CHAPTER 139: WEAKNESS

The movements of the Bluetoth Fleet immediately caught Tom’s attention.

In just over two years, the massive Bluetoth Fleet had returned. Not only that, but their forces were even stronger than last time!

This time, he sensed that the enemy fleet seemed to be heading toward Jupiter, so he immediately made arrangements to stockpile heavy troops there.

However, after the enemy fleet entered the solar system, it did not attack Jupiter. Instead, it remained hundreds of millions of kilometers away, dispatching a large number of small fleets to continuously harass every large planet simultaneously.

Tom gradually understood.

"They are probing the true strength of my defenses on each planet..."

After a period of probing, the enemy’s main fleet suddenly accelerated at full throttle, charging toward Saturn. It was clear they had chosen Saturn as their main target.

The enemy’s main fleet had extremely high maneuverability. Faced with such rapid movement, Tom had no time to redeploy forces from other planets!

But...

It didn’t matter.

Tom had not stockpiled heavy troops on any single planet.

Or rather, Tom had stockpiled heavy troops on every single planet.

The forces Tom had stockpiled were the large number of warships hidden in warehouses or in the star sea, as well as the clones sleeping in hibernation bases.

Once Tom’s awakening order was received, every large planet could instantly restore its combat power to the equivalent of Tom’s full strength!

All Tom needed to do was transfer his consciousness link, moving the consciousness link from other planets to Saturn.

After intense preparations for war, fierce combat erupted once again.

And so, Harrier’s eyes widened in disbelief once more.

"Saturn clearly has the weakest defenses and the fewest troops, so why are there also as many as 160,000 warships stationed here?"

How could this be? During this period, the opponent’s main forces were clearly still stationed on Neptune and had not been transferred away.

Is it a feint?

Harrier tried sending a fleet to attack. After observing the battlefield situation, he immediately rejected this conjecture.

Those were genuinely tens of thousands of elite warships; it was absolutely not a feint!

At this, Harrier found himself in a difficult position.

Should he really commit all 300,000 warships and fight an all-out war?

But what if the opponent redeployed forces from elsewhere, and still maintained that unimaginable logistical supply capability? Even with three times the forces as last time, could he truly achieve victory?

Or rather, could he achieve victory at a relatively small cost?

A Pyrrhic victory was equally unacceptable.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence.

Harrier and his staff discussed repeatedly and finally decided on the next step in their strategy.

Try another planet!

This time, the fleet randomly selected Venus, the planet with a thick atmosphere and a complete ecosystem.

But the forces the opponent deployed were still 160,000 warships!

Harrier didn’t believe it and tried another planet, and it was still 160,000!

"How is this possible?"

Cold sweat gradually seeped from the scales on Harrier’s forehead: "Eight large planets, each with 160,000? That’s a total force of 1.28 million warships combined?

Add to that such a massive and advanced unmanned combat system, plus such powerful logistical supply capabilities. What, what do we fight with?"

Their own technological and performance advantages had been completely nullified by this greater quantity and more powerful intelligent AI.

If this was the case, it would be best for them to escape as soon as possible.

"However, 160,000, 160,000... why is every planet 160,000? If they truly had such massive forces, why would the opponent still be so cautious in their defense?"

Harrier also cautiously launched another probe.

This time, he didn’t just probe one planet, but two planets simultaneously!

As a result, the number of warships deployed by one planet became 90,000, and the other was 70,000.

Added together, it was still 160,000!

"I need to speak with Chief Haiwei."

Opening the communication device, Harrier said gravely: "Although I don’t know why, I suspect that the opponent does not actually have 160,000 warships stockpiled on every single planet. Rather, at any given moment, across the entire solar system, the opponent can at most deploy 160,000 warships.

This might be due to Human Civilization having some extraordinary encounter, acquiring some kind of remote control technology beyond our imagination.

No matter which planet’s warships, they are actually operated by these fixed warriors, but because the number of warriors is limited, they can only control a maximum of 160,000!

If not for this, then this civilization is too strange, it cannot be explained!"

While this possibility seemed somewhat fantastical, in the vast universe, what strange things couldn’t happen?

The information from Harrier, along with the intelligence gathered during this period, immediately converged to Chief Haiwei. After analysis by numerous scientific advisory teams and think tanks, people ultimately believed that this indeed held a certain possibility.

"If that’s the case... the value of this Human Civilization is even higher than before."

Chief Haiwei’s eyes gleamed with hope: "Previously, we only intended to capture them and have them serve as material reserves for our interstellar migration efforts.

But we never expected that a technologically backward civilization could possess such advanced technological creations.

If we can seize this creation, the hope for our civilization’s continuation will increase significantly...

General Harrier suggests that since the opponent is highly likely to possess this technology, then our plan to try and exploit weaknesses by seeking out lightly defended areas for attack is completely ineffective.

At the same time, a strategy of dividing forces will also be completely ineffective.

Because the opponent only needs to build warships beforehand and place them in the corresponding positions, then control them directly during wartime. There are simply no lightly defended areas.

Dividing forces and attacking multiple planets simultaneously, besides still facing a fixed 160,000 warships, also means facing several times the unmanned combat forces of a single planet.

The safest method is still to concentrate superior forces, and while only facing one set of unmanned combat forces, forcibly break through and occupy a large planet to obtain sufficient resource supplies for subsequent operations.

Based on the reality that there are no weaknesses in the manned combat forces, what we can exploit are only the weaknesses in the unmanned combat forces.

General Harrier suggests launching a full-scale offensive to comprehensively test the strength of the opponent’s unmanned combat forces at each large planet—note, this is only a test, not a genuine attempt to occupy, although the intensity of the war will still be very high.

Once we truly find the opponent’s weak point in terms of unmanned combat forces, we will then concentrate our superior forces and take it down at any cost.

I believe this plan is feasible."

The high-ranking officials of the civilization exchanged glances and slowly expressed their agreement.