A factory of apocalypses!
Li Yao's words were like a deafening thunderbolt. Professor Mo Xuan and the Fire Ant were both rendered speechless for a long time.
However, the two of them were the best experts in computational ability and deduction after all. Now that Li Yao pointed it out, they soon realized what was going on.
"Fair enough …"
Professor Mo Xuan mumbled. "In a super long-distance expedition that crosses billions of lightyears, it is highly unwise to send an army or a powerful weapon over directly!
"The larger the army, the more resources it will consume on the way. Should there be any accidents, the losses will be greater, too.
"The strategic magical equipment that is as powerful as' apocalypses', on the other hand, will gradually decline in power or even collapse due to the radiation interference and the collision of the cosmic dust during the long flight in space. It is exactly the end of the road for them!"
"As for the accuracy, it is needless to say. Hitting the target after dozens of space jumps millions of lightyears away? That is almost a marvelous skill that is far beyond the civilization level of us and even the Pangu. It is absolutely impossible!
"Also, the larger the army and the more powerful the apocalyptic weapons will be, the more difficult it will be for them to 'break the void' and pass through the four-dimensional space will be. The unpredictable risks will be even higher!
"Time and space are the most solid 'city walls' in the universe. They can barely be climbed or even broken!"
"Therefore —"
The Fire Ant continued with a gloomy face. "Instead of teleporting an army or an apocalyptic weapon to the target that is going to be attacked, it is much better to teleport a 'factory' or a 'base' that can produce armies and strategic magical equipment!
"Such a 'base' does not need to be too large, and it does not need too many Immortal Cultivators. A couple of Immortal Cultivators who are in the hibernation state at most will be enough to supervise the situation at the critical moment.
"Even the Grand Illusionary Soldiers do not need to be brought too many. It will be fine as long as they can meet the basic safety and maintenance needs on the way.
"Most importantly of all, a mainframe crystal processor with a very high computational ability, a highly compatible metal smelting assembly line, and a production line for automatic magical equipment such as Grand Illusionary Soldiers and beast puppets must have been installed in the base!
"Chances are that countless designs of magical equipment are stored in the mainframe crystal processor. As long as there are enough resources, countless pieces of automatic magical equipment can be produced incessantly!
"Such bases are like dandelions that carry countless spores. They are extremely agile and light. After they are launched in a general direction, they will float in the sea of stars."
"When it reaches the vicinity of its destination, it does not examine or attack the destination directly. Instead, it searches for planets nearby that boast abundant spiritual energy and minerals first!
"Once they find one, they will land and release the few Grand Illusionary Soldiers and beast puppets inside the base. They will be asked to collect resources, expand the base, and replicate and proliferate. More advanced buildings will be built and more complicated Grand Illusionary Soldiers and beast puppets will be produced. Then, they will build more advanced buildings and automatic refining facilities and produce what they want in the end!
"It will probably be a magnificent array of star beacons!"
Li Yao's voice sounded as if it had been soaked in icy water. "It will be so large that it will be enough to guide the direction of the army of the Imperium of True Human Beings and allow them to jump over instantly!"
"It is also possible that it will be a piece of mysterious magical equipment that will be able to attack our planet directly. It will be the incessant 'minor apocalypses'!
"Or rather, the most violent approach will be to build an overwhelming ocean of Grand Illusionary Soldiers, which will be carried by some starships. Then, they will be able to drown us directly!
"After all, this place is not far away from the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector. Advanced starships will be enough to reach the destination!
"As for the 'model' that will be adopted, it will probably depend on the civilization level of the destination!
"If it is a powerful force that boasts an enormous army and a lot of experts in the Core Formation Stage and the Yuanying Stage, chances are that they will build star beacons and summon the army of the Imperium to attack.
"In the process, they will also build certain strategic magical equipment and harass the target force in the form of 'minor apocalypses' until the army of the Imperium arrives.
"If they discover that the local civilization level is not high, and there are no experts, maybe they will unleash an ocean of Grand Illusionary Soldiers and suppress the enemy directly!"
The antennae on Fire Ant's head and those around Professor Mo Xuan's body were obviously shivering.
"What a perfect mode of expansion!"
Fire Ant gnashed his teeth. "Those son of b * tches. What they are doing is even more sordid than throwing a 'minor apocalypse' at us directly!"
If a powerful minor apocalypse had been launched from the homeland of the Imperium of True Human Beings across mountains and rivers and the boundless sea of stars as the specialists of the three Sectors had predicted in the beginning, it would be possible to crack it as long as the attack methods and operation patterns of the apocalypse were analyzed.
Even if he couldn't crack it, the three Greater Worlds couldn't be completely destroyed by a minor heavenly tribulation.
However, in such a mode of expansion, once the army of the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium multiplied to a tipping point, it would certainly expand faster and faster. Chances were that more than ten different pieces of strategic magical equipment similar to 'minor apocalypses' would be produced on the spot!
