With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 497 Dark Matter Fishing Net

ten minutes later.

As Chen Fan explained, the atmosphere inside the investigator starship eased slightly.

Hongshi looked at Chen Fan beside him with a complicated expression, and then looked at Fang Yunsheng who was wearing the uniform of the Human Alliance Army in the holographic communication interface.

As a veteran Level III investigator, after the initial shock, she quickly obtained some information from the communication between Chen Fan and Fang Yunsheng.

General Fang, who commanded the fleet, should have met Chen Fan not long ago, during the time when Chen Fan worked as an experimental assistant for Wang Jing.

In her eyes, it was natural for Chen Fan to serve as the experimental assistant. After all, Chen Fan was the only one in the entire network who had the ability to control the flow of information.

But to others, it may not be that simple.

If the Academy of Sciences holds the highest power in the Federation of Human Resources, then the Level I academicians of the Academy of Sciences are undoubtedly the top-level existences in the Federation of Human Resources. Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, even if Chen Fan is only an assistant to a Level I academician, he is definitely not an unknown person.

of course.

This should also have been done with the tacit approval and promotion of Academician Wang. After all, unlike other investigators, Chen Fan is indeed special - putting aside all matters related to Chen Fan and broadcast civilization, his powerful ability to control information flow is irreplaceable by others!
Perhaps Fang Yunsheng was not clear about Chen Fan's abilities, but he could definitely see Chen Fan's peculiarity from Wang Jing's attitude.

Correspondingly, within his ability, he was naturally willing to make friends with Chen Fan.

After figuring out a few key points, Hongshi's worries about Chen Fan's overstepping of authority gradually dissipated.

At least, Chen Fan will not be brought to the Federal Military Court because of this.

After the worries in his heart disappeared, Hongshi's attention was quickly focused on the hidden giant scorpion from the node universe described by Chen Fan.

"You mean to say that there is a high possibility that there are some giant scorpions in this cosmic bubble that have mastered material information technology?"

In the communication interface, Fang Yunsheng's expression has completely changed from relaxed to serious: "If this is true, then the information barrier around this universe bubble has a reasonable explanation."

"Not only that." Chen Fan continued, "Previous combat experience can prove one thing. There is a very strict class division within the scorpion group. I even suspect..."

He paused and said something shocking: "The scorpion group that appeared now was driven by the other party."

"cannon fodder?"

Fang Yunsheng nodded and gave a concise summary.

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized the problem.

"At present, the average strength of each giant scorpion has reached the level of a main battleship of a level eight civilization."

The corners of Fang Yunsheng's eyes twitched slightly and his expression turned ugly.

Cannon fodder of level eight civilization?
Even the Human League doesn’t have such luxury!
Intelligent creatures are the foundation of a civilization.

If there are no resources, we can just mine them from other universes. After all, the hyperspace membrane is so large that the amount of resources inside is difficult to estimate with numbers. But if a large number of highly intelligent creatures die, even the Human Union will inevitably enter a period of decline. This is also a major reason for the existence of the Dangerous Technology Administration. Before the emergence of broadcasting civilization, it is mainly used to prevent civilizations from committing self-destruction.

Fang Yunsheng murmured in a low voice: "Using the eighth-level civilization as cannon fodder in the war, the opponent's strength may be..."

Before he finished speaking, an urgent alarm sounded in the command center of the flagship fortress, and the originally quiet command center suddenly became a little commotion.

"What happened?"

Fang Yunsheng calmed himself down and asked in a deep voice.

"High-intensity space-time fluctuations have been detected in the star field surrounding the fleet!" A hurried report came from the side, "Preliminary judgment is that it is a super-large scorpion group!"

"Tsk."

A trace of anger appeared on Fang Yunsheng's face: "Why didn't you come earlier or later, but you came when the fleet was retreating..."

He took a deep breath, calmed his inner irritability, and then looked at Chen Fan again: "Brother Chen Fan, you have also seen the attack of these insects."

"Since the Kraken has successfully awakened, let's start cutting the microcosm as soon as possible."

"Once the microcosm is cut, the Genesis Fortress will be completely freed up, and the pressure on the fleet will be reduced a lot."

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked out the porthole at the starry sky that was once again lit up with dazzling flames: "I have a bad feeling, maybe... we have to evacuate this universe as soon as possible."

