Chapter 243: Mechanical Force, It’s Magical, Isn’t It?

The galaxy is brilliant, like a winding and long band of light, flowing in the silent and cold Universe.

Starting from the infinite.

Piercing through the eternal end.

Invisible space jumps and surges, deeply trapped in gravitational pulls, and then tears everything apart in an extreme surge.

The stars have been overturned.

Like a true raging sea howling, it sets off a monstrous wave composed of stars, drowning and sweeping through the starship fleet, destroying everything in its path.

The external armor was instantly torn apart, and the engine devices exploded directly.

In a micro-short time of less than one second.

Everything, absolutely everything.

All collapsed into a twisted and broken state.

Just like a long time ago, when Xu Xi saw that Star Sea Graveyard through Ele's perspective.

Now, the interstellar fleet he built has also become a part of it.

This explosion was like a super firework show of the Universe, splashing billions of rays of light, affecting multiple surrounding planetary Systems, causing their internal celestial bodies to be damaged and riddled with holes.

A long time passed.

Amidst the dense fragments of the starships, Xu Xi's figure reconsolidated.

The moment he resurrected, Mechanical Force surged from his hands, attracting the surrounding starship fragments and quickly shaping them into a minimal space escape pod.

To avoid exposing his body to the vacuum environment.

Immediately after, he hand-crafted space oxygen generation equipment.

A carbon dioxide collection device, a hydrogen reaction device, and a water electrolysis device.

Combined into a simple electrolyte circulation System.

"Mechanical Force is omnipotent," Xu Xi sighed with heartfelt emotion.

After finishing his work, he finally had time to observe the external situation. Looking through the observation hole he left, he could see endless starship fragments floating and colliding in the cold space.

The scene was too chaotic to judge the specific situation.

But Xu Xi felt.

The fleet must have been completely wiped out.

"Is that so? Everything has returned to zero…" Xu Xi sighed softly.

The super-scale strike was too massive; even though the fleet had been divided into three segments in advance, they were still all destroyed.

Fortunately, Xu Xi had taken precautions, sensing something was wrong from the strange movements of the Zerg and leaving some deeper hidden cards.

Relying on his own uniqueness and the hidden cards he had arranged in advance.

It was unlikely that anything would happen to Ele.

She should now be following the quantum data, in a state of reorganization and consolidation. All Xu Xi needed to do was wait quietly for Ele's arrival.

Yes, he just needed to wait.

This was the Ele-brand 'soft rice'; eating it brought peace of mind and comfort.

The starry sky outside was still in a state of chaos. Xu Xi watched the colliding and flying starship fragments, his heart devoid of any ripples.

For the Mechanized Calamity, productivity was the most common thing.

In just a period of time.

These damaged starships' wreckage could be collected to produce newer and stronger models.

The only thing that made Xu Xi conflicted and confused was that mysterious and unpredictable strike from beyond the heavens.

"Why would it be now…"

"Although it was expected, why exactly now? There's nothing special about this point in time, and I haven't done anything; everything is the same as before."

"What exactly is…"

Xu Xi was slightly stunned, the expression on his face freezing for a moment.

Time?

Time…

Time!

His way of acting and the fleet's technological development were no different from before.

This meant the reason for the strike wasn't on this side.

But rather with the mastermind behind the scenes.

"I should have thought of it earlier. Besides the development of civilization and technological progress, there is another truly key element, and that is time."

"Humans loathe rats and insects; although they often take preventive measures, they don't pay attention to them every moment."

"Because humans have more important things to do."

"The pestilence of rats and insects is not the first priority that must be dealt with."

"Similarly, that existence hidden in the shadows, constantly destroying newborn civilizations, cannot possibly pay attention to this starry sky at all times."

Xu Xi muttered to himself.

Sitting on the temporarily assembled seat.

With a solemn expression and constant thinking, he felt he was getting closer to the truth.

This way, it could be reasonably explained.

Why those civilizations were destroyed so suddenly.

The lucky ones among them, like Civilization No. 02, might have sensed something wrong with the starry sky in advance, but they still could not escape that misfortune.

When a civilization can sense that something is wrong, it gains the qualification to enter the mastermind's line of sight.

"The red light dots that can trigger an Intelligent Machine Rebellion."

"Strong gravitational fields and kinetic energy strikes."

"Long-range strikes suspected to be space collapse."

"This battle is going to be a bit hard to fight…" Xu Xi's eyelids twitched slightly. Fortunately, after this wave of offensive, the opponent did not launch a second strike.

Such rigid behavior should be a pre-set automated program.

Once the time is up, detection and strike are integrated.

This was both good and bad news.

The good part was that before the next strike time arrived, Xu Xi didn't have to worry about a big explosion falling from the sky.

The bad part was that before finding a way to cope, every strike would result in Xu Xi's death.

"Either evade, defend, or blow up the source of the attack."

"Waiting for death is not an option."

Xu Xi stood up.

Through the observation hole, he already saw a starship sailing towards him.

That was the hidden card he had left behind, a large starship that existed independently outside the three-segment fleet on a remote planet.

It was now being controlled by Ele, crossing the star sea to pick him up.

Thump—!!

Thump—!!

The massive interstellar warship opened its energy shield, bumping aside space debris all the way, and rushed to Xu Xi's escape pod at the fastest speed.

"Master, please rest assured."

"Ele will always guard your safety."

Ele, controlling a spare body, ran to Xu Xi at full speed and pounced on him with lightning speed.

A flurry of climbing and checking followed.

Only after confirming that Xu Xi's resurrected body was unharmed.

Did she return to her usual indifferent appearance.

Xu Xi wanted to speak but stopped, stopped but wanted to speak again. His education had surely gone wrong, hadn't it?

…

[You encountered an unknown strike, and your fleet perished because of it]

[The loyal Mech-Servant, immediately after the incident, controlled a spare starship to come and rescue you; you are very gratified]

[At the same time, you are also very troubled]

[To this day, you still cannot adapt to your Mech-Servant's enthusiastic inspection]

[Ele asked you if you wanted to flee to a further place; you rejected the proposal and told Ele to set up recycling equipment on the spot to collect the destroyed starship fleet]

[Reuse waste, re-collect Materials, and restore the former number of starships]

[Ele was somewhat puzzled; she expressed her concerns to you, worrying that staying in the same place would lead to a repeat of the strike]

[You explained your viewpoint to your Mech-Servant]

[Speculating on the truth about the starry sky strike]

[The Mech-Servant suddenly realized; after calculation, she believed your viewpoint had an accuracy rate as high as 64.8%]

[For safety's sake, you were sent to a relatively safe place by the Mech-Servant, while she remotely controlled engineering Intelligent Machines to recycle and reshape the starship wreckage in space]

[Simulation Year 57, you are 76 years old, the 55th year Ele has accompanied you]

[Ele recycled all the starship wreckage, regrouped, and set sail into the star sea again with a smaller-scale starship fleet carrying you]