In the previous exchanges, Xiao Yu had already roughly estimated the limits of the virtual life’s computational power. That was right, the computational power it could control was indeed much greater than his own. As reflected in warships and construction, it could control more warships at the sa ti and could build up its rear faster. However, its computational power could not possibly be infinite.
If it was not infinite, that ant if it wanted to restore its warship reserves, it would have to spend a certain amount of ti. After all, because of the previous galactic disassembly and reassembly, he had already destroyed a considerable portion of its warships, winning a nurical advantage for himself.
This advantage had been bought by destroying an entire galaxy. But Xiao Yu suddenly discovered that he seed to have underestimated the virtual life’s capabilities, and this advantage of his did not seem as solid as he had imagined.
All of Xiao Yu’s arrangents, after Xiao Yu saw the scene currently unfolding inside the virtual life civilization’s logistics base, now faced the risk of total collapse.
Because Xiao Yu suddenly discovered that his opponent, this virtual life civilization before him, seed to possess infinite computational power. It could devote infinite energy to these matters, whether those matters were controlling warships or logistical construction. Otherwise, why had the construction speed at the logistics base suddenly increased, and increased by so much?
What appeared before Xiao Yu at this mont was precisely such a shocking scene. The virtual life civilization still had around thirty stars and more than two thousand planets left. On those planets and stars, at a certain mont, the virtual life civilization’s equipnt suddenly increased, there were more robots, more transport ships moving back and forth, and chanical processing sped up. Even in space, the speed at which the space docks manufactured spaceships had increased by a great deal.
How to distribute computational power between the logistics base and the frontline battlefield was a deeply complex discipline, and Xiao Yu understood it very well. This was because he had already experienced many wars in which he had to maintain rear construction while simultaneously fighting fierce battles against enemies at the front. If too much power was allocated to the logistics base, then frontline computational power would definitely be insufficient, the number of warships would drop, and combat power would decline. But if too much computational power was allocated to the front, then the speed of logistical construction would slow greatly, and there could even be situations where warship losses beca too great to keep up with supply.
Under the condition that total computational power was fixed, Xiao Yu had always been able to find a balance between logistical construction and frontline warfare. Yet the virtual life civilization’s performance shattered this point of confidence that Xiao Yu had always taken pride in.
Xiao Yu saw that the virtual life civilization was carrying out construction madly in its rear. That was right, the virtual life civilization’s current construction activity could indeed only be described as madness. Xiao Yu even suspected that it had transferred all of its computational power to the rear, because otherwise, how could the construction speed there have reached such an exaggerated level?
Tens of millions of robots clustered within an area only a few hundred kiloters across on a planet, and what they were doing might very likely be nothing more than building a single factory. Did building one factory really require that many robots? When the number of robots increased to a certain limit, the increase in speed for constructing a single target would rise only very slowly. Perhaps tens of millions of robots building one factory together would only be thirty to forty percent faster than several million robots.
This was extrely uneconomical, yet the virtual life civilization was indeed doing exactly this.
And then there was the construction of a single space dock, and only a dium-sized one at that. Was it really necessary to use that much heavy machinery? That many transport ships? That many robots? One had to know that with such a quantity of construction power, on Xiao Yu’s side, Xiao Yu would normally use it to build a supermassive dock, one capable of manufacturing Star Cluster-Class and Star-Class battleships. But here, the virtual life civilization was rely building a dium-sized dock.
For one mining base, was that much machinery really necessary? Did the virtual life civilization intend to extract all of the ore from that vein in a single day?
What kind of wasteful behavior was this? For Xiao Yu, this was completely impossible. Even if Xiao Yu lost his mind, he still could not possibly do such a thing. Yet the virtual life civilization was constantly doing exactly that. It seed not to care at all about its computational power. It piled computational power here without limit. rely to increase construction speed by one percent, it might spend one hundred percent more computational power!
What kind of madness was this? What kind of waste was this? For Xiao Yu, who at all tis carefully calculated how to allocate his limited computational power, this was the most unforgivable thing since the opening of heaven and earth, since the beginning of the universe. It was like a poor man who ran around every day for a few coins, only to accidentally see a wealthy man using money as firewood for warmth without the slightest concern.
