"Chieftain, even if they're at the bottom, they're still unshakeable. Even if we surpass them in technology in the future, I believe our warship production speed will never catch up with theirs. Besides, they're already at the mid-level of a Small Star Region Small Star Region, while we've only just reached the threshold. The difference in strength is too vast."
"General, I only want to rescue my people, not to defeat them. As far as I know, at least hundreds of millions of our people are still imprisoned by them. They have always wanted to uncover our secrets, which is why my people have survived until now."
"The number of the Far-Seers' warships, numbering in the hundreds of billions, is simply terrifying. We can't even reach a fraction of their numbers. Fighting them would be like moths to a flame. Chieftain, we simply cannot do it."
"General, please save my people," Ninety-Seven pleaded.
" Ninety-Seven, it's not that I'm unwilling, it's just that we can't do it. Even if we bring out all two hundred million warships, or build another two hundred billion warships, we still wouldn't be a match for the Far Watcher Civilization."
"General, let the clan chief explain the specifics of the Far Watcher Civilization, such as its weaknesses. Perhaps we can find a solution," Academician Zeng suggested.
"Alright, Chieftain, please speak."
"Thanks to the academician, general, Far Watcher Civilization its large number of warships. If they had continued to develop, their numbers would probably be more than a trillion. Fortunately, they are also fighting against the Insect Race, so the number of warships within their territory has remained at around a hundred billion."
"Sigh, this is already the number of warships of a Small Star Sector Intermediate Civilization. How many warships Fish Horse Star Civilization have? And how many warships must Great Star Region Civilization have? It's terrifying to even think about it," Wen Zhonghua sighed.
"Yes," the Tree Race chieftain continued, "Without a sufficient fleet, it's impossible to contend with the Insect Race. However, a normal Small Star Sector Intermediate Civilization wouldn't possess such a massive fleet. Too many fleets would overwhelm the civilization's resources, and maintenance and repairs would be a huge undertaking. Only Far Watcher Civilization could support such a large fleet."
"The main fleet of the Far Watcher Civilization has always been hiding in their territory. Although they haven't deciphered our internal space technology, they have learned our methods of cutting space. The Far Watcher Civilization's fleet is weak; their defensive capabilities are less than one-tenth of your warships. If it weren't for their sheer numbers, they would never have been able to dominate the region."
"Chieftain, are you saying that the Far Watcher Civilization is also hiding in the Sliced Space?"
"Yes, the coordinates are here." The clan chief quickly gave out the coordinates.
"It's here, we've been there! In our search for you, we identified three suspicious locations. This coordinate is one of them, another is the Carina Civilization, and the last one is your Tree Race Civilization. We never imagined that the one in the middle would be this Far Watcher Civilization."
" The Carina Civilization is quite decent; they are relatively neutral and upright, completely unlike the style of the Far Watcher Civilization. General, after seeing the strength of your armor, I felt that you might be able to break into the Far Watcher Civilization's territory and rescue our people. And when I learned that you haven't fully entered the Small Star Sector Civilization, my hopes were even greater."
"Why?"
"If you reach the Small Star Sector Civilization, your use of space attacks will definitely be detected by the Great Star Region Civilization, and they will certainly come to stop you from fighting. However, if you are not yet a Small Star Sector Civilization, and you attack a Small Star Sector Civilization civilization, the Great Star Region Civilization will not intervene."
How does the Great Star Region Civilization know what's happening in every place?
"The fourth dimension." The patriarch pointed to the sky. "After the war, the Great Star Region Civilization monitored the entire galactic space. Each civilization was responsible for a region. If any violent spatial fluctuations occurred in any area, the Great Star Region Civilization would definitely sense it from the fourth dimension."
"Chieftain, although our armor is formidable, we are still unable to break through the defenses of the Far Watcher Civilization. Moreover, we cannot use spatial attacks at the moment, making this war utterly unfeasible."
"General, if you help us rescue our people, I will tell you the method of spatial cutting!" The Tree Race Chief dropped a bombshell.
"This, Chieftain, we truly..."
"General, I think we can give it a try," Academician Li Youwei said from the side.
" Academician Li, do you have a solution?"
"I have a general idea, but it would be best if we could obtain a warship from the Far Watcher Civilization so we know the specific capabilities of their warships."
"We have the Far-Seers' warships. I originally intended to wait until you defeated the Far-Seers to seize their technology, but I was stingy, General. Now you can take the Far-Seers ' warships for research. The organisms inside the warships are dead, but the warships are still in relatively good condition. Your technological capabilities should be able to repair them."
"Thank you, Chieftain. We need to dismantle and replicate the Far-Seers warship on the spot, and then analyze and study it within our territory. However, we cannot guarantee the outcome; we can only say there is hope," Academician Li said.
"It's good that there's hope, it's good that there's hope. Academicians, please proceed. The Far-Seers spaceship is inside another planet. I'll have my people bring it out to you immediately."
"Clan leader, are you planning to keep hiding like this forever?" Hu Yu asked.
"General, what else can we do if we don't hide? The Far Watcher Civilization has always been eyeing us covetously. We can only hide. If the Far Watcher Civilization were more advanced, they might have already found us."
"Chieftain, if the Insect Race breaches our defenses, I don't believe your concealment methods will be effective. Furthermore, you need to return to the greater universe periodically to reduce entropy; otherwise, you'll face heat death once the entropy reaches its limit."
"Yes, although we try our best to absorb energy and store it in our own body space, we still cannot avoid the increase in entropy. Every time we exchange space, we are careful to avoid being discovered by other civilizations, especially the Far Watcher Civilization. So we have now moved to the edge of the galaxy, far away from the gathering places of civilizations."
"Why doesn't the clan leader seize another opportunity to rise again, leading the Treant Civilization back to its peak, or even surpassing it, to become a formidable force in the galaxy?"
"General, it's not that we don't want to rise, it's that we dare not. You don't know, each elder of our kind is a powerful weapon. Once we emerge, it will be a feast for all civilizations. They will hunt down our people and obtain the enormous energy within our bodies. The energy required for our rise is also extremely vast. The growth of an elder requires the energy equivalent to the mass of an ordinary planet."
"It's not that many. One ordinary star is enough to support the growth of a million elders, and just ten thousand stars are enough to support the growth of a hundred billion elders."
"Ten thousand stars? That might not be much to a technological civilization like yours. If any other technological civilization could use stars on such a scale, other civilizations wouldn't dare to provoke us. But if it's discovered that the one using these stars isn't a technological civilization but our Treant Civilization, especially those civilizations that know our secrets, they will definitely try to deal with us."