Chapter 960: Particle Warships |
Xiao Yu still maintained his calm on the surface. But inside Xiao Yu’s enormous construction base, Xiao Yu had quietly begun a new round of construction work. What Xiao Yu was building this time was several tens of billions of spaceships. But if the volumes of those several tens of billions of spaceships were added together, they might not even equal the size of a basketball.
That was right. Xiao Yu’s plan was to build the kind of spaceship used by the microscopic civilization type. And the performance of the spaceships Xiao Yu was building was even more advanced than what the microscopic civilization had built. Because what Xiao Yu possessed was not merely the technology of the microscopic civilization alone. During the construction process, Xiao Yu could merge in the technologies of the architectural civilization, the computational civilization, and the like.
Yes, exactly. With the technology of the computational civilization as the core, the technology of the microscopic civilization as the foundation, then integrating in the outstanding construction techniques of the architectural civilization, merging those two together, and then also merging in Xiao Yu’s excellent war technology, what Xiao Yu ultimately created was precisely this batch of things.
Building microscopic civilization spaceships was no less troublesome than building the large warships that Xiao Yu used more smoothly. According to Xiao Yu’s estimate, building a microscopic civilization spaceship only the size of a molecule or atom required about the same amount of time and effort as Xiao Yu building a Continent-Class spaceship, perhaps even a little more.
But no matter what, Xiao Yu still ultimately finished building this batch of spaceships. At this moment, they floated before Xiao Yu’s optical observation instruments. Gathered together, they were about the size of a basketball, suspended in midair, emitting a faint milky-white glow. To build these things, Xiao Yu had spent another twenty years. At this moment, less than ten years remained before the final deadline.
This batch of microscopic civilization warships was the crystallization of Xiao Yu’s highest technology. Xiao Yu had truly fused together his own technology, the technology of the microscopic civilization, the technology of the architectural civilization, and the technology of the computational civilization, and in the end had manufactured these things. These little fellows would become the tools by which Xiao Yu carried out his plan. Whether he could find a balance between completing the mission and rescuing the Pegasus and Divine Ark Civilizations would depend on this action.
“But… what if I fail? If I fail, I will have to choose one of the two. Then which one should I choose?” Xiao Yu thought silently.
Any major action would inevitably not have only one plan. There would always be a backup plan prepared just in case. Xiao Yu’s current action undoubtedly counted as major, so Xiao Yu naturally also had to prepare a backup plan.
Then the problem once again returned to its starting point. After thinking for a long time, Xiao Yu let out a slight sigh. “If this action fails, if things truly cannot be done… then, Chen Mo, I’m sorry. If this fails, you will still have another chance to start again. It is only one Feiyuan Galaxy. Presumably it will not cause too great an impact on you. But for the Pegasus and Divine Ark Civilizations, it is not the same. Life only comes once. If they disappear from this universe, then there will never be a chance for them to come back to life. I love you, I am willing to do anything for you, but… I have no way to drag others down with me, to use the sacrifice of others to fulfill my own wish. I can only do this. I’m sorry.”
But the situation had not yet reached its worst point. Xiao Yu still had a chance. Xiao Yu’s hope rested on these microscopic civilization warships. Looking at this cluster of little fellows rising and falling in the air, Xiao Yu quietly issued the order.
Almost in an instant, these particle warships suddenly spread apart like a swarm of fireflies gathered together suddenly dispersing, carrying countless streams of dazzling light, and instantly expanded. As their volume expanded, their brightness rapidly dropped, until in the end they completely vanished from Xiao Yu’s sight. If Xiao Yu had not maintained communication with the interiors of these spaceships, then if Xiao Yu wanted to detect them, he could only capture the slightest traces of them through the most precise spatial detection instruments.
Even now, Xiao Yu still had to admit that being able to destroy the main body of the microscopic civilization and capture the microscopic civilization’s detached fleet could only be considered a stroke of luck. Although the microscopic civilization’s combat power was worthless, their concealment capability was the best of all the civilizations Xiao Yu had ever encountered. They were a true Level 7 Civilization.
Through an extremely covert form of superluminal communication, Xiao Yu could clearly know the positions of these ten billion particle warships, and could also control them in real time. Like a flock of birds released from a cage, they rapidly left this enormous space construction base through a passage Xiao Yu had opened, and arrived in the dark, vast, profound outer space.
