Chapter 190: Direct Assault on the Moyun Civilization Core Star System

Many mantis people corpses were casually dumped into the nutrient fluid recovery pool, becoming fodder for the fungal mat.

"The law of survival in the universe is indeed cruel!"

Zhang Xianzhong furrowed his brow; he wasn't pitying those people, just feeling a heartfelt sigh.

The other officers on the bridge were basically the same.

If humanity had lost that battle decades ago, Blue Star would have become the hellish scene before our eyes.

"Commander."

A young staff officer said calmly,

"According to the database comparison, this mantis people civilization, over a hundred years ago, had also been a primitive civilization that had just entered space. Their technological level was very similar to ours back then."

These words filled everyone's hearts with even greater sorrow.

A civilization that should have had a bright future was thus completely enslaved by the Mo Yun Empire in the most brutal way, reduced to production tools and fodder.

"Chief Commander Qin."

Zhang Xianzhong turned around and looked at Qin Hao.

"Give the order."

Qin Hao's face showed no expression.

But his gaze was as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice.

He slowly raised his hand and uttered only a single word.

"Kill."

A single "kill" word was like the fuse igniting a powder keg.

The expeditionary army, already eager to fight, instantly turned into an unstoppable iron torrent, surging wildly toward the Kalan Star System.

"Warning! Detected ultra-high-intensity spatial fluctuations!"

"Enemy attack! It's an enemy attack!"

The Moyun garrison fleet in the Kalan Star System also sounded the alarm at the moment the human fleet appeared.

Their response was not slow at all.

Three hundred thousand bio-warships immediately formed a defensive formation, and countless bio-turrets began charging.

However, they faced the Human Federal, which, after twenty years of sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, had undergone an explosive leap in technological level!

"First wave attack: curvature antimatter bombs, blanket strike!"

Zhang Xianzhong issued the cold order.

Hum—

In the human fleet's formation, millions of bombs were launched.

They immediately entered curvature flight, speeding toward the Moyun fleet.

"Stupid insects! Do you think using the same method can hit us?"

The commander of the Moyun fleet, a King Insect responsible for guarding this place, sent out a disdainful thought.

It immediately ordered the fleet to evade while preparing to withstand the explosion.

Silent explosions and flashes appeared.

Instantly, several thousand Moyun warships were destroyed.

It is obvious that the Moyun Civilization here has also made progress; the effect of curvature antimatter bombs is not as good as before.

However, this was also within Zhang Xianzhong's expectations.

"Second wave attack! Nüwa Fleet, free assault!"

"Remaining fleets, fire suppression, eliminate all remaining enemy ships!"

Seeing this, Zhang Xianzhong immediately issued a new order.

Forty thousand "Nüwa"-class warships forged from strong-interaction-force material, like forty thousand divine swords drawn from their scabbards, turned into a silver torrent that instantly cut into the chaotic Moyun fleet formation.

A true massacre began.

The Nüwa warships didn't even need to fire.

Their invulnerable hulls were the most terrifying weapon.

They rampaged through the enemy formation with unreasonable abandon.

Any Moyun warship blocking them—whether a cruiser or a King Insect–class mother ship—was silently split in two at the molecular level upon contact.

Only explosions, only firelight.

One after another, massive bio-warships split into two halves drifting in space.

The closely following conventional warships, meanwhile, used dense firepower capable of covering the entire starry sky to carry out the final mop‑up of those that slipped through.

The battle from start to finish took less than fifteen minutes.

The Moyun garrison fleet of three hundred thousand in the Kalan Star System was completely wiped out.

Not a single ship escaped.

In the face of an absolute technological crushing gap, any struggle appeared pale and powerless.

The battle ended.

The vast Federal fleet surrounded that mantis people homeworld riddled with a thousand holes.

The engineering corps and landing corps began to land.

Their task was to receive the enslaved mantis people; as for how to handle them, a decision would be made after the war ends.

Qin Hao's figure also appeared on this planet.

He looked at those mantis people with numb eyes, whose brain‑post controllers had been removed, yet still dazed and at a loss, and felt some stir in his heart.

Weakness is the original sin.

If we do not resist, humanity's fate will only be worse than theirs.

