The Last Sentinel

Meteorite rings are like reefs in ordinary rivers in the Grand Line.

Ships fear running aground, and spaceships fear entering asteroid belts just as much.

Even though spaceships are huge, meteorites are even bigger. In the face of absolute mass, kinetic energy becomes the most deadly weapon. If one cannot dodge in time, one will perish in the dark matter universe.

Under normal circumstances, no spacecraft would be willing to enter an asteroid belt.

Today was an exception. As the Heart of the Three-Body Problem entered the asteroid belt, more than three hundred spaceships rushed into this massive asteroid belt containing more than seven figures of meteorites.

The spaceships, densely packed together, dispersed to search for the [Heart of the Three-Body Problem].

On the outer edge of the asteroid ring, a massive privateer, armed to the teeth and radiating visible golden ripples, hesitated to enter the asteroid ring.

On the deck of this giant privateer, soldiers dressed in crisp white space combat suits patrolled left and right.

In the command center, which is a hundred stories high, three people can be seen sitting inside through the floor-to-ceiling plasma windows.

Compared to the silver seafood on the previous [Platinum Star], these three people look similar to humans, except that their muscle proportions are exaggerated to the extreme. Each of them has devilish muscle curves and a devilish back. Each of them is ten meters tall and wears a black and gold warlord commander's battle robe. Just sitting there, they give people a strong sense of oppression.

If Ye Feng were here, he would probably ask, are these people related to Neanderthals? Compared to them, Hegses's massive ten-meter frame is not exactly the same, but it's pretty much the same!

At that moment, a giant with short white hair on the left spoke up: "Billy, why don't we keep going? The Heart of the Three-Body Problem is right in front of us. If we waste time and another fleet gets it, that will be terrible news."

The man with the red afro on the right was also looking at the golden-haired giant in the middle, and said, "Billy, this asteroid belt contains no more than seven figures worth of meteorites. At the rate a spaceship can scan asteroids every ten minutes, the [Heart of the Three-Body Problem] will be found soon! It will be too late to go in then! Let's get going!"

Faced with the urging of his two companions, the golden-haired giant in the middle, with his deep eyes and exceptionally cold golden pupils, interlaced his fingers, rested his chin on his hands, and stared at the ring of asteroids ahead, saying, "If you want to die, you can get off the ship now and go by yourselves."

Faced with Billy's words, the red giant asked, puzzled, "What do you mean, Billy?"

The white-haired giant roared, "Billy, you're only a little smarter than us, that's why you became captain. If we're just talking about fighting strength, the three of us are equal, none of us are stronger than the others. Stop with your sarcastic remarks!"

The blond giant, his golden eyes gleaming, spoke slowly and deliberately, "My foolish brothers, you have no idea what kind of enemy we are facing, yet you stand here shouting and acting arrogantly!"

White Hair said, "What kind of enemy? Just a level 1.0 civilization! What's there to be afraid of!"

The blond giant looked at the white-haired brothers. "A level 1.0 civilization? Then let me ask you, if the other side really is a level 1.0 civilization, why didn't the Hydra that sent this message destroy that level 1.0 civilization's spaceship themselves and steal the [Heart of the Three-Body Problem]? Instead of stealing it, they broadcast the message to all the spaceships on the Grand Line. Is it because they're kind? Use your rusty brain to think about it. Can kind lives survive on the Grand Line?"

The three questions in a row completely shut down the white-haired man's brain.

White Hair retorted stubbornly, "Perhaps this was a Hydra blunder; their personnel accidentally leaked this crucial intelligence over the radio... Ah!"

The blond captain punched the white-haired giant in the cheek, knocking him to the ground. His heavy metal boots slammed into the giant's face as he spoke, each word deliberate and forceful, "Foolish! Your excuse is as foolish as your name, Uru! What kind of entity is Hydra? They're one of the three great pirate kings of the Grand Line! A pirate king who survived three attacks by the invincible fleet! How could they possibly make such a stupid and low-level mistake?"

