"This time it's probably not going to work. Humanity has made great progress; they now have the ability to fight against the vortex. It's unknown how long it will take for them to run out of energy. It seems we have no choice but to enter the vortex and fight them."
"Entering the vortex? Once inside the vortex, space weapons and warp drive become unusable, while human energy spheres don't have this limitation. We're at a huge disadvantage."
"Our conventional engines are more powerful than theirs, giving us a significant advantage in space vortexes, allowing us to slowly wear them down."
"The commander is right. How can humanity compare to our Xuan Star Civilization?"
"Let them enter the vortex now; it'll save our follow-up fleet trouble and we won't waste time chasing them."
"Don't worry, they can't escape."
The 30 million Wind Master, carrying six planets, quickly entered the space vortex. The remaining 50 million Wind Master fought and retreated. When they entered the vortex, 45 million remained. The Xuan Star Civilization's combat power seemed to have increased slightly compared to when it attacked Luo Zhigao. However, it should have been an upgrade based on the original strength. Over the years, the fleets stationed in the Mu Star Civilization had not been mobilized, so there had been no changes in modernization.
3,500 years have passed since Hu Yu decided to keep the vortex. The number of warships in the territory of the Xuan Star Civilization has increased from the initial 500 million to 800 million. Adding the 200 million warships in the territory of the Mu Star Civilization, the Xuan Star Civilization now has 1 billion Small Star Region -level warships and another 2 billion Star System Level warships with unknown combat capabilities.
Currently, Hu Yu only has 300 million Grim Slayer, and has left 50 million to defend inhabited planets, leaving only 250 million ships capable of participating in combat. In normal space, it would be a pipe dream for these 200 million warships to devour 1 billion warships of the Xuan Star Civilization. However, in a spatial vortex, the situation is different. The Grim Slayer's conventional propulsion engines, powered by pure energy, already far surpass the power of the Xuan Star Civilization's warships. With the addition of energy spheres and antimatter, they definitely have the strength to fight back.
Even after acquiring the energy sphere, Hu Yu did not completely cease antimatter production. At the time, Hu Yu believed that these discarded items might come in handy someday. Sure enough, after confirming the feasibility of the space vortex, antimatter proved to be an excellent asset. Within the space vortex, physical attacks were far more effective than aimless spatial attacks, especially against low-level spatial attack methods like those of the Xuan Star Civilization.
If it were the Fish Horse Star Civilization, Hu Yu might not believe that the spatial vortex would cause them trouble. After all, Fish Horse Star had reached the pinnacle of Small Star Sector Civilization, and their spatial methods were definitely not as clumsy as those of the Xuan Star Civilization.
To perfectly execute the Trojan Horse Plan, Hu Yu had completely immersed himself in this war. There were 10 planets with androids, and 5 planets without androids but with active machinery. However, all the equipment and technology used to create the energy spheres had been destroyed when the Xuan Star Civilization's fleet was discovered. Although the remaining technology could also be destroyed, Hu Yu pretended that there wasn't enough time to destroy it in order to provide analysis for the Xuan Star Civilization, and that the planets were destroyed by the Xuan Star Civilization.
There were over 3 billion androids on the four destroyed planets. The radio waves controlling the androids were transmitted through a four-dimensional channel. Now that the four-dimensional channel is closed, the Xuan Star Civilization has no way of discovering the secret of the androids.
The spatial vortex is indeed amazing. The spatial flow velocity is different at every point here. If a warship from Stellar-Level Civilization were to break in, it would be torn to pieces by space without even a chance to fight back. A Star System Level warship can fight against the edge of the vortex. Although the engines of this group of Wind Master are not as powerful as those of the Grim Slayer, they are still much stronger than Luo Zhigao's fleet. The Wind Master can barely move freely in the spatial vortex, but their speed is almost incomparable to that in normal space.
For safety, the Wind Master went directly to a point 0.2 light-years from the edge of the vortex. Any attack by the Xuan Star Civilization here would depend on luck, and an incredibly lucky one at that, because the spatial flow velocity varies from point to point in the vortex. Unless it's a powerful warship, any bombs or similar objects would be like leaves falling into a rapid current, not to mention other spatial attack methods.
The outside world, as seen through the optical equipment of the Wind Master, appears like a funhouse mirror. Without computer reconstruction, it would be impossible to tell that the outside world is the fleet of the Xuan Star Civilization.
Warp drive is no longer viable. The Wind Master are orbiting the remaining six planets, whose surfaces have begun to deform and matter is separating. The androids have all retreated to underground cities deep within the planets, where they have not yet been affected.
It was clear that the planet could no longer escape the vortex. For the sake of realism, Hu Yu transferred all the androids into the Wind Master. Each warship had a small rescue pod inside, where humans could live and survive. This design was not only present in the Wind Master but also in the Grim Slayer. Although combat did not require humans, in case of special circumstances, the warships would also need to take on the important task of transferring and transporting humans. This design would never be abandoned.
Although the beings before him were artificial humans, devoid of emotion and thought, their actions controlled by computers, Hu Yu still couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt. Humanity had created them, only to destroy them, all to deceive the Xuan Star Civilization. If there were a second way, Hu Yu wouldn't have done it this way, but for the sake of the people, for the sake of all humanity, Hu Yu had no choice but to do it. Though it was somewhat cruel, Hu Yu accepted it.
Hu Yu turned off the view of the Wind Master's interior, clearing his mind of distractions and focusing entirely on the war.
" Old Hu, are you feeling down?"
What do you think?
"Yes, you can think of them as robots. That's how I convince myself. They're just a kind of biological robot, nothing special."
"Oh dear, what have we done!"
" Old Hu, you're always the one advising me, now it's my turn to advise you. Stop thinking about all this and that, think about our people, think about our scientists, think about our leader, and this little thing won't seem like a big deal."
"I don't really have anything I can't get over, just a slight sense of guilt. After all these years, what haven't we experienced? If we want to survive in the universe, some things are unavoidable."
"Hey, that's a good way of thinking. Actually, we just feel pity for creatures that look like us. If these androids weren't human-like, none of this would have happened."
"Yes, it is this sense of shared identity that unites us all to fight against this cruel universe, allowing us to survive to this day. Without this sense of shared identity, humanity would be a disorganized mess, long ago fed to the insects in the Solar System, and we wouldn't have so many troubles."
"Haha, yes, troublesome. I still hope there will always be trouble, troublesome until the day we rebuild the Solar System. When that day comes, I will definitely find a place nestled against the mountains and by the water, build a small wooden house, grow my own vegetables, cultivate my own fields, hunt in the mountains, fish in the water, work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Ah, just thinking about it is wonderful."