Chapter 921: You Say |
“And how precious is experience in fighting the extreme stellar body civilization. I do not want to miss such an opportunity either.” Xiao Yu said with a faint smile. “How about this, look, the warships of this extreme stellar body civilization are arranged into two groups. The larger group has about three hundred thousand extreme stellar bodies, and the smaller group has two hundred thousand or so. You take on the larger one, and I will take on the smaller one. What do you think?”
“Fine.” the music civilization said.
“What method will the music civilization use as its means of attack?” As he thought, Xiao Yu sent out his vast fleet and began advancing toward the group that had two hundred thousand extreme stellar bodies. From observation over these past days, roughly speaking, one Neutron War Star’s combat power was about comparable to one of Xiao Yu’s Star-Class battleships. In this smaller group, the number of Neutron War Stars was around thirty thousand or so. Naturally, Xiao Yu’s fleet did not have as many as thirty thousand Star-Class battleships, but Xiao Yu’s advantage lay in the number of his other types of warships, as well as the coordination between them.
Xiao Yu was fully confident that he could drown these two hundred thousand extreme stellar bodies with sheer numbers. Even if the entire extreme stellar body civilization joined the battle, Xiao Yu would not care. In Xiao Yu’s estimate, at most, he only needed to pay the price of ten billion warships to completely destroy the extreme stellar body civilization.
Ten billion warships, that was all. What did that amount to for Xiao Yu?
When Xiao Yu’s fleet began to advance, the larger group still maintained a cautious defensive posture. Perhaps they had also sensed that hidden enemy lurking in the dark. But all of the extreme stellar bodies in the smaller group charged over. In that instant, without any communication at all, the warships of both sides fell into a chaotic melee.
At this very instant, space itself began to turn violent. The enormous White Dwarf War Stars, as huge as planets, rampaged across the battlefield, and smaller warships would shatter from just a graze. The much smaller, but even fiercer, Neutron War Stars also launched savage attacks. When facing Xiao Yu’s warships, they seemed to employ an attack method Xiao Yu had never seen before.
“I knew you still had a hidden trump card, and now you have brought it out?” Xiao Yu thought calmly. “Using Spatial Vortex technology as a foundation to modify space, combined with the terrifying collision force of extreme stellar bodies, this form of attack is indeed not easy to deal with… but it is only useful against Planet-Class warships or lower.”
The strongest attack method of extreme stellar bodies was collision, and this special space technology multiplied the power of collision several times over. But this was still within Xiao Yu’s expectations.
At the instant battle began, the density of matter in this region of space had already become greater than that of some gas clouds in the galaxy. The gravitational shielding of the extreme stellar body war stars, turning on and off, stirred this place into a complete mess. The gravity of the extreme stellar bodies mixed with the spatial maze Xiao Yu had unleashed, turning this whole sector into a place of death and grim slaughter. The fighting was so intense that the nearly ten million warships of that previous Blue Specter Civilization had no choice but to retreat a full several light years away, only daring to watch quietly from a distance.
They did not choose to flee entirely. Perhaps they also knew that escaping now would be useless.
Amid this endless melee, both Xiao Yu’s side and the extreme stellar body civilization lost control of the battlefield. The battle situation was developing in an uncontrollable direction, like urban alley warfare, with gunfire everywhere, war everywhere, and death everywhere. The power of any single spaceship here was almost negligible.
A Neutron War Star suddenly exploded. At the instant of its explosion, boundless energy erupted, with an intensity even comparable to a supernova explosion. Xiao Yu knew that this was a brand-new form of cosmic explosion, only one that Xiao Yu had never before observed in the real universe.
The reason for this explosion was that under Xiao Yu’s relentless attacks, the mass of this Neutron War Star had dropped below the lower limit. Its own gravity could no longer maintain such an extremely compact matter structure. Thus, in that instant, the repulsive force between particles gained the upper hand, and it instantly tore the stellar body to pieces.
