Chapter 734: Just take big bites and chew, Blue Sapphire!

In the research institute, that black corpse had already been torn to pieces.

Zhang Jie extracted a slowly writhing mass of black fluid from the core's depths; that substance was the essence of the entire node.

Zhang Jie worked through the night to formulate, specially customizing an "immune cell" for Blue Sapphire.

Actually, it relies on willpower‑construction technology: extracting part of Blue Sapphire's tissue and matching it against the contamination.

Plus, adding the "strange substance" refined from his own body, he conducted a targeted culture of Blue Sapphire's tissue.

Finally, the immune cell that could fully adapt to the contamination, perfectly matching Blue Sapphire's body, appeared in Zhang Jie's hand.

Cough cough cough, actually it wasn't that easy; all the genius points accumulated by the Alliance Research Institute over this period were spent on this.

Done.

Zhang Jie pushed the test data to Yuan.

Completely immune to contamination, the second one besides me.

Yuan stared at the screen for two seconds, then glanced at the catgirl in the corner drooling over the corpse.

You sure?

Sure.

But what if she loses control?

Yuan's tone turned serious.

That thing can assimilate an entire fleet; you let her eat it—what if something goes wrong…

She herself is a natural disaster.

Zhang Jie interrupted her.

Yuan's pupils contracted, his gaze darting back and forth several times between Zhang Jie and Blue Sapphire.

Blue Sapphire's true form has no fixed shape; you can regard her as an entropy disaster.

But it looks no different from a normal organism...

She usually appears as a catgirl, because she chooses to be one.

Zhang Jie explained, scooping up the obedient Blue Sapphire from under her arm, holding her in his arms and rubbing her ears.

If she loses control, probably no one in this Star Sea could stop her.

A chill ran down Yuan's spine—don't say that! The more you say it, the more frightened she becomes!

She always felt this was an extremely risky endeavor...

So you still dare…

That's why I must let her adapt to the contamination in advance.

Zhang Jie set the cat down.

Better to guide than to block; she needs to learn to eat these things, rather than be eaten by them.

You trust her that much?

It's not that I trust her; it's that I trust myself.

Besides... she's the cat I raised.

Yuan opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.

Blue Sapphire had been waiting impatiently, she came over, her eyes sparkling.

Knight Sir! Can I go out now?!

Zhang Jie smiled, pointing at the pulsing red speck on the star map.

Come on, Knight Sir, let's go eat!

Somewhere, a contamination war.

Before a new contamination node, the Holland Expeditionary Army and a fleet of other allied civilizations had been surrounding this spot for over twenty hours straight.

Layer upon layer of shield barriers overlapped, the main guns firing salvo after salvo, yet that black sun continued to pulse steadily.

No good, firepower insufficient.

The high‑dimensional energy density inside the node is too high; conventional means can't pierce it.

If this goes on, we'll be dragged to death here.

The command cabin was fraught with tension; moreover, their ability to hold out this long was thanks to the Alliance sharing technology—otherwise they would have been wiped out dozens of hours earlier.

"Call for help..."

The commander of the Holland Expeditionary Army's fleet felt like a damned waste; even with others' technology, it was useless.

At this moment he desperately wished his own civilization could produce someone like Zhang Jie.

Just then, a radiance flared in the depths of space—the curvature light emitted during a spatial jump.

Dozens of colossal vessels broke through the contamination tide, slowly pressing to the battlefield's edge, the Alliance insignia on their hulls gleaming coldly in the starlight.

The Holland Expeditionary Commander's spirits lifted.

Alliance???

But the next second, his voice caught in his throat.

The Alliance warship did not open fire.

The forward launch bay slowly opened, a sealed capsule was ejected and hovered steadily above the contamination node.

The capsule's hatch was opened from inside.

A tiny thing poked out.

To be precise, it was a cat revealing its true form.

Black fluid spread from Blue Sapphire's body; her form began to twist, swell, elongate, and countless indescribable tendrils stretched out from the void.

She had no fixed shape, like a mass of living darkness slowly unfurling.

That is something older and more terrifying than pollution.

Helan De commander's voice was trembling.

That... what is that?!

Don't be afraid.

Zhang Jie's voice suddenly cut into the comms channel, he said calmly.

This is my pet I raised, uh....

That indescribable creature opened its maw, bit onto the black flesh, and tore at it in big bites.

"Yes yes, Sapphire, just tear food like that with big bites!"

Zhang Jie exclaimed excitedly, while Lin Ran beside him had her eyelids twitching.

Is this thing really reliable?

Soon after, that massive black flesh sea was gnawed into a bottomless passage.

Then accompanied by a shrill howl that could pierce vacuum, the pollution tide receded at visible speed.

The whole battlefield was deathly silent.

The fleet of the Helan De Expeditionary Force, countless eyes, just stared blankly at that indescribable creature.

It let out a burp.

Then it gradually shrank back into the form of a catgirl, crouched on the top of the sealed cabin, licking its paws.

Any more? Knight Sir!!!

In the command chambers of other civilizations, silence lasted a full three seconds.

Then, it exploded.

What was that just now?!

It ate the node?! The whole node?!

Alliance... what in the world has the Alliance been raising?!

Helan De commander stayed silent for a long time before squeezing out a sentence on the channel.

Alliance Leader, what else does your Alliance have that we don't know about?

Zhang Jie laughed.

There's plenty more.

"You guys don't have any other defenses there, I'll go help."

The Alliance's giant ship reactivated, with spacetime curvature rippling outward in layers around its hull.

Sapphire burrowed back into the sealed cabin, still holding a small clump of black flesh in its mouth, eating happily.

Over the next few days, she followed the Alliance fleet around.

Wherever there were pollution nodes, that indescribable monster was there.

With Sapphire's support, plus Zhang Jie's shared will-construction technology, the Star Sea finally suppressed the growth rate of the nodes.

But in the research institute, Yuan looked at the latest data, his face not relaxed at all.

Zhang Jie, although the number of nodes has been controlled, their interconnections are still expanding.

Zhang Jie stared at that star map gradually turning black.

The true source of pollution hasn't been completely eradicated.

"It seems this disaster is far from over."

Meanwhile, elsewhere, the time until a certain worm girl's descent is drawing ever closer.

I just don't know.... Will the heavy-taste Qi Yu, upon seeing Zhang Jie like this, collapse on the spot?