Chapter 335: Chapter 334 Surrender… Surrendered!

Nuclear bombs were carpet bombing the area, and molten metal splattered everywhere like erupting magma.

All the Badit people were stupefied; the terrifying scene was akin to hell on Earth!

The instinctive fear of death forced them not to take another step forward, but to flee the way they had come.

Along the way, no one spoke. Everyone maintained a strange silence, feeling as light as if they were dreaming.

The last sound of despairing wail came through the earpieces… no, after half a wail, there was silence.

Many of the Badit people felt the entire Kunlun Mountain shaking and gradually realized what had happened.

“Your Highness… over there… it seems to be the direction of our Mother Ship…”

“…what should we do? Has the Mother Ship been attacked?”

Prince Bart’s face was grim; those few minutes felt like an eternity to him!

Although he tried to appear calm and unconcerned, his whole body was trembling slightly, giving him an intense desire to evacuate his bowels.

“We must stay calm, we must! Think, what can we do? Maybe it’s just a dream? No… it’s definitely not a dream…”

The entire situation had reversed in an instant, and even the Mother Ship might have been destroyed…

“I understand now!”

It turned out that those damned Humans had already restored communication and had staged a drama to deceive them!

Too cunning, too deceitful!

Most crucially, they had smugly fallen for it, thinking they had achieved the ultimate victory!

Having realized these key points, Prince Bart nearly burst into tears, but he had to forcefully hold back in front of his subordinates.

“Your Highness, what should we do now? Should we perhaps…” This commander was still in a state of confusion; the Mother Ship had been suddenly bombed, cutting off their retreat.

Most importantly, they were right in the enemy’s stronghold!

“Surrender?”

“Surrender, how could we surrender! Damn it! Our Mother Ship cannot be destroyed; it’s impossible!”

Yet many Badit people were disgruntled, as nothing could be stranger than this.

An hour before, they were reveling in the joy of victory; now, they had to contemplate surrender, a shift in mentality many of them found impossible to reconcile, stubbornly believing they could still achieve final victory.

Prince Bart gritted his teeth and commanded loudly, “Yes, we have not lost yet… Charge, attack the humans’ last command center! If we kill their leader, we can still win!”

His heartbeat raced, “You, and you, go check if the nuclear bombs in the Human weapons cache can be activated… If they can, we still have room for negotiations! Hurry!”

But this glimmer of hope was soon thoroughly extinguished by harsh reality. Now the Badit command center had been destroyed, and various robots fell into a leaderless predicament, whereas the human robots regained their command centers, and the casualty ratio began to reverse.

Furthermore, Humans had far more robots than the Badit people, and as the 8 Universal Factories aboard The Kunlun Mountain ramped up emergency production, communication devices gradually restored, and the defensive systems within the spaceship strengthened.

“The only option might be to send soldiers into battle…”

But as he watched his soldiers scurry away with their heads in their hands, devoid of fighting spirit, Prince Bart immediately extinguished the flicker of hope in his heart.

A few minutes later, the scientists in the rear delivered more bad news. The nuclear bombs in the arsenal were real, but even if they cracked the security codes, it was impossible to detonate them!

“Your Highness, the nuclear bombs here mainly rely on the fusion of the Deuterium Element, which has a long half-life and is theoretically a stable element. Thus, it can be preserved for a long period.”

Humans had long abandoned the crude method of using atomic bombs to ignite fusion bombs. The main methods of ignition were now lasers and microwaves.

This also meant that the entire weapons system was actually quite precise; just by removing a few small components, these Hydrogen Bombs, even if captured, could not be directly used.

What a joke, these things had been calculated in advance, how could human weapons possibly be used to threaten humanity?!

“Damn humans, damn, damn!” Upon hearing this dreadful news, all the Nobles roared in despair.

One of them couldn’t help but ask, “How long would it take to recreate these components?”

The scientist gave an awkward smile, “That’s not possible… all our industrial capacities were on the Mother Ship. Now that the Mother Ship has been destroyed… are we supposed to manufacture components by hand? Impossible.”

With this, the Badeit people were completely out of options.

It must be said, morale, that intangible thing, sometimes plays a huge role on the battlefield. When there was no life left in resistance, and nothing but death behind them, the resistance of the Badeit people significantly weakened.

Many Commanders were already engulfed in panic, even secretly thinking whether there was any point in continuing to resist.

Maybe it was time to surrender, if survival was possible… in the current situation, they were completely trapped.

“This human civilization seems to have a tradition of surrendering… After surrendering, at least survival is plausible, right? If we continue to resist and cause more destruction, what if they decide to eradicate us completely?”

“At least we still have some value…”

The voice supporting surrender began to grow louder, and many Nobles swayed back and forth.

Prince Bart slowly recovered from the panic and whispered, “Gentlemen, to minimize losses, we must do something… we can’t just lay down our weapons yet, let’s discuss conditions with them first, we must ensure our safety… we have no way out now, alas, let’s take it one step at a time… what do you think we should do?”

“The disadvantage is too great, it’s already very difficult for us to win.”

The people around were stunned, some secretly sighed in relief; the situation was better than people, what the Prince had suggested was already the best approach.

But there were still a few stubborn ones, “Your Highness, let us counterattack a little longer… we will surely achieve the ultimate victory!”

“Yes, we cannot surrender yet!”

“We can negotiate with them, or else, destroy the parts we have already occupied!”

Prince Bart sighed, unexpectedly shook his head, “Such threats are useless, even if we destroy the parts we occupy, it is simply an economic loss, we can’t both perish together. They want our lives!”

“Our only guarantee might be the knowledge in our minds, yes, this is a very young interstellar civilization, they lack a lot of knowledge!”

“If they want to obtain this knowledge, they must preserve our lives. But everyone must remember, we shouldn’t disclose all our knowledge at once, or we might still be killed…”

Such resistance was clearly futile, and as the casualties in the entire unit grew larger and even the robots were exhausted, these stubborn folks gradually came to their senses and accepted the reality of their defeat.

The last batch of the Badeit Civilization’s invaders finally laid down their weapons and chose–true surrender!

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