Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 762: I’m Back

Xiao Yu had died once, and now Xiao Yu had come back to life again. Perhaps those red seaweed-like organisms gave Xiao Yu an insight, perhaps those white cockroaches made Xiao Yu feel the toughness of life, or perhaps the warmth of his homeland made Xiao Yu regain his confidence. In any case, Xiao Yu came back to life once again.

“The road ahead is vast and unpredictable, but I cannot lose my confidence because of that. I have always believed in one principle, no matter what kinds of hardships and obstacles, I will overcome them. Although this belief wavered for a period of time, I have now reaffirmed it.”

“No matter what, my current situation is much better than when I first left Earth. Back then, I was still able to develop to the level of the Milky Way’s second strongest civilization. I refuse to believe that the current me will sink into decline like this and be removed from the galaxy.”

Xiao Yu secretly made up his mind. The Hope spaceship left the Sun’s surface and once again entered outer space.

Skimming past dead, silent Mercury, constantly scorched by the Sun at every moment, skimming past Venus whose environment was still harsh but where life had begun to flourish vigorously in some places, skimming past the Earth asteroid belt where the red seaweed lived, skimming past the orbital path of Mars with its sky full of yellow sand, Xiao Yu arrived at Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Xiao Yu tried to search here again for traces of the Jovian Phantom, to see whether he could gain something. Xiao Yu had basically confirmed that the Jovian Phantom was the predecessor of the Specter companion. Xiao Yu remembered that in the period after he had just left Earth, there were many Jovian Phantoms here around Jupiter. If he could find traces of the Jovian Phantom here, perhaps Xiao Yu could cultivate it again and let it reach the height the Specter companion once reached, thereby making up for his Luck Value loss.

Xiao Yu had also captured some Jovian Phantoms before and preserved them, but over the long journey, they gradually lost all radiation intensity and ultimately vanished without a trace. At that time, Xiao Yu had been extremely puzzled by this change. After encountering the Specter companion, the Specter companion gave Xiao Yu the answer, “They were starved to death.”

This answer made Xiao Yu suddenly understand.

By rights, after one hundred thousand years, the Jovian Phantoms here at Jupiter should have starved to death long ago, but Xiao Yu still held onto a bit of hope in his heart. Perhaps Jupiter’s environment was relatively special and could allow the Jovian Phantoms to survive for a long time?

Xiao Yu controlled the Hope spaceship to rush into Jupiter’s atmosphere and began searching. But the final result disappointed Xiao Yu. The current Jupiter was dead, lonely, without any trace of life. There were only endless hurricanes and endless lightning. Helplessly, Xiao Yu gave up on this idea and left Jupiter.

Xiao Yu flew toward Saturn. On Titan, Xiao Yu had a large-scale construction base. In the eyes of the current Xiao Yu, the equipment in these bases was very backward and bulky, but it was still an industrial foundation. With the knowledge he had accumulated now, Xiao Yu could complete industrial upgrading in an extremely short time, upgrading this Level 2 civilization base into a Level 6 peak civilization base.

After only a little over an hour, Xiao Yu arrived at Saturn’s orbit. Looking at this enormous gas giant with its earthy yellow color, Xiao Yu felt deeply moved.

Xiao Yu did not linger here, but rather very quickly arrived at Titan’s orbit, passed through Titan’s thick clouds, and entered Titan.

The scene before Xiao Yu had not changed much from one hundred thousand years ago. Titan’s sky was still dim. Titan’s air was still tranquil. The vast methane lakes with shimmering ripples, the winding methane rivers, these things together formed Titan’s unique terrain system.

Xiao Yu had sealed over ninety bases on Titan. The place where Xiao Yu was staying now was his Base One from back then, and it was also the base with the most complete and numerous facilities and the most thorough sealing.

Looking down from the air at the somewhat low black factory buildings below, an inexplicable emotion rose in Xiao Yu’s heart. These black buildings blocked Xiao Yu’s line of sight, and Xiao Yu could not know the situation inside them. According to the program Xiao Yu left behind before departing, robots should periodically go out to inspect the various sealed industrial facilities inside the buildings and perform regular maintenance on them. In order to maintain the fuel storage level in the base, robots would also periodically walk out of the buildings, go to the methane lake near the base, and collect methane as fuel.

The frequency of dispatching the fuel collection team was approximately once every three days. So Xiao Yu controlled the Hope spaceship to hover quietly in the sky, waiting for the fuel collection team to appear.

