Chapter 946: Pressing Them |
Without question, this red dwarf star spat out by the Level 7 Alien Beast had already lost all value for it. Simply put, this red dwarf star was its ‘feces,’ the residue left after digestion. Xiao Yu conducted some observations on this red dwarf star and immediately discovered this.
The observations showed that this red dwarf star’s elemental composition was extremely strange. It was almost like the first generation of stars since the beginning of the universe. Its heavy element content was unbelievably low, so low that it could practically be ignored. The two most abundant elements within it were hydrogen and helium, the two most abundant elements in the universe and, in a certain sense, also the most useless. Clearly, it had originally been a normal star with an ordinary heavy element content, but after being digested by the Alien Beast, all the heavy elements in that poor star had been extracted and used to create small Alien Beasts. Once that star no longer had any value, it was immediately discarded.
At this moment, a new star was transported over. This star, brought by the Dark Star Civilization to feed the Level 7 Alien Beast, was also quite strange. Xiao Yu determined this through only a simple observation. The heavy element content of this new star was extremely abnormal, so abnormal that normal stellar evolution could basically never produce such a star. At the same time, it was extremely unstable. Even its atmospheric structure was no longer complete, and a large number of holes seemed to have appeared in it, as though it had been pierced through by some kind of celestial body. After a brief round of speculation, Xiao Yu arrived at a theory that could explain this phenomenon.
“Clearly, this is a special star the Dark Star Civilization deliberately prepared according to a specific formula for the Level 7 Alien Beast to consume. Presumably, the Dark Star Civilization transported over many planets containing large quantities of heavy elements, then threw these planets one by one into this star, changing its elemental composition in this way. Only then did they feed such a star to the Level 7 Alien Beast, so that it could most conveniently produce a large number of small Alien Beasts for combat…” Xiao Yu silently guessed.
This star was transported before the Level 7 Alien Beast that had already expelled its ‘residue.’ Then, under Xiao Yu’s observation, an astonishing scene took place. The body of this Level 7 Alien Beast completely unfolded, changing from its previous spherical structure into something like a curtain, except this curtain was so enormous as to defy imagination. Then this curtain gradually closed in, little by little wrapping around this extremely unstable star. The process was like using a piece of cloth to wrap around a basketball.
The wrapping process took less than two hours. After that period of time, the star completely vanished from the universe. After expelling its residue, the holes on the body of the Level 7 Alien Beast temporarily stopped ejecting Alien Beasts. Only after it had wrapped up this new star and then gone through several more hours of preparation did endless new Alien Beasts once again begin to be created and shot into space.
The smallest Alien Beasts were the ones produced in the greatest numbers. The larger the body size, the slower the production rate. The largest Alien Beast this Level 7 Alien Beast could create was about the size of Earth. Through actual testing, Xiao Yu confirmed that the combat power of an Earth-sized Alien Beast was roughly equal to one of Xiao Yu’s Star-Class battleships. At this moment, Xiao Yu personally witnessed the birth process of a ‘Star-Class battleship.’
It was a huge hole on the body of the Level 7 Alien Beast, about the size of Neptune. Inside this hole, some strange changes seemed to be constantly taking place, and weird flashes and some gas-like substances continuously erupted from it. At least several billion small Alien Beasts were moving back and forth inside and outside this huge hole, busily doing something unknown. As these small Alien Beasts worked, the flashes and jets of gas became more and more intense. In the end, all the small Alien Beasts withdrew. Accompanied by a flash like a stellar eruption, an enormous thing the size of Earth was violently ejected, like a king descending upon the universe. Around this giant thing, no small Alien Beast dared come close. Only after this thing slowly unfolded its body and revealed its savage fangs did the surrounding small Alien Beasts cautiously approach it. Then, with this thing as the core, they formed a huge Alien Beast battle squad and charged menacingly toward the front lines. Xiao Yu knew that a new Star-Class battleship formation had just been born.
“Fortunately, this thing takes a long time to manufacture such large Alien Beasts. Otherwise, even I would have no chance against it.” Xiao Yu silently thought.
In fact, in essence, there was not much difference between Xiao Yu’s form of existence and that of this Level 7 Alien Beast. The only difference lay in the methods. This Level 7 Alien Beast digested stars with its own body and created ‘warships,’ while Xiao Yu used technological tools to digest resources and manufacture warships.
