Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 484: Fragments of Flesh and Blood

Between Xiao Yu and that brown dwarf lay a vast distance of ten light years, which meant that what Xiao Yu was seeing now was something that had occurred ten years earlier. Ten years ago, that brown dwarf had exploded, and its light had only now reached Xiao Yu’s eyes and been observed by him.

“Then let us go take a look.” Xiao Yu instantly made up his mind. In any case, what he was about to embark on was a long, aimless search. Making a stop here before setting out to investigate would not be a waste of time.

Thus, the fleet of as many as eleven million five hundred thousand warships, together with the massive dockyards fitted with curvature engines and twenty Continent-Class Home spaceships, all entered curvature flight and headed toward that brown dwarf at a speed of thirty five times lightspeed.

After only a few months, Xiao Yu’s fleet arrived here. At this moment, more than ten years had already passed since the explosion, but judging from the scene before him, Xiao Yu could still roughly reconstruct what had happened here.

To prevent danger, Xiao Yu kept the main force outside the star system and sent only some small ships carrying necessary instruments into the system.

What presented itself before Xiao Yu was a chaotic sight. The brown dwarf had completely vanished. In its place was a vast mass of interstellar dust. Within this interstellar dust, Xiao Yu detected faint traces of a special radiation. Xiao Yu had a deep understanding of this radiation. He knew that it is released only when certain extremely heavy elements naturally decay into lighter elements.

This was very interesting. As is well known, the heavier an element is, the rarer it is in the universe, because forming heavy elements requires stars of extremely great mass. Some elements can form only in violent events such as supernova explosions and neutron star collisions. This brown dwarf could not even undergo nuclear fusion, which is to say it could not form new elements. So where did such a large quantity of extremely heavy elements come from?

There was only one explanation. More than ten years ago, inside this brown dwarf, an event of sufficient violence occurred. It was precisely this event that led to the explosion of the brown dwarf and formed these anomalous extremely heavy elements.

“Was it formed by some natural cause whose mechanism I do not yet understand? Or was it caused by an artificial reason?” Xiao Yu pondered this question in silence, and his heart grew heavy.

“There are no traces of any other celestial bodies here. It is only a brown dwarf, a commonplace item, and it is truly unlikely for such a violent event to occur. If it was not formed by a natural cause, then there is a great possibility it was caused by an artificial one. What could the reason be? Mm, what is this?”While Xiao Yu was slowly thinking, something resembling a meteorite appeared before a small probe ship and was discovered by him. The small probe ship deftly captured this object and quickly returned, arriving at a Nation-Class spaceship. With the help of the complete set of instruments aboard the Nation-Class spaceship, Xiao Yu began analyzing this thing, attempting to understand the information contained within it.

The analysis results came out quickly. The results showed that this thing was definitely not naturally formed. It bore characteristics of a certain biological body, and seemed… seemed similar in organizational structure to that White Dwarf Alien Beast Xiao Yu had encountered in the Aquila Nebula.

“Is this the flesh and blood of yet another Level 6 Alien Beast? How did its flesh and blood appear here?” Xiao Yu thought in great astonishment. “Did it fight with some existence here? Mm, here is another piece.”

Xiao Yu’s probe ship discovered another such object. After analyzing it again, Xiao Yu found some differences between the two.

“Both of these objects have certain biological characteristics and share some similarities with the White Dwarf Alien Beast. Then can it be inferred that both objects are Alien Beast flesh and blood? But these two objects are not the same. They have great differences and cannot have fallen from the same biological body. Then… very well, I understand.”

Through analyzing these two pieces of flesh and blood, Xiao Yu arrived at a logical inference.

Namely, that more than ten years ago, around this brown dwarf, or within this brown dwarf, two powerful Alien Beasts of at least Level 6 strength engaged in a fierce battle. This battle caused the explosion of the brown dwarf and led to the formation of certain extremely heavy elements that can only form under extreme conditions. These scraps of flesh were what they accidentally shed during the fight.

All current clues supported Xiao Yu’s inference, and this inference could perfectly explain what Xiao Yu was now encountering. Thus Xiao Yu’s mood grew even heavier.

Right here, only ten light years from the place where he had been recuperating and gathering strength, such a fierce battle had taken place, yet he still knew nothing.

