novelA Silver Warship
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Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In outer space.
Five Selain defense warships were distributed in a pentagon shape, protecting a large flagship nearly 10 kilometers in length. The flagship of the primary force was kept in the center of the pentagon.
A small tactical formation rushed towards the planet ahead.
The last outdated human warships and space fighter jets, which were constantly gathering in front of them, were like ants facing off against an elephant. They were disregarded by the Selains.
"It's almost over, " the Selain Commander muttered before sinking into deep thought. What should be done to kill all these ants?
What kind of method should be employed in this deathly pursuit—a method that was not only efficient but could kill every single one of them at the same time?
"It is not enough to rely on these six warships under my control. Considering that the insects will stop resisting soon, as well as the high economic value of this reconstructed world that is already teeming with life, the planet must not be destroyed. I can only use conventional weapons.
"In this kind of situation, in order to fulfill my mission of clearing out the planet quickly, I would need plenty of manpower."
Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked passed the planet to a point behind it."According to the plan, the sub-division fleet led by General Wandu should arrive soon, yes? If the effective strength of the fifty primary battleships was added to our forces to encircle and suppress the insects, the efficiency of our campaign would increase manifold, wouldn't it?"
"Haha! I've made huge sacrifices in this bloody battle here, yet Wandu would pick up a great bargain once he arrived. He'd take the credit for this victory. Had I known that things would turn out like this, I would have finished this battle without involving his auxiliary division."
Ah—he had originally wanted an added layer of insurance. He had planned to disrupt the order of the enemy's fleets and break up their forces to cause confusion before defeating them in one move.
However, no matter how many troops he sent, the other party remained unyielding. They tried their best to drag the primary force commanded by him down with them into a mutually destructive end. Because of this, he had lost 80% to 90% of his elite troops, including his strongest generals and trusted aides.
Considering the energy and time put into this battle, even if he did conquer this planet, the gain would not compensate for the loss.
"It will take at least 30 years to recover."
He sighed.
The heart of the Selain Commander ached.
Immediately, his gaze became hateful as he looked at the resistance forces of the humans in front of him. With a murderous expression, he said, "Destroy them all! Leave none alive!"
"Reporting to the Commander. We have suddenly lost contact with General Wandu's fleet. The quantum communicator has terminated the signal connection."
The liaison officer suddenly reported this news.
"What?"
The Selain Commander was stunned."Confirm it twice! Check if the communicator is faulty." He had a bad feeling about this. He was still able to contact them as per normal just two days ago. How could the connection suddenly be lost?
"There is no problem with the communicator, Commander! We just can't make any contact. There are only two possibilities in this situation. One, the communicator on General Wandu's side was damaged; two, the fleet led by General Wandu suddenly encountered danger, and..."
In general, the communicator was similar in construction to an aircraft's black box, and was the most secure and reliable equipment on the warship. The probability of it being destroyed was low.
However, if it was attacked, an alarm device would be activated, and it would send out a distress signal to convey the condition it was in.
But it was really difficult to judge what had happened in a situation where the signal was suddenly cut off. No accurate conclusions could be guessed at.
"Commander, if we were to assume the worst-case scenario, that means that the fleet under General Wandu may have met with a sudden attack, losing their combat power instantaneously. Or, they were destroyed by an enemy in the blink of an eye, and that's the reason that we could not contact them!" a staff analyst said."If this is the case, then those cunning humans have probably mastered some kind of weapon powerful enough to destroy the primary battleships. They may have set up another ambush to encircle us, which led to the destruction of General Wandu.
"If this is the case, perhaps we should not advance. We should be more cautious to avoid their traps."
The Selain commander looked at him and said with a blank expression, "So you mean that... we should give up on the attack, move to a safe zone, and wait for them to regroup and organize an effective resistance?"
His tone turned cold towards the end of his question.
After all, if they did not take down the opponent with one last spurt of energy now, it would mean that all their previous efforts were in vain!
Moreover, if those human beings had the ability to completely destroy fifty primary battleships in an instant, the main fleet under his command would not have been engaged in such an exhausting and tense battle.
He would never believe that those human hands had such a powerful ace up their sleeves.
"Keep going. Prepare a hundred nuclear bombs with a billionfold yield. If they present a strong resistance or are preparing to use other powerful killing techniques, destroy the planet immediately, without any concern!
