Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 558: Arboreal Race Alien Beast
“The Crocodilian Alien Beast poses a great threat to me. Of course, you are no small threat either. So I do not mind telling you the exact location of the Crocodilian Alien Beast. I will tell you plainly, my objective is to have you two powerful existences both suffer losses. Therefore, now that you are injured, if you still have the confidence to defeat the Crocodilian Alien Beast, you may go to these coordinates to seek it out. I know it has been recuperating there.”
After the battle in the Pegasus Civilization’s capital star system, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast and the Specter companion, for reasons unknown, gathered together again. The body of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast was still enormous, but compared to its peak, it was much smaller. It lay quietly curled beside a star, as if resting. Several hundred billion kilometers away, the body of the Specter companion drifted ceaselessly, exuding an eerie aura, as if many schemes flickered within it.
More than one hundred years earlier, the Specter companion had left the battlefield of the spatial lifeform and the Neutron War Star. It then spent over a century searching out the Arboreal Race Alien Beast’s place of habitation and conveyed these words to it.
The Specter companion knew full well how to cleverly deliver information to the Alien Beast race, a breed that is cruel and cunning by nature but not particularly intelligent, in order to achieve its own aims. For example, if the Specter companion had directly told the Arboreal Race Alien Beast that the Crocodilian Alien Beast was at such-and-such a location, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast would instead have suspected a plot and would not have dared to go. After all, in the Pegasus Civilization’s capital star system, it had already been duped once and had suffered a loss.
The Specter companion undoubtedly had a profound understanding of this. So it simply said, “I want the two of you to both suffer losses. If you are confident, go. If you lack the confidence and do not dare to go, suit yourself.”
After this message, a cold and cruel signal entered the Specter companion’s thought-sense.
“Do not try to provoke me with such words. I have already lost interest in the Crocodilian Alien Beast. Rather, I am very interested in you.” The Arboreal Race Alien Beast sneered and said, “This time I want to see where you run. I will not go looking for you. You still dare come looking for me.”
“Hmph.” The Specter companion snorted coldly and turned to flee. Behind it, the vast body of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast effortlessly broke free from the star’s gravitational shackles, easily accelerating its speed to more than one hundred times the speed of light, and gave chase to the Specter companion. These two powerful existences thus began a long pursuit in the cosmic void.
The chase between the two lasted nearly one year. The Arboreal Race Alien Beast finally gave up the pursuit.
“There should be no conspiracy. That fellow may truly want us to both suffer losses. However, the Crocodilian is far more badly injured than I am. If I take the Crocodilian down, I will obtain benefits beyond counting, and after I take down the Crocodilian Alien Beast, the strength I have remaining will still be enough to subdue this hateful Specter companion. Then let us set out.” After some thought, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast decisively changed course and sped toward the coordinates the Specter companion had given.
Its pursuit of the Specter companion had merely been for show.
Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye nearly one hundred years had gone by. While skulking and traveling with utmost caution, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast advanced several thousand light years. At last it arrived at the star system. What lay before it made it secretly start. It was especially astonished by those star systems that had fallen into the two-dimensional world.
“Could it be that the Crocodilian is battling some powerful existence? It seems this war has already lasted a long time and the two appear to be evenly matched. Then perhaps I can hide and wait for them both to suffer losses, and I will come to pick up the bargain. This is an excellent opportunity. I must not miss it.” The Arboreal Race Alien Beast pondered to itself as it gradually approached the center of the battlefield.
What it did not know was that its supposedly secret movements had long since been exposed. When it drew within one hundred light years of this star system, its movements were already discovered by those powerful existences, such as the three Taihao’s and the Guardian Civilization. After discovering that the Arboreal Race Alien Beast was closing in, these powerful existences did not react, but instead concealed their bodies and ships even more deeply. Even the eager Alien Beast Taihao, under Technology Taihao’s stern rebuke, dejectedly hid its body. All the existences present were perfectly clear about all this, and only the Arboreal Race Alien Beast remained completely unaware.
When it had approached the center of the battlefield, it saw a shocking scene. A sheet that had only width and length but no height was drifting in the void, and at the center of this sheet there was a dim white point of light. But the brightness of this white point of light was rapidly increasing. Finally, under the slightly astonished gaze of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, this white point of light suddenly leaped out from that sheet.
