Chapter 944: Supply Route |
This battle was only an initial probing engagement. Neither side had brought out its true strength. The Dark Star Civilization had not even used its warships or the Logic Weapon. After all, they were unfamiliar with each other. At present, both sides needed to test the other’s strength.
“Perhaps the extreme stellar body war stars captured from the extreme stellar body civilization should come into use at this time…” Xiao Yu muttered to himself. “One thing is obvious. The greater the mass, the stronger the combat power, and the harder it is to manufacture. This is the same both for me and for this Level 7 Alien Beast. It is troublesome for me to manufacture Star Cluster-Class and Star-Class battleships. It certainly will not be easy for it to manufacture large Alien Beasts equivalent to these warships either. In that case, a full one hundred thousand Neutron War Stars and two hundred thousand White Dwarf War Stars can play a major role.”
Clearly, these three hundred thousand extreme stellar body war stars were enough to change the entire situation of the battlefield. Think about it. Even a Level 7 Alien Beast could not possibly have the ability to produce so many large Alien Beasts in a short period of time. But Xiao Yu did not plan to bring out these forces yet. Good steel should be used on the blade’s edge. At a critical moment, these war stars would play an even more crucial role.
After the first probing battle ended, both sides had already gained a certain understanding of the enemy’s strength. Neither side could give up what this war was contesting. So next, it would be time for large-scale war.
Xiao Yu’s rear base was enormous. Within Xiao Yu’s rear base, there were not only sixty thousand Supercomputing Centers responsible for gathering and analyzing the intelligence network of the entire Feiyuan Galaxy, but also countless construction bases, energy supply systems, and hundreds of thousands of stars serving as energy reserves. It was a vast region covering more than one hundred light years. This was the power source supporting Xiao Yu’s massive war effort. Xiao Yu had made thorough defensive arrangements here. More than ten billion warships were distributed throughout the logistics base, along with complete interstellar defense facilities. Only after ensuring rear stability did Xiao Yu have the energy to face the coming world-shaking decisive battle.
This would be a war even more brutal and difficult than the one against the Virtual Life civilization.
“When facing that Level 3 Alien Beast, I cut off its material supply and exploited its weakness of having an enormous body and poor mobility, finally grinding it to death. When facing this Level 7 Alien Beast now, perhaps I can use the same method.” Xiao Yu pondered silently. “That Level 3 Alien Beast from before only needed one planet to digest for quite a long time. But this Level 7 Alien Beast, at its current production rate, probably could not be supported for long even by ten stars…”
“Then… where will they obtain supplies from?”
Xiao Yu’s gaze passed over the pitch-black universe and looked toward the enormous black hole at the core of the Feiyuan Galaxy, as well as the violent accretion disk around it.
Part of Xiao Yu’s fleet, about ten billion warships, had already quietly left the main base and disappeared into the dark universe. They were going to carry out Xiao Yu’s supply-isolation mission. They would break into small squads, or combine together, and sever the Central Black Hole’s ability to collect stars from outside. Because obviously, when the Dark Star Civilization and the Level 7 Alien Beast ran short of materials, they would go to other places in the Feiyuan Galaxy and transport stars back as supplies.
After excluding the ten billion warships remaining at the main base as defensive strength, the extreme stellar body war stars hidden within the main base, and the ten billion warships sent out on missions, Xiao Yu still had about eighty billion warships left in hand. After reserving another ten billion as emergency support forces, Xiao Yu deployed all seventy billion warships at once.
The Dream Star Cluster-Class battleship, the new Honor Star Cluster-Class battleship, the new Nine Provinces Star Cluster-Class battleship, the Canglong, the China, the Sky, and all the most cutting-edge combat forces were included in this sortie. The seventy billion warships were divided into around a dozen army groups, and the whole force advanced toward the enemy ahead.
The Dark Star Civilization also began to move. Xiao Yu’s detection forces observed that about two billion Dark Star Civilization warships had left their base and merged with the endless Alien Beasts produced by that Level 7 Alien Beast. These Dark Star Civilization warships were scattered into many small groups, and around each Dark Star Civilization warship group there were at least ten billion Alien Beasts of all sizes guarding them. Together they formed massive warship groupings not inferior to Xiao Yu’s, waiting in full readiness ahead.
