Hu Yu immediately ordered the fleet to halt its advance and scan the nearby airspace, especially the direction from which the impact was coming. A few minutes later, Hu Yu smiled, Grim Slayer Fleet set sail again, heading towards a planetary system 400 billion kilometers away.
" Old Hu, are you going to do all of this?"
"Go and see for yourself, it'll be good to broaden your horizons. Everyone's been suffering for so many years, just treat it like watching a play."
Do you want to reminisce about what happened back then?
"Since we've met, it must be fate. You've collided with our warship, so we should at least demand an explanation. Come on, let's call Academician Zeng and the others along. Let's go take a look. They've had a long time to work, so consider it a break. Let's see what's going on with you, daring to attack our fleet."
"You're not here to seek validation because you can't defeat the Xuan Star Civilization, are you?"
"Sigh, am I that kind of person?"
" Chief of Staff Wen, just take a look, it's free. Are you in a hurry to go home and get a scolding? Haha."
" Academician Liu, this time I'm back, I'll show you what family status really means."
As they spoke, the fleet had already traversed a distance of 400 billion kilometers and arrived inside this planetary system, where an interstellar war was about to begin.
Hu Yu stopped 300 million kilometers away from them. In the starry sky, two fleets, one black and one white, were competing. Their warships were very fast, reaching 0.1 times the speed of light. The black warships were clearly at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, with only more than 50,000 ships, while the white warships had more than 100,000 ships.
They chased each other across the starry sky, launching various weapons in a lively display. Seeing this, Hu Yu recalled the war he had fought against the Sand Python Civilization; this scene was practically an enhanced version of the one he had witnessed. More than two thousand years had passed, Sand Python Civilization had been wiped off the map of the universe, but humanity had stubbornly survived.
" Old Hu, what kind of tactics are these? Half an hour has passed, and not a single ship has been hit. Is this some kind of exercise?"
"Unlike a drill, look at these weapons, they're real, real stuff. Given their current strength, they wouldn't be so extravagant. There's definitely something fishy going on here."
"General, I think they don't want to fight at all. Just like Chief of Staff Wen said, both sides are putting on an act. Neither side wants to kill the other, but due to reasons from above, they have no choice but to fight. It's like two brothers in ancient times who joined different armies. Later, they happened to meet. The two armies clashed, and the two brothers were fighting fiercely, but in reality, they were chatting in private, asking each other how they were doing, whether they were eating well, and whether they were dressed warmly," said Academician Zeng's holographic projection.
"That makes sense. Look at this black ship. The white ship stopped in front of it for at least five seconds without making a sound. As soon as the white ship left, it immediately launched a missile that grazed past the white ship. And these two ships almost collided, but nothing happened. They just turned around and left. This is... even when acting, you should at least have some professional ethics, okay? At least learn from that ship in front and launch a missile to make it look like it's a performance," Wen Zhonghua said.
"Since they don't want to fight, let's go help them. Good deeds are rewarded. I want to test if this saying works in space. The other warships will stay where they are; we'll just send one ship over."
A few seconds later, a giant warship over 5 kilometers long suddenly appeared in the middle of the battlefield. Compared to the Grim Slayer that were only a few hundred meters long, they looked like toys. Upon noticing the appearance of this unfamiliar warship, both sides immediately stopped fighting.
The computer is already analyzing the information gathered from the battlefield and cracking their communication system. Except for Number One Planet, all the other planets in this planetary system have atmospheres, indicating that they are very likely to use sound to communicate. In the universe, almost any civilization that has developed on a planet with an atmosphere will choose sound as its primary means of communication. Going to the long way around would not be in line with the normal laws of biological development. It will take some time to collect enough information to crack the system. The more information collected, the faster the computer can crack it.
However, the scene was completely silent, and the information gathered was very limited. At this moment, Hu Yu saw a mechanical device that looked like a satellite next to the Grim Slayer and prepared to grab it for analysis, hoping to establish a communication mechanism as soon as possible.
The hatch opened, and a robot prepared to fly out. Suddenly, both the black and white ships on the open side of the warship's cargo hold launched an attack, unleashing hundreds of thousands of shells straight at the Grim Slayer. The nearest warship to the Grim Slayer was only a little over a hundred kilometers away, and the high-speed missiles reached their targets in an instant—a time that even the Grim Slayer couldn't react to.
These bombs exploded on the surface of the Grim Slayer, but they did not cause any damage to the Grim Slayer. This was even without the Grim Slayer activating its defense system. If the defense system had been activated, these bombs from Stellar-Level Civilization would not have been able to touch the Grim Slayer at all.
"They don't know what's good for them, Old Hu. Let's teach them a lesson."
"Wait, there's no rush."
After their attack proved ineffective, the warships in the air began to slowly retreat, but they did not flee. Hu Yu knew that their home planet lay behind these warships, and even if they couldn't win, they couldn't abandon their home planet.
"I understand, General. Look, what do our hatches look like?"
"What does the hatch look like? Oh, I see. No wonder they attacked so rashly."
" Academician Zeng, Old Hu, what are you talking about?"
" Zhonghua, look at the hatches of our 'Grim Slayer' ships. Don't they resemble the cannon launchers of these warships?"
"Hey, it really is! Who designed this? Long, flat, or square would have been fine, why did they have to design it as round?"
"This, Chief of the General Staff, was orchestrated by my Grim Slayer."
"Ah, my apology, Academician Zeng, please don't take offense," Wen Zhonghua said with a low laugh.
"It's nothing. Actually, it was indeed our oversight. When we were designing it, we only considered the performance of the warship. Circular hatches offer the highest sturdiness, so our warships have always been designed with circular hatches. We didn't expect this to cause such a crisis."
"The computer has the results; we can communicate now."
This time, Hu Yu directly connected the signal to the command ships of the Black and White ships. Invading the system of a Stellar-Level Civilization is an easy task for Advanced Star System-Level Civilization, unless it is a civilization like the Snow Star Civilization, whose brain is comparable to a computer, and therefore may not pay much attention to the development of computers. Hu Yu projected his image into the two warships and projected the images of the commanders of the two civilizations into the other warships, so that the three of them could communicate at the same time.