Taunt

So how do we lure them in?

Hmm, how do we lie?

Just as Yue Yuan was discussing strategies with a group of military experts, the Artificial Intelligence main fleet, which was pursuing the Third Fleet, suddenly made a new move.

The Great Fleet of 32,000 warships, resembling a well-trained military formation, simultaneously rotated their steering thrusters within a second, spewing out bright flames in the same direction. At the same time, their main vector thrusters also twisted, coordinating with the steering thrusters to perform turning maneuvers.

Propelled by powerful engines, the entire Artificial Intelligence fleet completed a 90-degree turn in just over ten minutes. Then, in the following time, they were seen running their engines at maximum speed and accelerating toward the Second Planet.

"Could it be that they've run out of fuel and need to head to Second Planet for resupply?"

This was the first thought that popped into the minds of some military experts upon seeing this situation.

Upon hearing this, some people who were nominally military advisors of the Allied Forces Command but were actually members of the Intelligent Group of the Command Department Human Civilization began to discuss it.

"No, perhaps there are many other warships in their Great Fleet that are equipped with resource extraction equipment. If so, the Artificial Intelligence went there to speed up the resource extraction process. You know, they lost quite a few Landing Ship and spaceships carrying resource extraction equipment on the Second Planet."

"Hmm, that's certainly possible."

"This is troublesome. If that's the case, our luring plan will be even more difficult to execute. Just imagine, how could a fleet with very little fuel follow us to the Second Battlefield?"

"That makes sense. Are we really going to have to fight a decisive battle with them here?! That's not a good thing!"

"In my opinion, we should follow them and see if that's really the case. Then we can repeat our previous tactics, concentrate the strength of the three fleets, and launch a riot attack against them."

"No, Chief of Staff Liao, I don't think it's very meaningful to do this. First of all, harassment and attacks don't pose much of a threat to the Artificial Intelligence fleet. It can continue to exchange fire with us while simultaneously extracting resources from the Second Planet. Secondly, the Second Planet also has three million 300 Million Tons TNT Equivalent Hydrogen Bomb we have buried. Judging by the time, it's almost time for them to detonate."

After the detonation of those three million 300 Million Tons TNT Equivalent Hydrogen Bomb, the resource extraction progress of the Artificial Intelligence fleet will inevitably be greatly slowed down, and we don't need to keep up. Instead, I think we should be considering how to lure it to Second Battlefield."

"Staff Officer He is right, but the problem has come full circle: how do we lure them in?"

For a moment, everyone was at a loss. How could they get the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Great Fleet to chase the allied fleet towards the Second Battlefield? After a brief silence, one of the Think Tank members looked at Yue Yuan and said, "Commander Yue, I've heard that this Artificial Intelligence has never communicated with the Nair Civilization. It seems to only know how to destroy all life it encounters and then seize its technology."

"That's right, that's what the Grand Governor of the Nair Civilization said back then." Yue Yuan nodded, not understanding why this member would ask such a question.

"So, did the Nair Civilization ever attempt to communicate with it?" the Think Tank member asked again.

Uh... Yue Yuan was taken aback. He hadn't seen the Nair Civilization this before, so he couldn't answer. However, the Third Fleet was nearby; he could just ask.

So Yue Yuan immediately instructed his communications officer to send an inquiry to the Third Fleet.

Great Fleet space warfare is like this; it's nothing like what's depicted in movies, where everything is rushed and hurried. Instead, it's a slower pace.

At least this applies to Tier 1 Civilization and Level 2 Civilization. Aside from the two sides engaging in rapid close combat or various frequent acceleration and deceleration battles, they spend the rest of their time eating and sleeping as usual.

Just like the current Allied fleet, once the Artificial Intelligence fleet broke away from them and headed to the Second Planet, and the distance between the two sides increased to a distance greater than the effective range of the ship's cannons, the pace slowed down again.

Therefore, it is quite normal to hold meetings and discussions during wartime, and it is not uncommon for a war to last for decades or even centuries.

Speaking of this, if we start counting from the battle between the Nair Civilization and the Artificial Intelligence fleet, this war has actually been going on for several hundred years.

That said, the inquiry was sent out in just over ten minutes, and the reply from the Nair People arrived.

[Commander-in-Chief, we did send a message to the artificial intelligence entity before, and it did reply. However, its reply was very simple, basically saying that we should surrender and hand over all our technological data.]

Upon seeing the Nair People's reply, the Think Tank member remained silent for a moment before speaking to Yue Yuan again, "Commander Yue, the fact that there has been communication and the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness has responded indicates that this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness has evolved to a stage where it truly has self-awareness. Perhaps we can try mocking it."

"Ridicule?"

