Those who reincarnate must die.

Just as Zhang Lang shook off his two escort pilots, the space force in near-Earth orbit of the Great Dust Star received a notification and quickly locked onto the aircraft piloted by Zhang Lang.

"Commander, we are now in an unfamiliar star sector. For the sake of the Third Expeditionary Force and humanity's expansion plan, please prioritize your safety. We have opened the port of the Sixth Transport Ship; please land as soon as possible..."

The message from the space force received no response, and Zhang Lang's fighter jet shot out of the atmosphere at an extremely high speed like an arrow.

Just as they were trying to make contact in other ways, Zhang Lang's fighter jet suddenly slowed down and then obediently flew towards the sixth transport ship, landing smoothly.

Did the commander heed the advice?

The officer immediately stepped forward to greet them. As the cockpit door of the fighter jet opened, everyone was surprised to find that the cockpit was empty, with only artificial intelligence controlling it!

This was... Everyone was shocked and immediately reported to their superiors that they had landed on the flagship of the Great Dust Star. The human's senior officers immediately questioned Zhuge.

Where Zhang Lang went, piloting the fighter jet alone, is only known to the omnipresent artificial intelligence that resides within all human mechanical systems.

However, Zhuge made no mention of Zhang Lang's whereabouts.

"The commander is on a top-secret mission and I am not allowed to reveal his whereabouts."

"Zhuge!" In the meeting room, the adjutant of the Third Expeditionary Force, the blond-haired, capable-looking Katarina, demanded, "I order you to tell us where the commander is!"

"I'm sorry, Colonel Katarina," Zhuge Qianxun replied, "You have the authority to modify the orders I draft, but this particular order was issued by the Commander himself, and you do not have the authority to modify it."

"But without a commander, how are we supposed to proceed with our operations!" Katarina pounded on the table anxiously, making a loud, metallic clanging sound. Although she was wearing gloves, it was clear that a mechanical arm was underneath.

"Regarding this, the commander had already drafted the operational plan for the next two months before leaving, and required us to strictly implement it." As he spoke, Zhuge revealed Zhang Lang's simple document.

"This is..." Many officers were shocked upon seeing it: "This is absurd! How could the wise Major General Zhang Lang possibly formulate such an operational order? Zhuge, are you hiding the truth?"

Katarina frowned and said, "Zhuge, as an artificial intelligence, you can't lie to humans. What's going on?"

"I didn't lie." Zhuge adjusted the screen, pulling up the surveillance video of Zhang Lang formulating the plan. The video even showed a conversation between Zhang Lang and Zhuge. It was clear that the artificial intelligence had questioned Zhang Lang's decisions.

A brief silence fell over the meeting room. Finally, Katarina gave the order: "Now that it's confirmed to be the Commander's command, we should execute it strictly. But before that, send more people to search for the Commander's whereabouts throughout the system. If possible, I want to confirm with him in person!"

While the military high command was anxiously searching, Zhang Lang himself had already arrived between the orbits of the fifth and sixth planets in the Red Manco system.

As he shook off the two pilots, he jumped out of the plane, evaded the space fleet's search, and used the void to travel hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

This is the location of the Zerg's fixed starway entrance. At this moment, near the entrance, two human engineering ships, escorted by three warships, are working intensively, attempting to crack the Zerg's encryption.

Because the Zerg are a fully biologically evolved civilization, their star paths are primarily stable towards the living organisms themselves. Artificial machines made of inorganic matter would encounter intense spacetime turbulence and suffer enormous damage when traversing them.

Simply put, this star path can only be traversed by physical means... but only by those with the powerful bodies of the Zerg, capable of surviving in the space environment. Humans, with their delicate skin, would be torn to shreds if they went in.

According to Zhuge's calculations, humanity will be able to completely crack and re-stabilize this end of the star portal in about four days. At that time, even if the other end is still in the hands of the Zerg, as long as the energy shield is activated, human ships will be able to withstand the turbulence within the star portal and can advance to the next destination through it.

However, in Zhuge's plan, the main purpose of breaking through the Starway was not offense, but defense. Controlling this entrance would make it more difficult for the Zerg to traverse the Starway, hindering the transport of large numbers of troops at once, thus aiding in human defense.

Because at the other end of this star path lies the battlefield of the Mother Nest and the Berserkers, where the forces are extremely strong, making it one of the most difficult regions to conquer in the entire Proon Sector. Newly arrived humans should not attempt to attack there before establishing a firm foothold.

Zhuge's plan is to develop within the Red Manco system while simultaneously opening up another star path to a less competitive system. Although this will take two to three months, it will allow humanity to relatively safely occupy two star systems. Only then will humanity have sufficient resources to launch a full-scale offensive against the forces that have held sway for many years.

In theory, this is also the optimal solution for reincarnators to complete the altar mission. They should first use three or four months to develop and strengthen themselves, then use the last month to launch a war, taking advantage of the other races' unpreparedness to swiftly occupy enough planets, complete the mission, and successfully return.

As for how fierce the counterattacks of those races would be, and whether these occupied planets could be defended, that was not something the Reincarnators needed to consider. As long as the target was met at the moment the mission was completed, it was considered a victory.

However, Zhang Lang was clearly not satisfied with this shortcut to completing the task.

It's too slow and inefficient.

He gazed at the shimmering, surging stargate entrance with a slight upturn of his lips, then activated Void Moon Step, accelerating to tens of thousands of Mach after nine consecutive steps, and plunged headlong into the stargate.

Because of his speed, his intrusion did not even alert the engineers working near the stargate. They only felt a momentary increase in disturbance at the stargate, which then subsided.

Although this disturbance was slightly unusual, it was understandable that instability would occur when humans were trying to decipher the star path controlled by alien races. Since there was no further escalation, this disturbance was completely treated as a normal phenomenon and was not even recorded...

Upon entering the Star Path, Zhang Lang felt a massive surge of spatial turbulence rushing towards him. However, these turbulences were enough to withstand even the large units of the Zerg, so how could they possibly harm Zhang Lang? He traversed the Star Path and arrived at the exit in just a few minutes.

Whoosh!

As the turbulence subsided, Zhang Lang's vision cleared. Looking up, he saw a massive Zerg hive hovering near the star portal in the distance. Further still, a colossal planet shone with bursts of multicolored flames visible even from space…

"What an intense battlefield," Zhang Lang smiled slightly. "But first, let's deal with the immediate problem."

Zhang Lang looked at the huge mother nest. As if sensing his presence, a row of tiny holes opened on the mother nest, from which countless insects flew out and swarmed towards him.

Important star entrances are naturally heavily guarded. You will be my first batch of spoils, turned into points!

Zhang Lang cracked his knuckles and charged toward the Zerg army.