Recaps

Wen Zhonghua brought Chen Peng and Academician Liu Bo back from the Matter River, where a Mechanical Civilization fleet was trapping them. Liu Bo’s research offered hope of defeating their enemies, while Zhuge Xiong proposed luring a giant fourth-dimensional bug into attacking the Mechanical Civilization.

• Wen Zhonghua met Chen Peng and Academician Liu Bo, whose altered appearance helped him avoid attention, and explained that the fleet could not leave the Matter River because the Mechanical Civilization was guarding its exits.
• Academician Liu Bo said he had made progress on research that could help defeat the Mechanical Civilization, and Wen Zhonghua arranged for Liu and his family to hide on the Tree Race’s planet.
• Wen Zhonghua revealed that more than a million people had joined the fleet to conceal Liu Bo and his companions among them, and Chen Peng and Liu left to take ordinary posts.
• Zhuge Xiong suggested exploiting a giant bug in the Matter River that had previously destroyed invading swarms and controlled the surrounding region.
• Zhuge Xiong proposed using Academician Xiao’s bug consciousness field simulators to make the giant bug attack the Mechanical Civilization’s fleet.

Gao Jianchuan and the fleet spent more than ten years manufacturing one hundred million consciousness field simulators and searching for a way to draw the scattered Mechanical Civilization fleets together. With no other plan to secure a route home for Academician Liu, Wen Zhonghua approved a risky scheme to lure the four-dimensional giant insect toward the enemy fleets and create an opening to escape.

• Gao Jianchuan and several commanders used the Reapers to copy consciousness field simulators, eventually producing one hundred million after more than ten years.
• Wen Zhonghua and the fleet considered and rejected plans to gather the Mechanical Civilization's scattered fleets, while worrying about returning Academician Liu and warning the Great Star Region Civilization.
• Li Zhixiong proposed sending the simulators among the Mechanical Civilization fleets to attract the giant insect and create a chance to break through.
• Wen Zhonghua agreed to the dangerous plan after insisting that Academician Liu's safety be guaranteed.
• The fleet scattered the simulators along the Matter River's edge, activated their consciousness field simulations, and sent them toward the Mechanical Civilization fleets.

The giant worm attacked the Reaper fleet, tearing through its defenses and pursuing the command ships across the Matter River. With the fleet nearing collapse, Academician Liu Bo summoned Wen Zhonghua, leaving the outcome of the pursuit unresolved.

• The giant worm descended near the Reaper fleet after sensing the simulated worm Consciousness Fields and charged at the ships.
• Wen Zhonghua ordered the Reapers to flee, but the worm caught them and destroyed millions with a dimensional strike.
• Wen Zhonghua sent twenty billion Reapers to attack the worm, but its defenses blocked pure antimatter and it soon resumed its assault.
• The worm repeatedly jumped through the fourth dimension, striking the fleet and killing billions while targeting the command ships.
• Wen Zhonghua regrouped the fleet and considered asking Hu Yu to open a four-dimensional passage as losses exceeded twenty billion Reapers.
• Gao Jianchuan told Wen Zhonghua that Academician Liu Bo wanted to see him, and Wen went to the logistics department with Li Zhixiong and Gao Jianchuan.

The fleet entered the Mirror Sub-Universe to escape the giant insect, which devastated the Mechanical Civilization as it pursued them. With the entrance guarded, Academician Liu proposed searching for another way out, and the fleet encountered Lord Zu again.

• Academician Liu urged the fleet to enter the danger zone, and the Reapers fled into the Mirror Sub-Universe while the giant insect pursued them.
• The giant insect entered the fourth dimension and destroyed nearly all of the Mechanical Civilization's 100 billion warships.
• Wen Zhonghua learned that the insect was guarding the entrance, and Academician Liu proposed finding an exit by traveling toward the Mirror Universe's distant boundary.
• Wen Zhonghua, Gao Jianchuan, and the fleet traveled deeper into the empty Mirror Sub-Universe until a huge orb of light approached.
• Academician Liu greeted Lord Zu, and Li Zhixiong told Wen Zhonghua that Lord Zu had helped them escape before.
• Academician Liu Bo asked Lord Zu what lay at the other end of the Mirror Sub-Universe.

