Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 554: Dancing Characters

That spatial lifeform had already left, likely to seek out the Sweepers for a decisive battle, leaving behind only this two-dimensional star system, silently proclaiming its power.

There was no doubt that Xiao Yu hoped this spatial lifeform would win. Leaving aside that the so-called ‘commissioner’ it mentioned was very likely Chen Mo, purely from the standpoint of his own interests, losing such a powerful enemy as the Sweepers was something Xiao Yu would be glad to see. It was not only Xiao Yu. All civilizations in the Milky Way likely hoped the Sweeper Civilization would be destroyed.

Only in the short term, it would be impossible for Xiao Yu to know concrete information about the outcome of the battle between the spatial lifeform and the Sweeper Civilization. It was evident that the war between the spatial lifeform and the Sweepers would be earth-shaking, perhaps even fiercer than the time when the half four-dimensional Taihao and all the civilizations of the Milky Way jointly besieged the Sweepers. Xiao Yu suspected that in that war, the Sweepers very likely had not used their full strength.

Such a war was not something Xiao Yu could watch at close range. In a battle between two mighty powers, even a ripple of the fighting could annihilate Xiao Yu. Only after the matter was over could he slowly gather intelligence about this battle in the course of contacting other civilizations.

“What a pity. I cannot witness such a magnificent war with my own eyes. Alas.” Xiao Yu sighed and once again dispatched more spaceships toward this stellar system that had already become two-dimensional.

A two-dimensional star system was a rare wonder. Faced with such an opportunity, Xiao Yu naturally could not let it pass. He naturally had to seize the chance, before this two-dimensional world was destroyed by the three-dimensional world, to collect as much data as possible and conduct research to supplement his technological reserves.

With this matter set aside, Xiao Yu once more focused his main attention on scientific research. No matter what, improving his own strength was paramount. Even if the enormous threat of the Sweepers disappeared, the road ahead would not necessarily be smooth. Xiao Yu still needed to tread carefully and go all out to make it through.

Xiao Yu even faintly thought of a possibility. His own existence might be something like a shadow the Taihao Civilization had prepared to deal with the Sweepers. If the pressure of the Sweepers disappeared, he might very well suffer the Taihao’s backlash. The reason was simple. If there were no Sweepers at all, then what use would there be for the Divine Ark Civilization?

“The road ahead is complicated and full of thorns. The earlier I become a Level 6 Civilization, the earlier I will have the ability to protect myself. And to enter Level 6, acquiring the remaining technologies of Level 5 Civilizations is a must…”

Xiao Yu pondered silently and led his vast corps of scientists back into the busy grind of scientific research.

Time passed bit by bit, and Xiao Yu gradually felt the great chasm that lay before him. Research on the planetary war star had run into a bottleneck. No matter how hard Xiao Yu and the researchers of the Divine Ark Civilization worked, they still could not break through the problem of using curvature flight in a strong gravitational environment.

A key trait of a Level 6 Civilization was the ability to use curvature flight within star systems and other environments with strong gravity. Getting an entire planet into curvature flight had certain points in common with this. Xiao Yu believed that the technology for bringing a planet into curvature flight could be considered a simplified version of the technology a Level 6 Civilization used for curvature flight within a star system. To master that technology, one must first master this one.

By analogy to the Earth era, the technology to bring a planet into curvature flight was like the technology for building a hydrogen bomb, while letting a spaceship conduct curvature flight directly within a star system was like controlled nuclear fusion. If you have not even mastered the technology to build a hydrogen bomb, how could you possibly master controlled fusion?

Yet in the research and development of this technology, Xiao Yu suffered severe setbacks. Whether at the technical level or theoretical level, Xiao Yu could not find a workable approach. Luka Three, together with Number Five, the two technology leaders, led vast research teams who fought day and night. Xiao Yu also invested enormous computing power into this area. The results were minimal.

“Where exactly is the error? theoretical calculations clearly have no problem. Why then does an error appear in experiments? What have we overlooked?” In the laboratory, Luka Three was raking his fingers through his hair. On the desk in front of him lay a messy pile of calculation sheets. The personal computing terminal before him had evidently just finished a data comparison, and the final result showed not the slightest error. This proved that within the existing theoretical framework, this experiment was completely correct. But the actual situation differed from theoretical calculations. Failure after failure had almost drained Luka Three’s patience.

