Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 658: Master of Love

Xiao Yu had already determined what he would do next. His course was clear. After observing the present position of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Xiao Yu chose a heading and, using curvature flight, set out toward it.

The Galactic Center was simply too dangerous. There were hardly any normal stars, and various kinds of energetic explosion phenomena were extremely common there, which was unfavorable for Xiao Yu’s peaceful development.

Because Xiao Yu already possessed the small universe, and the small universe could store dozens of stars and nearly one thousand planets, the problem of insufficient supplies was completely resolved. By now, settling down to develop in a newly found stellar system and developing while traveling along the route made no difference to Xiao Yu.

“The Galactic Center is about fifty thousand light years from the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. With my current technology, if I compress resupply time as much as possible, traversing this distance will take about one thousand years. However, after the voyage ends, the material reserves in the small universe will have dropped to a dangerous level.”

“If I fully resupply, the voyage time will increase to three thousand years. But if there is a technological breakthrough in transferring materials between the main universe and the small universe, that time will be greatly reduced, and I estimate I could save half.”

While thinking, Xiao Yu sped forward. In the end, he decided to break through the technological limit of material transmission first, to both shorten the voyage time and maintain the material reserves in the small universe.

Xiao Yu believed that one thousand five hundred years would be enough for him to complete all tasks related to technological development. If everything went smoothly, by the time he reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, he would have almost finished both technological development and the application of the newest technologies, as well as material preparation. At that point, he could immediately leave the Milky Way Galaxy and undertake the first intergalactic voyage of his life, even if it was only toward a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy.

This long voyage, by analogy, was somewhat like humanity’s lunar landing in the early Earth era. The relationship between Earth and the Moon was, in essence, no different from the relationship between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

During this leg of the journey, Xiao Yu had already begun preparatory work for technological analysis. The two geometric objects were a sphere and a cube. Both were small. The sphere’s diameter was precisely 2.6 meters, and the cube’s edge length was 1.9 meters.

As with the previous rectangular cuboid, under Xiao Yu’s precise observational methods, this sphere and this cube still showed no detectable imperfections of any sort. Thus, in the laboratory, Xiao Yu and the scientists carried out exhaustive research on these two creations of a Level 7 Civilization, attempting to analyze the technologies contained within them.

The technologies expected to be extracted included two kinds. One was more advanced materials science, because the materials used to make these two geometric objects were so advanced that Xiao Yu could not detect any unevenness at all. This material had completely surpassed the kind used to manufacture Droplet probes. The second technology was more advanced and precise foundry techniques, which was what Xiao Yu valued most. As long as this technology could be deciphered, Xiao Yu might thereby develop more efficient modes of energy utilization.

While sorting the flesh and blood of the crocodilian Alien Beast, Xiao Yu made an unexpected discovery. Within a piece of its flesh, he found two more geometric objects, one a cylinder and the other a triangular solid. Clearly, these were two of the four geometric objects the crocodilian Alien Beast had obtained.

“Poor thing. Among all parties in this incident, the crocodilian Alien Beast was the one who reaped the most geometric objects. Even the Sweepers Civilization only got three, while it alone obtained four. But it was dismembered, and naturally the geometric objects it had acquired were seized by other civilizations. I happened to get these two. I wonder which civilization got the others.” Thinking of the crocodilian Alien Beast’s fate, Xiao Yu felt a deep sigh in his heart.

This time Xiao Yu harvested more than eighty quadrillion tons of the crocodilian Alien Beast’s flesh, slightly over one third of all the flesh of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast. That was another major gain. The crocodilian Alien Beast’s flesh was even tougher than that of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast. Xiao Yu immediately launched a new round of warship manufacturing plans. In the Battle for the Galactic Center, Xiao Yu had lost more than three hundred million warships. It would not do to lack sufficient reserves.

Comprehensive technological development and analysis had begun, but before proceeding with these tasks, Xiao Yu had another matter to resolve. He needed to deduce what exactly lay behind the appearance of the Earth girl Zhang Shengya.

