254: A three-dimensional being's first experience of four-dimensional space!

“Buzz—”

There was no earth-shattering roar as imagined, nor an ear-splitting boom.

The moment 100,000 pangu-class warships simultaneously activated their dimensional engines, the entire world seemed to be muted.

Immediately after, came an indescribable “stretching sensation.”

Lu Chen, sitting in the command seat, felt his body transform into an infinitely stretched noodle. Every cell, every nerve, every atom, was cheering and frantically extending in a direction never before explored— “upwards”!

That wasn't the sky in a physical sense, but a “higher place” in a logical sense.

“Ugh—!”

Suppressed gasps and retching sounds came through the communication channel.

Even Super Soldiers with iron wills experienced a momentary brain freeze when first facing a dimensional leap. Because their eyes were transmitting completely “wrong” and “crazy” information to their brains!

Their vision had changed.

The originally enclosed bridge suddenly became “transparent.”

It wasn't that the walls disappeared, but that the “blocking” property of the walls vanished.

War Wolf lowered his head in horror; he wanted to look at his boots but saw directly into the power cabin beneath the floor. And in the power cabin, the core of the high-speed fusion reactor was displayed on his retina without any obstruction.

He could even see inside the reactor, those hydrogen atomic nuclei frantically colliding!

“Damn it! My eyes! My eyes are messed up!”

War Wolf yelled, covering his face, only to find his palms had also become “transparent.” He clearly saw the bones, blood vessels, nerves, and the vivid red blood surging through the vessels inside his palms.

This feeling was like being a living dissection specimen, exposed naked to the air!

“Don't panic! This is normal!”

Lu Chen's voice rang out in time, still calm, but if one listened carefully, they could detect a hint of suppressed tremor and excitement.

“We are currently in a 'pseudo-four-dimensional' state.”

“In the eyes of four-dimensional beings, there is no distinction between 'inside' and 'outside' in the three-dimensional world. Just like when we draw a circle on paper, we can see both inside and outside the circle, and also the 'interior' of that dimension of the circle.”

“Now, we are that person drawing the picture!”

Lu Chen suppressed the dizziness from processing excessive information, suddenly stood up, and pointed beyond the panoramic viewport.

“Look up! Look outside!”

“Look at this true starry sky!”

Everyone instinctively looked up.

In that instant, even the toughest warriors were so awestruck by the sight that they lost the ability to speak.

Vastness.

Infinite vastness.

The originally dark and profound cosmic background disappeared, replaced by a dazzling ocean woven from countless light bands, color blocks, and lines.

Every star was no longer a glowing sphere but brilliant “pillars of light” burning in the river of time. They extended from the past to the present and then to the future, like golden colossal pillars supporting the spine of the universe!

And the terrifying black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy—Sagittarius A*—was no longer the abyss that devoured everything in everyone's vision.

It had transformed into a massive, funnel-shaped vortex.

And at the deepest part of the vortex, the singularity from which even light cannot escape—

Was now clearly visible!

“I… I see it…”

Su Qingying gazed blankly at the singularity, tears unknowingly streaming down her face. It was awe for truth, and emotion for the ultimate mystery of the universe.

“That is where spacetime knots.”

“That is the universe's navel.”

“It's too beautiful… Is this a god's perspective?”

However, this beauty did not last long before being shattered by the cruelty of reality.

“Warning! Low-dimensional attack detected, currently passing through current coordinates!”

heavenly craft's alarm pulled everyone back to reality.

Everyone lowered their heads—or rather, cast their gaze towards the plane representing the “three-dimensional world.”

There, the dark purple Void Collapse ripple, released by the Star-Devouring Hive Mother and capable of erasing all existence, was like a surging tsunami violently crashing into the area where the human fleet had originally been.

Space shattered like a mirror, and matter dissipated like smoke.

That starfield instantly became an absolute void.

If they had still been there, no matter how strong their shields, there would probably be nothing left but dust.

But now—

“Heh.”

War Wolf looked at the wildly raging destructive energy beneath his feet, and a very strange, even somewhat comical, smile suddenly spread across his lips.

“Can't hit us.”

“Hehe, can't hit us!”

Like a mischievous child, he extended his foot and lightly “stepped” several times above the destructive ripples.

The feeling was like standing on the shore, watching the raging flood below; though thrilling, there was an absolute sense of security.

“This feeling is damn good!”

War Wolf couldn't help but roar, “I feel like God right now! Those bugs are just a bunch of ants rolling in the mud in my eyes!”

“Exactly, this is dimensional suppression.”

Lu Chen walked to his side, his gaze cold as he looked down at the battlefield below.

