Chapter 961: Ideal Heaven |
The first thing Xiao Yu noticed was the enormous battleship in the sky that was like a dark cloud. Its size was too vast, causing it to have no way to truly land within the base. For such giant warships, Xiao Yu and the Dark Star Civilization had the same method of handling them, which was to let them berth in the sky and rely on small spaceships as the transport vehicles between the two.
Under the illumination of the distant star, the edge of this enormous warship glowed with a cold metallic radiance. It was roughly elongated in shape, with many protrusions on both sides. There were countless instruments within it, but what it showed on the outside was only an outer shell filled with a metallic texture. It was very large. Even though it was several thousand meters away from the ground, it still cast a vast shadow over the surface. Compared to it, the military base Xiao Yu had entered was even more enormous. It was almost as large as a continent on Earth. Countless spaceships as vast as the warship atop Xiao Yu’s particle warships were berthed here. High-speed vehicles could be seen everywhere. Squads of solemn-looking soldiers hurried back and forth tensely. Many soldiers descended from the enormous warship in the sky, while many more soldiers rode small spaceships into it. There were also many engineers carrying large quantities of supplies to perform maintenance and resupply on it. Everything was tense and orderly.
This warship currently being observed by Xiao Yu, so vast that it could not land below, was a City-Class warship. That was right. A huge thing like this was, in war, merely at the level of cannon fodder with no real ability. And the enormous military base where Xiao Yu’s particle warships were currently located, a base the size of an entire continent, could only be considered a medium to slightly small military base. At most, it could receive Province-Class warships to berth here and undergo repairs and resupply. If a Nation-Class warship were berthed here, the base’s daily operation would be severely affected. Although it was not large, it had at least over one hundred million intelligent beings stationed here. Among these intelligent beings were soldiers, engineers, workers, logistics personnel, and so on.
These over one hundred million intelligent beings, countless machines, together with a continent, constituted an ordinary military base of Xiao Yu’s defeated opponent, the Dark Star Civilization.
In wars between civilizations at such a high level, the ability of individuals was compressed to the extreme. But when several trillion individuals fused together, they achieved a glorious and great civilization. Therefore, every Level 7 Civilization was great.
Xiao Yu had never denied this point, and Xiao Yu was also certain that he himself was also a great existence. Because the scale of his logistics base was many times larger than that of the Dark Star Civilization. Xiao Yu possessed more warships and more military bases. No matter what was compared, Xiao Yu was more outstanding than the Dark Star Civilization.
This was a Level 7 Civilization. Plucking stars and seizing moons were nothing more than ordinary matters. In the eyes of a Level 7 Civilization, even great stars were merely ordinary daily nourishment. A vast galaxy was also insufficient to serve as the stage for a Level 7 Civilization.
Putting away this slight feeling in his heart, Xiao Yu continued beginning his work. Xiao Yu hid this particle fleet even more tightly, then once again divided it into several parts and scattered them throughout this military base. One portion infiltrated the various buildings of the base. Another portion entered those warships, waiting for these warships to bring them to more places.
Xiao Yu’s remaining particle warships were also waiting for opportunities similar to this one. During these few months, Xiao Yu had at least five billion particle warships infiltrate various places within the Dark Star Civilization. Some infiltrated research bases, some infiltrated information centers, some infiltrated mining bases, some infiltrated living areas, and some infiltrated warships. These warships could move, so they began shuttling between different military bases, gradually spreading to even more places within the Dark Star Civilization.
After these particle warships entered the hinterland of the Dark Star Civilization, the technology of the computational civilization began to play an important role. As a Level 7 Technological Civilization, the Dark Star Civilization undoubtedly could not do without computing equipment. Whether it was scientific research, communication, daily life, military affairs, and other aspects, all depended on the support of computing equipment. Although, because of the lack of sufficient hardware support, Xiao Yu could not make too many moves at all, merely in terms of gathering intelligence, these particle warships were already enough to do it.
These particle warships directly entered all kinds of computing equipment, then lurked inside the computing equipment, stealing the data here by monitoring the energy fluctuations in the internal energy circuits of the computing equipment. In the past, this would have been a mission impossible even for Xiao Yu. But Xiao Yu had the profound foundation of the computational civilization’s computing technology. This allowed Xiao Yu to restore a simple energy fluctuation into information, and obtain from it the things he wanted.