Never had Luka Three felt so powerless. When repeated failures had all but exhausted the team’s enthusiasm and patience, doubt also began to arise in Luka Three’s heart.

“Perhaps it truly is because our theoretical reserves are insufficient. Perhaps only after obtaining the technologies of other Level 5 Civilizations can a breakthrough in this area occur. But the Pegasus Civilization was already the pinnacle of Level 5. The Predator Civilization’s technological reserves, while not deep, were even broader than those of the Pegasus Civilization. It is already difficult to gain anything major from other Level 5 Civilizations, at most only supplementary details. Theoretical foundation is sufficient, so why has a breakthrough still not appeared? Are Level 6 technologies really so magical?”

Luka Three slumped weakly into his seat. After a long moment, he instructed his aide, “Help me connect the comm link to Number Five.”

“Understood. Please wait a moment.” the aide answered respectfully.

“Lord Three, this is Number Five.” The three-dimensional projection device cast Number Five’s figure into the room.

“Number Five, do you have any gains?” Luka Three asked with a wry smile.

Since receiving the title of Number Five, Senya had been in high spirits. He had indeed made many outstanding contributions in technology, but now he too seemed to have suffered a severe setback.

“Lord Three, I am very sorry. I have no gains either. My experiment failed once again. The research team under me has had its enthusiasm drained. I am planning to give them a few days off to let them rest well before continuing.”

This result did not surprise Luka Three. He smiled bitterly and said, “Very well, perhaps that is the only method. Then give them a few days off. During these days, we can also rest.”

After submitting a request to Xiao Yu and obtaining his consent, the two most core research teams within the Divine Ark Civilization finally received a small number of days off. Xiao Yu did not rest, however. He continued using his vast computing power to carry out calculations related to this technology.

Ever since starting research on bringing a planet into curvature flight, Xiao Yu had suffered many setbacks. He even began to suspect that he might never find the answer in his lifetime. But the tenacity deep within his heart sustained him, letting him, after enduring tens of thousands of failures, still muster the confidence to proceed with the next experiment.

Once the holiday was announced, these elite scientists left the institute dispirited and returned to their own residences, collapsing onto their beds without a care and falling into sleep. They truly were exhausted.

But one person did not sleep. This person was already several hundred years old, yet in the Divine Ark Civilization this age still counted as youth or adolescence. He too lay upon his bed, but he did not close his eyes. In the darkness, his eyes seemed to emit a mysterious gleam.

He maintained this posture without moving. Gradually, wisps of white vapor began to rise from his thinking organ. It was sweat evaporating from his thinking organ and condensing upon contact with the cold air. This phenomenon quickly drew Xiao Yu’s attention, because Xiao Yu had never relaxed his surveillance of him. That was because this person was named Xu Junpo.

From the moment Xu Junpo was born, Xiao Yu had assigned one percent of his own computing power to monitor him at all times, and that allocation had not been withdrawn to this day. Thus Xiao Yu swiftly discovered his anomaly. To Xiao Yu’s amazement, Xu Junpo’s thinking organ was presently operating at an astonishing rate. It was precisely because the thinking organ was working too intensely that so much sweat poured forth.

If it were an ordinary person, under such intense mental operation the entire head might become a mush. But Xu Junpo was clearly not ordinary.

His eyes grew brighter and brighter, and the white mist upon his thinking organ increased all the more.

“What are you thinking about? Are you pondering a method to bring a planet into curvature flight?” Xiao Yu thought silently.

Time ticked by. Only after a full five hours did Xu Junpo, who had lain motionless on the bed, finally stir. He suddenly leapt up, snatched up the personal computing terminal before him, and rapidly entered a string of numbers and symbols. The characters he entered seemed to possess a peculiar beauty, emanating a kind of magical power. In his hands, those characters seemed to gain lives of their own, beginning to leap and to dance.

Xiao Yu’s gaze was locked tightly upon those dancing characters, unable to turn away.