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The energy valve of the Star Ignition was completely severed, and the core energy of Jupiter extracted by the entire Guanghan Palace lost its original outlet. Following the high-dimensional fuse pulled out by Su Yuan, it was frantically poured back into the energy tank of the Devouring Waste's Sky-Piercing Main Cannon.

The sound emanating from the Star Core Melting Furnace was no longer a roar, but an extremely shrill sound of metal tearing apart. The dark gold patterns on the furnace's outer shell were burned to a blinding bright white in a fraction of a second.

The temperature reading inside the carriage instantly jumped above the system's highest threshold and turned into a string of gibberish.

The heatwave materialized and slammed into everyone. The original dark purple paint on the black and gold armor peeled off and carbonized under the extreme heat, and the entire vehicle looked like a block of incandescent iron heated to its limit in a forging furnace.

Li Daikui stood in the middle of the carriage, his hands gripping the metal anchor rods on the wall tightly. An extremely pungent, acrid smell emanated from his tactical-gloved palms. The intense heat penetrated the anti-static insulation layer, instantly burning the skin of his hands to the metal rods.

He did not let go. None of the eighty remaining soldiers of the Xuanwu Army behind him uttered a sound.

Some of the soldiers' old uniforms spontaneously combusted, and their comrades, covered in blood, forcibly extinguished the flames, their skin scalded and cracked. Sweat didn't even have time to escape their pores before it vaporized under their skin, causing large, dense blisters to form on their skin, which then burst one after another.

Extreme oxygen deprivation and high temperature caused vision to become extremely distorted.

Wang Hu lay sprawled on the secondary gun's control panel. The metal panel of the base had softened, and his tactical boots had dented two deep craters into it. His hair, frizzy and yellow from the intense heat, eventually turned to ash. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the main screen, his throat emitting the heavy, labored breathing of a beast cornered in a desperate situation.

The barrel of the specially made heavy sniper rifle in Tang Lan's hand had been burned red. She leaned back in her chair, holding the gun with both hands, her fingers on the trigger. The skin on her palms was burned through by the scalding gun handle, and the blood was evaporated before it could flow out, leaving a layer of black scabs.

There was no turning back. From the moment they stepped into the abyss, the people in that car had already staked their lives on the push rod.

Above the dome.

The Shepherd's mechanical colossal eye occupied all the optical observation mirrors of the Devourer. The surface of that eyeball, larger than a continental plate, was covered with tens of thousands of polygonal, high-dimensional crystals that flipped and recombine simultaneously.

It sensed that the ants below were gathering enough energy to tear apart the stars.

The chilling will of a higher-dimensional predator descended directly upon the core of Jupiter's storm. It refrained from using its colossal mechanical hand to physically crush the Moon Palace. Physical attacks had become meaningless against that incandescent chariot.

Deep within the pupil of the mechanical giant eye, extreme darkness was collapsing.

There were no dazzling light effects from the convergence of energy, nor the booming sound of air vibrations. Instead, a black abyss with a diameter exceeding one hundred kilometers directly split open at the center of the giant eye's pupil.

A dark gray beam of light shot out from the abyss.

That's the "absolute deconstruction death ray".

This beam of light carried no high temperature or kinetic energy; it was an erasure command woven from pure high-dimensional rules. Wherever the beam passed, the remaining alloy towers of the Moon Palace, the liquid metallic hydrogen in Jupiter's storm, and even the dimensions of space itself, all silently disintegrated into the most primordial fundamental particles.

It attempted to conceptually erase the Devourer and the surrounding space from this universe before the Sky-Piercing Cannon fired.

The death ray descended at a speed exceeding the physical speed of light, completely ignoring spatial distance.

In front of the main control panel.

Su Yuan stood there, his knees slightly bent. The extreme heat burned his shirt to ashes, revealing his well-defined muscles.

He did not touch the anti-gravity engine's push rod, nor did he issue any evasive commands.

Su Yuan's left arm suddenly rose. The "cloud" mark branded deep in his skin exploded completely at that moment.

