"Then why did the Sky Peng Horizontal conceal its true strength?"
"One: to gather data on all aspects of our forces, including the number of special warships, their combat power, our conventional forces, and our mobilization speed.
"Two: to draw our attention and cover special operations by any other Pan-Universal Human Race civilization alliance warships that might be present.
"Three: to draw more of our forces into the fight, including, but not limited to, special warships sent to encircle it, then unleash an explosive burst of firepower to damage our special warship group.
"Four..."
"I propose activating a core AI task to analyze the threat posed by the Pan-Universal Human Race civilization alliance."
"Seconded."
"Seconded."
"I propose abandoning the Beta-013 star system, calling off the encirclement of the Sky Peng Horizontal, and disengaging to prevent further data loss."
"Your Excellency, we can't wait any longer.
If we do, forget drawing in a few more special warships.
We might lose even the ones already here!"
Shi Zunhou's eyes reddened with urgency.
He said "these few," but his eyes were fixed on the Tai Chi Yuan Crystal, a special warship!
Wang Dong furrowed his brows slightly.
There was no other reason. Though he'd been prepared for this, the Cybertronian Civilization had reacted far too quickly!
In just a few short hours, it had analyzed a great deal of crucial intelligence from the data gathered during its engagement with the Sky Peng Horizontal.
"Does the Cybertronian Civilization also possess some kind of artificial intelligence technology?
That 'core AI' they mentioned... bears watching."
Xu Zhenzhi mused.
"Your Excellency, we can close the net now.
Use 'War Shackles' together with 'Great Space Lock' to keep all four special warships here!
After all, based on the intelligence we've gathered so far,
the Cybertronian