Eternal Night

Chapter 679 Silly kids, run!
"...That's Zhi, aren't you worried he might do something terrible?"

This is the tenth or so time that Xu Shilan has asked Xu Wanfang this question.

Xu Wanfang was extremely busy. He had almost no free time. Since arriving at this point in time, he had never closed his eyes to rest. He was busy almost every moment, either meeting with people, guiding work, designing plans, issuing instructions, making something by hand, or holding meetings with people inside and outside the team.

The things he was busy with had already surpassed all the content of this final battle with the Enders. Many of his actions seemed meaningless to outsiders, but only those closest to Xu Wanfang knew that Xu Wanfang was not only preparing for this final battle, but also busy with many clean-up tasks in this world after the final battle, including the smooth transition of the new government after the battle with the Enders, the cleanup and reconstruction of the eleven families, the system for accepting the Thirteen Singularity Companies and the Restricted Companies, and so on.

Xu Wanfang, as always, shouldered everything. Even though he survived the battle of the final producer and would immediately return to his own point in time, he still did all this.

Faced with Xu Shilan's question, Xu Wanfang had been too busy to answer before, but now that he had just finished a meeting and taken a sip of water, he couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard his sister's question again.

"Sister, are you not going to give up until you get the answer?"

Xu Shilan, however, said matter-of-factly, "It concerns your life and death, and the success or failure of the final battle. How could I not care?"

Xu Wanfang was silent for a few seconds. He picked up a device next to him, glanced at it, and then pressed a button on the screen to set a three-minute countdown. He then said to Xu Shilan while drinking water, "Alright, I'll take a break and answer your question at the same time."

Xu Wanfang thought for a moment before continuing, "First of all, we must clarify a concept, namely, that all the actions of all sentient beings have a purpose, right?"

Xu Shilan immediately said, "There are no madmen! There are fools, but their purposes can be considered weak."

Xu Wanfang was speechless for a moment, then said with a wry smile, "Yes, yes, there are no madmen, but fools are weak-minded... So do you think Zhi is a madman or a fool?"

Xu Shilan thought for a moment and said, "He's definitely not an idiot, but he's a madman, an absolute super madman without a doubt!"

Xu Wanfang shook his head and said, "I don't think so. A true madman is someone who is completely consumed by delusion. Only in that state can one be called a madman. Zhi is not a madman; it's just that his logic is not understood by outsiders."

Xu Shilan immediately asked, "Then can you understand Zhi's logic and thoughts? As far as I know, the super brain's emotional perception is ineffective against him, right?"

Xu Wanfang smiled and nodded in agreement, saying, "Yes, emotional perception is ineffective, and I really can't understand his thoughts most of the time, but that's not important. What's important is that what he has always done determines that he will definitely assist us in this matter."

Xu Shilan looked puzzled: "All this time? All this sabotage? All this destruction?"

"No, it's to avoid 'boredom'."

Xu Wanfang looked out the window at the blue Earth and said, "The reason why his thoughts make us think he's crazy is because he has his own set of logic and values, which we just can't understand. But that's okay. As long as we know his logic and values ​​and what he pursues is the idea of ​​'avoiding boredom,' he is definitely not boring at all now."

Xu Shilan was initially puzzled, then pondered silently, and finally realized the truth.

"You mean... Mr. Wu Pifu?"

Xu Wanfang nodded seriously and said, "That's right, Mr. Wu Pifu. His mystery is enough to keep Zhi from getting bored for a long time. If we're lucky, we should be able to see Zhi take the initiative to help us achieve some necessary conditions... Although so far, I don't know how Zhi will achieve them."

Just then, a lot of footsteps suddenly came from the outside corridor. Xu Wanfang was slightly taken aback. Without waiting for the people outside to come in, he immediately pointed at the light screen in front of his field of vision. Instantly, the light screen expanded and displayed a lot of information belonging to the Earth and the entire solar system network. However, at this moment, the network on this light screen disconnected one after another.

Xu Wanfang's eyes narrowed, and when someone knocked on the door, he already had a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Mr. President, something terrible has happened!" the men who rushed in shouted in unison.

Xu Wanfang nodded to them and said, "I understand. You can go and prepare for battle. I will convey the relevant personnel configuration and formation orders within an hour."

The group all looked relieved, saluted, and then ran towards the end of the corridor.

Xu Shilan was full of doubt. The network had just disconnected so quickly, and there were more than 10,000 small screens on the light screen in total, which she couldn't keep up with, so she had no idea what had happened.

Xu Wanfang explained, "Zhi indeed caused a major incident on Europa."

Xu Shilan immediately said anxiously, "At this time? To pull off a major event when there are still more than fifty hours until the final birth? We should have killed him earlier!"

Xu Wanfang shook his head: "Don't panic. He's orchestrating a major event that benefits us... I've talked to you about this before. It's illogical to expect the Eleven Families to betray the Progenitors, especially given the inevitable post-war purge of them. But now it's possible. They have no choice but to betray us. I need to urgently meet with the leaders of the Eleven Families to discuss the next joint operation plan with them."

