Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 657: The Long Road Ahead
Yes, it was the last wish left by the half Four-Dimensional Taihao from the Large Magellanic Cloud for Xiao Yu to fulfill.
In fact, up to this very moment, Xiao Yu was still enjoying the legacy of the half Four-Dimensional Taihao. There were still more than thirty thousand four-dimensional shield generators operating on Xiao Yu’s ships, protecting Xiao Yu’s most critical fleet of over thirty thousand ships. To this day, the four-dimensional shield remained the most outstanding type within the shield systems of the ships Xiao Yu manufactured. Even the two-dimensional shield created by analyzing the spatial lifeform could not compare.
Xiao Yu had always kept this matter in mind, remembering the last wish of the half Four-Dimensional Taihao. However, Xiao Yu did not yet possess such formidable strength, which was why the matter had been delayed all this time.
The last wish of the half Four-Dimensional Taihao was neither exactly simple nor truly difficult, and it even seemed a bit strange.
The half Four-Dimensional Taihao’s last wish was to ask Xiao Yu, once his strength became sufficient, to make a trip to the Large Magellanic Cloud and help him find an asteroid, then transport that asteroid into the Milky Way Galaxy. As for why this needed to be done, the half Four-Dimensional Taihao did not tell Xiao Yu the reason. He only said that this asteroid had important significance to him, and moving it into the Milky Way Galaxy was his mission. Now that he was dying and could no longer complete this task, he entrusted Xiao Yu to help him finish it, with the payment being one hundred thousand four-dimensional shields. Of course, by now Xiao Yu had only a little over thirty thousand left.
At the time, Xiao Yu had asked him why he did not bring the asteroid along when he came from the Large Magellanic Cloud to the Milky Way Galaxy. The half Four-Dimensional Taihao answered that he wanted to confirm the Milky Way Galaxy was safe and that there was nothing that could threaten that asteroid before transporting it over.
To this, Xiao Yu harbored some doubts, but did not pursue the matter further. Beings like the Taihao always seemed mysterious, and a few eccentricities seemed normal. The matter was left at that, and Xiao Yu did not invest much effort into it. Now, however, after hearing Specter Taihao say that perhaps Xiao Yu could search in extragalactic galaxies, Xiao Yu suddenly remembered.
The present Xiao Yu was not someone who could forget things. Naturally he had never forgotten the instructions of the half Four-Dimensional Taihao. It was just that in the past, because he lacked concrete data about the corpse of the Micron Civilization, such as size and composition, he had never thought along these lines, never linking the asteroid mentioned by the half Four-Dimensional Taihao with the corpse of the Micron Civilization.
Thinking back on it now, the matter did seem rather strange. First, Specter Taihao had said that the corpse of the Micron Civilization had a diameter of several hundred kilometers, which happened to be the size of an asteroid. Moreover, how could an ordinary asteroid warrant such importance to the half Four-Dimensional Taihao?
A faint excitement rose in Xiao Yu’s heart. Yet he did not voice this thought. He only said, “I understand. After I finish digesting the gains from this time, I will attempt to search for the corpse of the Micron Civilization in several of the Milky Way Galaxy’s satellite galaxies.”
Although the Large Magellanic Cloud was a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy and the distance between them was only about one hundred and sixty thousand light years, in a broad sense, the Large Magellanic Cloud could indeed be counted as beyond the galaxy.
The difficulty in fulfilling the half Four-Dimensional Taihao’s last wish lay precisely here. The distance was too great. Excluding the method the Guardian Civilization used for intergalactic voyage, Xiao Yu at present did not have the capability to traverse a distance of one hundred and sixty thousand light years without any resupply en route. To use the method employed by the Guardian Civilization would require too grand an engineering effort and would waste too much time. It was not cost-effective. For a true intergalactic voyage, expending such tremendous effort might be worthwhile, but to travel only one hundred and sixty thousand light years would be somewhat excessive.
The fact that Xiao Yu could not do it now did not mean that Xiao Yu would be unable to do it in the near future. Xiao Yu believed that by analyzing the geometric constructs left behind by this Level 7 Civilization of the mechanical direction, he would obtain more efficient modes of energy utilization. By analyzing the fragments from the explosion of that half-finished Star-Class warship of the Guardian Civilization, he would also certainly gain some advanced technologies. By then, combining these two technologies with his current technological foundation, undertaking a long-distance voyage of one hundred and sixty thousand light years should be entirely possible.
