“This is terrifying, run!”
Faced with such a dreadful enemy, the captain's mental state completely collapsed.
He frantically ordered his ship to flee.
Unfortunately, the fusion missiles closed in rapidly. Accompanied by a sudden flare of light in the void, a terrifying impact instantly breached the flagship's hull, engulfing one side of the massive vessel.
Radiation flooded in, the hull deformed violently, and a horrific inferno consumed everything. Inside, the captain's head rang from the massive shock. It took him a moment to realize his ship had been hit.
“Quickly, check the damage!”
The man screamed desperately.
“Hull damage at 42%,” the AI's emotionless voice replied.
“Damn it.” The captain's mind was in shambles.
A small portion of the equipment was still functioning normally, unaffected by the nuclear blast or the resulting interference. Through the remaining instruments, he discovered that the two auxiliary ships he had deployed were completely shredded. The numerous space fighters were even more unfortunate, blasted into unrecognizable debris. They were essentially a total loss.
On Xia Jin's side, the original plan was to intercept these enemies, but after some thought, she decided to let the man return.
After all, he belonged to the Kawi Civilization.
She wanted to see how this civilization would handle such an incident.
...
After some time, the captain finally managed to send a distress signal back.
“You're saying you encountered a fleet of alien warships with a terrifying appearance, and they attacked you without a word?” The man sitting behind the desk raised an eyebrow, finding the report hard to believe.
According to the intelligence he possessed, the Zerg civilization was considered relatively friendly compared to other external civilizations they had encountered before.
However, the captain's response was entirely different.
“Yes, it was horrific. Those creatures are extremely aggressive. They attacked the moment we met.”
The man frowned and checked the flight logs.
“I understand.”
With that, he cut the communication.
No matter how they looked at it, the high command of the Kawi Civilization would not offend the Zerg civilization for the sake of a single captain.
Putting aside the fact that the opponent was composed of biological individuals whose combat strength was difficult to analyze on the surface, even excluding those factors, the current Kawi Civilization did not have much capacity to handle an interstellar war.
Sure enough...
A few months later, when the captain landed on the planet's surface, he was arrested.
The bewildered man stared at the cuffs on his hands and the force field generator used to prevent his escape, still not understanding what was happening.
Seeing the police officer in front of him, he immediately asked, “What's going on? Why are you arresting me?”
“You launched an unauthorized attack on an unknown civilization without reporting it. Your actions have caused a major threat to the safety of the entire Kawi Civilization. You are being arrested under the Public Safety and Survival Act.”
The captain's eyes widened.
He never expected this outcome.
“I don't understand. They're just an ordinary civilization.”
“An ordinary civilization? Perhaps,” the officer sneered, saying nothing more.
...
The Kawi high command was currently at a loss for words.
The Zerg had sent over the records of the encounter.
Judging by the situation on the battlefield, it was indeed the captain of their civilization who had initiated hostile behavior.
To avoid a diplomatic fallout, the Kawi authorities agreed to perform a public disposal of the captain under Zerg surveillance.
Xia Jin agreed.
At this moment, several men and women sat around a conference table at the highest level of the Kawi Civilization.
“Truly decisive. The moment our fleet deployed their cannons, the Zerg civilization launched an immediate attack.”
“Their decision-making speed is incredibly fast, without any hesitation. It seems this civilization possesses a certain level of danger. At the very least, certain actions are immediately judged as hostile by them. For instance, when facing an unknown target, we consider deploying cannons to be a standard precautionary measure that doesn't necessarily mean war. But the other side doesn't seem to think so.”
“Is it a species culture? Deploying cannons equals a declaration of war. While such an action does carry a degree of hostility, it's quite common in the universe.”
“But the behavior patterns of a biological civilization cannot be measured by common logic. From the beginning, their social structure has been vastly different from ours. Otherwise, humans wouldn't have developed technology to enter space; we would have evolved to biologically fly into the stars like those beings.”
“It feels like something out of a sci-fi movie.”
...
On Xia Jin's side, the communication between her fleet and the Kawi Civilization became increasingly close on the surface, showing no major threats.
But in the shadows, she was constantly producing new insects, dropping them into different star systems to collect minerals and absorb solar energy.
The Kawi Civilization likely had no idea that in just one short year, the Swarm's creep had completely enveloped three new planets, and the production speed of the Zerg was steadily rising.
Once the modifications of the old small leviathans were complete, new ships were continuously being constructed.
Since there was still a generational gap between her forces and the main warships of the Kawi Civilization, Xia Jin still focused on stockpiling resources and preparing for the next upgrade as her primary objective.
Meanwhile, the mining of the Zero Point Nucleus minerals had entered a state of maximum extraction.
Considering that the demand for these resources would only grow in the future, the expansion could not stop.
Xia Jin was now attempting to use her contact with the Kawi Civilization to gather as much information as possible about the Starsea Alliance. Specifically, she needed their star charts; otherwise, it would be extremely troublesome if she accidentally expanded into the territory of a major power.
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