At this mont, Xiao Yu even felt a trace of doubt toward the things he had always insisted on. This was simply too crazy, too inconceivable. Compared to this kind of behavior, what did it matter to use a strategic-class weapon to blow up an entire galaxy?
But what shocked Xiao Yu the most was not even this. Although the virtual life civilization was engaging in such trendous waste as it madly carried out rear construction, on the frontline, Xiao Yu had not noticed the slightest decline in the virtual life’s strength. In other words, although the virtual life civilization was wasting its computational power so terrifyingly in the rear, it still had enough computational power to ensure control over its frontline warships and continue waging war against Xiao Yu.
This was what horrified Xiao Yu the most. Xiao Yu suddenly discovered that the gains he had won by destroying an entire galaxy would very likely serve no purpose.
Destroying a galaxy had been done to buy ti, to use a fleet that held both nurical and quality superiority to wipe out the enemy in one stroke before the virtual life civilization could build more ships. But if the virtual life civilization truly possessed such terrifying computational power, then it could simply rely on piling up computational power to raise rear construction to a terrifying degree and, in a very short period of ti, increase its warship numbers to the point where it could resist Xiao Yu’s offensive, or even counterattack Xiao Yu. If that happened, then what aning was left in the advantage Xiao Yu had won by destroying the galaxy?
Perhaps the only aning was that he had forced the virtual life civilization to reveal this trump card in advance, exposing it while he still held a slight advantage, and also that he had already gained a slight advantage in terms of material reserves.
This situation completely disrupted all of Xiao Yu’s arrangents. Xiao Yu began rapidly thinking through one question in his mind, what should he do next?
Continuing the attack no longer seed possible. Under the virtual life civilization’s mad and utterly cost-ignoring construction, he no longer had confidence that he could annihilate all of their fleet, because their construction was too insane. The speed at which he destroyed their fleet might not even exceed the speed at which they built spaceships!
Retreat now? But since the virtual life civilization possessed such terrifying construction capability, there was absolutely no way he could match it. Even if he retreated, so what? Was he supposed to stay inside his base and wait for overwhelming enemy warships to drown him?
Perhaps… the only feasible thod was to flee, to flee together with the Architectural Civilization. While the virtual life civilization had not yet built more spaceships, while its strength had not yet beco too vast to contain, he would escape in advance. If I can’t afford to provoke you, then hiding should be allowed, right?
“But… I really am unwilling to accept this.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “From this mont on, the most attractive thing within the virtual life civilization is no longer simply its more advanced computer technology. Because it may very well have already mastered the technology of infinite computational power, and as long as I possess infinite computational power, my developnt will soar into the sky, and no one will ever be able to stop again. This is simply too important to .”
Ever since leaving Earth, Xiao Yu had suffered from insufficient computational power at every mont. Even though Xiao Yu’s computer technology had developed to its current state, becoming hundreds of millions of tis greater than before, when faced with the demands of the new situation, Xiao Yu’s computational power still seed stretched to the limit. Infinite computational power! What an enormous temptation this was! Even if there were only a one percent chance of obtaining it, it would still be worth it for Xiao Yu to stake his life on pursuing it!
In that instant, countless thoughts surged through Xiao Yu’s mind. Innurable ideas circled and echoed within his head, making it almost impossible for him to control himself.
First there had been the wild plunge from heaven to hell, and then the sudden excitent of discovering that the enemy possessed the very thing he had always dread of. All of these emotions, all of these thoughts, left Xiao Yu’s heart in complete turmoil at this mont.
The fierce battle was still continuing. Xiao Yu saw that while this violent battle continued, in the virtual life civilization’s logistics construction base, that enormous factory had been completed in only one day, rising from the planet and beginning to roar. That dium-sized dock had been completed in less than three days. Two days later, spaceships built within it had already erged and begun heading for the frontline. That mining base had only operated for three days before being abandoned by the virtual life civilization. Clearly, in just those three days, it had already extracted all valuable minerals contained in that ore vein…
“I must make a decision as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, I cannot afford to delay.” Xiao Yu gritted his teeth and made up his mind. “Then I will do it this way.”
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