Chapter 183 The Water Droplet Arrives!
【 Damn! 】
【 Isn't Zhang Beihai a staunch victory-ist? How could he do something like this at a time like this! 】
【 He ran away! He actually ran away! 】
【 I'm honestly dumbfounded! At first, I really thought he was planning to take the natural selection and go head-to-head against the Three-Body World with Divine River, but he turned around and ran away. 】
【 No, this is completely unnecessary! 】
【 Judging by the future warships created from the sparks brought out by Divine River, if Blue Star continues to develop for a hundred years, it will definitely have the strength to take on the Three-Body World head-on! 】
【 Actually... 】
【 We should understand Zhang Beihai, understand this Strategist No. 33 from Beihai. 】
【 Yeah, we are all players, and a player's mission is to clear the dungeon. If he can really take the natural selection and escape the pursuit of the Three-Body World, then he will certainly be able to complete the mission. 】
【 But to the people of the Blue Star world, he is just a shameless coward. 】
The Strategist from Beihai Civilization, who inherited everything from Zhang Beihai, made the wisest choice.
That was...
To run away immediately before anyone could react!
He was never a staunch victory-ist. He knew how great a threat the extraterrestrial enemy would pose to Blue Star, and he knew what the outcome would be if Blue Star failed.
Therefore...
His choice from the very beginning was always: escape!
Although fleeing is shameful, it can allow Human Civilization to be preserved forever, even if it exists in the form of a Starship Civilization!
Furthermore,
He could also exhaust the system time through a long, drifting journey in the universe.
In this way, he would eventually be able to complete the mission and clear the three-body instance!
"Divine River."
"I have to apologize to you."
"But I think you can understand me."
"After all..."
"We are both Strategists."
Watching the space scenery flowing rapidly past the glass window of the natural selection, Strategist No. 33 from Beihai whispered.
He and Divine River were both Strategists from outside this world.
Their mission was only to clear the dungeon.
He could not risk everything to gamble on victory with Divine River.
He did not want to waste the rewards for clearing the BOSS dungeon on such matters.
Choosing to fight the Three-Body World head-on was the path Divine River chose himself.
Not his.
"Captain."
Just at this moment, a female voice suddenly pulled the thoughts of the Strategist from Beihai Civilization back.
A follower stood beside him and reported softly: "The fleet has dispatched the pursuit ships 'Blue Space', 'Deep Space', 'Ultimate Law', and 'Enterprise' to pursue the natural selection."
"Ignore them." Beihai shook his head and said.
"Understood."
The follower, having received the order, prepared to withdraw.
"Wait."
However, at this moment, the Strategist from Beihai Civilization suddenly thought of something.
He called out to the follower.
He said to him: "Tell them, there are no eternal enemies or partners, there is only eternal responsibility."
The follower was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I understand."
【 There are no eternal enemies or partners, only eternal responsibility. What profound words! 】
【 He's clearly just an ordinary Strategist, yet he inherited Zhang Beihai's habit of being mysterious. He's really just putting on an act. 】
【 Uh, are you sure he's just an ordinary Strategist? 】
【 He is one of the Legendary Designers and one of the creators of the supermodel-level war instance! 】
【 Beihai... I learned about this person's experience through certain channels. His civilization was once implicated in a civilization war, and at eight years old, he witnessed the fall of his country. 】
【 Although Beihai Civilization eventually won the civilization war, it paid a particularly heavy price. 】
【 The people of Beihai Civilization were basically all wiped out! 】
【 Perhaps, it is precisely because he witnessed the horror of peer-level wars that Beihai does not harbor a desire to defeat advanced civilizations. 】
【 Yeah. 】
【 Compared to Beihai Civilization, Shenhe Civilization has had it too smooth from beginning to end. 】
【 After all, Shenhe Civilization was a high-level civilization from the very beginning. Even without that Designer from Shenhe, they would still stand at the forefront of the war era. 】
【 Yeah. 】
【 Civilizations of this level basically won't launch civilization wars at will, because they possess the ability to search for other civilizations. 】
【 Rather than struggling to compete with peers for no reward, it's better to beat up the weak. 】
【 Survival of the fittest, right. 】
Beihai's words deeply touched many viewers in the live stream, and everyone started discussing the topic in the chat.
Of course...
This discussion didn't last long.
Because...
Something even more terrifying happened on Shenhe's side: the thing sent by the Three-Body World was detected by Blue Star's [Sentinel].
At the last meeting of the Quantum's command system before the interception began,
Ding Yi saw the image of the Three-Body probe.
The three tracking ships dispatched by the three major fleets had replaced the Blue Shadow ship from the Blue Star International. The image was captured by the fleet's tracking ship at a distance of 500 meters from the target, which was the closest distance between a human ship and the probe to date.
"What an exquisite work of art."
People couldn't help but exclaim.
The size of the probe was about what was expected, 3.5 meters long.
When Ding Yi saw it, he had the same impression as everyone else: a drop of mercury.
The probe was in the shape of a perfect droplet.
The head was rounded.
The tail was very sharp.
The surface was an extremely smooth, totally reflective mirror.
The Milky Way was reflected on its surface as a fluid pattern of light, making this drop of mercury look pure and aesthetic.
Its droplet shape was so lifelike that observers sometimes really thought it was liquid and that it was impossible for it to have any internal mechanical structure.
"This must have been sent by the Three-Body World to negotiate with Blue Star, right?"
This was the topic with the highest consensus among everyone present, because the droplet really didn't look like it posed any threat.
However...
When the droplet approached the space fleet, Ding Yi suddenly remembered a sentence.
I will destroy you, what does it have to do with you!
At this moment, he suddenly realized, and then shouted to everyone: "Children, run—run—away!!"
Unfortunately,
It was already too late.
At the tip of the droplet's tail, a blue halo appeared.
This halo started out very small.
But it was very bright.
It shrouded everything around it in blue light.
It expanded rapidly.
The color changed from blue to yellow and finally to red. It was as if the halo was not produced by the droplet, but rather that the former had just emerged from the ring.
As the halo expanded,
Its luminosity also decreased.
When it expanded to about twice the maximum diameter of the droplet, it disappeared.
A second small blue halo appeared at the tip.
It expanded, changed color, and decreased in luminosity just like the previous one, then quickly disappeared.
The halos continued to appear and expand from the tail of the droplet in this way.
The frequency was two to three times per second.
Propelled by the halos, the droplet began to move and accelerated rapidly!