When a neutron star’s mass dropped below the lower limit, it would not become a white dwarf. It would explode directly. And under normal conditions in cosmic space, a neutron star’s mass dropping below the lower limit was not very likely to happen. So even Xiao Yu had never observed such a situation before.
Hydrogen gas with nearly the mass of an entire star was released in an instant with the disintegration and explosion of the Neutron War Star. This process was so violent that it was almost equivalent to directly controlling a planet to smash into something at extremely high speed. Around this exploding Neutron War Star, no matter what the matter was, whether warship wreckage or Xiao Yu’s warships, everything was destroyed in that instant. Even a nearby White Dwarf War Star was affected. Xiao Yu observed that although this White Dwarf War Star would not be destroyed by the shockwave, its crustal structure had already suffered severe upheaval. If it were compared to Earth, it would be equivalent to an earthquake of dozens of magnitudes occurring on Earth, an intensity sufficient to alter the entire geological structure of the whole planet. What was happening on this White Dwarf War Star at this moment was exactly such a situation.
Under such intense upheaval, no matter what kinds of structures existed inside this White Dwarf War Star, they would absolutely be destroyed. So Xiao Yu watched without surprise as this White Dwarf War Star lost all movement an instant later. It could no longer perform curvature flight, nor conventional flight. It could not even attack enemies or defend itself. It had completely reverted to a natural white dwarf, and every trace left in its body by intelligent life technology had been erased.
Without technological creations, its gravitational shielding naturally no longer existed. So its gravitational field began to spread, and a large amount of battlefield wreckage and gas from the explosions of extreme stellar bodies began gathering toward it. Because the accumulation was so violent, jets even appeared at its poles. At this moment, it was practically like a miniature quasar.
And at this moment, the consequences caused by the explosion of this neutron star had not yet ended. Just like a true supernova explosion, at the instant it disintegrated, because of the extreme environment, in that same instant, every element that existed on the periodic table had been fused into existence, and elements not present on the periodic table had also been fused into existence. In that instant, more than one thousand kinds of elements were born, and among them, most were superheavy elements that decayed extremely quickly, turning into other stable elements in a very short time.
This was the power of a neutron star explosion. Its explosion almost completely cleared away all matter within a radius of several hundred million kilometers centered on it. Space itself suffered violent upheaval. Under the combined effects of extreme stellar body explosions, the spatial maze, and the gravity of extreme stellar bodies, space had become so chaotic that even Xiao Yu could not accurately assess the extent of it.
The explosion of this Neutron War Star was only the beginning. After it, a white dwarf also suddenly disintegrated because its mass had dropped below the lower limit. Then came the third extreme stellar body, the fourth extreme stellar body…
Xiao Yu’s fleet also suffered enormous casualties, but all of this was within Xiao Yu’s expectations. For this battle, Xiao Yu had committed a full five billion warships of different models, while several times that number of warships remained stationed in outer space. These warships had not joined the battle, and the larger group of the extreme stellar body civilization had not joined the battle either.
Even if all five billion of these warships were destroyed, so what? Xiao Yu could manufacture new warships at any time.
So, a style of fighting that exchanged quantity for quality was once again played out here. One small warship could not harm an extreme stellar body? Then send ten. If ten were not enough, then one thousand, ten thousand. One small warship could only scrape off a bit of your skin, but one hundred thousand small warships would be enough to blast a huge hole in you.
“Why has the music civilization not joined the battle yet?” Xiao Yu observed the larger group of extreme stellar bodies that remained motionless and thought to himself, “Could it be that they were only boasting?”
At this moment, suddenly, Xiao Yu received a somewhat ethereal signal that seemed to be singing.
“Weary travelers, can you tell me, why do you exist? You say that you have traveled many roads in this universe, visited many star systems, and seen many sceneries, but I know that these sceneries endure from ancient times to eternity, while you are only fleeting worms. Even if you have seen so many sceneries, what of it?”
“You say that at the end of this journey lies your dream. Once you reach there, you will arrive in heaven. But I know that heaven is only an illusory dream. It will never truly appear before you.”
“You say…”