The purple light no longer flowed along the meridians, but instead pierced through the blood vessels and the epidermis. Large gushes of purplish-red high-dimensional blood gushed out of his arm, dyeing his entire left arm a shocking dark purple.

The backlash from the rules was tearing at his nerves, but he didn't even flinch.

He gripped the Blade of Judgment in his right hand, with the tip pointing downwards.

Su Yuan's eyes were extremely cold, showing no reverence whatsoever for a god-level being. He forcefully plunged the black blade, forged from high-dimensional materials and imbued with paradoxical rules, into the slot beneath the launch lever on the main control panel.

The blade directly blocked any escape route for physical attacks.

"Small fire." Su Yuan's voice was hoarse, revealing extreme violence.

"Rule is absolutely defined."

Crimson blood flowed down the hilt of the knife into the data interface of the main control panel. He forcibly shut down the overload alarm of the Star Core Melting Mother Furnace.

"Give the main gun its primary concept: absolute penetration. Ignore any high-maintenance shields and concept erasure, forcing a physical hit."

"Give the main gun a second concept: endless combustion. Using the energy of the star igniter as fuel, it burns the target until its mass is reduced to zero."

Su Yuan gripped the firing lever, which was jammed by the Blade of Judgment and trembling wildly, with both hands. His knuckles, from exerting too much force, left deep fingerprints on the alloy that had softened due to the high temperature.

Above their heads, the Absolute Destruction Death Ray, with a diameter of 100 kilometers, had already reached the deflection array surrounding the tank. The dark purple defensive light barrier began to collapse on a large scale the moment it made contact.

"die."

Su Yuan pressed the fire button heavily.

boom--

This is not a sound transmitted through the air; it is the lament of space itself being violently torn apart.

The front of the Devourer suddenly sank. The dark gold barrel of the Sky-Piercing Cannon was covered with terrifying cracks the moment it fired.

A beam of light, carrying the primordial energy of Jupiter and mixed with purplish-red high-dimensional rules, shot out from the cannon muzzle with a roar.

The diameter of the beam of light was less than one-tenth of the death ray above, but the mass and conceptual density contained within it reached an unbelievable extreme value.

Two forces powerful enough to destroy galaxies collided without any fanfare two thousand meters above the Moon Palace.

There was no stalemate where the two sides were evenly matched.

The sheer mass of Jupiter, combined with the double paradox concept forcibly imposed by the Blade of Judgment, directly resulted in a one-sided crushing defeat.

The crimson main cannon beam was like a red-hot steel needle piercing into tofu, forcefully pushing open the Absolute Deconstruction Death Ray from the middle. The dark gray erasure rules, upon contact with the crimson light, were instantly ignited by the concept of "endless burning," burning back into nothingness.

The beam of light travels upstream.

It shattered the suppression of the death ray inch by inch, following the destructive trajectory that was a hundred kilometers wide, and fiercely pierced into the center of the Shepherd's massive mechanical eye that blotted out the sky.

The concept of "absolute penetration" takes effect.

The high-dimensional crystalline cornea on the surface of the giant mechanical eye, capable of withstanding the impact of a meteorite swarm, couldn't even withstand a fraction of a millisecond of resistance against the purplish-red beam of light. The beam pierced straight through the crystalline layer, penetrating deep into the core neural matrix of the giant eye.

There was no sound in the universe. But all who witnessed this scene heard a mournful cry that seemed to tear through the cosmos deep within their minds.

The enormous mechanical eye stopped rotating amidst violent convulsions.

Immediately afterwards, a blinding purplish-red light emanated from the very core area.

Boom!

The giant eye's pupil shattered with a deafening roar. Countless high-dimensional crystals, as large as mountains, dark golden mechanical skeletons, and deep-space blood as viscous as mercury, rained down from space like a reversed downpour, crashing into the depths of Jupiter.

The burst of intense energy penetrated Jupiter's murky atmosphere in a mere second, illuminating the edge of the entire solar system.

