Suddenly, the lord received a message from a mechanical entity hidden inside the planet: a human warship had appeared in the Insect Zone, and it wasn't far away, only a little over three hundred light-years away.
The Mechanical Civilization lord harbored a deep-seated hatred for Human Civilization. He had been hunted down by the Great Star Region Civilization of the Milky Way because of his attack on humanity, nearly causing his own demise in this small Milky Way. The lord blamed all the blame on humanity. Now that the Human Civilization's fleet had entered the Insect Zone, the lord's eyes lit up. He immediately mobilized a fleet of trillions of warships to break through the insect encirclement and attack the Reaper fleet.
"Not good, retreat immediately! Quick, quick!" Wen Zhonghua, who was watching the battle, suddenly remembered something and shouted loudly.
"Chief of the General Staff, what happened?"
"Turn around immediately, quick, or it'll be too late!"
Li Zhixiong and Gao Jianchuan didn't understand what was going on, but they sensed the seriousness of the situation from Wen Zhonghua's urgent tone. They immediately ordered the fleet to turn around, start the engines at maximum power, and head in the opposite direction.
"Chief of the General Staff, is something wrong?" Gao Jianchuan asked.
"The fact that Mechanical Civilization can establish itself in the Insect Zone means that this place must be teeming with the Lord's spies. We've been exposed."
"Ah! Yes, how come I didn't think of that?"
"Looking back at Li Shun's route, it's impossible for Li Shun to have noticed we were following him. Moreover, in this Insect Zone, Li Shun is allied with the insects; there's no need for him to take such a long detour. The best explanation is that Li Shun knew of the Mechanical Civilization Mechanical Civilization's existence and deliberately avoided it to prevent being attacked."
"Strange, if Li Shun knew about the existence of the Mechanical Civilization, then the insects must have known as well. Why did the insects allow the Mechanical Civilization to develop such a massive fleet here?"
"There's an idiom, 'each harboring their own ulterior motives.' Although Li Shun's strength is lacking, his technological civilization is far superior to the insects' in terms of detection methods. The fact that Li Shun didn't tell the insects after discovering the Mechanical Civilization shows that Li Shun and the insects aren't a united front; they're just using each other."
" The Mechanical Civilization is quite impressive; they developed such a massive fleet of insectoid creatures and we were completely unaware of it."
"That's nothing. Do you have a way to park a Reaper in front of a Stellar-Level Civilization without them noticing? It's easy, right? Mechanical Civilization will definitely target planets inhabited by low-level insectoids. Even if the insectoids discover it, the Mechanical Civilization can quickly silence them."
"Understood, Chief of the General Staff. What do we do now? If the Mechanical Civilization has truly discovered us, escape is impossible."
"Head to the Matter River, full speed ahead!"
" The Matter River?"
"Leave 10 billion Reaper here to cover our retreat and cut off all communication links. Oh, and don't leave a single Superintelligent Robot behind. We're still some distance from the Matter River. If the Mechanical Civilization discovers us, given their speed, we might not even make it into the Matter River before they catch up with us."
Ten billion Reaper Reaper left behind, completely isolated from all external communication, making it impossible for any advanced Mechanical Civilization to invade.
All the Superintelligent Robot were taken away. The blueprint for these Superintelligent Robot was the mechanical body of the Mechanical Civilization. Wen Zhonghua was afraid that these mechanical bodies would also be subject to some kind of control by the lord, so all the Superintelligent Robot were sealed away and transferred to remote control by warship computers and humans.
Although the safety of Superintelligent Robot is extremely high, Wen Zhonghua dared not take the risk without the confirmation of Academician Zeng and Academician Xiao. In any case, even if Superintelligent Robot controlled a warship, it would not be of much use against Mechanical Civilization. Against a pack of wolves, the fate of a sheep and a cow is no different.
The only thing to do now is to escape, the faster the better. Only by entering the Matter River can the fleet have a chance of survival. At worst, they can enter the danger zone and escape. The Mechanical Civilization, on the other hand, is unlikely to escape.
"Chief of the General Staff, perhaps we should contact the General and get the Great Star Region Civilization involved as soon as possible," Li Zhixiong said.
"Are you out of your mind? What is our mission? Contacting the Great Star Region Civilization now would be a waste of everything."
"Exactly, he even calls himself 'Little Zhuge Liang'."
"Yes, yes, yes, I forgot about that."
After the fleet had traveled for more than three hundred light-years, it discovered that it had lost contact with the ten billion Reaper. The four-dimensional channel would not be detected by the insects as long as no information was transmitted, because the channel connecting the particles had only been slightly stabilized.
Transmitting information requires increased energy input, and the fluctuations in information will attract the attention of the Zerg. Moreover, the greater the distance, the more energy is needed to stabilize the channel. If the fleet transmits signals between Insect Zone, it may not be detected by the Zerg, but once the fleet contacts the base, the four-dimensional channel will definitely attract the attention of the Zerg swarm.
To avoid attracting the attention of the higher-dimensional insects, the fleet never used the four-dimensional channels to transmit any information. Now, the four-dimensional channels of all 10 billion Reaper were cut off in a short period of time. There was only one result: they were destroyed by the Mechanical Civilization's fleet. The speed of the Mechanical Civilization left the group speechless. The 10 billion warships were completely annihilated in less than 24 hours.
At this speed, even if all the Reaper went up, they wouldn't last three days. They are still more than 500 light-years away from the Matter River. The Mechanical Civilization's travel speed is 7,000 times the speed of light, while the Reaper ' speed is 4,500 times the speed of light. The two are only 300 light-years apart. At this speed, the Mechanical Civilization's fleet can catch up with the Reaper fleet before the Reaper enter the Matter River.
"Chief of Staff, we're too late to enter the Matter River. At our current speed, the Mechanical Civilization's fleet will arrive at the Matter River Matter River Matter River as we enter it, and they'll be able to devour us there as well."
"Never mind that for now, let's get going at full speed and deal with it when we reach the Matter River."
The fleet sped along at breakneck speed, with the Mechanical Civilization fleet in hot pursuit. The distance between the two was closing, and everyone's hearts were filled with tension.
"Chief of the General Staff, I have an idea," Gao Jianchuan said.
"Explain."
"We've been in the Insect Zone for so long, yet the Mechanical Civilization's fleet has only just discovered us. Isn't that a bit strange?"
"Yes, a little."
"This at least proves one thing: the Mechanical Civilization doesn't have eyes everywhere here. They're developing covertly and are very likely unaware of everything in the surrounding airspace. And since there were high-level insects stationed at the place where we fought the insects, the Mechanical Civilization didn't place any mechanical entities there."