259: A crushing defeat! The Planet Eater fleet fled in disarray!

At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Sagittarius A* black hole.

This cosmic monster, which had devoured countless stars and possessed enough mass to warp space-time, was currently in a state of extreme, violent instability.

Under the frantic urging of the Star Devourer sovereign "Zero," the ancient device known as the "genesis engine" was crazily reversing the black hole's accretion disk. Matter and energy that should have fallen into the event horizon and been unable to escape were now being forcibly dragged out by a brute force, converging into a white energy vortex capable of piercing through the Milky Way Galaxy!

Space was wailing, and time was fracturing.

The terrifying howling of gravitational waves even penetrated the vacuum, acting directly on the hulls of every human warship, producing a teeth-grinding sound of metal twisting.

"It's gone mad! This thing has truly gone mad!"

"War Wolf" gripped the handrail tightly, watching the energy level readings on the holographic screen continuously skyrocket, veins bulging on his forehead. "Commander Lu! The intensity of the gravitational waves has exceeded the threshold of the 'Higher Dimensions' anchor! If this continues, our ships will fall apart before it even explodes!"

"This isn't a self-destruct at all; it's trying to drag the entire galactic nuclear bulge region down with it!"

Su Qingying's face was pale, her fingers dancing rapidly across the console as she tried to find a way to break the deadlock, but all the data told her the same result—it was unsolvable.

Faced with the riot of a cosmic-level celestial body like a black hole, human strength appeared so insignificant.

However, the expression on Lu Chen's face, standing at the very front of the bridge, remained unchanged. He looked at the white death ray about to erupt, as if he were looking at a balloon being inflated.

"Drag us down with it? Does it even deserve to?"

Lu Chen sneered, and the "causality interference device" crystal in his hand suddenly bloomed with an eerie purple light.

"heavenly craft, is the 'Higher Dimensions' concrete I asked you to prepare ready?"

【Report, Master. One hundred million tons of 'Higher Dimensions' dense matter have been printed by the 'artisan' matrix and are ready for deployment at any time!】

Although heavenly craft's voice was urgent, it carried an absolute sense of execution.

"Very good."

Lu Chen raised his hand abruptly, aiming his palm at the roaring black hole, and made a fierce downward pressing motion!

"Since it wants to vomit, I'll make it swallow it back!"

"Deploy! Plug its mouth for me!"

"Boom—!!!"

Following Lu Chen's command, the one hundred thousand "pangu" class warships suspended in the dimension interlayer opened their delivery hatches simultaneously.

No physical bombs fell; there were only countless clusters of grayish, unremarkable-looking mist appearing out of thin air at the edge of the black hole's event horizon.

That was "Higher Dimensions" concrete, a special material with a density so high that even atomic nuclei could not move. It was "cosmic glue" specifically used to repair space cracks and suppress space-time turbulence!

The moment these mists touched the black hole's accretion disk, a miracle happened.

The white vortex, which had been spinning crazily and ejecting energy, instantly emitted a harsh grinding sound, as if a handful of steel sand had been thrown into a high-speed gear!

Immediately after, space solidified.

Under the suppression of the "Higher Dimensions" concrete, that violent energy capable of tearing apart the galaxy actually stopped erupting abruptly! Those materials that were about to rush out were forcibly pressed back into the event horizon, as if they had hit an invisible wall!

The black hole's roar came to an abrupt end.

The massive white vortex rapidly dimmed and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally turning back into that deep, quiet, all-consuming black sphere.

It was as if a child throwing a tantrum had been slapped hard in the face, and then forcibly stuffed with a pacifier!

"This... this..."

The sovereign "Zero," hiding in the black palace, was completely dumbfounded at this moment.

Its body, which originally had no fixed shape, now collapsed on the ground as if it had melted, trembling.

Its "genesis engine," its final trump card, its means of mutual destruction...

Had actually been "fixed" by the opponent as casually as repairing a water pipe?!

Was this still a war?

This was clearly a god toying with mortals!

"No... this is impossible..."

