Chapter 887: Human, Into Battle! |
At last, it was time for the final battle against the virtual life civilization. After this battle, regardless of whether Xiao Yu’s plan could ultimately succeed, Xiao Yu would leave this place.
“I have already been entangled here for several hundred years…” Xiao Yu sighed inwardly. “It truly is time for this to end. All arrangements are already in place, all preparations are already complete. If I still cannot achieve victory, then it can only mean that the gap in strength between me and the enemy is too great. There is nothing that can be done about that.”
At this moment, the virtual life civilization was still in a period of vigorous development. Although their rear construction no longer had any stellar reserves, a great number of transport ships were carrying huge quantities of material day and night from the stellar ruins scattered throughout the starry sky. These materials supported the vast construction projects of the virtual life civilization. By this time, in their main base alone, they had already stockpiled at least forty billion warships, and still, there were unending streams of warships coming in from bases all across the starry sky.
“Their total number of warships is probably more than eighty billion by now. It is just that these warships are scattered throughout the starry sky, and they have no way to gather them together in a short time. This is my opportunity. I must fight a quick battle and bring this war to an end in the shortest possible time.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “Bring out all combat strength. Everything that can be directly controlled by me will be directly controlled, and everything that cannot be directly controlled will all be controlled by the Supercomputing Center. Press all combat strength into this battle and use this campaign to settle the outcome once and for all!”
The Human spaceship was also among the forces sent out in this battle. Accompanying the Human spaceship was all of Xiao Yu’s fighting strength, nearly thirty billion ships in total. This truly was the greatest combat strength Xiao Yu could bring out.
The movement of Xiao Yu’s fleet immediately drew the attention of the virtual life civilization. Xiao Yu saw endless numbers of warships beginning to move. At every stronghold and every base there were images of warships shuttling back and forth. An unprecedented pressure began condensing in this region of starry space. A great battle was about to erupt.
This was a battle even larger in scale than the first clash between the two Level 7 Civilizations. It was also a battle that would decide the fate of the two civilizations. Whether he could achieve his purpose depended on this one attempt.
“It may be very puzzled by the fact that I am launching a full offensive at this time, because no matter how one looks at it, I have no hope of winning this battle. But it does not matter. My target is not your civilization, but you yourself. As long as I can kill you, my goal will be achieved.” Xiao Yu thought silently.
A bright white beam appeared in the dark void of space. At Faster-Than-Light speed, it shot from one of Xiao Yu’s vanguard ships toward the distant depths of the starry sky and accurately struck what appeared to be a County-Class ship. That ship exploded and broke apart with a tremendous blast, and the intense flash illuminated tens of thousands of kilometers of surrounding space.
The two torrents finally collided. And these two torrents were merely two among countless others. In many more places across the starry sky, even fiercer battles were unfolding. There were simply too many ships, and the battlefield was simply too vast. Endless warships were slaughtering one another here. Endless explosions, flashes, beams, and spatial distortions filled this region of space spanning more than ten light years.
This was a direct clash without any fancy maneuvers. At present, Xiao Yu did not yet intend to activate those hidden forces he had concealed. The most crucial strength had to be used at the most crucial moment, and that moment was still far from now.
This battle was the first time the Human spaceship had entered combat. It was Xiao Yu’s flagship, and also his most formidable ship. Its strength was enough to make every ship on the battlefield able to do nothing but look up at it. It was the embodiment of Xiao Yu’s highest technological achievement.
At this moment, it was entangled with another Star Cluster-Class battleship of the virtual life civilization. Behind that enemy Star Cluster-Class battleship was a vast space base. In that region of space, endless steel structures seemed to merge into one mass. Countless enormous buildings stood upon it, and countless aircraft were moving between the different structures. Looking carefully, one could also see innumerable robots, like ants, laboring industriously on it. Its length reached nearly ten million kilometers, while its width and thickness reached respectively the level of one million kilometers and several thousand kilometers. This was a magnificent structure that could only be built by pushing construction capability to its absolute limit. Even Xiao Yu could only sigh inwardly in amazement when facing such a structure.
