Chapter 230: Two-Dimensional Foil Strike

If we rely on them, we lost from the start.

Qin Hao's voice was weak but unusually clear: "What they want to see is us and the Silicon-based Union fighting to mutual destruction, then they come in to clean up the wreckage."

"These bastards!" Zhang Xianzhong muttered.

Qin Hao ignored his anger, instead forcing his body to stay upright as he reopened the system interface in his mind.

Conventional means have been exhausted; only unconventional means remain.

That is the dimensionality-reduction strike weapon from *Three Body*—the two-dimensional foil.

【Two-dimensional foil: a rule-based weapon that reduces three-dimensional space to two dimensions. Once activated, it expands at light speed, irreversible and unstoppable.】

【All three-dimensional matter in the target area will be forcibly reduced to dimensions, becoming an eternal two-dimensional painting.】

Exchange required energy units: 1,000,000.

"System, replicate the two-dimensional foil, control range to a diameter of one million kilometers."

Qin Hao issued the command in his mind.

Energy points deducted successfully, remaining energy units: 208.7 million.

【Two-dimensional foil has been replicated, can be deployed at any time.】

The system butler's notification tone sounded.

Hearing the notification, Qin Hao spoke to Zhang Xianzhong:

"Commander Zhang, order all Federal fleets to immediately gather at my coordinates at maximum speed, then carry out an ultra-long-range spatial jump to withdraw from this battlefield."

"What did you say? Have them withdraw?"

Zhang Xianzhong froze, "Xiao Qin, if we withdraw now, what about the brothers who sacrificed earlier..."

"Time is pressing; you'll find out soon."

Qin Hao's tone carried an unprecedented severity: "Immediately, right now! Don't delay even a second!"

Although Zhang Xianzhong didn't understand, he sensed an unusual meaning from Qin Hao's tone.

He immediately thought of something and promptly issued the order.

"All Federal fleets, take note! Immediately abandon current targets and assemble at the designated coordinates! Prepare for an emergency spatial jump!"

The execution power of the Federal fleet is astonishing.

The moment the order was given, all Federal fleets engaged with Silicon-based warships immediately broke off combat and began rapidly converging toward the Command Center.

This move left everyone baffled.

In the allied forces' command channel, the voice of the Grand Archbishop of the Star Sea Divine Sect carried a hint of questioning for the first time.

"Human Federal, what are you doing? Deserting in the face of battle?"

"Your Excellency Grand Archbishop, we are merely making a tactical adjustment," Zhang Xianzhong replied in a cold voice.

"As for your fleet, it seems you've been merely observing tactics at the edge of the battlefield; perhaps you also need to adjust?"

"You..." the Grand Archbishop was left speechless.

And the Silicon-based Union's main brain also noticed the Federal fleet's abnormal movement.

【Logical analysis: enemy fleet is assembling, intentions unknown.】

【Threat assessment: low. Determined to be the final struggle before collapse.】

【Order: all combat units, surround the target area and annihilate completely.】

Countless Silicon-based warships began moving toward the direction where the Federal fleet was gathering, forming a massive encirclement.

At that moment, inside the Federation Command Center, Qin Hao slowly rose to his feet.

His complexion remained pale, but his purple eyes shone astonishingly bright.

He took the two-dimensional foil from the system space.

It was a transparent sheet as ordinary as could be, only palm-sized.

Actually calling it a sheet is inaccurate, because it has no thickness.

Only see the two-dimensional foil hovering silently in Qin Hao's palm, with no energy fluctuations, no special features, just like an ordinary piece of plastic.

But Qin Hao knew that this tiny sheet contained enough rule-based power to destroy an entire star system, the most terrifying of forces.

"Goodbye, Iron Lumps."

Qin Hao's consciousness locked onto the distant massive mechanical planet and the tens of thousands of warships surrounding it.

Then he gently tossed the two-dimensional foil in his hand into the void.

The two-dimensional foil made no sound, emitted no light, and silently merged into the dark background of the universe.

It was as if nothing had happened.

"Qin Hao! All fleets have assembled! Ready to jump at any moment!"

Zhang Xianzhong's voice came through.

"Jump!" Qin Hao said only one word.

The next second, with the Federation Command Center at the forefront, millions of Federal warships simultaneously activated their spatial jump engines, vanishing without a trace amidst a violent spatial distortion.

At the very moment the Federal fleet disappeared.

The distant battlefield center.

The vast vacuum zone just cleared by the Federal fleet.

An anomaly occurred.

The Silicon-based Union's main brain emitted for the first time a signal representing the highest-level alarm.

【Alarm! Alarm! Detected space anomaly attenuation!】

【Three-dimensional space structure is being forcibly converted into a two-dimensional plane!】

【Logical analysis……failed! Unknown attack! Cannot comprehend! Cannot defend!】

【Threat level……exceeds definition limit! Activate highest-level avoidance protocol!】

That colossal mechanical planet, its surface liquid metal surging wildly, attempted to initiate a space jump to flee the area.

But it was too late.

An invisible-to-the-naked-eye yet truly existing "plane",

It was expanding at light speed from the point where the two-dimensional foil merged into space!

It was like an endless sheet of paper, covering everything.

The nearest silicon-based warship, its forward section was the first to contact that "plane".

No explosion, no release of energy.

That warship's forward section abruptly turned into a painting.

An absolutely flat painting, retaining all detail yet losing all thickness—a strange picture.

Next came its aft section.

Then came the hundreds or thousands of warships surrounding it.

They were like ink drops falling into clear water, rapidly being "two-dimensionalized".

Even the mechanical planet with a diameter of thirty thousand kilometers was not spared.

Its massive sphere was flattened the instant it touched the two-dimensional plane.

All surface mechanical structures, all internal energy circuits, even its cold collective consciousness at the core were, in an instant, solidified upon this two-dimensional scroll.

Its consciousness, at the final moment of being two-dimensionalized, sent out its last cry to the entire universe—a wail filled with logical chaos and incomprehensibility.

【Dimension……collapse……error……error……】

The entire process was as fast as it could be, and as silent as it could be.

In just over three seconds, a space with a diameter of one million kilometers was two-dimensionalized.

Tens of thousands of silicon-based warships, together with that planet‑scale war fortress, were in that soundless instant completely erased from the three‑dimensional universe.

They became a silhouette against the starry sky, spanning a million kilometers, magnificently grand yet horrifically terrifying.

This once‑noisy battlefield fell utterly silent.

Only that two‑dimensional scroll, silently displaying to all surviving observers the majesty of the divine weapon.