Chapter 1 A Wormhole Appears

Somewhere within the World Tree civilization, an artificial wormhole suddenly materialized, expanding as it spun. Several unmanned engineering vessels emerged, swiftly deploying shielding devices and communication base stations.

Once the temporary base station was established, three direct-line Super-A Grade mechanics from the three Great Civilizations projected their data bodies through it, using it as a springboard.

In the data realm, the quantum soul bodies of “Warden” Luo Mo, “Quantum Devil” Zhu Di si, and the other mechanic materialized, their vision filled with a quantum network node linked into a brilliant sea of stars.

"Pay attention to data camouflage. If there's any anomaly, disconnect immediately."

Zhu Di si sternly gave a few instructions.

After preliminary preparations, the three Great Civilizations officially executed the network intelligence theft plan today, dispatching three direct-line mechanics, allocating the computing power of each civilization's main intelligence, and browsing the World Tree civilization's network under aliases.

The World Tree passage was a springboard. Now, the wormhole coordinates explored and mastered by the three Great Civilizations were more than just the data left by the Heterogeneous God. For safety's sake, they were almost switching locations after each hit, rarely reusing the same wormhole coordinates.

This coordinate was being used for the first time, and they planned to temporarily seal it after stealing the network intelligence.

The three didn't have time to delay. Using the basic compilation language deciphered not long ago, they cooperated with their teammates to infiltrate a quantum network node and began to collect shallow data on a large scale, scavenging public information on the network.

Every second, massive amounts of data were packaged and uploaded to the high-encryption-level information processing library temporarily opened by the main intelligence of the three Great Civilizations.

The three Great Civilizations remotely monitored the situation, working with incredible efficiency, and soon completed the operation smoothly.

The engineering vessels immediately dismantled and recovered all the devices, leaving several strangely shaped bombs in place before returning to the explored universe through the wormhole.

After the engineering vessels returned, the three Great Civilizations closed the World Tree passage on the other side of the wormhole. The artificial wormhole rapidly shrunk and disappeared.

Immediately afterward, the bombs, which had been timed in advance, exploded, spreading chaotic energy waves that covered the area, erasing all traces.

The area returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

After an unknown amount of time, a spatial rift suddenly appeared, and a translucent blue-green root emerged from it, its volume extremely large.

Ripples spread across the surface of the root, and a fleet flew out of it. Initially, it was somewhat illusory, like a phantom, but once it completely separated from the root, the fleet's appearance solidified.

"This is the area near the anomalous reaction indicated by the information state warning network. Sacred Tree Envoy, should we begin the detection?"

In the main ship's command room, the captain stood beside a tall figure, respectfully requesting instructions.

This tall figure was named Babani, and he had a ferocious appearance, looking like some kind of arthropod. He wore a suit of armor, and faint blue-green energy swirled around him. He was not the same species as the surrounding crew members.

Within the World Tree civilization, Sacred Tree Envoys were a special group with a lofty status. They were one of the executors of the highest will, and only individuals with a deep connection to the World Tree could serve, allowing them to use some of the World Tree's abilities, such as rapid traversal and material transformation.

"Activate the information state imager and see what happened here," Babani said in a short, sharp voice.

This type of device could retrospectively examine events that had occurred in an area on the information state level. The greater the power, the farther back in time it could go, and the clearer the details would be.

With the order given, the fleet quickly went into operation. Beams of light-green light swept across the surroundings, but there was no reaction in the scanned areas.

"No information state traces were detected. We can't ascertain anything that happened here... It's basically certain that outsiders have infiltrated."

The captain glanced at the scan results and quickly concluded:

"Even older information state traces have disappeared, proving that the outsiders possess a certain level of information state technology. Their civilization level is not low."

"It seems we have new prey again," Babani said excitedly.

The captain glanced at the time and analyzed, "Based on the time difference between our arrival on the scene, the outsiders' target may have been to enter our quantum network and steal intelligence."

"That's a good thing."

Babani didn't care at all.

He wasn't worried about network information leaks. The upper levels didn't put any key secrets on the network; it was just bait.

The information state warning network covered the entire information collection of the World Tree civilization, capable of detecting whether it was being spied upon by outsiders. As long as it became entangled with the information collection of outsiders, it would issue a warning. However, it was limited to alarms; it couldn't reverse-steal information, so it could only detect that outsiders were spying, but not the specific situation of the other party.

