News came from the Orion Arm empire. Their reserve fleet had been completely destroyed, and only six administrative Star Systems remained.
Only twelve of the forty-two low-level civilizations were left behind in the defensive line.
Within an hour, Earth could be destroyed.
Bai Ge did not have much time. He was currently rushing toward the Thadio Civilization.
Based on their territory alone, they were not much larger than the crab civilization.
The area occupied by these two civilizations was only one percent of the entire Perseus Arm.
They were much smaller than the Orion Empire!
"That means the competition for the Perseus Arm is much more intense. The empire has a secondary spiral arm to themselves. They're considered the chosen civilization, "Bai Ge said.
From the information provided by the crab civilization, the empire's territory was sixty times larger than that of the Thadio Civilization!
However, having a large territory was useless. In the beginning, when they faced the Thadio Civilization, which was not much stronger, they had no choice but to abandon a large area and shrink their defensive line by dozens of times.
The empire occupied such a large area only because of the unique location of the Orion Arm. It was sandwiched between two large spiral arms, but they were not connected. They were separated by the vast interstellar area.
In comparison, the Perseus Arm had at least two hundred advanced civilizations. Each civilization was surrounded by many unfamiliar enemies. Unless they started a war, it was impossible for them to expand naturally.
Bai Ge hurried toward the border of the Thadio Civilization, crossing the crab civilization's territory along the way.
He had already seen through the crab civilization. It was just a proper Stage Four civilization, even weaker than the current empire.
Thus, he swaggered through. The crab civilization, which had already been taught a lesson, knew the difference between them and naturally could not stop him.
What the crab civilization was thinking about now was how to pull itself out of the war …
"Lord, the detector I left on the abandoned main planet was destroyed. There's a Great Tear there," Ling Dang said.
Bai Ge nodded. Obviously, the Thadio Civilization had received the broadcast and ignored him. Instead, they decisively launched a Great Tear there.
If he had not been attracted by the crab civilization, he would have been able to sense the abnormal increase in the density of dark energy there. He would have been able to escape and capture the nearby spaceship or device that was releasing dark energy.
Ling Dang had already surpassed his predecessor in Fermi technology. He was equivalent to the Thadio Civilization that had not stepped into Stage Five.
It was possible to detect the Great Rip in advance.
Unfortunately, he was unable to obtain any information about the Thadio civilization in advance, so he could only force his way in.
Fortunately, he knew the language of the Sadio civilization and could use the Axiom Tampering Technique to open a path.
"He's in! This is the buffer zone at the border. There won't be any garrisons, but there will be hidden interference devices. We've already been discovered. "Ling Dang said.
Bai Ge entered a star system. It looked like a natural star system, but there were many machines hidden in the stars and planets.
Bai Ge hurriedly sent Ling Dang to capture a few. However, not long after, Ling Dang sensed that the density of dark energy had increased.
There were too many hidden devices in the system, and he did not have the time to find them one by one. He immediately left with one of Ling Dang's clones.
After a few consecutive warps, they broke through the border buffer zone and arrived at a star system that had obviously been built into a fortress.
"Lord, I just captured a gravitational wave disruptor. Its material and technology are similar to ours. Clearly, they haven't completed their industrial transformation. Most of their creations are from the past," Ling Dang said.
"Got it."
Bai Ge suddenly appeared in the fortress star system and found that it was a neutron star.
It was not surrounded by planets, but artificial spherical fortresses.
The first thing it did was turn into light, and then it was hit by the force field as expected. The second hovering chair was shattered again.
Because the enemy was prepared this time, all kinds of attacks came one after another. Bai Ge could not use Mechanical Enemy, and he could not even turn back into human form.
"Sure enough, no matter what civilization it is, they always attack first and talk later …"
As Bai Ge thought, he condensed a magic bow in his left hand.
He immediately rubbed out a small star in his right hand.
This was a flare bombardment that had been infinitely strengthened by evolution two thousand times. Its power was comparable to a small-scale supernova explosion.
"One hundred percent sure that the arrow will pierce the heart!"
Bai Ge shot out the small star that he had rubbed in his hand like an arrow. This was to ensure the accuracy of his attack.
After all, it was too easy for a high-tech civilization to dodge an attack with a clear trajectory.
Although the power of this move had been strengthened quite a bit, the hit rate depended on the caster. If it missed, it would be useless no matter how strong it was.
When Bai Ge shot out the Stellar Bullet, a spherical fortress that sensed that it had been locked onto formed a strong magnetic field on the surface and began to move laterally.
Its displacement speed was not too fast because its mass was too large.
But according to calculations, this speed was enough to dodge the Stellar Bullet condensed with terrifying energy.
However, the Stellar Bullet drew an arc and locked onto the spherical fortress.
Seeing this, the spherical fortress instantly disintegrated, turning into hundreds of pieces that fled in all directions.
However, the Stellar Bullet once again turned at an acute angle and chased after one of them.
