Trading Cosmic Battleship From The Start
Chapter 174 - 127: The Collector Reappears_2

Chapter 174: Chapter 127: The Collector Reappears_2

And the warriors who watched this scene began to truly realize that this is the darkness, the reality, the brutality of interstellar war.

The glory of the warrior, the spirit of the warrior?

These might exist as well, but all of this is built upon victory.

Only victory is the supreme and singular aim.

Shen Shi’s figure left, and the squad leader looked at the Worren who was still kneeling before him and said gravely, "Get up. We continue. If we don’t give our all, we’ll soon win ten battles!"

The Worren leader trembled as he stood up.

At this moment, even choosing death was not achievable for him.

So he could only give his all.

And Shen Shi, who had left, summoned the captains for a meeting.

"This is my fault," Shen Shi said as his first words, "I didn’t tell you the significance of the word ’prisoner’ in interstellar war. Maybe some among you still believe we should adhere to some traditional values. But remember, we are far from having the power to change the darkness of the interstellar realm, and being unique often comes at a price."

Just like those Primordial Energy Batteries on the warship.

Perhaps that violates some human ethical standards.

But without these batteries, human victories would incur greater costs.

"Report!" Chen Feng reported loudly, "This isn’t the commander’s fault; it’s our fault! The weak should never harbor any naivety."

"Just pay attention going forward," Shen Shi did not further discuss whose fault it was, he continued, "Some beautiful aspects of our culture should be preserved, but we need to be discerning with the subjects. Maybe when we become stronger, we’ll be qualified to protect and nurture some subordinate races. At that time, we should adopt a different approach, but the Worren clearly do not qualify for this. The current Worren are just a group of interstellar hyenas, thoroughly swallowed and assimilated by the darkness of the interstellar realm. Our kindness would just invite ridicule from them as naive."

"Yes!" Everyone answered in a deep voice.

"Prepare for the next battle; our war with the Worren has just begun." Shen Shi concluded.

During this time, he was also preparing for this.

Only now did he discover the issues in the simulation training.

However, his preparation is not just about dealing with the last Worren scouting fleet, but he starts to consider the problems he needs to face to win the entire war.

He began researching the entire Worren Fleet, studying the Daike Base.

According to historical records, the Human Fleet gained a significant victory in their first encounter with the Worren Fleet by controlling the Worren’s scouting units. This victory even brought the Human-Worren war to a conclusion forty-one years earlier.

But Shen Shi felt it was not enough.

Since he knows the future, wherever the future is not well-prepared, he will do a good job, and where it has done well, he will do even better!

The goal of the first phase is to prevent the fall of Blue Star and to completely defeat the Worren in the shortest time possible!

For this reason, Shen Shi received a list from Gong Chu, a list of equipment he can obtain, and he constantly thinks about how to make human victory even more thorough.

However, he gradually began to realize that the style of Gong Chu’s Dongfeng Corps is precisely a high integration between individual prowess and equipment.

These biological warships are all cases of this nature.

Without sufficient strength, one cannot fully leverage the true technical level of a warship.

The rest of the equipment is of the same condition.

After all, the Dongfeng Corps is a civilian mercenary corps, a privately operated enterprise, which will recruit many powerful retired soldiers. Even when starting from scratch, they will only train those with exceptional talent. This is their advantage, naturally needing to maximize this advantage.

But this creates limitations for Shen Shi in obtaining more powerful equipment.

——Even if some equipment were brought over, considering him and his current state, current humanity might find it difficult to use.

Quite a headache.

Shen Shi has instructed Gong Chu to figure out how to obtain other equipment, even though more advanced equipment in the future world also suffers from similar issues, at least not as severely biased as the Dongfeng Corps’ equipment.

Meanwhile.

Shen Shi can only train more diligently.

The last change to the future world, although it did not bring about a consciousness residue as before, Shen Shi felt that his Primordial Energy Mastery had enhanced, confirming that altering the timeline does indeed help him become stronger rapidly. But even so, only greater strength can better change destinies.

Thus training cannot be slackened.

Time passes quickly amidst hard work.

The final battle still presented no issues. The entire fleet was very familiar with this kind of tactic now.

After all, it was already the fourth time.

This time, the tactics became more mature with the control of the Curvature Engine, which was evident to all from the extent of damage and sacrifice.

Thanks to those Worren captives as training partners.

Since Shen Shi altered the "promise" last time, these Worren captives felt trapped in hell-like situations.

To avoid being turned into Primordial Energy Batteries, they must strive harder to achieve victory, and this pressure leads human warriors to grow more diligently. Every bit of their growth brings greater fear and pressure to the Worren captives.

This has become a path leading step by step into hell.

They tried begging, tried crying, but it made no difference. After a few Primordial Energy incursions exposing their innermost selves, every human warrior clearly saw the true nature of the Worren.

The warriors could already imagine that if they were the ones defeated, humanity would face a dire fate.

Moreover, with continuous Primordial Energy training, all the warriors could assess their emotions more rationally and calmly, long since unperturbed by unnecessary emotions.

And during the fourth battlefield cleanup, when Shen Shi was originally planning a victory celebration and a farewell funeral for fallen comrades, he unexpectedly received a message from the black market terminal.

It’s the Collector!

He’s appeared again?

Shen Shi was utterly surprised.

Back when he first acquired the fleet, having caused a huge change for the future, he contacted the Collector seeking even more formidable and top-notch warships.

However, in the lengthy seven or eight months, the Collector never replied.

He even asked Gong Chu.

Only then did he realize that the Collector had actually taken a part of humanity and immigrated away from the Milky Way Galaxy through the black market terminal, escaping; during this dangerous period, the Daike Civilization has likely discovered his existence and is stepping up investigations of him, so the Collector closed his shop in the black market, disappearing completely.

Because should Human Civilization be breached and the black market’s existence exposed, all trades might pose dangers.

Thus Shen Shi had almost given up on finding the Collector.

But he appeared again? And responded?

The response contained just one sentence.

"Dear Mr. Shen, I apologize for not replying sooner. If you still need to make a trade, please drop by the store for a discussion."

Solely by the translation, it was evident that plenty of respectful wording was present in this brief sentence.

Shen Shi thought for a moment, found a secluded place, and entered the black market.

During this long interstellar expedition, he hadn’t entered here many times.

Because there were so few shops and people.

At this time, everyone worried that they might be traced by the Daike Civilization through the black market; they couldn’t even guarantee whether some people owning a black market terminal had already allied with the Daike Civilization.

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