Chapter 954: New Changes

Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Clearly, the Alien Beast mother body could not possibly have increased its abilities so much for no reason at all, nor could it have always possessed this ability and only now chosen to unleash it. Because it could not possibly have some tendency toward self-abuse, insisting on waiting until after being beaten badly by Xiao Yu before bringing out its true strength.

Then the only possibility was that this was still the influence of the Logic Weapon, the effect brought about by that strange spatial fluctuation caused earlier by the Logic Weapon. Xiao Yu still did not know exactly what kind of change that spatial fluctuation had brought to it, or what sort of internal transformation it had caused, but the effect of that spatial fluctuation was undeniably real.

“It has always been opposing me. It has always been stopping me from killing this Alien Beast mother body… It has influenced this Alien Beast mother body three times in succession. The first time was when the Dream battleship led its fleet out. The second time was when the extreme stellar body war star group was dispatched. And now, when I have penetrated all the way to its front, its abilities have increased for the third time…” Xiao Yu silently thought to himself.

The situation was now very obvious. Since this Alien Beast mother body had, through some unknowable method, once again increased its ability to produce offspring by fifty times, then Xiao Yu absolutely no longer had any possibility of taking it down. In fact, if he ran too slowly, Xiao Yu’s fleet might well be completely annihilated here.

Xiao Yu was extremely unwilling in his heart, deeply unwilling. But the Logic Weapon was mercilessly mocking Xiao Yu with reality.

Through those Neutron War Stars that had already penetrated into the Alien Beast mother body, as well as the observational capabilities of the warships outside, Xiao Yu had even constructed a three-dimensional model of the Alien Beast mother body itself and roughly analyzed its survival pattern. Xiao Yu clearly knew how severe the damage he had already inflicted on it was. Xiao Yu’s conclusion was that if its ability to manufacture Alien Beast offspring did not increase again, and if it could remain in its previous state, then it would take no more than half an hour for him to completely tear it apart and kill it.

The injuries to the Alien Beast mother body were already this severe, yet Xiao Yu no longer had the chance to deliver the fatal blow. The Logic Weapon had ultimately succeeded in preventing Xiao Yu from killing it.

“Something is wrong here.” Xiao Yu thought rapidly. “After all, what the Dark Star Civilization possesses is the first type of Logic Weapon, the kind that requires causal logic. That means it is impossible for the Alien Beast mother body’s abilities to have increased so much without a reason. Although I do not know what that reason is, I have good reason to believe that with injuries this serious, it could not possibly forcefully increase its abilities without affecting itself. Perhaps it is using some mechanism similar to the one my Specter companion once used, burning life force in order to gain such a massive short-term boost?”

“Perhaps it may die on its own due to such severe overdraw.” A trace of hope surfaced in Xiao Yu’s heart.

But that trace of hope was immediately shattered. Because subsequent observation, together with Xiao Yu’s current understanding of the Alien Beast mother body, clearly told him that as long as he no longer continued applying pressure to it, then within at most half a year after his departure, the Alien Beast mother body would recover to full health. All the injuries Xiao Yu had inflicted on it now would completely disappear without a trace.

Delivering the final blow was the only way to kill it. But Xiao Yu at this moment no longer had any way to deliver that final blow. If he did not flee immediately, all of these fleets of his would be destroyed here. Even if he risked destruction and continued attacking the Alien Beast mother body, Xiao Yu still would not be able to achieve his purpose. Because now, the number of giant Alien Beasts as large as planets was simply too great. They had practically used their bodies to construct a tightly sealed protective layer around the mother body. As for those Neutron War Stars that had already penetrated into the Alien Beast mother body, the mother body had used some unknown method to pin them in place. They could no longer continue moving freely inside it. They were like flies sealed inside amber, unable to move.

Xiao Yu’s fleet began a panicked retreat.

This meant that yet another of Xiao Yu’s attempts had failed. Xiao Yu had once again missed an opportunity to defeat the Dark Star Civilization. And the reason, once again, was that hateful Logic Weapon.

“Exactly how can the Logic Weapon be defeated? Exactly how can the Central Black Hole be destroyed… In this war, I absolutely cannot fail. I must succeed. But how am I supposed to achieve my objective?” Xiao Yu thought rapidly in his heart, while at the same time a deep sense of powerlessness began spreading through him.