The massive phantom of the Star Shepherd, hidden in the dark depths of space, was directly overturned by the terrifying force of the explosion. The pale, mechanical giant hand that had been tightly gripping Jupiter suddenly loosened its grip in uncontrollable spasms, its massive finger bones tilting backward and escaping Jupiter's gravitational pull.

However, the cost of firing the cannons was equally devastating.

The moment the Sky-Piercing Cannon unleashed Jupiter's energy, the resulting terrifying recoil force pierced directly downwards through the chassis of the Devourer.

The already crumbling Guanghan Palace mechanical city was instantly pulverized by the recoil force, its entire foundation structure shattered. A vacuum abyss was directly blasted into the surrounding ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers.

The black-gold armor of the Devourer Star Core Annihilation-class mortal body cracked and split into a dense spiderweb pattern from the shockwaves of the main cannon firing. Large sections of the outer armor plates peeled off.

The vehicle lost complete control, flying backwards like a baseball hit by a bat into a bottomless liquid ocean.

Inside the carriage, the shock absorption system was completely paralyzed.

The veterans were slammed against the walls and floor by the powerful inertia. The immense G-force caused Li Daikui to cough up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, his eyes rolled back, and he fell into a complete coma. Wang Hu was thrown off the gun emplacement and slammed heavily against the hatch, his sternum visibly caved in, and he lost consciousness. Tang Lan's body was tightly constricted by the seatbelt, her cervical spine making a dangerous cracking sound, and she also lost consciousness.

Su Yuan did not fall down in front of the control panel.

His hands remained firmly gripping the launch lever. Due to the violent recoil of the vehicle and the fact that his legs were firmly planted on the deck without moving an inch, the terrifying tearing force was concentrated entirely on his arms.

Extensive muscle tears occurred. The carpal and ulna bones of the wrist snapped instantly under the immense pressure, the stark white bone fragments piercing through the charred skin and exposing them to the air.

Su Yuan's eyes were bloodshot, and blood was flowing from the corners of his eyes.

He didn't utter a single groan. His broken hands rested on the control panel in an extremely contorted position, his elbows pressed down forcefully, and he used the remaining muscle strength in his elbows and forearms to frantically slide them across the main control panel.

"Gravitational deflector array, full power upward output!"

Just as the chariot was about to crash into Jupiter's core at near-light speed, a blinding blue light shone from beneath its chassis. The gravitational deflector array forcibly created a high-density gravitational field completely opposite to the direction of its descent.

The two forces collided violently beneath the vehicle, producing a sickening metallic creak.

The Devourer barely managed to stabilize itself in the final few thousand meters before crashing. The vehicle lurched violently, hovering in a raging ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen. Thick shock-absorbing fluid sprayed from pipes in all directions, barely protecting the severely injured and unconscious crew inside the cabin.

Su Yuan coughed up a mouthful of bloody saliva, glanced at the wounded scattered on the ground, and confirmed that no one had died yet.

He turned his gaze back to the main screen.

The Star Shepherd was not completely dead. This high-dimensional entity, which was transformed from Jupiter's Dyson sphere, possessed an unimaginable tenacity in its life force.

After losing its giant eye, it completely descended into a state of illogical rage.

The ghastly white mechanical hand once again probed into Jupiter's atmosphere, its five kilometer-long finger bones churning wildly in an ocean of liquid hydrogen. Each swing unleashed a superstorm on Jupiter's surface, powerful enough to tear apart the planet's crust. The Great Red Spot's rotational speed was forcibly increased several times, and the raging vortex was devouring all matter.

"It's reassembling." Xiao Huo's synthesized voice resumed operation, but was accompanied by severe electrical noise. "Giant eye debris detected attracting each other; the high-dimensional matter self-healing process has been initiated. Countdown: four minutes."

Su Yuan lowered his head, looked at the exposed bone on his wrist, and sneered.

His hands were crippled, but he still had the rule of his left arm.

The Blade of Judgment flashed with purple light. Su Yuan used his forearm to modify the parameters of the gravity deflection array to an upward thrust, and then slammed his chin down on the start button of the anti-gravity engine, which had just completed its cooling upgrade during the battle.

"Walk."

