Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

247: The first space jump, advancing 100,000 light-years!”Buzz—!!!”

When that tremor, as if from the depths of his soul, echoed through every corner of the expedition, Lu Chen felt his body instantly disassemble into billions of elementary particles, then violently reassembled by an invisible giant hand.

This wasn’t flying; this was ’smuggling’.

The scene outside the window could no longer be described as merely ’grotesque’. The originally brilliant star river had vanished, replaced by countless twisted, chaotic, and illogical color blocks and lines. These lines were like the scribbles of a mad painter, frantically dancing on the retina, each jump accompanied by an intense dizziness that made one want to vomit.

This was high-dimensional space, a forbidden domain that human senses simply couldn’t comprehend. Here, up, down, left, and right lost their meaning, and time no longer flowed linearly but became a viscous, touchable liquid.

”Warning! Warning! Dimension shield pressure reached 95%! Hull structure is experiencing high-dimensional compression!”

heavenly craft’s voice was no longer its usual clear and melodious tone but carried a harsh static, as if even she, a digital life form, was struggling in this torrent of violent data. ”Master! This dimensional jump is too insane! Our energy consumption is three times the estimated amount! The god of fire reactor is overloading!”

Lu Chen gripped the edge of the command console tightly, his knuckles white from the excessive force. He could clearly hear the teeth-grinding groan from the ’keel’ alloy floor beneath his feet—the lament of the spaceship as it fought against the physical laws of the entire universe.

”Hold steady!”

heavenly craft raised a hand and pointed, and the holographic screen instantly magnified a distant star field.

There, a colossal red giant star was undergoing some terrifying torment. Its surface wasn’t normal flames, but was covered in dense, mold-like black spots!

Those black spots were wriggling, spreading, greedily devouring the star’s energy!

With each wriggle, the star’s light dimmed a little, and the black spots grew larger and more sinister!

”That’s...” Lu Chen’s pupils sharply contracted. ”nano-robots?!”

[Yes, Master.]

heavenly craft’s voice was devoid of any warmth.

[That is the true form of the Star Devourer.]

[They are feeding.]

[And not just this one. According to scans, over eighty percent of the stars within this 300-light-year core region have been infected by this ’parasitism’.]

[They are treating the heart of the entire Milky Way Galaxy as their buffet!]

Hearing this, everyone present felt a chill run from their feet straight to their heads.

Too terrifying!

Is this how a god-tier civilization plunders?

Not mining minerals or fighting for territory, but directly sucking blood from stars! Treating the most magnificent celestial bodies in the universe as food!

”And Master, there’s even worse news.”

heavenly craft’s finger slid again, locking the image onto the area behind the red giant star.

There, in a shadow obscured by stellar debris, a despairingly vast fleet floated silently.

They were entirely black, with menacing designs, and each warship emitted a heart-pounding energy fluctuation. Their sheer number was like fish crossing a river, densely covering the entire starry sky!

If one didn’t look closely, they might even mistake it for a black Milky Way!

”That’s...” Zhan Lang’s eyes widened like an ox’s, and he instinctively tightened his grip on his weapon.

[That is the Star Devourer’s Imperial Guard Legion.]

heavenly craft provided the answer.

[The preliminary estimate of their numbers is over five million warships.]

[And this is just the outer patrol fleet.]

Five... five million warships?!

And just the patrol fleet?!

This number was like a heavy hammer, striking everyone’s hearts.

One must know that humanity, having exhausted all its resources and with the aid of the Winged Human Race, had barely managed to assemble a hundred thousand warships.

A hundred thousand against five million?

How could they fight this battle? It was practically suicide!

Panic began to spread across the bridge; even the genetically enhanced Super Soldiers showed a hint of wavering in their eyes.

This was no longer a gap that courage could bridge; this was an overwhelming numerical superiority!

”What are you afraid of?”

Just then, Lu Chen’s voice suddenly rang out.

Calm and indifferent, yet with a reassuring steadiness.

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone, finally resting on Su Qingying’s pale face, a faint smile playing on his lips.

”What good is a large number?”

”Before absolute rules, quantity is just a joke.”

He strode to the command console, placing his hands on the tabletop, the light in his eyes instantly becoming sharp as a blade!

”heavenly craft!”

[Here, Master!]

”Since they like to eat so much, let them eat their fill!”

”My order: the entire fleet is to maintain silence and enter ’Dimensional Stealth’ mode!”

”We won’t get entangled with these guard dogs!”

Lu Chen suddenly waved his hand, pointing to the deepest part of that stellar graveyard—the dark abyss from which even light could not escape!

”We have only one target—”

”That black hole!”

”As long as we blow up that main nest, these so-called millions of troops will just be a bunch of kites with broken strings!”

”Understand?!”

”Understand!!!”

With Lu Chen’s roar, the somewhat low morale was instantly reignited!

That’s right!

They held ultimate weapons like the Two-Dimensional Foil and Causality!

Competing with a bunch of bugs in numbers? Only a fool would do that!

What they needed to do was decapitate! To slay gods!

”Depart!”

At Lu Chen’s command, the colossal expedition fleet set off once more.

They did not light up weapons, nor did they emit exhaust flames; instead, like assassins moving in shadows, they silently disappeared into that grotesque high-dimensional space.

Towards the heart of the Milky Way, filled with death and destruction—

Stealthily approaching!

However, just as the fleet entered stealth mode.

heavenly craft’s voice sounded again, this time with an unprecedented hint of doubt.

[Master—]

[During the recent scan, I detected a strange signal.]

”Strange signal?” Lu Chen frowned. ”What is it? A Star Devourer probe wave?”

[No, it’s not.]

heavenly craft shook her head, bringing up a waveform diagram that was extremely faint yet unusually clear.

[This signal does not belong to the Star Devourer.]

[It comes from the other side of the black hole, the area heavily guarded by the Star Devourer.]

[And, the encoding method of this signal—]

heavenly craft looked up at Lu Chen, her eyes full of disbelief.

[It’s actually identical to our Earth’s ancient Morse code—]

[Exactly the same!]

”What?!”

Lu Chen spun around abruptly, staring intently at the waveform diagram, his heart pounding violently!

Morse code?!

In the center of the Milky Way, twenty-six thousand light-years from Earth?

In the Star Devourer’s lair?

Earth’s Morse code actually appeared?!

”Translate it!” Lu Chen’s voice was almost squeezed through his teeth. ”Quick! Tell me! What’s the content?!”

heavenly craft rapidly decoded it, and a few seconds later, a simple line of Chinese characters appeared on the holographic screen.

Looking at that line of text, Lu Chen’s pupils constricted, and he felt as if he had been struck by lightning!

The line read—

[Run! It’s a trap!]