"Don't rush. Even if we change direction, the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fleet will still intercept us. Let's wait a bit longer; the real show hasn't even started yet."
"I'm certain the lair of the Fish Horse Star Civilization is just a day's breadth away! Once we force them to reveal their lair, everything will be fine."
"General Bi Cha, Academician Zeng is analyzing their spatial channels. As long as we find a way to enter the spatial channels, we can infiltrate from the inside and bypass these broken spaces directly. Even if we detonate the antimatter star Fish Horse Star Civilization, we can still retreat in an orderly manner."
As the two were talking, countless warships suddenly appeared out of thin air from several points in the airspace surrounding the combined fleet, and these warships immediately surrounded the combined fleet.
" Old Hu, this is bad! The remaining fleet of Fish Horse Star isn't hiding in the base, but in the airspace near it!" Wen Zhonghua shouted.
"Stop them."
The newly emerged fleets totaled 100 billion ships. Their appearance immediately put enormous pressure on the Combined Fleet, which was instantly surrounded and unable to defend itself. The Combined Fleet was bombarded with debris, and explosions lit up the sky one after another.
"Quick, quick, fix the space!" Bi Cha shouted.
The Xuan Star Civilization fleet was also well-trained and quickly recovered from the chaos, beginning to use spatial power to indiscriminately solidify the surrounding space to reduce the losses of the joint fleet.
Finally, after losing more than 30 billion warships, the combined fleet reorganized its defenses. With the Xuan Star Civilization fleet on the outside and the Exterminator on the inside, the two sides were once again locked in a stalemate, neither able to gain the upper hand.
"That's about enough. The Exterminator, enter the fourth dimension," Hu Yu commanded softly.
The Exterminator began entering the fourth dimension in droves. Not far from the battlefield, several small fleets carrying coordinate base stations were constantly patrolling back and forth. At this moment, one of these small fleets immediately maneuvered rapidly toward the newly emerged fleet of the Fish Horse Star Civilization and stopped 5 million kilometers away from the Fish Horse Star Civilization fleet. The appearance of this small fleet did not attract the attention of the Fish Horse Star fleet, which continued to attack the Xuan Star Civilization fleet that was still surrounded, regardless of the consequences.
Thanks to its considerable numbers Xuan Star Civilization fleet did not suffer any further major damage. The Exterminator quickly appeared next to the small Exterminator fleet approaching the Fish Horse Star fleet. Before the Fish Horse Star Civilization could react, all the Exterminator opened fire, unleashing as many superspheres, antimatter, energy spheres, electron clusters, and even super-yield nuclear bombs as possible onto the Fish Horse Star fleet.
By the time the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fleet reacted, all sorts of weapons had already reached them, instantly shattering the space around them. At this point, not only would the Fish Horse Star Civilization's warships be unable to escape unscathed, but even the warships of advanced civilizations in the Great Star Region Advanced Civilization would likely struggle to survive such an attack.
This counterattack resulted in the loss of over 30 billion warships for the Fish Horse Star Civilization, bringing the two sides to a draw. With this attack from the Exterminator, the pressure on the Xuan Star Civilization fleet, which was still surrounding the center, was instantly reduced.
"General Bi Cha, prepare to break out."
"What? Break through? Why?"
"To prevent the Fish Horse Star Civilization from traveling to the fourth dimension."
"Don't worry, the space between our fleets has been solidified. Even if the Fish Horse Star Civilization were to use four-dimensional travel, they would only be able to take a beating once they reached the middle of our fleet. The question now is how to break this stalemate. Do the Exterminator have a way to jump directly to the front?"
"There's no way around it; our coordinate fleet will definitely be attacked as soon as it enters the battlefield."
"Found it!" Academician Zeng suddenly exclaimed.
"Great, we've arrived just in time, Academician, what should we do?"
" The Fish Horse Star Civilization used immense energy to warp up space, creating a hidden passage. They reduced their energy at the exit, so the space there remains normal. Now, if we use the same method to open a passage connecting to the Fish Horse Star Civilization's spatial passage, we can enter their lair through that passage."
"The technology itself isn't very complex, but we can't achieve it in a short time."
"So I came up with a second plan: to use maximum energy bombardment near the entrance of the passage to blast it open."
"Academician, is this feasible?"
"Don't worry, but it must be a short, high-energy explosion."
"Alright, prepare to send the Reaper into the fourth dimension, directly carrying the fourth-dimensional space for a dimensional reduction attack."
The fleet has been monitoring the passage of the Fish Horse Star Civilization for tens of thousands of years. However, the surveillance of this airspace has always been extremely cautious. So far, not a single Wriggler has been attacked. This is not only because there are very few Wriggler in this space, but also because Hu Yu has deliberately concealed himself.
The Fish Horse Star Civilization always believed that the passages were very well hidden, because each passage exit was in the most inconspicuous place, either in the light of stars or in the vastness of galaxies. However, Hu Yu has precisely located the coordinates of at least 6 passages of the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
Several Reaper entered the fourth dimension directly, then immediately returned to the three-dimensional universe. The violent energy tore through space, and the warships were blown to dust. After the energy surge subsided, some of the warship fragments began to fly backward, forming a huge circle in the air, and then continuously moving away from the other warships.
The same scene appeared at another coordinate point of the passage of the Fish Horse Star Civilization. Everyone immediately realized that this was a space passage. There were 5 billion Reaper at each passage entrance. These Reaper did not stop at all and went directly into the passage.
The two passages are about a thousand light-years away from the base of the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The passages are very narrow, with a diameter of only about a thousand kilometers. Since the Fish Horse Star Civilization did not realize that the passages would be opened, the Reaper could travel freely inside. The distance of the three-dimensional passages would not be shortened and would be the same as the actual distance. It would still take the Reaper more than two months to reach the base of the Fish Horse Star Civilization inside the passages.
The war near the base was still at a fever pitch. As Hu Yu had expected, the Fish Horse Star Civilization had also mastered four-dimensional travel technology. Mastering four-dimensional travel meant that they had one foot in the Great Star Region Civilization stage. As long as they further mastered more technologies such as four-dimensional combat, they would completely enter the Great Star Region Civilization stage.
The Fish Horse Star warships that descended upon the Xuan Star Civilization fleet destroyed many of the Xuan Star Civilization's warships, but the Fish Horse Star Civilization also suffered considerable losses. The solidified space of the Purger fleet played a crucial role at this time. As long as the Fish Horse Star Civilization warships did not directly descend next to the Purger, the energy of their dimensional reduction attacks was solidified by the spatial power. Even if the energy was too powerful to be solidified, it was greatly weakened, and the weakened energy could no longer have a significant impact on the Purger.