Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 539: Computer Forest

The war at the front lines was still ongoing. These people might have already resolved to fight to the last moment, Xiao Yu thought.

A large number of ships had begun attempting to return to their capital planet to blow up the central research institute that stored vast amounts of scientific data. But at this moment the central research institute was already under Xiao Yu’s tight protection, and no ship could get close.

The central research institute also had its own security force, and it was quite formidable. To avoid damaging the data stored within the institute, Xiao Yu did not attack it with ships. Instead, he dispatched large numbers of special operations troops and mechanical warriors to attack from the ground. At this moment, fierce firefights were raging between the two sides.

The Asia had already returned and rejoined the battlefield, encircling the remaining Pegasus Civilization ships, but Xiao Yu’s gaze never left the fleeing Galloping Pegasus spaceship. Xiao Yu quietly dispatched many stealth deep-space probes to follow behind these ships and report their coordinates to him at any time. Xiao Yu planned to launch the pursuit after obtaining all the data in the Central Research Academy of Science.

Xiao Yu knew exactly what the leader of the Pegasus Civilization intended. It was nothing more than using the scientific data in the Central Research Academy of Science as leverage to threaten him and buy time for their escape. Now the two sides were racing against time. If the fleeing fleet of the Pegasus Civilization managed to shake off Xiao Yu’s tracking before he acquired all the data from the Central Research Academy of Science, then the Pegasus Civilization would immediately delete all remaining data to cause Xiao Yu losses. If, after Xiao Yu obtained all the data from the Central Research Academy of Science, the Pegasus Civilization’s fleet was still under Xiao Yu’s surveillance, Xiao Yu would decisively begin the pursuit and annihilate or capture the Galloping Pegasus spaceship, leaving no future trouble.

At this moment both sides were racing the clock. One must know that the traces left by curvature engines in space would last no more than one month. After more than a month, Xiao Yu would have no way to track the fleeing ships. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Of course, the time available to Xiao Yu was a little longer than one month because spy satellites belonging to Xiao Yu were following the fleet. However, the fleet was currently conducting large-scale counterintelligence operations. The spy satellites Xiao Yu had released had already suffered heavy losses and were on the verge of total destruction.

Xiao Yu suppressed his thoughts and focused his energy on breaking through the defenses of the Central Research Academy of Science.

Fierce fighting continued for a full week before Xiao Yu’s forces finally broke through the defensive line. The security forces of the Central Research Academy of Science retreated to the second defensive line. Xiao Yu’s forces split into two groups. One continued the pursuit, while the other remained on site to receive the fruits of victory.

Now a most striking scene unfolded before Xiao Yu. In front of the robots stretched wide, brightly lit corridors. On both sides of the corridors were a great many rooms. Every room held numerous data materials. Some rooms were operation rooms. Some were laboratories. Some were storage rooms, and some were machine rooms. Large numbers of robots poured in, began to organize these materials, and transmitted them en masse into Xiao Yu’s mind.

Because of Xiao Yu’s stern warning, the data had not been damaged in the fighting. There had been no incident of a security officer destroying a storage module with a single shot. Ultimately, this was a game of strategy. The two players, Xiao Yu and the fleeing fleet of the Pegasus Civilization, each had their own trump card. Xiao Yu’s trump card was that he could pursue and annihilate the fleeing fleet of the Pegasus Civilization. The fleeing fleet’s trump card was that if Xiao Yu began to pursue them, they could destroy all the data in the Central Research Academy of Science, leaving Xiao Yu with nothing.

To prevent mutual destruction, this game had two bottom lines. First, Xiao Yu must not track the Pegasus Civilization’s fleet. Second, the Pegasus Civilization must not destroy the data in the Central Research Academy of Science. Only by observing these two rules could the game proceed. Otherwise, there was a risk of mutual destruction, that is, the fleeing fleet of the Pegasus Civilization would be destroyed by Xiao Yu, and all the data in the Central Research Academy of Science would also be wiped out, leaving Xiao Yu with nothing.

