Recaps

Qu Jianlei confirmed that the returned Xiao Hu was genuine and used its restored calculations to turn the battle against the Out of Body Mother Nest. The team regained the initiative at heavy cost, but the Mother Nest remained dangerous and Xiao Hu’s shadow in Qu Jianlei’s Sea of Consciousness still seemed blurry.

• Qu Jianlei recognized Xiao Hu and deployed more Calculation Units to restore its ability to control starships.
• Jing Yuexin brought warships from the Mother Nest, while Qu Jianlei sent more than two hundred Small Ships to cover their preparations and the Federation and Empire forces’ retreat.
• Battalion-Class Ships and other main warships joined the fight, enduring repeated attacks and even self-destructing to damage the Out of Body Mother Nest.
• Xiao Hu estimated that defeating the Mother Nest would require a Division Level Ship, a Battalion-Class Ship, and two Flawed Portable Abodes, so Qu Jianlei told it to wait for a suitable moment.
• The Out of Body Mother Nest pierced the shielding with two Blue Lights, leaving Qu Jianlei’s side with heavy starship losses despite regaining the initiative.

Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu helped the joint fleet destroy the Out-of-Body Mother Nest while escaping the worst of the resulting spatial turbulence. Digital Phantom then launched a relentless attack on the surviving Asura Nests, leaving the fleet stunned by their apparent fury.

• Xiao Hu used precise calculations and the joint fleet’s retreat to draw the Out-of-Body Mother Nest off course while disrupting it with nearby warship explosions.
• An Alliance Division Level Ship and a Battalion-Class Ship approached the Mother Nest and fired two Space Explosion Bombs, destroying it.
• Qu Jianlei recognized that Xiao Hu’s computational ability had improved, while Jing Yuexin warned him to watch for the Remnant Soul and the fleet prepared for possible Body Seizure.
• Qu Jianlei’s team emerged from the damaged Flawed Portable Abodes, equipped for the danger of Body Seizure, and he ordered them to clear out the remaining enemies.
• Qinghu led warships into the turbulent space, and Digital Phantom’s ships destroyed the surviving Asura Nests despite the dangerous conditions.

After Digital Phantom helped secure the Channel Entrance, Qu Jianlei learned how Xiao Hu’s clone survived and why the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion had broken its agreement. He forgave the Artifact Spirit but refused to resume their partnership, then learned that Xiao Hu’s blurred image might be caused by a problem in his Sea of Consciousness.

• The joint fleet asked Hua Xiezhi for orders, and she assigned it to guard against Asura reinforcements and Body Seizure while survey teams explored the Channel Entrance.
• Rhine asked Bentley whether they should enter the Asura World, and Bentley told her to wait for the First One’s decision and stay alert.
• Xiao Hu told Qu Jianlei that the Artifact Spirit had forced its clone to help improve the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, then sought energy and secretly boarded an Imperial Science Vessel.
• The Artifact Spirit released Xiao Hu’s clone when Qu Jianlei was in danger, and Xiao Hu returned to the team.
• Qu Jianlei called the Artifact Spirit’s betrayal even and refused to renew their agreement, despite Big Head Butterfly’s attempt to persuade him.
• Qu Jianlei asked why Xiao Hu’s image was blurry, and Big Head Butterfly suspected a problem with his Sea of Consciousness.

After the joint fleet withdrew from the Asura Channel Entrance, Qu Jianlei’s group returned to Dawn Base, where Xiao Hu’s avatar offered to help him sense Out-of-Body Realm souls. Qu Jianlei remained wary of Xiao Hu’s broken promise and asked what it thought that meant to a cultivator.

• The joint fleet found no trace of the Out-of-Body Realm Asura, fought off returning Asura nests, and later withdrew from the Channel Entrance.
• The Federation and Empire agreed to blast open a large area for a jump, though Qu Jianlei also wanted the Federation to send enough forces to keep the Asuras occupied.
• The Federation and Imperial fleets split up after returning, while Digital Phantom handed over a Division Level Ship and Yuanyuan rebuffed the military’s complaints about its use.
• Qu Jianlei’s exhausted group returned to Dawn Base, where Xiao Hu’s avatar approached him carrying a fist-sized Abode.
• Xiao Hu said it could sense Out-of-Body Realm souls and would be useful to Qu Jianlei, but Qu Jianlei challenged it over breaking its promise.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with the Artifact Spirit over the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, then divined the risks and began refining its authority. After recuperating and gaining partial control, he reunited the High-Fidelity Replica with Xiao Hu's avatar, whose excited reaction left Qu Jianlei wondering what it had endured.

