214: Chapter 214 Devouring Life

At the same time, Earth entered a period of Great Cataclysm.

Various earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis began to occur frequently.

This also confirmed that the Triangular Crystal Creatures that had entered the Earth's interior before were not just the few dozen that had escaped.

A month later, a massive number of warships began to take flight. There were twenty super aerospace carriers alone, each exceeding ten thousand meters in length, resembling super cities.

There was also a fleet of over ten thousand ships.

As well as various transport ships.

After several catastrophes, the human population on Earth was only eight hundred million.

At this time, except for a few die-hards who refused to leave Earth, the vast majority of humanity had taken to the skies.

Gao Yuan also officially announced the abandonment of Earth.

From now on, humanity entered the Space Age.

"Hello everyone, I am Gao Yuan. Humanity is facing an unprecedented predicament. Earth is no longer our home; it has become uninhabitable. We are forced to abandon Earth and enter space!"

"This time, we will undertake the largest migration and conquest in human history. Many may die, but as long as we win this protracted war, our descendants will never face such a crisis again!"

"Now, board the warships and begin our long journey!"

Gao Yuan had made his decision; the massive Human Fleet headed toward Mars.

Gao Yuan intended to first sweep through the Mars and Jupiter civilizations, then advance toward the outer edges of the Solar System, and finally turn back to wipe out the Venus and Mercury civilizations!

The grand Human Fleet advanced toward Mars.

The fleet was divided into nine groups, with the aerospace carriers protected in the center. These aerospace carriers were now humanity's actual research and development centers.

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Small scout ships surrounded them, stealthily monitoring the surroundings. Once danger was detected, the fleet would immediately fire a volley.

In the star system around Mars, Gao Yuan actually encountered a fleet. These ships were originally cloaked, but after the previous fleet's visit, the Academy of Sciences and the Space Physics Laboratory had studied their hull materials and developed specific detection methods.

Thus, they were detected from a great distance this time. Over a thousand super-sun class battleships fired a volley of high-energy Laser Cannons, and Gao Yuan saw hundreds of space fireworks erupt ahead.

After that, they reached the Mars star system without further incident.

Around Mars, Gao Yuan sent out monitoring ships, and various pieces of information about Mars were constantly sent back.

Mars was almost entirely in ruins. It was evident that it had once been very prosperous, but now there were only scattered small ground bases.

Without a word, Gao Yuan began bombarding those small bases with Antimatter Cannons.

There was no resistance throughout the entire process.

This led Gao Yuan to slightly underestimate the Jupiter civilization.

Just as Gao Yuan was preparing to send mechas to land on Mars, he saw many Triangular Crystal Creatures emerge from beneath the Martian surface. Then, strangely, those triangular crystals began to merge.

More accurately, one triangular crystal began devouring the others. As it consumed more of its kind, that triangular crystal grew larger and larger.

"Quick, attack that triangular crystal!"

Gao Yuan shouted.

Although he didn't know what the consequences of the crystals merging would be, he knew very well that it would certainly not be anything good.

Instantly, tens of thousands of Antimatter bullets were fired at that triangular crystal.

But the triangular crystal just rotated in the air, neither dodging nor resisting.

Those Antimatter bullets began to deviate from their original trajectories once they came within a thousand meters of the triangular crystal, eventually striking the surface of Mars.

The high-energy rays and massive energy from the Antimatter annihilation caused countless mushroom clouds to rise on Mars.

"Switch to Laser Cannons!"

At Gao Yuan's command, countless laser beams were fired. Such a dense concentration of high-energy laser beams could incinerate anything, yet they still could not penetrate within a thousand meters of the triangular crystal.

Gao Yuan saw that all his means of attack had failed.

He had no choice but to give the final order.

"Retreat!"

The Human Fleet began to withdraw.

Until an effective method was found, Gao Yuan did not plan to attack these crystals again.

Without breaking the crystal, there was nothing that could be done to the creatures inside.

Just as the Human Fleet was withdrawing, the crystal suddenly rotated in reverse, and countless visible rays burst forth. Gao Yuan inwardly cried out in alarm.

He watched helplessly as warships that couldn't evade in time suddenly lost control and crashed headlong into the surface of Mars.

They were completely destroyed...

But Gao Yuan saw that the human remains inside the warships were perfectly intact, wrapped in a layer of light as they flew toward the crystal. Soon, a cluster of light flew out from the brain area of the human remains and entered the crystal body.

Gao Yuan was stunned...

Eating...

Humans?

No, it was eating human brains.

The brains of hundreds of human remains were devoured by that crystal creature. Once consumed, the humans turned into something like rotting meat and fell to the Martian surface.

A chill ran down the spines of all the humans who witnessed this scene.

Perhaps death wasn't terrifying, but to have one's remains devoured by an unknown alien life form after death—that was truly horrific.

"Withdraw, withdraw quickly!"

Gao Yuan's voice had changed. What kind of monster was this?

Was it still a sentient life form?

What secrets did the human brain hold?

"Marshal, what is that?"

Gao Yuan's new assistant, Mo Yun, asked.

Gao Yuan paused for a moment. "Perhaps they are Jovians!"

"Humans? How can they look like that?"

Gao Yuan didn't know either.

But the opponent was clearly also a sentient being.

"What do we do now?"

Gao Yuan also found it tricky. Indeed, what should they do? That thing couldn't be damaged at all, and once within its attack range, there was no way to resist.

They could also manufacture warships, robots, and fighter jets...

Was their first strike going to end in such a crushing defeat?

Gao Yuan was unwilling to accept this!

They withdrew temporarily, but the Human Fleet had nowhere else to go, so the dense formation of warships stayed in high Martian orbit.

Gao Yuan fell into deep thought...

What to do?

What trump cards did humanity still have?

Unfortunately, Gao Qiu could not give him advice right now. Suddenly, Gao Yuan remembered a technology Gao Qiu had given him—Dark Matter collection technology.

If Antimatter was powerless against these crystals, what about Dark Matter?

But how could Dark Matter be used?

With humanity's current technology, Dark Matter could be collected, but it couldn't be seen or touched; its presence could only be confirmed through changes in mass.

There was Dark Matter in the warehouse now, but Gao Yuan didn't know how to use it.

According to previous research by the Academy of Sciences, the crystal was a substance produced by high temperature and high pressure. If it could come into contact with the object itself, Antimatter would certainly be effective. But the problem now was that Antimatter couldn't reach the crystal's surface.

There was a special force field on the crystal's surface! How could the force field be eliminated?

Suddenly, Gao Yuan remembered that perhaps Faster-Than-Light Particle Beam Weapon could break through the force field.

After all, the rays emitted by the crystal were at most the speed of light.

And his faster-than-light particle beams could definitely break through their barriers.

But just breaking through wasn't enough; ordinary particle beams couldn't break the crystal at all.

Therefore, it had to be an antimatter particle beam!

Only in this way would it be possible to disintegrate the crystal!

Without the protection of the crystal, the creatures inside should be easy to deal with!