"This time, you must be sure to crush their hopes!"
An unwavering determination could be heard in the icy voice of the Selain commander.
However!
The space in front of them started to ripple.
A streamlined battleship with a gleaming silver body appeared in the air not too far from them, like magic.
It was less than 10, 000 kilometers away.
Given the relative speeds of the two forces, they would meet in one hundred seconds.
The Selain Commander was taken aback.
Actually, it was not only the Selains who were taken aback.
The last of the motley human fleets were not too far from the silver battleship, either. They had also realized that a battleship about eight kilometers in length, with a similar look to a silver gun, had appeared in their vicinity.
The area where the strange warship emerged from was very eye-catching, as it resembled a large, pitch-black hole.
...
Walf planet.
In the military command hall.
Standing at the forefront and looking at the live video sent from the front line, Mu Yunhua was stunned. She lowered his head and moved her lips, whispering, "Gold, is... is this the battleship you sent to assist me?"
"Yes, " said a voice from the headset.
"Is there only one?"
"Well, one is enough."
"But there are still six Selain warships left. According to technical standards, five of them are A-class warships with protective shields. The flagship in the middle should also be an A-class. That's a total of six A-class warships, which are the most challenging obstacle." They were not the kind of B-class warships that could be defeated by suicide tactics.
"An A-Class? What a coincidence—my battleship is also an A-Class."
"That means that you have the same level of combat power, but you only have one warship, and the Selains have six. In terms of numbers, you are at a disadvantage."
"Quantity does not equal quality." Chen Jin shook his head."The technological progress of the Selains has slightly exceeded my expectations. They have already mastered the ultimate law of force and developed forcefield shields. In a few decades, they would have made breakthroughs in the technologies of forcefield space and gravity bombs. Then, they would have developed the full power of the Grand Unified Theory.
"But, what a pity, what a pity. The Selains are just getting started, and their progress is too slow. We, for comparison, have already completely mastered the Grand Unified Theory.
"Forcefield shields are not even worth mentioning. My civilization has completely mastered forcefield space and gravity bomb technologies. Just two hours ago, my Silver Gun Lord used several gravity bombs on the Selains' subdivision fleet. They've all been blown into pieces.
"As for the few flimsy A-class Selain warship left on your front, they can be easily taken care of with a few gravity torpedoes from my Silver Gun Lord, the pinnacle of the A-Class warships."
Chen Jin had started acting like a pretentious prick again; he couldn't help but brag shamelessly.
"Wait a second..." Mu Yunhua found a hint of an anomaly."Your warship took two hours to come from a place that is more than ten astronomical units away to the battlefield here. It flew at nearly the speed of light? And it suddenly appeared on the battlefield here without any sign of slowing down... How—how did you achieve this?"
Perhaps...
She had a flash of realization and could not help but blurt out, "Your civilization has mastered the technology of the super light speed engine?"
This was simply too amazing!
With the current level of human science and technology, super light speed technology was simply impossible; they dared not even imagine achieving such a feat. After all, it was an impossible dream.
"We have some experience."
Chen Jin did not hide anything: "The black void was created by the super light speed engine, allowing travel back and forth across space at hundred times of the speed of light. A journey across space that would have taken decades or centuries can be completed in just one year. Not only is it a necessity for home migration, but it can also be used for war or expansion. You should be able to imagine its function."
"Gold, your civilization is so advanced and powerful."
As a very highly experienced scientist, Mu Yunhua was so envious that she had little stars in her eyes. She even seemed ready to beg and demand such a technology. She wanted to ask if Gold could give her a copy of this technology, but her intelligence told her not to do it.
Could she get their precious and secret core technology simply with a few words of pleading?
Giving ten dollars and giving one million dollars were two totally different concepts.
Hence, she did not worry too much about what would happen next. With help from such a strong backer in the form of Gold and his warship, they won this daunting battle with no mishap, and she owed him a big favor once again.
Added to the previous large and small favors in the past, Mu Yunhua realized that it was pointless to think about how to repay him, because there was no way she could ever do so fully. It was like the saying, "when one shoulders too many debts, they cease to feel heavy". She had long given up thoughts on how to pay him back.
...
Cosmic space.
"What is that?"
Noticing the interstellar warship that had abruptly appeared in front of them, the Selain commander's mind went blank. He was thoroughly confused.
