Chapter 154: Supercomputing Center

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Under Xiao Yu’s control, the Hebei slowly retreated, gradually distancing itself from the Swarm Queen. As the distance increased, fewer and fewer engine-type insects could reach the Hebei, and eventually, Xiao Yu managed to eliminate all those clinging to it. But Xiao Yu understood clearly: as long as the Hebei drew near again, those engine insects would return. And if the Hebei couldn’t get close, that meant the high-yield hydrogen bomb attack couldn’t be deployed—this operation plan had been thoroughly foiled by the Swarm Queen. Given the circumstances, Xiao Yu launched his second operational plan. A true war of attrition—sheer overwhelming numbers! The Swarm Queen’s strength lay in her ability to endlessly spawn offspring so long as she had enough raw material. But this was also Xiao Yu’s strength! With enough computational power and resources, Xiao Yu could just as easily produce unlimited quantities of small-scale attack weapons! Although his current computational capacity wasn’t ideal, he could solve this by mass-producing automated systems. Previously, Xiao Yu had avoided automation and insisted on personally operating every device, to ensure maximum coordination and precision. But in a war of attrition against the Swarm Queen, such precision and coordination weren’t necessary. The limited intelligence of automated systems would suffice. Once the scale was large enough, the advantage of intelligence would be neutralized by sheer volume. Both mechanical civilizations and the Swarm rely on mass production and manufacturing power. Xiao Yu didn’t believe that his own manufacturing capability was inferior to the Swarm’s. “Then let’s fall back to Planet Two and Planet One!” With this decision, Xiao Yu had the mighty Hebei lead the way, cutting a bloody path through the endless insect swarm as it led the vast fleet on a retreat. Once they left Planet Three, the number of Swarm units decreased significantly. The Swarm Queen seemed to understand the importance of stabilizing the rear. After Xiao Yu’s withdrawal, she didn’t pursue aggressively, instead stationing most of her bugs on the various moons orbiting Planet Three. Planet Three had over a dozen moons, five of which were in hydrostatic equilibrium. Planet Two had even more—nine moons in hydrostatic equilibrium. Xiao Yu planned to use Planet Two as his fuel resource base, and its nine moons as primary manufacturing hubs in his war against the Swarm. Over 100,000 ships descended into the Planet Two system. Prior to this, Xiao Yu had already established several large-scale bases on Planet Two’s moons for fuel extraction. These bases would now become his first wave of industrial strength. “Currently, the Swarm Queen is producing 1.5 million offspring per day. Within a month, I need to surpass that figure!” With his short-term goal set, Xiao Yu launched into a frenzy of construction. A large number of satellites were launched. Each moon over 500 km in diameter was soon surrounded by hundreds or even thousands of artificial satellites. Even moons smaller than 500 km, with minimal gravity, weren’t spared. Xiao Yu sent landing robots to perform on-site geological surveys. A massive construction effort required vast resources. Xiao Yu initiated a comprehensive survey of the entire Planet Two’s surroundings, mapping out every location containing usable mineral deposits on the moons and building extraction bases accordingly. One million robots landed on the largest moon, equipped with prefabricated building materials. Their first task: to construct mining facilities. Only with a massive supply of raw materials could Xiao Yu proceed with the large-scale infrastructure that followed. This first wave of one million robots was just the beginning. Xiao Yu dispatched a fleet of 10,000 ships back to Planet One to retrieve the tens of millions of construction robots and various long-lead-time equipment stored on its moons. At this stage, the construction capacity of Planet One was no longer critical. The several hundred million combat robots stationed there were fully capable of defending the Arrow Beasts from endless Swarm assaults for at least ten years. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu’s war plan would take only five. He aimed to win this colossal war spanning the entire star system within five years. It was foreseeable that, in the years to come, the entire Aquila Three system would be blanketed with Swarm corpses and mechanical wreckage. Under Xiao Yu’s control, the initial one million robots demonstrated formidable productivity. In just ten days, they built over a hundred mining bases on that moon. Each of those bases could supply several million tons of raw material per day. After processing and refining, these millions of tons of material would become powerful weapons against the Swarm. While the mining bases were under construction, Xiao Yu pulled another few hundred thousand robots from his ships and began building foundries. Simultaneously, a massive robot production line was being established. Once the tens of millions of robots from Planet One arrived, the pace of construction accelerated dramatically. Under Xiao Yu’s control, these millions of precise, tireless, infallible workers—who required no rest—brought his envisioned factories into reality, one after another. In just one month, Xiao Yu had achieved basic, comprehensive construction capability. At that point, he began his most critical project yet: Building a supermassive computing center. This computing center would serve as the brain for the long war to come. Xiao Yu would step back from micromanaging every weapon system and leave that to the center, which would eventually control trillions—perhaps tens of trillions—of miniature devices. This supercomputing center would not consist of a single giant mainframe, but tens of thousands of them. Due to the limitations of distributed architecture, these systems wouldn’t function as a single combined unit but would operate independently. Each machine would have 80% of the computational power of the Hebei’s supercomputer. Once complete, their total computing power would exceed that of the Hebei by nearly ten thousand times. But supercomputers are energy hogs. On Earth, supercomputers built with Earth-era tech consumed as much power as a small city. These machines, far more advanced and powerful, had been optimized by Xiao Yu, but their energy consumption was still staggering. At full operation, this computing center would consume more power than the entire fleet of 100,000 warships under wartime conditions. To meet this astronomical energy demand, Xiao Yu would construct thousands of large-scale nuclear fusion plants around the computing center. Fortunately, nearby Planet Two provided virtually limitless fusion fuel, so energy supply was no concern. While building the supercomputing center, Xiao Yu also began developing software for initial intelligence units. To ensure future weapons had maximum coordination and precision on the battlefield, robust and complex software was essential. This software would account for every possible situation these micro-scale combat tools might face and include appropriate solutions. Given the rapidly changing battlefield environment, Xiao Yu couldn’t foresee everything, so the software needed basic self-learning and rudimentary logical reasoning capabilities. Beyond combat, the computing center would also manage all machinery across nearly a hundred moons—every extraction site, every construction facility. Xiao Yu would focus solely on the grand strategy, leaving operational details to the system. He was finally freeing himself from the endless sea of calculations, shifting his attention to commanding the ten thousand-plus ships under his control. The first facility to be completed on the moon was the robot factory. This factory alone could produce 100,000 robots per day, which were quickly dispatched to every construction base to fuel the growing industrial wave. Hundreds more such factories were under construction. Once completed, they would churn out robots at a terrifying rate of several million units per day. Even so, Xiao Yu estimated this would only barely keep pace with his planned rate of expansion. The sheer number of factories he needed to build across dozens of celestial bodies was like a bottomless black hole—no one knew how many robots would be enough. Planet Two would become Xiao Yu’s massive rear base. From here, countless factories would produce his own “spawn” to battle the Swarm Queen. This was Xiao Yu’s plan. Since assassination tactics or clever ploys had failed, he would now win with strength, face-to-face. “Want to compete in manufacturing power...?” Xiao Yu sneered coldly in his heart. “Don’t forget—I am a hybrid of a Technological Civilization and a Mechanical Civilization! You think I’d lose in a production war?”

Chapter 154: Supercomputing Center

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