Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 617: Mechanical Direction Level 7 Civilization
At this moment, the battlefield had fallen completely silent. Tens of millions of warships hovered quietly in space, maintaining strict vigilance. At the center of the warship formation was the colossal Arboreal Race alien beast. It had already been split into two pieces, and right beside it was something wrapped in a layer of clear, water-like ripples. Xiao Yu knew that this thing was his Specter companion.
It was obvious that the Specter companion was currently using some method unknown to Xiao Yu to absorb the Arboreal Race alien beast’s life force and strengthen itself.
“Life force is really too nebulous.” Xiao Yu shook his head in his mind. “The Specter Race improves its strength by devouring life force. This method is a bit too nebulous.”
In truth, even now, Xiao Yu had not formed a complete concept of what life force was. Xiao Yu still did not know what life actually was. Why could an individual composed of various compounds and elements possess its own mind? What was the fundamental difference between a living life and a dead one? Even an authority in life sciences like Luka Four had no way to answer Xiao Yu.
One must know that a living person, after death, shows no change in elemental composition. The element inside remains that element, yet why is it dead?
“I always feel the existence of the Specter Race is not so simple. This is not something my theoretical system can explain.” Xiao Yu thought silently, watching as the color of the Specter companion’s body that enveloped the Arboreal Race alien beast gradually faded.
Xiao Yu knew that when the Specter Race’s body completely lost its color and became entirely transparent, it would have become a Level 4 Specter. A Level 4 Specter would possess the power of a Level 6 alien beast at its peak. It could single-handedly contend with a complete Level 6 Technological Civilization. Moreover, when a Level 4 Specter and a Level 6 Technological Civilization joined forces, the combat power they could exert would not be as simple as one plus one.
The Arboreal Race alien beast’s corpse could bring Xiao Yu a vast amount of top-quality materials, enough to let him break through his current bottleneck in materials science and construct Planet-Class warships. As for the Arboreal Race alien beast’s life force, it could raise the Specter Race to Level 4.
Xiao Yu’s strength growing greatly had already become a foregone conclusion.
“The Arboreal Race alien beast is dead.” While Xiao Yu’s thoughts were surging, he received a message from the Specter Race, “I have completed all the reserves needed to upgrade to a Level 4 Specter. I will undergo a period of recuperation lasting one thousand years. After I finish recuperating, I will become a true Level 4 Specter. During this thousand years, do not disturb me.”
“Alright, you can recuperate inside the small universe. I am already a true Level 6 Technological Civilization. I can handle everything myself.” Xiao Yu replied with joy, opened the passage to the small universe, and let the Specter Race enter. After the Specter went in, it continued, “There is one more thing. While absorbing the Arboreal Race alien beast’s life force, I seem to have absorbed a bit of something else. These things may be some memory fragments of the Arboreal Race alien beast. I do not quite understand them. I have already organized them a little. Come accept them.”
“Alright, you can put this information into this information storage device. I will conduct a detailed analysis of it.” Xiao Yu answered, and at the same time prepared the information storage device, telling the Specter Race how to use it.
Under Xiao Yu’s guidance, a large volume of information poured in. Xiao Yu glanced through it casually and found it was all fragmented pieces with no valuable content. He therefore did not devote much energy to it, only allocating a bit of computing power to try to organize and connect the pieces.
“This is all I received. Alright, I am going to recuperate. See you in a thousand years.” With that, the Specter companion quickly vanished, who knew where it had hidden itself within the small universe.
“At last, one major matter is resolved.” Xiao Yu thought with deep emotion. “Specter, I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with you, to truly stand before the Guardian Civilization, the Taihao Alliance, and the Sweepers Civilization.”
With the Specter Race’s matter settled, what came next was for Xiao Yu to do.
“I wonder on what basis the Taihao Alliance incited the Arboreal Race alien beast to come deal with me.” Xiao Yu pondered silently. “There seems to be something hidden in this.”
Xiao Yu had noted the message the Arboreal Race alien beast sent out before dying. Through that message, Xiao Yu confirmed the Specter Race’s conjecture that the Arboreal Race alien beast had come against him because it had been incited by the Taihao Alliance. This raised a question. Why did the Taihao Alliance do this? If they truly wanted to deal with him, could they not have acted themselves? Even if Xiao Yu had advanced to a Level 6 civilization, he was absolutely not a match for the three Taihao’s acting together.
“Or perhaps, the Taihao Alliance could not act personally for some reason. Or perhaps the Arboreal Race alien beast was simply incited by the Taihao Alliance to come deliver raw materials to me. I cannot figure it out.” Xiao Yu sighed lightly and set aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind.