At this moment, Xiao Yu’s target was to destroy this largest logistics base and, for a certain period of time, cut off the combat-strength replenishment of the virtual life civilization. Within such an enormous logistics base, at least several billion ships were under construction, and among those ships, probably at least three hundred million would soon be able to enter battle.
Within this vast logistics base, there were bound to be many replicates already won over by Xiao Yu. But at this moment, Xiao Yu could no longer concern himself with them. Xiao Yu could not control the range to which those viruses spread, but after they had won over those replicates, he could monitor their movements and control their lives. If at this moment they dared do anything harmful to Xiao Yu, the perfected judgment procedures inside the virus would automatically activate and destroy those replicates.
Cooperating with Xiao Yu was, from the beginning, like bargaining with a tiger for its skin. Not only did Xiao Yu understand this clearly, those replicates understood it clearly as well. But they had no choice. Most of them would choose to cooperate with Xiao Yu. Because of their bone-deep hatred, and because of that tiny and faint hope of obtaining freedom. It was precisely because he was confident in this that Xiao Yu had created this virus. And the facts were developing exactly as Xiao Yu had predicted.
There were many such enormous construction bases within the virtual life civilization, and the one before him was the largest of them and also the most thoroughly defended. Naturally, such a difficult target had to be led and taken by the Human spaceship.
The various weapons equipped on the Human spaceship were firing at full power. The bright white beams emitted by the several hundred thousand strategic-class Spatial Cannons carried the aura of death as they savagely surged forward. The Spatial Vortex and the spatial maze worked together, twisting space into something like a tangled knot. Tens of millions of escort ships moved back and forth within the illusions created by the spatial maze, while clusters of Spatial Bombs were like bloodthirsty schools of sharks…
This region of space had already descended into utter chaos, and at just this moment, the addition of the space defense equipment built on the rear construction base intensified the confusion even further. Countless lightsabers rose from the base, sweeping back and forth like stage spotlights. From time to time they would go dark, or suddenly brighten again. Countless lightsabers likewise thrust into that mass of chaotic space, searching there for their targets.
Countless ships were taking off from here into outer space, and countless ships were descending from outer space to this place for repairs and rest. The ships taking off and landing were as dense as flies, with not a moment’s pause. Occasionally, an attack would fall onto the construction base, raising great clouds of smoke and flames. Immediately, rescue ships and robots as dense as swarms of bees would rush over to repair the damaged equipment…
The Human spaceship was entangled with that Star Cluster-Class battleship, and in this battle Xiao Yu held an absolute advantage. Countless friendly ships were like ants, little by little consuming its energy and destroying the facilities on it. Eliminating it was merely a matter of time for Xiao Yu.
But Xiao Yu knew it would not retreat. If it continued fighting, there was still hope of survival. The moment it retreated, it would immediately be erased by Virtual Life Number One. Virtual Life Number One might perhaps be making other arrangements, but those arrangements no longer had anything to do with it. Those arrangements might save the overall situation, but they could not save it.
Under Xiao Yu’s fierce offensive, this Star Cluster-Class battleship exploded apart. The light it emitted was almost comparable to that of a star. The already chaotic region of space became even more chaotic from this impact, and many ships were directly swept away by shattered space to unknown places. Only faint traces of explosive light revealed their fate.
There were no more obstacles ahead. Xiao Yu’s fleet descended beside this enormous logistics construction base like a fierce tiger charging down a mountain. Violent attacks began the next moment, with all kinds of spatial weapons directed at this now defenseless construction base…
In only a little more than ten minutes, this construction base, together with the hundreds of millions of ships under construction inside it, had been completely destroyed. The Human spaceship led its escort fleet in changing course and charged toward another area closer to the core of the virtual life civilization.
The flames of war had already spread across this region spanning more than ten light years. Intense battles were raging everywhere.
“Almost there, almost there. Very soon I can activate the nails I planted inside the virtual life civilization…” Xiao Yu murmured to himself.