After the collision, the black tentacle withdrew in the blink of an eye. That single clash had given Luo Qi's replica enough information to analyze.
Subspace was a layer attached to conventional cosmic space, like a bubble clinging to the universe's surface, while the universe itself had its own levels of depth, much like the sea.
The decay of subspace resembled bubbles rising through seawater. Viewed from one level, it was extremely fast, yet from another, it was exceedingly slow.
The enemy was hiding in a particular subspace. Luo Qi's replica could not fully scan the subspace from which the tentacle had emerged, and that fact alone told him that the enemy's technology was too advanced for him to handle.
The original Luo Qi quietly left. Nineteen more spherical replicas appeared in the universe. Looking at the black hole before them, they immediately wielded spatial power, turning it into cosmic scissors.
The intersecting, combined spatial power forcibly peeled this region of space away from the conventional universe. Under the pressure exerted by the twenty replicas, the spatial force then became chains. Spatial anchors pierced dozens of subspace layers and successfully caught the subspace where their opponent was hiding.
It was like piercing every layer of a thousand-layer pastry and installing a monitor in each one. The moment the spatial force locked on, it lowered the spatial pressure and merged the layers, exposing the enemy fully before all the replicas.
It was a black sphere a hundred thousand kilometers in diameter, with hundreds of millions of drifting tentacles. It looked just like the composite eldritch lifeform they had seen before.
Oh, our chances aren't looking good now, Luo Qi's replica thought to himself, using space technology to rapidly enlarge his body.
As the twenty spherical replicas rapidly grew, they released one