At the same time, a vast and murderous aura swept over, making the Arboreal Race Alien Beast secretly start with alarm. But that was only for an instant. In the next moment, alarm turned into fear, because it finally understood what it was.
“The Neutron War Star. It is the Neutron War Star. It actually is the Neutron War Star. This is the Sweeper Civilization. That hateful Specter companion has deceived me yet again. I actually fell into it’s scheme again.” The Arboreal Race Alien Beast let out a shriek and turned to flee. Its movements and reactions were swift enough, but still a little too late.
At the very moment it reacted, a cold and murderous wave of information had already spread through the cosmic void with the Neutron War Star as its core. All existences within the battlefield or on its edge received this message.
“I stayed within the body of the spatial lifeform for three hundred years, waited for three hundred years, and you all refused to make a move. Such good patience you have…”
“I did not hesitate to spend three hundred years, using the spatial lifeform to set a trap, hoping to lure you to strike so that I could wipe you all out in one net. But you seem to have grown wiser and did not take the bait, which wasted the painstaking efforts of our Sweeper Civilization. Since that is the case, spatial lifeform, you have no value for survival either. You crossed a distance of one million light years to come to the Milky Way, but unfortunately your objective cannot be achieved. You are only seeking your own death…”
Amid these waves of information, without anyone noticing, the body of the spatial lifeform, which manifested a perfect two-dimensional space, had begun to show fine cracks like a sheet of glass. At the junction of these cracks and normal three-dimensional space, some subtle and profound reactions were occurring continuously. It seemed the three-dimensional world was corroding its body. Outside the cracks, the other parts of its body trembled slightly, and with each tremor, inexplicable spatial ripples were transmitted outward again and again.
“Our Sweeper Civilization has already achieved a certain level in four-dimensional technology, but we still lack in the two-dimensional aspect. If we can destroy you, then with your corpse our scientists will obtain concrete information about the two-dimensional aspect, our technology will undergo a major improvement, and we will be one step closer to a Level 7 Civilization. For the sake of our civilization, you must die. To meet the Neutron War Star in a frontal clash is glory enough. Now it is time for you to rest.”
The Neutron War Star began to accelerate. Its speed rose with great rapidity. In almost an instant, the Neutron War Star had rushed to the front of the spatial lifeform. Only then did the spatial lifeform finally react.
It let out a scream, and likewise this soundwave was transmitted via spatial fluctuations into the reception instruments of the powerful existences present. The sound was filled with anger and fear. In that instant, the one that had once been so full of confidence finally sensed the terror of the Neutron War Star and the Sweepers, and finally understood how outrageously wrong its previous estimation of the Neutron War Star’s strength had been.
It had reacted, but it seemed already too late to escape. Yet for some unknown reason, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, which had just reacted and begun to flee, stopped at that moment. In the next instant, the massive body of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast actually began to move backward. Accompanied by the thought-waves of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, which had reached the peak of fear, at that hair raising moment its body somehow appeared between the Neutron War Star and the spatial lifeform, blocking the Neutron War Star.
The Neutron War Star did not move, but the space around it was in constant, violent fluctuation. With these fierce ripples, the position of the Neutron War Star changed rapidly, continuously drawing closer to where the spatial lifeform lay. But now the vast body of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast stood in its way. So in the next moment, the Neutron War Star came into contact with the huge body of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast. Accompanied by the Arboreal Race Alien Beast’s horrified roar, great quantities of Alien Beast flesh splashed out like water. Amid the endless limbs spraying outward like raindrops, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast finally regained control of its body. It bellowed, and the powerful wave of information almost shattered the few remaining small planetoids nearby. After that bellow, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, like a toy suddenly wound tight, vanished almost in an instant.
After the Arboreal Race Alien Beast fled, the spatial lifeform also disappeared without a trace. No one knew where it went.
Amid the flying splashes of Alien Beast flesh and blood, the Neutron War Star hung there quietly like a king who ruled all under heaven.
At this time, those powerful existences lurking in secret also retreated quietly, no one knew where they went.
