#1090 - 3. Humans? Space Pirate Fleet? Pretend to surrender, open fire!
Previously, the Toad Clan, located in the center of the alien universe, was engaged in robbery in the surrounding starfields.
They had thoroughly investigated the strength of the surrounding civilizations beforehand.
Each fleet sent to rob was accompanied by elites from the Huaxia military, naturally to restrain the Toad Clan.
This time was different!
They had to traverse countless galaxies to reach the depths of the universe's edge.
It would take a long time.
And it was fraught with unknown dangers.
Chen Hao couldn't risk the lives of Huaxia soldiers.
Therefore, he sent a group of death row inmates, and through wormhole channel quantum communication, remotely controlled these death row inmates from the universe where Earth was located—the death row inmates were scattered throughout the warships, serving as the highest decision-making level.
At this moment, Chen Hao took over the one with the highest status among the death row inmates, the supreme commander.
He looked at the series of data on the screen.
His brow furrowed deeply.
In theory, the higher the level of technology and civilization, the more likely they were to move to the depths of the universe.
The fleet departed from the central area of the universe, and logically, the first civilizations they encountered should be weaker, most likely just surpassing level 6.
But!
The technological means used by the warships in front of them were definitely not just above level 6!
Why hadn't the other side attacked?
The universe had entered the final stages of destruction, and the primary task of all civilizations was to survive the apocalypse.
What benefit was there in destroying an unfamiliar fleet for no reason?
"The other side…requests communication!" a high-level Toad Clan member exclaimed.
"Connect…"
Chen Hao's mind raced, and he quickly walked to the side.
He also gave a look to the other death row inmates controlled by the control team, and those people immediately walked to the side of the command room.
From this angle, they would not appear in the other side's field of vision.
"Connect them!" Chen Hao ordered.
"Yes!"
The next moment, a projection appeared.
The location of Chen Hao and the humans was within the blind spot of the other party's vision.
They couldn't see them.
But they could see the projection.
As soon as the projection appeared, Chen Hao was dumbfounded, his eyes widened.
It was…
Humans?!
Although they were not completely identical to Earthlings, and there were many subtle differences in appearance, in the vast universe with its extremely diverse forms of intelligent life…according to Brady's introduction, they definitely belonged to the Human Race!
Accompanied by an electronic synthesized voice, the words spoken by the other commander were simultaneously translated into the Toad Clan language: "This starfield belongs to us. Anyone passing through here must pay a toll!"
Damn it!
Chen Hao was stunned.
The sentence he had heard since childhood instantly appeared in his mind.
'This mountain was opened by me, this tree was planted by me. If you want to pass through, leave behind your money!'
The other party was a bandit!
Logically speaking, the closer to the central area of the universe, the lower the level of civilization should be.
But this fleet…
Was obviously not just above level 6, why did they appear here?
Finally, he found the reason!
These guys were a bunch of bandits. If they went to the more remote edge areas, they might encounter powerful civilizations when robbing, so they were in this relatively weak area purely for…safer robbery!
"Lord…"
The high-level Toad Clan member turned its head, staring blankly at Chen Hao: "You…"
Weren't you and the commander both members of the Human Race?
It was thinking, shouldn't the commander come forward? Since they were both members of the Human Race, it might be easier to talk, and perhaps the other party wouldn't rob them?
"We need some time," Chen Hao suddenly interrupted.
He immediately closed the communication!
…
Several warships that were only two or three hundred meters long surrounded hundreds of giant ships that were two thousand meters long.
Was it ridiculous?
No!
Once the technological difference reached level 1, the war would be a one-sided crush.
The humans in the small ships were not worried at all when they heard the other side say they needed time.
The level of technology could be deduced from the speed of the other party's fleet's warp engines—the difference in strength was too great, and the result was already doomed!
They were there to rob resources, not to blow the other side up.
Need time?
Then they would give them time.
On this side, after the communication was closed, Chen Hao fell into thought.
It was certain that the other party judged their civilization level based on the speed of the warships.
For almost all civilizations, this judgment was correct, except for the Toad Clan civilization…
The Toad Clan fleet was a patchwork monster!
The warships came from the Yunhe Star Civilization of level 4.8.
The warp engines were delivered by Huaxia: After a certain level 6 civilization's warp engine technology completed a leap, it was mass-produced, and then the level 4.8 civilization's warships were modified to match the new engines.
What about the weapon systems?
Some were from the warships themselves, only equivalent to a mere level 4.8 civilization, and some weapons were retrofitted.
And the weapons added later came from…
Hai Yina!
The last time they asked for weapons, they were benchmarked against a level 6 civilization.
What did that mean?
To ensure that the new weapons could inflict devastating blows on the enemy, the level of weapons Hai Yina gave was at least equivalent to a level 7 civilization!
In short, as a patchwork monster, the enemy's judgment of the Toad Clan's technological level was wrong.
But now there was a problem.
The Toad Clan fleet even had weapons exceeding level 7, but the other party was robbing in this starfield, and their strength was definitely not weak—exceeding level 6, and exceeding it by a lot.
Level 6.5?
Level 7?
Was there even a possibility of exceeding level 7?
The good news was that the other party's judgment of the Toad Clan's technological height, based on warp engine technology, was seriously underestimated and misjudged.
The bad news was that Chen Hao didn't know the other party's civilization level either.
Fight?
Or surrender?
Surrender wouldn't mean death, but all the resources on the warships would be looted by the bandits.
"Feign surrender!" he decided.
"Lord…"
The high-level Toad Clan member was startled: "We don't know the other party's specific technological level. Once the war starts…"
What did feigning surrender mean?
It meant pretending to surrender to deceive the enemy first.
And then…
Fight!
"But if all the resources are looted, can we still survive?" Chen Hao said coldly.
Food, energy, nutrient solutions, etc…
Once they were all taken away, it would definitely be too late to return to Yunhe Star. The time spent along the way would be measured in years, and everyone would starve to death. And if they continued forward…how could they be sure they would encounter a target to rob before starving to death?
Unless they could rob resources, they would still starve to death.
There was no choice!
As for whether they would die in the confrontation…
Chen Hao wasn't worried.
At worst, he would spend some time sending a new fleet.
Would the Toad Clan die?
He didn't care about the Toad Clan's life or death!
As for the humans in the fleet…
A group of death row inmates who should have died in Huaxia anyway, and whose consciousness had already been erased, what was the difference between them and the dead?
In the end, the entire fleet received the order and pretended to open their hatches.
Countless Toad Clan members put on battle suits that could survive in space and came out of the hatches, pretending to surrender.
On the other side.
Seeing the hatches open and the personnel coming out, the other party withdrew the spatial spheres that had trapped the fleet.
In their view, since people had come out of the warships, it meant that the other party had given up resisting and was preparing to let them loot the resources, so naturally they lowered their guard.
"Prepare to receive the supplies…" the other commander ordered.
"Fire!"
Chen Hao suddenly roared.
