Chapter 873: Destruction! Destruction! |
This place was the enemy’s true heartland. If not for using a massive move like galactic disassembly and reassembly to destroy a large amount of the enemy’s active strength, Xiao Yu simply could not have accomplished this. Even if the virtual life civilization had not brought out its ability of infinite computational power, Xiao Yu still could not have accomplished this.
Xiao Yu had truly entered this place. During the previous period of time, using the mechanical processing equipment that every spaceship carried internally, Xiao Yu had urgently produced a batch of spy devices. These spy devices were tiny and possessed strong camouflage capabilities, yet every one of them had the ability to directly contact Xiao Yu. In addition, they could also serve as a data interface. If they could connect to the electronic equipment under the virtual life civilization, Xiao Yu’s computational power could even penetrate into the virtual life civilization’s internal network!
That was right. In addition to stealing enemy intelligence through conventional means, Xiao Yu also planned to fight them in an information network war! Xiao Yu had always possessed this pride and this confidence: I am a true intelligent being, while you are merely tools of intelligent beings! Even if you have infinite computational power, in combat within the network world, you will definitely not be my match!
The virtual life civilization’s response could not be called slow. After their defensive line was torn open and tens of millions of Xiao Yu’s spaceships surged inside, a large number of fleets immediately rushed toward this place. Even within those construction bases, countless newly completed spaceships left the docks and came directly here to join the battle.
In only an instant, Xiao Yu’s tens of millions of spaceships came under siege.
Moreover, the outer defensive line had already closed. These spaceships were trapped here, with enemies in front and enemies behind. They could neither advance nor retreat.
Destruction seemed to have become their only possible outcome.
But that did not matter! If Xiao Yu’s strategic objective could be achieved, then even if all these tens of millions of spaceships were left here and all destroyed, it would still be worth it! Even if one of Xiao Yu’s ten Star Cluster-Class battleships, the Honor Star Cluster-Class battleship, was left here, it was still the same! In order to achieve his goal, Xiao Yu would not fear the loss of a single Star Cluster-Class battleship.
Xiao Yu’s main force had already been firmly blocked outside the defensive line. During the previous period, the virtual life civilization had already completed its troop deployment. Under such circumstances, breaking through the line had become rather unlikely. Whether this mission could be successfully carried out now depended on these tens of millions of spaceships.
Xiao Yu chose to split his forces again! Xiao Yu divided these tens of millions of spaceships into several thousand squadrons, with each squadron containing only tens of thousands of spaceships.
Even staying together, they still could not escape destruction. Splitting up was even more like seeking death. Yet Xiao Yu still did it without hesitation. Since these spaceships’ final end could not escape death, then letting them bring out their greatest effect was what Xiao Yu needed to pursue.
Within the virtual life civilization’s core defensive ring, almost every planet and every star was assigned one small squadron. After carrying out the squadron deployment, Xiao Yu did not entangle himself at all with the spaceships coming to block him. Instead, like a swarm of flies, they burst apart and scattered in all directions, fleeing toward different planets and stars.
Xiao Yu’s move was beyond the virtual life civilization’s expectations. After seeing Xiao Yu act this way, they showed a rare moment of hesitation. It was precisely in that moment of hesitation that Xiao Yu had already escaped several tens of billions of kilometers away. After that, the virtual life civilization’s fleet began rapidly chasing, and in the course of this pursuit and escape, at least five squadrons had already arrived before their targets.
Those targets were planets and stars. The stars within the core defensive ring all had sufficiently tight defenses, so these spaceships could not approach the stars. They then began wantonly slaughtering those transport fleets that had no power to resist at all, doing their utmost to create chaos. Those fleets that arrived before planets, when facing planetary shield systems, if they lacked the ability to enter the planet’s inner layers, similarly began to create as much chaos as possible, massively destroying facilities built in space such as space bases, space docks, transport ships, and the like. Those spaceships lucky enough to enter the planet’s inner layers began carrying out destruction on a grand scale without any restraint.
This was the core defensive ring. There were a great number of spaceships and facilities here that had no combat power at all. When facing warships, they were not even as good as sheep! Sheep at least knew to bleat twice when facing wolves, but when these things faced warships, they did not even have the qualifications to cry out!