"We should've seen it coming!"
Li Yao bashed his head hard, and his voice immediately turned hoarse. "Expansion in the boundless sea of stars requires a system that can automatically collect resources, reproduce, and control, upgrade, command, and fight. Otherwise, if we have to report everything to the mother planet billions of lightyears away and wait for the command and reinforcements from the mother planet, how can we expand at all?
"Fire Ant is quite right. Such a mode of expansion is indeed perfect and sordid!
"Think about it. 'Logically', the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector shouldn't have discovered the Kunlun warship hiding deep inside the crab nebula at all, right?
"Even if we had Senior Ba Yanzhi's Star Map of Kunlun, we wouldn't have been able to find this place without the guidance of the Star Prier's House!
"If it weren't for the coincidence that the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector had joined hands and shared resources and information, we would've been ignorant of everything that was happening here. Then, the base of the Imperium of True Human Beings would've been able to develop unhurriedly. It wouldn't have mattered if it had been developed for a couple of years. An unparalleled force would've definitely emerged in the future!
"At that time, when millions of Grand Illusionary Soldiers appeared outside of our atmosphere with dozens of 'minor apocalypses' and launched a thunderous attack, we would've been at a loss and dizzy. Never in our wildest dreams would we have thought that the 'alien invaders' had crawled out of our neighbor right next to us!"
Although he did not have a nervous system, Professor Mo Xuan still shuddered in coldness.
He looked at the Fire Ant. It was not until then that the two of them realized that the ceasefire between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector and the great alliance of the three Sectors were too timely!
If Li Yao had not stopped the war between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector, there wouldn't have been any victors at all!
It was hilarious that the 'patriots' such as Lu Zui had dreamed of enslaving the demons and sending them to the Flying Star Sector for mining. Before their 'great cause' could be unfolded, an overwhelming army of the Imperium would've shown up in a couple of years. The Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector would've all been cleaned up!
The Imperium of True Human Beings truly deserved to be the first superpower after the Star Ocean Imperium that had unified the center of the cosmos for a thousand years!
Although it was faced with the serious threat of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant, it was still not something that the Xing Yao Federation, a newborn calf that had not matured yet, could handle.
"It has to be stopped!"
Professor Mo Xuan declared resolutely. "Right now, it only has one 'base'. The efficiency of resource collection and construction is not very high. But look at the arc-shaped buildings that look like eggshells. They are obviously some sort of docks!
"It is trying to build more bases of a smaller scale inside and spread them to every corner of Kunlun!
"One begets two, two begets four, four begets eight. The efficiency of resource collection will be exponentially improved!"
"That's unbelievable!"
The Fire Ant secretly clicked his tongue. "As long as such a base is established, it will be able to spread out in the sea of stars like a virus. Won't it be invincible? If so, I really don't understand what the Holy League will be like. The Imperium has such a 'marvelous weapon' in the universe, yet it is still being beaten so badly? "
"Not necessarily. According to my observation, such an expansion model has fatal flaws, too. We can only say that we are unlucky!"
After the initial shock, Professor Mo Xuan calmed down and boosted his computational ability to the maximum. With a bitter smile, he said, "The collection and utilization of resources cannot be unrestricted!
"It's true that a lot of metal minerals are distributed on many planets. But it's one thing to dig out the mother lodes and refine them into magical equipment that can be used for battle. Such a process will consume a lot of materials and spiritual energy!
"Of all the materials, the most important one is water!
"According to the refining expertise of the Federation, one ton of 'Hundred Wave Gold', the most fundamental alloy in the production of composite armor, will consume 122 tons of water!
"Let's take the most common MP Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit as an example. During the refining process, the consumption of water alone is around thirty-five tons on average, not counting the other materials.
"Of course, the refining expertise of the Imperium of True Human Beings is certainly higher than that of the Xing Yao Federation, but how high can it be? Even if the consumption is reduced by half, a Grand Illusionary Soldier, beast puppets, or crystal suits will consume almost twenty tons of water during the production process!
"There are thousands of planets in the sea of stars. There is no shortage of metals, but they are mostly the raw minerals that are mixed with a lot of impurities and buried deep below the ground!
"To refine the raw minerals and transform them into alloys that can be used for refining, astronomical amounts of water, gas, and spiritual energy will be consumed!
"Water is a priceless treasure in the universe. Of a million planets, there might not be one with a natural atmosphere and water! It is the same with spiritual energy. Although the sea of stars is brimming with spiritual energy, it is the thinnest spiritual energy that can hardly be utilized effectively!
"Therefore, there are very few planets that can be developed and upgraded for such a 'base'. Even if one is found, the environment must be very harsh, and the development of the base will be very slow. Chances are that it will take a year and a half to establish a preliminary resource collection system, and it will take three to five years for the first Grand Illusionary Soldier to be produced!
"It is a pity that —"
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