Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 735: Rebellion and No Rebellion

Xiao Yu had never fully trusted the Taihao Alliance and had constantly guarded against it, but no matter what he had not expected that the Taihao Alliance would bypass his defenses in this way and secretly stab him in the back.

In the very next instant after hearing that cry of surprise from Alien Beast Taihao, Xiao Yu completely understood the Taihao Alliance’s plan. Xiao Yu’s plan was to pilot the Micron corpse to ram the Neutron War Star, then at the instant before impact let the Specter companion escape. In this way, the Neutron War Star would be destroyed while the Specter companion was preserved.

The viciousness of the Taihao Alliance’s plan lay precisely here. Specter Taihao secretly tampered so that when the Specter companion entered to control the Micron corpse this time, it would be unable to come out again. Then Xiao Yu could imagine that in the very instant before the Micron corpse and the Neutron War Star collided, the Specter companion would suddenly discover it could not get out. What a scene of utter despair that would be.

If the Taihao Alliance’s plan ultimately succeeded, then both the Sweepers Civilization and Xiao Yu would be destroyed together, while the Taihao Alliance would become the biggest winner.

This plan was too vicious, so vicious that Xiao Yu felt chilled to the core. So even if Specter Taihao did still have some value, Xiao Yu would not go to save it. Let it die. He even thought that if Technology Taihao were still alive, he would really like to ask it personally whether such a vicious plan had been devised by it.

This one plan was vicious enough to make Xiao Yu forget all the help and all the kindness the Taihao Alliance had shown him before.

But why had Specter Taihao’s plan not taken effect, and why had the Specter companion still escaped from the Micron corpse now. Xiao Yu quickly found the answer to this question as well.

“Xu Junpo, what exactly did you do in secret. What do these things actually mean. You had me transport one thousand stars. You developed Spatial Bombs midway, developed black lightning technology, and you also secretly tampered with the Micron corpse. It must be your actions that caused the Taihao Alliance’s plan to fail and allowed the Specter companion to escape successfully. But what do the other matters mean. What exactly do you intend to do.”

“Full retreat, retreat. Let us return to the small universe first. In the battle of offense and defense within the small universe, the Neutron War Star’s combat power will be somewhat weakened. Separate it from the main universe and use the entropy increase of the small universe to eliminate it. This is our only chance to win now, although this chance is still very slim.” Xiao Yu muttered, making the next arrangement. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The situation was indeed like this now. Rescuing the Micron corpse had become impossible, so it was better to simply give up. Under Xiao Yu’s order, the more than nine billion surviving warships all charged toward the small universe. Without the capital to confront the Neutron War Star, no amount of warships would matter.

The Micron corpse was dissolving very quickly. In only a few minutes, the entire Micron corpse, nearly as massive as a sun, disappeared just like that. It completely turned into that strange energy mist and then dispersed into the universe. Xiao Yu’s warships were retreating, yet the Neutron War Star was still rampaging among the fleet, slaughtering on a massive scale. Its efficiency at butchering ships was extremely high. Every minute, every second, tens of thousands of warships were destroyed.

Small ships were obstructing the Neutron War Star’s steps of slaughter at the cost of their own lives, winning a sliver of life for the large ships. But the effect was really not very good. During the retreat, two Star-Class warships were still destroyed.

Watching Xiao Yu’s fleet gradually receding, Specter Taihao let out a cry of despair. “So we schemed painstakingly for a million years, thinking it flawless, yet we did not know that the Sweepers Civilization had already seen through all of this and had prepared in advance a method to deal with the Micron corpse. We were all fooled. We were all fooled.”

“Divine Ark Civilization, I will wait for you in hell.”

After saying this, Specter Taihao fell silent. Xiao Yu knew it had died as well. Yet in Xiao Yu’s mind he did not focus on the fact that Specter Taihao had died, but instead thought of another matter.

What Technology Taihao had once told Xiao Yu regarding intelligent beings and the issue of Xu Junpo’s rebellion.

That ship claiming to come from the future had long been proven by Xiao Yu to be a trick played by Technology Taihao, but Xiao Yu had not expected that Technology Taihao’s lie would become reality at this moment. Xu Junpo had indeed rebelled against him, although this sort of rebellion, Xu Junpo himself likely would not know.

Xu Junpo had not rebelled, yet he had betrayed them.

“So that is how it is, so that is how it is.” Xiao Yu murmured. In this moment, Xiao Yu understood everything, understood it all. “I truly did not lose unjustly, not unjustly.”

