Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 796: Space Laboratory

From the very beginning of the war, Xiao Yu had been planning this, and with powerful execution he had been slowly yet firmly pushing this plan forward. The situation had always remained under his control. Xiao Yu was like a spider, patiently spinning ring after ring of web, wrapping the Neutron War Star, this mighty prey, layer by layer, until it could no longer move and could only quietly accept its final destruction.

Now, it was time to close the net.

Back in the Battle of the Galactic Center, the Guardian Civilization had prepared for a long time, and with the combined attacks of all the high-level civilizations present, they had temporarily stripped the Neutron War Star of its ability to move. Xiao Yu could not match the Guardian Civilization’s level of situational control, but he could reach the same goal through another method.

The Guardian Civilization and the Sweepers Civilization had fought for so long. Xiao Yu had all but wiped out the Guardian Civilization, and naturally had obtained a great deal of information about the Sweepers Civilization and about the Neutron War Star. On the basis of this data, coupled with Xiao Yu’s near Level 7 Civilization technology, he had finally found this method.

The Neutron War Star itself possessed extremely strong gravity. It was precisely because of this gravity that it could maintain an almost perfectly spherical shape. There were no such things as depressions or protrusions on the Neutron War Star. Any depression or protrusion would be instantly smoothed out by its powerful self-gravity. This implied constant mass flow. As long as the Neutron War Star kept losing mass, its matter would keep flowing. This flow was unstoppable. And the flow of matter meant that the internal stratified structure of the Neutron War Star was unstable, which would certainly have some impact on the instruments installed inside it.

That impact might not be enough to affect the Neutron War Star as a whole, but through precise calculation it could be used to inflict targeted damage on specific instruments. This was the real purpose behind Xiao Yu’s repeated attacks to make the Neutron War Star lose mass.

Now, Xiao Yu’s goal had been achieved. After reinforcing space and stripping away the Neutron War Star’s curvature flight capability, the final blow from the Solar had deprived it of its conventional flight capability as well.

Without curvature flight and without conventional flight, the Neutron War Star could no longer move at all.

At this point, Xiao Yu had two theoretically possible methods to destroy the Neutron War Star. The reason they were only ‘theoretical’ was that in reality they were almost impossible to carry out.

The first was to recreate the process of accelerating particles in the super particle accelerator, using high-energy particles whose energy level was high enough to react directly with space to strike the Neutron War Star. If there were not such intense radiation and magnetic fields around the Neutron War Star, Xiao Yu would have very gladly used this method to end its life.The second was to directly slice the Neutron War Star into the small universe and use entropy increase to destroy it. But this method had a fatal contradiction. If he did not use space reinforcement to strip away the Neutron War Star’s curvature flight capability, it would flee, preventing Xiao Yu from successfully cutting it out. This was the main universe after all, not as loose as the space of the small universe. Yet once he used reinforced space to deprive it of curvature flight, the space became so tough that Xiao Yu could not slice it out at all.

This was a contradiction that could not be resolved. Both methods were unworkable. However, with his nearly Level 7 Civilization technology, Xiao Yu had found a third option.

Once Xiao Yu had confined the Neutron War Star in the void, leaving it unable to move, his preparations began. A gigantic machine was moved out of the small universe by Xiao Yu. This device looked extremely strange. It had an appearance close to a perfect cube, each edge nearly one thousand kilometers long. It looked like a big, perfectly square box. It originally had six faces, but at this moment one of them had retracted, exposing the densely packed and complex machinery inside. There were countless circuits, countless indicator lights, and everything looked like a chaotic tangle.

It did not look like a weapon. Yet Xiao Yu intended to use it to finally bury the Neutron War Star.

Upon seeing this device appear, the Neutron War Star reacted with extremely violent movement. Xiao Yu was certain that at the Sweepers Civilization’s technological level, they could not possibly know what this device actually was. But that did not prevent them from making a judgment, after expending so much effort to completely strip away the Neutron War Star’s mobility and then producing such a strange giant box, the Sweepers Civilization could not be so foolish as to think Xiao Yu was playing house with them.

They might not know what it was, but it clearly looked formidable, and it definitely could not be anything good.

