The Firefly leader immediately mobilized some warships back to the outer wall of the fortress, working with the Xuan Star Civilization fleet to gradually restore the space here.
The inner walls of the fortress were extremely smooth, yet also incredibly black. This blackness was so intense that it absorbed almost 100% of the light. If a similarly black warship were to be moored on the inner walls, it would be impossible to spot it with the naked eye from directly above. This was the extent of its extreme blackness.
The Fish Horse Star Civilization did this was probably to have a normal space inside the fortress. If they couldn't absorb 100% of the light, even if there was only one star in the fortress, after some time, people would find that countless stars would appear in the sky. However, only one of these stars would be a real star, and the others would be illusions caused by light reflection.
As the Rule Space expanded, they discovered many starting points for mazes within the walls. Although the fortress was on the verge of collapse, the warships were still unable to damage it, which once again refreshed everyone's understanding of the Fish Horse Star Civilization. They never imagined that the fortress was so sturdy.
The maze equipment was hidden inside the fortress. Most spatial attacks do not require a physical cannon, and the Space Maze is one of them. Therefore, even if the location of the maze equipment is found, it is very difficult to destroy it. However, everyone still discovered a clue: as long as the space at the point of origin is destroyed, a series of mazes opposite to it will be destroyed, just like a rushing river being cut off at its source.
With the discovery of a batch of maze equipment, large swathes of space returned to normal, and the river fleet surged forward, routing the Mechanical Civilization fleets within these spaces.
Soon, the Space Maze was reduced to only the smallest part of the black hole's center, a three-dimensional space with a diameter of about two astronomical units, roughly twice the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This place not only contained the Space Maze, but also the Fish Horse Star warships were concentrated here.
In the battle against the Snow Tribe, Fish Horse Star lost 100 trillion warships, while the Snow Tribe also suffered a terrible fate. Of their 20 trillion J-99 that managed to break through, less than 100 million remained, essentially losing all their combat capability.
Suddenly, the Super Fortress erupted with an extremely powerful burst of energy, destroying all the Reversed State along its path. The powerful gravity of the central black hole reached the fortress directly, and the two black holes' powerful gravitational pulls combined, causing the fortress to accelerate once more. With the central black hole of the galaxy right before their eyes, everyone was on the verge of collapse.
The Demon Scorpion Civilization and Aquila Civilization were on high alert, closely guarding the area around the black hole. Hu Yu also quickly deployed the remaining 200 billion Slaughterer and all 50,000+ Expeller to the front of the fortress. The fortress sailed at high speed, crushing everything in its path and ramming into anything that dared to stand in its way.
"The time has come. Summon the Insect Emperor and activate the fortress," said the leader of the Fish Horse Star.
"Yes."
The fortress slowly opened, splitting into two parts in the air like an open seashell, about to engulf the galactic black hole. Hu Yu knew this was his last chance, and immediately ordered all Consciousness Field attack weapons to activate at full power and launch a concentrated attack on the fortress.
However, the fortress remained unchanged, a result that Hu Yu seemed to have anticipated. Just then, a spatial passage emerged from the fourth dimension of the fortress's black hole, directly reaching the vicinity of the Matter River. Simultaneously, a stream of consciousness energy flowed out through the passage, striking the Insect Emperor directly.
Each evolution of the Insect Emperor involves seizing energy from the Galactic Consciousness and converting it for its own use. As more and more of the Galactic Consciousness's energy is stripped away, the Insect Emperor becomes increasingly powerful. The last time the Insect Sea seized energy from the Galactic Consciousness was thousands of years ago. At the Insect Emperor's rate of evolution, the Galactic Consciousness will face its final attack in tens of thousands of years. After this final attack, the Galactic Consciousness will completely disappear, and the entire civilization of the galaxy will cease to exist.
The Consciousness Field Energy is extremely strange. Even with the fleet's current technology, it is impossible to truly understand what the energy of the consciousness Consciousness Field Energy is all about. However, through the study of countless organisms, Academician Xiao has been able to simulate the Consciousness Field Energy of the consciousness field for attack. However, this energy is still not the Consciousness Field Energy that humans have truly created. Just like light, humans used to obtain light through various means, such as flashlights, fire, candles, etc., but this is not the real creation of light, but only the discovery of the mechanism for producing light.
The same applies to the Consciousness Field Energy. Through his research on biological brains, Academician Xiao has cultivated a new simulated brain that can generate powerful Consciousness Field Energy to launch attacks at the consciousness level. Academician Li once assisted Academician Xiao in analyzing and dissecting the Consciousness Field Energy, hoping to synthesize this kind of Consciousness Field Energy.
However, despite numerous attempts, all ended in failure. This energy seemed to be intricately connected to higher dimensions, and definitely not just the fourth dimension. Under the current technological conditions of the fleet, it was impossible to analyze this energy in its essence, making synthesis even more difficult.
The Insect Emperor, which was in the process of evolving, was suddenly struck by this energy of consciousness and immediately became confused. It then carried its massive body across the spatial passage.
"Not good!"
"Oh no!" Academician Xiao and Daozi, who were in two different locations, shouted almost simultaneously.
"What's wrong?" Hu Yu turned to ask his Daozi. At this moment, Hu Yu saw that the fortress had split open and was preparing to organize forces to launch a new round of attacks.
"My days are numbered. Farewell!"
After Daozi finished speaking, he abandoned the table full of fine wine and food. As soon as Daozi left, Academician Xiao rushed in anxiously.
"General, something terrible has happened! The Insect Emperor is coming!"
" The Insect Emperor? Coming here at this time, is it trying to take advantage of the chaos? Academician Xiao, can your army stop it?"
" The Insect Emperor acted suddenly, and the bio-warriors had no time to stop her. I am now ordering the bio-warriors to hurry up and invade. Once the invasion is successful, they will follow closely behind the Insect Emperor."
How many are there?
"It's impossible to count. Apart from the Insect Emperor, almost all the insects have been parasitized by biological warriors, including the Insect Emperor's elite insect corps and Li Shun's insect subjects."
Over the years, Academician Xiao Academician Xiao himself has lost count of how many biological warriors he has deployed to the Insect Zone. Due to the large-scale deployment, some of these biological warriors have been killed by the insects. Academician Xiao can only roughly confirm that almost every insect in the galaxy is parasitized by biological warriors.
In order to avoid attracting the attention of the Insect Emperor, the bio-warriors did not fully invade the insect's brain, but survived in the insect's body by parasitizing it. Some insects even had tens of thousands of bio-warriors parasitizing them. From the continuous improvement of the bio-warriors' control over the insects, it can be seen that Academician Xiao's research on consciousness has become increasingly profound in recent years.