"No civilization can control the eruption of a black hole! Even a level five civilization can't! They... they are what kind of monsters?!"

Zero's psychological defense line collapsed completely at this moment.

Fear flooded its reason like a tide. It finally realized that what it was facing was not some "carbon-based monkey," but a cosmic demon wearing the cloak of a low-level civilization!

"Run! Run quickly!"

"Leave this place! Leave the Milky Way Galaxy! Go anywhere, just don't let me see this group of lunatics again!"

Zero sent out a heart-wrenching thought wave; it was no longer a command, but a desperate wail.

This emotion instantly spread to the consciousness of every Star Devourer.

The swarm army, which had been putting up a desperate struggle and trying to buy time for the brood mother, instantly lost all fighting spirit after sensing the sovereign's fear.

The "collective will" that had always supported their slaughter and consumption shattered.

The defeat was like a landslide!

The remaining hundreds of millions of biological warships were like hornets whose nest had been poked, losing all previous order and ferocity. They didn't even bother to recover injured companions or maintain formation; they just frantically turned their bows and fled in all directions, away from the black hole and away from the human fleet!

Some panicked and crashed into the Asteroid Belt, some opened fire on each other to compete for escape routes, and some even activated unstable superluminal engines and exploded into fragments on the spot.

This was a true rout!

The once-invincible Star Devourer overlords, who had swept across the galaxy, were now like a pack of stray dogs, wanting only to get further and further away from that terrible group of "two-legged upright apes"!

"Want to run?"

Watching the panicked black insect tide on the holographic screen, Lu Chen slowly stood up from his command chair.

He straightened his slightly wrinkled collar, walked to the tactical table, and watched the red dots representing enemy ships moving away rapidly.

There was not a hint of pity in his eyes, only a coldness that sought to exterminate them completely.

"You broke my cup, and you want to leave without even saying sorry?"

"How can there be such a cheap deal in this world."

Lu Chen picked up the communicator, his voice spreading throughout the entire fleet and into the ears of every soldier who remained hot-blooded.

"All forces, listen!"

"Switch to pursuit formation! engines at full power output!"

"Bite their tails for me!"

"I want them to know that in this universe, if you provoke the wrong person, even wanting to die is a luxury!"

"War Wolf! Take your assault team and charge for me!"

"Yes!!!"

War Wolf let out an extremely excited roar; he had been waiting for this for a long time!

"Brothers! It's time to beat the drowning dog!"

"Don't let these bastards run away! Whoever lets one go, wash my socks for three months when we get back!"

"Charge!!!"

"Boom—!!!"

One hundred thousand "pangu" class battleships, plus three thousand "Wind God" assault ships of the Winged Human Race, instantly transformed into a steel torrent, crashing fiercely into the backs of the fleeing enemy army with an momentum that seemed to crush the starry sky!

This was a pursuit without suspense.

Human warships possessed space folding engines, and their speed far exceeded those of the biological warships. Every salvo turned hundreds or thousands of enemy ships into ashes; every charge plowed a bloody path through the insect swarm!

Fear spread, and death bloomed.

The Star Devourer fleet wailed in despair; they had never imagined that their lives as predators would end in such a prey-like manner.

And in this one-sided massacre, Lu Chen's gaze never left the black hole.

He did not participate in the pursuit.

Because he knew those fleeing bugs were just cannon fodder; the real "big fish" was still hiding in that black palace.

"heavenly craft."

Lu Chen spoke faintly.

【Present, Master.】

"Have you locked onto the signal source of that 'sovereign'?"

【Locked.】

heavenly craft's virtual avatar pointed to a hidden spatial fold at the edge of the black hole's event horizon.

【It is attempting to activate the backup single-unit jump engine, preparing to abandon the main force and escape alone.】

"Heh, in your dreams."

Lu Chen sneered, a flash of cat-and-mouse playfulness in his eyes.

"Block that space."

"Then sail our flagship over."

"I want to personally ask this 'Galactic Overlord'..."

"How does it intend to compensate me for my mental damages?"