Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 716: Spatial Bomb

Inside the small universe, on Planet Eight, Yang Jianqi’s family had just finished tidying up with the help of the household robot. By the current standards prevalent within the Divine Ark Civilization, Yang Jianqi had not yet reached adulthood and was still a student, but he was dressed very formally now and looked extremely spirited. His parents were the same.

Before leaving the house, his parents reminded him, “When you speak later, do not be nervous… be just like you usually are…”

Their family was going to attend a press conference. Because of the enormous influence of this war game, and because in the entire city, at present only Yang Jianqi and one other player had upgraded their spaceships to the County-Class, the city hall had arranged for some news staff to interview the two of them specifically.

Everything unfolded just as the Yang family had imagined. On this stage, Yang Jianqi, who had always been just an ordinary student, became the focus of countless eyes. After the press conference ended, their family, escorted by city hall officials, went to the banquet hall.

Suddenly, another female intelligent lifeform walked up to Yang Jianqi, extended her hand in a friendly manner, and said in a melodious voice, “Hello, I am Rose.”

Looking at the girl’s stunningly beautiful face, Yang Jianqi could not help but be dazed for a moment, then he extended his hand, “Hello, I am Yang Jianqi.” He knew that this girl was the other player in the city who had upgraded her spaceship to the County-Class.

“I looked at the records. It seems your Jianqi has become a County-Class ship ten minutes earlier than my Rose… but it does not matter. One day I will surpass you.” Rose spoke to Yang Jianqi with a voice full of confidence.

“Surpass me… I will be waiting.” Yang Jianqi, who had been somewhat shy at first, immediately returned to normal upon hearing this, and he replied with a voice equally full of confidence.

“This game is running quite well.” At this time, Xiao Yu was allocating a bit of computation power to view the game’s current progress while browsing the profiles of those outstanding players. “It is estimated that the first City-Class spaceship will appear in one month.”

“Master, there are some issues I need to report to you.” At this moment, Xiao Yu received a communication request from Xu Junpo. He casually connected and asked, “What is it?”

“Regarding the research on black lightning, I now have some other ideas. We know that the Guardian Civilization uses multiple stars as energy bases to launch this black lightning attack, so I believe this technology should be related to a certain kind of stellar high-energy. I request to conduct research activities of this type. I need at least one thousand stars arranged in a certain way for my research…” said Xu Junpo.

Xiao Yu secretly furrowed his brow in his heart. To be honest, although he knew the importance of black lightning, he did not approve of expending such enormous effort on this research. The reason was simple. Transporting one thousand stars would consume far too much computation power. It could result in Xiao Yu producing one billion or even more fewer warships because of transporting those thousand stars. Moreover, Xiao Yu had personally participated in the black lightning research process and knew how difficult this project was. It was very likely that the stars would be transported, massive computation would be consumed, and in the end there would be nothing to show for it.

“In my view, there is no need to conduct research in this direction.” Xiao Yu said. “Black lightning has such difficulty slicing a Micron corpse that I very much doubt it will have an effect on a Neutron War Star. With that computation power, I think producing more warships is the most cost-effective.”

“No, I do not think so.” Xu Junpo continued, repeating what Luka Two had taught him, “Black lightning is mainly used to deal with the Sweepers Civilization’s conventional fleets. To be honest, I do not think we can assuredly defeat the Sweepers Civilization in terms of conventional fleets. After all, the Sweepers Civilization possesses a Neutron War Star. None of us knows whether the Sweepers Civilization has analyzed anything from the Neutron War Star that can be equipped on conventional fleets. With black lightning, our confidence will be greater. And… I can conduct this research independently and do not need to consume your computation power, Master.”

“In that case… very well. Give me one hundred years. I will move all nearby stars to our vicinity.” Xiao Yu thought for a moment and agreed.

“There is another piece of good news.” Xu Junpo continued. “Because we have the technological data handed to us by the Level 7 civilization in the microscopic direction, I have gained some insights into spatial energy conversion. I believe that within one hundred years, I should be able to develop a weapon similar to the Spatial Starburst used by the Neutron War Star. At that time, this kind of weapon can be equipped on our conventional warships and will greatly enhance our ships’ combat strength.”

