Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 706: Capturing the Radiance
The Python Alien Beast died just like that. That part was as important to the Python Alien Beast as the brain is to a human. After the Micron corpse rammed and destroyed that place, the Python Alien Beast died, dead beyond dead.
Xiao Yu was in no hurry to collect the Python Alien Beast’s corpse. There was still plenty of time, and the situation was completely under Xiao Yu’s control.
“The Python Alien Beast is dead. Next is you, Radiance.” Xiao Yu thought quietly in his heart, issuing a new order to the Micron corpse. “Specter, go capture the Radiance. Remember, it is enough to cripple it heavily. Do not destroy it. I still need to rely on the instruments aboard it to analyze technology. This is very important.”
“Rest assured, I know the limits.” After killing the Python Alien Beast, the ferocity of the Specter companion seemed to have vented somewhat, yet its fighting spirit grew even stronger. Upon receiving Xiao Yu’s order, the Micron corpse swiftly charged toward the Radiance.
At this moment, the Radiance was leading part of a fleet to intercept Xiao Yu’s fleet, preventing it from interfering with the Guardian Civilization’s evacuation fleet. In the main battlefield of conventional warships, more than one hundred million warships on both sides were still entangled with each other. The difference was that in the main battlefield of conventional warships, Xiao Yu was at an absolute disadvantage. But Xiao Yu did not care.
Seeing that the Python Alien Beast had fallen in battle and that the Micron corpse was charging toward the Radiance, the Radiance reacted swiftly. It disengaged from the battlefield, led only a small number of escort ships, and rushed toward the Micron corpse. Its movements carried a tragic aura of perishing together with the enemy. It was not a match for the Micron corpse. Although it was powerful, it basically had no chance of harming the Micron corpse. Yet it still moved, like a moth to a flame. Even knowing death lay ahead, it did not hesitate in the slightest.
“Radiance, have you finally brought out the pride befitting a flagship of a peak Level 6 Civilization? You finally stand fearlessly before the Micron corpse. Although we are enemies, I still admire you.” Xiao Yu said.
“Divine Ark Civilization, how about we discuss a deal?” Xiao Yu received a reply from the Radiance. “Spare the civilians of our Guardian Civilization. Let them use the star route to go to another galaxy, and we will hand over the Radiance to you. How about it?”
Xiao Yu sneered slightly in his heart and replied, “I am very interested in this deal. I agree. Then, now you will disarm the Radiance and let my robot army enter the Radiance.”
“No, not yet. The time has not come.” the Radiance replied. “You remain still. After all our civilians have escaped, we will hand the Radiance over to you. If you refuse to agree, we will detonate the Radiance without hesitation. We would rather destroy ourselves than let you obtain the technology of the Radiance.”
This proposal from the Guardian Civilization seemed very reasonable and favorable enough to Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu would not agree. The reason was simple. Xiao Yu had no way to compel the Guardian Civilization to fulfill its promise. The star route is one-time use. After the Guardian Civilization’s backup small universe escapes along the star route, the segment of the route already used will be destroyed, and Xiao Yu will have no ability to continue tracking. Then, what if after the civilians of the Guardian Civilization escape, the Radiance goes back on its word and still detonates itself?
“I cannot possibly agree, because I do not trust you. Of course, if you want to self-destruct the Radiance right now, that is up to you, do as you wish.” Xiao Yu said.
Xiao Yu was banking on the Radiance not self-destructing at this moment. The reason was simple. With the Radiance here, the Guardian Civilization still had the ability to hold Xiao Yu back. If the Radiance self-destructed, Xiao Yu could set out immediately to stop the Guardian Civilization’s escape. By fighting with all his might there would still be hope of escape. If they self-destructed now, there would be no hope at all. The Guardian Civilization was not stupid. They would certainly understand this.
“Is war inevitable? Then war it is.” the Radiance replied.
“Then war it is.” Xiao Yu also said. “Specter, move out. Cripple the Radiance heavily so that it loses the ability to resist us.”
“No problem.” The Specter companion answered once and, operating the Micron corpse, rapidly rammed toward the Radiance.
The two-dimensional weapon was still being continuously unleashed, so the Radiance still had no ability to perform a four-dimensional jump. Its maneuverability had also suffered severe damage. So now it had no ability at all to escape the Micron corpse’s attacks. Yet it still resisted with all its might, doing its best to evade the Micron corpse’s ramming while unleashing the spatial weapons it carried.
