These Consciousness Field simulators can only simulate a limited number of Consciousness Field. Academician Xiao only provided one type of Consciousness Field; the rest were created by Gao Jianchuan under pressure, and it's unclear whether they will be effective.
However, everyone's worries were unnecessary. The giant insect sensed the appearance of a large number of other insects in its territory, which it could not tolerate. In the past tens of thousands of years, other insects had invaded its territory several times. So what everyone saw this time was not a single insect leg, but a round insect with a body size comparable to the Earth. Its eight huge, jet-black insect legs slowly moved through the air, demonstrating its kingly aura.
Compared to other giant insects, this insect seems to be much smaller, only a little over 10,000 kilometers long, much smaller than those insects that are tens of thousands of kilometers long, but it is also much fatter. Most insects are long and slender, with only a very small number being short and stout, like spiders or beetles.
The giant insect did not descend upon any part of the Mechanical Civilization's fleet, but rather near the Reaper fleet. It glared angrily at the Reaper fleet, and then its enormous body slammed into meteorites as it advanced, carving a clear passage through the Matter River.
Although the worm wasn't large, the sheer size of the space it occupied spoke volumes about its terror. Wen Zhonghua didn't even consider fighting; he immediately ordered the Reaper to scatter and retreat at full speed. But how could the Reaper escape the giant worm's pursuit? Before Reaper could even disperse, the giant worm caught up with them, and one of its legs entered the fourth dimension, followed by a violent explosion of dimensional energy.
"Damn it, what's going on?" Wen Zhonghua cursed, staring at the millions of Reaper fragments in the Matter River.
"Chief of the General Staff, I don't know what this insect was thinking. Its closest point to the three-dimensional universe remained unchanged. Sensing the insect's Consciousness Field, it immediately descended from its original location."
"Run!"
" Old Gao, you jinxed it! You were right, that beast really did come to attack us."
"If I'm really that effective, then I hope we can escape the insect infestation this time."
The Reaper continued its full-speed escape, but the giant worm was too fast, and it seemed to have sensed the humans inside the ten command ships. Although the giant worm's Consciousness Field was also very strong, everyone only felt a little dizzy and lightheaded, and did not experience the explosive pain they had last time.
"Block it." After realizing the giant insect's intentions, Wen Zhonghua had no choice but to change his strategy.
The fleet immediately dispatched 20 billion Reaper, halting their retreat and turning to launch countless energy balls and antimatter bombs at the giant worm. Spatial attacks were no longer feasible here; they could only rely on energy balls and antimatter to see if they could stop the giant worm.
A barrage of energy spheres and antimatter hurtled towards the giant worm, engulfing it in flames. The worm finally stopped advancing, not because it didn't want to, but because the space around it could no longer support its progress.
After the fire subsided, everyone discovered that the pure antimatter bomb fired at the giant worm had not exploded. There seemed to be a special defensive layer on the giant worm's surface, blocking matter and energy. Fleets usually prepare two types of antimatter bombs. Most of the time, they use pure antimatter, which can reduce the size of the bomb and directly consume the opponent's matter. The other type is antimatter encapsulated with matter. This type does not need to consume the opponent's matter and can directly annihilate and explode with its own matter.
What exploded was only the sealed antimatter bomb; the pure antimatter did not explode. In other words, although the pure antimatter hit the giant worm, it did not annihilate it. The giant worm's defensive layer blocked the attacks from antimatter and other energies. After the first wave of energy, the giant worm began to advance again. This time, it jumped directly into the fourth dimension, and when it reappeared, it was already in the middle of the fleet.
Similarly, its appearance also brought about a shocking energy explosion. This energy explosion was more violent and had a wider range. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be no more meteorite fragments in the Matter River within one light-year, and the Reaper will not be spared either. This explosion directly turned more than 3 billion Reaper into ashes.
The giant worm remained unfazed by the energy explosion, calmly observing for a few seconds after the shockwave subsided before locking onto the command ship's location once more. The command ship was now less than an astronomical unit away from the giant worm, and at its speed, the worm would catch up quickly.
The Reaper fleet responsible for interception immediately launched energy orbs at the giant worm again. There were enough of these orbs to blast a massive planet into dust, but now they could only stop the giant worm for a few seconds.
Whenever the giant worm is disturbed by the energy ball, it returns to the fourth dimension and then descends into the three-dimensional universe. However, the coordinates of the giant worm's descent do not seem to be very precise. Sometimes it descends in the middle of the fleet, and sometimes it even descends in a place far away from the fleet. But it will immediately descend again, only delaying the arrival by a few seconds.
On one occasion, the giant insect even descended directly to a location less than 50 million kilometers away from the command ship. If this were not Matter River, the impact range of the dimensional reduction attack would also be affected, and all ten command ships would have been destroyed in an instant. This descent terrified everyone, and they could already smell the death.
The fleet reacted quickly, immediately attacking the giant insect to slow it down. The giant insect had no choice but to jump again, this time to a relatively farther distance. However, Wen Zhonghua dared not relax at all. Now it was like dancing on the edge of a knife. If he was careless or unlucky, the knife would pierce everyone's chest.
The blocking fleet was no longer of much use; the giant insect's target was clearly the humans on the command ship. Wen Zhonghua had no choice but to regroup the fleet and, while gambling with the insect, rush towards the outside of the Matter River, hoping that the Mechanical Civilization's fleet could pose a threat to the insect or relieve some of the pressure.
Wen Zhonghua hesitated several times about whether to contact Hu Yu to open the four-dimensional channel. If all else failed, he would have to sacrifice the pawn to save the king, sending Academician Liu back alone while the others would have to perish here. In just over ten minutes, the fleet's losses exceeded 20 billion. The giant insect's repeated large-scale dimensional reduction attacks made the fleet suffer greatly and were impossible to defend against.
"Chief of the General Staff, Academician Liu requests your presence." Just when everyone was in a state of panic, Gao Jianchuan turned around and said.
For more than a decade, Academician Liu had been quietly working in the logistics department and had never contacted Wen Zhonghua. Now that Academician Liu was looking for Wen Zhonghua, there must be something very important. Wen Zhonghua immediately went to the logistics department with Li Zhixiong and Gao Jianchuan and found Academician Liu Bo, who was writing and drawing.