Report!

A communications officer rushed to Qin Hao.

We have just intercepted an encrypted hyperspace data stream emanating from this star system!

Directed toward……the core region of the Mo Yun Empire!

Shall we intercept it?

Qin Hao shook his head, a faint curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

No need.

Just let it go through.

I want that so‑called Mother Brain to see clearly how we sweep away the fleet it prides itself on, like trash.

I want it to await our arrival in endless fear.

Tell it, we have come.

Revenge has begun!

The battle report from the Kalan Star System crossed endless space and returned to the heart of the Mo Yun Empire.

When this message reached the core of the Mother Brain's consciousness,

the entire Mo Yun Empire trembled.

Within the Mother Brain's consciousness space, the battle footage of the Kalan Star System was being played over and over.

It saw it.

It saw tens of thousands of silver ghosts, like phantoms, impossible to destroy.

It saw its own three hundred thousand garrison fleet wiped out utterly, as if swept away, in just fifteen minutes.

That was not an evenly matched battle.

It was a……dimensional strike from a higher‑dimensional civilization.

How could this be……how could this be?!

The Mother Brain's consciousness fell into chaos for the first time.

Twenty years!

Only twenty years of time!

How could the worm that, in its view, barely qualified as a second‑level civilization develop to such a terrifying extent?

Strong interaction force materials!

These are the technological barriers it has long dreamed of but could never break through!

And the enemy not only mastered them, but also achieved large‑scale military application!

Monster……that civilization itself is a monster!

Fear, like an endless flood, completely drowned the Mother Brain's reason.

It finally understood.

What it faced was fundamentally not a normally developing civilization following a standard path.

But rather a cheat‑enabled, utterly unreasonable freak!

Flee!

This was the only thought in the Mother Brain's mind.

Yet, where could it flee to?

The Mo Yun Empire is its body, its foundation.

Leaving here, it is nothing.

No……we cannot sit and wait for death!

The survival instinct forced the Mother Brain to calm down amid extreme fear.

Issue my supreme order!

Its consciousness turned into countless orders filled with despair and madness, spreading to every corner of the empire.

All fleets stationed abroad, immediately abandon your garrisoned star systems and rally to the mother star system at the fastest speed!

All enslaved civilizations, activate the formatting program, transforming them into the lowest combat units!

All bio‑factories, at any cost, produce suicide attack ships at full capacity!

I will construct a line of defense around the mother star system composed of tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of warships!

Even if I die, I will take a bite of flesh from that monster!

The Mother Brain went completely mad.

It decided to abandon over ninety percent of the empire's territory, concentrating all its strength back into the mother star system.

Staking the future of its entire civilization, it waged a desperate last stand.

……

Meanwhile.

The Human Expeditionary Army was advancing at an unstoppable pace toward the heart of the Mo Yun Empire.

They captured one Mo Yun Empire star system after another.

But each time they arrived, they found the garrison fleet had already fled at the news, leaving only wreckage and abandoned, already‑formatted enslaved civilizations.

Report, Chief Commander: the Ula Star System ahead is once again deserted.

The enemy fleet had already completed its jump withdrawal three hours ago.

On the bridge, Zhang Xianzhong looked at the star map, those marked‑as‑occupied star systems, his brows furrowed.

This mother brain is quite decisive.

This is to cut off the wrist like a brave warrior, shrink all forces, and fight us in a final decisive battle.

If it wants to fight, we'll fight it. Qin Hao's tone was very calm.

Pass my order: the fleet will no longer scatter to clean up these abandoned star systems.

All fleets, gather together.

We have only one goal.

He pressed his finger heavily on the holographic star map.

That is the center of the star map.

It is the mother star of the Mo Yun Empire.

It is also the core of that vast collective consciousness—the location of the mother brain.

All troops, target the Mo Yun mother star!

Let's accomplish the feat in one battle!

There, we will put an end to the war that has lasted several decades.

The orders have been issued.

A vast fleet of two million warships, no longer lingering, transformed into a silver spear piercing the star sea, pointing straight at the enemy's heart.

An epic decisive battle that will determine the ultimate fate of two civilizations is about to unfold in the core territory of the Mo Yun Empire.