124: Enemy attack

At the edge of the Federation, AG-7 Agricultural Star, "Cui Hua's old home."

Beside the planetary Governors Mansion—no, it should now be called the "Planetary Hero Former Residence Memorial Hall."

The modest farmhouse that originally belonged to Cui Hua's parents was now bustling with people, comparable to a core Federation business district.

Inside the yard, the Planet-level Peak Governor Wang Anbang was flushed, clutching a roasted "Star Hoof Beast" hind leg that was golden and dripping with oil.

His other hand was affectionately draped over the shoulder of Old Man Li, Cui Hua's father.

"Old Li! Brother Li! Say no more! All 130 billion citizens of the planet must remember the great kindness of your daughter Cui Hua! Must remember the great virtue of your Old Li Family!"

The Governor's voice trembled slightly due to excitement and the stimulation of the special "Starry Brew" alcohol.

"If it weren't for niece Cui Hua being capable enough to marry into... to marry into such a prestigious Family! And attracting such an Immortal figure as Lord Li Qingshan! Our planet, all of us, would have long since been ground into Universe dust by those damned Blood Blade Pirate Group!"

Old Man Li was wearing a brand-new ceremonial suit, the material of which made him feel uncomfortable all over. He wore a simple, somewhat bewildered smile on his Face, only able to say repeatedly:

"Governor, you are too kind, too kind... It is all thanks to Ancestor Chen, all thanks to the love of Young Master Zhao Jing, and all thanks to Cui Hua herself... uh, putting in the effort..."

Beside him, Cui Hua's mother was surrounded by a group of noblewomen wearing gorgeous clothes and possessing deep Auras.

They were the wives of the governors of the planet's various provinces, and at this moment, they were enthusiastically asking her for tips on "child-rearing" and "how to get along with powerful in-Laws."

In the yard, there were over a hundred Planetary Level big shots!

This was almost the entire top combat force of the whole Agricultural Star!

They put aside their status, gathered here, toasting each other, laughing and talking...

The atmosphere was so heated it felt like it could ignite the atmosphere!

Every big shot looked at Old Man Li's Family with eyes full of undisguised gratitude, envy, and a trace of... near-pious awe?

They knew that their daughter was the Chief Wife of Ancestor Chen's eldest grandson!

It was said that Cui Hua gave birth to twins in one go, deeply favored by Ancestor Chen!

Cui Hua was the best link connecting this remote Agricultural Star to the Peak of Federation power and force!

What supreme glory was this, to bring honor to one's ancestors and shelter the planet?!

"Old Li," another high-ranking military official of the Planetary Level toasted drunkenly.

"In the future, in the Federation, if you have anything, just say the word! Those of us from AG-7 Agricultural Star must stick together! Whoever doesn't give our 'Hero Family' Face, doesn't give all of us Face!"

"Right! Cheers!"

"For Cui Hua! For the Old Li Family! For the glory of AG-7 Agricultural Star!"

Glasses clinked, cheers erupted.

Old Man Li looked at this dreamlike scene, remembering how decades ago he was still digging for food in the fields, his biggest wish being nothing more than good weather and a few more pounds of Star Spike Rice...

Now, he was addressing the top figures of the planet as brothers, revered as a global hero!

This life's serendipity... was truly more unpredictable than the sea of stars!

A satisfied and slightly dizzy smile appeared on his simple Face.

This! This was the most glorious highlight moment of his life!!!

However, the cruelty of the Universe is that it never cares about the joys and sorrows of ants...

Just at the moment when this pastoral scene reached its Peak—

"Hummmmmmmmmm!!!"

An indescribable, terrifying hum, seemingly originating from the Soul's Origin, swept across the entire planet without warning!

This humming did not propagate through the air, but acted directly on the depths of every living being's consciousness!

Instantly, all laughter in the yard ceased!

Wine glasses slipped from hands, falling to the ground with a crisp shattering sound.

Over a hundred Planetary Level Experts, including Governor Wang Anbang, had their drunkenness and smiles freeze instantly!

Replaced by a kind of ultimate fear and horror stemming from the instinct of life!!!

Their perception was countless times sharper than ordinary people!

The moment the hum sounded, they "saw" it—

The outer space of the Agricultural Star was rippling and twisting violently, like a lake surface hit by a giant rock!

Immediately after, huge, hideous starship warships painted with dripping fangs, like evil ghosts crawling out of Hell, tore through the camouflage of space and descended aggressively!

Dense, covering the sky!

The cold murderous intent and majestic pressure they emitted were like a solid iceberg, crashing down on the entire planet!

