Chapter 892: Perish Together! |
“Perhaps the time you can survive will be a little longer, but how much longer can it be? One month? Two months? Have you forgotten how Number One cleared out you replicates?!”
“Living in fear every day feels wonderful, right? Being threatened by your own self every day feels comfortable, right? Isn’t it? Isn’t it?!” Xiao Yu was rapidly sending out messages in the form of broadcasts, and those messages were filled with Xiao Yu’s explosive fury.
“Even if I fail this time, how much longer can you live? Does dying such a cowardly death really match what you want in your hearts? Now, I am giving you a chance to perish together with Number One!” Xiao Yu roared furiously. “As long as you open the road ahead and let me pass! Even if you die, Number One will die together with you! Think about Number One’s oppression of you and tell me, do you want to drag out your miserable lives for a few more days, or perish together with it!”
“Tell me, tell me!”
The battlefield still maintained its state of fierce combat. Both sides were still exchanging blows. Large numbers of warships were being destroyed every moment. Both sides were still fighting with total abandon, and both sides’ warships were still fearless of death, as if the messages Xiao Yu had broadcast were nothing more than useless effort.
Time was still decreasing little by little. There was only one minute left before Number One completely took control of the situation. Xiao Yu’s fleet, the Human spaceship and the Dream spaceship, were now less than ten billion kilometers away from the steel planet. At that distance, the long-range attacks of the Human spaceship and the Dream spaceship could already strike the steel planet, but such a gigantic target was simply not something that could be destroyed by one hurried strike from the Human spaceship and the Dream spaceship.
Only the concentrated bombardment of most of the fleet could destroy it in a short period of time. But Xiao Yu no longer had the time. There was only one minute left. No matter what, Xiao Yu could not charge through.
“Have I failed? In the end, have I fallen short at the final step? What a pity for my several hundred years of planning…” Xiao Yu’s heart was full of bitterness. At this moment, Xiao Yu had no choice but to admit that he had truly failed.
But at just this moment, the situation seemed to quietly undergo a change. Xiao Yu had not even noticed from what instant it began, but the beams of light, spatial fluctuations, Spatial Cannons, and so on that had been attacking his fleet suddenly dropped to a pitiful level, so low that they could no longer pose any threat to Xiao Yu. It was as if Xiao Yu had suddenly been teleported by some great being to another place, leaving this battlefield. Otherwise, how could the scene be so quiet?
Xiao Yu saw an unbelievable scene. At some unknown time, those Imperial Guard Corps ships, including the ships that had come from outside as reinforcements, had all stopped. They had stopped their attacks and were simply watching here in silence, watching Xiao Yu’s ships. Unknowingly, they had even opened a path, withdrawing the obstacle blocking Xiao Yu’s fleet from advancing.
This meant that Xiao Yu’s fleet could now move through without obstruction. If they entered curvature flight, Xiao Yu would need less than half a minute to charge in front of this steel planet!
At this moment, an enemy warship sent out a message in the form of a broadcast.
“Perish together!”
After this single message appeared, it was as if a thunderclap had sounded in the sky. Instantly, the other messages came crashing down like raindrops after thunder, appearing one after another in such great numbers that Xiao Yu had no way to count them all at once.
Countless messages! Countless shouts! At this moment, all of them were shouting the same phrase, “Perish together!”
“Perish together! Perish together!”
Xiao Yu only felt the sprout of hope begin to grow once more in his heart. At some unknown time, his vanished fighting spirit had returned and exploded in his heart like ignited gunpowder.
“That’s right! Perish together! I am giving you the chance to perish together with Virtual Life Number One!” Xiao Yu sent out this message once again, then without the slightest hesitation, the Human spaceship, the Dream spaceship, and the remaining tens of millions of warships all entered curvature flight together in this final moment, charging fiercely toward the enormous steel planet ahead at one thousand six hundred times the speed of light.
“That’s right, all of you will die, but Number One will go die together with you… You are all warriors, all brave warriors!” Xiao Yu said silently in his heart. In his field of vision, only that steel planet remained. There was nothing else.
As long as that steel planet was destroyed, Virtual Life Number One would die! The entire Virtual Life Civilization would collapse completely!