• The Artifact Spirit argued that its earlier deal had been unfair, but Qu Jianlei said they were even because it had protected Xiao Hu and insisted that the team discuss any further terms.
• Qu Jianlei asked about his Sea of Consciousness, and the Artifact Spirit said the Incense Divinity traces posed no serious danger and could help his advancement.
• The team debated whether to forgive the Artifact Spirit, and Qinghu proposed a divination; Qu Jianlei insisted the Artifact Spirit protect them from backlash before agreeing to join them.
• Qu Jianlei divined Supreme Auspicious and learned that full refinement would take at least thirty-six years, though the Artifact Spirit promised he could gain useful authority within three days.
• After five days of recuperation, Qu Jianlei spent five more days refining part of the Mystic Mansion's authority and summoned the High-Fidelity Replica, which joyfully reunited with Xiao Hu's avatar.

Qu Jianlei completed a Black Colt Tower that could support Nascent Soul Realm cultivation and tested its time-flow effects. After discussing who might benefit from entering it, he brought it into the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, where the Artifact Spirit warned it might last only about ten years and Qu Jianlei asked whether multiple people could cultivate inside at once.

• Qu Jianlei asked the Artifact Spirit to teach High-Fidelity Replica about Portable Abodes, while refusing to let it inspect Great Venerable Wu Xuan's Abode.
• Qu Jianlei completed a Black Colt Tower that held up under testing, and Jing Yuexin and Paranoid each reported spending more time inside than outside.
• Xiang Xue, Fourth Boss, Xiao Moshan, Tian Yin, and Qinghu each sought a chance for someone they cared about, or Da Vinci, to cultivate in the tower.
• The Artifact Spirit urged Qu Jianlei not to build a third tower and suggested integrating Abodes, while Qu Jianlei said its own cultivation tower could wait two thousand years if he survived.
• Qu Jianlei tested the Black Colt Tower inside the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, where the Artifact Spirit estimated it would remain usable for about ten years.
• Qu Jianlei confirmed the tower worked inside the Abode and asked whether several people could enter it to cultivate at once.

Qu Jianlei improved the Black Colt Tower and the team selected Kefu and Da Vinci to use it. They learned that the tower accelerated time, and Duo Gan urged them to cultivate and complete their tribulations as soon as possible.

• You You, Xiao Qin, and Mu Guang entered the first Black Colt Tower, which the Artifact Spirit said could last around six years.
• Qu Jianlei made a second Black Colt Tower with improved stability and a roughly ten percent longer lifespan, but learned that an Abode could not support two towers at once.
• The team debated who should use the new tower, while Yi He and Jiao Daoren felt bitter that they could not cultivate normally.
• Jing Yuexin had Kefu and Da Vinci sign a confidentiality contract before Duo Gan brought them into the Abode and showed them the Black Colt Tower.
• Duo Gan explained that the tower let cultivators experience roughly ten days inside for every three and a half days outside, and said Kefu and Da Vinci would share it.

Qu Jianlei prepared to take the team to the Alliance to gather more Space Stones, while the Artifact Spirit persuaded him to bring Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion instead of the Portable Abode. The Artifact Spirit offered to prove its greater defenses and work to repay its debts, and Qu Jianlei agreed to consider taking it along.

• Da Vinci and Kefu began cultivating in Black Colt Tower, while Da Vinci planned to thank First One for giving them access to it.
• The military delivered eight Division Level Ships and ten billion Energy Blocks to Dawn Base, and Qu Jianlei had Xiao Hu calculate improvements to the Locust Qi Gathering Array.
• Qu Jianlei and his teammates decided to travel to the Alliance to replenish their dwindling Space Stones, leaving Xiao Moshan at the base after Yuanyuan objected to staying behind.
• The Artifact Spirit asked Qu Jianlei to take Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion instead of the Portable Abode and claimed its defenses were stronger, though it would need replenishment if it sustained damage.
• The Artifact Spirit promised to demonstrate its value and work to pay off its debts, and Qu Jianlei agreed before going to discuss the plan with his teammates.

Qu Jianlei’s team tested Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion’s defenses against Wind Forgotten’s Black Lines while traveling through the Heim Star Region. The Artifact Spirit hid the strain the test caused, and Qu Jianlei learned the Abode needed supplies to withstand repeated attacks.

