Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 661: A Not So Simple Prank
Xiao Yu was silently speculating about these matters, but there was too little known information now for him to infer more. He did not even have a clear understanding of the form of existence of a Level 7 Civilization, nor did he know whether Level 8 or Level 9 Civilizations existed above Level 7. Under such circumstances, any inference about the invigilator, something akin to the Rules of the universe, would not have a high probability of being correct no matter the conclusion.
However, Xiao Yu was certain that if the mysterious person behind sending him Zhang Shengya and that necktie was truly Chen Mo, then Luo Fei’s and his own deductions about Chen Mo’s situation should be true. Xiao Yu could sense the change in mood between those two deliveries. The first time, when Chen Mo delivered the Earth girl Zhang Shengya to him, she even transferred it once through the Taihao Civilization, hiding herself behind the scenes, afraid that he would discover her existence. The second time, she directly sent him the necktie she had once given him before, essentially making her identity clear, and even set up a small test that resembled a prank.
The first was heavy, which fit the mindset of having encountered a great calamity and feeling very pessimistic about the future. The second was light, which fit the relaxed and happy mindset after successfully overcoming the calamity, even to the point of having the mood to play a small prank.
There was one point, however. No matter what Chen Mo had encountered, Xiao Yu could not intervene, nor did he have the ability to intervene.
“Then for now, I should do my part well.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “I must proceed step by step, firmly raise my strength, and only then will I have the possibility of seeing Chen Mo, even helping Chen Mo. I must find the corpse of the Micron Civilization, then destroy the Neutron War Star, and ultimately become a Level 7 Civilization. By that time, I will have the ability and qualification to step into the circle where Chen Mo resides.”
The circle Chen Mo was in must at least be the circle of Level 7 Civilizations. This could be seen from the strength of the spatial lifeform. Xiao Yu estimated that within the Milky Way Galaxy, aside from the Neutron War Star, there was probably no one who could be a match for the spatial lifeform. Even if the three Taihao joined together as the Taihao Alliance, they might not be able to withstand the spatial lifeform.
Once again taking out Zhang Shengya’s body and looking at it preserved in a specially made case, unchanged in the slightest, completely still as if she were alive and merely sleeping, Xiao Yu’s mind was filled with countless thoughts.
“Perhaps everything is as Luo Fei said. You fit all my requirements. I feel great sympathy for you, and I very much want to protect you. If I had revived you a little earlier, perhaps love would already have arisen between us. But such love would not be real love. It would be love under manipulation. If I did not know any of this, perhaps I would have truly fallen in love with you. But now I already know everything. So I still sympathize with you and still want to protect you, but I can no longer fall in love with you.” Xiao Yu said silently. He thought again of Chen Mo, of that girl who still held deep feelings for him, who, foreseeing that she would never be able to meet Xiao Yu again, hardened her heart and sent out Zhang Shengya, attempting to have Zhang Shengya take her place in Xiao Yu’s heart, and how sad she must have been.
“Hm?” At that moment, Xiao Yu suddenly thought of another matter, namely the prank-like test that Chen Mo had set when she commissioned the spatial lifeform to come find him.
“Judging from the current information, this prank does not seem to be just a simple prank. It should be that in her confrontation with the invigilator, Chen Mo lost track of my information, so she did not know whether I had, as she arranged, fallen in love with Zhang Shengya, nor whether I had, as she arranged, already forgotten her. At that time Chen Mo should have been very conflicted. After all, she who originally believed herself doomed had not died, but she had already sent out Zhang Shengya and made all the preparations for love to arise between me and Zhang Shengya. Under such circumstances, choosing to send that necktie to me should also have included the intention to try to awaken my memories of her.”
“Alas.” Xiao Yu sighed, yet he still could not halt these thoughts.
Amid the jumble of thoughts, under the traction of the Earth, Xiao Yu’s fleet, together with the small universe, advanced swiftly.
Including the geometric objects unexpectedly obtained from the crocodilian Alien Beast, Xiao Yu possessed four geometric objects in total. Comprehensive research on these four geometric objects had now begun. Beyond the four, Xiao Yu had also acquired a large number of fragments from the Guardian Civilization’s half-finished Star-Class warship. These fragments might also contain a wealth of technological information. Although it was unlikely that key technologies could be deciphered from these fragments, minor technologies, such as foundry processes, materials science, and other detailed aspects, would likely yield considerable gains.