Countless spatial weapons struck the Micron corpse, yet they caused not the slightest damage. Amid this fierce bombardment, the Micron corpse weaved about freely. Moments later it reached the Radiance and rammed into it fiercely. The Radiance’s shield system lit up at once, yet it still could not block the Micron corpse’s impact.
Thirty minutes later, a huge hollow once again appeared on the Radiance. The performance of the Radiance’s shield system decreased yet again, and its maneuverability and firepower dropped once more. Even so, it still fought on with difficulty.
Xiao Yu saw that the Guardian Civilization’s immigration operation had entered its final stage. Most of the Guardian Civilization’s civilians had entered the backup small universe. In at most half an hour, the backup small universe would activate and embark on a great and unprecedented voyage along the star route. But Xiao Yu was not anxious. As long as the escape time of the backup small universe did not exceed one day, Xiao Yu had complete confidence that he could track the small universe. Within one day, Xiao Yu could completely settle the Radiance.
Amid the fierce battle, time passed bit by bit. Xiao Yu saw the Guardian Civilization’s backup small universe had activated and begun to head along the star route for the Triangulum Galaxy. The great cross-galaxy journey had begun. Xiao Yu immediately dispatched some tracking fleets to follow that small universe. However, this small universe seemed to have adopted some special space technology. Its stealth performance was extremely superb. Fleets of such a number simply could not capture the spatial fluctuations it caused. Xiao Yu knew that unless he deployed a large-scale fleet, on the order of tens of millions of ships, arranging tens of millions of ships into a special formation to cooperate in unison, only then could they capture the faint traces left by the small universe’s voyage.
But now most of Xiao Yu’s conventional forces were pinned down by the Guardian Civilization. Xiao Yu did not have the ability to pull out a large number of forces in a short time. Even so, Xiao Yu was not worried. As long as the Radiance was dealt with, the Micron corpse could very efficiently slaughter the Guardian Civilization’s conventional fleets, and then Xiao Yu could redeploy a large number of warships to track the fleeing small universe of the Guardian Civilization.
The crux of all this lay in the battle between the Micron corpse and the Radiance. The Radiance had already been rammed to open four hollowed-out scars, yet it still maintained part of its combat power. No matter how severe the damage, the Radiance never retreated. To cover its civilization’s successful escape, it was clear that it was prepared to be eliminated.
The Radiance was like a patient who had lost too much blood. Its blood was flowing out in great quantities. As the blood drained, all its capabilities grew weaker and weaker. In the end, it lost the ability for curvature flight. It could only use conventional flight to fight the Micron corpse. Even so, it still did not retreat.
Its conventional flight capability was also rapidly fading. Up to now, its conventional flight speed had already dropped below one hundred thousand kilometers per second. Its shield system and weapons system had suffered massive damage. If not for the Micron corpse’s fear of striking its critical sections and causing it to be destroyed, it would have been finished long ago.
The Radiance had reached a dead end, destruction imminent. At this moment, Xiao Yu issued a new order.
“Specter, stop ramming the Radiance. Turn off the Micron corpse’s gravity shielding system and use the Micron corpse’s gravity to bind the Radiance.” Xiao Yu said.
The Micron corpse was something akin to a neutron star. Its gravity was immense. With the Radiance’s current maneuverability, once captured by the Micron corpse’s gravity, it did not even have the ability to break free.
Thus, once the Micron corpse’s gravity was released, the Radiance became a moon of the Micron corpse. It began to orbit the Micron corpse at a constant speed. It continued to make strenuous attacks, but they were futile and could not affect the Micron corpse in any way.
At this time, Xiao Yu was directing a large number of warships to surround the Radiance. He already had a way to secure the Radiance. The method was to rely on the heat death of a small universe to exhaust the Radiance’s energy, depriving it of the ability to self-destruct. And now, the Guardian Civilization’s small universe had not yet escaped far enough. They were unwilling to self-destruct.
The small universe cutting instruments were already prepared. Led by the Tianyuan IV Star-Class warship, several hundred Planet-Class warships acted in concert. This section of space, including the Radiance, was instantly sliced out. The Radiance thus entered the small universe. An instant later, Xiao Yu opened the connection channel with that small universe and began to feed energy into it, delaying the heat-death process within that small universe, while also steering that small universe to move closer. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
More than twenty minutes later, this small universe overlapped with the Guardian Civilization’s small universe, and the Radiance reappeared here. The difference was that at this moment, the Radiance no longer had any energy response.
The heat death of the small universe had already drained all of its energy.