The thrusters at the bottom of the Devourer spewed out eerie blue flames. Combined with the immense thrust of the anti-gravity engine, the tank transformed into a reverse-moving meteor, directly plunging into the destructive vortex storm above.

The armor screeched under the strain of the gale. But thanks to the dual protection of the anti-gravity field and the black gold material, the tank was not torn apart.

Despite the blind attacks of the Star Shepherd, the Devourer used the most savage method to forcefully break through Jupiter's atmosphere, which was tens of thousands of kilometers thick, and escaped back into the cold and desolate deep space.

The moment it bursts out of the atmosphere.

A dense cluster of red dots flashed across the radar screen, representing extremely high-energy reactions. Those were all fragments ejected into space after the Shepherd's giant eye exploded.

Su Yuan narrowed his eyes, his gaze locking onto the largest piece among them.

"Refining furnace, time to eat."

The right side of the Devourer's hull suddenly split open, and the feed inlet of the Star Core Melting Furnace was directly pointed into deep space. Thirty-six dark golden extreme negative pressure conduits, like giant pythons that had smelled blood, rapidly extended into space.

The conduit precisely pierced through the void, directly penetrating a "high-dimensional star hub fragment" the size of an old Blue Star aircraft carrier. This was the core of the Shepherd's neuronal matrix, its surface still pulsating with dark red high-dimensional electric arcs.

Crack! The conduit contracted, unleashing an extremely strong dragging force, violently pulling the aircraft carrier-sized piece of debris back and swallowing it whole into the furnace.

The furnace cover slammed shut.

The entire refining furnace instantly erupted with a light comparable to a supernova explosion. Dark golden light surged wildly along the energy pipes of the vehicle.

Xiao Huo's audio rate is extremely fast.

"Ultra-high density, high-dimensional source detected. Devouring protocol initiated."

"The Star Core Melting Mother Furnace has completed in-depth analysis. Matter recombination has begun."

"External armor repairs have begun. The mesh-like cracks have closed. The density of the black-gold armor has increased by seven percent."

Inside the carriage, the bracing rods and doors, twisted by the impact, self-corrected and healed as if alive under the cover of dark golden light. Even the air circulation system, which had been dried out by the heat, was refilled with coolant.

"The core energy pipeline expansion is complete. The space jump engine has completed high-dimensional assimilation."

"Chariot upgraded. Unlocked Mythical-level component feature: High-Dimensional Space Glide."

"Note: This gliding mode can ignore the gravitational blockade and spatial curvature limitations of the conventional universe, and directly perform ultra-long-distance jumps at the string space level."

Su Yuan leaned against the control panel, watching as the broken bone in his wrist visibly healed, granulation tissue growing and bones reconnecting under the influence of the life essence fed back from the refining furnace. Although the excruciating pain persisted, his functions were rapidly returning.

He didn't revel in the joy of the upgraded combat capabilities; his gaze remained fixed on the distant radar.

Inside the special protection vehicle, Ji Yun, strapped to a restraint chair, awoke amidst the violent tremors and the sounds of armor repair.

She coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of thick, black blood. It was waste expelled from her mind after the high-dimensional pollution had been forcibly suppressed.

Because the Shepherd's giant eye was destroyed, a brief interruption occurred in the frequency connection to the Deep Space Mother. Ji Yun's right eye's azure data finally regained the upper hand.

She raised her head, not bothering to wipe the black blood from the corner of her mouth, and spoke so fast it was as if she were trying to kill herself.

"Su Yuan!"

"The Shepherd isn't the ultimate weapon... it's just a watchdog!"

Ji Yun's voice echoed in the deathly silent carriage, carrying a chilling tremor.

"Its mission is to protect Jupiter and cut off Earth's escape route to other systems. The true mother planet... it sensed the dismantling of the giant eye."

In the bottom right corner of the main screen, there's always a scarlet countdown to the arrival.

The number, which had been stuck at 28 days and 14 hours, started flashing and resetting wildly the moment Ji Yun said those words.

Ultimately, the number remained fixed at: 9 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes.