Academician Liu and the fleet set out through shattered space in the Mirror Sub-Universe, relying on Lord Zu’s energy gift to search for a route back to the greater universe. After thousands of years without finding an exit, the fleet dwindled from billions of Reapers to just 1,500.

• Lord Zu warned Academician Liu that the spatial turbulence was dangerous, then gave the fleet a sphere of light containing enough energy for ten thousand years and sent it to the Mirror Sub-Universe’s edge.
• The Reapers advanced through shattered space with curvature travel impossible, and Academician Liu’s attempt to convert a Reaper’s Fourth Reversed State into energy destroyed the ship.
• Over ten thousand years, Wen Zhonghua arranged for the fleet’s population to grow from one million to over two million, while Hu Yu kept everyone studying.
• After the sphere of light vanished without the fleet finding an exit, Wen Zhonghua ordered Reapers dismantled for energy, and the fleet shrank to 1,500 ships after four thousand years.

Academician Liu guided the Reaper fleet through the shattered Mirror Sub-Universe and concluded that the growing space fragments meant they were nearing the greater universe. After nearly fifteen thousand years, sixty battered warships finally emerged into three-dimensional space, though their location remained unknown.

• Yang Fan asked General about the loss of contact with fifty billion warships, and General said the fleet was likely hidden in a dangerous area of the Matter River.
• Academician Liu observed that the space fragments were growing larger and more numerous, and told Wen Zhonghua they were nearing the greater universe.
• Academician Liu said he had worked out how to leave the Mirror Sub-Universe, but warned that the fleet might run out of energy before reaching the exit.
• As the Reaper fleet dwindled to a hundred ships, Academician Liu ordered the interstellar searchlights turned off, and the crew spotted faint starlight ahead.
• Eighty years later, sixty Reaper warships emerged into the three-dimensional greater universe, nearly out of energy.

Wen Zhonghua's fleet returned from the Mirror Sub-Universe to the Milky Way, reconnected with the Alliance, and revealed the Mechanical Civilization's presence in the insect zone. Years later, the Tree Race invited the Alliance to celebrate its elder count surpassing 13 billion.

• Wen Zhonghua's fleet reached the Milky Way and traveled to Tree Race territory, where he left Liu Bo, Chen Peng, and other personnel before returning to the Alliance base.
• Hu Yu welcomed Wen Zhonghua back and learned that the fleet had been gone for nearly fifteen thousand years in its own experience, though only decades had passed in the greater universe.
• Hu Yu warned the Yun San Civilization that the Mechanical Civilization had secretly developed in the insect zone, and the Yun San Civilization began searching for it.
• The humans reunited the families of Liu Bo, Chen Peng, and the other personnel with them on the Tree Race planet, while Hu Yu waited for a safe opportunity to bring back Liu Bo's technology.
• The Tree Race invited civilizations across the Alliance to celebrate its elder count exceeding 13 billion, granting humans one million invitations.

Hu Yu and the other guests attended the Tree Race's celebration, then secretly met Academician Liu Bo, who gave them a key and a storage device containing a heavily encrypted secret. Liu warned that the information must remain hidden until the fleet was stronger, leaving Hu Yu and Academician Zeng with a dangerous mystery to decode.

• Hu Yu led a vast fleet of visitors to the Tree Race's planets, where Ninety-Seven welcomed them and opened the planets for exploration.
• The Tree Race began its celebration with a grand aerial performance, and visitors set off to explore the planets with help from Tree Race members.
• A Tree Race member secretly led Hu Yu and Academician Zeng through a hidden passage to meet Academician Liu Bo.
• Liu warned Hu Yu and Zeng not to reveal his discovery until the fleet had more warships, and said the information itself had to be kept even more secret.
• Liu gave Zeng and Hu Yu a key to memorize and then handed Liu Bo's multidimensional spatial geometry notes to them, explaining that the key would reveal a different meaning in the data.

Hu Yu and Academician Zeng read Academician Liu Bo’s hidden book and learned how the Universe Membrane’s two-dimensional space had mirrored the fleet’s directions. The chapter ended with Liu’s discovery of Two-Dimensional Basic Space offering a way for the warships to return to base undetected.