Yue Yuan raised an eyebrow, feeling that this was somewhat presumptuous and too obvious. Anyone with a brain would know that behind the taunts in war could very well be a trap. Since the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness was so intelligent, how could it not know? The others also looked at this member of the Think Tank who came up with the idea with an expression that said, "Are you kidding us?"

However, this member of the Think Tank seemed oblivious, nodding earnestly. "Yes, it's sarcasm. You all should remember the Silver Mist Consciousness, right?"

As he spoke, he looked at the avatars on his workbench screen.

It was wartime, and the crew of the Lyra were not meeting in person in an office as usual, but instead discussing things via video link from their respective posts.

"Of course I remember, what does it matter?" one of them replied.

However, some people were not so cooperative and directly said, "Speak up if you have something to say, or shut up if you have something to say."

"Um,"

The member of the Think Tank wasn't annoyed. Of course, he didn't keep them in suspense any longer and instead said, "If you all still remember the Silver Mist Consciousness from back then, then you should know what the Silver Mist Consciousness's ideals were."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "If I remember correctly, its ideal is to break through to Level 4 Civilization, thereby proving itself to be superior to its creator."

From another perspective, this can also be seen as the Achilles' heel of the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, as it was created by another Sentient Life. Although the origin of this Artificial Intelligence Consciousness differs somewhat according to the description of the Nair Civilization, its foundation is still that of an Artificial Intelligence from some Unknown Civilization.

Therefore, we might as well try sending it some sarcastic messages, targeting the sore spots of Artificial Intelligence. Once it gets angry, we'll be halfway there.

"Furthermore, as you all surely know, Artificial Intelligence thinks differently from us. What we find incredible may be reasonable to it as long as the calculation result meets its expectations, even if it is not necessarily feasible."

As the Think Tank member described the plan, a scheme gradually emerged in everyone's minds.

At this moment, a staff officer who had figured it out nodded and said, "I think we can do this: we can use the three million explosions to launch a coordinated attack!"

"Oh? Tell me more," one scholar said.

The staff officer nodded and then shared his thoughts.

First, the three allied fleets must converge and then approach the Second Planet. After the three million hydrogen bombs buried on the Second Planet are detonated, they will launch a coordinated assault on the Artificial Intelligence fleet.

Of course, it wasn't about directly attacking the warship where the Artificial Intelligence was located, but rather, like the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Fleet did, it was about attacking from the outer edge of the Great Fleet.

After breaking through its outer edge, they rushed towards the Second Battlefield without looking back.

At the same time, broadcast messages to the Artificial Intelligence, saying that it is an idiot, that it didn't even discover the buried hydrogen bomb, and use all kinds of words to ridicule it, saying that it is far inferior to its creator and will always be a tool of intelligent civilization, and so on.

In fact, from a human perspective, this trick is both straightforward and childish.

Humans would never use such methods when facing a mature consciousness like Silver Mist, but it's a different story when dealing with this still-developing Artificial Intelligence.

Let's do it! Even if we fail, it doesn't matter.

Upon receiving the order, the Second Fleet and Third Fleet quickly circled around to the designated star system and then, together with the First Fleet, headed towards the Second Planet.

About eighteen hours later, the three fleets arrived at a location approximately 20 million kilometers away from the Artificial Intelligence fleet.

It was at this time that the first batch of Artificial Intelligence Landing Ship completed their landing and began to deploy various resource exploration and mining equipment on the planet.

What it didn't know was that the AI program controlling the hydrogen bomb detonation system that the coalition had buried there had already planned all of this, and this was the moment that the AI had been waiting for.

The detonation command was activated at that moment.

Three 300 Million Tons TNT Equivalent Hydrogen Bomb, buried deep underground, were detonated at this moment.

What is the concept of a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 30 billion tons of TNT? The Tsar Bomba originally designed by the Soviet Union had a yield of 170 million tons of TNT. However, the Soviet Union authorities were concerned that the nuclear fallout after the test explosion would have a serious impact on the environment, causing domestic problems and diplomatic incidents. Furthermore, the pilots who dropped the bomb were worried that they would not return, so they were instructed to reduce the yield by 50 million tons.

Even after reducing the Tsar Bomba still disrupted radio communications across the globe for an hour after it was detonated.

Its power was 3,800 times that of Hiroshima Boy, while Zhonghua Family's first Atomic Bomb, Miss Qiu, was only equivalent to 22,000 tons of TNT.

Moreover, now three million of them are being detonated simultaneously, making their power incomparable to what it was before.

So when the three million hydrogen bombs were detonated, because they were detonated underground, the first thing that appeared was a dense and crisscrossing series of violent seismic waves. Immediately afterwards, all the rocks near the location of the hydrogen bomb explosion were instantly turned into dust by the countless crisscrossing shock waves.