Chapter 575: Oh No, I've Become a Body Double?

Not much time had passed. The Interstellar space, which had gradually quieted down, suddenly shook. A massive Dimensional Rift emerged, accompanied simultaneously by violent Energy Fluctuations.

The Pioneer Fleet flew out from it. Various Elemental Energies continuously spewed forth, wanting to intercept the other party.

But it was to no avail, not causing too much trouble for this fleet. Three figures followed closely behind; it was exactly the Star Glory Empire's High-Level Lifeforms.

The Pioneer Fleet also looked relatively miserable now, having lost about two-thirds. The remainder gathered together, which conversely made it easier to defend.

"You three, there's no need to continue seeing us off. We will have opportunities to meet again in the future." Marat's voice sounded on the broadcast channel, clearly carrying a mocking tone.

"Of course, you can also choose to continue hunting us."

The expressions of Alan and the other two were ugly. The other party had many technological methods that had never appeared before. They had no corresponding response plans, making it quite troublesome to deal with.

Moreover, although the scale of this fleet was small, they were inevitably the elite among elites to forcefully break through the blockade of the Dimension World.

Marat led his people to evacuate. The warship Thrusters spewed fierce flames, streaking trails of Flowing Light in the Interstellar space.

The Four-Armed Titan gnashed his teeth and was about to immediately give chase, but was stopped by Alan. He shook his head and said: "Beware of the other party's ambush."

"Since things have come to this, the most urgent task now is to report this matter first, and transport those warship wreckages to the Empire's Research Institute."

"In the shortest amount of time, let the Empire gain a relatively comprehensive understanding of them, and develop corresponding methods to prevent the Empire from suffering losses again."

The other two could only nod in silence. The Dimension World was breached, and the things inside were snatched away. They would inevitably be held accountable. Now they must make up for it.

"You two take the remaining fleet and transport the warship wreckages away. I will stay here and wait for follow-up orders." Alan added.

"You're staying here by yourself? What if they fight their way back?" The Four-Armed Titan asked, somewhat worried.

"Their goal has been accomplished. There's no need to come back and take risks." Alan shook his head. For large organizations, completing the mission and longer-term plans were the most important.

Having snatched the items, the other party definitely wanted to send them back first. Turning back to launch a surprise attack had no meaning, and was instead somewhat risky.

"The ones in danger are actually you guys..." Alan's eyes were deep: "The other party definitely doesn't want their technological crystals to be reverse-engineered. They might intercept you halfway."

"So you must be fast. Take advantage of the time the other party is also delivering their mission to return to the Empire with the things."

The other two thought about it, and it indeed made a lot of sense. Thus they no longer insisted, letting the remaining soldiers gather the wreckage as quickly as possible, and then pack it up and take it away.

Their movements were very fast. In just half a day, they had already packed up most of the warship wreckage. The Four-Armed Titan and the jelly-like lifeform embarked on the road back to the Star Glory Empire.

They wouldn't need too long. They only needed to find the nearest civilization with a Stargate and directly borrow the path.

Alan watched the other party's warships leave, his eyes flickering. Finally, he let out a long sigh and shook his head. Just as he was preparing to return to the Dimension World.

A terrifying sense of crisis surged into his heart. His pupils suddenly shrank. A massive amount of cold air surged from around his body, quickly condensing into ice crystal blocks, like a square prism.

The next moment, a pitch-black Energy Column shot over from the Interstellar space, violently bombarding this prism, blasting out a massive amount of ice crystal fragments and rapidly advancing inward.

Who's launching a sneak attack!?

Alan gnashed his teeth, not caring to think about the source of this attack. He wanted to open a Dimensional Rift and return to the Dimension World.

As long as he returned to the Dimension World, relying on the power of this Dimension World, no one could do anything about him.

However, just as the Dimensional Rift showed a tendency to emerge, it seemed to be subject to some interference, beginning to twist and eventually closing up again.

"Rift Interference Device!?" Alan's expression was taut. He could only continuously reinforce the defense before him. White cold air pervaded, already covering a very large surrounding area.

In the distance, a technological device roughly the size of a house floated beside Li Yu. The [Symbiotic Colonization Armor] was supplying it with energy.

Sakura's joining allowed him to obtain entry-level items in Dimensional Technology.

