Li Yao's eyes suddenly glittered. He couldn't help but smile. "So, you are coveting the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships. To be honest, I was quite tempted when I heard 'Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships' for the first time. Those super arsenal warships that are highly automated and can even automatically collect debris in a battle to produce new spiritual puppets and drones are truly the best carriers for Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion. If the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships belong to us, we will be absolutely invincible!"
"To be honest, I don't really like those big, stupid, expensive, and difficult to maintain things. The same resources used to build the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships are enough to build a couple of powerful rapid response fleets, and the latter will definitely be multiple times more effective than the former in terms of application and combat efficiency!"
Boss Bai sniffed and said rather disdainfully, "Getting to the bottom of it, the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships are just a project that certain people of the four families are pushing forward to swindle funds, show off their strength, and intimidate the ordinary people and the bottom-level Immortal Cultivators. It is of much more political significance than military significance. With the development level of the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus right now, the Imperium is not ready to accept such highly automated 'future warships' at all.
"However, you are right about one thing. Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion have computational logic that is entirely different from that of ordinary human beings. They can exploit the potentials of the crystal processors and utilize the Spiritual Nexus to 100%. If they are in control of the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships, they will definitely be much more powerful than if they are in the hands of the idiots of the four families!"
"Then —"
Li Yao held back his excitement and asked, "Can Xiaoming and Wenwen hack the 'Flying Lightning Command Chain' and then sneak into the mainframe crystal processors of the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships and take them over?"
"Not yet. It's too difficult, Dad!"
Xiaoming and Wenwen's voices came from outside of the main picture. Then, the cute faces of the two little fellows were displayed on the two light beams nearby. Xiaoming pouted and said, "Although we are information lives and can roam freely on the Spiritual Nexus, our interference in the virtual world has limits, too. We have to abide by the law of conservation of energy and balance of matter! Leaving everything else aside, the mainframe crystal processors of the sixteen Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships are each as large as a skyscraper. How can our tiny brains compete with them? "
"That's right. Also, the four families have set up different protection measures on their Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships, which means that we have to break four different firewalls in order to control the sixteen warships. It's — it's really difficult!"
Wenwen also said in a low voice, "It's as difficult as blowing up a planet with one punch, Dad. Dad is a material life, and the planet is an objective existence in the material world. However, you still can't change matter freely without enough energy and the methods to make use of energy, can you?"
Li Yao immediately understood after hearing the explanation of the two little guys.
"Therefore, we need other people's help to create the best opportunity."
Xiaoming and Wenwen said at the same time, "For example, we can capture Yun Xuefeng's flagship, which has the highest command permissions, so that we can completely understand the command hierarchy and the way of transmission of orders in the 'Flying Lightning Command Chain' system. Then, we can increase our computational ability through the mainframe crystal processors on Yun Xuefeng's flagship and try to connect to the mainframe crystal processors of more starships on the battlefield. With the computational ability of ten thousand, fifty thousand, or even a hundred thousand mainframe crystal processors, the odds of success will be significantly higher if we launch an 'invasion' on the other Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships with such an 'army'!"
"According to the morale and the internal conflicts on the four families' coalition fleet that I have observed over the past few days, as long as the four Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships under Yun Xuefeng's control are blown up, and even Yun Xuefeng himself is captured, the seemingly overwhelming, magnificent 'coalition army of a million' will collapse."
Boss Bai said, "In the meantime, if we can blow up or subdue seven to eight Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships, both the troops of the warlords and the middle-level and low-level Immortal Cultivators within the four families will defect without any hesitation!
"I believe that the battlefield will be extremely chaotic by then. All the starships will be running around randomly like headless flies. Whoever maintains the formation, maintains the organization, and is the first to recover and expand their command chain and incorporate more and more starships into their command system will be the biggest winner!"
Li Yao smiled. "It will certainly be us!"
"I hope so."
Boss Bai said, "At the very least, everything has been going very well so far. I don't see any force that can stop us."
Li Yao was slightly stunned. Tilting his head and thinking for a long time, he asked, "Have you received the latest news from the capital from the four families? Over the past two months, we have been developing actively at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium, but Blackstar the Great has been too peaceful."
"No. Wuying Qi must've been busy digesting and absorbing the resources in the entire capital. After all, it was the heart of the Imperium in the past. The complicated forces and the astronomical resources can't be integrated in a couple of months."
Boss Bai said, "Besides, even if Wuying Qi wants to achieve something, he lacks enough strength and space. The Eight Adamantine Warships are definitely not the best fleets of the four families. Why are they only sent for the battle of Seven Seas? It's because those super fleets are all keeping an eye on the capital!