The red-haired man on the side remained indifferent; this scene seemed to be their daily routine. "Billy, so you're saying this is a conspiracy?"

Captain Billy, the blond-haired captain, removed his boots from the white-haired man's face and paced back and forth. "It can only be a conspiracy. In fact, I suspect that the Heart of the Three-Body Problem might not even be on that ship."

White Hair struggled to sit up on the deck, rubbing his cheeks, and said, "Then, didn't we come all this way for nothing?"

"No!" Billy raised his hand and said, "We didn't come for nothing! The guy who could get Hydra to personally fabricate a lie about the 'Three-Body Heart' is probably as valuable as, or even surpasses, the 'Three-Body Heart' itself! We came at just the right time."

White Hair said, "After saying so much, why don't we go in? You coward!"

Billy glared at White Hair, who was so frightened that he quickly lay back down on the deck.

Billy said sharply, "A guy who can make Hydra hesitate to act is definitely not an ordinary person. This guy should be very troublesome."

At this moment, Red Hair seemed to be deep in thought. "Billy, do you remember the battle scene on the Platinum Star just now? Although almost all the crew and the ship itself disappeared, some fragments remained. I recalled those fragments; they were all directly crushed and destroyed by immense destructive force! In other words, those guys who killed the Platinum Star possessed some kind of weapon of mass destruction!"

White Hair blurted out, "You mean mechs? How is that possible! Mechs are weapons of mass destruction in war, clearly written in the [Star Codex]. The [Star Codex] stipulates that only regular military forces can use mechs. If a non-regular Star government possesses a mech, they will face trial. Have these guys gone mad? Piloting mechs into the Grand Line? Don't they know they'll be surrounded by the invincible fleet if they leave the Dark Matter Universe?"

Billy said thoughtfully, "Hydra's intelligence indicates that this dark matter spaceship originated from the Orion solar system, right?"

Red Hair said, "Yes."

Billy said, "Fifty years ago, the Sabbitians launched an expedition to Trisolaris, destroying the Trisolaran Empire and causing chaos in the star system around Centaur. Later, the Sabbitian fleet entered Orion, and then the entire Sabbitian fleet disappeared without a trace. Later, the Trisolaran lackey civilization said that their masters, the Sabbitians, had wiped out all civilizations in Orion, and that the main fleet had temporarily left the Milky Way to launch an expedition to other star systems."

"Billy, what exactly are you trying to say?" Red Hair asked.

Billy's voice was deep. "I want to say that the Trisolaran prince is lying. The entire fleet on Sabit is incredibly powerful. Their sudden appearance and disappearance can only mean that an advanced civilization is hidden in Orion!"

Red Hair and White Hair retorted in unison, "No, Billy, you're talking nonsense! If an advanced civilization really existed, the star probes would have collected their gravitational wave feedback immediately. How could we not have any news about them?"

"Billy, Orion is a barren star system, devoid of any life. That's an open secret. In fact, it's often considered an exile zone by extraterrestrial civilizations, a veritable interstellar prison. How could there be an advanced civilization there?"

Billy sat back in the captain's seat, tapping his temples lightly with his fingers. "My intuition tells me that there should be an advanced civilization in Orion, and that after wiping out all the civilizations in Orion, this advanced civilization deliberately hid itself, disguising Orion as a desolate star system."

"In fact, they might be more advanced than the civilizations of our current twenty-eight constellations in the Milky Way, and could easily annihilate and crush our entire fleet from Sabit Star!"

Red Hair rubbed his temples. "Billy, are you suffering from 'astrophagia'? Are the things you're saying really what you think?"

Billy said, "Won't you take a look at the battle footage our friends sent from the front lines? Everything will become clear."

As he spoke, Billy activated the 3D holographic projection, and the emergency combat video of the Allied fleet in the asteroid belt was about to appear.