The Rift Interference Device was one of them, capable of making already formed Dimensional Rifts twist and dissipate.

Bang!

His body suddenly exploded, turning into countless ice crystal fragments. The pitch-black Energy Column passed through the ice crystal fragments, shooting towards the silent depths of the Universe.

"Phew..." At a certain location covered by white cold air, Alan's figure appeared, letting out a long sigh of relief.

The attack intensity of that black Energy Column just now definitely exceeded his defense range.

Fortunately, he could elementalize himself and then appear anywhere within the coverage of the cold air.

However, before he could rejoice, he found that the terrifying danger not only hadn't weakened in the slightest, but instead showed a trend of intensifying.

He abruptly turned his head, only to find that the pitch-black Energy Column that should have shot into the Universe was actually blasting towards him again.

"What is going on!?" Alan cursed furiously in his heart. His Corporeal Form once again collapsed into ice crystal fragments and disappeared from the spot.

Subsequently, the pitch-black Energy Column also changed direction again and tracked him.

Looking from afar, there was a pitch-black Energy Column amidst the chilling white cold air, like a swimming dragon, constantly shuttling through it.

Afterwards, another black Energy Column shot out from the distant Starry Sky, also joining the shuttling ranks, though its thickness was far inferior to the first one.

One, two, three... nearly ten black Energy Columns almost merged into one, like a ferocious black dragon, lunging at its prey.

Boom!

Amidst the chilling cold air, black fireworks occasionally exploded, forming surging black shockwaves.

Alan had just ended his battle with the Pioneer Fleet. The injuries he suffered previously hadn't fully recovered. Under the continuous pursuit, he would occasionally be blasted.

Black and white intertwined in the Starry Sky, like a giant ink wash painting, yin and yang blending, occasionally blasting out massive amounts of ink spots, leaving behind ineradicable traces.

Boom!

The last black dragon also lunged onto its prey. Black Energy Ripples mixed with cold air rushed to the face. The pitch-black pupils reflected this Starry Sky ink wash painting. Li Yu put away the Black Cross and the [Hawkeye Emblem].

These two items combined were enough to make Alan, whose injuries hadn't yet healed, die under the attacks before even seeing his face.

Alan floated in the Starry Sky. His body looked incomparably miserable. His physical body was full of scorched deep pits, his chest pierced through, and the escaping white blood quickly condensed into ice particles.

He twitched all over. One eye had already been blasted apart, and the remaining one was also incomparably muddy.

Just who... is it!?

The last glimmer of light was also about to disappear. This was the last thought in his mind.

His vision suddenly went black, the light from distant stars blocked out. He tried hard to move his eyeballs; the intense pain couldn't stop his unwilling heart either.

It was just that he didn't see who exactly the person before him was, only able to see a smear of crimson flames fall, completely covering him.

"Well, your corpse can't be left here, lest people discover some clues." Li Yu muttered.

Watching Alan turn to ash and annihilate, Li Yu returned to this Dimension World again.

Although there were still some remnant soldiers here, it was impossible for them to stop him from devouring this place.

The reason he stayed behind was exactly to devour this Dimension World.

The Abyss Institute had become a coward. Dimension Worlds were not easy to find now.

Especially after experiencing this attack, the Star Glory Empire's nerves would definitely be highly tense, and it wouldn't be good for him to act frequently either.

Therefore, he was determined to get this Dimension World.

After thoroughly cleaning this place once, the bewitching Flower of Devourment then covered the entire Dimension World.

Soon after, this place was filled with Void Turbulence.

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Still in the virtually constructed meeting room, Marat had a respectful demeanor, currently giving his report. The conference table was full of people, each one focusing their gaze on him.

"Your Excellencies... this is how things happened. The upper half of the skeleton is currently in transit, and should be delivered back to Headquarters in a while."

As his voice fell, the meeting room began to become noisy.

"How could a skeleton be left behind? According to the information we control, it's impossible for anything to be left behind..."

"Is there anything special about that Royal Blood Titan?"

"Don't know. The time-fixing Crystal has already been destroyed, we can only start with this skeleton."

"Why was that damn Other-Dimensional Camp also there? Their target was also T1."