From the present basis of reasoning, Xiao Yu easily derived the following inferences.

“This location is simply too close to me, so this battle can basically be confirmed to be related to me. The greatest possibility is that one of the powerful Alien Beasts harbored some plot against me, and the other Alien Beast sought to stop it. Thus a battle occurred. But it is very strange. I do not know what connection this Alien Beast has with me. It has never appeared before me in past years, and after finishing its battle with the other Alien Beast, it left no message for me. Mm, this manner of acting fits the style of the Taihao Civilizations. But there is still one point that does not fit. I have seen a Taihao Civilization’s spaceship a few times, and it was clearly a Technological Civilization rather than an Alien Beast Civilization.”

“Perhaps this is another Alien Beast type Taihao.” Xiao Yu recalled having heard that three Taihao Civilizations existed in the Milky Way, and thus made this inference.

“This matter was very likely done by a Taihao Civilization. As for who the other existence was, I do not know. Presumably it should be one of the three great Alien Beast Civilizations.” Xiao Yu thought silently.

Xiao Yu had no way to be completely certain of his current inference. Aside from this inference, there were many other explanations for the present situation. For example, it might simply have been two powerful Alien Beasts who happened to meet here and then started fighting. After the battle ended, because both had suffered serious injuries, they hurried away to recuperate. The entire matter might well have had nothing to do with him at all. However, a basic principle of inference is to select, among many possibilities, the one with the greatest likelihood based on existing clues. Without a doubt, under the current circumstances, Xiao Yu’s inference had the highest probability.

“If my inference is correct up to this point, then next another inference can be extended. Since the Taihao, or this suspected Taihao, blocked another powerful Alien Beast from interfering with me, then if other civilizations, such as other Level 6 Civilizations, like the Guardians or the Sweepers Civilization, attempt to interfere with me, will they also step in to stop it, just as they stopped that powerful Alien Beast?”

Xiao Yu deemed this very likely.

“Things are growing ever more convoluted. I wonder whether this matter has anything to do with you, Xu Junpo?” Xiao Yu’s gaze once again fell upon that strange youth.

“These unbelievable incidents have appeared along with your birth. Perhaps there truly is some connection between you. If there is indeed a connection, then I cannot kill you. Only without interference from other civilizations can I calmly advance to a Level 6 Civilization, and maintaining the status quo aligns with my interests.”

Having thought all this through, Xiao Yu began to act.

Within this cloud of interstellar dust, there might be many more such Alien Beast flesh and blood fragments. These are valuable things, and Xiao Yu naturally could not let them slip by. Thus, a large number of probe ships entered the dust cloud, braving all kinds of deadly radiation to begin a collection operation.

These Alien Beast flesh fragments were scattered very widely and varied in size. The largest was like a small hill, the smallest only the size of a finger. What delighted Xiao Yu most was a long strip, roughly six meters in diameter and more than a thousand meters long, of Alien Beast flesh. That single piece weighed as much as three hundred thousand tons.

Regardless of whether the Alien Beast flesh found was large or small, as long as he discovered it, Xiao Yu collected it all without exception. After a collection effort that lasted three months, Xiao Yu actually gathered more than three million tons of Alien Beast flesh. So much Alien Beast flesh was already enough for Xiao Yu to build a smaller Province-Class spaceship. If he mixed in some other construction materials, it would not be impossible to build a Nation-Class spaceship based on these things. One must know, this was the flesh of Level 6 Alien Beasts, far superior in quality to the flesh of that Level 4 Alien Beast.

This counted as an unexpected gain.

After several inspections to confirm that nothing had been missed, Xiao Yu piloted his vast fleet away from here and once again set out on the long journey.

This time, the target Xiao Yu selected was a yellow dwarf of roughly 1.2 times the mass of the Sun ahead.

Indeed, Xiao Yu once again embarked on the quest to find life-bearing planets and traces of life. The last time, Xiao Yu had hoped to locate some lower-level civilizations to replenish his reserve of intelligent beings. Now, Xiao Yu intended to find at least a Level 5 Civilization and plunder their technology.

Although the goals of these two operations were different, the process was the same. Both were long journeys, searching slowly along the way.