"General Fang!" Before Chen Fan could speak, another urgent voice sounded from the side, "The scorpions have launched a general attack again! They are not going to let us retreat!!"

"Damn bugs!"

"If you don't accept my toast, you'll have to drink a penalty." Fang Yunsheng's face was gloomy. He cursed in a low voice and stood up directly. "Notify the fleet to continue the attack!"

"Open the temporary micro-universe and smash all those stars and anti-stars out!"

"I want to see which one is harder, the shells of these insects, or the power of the annihilation starburst!"

The moment the words fell, the communication link was quietly interrupted, and silence returned to the investigator starship.

"This..." Isa looked at the interface showing the words [Communication has been interrupted], and looked at Chen Fan in the main driver's seat with some hesitation, "What should we do now?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Chen Fan gritted his teeth and said, "Just follow what General Fang said and start cutting the microcosm!"

……

Outside the land of creation, the main battlefield.

Tens of thousands of warships were scattered across the vast starry sky, forming an encirclement with the Land of Creation as the core.

These warships, which are hundreds or thousands of kilometers in size, appear extremely small in the star field of tens of thousands of light years.

Even though the shields on the surface of these warships are flashing dazzling light, it is still difficult to observe them directly with the naked eye - to use an intuitive description, these warships are equivalent to tens of thousands of tiny dust particles in the stadium. Not to mention the naked eye, even some low-level civilizations would probably find it difficult to accurately locate these warships in the starry sky tens of thousands of light years away.

On the other hand, the scorpions.

The star field hundreds of light years ahead of the fleet is filled with dense swarms of scorpions.

As strong space-time fluctuations continued to come, the number of scorpions continued to grow. Just like the Xinalo star system at the beginning, countless giant scorpions directly wrapped the star field of tens of thousands of light years into a huge scorpion ball.

Such a huge number naturally means extremely terrifying quality.

Theoretically, the gravity brought by this mass is enough to squeeze this huge group of scorpions into a tight meat ball. Even under the squeeze of gravity, the meat ball will release tremendous light and heat, becoming a huge star suspended in the starry sky, or even a white dwarf, neutron star or...

Black hole!

But with the help of gravity shielding technology, this huge group of scorpions stacked up in the starry sky without any worries, and following the guidance of the unknown, launched a full-scale charge on the seemingly weak human fleet ahead!
Judging from the visual effects alone, the momentum of the Human Fleet seems to have been completely suppressed by this huge group of scorpions.

but!

It was this sparsely populated defense network of warships that almost perfectly blocked the attack of the scorpion swarm.

The black light of the dark matter cannon intertwined in the starry sky, weaving into a constantly flashing interception net that exuded a dangerous aura.

Under the control of the flagship's main brain, each dark matter cannon beam that makes up this large net is constantly adjusting its direction in the high-frequency flashes, causing this large net, which is over tens of thousands of light years in size, to slowly rise and fall in the high-frequency flashes.

Like a fishing net bobbing up and down in the waves.

The "dark matter fishing net" was thrown towards the vast starry sky, directly catching tens of trillions or even hundreds of trillions of giant scorpions of varying sizes!
The "dark matter threads" among them swept across every giant scorpion that rushed towards them with extreme precision.

Boom boom boom! !

The black light continued to spread in the starry sky, and then suddenly decayed into an incandescent explosion of fire. The pale green corpse of the giant scorpion flew everywhere in the fire, and some even turned directly into countless dust and basic particles.

of course.

This dark matter "fishing net" extending outward for tens of thousands of light years is not the most dazzling existence on the battlefield.

What is really eye-catching is the flashing light that bursts out from the mesh of the "fishing net" from time to time - that is the flash in the process of dimensionality increase and decrease.

Different from the small-scale dimensionality reduction attack launched by the scientific research vessel, the dimensionality reduction attack launched by the Human Fleet can be described as grand and imposing.

It can easily cover hundreds or even thousands of light-years of star fields and launch dimensionality reduction strikes, mercilessly reaping the lives of small giant scorpions.

These lights intertwine with each other in every corner of the starry sky, constantly triggering gravitational tides again and again that are enough to tear apart any star.

suddenly.