• Academician Liu Bo gave Hu Yu and Academician Zeng his coded book and agreed to remain hidden on the Tree Race’s planet.
• Hu Yu and Academician Zeng returned to their respective planets after the Tree Race’s month-long celebration and began reading the book.
• Hu Yu learned that an unknown civilization had drawn the Small Star Sector Civilizations into searching for Zu, while Academician Zeng considered Liu’s Universe Membrane research important.
• Academician Liu’s findings explained that a two-dimensional layer in the Universe Membrane had formed an incomplete Möbius strip, swapping the fleet’s left and right while enveloping the warships in two dimensions.
• Academician Liu discovered Two-Dimensional Basic Space and realized that enough of it could cover the warships, allowing them to return to base without being detected or guided by Wen Zhonghua.

Academician Zeng studied Academician Liu’s ideas for two-dimensional warships and urged Academician Zhou Xiaohua to develop coordinate base stations for navigation in the fourth dimension. The fleet began designing a new generation of warships around Zeng’s plans, though they could not yet use the designs until they entered the fourth dimension.

• Academician Liu’s analysis showed that two-dimensionalized warships could conceal their internal structure and attack enemies from within, but extracting two-dimensional Basic Space would require the fleet to operate in the fourth dimension.
• After reading the book on multidimensional geometry, Academician Zeng visited Academician Zhou Xiaohua to discuss the unresolved problem of finding the three-dimensional universe from four-dimensional space.
• Academician Zhou proposed building coordinate base stations in the fourth dimension to help the fleet return, and said he could complete a plan within a hundred years.
• The fleet continued with only 30 billion Reapers after Wen Zhonghua used nearly all of its 120 billion warships, while Academician Zeng led the design of the next generation.
• Hu Yu overruled opposition and ordered the fleet to follow Academician Zeng’s unusual designs, which would only make sense after the warships were two-dimensionalized.
• The fleet began using energy extracted from the fourth dimension to produce purer materials faster, improving construction and sparing planets from dismantling.

After the Mechanical Civilization, the Great Star Region Civilizations, and the Insect Race fought a devastating battle, Daozi summoned Hu Yu to meet with the Heavenly Peak Civilization. Hu Yu learned that he was to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization to draw out the force controlling it.

• Dongdong told Hu Yu that the Mechanical Civilization had been suppressed after a fierce three-way battle, though its ultimate fate was unknown.
• Daozi instructed Hu Yu to travel alone to coordinates thirty thousand light-years away, where someone was waiting for him.
• Hu Yu found a concealed spaceship inside a red supergiant and met Erguan, a special liaison officer of the Heavenly Peak Civilization.
• Erguan explained that the Fish Horse Star Civilization had been raising the Insect Race and hiding its base through space compression technology, while Daozi sought to uncover who controlled it.
• Erguan asked Hu Yu to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, which had two hundred to three hundred billion warships in its base, and promised its defensive-line fleets would not return to attack him.
• Hu Yu agreed to lead the attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

Hu Yu learned from Erguan that the Fish Horse Star Civilization was linked to the hunt for a mastermind and that the Heavenly Peak Civilization wanted it destroyed. He began preparing humanity for an attack planned for 59000 AD, while a new Exterminator warship entered production.

• Erguan gave Hu Yu the Fish Horse Star Civilization's coordinates and warned him to keep their meeting secret.
• Hu Yu told Zhonghua that humanity would attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, and the Human Civilization began planning and expanding production without involving the alliance.
• After a month of meetings, Hu Yu set the attack for 59000 AD and ordered preparations including a concealed entangled-photon deployment near the enemy's base.
• Hu Yu reflected on Erguan's explanation that the Heavenly Peak Civilization had tolerated the attack on the Star Ring Alliance because of the larger conflict with the Insect Race.
• The Human Civilization designed the forty-kilometer Exterminator warship, equipped with a more powerful space cannon, as production lines were refitted.

Hu Yu expanded humanity’s warship production and prepared the Star Ring Alliance for an eventual attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The fleet still needed to solve key problems with four-dimensional travel and long-range hypersphere delivery, while the alliance’s civilizations began accelerating their preparations.

