Chapter 736: Gigantic Mother Insect, Exile

Star Sea Hall, Observation Center.

On the huge holographic screen, that pollution tide that once spread across tens of thousands of light-years is now contracting at a slow speed toward some location.

The observation officer stared at the data, beads of sweat on the forehead falling one by one.

To speak of slowness on the cosmic scale is nothing short of playing a rogue.

At such a macroscopic scale, to change at a speed visible to the naked eye— that speed is truly imaginable.

The contraction speed is still increasing.... The traction trajectory is very regular, completely unlike natural decay.

It's more like something is absorbing it from the outside.

The people of the Observation Department dared not delay, immediately encrypting the data and reporting it to the hall's senior leadership.

Alliance Research Institute.

Zhang Jie was contemplating the data that had just been transmitted onto the screen.

Yuan stood beside them, brow furrowed.

The encrypted message sent from the Star Sea Hall said it was an abnormal phenomenon of the pollution's contraction.

Currently only the hall's senior leadership and some civilizations' senior leadership know; the news has not yet spread.

They suspect the pollution is not natural decay, but is being absorbed by something.

Zhang Jie flipped through the data, nodded, and indicated agreement.

The contraction trajectory is indeed too regular; something is pulling the pollution, bit by bit toward the edge.

Hmm, it's like a vacuum cleaner; not saying it's unrelated, it can only be said to be exactly the same.

To achieve this, it's definitely not ordinary technological means; it's fundamentally impossible as a technological means.

"Speaking of, do those hidden world civilizations have any moves?"

Yuan shook their head, hidden world civilizations, they don't care about these things; these are all big shots.

Perhaps in their eyes, all the civilization's struggles and actions now look like playing around and roughhousing.

If we speak of civilizations that have survived countless eras, none but the hidden world civilizations.

Zhang Jie thought for a moment, then turned off the data.

First, let's wait and see what they say next.

Star Sea Hall, emergency meeting.

The senior leadership who received the message gathered together, real-time data of the pollution's contraction jumping on the screen, the atmosphere so heavy it could drip water.

This is absolutely not a good omen.

In history, every contraction period before a heavenly disaster outbreak signifies that a sovereign is about to be born.

Whether it's insect disaster, blood disaster, or beast disaster, before this period there will be an extreme-speed contraction period.

Insect disaster will collectively return to nest; blood disaster will constrict the blood-red vessels; in beast disaster, the symbionts in their mouths will collectively return to prey.

The insect disaster's star-eating insect emperor, the blood disaster's blood nest mother, the beast disaster's star-swallowing giant beast— before each evolution, they first contract, then erupt.

Once a sovereign of high-dimensional energy is born, then it's trouble.

Cannot wait.

We need to act before it's fully formed, strike first.

"Understood! I will organize a fleet!"

The message was strictly sealed, but a united fleet composed of elites from multiple civilizations had already assembled in the shortest time, setting out silently toward the center point of the pollution's contraction.

And the recruitment order for the expedition against the heavenly disaster sovereign is still spreading within each great civilization. To be frank, these great civilizations, to have made it this far, more or less all have some trump cards.

Even the Alliance, this newly risen great civilization, has moves that can clash with the opponent.

The Alliance's giant warship is the foundation of its survival; but whenever a civilization provokes Lin Ran, she can instantly take the giant warship to your doorstep for frenzied bombardment, launch a few star-piercing spears, and then slip away pathetically— believe it or not?

So, in reality, civilizations have not yet been driven to that point; even now, many civilizations still choose to wait and see.

When the first fleet reached the target area, the sight they saw made everyone suck in a breath of cold air.

That lethal pollution meat sea, at its edge now, a huge, ferocious mother insect is crouching.

She opens her mouth, sucking in the pollution mouthful by mouthful; after two sips she also belches twice, like eating a bowl of expired noodles, full of disdain yet forced to eat.

Hmm, but these fleets don't think that way; regarding Qi Yu's belching back and forth, they only regard it as the normal reaction of this heavenly disaster.

After all, heavenly disaster— it's not strange for it to do weird things. For example, blood disaster sometimes still twitches twice for no reason, just like Parkinson's.

And at this moment, they have locked onto the target.

Target confirmed.

Suspected heavenly disaster sovereign prototype is absorbing pollution energy.

All warships, prepare to concentrate fire! Conduct the first round of suppression.

With one order, tens of thousands of mother-ship-level main guns fire simultaneously.

Energy beams, kinetic shells, space-tearing shells, antimatter weapons— they bombarded that mother insect from all directions.

Then, all attacks were blocked at a distance of several dozen li from her.

No explosion, no hit; aside from drawing the opponent's attention, it had absolutely no effect.

The fleet commander stared for two seconds, then gritted their teeth and gave the order.

Continue! Don't stop!

Second round volley, third round volley, firepower coverage lasted a full ten-odd minutes.

But that mother insect, aside from glancing at it the first time, never paid any attention to these attacks again.

She merely lifted one insect limb, scratched at the spot occasionally hit by an energy beam due to negligence, like scratching an itch.

Now, the fleet's communication channels went completely numb.

All attacks were ineffective!

Our attack was blocked by the force field!

Tsk, troublesome.

Everyone, activate the second attack mode!

For the various wars in the universe, defending against these kinetic weapons is no longer a major problem; besides kinetic weapons, there are also various other different attack methods.

But it seems already a bit late.

This giant mother worm is ultimately not that kind of broad-sense natural disaster, just like the difference between PVE and PVP, and she Qi Yu is not an AI.

Those natural disasters only know to stand there and take hits, but she isn't like that.

Qi Yu finally turned her head, looking at those iron shells buzzing not far away, a hint of impatience flashing in her eyes.

Coming here to eat pollution is already annoying, and now a swarm of iron shells is buzzing in her ears—annoying, right?

Qi Yu lifted a worm limb and lightly swung it.

Space tore open a huge rift at the center of those fleets, and in an instant it wrapped the entire space around the fleets inside.

All the fleets only felt their vision go dark, then all their instrument panels failed simultaneously, the surrounding space twisted wildly, and outside the ship windows only distorted starlight remained.

By the time they came to, the fleet had already appeared in a completely unfamiliar star field.

Barren, lifeless, not even a star visible.

In the comms channel, the navigation officer's voice trembled, carrying the joy of having survived a disaster.

Commander.... this is a void area on the star map, roughly a few million light-years from our departure coordinates.

At our speed, without a space-jump transfer station.....

"We... have been exiled."