Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 694: Micron Corpse Ramming The Radiance

Xiao Yu could be certain that the Guardian Civilization already knew that two-dimensional weapons could counter four-dimensional jump, but the Radiance had broken through this limitation by a rather ingenious method. The limitation was the attack range of the two-dimensional weapons. The battlefield was ultimately too vast, and two-dimensional weapons could not cover all of it. There would always be portions left as three-dimensional space. These three-dimensional pockets were like islands, or even continents, within a two-dimensional ocean. the Radiance’s four-dimensional jumps were being executed upon these islands or continents.

Because the starting point of the Guardian Civilization’s star route was right here, Xiao Yu was not worried that the Guardian Civilization would withdraw entirely. The only concern was that the Radiance would exploit its overpowering maneuverability to stir up trouble within the battlefield. At the same time, the Radiance was practically the spiritual symbol of the Guardian Civilization, its importance equivalent to that of Beijing to China. Moreover, if he could obtain the Radiance, even if only its wreckage, the benefit to Xiao Yu would be immense.

So Xiao Yu deliberately set a trap. For this trap, Xiao Yu had already sacrificed a great deal of computational power, and at the risk of lacking combat strength on the main battlefield, he assigned as many as two thousand Planet-Class warships and nearly ten million escort ships to the edge of the battlefield. Xiao Yu was waiting for the Radiance to be unable to resist jumping next to the Star-Class warship Tianyuan IV.

All of this was part of Xiao Yu’s plan. When the Radiance could no longer resist coming to eliminate Tianyuan IV, the Micron corpse hidden inside Tianyuan IV, under the control of the Specter companion, burst out.

Curvature flight and conventional flight were two different things. For spaceships or the Micron corpse that possessed autonomous maneuverability, they could still conduct conventional flight while in curvature flight. Thus, during curvature flight at more than one hundred thirty light speed, the Micron corpse accelerated its conventional speed to more than two hundred thousand kilometers per second. In merely an instant, it arrived before the Radiance and rammed toward it with ferocious force.

The corpse of the Micron Civilization was a secret known probably only to Xiao Yu and the Taihao Alliance. Even if the Guardian Civilization knew the Micron Civilization had once existed, they absolutely could not know that the Micron Civilization’s corpse possessed such formidable combat power. So now, the Guardian Civilization had finally fallen for it. After more than twenty hours of probing and determining the strength of Tianyuan IV, the Radiance could not hold back and came to eliminate Xiao Yu’s flagship.

But this was precisely the moment Xiao Yu had been waiting for. To create this opportunity, Xiao Yu had not hesitated to sacrifice tens of millions more ships.

Just as the Radiance appeared near Tianyuan IV, the Micron corpse had already rushed in. It took less than one tenth of a second to reach the Radiance, then switched from curvature flight to conventional flight. While still within curvature space, the Micron corpse had already accelerated its conventional speed to more than two hundred thousand kilometers per second. In this way, at a sub-light conventional speed, it slammed toward the Radiance.

The Guardian Civilization was without doubt a civilization of intelligent beings. The reaction speed of biological beings could not be faster than such an attack. In other words, the commander of the Radiance could not possibly react in time. The only concern was the Radiance’s automatic defense system. In such an emergency, the automatic defense system might take over the ship’s control at the last second and employ four-dimensional jump again to evade the impact of the Micron corpse.

But Xiao Yu had already prepared a countermeasure, namely the two thousand Planet-Class warships pre-positioned at the battlefield’s edge. All two thousand carried high-power two-dimensional weapons. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

At the very moment when the Radiance appeared in front of Tianyuan IV and the Micron corpse began its assault, Xiao Yu had already issued orders to those two thousand Planet-Class warships. The high-power two-dimensional weapons mounted on them were activated.

The positions of these two thousand Planet-Class warships had been calculated by Xiao Yu with precise foresight. Occupying these positions and activating the two-dimensional weapons simultaneously, the two thousand Planet-Class warships could two-dimensionalize the entire battlefield’s space. Aside from the spaces occupied by ships that themselves possessed extremely high energy, all remaining space would be two-dimensionalized without leaving any dead corners.

The speed at which two-dimensional weapons two-dimensionalize space was superluminal. That is to say, the instant the two-dimensional weapons were activated, the entire battlefield became two-dimensional.