Tens of millions of spaceships were carrying out large-scale destruction here! Tens of millions of spaceships had brought the flames of war into this place that should have been peaceful. It was just like in ancient Earth’s era, when a routed army with no organization and no discipline at all charged into a prosperous metropolis.
Smoke rose everywhere, and flames of war covered the ground! The virtual life had already brought out its ability of infinite computational power and was carrying out frenzied construction here at a level far exceeding ordinary needs. This had caused a massive pileup of construction facilities. A medium-sized dock might contain more than five billion robots! Yet destroying this one medium-sized dock only required a single Spatial Bomb fired by one spaceship!
“Let’s see whether you build faster, or I destroy faster!” Xiao Yu laughed savagely in his heart. The violence in Xiao Yu’s heart, the pressure caused by these past several hundred years of war in which he had lived in fear and tread on thin ice, was vented to the fullest at this moment.
No one knew how many unfinished spaceships were destroyed inside factories, how many transport ships carrying precious materials were blasted apart on their routes, or how many robots and construction instruments were reduced to ashes by a single shell before they had even contributed their abilities.
The destruction caused here by these tens of millions of spaceships was actually even greater than the destruction caused outside by Xiao Yu’s several billion spaceships! Moreover, the destruction here was far-reaching in meaning. At least for now, Xiao Yu could effectively suppress the virtual life civilization’s nearly insane momentum of development.
Destroy! Destroy! Endless destruction! Destroying the enemy was winning breathing room for himself!
One spaceship somewhat fortunately passed through a planet’s planetary shield system and arrived at the planet’s surface. This planet’s surface was almost completely covered by all kinds of construction bases. Looking down from space, one could hardly even see the planet’s original surface. Moreover, Xiao Yu knew that these were only appearances. Beneath this planet, tens to thousands of kilometers below the surface, there were no telling how many heavy industrial infrastructures there were.
Tens of thousands of spaceships chased after it at random, but Xiao Yu’s spaceship did not tangle with them at all. It merely relied on outstanding mobility to keep escaping. In the course of its escape, all kinds of weapons were used in turn. Huge Spatial Bombs were dropped, and every Spatial Bomb blasted out a crater at least several hundred kilometers across on the surface, destroying endless industrial facilities. An occasional shot from a Spatial Cannon could almost pierce the entire planet through…
This one spaceship had no idea whether it had destroyed hundreds of billions or several hundred billion robots, nor how many giant industrial bases it had destroyed! Even when it was hit and faced destruction, Xiao Yu still controlled its trajectory, making it crash into the tallest factory. Using the explosion before death, it destroyed that factory…
Destruction everywhere, impossible to stop, that was the situation now. The virtual life civilization’s spaceships were constrained and did not dare attack on a large scale, while Xiao Yu had no such concerns.
On the other side, the Honor spaceship’s situation was not very good. As Xiao Yu’s main force spaceship, after entering the core defensive ring, it had almost immediately become the key focus of the virtual life civilization. The virtual life civilization even dispatched two Star Cluster-Class battleships, leading several million other spaceships of various types, specifically to deal with it!
Even so, the Honor spaceship still inflicted the most severe damage upon the virtual life civilization’s core defensive ring. Under the bombardment of the more than three hundred thousand main cannons equipped on it, planetary shield systems were nothing more than decorations. Relying on brute-force collision, smashing apart a planet was not difficult for it at all. In this core region of the virtual life civilization, it charged about almost recklessly, without any concerns. This one spaceship alone caused destruction amounting to at least twenty percent of the total destructive power of all Xiao Yu’s spaceships combined!
This was the might of a Star Cluster-Class battleship! This was the weapon of war Xiao Yu had built using the most advanced technology, and by pouring in the greatest amount of effort, time, and resources!
But now it had already reached the edge of destruction. There were no reinforcements, no cover, enemies everywhere. No matter where it went, it would meet attacks, with no chance to catch its breath. Under such circumstances, even something as powerful as it could not hold on for very long.
“So be it. The Honor spaceship has indeed won honor for itself. The destruction it has caused is already several times its own value. Go complete one final mission. Destroy that supermassive dock and the two half-finished Star Cluster-Class battleships inside it…”