Inside the spaceship.

In one of the rooms.

Shadows flitted about.

A sizzling flash, like arc welding, illuminated the room, revealing magnificent, Bible-like scriptures etched onto the walls.

If one looked closely, they would realize they didn't recognize a single character.

For the Silk Believers, those were the words of God.

In fact, by searching archives, similar characters could be found on some warship wreckage from past conflicts with the Silk Civilization.

A figure, frenzied, continuously etched.

......

Outside.

The few individuals who had finished their reports gathered again in the observation room.

Someone asked, "Where's She'erhua?"

"Didn't I just say? He was a bit tired, probably went to sleep."

The person who asked replied, "I went to call him just now, but he wasn't in his room."

"Then where did he go?"

The few immediately became alert.

They all held their guns.

"Contact him with the communicator and pull up the surveillance footage of the entire spaceship."

The few cooperated.

The communicator couldn't connect.

Surveillance showed that the camera in one room was broken; although nano-robots had been continuously trying to repair it, it still hadn't been fixed.

"He's probably in there. Let's go together."

The few arrived outside the room.

This was just a utility room.

There was nothing inside.

Luo Zade went up and knocked on the door.

"She'erhua, are you in there?"

He called out loudly.

There was no sound from inside.

"Use the authorization to open the door."

"Everyone, be careful."

The door opened.

It was very dark inside.

Luo Zade activated his mecha's night vision.

Inside, a person stood in the center of the room, his body in an outstretched posture.

"Ah... My Lord God, please return to the world and bring infinite light to this dark universe!"

He chanted.

"She'erhua!!!"

Someone shouted.

"Don't shout, he's been corrupted."

"Damn it, I knew we shouldn't have gotten this close."

Luo Zade stared at the person in the room. When the lights came on, he noticed the dense characters on the wall.

He didn't go up to kill She'erhua.

Instead, he said to the others, "Let's go back to the observation room."

"At least before we die, we can get more information about the enemy."

Silk Believers themselves posed no threat.

They wouldn't even launch any attacks.

However.

Seeing Silk Believers meant that the Silk Civilization had already arrived.

Any resistance was futile.

Fleeing seemed pointless.

At least, currently, Human Civilization had no means to suppress the Silk Civilization's corruption.

The others silently put away their guns.

They closed the door.

She'erhua continued to chant.

"The chaotic world is filled with sin. Only Silk connects everything, eliminating sin."

Back in the observation room, everyone was silent.

They were going to die.

That was the only thing on their minds at that moment.

"Perhaps we don't have to die!" Luo Zade said.

The others looked at him.

"Go there!"

Luo Zade pointed to the center of the battlefield.

"That energy isn't just for the Silk Civilization; it's for us too. We can't get close at all."

Someone felt that Luo Zade was grasping at straws.

"No, we don't need to get close, just be next to it."

"Actually, I just realized that Destiny Ring Star will lose."

Luo Zade's words left everyone puzzled.

He, of course, knew his words sounded confusing; not only to the others, but even he himself didn't know if his guess was correct.

"You should have noticed what She'erhua said."

"Although it's ridiculous, I actually studied some of what Silk Believers said before. They seem to truly worship the Silk Civilization as a deity."

"This theory is mainstream; many scholars believe it, but I think it's wrong."

"These Silk Believers don't worship the Silk Civilization; rather, these Silk Believers themselves have already become a part of the Silk Civilization."

"Based on this, what the Silk Believers say is essentially what the Silk Civilization communicates."

"What do they want to do?"

The others thought it was unlikely.

"Break through the darkness, rectify sin. Do you think that's possible?"

Luo Zade nodded firmly.

"Very likely!"

"For us, this is, of course, a joke."

"Just as when we humans say to an alien Civilization that we are friendly, it's also a joke to the alien Civilization."

"But, for ourselves, such words are actually true; we are truly friendly."

"So, the Silk Civilization itself truly believes this."

The others still didn't understand what Luo Zade was trying to say.

"Even if that's the case, what then?"

How would this help their current situation?

And what did it have to do with whether Destiny Ring Star would lose?

"For normal Civilizations like us, some words, of course, have no relation."

"But the Silk Civilization is too special. It shouldn't even be called a Civilization now, but rather a consciousness."

"A consciousness that relies on cosmic space and possesses powerful extraordinary abilities or divine power."

"In other words, every word it speaks is its attribute, what it wants to do."

"It defines itself as righteous and others as evil. This represents its aggressiveness and destructiveness; it will not accept any Civilization other than itself."

"So, now let's explain this sentence again: The chaotic world is filled with sin. Only Silk connects everything, eliminating sin."

"That is, the chaotic world, isn't that the current battlefield?"

"Filled with sin, that's actually the Destiny Ring Star fleet."

"Only Silk, this has two concepts: one is the Silk Civilization, and the other is an ability called Silk."

"Connecting everything also has two layers of meaning: one is connecting the chaos, which is the chaotic energy around, and the other is connecting sin, which is directly invading the Destiny Ring Star warship."

"Eliminating sin, destroying Destiny Ring Star!"

This interpretation, in the eyes of the others, was already a bit far-fetched.

Luo Zade continued, "When we approach the battlefield, it is essentially the process of making the current battlefield more chaotic."

"I believe this can resist the Silk Civilization's invasion of us."

Two people immediately retorted.

"This idea is ultimately just a guess."

"And it's too naive."

"You're not serious, are you?"

Luo Zade nodded.

"Of course, I am serious."

"You might find it naive, or fantastical, like a play."

"But the very existence of the Silk Civilization is fantastical; it's not a conventional Civilization. To speculate about it with conventional thinking will only lead to death."

"Besides, do we have any other choice?"