Ever since becoming a Level 7 Civilization, Xiao Yu had never encountered a sa-level civilization related to war. He had only glimpsed a little of the formidable power of Level 7 war-related civilizations from things like the Neutron War Star and dinsionality-reduction attacks.
From certain perspectives, this virtual life Level 7 Civilization that he had encountered at this mont could also be counted as a war-related civilization. It was just that their thod of attack was sothing Xiao Yu did not particularly like.
One thing Xiao Yu had always taken pride in was numbers. Throughout the past, there had been no telling how many tis he had relied on nurical superiority to erase the gap in quality and thereby seize final victory. But now, Xiao Yu suddenly discovered that he was the side at a nurical disadvantage. At this mont, within the fleet group controlled by this virtual life civilization that had co from afar, there were nearly twenty billion warships. Among them, at least more than thirty belonged to the category of Star Cluster-Class battleships.
The number of twenty billion ships in itself was not sothing Xiao Yu valued too much. Xiao Yu’s current warship reserves had already reached around twenty-eight billion. In that regard, Xiao Yu held the advantage. But there was one important point, Xiao Yu could at most control one billion warships simultaneously! And the civilization that had arrived now was controlling all twenty billion of its warships at once while arranging them into battle formation. This ant that it could simultaneously control twenty billion, or perhaps even more, warships!
“I never imagined that one day I would also be crushed by soone relying on numbers.” Xiao Yu’s heart was full of bitterness. From one angle at least, this proved sothing. If his deduction was not wrong, aning if the chanism by which this virtual life controlled warships was the sa as his own, then… it would possess computational power far beyond his own.
“It absolutely cannot be like that.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “It must have certain weaknesses I have not yet perceived. I was born from intelligent life, and intelligent life is the most complex, most perfect existence in this universe. You are rely a tool created by intelligent beings. Even if you have obtained your own independent life, you absolutely cannot surpass .”
At this mont, there was not the slightest fear in Xiao Yu’s heart. Instead, an unprecedented fighting spirit surged within him.
After all, the ti since his birth had still been short, only a few hundred thousand years, but how long was the history of the universe? If an existence form like virtual life truly had no defects and was as perfect as he was, then this universe would long since have beco their domain. Yet in the present universe, intelligent beings still held an overwhelming advantage. What did this an?
“It ans that you are only a half-finished product, while I am the most perfect one.” Xiao Yu thought silently.
“For the first battle, it is better to play it safe. The most important thing is to find out the enemy’s true nature. Then… I will rely on the star system’s defense system and fight a defensive battle.” Xiao Yu made his decision swiftly.
During the past nine hundred years, aside from stockpiling huge numbers of warships, Xiao Yu had also built the most complete star system defense system possible. Now was the ti for these star system defense systems to co into play. The Supercomputing Centers built throughout the universe were also swiftly activated by Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu handed over command authority of at least ten billion warships to them. The power of these warships would be greatly discounted in their hands, but under the current circumstances, there was no room to worry about that.
Xiao Yu’s defensive line stretched out across a range of several light years. This span of several light years had already been filled by the thousands of stars Xiao Yu had transported here. It was precisely by using these stars as nodes that Xiao Yu constructed this enormous star system defense system. At the core encircled by these stars was that massive structure of the Architectural Civilization. Xiao Yu did not expect an interest-based civilization to play much of a role in the war between himself and the enemy. Before the war began, Xiao Yu had already told them, “In this war, all you need to do is protect yourselves and avoid being affected by the fighting. I will keep you inford of the battlefield situation at all tis. If final defeat becos inevitable, then we will flee together.”
Naturally, Xiao Yu had no reason to stake his life here. If things proved impossible, then he would have no choice but to abandon those tempting technologies and first choose to escape in order to preserve his life.
Under the silent gaze of the central black hole of the Maffei One galaxy, among these thousands of stars, countless star system defense devices and warship fleets numbering in the tens of billions waited there in silence. An endless aura of slaughter gradually spread through the dark starry sky.
The virtual life civilization seed to have detected the activity here, so it had begun preparing for battle dozens of light years away. Fleet clusters so vast that they were beyond description were making frequent maneuvers, moving back and forth in perfect order. It controlled these fleets as if… as if it were controlling its own arms, using them as easily as its own limbs.