A fast order came from the flagship fortress sitting firmly in the rear and quickly spread to the entire fleet.

After a short wait, thousands of warships broke away from the defense line without hesitation, leaving a small gap in the originally complete dark matter fishing net.

The Scorpions, who were struggling to break through the fleet's defense network, obviously would not give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Almost at the same time, the ten-thousand-meter-long giant scorpions in the scorpion group let out a series of silent hisses. The huge scorpion group also changed direction in the silent hisses and rushed towards the gap in the dark matter fishing net together.

the other side.

The thousands of warships did not leave after leaving the defense line, but retreated to the empty star field behind the defense network.

This star field had been completely cleaned up long before the war began.

Not to mention the stars and planets, even the asteroids in the sky were "cleaned up" by the engineering ships in the fleet. Buzz...buzz...

An extremely powerful space-time fluctuation spread out from these thousands of warships, causing the already turbulent ocean of space-time to become even more violent.

As the surface of the ocean of time and space continued to rise, a rotating vortex slowly appeared in the starry sky.

The microcosmic channel is open!
This scene was a replica of the scene in the Xinaluo mother galaxy!

However, compared with the space-time vortex that appeared in the Xinalom galaxy, the scale of the vortex in front of us is obviously much larger.

Not to mention small stars, even the entire Xinalom star system can be easily swallowed by it!
At the moment when the space-time vortex stabilized, more than a thousand warships that had been waiting on the side suddenly rushed forward and rushed into the vortex - they entered this temporarily opened small universe.

At the same time, the first group of scorpions had rushed into the gap in the dark matter fishing net under the fire of the human fleet.

Strangely enough, faced with the scorpion swarm that suddenly broke through the defense line, the fleet did not take many countermeasures. It just mobilized the warships in the distance to fire a few dark matter cannons and two-dimensional fragments, which were better than nothing.

seem……

The fleet let the scorpion swarm in intentionally.

The scorpions, already blood-thirsty, did not realize this and continued to rush towards the gap.

To be more precise, ever since that order came from the depths of the universe, the Scorpions have completely lost their minds, and the only thing left in their eyes is this human fleet.

This is true for a 100-meter giant scorpion, a 1,000-meter giant scorpion, and a 10,000-meter giant scorpion.

Inside the flagship fortress.

The flickering signal lights and the glaring scarlet prompt messages in the holographic interface made the atmosphere in the command center seem even more tense.

"General, the scorpions have passed through the gap!"

An officer reported loudly.

"What's the size of the scorpion swarm?" Fang Yunsheng raised his head slightly and stared at the holographic star map in front of him.

The star map is filled with densely packed, constantly moving red dots and bright white dotted lines—each red dot represents millions of giant star scorpions, and those dotted lines are the trajectories of curvature fluctuations coming from all directions.

These trajectories from high-precision detectors and the ship-borne mainframe may seem chaotic, but they actually contain some complex rules.

At this time, Fang Yunsheng was trying to find the pattern in order to determine the location of the person behind the scenes.

"Currently, 5% of the giant scorpions have gathered in the gap."

"Only 5% so far?" Fang Yunsheng frowned and shook his head in dissatisfaction, "Too little! These giant scorpions are too slow!"

"Notify the fleet to expand the gap to one thousand light years, and at the same time shrink the surrounding dark matter defense network to drive those giant scorpions into the gap as quickly as possible!"

"A thousand light years?!" The officer who had reported the military situation earlier was shocked, and a look of horror appeared on his face. "Isn't this too risky?"

"just in case……"

"No chance of that happening." Fang Yunsheng's expression became serious. "The work of cutting up the microcosm of the Creation Land has already begun. If we want to get rid of these scorpions as soon as possible, we must give them a ruthless blow!"

"...I understand." The officer nodded, his expression becoming more serious.

"The microcosmic channel has been successfully opened, and all warships have entered the microcosmic!" Another report sounded in the command center.

"very good."

Fang Yunsheng nodded with satisfaction: "Notify the fleet, and when the number of scorpions in the gap reaches 30% of the total scorpions, we will close the net as planned!!"

……

Ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes...

The originally complete dark matter network slowly shrank at a steady speed in the starry sky, and the gap with a span of one thousand light years became a paradise for the scorpions.