“It seems that continuing to use the Executor Trap is the only method left. In their possession of the Logic Weapon, I simply have no way to inflict a fatal strike on them. I can only continue forcing them to use the Logic Weapon, and then wait for the backlash of the Logic Weapon hidden in the unseen to arrive… But exactly when will this backlash accumulate to its limit? When will I be able to wait for that day to come? Right now, I have less than one hundred years left. Is one hundred years enough?”

As Xiao Yu considered these questions, it was as if a fire were burning continuously inside his heart.

Xiao Yu’s fleet was retreating in panic, getting farther and farther away from the Alien Beast mother body. Xiao Yu watched helplessly as it spat out the stellar waste that had already turned into a red dwarf, then swallowed yet another star abnormally rich in heavy elements. With the arrival of new food, the speed at which it manufactured Alien Beast offspring once again began to increase…

This new star being used as food was exceptionally massive. The Dark Star Civilization seemed still shaken by the earlier situation, when under the fierce battle they had been unable to resupply and had nearly allowed the Alien Beast mother body to fail in producing enough Alien Beasts due to lack of resources. To prevent that situation from happening again, this time the Dark Star Civilization had deliberately selected an especially large star. After adding numerous heavy elements to it, the mass of this star was almost about two hundred forty times the mass of the Sun…

“There is also another very practical problem.” At this moment, Xiao Yu’s mood once again became heavy. “I do not know whether this high-intensity state of the Alien Beast mother body producing offspring can be maintained for a long time. If it can sustain this speed of producing offspring for the long term… then my construction speed will be comprehensively suppressed. And if that happens, whether I can still maintain a dominating advantage on conventional battlefields becomes very uncertain. And once battlefield superiority is lost, the Executor Trap can no longer be executed again… Surely it cannot be the case that before the Dark Star Civilization’s forces have even attacked my logistics base, after the Dark Star Civilization issues a Logic Weapon command such as ‘Break through Xiao Yu’s logistics base,’ I would voluntarily abandon my logistics base in order to perform the Executor Trap?”

“This does not seem right. I am the executor. I should be receiving benefits. The Dark Star Civilization are the users of the Logic Weapon. They should be suffering backlash. So why is the war situation turning out so unfavorably for me…” Xiao Yu murmured to himself.

Xiao Yu was certain that he had made thorough preparations for this war. The Executor Trap had also been specially conceived by Xiao Yu in order to counter the Logic Weapon. After the war began, he had not made any strategic or tactical mistakes. Everything had been correct. But why had the war still developed into its current state?

There was only one explanation: the Logic Weapon. The Logic Weapon was simply too powerful, so powerful that Xiao Yu had no way to contend against it.

But the subsequent development of the war once again exceeded Xiao Yu’s expectations. Xiao Yu detected that some new strange changes were quietly taking place. Even the Alien Beast mother body itself had stopped the process of manufacturing offspring. It had once again begun to tremble, seeming slightly flustered. But this time, the trembling was not to create more cracks and holes. Rather, it seemed… as if it were trying to spit out the specially prepared star it had only recently swallowed into its body…

Time turned back to a little more than a year earlier.

After Xiao Yu’s stellar transport fleet discovered the Dark Star Civilization’s transport fleet and launched a surprise attack on it, forcing them to destroy that star and flee, a series of domino-like effects was once again set into motion.

The violent explosion of the star released some Faster-Than-Light particles, such as negative matter particles. These particles advanced at Faster-Than-Light speed and, in only a very short time, affected some of the nearby stars, causing slight anomalies in them, such as slightly abnormal fusion reactions in their cores, slightly changed stellar atmospheric convection, slightly intensified stellar activity, even slightly changed stellar orbits, and so on. Clearly, the changes in these stars then spread outward once again. They acted as a kind of intermediary, expanding the influence of that exploded star to more distant places, and quietly amplifying its intensity somewhat in the process…

More stars were affected. All of these influences were extremely slight, exactly the same in nature as the changes caused by the Logic Weapon. Only, because this was a region where combat broke out frequently, and because Xiao Yu’s detection instruments here had been almost completely destroyed, Xiao Yu had not noticed these changes.

This change continued to spread, continued to expand, affecting more and more stars and a wider and wider range… Until, eventually, this influence spread to the Central Black Hole of the Feiyuan Galaxy. Under the combined action of the Central Black Hole and the many stars, space once again began to produce a strange change. This strange change affected the oversized star that had been swallowed into the Alien Beast mother body’s interior in the form of gravity. Because too many heavy elements had been added to this oversized star, it was itself unstable. Thus, another round of change began…