• Hu Yu’s production network used energy from the fourth dimension to supply more than a thousand planetary shipbuilding machines, which built Exterminators at a rate of over eight million per year.
• Academician Zhou Xiaohua’s coordinate base station technology enabled further research into four-dimensional travel, communication, and returning to the three-dimensional universe.
• Hu Yu reopened industrial planets so people could handle everyday production and farming while robots built more shipbuilding machines and warships.
• Alliance leaders asked Hu Yu to join the attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization, and he urged them to advance their technology, expand their fleets, and produce antimatter.
• Hu Yu shared fourth-dimensional energy-extraction technology with the alliance’s other civilizations and hoped the nine technological civilizations could create an antimatter star for use against the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

Hu Yu helped the Xuan Star Civilization prepare to fight the Fish Horse Star Civilization, while the alliance investigated the mysterious disappearance of seven civilizations and their dependent populations. Dongdong warned Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua that a hidden Great Star Region Civilization might be responsible and that humanity could be blamed.

• Hu Yu told Leader Xuan that the Xuan Star Civilization could prepare for battle, and Leader Xuan pledged to fight the Fish Horse Star Civilization even at the cost of his civilization.
• Over three hundred years, the Xuan Star Civilization raised its annual fleet production from eight million ships to twenty million as its citizens worked to build up its forces.
• Dongdong informed Hu Yu that the Hydra Civilization, the Flying Bear Civilization, the Falling Star Civilization, and four other Small Star Sector Intermediate Civilizations had disappeared.
• The Dark Moon Civilization found signs of battle where the seven civilizations and more than one hundred thousand lower civilizations had vanished.
• Dongdong told Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua that an advanced Great Star Region Civilization was likely responsible and warned that humanity could be suspected because the missing civilizations had attacked the Star Ring Alliance.

Hu Yu prepared the Star Ring Alliance for possible attacks as Great Star Region Civilization warships watched the smaller civilizations, while humanity planned to destroy the Fish Horse Star Civilization. In 51035 CE, Feng Ye reported that he had developed a way to stabilize space, and Xuan Star leaders prepared to fight alongside humanity.

• Hu Yu discussed the danger of rumors and told Mr. Dongdong that the Star Ring Alliance needed to strengthen its defenses.
• Great Star Region Civilization warships appeared near Small Star Sector joint bases, and the Yun San Civilization left humanity free to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• The Star Ring Alliance's ten technological civilizations completed a small antimatter star after more than three thousand years of work.
• Feng Ye told Bi Cha and the Xuan Star leader that he had solved space stabilization by directing a force field to solidify selected areas of space.
• The Xuan Star leader and Bi Cha praised humanity's resolve and agreed to develop within the Star Ring Alliance and help destroy the Fish Horse Star Civilization and the Wind Star Civilization.

Humanity continued preparing to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, developing new reversed-state matter and secretly researching two-dimensional weapons while mapping the enemy’s base. Academician Liu and Chen Peng returned from the Tree Race, and the chapter ended with Hu Yu asking whether the defensive line had sent news.

• Academician Li Youwei accidentally synthesized the fifth reversed state, which required 300 million tons of matter converted into energy per cubic centimeter.
• Humanity expanded Virtual Matter extraction and secretly produced Two-Dimensional Basic Space for possible covert attacks.
• Academician Zeng mapped the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base and began a major spatial-physics research project to find a way to attack it.
• In 52500 CE, Academician Liu and Chen Peng secretly returned from the Tree Race, and Academician Liu joined the research into the enemy base.
• Hu Yu asked Mr. Dongdong whether the defensive line had sent news, and Mr. Dongdong said it had not.

Hu Yu arranged to obtain a Fish Horse Star Civilization warship through biological warriors, sending Wen Zhonghua into the bug zone under the cover of placing coordinate base stations. The plan left Wen Zhonghua’s fleet with a few bugs carrying Fish Horse wreckage, and he entered one to retrieve it.

• Hu Yu asked Dongdong to watch the Fish Horse fleet and sought relatively intact warship wreckage, but Dongdong said salvaging was forbidden.
• Hu Yu convinced Academician Xiao to provide one billion biological warriors, fitted with antimatter bombs for destruction after their mission.
• Wen Zhonghua led the biological warriors, Li Zhixiong, several academicians, and ten billion Reapers through the Heavenly Peak Civilization’s defensive line to place coordinate base stations in the bug zone.
• Wen Zhonghua secretly left biological warriors behind, and thirty years later a swarm with extra high-rank bugs attacked the Fish Horse fleet.
• After the Fish Horse fleet destroyed most of the swarm, a few bugs carrying warship wreckage reached Wen Zhonghua’s fleet, and he piloted a RoboCop into one of them.

