Chapter 272: Welcome to the Slaughterhouse

And at the moment they entered the core area of the ambush circle.

At the Yanhuang Civilization Military Command Center, Zhang Xianzhong looked at the red dots on the star map that had fully entered the encirclement, and calmly issued a two-word order.

"Close the gate."

Around the Godfall Star Domain, hundreds of reinforced "Space Solidification Generators" disguised as asteroids and space debris were instantly activated at the same time!

Hum—

An invisible yet powerful spatial disturbance, strong enough to warp light, expanded at super‑light speed with a boom!

The entire Godfall Star Domain, this vast cosmic graveyard, had all its space exits completely sealed at this moment!

Space was no longer an empty background.

It became a wall—an invisible, intangible yet impregnable wall!

The Sirius Fleet, which was high‑speed advancing within the star domain, immediately sensed something was wrong.

"What's going on? Why have the ships slowed down?"

"Report! The spatial resistance coefficient is skyrocketing in a geometric progression!"

"Our engines……our engines are overloaded!"

Tens of thousands of warships at the fleet's edge, attempting short‑range space jumps to adjust formation,

Their engines, upon contacting that viscous, swamp‑like space, instantly emitted a groan of being overloaded.

The powerful space engines, whose terrifying power could rend dimensions, were at this moment like an egg smashing head‑first into a concrete wall.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions boomed at the edge of the Sirius Fleet.

Those elite warships hadn't even had time to figure out what was happening when, under the immense pressure of space,

they disintegrated and exploded like soda cans crushed by an invisible giant hand, blooming into brilliant fireworks.

This sight left all Sirius troops dazed.

Inside the bridge of the Greedy Wolf, piercing alarms blared in unison,

The red warning lights bathed Lang Xiaotian's shocked face in a crimson glow.

"What the hell?! Who can tell me what's going on?!"

He grabbed the nearby technician's collar and roared wildly.

"Report……report, Commander!"

The technician trembled all over, his voice shaking: "Space……space curvature has spiked abnormally! Our space engines have all……all failed!"

"What?!"

"We……we're trapped!"

"Trapped?"

Lang Xiaotian froze, unable to believe his own ears.

A massive fleet of a hundred million warships was actually trapped in a tiny chaotic star domain?

How is this possible?

Realizing he had fallen into an ambush, Lang Xiaotian was both shocked and furious.

The arrogance stemming from a higher civilization was shattered by the cold reality at this moment.

But he was a battle‑hardened commander; after the initial panic, he forced himself to calm down.

"What's there to panic about! Hold your positions!"

He shoved the technician aside, straightened his posture, and the fear in his eyes was replaced by ruthlessness.

"Since we can't get out, we'll level this place completely!"

He issued a new order to the entire fleet.

"All warships! Stop advancing! Immediately contract the defensive formation! All main guns, switch to free‑fire mode!"

"I'd like to see what tricks those rats hiding in the dark are up to!"

The Sirius Fleet's execution was astonishing.

The moment the order was given, all warships stopped advancing and began moving toward the center, attempting to form a solid barrel formation.

However, just as they were frantically adjusting their formation,

directly ahead of their fleet, in the void that was originally empty,

one ship……two ships……ten ships……a hundred ships……

One after another, pitch‑black as ink, shaped like unsheathed swords, the Heaven Sword‑class warships appeared like ghosts slowly rising from hell, silently materializing.

Their numbers were few—exactly one hundred thousand ships.

Compared to the Sirius Fleet's black ocean of a hundred million warships, they were like a lone island in a vast expanse—tiny and solitary.

Lang Xiaotian looked at this fleet, far smaller than his own, and first froze,

then the suppressed arrogance surged back up.

He let out a earth‑shaking mad laugh, his laughter full of contempt and mockery.

"Hahaha! I thought it was some earth‑shattering ambush! Turns out it's just a bunch of turtles pulling petty tricks to trap us!"

"With just these paltry hundred thousand warships, you dare oppose my army of a hundred million?"

"Yanhuang Civilization, your ignorance and arrogance truly open my eyes! You have successfully angered me!"

"I will make you pay the heaviest price for your stupidity!"

In the viewing chamber of the distant Bitên Empire, the legislators who saw this also broke into relieved smiles.

"I thought there would be some surprise; it seems we overestimated them."

"Using space‑solidification tech to set a trap was a good idea, but unfortunately the numerical gap is too large."

"One hundred thousand against one hundred million, the outcome of this battle has already been decided."

"The Yanhuang Civilization can't even let us see the true power of their ideological virus before it gets crushed."

Only Emperor Bi Jiale furrowed his brow in an inscrutable way.

He sensed a trace of an aura from those hundred thousand black warships that made even him feel somewhat uneasy.

It was a coldness and dead silence that transcended conventional technology, almost at the level of fundamental law.

This is abnormal.

Yanhuang Civilization Military Command Center.

Luo Lao said to Zhang Xianzhong beside him:

"Let our students go first, to warm up the mentor's fleet. Also let this overconfident Heavenly Wolf commander see,

what... the vast ocean of a people's war."

"Understood."

Zhang Xianzhong nodded and issued a new order.

The moment the order was given.

In the left and right wings of the Heavenly Wolf Fleet, and behind them, in that previously empty void.

Suddenly, billions of points of light flared up!

It was the Sanctuary Fleet of the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard!

It was the Silicon-based Fleet that, after gaining freedom, chose to join the allied forces!

It was a support fleet under the Yanhuang Civilization, formed spontaneously by the liberated Second-level Civilizations!

Golden Sanctuary warships, silver Silicon-based warships, and various assorted makes of warships…

The massive fleet, numbering over five hundred million ships, surged from all directions like a tide, completely surrounding the Heavenly Wolf Fleet!

A huge and perfect slaughterhouse took shape at this moment.

On the bridge of Tanlang, the arrogant grin that howls like a wolf to the heavens froze on his face.

He stared blankly at the star map, at the countless innumerable points of light that surrounded him densely.

He felt a bone‑piercing chill surge from the soles of his feet straight up to the Heavenly Spirit Cover.

He finally realized that he hadn't stumbled into…

but rather... had plunged headfirst into a slaughterhouse that the hunter had long prepared.