Moreover, Xiao Yu could still travel upstream the Magellanic Stream. Along the way, he could obtain some resupply, unlike a true intergalactic voyage where there was nothing.
“Very well. Do you have any other questions to ask us? If not, we are leaving as well to find a quiet place and digest these gains. Alien Beast Taihao and Specter Taihao also need to recuperate.” Technology Taihao said.
“I do.” Xiao Yu sighed slightly and asked this question. “What is the situation with Zhang Shengya?”
“Zhang Shengya? Oh, you mean that Earth girl aboard the 90s Model Spaceship?” Technology Taihao said.
“Yes, that is her.” Xiao Yu said. “You once imprisoned a Level 6 Alien Beast on a white dwarf. I do not care what experiment you were conducting. I only want to know why you imprisoned that Earth girl there. Also, aside from Zhang Shengya, do you have any other humans from Earth in your hands?”
“This…” Technology Taihao fell silent for a moment before answering. “I am very sorry. This was not within our control. We do not have any other humans from Earth. In fact, before Earth was destroyed, we did not abduct any humans from Earth at all. Even this Earth girl was obtained through other channels.”
“What channels?” Xiao Yu pressed immediately. This concerned whether there were still surviving humans from Earth in the present universe and could not fail to hold Xiao Yu’s attention. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
“I am very sorry. We cannot answer that question. I can only tell you this piece of information.” Technology Taihao again fell silent, seemingly considering what could be said and what could not. After a long moment, Technology Taihao said, “You can understand it this way. There exists a being. As to who this being is, I cannot tell you. It handed this Earth girl to me and instructed us to do as we did, and we did so, because we could not defy its orders.”
This information was something Xiao Yu had never heard before, and a slight stir arose in his heart.
“We placed this Earth girl in a specially made Village-Class spaceship and gave her the right to name it. Then, within that spaceship, we administered a certain degree of physical stimulation to her. The process may have involved some pain, but you must understand that this was not intentional cruelty on our part. We were merely following instructions. Then, as instructed, we killed her. Of course, we deceived her by saying we were separating her soul. In truth, we do not possess that technology. We only used a certain technological method to kill her without causing any damage to her body, then took away the 90s Model Spaceship. After that, before you discovered that severed Alien Beast finger, we placed the 90s Model Spaceship there.” Technology Taihao said.
Technology Taihao might not have understood the exchanges between Xiao Yu and the spatial lifeform, but as the person involved, Xiao Yu was perfectly clear. He noted that Technology Taihao’s account bore a certain similarity to that of the spatial lifeform. Both mentioned that mysterious ‘it.’ From the necktie that the spatial lifeform had brought to him, Xiao Yu inferred that this ‘it’ should be Chen Mo. In that case, could the being that delivered the Earth girl Zhang Shengya also be Chen Mo?
If it was Chen Mo who did this, what was she intending by sending an Earth girl to him?
Xiao Yu’s heart was full of doubts, and he could not make sense of it. Sending him a necktie and having spatial lifeform help him clear certain obstacles on his path forward were things that could be explained. But sending over a girl, what was the reason for that? Xiao Yu could not figure it out.
“The road ahead is always shrouded in a layer of fog. Perhaps, when I become strong enough and truly meet this ‘it,’ who is likely Chen Mo, or perhaps ‘she,’ then this matter can be explained.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “Let us set this aside for now. I do not yet have the ability to handle this.”
“I have one last question.” Xiao Yu said. “Since your Taihao Civilization never captured any humans from Earth, do you know of any beings that have captured humans from Earth?”
“We can understand your feelings.” Technology Taihao said. “But regrettably, we do not know. We have been monitoring Earth continuously, and during the monitoring we did not discover any such events. Even if any civilization harbored such intentions, we drove them off or eliminated them in passing. Perhaps there are beings stronger than us who did such things without our noticing, but those matters are beyond our knowledge.”
“I see…” Xiao Yu said quietly. “Very well, I have no further questions. We shall part ways here. After this, I will digest my gains and then set out on a journey beyond the galaxy to search for the corpse of the Micron Civilization. I hope that in the end, we will be the winners of this gamble.”
“We Wish you good luck.” After saying this final sentence, Technology Taihao entered curvature space together with Specter Taihao and Alien Beast Taihao, and no one knew where they went.
“The road ahead is long indeed…” Xiao Yu sighed, then, together with his Specter companion, also entered curvature space and left this place.
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