The Auras of over two thousand Stellar-level Experts were unreservedly intertwined and permeated...

Like a declaration of death!

It instantly caused the energy circulation in the bodies of all Planetary Level Experts on AG-7 Agricultural Star to become sluggish!

"Enemy... Enemy attack!!! It's the Blood Blade Pirate Group!!! The main force!!!"

Governor Wang Anbang roared this sentence, his voice distorted by extreme fear.

He violently crushed the highest alarm generator hidden in his sleeve!

"Wooooooo!!!"

The shrill global alarm that could pierce eardrums arrived belatedly at this moment, resounding in every corner of the planet!

People who had just been immersed in glory and celebration were instantly plunged into panic like Hell!

"How... how is this possible?! How could they appear here?! What about our border monitoring network?!"

A Planetary Level general's Face turned pale, unable to understand.

"Shielding! It's that stealth technology! They snuck right to our doorstep!"

Another official with broader knowledge closed his eyes in despair.

It's over!

It's all over!!!

Last time, it was just a small detachment, and Lord Li Qingshan descended like a god!

This time, it was an overwhelming main fleet!

It was over two thousand Stellar Level existences!!!

How could AG-7 Agricultural Star resist?!

Just in this extreme chaos and despair—

Old Man Li, this simple farmer, suddenly remembered something after his initial panic!

He seemed to have grabbed the last straw, and with trembling hands, he opened the Family encrypted communicator, which was specially made by the Federation Academy of Sciences and had the highest priority communication authority!

This was installed by the Federation for easy contact after his daughter Cui Hua married into the Chen Family!

"Cui Hua! Cui Hua! Save your parents! Save the planet! The Star Pirates... the Star Pirates are here again! So many! So many!!!"

The cry for help, with a weeping tone and a thick local accent, accompanied by the sounds of explosions getting closer and energy beams whistling across the sky, was instantly transmitted to the distant Pillar of Leaders via superluminal quantum communication.

Almost at the same microsecond Old Man Li's distress signal was sent, the Federation Supreme Council held an emergency strategic analysis meeting in the virtual spiritual network at a speed exceeding conventional physical time!

The spiritual bodies of all Federation Stellar Level big shots connected instantly!

"Mo Heng! What's going on?! Why did the main fleet of the Blood Blade Pirate Group appear within the gravity well of AG-7 Agricultural Star before our 'Sky Patrol' network issued the highest alarm?!"

Mo Heng's spiritual body flickered rapidly in the data stream, his tone full of unprecedented gravity and a trace of... anger at being caught off guard:

"Everyone! We've been taught a lesson! The 'stealth' technology of the Blood Blade Pirate Group is at least one major Rank higher than our Federation's 'invisibility' technology!"

His consciousness turned into a massive data stream and theoretical model, instantly shared with all attendees:

"It's not simple signal shielding or optical invisibility! It's a 'reality overwriting' technology!"

"It temporarily 'erased' its own existence from our 'information layer'! All our detection methods, whether gravitational waves, neutrinos, or dark matter sensing... are all looking for information about 'existence'. When an object is temporarily 'deleted' from the information layer, our detection naturally fails!"

"It didn't hide; it made our detection technology 'temporarily forget' its existence!"

Shi Yue's spiritual body emitted a dull vibration: "How to crack it?!"

Mo Heng's answer carried a sense of powerlessness: "Theoretically, we need our detection technology to be able to reach the 'Origin Sea of Information', or possess 'Law' Rank weapons that can interfere with the basic rules of the Universe... This is far beyond the scope of our current 2.0 Rank civilization technology tree! This is a field that only civilizations of at least 2.2 Rank or higher can touch!"

Li Qingshan's Sword Intent spiritual body was sharp: "In other words, before we develop counter-technology, they can come and go as they please?! Our border is a joke?!"

"Exactly!" Mo Heng confirmed bitterly, "On the technological path of detection and anti-detection, we have been completely crushed. They have an absolute, one-way transparent advantage over us!"

Chu Yueyao's calm to the point of cruelty spiritual consciousness cut in: "The conclusion is clear. Conventional military forces have lost their strategic significance in the Face of the opponent's such technological advantage and two thousand Stellar Level existences. Sending support to AG-7 Agricultural Star would only be suicide!"

"The only solution..." Her consciousness swept over all attendees. "Only by asking the Star Arm Level existences, Leader Yun Xi, Her Highness Qinglan, and several Sun Body Highnesses to carry out... dimension-reduction strikes with absolute, individual greatness that transcends technological generation gaps!"

The entire spiritual network fell into a dead silence.

