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

250: Encountering the main fleet of the Planet Eaters! A tough battle awaits.”We have arrived!”

When this signal, full of provocation and a declaration of war, roared into the dark abyss at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy via superluminal waves.

The previously silent universe seemed to be fiercely stirred by an invisible hand.

There was no response.

No curses.

Nor pleas for mercy.

Lu Chen’s only reply was a grating sound of spatial structures being forcibly torn apart—

”CRACK—!!!”

The sound didn’t exist in the air but directly acted upon the gravitational wave detectors of every warship, like fingernails scratching a blackboard, so sharp it made one want to go mad.

”Alert! High-energy spatial reaction detected!”

”Bearing: directly ahead, distance: ten light-seconds!”

”Energy level reaction immeasurable! Th-this is a Wormhole cluster! A large-scale Wormhole cluster!”

heavenly craft’s voice was no longer unhurried and crisp, but carried a hint of urgent static.

Lu Chen suddenly looked up, his gaze like lightning fixed on the holographic screen.

Only to see in the void ahead of the fleet.

The previously calm starlight suddenly twisted.

One.

Ten.

A thousand!

Ten thousand!

Countless pitch-black vortices exploded out of thin air without warning! They were like demon eyes opening in the void, exuding a nauseating aura of destruction.

Immediately after.

A black tide surged out.

No longer the tiny, dust-like nano-soldier ants from before.

This time, what rushed out of the Wormhole was the true—

War machine!

These were bio-warships over a hundred kilometers in size!

They were entirely covered in thick chitinous armor, with dark red magma patterns flowing across their surfaces, and their hideous mouths spewed green acidic plasma clusters.

Some resembled whales, some octopuses, and some beetles magnified billions of times.

But without exception, they all exuded an ancient, tyrannical, and all-consuming terrifying pressure!

This was the true main force of the Star Devourer!

If the previous reconnaissance team were wandering wild dogs, then what stood before humanity now was a fully armed—

Heavy Armored Legion!

”Quantity unquantifiable!”

”Preliminary estimate, over a billion ships!”

The radar monitoring operator’s voice was trembling.

A billion!

This number, like a massive mountain, instantly weighed heavily on everyone’s hearts.

Humanity’s proud expedition legion, at most, numbered only tens of thousands of warships. Even with the hundreds of millions of drones, it appeared pitifully thin in the face of such an enormous scale.

This was the fundamental gap between a Tier 2 civilization and a God-tier civilization!

They used planets as bullets and star systems as barracks!

”What are you afraid of?!”

A furious roar interrupted the panic that had just begun to rise on the bridge.

War Wolf slammed a fist onto the control panel, his eyes burning with fierce fighting spirit.

”What’s the use of having many?!”

”Back when we swatted mosquitoes on Earth, weren’t there many mosquitoes? In the end, weren’t they all swatted dead by us?!”

”Brothers! Don’t embarrass Commander Lu!”

”Blast these ugly monsters into dust for me!”

”Yes!!!”

A unified roar erupted in the communication channel!

Fear was scattered by fighting spirit, and hot blood boiled once more!

”Fire!”

Accompanied by Lu Chen’s extremely calm command.

The expedition legion launched the first attack!

”Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Tens of thousands of dragon gall Star Destroyer Cannons roared simultaneously!

Dazzling white light beams, like the holy sword in God’s hand, instantly pierced the darkness and fiercely plunged into the black bio-warship cluster!

”Sizzle—”

The effect of the first volley was astonishing.

Those bio-warships charging at the front were instantly vaporized into basic particle clouds the moment they came into contact with the Star Destroyer Cannon beams, without even having time to scream!

One volley alone took out at least tens of thousands of enemy ships!

”Well done!”

”Haha! They’re no match!”

A cheer erupted on the bridge.

However, Lu Chen’s face showed no joy; instead, his brows furrowed even tighter.

”Something’s not right.”

He murmured softly, ”Too easy.”

Indeed.

The next second, the battlefield situation changed dramatically!

The remains of the vaporized bio-warships did not dissipate.

The scattered fragments of flesh and blood, and chitinous debris, began to wildly—

Reassemble!—under the pull of some strange force.

They writhed and fused in the void like living play-doh.

After just a few seconds.

A massive ”meat shield,” composed of countless corpses and debris, stood between the human fleet and the enemy’s main force!

Although this meat shield was ugly and disgusting, it was exceptionally thick!

The second round of Star Destroyer Cannon bombardment only created scorched marks on it, unable to penetrate further!

”Regeneration?!”

Su Qingying covered her mouth, her eyes full of disbelief, ”They can actually regenerate in real-time using corpses? What level of biotechnology is this?!”

”This isn’t just regeneration.”

Lu Chen said coldly, ”This is devouring.”

”They are devouring the corpses of their companions, evolving resistance to our energy weapons.”

”Look!”

Following Lu Chen’s finger.

Behind that massive meat shield, countless dark red lights suddenly lit up!

”The counterattack is here!”

”All ships evade! Activate dimension shields!”

War Wolf’s roar had just fallen.

Overwhelming dark red beams of light, like a torrential rain, fiercely struck the human fleet formation!

”Buzz—!!!”

This time, it was humanity’s turn to suffer.

Those dark red beams were not ordinary energy attacks; they possessed extremely strong corrosiveness and adhesiveness!

