Infinity Frontier

Wait?
Number 1 looked at Xiao Yun and felt that his boss had become increasingly steady lately.

However, this is probably because there is simply no room for Xiao Yun to make a move in the current situation.

Indeed, since arriving in this world, Xiao Yun hasn't had many opportunities to make a difference. Without the waves, how can one make waves with just oars? These waves have their limits and can't take flight. If there's a giant steel ship in front of him, crashing into it would mean never having another chance to make waves.

It's not like an egg hitting a rock. Xiao Yun is reckless, but not stupid. He simply knows too little about this world. It's clear that he can't act recklessly in this situation. The strength and numbers of the Jupiter Lizards are indeed not to be underestimated. There's no need to invite trouble upon himself.

The situation at the Martian ruins is now quite clear. Due to the barrier, the Jupiter Lizards are currently helpless against the ruins and can only deploy their fleet there to guard them. According to Nierga Heavy Industries, if the Jupiter Lizards had already taken control of the ruins, everything would have ended long ago. Why would Earth have been able to continue its antics until now?
Therefore, Xiao Yun was not in a hurry to touch the Martian ruins. Otherwise, even if he had a way to get inside, he would only be doing the work for someone else.

"BOSS, based on our analysis of the Mulian warship and comparison with the ruins of the underground bases of Nierga Heavy Industries on Mars, we can basically confirm that the wreckage underground of Nierga Heavy Industries is the type of warship that Mulian is currently using."

Having decided to temporarily ignore the Martian ruins and instead head to the Jupiter Union headquarters to check on the situation, Xiao Yun turned to the speaker, Number One.

"Huh? Exactly the same?"

Number 1 nodded: "Exactly the same."

Xiao Yun was immediately surprised, and said with a strange expression, "Mars has only been developed here for a few years, and the Jupiter Lizard has only been around for about 100 years. How could they be the same?"

One suggested a possibility: "Is it possible that when the people of Jupiter fled to Jupiter, they actually discovered the ruins on Mars, and based on the wreckage they found, they built the same type of warship, which has been in use ever since?"

"Copy it exactly?" Xiao Yun stroked his chin and nodded slightly: "Well, it's not impossible."

The thing that was unearthed from the underground of Nierga Heavy Industries was the same model as the warship of Mulian, which was indeed somewhat surprising. However, considering that the people of Mulian lived on Mars for a period of time before fleeing to Jupiter, it is not surprising that the people of Mulian discovered ancient warship wreckage on Mars and then built an identical warship based on these wreckage.

However, the people of Mulian were somewhat foolish. They already had such advanced warships a hundred years ago, yet they didn't return them to Earth at that time, and there were no technological innovations in more than a hundred years.

Nierga Heavy Industries only discovered that the wreckage had been used to develop the current Nadeshiko over many years. Did the people of Muren focus all their skills on quantity?
This is really useless.

However, Xiao Yun became increasingly interested in Mu Lian.

Since there's nothing we can do about the Martian ruins right now, and staying here is just a waste of time, we might as well go to Jupiter to investigate the situation there.

"number 1."

"BOSS."

"Go to Jupiter."

"Yes."

With the capabilities of the Bewilder, interplanetary travel within the solar system is commonplace, and traveling from Mars to Jupiter wouldn't take too long.

Just two days later, the Bewilder discovered a huge city in the Jupiter region, as well as countless Jupiter warships.

When the large screen on the bridge of the Bewilderment ship displayed segmented images showing cities on asteroids, planetary factories, and giant cosmic cities comparable to cosmic colony fleets, Xiao Yun also felt a moment of bewilderment.

This is the Wood Alliance? A coalition of forces built within Jupiter's rings?

Is it really that huge? And isn't this scale a bit too terrifying? Are you sure it's not some kind of cosmic super-empire?
The number of warships is also beyond imagination. If they were all towed away to attack Earth, Earth would have no chance of resisting. Their sheer numbers would be enough to overwhelm the Earth Defense Force.

The largest cosmic city is practically a super fortress floating in space, much larger than Frontier, and even with Galaxy included, it still can't compare.

