Chapter 503: Paradise's Deadly Attack_1

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The trails left by the Pioneering Fleet inside the New Continent Star System has also vanished without a trace.

It's hard to imagine that the curvature within the entire star system, even in a larger scope, has disappeared!

Jiang Yu slowly sat down in his seat, took out a cigarette, and started to smoke.

Everyone fell silent, and some had even begun to covering their faces in desperation, staring blankly ahead; only the "tapping" sound of Jiang Yu smoking filled the conference room.

Jiang Yu had been smoking for half of the cigarette when he suddenly slammed the table, "This is too much!"

The force of the slam made everyone shudder.

Jiang Yu stubbed out the half-smoked cigarette fiercely in the ashtray, "So what if curvature has disappeared? Can't the spaceship move? If we can't use curvature to accelerate, then let's escape at the fastest speed of the nuclear engines!

"Why are you all looking like you've lost your parents? Who are you showing that for? If you break down, who will hold up this great nation?

"Pull yourselves together! We've reached the most crucial moment of the game. Whether humanity can cling to a sliver of hope depends on whether we can grit our teeth and endure to the very end!"

Humans are a strange animal, clearly in a desperate situation, but just a few words from Jiang Yu rekindled their fighting spirit.

Jiang Yu continued, "The situation seems undoubtedly hopeless for us, but if we can have survivors, that will be a tremendous victory!

"Continue to mobilize all resources, save as many people as possible, flee as far as we can!

"Also ask the fleets if they can enter curvature flight; even getting a rough idea of the range would be good.

"Though the enemy is powerful, I don't believe the influence from Paradise can extend to a radius of ten light-years!

"Those within range try to buy time, those outside of it run for your lives!"

The people in the conference room got busy again, Jiang Yu nodded in satisfaction, lit another cigarette and resumed smoking leisurely.

Soon after, they received another message that brought more despair, "Wallfacers, ladies and gentlemen, the real-time communication system has collapsed. We can now only contact each department using the Gravitational Wave Communicator."

Jiang Yu suddenly laughed, taking a drag from his cigarette, "Now I suddenly understand what the Black Cuboid People felt like when they were attacked by an Advanced Civilization."

This hasty escape was truly abrupt; the blows from Advanced Civilizations often came from the most unexpected places.

It's like with the Curvature Spaceships; until today, everyone felt that humanity had finally learned to run. If we couldn't beat them in this Dark Forest, we could still run.

But now, they've simply torn up the running track.

Jiang Yu added, "As expected, we should preserve some outdated technologies at all times. Often, the most advanced technology is the first target of enemy attacks."

He looked around at everyone, "What's going on? Get going and do what you need to do! Even if you have to shout your communications, start shouting! What are you standing there for?"

Jiang Yu's tone was harsh, but for some reason, hearing these words from Jiang Yu swept away everyone's feeling of powerlessness, and from deep within, they found a new strength to continue their work.

This was the authority that Jiang Yu, as a Wallfacer, had accumulated over time, psychologically bolstering everyone's will to prevent them from falling.

Jiang Yu glanced at the timer; it was past six in the morning. If it were Earth time, the sky would be starting to lighten.

But if one were to open the window, they could still see the bright sun shining.

Because this was not Earth; a day on Blue Maiden Star lasts 29 hours, and the timing of day and night often does not align with Earth's.

Just a few hours ago! Since the triggering of Paradise till now, humanity has been utterly unable to fight back, and the whole process has not even been twenty hours!

Is this the power of a God-level Civilization?

At that moment, a staff member hurried into the room, "New information! A massive gravitational source has suddenly appeared outside the New Continent Star System.

"Due to the breakdown of the real-time communication system, this message is delayed. We estimate that it must have been there twenty minutes ago!"

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Number Three was startled, "Twenty minutes ago?"

It was at that time when the Star Accelerators reported one after another that they could no longer find the space curvature, and soon after, the real-time system paralyzed.

Jiang Yu extinguished the cigarette in his hand, "There truly are more advanced forms of flight in the universe than curvature engines."

"Ladies and gentlemen, get ready, the enemy's new offensive is about to start."

At a distance of 2.1 light-years, the enemy had taken only seven or eight hours!

As if to confirm Jiang Yu's speculation, a dozen or so minutes later, the emergency response team received a flood of reports about sightings of Paradise.

Everyone outside, or with their windows open, saw Paradise in the sky.

Especially on Blue Maiden Star, Paradise appeared amongst the clouds, as beautiful as a heavenly palace!

It was unimaginable, despite Paradise being thousands of astronomical units away, its image was indeed appearing before people's eyes.

What was even more peculiar was that such reports were coming from all over Blue Maiden Star, meaning not only the people close to Paradise on one side of the star saw it, but those on the far side of the planet saw the same scene as well.

A member of the emergency team guessed, "The image of Paradise must be something transmitted on the level of consciousness, not much to do with light."

Soon, another member found a flaw in this guess, "According to this theory, as long as one is within a certain range, they should all be able to see Paradise, so why haven't we seen it?"

The member who made the initial guess elaborated, "Maybe there is a triggering condition? Perhaps only after a certain reaction with vision can one see Paradise?"

The discussion did not continue, for any speculation was already too late.

Similar phenomena must be occurring on other planets as well, but there was a delay in human information, and reports had not yet reached the emergency team.

Fortunately, it was the early hours of the morning on Earth, so most people in the human world had their windows closed.

But still, a large number of people saw Paradise and quickly fell into a fanatical state, which lasted for more than twenty minutes before they died en masse.

Jiang Yu and others had speculated about how advanced the enemy's new wave of attacks could be, but they didn't expect the assault to be so simple and crude!

But the simpler the method, the more directly it often achieves its purpose.

Now, no one would suggest that if one kept the windows shut and stayed indoors, or covered their eyes when going out, they would be able to withstand the enemy's offensive.

Because everyone knew, this was just the first step of the enemy's new offensive.

Suddenly, Jiang Yu declared, "The final moments have arrived, ladies and gentlemen! I'm going to make a bold attempt!"

Everyone looked at Jiang Yu. Did the Wallfacer have a plan?

Jiang Yu stated solemnly, "I plan to go back to my own office and try to contact Ji Kang."

Everyone was somewhat surprised.

Jiang Yu suddenly gave a bitter smile, "I'm a human, just like all of you.

"Facing the current situation, if you have no solutions, how could I have any?"

He paused before continuing, "Contacting Ji Kang, I want to try to delay the enemy, to buy you some time.

"Though I am aware that with our spaceship's current speed, such a delay might not be effective, what if it does work? Even if we can delay by a minute, a second, that's good!"

Number Three immediately objected, "That's too dangerous! We could find..."

Jiang Yu raised his hand, "Let me die on the path of charging forth!"