Chapter 139: Pre-war Deployment

In the early part of the year 133 of the Earth New Calendar, both sides, which had been confronting each other on both sides of the Oort Cloud for nearly a year, began a series of major moves.

On the Leite side, there were still three main fleets, but there were now three additional interstellar Cruiser-class warships that were 1 kilometer long. Each of these three warships carried 500 small Space Warships.

The commander of Leite did not fully adopt Inomi’s suggestion, but his measure still added a lot of strength to the fleet. At the same time, the Leite fleet would also split into three groups, launching attacks from the upper and lower sides of the Ecliptic Plane, and from the planetary disk of the Solar System.

At this critical moment, Inomi, a general of Leite, submitted an application to personally return to the Leite Mother Star.

The commander of Leite viewed Inomi as his right-hand man and relied heavily on him, so he was greatly puzzled by his actions at this time.

“Inomi, this place is the center of the war, determining the future of Leite. At a time like this, your departure seems inappropriate.”

Inomi still had that serious face, and he said worriedly: “General, in the clash of warships, we will have the upper hand, there is no doubt about this! But in the virtual space, the digital realm! Leite is facing a huge crisis! Both are enough to determine the future direction of Leite, I think I must return to the Leite Mother Star, just in case.”

The commander gasped, and he said in a shocked voice: “You mean our Digital Lives might be turned against us?”

“Any possibility exists. As long as the network is paralyzed, we could completely collapse without fighting! This kind of attack, the current Leite cannot avoid, and can only try to minimize the losses.”

The expression of the commander of Leite turned stern, and he said coldly: “Such a serious situation, why are you only saying this now!”

The rear of Leite was now empty; if trouble really appeared at the moment of the great war, then everything would be finished.

Inomi’s expression did not change, he just lowered his voice and said: “General, walls have ears. I have long been prepared, but I could not say, I could only do!”

…This Inomi, to actually go to such an extent. The commander of Leite looked at him with a complex expression, and then patted his shoulder heavily: “Go. Remember, put your safety first.”

Inomi nodded heavily, and then turned to leave.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes were quietly watching all this. Seeing this wise Leite general board the spaceship returning to Leite, they silently disappeared.

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At this time, Lin Lei had already comprehended the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth Dimensions of energy, corresponding to Disintegration, Order, Annihilation, and Creation respectively. What was very strange was that the comprehension of every Dimensional Element could bring him a Split Will avatar.

Now, one of his Split Wills was here with Lu Yuan, while the other three were all in the virtual realm, leading the Digital Lives to lie quietly in ambush within the Leite network.

Although the Leite general Inomi had foreseen that Earth had infiltrated Leite in terms of Digital Lives, he did not know how deep this infiltration was!

As soon as Inomi boarded the returning spaceship, this news was sent back to Earth. At the same time, three Ghost Warships silently disappeared into the starry sky of the Universe.

Judging by the speed of a Fifth-grade Civilization with 800 Curvature, for a distance of fifty Light Years, Inomi would have to fly for at least 23 days, which was enough time to intercept and kill him.

This Inomi, with his vision and boldness, if he had the chance to soar to the skies, would undoubtedly be a serious threat to Earth, so Lin Lei had already put him on the must-kill list.

During the hundred years of Earth’s development, the Leite People had constantly sent killers to Earth to carry out assassinations; this time, Earth naturally had to return the favor properly.

As for what Inomi called his early preparations, they did indeed play a small role. In this regard, he was very decisive, directly isolating the military network on the physical level completely, making it an independent system.

In other words, even if Earth’s Digital Lives invaded the Leite network from the Galaxy Network, they would find that they could never find the entrance to the military network.

But regarding the civilian aspect, Inomi was powerless. The Leite network could not be completely isolated from the Galaxy public network. As long as a citizen used a Subspace communicator, they could be sniffed out by the Digital Ghosts lurking in the public network, and a path for entry could be opened.

There were over five billion Leite citizens; this was simply impossible to ban, so Inomi could only give up on this part.

At this moment, in the Leite military network, a group of Digital Lives had long been lurking, including one of Lin Lei’s Split Will avatars. They were lying dormant, waiting only to suddenly erupt at a critical moment.

Humanity was also deploying intensely. The current number of third-generation warships was 3,200, and there were 150 Ghost Warships.

