Xiao Yu could be certain that the Guardian Civilization already knew that two-dinsional weapons could counter four-dinsional jump, but the Radiance had broken through this limitation by a rather ingenious thod. The limitation was the attack range of the two-dinsional weapons. The battlefield was ultimately too vast, and two-dinsional weapons could not cover all of it. There would always be portions left as three-dinsional space. These three-dinsional pockets were like islands, or even continents, within a two-dinsional ocean. the Radiance’s four-dinsional jumps were being executed upon these islands or continents.
Because the starting point of the Guardian Civilization’s star route was right here, Xiao Yu was not worried that the Guardian Civilization would withdraw entirely. The only concern was that the Radiance would exploit its overpowering maneuverability to stir up trouble within the battlefield. At the sa ti, the Radiance was practically the spiritual symbol of the Guardian Civilization, its importance equivalent to that of Beijing to China. Moreover, if he could obtain the Radiance, even if only its wreckage, the benefit to Xiao Yu would be imnse.
So Xiao Yu deliberately set a trap. For this trap, Xiao Yu had already sacrificed a great deal of computational power, and at the risk of lacking combat strength on the main battlefield, he assigned as many as two thousand Planet-Class warships and nearly ten million escort ships to the edge of the battlefield. Xiao Yu was waiting for the Radiance to be unable to resist jumping next to the Star-Class warship Tianyuan IV.
All of this was part of Xiao Yu’s plan. When the Radiance could no longer resist coming to eliminate Tianyuan IV, the Micron corpse hidden inside Tianyuan IV, under the control of the Specter companion, burst out.
Curvature flight and conventional flight were two different things. For spaceships or the Micron corpse that possessed autonomous maneuverability, they could still conduct conventional flight while in curvature flight. Thus, during curvature flight at more than one hundred thirty light speed, the Micron corpse accelerated its conventional speed to more than two hundred thousand kiloters per second. In rely an instant, it arrived before the Radiance and ramd toward it with ferocious force.
The corpse of the Micron Civilization was a secret known probably only to Xiao Yu and the Taihao Alliance. Even if the Guardian Civilization knew the Micron Civilization had once existed, they absolutely could not know that the Micron Civilization’s corpse possessed such formidable combat power. So now, the Guardian Civilization had finally fallen for it. After more than twenty hours of probing and determining the strength of Tianyuan IV, the Radiance could not hold back and ca to eliminate Xiao Yu’s flagship.
But this was precisely the mont Xiao Yu had been waiting for. To create this opportunity, Xiao Yu had not hesitated to sacrifice tens of millions more ships.
Just as the Radiance appeared near Tianyuan IV, the Micron corpse had already rushed in. It took less than one tenth of a second to reach the Radiance, then switched from curvature flight to conventional flight. While still within curvature space, the Micron corpse had already accelerated its conventional speed to more than two hundred thousand kiloters per second. In this way, at a sub-light conventional speed, it slamd toward the Radiance.
The Guardian Civilization was without doubt a civilization of intelligent beings. The reaction speed of biological beings could not be faster than such an attack. In other words, the commander of the Radiance could not possibly react in ti. The only concern was the Radiance’s automatic defense system. In such an ergency, the automatic defense system might take over the ship’s control at the last second and employ four-dinsional jump again to evade the impact of the Micron corpse.
But Xiao Yu had already prepared a counterasure, naly the two thousand Planet-Class warships pre-positioned at the battlefield’s edge. All two thousand carried high-power two-dinsional weapons.
At the very mont when the Radiance appeared in front of Tianyuan IV and the Micron corpse began its assault, Xiao Yu had already issued orders to those two thousand Planet-Class warships. The high-power two-dinsional weapons mounted on them were activated.
The positions of these two thousand Planet-Class warships had been calculated by Xiao Yu with precise foresight. Occupying these positions and activating the two-dinsional weapons simultaneously, the two thousand Planet-Class warships could two-dinsionalize the entire battlefield’s space. Aside from the spaces occupied by ships that themselves possessed extrely high energy, all remaining space would be two-dinsionalized without leaving any dead corners.
The speed at which two-dinsional weapons two-dinsionalize space was superluminal. That is to say, the instant the two-dinsional weapons were activated, the entire battlefield beca two-dinsional.
Now, with the combined effort of two thousand Planet-Class warships, the largest operation of space two-dinsionalization since Xiao Yu had acquired two-dinsional weapons began. In that single instant, the entire battlefield spanning several light days entered two dinsions.