Fierce flames of war ignited in different places. The Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base was one front, and Xiao Yu’s logistics base was another. Almost at the same time Xiao Yu launched the surprise attack on the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base, enormous numbers of Alien Beast swarms mixed with Dark Star Civilization warships arrived at Xiao Yu’s logistics base. In front of the Level 7 Alien Beast, around it, behind it, along the supply routes, fierce flames of war burned freely everywhere.
At this time, even though Xiao Yu had already committed seventy billion warships to the battlefield, he still felt that the enemy he faced was simply too many, so many that it gave him the feeling of being trapped in a vast ocean. At this moment, Xiao Yu could no longer count how many Alien Beasts existed across this battlefield, but one thing was certain, the total number of all the Alien Beasts, large and small, would definitely not be less than ten billion.
That enormous Level 7 Alien Beast the size of a star was like a ball of yarn. The combat Alien Beasts continuously entering the battlefield from it were like threads being endlessly pulled from that ball of yarn. Yet no matter how many threads were pulled from it, its size did not shrink. It seemed to possess an inexhaustible ability to manufacture combat Alien Beasts.
Xiao Yu hoped to kill this thing. But the endless combat Alien Beasts tightly blocked Xiao Yu’s fleets here, preventing them from advancing even a step. Here, the distance to that Level 7 Alien Beast was still extremely far away, and Xiao Yu saw that the closer one got to that Level 7 Alien Beast, the more large combat Alien Beasts there were.
“This fellow has manufactured many powerful Imperial Guard Corps to protect itself…” Xiao Yu muttered.
Before the newly built ultra-miniature warship swarms controlled by the Supercomputing Centers had reached scale, Xiao Yu had absolutely no way to deal with this situation. However, perhaps Xiao Yu could seek another path and achieve his purpose through other means.
Xiao Yu’s gaze turned forward. That area belonged to the depths of the battlefield, where his forces could not yet extend. It was a route. Along this route, endless Alien Beasts and warship groups were moving back and forth, all loaded with all kinds of supplies, traveling between the Level 7 Alien Beast and the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base. Xiao Yu even saw a star being carried forward by a Dark Star Civilization fleet, like cattle and sheep herded by nomadic peoples in ancient Earth’s era.
“Clearly, the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base is also supporting this Level 7 Alien Beast. As long as this supply route can be cut off, this Level 7 Alien Beast will lose support, and after a period of consumption, it will lose the ability to continue producing offspring. The current battlefield is basically centered around this Level 7 Alien Beast. As long as I spread the war there, this supply route will be cut off… Good. I will do it this way.”
Xiao Yu quickly made the decision.
But achieving this goal was not a simple matter. Both the Dark Star Civilization and the Level 7 Alien Beast were striving to ensure that at least some places around themselves were not affected by the flames of war. These places were the channels through which they received supplies. Any Xiao Yu warships trying to spread the war there would be met with the fiercest counterattack from the Dark Star Civilization and the Level 7 Alien Beast. That was a sky-covering ocean of Alien Beasts. Large Alien Beasts as big as Earth and as big as the Moon were too numerous to count. Even Xiao Yu’s Star Cluster-Class battleships had no confidence of surviving in such an environment.
But Xiao Yu still made this decision.
Several thousand Star-Class battleships and at least three Star Cluster-Class battleships together became the main core combat forces of this operation. As long as Xiao Yu broke through the ocean of Alien Beasts before him, Xiao Yu could spread the flames of war over there and cut off that supply route.
Here, both sides engaged in what could almost be called a fight to the death. Star-Class battleships were no longer precious here. For the greater strategic situation, even ten Star-Class battleships could be casually sacrificed. Explosions occurred frequently here, space shattered, and from time to time a violent energy fluctuation swept across the field like a shockwave…
Xiao Yu’s desperate assault finally produced results. The range covered by the flames of war was continuously expanding and was getting closer and closer to that supply route. Victory could almost be said to be right in sight.
But at this very moment, the sixty thousand Supercomputing Centers responsible for analyzing the intelligence network of the entire Feiyuan Galaxy reported some abnormal fluctuations to Xiao Yu…
Xiao Yu knew that the Dark Star Civilization had finally used the Logic Weapon.