<h4>Chapter 440: Assistance</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio <strong>Editor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Don’t worry,” said a reassuring voice.
Chen Jin continued, “I’ll settle that small Sin fleet for you. Just deal with the main one ording to your initial arrangements and stick with the original n.”
“But...” Mu Yunhua was anxious and unsure. Although no longer flustered, she still had doubts. “Will things really work out if we don’t make any adjustments?” What she was actually implying was, Jin, can I ce all my trust in you?
After all, based on the supervision of various types of detectors, no third force had been detected near the warning zone for the Walf Gxy. If Jin wanted to help her, shouldn’t his fleet already have appeared by then? But they had spotted nothing. The lives of more than a billion human beings hung on whether Jin would provide assistance. The life and death of a civilization was pinned on a guy who was much the same as a izen.”
Anyone’s heart would probably be full of doubts and unsure whether or not they could believe him.
“Yunhua, we have known each other for more than 30 years, right?” Chen Jin asked; he wanted to know what she was thinking.
“Yes, indeed.”
“Do you not know what kind of person I am, and what qualities I have?”
“I am aware of those things.” He was wacky, lustful, and asionally provided her with some advanced technical information—that was it.
“I said I’ll solve the problem for you. Please just believe in this one thing.”
“I believe you—but can you tell me, inly, how you intend to help me? Will your fleet be arriving soon? I’ll feel more reassured if I can see it for myself.” Seeing was believing. She would only be willing to trust himpletely when she could see the reinforcements with her very own eyes.
“If I let you see them directly, won’t I be less mysterious? Why would a hero show himself before the veryst moment? How can there be no climax to the performance on such a great stage?”
Mu Yunhua couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Simr situations had arisen too many times. Every time she encountered a tricky problem and, badly battered, asked for help from the other side, he always acted this way: he fooled around, teased her, and provided aid only at the veryst minute. Of course, she still considered Jin reliable. He had basically fulfilled every promise he had ever made.
This may have been the biggest crisis yet, but, aside from Jin, Mu Yunhua couldn’t think of anyone who could help her. One could say that her habitual-dependence-sickness was terminal.
“Okay, okay, quit it with your unrealistic, utopian fantasy,” Chen Jin said. “Just believe me and do everything ording to the original n. I will straighten out the unexpected for you. You just have to convince the delegates to follow your arrangements and do their best in destroying the 500 main Sin battleships.” His tone was serious. He was doing his best to lessen Mu Yunhua’s worries, to sound adequately convincing, and to make Mu Yunhua believe that he was the 100%-reliable ‘Jin the faithful.’
“A—...alright, I’ll listen to you,” Mu Yunhua said with difficulty. After all, her only choice was to trust him.
However, her subsequent efforts to convince the executive representatives to ignore the threat of the Sin sub-fleet and to continue to follow the original n encountered quite some resistance.
There were a few representatives who lost their calm.
“Ignore the Sin sub-fleet? What if we can’t hold them back once theye close to Walf?”
“Forget 50 battleships—even five can destroy this entire, on which more than a billion human remnants live.”
“Chief, you said you have a way to hold off that sub-fleet, so why aren’t you telling us how exactly you’ll do it? How can you expect us to believe in you?”
But Mu Yunhua still maintained the position that she would keep it a secret until the end, refusing to utter even half a word.
“We are already under the Sin’s strict surveince. If ssified information is leaked, it will be impossible for us to win the war. We can talk about it after we are victorious.”
This sentence of hers dispelled the questions in the minds of most representatives. Just as things had gone more than 30 years ago, secrets that only a few knew would be the main factor in their triumph.
Absolute—or, rather, blind—trust allowed Mu Yunhua to implement her strategy smoothly.
...
In borderless space.
An aggressive fleet was crawling towards their destination, like a devil baring its fangs and brandishing its ws.
Inside the massive gship at the core of the fleet.
On the wide deck of the bridge.
The chiefmander, staff officer, liaison officer, and other personnel of the Sin Fleet stood before the console’s line of screens. Their agate-colored, vertical pupils were gazing straight ahead, and, from time to time, shrank, expanded, and emitted a chilling re.