• Digital Phantom agreed to bring Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion along, leaving Fourth Boss to guard the Portable Abode.
• Qu Jianlei’s team teleported through desolate planets and entered the Heim Star Region, where they used the Division Level Ship to evade Alien Race Forest of Trees.
• Qu Jianlei released Wind Forgotten to sense nearby Tree Races and fire three Black Lines at Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion.
• The Artifact Spirit claimed the Abode had withstood the Black Lines easily, then shrank it and privately admitted that repeated attacks could overwhelm it.
• The Artifact Spirit asked Xiao Hu to persuade First One to provide supplies, but Xiao Hu demanded payment before helping.
• Qu Jianlei learned from Xiao Hu that the Artifact Spirit had been under pressure during the test.

Qu Jianlei's team encountered an Alliance fleet fleeing the Forest Sea Alien Race and agreed to receive its intelligence, while Xiao Hu verified the data. The battered scouts revealed that they had encountered the Mother Tree on Sihe Star and asked to borrow two Battalion-Class Ships, leaving Hua Xiezhi weighing their desperate request.

• Qu Jianlei's team avoided fighting the Forest Sea Alien Race until they encountered a battered Alliance fleet pursued by nearly three thousand trees.
• The Alliance fleet recognized Digital Phantom's livery and asked it to relay intelligence, so Qu Jianlei agreed to receive them and Xiao Hu checked their data for deception.
• The Alliance scouts revealed that they had gone to Sihe Star with five Battalion-Class Ships, encountered an enormous tree, and lost all but their fleet.
• Hua Xiezhi identified the tree as the Tree Race's Mother Tree and warned the scouts that many alien races were nearby.
• The Alliance scouts asked to borrow two Battalion-Class Ships and offered to repay three times the amount, but Hua Xiezhi questioned whether they could keep that promise.

Digital Phantom lent two Battalion-Class Ships to an Alliance reconnaissance fleet, then drew a vast Forest Sea force into pursuit and sacrificed one borrowed ship to destroy most of the attackers. The team escaped inside Qu Jianlei’s Abode and reappeared aboard their Division Level Ship, while the heavy robot lamented another major loss.

• Paranoid and Qinghu inspected the damaged Alliance fleet and lent it two Battalion-Class Ships, Small Ships, and ammunition.
• After the Division Level Ship pressed deeper into space, more than ten Forest Sea groups surrounded it, and Bentley complained that the Alliance had drawn the enemy’s hatred onto them.
• Qu Jianlei and Tian Yin used Light Art to provoke the Forest Seas, then the team transferred to a Battalion-Class Ship and hid inside Qu Jianlei’s Abode.
• The team triggered two Flawed Portable Abodes among the pursuing trees, destroying most of the Forest Sea and the Battalion-Class Ship while the Abode survived.
• Qu Jianlei deployed the Division Level Ship and escaped with the team as the heavy robot cursed that they had lost big again.

After the Alliance fleet escaped the forest of trees with a devastating blast, Qu Jianlei’s team headed for Sihe Star to target the Out of Body Mother Tree. They found its defenses unexpectedly thin and planned to send Wind Forgotten to plant Flawed Portable Abodes around the planet without landing.

• Qu Jianlei’s fleet hunted down the surviving tree aliens after the blast, then chose Sihe Star as its next destination before the Out of Body Mother Tree could respond.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow traveled concealed toward Sihe Star while the rest of the team waited inside the Abode, noticing that fewer tree aliens appeared as they drew closer.
• Qu Jianlei reached Sihe Star and saw that the Mother Tree had grown, while the number of nearby tree aliens had fallen from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands.
• After observing the area, Qu Jianlei decided to keep the team concealed and have Wind Forgotten disguise himself as a tree alien and place several Flawed Portable Abodes around Sihe Star.
• Qu Jianlei refused to let Wind Forgotten land on the planet, judging the risk too great and remaining wary that the Tree Traitor might change unexpectedly.

Qu Jianlei tried to deploy Flawed Mobile Palaces near Sihe Star while Wind Forgotten drew attention away, but a Tree Race group recognized the enormous traitor and forced it to flee. As more trees grew alert, Qu Jianlei abandoned the original plan and used the World Piercing Shuttle; Wind Forgotten then sensed a faint dark red streak closing in behind it.