"Commander, what should I do?" asked the staff next to him.
"Attack, destroy it! Prepare the energy cannon! Take aim at the target ahead and attack!"
Multiple laser beams, some thick and some thin, shot out, and quickly arrived at the forefront of the mysterious silver battleship.
The ship did not evade them, and there was no sign of movement as it waited for the attack to arrive.
Subsequently.
Those laser beams of varying sizes seemed to have been absorbed even before they touched the silver battleship. The beams dissipated into invisible space.
They seemed to have been swallowed.
"The energy cannon attack is ineffective."
"This... How did this happen?"
"Could it be... a protective shield, that warship also has a protective shield, it's an advanced A-class warship!"
"How is this possible? We have to annihilate those human survivors. How can there be an A-class warship? It's impossible for them to produce such an advanced ship!"
All the staff members were shocked; they found this unbelievable.
The Selain Commander felt even more alarmed. He thought that this conquest had been filled with strange and incomprehensible incidents. It was very weird and abnormal.
"This is bad... The mysterious warship has attacked! It has fired several missiles!"
"Intercept them!"
"We used up our missiles and fighter jets a while ago; only the energy cannons can be used!"
"The energy cannon is a form of energy attack, and is reflected by the special coating on the surface of the incoming missile."
"Activate the protective shield and quickly dodge the attack."
But a scene that surprised all the Selains onboard followed. The few thick and solid incoming missiles did not bounce off the protective shield. Instead, they seemed to be based on an unknown principle that allowed them to eliminate the force field and drill into their warship.
Then...
Boom...
Bang!
The incoming missiles exploded at the same time.
Immediately, powerful gravitational waves akin to what is generated during the merging of black holes suddenly spread out from the core of the explosion points of the missiles. Waves of ripples even formed in the space around the explosions, expanding at the speed of light.
The ripples quickly smashed through the six Selain warships.
Different waves and ripples swept out in different directions and with different angles, frequencies, and amplitudes.
When they came into contact with a tangible material, they caused cracks and damage on its surface.
Even at the micro-level, one would find that atoms had been separated, molecular bonds broken, and the internal structures severely damaged.
If it was used on a living organism, cells, DNA and proteins with large molecular mass would be destroyed in an instant, reduced to a mess.
What was more, there were also gravitational waves that suddenly grew bigger or smaller. They acted on objects which had not been evenly deconstructed by pulling, compressing, and deforming them.
About ten seconds later.
The last six Selain primary battleships, like porcelain that had suddenly fallen to the ground, transformed into countless fragments. The amount of debris in space had just increased.
There was no time for any of the Selains on the battleship to even scream or to communicate any signal. They joyfully entered paradise without experiencing even half a second of pain.
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Walf planet.
Inside the military command hall.
There was absolute silence.
Everyone's mouths hung wide open with glassy eyes.
"This..."
Mu Yunhua's expression was similar. Although she was mentally prepared, she was still completely shocked by what had happened.
Gold, his more advanced civilization, strong and powerful technology, support that they could not afford to lose...
Thoughts of a weak and feeble nature flashed through her mind.
After a long time.
She recovered the mentality and thought process that an ordinary person should have, and abandoned those unrealistic thoughts in her heart.
Compared with the civilization that Gold came from, this little bit of power in her hands was like pennies given to a beggar. It was enough that the other party was willing to give her some charity because he felt sympathy. It would be ungrateful to expect more in her delusions.
"Too slow—you're still too slow, " Gold's voice said in the headset."If you were to continue to develop at this pace, even with my support and a few hundred years time, you would still have no chance of defeating the Selains.
"Fire the first attack. Try your best to get rid of the obstacle that the Selains represent in the shortest time.
"I will provide sufficient assistance, including a warship like the Silver Gun Lord. I can lend you a whole fleet.
"So... You can stop sowing the seeds of success by slogging your guts out over the years. Just follow me and work for me. Follow my plan, and expand your territory without any restraint."
What?
Mu Yunhua was stunned. She suspected that she was experiencing an auditory hallucination.
Cooperation, working for him, and expansion...
And, most critically, the Silver Gun King battleship? He would loan her a whole fleet of them?
Her mouth was dry. She could not help but purse her lips and ask, "Did.... did you say something? Can you say that again?"
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