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Through her tactical helmet, Rose quickly assigned tasks: "Xinye, your mission is to assault, using your speed advantage to prioritize taking down the enemy's flagship command system. Qilin, you'll provide long-range ground support, specifically targeting their weapon modules. Yaowen, you're responsible for protecting ground facilities. Use your gravity control to confine the battlefield to near-Earth orbit and prevent them from bringing the war to the cities."
She paused, then looked at Liu Chuang: "Brother Chuang, you and I are the main attackers. I'll be responsible for opening the wormhole and sending you to the most concentrated area of their fleet. You... just cause chaos."
"Alright!" Liu Chuang patted his chest. "I'm good at this!"
Without Dukao's central command and Reina's miraculous interventions, the Super Soldier Corps' tactics became more refined and reliant on teamwork. Each individual was an indispensable cog in the machine.
"Super Soldier Company! Attack!"
At Rose's command, several figures soared into the sky, transforming into streaks of light, and headed towards the Taotie fleet that loomed like a dark cloud.
"Target detected! It's the Super Soldier Squad! They...they actually launched an attack!"
Inside the Taotie flagship, Commander "Gluttony" looked utterly incredulous. In his view, Earth, having lost two major gods, should have retreated into a defensive posture.
"Fire! Blast them to smithereens!" he roared in a fit of rage.
In an instant, the cannons of hundreds of Taotie warships lit up simultaneously, and dense beams of dark energy, like a deadly downpour, poured down on those tiny figures.
However, just as the artillery fire was about to strike, a red figure flashed by. Rose spread her arms, and a massive spatial wormhole unfolded before her, like an invisible giant shield. All the artillery fire was swallowed up, erupting from the distant, unknown other end of the universe, exploding into a dazzling display of fireworks.
"what?!"
"Gluttony" was so startled that it stood up from its seat.
Before he could react, another small wormhole silently opened in the center of the Taotie fleet's formation. A black figure, carrying a giant axe, leaped out from it.
"Your grandpa Liu Chuang is here!"
Liu Chuang roared, and with the power to cleave the heavens and the earth, he slammed the God-Slaying Axe in his hand into the nearest Taotie escort ship.
There was no violent explosion, only a teeth-grinding sound of metal tearing apart. The hundreds-of-meters-long frigate, along with its energy shield, was cleaved in two by an axe. The break was as smooth as a mirror.
"kill!"
Like a tiger among sheep, Liu Chuang, aided by Qiangwei's precise wormhole jumps, moved unpredictably through the massive fleet. Each appearance was accompanied by the disintegration of a warship. He was like a highly efficient demolition team leader, specializing in the brutal and precise dismantling of the Taotie's steel jungle.
At the same time, a silver lightning bolt streaked across the edge of the battlefield. Zhao Xin's spear, with each thrust, precisely pierced the bridge of a warship. He never lingered in battle, striking and retreating immediately, leaving the Taotie's cannon fire unable to even touch his shadow.
On the ground, Qi Lin lay prone on the rooftop of a tall building, her Godslayer sniper rifle spitting out tongues of death. Each bullet traveled hundreds of kilometers, precisely detonating the main cannon of a Taotie warship. Like a calm surgeon, she was pulling out the teeth of this steel behemoth, shot by shot.
From the very beginning, this battle was a one-sided massacre.
The commanders of the Taotie were completely stunned. Their proud fleet, in the face of the few "super individuals" of the Super Soldier Company, was like a group of primitive men wielding wooden sticks besieging a few modern soldiers driving tanks. Their numerical advantage seemed ridiculous in the face of absolute individual combat power and perfect tactical coordination.
"How is this possible... how is this possible!"
Commander "Gluttony" watched his fleet plummet from space like dumplings being dropped into a pot, letting out a desperate roar.
"They're not weak now; they couldn't even handle one of our main battleships back then! How could they be stronger than before?!"
He will never understand. The former Super Soldier Company was the weapon of "God." The current Super Soldier Company is "warriors" fighting for their homeland. Weapons need the commands of God, but warriors only need the conviction to protect.
Moreover, upgrading genetic weapons requires a massive amount of materials, but the protagonist's luck is on his side, allowing him to complete in advance what would have required Zhi Xin's help in the next few years.
Just as the battlefield situation was becoming clearer, inside the medical pod, Ge Xiaolun's fingers twitched slightly.
His consciousness slowly awoke from a state of chaos. He felt as if he had been in a very long dream, in which he was no longer that loser college student, but a real "programmer." He defined the rules of the universe with line after line of "code."
When the intense energy fluctuations from the outside world fully awakened him, he suddenly opened his eyes.
"Galaxy Force detected awakening, reconnecting to the dark matter computer..."
Ignoring the system notification in his ear, Ge Xiaolun immediately connected to the Super Soldier Squad's combat channel. When he saw Liu Chuang and Qiangwei fighting valiantly in space, a surge of adrenaline rushed to his head.
"Damn it! They didn't even call me when they started this gang fight!"
He smashed open the medical pod with his fist and jumped off the bed.
"Lianfeng! Send me the distribution map of the Taotie fleet!" he shouted as he put on his armor.
"Xiao Lun? You're awake! Your body..."
"It couldn't be better!" Ge Xiao-Lun felt his body filled with an unprecedented power, which was not just simple energy, but a kind of... understanding of the rules.
"I understand... the anti-void isn't for annihilation, it's for formatting!"
He burst out of the Super God Academy and soared into the sky.
