Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 795: I Do Not Want to Leave

Within the small universe, on a mountain peak on Mars in the Solar System, Xiao Yu’s projected image sat side by side with Zhang Shengya. The sky here was already dark. There was no moon, only a few faint, scattered stars.

There were not many stars in the small universe to begin with, and all of them were ordinary stars of relatively low mass, so there were not many bright stars at all. As a result, the night sky on Mars looked like this; the sight of a sky filled with countless stars could not be seen here.

Xiao Yu’s projection stood up and waved a hand toward the sky. At once, the sky, which had been like a lid covering the land, turned into a colossal movie screen, and light and shadow began to appear upon it. At first those light and shadow images were blurry, but after a short while they became clear.

It was a vast scene of interstellar war. Countless spaceships of various kinds were shuttling back and forth through space. All sorts of cannon fire flashed again and again. Warships kept exploding, flames kept flaring. No fewer than several hundred million warships were darting through the vast void. In one corner of this enormous war scene, a massive cloud of gas was gathered. A long, narrow black line passed through its center. After a moment, a compact stellar body only twenty kilometers in diameter, slowly rotating, escaped from this cloud of gas, and the black line vanished accordingly.

“This is the Sweepers Civilization, the lifelong enemy of the Taihao Civilization that once captured you.” Xiao Yu said slowly. “The Taihao Civilization is gone. In a sense, I inherited their will. The Sweepers Civilization will be buried by my own hand. This will be my final war in the Milky Way Galaxy. After I destroy the Sweepers Civilization, I will head for the Andromeda Galaxy.”

“Can you not go? Stay here with me. I don’t want you to leave.” This Earth girl slowly voiced her feelings in human language. “Fine, I admit it. All my talk of not wanting to drift, of being reluctant to leave my homeland, those are just excuses. I do not want you to go, because I can feel that once you leave the galaxy, I will lose you.”

Xiao Yu sat back down. He stroked this Earth girl’s hair with his hand and said softly, “Silly girl, your big brother will take care of you for a lifetime. You will never lose me.”

She rested her head gently against Xiao Yu’s projected shoulder and said in a low voice, “But you know very well that this is not the kind of having I want. I do not want you to be only my older brother. There is someone else in your heart. You insist on going to the Andromeda Galaxy because you want to look for her, right? Listen to me. Do not go looking for her. Stay and keep me company. I will do better than she does.”

Xiao Yu fell silent and said nothing. Zhang Shengya also fell silent. She turned her head slightly, staring absentmindedly at the sky. Up there, a colossal war was playing out.

The Neutron War Star had unleashed a Spatial Starburst attack more powerful than ever before. It detonated the space within a certain region, converting it all into energy and hurling it toward the Solar warship. At the same time, it used the resulting chaos to escape from the net of heaven and earth Xiao Yu had woven. The Solar still floated quietly in place, without making any move.The immense energy generated by the Spatial Starburst surged toward the Solar like a raging tide. The Solar swayed slightly. Faced with such a ferocious assault, even the Solar could not remain completely motionless.

The contest between the Solar and the Neutron War Star had only just begun.

The Neutron War Star was a problem for Xiao Yu. Zhang Shengya was also a problem in his heart. This intelligent Earth girl saw the situation with great clarity. So now, she was baring her thoughts and her feelings to Xiao Yu without the slightest reservation.

“The entire Milky Way Galaxy could be our paradise. With your strength, no power in the galaxy could threaten you. The mysteries within the Milky Way Galaxy are already more than enough for you to explore. We could go on adventures together in different stellar systems, observe supernovae and neutron stars, or go sight-seeing around black holes. I will be by your side. Is that not good?” Her voice, almost pleading, carried on.

In the sky above, in the vast war image, the Solar and the Neutron War Star once again became entangled. Now Xiao Yu too could detonate space. Do not forget, he already had one foot in the realm of a Level 7 Civilization. Under his command, dozens of planetary-class warships had taken up positions at several key points around the Neutron War Star, exerting various influences upon the space in which it resided. Immediately, that region of space began to vibrate with a strange frequency, growing more and more intense, more and more urgent. Finally, when a specially designed ultra high-energy particle was fired from the Solar and reached that region, it was as if the fuse of a bomb had been lit. The space there collapsed with a roar, all of it converting into energy.