There are also countless insect-shaped drones that can be used as combat forces, as worker bees in a swarm, and have mastered hyperspace travel technology such as boson jumps. Objectively speaking, even if this Mu Lian were thrown into the world of Macross, he could probably dominate a region.

"Hiss." Xiao Yun gasped, "This Mu Lian is actually like this. With this kind of strength, he's still messing with Earth. Is the leader out of his mind?"

It's hard to say whether the leaders of Mulian are mentally unstable, but Xiao Yun guessed they probably are.

With such strength, why not sweep away the Earth and start the Age of Space Exploration? And why have they been locked in a war with Earth for over a year? Either they have deep-seated hatred and want to kill the Earthlings in despair, or their leaders are out of their minds, or there are dissenting voices within the Mulian organization and someone is dragging them down and acting as a traitor.

Xiao Yun didn't know the exact reason, but he knew that what he saw was something that the other side of Earth couldn't contend with, even if everyone worked together.

If Xiao Yun had known Mu Lian was in this state, he would have come much earlier. But to be honest, even if he had known Mu Lian was in this condition, he wouldn't have been able to come, since the Bewilderment Ship had only been built for a short time.

"Maintain your posture, stay invisible, and get close to the past."

Xiao Yun's eyes lit up as he looked at the largest cosmic city. His long-suppressed desire finally gave way, and he couldn't wait to go inside and explore it. After all, such complex terrain was the best environment for people like them, as they could only fully unleash their strength in such a complex environment.

Just by looking at it, you can tell that this place is much more interesting than Earth and Mars.

The people on the bridge did not hesitate at all in response to Xiao Yun's orders. With the assistance of AI, the members of the Scythe Squad, who were responsible for operating the ship, slowly maneuvered the vessel toward the largest space city.

However, the Bewilder did not get completely close to the cosmic city, but gradually stopped after getting a certain distance away.

Xiao Yun had already changed into his combat suit, along with Number 2, Mei Er, and Mei San.

The four people arrived at the hatch, and as the safety door behind them descended, the hatch in front of them slowly opened.

Xiao Yun raised his hand and gently touched the side of the helmet. When he looked up, an image flashed on the monitor.

"Number 1, you're in charge of the Bewilderment. Hide it well and contact us if anything comes up." "Yes, Boss."

Xiao Yun pushed off with both feet and flew out of the open hatch into space, with the three people behind him quickly following.

The colors of the four combat suits that flew into space began to change, and their figures eventually disappeared and merged into the universe.

This cosmic city is a place similar to the Galaxy, but even less so; it is a closed environment rather than a metropolitan type like Frontier.

At least inside the Galaxy, there is still a city. Even if the city is not very big, it is still a city. At least it has a sky screen that can be opened and closed, and you can see the endless starry sky when you look up.

But this place is more like the closed environment of the original MACROSS, and it is different from the colonies that everyone is familiar with. The interior of this space city is divided into spaces of different sizes that serve different functions, and people live, study and work here.

Within the entire cosmic city, less than a third of the space is used for living and leisure. It is relatively crowded but at least lively. Rather than a city, it is more like a huge war fortress. Only because of demand has a portion of the space been used for the residents' lives. For this purpose, some areas have been designated as special leisure areas for people to relax, such as parks and cinemas.

These are things he only learned after arriving in the city; as for the rest, Xiao Yun's story is rather complicated.

Xiao Yun could only describe the people living here as pitiful, not only pitiful but also incredibly naive, even ignorant.

Diligent, conscientious, and hardworking, he devoted all his strength to his beliefs and the interests of the collective.

Almost everyone is like that.

This is the fifth day since Xiao Yun arrived at this place. Five days is enough time for him to gather enough intelligence about this place and about Mu Lian.

The strongest impression Xiao Yun got from this place was that it was closed off and ignorant. Everything was controlled by a very small number of people, even their thoughts.

The people here love a hot-blooded robot anime called Gekigane 3. Influenced by this anime, almost everyone here is meticulous, honest, and upright.

