224: They are called "star-devourers," and they feed on civilization!

When Lu Chen's mad declaration, full of the "dark forest" law and "ultimate judgment"—"become stronger and more ruthless"—clearly echoed through the bridge of the expedition, the entire bridge erupted.

All the allied soldiers of Earth and the Winged People, who had just been terrified and despairing over the cruelty and darkness of the universe,

were all injected with the most potent stimulant straight into their souls!

One by one, they suddenly crawled out of that cold, desperate abyss!

Their faces were filled with determination!

Flames burned in their eyes!

"That's right! Let's f***ing do it!"

"War Wolf" was the first to roar!

"Our human civilization will never be slaves!"

"It's just some damn 'cleaner,' isn't it?! One day, we'll clean all of them up!"

"Exactly! God Lu is right! We must become hunters! Become the most terrifying predators!"

Immediately! The oppressive and despairing atmosphere on the entire bridge was swept away! Replaced by a morbid, frenzied, and tragic sense of shared hatred

and heroism!

They knew.

From this moment on!

They would fight for a common goal—

Survival!

And now, on the "Holy Light" ship, which was filled with a sense of decay and vicissitude.

And now, on the "Holy Light" ship, which was filled with a sense of decay and vicissitude.

Alia, this beautiful, angelic queen, finally recovered from the terrifying miracle that could make any Third-level civilization tremble.

Alia, this beautiful, angelic queen, finally recovered from the terrifying miracle that could make any Third-level civilization tremble.

She looked at the calm, black-haired youth on the screen, and her beautiful blue eyes were filled with the relief of surviving a catastrophe and

endless

awe!

She knew.

She and her civilization had made the right bet!

They had indeed encountered the legendary

God!

A true universe master, a million times stronger than that damned cleaner!

Universe

Master!

"G-great divine majesty," she stammered.

Like the most devout believer, she slowly knelt before the screen!

Her noble and beautiful head bowed deeply for the first time!

Her voice was filled with uncontrollable trembling and

fanaticism!

"Please tell us!"

"That demon that destroyed our home"

"What exactly is it?!"

"Why is it doing this?!"

"Our Winged People civilization is clearly a civilization that loves peace and art!"

"We have never been at war with any civilization!"

"Why"

"Why do we have to suffer such a cruel catastrophe?!"

Her soul-searching questions, filled with endless sorrow and unwillingness, instantly ignited all the Winged People present!

"Yeah! Why?!"

"What did we do wrong?!"

Cries of despair and anger echoed throughout the entire bridge!

And, at this moment.

On the bridge of the expedition.

Lu Chen looked at the group of "little wings" on the light screen, who had completely fallen into self-doubt and were on the verge of collapse, and slowly shook divine majesty head.

A trace of cold pity flashed in divine majesty dark eyes, as vast as the universe.

"heavenly craft."

[Present, Master.]

"Tell them the truth."

"Let them know."

"What is true"

"dark forest."

[Yes, Master.]

heavenly craft nodded.

She gently snapped her fingers.

The next second!

A three-dimensional holographic model, filled with cold and cruel

universe

ecology

model!

was clearly presented before all the Winged People!

In the endless, dark universe!

Countless tiny specks of light, shining with different colors, representing different "civilizations",

light!

were densely scattered like fireflies on a summer night in the endless dark

universe!

But among these seemingly peaceful and beautiful "fireflies"!

There was a more massive, more terrifying, and more unreasonable

existence!

Those were vast, tide-like, terrifying shadows, so dark they seemed to devour all light!

shadows!

They were like groups of the most greedy and thirsty cosmic

viruses!

Silently wandering in this endless dark forest!

And their only food was—

Those fragile, glittering

"fireflies"!

"Th-this is?!"

Alia pointed at the black shadows that sent shivers down her spine, her voice trembling!

"They," heavenly craft's voice was cold and devoid of emotion.

heavenly craft's voice was cold and devoid of emotion.

"are what you call 'cleaners.'"

"However,"

"in our database, they have a more fitting name—"

"Star Devourer!"

"They are ancient, semi-energy, semi-mechanical special life forms born at the beginning of the universe's Big Bang!"

"They have no fixed form."

"Their true form is billions upon billions of nanorobots that can devour all matter!"

"They have no concept of 'civilization.'"

"Nor are they bound by 'emotions.'"

"Their only purpose in existence is"

She paused, then articulated each word clearly:

"Devour!"

"And"

"Reproduce!"

"They feed on 'civilizations'!"

"Any civilization that develops to a certain extent and begins to emit 'life signals' into the universe!"

"will become their 'prey'!"

"They will act like a group of the most efficient cleaners, devouring that civilization along with its home planet until nothing is left!"

"Then, they use those 'nutrients' to reproduce even more nanorobots!"

"To search for the next"

"prey!"

"This is the truth of the universe."

"A cold, cruel, 'survival of the fittest'"

"food chain!"

"And, you"

She looked at the group of Winged People, who were completely dumbfounded, and slowly said:

"are just unfortunate 'food' in this cruel food chain."

"food's all."

""

The entire bridge was deathly silent.

All the Winged People who had just been angry and unwilling about their civilization's innocence!

All felt as if they had been doused with liquid nitrogen at minus two hundred degrees, from head to toe!

They instantly calmed down.

They finally understood.

They were wrong.

Terribly wrong!

They had always thought they were the protagonists of this universe.

But it turned out

that all this time, they were just a bunch of captive

"food"?!

This was even more humiliating than directly killing them!

humiliation!

And, despair!

"Th-then, what about you?"

Alia suddenly looked up, her beautiful blue eyes filled with endless confusion!

"Your 'Earth' civilization!"

"Are you 'food' too?!"

"No."

heavenly craft slowly shook her head.

For the first time, a divine smile, full of absolute confidence and absolute pride, appeared on her ethereal virtual face!

smile!

"We are not food."

"We are the ones who came to change this damned food chain!"