Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start
Chapter 266 - 173: Serving as a Beacon Tower_2

Chapter 266: Chapter 173: Serving as a Beacon Tower_2

Speaking of.

Being able to bypass time to determine the outcome, it’s almost like cheating.

Shen Shi refocused his attention on the present.

In the future, his actions this time still hadn’t changed anything.

It seems that the decisions he makes personally only alter the future but cannot be predicted by the future.

Shen Shi didn’t know whether this was the peculiarity of changing fate or the peculiarity of being the owner of the Time Crystal.

In any case, he had already made his decision.

"There are a total of sixteen jump nodes around here, all controlled by the Daike people." Shen Shi was inspecting the Star Map on the Iwen, "But the node base with the largest number of warships is not among them; it’s located on the other side of this node, approximately thirty-two light-years away."

Throughout the Cosmos, nodes are numerous and extremely complex.

Each node connects two potentially vastly distant Star Domains.

So, it seems like it’s just separated by two nodes, but the actual distance is as far as a thousand light-years, even exceeding the node jump range of Iwen.

Of course, the path to the destination isn’t limited to just this one.

However, with all surrounding nodes having Daike Bases nearby, naturally, choosing the closest one is the most convenient.

Not to mention, Shen Shi has a grudge with the Daike people at this sixteen-light-year node.

A very big grudge.

In the history of Node One’s future line, it was these Daike people who directly led to his sacrifice, led to Blue Star’s fall, and led to countless human deaths.

Now, with the solidification and separation of Node One’s future line, this has also become an eternal history in Node One’s future and an eternal hatred.

The name of this Daike person is pronounced "Didike."

In Node One’s future line history, he only worked at this Daike Base for five hundred years and left after that. With the Daike people’s biological technology level, it’s possible that he is still alive three thousand years later.

"Leave the hatred of Node One’s future line to humans in Node One’s future to resolve, but here, there’s no way I’ll let this scumbag return alive." Shen Shi said to himself.

This feeling of revenge had actually already started when he first saw that piece of history.

And now, the time had finally come.

Having determined the route, he no longer hesitated.

"Let’s go." He ordered Iwen.

"Yes, we are preparing to jump, starting countdown: five, four, three, two, one! Jump initiated, jump completed, destination reached, relative three-dimensional distance from pre-jump is five hundred and forty-two light-years, shielding system stable, curvature parameter successfully stabilized, no detectable traces, scanning reveals seven nodes within jump range." Iwen reported a series of updates.

Shen Shi couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.

The jump was completed that quickly?

He didn’t feel anything.

Even though he already knew of Iwen’s capabilities, this was his first time performing a node jump, and he’d expected to feel something different.

It’s simply... the convenience brought by powerful technology is indeed beyond imagination.

Both stable and fast.

"Can you locate the Daike Civilization’s node base?" Shen Shi asked.

"Captain, we are currently within the Daike Civilization’s node base." Iwen replied, "Would you like to display the space visuals?"

"Display." Shen Shi didn’t hesitate.

As soon as he spoke, everything around began to blur rapidly, the original scenery swiftly morphing into the deep cosmos, but what first came into view was not the vast cosmos, but an incredibly large installation.

No, to be precise, three of them.

Three enormous equilateral triangular installations, each with an edge length of over a hundred kilometers, floated silently within this part of the cosmos, with one corner pointing towards the center point of the three installations, slowly rotating around the center point, mutually attracting, achieving a certain balance, and constantly emitting a bright, pale purple light, as if guiding warships navigating within the Star Sea towards their destination.

Is this the Daike Base?

Shen Shi suddenly realized something and asked out loud: "These installations should be generic jump channels, right?"

"Correct, approximately at the C1 level of technology." Iwen responded.

The current Iwen had also acquired some understanding of the hierarchical division within the Mude System and, by combining knowledge from its own information database, could make relatively accurate judgments about the levels of some technologies.

And this kind of large-scale generic jump channel, while only at the C1 level, can only be used for fixed-node zero-distance unilateral jumps, but it can accommodate extremely large warships and even fleets for jumping at once.

The previous Worren Fleet used it to head towards Blue Star.

Otherwise, the Worren Fleet, which didn’t have a jump engine, even if it took thousands of years, might not reach Blue Star.

The direct distance between the Worren Mother Star and Blue Star is approximately two thousand light-years, but with these jump channels established by the Daike people, it only takes about three hundred years of travel time to reach Blue Star.

Daike people take about a hundred and fifty years to reach Blue Star from their Mother Star.

The reason it took two hundred years in Node Two’s future line is that intelligence transmission also takes about fifty years.

Shen Shi now wants to delay the transmission of messages back to Daike’s Mother Star, to buy as much time as possible for Human Civilization.

"Is there any way to invade and control this place silently and unnoticed?" Shen Shi asked.

He originally planned to completely destroy the entire base here. If no message is returned fifty years later, the Daike people would send a small fleet to investigate first, rather than dispatch a large fleet from the beginning to face unknown situations. This would allow humans to gain another two hundred years of development time.

But if it could be completely controlled, undoubtedly, it would be possible to gain more development time.

"If you utilize the Primordial Energy Weapon you newly installed on me, there’s a ninety-nine percent success rate, but it’s uncertain whether the message will transmit." Iwen stated truthfully, "There’s a very clear Primordial Energy defense here, though easy to crack, the key point is the Primordial Energy alert; I have already detected over four hundred tightly-linked Primordial Energy Batteries here, all equipped with jump communication systems, which will send warnings immediately to all other nodes if they detect any abnormal consciousness traces... To explain using Captain’s Mother Star culture, these node bases originally serve as ’beacon towers’."

Beacon towers, huh.

Monitoring all jumped warships, while also serving as a target to attract a few illicit presences.

The target can be destroyed, no problem, as long as the alert is timely transmitted back.

But even as targets, they’re not easy to destroy.

Shen Shi looked again at these three enormous installations and finally truly experienced the power of a C-level civilization.

It’s just one node, and there are already four hundred Primordial Energy Batteries.

And the surface of these three installations is completely clad in liquid metal, even featuring very clear field generators.

Even without many warships stationed here, the base alone is already far more invaluable than the Planet Fortress Shen Shi traded for Blue Star.

Bases like these are spread across hundreds of nodes within the jurisdiction of Daike Civilization.

And Shen Shi just scanned briefly to understand that bases this massive definitely couldn’t be only defensive; while there might be just one jump warship, the number of smaller space station fighter jets must not be few.

Even given the current scale and strength of the Human Fleet, attempting to seize a Daike Base like this is nearly impossible.

This isn’t even a military base.

Shen Shi’s actual target this time is another Daike Node Base on the other side of a node thirty-two light-years away, where there are nineteen jump warships, counted as a small military base, and its defense scale is undoubtedly stronger than here.