The number Luka Two reported had undergone precise calculation. In the plan devised by Xiao Yu and Luka Two, each group of visiting citizens would stay on the habitation ship for about three days. Home One, Home Two, and Home Four, three ships in total, had opened for visits with restrictions. In other words, on average, roughly two hundred thousand citizens of the Purple Civilization would come to the Divine Ark Civilization each day for visits. Over three years that would be about two hundred and twenty million visits. The total population of the Purple Civilization was about thirty billion, which meant that on average, roughly one out of a dozen or so people would obtain this chance to visit.

Xiao Yu was deliberately suppressing the number of people who could come aboard the habitation ship to visit. The less attainable it was, the more the citizens of the Purple Civilization yearned for it. Xiao Yu was very familiar with this kind of scarcity marketing.

In this way a very favorable situation would form for Xiao Yu. It was foreseeable that these two hundred and twenty million citizens, after visiting the habitation ship and experiencing the comfortable living environment and advanced technological experiences aboard, would return to their own civilization and loudly praise how beautiful the scenery on the habitation ship was and how comfortable life was, and so on. These things would guide a trend within Purple Civilization society.

This trend would, from the deepest part of their hearts, erase the doubts and barriers that the citizens of the Purple Civilization held toward the Divine Ark Civilization.

Thus, with Xiao Yu’s tacit approval, intelligent beings of the Purple Civilization began to appear frequently and in an organized fashion aboard the habitation ship. To make it convenient for the people of the Purple Civilization to come visit, Xiao Yu specially drew more than a thousand small and medium-sized ships to serve as passenger ships, shuttling busily all day long between the Purple Civilization’s Star of Light and the habitation ship’s station. Every transport ship arriving at the port of the habitation ship would bring thousands of citizens of the Divine Ark Civilization, and every transport ship leaving the port would take away thousands of citizens of the Purple Civilization who were reluctant to part with the habitation ship, looking back at every step…

Everything inside the habitation ship was so magical and so attractive to the citizens of the Purple Civilization. Within the Purple Civilization there began to appear a trend of worshiping the Divine Ark Civilization, and within society there also began to appear extreme remarks such as, ‘If only I were a member of the Divine Ark Civilization,’ and ‘When will our Purple Civilization reach the level of the Divine Ark Civilization.’

For a civilization, the emergence of such a trend was very dangerous. To borrow a saying from Earth’s era, such thinking was entirely a blind worship of the foreign and should be severely criticized. When this worship of the foreign formed a trend and was recognized by mainstream public opinion, it meant that this civilization was in danger.

Xiao Yu believed that the leadership of the Purple Civilization had probably noticed this as well. But they had not taken any countermeasures. Xiao Yu could fully understand this. The reason was simple. Because he had not yet left, the leadership of the Purple Civilization did not dare to come forward and guide public opinion against this trend.

What if refuting this trend or attempting to guide public opinion in the opposite direction aroused the displeasure of the Divine Ark Civilization?

Xiao Yu could roughly surmise the current mindset of the Purple Civilization’s leadership. They were hoping that Xiao Yu would leave as soon as possible, and once he had gone, they would slowly take action against this trend and reverse the mentality of the citizens.

If everything went smoothly, this was indeed a feasible plan. Unfortunately, Xiao Yu had no intention of letting them off so easily.

“Unfortunately, you no longer have the chance. You have no chance to reverse this trend. In fact, joining the Divine Ark Civilization is not a bad thing for you.” Xiao Yu thought to himself. “Based on the current fundamental policy inside the Divine Ark Civilization of using intelligent beings as assistants to accelerate technological progress, in the future it is impossible that intelligent beings would be treated as slaves for labor. A Level 4 Civilization is really not very safe in the universe, whereas within the Divine Ark Civilization you will obtain a safer and more comfortable living environment. This is beneficial to you.”

Xiao Yu’s plan was still being carried out slowly. Besides the Purple Civilization side, Xiao Yu was also seizing the time for absorbing technology, refitting and repairing ships, stockpiling resources, training soldiers, and so on. Amid such busy work, time passed bit by bit.

There were two months left until the three-year period. During this time, because the fleet carried various types of docks, Xiao Yu used the mined materials to build roughly five hundred thousand new warships and added them to the fleet. Various reserves were restored to their most abundant stage. Due to the huge population base, and because citizens of the Divine Ark Civilization had always been keen on becoming soldiers, the losses in personnel were quickly replenished.

