[But attack is different. Attack can exist independently from the two. There is also attack without defense, but without attack there is no defense. 】

[The relationship between the two is like light and shadow. Light can exist without shadow, but if light does not exist, shadow also does not exist. Therefore, attack and defense seem to be relative concepts, just like positive and negative matter, they seem to be able to neutralize each other.

, but in fact, they belong to the same rules of the universe.】

"In other words, the defense principle is actually a further extension based on the attack principle. As long as one of them is understood, the other will be understood."

【Is such that.】

[If you want to understand the principle of defense, you must start from the principle of attack. But what is attack? 】

Ming's question is not difficult to answer. To put it bluntly, it means "hitting someone". Throwing a stone is hitting someone, and throwing a missile is also hitting someone. The difference between the two is nothing more than their power.

"Attack is a biological behavior, no different from walking on the ground, flying in the sky, or swimming in the water."

Only living things can attack. This is the exclusive privilege of living things. Non-living things do not have the ability to attack. Even if the sun of the solar system suddenly explodes as a supernova and destroys all mankind, it will be a natural disaster, not an attack.

[Yes, attack is a kind of behavior. To be more precise, it is a process. It can be as small as primitive creatures throwing stones at each other on the surface of the earth, or as large as large-scale wars among cosmic civilizations. It cannot escape this framework. 】

[And this framework is what we call the ‘attack principle’. 】

Attack is behavior and has regularity. After summarizing this regularity, it is the principle of attack.

"Can you be more specific? It's still too vague."

[So, to put it another way, if Hogu wants to attack the enemy, what steps must you take? 】

Huo Gu thought, "Well... the first thing is to obtain relevant information about the enemy, such as the technology he masters, the strength of his overall strength, weak points, and location information, and then formulate targeted strategic deployments based on various information.

To defeat them in one fell swoop with a surprise attack strategy in a short period of time is the safest and most efficient battle mode..."

[This is a group battle, what about individual battles?]

"If you fight alone, it depends on the battlefield environment..."

Ming interrupted Huogu's answer and asked in another way.

[No, no, no, it’s not like that. We need to make various processes more concise, so that it is easier to understand. 】

"That is to collect the opponent's intelligence, know the opponent's weaknesses, and then attack the opponent's weaknesses in a wave and kill the opponent..."

Taken together, the differences between individual and collective battles are not particularly big, and they all have obvious commonalities.

When fighting the enemy, you must think about how to defeat the enemy. If you want to think about how to defeat the enemy, you must know what the enemy is good at and what he is not good at. At the very least, you must use your strengths and avoid weaknesses to hit the vital points.

[Do you understand? The first process that an attack must go through is to collect intelligence about the enemy. If there is no intelligence at all, it is absolutely impossible to carry out an attack. 】

"Well... what if it's a prayer-type causal weapon?"

Hogu hypothesized that there was a kind of weapon. As long as this weapon was used, there would be no need to go through any process to destroy any enemy.

There is no doubt that this kind of weapon is the ultimate weapon. It does not need to be locked, there is no need to clarify the cause and effect relationship, and it ignores any obstacles and barriers.

However, even this kind of weapon cannot break out of the framework of attack principles.

[Then at least the user has to ‘tell’ the law of cause and effect weapon who is the target it should destroy, right? Isn’t this information? How can a powerful weapon launch an attack if it doesn’t even know what the target is? 】

[The principle of attack is easy to understand, which is to obtain information, use the information, and then launch an attack. These three steps.]

The three-step attack principle mentioned by Ming sounds lofty, but in fact it is a truth that even primitive people in the Stone Age can understand.

When primitive people use stones to embarrass someone, they must first see clearly where the enemy is and whether they are the target of the stone. This is to obtain information.

Then there is the aim. There is no way. If you don't aim, you won't hit, and there is no point in losing it. This process is using the acquired enemy position information.

The last step is to launch an attack, which is easier to understand. The primitive people threw the stone.

The rules of the universe are simple, it is this kind of thing, and when you understand it, you will only wonder why you didn't discover it in the first place.

"What about the principle of defense?"

[The principle of defense is based on the principle of attack.]

[What is the essence of defense? The enemy wants to attack me, and I don’t want to get hurt, so I use various means to prevent the opponent’s attack from hurting me. This is defense.]

[It can be understood from this that defense is to prevent the goal of attacking behavior from being achieved. 】

"How to stop it? Attack is just behavior, any knowledge can be used to attack." Huo Gu asked.

[That’s right. Defense is not comprehensive, only targeted. Defense against one kind of attack may have little defense against another kind of attack. Because of this, the attack will always be greater than the defense, because the dominance lies in

Attack over there.]

[However, attacks require a process. When these three steps are broken, the attack behavior cannot be achieved, and defense can be achieved. 】

In the first step, if you can’t get the slightest information about the enemy, it’s impossible to attack. Even if you are throwing rocks, you need to know where the person you want to throw them is. What is the probability of hitting someone by throwing them with your eyes closed?

