A meat grinder! Is this your secret weapon?

"The Route of Death." This name was no exaggeration.

The moment the massive fleet cluster, following the silent "Rock Corps," sailed into this Star Domain, the radar of every warship let out a piercing shriek!

"Alert! Alert! High-intensity spatial distortion detected!"

"Large-scale energy storm appearing ahead!"

"Warning! Hull structure is being eroded by unknown radiation!"

A series of urgent alarms rang out frantically on the bridge of every warship!

Looking out through the portholes, the originally deep and tranquil Universe here had become like a shattered kaleidoscope.

Space, like crumpled paper, was covered in hideous folds and cracks.

The colorful yet deadly energy storms, like raging waves in an ocean, rampaged and churned.

Countless torn meteorite fragments, swept into the chaos, were instantly decomposed into the most basic particles.

"My god..." On the bridge of the Aegis, General Patton gripped the armrest tightly, his face as pale as paper.

"A place like this... what's the difference between sailing a warship in here and something made of paper?!"

This was no longer war.

This was confronting the wrath of the entire Universe!

"General! Our shield energy is dropping at an alarming rate!"

"If this continues, we can only hold on for ten minutes at most!"

The adjutant's report made Patton's heart sink to the bottom.

On the other side. On the Grey Wolf, Vladimir's expression was also grave to the extreme.

"Order the fleet to activate the deflector shields at maximum power!"

He issued the command calmly, but his tightly clenched fists betrayed the turmoil in his heart.

"Decelerate! Find the gaps in the storm and pass through slowly!"

"We cannot..."

His words were cut short.

A calm yet absolutely authoritative voice echoed through the public channel, resounding on the bridge of every warship.

"Full speed ahead."

It was Lin Yuan.

"..."

Vladimir's pupils constricted sharply.

Full speed ahead?! In a place like this?! Was he crazy?!

"Your... Your Excellency!" General Patton's voice carried a hint of uncontrollable shock and trembling, "This is too dangerous! Our warships simply cannot withstand spatial tearing of this intensity!"

"Who said you had to use your warships to withstand it?"

Lin Yuan's voice remained without a ripple.

The next second, his cold, merciless command rang out again.

"Rock Corps."

"Charge."

"..."

Dead silence.

Patton and Vladimir froze simultaneously.

For a moment, their brains couldn't even comprehend the meaning of those two words.

Rock Corps... charge?

Let them... use their flesh and blood to collide with this death zone filled with spatial rifts and energy storms?!

However.

An order was an order.

Under the absolute deterrence of the "Bloodline Chain" forbidden curse, that slave legion composed of thousands of Blackstone Clan members did not hesitate in the slightest.

They didn't even let out a shout.

They only silently, like moths flying into a flame, activated the crude energy shields on their bodies.

Then, they turned into a black torrent and charged fearlessly towards that most violent, most chaotic energy storm zone!

Boom—!!!

The hundreds of Blackstone Clan warriors at the forefront had their shields shatter like bubbles the moment they made contact with the energy storm!

Immediately after, it was their rock bodies, harder than divine metal!

Before the spatial rifts capable of tearing apart stars, they were easily sliced into countless fragments!

Under the scouring of the violent energy, they were decomposed into dust flying all over the sky!

No screams.

No wails.

Only a scene of silent destruction!

However.

Their deaths were not without value.

Those hundreds of Blackstone Clan warriors used their lives and bodies to forcibly carve out a brief, stable zone that lasted less than a second within that violent energy storm!

Following that, it was the second wave! The third wave!

Thousands of Blackstone Clan warriors charged one after another!

They were like the most primitive and brutal icebreaker made of flesh and blood!

Using their own lives, using the sturdy bodies their race prided themselves on, they forcibly plowed a safe passage paved with blood and broken bones through that route of death, which would have made any fleet flinch!

"..."

The dragon charger, the Aegis, the Grey Wolf... on every warship of the Human Alliance, all the soldiers stared blankly at the scene before them, which was tragic to the extreme and spectacular to the extreme.

Their throats seemed to be tightly blocked by something.

They couldn't say a single word.

This was... Your Excellency's surprise troop?

"Follow."

Lin Yuan's voice broke the dead silence.

He looked at the channel paved with countless lives, his face showing not the slightest emotion.

It was as if those weren't thousands of lives, but merely some insignificant "fuel" consumed.

Qin Pojun took a deep breath, a flash of complexity crossing his only eye.

But in the end, it turned into absolute obedience.

"All troops! Follow!"

The massive fleet, following the constantly perishing "Rock Corps," sailed into this bloody channel.

However.

The danger was far from over.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz—!!!"

A scalp-numbing buzzing sound, like the flapping wings of billions of insects, emanated from the depths of the energy storm!

"What is that?!"

A lookout let out a terrified shriek.

In the midst of those chaotic light and energy shadows, a dark, boundless "black cloud" was sweeping towards them!

That wasn't a black cloud at all!

It was a swarm of insects composed of countless cosmic giant insects, each the size of a small fighter jet, covered in pitch-black carapaces, and possessing hideous mouthparts and sharp articulated limbs!

"It's the Void Zerg!"

"It's the 'Void Locust Plague'!"

Agatha's voice instantly became incomparably grave!

The Void Zerg!

It was them again!

One of the most notorious races on the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield!

They possessed astonishing reproductive and devouring capabilities; wherever they passed, whether it was life or planets, everything would be gnawed clean!

And the "Void Locust Plague" before them was the most troublesome vanguard unit among them!

"Fire!!!"

General Patton was the first to react, letting out a hoarse roar!

Boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!

The warships of the Aegis Legion and the Grey Wolf Legion instantly opened fire with full force!

Countless thick energy beams formed an airtight net of firepower, pouring towards that insect swarm!

However!

The carapaces of those Void Locusts were unimaginably hard!

Most of the energy beams hitting them could only spark a series of flashes and could not cause fatal damage at all!

And the number of insects in the swarm was simply too vast!

They ignored the ravages of the energy storm and ignored the fleet's artillery fire!

Like sharks that had smelled blood, they rushed crazily towards the fleet!

"No!!!"

A Dragon Xia Kingdom frigate at the forefront was instantly submerged by tens of thousands of Void Locusts!

Their sharp mouthparts were crazily gnawing at the warship's energy shield.

Amidst the piercing "crack" sounds, the shield lasted less than ten seconds before shattering with a roar!