
"Warning!!!"
Before Fang Yunsheng finished speaking, the synthesized voice of the shipboard mainframe had already issued an extremely high-pitched and sharp warning: "The target is lost! Repeat, the target is lost!!"
Now, Fang Yunsheng was completely panicked.
The target is lost?
At this point, what else can be the target of the peacekeeping fleet except the giant scorpion?
It was agreed that the giant scorpion could not move freely, but in the blink of an eye, the giant scorpion was gone? ! !
Are you kidding him here? ! !
On the side, Xu Mingqi, who heard the warning, had jumped up from his seat.
With trembling hands, he quickly called up a holographic interface full of dense monitoring data-due to the bombing of the fleet, the giant scorpion could not be observed by the naked eye and conventional observation methods alone. Therefore, the fleet could only indirectly infer the location of the giant scorpion through some relatively complex monitoring data.
Just a glance, Xu Mingqi's face changed.
Just as the warning of the shipboard main brain, whether it is gravitational waves or other monitoring data, it clearly proves one point.
At this moment, the giant scorpion has disappeared from the center of the explosion! !
"How is this possible?"
Xu Mingqi murmured in a low voice: "How can the giant scorpion move in the state of extracting the time frame... This, this does not conform to the model of the Academy of Sciences..."
Could it be...
that the time frame model is wrong?
This is not a strange thing.
It is better to say that when the data and theory are limited, it is a miracle that the model derived out of thin air is not wrong!
It's just...
this time point is not appropriate.
In war, especially in wars between civilizations of the same level, this major mistake is enough to change the direction of a war!
Imagine that the giant scorpion, who was 1 Planck time ago, rushed into the peacekeeping fleet unscrupulously under the fire...
It would be a one-sided massacre!
Thinking of this, Xu Mingqi suddenly felt cold in his hands and feet!
"Old Xu! I found it!!"
Just when Xu Mingqi's mind was blank, Fang Yunsheng's curse came from the side: "Damn it, this stink bug actually ran to the edge of the bombing area..."
"Wait, why do I feel that its state is a little bit wrong?"
"Dead?!"
Xu Mingqi was stunned.
What the hell? Died already?
Before he had time to think carefully, he hurriedly looked at the holographic interface in front of Fang Yunsheng.
The pale light had dissipated, and in the dim starry sky, only the "fireball" filled with endless explosive power remained.
A giant scorpion that was completely unrecognizable, like a piece of broken rag, quietly hung on the edge of the fireball - the reason why the giant scorpion was described as completely unrecognizable was because the body of this giant scorpion was too messy.
The triangular flesh wings had disappeared, leaving only a small piece of light green bone and flesh exposed on the bloody back, and the dark purple armor was gone.
Not only that, its tens of thousands of kilometers long scorpion tail and thousands of kilometers long gastropod also disappeared completely. Even the body that was originally as large as a gas giant planet was now only a small half of the wreckage.
The wreckage was full of dense cracks, as if it was torn and impacted by some powerful force.
The width of each crack reached tens of kilometers, just like the large rift valley on the surface of some planets with active cores.
The light green viscous body fluid was like a fountain, gushing out from these deep cracks that could see the bones, and forming a group of spherical "dewdrops" in the universe.
It died.
Or in other words, it was on the verge of death at this time!
Looking at the scene in the holographic interface, Xu Mingqi's frown slowly stretched, and the doubts and uneasiness in his heart gradually dissipated at this moment: "I understand..."
The time frame model of the Academy of Sciences is correct.
Forcibly moving during the extraction of the time frame will inevitably cause fatal damage to itself.
It's just...
the time frame model ignores the influence of one thing-information flow.
Theoretically, the giant scorpion would be directly torn into countless particle-level fragments when it moves, but the emergence of information flow has significantly improved this phenomenon.
Although the specific principle is unclear, under the protection of the previous strong information flow, it has only suffered unprecedented damage.
Unlike Xu Mingqi who was still in deep thought, Fang Yunsheng's eyes had already lit up!
With countless experiences in commanding fleets, he realized one thing at the first time:
credit, this is a huge credit!
Even if its body is no longer intact, it is the corpse of a ninth-level civilization after all!
Wow!
This overwhelming credit actually fell on his head...
Fang Yunsheng's heart beat violently twice.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and methodically issued orders to the peacekeeping fleet that had stopped retreating: "Titan No. 4 and No. 5, follow the flagship and approach from the front!"
"Titan No. 6, approach from below!"
"Everyone, cheer up, take the body of the giant scorpion..."
Before the words fell, a faint white fluorescence quietly emerged from the giant scorpion that looked like a puddle of mud.
At the same time, under Xu Mingqi's gaze, the information entropy fluctuation value that had originally returned to zero slowly climbed again.
"It's not dead yet!!"
Xu Mingqi's face changed slightly, and he interrupted Fang Yunsheng's words directly: "It wants to fight back!!"
"... Tsk!"
Fang Yunsheng frowned, and after a strong tsk, he gave a new order: "Damn it, charge the ship's guns!"
"Since it's not dead yet, kill it completely and then recycle the body!!"
Fang Yunsheng said fiercely.
...
Under Fang Yunsheng's order, accompanied by the strong fluctuations of time and space, the huge fireball formed by the explosion in the starry sky began to gradually dim.
One after another, the warships cut through the sky and flew in the predetermined direction, forming a net around the giant scorpion whose life and death were uncertain.
Perhaps it was because it sensed the whistling fluctuations of time and space beside it, or perhaps it was the instinct engraved in its genes that made the giant scorpion, which had almost lost consciousness, wake up slowly.
Its only remaining eye also disappeared when it broke free from the time axis, but it could still feel the fluctuations of time and space around it.
[Mother civilization...]
[King...Report...]
A barely detectable white fluorescence extended from the broken flesh on the back, sending a message to the surrounding starry sky that no one responded to. A
blue-green light was released from the chest cavity that was missing a large piece of flesh and blood - that was originally the location where the crystal was placed, but when it broke free from the time axis, the disintegrated crystal directly took away the tough flesh and blood.
Fortunately.
The disintegration of the crystal did not damage the zero-point furnace deep in the chest cavity.
The giant scorpion's heart moved.
Under its will, this zero-point furnace issued the last roar of its life!
Boom! Boom! !
The vacuum zero-point energy with a little impurity flowed out of the zero-point furnace intermittently!
The damage caused by forcibly escaping from the time axis was too great. At this moment, the giant scorpion's body almost had no complete energy transportation channel.
But it didn't matter.
The vacuum zero-point energy that lost its restraints would naturally open up a brand new channel in the flesh and blood!
The giant scorpion gritted its teeth and directly opened up all the control over the zero-point furnace!
The blue-purple light extended from the chest cavity, along the cracks, and spread directly to the flesh on the back of the giant scorpion! !
Boom! ! !
When the last vacuum zero-point energy poured in, the remaining sporadic flesh quietly shattered, and a much stronger information flow than before quietly appeared around the giant scorpion.
"Looking" at the starships speeding from a distance, and the high-energy jets that were about to touch itself, a series of complex coordinates flashed through the giant scorpion's mind.
Swish.
A second before the artillery fire arrived, its broken body suddenly disappeared in the visible universe!
(End of this chapter)
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