But that wasn't a problem. The World Tree itself had the nature of a high-dimensional information body. The more outsiders who knew of its existence, or the deeper the interference between the two information collections, the more obvious the perception would be.

As long as the interaction reached a certain standard, the World Tree could send down revelations, sensing the direction of the other party's information collection, and then dispatching a long-range fleet to search along the direction, eventually finding the other party.

This was also like the soul connection of a cosmic treasure, which could be used for remote positioning, except that the relationship was reversed.

Most cosmic treasures were difficult to establish soul connections with, and were extremely aloof. Even if they recognized their master, it was reluctantly. The Evolution Cube and the Spacetime Amber were like this, but the World Tree, a cosmic treasure, almost accepted anyone.

However, outsiders could only "rub against it from the outside" and could not obtain any substantial benefits from it, but would instead expose themselves.

This was similar to the characteristic of certain information body life forms in the universe, as if they possessed divinity. It was like, "If you recite my name, I will know you."

Therefore, the information in the quantum network was a type of bait, designed to catch the "fish" in the universe who had the ability to discover them, to find prey.

But the information on the network was not fabricated false data. It was indeed real information left behind by countless people in their daily activities, but all secrets about the World Tree itself were strictly restricted and not allowed to be uploaded.

"Alright, your mission is complete."

Babani let out a sharp laugh:

"I'll go suggest that the Tree King mobilize all future state information perceivers to see if they can foresee the information of these outsiders in advance. Let's go."

As soon as he finished speaking, the blue-green energy on his body suddenly surged.

The huge root lying quietly to one side seemed to receive a signal. It suddenly curled up and swallowed the fleet back, then rapidly retreated into the spatial rift.

The next moment, the spatial rift quickly closed, as if it had never existed.

...

Several days later, in the Black Star Army's territory, on a secret training planet.

Han Xiao hovered in outer space, overlooking two meteors chasing each other on the ground, colliding again and again, leaving huge holes in the ground, with dust and sand swirling.

One of them was Rothere, and the other was Karote, who was receiving special training.

Rothere controlled his output, constantly honing Karote in actual combat, imparting martial arts insights while also practicing precise control over his surging power. Karote was like a sponge, rapidly absorbing the essence, enriching himself.

"Having found the correct training method, this guy's progress is astonishing."

Han Xiao, who was watching from the sky, nodded with satisfaction.

Not only Karote, but in the past few days, he had also been specially training other Super-A Grade seeds, teaching according to their aptitude and providing customized training plans. The effect was good. He felt that if this continued in the long term, many seeds would "sprout."

"Beep, beep..."

Just then, the communicator rang.

Han Xiao glanced at it. It was a message from the three Great Civilizations, containing the World Tree civilization intelligence obtained by stealing from the network, which had been fully analyzed.

He raised an eyebrow and immediately focused on reading it.

Because the players' intelligence channels were limited, it was difficult to involve high-level secrets. His understanding of the World Tree civilization came from the previous life's war era, and was basically common knowledge at the time.

He knew very little about the situation of the World Tree civilization at this point in time. This information would help him deepen his understanding.

"...When there is no war, the daily life of the World Tree civilization is similar to that of interstellar society. Speaking of which, the three Great Civilizations have been dealing with invasions in the previous life and have never fought in the territory of the World Tree civilization. This is the first time I've seen a detailed star map of their territory."

Han Xiao carefully read it again and found that it was all ordinary information, none of which was as important as the World Tree's main body and other secrets that he had provided.

At the end of the information, he found a note from the three Great Civilizations, stating that they would fulfill the agreement in a while and recognize the association's position.

"Although it didn't verify the accuracy of the secrets I provided, other ordinary intelligence matched up. The three Great Civilizations shouldn't doubt me anymore..."

While reading the information, the communicator suddenly rang again. Han Xiao glanced at it. It was a message from the Oathkeeper, and the content made his heart tighten.

"The Son of Destiny suddenly showed an abnormal reaction?"

Han Xiao's eyes twitched slightly.

If he remembered correctly, the last time the Son of Destiny had an abnormal reaction was at the time point when the Intelligent Plague broke out ahead of schedule, and created a batch of new sub-bodies, one of which was in his hands.

He knew this because he was on good terms with the Oathkeeper, and they had personally told him about it.

At this crucial juncture, the Son of Destiny was acting up again, and he felt that it couldn't be anything good.