• Qu Jianlei used a timed bomb and Warp Jammer to distract the Tree Race, then released Wind Forgotten and deployed the first Flawed Mobile Palace.
• A nearby Tree Race group challenged Wind Forgotten, and Qu Jianlei ordered it to escape while he and Sunset Glow fled separately.
• Wind Forgotten fought back and provoked the surrounding trees to keep their attention as it raced away from Sihe Star.
• Qu Jianlei judged that the Tree Race had become too alert to continue deploying the Mobile Palaces and decided to use the World Piercing Shuttle.
• Wind Forgotten reached roughly four million kilometers from Sihe Star and sensed an ominous dark red streak behind it.

Qu Jianlei and his team used the World Piercing Shuttle to destroy the Out of Body Mother Tree and rout the Forest Sea Alien Race around Sihe Star. After searching for survivors and capturing prisoners, they left some scattered trees alive as the chapter ended.

• Wind Forgotten fled the Forest Sea Alien Race, and the World Piercing Shuttle destroyed an Alliance Battalion-Class Ship and devastated the surrounding trees, allowing the Abode to escape.
• Wind Forgotten asked for more spiritual qi to recover from his injuries and warned Qu Jianlei that the alien race was using unfamiliar passwords.
• Qu Jianlei led the team out in their ships to hunt down witnesses and investigate the alien race's plans.
• Qu Jianlei and his team swept the area around Sihe Star for two days, but found no remnant soul of the Out of Body Mother Tree and failed to eliminate every survivor.
• The team captured more than twenty alien race members alive, including trees and locusts, while several trees surrendered.

Qu Jianlei’s group interrogated captured Tree Race members, learned that many had gone to Baozhi Star, and spared three surrendering trees under Wind Forgotten’s watch. They traveled to Baozhi to investigate its strange situation, where the Paranoid sensed a major threat nearby.

• Wind Forgotten interrogated and strangled several captured Tree Race members, learning that many had gone to support Baozhi Star, though the prisoners knew little about the trouble there.
• Xiang Xue and Claire objected when Wind Forgotten tried to kill three surrendering Tree Race members, and Qu Jianlei ordered him to spare them under his supervision.
• The group searched for a spatial weak point, found no strong evidence one existed, and decided to investigate Baozhi Star while the World Piercing Shuttle recovered.
• Jing Yuexin sent a clone to scout the Teleportation Array, and after it reported the Stone Cave was safe, Qu Jianlei’s group traveled there and waited until night to emerge.
• The group sensed disorder among the Alien Race on Baozhi Star, and the Paranoid detected something dangerous nearby.

The team discovered a second, powerful Mother Tree on Baozhi Star and concluded that the Tree Race was caught in internal strife. Qu Jianlei decided they would destroy it, while the team waited for Wind Forgotten to process the captured tree husks before acting.

• Jia Shuiqing and Qinghu spotted a second Mother Tree on Baozhi Star, and Zi Jiuxian judged that it had only recently grown.
• Qu Jianlei released Wind Forgotten, which confirmed the Mother Tree’s strength; Wind Forgotten and Tree Traitor explained that the Tree Race’s internal conflict had weakened the invaders’ defenses.
• Jiao Daoren suggested luring one Mother Tree into surrendering, prompting Wind Forgotten to secretly record the team’s ideas before denying that it meant to reunite its world.
• Qu Jianlei asked the team whether they should destroy the Baozhi Mother Tree, and Paranoid supported the plan to keep it from growing stronger.
• The team returned to the Abode beneath the sand and watched Wind Forgotten, which said it needed two more days to process the captured tree husks.

Qu Jianlei and his team destroyed Baozhi Star’s new Mother Tree after Wind Forgotten infiltrated the planet and helped prepare their attack. As the team navigated the resulting chaotic energy, Qu Jianlei’s unexplained sense of unease persisted, and he decided they should cautiously push into the disturbance.

• Wind Forgotten spent days absorbing and concealing its aura before Qu Jianlei urged the team to act while Baozhi Star’s Order remained chaotic.
• Wind Forgotten toured Baozhi Star and learned that the Tree Race members resented the Sihe Mother Tree and supported their new lord’s rebellion.
• Qu Jianlei and the team escaped through a hidden Teleportation Array as five explosions struck Baozhi Star and destroyed the new Mother Tree.
• Hua Xiezhi reported that Baozhi Star’s Teleportation Array had disappeared, and Qu Jianlei felt an unusually strong sense of unease but kept his concern to himself.
• After the Division Level Ship spent days circling the chaotic energy from Baozhi Star’s destruction, Qu Jianlei decided to try entering the disturbance with stronger defenses.

