Chapter 2301: Chapter 2303: Keep Your Distance
Speaking of the two warships, Fang Yingwu also looked helpless, "Currently, there is no contact, but there is some bad news."
Southgate responded without hesitation, "Speak, don’t keep me guessing."
"According to the spectrum and energy particle analysis, the weapons and ammunition they use do not belong to any known type of weapon," Fang Yingwu replied helplessly.
The fact that the weapon types are unknown is not really important, as long as they can kill the bugs. But the key issue is, "Since the weapon types are not common... we may not be able to get what we want from their supply ships."
He didn’t think those two warships were wandering alone in space. Despite their strong defense and powerful firepower, space navigation still requires a large amount of supplies. There must be a supply ship or mothership behind them.
"Repeat it, I don’t want to hear this," Southgate interrupted him without hesitation. "I have already reported the situation to the theater command, and the difficulty won’t last long... You have already achieved a temporary victory, but still can’t contact those two warships?"
Fang Yingwu didn’t like Southgate’s turn of phrase, but he understood that the legion commander didn’t want to hear any more complaints. Moreover, he could imagine that the situation in the galaxy might not be better than that of the Seventh Army—at least he had the option to maneuver, but the galaxy could not.
So he replied in a deep voice, "I dispatched at least five scout ships to try to make contact, but so far there’s been no news."
"No news," Southgate’s face immediately darkened. "I need you to explain what this means?"
If it were the commander of the Eighth Army or the Ninth Army, he would begin to swear—how could you treat the biggest variable on the battlefield, the key to your victory, in such a manner?
"Literally," Fang Yingwu was not afraid of him and had plenty of reasons. "I have to ensure the pace of pursuing the defeated Insect Race. Maximizing their pursuit is what I should focus on. As for those two warships, they are strong, but just strong."
He had to admit he was indeed a competent commander and immediately saw the Tianqin cultivator’s shortcoming—it did not matter how strong they were, they were only two warships. They could turn the local battle situation around, but their killing range was really too small.
This was also in line with Feng Jun and others’ assessment of themselves. A slight negligence in maneuvering could cause them to be submerged by the insect tide.
Fang Yingwu didn’t dare to bet on whether the other side could summon a large number of reinforcements, so he could only choose to make contact rather than striving fully in pursuit.
Southgate also understood, realizing that his actions were not wrong, and could only shake his head, "Try to make contact anyway."
Not long after, Fang Yingwu received a report from the rear, "The other party is unwilling to make contact, signaling to keep a distance with flashing lights."
Several scout ships once maintained a close distance to the warships, but the two warships continued to independently slaughter the Insect Race, ignoring the Seventh Army’s communication requests. And because the warships remained close to the Insect Race, two scout ships were also hit by insect attacks.
The scout ships were flexible and fast with good stealth, but not known for their defense. The injured one had to retreat.
The captain of one scout ship was infuriated, ignoring the Insect Race’s attacks, tried hard to catch up, but ended up being blown up by the insects.
This was exactly the outcome he wanted—you won’t acknowledge me? Then watch me die.
Fortunately, the two spindle-shaped flying boats did not stand by and watch him get slaughtered. They stopped, using their hulls to shield his personal armor, but did not assist further, instead waiting for other scout ships to come closer.
This behavior was somewhat cold, but there was a hint of an allied flavor. Before the rescue scout ships could reach, one of the flying boats flashed a light signal, "Keep distance, do not approach."
Another scout ship assisted its comrade while also signaling with lights, "Why? Please report your number!"
The spindle-shaped flying boat remained aloof, "There is no need for you to know, keep distance... this is an order!"
This kind of contact was far from pleasant, but it was better than no contact. The other side’s position wasn’t fundamentally wrong, just too cold.
Later on, other scout ships followed from a distance, but received the signal again, "Keep distance, do not approach!"
By this time, the scout ships dared not make decisions on their own and requested instructions from higher up about how to handle the situation.
Upon hearing the news, Fang Yingwu mused to himself, "Could it be... really a new warship test?"
He had some understanding of those weapon-testing lunatics, and high aloofness was quite normal. If they showed such an attitude and he really issued a conscription order, the consequences would indeed be unpredictable.
So, his instruction to the scout ships was, "Just follow from afar, don’t get too close, and don’t try to communicate anymore—just know where they’re going. I’ll arrange for this to be reported and dealt with."
The report would certainly go through the Third Legion, and Southgate angrily communicated again, "Why not forcibly draft them?"
Fang Yingwu was not angry but calmly replied, "If they possess a high enough security clearance, upon revealing their identity, I’m worried the Seventh Army’s combat strength wouldn’t even be applicable in this battle."
