Chapter 349: A Turtle in the Jar, Beating the Dog Behind Closed Doors

The boundary of the dimensional pocket, that invisible space barrier, twisted violently.

From the outside, it looked like a transparent bubble being stabbed by countless needles at once.

Inside the bubble, it was hell.

"My god……"

The commander of the Third Star Sector United Fleet, a crystal lifeform from a silicon-based civilization, his optical sensors flickered wildly, his core processor nearly crashed from overload.

What did he see?

Seeing hundreds of millions of Devourer warships, at the moment the first wave of attack arrived, they were directly annihilated.

Not an explosion, not disintegration, but a return to nothingness.

Not even debris remained.

Those thick-skinned War Beasts, those monsters that could withstand the Spatial Annihilation Cannon, now also emitted a silent wail.

Their biological armor was stripped away in sheets, their emerald-green blood boiled in the vacuum, then vaporized by higher-intensity energy.

This is the full power of the Milky Way Galaxy.

It is the most primal, most savage, yet most effective destructive force that the Yanhuang Civilization can unleash after integrating two hundred billion warships.

"Keep firing! Don't stop!"

Zhang Xianzhong's roar echoed in the command channel.

His fists clenched tightly, his joints making a faint sound from the strain.

Now he didn't care about energy consumption.

He wasn't afraid of engine overload.

All he wanted was one result.

Crush these bugs into dust!

Panic.

It began to spread inside the dimensional pocket.

The Devourer Fleet's formation collapsed completely under the first round of saturation bombardment.

They were trapped.

Front, back, left, right, up, down, inside, outside—everything was the enemy.

Nowhere to escape.

Their communication network was completely torn apart in that chaotic energy storm.

Low-level scout units, after losing command, began to bump around like headless flies.

Some charged toward friendly forces.

Some charged toward the pocket's barrier, then were shot into sieves by the denser fire outside.

Only the higher-level units remained—those War Beasts the size of asteroids and the Reaper Mother Ships like moving nests—still organizing resistance by instinct.

They spewed corrosive bio-energy toward the direction of greatest energy density.

But these attacks, before the concentrated fire of two hundred billion warships, amounted to nothing—not even a ripple.

"Voidwalker" bridge.

Qin Hao sat quietly in the command chair, watching the image fed back on the main screen.

On the screen, the light dots representing the enemy were disappearing in visible patches at a speed discernible to the naked eye.

The battle damage report scrolled rapidly beside it.

【Devourer Fleet losses have exceeded five billion……】

【Exceeded one hundred billion……】

【Exceeded two hundred billion……】

Each jump of the numbers represented the erasure of an astronomical unit's worth of lifeforms.

Of course, the allied side's losses were not small either.

They were mainly concentrated on the warships of third- and fourth-level civilizations.

The Yanhuang Civilization side suffered comparatively few losses.

Seeing this, Qin Hao's face showed no expression.

No sorrow, no anger.

He was merely observing silently. Only by fighting on a real battlefield could the fleet grow.

"System, record all data."

"Record the kill efficiency of our different weapons against different Devourer units."

"Record the Devourer Fleet's stress reaction after being driven to desperation."

"Record the structural changes of the dimensional pocket under internal and external dual pressure."

【Command confirmed. Data recording……】

To others, this war was a decisive battle determining the survival of civilizations.

In Qin Hao's eyes, it was still an experiment.

An unprecedentedly massive experiment.

He wanted to squeeze the last bit of value out of the Devourer expeditionary force through this war.

"Xiao Qin!"

Zhang Xianzhong's call came through, his voice tinged with irrepressible excitement.

"The first round of concentrated fire showed significant effect! We've already annihilated over thirty billion of the enemy! Their formation is completely disrupted!"

"Hmm."

Qin Hao's response was only one word.

Zhang Xianzhong stared for a moment, hearing no fluctuation in Qin Hao's tone.

He had expected Qin Hao to be very happy.

"Then what's our next step…"

"Continue the attack."

Qin Hao interrupted him.

"Don't give them any chance to catch their breath. Use gunfire to compress their living space bit by bit."

"Yes!"

Zhang Xianzhong immediately accepted the order.

Although he didn't understand why Qin Hao was so calm, he chose to obey the order without question.

The gunfire continued.

The commanders of the United Fleet had already recovered from the initial shock.

In its place came fervor.

They had personally witnessed the possibility of victory.

"All guns, maximum output!"

"Pour all our fury upon these worms!"

"For the Galaxy!"

Despair vanished, replaced by soaring fighting spirit that filled every communication channel.

However, at this moment.

At the center of the Dimensional Pocket.

The area most densely covered by gunfire.

A soundless roar pierced all the energy storms, echoing deep in the soul of every living being.

"Roar——!"

That was not sound.

It was a pure, brutal will pushed to the extreme of anger.

"Inside the bridge of the Void Walker,"

"【Absolute Logic Barrier】 automatically appeared, nullifying this mental impact."

But on the other ships of the United Fleet, countless crew members, especially those of weaker psychic races,

instantly bled from seven apertures and cried out in agony.

Even the captains and commanders felt a wave of dizziness, as if their souls had been struck hard by a heavy hammer.

Qin Hao's gaze penetrated the layers of gunfire and explosions, locking onto that area.

That big guy is about to make a move.

Devourer Sub-body.

The colossal beast trapped in the cage has finally been completely enraged.

Only seen, at the center of the Dimensional Pocket, all light and energy were forcibly pushed aside by an invisible force.

An immensely huge outline, unimaginable in size, slowly emerged.

Its volume surpassed that of a star.

Half its body was twisted flesh, half was ferocious metal.

Countless purple energy tendrils extended from its surface, wildly lashing at the surrounding space.

Each lash left a deep spatial rift on the inner wall of the Dimensional Pocket.

It was attacking this prison!

"Chief Commander!"

Zhang Xianzhong's shocked voice came through: "That monster……it's destroying space and dimensional structure! Our 'pocket' can't hold much longer!"

Qin Hao looked at the screen.

On the screen, the value representing the Dimensional Pocket's stability was plummeting.

Yet Qin Hao remained calm.

"Everything has only just begun."

He muttered softly.

Then he issued a command that surprised everyone.

"Order: all God Might-class battleships equipped with 【Dimensional Shockwave Torpedo】, squadrons 1 through 100."

"Prepare for the second round of weapons testing."