Chapter 393: Three-Way Crossfire
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
When Li Wenyuan discovered the Silent in the cage galaxy, he was still a little surprised. He really did not expect to meet this civilization that had long left the Milky Way here.
Although he had only detected the use of the Silent’s Matter Separator at first, after listening for a period of time, he finally confirmed that it was indeed the Silent in this sealed galaxy and not other World Breakers.
In addition to the Silent, he also detected the existence of two other civilizations in this huge barred spiral galaxy.
One of the starfields that they were monitoring wasn’t very big. Compared to some interstellar s.p.a.ce empires, it was ridiculously small. It was located on one of the two spiral arms in this barred spiral galaxy.
However, this civilization’s encryption method was very good. Even he found it difficult to gain any benefits from it. It was probably the Hunter civilization that was trapped here.
The remaining civilizations other than the Silent and the Hunter occupied a ridiculously large starfield, as if they could hear the chaotic and huge number of signal sources from any direction.
Roughly estimating the size of this civilization, it might be tens of thousands of times larger than the ordinary civilizations in the Milky Way. The starfield it controlled might have already reached half of the entire cage galaxy, and the general location of this civilization was on the opposite arm of the Hunter.
Li Wenyuan guessed that this civilization might be the native civilization in this galaxy, or a collection of native civilizations. They had no choice but to retreat to the other end of the galaxy because of the threat of the Hunter.
This phenomenon was very similar to the spiral galaxy he was in. The two civilizations were very different and could be said to be irreconcilable.
However, what made him curious was that the Hunter didn’t destroy everything in this galaxy. He didn’t even clean up the natives in this galaxy.
Judging from the level of the signal source, the native civilization didn’t suffer any fatal damage and was still developing very prosperously. This didn’t seem to match the Hunter’s situation of destruction wherever they went.
He didn’t think that the obvious difference in astronomical positions was because the native civilization had become the Hunter’s servant. There must be something else that he didn’t know.
Therefore, after roughly figuring out the situation in the galaxy, Li Wenyuan did not rashly contact any of the civilizations. Instead, he continued to silently monitor everything in the galaxy. At the same time, he tried his best to decipher the encrypted signal of the Hunter and secretly obtain information.
He needed to confirm the Hunter’s strength and their goal, because the galaxy he was in was only eight million light-years away.
Back then, after the Hunter attacked the megacorp galaxy two million light-years away, his next target was not this nearby spiral galaxy, but the barred spiral galaxy that was now a cage. There was most likely a reason for this.
This might be related to the fact that they had been collecting huge amounts of energy in an attempt to ascend out of this universe.
It would be a lie to say that he wasn’t curious about what the Hunter had discovered. Even if he had to face him head-on in the end, he felt that he had an advantage in a situation where he was in the dark.
The reason why he didn’t choose to interact with the Silent was also very simple. They were a group of invaders from a higher dimension, a group that had no choice but to obey after being defeated by humans.
Although the situation was very similar to Presolin, Li Wenyuan had too little interaction with this group of the Silent. He even felt that when this civilization left the Milky Way, they did not know that there was a lost human being like him in the Milky Way.
In the past, their performance in the Milky Way might have been because the deterrence of humans was still there. Life would change. Now, the Silent was already outside the wider Milky Way. It was hard to guarantee that they would not become enemies.
He still remembered how the real World Breakers behaved. They were also an extinct civilization that would do anything to treat the low dimension as a hunting ground.
And the cage here was still very strong. He still had plenty of time to obtain information. At least, it wouldn’t be too late to communicate after he confirmed the general state of the Silent.
Thus, Li Wenyuan used the Pillar of Creation to continuously open tiny monitoring holes in the s.p.a.ce-time distortion phenomenon that enveloped this galaxy, silently collecting the information inside.
The three civilizations in this cage galaxy did not know that there was an external listener paying attention to their movements and still doing their own things.
In Home No. 2 Galaxy, the upper echelons of the Exiled civilization gathered again to discuss the recent three-way crossfire.
This was the current parent galaxy of their civilization. As for Home No. 1, it had become a sacrifice of the h.e.l.l Defense Line on the other side of the galaxy. It was a forgotten history.
It was not as if there had never been a three-way crossfire in history. Rather, it was because the Silent Empire had somehow come to this galaxy that there was such a situation.
These higher-ups were already used to this, but this time was a little special because this was the largest and most intense three-way crossfire they had experienced.
For this reason, they had no choice but to discuss the reason for this fight.
“The battlefield this time is in the Great Cross Starfield 32 light-years away from the h.e.l.l Defense Line H725 to H789. According to a conservative estimate, the number of battleships partic.i.p.ating in the battle has exceeded 20,000, and this number is still increasing.”
“As for the number of battleships we’re partic.i.p.ating in… Hmm… There are currently more than 18,000 battleships. They’re all elites on the h.e.l.l Defense Line and have achieved considerable results…”
In the three-way crossfire, they deployed an astonishing number of battleships, as if they had partic.i.p.ated in the battlefield in a crushing manner.
However, this reporter deliberately didn’t report their casualties because there were as many as 17,000 Gundams that were completely destroyed or missing among the 18,000 battleships. They were like a group of ants that were constantly advancing toward the source of the fire, suffering heavy casualties.
And the upper echelons of the Exiled present actually knew this news because this three-way crossfire was essentially a tactical operation planned by them.
They had been toyed with by the Hunter for a long time. After experiencing a period of low morale, the entire s.p.a.ce force was even more furious.
Before this tactical operation really began, a large number of elite warriors had already requested to fight and submitted all kinds of tactical plans. There was no lack of suicidal operations, just to attack the arrogance of the Hunter.
After secretly planning for a long time, they finally decided to hold a large-scale annihilation operation. The target was the Hunters who often wandered around the h.e.l.l Defense Line..