An arrow piercing the heart. If it was a human, it would undoubtedly penetrate the heart, but at this moment, against the spherical fortress, the effect automatically determined to track the most important energy center of the fortress.
Seeing that the missile was in hot pursuit, the escaping energy center could finally use Spacetime Bending because of its small mass.
With a burst of distortion, it arrived twenty light-minutes away.
However, an arrow piercing the heart was not that simple. Unlike killing two birds with one stone and killing three birds with one stone, its focus was on piercing the heart, not the number of consecutive hits.
If the 'arrow' was not allowed to penetrate the target physically, then the effect would directly send the arrow into the target's body through spacetime.
The effect was thus guaranteed that even a feather could penetrate steel.
"Boom!"
It seemed that the Stellar Bullet could no longer catch up to the fortress, but suddenly, as if it had plunged into space, it disappeared abruptly.
At the same time, the fortress that it thought it had escaped exploded with a bang.
The energy center was hit!
"What happened? A spacetime hole? "
"How can I be so unlucky?"
The space-time wormhole was a natural phenomenon that all Stage Four civilizations knew about, and the chance to observe it was extremely rare. Even though space-time wormholes would appear every second somewhere in the universe, the universe was simply too big. It was extremely rare for an advanced civilization to discover their brief appearance and disappearance.
Most of the time, they would appear and disappear in barren interstellar zones.
Even with the vast territory of the Empire, there had only been four recorded observations of spacetime holes!
Just like now, it happened to appear in front of the Stellar Bullet, and the other end happened to be the escaping fortress's energy center, causing the bullet to appear in the energy center instantly and blow it up.
The probability was so low that it made one's hair stand on end.
When the other fortresses of the Thadio civilization saw this, they could only accept their bad luck.
However, Bai Ge's shooting did not stop.
His right hand rubbed out a small star again, locked onto the spherical fortresses, and began a chain of shots!
A figure of light, holding a light bow, shot out light bullets one after another.
It forced hundreds of spherical fortresses to activate a strange dodgeball mode.
"Quick, dodge! This is a super high energy bomb. "
The fortresses did not think that the spacetime hole could be controlled. As the Thadio civilization, which had already stepped into the fifth stage, they still did not understand the formation and mathematical model of spacetime holes. Therefore, Bai Ge's actions must be a coincidence.
In fact, the second missile did not hit the spacetime hole again.
This time, it was a locked down fortress. A critical part of the transition drive system showed atomic decay.
The decay of a small piece of atom caused a critical mass imbalance in a high-molecular component, which then led to an error in the force field parameters.
In turn, it caused a slight error in the transition point of the escaping fortress.
However, in space, a slight error could be billions of kilometers. If it was more serious, it could even be as high as several light years.
The error this time was very small, so small that the locked down fortress happened to collide with the Stellar Bullet in an instant.
"Boom!" A soundless explosion. A small mistake, and the fortress was defeated.
"We clearly dodged it … But Fortress 69 made a mistake in a transition … It actually caught the enemy's attack?"
"How could this happen?"
The commander of another fortress was inexplicably horrified. He watched as the fortresses were hit one by one due to various mistakes, bad luck, or extremely low probability of malfunction, or extremely low probability of natural phenomena.
Suddenly, he felt unwell. It was as if the universe was filled with evil intentions. They were not hit by flying stars, but by the will of the heavens.
"20 coincidences in the space-time wormhole, 89 personnel errors, 106 data errors … How could this happen!"
The commander angrily slammed the control panel and shouted, "Something's wrong. Was it attacked by a program virus? But how do you explain the space-time wormhole? "
"Humanoid combat mode activated! Transform! "The fortress AI suddenly said.
"Hmm? Wait a moment? I didn't give the order! "The commander shouted.
Just as he finished shouting, he realized that he had unintentionally activated the humanoid combat mode when he slammed the control panel in anger just now.
The fortress in space began to transform magnificently.
The moon-sized fortress first unfolded, and then the densely packed components began to disassemble and reassemble.
Not long after, the humanoid mechanical giant appeared. This civilization loved this kind of humanoid combat unit. This was their culture.
For a war between a high-leveled civilization, the appearance of a large vehicle was meaningless. Whether it was spherical, rectangular, or humanoid, it was all the same.
There was no need to strictly design the mechanical appearance like low-leveled civilizations, whether it was compatible with mechanics, structure, and so on.
A high-leveled civilization's vehicle that could play with basic forces was fine as long as it was aesthetically pleasing.
The transformation function was a very simple technology. Basically, it was up to one's preference to fight in any form during battle.
But no matter what, this was something that had to be decided before the battle. It was not possible to suddenly transform in the middle of the battle. This was no different from seeking death.
Therefore, under the attack of a huge metal arrow, the fortress that should have dodged carried out this meaningless transformation.
The transformation process was extremely eye-catching, and it made Bai Ge look cool.
But then, a cold light pierced through the heart of the humanoid fortress: the energy center.
In the humanoid fortress that had just appeared and had not had time to do anything.
The commander silently closed his eyes.
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