In 0.01 seconds, endless light blazed, then vanished.
Countless particles were crushed by an unimaginable force!
Across the hundred thousand kilometers it traversed, it left a pitch-black conical corridor.
In 0.015 seconds, it expanded from the size of a fist at its firing point, stretching out two million kilometers!
At 0.02 seconds, it continued expanding-
It was like a wave spreading across water! Yet it existed in three dimensions, a black wall that kept growing!
The First Fleet vanished into the darkness.
The darkness spread toward what remained of Orange Star.
It swallowed every particle in its path.
In an instant, it engulfed tens of thousands of flying builders and Sky Whale builders in space, along with every communications and observation satellite.
It spread toward the stellar system's most distant planet.
Vast swathes of blackness swept out like a curtain, swallowing more than half the star's radiation field in a few blinks!
Or rather!
More than half the stellar sphere had fallen into ever-expanding darkness!
Fang Tianyi watched the feed suddenly go black and murmured, "Looks like the aliens have all gone too far away. Even the signals have cut out..."
He turned around, looking at the solemn young faces.
Fang Tianyi said, "This will be even crueler than twenty-three years ago. More humans will die! More of our people! Are you afraid? Will you cower?"
Everyone shouted, "No! No!"
Fang Tianyi said, "Then what comes next is our war! For our home! For humanity!"
Their voices rang out with earthshaking resolve. "Defend our home! Protect humanity!"
What humans thought of as darkness was merely having their eyes covered.
Once the naked eye could no longer see light, that was darkness to them.
But in truth, the universe held many other things.
They all lay beyond the