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This concern... objectively exists. If they requisition the other party, and the other party doesn’t want to fight, they’d also reveal their identity. At that time, it’s not just a matter of detaining one or two scout ships—when the scout ship is not in a silent period, the data will be the same as the rear’s in real time.
Fang Yingwu even suspected that as the commander of The Seventh Army, he might be taken away by the other party for tea.
"Nonsense!" Southgate snorted coldly without hesitation, "Do you know what my clearance level is? I’ve never heard of intelligence with such a high clearance!"
Fang Yingwu didn’t argue with him, just replied lightly, "But your clearance level doesn’t know what kind of warship this is either."
Southgate was half annoyed again, snorted coldly and said nothing more.
Actually, using light signals to respond to The Seventh Army was an idea Feng Jun came up with. The cultivators were also a bit tired of the other party’s persistent attempts to contact them.
They didn’t know what kind of mechanism the other party used to activate the signal, but the cultivators sensed a hint of those complex electromagnetic signals and could determine that it should be intended to contact their side.
As for the purpose of the contact... do we even need to ask?
True Immortal Hua Sheng even expressed with a strange expression, "Could these guys be dreaming of summoning us?"
The cultivators of Tianqin are very familiar with such summoning, and it can be said that almost every dimension has similar situations.
However, according to Hua Sheng True Immortal’s meaning, it’s normal for Yuangang Sect to summon others, but for the opposite fleet to want to summon their group, that would be a huge joke.
Feng Jun shook his head with a smile. In his eyes, Hua Sheng was still a fairly easy-going person. He didn’t expect using double standards could be so natural, "We’re all cultivators; how could we be summoned by mortals?"
Hua Sheng turned his head to look at him, "Why do I feel like you’re being sarcastic?"
"I dislike being summoned even more than you think," Feng Jun replied indifferently. He purely hated all kinds of coercive behaviors. If it was for his hometown and country, being summoned would be fine, but for a completely unrelated situation... why summon me?
"I don’t believe it," Hua Sheng shook his head with a smile. "Unless you can come up with an idea to shake off these annoying flying boats."
When it comes to ideas, Feng Jun can come up with them effortlessly, "Isn’t that simple? They’re in the starry sky, even light can transmit signals. Now it’s just a matter of seeing who can figure out how light transmits signals."
This task ended up falling on True Sage Diao Sou—not only because of his high cultivation level, but also because he is well versed in the Way of Illusion and Reality.
True Sage Diao Sou didn’t refuse, exited the flying boat for a spin, soul searched two soldiers nearing death, and instantly figured out where to find the details of the light signal. Then... he came back with the details.
Feng Jun couldn’t help but secretly marvel at how terrifying this dimension of the Cultivation World is—not to mention the powerful individual combat strength, just the Soul Searching Technique can easily replicate techniques from the technological side.
It is also estimated that True Sage Diao Sou is more mindful of cause and effect, so he didn’t directly soul search ordinary mortals but found two guys doomed not to survive. With his realm, soul searching mortals likely wouldn’t have any repercussions, but the cause and effect wouldn’t be avoidable.
However, True Sage Diao Sou stated that things aren’t as simple as you think, "I also tried to soul search ordinary people, but their divine sense is protected by mundane objects, breaking through is easy, but the soul search effect can’t be guaranteed, and... it easily raises the other party’s alarm."
Precisely because of these reasons and the cause and effect of the otherworldly side, he felt there was no need to go too far.
However, even with such protection, it can be seen that the technological side facing the Cultivation World basically can only passively defend.
Yi Jue, who loves to contemplate strange things, commented upon hearing this, "Protect divine sense... can be done with mundane objects?"
"In theory, it’s possible," Feng Jun spoke again. He’s familiar with things like Faraday Cage, and he believes divine sense might also exist as a kind of wave, "But it should be breakable."
Elder Cang Jing couldn’t help but say, "Mountain Master Feng, you really know everything, don’t you?"
No one paid any attention to what she said. Although the technological world’s items are amazing, the cultivators of the Cultivation World are also very proud, even if everyone can forcefully soul search to gain some knowledge, but... do we need these things?
In this world, the Insect Race should be maintaining an offensive stance against humans. The cultivators despite the Insect Race naturally wouldn’t care about the human race’s technology here... can’t even defeat the Insect Race, why should we learn your things?
In the eyes of Tianqin’s cultivators, the humans of this dimension have fundamentally gone down the wrong path in terms of development direction.
Of course, this world likely doesn’t have Spirit Stones, so it’s normal for their development direction to be skewed. But since we already know they’re off track, why should the Cultivation World learn those incorrect things?
Isn’t it better to stick to our own heritage and cultivate earnestly?
