Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 652: Shattered
When the Neutron War Star chose the Guardian Civilization’s flagship, the Radiance, as its attack target, only then did Xiao Yu realize he was wrong. At the same time, he more genuinely perceived a truth, that is, one’s mindset matches one’s station, and such a mindset is very hard for those on lower rungs to imagine, imitate, or infer.
It is like a rich man in Earth’s era facing two pieces of clothing at the same time. One garment has a very high cost-performance ratio and a reasonable price, while the other has no cost-performance ratio and is very expensive. If an ordinary person reasons by common sense, it is easy to conclude that this rich man will buy the first garment. This conclusion is very reasonable and has a firm basis in information and logic, but it could be wrong. Because the rich man does not care about such petty cash. He may temporarily set aside reason and decide purely by preference which garment to buy. He might simply think the second garment looks a bit better, or merely feel tired and not want to keep shopping, and just buy both outright.
Xiao Yu had now made just such an error. He used his own tier of strength and his own logical thinking to infer the actions of the Sweepers Civilization, and drew a wrong conclusion.
Perhaps the Sweepers Civilization does not care in the least who ultimately survives this battle. Because no matter who survives in the end, none can threaten it. The Sweepers Civilization’s strength at this moment is already sufficient to ignore such things and decide purely according to its own preferences. And since that is so, then relatively speaking, the Guardian Civilization, which has contended against it for tens of millions of years, is naturally the most detested. Because of its strength, it can ignore reason and the principle of minimal input for maximal gain, and choose, purely by preference, to set its target of attack and destruction upon the Radiance.
Only now did Xiao Yu understand that in the Milky Way, whether in terms of strength or mindset, the Sweepers Civilization is the undisputed strongest, second to none.
And the Guardian Civilization is indeed worthy of being the formidable existence that has opposed the Sweepers Civilization for tens of millions of years. In fact, this move by the Guardian Civilization, which so greatly exceeded Xiao Yu’s expectations, had already been quietly prepared at the moment the Neutron War Star first began to act, only bursting forth suddenly now.
What this means is obvious. It means that as soon as the Neutron War Star began to act, the Guardian Civilization already knew that the Neutron War Star’s ultimate attack target would be itself.
“The Guardian Civilization is indeed worthy of being the existence that has contended with the Sweepers Civilization for tens of millions of years. In this Milky Way, aside from the Sweepers themselves, the ones who understand the Sweepers Civilization best must be the Guardian Civilization…” Seeing this scene, Xiao Yu could not help but sigh. While marveling at the Sweepers Civilization’s level of power, he also felt deep admiration for the Guardian Civilization’s ruthless decisiveness.
Although the Guardian Civilization had already been placed by Xiao Yu on the list of targets that must be exterminated in the future, at this moment, Xiao Yu still felt a deep respect for the decision-makers of the Guardian Civilization.
According to common sense, when the Radiance is besieged by the three Taihao civilizations of the Taihao Alliance along with Xiao Yu and the Specter companion, these five formidable existences, and then faces the Neutron War Star’s attack, it is almost certain there is absolutely no chance of survival. If under such circumstances they could still continue to exist, then the strongest existence in the Milky Way would no longer be the Sweepers Civilization, but should be the Guardian Civilization.
But the Guardian Civilization found the possible within the impossible. Such ruthless decisiveness. Such nimble thinking. Even Xiao Yu himself felt inferior. Xiao Yu thought that even Ares, the former leader of the Pegasus Civilization renowned for strategy and broad vision, might not be able to think of such a method in so short a time and then implement it.
Xiao Yu saw that the semi-finished Star-Class warship besieged by his more than sixty Planet-Class warships suddenly charged frenziedly toward the core battlefield. With such mad momentum, even Xiao Yu’s sixty-two Planet-Class warships, joining with over ten million conventional warships, could not stop it. Because this semi-finished Star-Class warship was no longer playing by common rules at all. It no longer cared how much damage it would suffer during this rush. Its sole purpose was to break through and reach the core battle zone before the Neutron War Star arrived.
At the very beginning, Xiao Yu still felt some doubt about what exactly this semi-finished Star-Class warship was going to do. Because the Neutron War Star had already come. Even if this semi-finished Star-Class warship could reach the core battle zone ahead of the Neutron War Star, what use would that be? The Radiance could not withstand the Neutron War Star’s attack. A semi-finished Star-Class warship, whose strength is far inferior to the Radiance, could not possibly withstand the Neutron War Star even if it arrived.