Time has shrunk dramatically. The deep-space matrix has accelerated its pace of engulfing the solar system.

Although the temperature inside the carriage returned to normal, the atmosphere instantly plummeted to freezing point. Li Daikui and the others, who had just awakened from their coma, felt utter despair upon hearing the news.

In less than ten days, before the Earth's already crumbling defenses even had a proper foundation laid, the Mother Planet was about to descend.

Just as the deathly silence was spreading, a series of intermittent hissing sounds suddenly and without warning entered the public channel of the main control panel.

There was no electromagnetic interference, nor the roar of the aberrations.

It was the sound of highly regular radio waves striking each other.

"Beep...beep beep...beep..."

Xiao Huo's computational matrix was instantly mobilized to its maximum load.

"Warning. Unknown frequency band intercepted."

"This band does not use the existing communication protocols of Project Pangu."

"Decoding complete. This is the oldest Morse code used by the first expeditionary force before the Great Cataclysm on the old Blue Star, and it has undergone three retro encryptions. It has not even been recorded in the existing Pangu database."

On the big screen, the hissing sound was translated into cold, hard text. Only three words conveyed utter despair.

Don't come any closer.

Huddled in the corner, Jiang Yu, who had just had his broken chest bandaged, suddenly sprang up.

His right arm, made of living metal, suddenly resonated with extreme frenzy. The black veins went completely out of control, growing wildly outward as if they had a mind of their own, and the sharp metal tips even pierced his own shoulder due to the excessive stress response.

Dark red blood gushed from the wound. Jiang Yu was oblivious; his eyes were bloodshot, his pupils dilated, and his left hand pointed out the windshield towards the outermost edge of the solar system.

"There...is something there."

Jiang Yu's voice was hoarse and inhuman, filled with extreme fear and a deep-seated tremor in his blood.

"Older than living metal. Older than the battlefield of fourteen years ago."

"Same origin. Utter malice. They're there."

He was pointing in the direction of the Kuiper Belt. It's a dark region of space beyond Neptune's orbit, filled with countless icy celestial bodies and remnants of the solar system's birth.

Upon hearing that frequency band, Ji Yun, seated in the restraint chair, felt the dark blue data in her right eye fluctuate violently, as if the system had encountered an unsolvable logical paradox. She stared intently at the three words translated on the screen, her face showing utter disbelief.

"impossible."

Ji Yun's lips were pale, and her voice trembled so much that it was incoherent.

"This is the underlying encrypted frequency band of Fleet Zero."

"In the records of Project Pangu fourteen years ago, Fleet Zero was determined to have never even set sail. They were completely destroyed in near-Earth orbit when the first wave of deep-space contamination arrived."

"That was the pioneer ship that carried humanity's first spark... How could they possibly be in the Kuiper Belt?"

"They're still alive?"

The shock of the information gap left all the veterans stunned. A spark? A spark that predates them, these veterans of fourteen years?

Su Yuan, his face cold, vigorously moved his wrists, which had just healed but still stung. He walked to the control panel and stared at the dark, boundless space through the windshield.

My gaze swept over the scarlet countdown that lasted less than 10 days.

If it's unclear what kind of monster the Deep Space Matrix has deployed in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system, and even the earliest Zero Fleet is trapped there issuing desperate warnings, then the makeshift, scrap metal on Earth simply won't be able to withstand the impending full-scale invasion.

This is a minefield that must be traversed in advance.

Su Yuan sneered and, without any hesitation, grabbed the dark gold push lever that had just been unlocked on the main control panel. That was the control valve for the high-dimensional space jump.

"Playing tricks."

"I want to see what kind of ghost is making a racket outside the gates of the solar system."

Su Yuan pushed the lever all the way down.

"Ski jump, initiate. Target coordinates: Signal source location."

The space around the Devourer's hull instantly folded violently. Purple high-dimensional light enveloped the entire vehicle.

There is no acceleration process, nor the energy trail produced by traditional jumps.

With a flash of purple light, the massive, heavily armored chariot that had been hovering at the edge of Jupiter's orbit vanished from its spot.

