Chapter 1631: Chapter 620: For the Sake of Evolution

Either the west wind overwhelms the east, or the east wind sweeps across the western sky.

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Although the Pegasus Star System is just an ordinary single‑star Planet System, the nearby Star Gate of the Seventh Star Cluster counts as a key hub.

Thanks to the Ascenders’ infinite productivity and the unique vacuum‑hibernation form of the bio‑space creatures, the forces guarding the Star Gate are anything but weak.

So, even though Ren Zhong was already moving fast enough, by the time he gradually drew near the Star Gate, the spaceborne garrison creatures had still managed to form a complete defensive array.

Not only that, before Ren Zhong’s last Fold Jump manifestation, the garrison corps had already launched a concentrated volley in advance.

This was a predictive strike.

The Ascenders had been searching all along for a way to counter Ren Zhong’s Short-range Jump.

The previous full‑domain Three-dimensional Space Coordinate Distortion had been one method and had briefly worked, but it was cracked on the spot by the Red Blade Army.

Now the Ascenders were using a new method: by observing the information that leaked out when Ren Zhong entered Short-range Jump, they predicted the coordinates he was about to arrive at, then bombarded that position ahead of time.

Previously, the Red Blade Army had gone silent both on the Empire’s side and at the level of the Three Domains Alliance, seemingly disappeared.

But the Mechanical Empire never gave up searching for the Red Blade Army, and the Three Domains Alliance never stopped pondering ways to deal with this force.

The Mechanical Empire was gambling; the Three Domains Alliance did not dare to gamble.

The Alliance had prepared for seven hundred years, and the computational methods they brought out were indeed formidable.

They had almost succeeded.

The Ascenders locked onto three coordinate positions in total, and in the very first salvo blew out nearly half of their energy reserves.

Mm, if Ren Zhong and the Red Blade Science Academy hadn’t also been busy these seven hundred years, extending long‑range Fold Jump—originally applicable only to structurally simple Fusion Missiles—into use on the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor; if Ren Zhong hadn’t "seen" in precognition this terrifying pre‑aimed strike and changed his jump target coordinates in advance, he probably really would have slammed straight into the enemy fire net.

The Ascenders did not have a Mother Empress Ship near the Seventh Star Cluster Star Gate; field command was handled by a peculiar mammalian creature with a gigantic skull but an extremely tiny body that could only lie in a nutrient pod.

Judging from its appearance alone, it looked like a pot of "brain flower" about to be served, but its original species was the Furry‑whisker 331 insectoid humanoid. It had simply undergone species promotion from a Mother Empress Ship, ultimately transcending its kin and becoming the Commander stationed in this war zone.

This Commander had no eyes, but several thick fibrous conduits extended from the top of its brain. These conduits could channel external electrical signals directly into its brain via neurotransmitter pathways.

Thus, borrowing the vision of the sniper‑type space creatures, it saw three dazzling fireworks blooming in space and accurately calculated the Energy Level intensity contained within those bursts.

Its cerebral cortex started to tremble in excited agitation, super‑high concentrations of dopamine erupting like a fountain.

The entire garrison corps under its command seemed infected by the information‑flow coming from its brain, breaking into jubilant cheers.

No one could possibly survive a strike like this.

If hit dead‑on, even a one-class Mother Empress... mm, would be grievously wounded.

The brain monster’s thoughts were a chaotic mess, but if translated into a language native humans could understand, they would roughly be as follows.

So, the Empire’s Red Blade that once single‑handedly reversed the course of the Three Domains war and completely drove back the First Offensive of the Three Domains Alliance Army is finished!

I’m about to make it big!

My next promotion should be the acquisition of that precious, hermaphroditic integrated reproductive ability, ascending to the noble rank of Mother Empress, right?

However, right when it was lost in ecstasy, a certain emotion called fear suddenly surged into its brain.

It hurriedly switched information sources, shifting its gaze to the monitoring eye above the Biological Star Gate.

Then, it saw the following scene.

The Starry Sky Red Blade Armor, as enormous as Saturn, had not been destroyed by the earlier predictive strike at all, but had appeared directly above the Biological Star Gate, less than eighty thousand kilometers from the Star Gate’s physical boundary.

Next, this thing shattered in midair, breaking apart in an instant into tens of millions of small Airships, rushing toward the Star Gate like a swarm of locusts.

At the same time, inside that Star Gate, nearly half the body of a one-class Mother Empress had already thrust out, and would fully emerge at the latest within a few minutes.

The brain monster could already sense the information‑flow transmitted by that one-class Mother Empress.

Even with only half its body exposed, the one-class Mother Empress had already perceived the external environment.

This great existence was shrieking in terror.

It was ordering the brain monster to stop the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor from approaching the Star Gate at all costs.

The brain monster reacted very quickly, immediately ordering the activation of the information‑flow interference devices, trying to sever communication between the small Starry Sky Red Blade Fighters after they broke apart.

But this was clearly futile.

Ren Zhong was the warrior in the entire Mechanical Empire most adept at countering information‑flow interference.

At the moment his War Armor broke apart, he had already activated the traditional yet reliable laser communication network.

The tens of millions of scattered small ships had long since woven a tight web of communication with laser beams, like a 21st‑century fiber‑optic network—little information, high latency, but already sufficient. After all, the distances between fighters were short enough that a mere fraction of a second of delay was not lethal in this configuration.

At the tips of the locust‑like small fighters, a ghostly blue radiance began to gather.

In the next instant, tens of millions of strange energy strikes were fired simultaneously, pounding into the connecting sections all across the surface of the giant Biological Star Gate.

The Star Gate’s surface force field shield had already been pushed to full power, trying to repel this energy barrage.

But Sun Ai had already analyzed the energy oscillation frequency of this force field shield. The Energy Beams fired by the Starry Sky Red Blade Fighters looked ordinary, yet were perfectly frequency‑matched with the Star Gate’s force field shield, piercing it with ease and lancing straight onto the gate’s surface.

In the next instant, the Star Gate’s outer shell began to melt like ice cream under a scorching sun, then bubbled like boiling water.

Disintegration, explosion...

The one-class Mother Empress, whose body had only just emerged halfway, did not wait for the Star Gate to be completely destroyed—it chose to self‑destruct ahead of time.

Seven hundred years ago, the Ascenders had only lost an ovary Giant Reproductive Cells cluster belonging to a one-class Mother Empress.

In these seven hundred years, to make up for the hidden dangers caused by that leaked information back then, the Ascenders had paid a massive price to rapidly iterate most of their Mother Empress Ships; they simply could not accept the cost of losing another one-class Mother Empress Giant Reproductive Cells cluster again in such a short span.

The brain monster watched the blazing halo from the half‑body self‑destruction of that one-class Mother Empress sweep toward it, yet its mind was, for once, emptied.

Before its consciousness completely faded, the brain monster had only one thought left: "For the sake of evolution, I am honored."

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