Chapter 183: Discovering the Core Mothership, Super-Hedging Material Transfer

The first round of AAA cannon fire achieved remarkable results.

Since it had no energy concerns, the AAA cannon didn't fire in intervals but continuously, and the laser it emitted was a straight line.

This attack pattern had never been used in the Federation's previous wars. The Silk Civilization's warships, after activating their energy defenses, thought they had withstood the attack, but they didn't expect it to be continuous. They only realized they had to escape the energy range when they saw the energy within their ships rapidly depleting.

But the AAA cannon was far more sophisticated.

It was like a column of water falling from the sky, and once it connected with an object, moving that object would cause the water column to follow it within a small range, demonstrating a shift.

This phenomenon arises from the adsorption property of matter.

Adsorption originates from gravity, a macroscopic effect resulting from gravitational forces at the subatomic and even atomic levels.

Photons, being special particles, are typically understood to have four fundamental properties: reflection, scattering, absorption, and refraction. Under normal conditions, photons cannot achieve an adsorption effect. However, by momentarily converting a photon into an electron, the electron effect can be utilized to adsorb the target.

This can be understood as the photons emitted by the AAA cannon, upon striking the target, instantly changing their state to become electrons, producing a strong electromagnetic force that adheres to the target's surface.

This instability spreads among the photons, gradually converting more photons into electrons, thereby extending the adsorption distance.

This is not as simple as the traditional photoelectric effect. It involves no medium, but is a purer method of converting light directly into electrons.

According to the traditional photoelectric effect, photons should collide with the enemy's spacecraft, causing the electrons in the material of the spacecraft to escape into the atom's interior. Moreover, the external photoelectric effect is required to make these electrons leave their original object. If it were the internal photoelectric effect, it would only charge the enemy.

Whether it's the former or the latter, the efficiency is actually very low, and it's completely insufficient for weapons.

Therefore, the AAA cannon employs a method of directly converting photons into electrons.

After the adsorption force is established, the Silk Civilization realizes that it has no way to escape the attack, and by the time it thinks of a solution, it's already too late. The light beam directly penetrates the warship's defenses and shatters it.

In a short time, the Silk Civilization loses more than 2,000 warships.

This is called winning by surprise.

However, after the Silk Civilization reacts, it has already locked onto the Silk Civilization's warships, and the Silk Civilization uses irregular movements to dodge the AAA cannon.

But Luliang never intended to use the AAA cannon to end the battle.

The real goal of using the AAA cannon has been achieved, which is to create a gap in the Silk Civilization's line, and through this gap and the Silk Civilization's reaction time, the Zerg have already invaded the vicinity of the Silk Civilization's warships.

At this point, the Silk Civilization can no longer use large-scale weapons and can only rely on small laser cannons to deal with the Zerg.

Luliang directly connects his secondary brain to the Tianlianhao system to analyze the operational tricks of all the Silk Civilization's warships. Finally, he discovers the anomaly of one of the warships.

This warship follows the same course of action as the others, but if you look closely, this warship always moves around the other warships in all directions, and none of the other warships stray too far from it.

Luliang couldn't confirm this with just this information.

What really confirmed it was that this warship's attack frequency was noticeably weaker than the others. It was also attacking, but it only fired a few dozen laser beams per minute, and it didn't have any more powerful attack methods, such as high-range gravity bombs.

"Lock onto that warship!"

"We don't need to scare the snake. We must kill it with one blow."

Luliang had observed for a long time, and conventional attack methods couldn't reach this warship. So he decided to contact Yan Xia.

...

"This is the first time you've taken the initiative to contact me. How's the battle going?" Yan Xia's voice came from the other side, sounding ten years younger, with no hint of authority, but Luliang felt a strong sense of confidence.

This confidence was not from any arrogance of a privileged background, but from years of accumulation, from never having failed in anything. These so-called things were not trivial matters but were in a larger field.

An old monster pretending to be young.

The Federation had genetic technology that could keep life eternally young, and Luliang thought Yan Xia was probably one of them, looking young but actually older than Luliang's grandfather.

Luliang's keen sense had guessed part of it right, but not the age. Yan Xia was now nearly 35,000 years old.

"The plan is proceeding as expected."

"But some problems have arisen..."

Yan Xia wasn't surprised. On the battlefield, changes are constant, and encountering problems is normal.

"What problems?"

Luliang organized the information he had obtained and said, "You should be very clear about the origin of the Silk Civilization."

"During the battle, we discovered the existence of the Silk. There are two possibilities for the Silk. Originally, we were more inclined to believe that the Silk was a special energy body that each Silk Civilization warship launched to connect with its other warships."

"But the latest discovery may overturn this conclusion. The Silk has a single source, which means that only one warship in the Silk Civilization's fleet is emitting the Silk."

Upon hearing this, Yan Xia fell into deep thought.

There are indeed many speculations about the Silk of the Silk Civilization, including the one Luliang mentioned, but he couldn't obtain specific information at the moment. The data was too large to be transmitted via the fast-particle communication equipment.

So he didn't know the accuracy of Luliang's information. Perhaps the information Luliang had obtained was incorrect?

"So, what do you want?" He wanted to hear Luliang's thoughts.

But Luliang was already prepared.

"Currently, we have only destroyed about one-tenth of the Silk Civilization's fleet. It seems like a lot, but in reality, it's the result of surprise attacks and exchanges."

"Once the Silk Civilization stabilizes, it will enter a period of prolonged combat."

"At the same time, we suspect that the Silk Civilization itself has problems entering the Hengxing system. According to the initial guess, the Silk Civilization shouldn't be so impulsive as to rush towards us. At the very least, it should have completed its investigation outside the Hengxing system."

"But it didn't. The Silk Civilization must have a means of delivering a killing blow at close range, so we plan to enter a period of defense as well."

"We can extend the time on our side to 10 to 12 years, so we're applying for a super-hedging material transfer to destroy the Silk Civilization's core mothership. This is also a test, as we've never known the specific function of the Silk. Perhaps destroying the core mothership will help us understand the Silk of the Silk Civilization."

Luliang's voice was firm, without any hesitation.

Yan Xia smiled.

"Good, it's great to have your own ideas. What the Federation lacks now is a commander with military talent like you."

Luliang was astonished. He hadn't expected Yan Xia to agree so quickly. Such matters would at least require time for discussion, wouldn't they?

Little did he know that this Reincarnator was chosen by Yan Xia, and Yan Xia had been paying attention to him for hundreds of years before this.

Luliang's sense of the battlefield, along with his courage to propose ideas, was rare among the Federation's officers. Most of them were rule-abiding.

If Luliang's judgment was correct, not only would Yan Xia be able to achieve victory over the Silk Civilization, but it would also be a perfect success for the Death Selection Plan.

"At 00:00 on February 12, 37,120 AD, you order the firing of the light beam!" Yan Xia gave a precise time.

Super-Hedging Material Transfer.

This is another achievement of his in the past ten thousand years.

Built upon laser transmission!