Once they adhered to a warship’s shield, they were like strong acid splashed on glass, emitting a grating ”sizzle” sound, and the shield’s energy readings began to drop wildly!

”Warning! Frigate No. 3 shield overloaded!”

”Warning! Destroyer No. 7 port armor damaged!”

”Warning! Enemy landing pods detected, attempting to break through the firepower net!”

The battlefield instantly fell into a stalemate!

This was a truly tough battle!

The enemies were no longer just passive targets; they had tactics, coordination, and, even more despairingly, incredible recovery capabilities and numerical superiority!

”Damn it! These beasts have thick hides!”

War Wolf, piloting his exclusive mecha, Xingtian, charged left and right through the enemy formation.

His high-frequency particle blade had just severed a tentacle of an ”octopus” warship, and the next second, the severed tentacle transformed into an independent venomous snake, fiercely biting into his mecha’s leg!

”Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—”

The alarm blared loudly!

The mecha’s external armor was actually corroded into a large dent!

”Damn!”

War Wolf cursed, then blasted the tentacle to pieces with a retaliatory shot.

But as he looked around, he was surrounded by dense enemies.

They were like a horde of tireless, pain-ignoring zombies, rushing forward one after another, even if they had to bite with their teeth or ram with their bodies, they would leave a mark on the human warships!

This was the terror of the swarm!

They used sheer numbers to forcibly bridge the technological gap!

”Commander Lu! This won’t do!”

War Wolf shouted in the comms channel, his voice tinged with urgency, ”Our energy consumption is too fast! And these things are getting more and more numerous; they’re simply endless!”

On the bridge.

Lu Chen quietly watched it all.

His gaze never left the center of the battlefield.

He was observing.

He was searching.

Searching for the brain that commanded this colossal swarm.

”heavenly craft, have you found it?”

[Analyzing data flow direction] Countless data streams frantically scrolled across heavenly craft’s virtual image [Enemy communication uses quantum entanglement encryption, extremely difficult to crack]

[Wait!]

heavenly craft’s voice suddenly paused.

[Found it!]

[All bio-warship command directives converge to a single point in the rear!]

[Coordinates: X772Y339, Z104!]

”Good!”

Lu Chen’s eyes blazed with intense light!

He suddenly waved his hand, and the holographic screen instantly zoomed in, locking onto that coordinate.

There.

Under the heavy encirclement of a group of colossal escort warships.

There was a seemingly inconspicuous—

”Brain.”

That’s right, it was a brain!

It floated in a vacuum, only a few hundred meters in diameter, completely translucent and milky white, covered with countless glowing neural synapses rhythmically pulsating.

It had no weapons, nor any armor.

But all the warships around it protected it as if it were a deity!

”This is the Brain Bug!”

Lu Chen’s lips curved into a cold arc.

”To catch the bandits, first catch their king.”

”As long as we destroy it, this fleet will be a scattered mess!”

”But...” Su Qingying looked at the coordinate, which was surrounded like an iron barrel, her brows tightly furrowed, ”That position is in the deepest part of the enemy formation, with at least several million warships guarding it.”

”Our Star Destroyer Cannons simply cannot penetrate such a thick meat shield!”

”Who said I was going to blast it with cannons?”

Lu Chen turned around, looking at Su Qingying with a familiar, mischievous smile on his face.

”Qingying, do you remember what I taught you before?”

”In the face of absolute dimension, distance is meaningless.”

He walked to the command console, placed his hands on the control panel, and his voice instantly became solemn and sacred!

”Order!”

”pangu-class Dimension Strike Ships, all personnel prepare!”

”Target: Enemy Brain Bug!”

”Tactic: Dimension Boarding!”

”What?!”

Everyone present was stunned.

Boarding?

That was a tactic from the Age of Sail!

To engage in boarding combat in an interstellar battlefield where distances were often light-years?

This... this was too crazy, wasn’t it?!

”That’s right, boarding.”

The madness in Lu Chen’s eyes grew more intense.

”Since their hides are thick, then we’ll just directly—”

”Drill into their bellies!”

”War Wolf!”

”Here!”

War Wolf’s voice from the communicator, though panting, was still loud.

”Take your special forces and those hundred ’Super Soldiers’, and all of you get into the landing pods!”

”I’m going to send you directly to that ’brain’s’ face!”

”And fiercely—”

”Blow its head off!”

”Hahahahaha!”

Upon hearing this, War Wolf let out a thunderous laugh!

”Commander Lu! This move of yours really hits the spot for me!”

”Brothers! Did you hear that?!”

”We’re not fighting the iron shells outside anymore!”

”We’re going to—”

”Gut them!”

”Yes!!!”

A hundred Super Soldiers roared in unison!

The next second.

The bows of ten pangu-class warships suddenly split open.

A hundred extremely tiny, pitch-black special landing pods, like a group of inconspicuous ghosts, silently slipped into the void.

They had no engine nozzles, nor energy fluctuations.

They relied on—

”Spatial Folding!”

”Buzz—”

Space rippled slightly.

Those hundred landing pods thus vanished into thin air from the human formation.

And at the same time.

In the distant enemy rear, above the heavily protected ”Brain Bug.”

Space suddenly tore open a tiny crack.

Like a sharp knife, silently held against the enemy’s throat from behind!

”Satan”

Lu Chen watched the screen, whispering softly.

”Are you ready to welcome—”

”Divine Retribution—”

”From the East?”