“In the eyes of low-dimensional beings, we have disappeared, ceased to exist.”

“But in our eyes, they—”

Lu Chen stretched out his hand, pointing at the colossal Star-Devouring Hive Mother that enveloped the entire Galactic Center black hole.

“They are like a dissection diagram spread out on a table.”

“No secrets whatsoever!”

Yes, no secrets.

From a four-dimensional perspective, the hive mother, which once made Lu Chen's scalp tingle, with its hundreds of millions of layers of defensive shields and extremely complex structure, now appeared as if all its outer shells had been stripped away.

Lu Chen could clearly see every compartment, every energy pipeline, and every busy worker ant inside it.

He could even see the core brain, located in the deepest part of the hive mother and protected by layers of gravitational fields!

It was a massive crystal structure, emitting a faint red glow.

It was flashing frantically, clearly in a state of panic and anger due to the disappearance of the human fleet.

“Found it.”

Lu Chen's lips curved into a cruel arc, like a hunter locking onto the heart of his prey.

“This is its weakness.”

“This is its Achilles' heel!”

“heavenly craft!”

Lu Chen's voice suddenly rose, carrying an undeniable authority.

[Here, Master! This is the best moment for a high-dimensional strike!]

heavenly craft's virtual image also appeared exceptionally tall now, radiating golden data brilliance like a Valkyrie.

“All warships, main cannons charging!”

“Lock onto that red crystal!”

“No need to aim for the outer armor, no need to bother with the shields!”

“Just give it to me directly—”

Lu Chen made a “penetrating” gesture in the void with his finger.

“Cross the obstruction of three-dimensional space!”

“Shove the shells directly into its brain!”

“Yes!!!”

One hundred thousand warriors roared in unison, their voices filled with the thrill of revenge and fanaticism for this new tactic!

This was practically cheating!

This was like using a hack!

But I like it!

“Buzz—buzz—buzz—”

As charging progressed, the bows of 100,000 pangu-class warships simultaneously lit up with dazzling golden light.

That was the form of the dragon gall Star Destroyer Cannon in four-dimensional space—no longer a straight beam of light, but constantly rotating and contracting energy spheres.

These spheres contained terrifying energy capable of tearing apart stars, yet they were tightly constrained by a high-dimensional force field.

“Star Devourer,”

Lu Chen looked at the hive mother below, still frantically emitting destructive ripples in all directions, trying to find the invisible enemy, his eyes as cold as if looking at a corpse.

“Don't you like to eat?”

“Don't you like to devour civilizations?”

“Today, I'll let you eat your fill!”

“Eat this—”

“Bullet from a higher dimension!”

“Fire!!!”

Boom—!!!

No sound.

Because the attack was launched in four-dimensional space.

The 100,000 golden energy spheres descended from “heaven” like 100,000 falling meteors!

They ignored the chitin armor thousands of kilometers thick around the hive mother, ignored the layers of energy shields, and even ignored the distorted space at the edge of the black hole event horizon!

Like passing through air, they penetrated all defenses without any obstruction!

And then—

Precisely, fiercely, mercilessly!

Appeared directly inside that red crystal brain!

“Crack.”

The sound of something shattering seemed to echo in everyone's hearts.

The next second.

That red crystal, which had been frantically flashing and commanding billions of insect swarms, suddenly—

Stalled.

Immediately after.

A dazzling, indescribable white light erupted from within it!

It didn't explode from the outside, but began a complete disintegration from the inside, from every atom, every molecular level!

“Screech—!!!”

A shrill, extreme mental shriek instantly swept across the entire Milky Way Galaxy!

That was the hive mother's death wail!

That was the lament of a fallen overlord!

“It's done!”

War Wolf excitedly punched the glass, “Headshot! A beautiful headshot!”

“No, it's not over yet.”

Lu Chen, however, did not relax, his gaze still fixed on the hive mother that was disintegrating from within.

“This is just the beginning.”

“The true destruction—”

“Is only now descending.”

As his words fell, the white light finally burst through the hive mother's outer shell.

Like a supernova exploding within a body, that colossal super-biological structure, large enough to envelop a black hole, instantly transformed into a massive, expanding fireball!

Countless fragments were scattered in all directions, each fragment larger than Earth!

And the leaderless insect swarm instantly fell into chaos. They began to tear at each other or crashed into nearby stars like headless flies.

The entire Galactic Center region instantly turned into a boiling pot of porridge!

“This is a high-dimensional strike.”

Su Qingying murmured, watching this destructive scene.

“This is—”

“The authority of a god.”