Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 472: The Second Me

Right above the spot on this moon where this scientific interest group was standing, three fiery red meteors appeared. Those were the three Village-Class spaceships under Xiao Yu’s control. Because of their extreme speed, they rubbed and collided with the atmosphere, releasing an incredibly intense heat. In this process, a series of indescribable chemical reactions occurred, causing long fiery red tails to stream behind the three ships.

Because the three ships were so fast, their arrival disturbed all the air within this area. At the place where the students stood, inexplicable winds arose, even blowing the pebbles on the ground into the air. Sand and stones flew, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

The students cried out in panic and all crouched to take cover. One of the students began calling for support over the communication channel, “We are the scientific interest group from University Number Ninety One. We have encountered a dangerous situation on Moon Number Three. Requesting support, requesting support!”

At this moment, they actually forgot that the supreme existence of the entire Divine Ark Civilization was speaking to them and instead began seeking aid from other forces. But one cannot blame them. They were only ordinary students. Xiao Yu directly speaking to them was too unbelievable, to the point that they subconsciously ignored it.

It was like in Earth’s era. If an ordinary person suddenly received a phone call from the head of state, they would probably think it was a joke.

“Calm down.” Xiao Yu softened his tone, made the three Village-Class spaceships slow down again, then continued, “You are not in danger. Now, you must follow my orders. Immediately put everything on the ground except your personal life-support devices, stand where you are, and do not move.”

“Ah… the Master, the Master is speaking to us.” One of the students suddenly seemed to remember something and shouted, “Master, save us.”

“With a mindset like this, it is really too poor.” Xiao Yu thought somewhat helplessly.

By this time, because the speed of the three Village-Class ships had been reduced to a certain level, the strong wind they brought had already stopped. This region returned to calm. On the ground, the few students, still shaken, huddled together, their faces full of fear as they looked up at the sky.

“Uh… Master, wh-what did you say?” one of the students stammered.Xiao Yu repeated the order once more.

“O-okay…” The students answered nervously and began throwing things onto the ground.

During this brief delay, the three Village-Class ships had already descended to the ground with a tremendous roar. The hatches opened, and more than one hundred tall, obviously war-born armed robots filed out. These robots quickly reached the students’ surroundings and encircled them.

With three Village-Class ships circling in the sky and the ground lined with armed robots with guns, such a scene was likely something these students had never seen in their lives. Their movements became even more hurried. With their somewhat trembling hands, all sorts of items were thrown to the ground.

Xiao Yu had been keeping a close watch on the student who had put the black stone into his backpack. Now that Xiao Yu had fully brought the situation under control, he finally let out a slight breath of relief.

“This thing is truly too strange. It must not be touched by any intelligent being, to avoid unforeseen trouble. I must obtain it, keep it properly, and use my current technology to find the secret contained within. Perhaps through this black stone I can find a clue about the events behind all this.”

Xiao Yu’s journey through the cosmos had been opened by such a black stone. Naturally, Xiao Yu was led to think of certain things. He wanted to know what relationship Earth’s destruction had with this stone.

Xiao Yu also thought of many, many other things.

Almost instinctively, Xiao Yu believed that his existence ought to be unique. At the very least, after roaming the Milky Way for so long, he had never encountered an existence with the same state of being as himself.

In Xiao Yu’s deductions, his own form of existence was the most suitable for survival in the universe. Intelligent beings with bodies, because of the limitations of physical resources and energy, could not, like him, single-handedly drive the progress of an entire civilization, nor could they, like him, possess a near-infinite capacity for recovery. As long as there were sufficient raw materials and time, no matter how enormous the fleet, Xiao Yu could build it.

In the war with the Molian Civilization, Xiao Yu proved his advantage. So what if it was an old Level 5 Civilization with a heritage of tens of thousands of years? Did it not still suffer a crushing defeat at his hands, with even its capital planet conquered by him and the capital star system’s primary star detonated by him?

Infinite lifespan, infinite energy, infinite computational power, so many abilities concentrated in Xiao Yu alone. Xiao Yu almost subconsciously believed that he was unique.

But the appearance of this black stone shattered this understanding. It must be known that Xiao Yu had originally been an ordinary intelligent being, who would tire, who would feel sleepy, who would starve to death without food, who would die of thirst without water. It was precisely because of such a black stone that Xiao Yu became what he was today.

If such black stones were not limited to a single one but were many, did that not mean that in this universe, and even in this Milky Way, there were also many existences like himself? But why had he never encountered even one? Why had he never heard of such a thing in his experience?

Xiao Yu was very clear about his own capabilities. Reasonably speaking, an existence like himself, as long as he did not die prematurely, was almost destined to make a name resoundingly in the Milky Way and could not possibly remain obscure.

Or perhaps such things were indeed extremely rare, and he had simply been too lucky, which was why he had obtained two in a row?

Xiao Yu did not believe he would possess such good fortune.

There were layers of fog before him, and this black stone was very likely a crucial key. Such a thing had to be in Xiao Yu’s own hands.

Within this extremely short span of time, many thoughts flashed through Xiao Yu’s mind. He thought of many things.

The students were still throwing things off their bodies. What had happened today had already exceeded their imagination. As ordinary people, in real life, they had never experienced anything like this. They had temporarily lost their own thinking and became able only to obey orders. It seemed that even if Xiao Yu told them now to shut down their personal life-support devices, they would subconsciously comply.

The situation had already been brought under Xiao Yu’s control. While these students still did not know what this black stone meant or what major significance it represented, taking it away and then conducting his own research would have been a very fine thing. But just at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

Xiao Yu clearly saw that the student who had placed the black stone into his backpack had already moved his hand to the backpack strap. Xiao Yu knew that in the next moment, he would take the backpack off and throw it on the ground. However, at the instant this student’s fingers touched the backpack strap, his movement stopped.

Xiao Yu instantly became alert. Over a hundred combat robots had already prepared for battle, and the three Village-Class ships circling in the sky had opened their offensive weapons and aimed their gun barrels here. Not only here, but out in space and in this planet’s atmosphere, more ships were on their way. The nearest base had also dispatched a mechanized unit composed of five hundred combat robots, rapidly advancing toward this location.

The student still stood rigidly there. He maintained the posture of gripping the backpack strap with his fingers, motionless, like a statue. This state had already lasted for more than three seconds.

The other students were all busy with their own actions and had not noticed this student’s abnormality.

That student suddenly fell, collapsing straight onto the ground and kicking up a large cloud of dust. Xiao Yu’s heart tightened. He had several combat robots run over in a few steps, crouched and used the instruments carried on his body to check the student’s condition. Another robot very quickly yanked off the backpack on him, opened it, and searched for the black stone.

The moment Xiao Yu saw the detailed condition of the student clearly, he knew that the student had died, just like that, for no apparent reason and with no known cause. Nor did the strangeness end there. Another robot quickly found the black stone, and Xiao Yu’s heartstrings tightened once again.

That black stone, no, at this moment, it was no longer black. From it, that eerie radiance no longer appeared, and with the instruments carried by the robot, Xiao Yu could no longer detect those anomalous emissions. This stone now seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary stone.

But Xiao Yu knew that just a few minutes earlier, it had not been like this.

Xiao Yu looked at the student lying on the ground, already dead, then looked at the black stone, and his heart was gradually sinking.

Xiao Yu had a bad premonition. As if by intuition, he felt that something major was about to happen. This matter would certainly be extraordinarily unusual and would have a tremendously great impact on him.

“No way… could it be that a second me is about to appear?” Xiao Yu murmured, his heart surging and unsettled.