This taste of carving under the enemy's nose is far from pleasant, further proving the Mother Empress Ship's disregard for the Source Star Fleet.

In the eyes of the Mother Empress Ship, given the absolutely overwhelming advantage in military strength, all conspiracies and tricks are meaningless.

The evolution of the battle proved this outcome.

When the Special Attack Team approached within eleven million kilometers, antimatter bombs from the Space Sand Worms came at them.

These bizarre bombs with fold jump characteristics posed a great threat to the Special Attack Team members.

The bomb flickered and advanced in the air, with the flash time not fixed, and the forward jump distance not fixed either, as if flying and then falling into subspace, disappearing without a trace, then bouncing back into existence without warning.

In the concept of two dimensions, the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line, but a fold. In the concept of three dimensions, matter jumps out of the boundary of the three-dimensional Universe, enters the higher-dimensional subspace, and then jumps out again. This so-called subspace has a fourth axis, which is time. Based on time, matter can complete the process from one point to another by breaking dimensions, and the concept of spatial distance will cease to exist under the compression of time, also being folded.

Rumor has it that this stems from the computation results of that giant quasar in the center of the Ancient Disk Galaxy. It is a peculiar genetic chain, which popped out automatically during a sublimer's use of a quasar for cosmic hash value verification, and was acquired by the sublimers, then integrated into their genetic chain, eventually evolving into such a bizarre military species as the Space Sand Worm.

The reason sublimers named quasars as the Origin of life lies herein. When using it for cosmic hash value verification, it occasionally gives feedback on biological technology results needed by sublimers, like a coin-operated lottery machine.

For millions of years, many mystical genetic chains originating from the quasar have guided the sublimer's evolutionary process, and calling it the Origin of life is not an exaggeration.

Despite the precautions, and the Water Drop Ship having response programs prepared for fold jump antimatter bombs, the Special Attack Team still suffered serious casualties.

The fold jump path of these bombs is not straight; there are propulsion devices at the rear to adjust direction. Each time they leave a fold jump, the propulsion device slightly works to change the bomb's flight direction, so the next fold jump will leap forward a distance in a new direction. From a spatial perspective, these bombs seem to leap forward along a continuous, irregular fold line that is impossible to predict for their flight trajectory and explosion point.

Accompanied by patch after patch of dark voids evolving in space, one after another of high-level warriors and their Water Drop Ships are swallowed with no resistance, then disintegrated into elementary particles.

After the dark voids are generated, they first rapidly collapse, then seem to explode with a bang, releasing a light and heat shock like a supernova explosion.

After forcibly breaking through the fire zone of fold jump antimatter bombs, there were fewer than eight thousand Special Attack warriors remaining, then encountering interception by Critical Poison Sting.

This bizarre species is nearly immune to all reconnaissance methods and can only be distinguished by strong light combined with smoke powder. If not for Sun Ai leading the Deep Communication Group's research department led by Ma Xiaocheng, rapidly innovating algorithms to quickly distinguish and identify targets through subtle optical changes, the remaining eight thousand Water Drop Ships might be destroyed in a second.

Yet even so, nearly two thousand Water Drop Ships were destroyed by Critical Poison Sting, forcing individuals into solo space combat, soon besieged and killed by even more Critical Poison Sting.

However, what truly caused heavy damage to everyone was the "lurking," quietly approaching under the cover of "chaos."

This thing is simply a battlefield killer, revealing itself initially within the array, then its mouthparts start repeatedly spitting Destruction Beams with seemingly no cooldown. The Water Drop Ship, which is only prominent for speed and has low defense performance, cannot resist — contact results in explosions, and within them, even fully armed high-level Professionals are either dead or injured.

Besides the aforementioned species, there are Space Worm Serpents forming a space battle formation ahead.

These Space Worm Serpents obviously possess extremely strong melee abilities, but haven't taken action, only clustering together in space, continuously spraying fog-like bizarre energy clusters from their mouths.

These energy clusters resemble mist, having the texture of the Material State while also being ethereal and nimble in the Energy State. No propulsion is needed, no acceleration process occurs, and when sprayed, they instantly reach extreme speeds. They possess automatic tracking and adsorption characteristics, silently and effortlessly penetrating the Energy Shield as if lacking substance, yet quickly materializing when touching the Water Drop Ship to corrode through it.

As for the Giants, Ren Zhong and others didn't actually see them, only noticing from afar some ant-like small black dots attached to the surface of the massive Mother Empress Ship, presumably the Giants that haven't taken action.

...

"Defeat is inevitable, though not without gain. At least we understood the combat mode of this Mother Empress Ship and saw discrepancies from the original intelligence."

Ren Zhong muttered to himself, "Little Ai, your database needs updating."

Sun Ai: "What?"

She was quite puzzled.

Just then, Ren Zhong, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and wrote down the number 7642 in his notebook, then said those words out of the blue.

"You know about the sublimers' special species, Space Sand Worms, right?"

Sun Ai: "Yes, why?"

"The fold jump bomb of the Space Sand Worms can leap a distance of more than one hundred thousand kilometers, with the shortest time interval between consecutive jumps already below five seconds. The accurate strike radius after bomb explosion is 511.33 kilometers. And there's..."

Ren Zhong said many things in one breath, then concluded: "In summary, the Mother Empress Ship capable of being a cruiser possesses certain research capabilities; it and its offspring have evolved."

"Also..."

After Sun Ai once again disassembled his plan, Ren Zhong secretly thought that these are just basic improvements, possibly pushing slightly further, but still not enough.

"Little Ai, this is the brand-new improvement plan for the Water Drop Ship... This is the new plan for the advanced armor... Old Qian's extender can still be like this... Prepare to formulate training plans for targeted training. These people need attention, their capabilities can... be developed like this."

Approximately six hours passed, Ren Zhong finally completed all arrangements utilizing brainwave signals and oral instructions, and then rubbed his temples to slightly relax.

He returned to his familiar rhythm, trial and error, improvement, summarizing, standing on the shoulders of the previous timeline to continue forward.

"This is still not enough, what to do?"

Ren Zhong thought for a moment, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Fold Jump!

We can do it too!

"Little Ai, develop a new detection device for me."

Sun Ai: "What?"

"A device capable of comprehensively analyzing information flow, gravity, energy, and other micro-level space changes. I want to find a way to enter subspace and complete fold jumps, even if unstable."

Perhaps the Empire internally possesses fold jump technology, yet the Source Star Fleet does not.

No matter how complete the Mother Empress Ship's database is, it surely won't guard against this tactic.

Leverage a foreign skill to control the foreigner, utilize time compression to achieve technological breakthroughs, and obtain technology which the Source Star Fleet cannot access — this is the best breakthrough point.