Qu Jianlei's team waited near Baozhi Star while hunting scattered Forest Sea Alien Race members and studying a captured Tree Race member. An Alliance reconnaissance fleet approached to investigate the violent energy fluctuations, but Hua Xiezhi dismissed its requests for information and told it to ask the Federation.

• Qu Jianlei decided that the team would wait five days before advancing toward Baozhi Star, and they hunted scattered Alien Race members while they waited.
• Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu spent two days testing ways to restrain a captured Tree Race member and found that the Light Cage Technique could hold it temporarily.
• Hua Xiezhi warned an approaching Alliance fleet to leave, and its Major General Commander realized the ship ahead was an Imperial Division Level Ship.
• The Major General explained that the Alliance fleet had come to investigate dangerous energy fluctuations and offered ten billion for information, but Hua Xiezhi refused unless it paid immediately.
• Hua Xiezhi told the Major General to ask the Federation whether her team had caused the disturbance, then ordered the Alliance fleet to leave.

Digital Phantom exchanged intelligence with the Alliance and confirmed that the Tree Race had at least two Great Venerables, while the Alliance learned that Digital Phantom had destroyed one. After deciding to return toward the Heim Star Region, Qu Jianlei’s team arrived near a Space Wave Point and found the area crowded with Alien Race tree groups.

• The Alliance Major General concluded that Digital Phantom had caused the disturbance, then learned that an Alien Race tree specimen appeared to be alive.
• Hua Lei and Qinghu exchanged Alien Race intelligence with an Alliance Assault Ship, and Hua Lei revealed that Digital Phantom had fought a Tree Race Great Venerable on Baozhi Star.
• The Major General realized that the Tree Race had at least two known Great Venerables and that Digital Phantom had likely defeated one.
• Qu Jianlei’s team reviewed the Alliance’s intelligence and decided to return to the Heim Star Region rather than investigate Alien Race concentration zones.
• Qu Jianlei killed the captured Tree Race specimen after it refused to answer questions, and his experiment showed that it could not be converted into Thunder-struck Wood.
• Half a month later, Qu Jianlei’s team reached the vicinity of a Space Wave Point and found many small groups of Alien Race trees nearby.

Qu Jianlei and his companions debated how to approach the crowded Alien Race camps and chose to deploy Fire-luring Bursts from multiple Mobile Palaces. As unrest spread among the seven camps, Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow went to observe their gathering, where Wind Forgotten warned off two approaching Locusts.

• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow assessed the seven camps of Alien Races and discussed the risks of using Mobile Palaces and Fire-luring Bursts near the Space Wave Point.
• Inside the Abode, Qu Jianlei refused to perform a divination, and the group approved Paranoid's plan to deploy a Mobile Palace for each camp and set off Fire-luring Bursts outside the defensive perimeter.
• Xiao Hu calculated suitable deployment distances and routes, and Qu Jianlei began placing the Mobile Palaces.
• A resonance-like communication spread through the camps, causing unrest and drawing large groups from all seven camps to gather outside the defensive perimeter.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow approached the gathering and saw conflicts spreading among the Alien Races; Wind Forgotten fired a Black Line to warn two Locusts away.

Wind Forgotten and Qu Jianlei watched the Seven Great Camps negotiate before withdrawing amid a sudden outbreak of fighting. After escaping the area, Qu Jianlei detonated a Flawed Portable Abode, destroying nearby Tree Race members and bystanders.

• Wind Forgotten’s Black Line attack made two Locusts turn away, allowing it to move closer to the gathering without drawing further scrutiny.
• Wind Forgotten learned that the Forest Sea blamed Baozhi Star’s Mother Tree for drawing away Sihe Star’s forces before Sihe Star and its Out of Body Mother Tree were destroyed.
• Two days later, delegations from the Seven Great Camps gathered to negotiate, and Wind Forgotten overheard a reference to the Mother World watching over the Tree Race.
• When the negotiations erupted into fighting, Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow placed a Flawed Portable Abode a million kilometers away, then ordered Wind Forgotten to leave.
• Wind Forgotten quietly withdrew and diverted a small Forest Sea group before Qu Jianlei triggered the Fire-luring Burst, killing nearby Tree Race members and onlookers with a Space Ripple.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet routed the Forest Sea Alien Race after its leaders were destroyed, then cleared the area around the Wave Point. After Qu Jianlei divined that the Tree Race’s attack site could be forced into an eruption, his team attacked it for half a month and saw signs that an eruption was near.