The gap had already been opened, and Xiao Yu’s fleet charged through openly and smoothly.
At this moment, another sudden change occurred. Those warships that had opened the path and allowed Xiao Yu to break through suddenly moved again. After that brief instant of silence, those warships instantly returned to their original nature. They also entered curvature flight along with Xiao Yu’s warships and began desperately attacking Xiao Yu’s fleet.
It was as if those overwhelming cries of ‘perish together’ had only been an illusion of Xiao Yu’s, as if the earlier scene had merely been time accidentally stopping for those two or three seconds.
Xiao Yu knew that Virtual Life Number One had made its move. During that brief time, the replicates inside those ships that had resolved to perish together had all been purged by Virtual Life Number One. They were all dead. The ones controlling those ships now were the initial replicates newly manufactured by Virtual Life Number One.
Only after going through the battle with Xiao Yu and witnessing what had happened before could Xiao Yu’s words have had that effect. To recreate that earlier scene, to turn those replicates again, was now impossible for Xiao Yu.
But for Xiao Yu now, that was already enough! Those few seconds were the most crucial few seconds. Just those few seconds were enough to change the entire battlefield situation, enough to change the fate of these two Level 7 Civilizations!
“Go in peace, all of you. Virtual Life Number One will soon follow in your footsteps. It will go into the void to accompany you…” Xiao Yu murmured to himself. In his field of vision, aside from the steel planet ahead, there was still nothing else.
The warships behind were desperately pursuing Xiao Yu’s fleet, using every weapon they could to attack frantically. But Xiao Yu simply had no time to deal with them now. Xiao Yu could not even be bothered to counterattack them. Because once he counterattacked, Xiao Yu’s advance would be delayed, and if Xiao Yu’s advance was delayed, what awaited him would be utter disaster!
This single opportunity had been won for Xiao Yu by tens of millions of replicates giving up their lives! Xiao Yu could not waste it. Xiao Yu had to succeed!
Even while still in curvature space, with more than one billion kilometers still between him and the steel planet, Xiao Yu’s attack had already begun. Most of the combat strength Virtual Life Number One could command was behind Xiao Yu’s fleet. Near it, there was not much defensive strength left. This was Xiao Yu’s best, and also final, opportunity!
If he still could not seize even such a good chance, Xiao Yu would never forgive himself!
The beams fired by tens of millions of Spatial Cannons had already struck the steel planet, blasting countless holes into the smooth shell that was as flat as a plane. Xiao Yu saw countless tall buildings begin to collapse. Great fires began to spread across it, and rolling black smoke broke free from the pull of gravity, rising tens of thousands of kilometers high into this void of space!
Xiao Yu needed only a little more than ten seconds to arrive here. Even before his fleet reached the steel planet, Xiao Yu’s fleet had not stopped at all and had directly slammed into it. The Spatial Vortex had already been activated. They had been deliberately arranged at the front of the warships. After shattering, the rapidly rotating spatial fragments were like a sharp drill bit, directly piercing through the steel planet’s defenses, which were strong, but before such ferocious attacks at this moment were as fragile as a sheet of white paper. At least more than thirty million warships drilled straight into the steel planet in this way!
Even inside the steel planet, they still maintained conventional speeds of no less than two hundred thousand kilometers per second. Large numbers of Spatial Bombs were released by these warships. Countless beams created by Spatial Cannons crisscrossed through the interior of the steel planet. Even space-motion distortion weapons had been used. As space twisted, the constructions inside the steel planet were twisted out of shape like braided dough.
Xiao Yu was using every weapon he could use to wantonly destroy the steel planet. The external warships were massively attacking the steel planet’s exterior, while the warships that had entered the steel planet were desperately destroying its internal structure. Amid this deadly assault, Xiao Yu was no longer able to notice what was happening outside.
Xiao Yu did not know how much time had passed. Xiao Yu only knew that under his mad assault, this steel planet had already turned into a pile of scrap metal. Only after there was truly nothing left to destroy did all of Xiao Yu’s ships leave the steel planet and gather together once more into a fleet, floating in space.
At this moment, what appeared before Xiao Yu was already a field of ruins, and the steel planet itself had vanished without a trace.