Chapter 394: Dangerous Path

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“…Phew, I still feel depressed after listening to the report again… I didn’t expect that even though we’re already doing our best to develop, there’s still such a huge gap between us and them…”

A senior executive of the Exiled was a little sad after hearing the report. His job covered a portion of scientific research positions. He knew how much the scientists in his civilization had forgotten to sleep and eat, and how much they wanted to contribute to the war.

Many of them had undergone extreme genetic modification at the cost of reducing their lifespan. Not only did it destroy the perfectness of their bodies, but it also greatly increased the efficiency of their work. There were people who didn’t sleep or rest for the rest of their lives. Even if they died, they had to leave their brains to their cloned bodies and continue working in another way. However, the planned annihilation operation dealt them a heavy blow. 17,000 of their most advanced battleships and more than three million elite soldiers were all destroyed by the Hunter in a very short time. If the Silent Empire’s fleet hadn’t arrived in time, the remaining troops would have been buried in this operation.

The enemies they had planned to annihilate were only dozens of hunting battleships. They outnumbered the other party by nearly a thousand times, but they were easily destroyed by the other party like cutting melons and vegetables, and they did not annihilate any of the enemies.

Even though they knew that there was a huge gap between them and the other party, this result almost made some of the soldiers who participated in the battle collapse. They had no choice but to take the initiative to manage the secretion of emotional hormones.

Until now, this higher-up did not dare to inform his scientific research subordinates. It was enough for the soldiers to collapse.

“…Think of it in a better light. At least this time, it proves that our three million years of struggle was actually a joke. The other party was just bored and wanted to find some fun from us because they were trapped here…” Similarly, the higher-ups became very depressed after this battle, as if the faith in their hearts had collapsed. If not for their strong mental strength, they would have committed suicide long ago.

“That’s your way of thinking? Don’t be so negative. At least we still have the Silent Empire, right?”

The words of a certain person reignited hope in everyone’s hearts. This mysterious arrival of the Silent Empire had indeed displayed unimaginable combat power.

They didn’t know when this civilization appeared in this galaxy. The other party’s complete silence and almost no signal made them take a long time to realize that there was a third civilization here other than them and the Hunter. They instinctively maintained their vigilance against this foreign civilization After all, with the example of the Hunter, they naturally thought that the other party was also an invader. After all, who would be bored enough to enter this sealed galaxy?

Although how the Silent Empire entered this place was a mystery to them, it didn’t stop them from considering the Silent Empire as an invader.

Therefore, for a long time, they also regarded the Silent Empire as a threat, and the starfield that the other party was in happened to be outside the Hell Defense Line, so they were also listed as targets of attack.

Later on, they found that the Silent Empire and the Hunter had a war, but there were victories and defeats in the observable records, which changed their attitude a little.

However, he did not change much. He only changed his attitude to one where he hoped that they would fight each other and perish together. He no longer regarded the Silent Empire as an imaginary enemy. Instead, he was planning how to drive the tiger to devour the wolf and cause both invaders to suffer losses.

One time, when they intercepted a Hunter near the Hell Defense Line, they encountered a battleship of the Silent Empire.

The other party ignored them. Instead, he targeted Hunter and destroyed him. Even though their fire-control weapons had locked onto the Silent Empire’s fleet and were ready to fire, they ignored them and left.

They did not know if it was because the other party did not treat them as enemies, or if they simply did not feel that their weapons were a threat.

At least for now, they understood that the Silent Empire was not an enemy, but a temporary ally that would fight against the Hunters together with them Therefore, they were no longer on high alert against the Silent Empire.

The three-way crossfire this time was actually them and the Silent Empire attacking the Hunter together.

However, the result was quite touching. They were seriously injured. In fact, only the Silent Empire was fighting against the Hunter.

Based on their observations, the Silent Empire and the Hunter were almost evenly matched.

The Hunter’s battleship seemed to have unbelievably high performance. In their opinion, such performance was not something that could exist in the physical world, but the other party had achieved it.

They had even tried to retrieve the remains of the Hunter battleship in an attempt to reverse-excavate the other party’s powerful secret, but scientists told them that the armor that could withstand the impact of a star was just an ordinary alloy plate in their hands. There was nothing special about it.

Their scientists also found this very difficult to understand. In the end, they blamed this on a secret they knew-circulation technology.

These scientists believed that the technological cycle carried out by the Hunter might have reached an unimaginable level. Even a weapon from the natives’ era could unleash the power of an interstellar space battleship in their hands. Regarding this, the upper echelons of the Exiled could only feel helpless. This was because this was a height they could not reach. Even if they knew the secret of circulation technology, they lacked some key points, so the circulation they could carry out was very limited.

However, their temporary ally, the Silent Empire, was able to cause significant damage and threaten such a Hunter.

The weapons of this civilization displayed the characteristics of rule-breaking in the observation samples they held.

This characteristic directly distorted the physical laws on the surface of the Hunter battleships. No matter how strong the shields and armor were, they were like paper in the face of such weapons.

At the most extreme moment, they even saw the weapon destroy the structure of space and turn a Hunter battleship into an irregular polyhedron.

Even if the Silent Empire’s unique pure energy battleship was not as good as the Hunter’s, it could still cause fatal damage to the enemy with powerful weapons.

Hence, up until now, the two civilizations were evenly matched.

After discussing this three-way crossfire, these higher-ups couldn’t help but fall silent. They began to probe each other with probing gazes, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.

Until one of them couldn’t help but say, “…The annihilation operation this time has already confirmed that even if we work hard to advance for so long, we’re definitely not the Hunter’s match…”

“…Perhaps, we should consider that proposal… The method that the civilization that seems to be seeing everywhere told us…”

The higher-ups fell silent again, but they seemed to have tacitly agreed to this matter.

Finally, a top-secret project was approved.

The specific content of this project was unknown, but the destination was the starting point of the Hell Defense Line, the Wound Galaxy.

—An extremely special galaxy..