With Earth’s current industrial scale, the daily production of third-generation warships was 10 per day, while Ghost Warships could only reach a speed of one every half month.

But humanity was expanding the scale of warship manufacturing factories at a nearly crazy speed. The production capacity of third-generation warships was increasing at a speed of doubling every three months.

One year later, the production speed of human warships would reach 40 per day, but the production of Ghost Warships had many restrictions; it was estimated that after a year, the production capacity could only double.

As for combat personnel, that was not a problem at all. The latest generation of humans, whether male or female, had mostly received training in Space Warship combat. As long as they were needed, they could go to the battlefield at any time!

Just like now, facing a pincer attack from three directions, humanity relied on the military fortresses in each direction. Each fortress deployed over 1,000 third-generation warships, while the 150 Ghost Warships acted as an incomparably sharp bayonet, specifically tasked with breaking through and saving the situation.

Within the Solar System, Earth had a powerful home-field advantage, with speed being the biggest aspect. Humanity had specifically opened nearly one hundred space routes dedicated to Warp Flight.

Inside the routes, there were no meteorites, no interstellar dust; it was completely empty. At the same time, the Fortress Star would randomly choose a few routes to grant exemptions from space interference, and kept changing them constantly.

This ensured that humanity could support each other in the Solar System at any time, while the Leite People could only fight on their own in three separate groups.

One had to know that within a Star System, blind high-speed flight, even just ordinary Sub-light Speed flight, was extremely dangerous. A warship could be completely pierced through by a small, dense, and hard meteorite.

In each aspect, Leite had assigned one Space Fortress, one Space Cruiser, and nearly 2,000 Space Warships to deal with Earth’s space fortresses and 1,000 Space Warships.

Originally, the commander of Leite intended to gather all three groups at one point for a powerful breakthrough, but he was stopped by Inomi.

The reason Inomi gave was very sufficient. Regarding the warships controlled by Earth’s Digital Lives, the larger the scale of the battlefield, the greater the advantage they would display.

The combat power displayed by over 3,000 Earth warships that would not make mistakes and were well-organized could not simply be three times that of over 1,000 warships; instead, it would show an exponential increase.

At that time, without needing Space Fortresses, the concentrated firepower of 3,000 small Space Warships could completely destroy a Space Fortress.

In this regard, Leite warships could not do it, but Earth warships were not necessarily unable to. Therefore, they could only adopt a multi-directional attack method to disperse Earth’s military strength and minimize the advantage of Earth warships fighting together.

At this moment, Earth was also analyzing Leite’s strength and the gap between the enemy and themselves.

Lin Lei was still the first to put forward his opinion, because this data was obtained by the Earth Security Department he led.

“In terms of strategic-level Space Fortresses, the gap between us and Leite is not large, and we have mutual deterrence. Within the range of the Interstellar Main Gun, both sides can destroy the other with one shot. And as moving Space Fortresses, the range of the Leite side’s Interstellar Main Gun is even a bit shorter than ours, this is our advantage!”

“But the mobility of our fortresses is very poor, and in terms of the number of warships, we are at a huge disadvantage. Although adopting a precise battle array can narrow the gap in combat power, we can hold out for ten days at most, and after that, we will inevitably fail! This result is the only conclusion reached by our most powerful Digital Life, ‘Source’, after over a thousand simulations.”

The supreme leader of Earth was a kind-looking old man over sixty years old. He looked at Lu Yuan, this legendary senior intelligence official, and said with some worry: “In that case, we only have ten days in the virtual digital battlefield to turn the situation around! Lu Yuan, how much confidence do you have in this?”

“If no accidents happen, three days later, the moment the war starts, the Leite army will be in chaos! Among their fleets, only the Space Fortresses and Cruiser warships possess mature Digital Lives, totaling only six! We have already planted enough information bombs, enough to wipe out all these Digital Lives.”

“Remember, accidents are absolutely not allowed!” This was a battle for the life and death of humanity; any variable must be strangled.

At this time, the Digital Life “War” spoke: “Senators, our Ghost Warships that sneaked into the Leite Star System have sent back a message. Inomi, the actual pillar of Leite, was killed a minute ago!”

“Well done!” Lin Lei clapped his hands and said: “This Inomi was the only opponent on the Leite side worth paying attention to. Since he is gone, the accident I mentioned before will no longer exist.”