?

In the second step, although the information is obtained, it is not enough to use this information to achieve the purpose of attack-throwing stones to hit people, what is the use of just knowing the name, at least you need to know what the other party looks like and where the other party is standing.

In the third step, the attack failed - someone hit him with a sap before he could throw the stone, and naturally he couldn't throw the stone in his hand.

[This is the ‘defense principle’ extended from the ‘attack principle’. 】

…

At this time, both Ming and Si, who were in the super-light speed state, learned the attack and defense principles that Ming left in the information.

"...The principles of attack and defense are not so much a cosmic rule as a strategic idea. Keeping quiet and preventing other civilizations from obtaining our information is the greatest safety."

Always speak your mind frankly, and think about the loopholes of attack and defense principles.

There is nothing wrong with the attack principle, but the defense principle cannot achieve 100% comprehensive defense. It is like a city wall. It is very thick horizontally, but has no ability to parry vertically.

"The defensive principle has shortcomings. For example, the aftermath of a third-party battle is an 'accident' by definition and does not fall into the category of 'attack.' Therefore, the defensive principle has no defense against this mode of attack."

The use of area-of-effect weapons by mutual enemies is not a big problem. In the context of defense principles, the fear is that the aftermath of area-of-effect damage is the type of disaster that comes from the sky when people are sitting at home.

In this case, the defense principle is ineffective because it does not count as an 'attack' by definition.

"It really cannot be regarded as an attack, because the attacker has no malicious intention to destroy the third party, and does not even know the existence of the third party."

"But for combat participants, this is very useful. Using rules to defend is more useful than any shield or barrier, because it makes it impossible for the enemy to even attack."

Sustainability has a very clear view. It has long understood the pros and cons of the two principles. This problem is not a big deal, since it can use rules to attack and defend.

There is no problem in using rules to 'prevent disasters', and it is even easier because no one is targeting it.

In addition to understanding the principles of attack and defense, Si and Sustainability also learned about the civilization of the universe.

Recalling the cosmic civilization described in the message, I feel deeply helpless.

"This is how cosmic civilization is, using the rules of the universe for offense and defense, constantly stretching its own space-time acceleration time, and constantly compressing the enemy's space-time deceleration time."

"In the cosmic civilized society, the level of science and technology is not the only criterion for evaluating strength. It only accounts for a very small part. The indicator that determines the strength of a civilization is the creativity of that civilization. The principle of offense and defense is only the foundation of the foundation.

Like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in mathematics.”

"Facing them, the tribe may not even know how to lose..."

Obviously, Si's self-confidence has been greatly affected. It originally thought that the tribe has reached the peak enough. Even if it does not reach the peak, it is still not far from the peak.

Now it seems that the difference is too far. People are playing with the rules, and they are playing with the material.

"Don't be discouraged. At least we now understand that catching up is only a matter of time. It's just a matter of accelerating time. It's not that we can't do it."

On the contrary, Sustainability is more confident and shows no sign of being hit. After learning about the operation of stretching time and space to accelerate the passage of time of its own civilization, it can't wait to let the tribe give it a try.

Si replied, "Ming didn't tell us this during the attack by the correction agency. He hoped that we could think of it ourselves and thus test our creativity. But... we didn't expect that it was Ming who told us."

Technology can be researched and developed, and all it requires is the accumulation of time. But for a cosmic civilization that can accelerate the passage of time, it can be piled up in one second.

Therefore, creativity is the standard for evaluating the power of cosmic civilization. Under the same time acceleration, it depends on who develops stronger technical capabilities, who can find the opponent's flaws more quickly, and who can achieve the conditions for attack implementation first.

As for the originally high technological gap between civilizations, this is indeed an advantage among cosmic civilizations, but it is not an advantage that cannot be equaled.

Civilizations that have reached that level have already mastered the knowledge of the universe. They have long been able to weave their own rules for whatever theories they have not seen before or for which knowledge they have not verified.

If the battle is fierce enough and crazy enough, they will even weave their own worldviews to compete with each other.

"We are not smart. Isn't this something we all know for a long time? There are still numbers of ethnic groups. If the creativity of one individual is not enough, the creativity of a group of individuals can make up for it. There is no problem." Yongsheng asked rhetorically.

“If individuals are not good enough, quantity can make up for it?”

Si was stunned for a moment. He was so shocked that he didn't expect this.

Creativity is not unquantifiable. In infinite quantities, any possible idea can emerge.

Yongsheng replied firmly, "Yes, isn't this how the tribe has always been? What's more, we are not necessarily the stupidest ones."

"you're right."

Their topic once again returned to the spiritual realm, which was the enemy they had to deal with right now.

Yongsheng said, "Now that we already know the principles of offense and defense, we can try to apply it to Helingyu's strategy. Don't we already know its weaknesses?"
Chapter completed!