This is a big gamble.
The stakes are the entire assault fleet and a Burning Heaven Divine Weapon.
To ensure that this area will not be invaded by the Crystal Storm in the short term and to buy time for the Galactic Alliance to mobilize forces from other areas.
The Third Fleet made preparations for both scenarios.
If the bet was successful, the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon would complete the star system explosion as planned. This explosion had been rigorously calculated and simulated. By controlling the amount and rate of injected energy, the explosion would precisely destroy the subspace channel connecting this star system with the extragalactic system.
Until the warp lanes are restored, forces from outside the galaxy will no longer be able to easily reach this system.
But if the bet fails, the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon will skip the charging phase and directly plunge into the core of the red dwarf star, self-destructing and releasing enough energy in a few seconds to burn the dwarf star for tens of thousands of years.
This would trigger a completely out-of-control supernova explosion.
An explosion of this magnitude would also destroy the warp lanes, but the difference was that this destruction was not limited to the lanes leading outward, but would also destroy the links between the Pass System and the Milky Way.
The aftermath of the explosion could even reach several surrounding galaxies, potentially cutting off the entire region from the outside world. The affected region would be isolated from the rest of the galaxy for a long time to come.
If you want to reach here at that time, you can only use the first-level jump mode to travel interstellar for thousands of years, or take huge risks and force your way through the subspace storm.
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The crystal battle stars began to charge, and their brightness increased rapidly.
Karrus knew the situation was urgent, so he immediately ordered the abyss suppression of the crystal storm.
Since transferring the Helios from the Pass System, the Galactic Alliance has conducted exhaustive testing and research into the vessel's properties.
They found the tentacle that was cut off by Bai Yi in the invisible part of the spacecraft, and the core that continuously emitted the breath of the abyss.
This is a device called a black hole engine.
It is a new experimental device designed based on an immature theory.
Theoretically, it can bypass the subspace storm within the subspace and enter a completely new space. However, people did not know what this new area represented at the beginning, although in the tests in the past few years, there were occasional strange equipment failures and mysterious mental disorders of the testers.
But no one paid much attention to it, simply believing it to be a loss of balance caused by the new physical rules. But as the experiment progressed, they realized that it was a terrifying realm called the Abyss.
In the previous defense of the Pass System, the Abyss displayed unprecedented properties.
It seems to have some kind of incomparable suppression on the Crystal Storm in terms of rank.
Under the current situation of overall disadvantage in the galaxy, the Galactic Alliance is keenly aware of the value behind this suppression.
During the months that Bai Yi was away, in addition to building the stargate, the focus of the Second and Third Fleets was almost entirely on researching the Abyss Infection that was parasitic inside the Apollo.
They discovered permanent signs of infection inside the Apollo, the source of which was the experimental device called the black hole engine.
It forms a channel across the universe and the abyss, just like a subspace channel connecting two completely different time and space.
However, this connection is not as stable as the subspace channel, and its triggering requires certain prerequisites.
Of all the conditions for speaking, the most stable one is triggered by the mental state. More precisely, it is the mental state of a highly intelligent being.
When highly intelligent creatures such as humans are placed in an environment infected by the Abyss, the lower the san value of the individual, the easier it is for the Abyss to erode them.
The erosion of the abyss will in turn further deepen the cognitive distortion of these individuals, which will further promote the abyss.
When the abyss phenomenon accumulates to a certain extent in these individuals, the black hole engine will spontaneously start, thus connecting to the unknown abyss plane.
When the black hole engine is activated, the abyssal effect of the entire environment will rapidly deepen, so personnel need to evacuate immediately.
Any detection method is meaningless in this case of infection. Currently, the only way to confirm the infection is the self-report of the infected person.
A report will be conducted after each evacuation, during which a specialized doctor will conduct a physical examination and hypnosis on the test subjects to check if there are any remaining signs of the Abyss in their bodies and minds.
But it is not always possible to be one step ahead of the abyss.
What Kallus used to deal with the crystal storm was a part of the body of a tester who unfortunately died.
After his body was left to rest for 48 hours and then dissected, people discovered that the researcher's body had undergone multiple mutations. However, these mutated parts had lost their vitality, and they began to rot and ooze some black liquid.
But inside the chest cavity of the corpse, the forensic doctor found a second heart.
This is a heart made up of a deformed sarcoma. It is completely black and occupies the original position of the right lung.
When it was discovered, the heart was still beating, but it wasn't pumping blood, but a black, viscous liquid.
Instead of flowing back toward the heart, the fluid overflows into the chest cavity, where it turns into a black gas over time and eventually disappears.
No one knows where the gas ends up.
Throughout this process, the total amount of matter remains unchanged. That is, when the gases disappear, they are truly gone. The fluid pumped back out of the heart makes up for the lost mass.
The medical department conducted a detailed examination of the heart, using X-rays to examine it, but was unable to determine the source of the fluid. Someone suggested dissecting the heart, but this was immediately opposed by Karlus.
In this situation, they cannot risk losing the heart of the abyss.
The heart is now in the assault fleet's flagship, Karrus's vehicle.
In the middle of the battlecruiser's huge hangar was a construction machine.
This construction machine has been modified, with most of its construction-related features removed, replaced with thicker shields and more powerful engines.
In its claws was a container made of bulletproof glass, inside which a black heart was beating continuously.
The heart continuously spewed out black mucus, which hung on the glass wall and was everywhere.
This is the chip that Carl Russ uses to bet.
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