Wen Zhonghua recovered thirteen Fish Horse Star warship wrecks from the bugs and helped reconstruct their communications equipment, which Hu Yu passed to the Xuan Star Civilization. As the alliance grew stronger and prepared to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, Hu Yu asked the Crystal Civilization and Gemini Civilization to shelter the lower-level civilizations if the alliance lost.

• Wen Zhonghua found thirteen warship wrecks inside the bugs, and the academicians reconstructed a complete set of Fish Horse Star communications equipment from two damaged sets.
• Hu Yu gave the Xuan Star Civilization the warship analysis, and Bi Cha said the information would increase its chances of victory by twenty percentage points.
• The alliance expanded its fleets and Exterminators over the following years as the antimatter star grew brighter.
• The Crystal Civilization and Gemini Civilization leaders visited Hu Yu and questioned his plans to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization openly.
• Hu Yu asked the two leaders to care for the lower-level civilizations if the alliance lost and had to flee, and they agreed.

As the date of humanity’s attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization drew near, Hu Yu expanded the fleet and prepared its weapons while investigating the disappearance of seven Small Star Sector Civilizations. The chapter ended with the attack five hundred years away and humanity’s forces largely ready.

• Hu Yu built enormous spaceships that vanished into the fourth dimension, while humanity continued producing Exterminators and a reduced number of Reapers.
• Hu Yu searched for the missing leader and Luo Zhigao and investigated the destroyed civilizations, but he found no culprit and suspected a conspiracy against humanity or the Star Ring Alliance.
• Hu Yu expanded the fleet’s population, settlements, and access to the Tree Race as the Xuan Star Civilization and human fleets grew to immense sizes.
• The Yun San Civilization’s giant ship arrived above Earth Four, lingered briefly, and left without directly stopping Hu Yu.
• In 58500 CE, five hundred years before the planned attack, Hu Yu gathered more than seventy billion Exterminators and eighty billion Reapers, while secretly preparing two-dimensional weapons.

Hu Yu led the Human Civilization and Xuan Star Civilization fleets to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, evacuating Alliance planets and preparing to destroy its hidden base with an antimatter star. The battle began with both sides exchanging four-dimensional hypersphere attacks, while Hu Yu’s forces searched for the base and fought to keep the Fish Horse fleet from intercepting them.

• By 59000 CE, the Alliance had amassed immense fleets and weapons, but Hu Yu refused to bring the other seven Small Star Sector Civilizations’ warships into the battle.
• Hu Yu sent the Alliance’s planets more than 30,000 light-years away, left 50 billion Reapers behind to guard them, and announced that the coming attack was solely the responsibility of the Human Civilization and Xuan Star Civilization.
• The joint fleet of 320 billion warships set out for the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base, while 10 billion Reapers split off to investigate earlier sightings of its fleet.
• Hu Yu encountered 200 billion Fish Horse Star warships, exchanged threats with their commander, and ordered his fleet to spread out and launch four-dimensional hyperspheres.
• The Fish Horse Star fleet advanced through the bombardment and counterattacked, while Hu Yu’s Exterminators and Purgers searched for its hidden base and his other forces guarded the antimatter star.
• More than 500 billion warships fought across a widening region of space, and the Exterminators proved able to withstand the Fish Horse Star warships’ long-range attacks.

Hu Yu led the Xuan Star Civilization in a sweeping attack to locate the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s hidden base, while the academicians worked to reopen the sealed passage. The fleet’s search provoked a fierce battle, and the chapter ended with Bi Cha asking whether they should attack from another direction because they could not advance.

• Hu Yu had Gao Jianchuan analyze the battlefield data, but Gao Jianchuan found no sign that the Fish Horse Star fleet was protecting a particular area.
• Academician Zeng told Hu Yu that the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s passage opening appeared sealed, so the academicians were trying to reopen it.
• Hu Yu ordered ten billion Exterminators to sweep the region, and Bi Cha joined the effort with the Purger fleet under cover of the Exterminators.
• The Xuan Star fleet advanced with Space Barriers while the Exterminators fought off Fish Horse warships, suffering heavy losses on both sides.
• Hu Yu and Bi Cha noticed the Fish Horse fleet reinforce one direction after the Xuan Star fleet changed course, and they gathered their forces to push toward the suspected base.
• The fleets became locked in a devastating close-range battle amid shattered space, and Bi Cha asked Hu Yu whether they should attack from other directions.