In the next moment, they began curvature flight, speeding toward the distant Dark Star Civilization base at roughly one thousand seven hundred times the speed of light. Their voyage continued for one month, and they reached a place not far from the Dark Star Civilization. In order to prevent the fluctuations caused by the particle warships’ curvature flight from being detected by the Dark Star Civilization, Xiao Yu controlled them to begin sharply decelerating. Xiao Yu’s research showed that if things like particle warships traveled at less than fifty times the speed of light, then thanks to their extremely tiny volume, the spatial fluctuations they caused would easily blend in with the spatial fluctuations caused by various natural phenomena in the universe, making them hard to detect.
At this moment, these particle warships had already fully dispersed, advancing slowly at roughly thirty times the speed of light, and eventually entered the Dark Star Civilization’s main base.
Ever since Xiao Yu killed that Level 7 Alien Beast and the Dark Star Civilization’s base suffered tremendous chaos, the Dark Star Civilization’s main base had shrunk by a great deal. But even so, it still spanned more than twenty light years. Within this broad region of more than twenty light years, there existed countless space bases, and innumerable artificial celestial bodies moved through this area, undertaking the tasks of communications, route resupply, emergency rescue, early warning, observation, and so on for the entire base. Countless transport ships moved through this region, and huge military vessels were constantly being redeployed.
The power of a civilization was presented before Xiao Yu in this fully direct and comprehensive way. That the Dark Star Civilization was a defeated opponent of Xiao Yu was undeniable, but Xiao Yu also could not deny the greatness of the Dark Star Civilization. Then again, what Level 7 Civilization was not great? Any Level 7 Civilization possessed trillions upon trillions of intelligent beings and wielded mighty power enough to affect an enormous galaxy. Such existences were the true upper stratum of the universe.
Xiao Yu’s particle warships quietly moved through this place, searching for a chance to infiltrate. Individual warships, or commercial, civilian, and scientific research ships, were of little significance to Xiao Yu. Because their authorization levels were too low to meet Xiao Yu’s requirements. Then Xiao Yu could only achieve his objective by infiltrating large bases, or infiltrating giant ships at the flagship or secondary flagship level. But the defenses of large bases, or Star Cluster-Class and Star-Class battleships, were extremely tight. Xiao Yu had no possibility of forcibly breaking in from the front with these particle warships. Let alone these giant warships, Xiao Yu had no possibility of using these particle warships to frontally break into even lower-level Planet-Class or Continent-Class warships.
Just like when Xiao Yu was still a Level 6 Civilization, the microscopic civilization had no ability to force its way into Xiao Yu’s Star-Class battleships. Let alone the current Dark Star Civilization. No matter what, in terms of combat capability, that was always the fatal weakness of these particle warships.
Then again, the main requirement of Xiao Yu’s current action was concealment. Even if Xiao Yu had that ability, Xiao Yu would not do it that way. So Xiao Yu controlled these particle warships to continue quietly lurking here, waiting for the arrival of an opportunity.
Xiao Yu did not gather these particle warships together. That would have been a foolish act. They were numerous enough, so Xiao Yu divided them into several hundred thousand detachments, each containing from ten thousand to one hundred thousand particle warships, and fully scattered them throughout this vast base, seeking opportunities from every direction.
The breakthrough came when there were still nine years left before the final deadline. Xiao Yu observed a City-Class warship formation approaching this enormous military base. And apparently, in order to allow this City-Class warship formation to return to port, the military base, which was always under strict guard, finally opened a gap. Xiao Yu no longer hesitated, and immediately controlled one of his particle warship detachments to quietly approach a small warship within this City-Class warship formation.
It seemed that the hundreds of years of peace had caused the soldiers of this military base to become somewhat lax, and the inspection of incoming warships was not as strict as before. The strict scans of spatial and energy fluctuations had previously already forced Xiao Yu to self-destruct nearly ten million of his particle warships. Yes, this was not the first such chance Xiao Yu had encountered, but in all those previous opportunities, the strict inspection mechanisms had forced Xiao Yu to give up midway.
Relying on one moment of negligence from the Dark Star Civilization, Xiao Yu finally succeeded in infiltrating with his first detachment, around seventy thousand particle warships, into this military base, and together with this small warship, arrived at its port.
What appeared before Xiao Yu was a scene of bustle and activity. For the first time, the interior of the Dark Star Civilization was truly displayed before Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu had finally gained a chance to comprehensively and carefully observe the Dark Star Civilization’s military and the Dark Star Civilization’s port.