The program Xiao Yu left behind back then had already been able to reach a very complete level. Xiao Yu had even added many contingency plans for unexpected events within the program, such as the methane lake drying up, flooding, a massive Black Bug attack, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and so on. All these unexpected events had been considered by Xiao Yu, and there were extremely complete response plans to keep the base intact. But Xiao Yu still lacked some confidence.

Time was the ultimate judge of a program’s stability. Before this, no matter how many simulation drills had been conducted, the results were not one hundred percent. After all, it had been a long one hundred thousand years. Xiao Yu was not sure that the program he left behind could keep running smoothly up to now.

Opening the base’s gate would reveal the result before Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu did not have the courage for it at this moment. This was not merely a base. In fact, even if all the bases on Titan were completely paralyzed, Xiao Yu could still rely on the one operational robot on the Hope spaceship to rebuild everything, only at the cost of much, much more time. The reason was not here. The true reason was that these bases held special symbolic meaning for Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu waited silently for the fuel collection team to appear. During this long wait, it began to rain on Titan once again. The sky seemed to turn into a gigantic showerhead, and endless methane raindrops poured down from the sky. Standing water began to appear on the ground, and some small rivers and small lakes quietly formed. Xiao Yu still did not move and continued waiting silently.

This rainfall lasted three hours. After three hours, the rain stopped and the sky cleared. The brilliant Sun did not appear in the sky. Instead, Saturn’s dim yellow, enormous figure appeared. Everything presented before Xiao Yu revealed a strange alien atmosphere.

Heaven and earth were very quiet. There was no sound of wind, no sound of flowing water, no voices, no clamor, no sound at all. It was so quiet here that Xiao Yu almost thought it would be eternal. Yet five hours after the rain stopped, a faint sound was produced, and Xiao Yu noticed it.

Xiao Yu’s optical equipment saw the gate of Underground Base One slowly open. A slightly dim light appeared there, like the flashlights people used at night in the Earth era. Along with this light, three huge robots appeared, somewhat like water trucks.

These three robots somewhat clumsily left through the base gate and began moving forward. Xiao Yu knew they were going to the methane lake ahead to collect methane.

The three robots advanced quietly, but in Xiao Yu’s heart, a sudden impulse to be moved to tears surged up. This was the trace he had left behind. The program he wrote, even today after one hundred thousand years, was still governing the operation of this base. It had not disappointed him.

These three robots were clearly newly built. Xiao Yu had not yet linked to the base’s database, so he had no way to obtain relevant information about them. But presumably, it was the program he left behind that, after discovering that the previous fuel collection robots had malfunctioned or been completely damaged, built new fuel collection robots on its own.

This base had been operating, always operating according to Xiao Yu’s will. Even though Xiao Yu had left here for one hundred thousand years, it was still operating.

Xiao Yu controlled the Hope spaceship to slowly descend and block in front of the three fuel collection robots. Xiao Yu’s arrival immediately aroused the vigilance of these three robots. Xiao Yu saw that after one robot’s red probe scanned him for a moment, it suddenly raised something like an arm, and blazing flames sprayed out from it, spewing onto the Hope spaceship.

Xiao Yu knew this was because he had triggered the robots’ attack program. After discovering an unknown intelligent lifeform spaceship intrusion, these robots would use this method to attack and issue a warning to the base.

Xiao Yu knew what was happening inside the base, because all of this had been set by Xiao Yu himself. The facts were exactly as Xiao Yu had expected. A moment later, a rumbling tearing-through-the-air sound came, and more than ten huge Fengshen-1 helicopters flew over. At the same time, a radio signal was received by him.

“Outsider, please leave immediately. This is a military base of human civilization in the solar system. If you refuse to leave, we have the right to attack directly without warning.”

“Fengshen-1 helicopters…” Looking at the familiar figures circling in the sky, Xiao Yu felt deeply moved.

Xiao Yu paused for one minute. After that one minute, these Fengshen-1 helicopters brazenly launched an attack. But this level of attack could be directly ignored by the Hope spaceship. Xiao Yu detected a slight fluctuation from within the ground layer, so Xiao Yu knew that the hydrogen bomb missiles in the other bases were already ready to launch.

“Alright, stop messing around. It’s me. I’m back.” Xiao Yu used the radio frequency he had reserved and sent this segment of information to Base One.