"Rose! Open the door for me! The biggest one!"
In space, Rose heard Ge Xiaolun's voice, was first taken aback, then overjoyed. Without hesitation, she opened an unprecedentedly huge wormhole directly above the remnants of the Taotie fleet.
Ge Xiaolun emerged from the crowd. Instead of drawing his greatsword, he spread his arms wide, as if embracing the entire battlefield.
"In the name of the power of the Milky Way, define: all non-Earth targets ahead, logical layer... reset to zero!"
An invisible wave emanated from him and spread outwards.
Those Taotie warships that were still putting up a stubborn resistance suddenly lost fire in their main guns, their engines shut down instantly, and even the lights inside the warships flickered a few times before going completely dark. They were like computers that had been unplugged, turning into a pile of cold, floating scrap metal in space.
There was no explosion, no destruction. Only deathly silence.
Liu Chuang, carrying his axe, stared in disbelief at the scene before him.
"What... what the hell? Xiao Lun, you... you've got a one-button shutdown feature?"
Ge Xiaolun scratched his head and chuckled, "It's a new trick I just learned, I'm not very good at it yet."
Almost simultaneously, in the other medical pod, Lena slowly woke up. Hearing the cheers coming through the communication channel, a smile unconsciously crept onto her lips.
"Hmph, a bunch of lunatics."
She muttered a curse under her breath, then turned over and peacefully fell asleep again.
Inside the seaside villa, Zhou Ye looked at the "formatted" battlefield and nodded in satisfaction.
"Not bad, you've learned to fight with your brain."
He said to Feng Shayan, "It seems they did a good job with the homework for this physics class."
Feng Shayan looked at the screen and saw the young figures high-fiving each other in space, and smiled sincerely.
She knew that from this day forward, on the star map of this universe, the name "Earth" would no longer represent a weak, pre-nuclear civilization in need of protection.
It will represent a brand new, truly space-age civilization, where mortals write their own legends.
And all of this is just the beginning.
Chapter 443 Aftermath
The silence of the universe can sometimes be more unsettling than the most deafening battlefield.
When Ge Xiaolun's words, "Logic layer...reset," spread through the ripples of the dark communication, and when the three hundred Taotie warships fell silent like toys whose power had been cut, an eerie silence descended upon the "audience" of the entire known universe.
Angel Nebula, Merlot Heaven.
On the enormous throne, Yan rested her chin on her hand, her golden pupils replaying the scene of Ge Xiaolun spreading his arms wide. It wasn't an explosion of energy, nor a bombardment of weapons; it was a more profound phenomenon, almost a divine oracle. The high-ranking angels behind her, all battle-hardened warriors, now resembled children seeing stars for the first time, their faces filled with incomprehensible awe.
"Your Majesty, our space-based system... cannot analyze what just happened."
An angel in charge of data analysis reported in a dry voice.
“Ge Xiaolun’s body did not release enough energy to paralyze three hundred warships. He was more like… more like he issued an order to that space, and the universe… carried it out.”
"instruction?"
Yan pondered the word, her gaze drifting to the other end of the star map, to the research field belonging to Tianji Wang Hexi. Without hesitation, she directly connected to Hexi's private communication.
The light screen lit up, revealing He Xi's eternally intelligent face. However, at this moment, her brows were tightly furrowed, and the data waterfall behind her had completely transformed into a review and model of the battle that had just taken place.
"See?"
Yan got straight to the point.
"I saw it."
He Xi's voice lacked its usual ease, replaced by the solemnity and excitement of a scientist facing the unknown.
“I retrieved all the original data from the Shenhe Civilization regarding the three major god-making projects, including the parts I personally compiled. I can be 100% certain that such a thing is not in our design.”
He Xi stretched out her finger and drew a complex formula in the air:
"To instantly upgrade the gene engine of a second-generation god-like body to a level that can influence the physical rules of reality without astronomical levels of material and computational support is itself contrary to everything we know. Moreover, this is not an upgrade, it is... a system reinstallation."
"Who was this teacher?"
Yan asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
No, I don't think so.
He Xi shook her head; her gaze was so sharp it seemed to pierce through the screen.
"If He wanted to do this, He wouldn't need to go through Ge Xiaolun at all. He could have made that fleet disappear from the concept itself. I have a feeling that He... looks down on application-level things like gene technology. What He did was tear open a hole in the source code of the universe and give them a glimpse."
He Xi paused, then used a metaphor that any Earthling could understand:
"He gave them a programming beginner's guide, and Ge Xiaolun, under extreme pressure and sudden enlightenment, figured out a command to force shutdown on his own. This was his own realization, the first fruit borne after that courage. A... terrifying fruit that we never expected."
Yan fell silent. She recalled the teacher's calm tone and that open class. It turned out that it wasn't just "teaching," but also an act of "empowerment."
"And what about us? He Xi, the future of angels..." Yan's voice held a hint of confusion. As the new queen, she bore the fate of the entire civilization, and now, the rules of the game had been completely changed.
"future?"
He Xi's expression became more serious than ever before. "We need to fight for the future ourselves. I have two new proposals, or rather, two top-level orders that we must execute immediately."
"First,"
He Xi raised one finger, his tone solemn.
"Find a way to bring that tomboy back."
"Who?"
Yan didn't react for a moment.
"Kesha."
He Xi stated the name of the fallen man directly.
Yan's pupils suddenly contracted:
"He Xi! Are you crazy? The Queen has already..."
"She has been declared dead."
He Xi interrupted her.
met free