Just like in the past, after listening to Sun Ai's description, Ren Zhong's fingers slowly tapped on the control panel of the Water Drop Ship, and he closed his eyes slightly, falling into a long period of contemplation.

Two hours passed unconsciously, and he suddenly opened his eyes.

A bold idea emerged in his mind, perhaps the only chance for victory.

Facing the fourth-grade Mother Empress with an invincible shell that even the Star System Level Main Cannon couldn't penetrate, the only strategy was this deathblow tactic.

"Awaken all researchers related to theoretical physics, energy science, and materials science, form a research and development team centered around the Dragon Slayer Science Academy, open up the relevant intelligence of star C1915 to them, let them start research immediately, and formulate a complete plan."

Although the great battle is about to break out, and it's already too late to advance scientific research, Ren Zhong never squanders a moment.

Now, push the project forward as far as possible; as long as he can remember this information, it's not all in vain.

Next time, it will shorten the time and speed up the process.

No matter what happens when he reaches the Empire, at least for now, he still has resurrection.

Upon receiving the order, Sun Ai began to elaborate this outline into countless detailed instructions.

This was an enormous mobilization, involving the awakening of as many as tens of millions from frozen storage, as well as a similarly massive resource mobilization. But just 0.1 seconds later, the specific awakening order was implemented in each frozen storage compartment.

This is the power of the "network," and it is the foundation of the Mechanical Empire today.

In fact, among the four branches, the Mechanical Empire preserves the original characteristics of humanity the most completely, the most authentic.

But this authenticity also led to the Mechanical Empire lagging far behind the other three routes of humanity in comprehensive strength, once suffocating under the pressure of the Pilgrims who advocated virtual transformation, the Ascenders who pushed gene liberation and biological limb development to inhuman sublimation, and the Spirit Demon Race who expanded personal telekinesis to the extent of becoming a great force.

Until millions of years ago, a young nobleman with the dual identity of a genius scientist and top agent went berserk, lurked close to the Pilgrims' intelligent machinery core, confronted their computational power with human effort, hacked into it, swept away the intelligent core framework mechanism, and retreated entirely unharmed. Then, in just a few decades, he overworked to develop a semi-artificial intelligence system combining conventional human brains and the virtual consciousness of Pilgrims, and created the first original model of the "network," finally making a turn for the better.

Since then, the Mechanical Empire gained strong assistance in the field of superintelligence, barely catching up with the development speed of the other three branches, and created its own racial characteristics in mechanical superstructures, with enough power to contend.

Afterward, the Mechanical Empire began absorbing the thoughts of the Ascenders and combined them with its technology, developing biochemical starships based on Ruined Beasts, and created a Telekinesis Master System barely able to flex against the Spirit Demon Race.

After a series of struggles, the once precarious Mechanical Empire reestablished its footing, avoiding extinction.

"Although I do not agree with such a resource mobilization at the brink of battle, the order has been executed," Sun Ai said.

Ren Zhong acknowledged with a sound.

The next second, he suddenly stood up.

The enemy finally appeared.

Alarms suddenly sounded at the forefront of the deep, extended defense line, and the video footage was synced to Ren Zhong's projection screen.

Countless Critical Poison Stings, densely packed like locusts, stealthily approached an unmanned forward base station.

Then this unmanned forward base station suddenly activated its strong light searchlight function.

Under the strong light, the metal dust smoke bomb deployed in the universe half an hour early came into effect.

The movements of all the Critical Poison Stings were revealed with every detail highlighted.

At the moment of being discovered, the information flow communication between the forward base station and the rear was declared cut off.

But radio communication remained connected.

The radio signal from the forward base station reached the space-suspended sphere-style relay less than 600,000 kilometers away within two seconds, was then converted to an information flow signal by the relay, and instantly arrived at Fleet Headquarters.

Without any warning, the fierce crossfire broke out instantly.

The forward base station was destroyed within a second by the hurricane-like Critical Poison Stings, but the armed battleship hidden behind the nearby asteroid suddenly emerged, and the main combat stream cannon roared to life.

The starship's main cannon-level energy impact pierced through the Critical Poison Stings' formation, plowing through them like a blade, creating a brief vacuum belt.

At the same time, these two warships also simultaneously launched function missiles aimed primarily at releasing strong light.

The missiles exploded, bright as stars.

A round of brief, extraordinarily wide-range strong light spread out in space.

The halo spread, illuminating the enemy fleet, then reflected back and was captured by optical cameras.

The warriors of Source Star finally saw the enemy fleet clearly.

In the command center at the headquarters, everyone, including Ren Zhong, felt their scalp tingle.

Wherever the light shone, there were shadows looming indistinctly.

A radius of 300,000 kilometers…

A radius of 600,000 kilometers…

...

A radius of millions of kilometers…

...

The space was densely packed as if covering the entire universe with countless enemy battle units.

Wherever the light shone, there were enemy troops, without boundaries, without an end.

Critical Poison Stings and various sizes of Sting Serpents made up the largest proportion, but a significant number of other life forms, large or small, were also present.

The numbers were uncountable.

In just a split second, everyone was acutely aware that even if the entire energy and reserve ammunition of the Source Star Fleet were exhausted, it was impossible to defeat the enemy.

"It's over."

This was the thought that arose in everyone's heart in the command room.

At this moment, information flow communication from the rear began to be cut off one block at a time.

Even though the enemy was still in front, the information flow communication behind the deep defense line began to collapse.

Within a few seconds, the entire Source Star Fleet defense line, extending for tens of millions of kilometers in depth, lost all information flow communication and was "blacked out."

"There is a type of enemy combat unit with the same stealth capabilities as the Critical Poison Stings that penetrated deep into our defense line beforehand, and then suddenly activated, paralyzing our communications. Although we still have radio and laser communication, the efficiency of command transmission will be greatly reduced."

Sun Ai said this simultaneously in both Ren Zhong's Water Drop Ship and the command room.

Ren Zhong responded with a nod, "It's alright, fight to whatever extent possible. Use radio waves to pass down orders, everyone prepare to face the enemy, change combat objectives, and prioritize ensuring the research progress of Dragon Slayer Camp. Tell everyone that my orders must be carried out unconditionally!"

...

Four days later, the Tracer, the Star System Level Main Cannon, and Source Mercury were destroyed.

The Source Star Fleet was completely annihilated.

Ren Zhong pulled out a notebook.

7641.