I Really Didn’t Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World - Chapter 742 - Chapter 742: 'ulf fright Mot compromises CantMinus...

Chapter 742: ‘ulf fright Mot compromises CantMinus…

Based on Harrison Clark’s past experience, there’s likely only one Spherical Battleship in the Orion Arm for the Compound-Eyed Observer but 999,999 Prism Ships.

So the theoretical probability of him encountering a Spherical Battleship is one in a million.

However, perhaps due to luck or the fact that he was already outside the Morrowind Empire’s territory, the Blade Mantis that previously targeted him belonged to the Spherical Battleship.

Walking by the river often, the ship was bound to get its shoes wet eventually, especially since it had been patrolling outside for centuries.

It seems that the Spherical Battleship had already locked onto Harrison Clark, so it didn’t enter warp or light-speed states, but rather steadily approached him at slightly below the speed of light and stopped suddenly at a distance of two million kilometers from him.

Harrison Clark had once been made nauseous by the Spherical Battleship’s maneuver of instantly switching from high-speed propulsion to a state of absolute stillness.

His discomfort at the time was caused by a lack of understanding, as the situation he witnessed with his naked eye severely conflicted with his long-held stable worldview.

That wouldn’t happen now because Harrison Clark already understood the underlying principle.

Though seemingly incredible, this was nothing more than spatial manipulation achieved through curvature technology.

At this moment, 9 billion kilometers away, a broken human Fire Dragon Giant floated quietly in cosmic space.

This was Sky Peak 3121-917, a massive escape vessel from a developing star system on the edge of the Sky Peak Star Region.

Sky Peak represents the level, indicating that this is the largest escape vessel designed and manufactured by the Sky Peak Star Region.

3121 represents the era.

917 indicates that this ship is the 917th large-scale escape vessel manufactured and launched by the Sky Peak Star Region in the year 3121.

Sky Peak 917 had a total of one million crew members, with 30% being elderly people over 180 years old, 65% being children under 12, and the remaining 5% being professional technicians from various fields.

At this stage of the war, more than 70% of the top leaders of the Morrowind Empire had been killed.

As early as two or three decades ago, humanity’s primary strategic policy gradually shifted from fighting to the death to escaping at all costs.

But everything unfolded as Harrison Clark originally predicted: fleeing was no less difficult than defeating the enemy in the face of Compound-Eyed Observer warships capable of traveling at 500 times the speed of light.

Adding to the frustration, none of the escape vessels and scientific research ships that left early during these hundred years survived.

Humans once tried to give up supercurved motion and switch to conventional flight, but they still got caught.

Later, the distribution mechanism was changed, with some ships using supercurved flight and others using conventional flight.

Humans had indeed tried everything possible, but nothing worked.

On June 30, 3089, the farthest reaching high-speed scientific research vessel had reached more than 3,000 light-years away, almost leaving the Perseus Arm and heading outside the Milky Way Galaxy, but it was still overtaken by a Blade Mantis from behind in a subspace tunnel.

Subsequently, a black box transmitted the signal through the quantum network, officially declaring the deaths of all crew members on the scientific research vessel.

Since then, none of the scientific research ships and escape vessels sent out before the outbreak of the war survived.

Although escape vessels would actively sever connections and no one knew which routes each ship chose or where they were now, the command center kept statistics on the number and approximate distance estimates.

Afterwards, the data from the Escaping Plan Command Centre showed that no human vessel had left the edge of the Morrowind Empire for more than 1,500 light-years.

Currently, the farthest flying vessels were those 372 remaining ships out of the batch launched in early November 3020, which were now 1,380 light-years away from the imperial territory border.

However, half a month ago, this number was still over 3,000.

By 3094, the number of escape vessels estimated to have traveled over a thousand light-years was zero.

The vast escape plan, involving trillions of humans over hundreds of years, had been declared a total failure.

At first glance, the vastness of the universe seemed endless, and there were infinite directions one could go.

But if an enemy dozens of times faster than you was chasing you from behind, they would eventually find your traces no matter where you hid. Once they discovered you, they would relentlessly pursue you like marrow suzers, eradicating you completely under the stars, and they would never stop before doing so completely. In this case, the vast universe was nothing more than another invisible but objectively existing cage of despair.

At this moment, that was how human escapers felt.

Knowing that escape was a far-fetched dream, they had no choice but to pack their bags, board warships, carry their lives and memories, their knowledge, as well as protect the children and frozen embryos on the ship, and set off on a road of no return where they couldn’t see the end or hope.

At this moment, the people on the large escape vessel that had just been shattered in half thought they were doomed.

While flying through the curvature subspace, Sky Peak 917 was suddenly attacked by the Blade Mantis and blasted in half. As it dropped out of the subspace and entered the three-dimensional universe, over 100,000 people were accidentally drawn into cosmic vacuum and swiftly died.

The remaining casualties were countless.

But no one was panicking, as it was all within everyone’s expectations.

If they were discovered, they were as good as dead, so they might as well make their deaths count and buy time.

Some of them opened the quantum network to reestablish communication with the Morrowind Empire, report the ordeal of Sky Peak 917, and announce the appearance of the most despicable and cunning predator, the Spherical Battleship, in this star region. Then the Empire issued a public warning for other ships to adjust their routes and keep away from the danger zone.

The other portion, composed mostly of older and younger people, climbed onto the warship’s control platform and the small fighter operating cabins, preparing to fight for their lives.