Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 718: Spoiler Title Hidden

The Divine Ark Civilization was growing at an unbelievable speed. Perhaps for the Divine Ark Civilization, the saying that pressure is motivation was entirely correct. Without the pressure from the Sweepers Civilization, the Divine Ark Civilization could not have expanded so rapidly.

Ordinary people still maintained their way of life, but the upper echelons of the entire civilization, including all scientists and Xiao Yu, had already devoted all their energy to war preparations.

Xiao Yu’s large-scale construction had already spread beyond the small universe. A vast amount of resources were being turned by Xiao Yu’s hands into warships, interstellar gun turrets, interstellar fortresses, and so on, spreading everywhere in this sector. Under Xiao Yu’s construction, this star cluster had fully become a dead zone. At this moment, calling this the most perilous place in the entire Milky Way was not an exaggeration in the least.

Xiao Yu had diverted more attention to monitoring Xu Junpo and Luka Two, but he discovered nothing. Helpless, Xiao Yu could only explain all this as him being overly suspicious.

At this moment, under Xiao Yu’s gaze, Xu Junpo was riding a City-Class scientific research spaceship, shuttling among the one thousand or so stars in this sector to conduct a scientific survey. Inside this City-Class ship were very advanced research instruments. One could say this ship was a movable laboratory.

A great deal of scientific data was being generated continuously. With Xiao Yu’s cooperation, research in this area was being steadily pushed forward. But Xiao Yu did not know that everything he saw was a false image, deceptive information fabricated by Xu Junpo through some special means. At this moment, the real Xu Junpo was doing something Xiao Yu could not have imagined.

Right now, Xu Junpo was sitting quietly before a three-dimensional holographic dynamic image, quietly watching the images of his parents, wife, and children. What appeared before his eyes was this scene, yet in his mind another image could not help but appear. In that image, the figures were still his parents, wife, and children. He possessed two families. These two families belonged to two different civilizations, and those two civilizations were hostile to each other, with not a single possibility of reconciliation.

For him, this situation was extremely cruel, yet he was powerless to change it. He knew he could not change Xiao Yu, and at the same time he could not change the Sweepers Civilization. The upper echelons of the Sweepers Civilization had schemed for so long for this plan. With the efforts of countless people, this matter had already become a surging torrent, a social trend. No one could change it.

As someone caught in the cracks, he had to make a choice at this time. He had already decided to choose neutrality. That meant he would not lean toward any side. He would lay down a trump card for the Divine Ark Civilization so that, if absolutely necessary, the Divine Ark Civilization could have the ability to preserve its life. This was already the last thing he could do for the Divine Ark Civilization.

Now, this matter had been completed. Then it was time to leave.

With the help of Luka Two’s outstanding strategy, he had already completed the scheduled tasks under Luka Two’s direction. The stars, numbering as many as one thousand, had been transported to the battlefield’s periphery as planned. The spatial bomb weapon development had reached sixty percent. The black lightning technology had been completed. By relying on the stellar energy conversion mechanism within the black lightning technology, the technology to enhance the Specter Race’s abilities through stellar energy could be well carried out. Everything was finished. He no longer had any need to remain here.

“These two civilizations are destined for a situation where neither will rest until the other dies. They will absolutely not stop until one side is completely exterminated. That also means only one of my two families can remain. No matter which one is destroyed, I will feel terrible. So before such a thing happens, let me leave first.” Xu Junpo murmured to himself.

In his calculations, it was not that there was no possibility for both families to be preserved. It was just that the possibility was far too small. Add to that the fact that what he was attached to was not only the matter of family, and thus he made this decision.

It must be known that he had contributed immense strength to the development of the Divine Ark Civilization. He had watched with his own eyes as the Divine Ark Civilization prospered under his impetus. And as his homeland, he also had deep attachment to the Sweepers Civilization.

His feelings for these two civilizations even surpassed his feelings for his two families.

“Lord Two, I have finished my task. Regardless of how things will develop in the future, regardless of whether our arrangements will ultimately be effective, it is time for us to leave. I ask myself and find I have done nothing that wronged the Divine Ark Civilization. From my position, I have also made the greatest contribution to the Divine Ark Civilization. So how the Divine Ark Civilization will develop in the future no longer has anything to do with me. I no longer have any attachments, so I will go first.”

