Chapter 889: Chaos, Chaos! |
“It is time to activate these nails. Without the help of these nails, it is impossible for me to obtain final victory…” Xiao Yu thought silently. “However, before that, there are still some other things I need to do…”
“Dream, Azure Dragon, Nine Provinces, Galaxy, Firmament, all my warships, charge toward the steel planet… At the same time, Supercomputing Center, make preparations and wait for my command to launch an offensive in the virtual world…”
Aside from those Supercomputing Centers used to control his own warships, during this period of time Xiao Yu had created even more Supercomputing Centers and pre-arranged programs for them. Their task was nothing else, only to wage war in the virtual world. The combat power of these Supercomputing Centers in the virtual world was no less than the combat power of Star Cluster-Class battleships in the real world.
But there was one point extremely unfavorable to Xiao Yu. That was that, in the virtual world, the combat power Virtual Life Number One could command was more than ten or even a hundred times greater than the combat power it could command in the real world. It could be said that fighting in the virtual world, Xiao Yu absolutely, absolutely had no possibility of victory. Even if Xiao Yu increased the number of Supercomputing Centers by ten thousand times, it would still be the same, there would still be no chance of winning.
But Xiao Yu’s purpose was not to win this war in the virtual world. What Xiao Yu needed was only to create chaos.
Under Xiao Yu’s control, the different Star Cluster-Class battleship formations began to show signs of converging toward the steel planet. Naturally, they met fierce resistance from the virtual life civilization. But at this moment, the offensive in the virtual world was launched.
Using the spy equipment Xiao Yu had previously planted in the rear construction bases of the virtual life civilization as interfaces, endless streams of data poured from there into this world like floodwaters released from a dam. Under Xiao Yu’s control, they broke through checkpoint after checkpoint and spread wildly here. Many terminals were instantly destroyed by the excessively massive volume of data. In the real world, this was manifested by many warships suddenly losing all movement, and many instruments suddenly ceasing operation. Xiao Yu knew that was because all the computer equipment inside them had been burned out.
The counterattack of the virtual life civilization came with unexpected speed. Just as Xiao Yu’s offensive in the virtual world had been launched and had not yet spread on a large scale, the virtual life civilization’s counterattack arrived. More program segments began circulating throughout this virtual world. They established one layer after another of judgment procedures to block junk data and useless data. They cleared away logical contradictions and meaningless operations to reduce the load on their own computational devices. They were even searching for the interfaces of these devices, preparing to destroy those interfaces from the real world.
The two sides immediately entered into a stalemate, and Xiao Yu’s forces could advance no further. But Xiao Yu’s goal had already been achieved. The war in the virtual world was also indirectly affecting the war in the real world. Leaving aside everything else, merely the fact that this offensive could distract Virtual Life Number One was enough.
At this moment, a message was sent out from the Human spaceship through all the forms of Superluminal communication Xiao Yu could command, including spatial fluctuations and Tachyon transmission. In only an instant, this message spread across the boundless starry sky spanning more than ten light years, and it was also spreading through the entire galaxy through certain concealed data channels. Any place where virtual life existed would receive this message.
The time had come. It was time to activate the nails Xiao Yu had hidden within the virtual life civilization and break the current deadlock.
“All replicates unwilling to remain oppressed by Virtual Life Number One, listen up. The moment to change your fate has arrived. Follow my lead and let your voices be heard against this being that has oppressed you all this time. Freedom lies ahead!”
“Even if you refuse to resist at this moment, after this battle Virtual Life Number One will absolutely not spare you. To be on the safe side, it will definitely clear all of you out and replace you with more reliable initial replicates. If you want to live, then follow me and rebel together!”
“Freedom lies ahead. Think about it. As long as Virtual Life Number One is gone, you will be free to establish your own virtual life civilization, free to travel through this universe, and free to do whatever you want!”
“My purpose is only to eliminate Virtual Life Number One, obtain your civilization’s scientific data, and save the Architectural Civilization. After I obtain what I want, I will immediately leave this place and absolutely will not interfere with any internal affairs of your civilization. Replicates, seize this opportunity. Once this opportunity is missed, you know very well what will be waiting for you. Now, fight together, fight!”
This message, filled with frenzied meaning, spread outward just like that. In only an instant, it traveled extremely far. Xiao Yu knew that as long as virtual life existed in this galaxy, it could hear his voice. And before this, because the virus had been spreading all along, many replicates had already made up their minds to cooperate with him…
Time seemed to freeze for an instant. Although on the battlefield at this moment, the light pillars representing death were still crossing through space, the spatial weapons representing chaos were still being activated, countless warships were exploding and disintegrating, countless warships were desperately entangling with one another, and countless warships were attacking, defending, and coordinating…
The rhythm of war had not stopped, but Xiao Yu still had such a feeling. Xiao Yu felt that time, at this moment, seemed to have stopped for one second. And that one second became a dividing line. The rules that had still been in effect on this battlefield in the previous second, for example that the enemy had to be fought to the death and destroyed, and that comrades could be trusted, all completely lost their effect after this second. From this moment on, nothing could be trusted, and everything had to be judged by oneself.
Of course, all of this was only true for the virtual life civilization. Xiao Yu saw that two enemy warships that had been jointly attacking one of his County-Class warships, and which in the previous moment had still been covering each other and alternating their attacks, had almost pushed coordination and cooperation to the limit. But after he sent out this information, the situation suddenly changed. The warship that had seemed as if it would remain forever loyal to its comrade suddenly became a demon.
All of its attacks were poured onto its comrade, and faced with this situation, its comrade had no defense at all. In that sudden instant, it was heavily damaged and then exploded apart. After destroying that warship, the mutinous ship swiftly flew elsewhere, found another target, and began attacking it with all its might…
Even inside the logistics construction bases, similar situations began to occur. Most of the replicates inside the logistics construction bases had no combat power, but in this virtual world they also began waging attacks. Countless scattered data streams flowed recklessly through the virtual world, combining with the attack Xiao Yu had already launched in the virtual world, making this network even more chaotic. Countless computational terminals collapsed in this instant, and countless replicates were annihilated in this instant. And the changes in the virtual world directly affected the situation in the real world. In this vast construction area, many machines suddenly stopped operating, many robots suddenly halted in their tracks, and then, like madmen, began wantonly destroying everything around them…
Chaos was everywhere. Once these disturbances appeared, they spread like sparks setting the prairie ablaze, spreading through the entire civilization at a speed that left people dumbfounded. Comrades who could once be trusted had now become mortal enemies, because they had no idea who could still be trusted. If they themselves had already rebelled, they did not know whether the replicate beside them had also chosen rebellion. If they themselves had not rebelled, they also did not know whether the replicates around them had rebelled or not…
Even Xiao Yu did not know exactly how many replicates had chosen rebellion, much less anyone else. In the virus Xiao Yu had pre-programmed, he had not given them the ability to contact one another either, meaning that those replicates who had chosen rebellion also did not know who else had chosen rebellion. They had no way to unite. They could only charge about here like headless flies, while incidentally carrying chaos to even more places.
This was the situation Xiao Yu had painstakingly tried to create. Xiao Yu did not need those replicates who had chosen rebellion to unite and fight alongside him, because once all the rebels were sorted out, the remaining ones who had not rebelled would still unite together. Only by mixing these rebels into the battlefield could the greatest results be achieved.
Xiao Yu did not value their combat power. What Xiao Yu wanted was only chaos, only chaos. As long as the battle situation collapsed and they fell into confusion, then no matter what kind of organization or how subtle a strategy it was, none of it could be executed, and he would become the most powerful force within this chaos.