Chapter 243 – Mechanical Power. It’s amazing, isn’t it?

The river of stars shone brightly, like a long, winding ribbon of light flowing through the silent, cold universe.

Take infinite beginnings.

Throughout the end of eternity.

Invisible leaps and tumbles of space, deep gravitational pulls, followed by extreme surges that slice through everything.

The stars, tipping over.

It was like a truly furious sea roaring, lifting up a monstrous wave made up of stars, drowning and sweeping the cluster of starships, destroying everything along the way.

The external armor was instantly torn off, and the engine unit exploded outright.

In less than a microsecond.

All of it.

All crumbled into twisted, mangled postures.

It was just like the Star Ocean Graveyard that Xu System had seen through Ailee’s perspective a long time ago.

Now, the Starfleet he had built had become a part of it.

The explosion was like a cosmic super-fireworks show, bursting with billions of light and rippling through multiple neighboring planetary systems, breaking up their internal objects and leaving them in a thousand pieces.

After a long time.

In the dense debris of starships, the Xu system’s figure re-coalesced.

At the first moment of resurrection, hands of Mech power surged, attracting debris from the surrounding starships and quickly molding them into the smallest of space refuge pods.

Avoid exposing your body to a vacuum.

Immediately afterward, hand rub the space oxygen equipment.

Carbon dioxide collection unit, hydrogen reaction unit, water electrolysis unit.

Combined into a simple electrolyte circulation system.

“Arms power, omnipotence,” Xu system issued a heartfelt sentiment.

After finishing his work, he finally had the time to observe the outside world, and his eyes could see endless fragments of starships through the observation holes left behind, sinking and colliding in the cold space.

Too disorganized a scene to judge the specifics.

But the Hsu system feels.

The fleet should be a total loss.

“Is that so? Everything is back to zero ……,” Xu system sighed softly.

The overly ambitious and over-range strikes still wiped out the fleet, even after dividing it into three segments beforehand.

Luckily, the Xu system took precautionary measures, sensing that something was wrong from the strange behavior of the insect race, and left some deeper backstops.

By virtue of their own special characteristics and the backhandedness they had laid out in advance.

It’s hard for something to happen to Airey.

It should now be following the quantum data, in a state of collection and generalization, and all Xu System had to do was wait for Ailee’s arrival.

Yes, just wait.

This is Airey’s brand of soft rice, eaten with confidence and comfort.

The starry sky in the outside world was still in a state of chaos, and Xu System looked at the colliding and flying pieces of starships without any fluctuation in his heart.

Productivity is something all too common for a wise-armed apocalypse.

Just for a while.

These damaged starships can then collect the relevant wreckage to produce newer and stronger models.

The only thing that had tangled and confused the Xu system was that mysterious and unpredictable strike from beyond the heavens.

“Why now? ……”

“It was expected, but why now, there’s nothing special about this point in time, I didn’t do anything, everything is the same as before.”

“What the hell is this ……”

The Xu system froze slightly, and the expression on his face lagged for a moment.

Time?

Time…

Time!

The way he acts, the technological development of the fleet, is no different than before.

It shows that the reason for the strike is not on this side.

Rather, it lies in the man behind the curtain.

“I should have thought of that, and beyond the development of civilization and the advancement of technology, there’s a really key element, and that’s time.”

“Man loathes rats and insects, and though he often controls them, he does not always attend to them.”

“Because people have more important things to do.”

“The rat and bug infestation is not the first thing that has to be dealt with.”

“In the same way, that existence that hides in the shadows and constantly destroys newborn civilizations can’t be keeping an eye on this starry sky at all times.”

The Xu system speaks to itself.

Sitting in a makeshift patchwork of seats.

The gods were solemn and kept thinking, and the more they felt that they were approaching the truth.

So much for a very reasonable explanation.

Why were those civilizations, destroyed so suddenly.

The lucky ones among them, such as Civilization 02, may have sensed in advance that something was wrong with the stars, but it was still hard to escape that fate.

When civilization can perceive that something is wrong, it possesses the qualification to enter the sight of the man behind the curtain.

“A red dot of light that can trigger a smart-arms rebellion.”

“Strong gravitational fields and kinetic strikes.”

“Suspected long-range strike from space collapse.”

“This battle, it’s a bit difficult to fight ah ……,” Xu system eyelids slightly jumped, good thing that after this wave of offense, the opponent did not have a second strike.

Overly stilted behavior that should be set up as an automated program.

When the time comes, detect and strike integration.

This is both good and bad news.

On the bright side, the Xu system didn’t have to worry about a big explosion in the sky before arriving at the next strike time.

On the bad side, it’s that every hit before finding a way to deal with it makes the Xu system die.

“Either evade, defend, or blow away the source of the attack.”

“Sitting around is not going to work.”

The Hsu system rose.

Through the observation port, he had seen the starship approaching.

Those were the backstops he’d left behind, large starships that existed independently of the three-segment fleet, alone on isolated planets.

Now maneuvered by Ailee, it came across the sea of stars to fetch him.

“Tom-Tom!!!”

“Tom-Tom!!!”

The macro-giant starship opened its energy shields and smashed its way through the space debris, rushing as fast as it could to the front of the Xu system’s refuge pods.

“Master, please don’t worry.”

“Ailee will keep you safe at all times.”

Ailee maneuvered the spare body and ran at full speed to the Xu system, pouncing on it in a swift motion.

A messy crawl check.

After confirming that the Xu system’s resurrected body was unharmed.

Only then did he return to his usual bland demeanor.

Xu Department wanted to say something, stop saying something, and then want to, his education really went wrong, right?

……

[You have suffered an unspecified blow that has decimated your fleet.]

[Loyal machine servant, you were relieved when the spare starship was maneuvered to your rescue at the first sign of trouble.]

[At the same time, you’re troubled]

[To this day, you still can’t get used to the enthusiastic scrutiny of your own mechanic’s servant.]

[Ailee asks you if she wants to flee further afield, and you decline the offer, leaving Ailee to lay out the recycling equipment to collect the destroyed starship clusters.]

[Waste reuse, material re-collection, restoration of the number of starships that once existed]

[Ailee, somewhat puzzled, expresses to you her apprehension that by remaining where she is, she will repeat a new blow.]

[You made your point to the mechanic]

[Speculating on the truth about Star Strike]

[It dawns on the machine servant that, after doing the math, she thinks your point is correct by a whopping 64.81 TP3T]

[For safety reasons, you were sent to a safer place by the machine servant, where she remotely operated her engineering intelligence to recycle and remodel the wreckage of the starship in space.]

Fifty-seventh year of the simulation, your 76th year, 55th year of Airey’s company.

Ailee has recovered all the shipwrecks, regrouped, and set sail once again with a smaller cluster of starships to carry you across the sea.