Among Xiao Yu’s only ten Star Cluster-Class battleships, the Honor spaceship’s combat power could rank in the top three. Ranked first was, without question, Xiao Yu’s own vessel, the Human spaceship. However, the significance of the Human spaceship was simply too great. Unless it was a truly critical mont, the Human spaceship would absolutely not enter battle. The spaceship ranked second was the Dream spaceship, and ranked third was this Honor spaceship.
Now, as the Honor spaceship faced destruction, there was naturally an indescribable feeling in Xiao Yu’s heart. However, seeing the enormous results the Honor spaceship had achieved, seeing the ti the Honor spaceship had won for him, Xiao Yu still felt a slight bit of comfort. No matter what, the Honor spaceship had not disgraced the na Xiao Yu had given it, Honor, honor…
The escort ships around the Honor spaceship had almost all been destroyed. It had reached this supermassive dock almost in the state of fighting alone. In the entire core defensive ring of the virtual life civilization, there were only three such supermassive docks. And if the virtual life had already invested such terrifying computational power into one dium-sized dock, then one could imagine how much computational power it had invested into a supermassive dock like this, and how many construction facilities had been piled up here.
The significance of destroying this supermassive dock was self-evident.
Blocking the Honor spaceship ahead was another Star Cluster-Class battleship under the virtual life civilization. In its battle against the Honor spaceship, it too had suffered rather severe damage. If Xiao Yu had just a little more strength in hand, Xiao Yu would have had every hope of taking down this Star Cluster-Class battleship. But unfortunately, at this mont, Xiao Yu, and the Honor spaceship, no longer had that ability.
Through the observation equipnt aboard the Honor spaceship, Xiao Yu glanced sowhat contemptuously at the enemy blocking the way ahead. Sowhat disdainfully, he said, “I will allow you to exist a little longer for now.”
The Honor spaceship charged toward it without hesitation. Xiao Yu knew that this would be the final battle in the Honor spaceship’s life. In this final battle, the Honor spaceship’s strength would leave the virtual life civilization with a profound impression that would never be erased for all eternity.
Faced with the Honor spaceship’s madness, in the midst of this intense battle, the Star Cluster-Class battleship that had co to block it finally had no choice but to make an evasive maneuver. And in that instant, the Honor spaceship had already brushed past it, using its own body to fiercely crash toward the supermassive dock ahead. While still on the way there, the supermassive Spatial Bomb prepared for self-destruction had already been made ready…
Here, within the core defensive ring of the virtual life civilization, there erupted once again a fierce flash no weaker than that of a star. The Honor spaceship ended its life in the most glorious way. Before it died, it took with it one supermassive dock, as well as the various enormous construction facilities inside it, endless robots, and two Star Cluster-Class battleships that had not yet been fully completed…
With the destruction of the Honor spaceship, Xiao Yu knew that this raid was drawing close to its end. The Honor spaceship had been destroyed. Of what remained, only a few thousand of the Honor spaceship’s escort fleet chose an even more tragic manner of death. A nearby star had already been struck and exploded, and beside it, all thirteen planets orbiting around it had also been completely destroyed in the final counterattack of these ships before death.
At this point, of the tens of millions of warships Xiao Yu had charged into the virtual life civilization’s core defensive ring, fewer than ten thousand remained. Under the pursuit of hundreds of millions of enemy warships, it would take only a short while for these ships to be wiped out. But Xiao Yu’s objective had already been achieved. What Xiao Yu had left behind was devastation everywhere. The residual matter and residual energy from exploded stars were continuously spreading through space. Among thousands of planets, almost not a single one remained intact. On many planets, the craters stretching in unbroken patches, the huge holes that pierced straight through entire planets, had almost connected into whole regions. The smoke and fire rising from the damaged factories and broken machinery almost shrouded the entire planets. Space bases, space docks, and transport ships had been destroyed by more than half. Even according to the kind of insane construction speed the virtual life civilization had shown before, restoring all this would still require at least ten years. These tens of millions of spaceships had practically forced out another ten years of ti for Xiao Yu.
But that was not the most important thing. In fact, in this raid, the large-scale destruction of the virtual life civilization’s industrial facilities was only the second-ranked objective. The first-ranked objective had already been quietly arranged behind Xiao Yu’s great destruction. This was the most important thing.