The analysis of technology taken from the Predator Civilizations had been ongoing. The plundered technologies were numerous and chaotic, and did not form a system with each other. This required Xiao Yu and the scientists under his command to research on their own to link and supplement them, ultimately forming a complete technological system to be added to the technology tree. This was a long-term task that could not be completed in a short time. Over these three years, it had only just begun. Moreover, this task could continue even during interstellar travel, so this aspect did not affect Xiao Yu’s travel plan.

“Then it is time to leave here and head for the next star system.” Xiao Yu mused. “The data from the Predator Civilizations marked the coordinates of more than twenty Level 5 Civilizations’ star systems, their rough spheres of influence, their civilizational strength, and other information. Hmm, the nearest Level 5 Civilization from here is about seven thousand three hundred light years away. It is time to go and have an exchange with them.”

The distance of seven thousand three hundred light years made Xiao Yu secretly feel fortunate. “Luckily I had the good fortune to encounter this Predator Civilizations and obtained detailed coordinate data of other Level 5 Civilizations from them. Otherwise, if I had to search slowly like this, who knows how many years it would take me to find them.”

Xiao Yu had been carrying out the plan aimed at the Purple Civilization for nearly three years. Now it was finally time to draw in the net.

“Committee members of the Military Committee, I am now issuing an urgent notice. From this moment, the Divine Ark Civilization will conduct its first live-ammunition exercise. The scale of this exercise will be two million warships. Of these, one million warships will be unmanned warships operated by me and will serve as the attacking side in this exercise. The biological army is to draw one million warships to serve as the defending side of this star system. I require that this piece of intelligence be known only to members of the Military Committee and not be disclosed to anyone else.”

“I have already drawn one million warships in advance and had them lurk around this star system. The timing of the attack and the direction of the attack are classified. Commanders of the biological army, bring out your wisdom to respond to the coming offensive.”

Receiving Xiao Yu’s urgent notice, the committee members who hurried into the emergency conference room looked at each other in dismay, not knowing what Xiao Yu’s sudden decision to conduct such an exercise signified. Only Luka Two had a knowing smile on his face.

“Since the order has been issued, we should execute it at once. I declare that from now on the biological army is under special-level alert. All soldiers of the First Corps, Second Corps, Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Corps are to return immediately to their combat posts and prepare for battle. All Military Committee members, all commanders and captains, take your positions at once. In ten minutes, the biological army will enter a state of war.” Seeing the committee members looking at one another, the smile on Luka Two’s face gradually disappeared, and his expression turned solemn.

“Understood!” the committee members answered in unison at once.

“This military exercise does not allow deployment of Continent-Class spaceships. The flagship on each side will be a single Nation-Class spaceship.” After Luka Two finished his announcement, Xiao Yu’s voice came through again. “In addition, during this exercise there are the following matters to pay attention to, one, the use of space weapons is not allowed; two, … ten, the side from the I control will be the Red side, and the biological army will be the Blue side. If the Red side penetrates to within ten million kilometers of the Purple Civilization’s home planet, then the Blue side loses. If within ten days the Red side fails to penetrate to within ten million kilometers of the Purple Civilization’s home planet, then the Red side loses. Over.”

“Understood!” the committee members once again answered in unison.

“Very good… then, war begins.” After saying this, Xiao Yu cut the connection.

Xiao Yu had long since begun arranging this exercise plan. At this moment, the fleet under Xiao Yu serving as the attacking side was quietly lurking about three hundred billion kilometers from the main star of the Purple Civilization’s home star system, secretly observing.

These ships had already undergone comprehensive disguise by Xiao Yu. From the exterior one could no longer see any resemblance to the ships of the Divine Ark Civilization. They looked somewhat similar to the Predator Civilizations’ ships that Xiao Yu had previously wiped out.

With Xiao Yu’s order transmitted here, this fleet began to advance…

At this very moment, Xiao Yu issued an urgent bulletin on the Purple Civilization’s Star of Light, “We have observed an unidentified fleet appearing about three hundred billion kilometers from here, with intentions still unclear. According to our assessment, it should be a remnant force of the Predator Civilizations. Our Divine Ark Civilization has already made preparations for the enemy. From this moment, in order to ensure safety, all arrangements and plans for visits and tours to our Divine Ark Civilization’s habitation ship are canceled without exception, and we hope that citizens of the Purple Civilization will also cancel any interstellar travel plans in the near term. Please rest assured, the Divine Ark Civilization will protect your safety.”