Chapter 949: Retreat, or Not Retreat? |
At this moment, Xiao Yu, by his own strength alone, was fighting against a faction with the Dark Star Civilization mainly providing logistics and the Level 7 Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast mainly providing combat power. This faction also had the Logic Weapon as a life-saving talisman. When the situation fell into an irretrievable state, they could rely on this life-saving talisman to resolve the crisis.
This was the strongest enemy Xiao Yu had encountered since leaving the Solar System.
Yet by relying on his outstanding planning ability, his overall command and strategic deployment ability, Xiao Yu had found methods such as the Executor Trap, laying out a galaxy-wide intelligence network, manufacturing ultra-miniature warships, and so on. He had fought bitterly for several hundred years, and only by doing so had he managed to persist until now while still occupying the upper hand.
If there were no Logic Weapon, this faction would have been destroyed by Xiao Yu long ago. Without the Dark Star Civilization serving as logistics, a lone Level 7 Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast, though somewhat troublesome, could not possibly have been Xiao Yu’s opponent. And if there were only the Dark Star Civilization, Xiao Yu would regard them even less. Even with these three factors combined, after expending enormous computational power and spending several decades of time, Xiao Yu still managed to drive his warship clusters through the defenses jointly set up by the Alien Beast mother body and the Dark Star Civilization, pushing his warship formations to within less than one trillion kilometers of the Alien Beast mother body.
The Alien Beast mother body was simply too enormous. Its main attention was being tied down by the main battlefield, and most of the Alien Beast offspring it produced had also been deployed into the main battlefield. Although in recent times it had already reduced the forces it sent to the main battlefield, and although the Imperial Guard Corps it kept by its side consisted of the offspring with the strongest combat power, it still could not stop Xiao Yu from concentrating his warship formations and breaking through at a single point.
It had already been forced by Xiao Yu into an extremely miserable situation. If it ignored the main battlefield, then even more warships would be redeployed to deal with it. But if it paid too much attention to the main battlefield, it would not have enough offspring to protect itself. This was a very contradictory situation. In the end, after Xiao Yu adopted the large-scale manufacturing of ultra-miniature warships, a measure specifically aimed at Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beasts, its ability to manufacture offspring had already been completely surpassed by Xiao Yu’s speed of manufacturing warships. In terms of numbers, it could no longer maintain an advantage.
“The Dark Star Civilization cannot possibly abandon this Level 7 Alien Beast. Once they lose this Level 7 Alien Beast, they will have no way of standing against me.” Xiao Yu thought calmly. “Then, in order to save this Level 7 Alien Beast, they will once again use the Logic Weapon, once again endure the backlash of the Logic Weapon, and at the same time let me once again become the executor…”
The current situation was very favorable for Xiao Yu. Under Xiao Yu’s relentless and desperate attacks, the Dark Star Civilization’s faction had already been left struggling on all sides. This was because this war had never been a long-term war to begin with. For a Level 7 Civilization, a long-term war would take at least around ten thousand years. So Xiao Yu would rather choose, within a short period of time, to explode all of his fighting spirit and create the greatest possible results.
“At the same time, your Dark Star Civilization has also made one mistake. Because you had the Level 7 Alien Beast, the Logic Weapon, and the advantage of only needing to defend for five hundred years, you grew careless. You developed a mentality of fluke and paralysis. So from the very beginning, you chose defense, hoping only to muddle through these five hundred years no matter what, and willingly handed the initiative of the battlefield over to me. That is how I managed to seize the opportunity.” Xiao Yu thought calmly.
Standing on it and looking at the sky, the sky was dark and chaotic. Countless flashes burst there endlessly. With each burst of light, taking advantage of that brief brightness, one could see the dense ocean of Alien Beasts in the sky.
Occasionally, an attack from one of Xiao Yu’s warships would break through layer upon layer of obstruction. Perhaps it would be a beam of light, perhaps a bomb, or perhaps a fluctuation of space directly striking the body of the Alien Beast. Then its body would immediately be battered with cracks of varying lengths, or blasted with pits of different sizes. But these wounds could exist only for a short time. After they appeared, the flesh and blood of Alien Beasts around them would begin to wriggle, rapidly swelling as though inflated, and in the end these wounds would vanish without a trace.
All of this was clearly observed by Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu knew that even though this Level 7 Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast was stronger by an unknown amount than the Level 3 Alien Beast he had once encountered, their weaknesses were still the same. Their bodies were cumbersome, their mobility extremely poor, and… the defense of the mother body itself was very low, making it very easy to injure.
