Minecraft players are invading the worlds.

Countless alien scientists, dressed in white research coats and with different appearances, are gathered in front of a giant holographic star observation screen.

Their voices became distorted as they watched what was happening up there.

"This is impossible. This absolutely defies astrophysics. How could that galaxy have suddenly and completely disappeared? Not even a black hole formed by gravitational collapse was left behind. It just vanished without a trace?"

In the main seat, a highly respected elderly scientist stared intently at the ever-spreading black shadow on the screen, his whole body trembling violently.

"Strange, look! Another rich star cluster with three star systems next to it has suddenly disappeared from the radar?"

The data on the screen was fluctuating wildly. The dense dots of light that originally represented countless civilizations and planets were being forcibly erased in large swaths by a slowly moving black mist at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Damn it, this isn't some kind of natural disappearance at all. Some incomprehensible entity is frantically devouring our galaxy."

The old scientist's face turned deathly pale in an instant, his eyes filled with endless despair, and he roared hysterically.

"Five large star clusters around us have already been completely swallowed up, and this thing shows no signs of stopping. It is still expanding and spreading wildly toward our star region."

These words caused an unprecedented hysterical chaos within the entire hall of the Academy of Sciences after a brief half-second of silence.

"Is this insane? Is the universe going to be destroyed?"

"Quickly, don't just stand there! Report this top-secret intelligence to the Imperial Command and the Supreme Council! If this strange black mist doesn't stop, and it continues to spread to our area at this rate, won't our entire race and civilization all die inside the belly of this silent monster?"

In an instant, countless encrypted communications filled with panic were frantically sent out from within these massive civilizations.

Soon, the terrifying kinetic energy and enormous commotion that occurred in the dark void also immediately triggered strong reactions from many super empires that had truly entered the fourth or even fifth level of civilization in this unknown deep space of the universe.

As entities that held sovereignty over several star systems, these super empires' advance observation stations, placed throughout the universe, were able to clearly observe this mind-blowing scene immediately.

This is a terrifying method of destruction that can wipe out countless galaxies in the sky and evaporate dozens of advanced civilizations in an instant without any warning.

This power has long surpassed the technological limits that level four and five civilizations can comprehend, and it faintly carries the characteristics of a dimensional reduction and cleansing belonging to a supreme deity.

"This is absolutely an unparalleled natural disaster targeting known star systems, or it could be a high-dimensional level six civilization hiding in the shadows cleaning up an experimental field."

Inside the command center of a Level 5 technological empire's homeworld, radiating brilliant energy.

The supreme ruler, his face grim, issued the most forceful probing order, word by word.

"We cannot sit idly by and wait for our doom. We must immediately mobilize all our fleets at the front and gather five fully armed National Expeditionary Forces to go to the edge of that black fog and find out what it is."

Just a few hours later.

That edge of the deadly black fog, known as the forbidden zone of the universe.

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

A vast expanse of spatial jump light flashed violently in the darkness.

Immediately afterwards, a fleet of hundreds of thousands of star-class warships, each the size of a small asteroid and made entirely of dark matter alloy, burst through the wormhole and crashed onto the front lines of the battlefield.

This fleet belongs to the supreme ace force of the Cthulhu Empire, the most powerful ruler in this star field.

Chapter 489 Don't Let Them Catch Up

However, when these hundreds of thousands of steel behemoths, capable of easily destroying a star cluster in a conventional war, slowly adjusted their bows in the void and took in the scene ahead.

Within the entire massive fleet, from the supreme commander to the lowest-ranking alien soldier, everyone was completely stunned into place at that moment.

Their gazes were fixed on the front, filled with an absolute horror and fear that shattered their worldview.

At the edge of their spaceship's radar, a thick black mist, obscuring the sky and covering several light-years of space, was frantically spreading and devouring the surrounding cosmic void at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

This isn't some kind of black mist; it's more like a living, supreme abyssal behemoth capable of swallowing the entire universe whole.

On the flagship's massive holographic command screen, a scene of destruction that everyone present would never forget was projected with unparalleled clarity in real time.

Just ahead, diagonally in front of the spreading black mist, stood a colossal star, radiating endless intense heat and gravitational fluctuations.

That was a star.

However, when that strange, extinguished black gas slowly writhed and spread to the edge of the star's gravitational orbit...

"Hey..."

Under the almost suffocating gaze of the commanders of those hundreds of thousands of Cthulhu Empire warships,

The enormous star, containing boundless energy, was extinguished within the same microsecond it encountered the dark gas. All its light was like a fragile candle facing a torrential downpour, forcibly extinguished and completely extinguished in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the star that had lost its light, along with the massive planets around it, and the galactic entity composed of countless masses, were completely melted into nothingness in just two or three seconds under the influence of the black gas, like ice cubes falling into strong acid.

An entire massive star system lay before them, as if it had been casually erased from the canvas of the universe with an eraser, leaving not a single speck of dust behind.

"Damn it, damn it, what the hell is this thing? How is this possible?"

Inside the flagship's command center, the battle-hardened imperial commander-in-chief, who had once led his fleet to destroy countless inferior civilizations, was now slumped on the supreme throne.

"This is not a technological means at all; it is an absolute annihilation at the level of the laws of the universe. This is a disaster, an irresistible ultimate catastrophe that will destroy the universe."

The commander-in-chief's once authoritative voice trembled in that instant, sounding like a pitiful beggar shivering in the cold wind, shouting hoarsely at the entire communication network.