Of course, as long as this overarching premise was respected, minor maneuvers were understandable, and both sides knew it well. For example, Xiao Yu sent spy satellites to secretly track the fleeing fleet of the Pegasus Civilization, while the fleeing fleet stationed large security forces inside the Central Research Academy of Science and organized scientists to introduce errors into the stored data.

Xiao Yu did not care about these things. In fact, Xiao Yu had long anticipated that the Pegasus Civilization would do this. Altering the materials to mislead him was nothing significant. At most it would cost Xiao Yu a bit more in experimental resources. As long as the overarching framework was there, deducing the entire technological system would only be a matter of time.

“The central machine room is deeper in… Good. I have broken the second defensive line. Keep advancing.” Xiao Yu issued a new order. More robots flooded in to search the areas beyond the second defensive line and collect materials. Meanwhile, another group of robots began assaulting the third defensive line.

The Central Research Academy of Science was a vast place, roughly estimated to be about the same size as Beijing in Earth’s era. One could imagine how many materials were hidden inside, how many scientists had worked here, and how many scientific achievements had originated here.

Over ten million robots poured into the Central Research Academy of Science and launched a comprehensive and thorough search. Three days later, the third defensive line was breached, and the robots expanded their search range further.

At every moment, vast quantities of data and materials were transmitted into Xiao Yu’s mind. At present, Xiao Yu had no energy to screen and sort this data. He simply prepared a large number of blank storage units and stored all data obtained from the Pegasus Civilization, to be analyzed when there was time.

“According to orbital reconnaissance, this Central Research Academy of Science has roughly ten layers of defense. The most central machine room is behind the tenth defensive line. All the most advanced, most secret, and most cutting-edge scientific data is stored there. As long as I reach that place and copy all the data stored there, the entire operation will be complete, and the Pegasus Civilization will have no further value to me.”

“Now is the time to harvest.”

Large numbers of robots advanced rapidly. Massive quantities of data and materials were consolidated and transmitted to Xiao Yu. Time slipped by moment by moment.

“The tenth defensive line has finally been breached.” Xiao Yu brightened, immediately directing vast numbers of robots to charge into the core machine room. A most awe-inspiring scene unfolded before Xiao Yu.

This was an enormous machine room nearly a thousand meters high, with a length of nearly three kilometers and a width of nearly two kilometers. Such a vast space was almost completely filled with various computing devices. Here, everywhere stood towering computer installations like sky-piercing pillars. Countless cables spread in all directions, and indicator lights flickered everywhere.

This place was simply a forest composed of computers. In this jungle were many birds, all of them highly automated mechanical devices. They flew through the sky, weaving among the forest of computers, performing all kinds of routine maintenance tasks on the equipment.

This was the core of the entire Pegasus Civilization, the heart of the entire Pegasus Civilization. Here was everything Xiao Yu wanted.

Excitement surged in Xiao Yu’s heart. He immediately directed countless robots to rush in. After a brief scan to understand the basic construction of these machines, the rear base immediately began manufacturing specialized data interface equipment, which was then transported by the Blood Blade Squad’s ships and finally connected by the robots to these gigantic machines.

Over one million robots connected themselves to these machines. In other words, at this time, more than one million data channels had been established between Xiao Yu and these machines.

Through these million-plus data channels, Xiao Yu’s immense computational power surged forth in an instant, flooding into these computing devices. After grasping their software structures and underlying architectures, Xiao Yu swiftly wrote the corresponding transfer programs, and the transmission of colossal data began.

This was an ocean of data. The more than one million data channels Xiao Yu had connected here were more than one million powerful pumps. Under such circumstances, every minute and every second an unimaginably vast stream of data rushed into Xiao Yu’s mind and converged into the storage devices Xiao Yu had specially constructed.

This data stream was so immense that even Xiao Yu felt it was somewhat difficult to process. But it did not matter. The war had already reached its endgame. With the Galloping Pegasus spaceship formation having fled, the strength of the remaining defensive fleet had dropped to a certain level. Xiao Yu could confidently reassign computational power to handle this immense data.

Up to now, roughly twenty five days had passed since the Galloping Pegasus spaceship fled.

“This data will require about ten days to finish transferring… Very well, perhaps I really can only let the Galloping Pegasus spaceship escape.” Xiao Yu thought with some regret.