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Chapter 174 Elena's Trapped Life

This Universe - Target Deep Space Region

"Hmm, there's a faint trace of the inertial abyss. It seems this is the place." Elena appeared in an ancient star system, looking at the star before her and sensing the various energy bodies in the universe before her.

"Crack~" A certain 'sound' was transmitted to Elena's special receiver. Elena looked over and found that it was a spatial rift that had broken open.

"A spatial rift?" Elena frowned, then flew over.

"Crack~ Whoosh~" When Elena flew to the spatial rift, the rift suddenly enlarged and shattered, creating a spatial channel with extremely strong suction that sucked Elena, who was immediately on guard, into it.

Then, the spatial passage vanished instantly, and the space returned to calm; nothing had happened.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh..." A wave cannon fleet jumped out of the warp and arrived at this ancient star system, but they found nothing.

"Buzz!" A strange energy swept across the fleet in an instant, and then the ancient star suddenly became more active and began to expand rapidly.

"The star is increasing in size!" the communications officer shouted from the flagship's bridge.

"The surrounding warp space, fold portals, and hyperspace portals are blocked, making warp impossible!"

"Full speed ahead towards the outside of the star system!"

"The star is about to arrive! It's too late... Zzz..."

The star was expanding too fast, and the wave cannon fleet, consisting of about one hundred Andromeda-class battleships and Dreadnought-class unmanned ships, whose jump portals had been inexplicably blocked, was swallowed up by the star...

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In the unknown space

"Finally stopped?" In a space so quiet it was practically empty, Elena looked around, activating the system's proprietary detection methods, but...

"The detection energy has been absorbed." Elena frowned, then instantly transformed back into her light sphere form and released a dazzling array of energy to cover herself with hundreds of layers of special defense.

“I remember it was mentioned in the council class that a certain space would devour the power of a system. If a system accidentally entered that space, it would be devoured until all its power was consumed… What was the next part?” Elena tried to recall that class from tens of thousands of years ago, but something around her suddenly rose sharply, making her wary.

"Bang!" An Andromeda-class wave cannon warship and two Dreadnought-class wave cannon warships were thrown out, but soon, these three already badly damaged interstellar warships were instantly crushed into iron discs by some force in this space.

"..." Looking at this power, Elena seemed to remember something, and her defensive power lit up once again. Then, she found that the greedy gaze that was fixed on her in this space had disappeared.

"Crack~..." The staring sensation disappeared, but a gap appeared in the iron blocks that had been compressed into discs. Several crew members screamed in fear as they watched themselves slowly disappear bit by bit in a painful and agonizing manner.

"Tsk~ Troublesome space. I can only wait for this space to return to calm before I can think of a way to leave." From Elena's perspective, a strange alien, only the size of a palm, with a jet-black body and teeth taking up most of its body, appeared next to the android soldiers and began to devour them. After nothing was left, it began to gnaw on the spaceships that had been crushed into iron plates.

"Something's not right. That spatial rift is definitely not right. I have a feeling it's man-made... Wait? Why is my power being lost?" As Elena pondered this, she suddenly realized that her energy was slowly draining away, and the direction of the loss was directly towards the entire space.

"%@Cut cut cut..." The space suddenly seemed to come alive, with all sorts of chilling and unbearable things appearing, and all sorts of chants that could drive a human instantly mad emerging everywhere.

"..." Looking at these things, Elena knew that they were obviously aimed at her.

"This space... I see. The conditions for its creation are truly harsh. It's a collection of nightmares and fears for all living beings. No wonder the council has only discovered it less than a hundred times in hundreds of millions of years. Most of them were created under the malicious intent of certain systems." Elena discovered something and began to use her power in a targeted manner and change the way her energy flowed.

"Sure enough, once the defensive array is operating at its lowest possible level, energy is no longer being lost, but... who knows how long it will be before we leave this place," Elena muttered to herself.

"Looks like we're being watched. Hopefully, Xing's side is alright." Elena quickly realized something.

"Nihilism? The World Tree? Or the Children of the Abyss?" Elena pondered which of these three anti-order world systems was behind it.

"Tsk~ I can't calculate it. I will definitely report it to the System Council and the Main God Council after I get out."

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An artificial universe in the unknown depths of the void

At the center of the universe, in a magnificent, golden mega-space structure spanning hundreds of light-years.

"Tap tap tap..." A mature woman hurriedly ran down the corridor carrying a document.

"Hey! Lavie, what's the rush?" A man raised his hand to greet her when he saw her.

"The Nightmare Space has reappeared. I need to report to my sisters from the first generation." Lavie hurriedly ran past the man, leaving him with those words.

“Nightmare Space… Damn, this thing hasn’t appeared for billions of years.” The man frowned, then greeted the others and prepared to follow Lavie toward a certain place.

"Boss, how should we move?" a boy asked.

"We are part of the parliament's dedicated war system. What else do we have besides preparing for war?" the man replied, then left.

"War, ah~" the boy licked his lips excitedly, then left the area.

Lavie and the man hurried to a huge gate. Lavie took a deep breath and pushed the gate open.

"Tenth Generation System X1056T5578, codename Lavie, what brings you to the council?" A domineering, queen-like voice rang out.

“Nightmare Space,” Lavie replied directly.

"Nightmare... Pfft! Cough cough cough..." The sound of spitting water and coughing instantly shattered the queen's majestic voice.

"Clang!" A sound rang out, and light appeared in front of Lavie, illuminating the conference room.

Inside the conference room, hundreds of mature women sat together, looking at Lavie and the man with serious expressions.

Well, except for the woman who's coughing.

"Hmm... Tell me what happened, why the Nightmare Space appeared, where it is, and how far it is from the Execution Universe," a mature woman asked, raising her hand.

“These are the coordinates of the target space in the Sea of ​​Nothingness. According to the comparison, the space is in a newly born, abnormal, chaotic universe. The identity beacon of the Council’s 77th generation system, Elena, has appeared in the space.” Lavie sent all the information to everyone present.

“Elena? I remember she was with a time traveler, how did she end up in the Nightmare Space?” someone suddenly said.

“When we detected Elena’s beacon in the Nightmare Space, we did not find any identity beacons belonging to the Council’s transmigrators,” Lavie responded.

"The host's beacon is far from Elena's beacon. Based on the distance and the sudden appearance of the nightmare space, it is inferred that Elena went to investigate the space alone but was accidentally seen and involved, while the host is perfectly normal."