Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 613: Courting Death

Xiao Yu was joyfully carrying out a vast construction effort on a scale beyond imagination. For other Level 6 Civilizations, such a colossal project could absolutely not be completed without at least a thousand years, but under Xiao Yu’s immense computational power, he compressed that time to less than one hundred years.

In such a construction task, Xiao Yu’s advantage was fully displayed. Within this one hundred years, Xiao Yu dismantled all the warships he previously possessed, recycled various rare materials, and then, relying on raw materials supplied by hundreds of large raw material bases distributed across dozens of stars, launched this construction project in space.

And this was only the external construction task. Within the small universe, the various construction tasks were even vaster. Xiao Yu needed to build enormous energy bases and their various auxiliary instruments capable of consuming the entire mass of seven Earths within a single day, to build tens of millions of transport ships, to develop nearly one thousand planets, and so on.

During this process, more than two hundred Continent-Class warships, tens of thousands of Nation-Class warships, nearly one million Province-Class warships, and even more smaller warships were built. The total number of ships in Xiao Yu’s fleet had already reached the scale of fifty million. This was the maximum number of warships Xiao Yu could directly operate while maintaining the normal operation of the small universe. This was because Level 6 Civilization warships required much more computational power. Their ratio of computational power demanded compared to Xiao Yu’s previous warships was nearly one hundred to one.

However, Xiao Yu did not stop building warships. He continued to produce them in a steady stream, building at an average rate of close to two thousand ships per day. These extra warships that Xiao Yu could not yet directly operate were stored within the small universe, ready to be taken out at any time.

The warships Xiao Yu now manufactured all adopted the newest spatial curvature engines, with an average cruising speed reaching one hundred times the speed of light. All ships were equipped with space folding shields, and a few elite large ships were also equipped with four-dimensional shields. All ships were equipped with genuine spatial weapons and adopted the newest light computer master control systems.

Compared to when he was still at the Level 5 Civilization stage, Xiao Yu’s combat power had increased by thousands upon thousands of times. Xiao Yu finally understood why it was so difficult to advance into the category of a Level 6 Civilization, and also understood why, when facing the Molian Civilization, a single City-Class spaceship of the Guardian Civilization could pin down nearly one million of his ships.

The gap between a Level 6 Civilization and a Level 5 Civilization was that immense. In the past, Xiao Yu had planned to rely on the vast stockpile of ships to wear down a Level 6 Civilization through numbers. Now Xiao Yu knew this was simply an impossible pipe dream.

“I have only just entered the category of a Level 6 Civilization, yet I am already so powerful. Then those established Level 6 Civilizations, such as the Guardian Civilization, the Sweepers Civilization, the Taihao Civilizations, and the Level 6 Alien Beast Civilizations, to what degree of power have they reached? To what degree has the Neutron War Star reached? As for the two Spheres of Death I still have, to what degree of power do they reach?”

Thinking of these questions, Xiao Yu fell into contemplation. He had not forgotten that when facing the Guardian Civilization’s pursuers, a single Sphere of Death caused every biological being on the thousands of ships of the Guardian Civilization to die.

“A Level 7 Civilization… to what degree of power has it reached? I wonder whether above a Level 7 Civilization there are Level 8 and Level 9 Civilizations. If so, what kind of existences are they? Thinking about it is truly captivating.”

“Specter, to what degree do you understand the powerful existences in the Milky Way? In your opinion, relying on our current strength, hm, of course only my strength without adding you, which one do you think I can contend with?”

During this period of development, the Specter companion remained completely silent. If Xiao Yu did not call to him, he would not take any action. He always hovered motionless outside Xiao Yu’s flagship, the Asia spaceship.

Xiao Yu had once asked with great concern whether the Specter companion had encountered anything, but the Specter replied that at this moment he was pondering certain matters. If he could understand them, then he would not be far from advancing to a Level 4 Specter.

Xiao Yu truly did not know much about the Specter Race. When he asked what the Specter was thinking about, the Specter said that question could not be described in words. Thus Xiao Yu could only give up in frustration.

Now, hearing Xiao Yu’s call, the Specter companion spoke in a voice filled with laziness, “Although I have not fought any powerful existences of Level 6 Civilization degree, I have been in close contact with them. For example, the Neutron War Star, the Radiance spaceship of the Guardian Civilization, the three Taihaos, and the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, I have contacted them at close range. But forgive me for being blunt, your current strength, even adding the forty million ships you have stored in the small universe, is not the match of any of the above existences. Of course, I speak of them at full strength.”