Xiao Yu already had a solution for Xu Junpo. Since this was a catalyst sent by the Sweepers Civilization to spur his rapid growth and help him reach the peak as soon as possible, Xiao Yu had no reason to refuse. Now the problem troubling Xiao Yu came down to this one matter, Zhang Shengya.

“If the being that commissioned the Taihao Civilization to deliver Zhang Shengya to me was really Chen Mo, then on what grounds would Chen Mo do such a thing? Was it merely because she thought I was bored and so gave me an Earth human to keep me company? Then why was Zhang Shengya already dead when she arrived in my hands? That makes no sense. Moreover, this being that is likely Chen Mo later entrusted a spatial lifeform to deliver a necktie to me and even dispatched the spatial lifeform to help clear the obstacles ahead of me. What exactly is all this for?”

“Luka Two, I need an expert in social psychology specializing in emotions. I need them to help me think through some matters.” Unable to figure it out despite much thought, Xiao Yu opened a communication line to Luka Two.

“May I ask what problem you need to solve? That will help me find a suitable specialist according to the type of issue.” Luka Two replied. “Emotional matters are exceedingly broad.”

“Hmm…” Xiao Yu pondered for a moment and said, “It concerns interpreting certain actions taken by a female intelligent lifeform in something akin to a state of being in love. Yes, I need an expert in this area to tell me why she would do this and what the reason is.”

“I understand.” Luka Two replied. “Then I recommend Luo Fei to you. He is an outstanding social psychologist, and beyond his primary work he is very keen on researching exactly the issues you mentioned and has made many achievements. You may not have noticed these data. According to my statistics, over the last two thousand years, he has captured the hearts of more than thirty thousand female intelligent lifeforms. He even once disguised himself as a down-and-out, idle good-for-nothing and used facial modification to make himself ugly and filthy. Yet even in such a guise, he successfully developed a long-term lover of exceptionally high social status and great beauty. He practically knows any thought in any woman’s heart. If you consult him with your questions, you will surely obtain satisfactory answers.”

“Very well, I understand.” Xiao Yu replied, then cut off contact with Luka Two. The next moment, he located Luo Fei’s figure through the vast monitoring system.

Combining the two aspects of a specialist in emotions and a social psychologist, Luo Fei was indeed the best candidate to solve Xiao Yu’s present problem.

“I hope he can find the answer for me…” Xiao Yu sighed softly.

Through the monitoring equipment atop a certain entertainment venue in the most prosperous city on Planet Nine, Xiao Yu saw the legendary figure of Luo Fei. At that moment, Luo Fei looked utterly down and out. His current appearance was like that of a social parasite who lived solely on welfare and made no effort to change his life through his own work, or like a piece of social dregs indulging in wine and pleasure. His hair was a tangled mess, seemingly unkempt for many days. He exuded an unpleasant odor, as if he had just crawled out of a garbage heap. Yet for some reason, even in such a state, many women who, by the standards of Luo Fei’s species’ aesthetics, were extraordinarily beautiful, were gathered around him, no fewer than six or seven.

“Perhaps he truly will know what is in Chen Mo’s heart and why Chen Mo acted this way.” Xiao Yu thought secretly, directly taking over the control system of a service robot and steering it toward Luo Fei.

“Luo Fei, hello. I have been ordered by the Social Committee to bring you back. There is a major criminal case suspected to be related to you. Please come with me and cooperate with the investigation.” Xiao Yu said.

Luo Fei still seemed not quite sober. He flailed his arms about and shouted, “Go away, go away.”

Without further ado, Xiao Yu operated the robot to seize him directly, hoisted him onto its shoulder, and strode out. During the capture, the women clustered around him all screamed.

After Luo Fei left, those women still gazed in the direction of his departure.

“A major criminal case? That is unbelievable. How could such filthy matters be connected to someone as noble as him? The Social Committee must have made a mistake.” one female intelligent lifeform said.

“Yes, it must be a mistake. But even if he really did such a thing, it does not matter. I love him, and I am willing to forgive any mistake he has made, as long as he is a little gentle with me.” another female intelligent lifeform said.

“Yes, any mistake he has committed is worthy of forgiveness.”