They all see themselves as, or aspire to be, like the protagonists of anime, people who would give everything to uphold justice and eliminate evil.

Those who lead everything use this ideology as a means to make the people living here believe that the Jupiter government is the only righteous force, while those who lead the Earth Sphere are evil, and the civilians who believe in and support the Earth Sphere leaders are also evil.

However, evil can be reformed with love... which is why the prisoner-holding places on Mars have that inexplicably harmonious appearance.

But beneath this facade of ideology and the cover of prisoner-of-war camps, countless Martians and Earthlings have already died in the war, punished by the righteous forces of the Mulian people.

Countless people, regardless of age, were utterly powerless and had their lives taken by Mu Lian.

Death is inevitable in war. Because of differing stances, there is no such thing as evil or justice. It is just a massacre carried out under the guise of justice. And those involved are actually fooled into believing that this is justice. Even Xiao Yun would not do such a thing.

Whose justice? In any case, this isn't justice based on factions or positions, but merely the filthy and despicable desires of a few individuals.

After several days of intelligence gathering, Xiao Yun had discovered a lot of information about the Mulian. For example, the warships that have appeared on Mars and the Mulian warships that have appeared in the Earth Sphere are more than 95% unmanned. The Earth Sphere side has paid such a high price to destroy nothing more than a bunch of tools that can be mass-produced indefinitely.

The terrifying fleet that Xiao Yun had seen on the bridge of the Bewilderment was just like that; 95 percent of them were unmanned warships that did not require human control.

The people here are descendants of Earth humans who originally lived on the Moon. They were exiled to Mars after losing the struggle for lunar independence. Before the Earth military could launch nuclear missiles at Mars, they escaped to Jupiter and eventually developed into a large nation.

Of course, the fact that Mu Lian was able to develop to this level is inseparable from the high-tech facilities that Mu Lian discovered. Some of these facilities may have been left by aliens. With the help of these facilities, Mu Lian's technology level has surpassed that of Earth, turning them from a group of space refugees into a huge force capable of counterattacking or even destroying Earth.

In this series of intelligence reports, Xiao Yun discovered another strange place.

The people of Mulian escaped from Mars and discovered the alien facilities here. They also began building Mulian's unmanned warships here, and it took them a full hundred years to develop to their current state. The warships they have today were not originally there, but were designed and manufactured over time.

A hundred years ago, Mulian didn't manage to build any warships, so what's the story behind the warship wreckage beneath the Nierga Heavy Industries branch? A coincidence?

What's the deal with these alien facilities on Jupiter?
Xiao Yun suddenly felt that his hard-won brain was not quite enough, and he felt that there might be some huge secret hidden in it.

In addition, over the course of a few days, Xiao Yun also discovered that Mu Lian now has an extremely powerful yet equally fragile leadership.

The strength lies in the fact that this leadership controls everything in the entire Mulian.

The vulnerability lies in the fact that this leadership controls everything in the entire Mulian.

The advantage is also the disadvantage. Mulian is an absurdly centralized place. As long as the controller who controls everything is destroyed, the normal operation of the entire Mulian can be paralyzed.

However, if destruction is replaced by control, then by simply controlling just a few people, Mu Lian, with its terrifying productivity and highly focused thoughts and goals, can easily become a tool in one's hands.

Unfortunately, the people Xiao Yun was looking for were not in this cosmic city, and this place was of no value to Xiao Yun.

They arrived silently and left just as silently. They didn't do anything deliberately in the city; they simply gathered enough information to understand the place before leaving and quickly returning to the Bewildering Ship.

Back on the Bewilderment, Xiao Yun immediately gave the order to Number One: "Find the location of the ruler of Mu Lian, capture him, and then take control of him."

"clear."

Now that they've discovered the biggest weakness of the Wood Alliance, they certainly can't let it go easily. In a direct confrontation, the forces on the Bewilderment alone are insufficient to contend with the entire Wood Alliance. However, when it comes to a stealthy decapitation strike, the Wood Alliance has no chance of stopping them. (End of Chapter)