But afterward, Xiao Yu understood what the Guardian Civilization intended to do. It was not going to help the Radiance resist the Neutron War Star. Indeed, it was not going to aid the Radiance at all. It was going to attack the Crocodilian Alien Beast.
That’s right, it was going to attack the Crocodilian Alien Beast. Although the Crocodilian Alien Beast had formed an alliance with the Guardian Civilization and had suffered extremely severe damage while fighting side by side with the Guardian Civilization, making great contributions, and although when the Radiance was besieged it was still doing its utmost to rescue the Radiance, the fact remained that this semi-finished Star-Class warship had come to attack the Crocodilian Alien Beast.
The Guardian Civilization’s move not only exceeded Xiao Yu’s expectations, it completely exceeded the expectations of all present, to the point that even the Crocodilian Alien Beast itself never imagined it. On seeing this semi-finished Star-Class warship crashing madly toward it and a large number of spatial weapons beginning to strike it, it was still somewhat perplexed. Only when the Radiance and the Python Alien Beast also began attacking it together did it seem to understand something.
It began to roar madly, “Guardian Civilization! Python! We have formed an alliance! I have made such great contributions to our alliance. Why are you doing this to me!”
Xiao Yu could perceive in the Crocodilian Alien Beast’s heart at this moment that fury and bewilderment so intense it could tear the heavens and earth. But it was too late. No one would be kind enough to resolve this confusion for it. In fact, among those present, aside from Xiao Yu and the Guardian Civilization, and the Python Alien Beast, which had obviously been informed in advance by the Guardian Civilization, and Technology Taihao, no one knew what exactly was going on. Xiao Yu now naturally understood what was happening and had made preparations for the next step, but he had no leisure to help the Crocodilian Alien Beast answer this question.
The Crocodilian Alien Beast was originally enduring attacks from Xiao Yu’s side. Under the Sphere of Death and the earlier fighting, its combat strength at most remained at forty percent of its peak. Now, being suddenly attacked again by the ally behind it, it had utterly no possibility of dodging. Thus the semi-finished Star-Class warship, using its extremely fast conventional navigation, crashed violently into it. At the same moment, upon impact, this semi-finished Star-Class warship actually exploded violently.
Given the physique of a Level 6 Alien Beast, being struck by a mass equivalent to a Star-Class warship, although it would suffer some damage, would not be fatal. Just as when the Pegasus Civilization’s capital planet struck the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, it merely sent the Arboreal Alien Beast fleeing in confusion and did not threaten its life.
And the mass of a Star-Class warship is naturally much less than that of a planet. A mere collision would hardly be able to inflict much damage upon the Crocodilian Alien Beast. But when this semi-finished Star-Class warship struck the Crocodilian Alien Beast, it actually self-detonated.
Xiao Yu was very certain that this semi-finished Star-Class warship had detonated itself deliberately, with no external force destroying it. This was intentional. A collision by a Star-Class warship, combined with self-detonation, is a different matter. At that moment, Xiao Yu seemed to hear the pained roar from the Crocodilian Alien Beast. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
“Guardian! Python! We are allies, why are you doing this!”
The Crocodilian Alien Beast did not receive an answer. When the smoke of the semi-finished Star-Class warship’s explosion dispersed, Xiao Yu saw the Crocodilian Alien Beast’s miserable state. In this collision and explosion, a great deal of flesh and blood had been blasted into space. The Crocodilian Alien Beast’s body had shrunk again. At the same time, because the energy released by the explosion of a Star-Class warship was so violent, Xiao Yu saw that the Crocodilian Alien Beast’s body seemed almost about to break into several pieces. Among these different pieces of its body, only some relatively slender, tendon-like things appeared to be connecting them.
But in the next instant, it could no longer even maintain such a structural form. Xiao Yu saw the Python Alien Beast rush at the Crocodilian Alien Beast in a flash. With a fierce lash, the Crocodilian Alien Beast’s body was completely severed and split into several segments. Then several exceptionally thick and conspicuous space rifts issued forth from the Radiance and struck the Crocodilian Alien Beast violently. Thus the Crocodilian Alien Beast’s body was completely broken apart, shattered into more than twenty scattered chunks of flesh, drifting away into space.