“But my manufacturing efficiency is somewhat lower than this thing’s.” Xiao Yu silently thought. “At the same time, I also have my own strengths. The tools I manufacture are much more versatile. No matter what kind of battlefield environment it is, I can produce suitable warships for it. I can even establish a vast intelligence network and carry out complicated logical analysis. In this respect, this thing is quite a bit inferior to me.”
The fighting on the main battlefield remained fierce. Technological warships and Alien Beast lifeforms were mixed together, truly turning this region of space into a land of death. Endless warships and Alien Beasts were destroyed here, while endless warships and Alien Beasts likewise set out from the logistics and manufacturing bases of both sides and were thrown into the main battlefield as reinforcements.
Up to this point, aside from the fierce direct clash between warships and Alien Beasts, neither side had made any substantive progress. On the edge of the battlefield, however, the fleet Xiao Yu had sent to raid the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base was already close to reaching its target.
Xiao Yu’s fleet encountered extremely fierce obstruction. Nearly one hundred of those enormous Earth-sized Alien Beasts even joined this blocking battle, and the Dark Star Civilization also dispatched one of its few Star Cluster-Class battleships to participate in the fighting here. In the current battle situation, Star Cluster-Class battleships were the most powerful combat units. And even Xiao Yu had to pay sufficient attention to the Dark Star Civilization’s Star Cluster-Class battleships.
Yet Xiao Yu’s advance did not stop because of this. Under Xiao Yu’s powerful push, the ocean of Alien Beasts was split open into a strip of land, and the fierce artillery fire and dense bombs became the vessels carrying Xiao Yu forward. In terms of top-tier combat power, Xiao Yu still held the advantage. And when Xiao Yu concentrated these top-tier forces together and launched a violent advance, even the combined forces of the Dark Star Civilization and the Level 7 Alien Beast could not stop Xiao Yu’s progress.
Xiao Yu’s warship fleet finally arrived before the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base and at last began observing this place from extremely close range. Xiao Yu discovered that this was a gigantic factory only slightly smaller than his own logistics base. This was a highly unbelievable phenomenon, because the Dark Star Civilization should not have possessed such tremendous construction capability. Yet only a moment later, Xiao Yu’s doubt vanished, because Xiao Yu saw endless Alien Beasts inside this logistics base.
These Alien Beasts seemed to have been specially created by that Level 7 Alien Beast mother body to serve construction tasks. Here, they worked in perfect coordination with the Dark Star Civilization’s mechanical equipment and intelligent beings. They had even taken over all transportation tasks between different construction bases, and they had also taken over most tasks requiring large tools. Under the cooperation of these two different types of civilizations, this construction base was displaying a construction capacity so astonishing that even Xiao Yu could not help but admire it.
But it was Xiao Yu’s prey.
Toward such a magnificent enormous base, so magnificent it could almost be called a work of art, Xiao Yu felt not the slightest pity nor the slightest hesitation. The fierce attack had already begun. Countless spatial cannons similar to laser weapons emitted dazzling brilliance. Violent spatial tremors were also launched outward. Countless warships began charging…
“Even if this attack of mine cannot completely destroy this construction base, it can still inflict enormous damage on it. And with only these defensive facilities of yours, there is no way you can stop me.” Xiao Yu thought indifferently.
The Alien Beast swarms and warship groups were desperately counterattacking Xiao Yu. Too many interstellar defensive facilities to count, as well as all kinds of large defensive bases, were also attacking with all their might, but none of these attacks could halt Xiao Yu’s advance. Under Xiao Yu’s violent assault, some construction bases on the outer perimeter had already been destroyed.
The situation was progressing very smoothly, but Xiao Yu knew that it was impossible for him to capture this construction base. Or perhaps it was simply because the Dark Star Civilization had the Logic Weapon that they had not deployed most of their forces to defend the logistics base.
Xiao Yu was only forcing the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon once again, forcing them to once again bear the backlash of altering causality, and allowing himself to once again become the executor so that he could obtain still more benefits. This offensive was yet another Executor Trap.
Xiao Yu waited silently.
In this waiting state, countless warships and Alien Beasts were destroyed. Xiao Yu did not stop his rhythm of attack. Xiao Yu knew that these were the best weapons for forcing the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon.
Sure enough, a moment later, the Supercomputing Centers once again reported some abnormal changes to Xiao Yu.