Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1286 - 489: On the Brink of Suffocation

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In the brief twenty-five years of Ma Wei’an’s life, he had never experienced such a moment of intense motivation.

He didn’t know who it was for, or perhaps he just wanted to prove something, or maybe he wanted his destined death to become more valuable and meaningful, so that he could still be remembered and praised by some after his death.

In any case, even though he hadn’t found a reason to fight, he simply entrusted all his actions to instinct and just did it.

Recklessly showcasing his talents, and with the cooperation of Ahmed Sammy, a Captain whose reputation may not be prominent but whose actual piloting skills are top-level, he charged through the barrage composed of numerous tearing dark energy clusters.

Continuous maneuvers, overloaded evasions...

Continuous dodging...

To preemptively avoid, he had to accelerate to more than 0.2 times the speed of light, risking the ship’s self-dismantling alarm to perform new changes in direction.

Perhaps it was luck, or maybe Ahmed’s years of research and meticulous analysis of every inch of Falcon’s structure allowed him to accurately grasp the limits.

Such intense operations lasted for a full hour.

Every step was perfect, zero errors, and the ship didn’t disassemble.

Back at Fleet Headquarters, Ren Zhong finally awoke and joined the online conference room.

The devastation before his eyes made his pupils constrict sharply, his heart rate quicken.

Ren Zhong had witnessed many large-scale scenes, with millions having perished due to his decisions.

But in the past, his enemies had specific targets. This time was different; his enemy was the natural phenomena of the universe, it was the universe itself.

He witnessed the terrifying destructive power of nature.

The damage caused by the dark energy eruption had a cross-section width of 0.15 light years, a scale of destruction beyond human imagination.

Radiating tearing dark energy blocks and chaotic gravitational fields swept like crescent blades, extinguishing over ten thousand workship information nodes and snapping 997 longitudinal data chains in half within just an hour.

The main casualties occurred in the range of the ten horizontal sequences from 24 to 33.

Indeed, as Vincent Fanhuoyi had mentioned, although they encountered a devastating blow, over five hundred workships miraculously survived.

Some workships were just purely lucky, while others had crews that displayed astonishing courage and perseverance, as well as exceptional professional skills, each showcasing their unique abilities to endure this round of destruction.

Of course, regardless of how these workships survived, they were deserving of the title hero.

However, unfortunately, even those workships that survived were more or less damaged in various ways.

Damage varied.

Some workships faced power system failures, some had their communication modules torn into shreds.

Some workships were nearly sliced in half, barely held together by structural columns coated with neutron layers. The air inside these workships had long leaked, leaving only a few crew members relying on intact spacesuits to barely survive.

Repairing these workships under such conditions was already impossible.

"Earl, the situation remains very dangerous. Workships with basic functions intact are very scattered, mostly below longitudinal sequence 100 and above 900. The core impact zone is more to the left, so workships in longitudinal sequence below 100 are less preserved, those above 900 are better preserved, but not by much."

"We currently have only one longitudinal data chain barely maintaining a link, which is the 997 line on the far right of the Star Map. Furthermore, the 997 data chain isn’t a direct link but is temporarily switched and generated by nearby sequence workships, making it unstable and likely to break at any time. Despite the strongest first wave of dark energy eruption having passed, the subsequent ripples are still formidable. This lone survival is still precarious."

Isu Rock quickly explained the situation to Ren Zhong.

In fact, he didn’t need to say it, as the real Steering Man of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Ren Zhong only needed to glance at the Simulation Star Map to understand the situation.

Moreover, he knew more.

Sun Ai communicated via brainwaves, telling him that ever since the Source Star Fleet "entered" the Black Mist Zone at the agreed time, the Nanxiang Star Cluster Special Task Fleet waiting on the other side never stopped linking information streams to the Simulation Workship in the safety corridor, under the guise of providing information support, but without warning of the risk of this dark energy eruption, seemingly only to precisely locate the Source Star Fleet.