The Orbital Sniper Cannon recoiled violently. No visible flame erupted from its muzzle; only a colorless Energy Beam, transformed into a soundless bolt of lightning, propelled the deadly weapon forward at near-light speed.
The Energy Beam raced through the vacuum, tearing apart every speck of dust and every nebula in its path.
It plunged without hesitation toward that nightmare mass of endlessly proliferating flesh.
The instant the Energy Beam left the barrel, Broud's Phantom sensed that something was wrong.
It writhed even more frantically, attempting to split off more flesh to protect its Energy Core.
Xia Chujian ignored it and fired again in the direction of the second dark-blue point of light.
Through the Scope's highly magnified view, a blue light abruptly flared at the center of the enormous mass of flesh Broud's Phantom had split off, dazzlingly bright!
That was precisely the core point targeted by her first Energy Beam!
At that moment, the enormous mass of dark-purple flesh slowly split apart on both sides, revealing a gigantic eye within!
Xia Chujian immediately thought of the enormous eyes that had appeared on the battlefield of the recently concluded Third Zerg War!
Each of those eyes had been as large as a planet, far larger than this one, yet none had been anywhere near as evil.
It was almost as large as an entire Space Fortress, its structure warped and chaotic, covered in a network of blood vessels that constantly proliferated and dissolved.
Deep within its pupil, a colorful whirlpool seemed to be spinning endlessly, like a mad entrance leading into Subspace.
Most unexpectedly, that enormous, wriggling eye "looked" with incredible precision toward Xia Chujian's hiding place!
Its eyelid, covered in mucus and made of writhing flesh, seemed to curve slightly.
It was smiling!
It was actually smiling at her!