"Why?"
"These are so many lives, and so many warships."
The Ship Secretary listened to Ju Yintuo's reply, feeling incredulous.
In his eyes, Ju Yintuo's calm face was reflected.
"This is a battlefield."
"As an officer, you should know that you absolutely cannot say such things."
"You just said that you have released all the energy from the warship."
"Then even if the warship is saved, you will have lost all combat capability."
"And once we fail, it means that the warship we went to save will also be completely annihilated."
"So, end it."
The Ship Secretary's previously expectant expression reined in.
It was replaced by a cold face.
"How did you find out?"
Ju Yintuo said, "I've already said that if a Federal professional officer were in this situation, he wouldn't ask to survive."
"And, that person just now was too deliberate."
First, he used intense words to provoke his emotions, and then he let himself state a possibility to make him waver.
Of course, what made Ju Yintuo suspicious was the warship losing contact itself.
Losing contact meant that trust needed to be re-established.
Ju Yintuo already had a pre-warning in his heart, and this Ship Secretary's act naturally made Ju Yintuo directly aware.
"I heard that Ship Commander, you tend to favor survival, believing that as long as people are alive and the warship remains, anything is possible."
"But I still couldn't deceive you, could I?"
The Ship Secretary said with some disappointment.
Ju Yintuo's gaze shifted to the other people in the image.
Their expressions were as cold as the Ship Secretary's.
If it were just the Ship Secretary, or a few people were traitors, Ju Yintuo would still find it normal.
However, in one warship, everyone was a traitor, which made Ju Yintuo feel a sense of unreality.
"What did you experience?"
"Why did you betray the Federation?"
The Ship Secretary smiled, saying with a matter-of-fact expression.
"We were never human; we were just lurking in the Federation."
Ju Yintuo's eyes moved to his face; he looked at him deeply and said nothing.
The communication was cut off.
Command cabin.
The other officers felt a chill.
"I didn't expect them to all be spies!"
One of the officers, after a few seconds, loudly retorted, "Impossible, there's someone there who grew up with me since childhood."
"Don't I know whether he's human or not?"
"But just now, I felt like I wasn't seeing him."
The officers looked at each other, unsure of the truth.
Some officers even suspected whether the person speaking was also a spy.
Seeing that there seemed to be signs of mutual suspicion within the command cabin, Ju Yintuo spoke to curb it.
"No need to guess."
"They are not spies."
"They are not our people either."
"Although I don't know what happened, it's highly probable that they, like their warship, have all been altered, fundamentally transformed."
"They are still themselves, perhaps just with some memories that don't belong to them."
Ju Yintuo's statement was not without basis.
The Federation has a vast database.
A Ship Secretary is not a low-ranking official.
In the hundreds of years since Ju Yintuo took over this Fleet, he had already become familiar with the information of every Ship Secretary.
The Ship Secretary he communicated with just now had a very clear identity.
It's not that it's impossible for him to be a spy, but at least the probability is very low.
He trusted his judgment.
"Get ready; this will be a tough battle."
"The warships behind us should have already started attacking us; let's directly enter evasion mode."
The Fleet under Ju Yintuo's command had all been modified by Ella from the rear.
They could enter evasion mode.
The reason they hadn't entered evasion mode before was that evasion mode couldn't avoid attacks from the ultra-microscopic world.
The Advancing Civilization is very strong in this regard.
In evasion mode, they are in a state where they cannot counterattack; entering evasion mode in front of the Advancing Civilization would be like being a live target.
But now, the Advancing Civilization has hidden itself.
It has once again returned the method of war to the macroscopic world.
For the Federal Fleet, this was not necessarily a bad thing.
The Federal Fleet entered evasion mode and disengaged from the battlefield.
The warships behind them couldn't lock on, and even if they did, they couldn't hit the target.
"They even have this trick."
Evasion, this is something the Advancing Civilization rarely encountered on the front lines.
On Arasi zr Zr22's side.
Because a considerable portion of Arasi zr Zr22's warships were also in the fleeing Fleet, Gaixi did not use evasion either.
Ba Qieli was completely ignorant of evasion.
However, through the controlled warships, it roughly understood the evasion state.
This kind of thing, at long distances, it also found tricky.
Unless macroscopic-level ultra-microscopic weapons are used in the macroscopic world.
That is, using immense energy to cause matter to oscillate within an area, or directional output.
However, they are currently in the ultra-microscopic world.
"We still have to let them go."
"World programming cannot last long; spatial restoration power will quickly fix the effects of the programming, unless there is a civilization's home universe that conforms to the rules in this place."
"Move in the ultra-microscopic world; catch up to them."
While flying, they continuously performed world programming on their path.
This ability is also relatively advanced.
The Advancing Civilization only mastered it within the last 100,000 years.
And it consumes quite a bit of energy.
In the ultra-microscopic world, this level of energy consumption can still be guaranteed.
However, they are currently in a low position.
Low-position matter is like rock, not flowing particles.
To obtain matter in a low position, one must "excavate."
That is what the Excavator Civilization excels at, and it is the origin of their name.
The Advancing Civilization has always wanted the Excavator Civilization's related technologies, but they have never reached an agreement in hundreds of thousands of years.
At most, they only purchased some outdated technologies, including the technology currently used by the Advancing Civilization's warships, which was phased out in the Excavator Civilization about 80,000 years ago.
After chasing for about 100 astronomical units.
The Advancing Civilization's warships temporarily left the low position, reaching the ultra-microscopic world or microscopic world, to "recharge."
Recharging is quite time-consuming.
Because this means first abandoning world programming, then leaving the low position, replenishing energy, then entering the low position, and then performing world programming again.
This entire process takes 10 to 15 megawatt-hours (6 to 9 hours).
Logically, flying continuously would save time, but it must be considered that they need to control macroscopic objects.
After leaving the low position, the low position will self-repair, meaning that macroscopic objects will change and no longer be under their control.
For example, warships might change direction due to restoration, or some precision equipment might not be damaged, allowing the Federal Fleet to regain control, and so on.
After this pursuit.
Although the speed difference between the two sides was nearly 1x.
But within a limited distance and with the Advancing Civilization's substandard technology, the distance was not significantly closed.
And when the distance truly closed.
Ju Yintuo had already rushed into the second layer of the civilization's home universe.
World programming can penetrate the civilization's home universe; this is basically a crushing-level technology against the civilization's home universe, belonging to top-tier Civilizations.
The civilization's home universe is only a sub-top-tier cosmic level, and what they used was not a true civilization's home universe, let alone humanity's.
But this would still create greater energy pressure on the Advancing Civilization Fleet, which was already relatively weak in performing world programming in a low position.
The Advancing Civilization stopped in front of the civilization's home universe.
It directly faced the Federal civilization's home universe through the world programming of the universe.
A powerful particle wind reappeared, this time appearing out of thin air.
It blew the civilization's home universe like rolling smoke, ceaselessly.
Ju Yintuo gave the order: "We cannot stay here; continue to retreat; this place will soon be blown away."
Luo Yanchen on that side had not seen the details of the first battle, and now he understood why Ju Yintuo had collapsed so quickly.
The enemy was the Advancing Civilization, which possessed almost infinite energy.
In this interstellar era where energy is justice, anything that cannot be infinitely supplied with energy is nonsense in front of the opponent.
"Damn it, this thing wasted so much of our time."
Luo Yanchen cursed, and also had the Fleet follow him in retreat.
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