Now, with the combined effort of two thousand Planet-Class warships, the largest operation of space two-dimensionalization since Xiao Yu had acquired two-dimensional weapons began. In that single instant, the entire battlefield spanning several light days entered two dimensions.

Because Xiao Yu’s ships were equipped with same-type two-dimensional shields, the effect of the two-dimensional weapons upon them was not significant. But the Guardian Civilization’s ships were different. Xiao Yu saw innumerable flashes appear across the battlefield in that instant. Large numbers of the Guardian Civilization’s ships were two-dimensionalized, and the dimension they lost was released as energy. These two thousand Planet-Class ships were like the greatest painter in the universe, using space as a canvas to compose a brilliant work suffused with the aura of destruction and despair.

On this painting, warships of every kind, model, size, and posture were the absolute protagonists. The wreckage of warships, some star system defense installations with weaker protection, space gun turrets or interstellar mines, fragments of certain celestial bodies, and so on, served as embellishments upon this great work.

The two-dimensional world created by the combined effort of two thousand Planet-Class warships inflicted enormous damage upon the Guardian Civilization’s fleet. With a brief tally, Xiao Yu arrived at a conclusion. In this single wave of attack, at least six million ships of the Guardian Civilization had been destroyed.

But this was not Xiao Yu’s primary objective. Merely six million of the Guardian Civilization’s small and medium ships were not worth such arrangements. Xiao Yu’s target was the Radiance. This astounding masterpiece was prepared for the Radiance. Xiao Yu hoped the Radiance would take this painting as its tomb and rest here forever.

Yes, the destruction of more than six million of the Guardian Civilization’s small and medium ships was only an add-on to this attack. Xiao Yu’s main purpose was to use the two-dimensional space to counter the Radiance’s four-dimensional jump, preventing it from using four-dimensional jump to evade the collision of the Micron corpse.

Xiao Yu’s arrangement took effect. Xiao Yu saw that, as the Micron corpse surged forward and rammed toward the Radiance, at that last possible moment the Radiance once again vanished from the visible universe.

Xiao Yu knew that the Radiance’s emergency defense system had engaged. Before the Radiance’s decision-makers could react, the emergency defense system detected the immense threat it faced. It detected that an object with stellar mass but only two hundred kilometers in diameter was ramming toward it. And it knew that it absolutely could not withstand such a violent impact.

This must have been the most critical moment, so the emergency defense system immediately took control of the Radiance. Without any authorization from any intelligent being of the Guardian Civilization, and without obtaining their consent, it made the decision. It used four-dimensional jump once more.

Xiao Yu believed that, when confronted with such a colossal danger, employing four-dimensional jump to escape at once was the correct choice. Even if the Radiance’s decision-makers had time to react, this would certainly be their choice. But this was a trap, a trap Xiao Yu set specifically for them. In this trap, what was originally the correct choice became the wrong one. No, it should be said that this was a dead end with no correct choice at all. Faced with such a situation, every choice was wrong.

The Guardian Civilization’s choice was not wrong, but this region of space had already been two-dimensionalized. The Guardian Civilization’s high-dimensional jump, which was a four-dimensional jump in three-dimensional space, became a three-dimensional jump in two-dimensional space. Thus Xiao Yu witnessed the following scene.

The Radiance had just entered higher-dimensional space and vanished from the visible universe when, in the very next instant, it reappeared in the visible universe. It was like a fish flung onto land, twitching dryly in space. Viewed from a three-dimensional world’s perspective, its current movement speed was not even as fast as conventional flight.

This was the result when a four-dimensional jump was weakened into a three-dimensional jump by two-dimensional weapons. The result did not exceed the expectations of Xiao Yu and Xu Junpo. For the conclusion that two-dimensional weapons could counter four-dimensional jump was reached only after Xiao Yu and Xu Junpo had spent more than one thousand years studying together. This scene had appeared in Xiao Yu’s mind and in the simulator on Xu Junpo’s personal computing terminal no fewer than ten thousand times.

But those were always simulations. No matter how realistic, simulations were still illusory. Without seeing the real outcome in actual combat, one could not rule out the possibility that the simulated result was wrong. Only now did Xiao Yu’s heart finally settle.

The Radiance was crawling forward at a pitiful speed. Behind it, the Micron corpse trying to ram it was moving at more than two hundred thousand kilometers per second.

With the situation reduced to this, there would be no accidents. Xiao Yu saw that in the next instant, the Micron corpse struck solidly against the Radiance.