Countless giant scorpions gathered in the gap and, led by the ten-thousand-meter-class giant scorpions, rushed towards the fleet in front.

at the same time.

In the star field behind the fleet, extremely strong space-time fluctuations suddenly emerged from the smoothly running space-time vortex.

This sudden and intense fluctuation of space and time quickly attracted the attention of the scorpions.

They opened their scarlet eyes wide and cast their gazes towards the deep, empty starry sky ahead, trying to find the source of the space-time fluctuations.

It is clear.

They failed.

Although the mysterious command still drives them to continue to sprint forward, the instinct engraved in their genes has sounded the alarm for them - in the universe, such strong fluctuations in time and space often mean the approach of danger.

The scorpions were unable to resist the mysterious command, but their forward speed slowed down at a speed visibly seen by the naked eye.

suddenly!

The already strong space-time fluctuations increased dramatically again, and the space-time vortex that was rapidly spinning in the deep starry sky suddenly expanded.

Before the giant scorpion could react, a silver-white warship with bright red lines on its surface had "squeezed" out from the expanding vortex.

Behind the battleship, there was a huge star flashing with orange-red light.

This is a red giant star! A red giant star from the star field surrounding the place of creation!!

As the battleship and the red giant left the vortex, the strong space-time fluctuations suddenly stopped, and then began to fall sharply.

but……

The falling process lasted less than a second!

The moment the second battleship appeared, the roar of time and space lingering in the ocean of time and space sounded again.

Rumble…

Red giants, blue giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars...

The warships were lined up in queues, and in just a few minutes they pulled different planets out of the vortex of time and space!

At last.

When the roar of space and time reached its peak, several medium-sized black holes were spit out from the space-time vortex one after another! !

Towed by the warships, these planets are neatly arranged in the starry sky, like soldiers waiting for inspection.

If you look closely, you will find that among these more than a thousand planets, nearly half of them have somewhat unusual shapes - their surfaces are covered with a layer of light golden protective force field, as if isolating something.

These planets are the cores of annihilation star explosions, also known as anti-stars!
Looking at the scene before them, the scorpions' charge suddenly paused.

The four scarlet eyes of the ten-thousand-meter-long giant scorpions in the lead had a hint of fear - although they had come from afar and had not personally experienced the annihilation star explosion that occurred in the Land of Creation, they learned about the power of this attack from the "last words" left by their own kind.

Swish! ! !
A strong fluctuation of time and space flashed by quietly, and the more than a thousand planets arranged in the starry sky disappeared in an instant.

Star curvature technology!
In just a blink of an eye, these celestial bodies of incredible mass created a space-time tsunami in this star field!
When they appeared again, they were already right in front of the scorpion group! !

Looking at a rapidly spinning neutron star right in front of it, a ten-thousand-meter-long giant scorpion finally realized what was happening and let out a sharp and shrill hiss.

……

On the other side, the star field of Creation.

Chen Fan's consciousness left the investigator starship again and came to the undulating ocean of starlight.

"Hey, hey, hey? Can you hear me?"

After checking the Kraken's physical condition and asking it to make corresponding preparations, Chen Fan sent a uniquely formatted information stream to the investigator starship nearby.

This is the communication method Chen Fan learned from Kraken.

By "manually" adjusting the intensity and frequency of information flow to actively adapt to the brains of carbon-based organisms - this is how Kraken's "oracles" are released.

Of course, if we really want to trace the origin, the real inventor of this technology should be the Ghost Fleet.

But this forms a unique logical loop: the future Xinaluo civilization tells Kraken how to issue oracles, and Kraken uses this method to issue oracles to the current Xinaluo civilization. It is not difficult to imagine that Xinaluo civilization will sooner or later be inspired by this and develop corresponding means...

So the question is, who is the real source of this technology?
Kraken, or Xinalo civilization?
Chen Fan shook his head and stopped wasting his brain energy thinking about the strange time paradox. Instead, he looked at the starry sky in front of him.

Cutting up the microcosm is not a rare thing.

But cutting into a small universe with a scale of 10,000 light years is definitely a rare thing!

Especially, he is now in this star field that is about to be cut!
ps: I have been stuck in a lot of trouble these past two days, so I wrote a little slowly, sorry.

(End of this chapter)