Chapter 947: The Fourth Pressing |
That is right. The current situation was that Xiao Yu had been continuously forcing the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon. Of course, through Xiao Yu’s current strategic arrangements, Xiao Yu was forcing the Dark Star Civilization to spend opportunities to use the Logic Weapon on matters that had no fundamental impact on him, such as preventing him from cutting off their supply lines, or preventing him from breaching their logistics base, and the like.
These two incidents had one thing in common, namely that Xiao Yu occupied the initiative while the Dark Star Civilization occupied the passive position. They were not using the Logic Weapon proactively, but using it under compulsion to change the situation. This point was very important. Xiao Yu knew that if one day the Dark Star Civilization began proactively using the Logic Weapon to make arrangements, that would be the day he faced defeat. And Xiao Yu could not give the Dark Star Civilization that opportunity.
Xiao Yu was carrying out this principle. It was precisely for this reason that Xiao Yu organized his massive fleet and continuously launched one fierce offensive after another. Xiao Yu had to seize the initiative of the battle. If he did not do this, Xiao Yu would fail. Xiao Yu could not let the Dark Star Civilization catch its breath.
The vast intelligence network arranged throughout the Feiyuan Galaxy once again reported some abnormal fluctuations to Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu once again input these abnormal fluctuations into the virtual universe he had constructed, and rapid deduction began to unfold. Within this virtual universe, the flow of time was accelerated by tens of millions of times. After only a few short seconds, Xiao Yu reached a conclusion.
Xiao Yu’s conclusion this time was that many stars within the Feiyuan Galaxy would exert influence on the Central Black Hole. And the Central Black Hole’s enormous energy, because of simultaneous spatial fluctuations, would produce an extremely rare change. This change would make use of the Central Black Hole’s power to construct something similar to an Energy Shield between the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base and Xiao Yu’s fleet. According to Xiao Yu’s calculations, he would have no way to break this Energy Shield in less than three days.
And… three days. Three days was already enough time for the Dark Star Civilization and the Level 7 Alien Beast to draw out sufficient forces to support this place. Xiao Yu’s assault fleet had already suffered heavy losses. If it faced another large batch of incoming enemies, Xiao Yu would naturally fail. In this process, no miracle could occur.
Clearly, this was again the work of the Dark Star Civilization using the Logic Weapon. If it were not the Logic Weapon, how could such a rare event, with such a tiny probability of occurring, just happen so coincidentally here?
“Very good. This time I will still act as the executor.”
Xiao Yu quickly made this decision. Under Xiao Yu’s control, the enormous warship fleet suddenly left this place, giving up the harvesting of what looked like an ‘easy victory,’ and rapidly escaped toward the rear. At this time, the rescue forces organized by the Dark Star Civilization and the Level 7 Alien Beast had not yet arrived here. The calculated time for the Energy Shield to appear had not yet arrived either.
“I wonder how many times the Dark Star Civilization can withstand the backlash of the Logic Weapon? And in what form will that backlash appear? Will it accumulate to a certain limit and then suddenly erupt, having no effect at all on the Dark Star Civilization before the eruption, or will it appear once every time the Logic Weapon is used?” Xiao Yu was silently thinking about this issue. “Also, in what aspects will these backlashes manifest? Will it be setbacks in the development process of their civilization, such as some person who would have made a major contribution to the scientific development of their civilization suddenly dying, or setbacks in construction, or perhaps misfortune in war because of certain accidental factors?”
Any of these possibilities could happen. Xiao Yu did not know what exactly would happen, but Xiao Yu knew that these events would definitely have a negative impact on the development of a civilization. Sometimes, even one person, or one group, could relate to the future of a civilization.
For example, in the Earth era, an accidental plane crash once caused the deaths of a large number of AIDS experts. This would lead to the entire civilization’s research into AIDS falling seriously behind, and the expected AIDS vaccine or cure would appear several or even more than ten years later, causing at least several hundred thousand more deaths within the civilization. This was a very good example of how one person or one group could affect an entire civilization.
Xiao Yu tried to find out in what form the backlash of the Logic Weapon would act upon the Dark Star Civilization. Naturally, Xiao Yu did not have much material to analyze and study this issue, but through certain indirect methods, Xiao Yu could still make some guesses about it.