Xiao Yu was collecting intelligence on the Dark Star Civilization bit by bit, understanding every single detail of the Dark Star Civilization.
Through analysis, Xiao Yu discovered that the Logic Weapon seemed to be a highly confidential existence within the society of the Dark Star Civilization, so much so that Xiao Yu had no way at all to find information on the Logic Weapon inside the Dark Star Civilization. This was certainly very disappointing, but Xiao Yu found another thing that made him rather interested.
As if born alongside Technological Civilizations, a destiny that lingered around Technological Civilizations for their entire lives, Xiao Yu discovered that any completely unified Technological Civilization with a stable regime would have some opponents. Either because of differing political views, or because of some other conflict of interest, inside every Technological Civilization, there were organizations hidden in the darkness that opposed the regime.
This point could not be avoided even by the Pegasus Civilization, or the Divine Ark Civilization under Xiao Yu’s control. Within the Divine Ark Civilization, there were even organizations established based on the original various species that sought the independence of their own species, although they could not occupy the mainstream of society. So Xiao Yu believed that such organizations must also exist within the Dark Star Civilization. The goal of Xiao Yu’s trip was to contact them, borrowing their strength, as well as their convenience inside the Dark Star Civilization, to achieve his own objective.
From an overall perspective, these organizations that opposed the regime also possessed a certain degree of positive significance. Just like the catfish effect, a qualified opposition organization could maintain the vitality of an entire civilization. It was precisely because of this reason that the former Xiao Yu had allowed these fellows to exist within the Divine Ark Civilization, rather than using his ubiquitous control to eliminate them. Xiao Yu believed that a qualified ruling regime should have the ability to control these opponents within a certain scale, and in a disguised manner, hold them in its own hands.
The Dark Star Civilization’s control over these opposition organizations naturally could not reach Xiao Yu’s height. In fact, if the Dark Star Civilization could control them so thoroughly, then they would have no use to Xiao Yu. The Dark Star Civilization merely controlled this organization on an overall level, but did not understand the details of this organization very well. They did not even know who the true leader of this organization was.
But Xiao Yu found this true leader. Because Xiao Yu’s plan had an extremely close relationship with him. Whether Xiao Yu’s plan could succeed was, to a large extent, decided by the personal intelligence, character, and even habits of the leader of the opposition organization. But Xiao Yu did not care whether the current leader of the opposition organization would cooperate with his actions. The reason was very simple. If a certain leader was unqualified, just assassinate him and replace him with another.
But the leader of this opposition organization was very lucky. He greatly met Xiao Yu’s requirements. This was the conclusion Xiao Yu reached only after observing him for several months.
He was despicable, selfish, and cruel. For his own interests, he could sacrifice the interests of an entire civilization. Although he possessed extremely outstanding intelligence, he did not have any long-term vision. His intelligence was more reflected in immediate interests.
This was an extremely qualified cooperation partner. Xiao Yu intended to change his fate and bind him onto his own war chariot.
On a certain peaceful afternoon on a certain living planet, Xiao Yu connected to the communication channel of this leader of the opposition organization. This leader of the opposition organization had a normal identity as cover, so he was extremely shocked by Xiao Yu’s arrival.
Within the virtual communication channel, Xiao Yu said calmly, “Greetings, Number One leader of the Ideal Heaven organization. I am Xiao Yu.”
This leader undoubtedly possessed an extremely outstanding psychological quality. Xiao Yu observed that he had not the slightest emotional fluctuation. He responded, “What is Ideal Heaven? You are Xiao Yu? And who is Xiao Yu? How did you connect to my communication channel? Don’t you know? Privately invading another citizen’s communication channel is illegal!”
If Xiao Yu had not already grasped his information long ago, Xiao Yu almost would have been deceived by him. Xiao Yu still maintained his calm and continued speaking mildly, “In front of me, you do not need to disguise yourself. These are all of your movement routes over the past few years, every meal you have eaten, every person you have come into contact with, every sentence you have spoken, and every communication on the information network. All of it is recorded here. You can take a look.”
“I am Xiao Yu… I am the leader of the enemy your civilization is currently fighting… I will tell you something that is vital to you…”