366: Chapter 367 Victory

"Professor, is there a solution?"

Ains spoke heavily to the elderly man in the projection. If this wasn't resolved, the next time the Philiphimus Civilization used such a weapon, the human fleet would still suffer heavy losses.

"Officer, we already have some leads."

The Professor nodded solemnly, then looked at Lin Fang with a trace of gratitude. "This is thanks to the Gene Optimization Agent data Archon Lin brought us. We were inspired by it. We will do our best to produce a drug that allows the human body to overcome this radiation as soon as possible."

"I'm counting on you."

After the projection closed, Ains also showed gratitude toward Lin Fang by his side. "Fang, thank you so much. Without you, we would have already lost this war."

"Don't mention it; it's what I should do."

Lin Fang spoke candidly. He hadn't expected the Gene Optimization Agent data to influence the war to this extent.

Furthermore, the tenacity and brilliance of the human scientists in this World made Lin Fang marvel. He wondered if those guys from Mite at his company in the real World would have such resilience in this situation.

They shouldn't go crying for help the moment they encounter a little difficulty.

They were his core team who had followed him for so long, after all. Perhaps he should let them participate in this war to see it for themselves and gain some experience.

Lin Fang thought this way, assuming they certainly wouldn't object.

A moment later, the clouds of explosions surrounding the Philiphimus Civilization ship gradually dispersed, and its condition was finally revealed to human eyes.

The surface of the ship was covered in massive cracks, like a glass ball shattered by a heavy hammer. Those cracks reached hundreds of kilometers deep. The metal hull, once smooth as a mirror, was now riddled with scars; large sections of armor had peeled away, exposing the complex internal structures.

The most fatal wound was at its direct front, where three Quark Fission Shells had struck simultaneously. It was now a massive crater over five hundred kilometers in diameter. Deep within the depression, countless energy conduits were broken and twisted. At the edges of the crater, layer upon layer of the ship's structure curled outward like a wound torn open by immense force.

What was even more shocking was that it began to tilt.

That once-invincible ship, that divine creation that had remained motionless since its appearance, was now slowly tilting in space. Its attitude control system was clearly damaged, and the massive hull had lost its balance, swaying in the void like a drunken giant.

"It's damaged! It's actually damaged!"

"We wounded it!"

"My god, we did it!"

This situation caused many people to burst into cheers.

After the cheering, the human fleet's strikes followed in dense succession. Pursuing a victory was a virtue every human knew well.

Artillery fire poured down like a rainstorm. Every beam of light and every missile bloomed into sparks on the giant ship's surface, like ten million ants gnawing at a wounded beast.

Just as the scales of victory were tipping toward humanity, a sudden change occurred.

A silent explosion with a diameter of a thousand kilometers erupted out of nowhere within the human fleet.

There was no light, no Impact, and none of the explosion characteristics familiar to humans.

There was only darkness.

Pure, all-consuming darkness.

That darkness used the explosion point as a center and expanded frantically in all directions. Everywhere it passed, space itself began to collapse—not warping, but completely vanishing, as if swallowed into a giant maw.

The thousands of warships closest to the explosion point didn't even last a few seconds. Their hulls were stretched, torn, and pulverized the instant they touched the edge of the collapse, finally turning into countless glimmering particles sucked into the bottomless abyss.

Clearly, these Black Hole Bombs were another trump card of the Philiphimus Civilization!

Alarms blared within the command flagship. In just one minute, over a thousand similar spatial explosions occurred across a million-kilometer area of the starry battlefield near the spherical ship.

In just this short while, Jushen Company lost over two hundred thousand small warships, more than thirty thousand medium warships, and 30 large carrier ships. The death toll increased sharply.

Facing this spatial collapse strike that defied common logic, the human fleet found it difficult to move forward.

At this moment, Ains's voice rang out to inspire the entire army:

"Soldiers, we were never a civilization born powerful. We are merely a species that struggled out of a one-in-a-quintillion probability on a tiny blue Planet."

"So what if we are defeated now! So what if we are destroyed! Humans never die on their knees! We fought our way out of those one-in-a-quintillion odds relying on this very stubbornness that refuses to yield!"

"Even if the stars collapse and the fleet is destroyed, we will, at the final moment, burn with the fiercest light of human civilization!"

"——Charge!"

"Charge!"

"Humanity will prevail!"

The words of the Supreme Commander made everyone's blood boil. Countless warships that had been shrinking back due to the spatial collapse suddenly surged forward, their fire slamming even more frantically into the Polyphemus ship.

What they feared least was sacrifice.

At this time, another anomaly appeared. Deep within the heavily damaged, tilting Polyphemus ship, a dense cluster of red dots suddenly lit up.

In the next second, a vast number of mechanical beasts resembling locusts surged out from the cracks.

They weren't large, but their shapes were sharp and hideous. Pitch black all over, they charged head-on toward the human fleet.

Xiao Hei immediately noticed the anomaly and organized the findings into data to report to the command flagship.

"500,000 combat units have launched from the enemy ship. Combat units are 132 meters long. Maximum flight speed is unknown, but they possess extreme maneuverability."

By now, the first wave of locusts had made head-on contact with the fleet. Officers discovered that the spikes at the front of these combat units easily tore through the composite armor of human warships like a hot knife through butter. The hull's protective layers were as thin as cicada wings before them.

Warships that were struck were instantly snapped in two. Their energy cores detonated, turning into brief bursts of fireworks in the starry sky.

Facing these dense enemies, the human fleet began to frantically deploy weapons of mass destruction.

Antimatter Cloud Bombs, Phase Particle Shells, Gravitational Binding Mines... everything available on the warships was used.

Fortunately, the effect was significant.

Humanity's frantic weapon release caused considerable casualties among these locusts.

Ten minutes later, the War Fortress, having undergone two rounds of firing, was finally repaired and ready for use. Red light bloomed once more from the bottom of the fortress.

A Quark Fission Shell struck the Polyphemus ship like a comet.

The battle reached a fever pitch and entered its final stage.

At the cost of losing thirty percent of Jushen Company's main fleet and over five hundred million soldiers, the spherical ship of the Philiphimus Civilization finally turned into a massive fireball in the starry sky.

It was as magnificent as it was cruel.

After the last locust mechanical beast turned into metal fragments, the human fleet finally ceased fire. Looking at the wreckage of their own fleet, none of the surviving soldiers could bring themselves to smile.

Before they could rest for even a moment, in a sector of space tens of millions of kilometers away, a large number of warp signals were suddenly detected.

In the next second, hundreds of Philiphimus spherical ships, identical to the one just destroyed, slowly emerged from the rifts.

They were smooth as mirrors, completely unscathed, and majestic as gods. Their cold metal hulls reflected the light of distant stars like a field of dead stars hanging in the Universe.

Everyone watched in silence.

Oh humanity, where exactly does hope lie?