“Oh? That is truly excellent.” Xiao Yu said with great delight. “In this area, I will allocate enough computation power to support your research. Strictly speaking, this kind of weapon already belongs to the domain of a Level 7 civilization. If we can develop this weapon, it will also be very beneficial for our Divine Ark Civilization to advance to Level 7.” 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

After a brief exchange, Xiao Yu cut off the communication link between the two of them and continued to invest most of his effort into the large-scale construction tasks, while also allocating a small portion of computation power to participate in the development of weapons similar to the Spatial Starburst that Xu Junpo had initiated.

Xiao Yu’s computation power at this moment was already more than one hundred times what it had been before the war with the Guardian Civilization, yet facing the enormous construction tasks now, Xiao Yu still felt that computation power was somewhat insufficient. Awaiting Xiao Yu was the task of transporting more than one thousand stars. Transporting more than one thousand stars was not too troublesome in itself, but the troublesome matter was constructing a star system’s defense system spanning over one thousand star systems. The star system’s defense system was already troublesome enough, but compared to the warship construction tasks it was nothing at all.

Xiao Yu’s anticipated construction target was ten billion warships. Among them, about five hundred million would be controlled by himself, while the remaining nine and a half billion warships would all be handed over to intelligent beings to operate. For this, Xiao Yu had to build a colossal data interaction network and expend a large amount of computation power, and these warships also needed to be specially customized. In addition to these ten billion warships, Xiao Yu also needed to build at least another ten billion warships as reserves.

Among these twenty billion warships, there would be twenty Star-Class warships that adopted holographic defense technology and the latest shield technologies. Among these twenty Star-Class warships, one would be equipped with the only set of four-dimensional Jump instruments and would serve as Xiao Yu’s flagship. At the same time, the spatial modification of his small universe also began comprehensively. Through a certain spatial fitting instrument, the modified small universe would bring performance improvements to certain specific warships. This was mainly to guard against the situation where things went badly and the Sweepers Civilization broke into his small universe.

Xiao Yu kept that deadline firmly in mind, one thousand years, only one thousand years.

While Xiao Yu was busy with the massive construction tasks, Luka Two and Xu Junpo gathered together again.

“According to the method you taught me, I have already persuaded Xiao Yu to carry out a large-scale stellar relocation. It is expected that the stellar relocation will be completed after one hundred years. During these one hundred years, I will complete at least half of the development work on the spatial bomb weapon. Then I will abandon the development of this type of weapon and turn to research on using stellar energy to enhance the Specter Race’s capabilities.” said Xu Junpo.

Luka Two knew that the spatial bomb Xu Junpo spoke of was not the space bomb commonly used by Level 6 civilizations that was based on space-slicing technology, but the kind that truly converted space into energy and then exploded violently.

“I do not know whether our choice is right or wrong.” Luka Two sighed. “From my position, it seems I should do everything in my power and serve the Divine Ark Civilization wholeheartedly. After all, even if I die, my descendants, my kin, still live within the Divine Ark Civilization. But, but, I am already old. Life science cannot see a breakthrough in the short term. I am going to die. I ultimately cannot always protect them. They must eventually learn to survive independently. They must eventually get used to the days without me devising strategies for them.”

“So regardless of whether my choice is right or wrong, I have done it. Let this be a test to make them, to make the Master, grow up quickly. If things truly progress to the worst, and they are unable to pass the test we have laid down, then let the name Divine Ark Civilization disappear from the universe. I will regard this as the will of heaven and will have no regrets.”

“My mindset is different from yours, but the choices we have made are the same. I only hope that if the Divine Ark Civilization fails, it can rely on the trump cards we leave behind to escape from the hands of the Sweepers Civilization and still maintain the continuation of the civilization… because you and I are the same. We both love this world and love this civilization.”

Inside the small universe, on Planet Eight. It had been almost a month since the press conference. At this moment, Yang Jianqi finally upgraded his spaceship to the City-Class. After checking the leaderboard, Yang Jianqi instantly relaxed. “Thirty-seventh in the entire server. The results have improved compared to last time. Hmph, first place will be mine sooner or later. Hm? The Rose has also been upgraded to a City-Class ship? Ranked forty-fifth? Fortunately, fortunately I am still a little ahead of her.”

He thought with a hint of self-satisfaction.