Xiao Yu had always known that even if he destroyed all of the virtual life civilization’s industrial infrastructure, the virtual life civilization would still rebuild everything. That was only treating the symptoms, not the root cause. It was rely a tactical objective, not a strategic objective. Xiao Yu’s strategic objective was to understand the mysteries and weaknesses of the virtual life civilization and ultimately find a way to completely defeat it!
For this objective, intelligence support was absolutely necessary. Behind Xiao Yu’s large-scale destruction, those hidden spy devices Xiao Yu had manufactured in advance had already been concealed by Xiao Yu in the giant craters blasted out by shells on planets, inside damaged factory machinery, among the fragnts of exploded warships in space, inside space docks or space bases that only had half their structure left…
Xiao Yu knew that what he had done was unlikely to escape the virtual life’s notice. Even if it could be hidden for a short ti, it could not be hidden forever. But Xiao Yu was not afraid of the virtual life discovering these things. The reason was simple. I have scattered a great many of these things. It is basically impossible to find every last one of them. Even if you know I have planted nails in your base, what can you do about it? Destroy an entire planet just to erase these spy devices? Now that the stars in the galaxy have already mostly been destroyed, and transporting stars has beco increasingly difficult, can you really bear to destroy so many planets?
Since it could not bear to do that, then it could only pinch its nose and accept all of this, and under Xiao Yu’s surveillance begin the subsequent reconstruction of its bases. This also ant that the secrets of the virtual life civilization could no longer continue to remain hidden.
This arrangent was already almost an open sche rather than a hidden sche. A hidden sche relied on trickery. An open sche ant that although you clearly knew every detail of my plan, you simply had no way to respond!
This situation was one that Xiao Yu had fought for by paying the price of one Star Cluster-Class battleship and hundreds of millions of warships of other types. This situation was even founded upon the destruction of an entire galaxy. Xiao Yu had painstakingly planned for several hundred years. Although, because the virtual life civilization had displayed nearly infinite computational power, he had not obtained the greatest battle results, achieving this result instead was still acceptable.
Xiao Yu’s gamble had already reached its most critical mont. Only after paying such high costs had Xiao Yu found the chance to understand the virtual life civilization. If, after understanding the virtual life civilization, he still could not find a thod to defeat it, then ti would already have been wasted, the best opportunity to escape would already have been missed, and Xiao Yu’s ending would be very miserable.
“Faced with a possible thod for mastering infinite computational power, as well as more advanced computer technology, if I do not struggle for it and simply turn around and leave, then what was the point of coming into this universe to venture in the first place? I might as well have gone back to Earth early and held babies instead!” Xiao Yu thought to himself. “Wealth and honor are sought amid danger. Every step I have taken along this road has been through blood and storms, danger lurking on every side!”
Xiao Yu’s warships had already begun a strategic retreat. Because at this mont, continuing to remain entangled here would no longer produce any effect. It was better to return early for defense, pull back computational power, and focus wholeheartedly on even larger-scale logistical construction. In this way, he could still retain a few more trump cards. If he ultimately failed, he could still hold out a little longer.
After all of Xiao Yu’s warship fleets had retreated, the virtual life civilization also quieted down. It did not once again launch a large-scale counteroffensive against Xiao Yu. In fact, at this ti, it did not have that capability either. The two great civilizations were both secretly accumulating strength, both preparing, both waiting.
Even larger-scale construction activity had already begun, and this was true for both Xiao Yu and the virtual life civilization.
“Unfortunately, this is when the virtual life civilization is at its weakest, yet I do not have the ability to take it down in one stroke at this mont. And the longer ti is delayed, the greater the gap in strength between it and will beco. But there is no other way. Understanding it, and then finding its weakness, is my only way to victory… I can only continue waiting. Even if the longer I wait, the greater the actual gap becos, I can only keep waiting.” Xiao Yu silently thought in his heart.
The enormous spy network had already begun operating. Moreover, one spy device had already attached itself to a robot and, without drawing its attention, quietly connected its own data line to the robot’s internal data line. This rigorous data empire had finally been pried open by Xiao Yu by the tiniest corner. By ans of this tiny crack that had been opened, Xiao Yu finally, for the first ti, sensed a glimpse of the interior of this enormous empire.
Xiao Yu detected a burst of information being transmitted from the distant central hub to this robot. Xiao Yu quickly copied this information, then transmitted it into his own mind.
“‘The scientist selves,’ if you still cannot complete the task, I will erase all of you…”
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