“Then… in your view, among these existences, which is the weakest?” The Specter companion’s answer did not exceed Xiao Yu’s expectations. After all, he had only recently entered the Level 6 Civilization category and could not be compared with those established powerful existences.

“Among the above existences, I feel…” The Specter thought for a moment and replied, “the Arboreal Race Alien Beast is the weakest. As for the Python Race Alien Beast and the Crocodilian Race Alien Beast, I have not contacted them and do not know their strength. Besides the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, there is Technology Taihao. But Technology Taihao has many tricks, and it has united with Specter Taihao and Alien Beast Taihao, so the strength of the Taihao Alliance instead surpasses that of the Guardian Civilization. If the three are separated, not a single Taihao alone is a match for the Guardian Civilization. As for the strongest, that is the Sweepers Civilization, which you also know.”

“The Arboreal Race Alien Beast is the weakest?” Xiao Yu pondered slightly.

“What do you want to do? You are not thinking of targeting the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, are you?” the Specter companion asked.

“That is right.” Xiao Yu said slowly. “I still cannot develop hydrogen-atomic polymer materials, so I still cannot build Planet-Class warships. I am thinking that if our current strength is sufficient, I want to kill the Arboreal Race Alien Beast and, by relying on the flesh and blood of a Level 6 Alien Beast, manufacture Planet-Class or even Star-Class warships. I have some flesh and blood of Level 6 Alien Beasts in my hand. From my tests, they can fully meet the requirements to build Planet-Class or Star-Class warships.”

“It is impossible.” the Specter companion said. “Although the Arboreal Race Alien Beast suffered extremely severe damage under the strike of the Neutron War Star, if we could find it, we might truly be able to eliminate it. But Alien Beasts, though a bit stupid, are not fools. Being wounded naturally means hiding to recuperate. We cannot possibly find it.”

Xiao Yu mused slightly. “Perhaps we could also try the Crocodilian Race Alien Beast.”

“The risk is too great.” the Specter companion rejected. “Although the Crocodilian Race Alien Beast was injured by Alien Beast Taihao, it was far from as serious as the Arboreal Race Alien Beast. With our current strength, we are not its match, and even adding me is not enough. If we go to war with the Crocodilian Race Alien Beast, I am certain that your one hundred Continent-Class warships would be wiped out in less than one day. Then in less than a month your fleet would be scattered, and you would be blocked by the Crocodilian Race Alien Beast within the small universe and unable to come out.”

Xiao Yu sighed slightly in his heart.

“We have already reached the category of a Level 6 Civilization. Although we possess a small universe, without even a single Planet-Class warship to hold the line, something is always lacking. A planetary war star can still throw its weight around among Level 5 Civilizations, but when it encounters a Level 6 Civilization fleet, it is simply something to be beaten. Without a Planet-Class warship, many of my plans cannot unfold.”

“Why be so impatient?” At this moment, the Specter companion instead began to comfort Xiao Yu. “Your Divine Ark Civilization’s technology advances by leaps and bounds. The small universe is a safe environment. Let those intelligent beings conduct research to their hearts’ content. I believe that before long you will be able to develop hydrogen-atomic polymer materials and even more advanced materials.”

“It is not that simple.” Xiao Yu replied somewhat helplessly. “Although in the process of integrating with the Level 5 Civilization Alliance we obtained technological reserves of astronomical magnitude, now that we have achieved breakthroughs in space science and computational science and constructed a small universe, our technological reserves have been exhausted. It will be difficult to achieve another round of rapid, leapfrog progress in the future. I estimate that without one or two thousand years, I will not be able to develop such advanced materials.”

“Take it slowly, do not be anxious.” the Specter companion said. “Our development is already fast enough. Look at the Level 6 Civilizations in the Milky Way. Which of them does not have at least a million years of history? The Guardian Civilization and the Sweepers Civilization even have histories approaching one hundred million years. For us to reach our present level in just several tens of thousands of years is already an anomaly.”

“All right, it can only be so.” Xiao Yu said helplessly.

“Wait.” At this moment, the Specter companion’s tone suddenly grew solemn. “I sense a familiar aura. Xiao Yu, perhaps we have truly stumbled upon great fortune. I sense that the Arboreal Race Alien Beast is only several tens of light years from us and is speeding toward us. This fool, is it coming here to court death?”