“Although we only lost ten sub-warships, the disgrace of the Sins lingers on in this gxy,” The Sinmander muttered. “That tiny ambush should definitely be made a ssic, and should be included in the teaching materials of the Sin Central Military Academy, so that our young reserve officers can see what kind of astonishing wisdom can arise from a weak civilization that is driven to desperation.
“We who were conceited on ount of our wisdom, flexibility, and conspiratorial skill rxed our vignce and celebrated that our two spies had led a low-level civilization into self-annihtion, so that only a few hundred thousand were left. Through 50 years of forbearance, the humans taught us a profound lesson.
“We must not underestimate even a weak civilization. We cannot simmer down, even if we have a 99% chance of winning.”
The Sinmander sighed. Across his face shed slight admiration, respect, and... the determination to annihte them!
His advisor, who stood next to him, felt somewhat dissatisfied. “My Lord, those so-called humans are only clever in terms of petty tricks. We, meanwhile, were unfortunately left with the short end of the stick. However, we are still the greater ones. They can never make us falter!
“Yes, indeed, my Lord. They were just lucky thest time. This time, however, their good fortune hase to an end! You are the great admiral of the Republic’s frontiers. You, my Lord, are unparalleled in wisdom and resourcefulness and are ever-victorious. With you in the ring, the one thing that’s certain is the humans’ inevitable demise.
“Moreover, our forces have been split into two, and we will be attacking them from both sides! No matter what plots or traps they have in ce, it will be impossible for them to take care of things simultaneously at both ends. In a few days, those humans will wriggle no more.
“Our n is basically foolproof. Our mission this time is to eradicate the humans from the root, and none of them shall be left alive! It has proven to be best for us to arrange the follow-up work in advance so that we omit nothing. Every single cell containing human gic material must bepletely destroyed, as the rules of a truepetition between civilizations demand,” he said in a chilling voice.
The Sinmander nodded. “This universe is dangerous. We respect all intelligent civilizations; it is the rules that are cruel. Through our monitors, we have witnessed five intellectual civilizations that were decimated after their defeat, without a single exception! There are a few legends where kind and irresolute conquerors left behind the seeds of future trouble and were ultimately defeated by the weak. Hence, civilization is destined to be a brutal elimination-race.
“I ammanding this ship to eradicate the remnants of humanity.
“In the future, I will destroy more civilizations, crush more hopes, and, possibly... run into some very difficult enemies. But the Sin people will not fail. We are a race of gods. The advantages we have are unparalleled. In the end, we will be the masters of this universe!” said the Selianmander in an arrogant tone.
After all, in the Sin civilization, which was in a period of rapid expansion from top to bottom, almost everyone was swelling with pride. Only their arrogance and self-confidence, their egos and their pride, could match their “wisdom.”
It would take a setback that was like waking up from a dream to make them tone things down a little.
...
One monthter.
The Sin main fleet, which had entered their circle of surveince, was less than 50 astronomical units away from the central main sequence.
More than half of the 500 powerful warships had already arrived at their defensive circle.
The intruders were getting closer and closer.
“Attack!”
“Full speed ahead!”
“st those bastards!”
The fleet deployed from Walf switched off their stealth mode, seizing the opportunity to open fire.
Boom, boom, boom...
Bam, bam, bam, bam!
They discharged a myriad of missiles and torpedoes, leaving a fiery tail behind them.
Countlessser beams fired maniacally.
Manned and unmanned interster fighters and Docking Mechs were all rushing towards their colossal targets.
It could easily be said that the human fleet’s strikes were as dense as rain.
However, even in the face of such an attack, not the slightest hint of a riot emerged among the Sins’ main fleet. They maintained their neat formation as if this all were entirely within their expectations.
In truth, the military actions on Mu Yunhua’s side—the maneuvers of each and every one of her spaceships—could never have been concealed from the monitors that the Sins had sent out. They had expected everything, including the precise ambush locations. Nevertheless, they had still barged in with a swagger and activated their force field. It withstood almost all of the energy attacks, which sent ripples all across it.
Mu Yunhua’s side was taken aback.
“Force field shields? From the previous intel we’d received, the Sins did not seem to have mastered this technology yet. Even on their main battleships, there were no signs that force shield shields had been installed.”
“Something’s not right. The few Sin warships in the front line have their shields activated, but they have not yet fired back at us. The main battleships behind them have not deployed their shields, but they have released a lot of fighters. This must mean that the Sins had developed exclusive ‘Guard Ships’ with high defense but low attack to soak up our assaults. The battleships which are their main source of firepower should, then, have a lower level of defense.”