“At least judging from my contact with the Dark Star Civilization during this period, I have not discovered any signs that they are having bad luck. Their social structure and military advances remain as usual. This indicates that with a high probability, after the first three uses of the Logic Weapon, they did not suffer backlash. That means there is a high probability that the backlash of the Logic Weapon is continuously accumulating, only erupting after it accumulates to some limit. I just do not know what that limit is, or how many times the Dark Star Civilization can use the Logic Weapon before reaching it.”
Of course, the idea that there was some limit was only Xiao Yu’s guess, but Xiao Yu believed it was very likely true. Up to now, stripping the Central Black Hole out of the current three-dimensional universe was one use, preventing Xiao Yu from cutting off their supply line to the Level 7 Alien Beast was another, and now preventing Xiao Yu from destroying their logistics base was yet another. The Logic Weapon had been used a total of three times, and the latter two were both of crucial importance to the Dark Star Civilization.
Think about it. If Xiao Yu had cut off the supply line, the Level 7 Alien Beast would not have been able to replenish itself, and if Xiao Yu used his full strength, it was not impossible that he would have had a chance to destroy it. And once it was destroyed, the Dark Star Civilization would lose its greatest support, and its defeat would be unavoidable. And if Xiao Yu destroyed their logistics base, then their defeat would be even more certain.
“The Logic Weapon is really useful.” Xiao Yu could not help sighing inwardly. “This is equivalent to a protective talisman, a life-saving talisman. With it, it is like having several extra lives. Even if one dies, one can revive in place with full health and full energy… It is precisely because of it that I have had to give up chances of victory again and again, using only the helpless method of the Executor Trap to recover a little of the loss…”
“Right now, it seems that even after the Logic Weapon has already been used three times, changing their fate three times, that limit still has not been reached. Then launch the fourth offensive and force the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon for the fourth time…”
Xiao Yu’s strategy still had not changed. Attack, then attack again. He had to keep attacking proactively in order to force the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon continuously. At present, Xiao Yu was planning the fourth active offensive.
This time, Xiao Yu chose the Level 7 Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast as the target. At this point, Xiao Yu’s ultra-miniature warships and the related Supercomputing Centers had already begun to take shape. With the coordination of this great support, Xiao Yu began planning a full offensive against this Level 7 Alien Beast.
The manufacturing of ultra-miniature warships could use large numbers of assembly lines and automated operations, because they themselves were things without much technological content. Therefore, the manufacturing of ultra-miniature warships was exceptionally rapid. From the time Xiao Yu discovered that among the enemies he faced there was a Level 7 Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast until now, only a few years had passed, yet within these few years, the number of ultra-miniature warships had already climbed to nearly ten billion, and this rate of increase was still accelerating.
Abundant stars provided ample materials for Xiao Yu’s construction. A powerful industrial foundation allowed Xiao Yu to expand his construction factories almost without limit. Large-scale automation and assembly-line work allowed Xiao Yu to complete these construction tasks while spending only a small amount of computational power…
Thus, these ultra-miniature warship groups set out.
Ten billion was an enormous number, but facing the endless ocean of Alien Beasts, it still counted for little. Xiao Yu knew that at this stage, these ultra-miniature warships would be unlikely to play any major role, but it did not matter. This number would continue to rise, and in the end it would become a force the enemy could not ignore.
Actually, these ultra-miniature warships really were not very useful things. In war, they basically could not play much of a role. Think about it. Their extremely fast construction speed meant their quality was very poor. Poor quality meant weak defense. They could not even defend against certain large-scale spatial weapons. So when facing other kinds of civilizations, Xiao Yu generally would not use such things. Their numbers had to climb to a terrifying level before they would become useful, and with such a vast quantity, the effort, resources, computational power, and time Xiao Yu had to spend would be better used on other things.
Only when facing an Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast would these ultra-miniature warships have value. Not only were they useful, they were extremely useful. An endless ocean of Alien Beasts answered with equally endless ultra-miniature warships was exactly fitting.
Under such circumstances, the first batch of ten billion ultra-miniature warships was deployed into the battlefield, while behind Xiao Yu, even more ultra-miniature warships were still continuously assembling…