Because Xiao Yu’s ships were equipped with sa-type two-dinsional shields, the effect of the two-dinsional weapons upon them was not significant. But the Guardian Civilization’s ships were different. Xiao Yu saw innurable flashes appear across the battlefield in that instant. Large numbers of the Guardian Civilization’s ships were two-dinsionalized, and the dinsion they lost was released as energy. These two thousand Planet-Class ships were like the greatest painter in the universe, using space as a canvas to compose a brilliant work suffused with the aura of destruction and despair.
On this painting, warships of every kind, model, size, and posture were the absolute protagonists. The wreckage of warships, so star system defense installations with weaker protection, space gun turrets or interstellar mines, fragnts of certain celestial bodies, and so on, served as embellishnts upon this great work.
The two-dinsional world created by the combined effort of two thousand Planet-Class warships inflicted enormous damage upon the Guardian Civilization’s fleet. With a brief tally, Xiao Yu arrived at a conclusion. In this single wave of attack, at least six million ships of the Guardian Civilization had been destroyed.
But this was not Xiao Yu’s primary objective. rely six million of the Guardian Civilization’s small and dium ships were not worth such arrangents. Xiao Yu’s target was the Radiance. This astounding masterpiece was prepared for the Radiance. Xiao Yu hoped the Radiance would take this painting as its tomb and rest here forever.
Yes, the destruction of more than six million of the Guardian Civilization’s small and dium ships was only an add-on to this attack. Xiao Yu’s main purpose was to use the two-dinsional space to counter the Radiance’s four-dinsional jump, preventing it from using four-dinsional jump to evade the collision of the Micron corpse.
Xiao Yu’s arrangent took effect. Xiao Yu saw that, as the Micron corpse surged forward and ramd toward the Radiance, at that last possible mont the Radiance once again vanished from the visible universe.
Xiao Yu knew that the Radiance’s ergency defense system had engaged. Before the Radiance’s decision-makers could react, the ergency defense system detected the imnse threat it faced. It detected that an object with stellar mass but only two hundred kiloters in diater was ramming toward it. And it knew that it absolutely could not withstand such a violent impact.
This must have been the most critical mont, so the ergency defense system imdiately took control of the Radiance. Without any authorization from any intelligent being of the Guardian Civilization, and without obtaining their consent, it made the decision. It used four-dinsional jump once more.
Xiao Yu believed that, when confronted with such a colossal danger, employing four-dinsional jump to escape at once was the correct choice. Even if the Radiance’s decision-makers had ti to react, this would certainly be their choice. But this was a trap, a trap Xiao Yu set specifically for them. In this trap, what was originally the correct choice beca the wrong one. No, it should be said that this was a dead end with no correct choice at all. Faced with such a situation, every choice was wrong.
The Guardian Civilization’s choice was not wrong, but this region of space had already been two-dinsionalized. The Guardian Civilization’s high-dinsional jump, which was a four-dinsional jump in three-dinsional space, beca a three-dinsional jump in two-dinsional space. Thus Xiao Yu witnessed the following scene.
The Radiance had just entered higher-dinsional space and vanished from the visible universe when, in the very next instant, it reappeared in the visible universe. It was like a fish flung onto land, twitching dryly in space. Viewed from a three-dinsional world’s perspective, its current movent speed was not even as fast as conventional flight.
This was the result when a four-dinsional jump was weakened into a three-dinsional jump by two-dinsional weapons. The result did not exceed the expectations of Xiao Yu and Xu Junpo. For the conclusion that two-dinsional weapons could counter four-dinsional jump was reached only after Xiao Yu and Xu Junpo had spent more than one thousand years studying together. This scene had appeared in Xiao Yu’s mind and in the simulator on Xu Junpo’s personal computing terminal no fewer than ten thousand tis.
But those were always simulations. No matter how realistic, simulations were still illusory. Without seeing the real outco in actual combat, one could not rule out the possibility that the simulated result was wrong. Only now did Xiao Yu’s heart finally settle.
The Radiance was crawling forward at a pitiful speed. Behind it, the Micron corpse trying to ram it was moving at more than two hundred thousand kiloters per second.
With the situation reduced to this, there would be no accidents. Xiao Yu saw that in the next instant, the Micron corpse struck solidly against the Radiance.
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