"Second suicide attempt, a felony! Deduct 50 points, electrocute for 10 minutes, inject 10 units of itching agent!"

"Hehe… hehe…"

A sentient being let out a cackle, dark red drool flowing from its mouth, seemingly having lost its mind.

"Inject mental repair agent!"

Some liquid was injected into the sentient being's body, and it quickly closed its eyes, falling into a deep sleep.

Here, death and madness were strictly forbidden. Because both would cause sentient beings to lose their intelligence.

Under the combined calculation of the biological supercomputer and the quantum supercomputer, pieces of information appeared in Akainu's logical operation unit.

"Our highest objective is to capture the prey civilization.

The hydrogen bomb trap of the prey civilization can only be effective once. This time, the trap has been disarmed.

The number of warships we can deploy is 120 000, and we still have the strength to break through the opponent's defenses and defeat their fleet.

However, it should be noted that once driven to despair, the opponent may still detonate hydrogen bomb ships. While this would no longer pose a threat to us, it could lead to a mass suicide, resulting in a 0 % profit for us.

Therefore, we cannot launch a full-scale attack. Our next strategic objective is to break the opponent's spirit.

Only a mental breakdown can force the opponent to surrender.

Given this, an extreme pressure tactic is a better choice."

Akainu quickly made a decision.

Afterward, from the more than 60 000 warships that had barely escaped, over a thousand of the best preserved and most amply supplied warships gathered and once again charged toward Tom's defensive perimeter.

Those thousand-plus warships formed a "spear," piercing through a point in their own defensive line with an unyielding momentum, then charging fiercely toward the star.

Seeing this, Tom's heart immediately grew heavy.

Previously, his defensive line could stop the opponent's fleet because the opponent's fleet's target was the defensive line itself.

But now, the opponent's tactics had changed. They no longer entangled with his defensive line but were single-mindedly intent on breaking through.

In this way, Tom was completely unable to stop them.

How to stop them? The opponent not only had stronger mobility, greater combat power, longer endurance, and even far superior defensive capabilities, but they also refused to engage him, making it impossible to block them!

Their objective was also very clear: to rush to the star and destroy all of his hydrogen bomb ships, preventing him from being able to "detonate" the star again.

If tens of thousands of the opponent's warships had all rushed in, Tom would, of course, have detonated those hydrogen bomb ships without hesitation.

After all, the opponent would be buried with him.

But now, only a small team, with no more than a thousand warships, had rushed in.

So… should he still detonate the hydrogen bomb ships?

Detonating was not good, and not detonating was also not good.

For a moment, Tom was caught in a dilemma.

The next moment, Tom suddenly realized.

This was an extreme pressure tactic!

The opponent wanted to put him in a dilemma; they wanted to constantly walk the line between "a little stronger would make him determined to perish together, a little weaker would still leave him hope of survival," constantly maintaining a level of stimulation that kept his mind tense but not enough to make him determined, and then, under this pressure, slowly chip away at his means of resistance, slowly erode his will to resist, and ultimately break him!

"Damn it, when technology surpasses a certain level, you really can do whatever you want. If it were an ordinary intelligent civilization, it might really collapse and eventually surrender."

Constantly provoking at the edge of the bottom line, yet never truly crossing it — who could withstand playing like this? Even the strongest will would be broken.

Tom cursed under his breath: "This damn Mechanical Disaster really has some tricks up its sleeve.

However, I am no ordinary Electroweak Civilization!"

Tom had already thought of the next phase of countermeasures.

Although this extreme pressure tactic was somewhat unexpected, it did not affect the execution of the next phase of the plan.

Tom immediately issued orders to all clones, all AIs, and all warships and spaceships.

Those hydrogen bomb ships — abandon them! Now, the entire army moves out! Launch an active attack!

Target — the Mechanical Disaster main fleet!

Immediately, the tail flames of countless warships lit up simultaneously, accelerating at maximum speed, rushing toward tens of billions of kilometers away.

Countless bright spots converged, eventually forming a sea of stars. This sea of stars churned, flowing forward with an almost irresistible momentum.

Perceiving this, within the Supercomputing Mothership, even Akainu's logical operation unit was overloaded for a moment.

This situation greatly exceeded its expectations.

An Electroweak Civilization's fleet actively attacking a Strong Nuclear Civilization's fleet?

Such a situation would probably never occur throughout the entire Milky Way.

Yes, due to your trap, we did suffer heavy losses. However, even if we only have tens of thousands of warships left, we can still completely suppress you in terms of combat power.

Are you crazy? Or… another suicidal charge?

At this moment, tens of thousands of warships stationed outside the asteroid belt brazenly moved out, fiercely charging toward Tom's fleet, and in an instant, a large number of warships were destroyed.

Tom ignored this.

Kill if you want — whatever! Anyway, I have enough warships; a little loss is nothing.

Now, I just need to charge, charge, charge!

Charge to your main fleet!

Yes, your combat power is still formidable; I am no match. But don't forget, strong combat power does not equal strong defensive power!

I don't believe that your main fleet, with so many residential ships, industrial ships, resource ships, transport ships, etc., also possesses the same strong defensive power as warships!

Now that you only have so few warships left, given enough time, you can certainly annihilate me. But are so few warships enough to provide protection for such a massive non-combat fleet?

It's like a team of fully armed modern special forces protecting a group of unarmed non-combat personnel entering primitive territory.

The primitive people's spears and bows certainly cannot match firearms. But they win in sheer numbers.

Your "modern special forces" are powerful enough in combat, but too few in number. Even if they can protect all those non-combat personnel, the level of protection will inevitably not be high.

Since that's the case… then target your non-combat ships as the primary offensive objective!

At worst, all my warships will be lost and I'll start over. I want to see if your non-combat ships, especially your residential ships, can tolerate even 1 % losses!

Enduring constant casualties, Tom's fleet continued to advance. Then Tom saw that, tens of billions of kilometers away, the Mechanical Disaster main fleet finally showed some movement.

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