Xiao Yu knew that Xu Junpo truly wanted to help him, which was why he did his utmost to help Xiao Yu improve technology. Indeed, Xiao Yu’s ability to obtain the Micron corpse depended entirely on Xu Junpo’s help. If not for his research results, if Xiao Yu had been unable to solve the problem of the Specter companion suffering life force damage when piloting the Micron corpse, then Xiao Yu might well have abandoned the Micron corpse and turned to seek other methods to confront the Sweepers Civilization.

But at the time neither Xiao Yu nor the Sweepers Civilization wanted Xiao Yu to give up the Micron corpse. In Xiao Yu’s view, the Micron corpse was the only way to confront the Neutron War Star. The reason the Sweepers Civilization did not wish Xiao Yu to abandon the Micron corpse was that the Sweepers Civilization had already prepared a method to counter the Micron corpse. If Xiao Yu gave up the Micron corpse and instead sought other methods, it might bring certain variables and lead to unexpected incidents.

“So every step I took was under the Sweepers Civilization’s control. It was the Sweepers Civilization that deliberately let me obtain the Micron corpse.” Xiao Yu figured out this logic.

It could be affirmed that Xu Junpo did not know this matter. At the time, he had entirely acted out of the desire to strengthen the Divine Ark Civilization, spending immense effort to solve the life force damage problem of the Specter companion piloting the Micron corpse, allowing Xiao Yu to master this great killing weapon smoothly. Yet precisely because of this, Xiao Yu fell into the Sweepers Civilization’s trap and began advancing along the path designed by the Sweepers Civilization. Xu Junpo’s actions were originally good, but because of the Sweepers Civilization’s scheme, they turned into something bad.

This scheme began several million years ago. It had already started when the Taihao Civilization remodeled Earth’s apes. The Sweepers Civilization schemed against the Taihao Alliance, schemed against the Guardian Civilization, and through Xu Junpo schemed against Xiao Yu. The Sweepers Civilization was the greatest conspirator in the entire Milky Way. It paid the smallest price yet reaped the greatest profit.

Having thought through all of this, Xiao Yu felt his entire spirit turn to ice.

But Xiao Yu then quickly thought of those follow-up arrangements that Xu Junpo and Luka Two had made.

“It can be confirmed that before Xu Junpo died, he already knew these things. Perhaps he chose suicide because he was caught between advance and retreat, and because he had led me onto the wrong path, as compensation he left these arrangements for me. Luka Two also participated in this plan. But what exactly are these arrangements for, and what can they be used to do…” Xiao Yu thought in utter confusion. He really could not find, among these actions, anything closely related to his current situation.

“Are they Spatial Bombs. Spatial Bombs are only a simplified and miniaturized version of Spatial Starburst. Spatial Starburst cannot even destroy my Star-Class warships, so how could it possibly confront the Neutron War Star. Is it black lightning. Black lightning can only be used to strike the Sweepers Civilization’s conventional fleet. One thousand stars. For a Level 6 civilization, what are one thousand stars worth.”

Xiao Yu’s fleet was in a great retreat, a great escape. It was obvious that the Neutron War Star had no intention of letting these fleets go. In this one hour alone, in total more than two hundred million ships had been rammed and destroyed by the Neutron War Star. After a period of rest, the Neutron War Star launched a Spatial Starburst attack again. A large number of medium and small ships were wiped out again. The follow-up Sweepers Civilization fleet also caught up. The spherical warships and the conventional warships all joined in the encirclement and suppression of Xiao Yu’s fleet. With the Neutron War Star present, they did not have to worry at all about Xiao Yu counterattacking. In fact, even if Xiao Yu counterattacked, it would have little effect.

Because Xiao Yu’s high-end combat power had no energy to join the battle, there was not even time to flee. Meanwhile, the Sweepers side’s spherical warships and Star-Class and Planet-Class ships could suppress Xiao Yu’s medium and small warships and then carry out mass slaughter.

A single Neutron War Star was enough to change the situation of the entire battlefield and decide the fate of tens of billions of warships.

Amid this path of slaughter and flight, Xiao Yu’s fleet fled to the front of the small universe. At this moment, Xiao Yu’s fleet had less than eight billion ships remaining. Two billion warships had been destroyed, with especially heavy losses among high-end combat power.

“Let us return to the small universe first.” Xiao Yu thought. After leaving several hundred million warships behind as a cannon-fodder rearguard, the remaining warships began to quickly slip into the small universe.

“Alien Beast Taihao, flee for your life on your own. Our Divine Ark Civilization’s territory will not be opened to you. From this moment, the alliance between our Divine Ark Civilization and your Taihao Alliance is completely dissolved. If you attempt to enter our Divine Ark Civilization’s small universe, I will regard it as an attack and launch a counterstrike against you.” Xiao Yu said.

Alien Beast Taihao let out a shriek, turned, and ran, yet in an instant it was surrounded by the Sweepers Civilization’s fleet.