“In that case, we will change targets! Let the first and second-ss Goddess’ Honor fighters go behind the enemy and prioritize their attacks on those with lower defense!”
However, following this adjustment, anomalies arose in the original ambush circle. A special situation never simted by theirputers had urred on the battlefield. Moreover, the Sin fleet, which had its highly-defensive ships leading in front, did not alter the speed of its advance. It seemed like they intended to cut right through the orchestrated interception and go straight for Walf.
Hence, in order to intercept these enemies, the ambush fleet had to alter their n and undertake a maniacal suicidal attack with the aim of impairing the enemy from behind. By doing so, however, they fell into the Sinmander’s calction. How could fighters so focused on a suicidal charge have any form of flexibility? They were just targets that were flying around at high speeds.
The campaign damage rate for Mu Yunhua’s fleet was proving to be a whole 50% greater than that in theputer simtion.
Thisbat style of maneuvering and attrition had led to a war of quick deaths.
The enemy’s calctions and shrewdness greatly exceeded Mu Yunhua’s expectations.
However...
Although the loss wasrger than she had expected, the Sin main fleet was, likewise, gradually bing more and more surprised. The number of small warships that came at them like an army of locusts was far beyond what they had imagined. Among them, the first-ss Goddess’ Honor contained at least 100,000 units. The second-ss Goddess’ Honor was also around 10,000 in number. During their 30-year preparation for war, in order to build these “fodder” ships, the resources that the humans had exhausted were equivalent to an entire.
Facing this many “fodder” warships, the Sins were gradually using up their missiles and slowly depleting their space fighters; even their supply ofser energy couldn’t keep up.
When a fleet of a mere 500 battleships, facing an insane onught by a force 200 or 300 times their number, became drilled through and exposed, it marked the beginning of their tragic end.
Boom, boom, boom...
“Ah!”
“Our battleship is damaged!”
The first main battleship of the Sins suffered a heavy blow. And, subsequently, the same thing happened to the second, the third, the fourth... when the 100th main Sin battleship transformed into a fireball as it exploded, the Sin fleet, which had exhausted almost all of its ammunition and was left with the energy attack system, saw a linear rise in their campaign damage rate.
The 200th warship was destroyed... the 300th... the 400th...
At the very end.
It had been seven days since war broke out.
The Sin main fleet was less than 500 kilometers away from Walf.
Due to theirck of fuel, all the Goddess’ Honor fighters had helplessly given up on their pursuit—small warships had limited fuel and propulsive media—and were drifting aimlessly in the vacuum like space garbage. The Sin main fleet, on the other hand, still had five shield ships and their most powerful gship, which had the highestbat power.
A total of six warships!
They were carrying enough nuclear bombs to destroy Walf.
“Ward them off! They must be stopped!”
“They must not get close to our!”
“To hell with them!”
Around Walf, hundreds of old warships and thousands of space fighters took flight. Pledging to defend their homnd, they became the’sst line of defense and dogged their enemy’s footsteps.
“They... They have actually marred my fleet to this extent.”
His eyes bloodshot, the Sinmander was feeling sheer disbelief. “Just a little bit more damage and I would have fought a losing war, and would have turned from a God of War into a humiliatingughingstock.”
Although the current situation was simr to failure, this was, fortunately, still a victory—a Pyrrhic victory that was in spitting distance of a total loss. As long as they broke through thest line of defense, this blooming and green and the more than one billion human remnants that lived on it would meet their ultimate demise.
Thinking about this, a sadistic grin slipped out at the corner of his mouth.
...
Walf. The militarymand hall.
Many people’s faces were shrouded in despair.
This included Mu Yunhua. She had not expected the enemy forcesing from the front to be this strong. Their line of defense, formed by more than 100 thousand warships, had actually been breached, and six ships that would bring oppressive terror upon them had barged through in perfectly good condition.
“Hey, I’m done with the small fleeting from behind. It took me about ten minutes to turn them all into space junk. Eh—what’s going on here? Is there still some trouble left?”
Hearing this voice in her ear all of a sudden, Mu Yunhua started, as if a life-saving line had appeared before her.
“Jin, help us! We still have a few enemies left!”