"Chief of the General Staff, should we make a move?" Li Zhixiong had been holding back for a long time.
"Move out! Prioritize taking care of Li Shun. If the swarm doesn't attack, fine. But if they do, kill the Insect King immediately."
As soon as Wen Zhonghua finished speaking, hundreds of billions of superspheres, accompanied by space cannons, had already traveled more than 400,000 kilometers and arrived in the middle of Li Shun's fleet.
Li Shun's fleet was not large, and it was surrounded by swarms of insects. Only 100,000 of Li Shun's ships were wedged into the passage created by the insect swarm. The Dimensional Bomb crashed into Li Shun's fleet and exploded. Wen Zhonghua thought that Li Shun's fleet would be reduced to ashes and disintegrate like the insect swarm. However, after the explosion, the space stabilized and Wen Zhonghua found that Li Shun's fleet had not suffered any damage.
"What's going on?!" Gao Jianchuan exclaimed in surprise.
The events of the Matter River occurred only a little over 20,000 years ago. It's absolutely impossible for Li Shun to have created a fleet capable of defending against Dimensional Bomb. Previously, the fleet in the Matter River couldn't even defeat the Reaper equipped with the Second Reversed State. How could it have become so powerful overnight?
"Could it be another holographic image? Li Shun is very good at this trick; their holographic technology is better than ours," Li Zhixiong analyzed.
"No, holographic imaging requires equipment support. Li Shun has no reason to create so much holographic equipment to confuse us. Besides, Li Shun must have something to rely on to dare to come here. Chief of the General Staff, what do you think?"
"Try it again."
After the first wave of attacks, Li Shun's fleet and the Zerg swarm made no move, as if victory was in their grasp, just waiting to see how the humans would react, much like watching a show while they sip tea.
As space surged, the second Dimensional Bomb reached the center of Li Shun's fleet, unleashing another devastating energy explosion. Even the distant swarm of insects was shaken and sent flying a great distance before regaining its footing. After space returned to normal, the images transmitted to the fleet were not much different from before; not a single member of Li Shun's fleet had been lost.
"Hehe, Chief of the General Staff, want to give it another try?" Li Shun sent a teasing message.
" Li Shun! What tricks are you playing?"
"You've had your fun. Now it's my turn to test your skills."
After Li Shun finished speaking, a disc-shaped warship started its engine and quickly rushed into the Reaper fleet. With a deafening explosion, thousands of Reaper within a radius of 100,000 kilometers instantly disappeared, turning into basic particles before they even had a chance to explode.
"Dimensional reduction attack!!! Damn it, how did Li Shun also learn dimensional reduction attack!" Wen Zhonghua cursed viciously.
"Haha, Chief of the General Staff, don't think you're the only ones who know how to use dimensional reduction. How about it, our dimensional reduction attack is pretty powerful, isn't it?"
"Hmph, no wonder you dared to come here on your own initiative; you've got some skills after all."
"Chief of the General Staff, what do we do now? We're completely defenseless."
"Don't panic, hold your ground, fleet retreat, spread out."
"Yes, but we're surrounded by swarms of insects right now. We can't retreat far before we're trapped. Should we attack the swarms to open a passage? Hey, Old Gao, what are you looking for at this hour?"
"Quiet, quiet, let me check the information. Li Shun couldn't possibly be that capable."
Gao Jianchuan scrolled rapidly across the screen, reviewing one piece of information after another. Wen Zhonghua also regretted not bringing a few academicians with him this time. Gao Jianchuan was now the most technically skilled person in the fleet, and they hoped he could discover something. What no one noticed was that the warship that Li Shun had just exploded had quietly reappeared in the middle of his fleet.
The Reaper fleet slowly retreated, and Li Shun did not give chase, as if a big cat was watching a mouse in a cage, knowing that no matter how much it jumped, it could not escape its claws.
The swarm of insects behind the fleet began to slowly close in, until it completely surrounded the fleet. Now, the six directions around the fleet were filled with densely packed insects. If the Consciousness Field impact weapon hadn't been running at full power, the swarm would have already reached the middle of the fleet. Wen Zhonghua didn't take the insects too seriously. As long as Li Shun could break out of the insect encirclement, it wouldn't be difficult. The key now was how Li Shun could get through.
"Chief of the General Staff, I'd like to try firing another energy ball," Gao Jianchuan said suddenly after reviewing the data for a long time.
"Go ahead and attack. Dimensional Bomb couldn't take down Li Shun's fleet, so what use are energy balls?"
An energy ball bomb roared out from the Reaper, but Li Shun's fleet did not flinch, letting the energy ball explode on the surface of a warship.
The Reaper clearly captured the explosion of the energy ball, unlike the Dimensional Bomb where light could only travel normally after the explosion.
This time, everyone saw it clearly: under the attack of the energy ball, a huge hole quickly appeared on the surface of Li Shun's warship. If it had been hit a few more times, the entire warship would have disintegrated. But a strange thing happened: the hole was restored to its original state within a few seconds, and the warship seemed as if nothing had happened.
"I know, it's nanorobots!" Li Zhixiong exclaimed excitedly.
"No, definitely not. Nanobots can repair some aging and worn parts or small damage inside a warship, but even if they could repair such a large-scale destruction, it would be absolutely impossible for them to complete the repair in just a few seconds. Our Dimensional Bomb were more destructive than energy balls. Warships attacked by our Dimensional Bomb may have already been destroyed once. Even nanobots would be destroyed. How could they possibly complete the repair of the entire ship?" Gao Jianchuan retorted.
"Then what do you say it is?"
"I just did a quick look at the information, and Li Shun's fleet might be a quantum-based fleet," Gao Jianchuan said, somewhat uncertainly.
"What, a quantum fleet?" Wen Zhonghua also found it unbelievable.
"This is just my conjecture. Li Shun might have used some means to put the two warships into an entangled state. Unless we destroy both warships simultaneously, the particles of one warship will be restored to their original state under the control of the particles of the other warship. Moreover, the explosion of Li Shun's warship with dimensional fall before it even entered the fourth-dimensional interception space is also related to quantum entanglement. Li Shun might have opened a four-dimensional channel between the two warships, just like us, and then used the channel to intercept the four-dimensional space into the three-dimensional universe."
"That seems to make sense... Wait, no, if that's the case, if we attack the warships here, shouldn't the other quantum-modified warship also be destroyed?" Li Zhixiong said.
"I'm not entirely sure about that; it's the most reasonable explanation I can think of right now."
"Forget whether it's reasonable or not, Jianchuan, is there any way to take them out?"