Super Mothership
The “tech tree” drives technological advancement, while the “Civilization Front” serves as Nie Yun’s training ground for an all-armed population.
Through a large number of seemingly ambiguous “story background settings,” he reveals to everyone the currently shareable intelligence about the outside world—various racial traits—allowing humanity to gradually adapt in advance to its future external environment.
At the same time, it can cooperate with him in carrying out the grand strategic deception of the “Unity of All Things Society.”
After all, to completely fool others, one must first completely fool oneself…
Meanwhile, Nie Yun is also using it to precisely filter out the talents he needs, so they can be deployed to different battlefields in the future.
The Shattered Star Region is filled with complex forces and chaotic situations. The Wolf Empire’s control there is nearly nonexistent, making it the perfect place for Nie Yun to introduce large numbers of humans and accelerate the exploitation of humanity’s vast population resources.
This is also the purpose behind Nie Yun opening a new “map” and beginning the training of “pirate players.”
At present, he has already used supplies purchased by the Ghost Pirate Crew to build three robotic production lines, mass-producing humanoid robots in preparation for large-scale invasion.
However, for large-scale human deployment, there remains a technical problem that cannot be avoided:
The enormous consumption of mental energy caused by long distances!
Even if Nie Yun exhausts himself completely, he still couldn’t deploy more than a few hundred people. Therefore, the individuals being deployed must themselves possess a certain level of mental strength.
This can be gradually enhanced through the “Human Completion Plan,” but due to the limited quantity of the Water of Life, only a small group of human elites can likely meet the requirements in the short term.
However, Nie Yun has already come up with a method that neither consumes his own mental power nor prevents him from deploying large numbers of humans in a short time…
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“Elder, how do you feel?” Inside the core of the Immortal, Nie Yun (clone) placed one hand on the tree trunk as he asked.
A faint green glow flickered between his palm and the surface of the tree.
“Mm… my mental power is continuously decreasing, but for me, this rate of consumption is negligible… Also, please don’t call me ‘Elder.’ It sounds strange.”
Elder, Elder? What exactly is long?
“Alright, Elder! The consumption is negligible, huh… Then what about this?” Nie Yun ignored the protest and increased the output, making the green glow in his palm grow brighter.
“…The rate of mental energy depletion is about a hundred times higher than before, but it’s still acceptable.”
The Immortal replied somewhat weakly, though certainly not because of the loss of mental power…
“With your total mental capacity, how long can you sustain this level of consumption?” Nie Yun asked again.
“Considering my natural recovery ability, I should be able to maintain it for about three to four hours.”
“You can last three to four hours even at this rate? That means… roughly speaking, you could sustain the consumption of a ten-thousand-man unit for about an hour…” Nie Yun calculated on his fingers, his gaze toward the Immortal becoming increasingly satisfied.
That’s right! The solution he came up with was—the “Immortal-brand Mental Energy Battery”!
As a “heavyweight” giant tree, the Immortal’s sheer size speaks for itself. Not only is its mental energy immense, but as the creator of the Water of Life, its natural recovery ability far surpasses that of ordinary carbon-based lifeforms.
If this mental energy battery can be properly utilized, large-scale long-distance deployment would not be impossible!
To achieve this, Nie Yun has been thoroughly studying the “communication” function of mental energy.
As mentioned before, whether it is communication between mechanical insects or Nie Yun’s control over them, both processes require the consumption of mental energy. This undoubtedly indicates that within the microscopic core of these mechanical insects lies some mysterious technology related to mental energy.
And through the previous ultra-long-distance deployment experiment involving the trio, Nie Yun also discovered that mechanical insects themselves are a kind of “superconductor” capable of transmitting mental energy!
It can not only conduct Nie Yun’s mental power—allowing the swarm to move as if it were his own limbs—but also conduct the mental power of others, enabling those being deployed to bear the mental energy cost required for long-distance “descent.”
Therefore, in theory, something like mental power can be “borrowed” through mechanical insects acting as a kind of “conductor.”
Based on this idea, Nie Yun designed a system known as a “tech-magic hybrid communication network”!
The first step: using virtual reality technology to convert human consciousness into electronic signals of “0s and 1s.”
The second step: by drawing upon and consuming the Immortal’s mental power, transmitting these “0s and 1s” across light-years to a large-scale computing center in the Shattered Star Region.
The third step: Nie Yun receives these “0s and 1s” and transmits them through the internal communication network of the mechanical insects to various robotic terminals across the Shattered Star Region, ultimately achieving the “descent of consciousness” for the deployed individuals.
With the Immortal handling the task of ultra-long-distance signal transmission, Nie Yun only needs to manage communication over short distances, greatly reducing his mental energy consumption!
According to publicly available records from the Wolf Empire, although they have already developed certain aspects of “mental energy technology,” they still have not managed to create any method capable of interfering with “mental communication.”
In other words, Nie Yun’s method of remote control still qualifies as perfect “drone technology” within the Wolf Empire!
“Um… what exactly do you want me to do?” the Immortal asked cautiously.
For some reason, the way this guy was looking at him felt… off.
“Nothing much. I just think that with your height and build, you’re naturally perfect material for a signal tower!” Nie Yun said with a cheerful smile.
Immortal: “???”
From that point on, the massive “potted plant” sitting atop the Sea Wolf was affectionately referred to as the “Psionic Signal Tower”…
The current Immortal still had no idea that, after nearly being drained of the Water of Life and having its body rented out to the Kara race, even its mental power had now become a target…
From spirit to flesh, Nie Yun perfectly embodied the phrase “making full use of everything” to its utmost extent…
…
While Nie Yun was advancing the Human Completion Plan, tackling communication technology, and preparing to vigorously develop his pirate operations in the Shattered Star Region, both the Jinlok Consortium and Gemini Star also began making new moves.
Because… the wormhole expansion device had been repaired!
As the wormhole between the two sides slowly began to expand once again, both parties understood that a new round of battle had begun.
Behind the defensive line of the Jinlok Consortium, a rogue celestial body was rapidly approaching the wormhole.
Its size wasn’t particularly large, but even from hundreds of millions of kilometers away, passing rogue bodies were being drawn in and altering their trajectories—as if they were passing by a gravitational black hole.
Nearly a hundred warships belonging to the Jinlok Consortium were conducting towing operations from the front, while continuously clearing a clean navigational path for the celestial body behind them…
At the same time, within the Gemini Council—
“A new round of war is about to begin. General Girard, we have provided all available war materials to the warzone and deployed every mobile force we can. Now I want to know—what are our chances of victory?” Chairman Cruze asked with a serious expression.
“Although I would very much like to say that Gemini will surely win, and the current situation is indeed in our favor…” Girard’s holographic projection lowered its head, pondering for a long moment.
“That is a civilization more advanced than ours. Therefore, I hope the council will prepare for the worst!”
The council members present held their breath—everyone understood what those words implied.
“Then… what is your suggestion?”
“To be safe, I request… authorization to deploy ‘Death’!”
TL Note- Death?
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