The Neutron War Star briefly vanished for one second. Where it had disappeared, a vast cloud of gas appeared. After one second, the rapidly spinning Neutron War Star burst out of the cloud and re-entered normal space. Xiao Yu observed that in this recent attack, the Neutron War Star had lost at least as much mass as two Earths.

But the mass of two Earths was still insignificant for a neutron star.

The rapidly spinning Neutron War Star, beyond doubt, possessed even more terrifying destructive power. That power was displayed vividly upon a planetary-class warship. Even though it had been constructed using some Level 7 Civilization technologies, that planetary-class warship still failed to withstand the Neutron War Star’s savage impact.

The Neutron War Star bored through the warship from the bow and exited from the stern. A planetary-class warship hundreds of kilometers long was thus destroyed. After obliterating this warship, the Neutron War Star once again charged toward the Solar.

The Solar still did not dodge. The Solar was Xiao Yu’s most powerful warship, and he had that confidence.

The two warships slammed into each other once more. The Neutron War Star disappeared again, plunging into the Solar’s space distortion shield. Unlike last time, however, the Solar’s hull suddenly shuddered at the moment of impact, and the glow of its protective layers flickered sharply, as if it had taken some damage.

The Neutron War Star was once again transmitted out of the distorted space and into visible space. Waiting for it outside was yet another spatial fissure attack constructed with Level 7 Civilization technology. After temporarily confining it within this region, the two flanks of space immediately began moving in opposite directions, and another vast hydrogen cloud reappeared around the Neutron War Star.

Unlike the duel at the highest level of combat power, the conventional battlefield was showing a lopsided situation. Xiao Yu’s conventional technology was already far superior to that of the Sweepers Civilization. On the main battlefield, this manifested as a massive number of Sweepers Civilization warships being destroyed, while the Divine Ark Civilization’s fleet suffered no major losses.

Only a few minutes after the battle began, hundreds of thousands of Sweepers Civilization warships had already been destroyed. Xiao Yu had already shown his outstanding mobility, reaching warp speeds of one hundred eighty times the speed of light, surpassing the limit of a Level 6 Civilization. With such maneuverability, the Sweepers Civilization could not escape. From the moment Xiao Yu appeared, their only hope lay in relying on the Neutron War Star’s overwhelming combat strength to turn the tide.

Yet up to now, things did not look promising. Although the Neutron War Star held the advantage when facing the Solar, it still could not destroy the Solar in a short time.

The two warships, representing the peak combat strength of two civilizations, were still locked in battle. Up to this point, the Neutron War Star had lost at least as much mass as one Jupiter. But even that mass was not much for a neutron star. In contrast, the Solar was now showing many obvious signs of damage. It was, after all, not the true flagship of a genuine Level 7 Civilization, and it could not gain the upper hand against the Neutron War Star.

Even so, Xiao Yu still did not withdraw the Solar, despite the fact that his true body was aboard it.

Dozens more planetary-class warships set out, once again taking up several key positions around the Neutron War Star. It was clearly a prelude to Xiao Yu launching another Spatial Starburst attack. The Neutron War Star seemed already accustomed to this sort of assault. Sacrificing less than an Earth’s worth of mass in exchange for destroying several planetary-class warships was a bargain, so it had no intention of fleeing. It planned to seize this opportunity to destroy a few more planetary-class warships.

But this time the attack seemed somewhat different. The Neutron War Star did not sense any of the strange vibrations that signaled the imminent destruction of space. Instead, it sensed that the toughness of the space around it was increasing.

Xiao Yu was stripping away the Neutron War Star’s ability to carry out curvature flight. In a region of space that was extremely tough, curvature flight could not be used. This was common knowledge. The Neutron War Star’s curvature flight capability was extremely powerful, and ordinary devices that enhanced spatial toughness could not affect it at all. But this time, the devices Xiao Yu had deployed were not ordinary ones; they had been constructed using partial Level 7 Civilization technologies.

“If you do not like running around, we can transform a planet and live on it. We could build a house at the foot of a great mountain. When we step out the door, we could see the sunrise and sunset, feel the cool mountain wind, and look out over the majestic scenery of the mountains. Perhaps small animals would come to our home and play with us…” The low murmur continued to pour into Xiao Yu’s mind.

At that moment, in the war image in the sky, the Solar launched its attack once more. After another fierce spatial fissure attack powered by Level 7 Civilization technology, the Neutron War Star suddenly seemed to lose consciousness, hanging blankly in the void, no longer making any move.