“You go first. I will be there shortly. I have also completed my task. For this civilization, we have poured in our last drop of effort. That is all. Farewell, my friend.”

At this moment, Luka Two finally no longer regarded Xu Junpo as a junior, but saw him entirely as an existence equal in status to himself. Because he knew that Xu Junpo was not only the most outstanding scientist within the Divine Ark Civilization, he was also the greatest scientist within the Sweepers Civilization.

“That is all. Farewell.” Xu Junpo said with a smile. He took one last deep look at the image of his family, then closed his eyes with a smile. His brain at this moment had completely died, with no chance of revival. Even if he were revived through advanced biological technology, the one revived would be someone else, not him.

When things cannot be changed, escape may also be a correct choice.

Xu Junpo was already dead, yet in Xiao Yu’s view at this moment, Xu Junpo was still carrying out his work normally. Xiao Yu did not sense anything abnormal, not until Xiao Yu received a message from Xu Junpo.

“Xiao Yu, farewell. I am already dead now, and before I died, I left something within our Divine Ark Civilization. If our Divine Ark Civilization truly reaches an irreparable stage, with the help of these things, you may still be able to continue the Divine Ark Civilization. This is the last gift I left for our Divine Ark Civilization.”

“After my death, please cremate my body and then place the ashes into a spaceship to fly toward the Andromeda Galaxy by conventional navigation. I have always wanted to take a look at the Andromeda Galaxy. I did not have the chance in life, so let me go once after death. I’ll trouble you with this last request.”

“Hm?” A sudden bad premonition arose in Xiao Yu’s heart. Just a moment later, in Xiao Yu’s monitoring system, the image suddenly changed. All the images of Xu Junpo conducting normal research vanished like smoke, replaced by another bizarre scene. In this image, Xu Junpo was lying quietly on the ground. A smile still hung on his face, but at this moment he had completely lost all signs of life.

The higher one’s scientific literacy, the easier it is to kill oneself. Unlike an ordinary person, even if he committed suicide, Xiao Yu would have a great chance to revive him. But this time, the one who committed suicide was Xu Junpo, the greatest scientist. With just one glance, Xiao Yu determined that Xu Junpo was completely dead. His outstanding scientific literacy exerted its power at the final moment of his life. He used this ability of his to block any possibility of reviving himself.

Xiao Yu’s first reaction was to seize the robots’ control permissions. A robot closest to Xu Junpo immediately put down what it was doing, quickly walked to Xu Junpo, and helped him up. But this action was utterly meaningless.

Xiao Yu felt a chill in his heart. “What exactly happened? Why did he want to die? How did he die? I have been subjecting him to strict surveillance. How could he possibly succeed in committing suicide under such circumstances? Did he deceive me?”

At this moment, a very bad thought arose in Xiao Yu’s mind. He thought of this possibility and assessed the severe impact that such a technology capable of deceiving him could cause.

This was truly terrifying. If such a technology really existed within the social system of the Divine Ark Civilization, if someone really mastered this capability, then all of Xiao Yu’s senses would have the possibility of being deceived. After all, if one could conceal from Xiao Yu once, one could conceal from Xiao Yu a second time. In the end, all information Xiao Yu obtained might be false. For Xiao Yu, this was nothing less than a world-shattering catastrophe.

But in the next moment, Xiao Yu received another message. “Do not panic. I indeed have mastered the technology to deceive you, but I bear you no malice. Below is the detailed data of this technology. I’ll disclose it to you.”

Following this message was a long segment of technological data. With just a glance, Xiao Yu knew that through this technology someone could indeed be concealed. But since this information had now been exposed, the ability to conceal was naturally lost.

Xiao Yu quickly began screening this type of information across all his data channels. Xiao Yu had to confirm that there was no longer anyone else at this moment using this technology to deceive him. If Xiao Yu discovered any trace of this technology again, no matter who the user was, Xiao Yu would immediately execute them.

The final result made Xiao Yu’s heart sink. Because Xiao Yu really did discover another user of this technology.

Luka Two.

[T/N: Chapter 718: The Death of Xu Junpo]