Although both were Level 6 Civilizations, the Guardian Civilization was far stronger than Xiao Yu by more than a little. By analyzing the creations of the Guardian Civilization, Xiao Yu would certainly obtain many benefits.
Over these nearly one thousand years, Xiao Yu’s technology once again made a leap. The new-type light computer modeled after the Guardian Civilization’s technology had already been put into use. The number of warships Xiao Yu could control simultaneously had increased to seventy million. Through research on the geometric objects left by the mechanical direction Level 7 Civilization, combined with the study of the Guardian Civilization’s warship fragments, Xiao Yu finally achieved a breakthrough in materials science. Now Xiao Yu could manufacture hydrogen-atomic polymer material. In other words, even without relying on the flesh of a Level 6 Alien Beast, Xiao Yu could independently manufacture Planet-Class warships.
Beyond computational science and materials science, another field also achieved a breakthrough, namely mechanical technology. Xiao Yu could now build engines whose volume was nearly half of before while output power was triple the previous level, with a greatly improved energy utilization rate. This meant the endurance of Xiao Yu’s warships could once again be enhanced.
With the same fuel and the same mass of spaceship, if Xiao Yu’s previous technology allowed a ship to travel one thousand light years under curvature flight, by adopting the most advanced technology now, Xiao Yu could let that ship travel about one thousand three hundred light years.
A more efficient mode of energy utilization was the essential technological foundation for Xiao Yu to launch an intergalactic voyage, traveling from the Milky Way Galaxy toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. Without this technology, even if he traveled upstream along the Magellanic Stream, Xiao Yu would fall into a predicament of having no energy available due to insufficient reserves midway.
By now Xiao Yu had left the Galactic Center by nearly thirty thousand light years, having traversed half the distance of his intra-galactic journey within the Milky Way Galaxy. The stellar density of the space he was in was much lower than at the Galactic Center. The average distance between two stars had reached about six light years. This density was already lower than that of the star region where the Sun was located.
Looking toward the Galactic Center from this direction through optical instruments, it appeared like a large luminous sphere emitting a faint halo, exceptionally beautiful. But Xiao Yu knew that the beauty was only a facade. It harbored layers upon layers of lethal dangers. It would not be an exaggeration to call it step-by-step traps. There were places where even Xiao Yu would be in extreme peril.
At this time, a technology most important to Xiao Yu finally achieved a breakthrough, namely the technology for one-time transfer of large-mass indivisible matter into the small universe.
Xiao Yu could now instantaneously transfer nearly one trillion tons of matter through the linkage channel between the main universe and the small universe, moving it from the main universe into the small universe, or from the small universe into the main universe. This number was already large, yet still not large enough. For example, a planet or a star casually had a mass measured in the tens of quadrillions of tons. How then was such matter to be transferred?
Previously, Xiao Yu had realized this by using stellar mass theft instruments to partition the matter and then transport it bit by bit into the small universe. But this method consumed far too much time. Precisely for this reason, when Xiao Yu set out for the Galactic Center, the distance of twenty thousand light years, calculated at a speed of one hundred times light speed, should have required only two hundred years to reach. Yet Xiao Yu consumed a full two thousand years to traverse that distance. A large portion of the extra time was wasted on collecting matter.
Now things were different. With the material replenishment from the Guardian Civilization and the inspiration from those perfect geometric solids left by the mechanical direction Level 7 Civilization, Xiao Yu’s technology finally made another breakthrough. Xiao Yu could now, in a short time, directly transfer a star from the main universe into the small universe.
As Xiao Yu had expected, the first person to achieve a breakthrough in this technology was indeed Xu Junpo. This time he once again proved his genius and crucial role, and he once again confirmed Xiao Yu’s conjecture.
“Truly a genius scientist sent by the Sweepers Civilization to rapidly elevate my technology. I am very curious about how much more technological progress you will bring me and how many problems you will solve for me. I am waiting for your performance.”
After commending Xu Junpo once again and looking at the many scientists who came to extend congratulations everywhere, Xiao Yu pondered silently in his heart.
