"Maintain suppressive fire, let me think."
Wen Zhonghua paced back and forth inside the ship with his hands behind his back. Li Shun's strength had greatly exceeded his expectations, and now the fleet was in a dilemma.
Just as Wen Zhonghua was deep in thought, the Insect King quietly emerged from the mouth of a giant insect behind them. It had been hiding inside the giant insect's body and had grown stronger from eating. Now, Li Shun's fleet was only 300,000 kilometers away from the Reaper, but it could no longer advance.
The Insect King's body pierced through three-dimensional space and entered the fourth dimension. Using its long body as a guide, it leaped forward like a compass. After several leaps, the Insect King appeared in the middle of the Reaper fleet, and a sharp alarm sounded in everyone's brain.
At the critical moment, before Wen Zhonghua could give the order, the Reaper, controlled by the Superintelligent Robot, had already opened fire on the Insect King on their own. However, the Insect King was now deep in the middle of the fleet, and the probability of accidentally injuring its own side by firing indiscriminately was very high. Moreover, the Insect King did not stop after entering the middle of the fleet, but moved quickly through the fleet like a slippery eel.
The Superintelligent Robot seized several opportunities to release Dimensional Bomb, but the Insect King nimbly dodged them each time. It knew the power of dimensional reduction attacks; although it could withstand such attacks, dodging was much better than being hit.
The Reaper was enormous, and neither Superintelligent Robot control nor supercomputer control could match the speed of the Insect King. Manual control was even slower. The Insect King moved among the fleet, but the fleet fired only sporadically.
Suddenly, the Insect King pounced on a Reaper. One end of its long body wrapped around the Reaper and Reaper it into the fourth dimension. An additional dimension immediately appeared inside the Reaper ship. The Insect King's body was still in the three-dimensional universe. It ignored the Reaper and pulled its body, which had entered the fourth dimension, back into the three-dimensional universe.
This is the Insect Zone. The appearance of a civilized warship in the fourth dimension of the Insect Zone is self-evident. A Zerg in the fourth dimension directly entered the Reaper's interior, and after a few small attacks, the Reaper self-destructed.
The Insect King moved swiftly, throwing Reaper one after another into the fourth dimension. The fourth-dimensional insects that Wen Zhonghua feared did not appear, but the situation in the three-dimensional universe was not optimistic either. The Insect King moved nimbly, and the Reaper were rapidly being depleted. Sometimes, the Insect King could sweep away dozens of warships at once.
The impact of the Consciousness Field had no effect on the Insect King. With the Insect King's interference, the fleet facing Li Shun had developed a firepower gap. Wen Zhonghua had to constantly send fleets to fill the gap. Although the Insect King only destroyed a few thousand warships per hour, the fleet's advance speed was greatly affected by the entanglement between Li Shun and the Insect King.
Suddenly, Li Shun's warship, surrounded by the swarm of insects, rushed into the outer circle of the Reaper ' battle zone while the Insect King was carrying away dozens of Reaper. The insect swarm broke off from the surface of the disc-shaped warship, and before the swarm could get far, the disc-shaped warship exploded, and the insects surrounding the warship became the first victims.
Although the Reaper fleet kept a close watch on Li Shun's warships and tried to maintain distance from each other, the Zerg swarm pressed forward relentlessly, and the fleet's formation was unconsciously much denser than at the beginning, in order to maintain firepower density.
With the explosion of Li Shun's warship, more than 50,000 Reaper vanished instantly. But what was even stranger was that the exploded disc-shaped warship did not disappear. By the time everyone could see it clearly, it had already quickly moved to another part of the fleet and then used Dimensional Fall again, turning tens of thousands of Reaper into ashes once more.
This was repeated more than ten times. Nearly a million Reaper were destroyed in a minute by the dimensional reduction attack created by the same disc-shaped warship, which directly refreshed everyone's understanding. At this time, the second disc-shaped warship, under the cover of the Insect King and the first disc-shaped warship, also rushed into the Reaper fleet.
"Ah! You bastard!" Wen Zhonghua cursed angrily.
" Old Gao, hurry up and find a way to sever the four-dimensional communication between these warships!"
"Bullshit! Li Shun's warships aren't quantum warships at all, they're four-dimensional warships!" Even the somewhat bookish commander Gao Jianchuan couldn't help but swear.
"What? A four-dimensional warship?" Wen Zhonghua was stunned by Gao Jianchuan's words, one moment a quantum warship, the next a four-dimensional warship.
"Chief of the General Staff, at first I thought the energy spheres and our Dimensional Bomb were quantum mechanics, but quantum mechanics could never withstand such a close-range, high-intensity dimensional drop explosion, because dimensional drop itself would have a significant impact on four-dimensional structures. It wasn't until just now that I realized these warships are four-dimensional structures."
" Old Gao, what is a four-dimensional structure?"
"To put it simply, every part of these warships extends into the fourth dimension. If a warship is two-dimensional, you should know what it means to extend into three dimensions."
"Know."
"Well, if the table is two-dimensional, and a piece of tofu on the table represents the two-dimensional warship extending into three dimensions, then each time we cut a piece of tofu parallel to the tabletop, it represents a dimensional reduction attack. Two-dimensional beings will find that the warship has been destroyed once and then reappeared. That's our situation now. Li Shun is the warship extending into four dimensions."
"What... what should we do?"
"The fact that Li Shun has created something like this shows that they haven't mastered the technology for positioning in the fourth dimension either. Warships need to maintain their position in the third dimension, otherwise they will get lost. Of course, Li Shun is colluding with the insects, so the insects won't let his warships get lost. Right now, the fourth-dimensional insects haven't descended into the third dimension. Our only option now is to increase the density of this space to reduce the power of the dimensional reduction attack, and then we can slowly wear it down. The structure in the fourth dimension isn't infinite. As long as we deplete the fourth-dimensional structure, we'll be fine."
" Jianchuan, are you sure you're not making a mistake again?"
"Chief of the General Staff, we have no other choice now. Regardless of whether Li Shun's warship is a four-dimensional structure or not, increasing spatial density will definitely reduce the attack effect of dimensional drop."
"Alright, all warships, activate fourth-dimensional energy extraction at full power."
"Chief of Staff, Li Shun's warships cannot jump in three-dimensional space. However, if we destroy these two, other warships might be able to jump in three dimensions with the help of the insects, making it impossible for us to defend against them. I suggest we simply open a gap and let Li Shun's fleet in. Then, all the Reaper can launch a concentrated fire attack on Li Shun's warships, immobilizing them. Outside, their large range of movement makes them difficult for us to control. Once they are inside, we can surround them all in the middle, thus severely limiting their range of movement."