Xiao Yu took stock of his own losses in this battle. The conclusion was that the Arboreal Race alien beast had destroyed roughly more than six million warships, and over seven million warships had suffered varying degrees of damage. Six Nation-Class ships were lost in battle, and three Continent-Class ships were severely damaged.
One must know that Xiao Yu’s strength was no longer what it once was. Even with Xiao Yu’s power increased and the Specter Race’s cooperation, he had still suffered such heavy losses at the hands of a severely weakened Arboreal Race alien beast.
“A Level 6 alien beast truly cannot be underestimated. But with your corpse as compensation, even if I lost twice as many warships, it would not matter.” Xiao Yu thought with joy.
The Arboreal Race alien beast’s body was enormous, and naturally its mass was enormous as well. After the Arboreal Race alien beast died, its gravitational shielding seemed to fail. Xiao Yu’s instruments began to detect directly the gravitational pull produced by its own immense mass. By measuring the strength of gravity and the current distance, Xiao Yu rapidly computed the Arboreal Race alien beast’s mass.
The figure was approximately two hundred quadrillion tons, about one four-hundredth of the Moon’s mass.
In Xiao Yu’s plans, the mass of a single Continent-Class ship was only about one hundred billion tons. The largest and most advanced Asia spaceship, when fully stocked with supplies, had a mass of not quite two hundred billion tons. In other words, the corpse of one Arboreal Race alien beast could supply Xiao Yu to build about one million Asia spaceships.
As for the Planet-Class warships Xiao Yu intended to build, their total mass was approximately twenty trillion tons, while the total mass of a Star-Class warship was around ten quadrillion tons. That is to say, this corpse was enough for Xiao Yu to build ten thousand Planet-Class warships or twenty Star-Class warships. What an immense harvest this was.
[T/N: Took me ages to translate this part cause of the numbers, but I think the author made a mistake which I corrected, he wrote it was 2 million Asia spaceships but I changed it to 1 million.]
“The corpse of the Arboreal Race alien beast can provide me with an ample supply of top-tier construction materials. For at least the next one thousand years, or even longer, I will not need to worry about construction materials. The performance of the Arboreal Race alien beast’s flesh has fully surpassed that of the white dwarf alien beast’s flesh. It even exceeds the performance of the hydrogen-element atomic polymer material I deduced. I estimate it can stand shoulder to shoulder with the materials used to build the Radiance and the Meson. The Radiance and the Meson were truly Star-Class ships, the flagships of a peak Level 6 civilization.”
“Using such fine stuff to build Planet-Class warships is actually a bit wasteful. But if I were to build Star-Class warships at my current stage, I still cannot solve problems in weapons, propulsion, and other aspects. There is no helping it. I will build ten Planet-Class warships first.” Xiao Yu made up his mind.
The size of a warship was also a benchmark for measuring a civilization’s technological strength, because a warship was not a simple heap of materials. It was not something any random technological foundation could use to build a gigantic warship. Every time a warship’s volume doubled, the difficulty might increase by tenfold or more. In Xiao Yu’s reasoning, a Planet-Class warship was the hallmark of a Level 6 civilization. The ability to build Planet-Class warships and possess a small universe indicated that this civilization had truly entered the Level 6 category, while the capacity to build Star-Class warships meant that this Level 6 civilization had reached its peak.
Xiao Yu had only just entered the Level 6 category and naturally did not yet have the technological strength to build Star-Class warships.
Xiao Yu opened the passage to the small universe and stored the Arboreal Race alien beast’s corpse inside. The subsequent large-scale construction tasks would all take place within the small universe.
The time to build a Planet-Class warship was measured in centuries and millennia. This was not something that could be completed in the short term. But Xiao Yu now had ample time, so this was no problem.
“Then I will stay here and develop technology steadily. When I have the ability to build Star-Class warships, I will set out to seek the Taihao Alliance and the Guardian Civilization.”
From the moment he left Earth, he had hurried about until today. At last, Xiao Yu had a safe and stable rear area, as well as the strength to maintain this safety and stability. A Level 6 civilization truly had little to be overly concerned about in this Milky Way Galaxy.
But at this very moment, Xiao Yu sensed something else. It was that an analysis result had appeared in the Arboreal Race alien beast’s memories.
This discovery caused Xiao Yu’s mind to immediately tense.
“Near the Galactic Center? Mechanical direction Level 7 civilization? Ruin? The ruin will open in the near term? This… this is too shocking.” Xiao Yu murmured to himself.