Everyone knew who to look for.

Only Ancestor Chen would have a trace of the Divine Sense of several Highnesses when they were in seclusion.

Pillar of Leaders, Chen Jun's "Reminiscing about Bitterness and Thinking of Sweetness" and "Family Ideological Education" garden.

The scene formed a bizarre contrast with the extremely tense spiritual network meeting.

Chen Jun was lying comfortably on his Wanxiang Eternal lounge chair.

He was holding a babbling, pink-carved, jade-carved great-grandson in his arms, and several other young great-grandchildren were surrounding his feet.

He held a toy condensed from the purest energy, changing into various cute Star Beast shapes, making the children giggle.

"Little darlings, look what this is? It's a Star Bear!"

His Face was filled with a benevolent, great-grandfather's satisfied smile.

And beside his lounge chair, the once high-spirited "seeder"... no, it was the Federation's eldest grandson, Chen Zhaojing.

He was standing there, wilted and drooping, looking like a "body emptied" sage...

"Zhao Jing," Chen Jun said to his grandson earnestly while teasing the child, "Look at you, you've worked hard these past few years, Grandpa has seen it all."

Chen Zhaojing's eyes moistened instantly, and a warm current surged into his heart.

Grandpa... Grandpa finally saw my contribution!

He finally understood my difficulties!

"So, Grandpa has thought about it. Although your 'productivity' is fierce, you can't exhaust the pond to get the fish; you have to pay attention to sustainable development."

Chen Jun adjusted the posture of the great-grandson in his arms and continued:

"In the future, those specific 'production tasks' can be slowed down appropriately, optimize processes, pay attention to efficiency, and don't blindly pursue quantity."

Chen Zhaojing was in tears, nodding frantically: "Grandpa! Grandson understands! Grandson will definitely..."

"Your work focus needs to shift!" Chen Jun interrupted him, revealing his true intention, his eyes burning.

"In the future, you will join Grandpa in being responsible for our Old Chen Family's fourth generation, that is, the ideological education work of these precious great-grandchildren!"

"Start from the babies!" Chen Jun's voice carried unquestionable determination, and he began on-site teaching.

He pointed to the sky, completely unaware that the Star Pirates outside were almost at the door:

"Look, is that star bright? In the future, that might be the territory of my Old Chen Family! It needs more people to occupy! To develop!"

He pointed to the busy mechanical servants on the ground:

"Look, can those robots work? But they can't give birth to children! Only the people of our Old Chen Family are the hope of civilization! The Foundation of the Family!"

"You!" His gaze swept over the ignorant great-grandchildren and Chen Zhaojing, "Shoulder the great mission of making the Old Chen Family spread to every corner of the Universe! The road is long and the responsibility is heavy!"

Chen Zhaojing looked at his grandfather's "sacred and glorious" profile, and then looked at the group of sons and daughters blinking their innocent big eyes in his arms and at his feet...

He seemed to see his future self...

The scene of countless "Little Zhao Jings" in the future, repeating the "Core Values of Family Propagation" that Grandpa had recited countless times every day...

Just at the warm moment when Chen Zhaojing was thinking about life and Chen Jun was immersed in Family happiness and great blueprints—

"Hum!"

Space fluctuated slightly.

Shi Yue, Li Qingshan, Mo Heng, Chu Yueyao, and other Federation big shots appeared in the garden with solemn expressions.

They were just about to speak—

"Waaaaaah—!!! Grandpa! Your Highness! It's bad—!!! My dad, my mom... my old home's Agricultural Star... has been surrounded by those damned Blood Blade Pirate Group again! There are countless times more than last time! It's all black with warships!!! Wuuuuuu..."

A soprano voice, more shrill than the alarm and with a heavy accent, whistled from far to near like an out-of-control interstellar truck!

It was Cui Hua, with a big belly, her Face covered in snot and tears!

She sprinted all the way, with a vigorous momentum that seemed to be able to crash through the stars, and rushed into the garden!

Then, with a "thump," she slid and knelt precisely in front of Chen Jun's lounge chair!

The sound was so loud, the emotion so tragic, it instantly overwhelmed the heavy atmosphere prepared by all the Federation big shots present!

Chen Jun: "..." His hand teasing his great-granddaughter stopped in mid-air.

Chen Zhaojing: "..." His confused eyes met Cui Hua's tearful gaze.

Federation big shots: "..."

The prepared rhetoric was stifled in their throats by this sudden, extremely lively and penetrating cry.

In the garden, only the heartbreaking crying of Comrade Cui Hua remained...

"Waaaaaaaaaaaa—!!!!!"