201: The Dark Forest is cruel; we must become stronger!

When heavenly craft's final declaration of "Death Planet," filled with the scent of death and destruction, clearly echoed across the bridge of the expedition, the entire bridge fell into a deathly silence.

All the Super Soldiers, who had just been feeling fired up about the impending "interstellar reunion," were all as if choked by an invisible giant hand!

Their faces turned pale!

Their bodies turned cold!

Their minds went blank!

"Death Planet?!"

"And it was destroyed by an interstellar war?!"

"What kind of hellscape is this?!"

"They had only just left the Novice Village!"

"How did they jump straight to a cosmic graveyard?!"

"Commander Lu."

"Wolf Warrior" looked at the pitch-black planet on the screen, filled with the scent of death and sorrow!

For the first time, his tiger-like eyes, usually filled with iron-blooded toughness, revealed a trace of fear from the depths of his soul!

"Is… is this the truth of the universe?"

"No."

Lu Chen shook his head slowly.

Watching these "children" who had just stepped out of the cradle and witnessed the cruelest side of the universe, a cold rationality flashed in his pitch-black, vast-as-the-universe eyes!

"This is not the truth."

"This is just the tip of the iceberg of the truth."

"The cruelty and darkness of the universe are far beyond your imagination."

As soon as he finished speaking, he slowly raised his hand and snapped his fingers at the air!

"heavenly craft."

"Land the expedition on the surface of that planet."

"I want to take these 'naive' children of ours to take a good look."

"At what is truly called a 'dark forest'!"

【Yes, Master.】

Half an hour later, when that sci-fi, silver-white expedition slowly landed on that pitch-black planet filled with the scent of death and sorrow, a cold aura filled with endless loneliness and despair instantly enveloped the entire bridge through the huge panoramic portholes!

All the Super Soldiers stood as if petrified!

Staring blankly at the terrifying scene outside the window that could be called a "purgatory"!

The earth was pitch black!

Completely covered by an unknown black crystal!

Not a blade of grass grew!

The sky was gloomy!

Forever shrouded by a thick layer of dust clouds filled with deadly radiation!

No sunlight could be seen!

And within that endless darkness and deathly silence, ruins of huge, futuristic, once-glorious and brilliant cities stood silently on the pitch-black earth like cold, giant steel tombstones!

Silently telling them, the latecomers, the tragic epic of the destruction of an ancient and powerful civilization!

"My God…"

"What on earth happened here?!"

A young Super Soldier looked at the doomsday-like, terrifying scene before him, his voice trembling!

He felt like he was about to suffocate!

Lu Chen, like the coldest history teacher, calmly unveiled the bloody, cruel truth for them.

"See that?"

He pointed to the highest steel spire in the distance, which had long been cut in half and was filled with a sense of sorrow, and said calmly:

"That used to be the pride of this civilization."

"They called it the 'Tower to Heaven'."

"They, like us, yearned for the starry sea."

"And like us, they thought the universe was peaceful and friendly."

"Until one day," a complex and pitying look flashed in his eyes.

"They, like naive children, sent their most sincere 'greeting' to the entire universe."

"And then…"

"What answered them was not flowers or applause."

"But…"

He paused and said clearly, word for word:

"A Two-Dimensional Foil capable of completely erasing their entire civilization from this universe!"

Boom!

"Two-Dimensional Foil"?!

These three terrifying terms, filled with the scent of destruction and Dimensionality Reduction Strike, struck the minds of all the Super Soldiers present like a black lightning bolt capable of splitting the entire Milky Way!

They were completely petrified!

"Two-Dimensional Foil?!"

"Wolf Warrior's" iron-blooded and tough face was filled with unprecedented, ghostly horror!

"Commander Lu! Are you saying that this powerful civilization, which once also possessed a 'Tower to Heaven,' was actually two-dimensionalized and subjected to a Dimensionality Reduction Strike by someone using a 'Two-Dimensional Foil'?!"

"No."

Lu Chen slowly shook his head.

"Not one."

"But…"

A cold, cruel arc curled up on the corner of his mouth!

"Ten thousand!"

"Ten thousand primary civilizations, just like them, naively thinking the universe was a peaceful paradise!"

"At the same time!"

"Were casually erased like trash by a 'god-level' civilization from a higher dimension whose name we don't even know!"

"And we…"

He looked at these "children" who were completely terrified, his pitch-black, vast-as-the-universe eyes filled with unprecedented gravity and madness!

"If we don't hurry up and become stronger!"

"Then, four hundred years later, our fate will be ten thousand times more miserable than theirs!"

Silence.

A deathly silence.

All the Super Soldiers, who had just been fired up about the upcoming "interstellar combat," were instantly cooled down as if doused from head to toe with liquid nitrogen at minus two hundred degrees!

They finally understood.

They were wrong.

Wrong, outrageously so!

The universe is not a playground!

Not an adventure park for them to gallop freely!

But a cold, dark, Shura battlefield filled with death and slaughter!

Here, there is no kindness!

No mercy!

Only the eternal, cold law of the jungle!

Weakness is the original sin!

Falling behind means destruction!

"I… I understand."

"Wolf Warrior" let out a long breath.

For the first time, his iron-blooded and tough face revealed a complex expression full of lingering fear and determination!

"Commander Lu! Tell us! What should we do next?!"

"It's simple."

A curve filled with madness and ambition curled up on the corner of Lu Chen's mouth!

"Before those damned 'the cleaners' arrive!"

"At the fastest speed!"

"Replicate all the black technology our ancestors left for us!"

"And then…"

He looked at the endless, deep, vast starry sky!

A crazy fighting spirit that would make even the gods and demons of the heavens tremble burned in his pitch-black, vast-as-the-universe eyes!

"Go, plunder!"

"Go, slaughter!"

"Go, conquer!"

"Go, become the only 'God' in this dark forest!"