Xiao Yu’s heart began sinking once more. Xiao Yu knew very well what this ant. No matter how perfectly trained an army was, it could never achieve such a high degree of coordination. The fact that it could do this proved without a doubt that it possessed abilities similar to Xiao Yu’s own.
The distance between the two fleets was rapidly closing. During this process, there was no communication at all between the two sides. It seed that the virtual life had long since known that the one staying here was an enemy.
“I cannot keep waiting passively like this.” Xiao Yu thought to himself, and an idea quickly appeared in his mind. So, under Xiao Yu’s personal command, a fleet composed of approximately one million ships set out.
Xiao Yu dared to say that a fleet made up of one million ships was an enormous force for any technological civilization. But under the current circumstances, in a confrontation between two major computation-related civilizations, this fleet could only undertake the role of cannon fodder. Xiao Yu knew that the destruction of these one million ships was already a foregone conclusion. What he wanted was rely to learn the virtual life civilization’s combat data a few days earlier.
At a place still more than ten light years away from Xiao Yu’s position, this probing fleet finally ca into contact with the enemy fleet. Xiao Yu knew that although their technological strength was weaker than his own, it had still not reached the point of crushing superiority. This ant that his fleet could not remain invisible before the enemy, and so there would be no possibility of a sneak attack. Therefore, Xiao Yu simply advanced openly and directly.
This virtual life promptly reacted in turn. Under Xiao Yu’s close observation, the virtual life’s enormous fleet once again began redeploying its combat strength, and in the end, likewise, a force of one million ships broke away from the main fleet and sailed toward Xiao Yu’s fleet.
“The sa numbers? Should I hide so of my strength and then give them a surprise in a later battle?” This thought flashed rapidly through Xiao Yu’s mind, but he imdiately rejected it. “In this kind of battle, hiding strength has no aning. Not only can I not hide my strength, I must instead bring out my greatest combat power and give it the greatest possible deterrent!”
“Battle, begin!” Xiao Yu issued the order. “You rely want to probe my strength as well, so then I will grant your wish!”
This was a fair battle. In this region, neither side had made any advance arrangents, neither side held a terrain advantage, and neither side possessed a nurical advantage. The only things both sides could rely on were their own strength and the performance of their warships.
The battle erupted in the very next mont. While still in curvature flight, the Spatial Cannons, which glowed with a milky-white sheen, resembled light-beam weapons, yet could advance faster than light, had already begun firing in dense volleys. Countless Spatial Bombs were released in advance, ready to inflict fatal strikes upon enemy warships in the chaotic lee to follow. The Spatial Vortex had already begun to activate. The space in front of every ship began to blur. The spatial maze had already taken effect. At once, this fleet seed as though it had been shrouded in fog.
Xiao Yu had already unleashed every weapon he had mastered.
Almost at the sa ti, Xiao Yu was t with the counterattack of the warships controlled by the virtual life. Although the attack thods used by their warships could still be recognized at a glance as belonging to the category of spatial weapons, they were slightly different from Xiao Yu’s.
The conventional weaponry of Xiao Yu’s warships was the Spatial Cannon, while his main weapons were the Spatial Vortex and Spatial Bombs, with multi-ship coordinated space collapse serving as a supplent. The spatial maze also had so utility on this sort of battlefield. Of course, these were rely the general nas of the weapons. Beyond these, there were many other less commonly used weapons, and each weapon had its own particular emphasis, with different models and purposes.
The virtual life civilization, however, had not mastered a weapon like the Spatial Cannon, nor even the Spatial Vortex. This did not an that the virtual life civilization was weaker than Xiao Yu. Although they had not mastered these two weapons, they had opened a different path and discovered other thods of attack within the domain of space technology.
After receiving the attack of the Spatial Cannon weapon, the virtual life civilization retaliated with another type of weapon. Under the effect of this weapon, space actually began showing a tendency to shatter into fragnts. It was only a tendency, nothing more. Space did not truly split apart, yet it began moving in a highly bizarre manner. In the midst of this motion, a warship with relatively weak defenses was twisted into a spiral in a single instant.
This was without question the virtual life civilization’s long-range attack thod. As for their close-range attack thod, Xiao Yu had not yet experienced it.
Xiao Yu quietly let out a breath of relief in his heart. Because Xiao Yu had sensed that, although it too was a spatial weapon, the attack power of this weapon used by the virtual life civilization was still sowhat inferior even to his own Spatial Cannon.
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