"However, the reformists also have a very elite 'Thunder Fleet' that is deeply embedded in the heartland of the four families. Also, the stance of the expedition army in the newly-recovered area is ambiguous, and they are even showing signs of taking Lei Chenghu's side. Unpredictable changes may be raised if any party advances recklessly. That's why the super fleets of the four families dare not act recklessly.
"All in all, Wuying Qi has been completely locked up. Besides, he needs the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors to win the battle of Seven Seas. So, even if he knows everything that's going on here, how can he interfere?"
"For some reason, I'm still rather worried."
Tapping his knee softly, Li Yao said, deep in thought, "All in all, Xiaoming and Wenwen should spare part of their computational ability to cover the space gate that is about to be opened to you in the Seven Seas Space Zone. It will be best if you can pretend that you have invaded the space gate remotely and that nobody knows that you jumped over through the space gate!"
Brilliance flashed in Boss Bai's eyes. "Are you suggesting that you still do not want to expose our relationship with you?"
"Exactly. Ever since I confessed my identity as the 'Black Wind King', a lot of things about me have been put on the table. Blackstar the Great will learn them sooner or later."
Li Yao said, "You, on the other hand, are my last trump cards. He shouldn't be aware that the 'National Protection Army' is the 'Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs', much less the relationship between the fleet and me.
"The later the trump card is revealed, the better. It will be perfect if the four families still think that you are the loyal 'National Protection Army' when the battle reaches the last moment."
"You are giving me a difficult problem."
Boss Bai chuckled creepily. "However, it's very interesting and worth a challenge!"
"Then, let's begin. I'll send the coordinates and navigation parameters of the space gate to your flagship later and turn off the defense system on this side of the space gate. Xiaoming and Wenwen will take over the space gate remotely in case Jin Yuyan's men play any tricks again."
Li Yao smiled too. "I can't wait to see your 'marvelous performance' again, Boss Bai!"
The two of them ended the call in hideous grins and evil laughter.
When Li Yao turned around, he discovered that Li Jialing was looking at him in confusion.
"Do the Cultivators all laugh like … 'hehehe, hehehe'?"
Li Jialing asked solemnly.
Li Yao blinked quickly, lost for words.
"Forget it. It suddenly occurs to me that Cultivators like you, Brother Yao, while their laughter is rather unpleasant, but …"
Li Jialing smiled too. "I still hope that there are as many people like you in the universe as possible!"
…
There were ten hours to go before the final battle.
The Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors had grasped the precise time of the battle through various channels too. They knew that the entire Seven Seas Space Zone would turn into an ocean of destruction that was even hotter than magma in only half a day.
However, it did not extinguish the fighting will of all the warriors of the Business Alliance and the reformists. Instead, their morale soared to the maximum.
Billions of space torpedoes had been spread out overwhelmingly, filling every sailing route and even every space in the Seven Seas Space Zone.
Those space torpedoes of the latest models boasted the feature of automatically searching for the enemy and attaching them. They were particularly sensitive about space ripples.
It meant that when the million starships of the four families' coalition fleet jumped over, they might be hit by countless space torpedoes before they completely got rid of the four-dimensional twisted state.
If they were lucky, even dozens of relatively cheap space torpedoes would be enough to wipe out the most expensive main-force warship instantly and raise a destructive space tide. All the starships that jumped over would be stranded in the gap between the three-dimensional space and the four-dimensional space forever.
Other than the space torpedoes, the garrisons, mercenary groups, and the fleets of space pirates in the past were cruising at the edge of the Seven Seas Space Zone too. Their mission was to find the enemy's main-force warship that was left behind after the jump and annihilate the enemy before they regained their footing and formed an effective battle formation!
When the fleets of a hundred Sectors jumped at the same time, there was always a sequence of time. It was like an army of a million landing at the same time. The whole jump was estimated to last one to three days. As a result, the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors would have a chance to establish a local advantage in numbers!
Mercenaries, space pirates, and assassins naturally did not have the slightest loyalty, but the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors had generously offered countless free coins, bonds, and shares, building a glittering loyalty that was full of the smell of money by force.
Compared to the empty promises that the four families offered, the free coins were rather trustworthy. For the sake of money, everybody was willing to fight a life-and-death battle!
At the edge of the Seven Seas Space Zone, a sealed space gate that had not been activated for a long time gradually unfolded like a flower bud, sending out complicated information streams to the depths of the universe far away.
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