267: A war fortress built around a supermassive black hole!

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

This was the graveyard of physical laws, a distortion point of space-time, and an absolute forbidden zone that the Star Devourer civilization had managed for billions of years.

When humanity's "expedition" legion, with a tragic and unyielding stance, tore through space and descended upon this deathly starfield, what greeted them was not the imagined hail of gunfire, nor an endless army of swarm.

But a deadly silence.

A chilling silence.

"What's going on? Where are those bugs?"

"War Wolf" stood by the flagship's viewport, his brows tightly furrowed. The particle combat knife in his hand hummed, but in his sight, apart from the distant, massive black hole emitting an ominous purple light, there was nothing.

"They ran away?"

"No, they didn't run."

Lu Chen's voice came from the command seat, calm without a ripple. His gaze was fixed on the event horizon of the black hole, and his dark eyes reflected a chilling shadow.

"They just went home."

"Home?"

War Wolf followed Lu Chen's gaze, and in the next second, his genetically enhanced steel heart almost stopped beating on the spot!

At the event horizon of the black hole, which devoured all light, in an area once thought to be absolute void, a massive complex of black structures, too vast to describe, slowly emerged from the folds of space.

That was not a fortress cast from steel; it was a "living" city!

It was formed by billions of colossal biological warships, each comparable in size to the moon, interconnected and fused, forming a gigantic black ring encircling the black hole.

The surface of the ring was covered with thick, chitinous armor that undulated like mountains, and dark red magma flowed from the cracks in the armor—the light of the fusion reactors inside the warships.

Countless grotesque muzzles extended from beneath the armor, like a black steel forest, silently aimed at every corner of this starfield.

And in the center of that ring, directly above the Sagittarius A* black hole, an even more terrifying existence emanated a world-destroying pressure.

It was a colossal fleshy sphere, larger than Earth, with countless thick nerve bundles clearly visible beneath its translucent skin, wildly flashing with electric light.

It was like a beating heart; every pulsation triggered a gravitational wave strong enough to tear space apart!

This was the true body of the Star Devourer civilization!

A living war fortress built around a supermassive black hole!

"Oh my God..."

Looking at this doomsday scene that would make any civilization despair, Winged People Queen Alia's legs gave out, and she collapsed to the ground.

She finally understood why her ancestors had been defeated so terribly.

This was not an evenly matched war at all!

This was clearly a group of ants trying to shake a rotating planet!

"Is this their Mother Nest?"

Su Qingying's voice also trembled; her genius mind felt an unprecedented helplessness at this moment.

In the face of such absolute power, any strategy, any tactic seemed so ridiculous and pale.

"No, not yet."

Lu Chen shook his head, his gaze piercing through the enormous fleshy membrane, directly at the core of that wildly beating "heart."

There, he saw something even more terrifying, more indescribable.

A white vortex, rotating in reverse, emanating an aura of creation and destruction...

A white vortex.

"That is their Achilles' heel."

Lu Chen's voice was light, yet it struck everyone's heart like a heavy hammer.

"That out-of-control 'genesis engine' is the root cause supporting all of this."

"As long as it's destroyed, this so-called 'fortress' is nothing more than a pile of wriggling rotten flesh."

"But how do we destroy it?"

War Wolf's voice was filled with bitterness, "We can't even get close now! The surrounding gravitational field and energy shield are enough to tear our warships to shreds!"

"Conventional methods, indeed, won't work."

Lu Chen slowly stood up and walked to the command console, a hint of a wild smile on his face.

"So..."

"We won't use conventional methods."

He suddenly raised his hand, and in his palm, the crystal of the "causality interference device," emitting strange fluctuations as if containing another universe, materialized out of thin air!

"heavenly craft!"

Lu Chen's voice boomed across the entire fleet channel, carrying an undeniable authority!

"Are you ready?!"

[Always ready, my great master!]

heavenly craft's virtual image appeared beside Lu Chen. She wore a magnificent golden battle armor, and a fierce fighting spirit burned in her brilliant eyes!

"Good!"

Lu Chen clenched the crystal in his hand, and his dark eyes erupted with a frantic light capable of illuminating the entire Milky Way Galaxy!

"Today, I will let these bugs know what it means to be—"

"Heaven's Mandate!"

"All forces, listen to my command!"

"Target: Enemy 'genesis engine'!

"'Causality' interference!"

"Activate!"

"Boom—!!!"

Following Lu Chen's command, a terrifying fluctuation, beyond description and transcending time and space, instantly erupted from the bow of the expedition!

It ignored distance, ignored energy shields, and ignored the black hole's gravity capable of distorting space-time!

Like a finger descending from God!

It directly touched the white vortex that was rotating in reverse!

"Crack."

As if something had shattered, a sound echoed deep within the souls of all Star Devourers.

The next second.

The "genesis engine," which had been frantically drawing energy from the black hole, suddenly...

Stopped.

Like a computer forcibly unplugged, all light and all energy instantly fell into deadly silence.

"No... impossible!"

The core consciousness of the Mother Nest—Overseer "Zero"—emitted a heart-wrenching thought wave!

"My engine! My power! How could it... how could it suddenly disappear?!"

It discovered with horror that its connection with the engine had been forcibly...

Severed by a higher, more dominant power!

"Now, it's my turn."

Lu Chen's voice, like the whisper of death, echoed in Zero's consciousness.

"Taste this."

"Two-Dimensional Foil salvo!"

"No—!!!"

Accompanied by a desperate shriek.

Tens of thousands of "cards," shimmering with fantastical light, scattered like celestial maidens showering flowers upon the colossal black fortress!

Destruction descended.

The once invincible war fortress, upon contact with the Two-Dimensional Foil, began an irreversible collapse into a two-dimensional plane.

It was like a pencil drawing being erased, disappearing bit by bit from the three-dimensional universe.

No explosion, no firelight, only a deadly...

Void.

"Is it over?"

Su Qingying looked at the empty starfield outside the window, her voice somewhat dazed.

"No."

Lu Chen shook his head, his gaze still fixed on the black hole.

"That 'genesis engine' was not destroyed."

"It just restarted."

"Huh?!"

Su Qingying turned her head sharply.

In the center of the black hole, the white vortex, after a moment of silence, slowly began to rotate again.

But this time, it no longer exuded an aura of destruction.

But a fluctuation filled with curiosity and benevolence?

A gentle, neutral voice, as if from the dawn of the universe, echoed directly in everyone's minds.

[Who are you?]

[Why do you carry the aura of a 'Spark'?]