261: Chapter 261 There's still something alive?

"Jump... initiate!!!"

BOOM————!!!!!

At this moment, the cosmic space let out an unbearable wail. At the base of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain fortress, that miniature star gate engine erupted with an extreme light that pierced the universe. The entire massive fleet, bolstered by the curvature card, instantly transformed into a nine-colored river of light tearing through the darkness, plunging headlong into the twisted spacetime wormhole and vanishing from the edge of the solar system.

The experience of intergalactic jumping is extremely bizarre. Time and space are infinitely stretched and instantly folded here.

However, with the support of Chen Xi's mythic-grade shield, this spatial turbulence, which could tear ordinary life into atoms, did not cause any substantial harm to the expeditionary force.

I don't know how long it had been; it felt like an instant, yet also like centuries had passed.

"HUM————!"

Accompanied by a violent spatial tremor, the nine-colored river of light violently broke through the barrier of spacetime, and the Earth expeditionary force's massive fleet finally arrived at the first destination of their journey—the ruins of the ancient human empire's first line of defense, the [Sirius Sector]!

However.

When everyone looked through the holographic portholes of the warships and clearly saw this star territory, which was legendary for once being incomparably prosperous and garrisoned by hundreds of millions of human troops, the entire command cabin, and even the public communication channel of the entire expeditionary force, instantly fell into a deathly, hair-raising silence.

There were no glorious interstellar fortresses as imagined, no magnificent space cities, not even a single intact planet!

What appeared before their eyes was a land of ultimate, deathly silence that could be called a "cosmic graveyard"!

In this vast and boundless star sector, countless wrecks were floating. Those were not the wrecks of ordinary warships, but—the wrecks of planets!

"Oh my god..."

Li Murou covered her mouth, her face pale to the extreme, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably.

Through the porthole, they clearly saw that not far ahead, there was a dark red giant planet at least a hundred times the size of Earth. But what was horrifying was that this massive planet had actually been, from the very center, by some incomprehensible and terrifying power... forcibly and incredibly smoothly split into two!

The cut was so smooth that it was as if it had been sliced by the most precise surgical scalpel; the planet's long-extinguished, carbonized core was exposed in the vacuum, exuding an aura of death that spoke of endless despair.

Moreover, it wasn't just this one planet that had been split in two. Looking around, dozens of giant planets in this star sector, and even the star at the very center emitting a faint light, all had bottomless, terrifying cracks running across the entire surface of their bodies!

"This... what level of power could possibly accomplish this..."

Even Lin Shan, who was always calm and composed, couldn't help but swallow hard at this moment. One strike to shatter a planet a hundred times larger than Earth? This kind of destructive power, even that Lv.150 high-dimensional sovereign they encountered before, could absolutely not achieve it so cleanly and efficiently!

"A one-sided... dimension-reduction massacre once occurred here."

Chen Xi's expression was extremely grave. In his crimson-gold eyes, [Miracle Deduction] was frantically analyzing the energy fluctuations that had remained in the void for hundreds of thousands of years.

A moment later, his voice became hoarse and low:

"The ones who destroyed this place were not those silicon-based lifeforms hiding sneakily behind the star gates."

"But some kind of... indescribable ultimate monster... capable of splitting a galaxy with a single strike."

"Warning! Warning!!!"

Just then, the radar system of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain suddenly emitted an extremely piercing red alarm!

"Major General Chen! One million kilometers to our left, inside a piece of planetary wreckage, we have captured a trace of an extremely faint distress signal frequency, but the encryption method belongs to the 'Ancient Human Empire'!" Lei Zhentian's urgent voice came through the communication channel.

"An Ancient Human distress signal?!"

Chen Xi's eyes sharpened. In this graveyard that had been dead for hundreds of thousands of years, something was actually still alive?!

"All fleets, maintain level-one alert defensive formation! Nirvana Battle Team, follow me and land on that piece of wreckage! Let's go see what kind of information our 'ancestors' have left for us!"

Cold, deathly silence, weightlessness. This was the first sensation the five members of the Nirvana Battle Team felt when they stepped onto that piece of giant planetary wreckage.

Because the planet had long been split in two, the original atmosphere and gravity system were gone. Relying on the life-support systems and micro-gravity fields inside their combat armor, Chen Xi and the others landed steadily on the scorched earth covered in hideous gullies and metal wreckage.

"The signal source is just below here, about five thousand meters underground."

Chen Xi glanced at the detection radar on his wristband and pointed to a bottomless, massive metal rift ahead. This rift clearly wasn't formed naturally but was an entrance to an underground military bunker exposed after the planetary crust was forcibly torn apart by some terrifying power.

"This place is so quiet it gives me the creeps; I keep feeling like countless eyes are staring at us from the shadows." Li Murou pressed closely against Su Xiaoxiao, her [harp of time reversal] already in a triggered state, ready to be played at any moment.

"Stay vigilant, Lin Shan, lead the way, we're going down."

Chen Xi didn't say anything more. The five of them turned into streams of light and quickly descended along the metal rift.

As the depth increased, the surrounding scenery became increasingly shocking.

Countless wrecks of ancient human interstellar warships, as huge as mountains, were stuck in the rock layers like scrap metal discarded at will.

Many of the warships' armor still bore those mirror-smooth cuts, clearly having been sliced apart by that unknown power in a single strike, along with the planet.

The distance of five thousand meters was nothing more than a few breaths of time for them.

"BANG!"

The five landed steadily in a massive underground plaza.

This seemed to be the core command post of this underground military fortress. Hundreds of dim energy crystal pillars, reaching a hundred meters in height, stood all around, and in the center of the hall, there was a dilapidated, dust-covered holographic console.

"The signal source is coming from that console." Ye Fei closed her eyes to sense it, then pointed to the center of the hall and said, "And... I can't feel any biological soul fluctuations. The one sending the signal is likely not a living person."

Chen Xi strode to the dust-covered console. He extended his right hand, which was covered in dark golden divine patterns, and gently pressed it onto the console's long-lusterless identification panel.

His [Civilization Spark Editor (Administrator Key)] authority within him was actively activated at this moment.

"HUM————!!!"

A miracle happened!