As long as Xiao Yu’s warships could get within a certain range of it and launch large-scale attacks against it, it would certainly die. Of this, Xiao Yu was completely sure.
Xiao Yu once again increased the penetration speed of his warships. Here, the battle had already become too violent to describe with words. Countless Alien Beast offspring were risking death to block Xiao Yu, while Xiao Yu’s warships were also risking everything to move forward.
Xiao Yu had even redeployed one of his strongest Star Cluster-Class battleships, the Dream Star Cluster-Class battleship, and added it to this battlefield. By this point, the number of Star Cluster-Class battleships participating in this battle had already increased to five. These five Star Cluster-Class battleships each led several billion warships. They were divided into five different groups, but on a macro level they converged together, jointly striving to charge toward the mother body of the Level 7 Alien Beast.
The Dream Star Cluster-Class battleship displayed its outstanding power here to the fullest. Each firing of the Spatial Cannons mounted on it could even completely pierce through the body of a formidable Alien Beast the size of Earth. If given the chance, it could even cut such a powerful enemy completely in two. At this moment, the Dream battleship served as the spearhead of the entire offensive group. It rushed at the foremost line and bore the greatest pressure.
As long as its steps were not blocked, the steps of its following fleet could not be blocked either. Countless Alien Beast offspring hurled themselves fiercely at it, attacking it in all kinds of ways, but under the condition that its rear and flanks were tightly protected, attacks coming only from the front were still within its range of endurance.
It was advancing with unstoppable momentum.
Xiao Yu detected that as the Dream Star Cluster-Class battleship drew closer, the Alien Beast mother body urgently redeployed defensive forces from its other directions to this area. Its own speed of producing offspring also began to increase, and it halted its reinforcement of the main battlefield, using all of its military strength to resist this powerful Star Cluster-Class battleship…
But one point was very important.
If it stopped reinforcing the main battlefield, while Xiao Yu did not stop reinforcing the main battlefield, then its situation on the main battlefield would become worse and worse. Which also meant that Xiao Yu could redeploy more warships to its side, adding them to the warship cluster led by the Dream spaceship and launching attacks against it. Once it stopped supporting the main battlefield, that meant it was effectively drawing the main battlefield toward itself.
Placing its own weakly defended self into the middle of the main battlefield was obviously not a good idea. But that was exactly what it had done. This could only indicate one thing, this formidable Level 7 Infinite Proliferation-Type Alien Beast had already been frightened by the crisis about to arrive. In order to preserve itself, it was no longer taking the bigger picture into account and was no longer thinking about strategy.
This was a very good sign. No matter what, a panicked enemy was always a good thing for oneself.
Xiao Yu had been waiting the whole time for the intelligence network system spread throughout the entire Feiyuan Galaxy to report some strange changes to him. Because these strange changes were usually signs that the Dark Star Civilization had used the Logic Weapon. And Xiao Yu’s purpose was precisely to force the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon. Yet up to this point, Xiao Yu had not detected any strange changes that matched his screening conditions.
“Dark Star Civilization, are you still unwilling to use the Logic Weapon? Perhaps you have also detected the backlash effect brought by the Logic Weapon, and so you no longer intend to use it so frequently… But do you really get to choose in this situation? If you do not use the Logic Weapon, then hand over this Level 7 Alien Beast. Once this Level 7 Alien Beast is gone, I want to see what you will use to resist me. If you use the Logic Weapon, then prepare to endure the backlash of the Logic Weapon. The Logic Weapon has already served as your life-saving talisman twice and saved your fate twice. You, after all, cannot rely on the Logic Weapon without limit… Of two harms, choose the lesser. Decide for yourselves.” Xiao Yu thought calmly.
Xiao Yu knew that the Dark Star Civilization would definitely use the Logic Weapon. Because they had no other choice. In such a situation, even if it were Xiao Yu, even knowing clearly that backlash would follow, he might still use the Logic Weapon again. The reason was simple. Using the Logic Weapon still offered a sliver of hope. Not using it meant immediate death. Which one to choose was obvious.
The intelligence network spread throughout the entire galaxy finally reported some changes to Xiao Yu. After inputting these changes into the virtual universe and carrying out computations, Xiao Yu confirmed that the Dark Star Civilization had already issued to the Logic Weapon the command to prevent him from killing the Level 7 Alien Beast.
Perhaps, at this moment, Xiao Yu should once again act as the executor and voluntarily withdraw his troops.
But Xiao Yu’s heart suddenly stirred, and a new idea appeared in his mind.