"Quickly, quickly issue a death order: all troops stop charging, immediately turn the ship around, activate the superluminal warp drive at maximum power, and retreat! Run for your lives!"

"Don't let these black mists catch up with you. Anyone who's a step too slow will be buried with this star."

The entire fleet was thrown into complete chaos in that instant.

Those once arrogant star-class behemoths now disregarded any formation and frantically turned their bows in the vacuum, their engine exhaust flames shooting out blinding light.

"Commander-in-Chief."

Just then, the adjutant beside him, his eyes red and his body trembling, pointed to a faint signal on the radar and shouted loudly, somewhat stammering.

"Because space was forcibly locked by the gravity of that black mist, our rearmost star-class expeditionary warship, which was responsible for bringing up the rear and collecting data, just experienced a severe overload in its warp drive. It didn't have time to turn around, and it was about to be overtaken by the black mist."

Upon hearing the adjutant's exclamation, the commander-in-chief abruptly turned his head to look at the large screen.

All that could be seen was a few hundred thousand kilometers away from the edge of the black mist in the void.

A star-class expeditionary warship, tens of thousands of meters long and equipped with the highest level of energy defense shields, was spinning in place in despair, trying to break free from the invisible, terrifying pulling force.

However, the void's black mist, moving at an alarming speed, gave it absolutely no chance to struggle.

Under the horrified gaze of everyone.

The dense black mist swept past in an instant, completely engulfing the massive stellar-class expeditionary warship and enveloping it completely.

The last holographic image transmitted from inside the warship.

The energy defense shield, crafted with the pinnacle technology of a Level 5 civilization and capable of withstanding the bombardment of any high-energy weapon, was extinguished silently and instantly within a second of contact with the black mist.

Immediately afterwards, the black mist seeped into the warship's sturdy dark matter armor.

Those ship hulls, constructed from the hardest metal in the universe, dissolved in the blink of an eye under the influence of the black mist.

The tens of thousands of high-level alien warriors and countless sophisticated high-dimensional instruments inside were completely eroded by the black energy, along with the entire steel flagship that was tens of thousands of meters long. They were forcibly transformed into the most primitive inorganic particles and completely merged into the void.

From being shrouded in black mist to the complete disappearance of a main battle flagship.

The entire process lasted exactly two seconds.

I witnessed this desperate scene.

Within the holographic network, all the commanders of the Cthulhu Empire's civilizations, who were frantically fleeing for their lives in their spaceships, were utterly terrified in that instant.

An absolute sense of suffocation from the depths of their souls ruthlessly crushed all their dignity and reason.

"Run, run fast!"

"Don't stop. Even a stellar-class warship can't withstand this black mist for even half a second. This is something that life in our dimension can't possibly fight against."

"This is a catastrophe that will destroy the entire star field, this is the end of the universe, run!"

Accompanied by a series of piercing screams filled with endless despair and panic.

These hundreds of thousands of ships were originally a formidable super expeditionary fleet, the rulers of this starry sky.

At this moment, they are like a pack of stray dogs, terrified and helpless in the face of a cataclysmic flood.

They didn't even have the courage to look back. They frantically squeezed the last bit of potential from the spaceship's engines, pulling out a white beam of warp light, and embarked on a massive, frantic retreat into the unknown depths of space, disregarding everything else.

The deadly black fog that stretched into a continuous line, after devouring the warship and the entire star, deepened the darkness above its boundary.

Chapter 490 Azure

They are like ruthless, black Grim Reapers, continuing their destructive spree.

Tirelessly, it surged forward, spreading wildly and rapidly towards the wider world of civilization in all directions.

The real world, deep underground.

The Supreme Military Strategic Command of China.

A top-secret base buried thousands of meters below the surface.

Tens of thousands of monitoring screens illuminated the entire grand domed command hall, with densely packed gravitational wave tomography scans and high-dimensional radiation spectrum analysis tables refreshing rapidly on the screens.

Long Jianguo was wearing a crisp dark green military uniform, his hands gripping the edge of the central holographic star map's command platform.

His eyes were bloodshot, the torment of not having slept for a full day and night had made his face look somewhat aged, but his eyes, which represented the iron will of a soldier, were still as sharp as an eagle's.

"Reporting to the commander, the first through seventh deep space quantum observation groups have all been connected to the network."

"Sir, the gravitational wave tomography scanner and gravitational constant calibrator have all been upgraded to maximum overload power."

"Sir, our thirty-two high-energy optical and radio telescopes in outer space have successfully locked onto every quadrant around the solar system."

Inside the hall, countless technicians dressed in white special research suits, their faces extremely solemn, were frantically typing on their keyboards, and urgent reports echoed throughout the hall.

Long Jianguo took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the pressure in his chest.

He raised his head, looked around at his fellow citizens who were pale-faced but still steadfastly holding their posts, and spoke in a low voice.

"Pass on my orders. The game has officially begun according to the predetermined trajectory. From now on, the entire observation team shall enter a state of first-level special combat readiness. Point all equipment and all energy channels firmly at the sky above your head."

Long Jianguo slammed his right fist hard on the alloy tabletop, making the teacups rattle.

"Keep a close eye on everything that happens outside. Any slight anomaly in gravitational waves, any unnatural folding of light, must be reported to the central brain within the first microsecond. This is our last chance, understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

Thousands of researchers, their eyes red, roared with a sense of certain death.

They knew better than anyone else that the invisible, destructive meat grinder above them was closing in step by step.