The combined fleet fought off a Fish Horse Star Civilization ambush, and Academician Zeng found a way to expose the civilization’s hidden passages. Hu Yu sent Reapers through two passages toward the enemy base while the battle around it continued.

• A hundred billion Fish Horse Star Civilization warships surrounded the combined fleet and destroyed more than thirty billion ships before the Xuan Star Civilization restored its defenses.
• Hu Yu ordered the Exterminators into the fourth dimension, and they struck the newly arrived enemy fleet, inflicting heavy losses and easing pressure on the Xuan Star Civilization.
• Academician Zeng identified how the Fish Horse Star Civilization hid its spatial passages and proposed blasting their entrances open with a surge of energy.
• Hu Yu sent Reapers into the fourth dimension to open two passages, then dispatched five billion Reapers through each toward the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base.
• Fish Horse Star warships continued using four-dimensional traversal in the battle, but the Xuan Star Civilization’s solidified space weakened their attacks.

Hu Yu and Xuan Star Civilization reached the Fish Horse Star base, where they discovered Wind Star Civilization's 300 billion warships reinforcing Fish Horse Star Civilization. The fleets formed up around the base and resumed fighting, leaving the battle unresolved as the antimatter star approached.

• Hu Yu sent the Exterminators into close combat and used fourth-dimensional space to open a passage for Xuan Star Civilization's fleet.
• Xuan Star Civilization advanced through the passage, and its fleet revealed the Fish Horse Star base after the nearby warships fell back.
• Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua discovered that Wind Star Civilization had 300 billion warships at the base, alongside 50 billion Fish Horse Star warships.
• Fish Horse Star Civilization withdrew its warships into the base's defenses, while Xuan Star Civilization and the Exterminators took positions around it.
• Hu Yu advanced the Reapers through the passages toward the base, hoping to strike Fish Horse Star Civilization's important planets and disrupt its command system.
• Fish Horse Star Civilization attacked the Exterminators again as the antimatter star neared the base, and Xuan Star Civilization joined the chaotic battle.

Hu Yu's forces uncovered signs that the Wind Star Civilization had acquired technology from seven vanished small star sector civilizations, possibly through a powerful mastermind linked to the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The Reapers reached the Fish Horse Civilization's hidden home base and attacked its inhabited planets, while two-dimensional antimatter bombs struck a charging warship.

• The Wind Star Civilization used dimensional travel and overwhelming force to destroy most of the Stingers before they could attack the Fish Horse Civilization's planets.
• Bi Cha, Hu Yu, and Wen Zhonghua concluded that the Wind Star Civilization's weapons showed traces of technology from the seven missing small star sector civilizations and suspected the Fish Horse Civilization's mastermind was involved.
• Hu Yu recognized why Mr. Daozi had ordered the attack and kept the antimatter stars and two-dimensional bombs ready while the Reapers approached the Fish Horse Civilization's base through a spatial corridor.
• A Reaper self-destructed to break the corridor, revealing the Fish Horse Civilization's base and its fleet defending more than ten thousand inhabited planets.
• Hu Yu sent two groups of Reapers toward nearby planets as the Fish Horse warships charged them, and two-dimensional antimatter bombs entered one of the advancing warships and unleashed immense energy inside it.

Hu Yu and Li Zhixiong’s Reapers fought their way into the defensive perimeter but were trapped by the Wind Star fleet, then reinforced through the coordinate base station. As the Fish Horse Star Civilization joined forces with the Wind Star fleet to compress the Reapers’ space, Wen Zhonghua realized too late that they could no longer escape into the fourth dimension.

• Hu Yu revealed that ten billion Reapers were disguised Exterminators and that the fifty billion held at the base were also scaled-down Exterminators.
• The Reapers entered the space between the defensive layers, where the Wind Star fleet surrounded them and prevented their advance.
• Wind Star warships used close-range dimensional reduction strikes to destroy Reapers, while the Reapers’ counterattacks inflicted heavy losses on the Wind Star fleet.
• Li Zhixiong used the coordinate base station to bring ten billion more Reapers into the encirclement after the original force was nearly wiped out.
• The Fish Horse Star and Wind Star fleets began spatial compression around the Reapers; Wen Zhonghua ordered a fourth-dimensional jump, but the compressed space had made escape impossible.