Chapter 104: Rage of the Cosmos

“So this is the fury of the universe?”

Mu Qingxue spoke, staring out the porthole at the scene beyond, her words heavy with unspoken meaning.

Lin Yu nodded slightly.

“Yeah. Just a few so-called foreign particles, yet it’s enough to provoke the universe’s rejection. Against this cosmic force, humans and Klein alike are as insignificant as ants.”

A few months earlier.

After Lin Yu arrived at Earth’s sphere and helped the Far East First Research Institute analyze the cube, he acquired a trove of technological data.

Among them was the technology used by that civilization to create the Zero-Point Module.

According to the data, their method of extracting vacuum zero-point energy differed completely from the Federation’s previous experiment—it relied on an approach no one had dared attempt before.

They forcibly breached the barriers between multiverses, siphoning energy from other universes.

This method was astonishingly efficient, but in reality…

The zero-point energy they obtained wasn’t pure. It always contained foreign particles not native to this universe.

While they used specialized spatial technology to store the energy and keep the universe itself from noticing, if the shell was ever damaged—or deliberately breached—

the universe would immediately detect and reject any foreign particles within its domain.

That phenomenon they just witnessed was the universe fighting back, or rather—

the universe erasing an intrusion.

When triggered by a single Zero-Point Module, this erasure extended for roughly ten thousand kilometers in diameter. The technical documents detailed this at length.

They’d even included guidelines for how to deliberately expose the foreign particles to the universe by disabling the module’s protective layers.

Clearly, humanity chose this precise method. They turned the powerful Zero-Point Module into a—

a superweapon nothing in the Milky Way could withstand.

Why waste such a precious module on a few assault corvettes instead of obliterating the Klein fleet?

The answer’s simple—

limited range!

Like I said, one Zero-Point Module’s foreign particles only trigger rejection over a region about ten thousand kilometers across.

The Klein fleet, with its 1,600 warships arrayed, covered more than fifty thousand kilometers.

How many modules would it take to destroy them all?

On the other hand, no matter how many corvettes the enemy sent, there were only nineteen targets, and they were always bunched together.

The closer they got to the Sixth Experimental Fleet, the tighter they clustered. That’s why Lin Yu had the Sixth Fleet stop just a hundred thousand kilometers past the detonation point.

That way, the fleet stayed at a safe distance and the target would be tightly grouped when they hit the trigger.

One strike wiped them out.

For the Federation, the true nightmare wasn’t the Klein fleet—it was the assault corvettes.

Take those away, and the Klein fleet was just a toothless tiger—nothing to fear.

After many rounds of debate, Federation leadership finally decided—

to use that precious Zero-Point Module on the Klein’s corvettes, not their main fleet.

It was the optimal solution, carefully weighed from every angle.

As for what came next…

With all the corvettes destroyed and the Klein in chaos, the Federation launched an all-out offensive.

Time to settle it all in one battle!

——

“Patriarch, a massive human fleet has just appeared behind us—over ten thousand ships!”

Inside the Klein flagship, Tara shouted in panic.

Just moments ago, a human fleet of more than ten thousand ships had materialized right at the outer edge of the Klein’s sensors.

They didn’t advance—they seemed to be forming a blockade behind the Klein fleet.

It was a—

a line cutting off their escape.

At the same time, the human fleet in front, momentarily stalled by that blinding white flash, was now resuming their assault.

Wave after wave of energy blasts came crashing down on the Klein line.

Now—do they advance or retreat?

Or—

break out a different way?

Space isn’t an ocean. Even if you’re flanked, you can usually find a way out.

But Tumelo didn’t choose to run.

Because—

the firepower from those nineteen warships ahead was simply overwhelming.

They could survive a head-on clash, but if they turned and exposed their side—

normally it took dozens of ion beams to take down a ship. But with the flank open—

a few shots would do the trick.

And this fleet was faster, so even if they did escape, the enemy could just chase them down.

Useless—there was no point.

There was only one way out—

“Full speed ahead! Smash through the human fleet!”

“Yes, Patriarch!”

The vast Klein fleet surged forward again.

Tumelo had thought this through. Only by crushing the enemy in front could he hope to survive.

As for the fleet behind—

ignore them!

But would Lin Yu let him get his wish?

Not a chance!

After dozens more barrages, the Sixth Experimental Fleet abruptly spun around and fled.

Moving at over 300 kilometers a second, they left Tumelo no chance to catch up. Once they’d widened the gap to half a million kilometers—

the Sixth spun to face the Klein again, taking full advantage of their strengths and putting on a masterclass in maneuvering.

If only they weren’t so badly outnumbered, everything else was perfectly executed.

By now, Tumelo finally realized his maneuvers were pointless.

There was only one option left—

if the front’s hopeless, break out the back.

Lin Yu would harry them all the way, but if they could cut through to the fleet behind, the pursuit would stop.

Whatever the losses en route—

it’d be steep, sure, but not as bad as staying here and getting toyed to death by Lin Yu.

Besides, he’d already checked out that rear fleet.

Although it boasted overwhelming numbers, most of the ships weren’t actual warships. They were converted civilian vessels with very limited combat ability.

To minimize losses during the turn, Tumelo tightened their formation into a near-single column.

He even had the last ships peel off, turning to face Lin Yu’s fleet directly.

Now, from any direction, the enemy could only focus fire on a few ships—always hitting the bow, where the armor was thickest.

But—

just as Tumelo thought he had it all handled—

the center of the ten-thousand-ship human fleet began to open up as warships made way, and—

hauling a massive object, dozens of Asteroid Tug Ships revealed something monstrous.

It was the Federation’s super space cannon—the one that had once appeared on Europa. Still an ion beam cannon, but the barrel—

was dozens of times larger than that of the Zhulong’s main gun.

Sure, they didn’t have the same charging resources as on Europa, but—

the Federation had charged it before moving it here, with no plans to recharge.

It had one job from the start.

And that was—

to unleash a shot right at the tightly packed enemy fleet!

When Tumelo saw what the humans had brought out, terror consumed him.

“Evade! Evade now!”

But it was too late.

The monstrous ion beam lanced out—

and in a flash, it swallowed the entire Klein fleet’s single-file column.