Relying on the dimensional reduction attack characteristics of high-dimensional space gliding, the Devourer instantly penetrated the vast orbits of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune at a speed exceeding the speed of light and even ignoring spatial scale.

The space was leveled again.

With a slight jolt, the chariot crashed into the eternally dark and icy starfield of the Kuiper Belt.

The skid jump was disengaged, and the external optical observation mirror re-entered the view.

Inside the carriage, everyone fell completely silent the moment they saw the main screen. Even the most irritable Wang Hu opened his mouth wide, unable to utter a sound.

The Zero Fleet did not have the wrecked warships that were expected.

Standing directly in front of the Devourer was a wall.

A massive "space wall" forcibly pieced together and forged using brutal physical means from countless broken frozen asteroids, the wreckage of the first generation of human interstellar warships, and the skeletons of deep-space behemoths as large as mountains.

This Great Wall stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers, cutting across the entire star field and completely blocking the view out of the solar system.

This is an epic feeling that is extremely shocking, even to the point of being mentally polluting.

The beams of searchlights shone on the surface of the Space Great Wall.

After seeing the details above, the veterans behind Li Daikui bent over and began to gag.

The Great Wall's weathered metal and rock surfaces are densely covered with corpses. These are various high-dimensional beings that evolved from the early stages of the Deep Space Matrix. Each one is the size of a fighter jet.

Instead of disintegrating in the battle, they were pierced through the skulls or chests by huge black metal nails tens of meters long, and nailed firmly to the surface of the city wall.

Hundreds of millions of monster corpses form the most terrifying spectacle in the universe.

In the vacuum of space, the monster's blood had long since dried, turning into dark red patches that stained the entire Great Wall into a rusty slaughterhouse. A cataclysmic battle, unknown to any historical record or acquaintance, had taken place here.

"Radar scan complete."

The sound of a small fire broke the deathly silence.

"Commander. There are signs of life inside this section of the Great Wall."

"Extremely weak. But extremely resistant."

"Bioband verification complete: completely isolated from deep space pollution. Pure human brainwaves."

Humanity.

In this hellish scene, there were still living people.

Su Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his hands resting on the control panel. He did not order the firing, but instead piloted the Devourer in an absolute defensive posture, slowly approaching a protrusion at the very edge of the Great Wall.

It was a beacon tower forcibly converted from the command tower of the first-generation battleship of the old Blue Star.

As the tank approached, the chassis's shock absorption system emitted a slight hydraulic hum, and the Devourer hovered over the meteorite debris directly in front of the beacon tower.

The main searchlight focused into a single, powerful beam of white light, shining directly at the top of the beacon tower.

The intense light tore through the darkness of the Kuiper Belt.

A figure stood atop the highest point of the beacon tower.

The man was wearing a set of extremely crude and cumbersome manually operated hydraulic power armor, one of the earliest forms of human development. The pressure-resistant coating on the surface of the armor had long since peeled away, revealing the rough, rusty steel underneath.

Most chillingly, the body had no head at all.

The cut on his neck was jagged, as if it had been bitten off by some giant beast. Inside his open chest armor, there was no beating heart, but rather a dense array of high-dimensional crystals radiating faint energy fluctuations. These crystals replaced organs, sustaining the final functions of this mutilated body.

The headless horseman used his right arm, which was completely rusted and consisted only of a mechanical skeleton, to desperately support a metal flagpole.

At the top of the flagpole hangs an original expeditionary force battle flag, faded to the point where the pattern is almost unrecognizable and the edges are torn into countless strips of cloth.

They sensed the intense light emanating from the Devourer and the roar of its human-made engine.

The headless knight on the beacon tower, his body stiffened for countless years, emitted a piercing metallic scraping sound.

He slowly turned his body, facing the direction of the Devouring Wasteland.

The left hand, the mechanical hand tightly bound to the wrist with bandages, slowly rose.

He held a long sword covered in rust and with a chipped edge in his hand.

He raised the long sword above his head.

The blade's tip pointed directly at the windshield of the Devourer in the darkness.