The crowd discussed spiritedly, but overall they were somewhat excited. A Titan skeleton, although not comparable to bringing back the entire time-fixing Crystal.

But at least they didn't return empty-handed.

"You just said that the lifeform who could tear the Dimensional Wall barehanded said some Baffling words in front of you." The blurry projection at the head spoke, making everyone quiet down.

"Yes... Your Excellency." Marat's attitude was even more respectful, playing the Recording taken by his armor on the spot.

"...Unicron... God of the Force..."

The Recording played quietly. The crowd didn't say a word, until the Recording finished playing, did someone speak up doubtfully.

"He... mistook us for someone else? Mistook us for that Unicron's people."

"No, it shouldn't be that simple. I always feel like something isn't quite right."

"The God of the Force has already been confirmed as a Super Lifeform. What about that Unicron? Also a Super Lifeform?" Someone raised a question.

Some also scolded: "What exactly does this Other-Dimensional Camp want to do? Acting all mysterious and crazy, actually directly breaking the time-fixing Crystal, truly stupid beyond reach!"

"If the Star Glory Empire saw this Recording, what would their reaction be?" The person at the head spoke, making the crowd somewhat confused.

"...They would think, this is the internal struggle of a faction..."

Once this statement came out, the crowd was first taken aback, and then somewhat stunned.

"...Internal struggle?"

"What do you mean? We became people of the Other-Dimensional Camp, and we're even infighting!?"

"The collision in the last operation has already caused the Star Glory Empire to have this preconceived notion..." The voice at the head couldn't be heard having any emotional fluctuations:

"If their intelligence department saw this Recording, they would definitely have this thought."

The crowd fell silent for a moment, all feeling a sense of inconceivability in their hearts.

"The Star Glory Empire, would they be that stupid?" Someone said cautiously.

"Stupid?" The voice of the projection at the head suddenly rose: "Their information is limited. Combining known intelligence, this is an inevitable deduction."

"It can even be said that, under the influence of this preconceived notion, we have already become Unicron's subordinates!"

"In their cognition, The Forerunners have now split into two factions. One faction is headed by the God of the Force, and the other faction is headed by Unicron."

"This..." The crowd Looked at Each Other in Dismay. Having hidden for so long, they naturally didn't want to expose their Identity.

But they didn't expect that now, not only was their Identity exposed, but it was also inexplicably distorted, becoming subordinates of some Unicron.

Before today, they hadn't even heard of the name Unicron.

"I wanted to use the other party as a target, yet the other party actually wanted to resolve it in this way..." He murmured:

"Next, the other party wouldn't want to use the Excuse of internal struggle to cooperate with the Star Glory Empire, would they..."

"Cooperate with the Star Glory Empire? Cooperate to deal with us?" There was no lack of smart people present, immediately guessing the purpose of the cooperation.

And even more people could only blink their eyes. How did the development of events head in a bizarre direction with no return?

Having Laid Dormant for so long, they naturally had plans for exposing their Identity.

Whether it was suddenly exposed, or tails were found, they had no less than ten emergency plans.

There were also some ambitious High Echelon members who wanted to use a hoarse voice, or an Interstellar-shocking battle, to announce the return of The Forerunners even more.

It was just that no one had ever thought that they would step onto the Interstellar stage with the Identity of a branch faction.

This was too... hard to accept. They were The Forerunners, the civilization that once competed with the Star Glory Empire for Interstellar hegemony!

Someone fiercely slammed the table: "The Other-Dimensional Camp has gone too far. There will definitely be a reckoning in the future!"

"Perhaps we can start with that Li Yu..." Another chimed in.

"That requires a detailed plan..."

"We can clarify..." Someone couldn't help saying, but regretted it after speaking.

"Ha, Bonets, you're really smart. Then you go find The Emperor and tell him that the Other-Dimensional Camp is the Other-Dimensional Camp, and The Forerunners are The Forerunners..."

"If The Emperor doesn't believe it, then invite him to the Headquarters and let him have a good look."

The guy called Bonets had his face darken, gave a cold snort, and didn't speak either.

It couldn't be clarified now. The Star Glory Empire couldn't possibly believe them, unless there was more concrete evidence.

And how could The Forerunners proactively disclose their own information intelligence?

So, this was already an established fact.

(End of Chapter)