The Neutron War Star was struggling fiercely. At this moment, there were already over a hundred planetary-class warships standing guard around it, responsible for reinforcing space. Moreover, another Star-Class warship had joined their ranks. These warships were working together as if they were a team of precise hunters, trapping this ferocious beast, the Neutron War Star, in place.

These warships were responsible for stripping away the Neutron War Star’s curvature flight capability. If space could not be bent, curvature flight could not be performed. After a moment, the Neutron War Star abandoned this attempt. Xiao Yu knew that the Neutron War Star’s interior was certainly undergoing intense repair operations. This was evident from its constant slight trembling and the faint, slowly emerging rotation.

It seemed to be trying hard to spin, trying to move. Even if it only recovered conventional flight, Xiao Yu’s plan would fall apart at the last moment.

“When I woke up, the first person I saw was you. I am so glad that after I woke up this time, what greeted me was no longer the torment of nightmares, but the warm care of my kin. In the vast yet pitch-black dark jungle, I no longer felt alone or afraid, because you were by my side. You are very important to me, extremely important. I cannot lose you. To be with you, I am willing to pay any price. So please, stay with me, do not go looking for her, do not go looking for her, all right?”

On a mountain peak on Mars in the Solar System, Zhang Shengya was still murmuring her thoughts in a low voice. Beside her, Xiao Yu’s projected image was looking up at the vast war scene in the sky without saying a word.

In that enormous war scene in the sky, the Neutron War Star was now rotating again at an extremely slow speed. This meant that its propulsion system was recovering. The Neutron War Star was, after all, a creation of a Level 7 Civilization; it could not possibly lack self-repair systems. Of course, Xiao Yu had long since taken this into account.

At this moment the Solar, standing by at the side, launched its attack once more. A long black fissure lashed the Neutron War Star like a whip. The space had become too tough for Xiao Yu to slice out a section of the small universe, but that did not mean he could not create spatial fissures.

The two sides of the space once again began moving in opposite directions. And because the toughness of space had increased, the tearing force produced by the spatial motion had also increased accordingly. As a result, more hydrogen gas appeared around the Neutron War Star, once again shrouding it.

Almost instantly, the Neutron War Star lost its conventional flight capability once more. Its constant trembling and the slow rotation that had just begun disappeared again, and it once more became a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

The big square box continued to draw closer. It had not been built according to warship standards, nor could it be. Its maneuverability was very poor. It not only lacked curvature flight capability, its conventional propulsion was also poor. If its forward speed were too high, the huge inertia would tear it apart.

It was like an ancient tyrannosaurus, moving slowly yet with great determination. And one thing was clear, once it reached the Neutron War Star and finally engulfed it, the Neutron War Star’s end would arrive.

Watching death approach step by step must be an extremely unpleasant feeling. Otherwise, the Sweepers Civilization’s conventional warships would not be acting so frenzied. They were desperately, fearlessly trying to break through Xiao Yu’s lines to rescue the Neutron War Star, but the gap in conventional technology between the two sides was simply too great. Their sacrifices could not bring about the results they hoped for.

The big box kept closing in on the Neutron War Star. At its current speed, it would reach the Neutron War Star in thirty seconds.

“After you possess your own body, we can even have children of our own. With genetic modification technology, there will be no concerns about compatibility. We can remodel another planet and slowly grow a large population. You can be the emperor, I will be the empress, how about that? We can teach them technology so they can travel freely through the universe, carrying the name of our human civilization through the vast cosmos. All right, in fact none of that really matters. Only one thing matters. I want to be with you, to be with you forever.”

Xiao Yu gently straightened Zhang Shengya’s body, gazing into her eyes and speaking softly, “I am sorry, Aya, I cannot do that. There are still too many mysteries in the universe waiting for me to explore. The mysteries of Earth’s explosion and humanity’s extinction also need me to unravel them. If you are willing to come with me, I will take care of you all your life. If you are not willing to go, then… I am sorry, I cannot stay.”

Tears were already streaming uncontrollably from Zhang Shengya’s eyes. At that moment, in the immense war scene behind Xiao Yu, the big square box had completely enveloped the Neutron War Star.

This was the space laboratory, a space laboratory Xiao Yu had specially built for the Neutron War Star.