• Seven Division Level Ships struck the disorganized Tree Race forces, which fled the Wave Point after two days of fighting.
• Qu Jianlei ordered a massive fleet of Alliance warships to pursue the Tree Race, clearing every member from within thirty million kilometers of the Wave Point.
• Paranoid detected abnormal activity where the Tree Race had attacked the Wave Point, and Xiao Hu estimated that the area had a thirty percent chance of becoming an eruption outlet.
• Qu Jianlei used divination and learned that attacks could trigger an eruption within a month, while a natural eruption might take three to five years.
• Three Division Level Ships attacked the site in rotation for half a month, and the Wave Point began showing clear signs of an approaching eruption.

Qu Jianlei trusted Xiao Hu’s warning, withdrew before the Wave Point erupted, and led the team to collect a substantial haul of Space Stones. He tested and built an improved Black Colt Tower on a desolate planet, used it to recover with Mu Yu, and later learned that the Alliance’s artificial intelligence had attacked the Experimental Platform at the Channel Entrance.

• Qu Jianlei continued attacking the Wave Point until Xiao Hu warned him to retreat, and the point erupted violently five days later after the fleet had departed.
• Qu Jianlei’s team collected Space Stones worth more than their recent expenses, then waited for their returning warships before heading to a desolate planet.
• Qu Jianlei divined Small Auspicious and spent a month building an improved Black Colt Tower with a faster time flow, though he suspected it was less durable.
• Qu Jianlei and Mu Yu entered the tower to recuperate, while Qu Jianlei refused Xiao Hu’s request to move the Calculation Unit inside because its supporting equipment needed too much space.
• After spending two years inside the tower, Qu Jianlei emerged, sent Claire and Tian Yin in to cultivate, and continued designing another tower.
• Jing Yuexin returned two days later and told Qu Jianlei that the Alliance’s artificial intelligence had attacked the Experimental Platform at the Alliance War Zone’s Channel Entrance.

Qu Jianlei brought Xiao Hu’s new avatars to the Experimental Platform, where one avatar battled an attacking artificial intelligence by luring its fragments into a trap. The attack traced back to an Imperial Battalion-Class Ship secretly infiltrated months earlier, and Xiao Hu suspected the Alliance had planted the digital virus.

• Jing Yuexin discovered that the Experimental Platform was under attack, so Qu Jianlei ordered Xiao Hu to create three new avatars.
• Qu Jianlei sent one avatar to the Portable Abode, where High-Fidelity Replica showed Xiao Hu the Tree Race member it had been devouring and shared a branch with it.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Da Vinci and Kefu had remained inside Black Colt Tower for nearly a year, then reviewed the Empire’s growing interest in Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei returned to the Experimental Platform and learned that Xiao Hu had faked a breach to lure the enemy’s main data fragments into a trap.
• Xiao Hu traced the attack to an Imperial Battalion-Class Ship that had been secretly infiltrated more than half a year earlier through an Alliance envoy starship, and it accused the Alliance of poisoning them.

Xiao Hu trapped and seized the Alliance artificial intelligence that had infiltrated an Imperial Regiment-level Battleship, while Qu Jianlei and Bentley dealt with the military’s concerns. Three days later, Bentley returned with testing equipment, upgraded defenses, and Super Calculation Units as the investigation continued.

• As the Alliance artificial intelligence attacked the Regiment-level Battleship, Qu Jianlei reassured its soldiers and Xiao Hu lured the intruder into a trap.
• Xiao Hu imprisoned the enemy’s self-destructing core fragment and took control of its core code.
• Qu Jianlei told the soldiers that an Alliance escort warship had launched the intrusion, then ended the communication.
• The Alliance War Zone’s second-ranking commander apologized, thanked Digital Phantom, and asked for help inspecting the fleet; Bentley promised an answer after three days.
• The Imperial Military switched ships to manual control, isolated sub-control systems, and organized warships into groups to test defenses against artificial intelligence.
• Three days later, Bentley arrived aboard the infiltrated warship with testing equipment, a new Fire Wall and anti-intrusion system, and Super Calculation Units.