232: Lu Chen's composure: No, the war has only just begun!

When Lu Chen's ultimate humblebrag, filled with the stench of a "capitalist" and the heartbreak of a "spendthrift"—"What a pity"—clearly echoed across the bridge of the flagship "Jing", the entire bridge fell silent.

All the Super Soldiers who had just been going wild and cheering in a collective climax over that epic, great victory were all struck dumb, as if an invisible hand had tightly gripped their throats!

Their mouths were open wide enough to fit an aircraft carrier!

Their faces were written with unprecedented shock and absurdity, as if they had seen a ghost!

Waste?! Damn it!

Brother!

Do you have any idea what we just took down?!

That was a terrifying insect swarm capable of striking fear into the heart of any Third-level civilization!

We just won a great war of national defense that deserves to be recorded in human history!

And now you're telling us it was a waste?!

Your train of thought is just too bizarre, isn't it?!

"Commander Lu."

Zhan Lang looked at the youth with a pained expression. For the first time, his face, usually filled with iron-blooded toughness, wore a complex expression of disbelief.

"You… you aren't feeling sorry for those 'bugs', are you?"

"Otherwise?" Lu Chen shrugged matter-of-factly.

"Those were quadrillions of the most advanced nanobots!"

"If we had 'recycled' them all, let alone a 'Dyson Ring', we would have had more than enough to build another 'Sun'!"

"But now, look at this." He stared at the empty, dark universe outside the window, trembling with heartache.

"They're all blown to hell!"

"What a waste! What a damn waste!"

"……" The entire bridge plunged into a deathly silence once again.

All the Super Soldiers stared at the miser before them like he was a monster—he had clearly won an epic victory, yet he was still nitpicking over those pitiful "spoils of war"!

They felt that the great, glorious heroic image they had just established had been ruthlessly crushed in this moment by Lu Chen's remark, dripping with the stench of a "capitalist"!

So, in your eyes, the war of national defense we just fought tooth and nail to win wasn't a war at all! It was just a money-losing, wasteful business deal?!

This is just too demoralizing!

However, just as everyone was still feeling their worldviews shattered by Lu Chen's bizarre train of thought, the pained expression on Lu Chen's face suddenly vanished.

Replacing it was an unprecedented, cold, and heavy killing intent!

"Alright, I won't joke with you anymore."

He slowly stood up from the captain's throne.

His pitch-black eyes, as vast as the universe, slowly swept over every "child" present who was still immersed in the joy of victory.

His voice was not loud, yet it struck like a death knell from the depths of the nine netherworlds, slamming heavily into everyone's hearts!

"Do you really think… that we won?"

"Huh?!" All the Super Soldiers froze!

"Commander Lu, what do you mean by that?"

"Didn't we completely annihilate that swarm of bugs?"

"Annihilate?" Lu Chen smiled. It was a smile filled with self-deprecation and helplessness.

"No, children. You are wrong."

"What we just destroyed was merely a tiny 'worker ant' sent out by the enemy to scout the path."

"The real 'Queen' and the terrifying 'Ant Nest' capable of devouring the entire Milky Way Galaxy… are still behind us."

Boom!!! This sentence was like a bolt of black lightning capable of splitting the entire Solar System!

It struck the crowns of the heads of all the Super Soldiers present!

They were completely petrified!

Worker ant?! Queen?! What the hell does this mean?!

A terrifying thought that made them shudder instantly emerged!

Could the terrifying insect swarm they had just fought tooth and nail to defeat, one capable of striking fear into the heart of any Third-level civilization, actually be just a small scout force of the enemy?!

"That's right." Lu Chen nodded calmly, as if reading their minds.

"It is exactly as you think."

"The gap between us and them is far greater than the gap between us and an ant!"

"Therefore…" His voice became incomparably cold and cruel.

"This war… has only just begun!"

Silence. A deathly silence.

All the Super Soldiers who had just been going wild and cheering in a collective climax over that epic, great victory felt as if a basin of liquid nitrogen at minus two hundred degrees had been poured over them from head to toe!

They instantly calmed down. They finally understood. They were wrong. Terribly wrong!

The universe is not a playground! It is not an adventure park where they can gallop freely!

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

Here! There is no mercy! There is no pity! There is only the eternal, cold law of the jungle!

Weakness is the original sin! To be backward is to be destroyed!

"I… I understand." Zhan Lang exhaled a long, turbid breath.

For the first time, his face, usually filled with iron-blooded toughness, wore a complex expression of lingering fear and determination!

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

"It's simple." A curve filled with madness and ambition tugged at the corners of Lu Chen's mouth!

"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Before that damned 'Queen' finds us! We must first find its… nest! And then…"

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

In those pitch-black eyes, as vast as the universe, burned a crazy fighting spirit capable of making all the gods and demons of the heavens tremble!

"Before it eats us! First, we will… eat it!"