Seeing Xu Wanfang about to get busy, Xu Shilan immediately asked, "What exactly did you do? How could the Eleven Families possibly agree to weaken themselves?"

Xu Wanfang smiled and said, "Knowing that they have become a minority... if they don't want to perish, they should contact me first through the channels I left for them..."

As soon as he finished speaking, communication beacons began flashing on Xu Wanfang's screen, one, two, three... a total of eleven communication beacons of different colors simultaneously transmitting signals. Meanwhile, outside Europa, Wu Pifu sat in an oval-shaped cockpit, but apart from the cockpit and a cube-shaped payload behind him, there was nothing else.

“…I can destroy this fleet without the Dragon Rider system,” Wu Pifu said.

A voice came through the communication equipment in the cockpit: "But that's not enough of a deterrent, is it?"

Wu Pifu remained silent, but it was clear he did not believe it.

Zhi wasn't impatient; he simply explained patiently, "I know your superbrain is special, possessing characteristics that make you invincible like Chu Minghao. But they don't know that, and people of this era don't know that either. They don't even have the concept of a superbrain. It took hundreds of years of accumulation to fully reveal its power during the Fourth World War. Before that, no matter how strong your superbrain was, to outsiders it was just something like, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But they didn't have a concept of how powerful it actually was. The power of the number one or ten is already very strong, so what if your number is ten thousand? It still doesn't seem special."

Wu Pifu glanced at the blocky attachment outside the cockpit behind him: "So this thing can be displayed now?"

"Of course, this is the Dragon Rider System."

Zhi Yong, with a slightly exaggerated expression, said, "This thing was even researched before World War III, and it's hailed as a next-generation weapon. However, it has always been limited by the fact that ordinary people's brainwaves are simply insufficient to drive a floating weapon in the conventional sense of combat. Apart from your supercomputers, any ordinary person who wants to drive a floating weapon... The size of the Dragoon system ranges from a city to a mountain range, and its energy consumption is enough to astound even a stellar-level civilization. Didn't you mention before that you're from the 21st century? In your 21st-century terms, a practical Dragoon system compared to other weapons is like the difference between a stone spear or a stone axe and an intercontinental ballistic missile. By the way, this intercontinental ballistic missile carries strategic nuclear weapons, you know~~"

Wu Pifu remained silent, sitting quietly in the cockpit. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and he blurted out, "You just mentioned the 21st century, right? You... know about the 21st-century history that was deleted by Azure after the Third World War Bio-Beast Frenzy?"

Zhi laughed loudly, "I know a lot of things. What? You want to know why the Azure government deleted history before World War III? I can tell you, but not now."

Wu Pifu remained silent. He knew that Zhi had a very wicked sense of humor, and the more he asked to know, the less likely Zhi would tell him.

After waiting a few seconds without receiving the expected question, she said with great interest, "There's a really interesting reason behind this, I'll tell you later depending on how we get to know each other~~"

Wu Pifu said in a deep voice, "Stop using that affected, trembling voice. And next time I see you sticking your tongue out, I'll make sure you taste what it's like to have no tongue. Now, shut up!"

"Hehehe... Hahahaha."

The sound of knowledge continued to be emitted.

Wu Pifu ignored it and just looked at the location of the Earth-Moon Third Fleet displayed on the cockpit.

The third ship of the Earth and Moon did not approach Europa because the fleet personnel already knew from the battle footage previously transmitted back to Earth that Wu Pifu possessed special abilities that allowed him to traverse extremely long distances on a cosmic scale in a short period of time.

So they stopped a million kilometers away from Europa, a distance more than three times the distance between Earth and the Moon!
After the Third Fleet of the local moon stopped, the first to deploy were the destroyers and gunboats. These ships formed a cone-shaped matrix blocking the front of the fleet, and then each ship burst out with light. This light formed a matrix network, creating an energy shield that was visible to the naked eye.

Immediately afterwards, on the mothership, which served as the core of the fleet, the enormous mirror device began to slowly descend and unfold, forming a colossal structure with a diameter of over 150,000 kilometers. It was extremely thin, like a thin film, and was powered by the mothership. At the same time, it gathered all the solar energy behind it and concentrated it at the very center of the structure.

On the mothership, dozens of high-ranking officers silently watched everything unfold. The elderly general at the head of the group remarked, "I never imagined that the first battle using the solar cannon would be against our own colonies..."

A chubby general standing nearby sneered, "But this thing was created to deal with the mastermind behind the bio-beasts, and now is the perfect time!"

Everyone nodded in approval.

Everyone saw the charging countdown on the virtual screen, and no one believed that any force could stop this solar cannon.

Until a flash of light appeared before their eyes, in the darkness of space, far beyond Europa, a dazzling light burst forth, instantly transforming into a vibrant rainbow. Everyone was stunned, except for a few lower-ranking military officers who murmured in trembling voices.

"This is, this is..."

"Near-light speed nano-floating devices!?"

"A light-based phenomenon just occurred, right!?"

"Was that a light sacrifice? Near the speed of light?"

The leading technical officer suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Run, you silly kids, run!!"

A little over three seconds later, the rainbow light band illuminated the Earth-Moon Third Fleet...

(End of this chapter)