The meeting lasted for a long time, and Tarrokov introduced the various matters of the second phase of exploration. Finally, when it came to the end, he patted the table and his tone sank:
"There is one last thing. During the exploration period, pay more attention to abnormal signals. Since the first phase of exploration, it is not uncommon for the forces to sneak into the Glittering World. We have taken various measures to annihilate a large number of stowaways, but There are always fish that slip through the net, and if you find stowaways, you must pursue them."
Glittering World is still in the closed development stage, and many organizations have repeatedly banned stowaways. Most of the people here know that most of the stowaways are the troops of various star cluster grades and super star cluster civilizations, or the people they hired.
Because the first phase of the area has been explored, these stowaways have already run to the unknown area further behind, and their whereabouts are a mystery. The Empire also sent some pursuit teams to pursue pursuits in unexplored areas, but with little success.
In the Empire's view, the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to complete the exploration plan step by step. Anyway, the general trend is over, and these stowaways will have nowhere to escape sooner or later.
After the meeting, the representatives of various allied forces went back to inform the high-level officials with the meeting content, but some Transcendent A Grade did not leave immediately, and stayed to exchange feelings for a little.
After chatting for a while, Tarrokov came over and said to let Han Xiao chat with him privately.
The two came to the side, and Han Xiao was a little curious.
"What's the matter?"
"Can't I chat with you if it's all right?" Tarrokov chuckled, "But I do have something to look for you, the Gaolu star cluster borders the Russo star cluster, and your site just connects the Gaolu entry stargate and the Russo star cluster. The border has convenient transportation and can be used as a long-term route for other exploration forces to transit and transport materials, so during the second phase of exploration, some teams will borrow from you, and some materials will also ask you to help transport them."
"Yes." Han Xiao readily agreed.
The empire has allocated seven galaxies to itself, and it has absolute jurisdiction. Because the agreement has come into effect, the empire cannot arbitrarily point fingers at his territory, and he must first ask his opinion.
Taking the situation of the second phase as an example, the advantages of opening up the transportation network to allow other exploration teams to cross the border will outweigh the disadvantages. This can lay an important resource circulation foundation for their own territory. The more people choose this route, the inertia will gradually form, allowing Its own territory consolidates the position of the core area of the Gaolu star cluster, and can also help improve the transportation network.
Taking on material transportation means taking on logistical responsibilities to a certain extent. No one knows how much oil and water the logistical needs. During the first phase of exploration, the Black Star Legion was positioned more as a pioneer, but in the second phase, with its own territory, the positioning began to change to semi-logistics and semi-exploitation, with more responsibilities.
After saying this, Tarrokov suddenly lowered his voice, "Have you received the news, the call for the opening of the evolutionary totem within the empire has begun again."
Han Xiao nodded and didn't care, "It doesn't matter, they can't trouble me now."
Now the differences of opinion among the top leaders of the empire on the Evolution Cube will not affect his current status for the time being. In the past six years, no top leaders of the empire have targeted him, because they all know that before things turn around, targeting Black Star is a waste of effort.
"I know, but you need to be careful." Tarrokov whispered: "I heard that one of the candidates for the head of state seems to want to gain the support of these opposition..."
Hearing this, Han Xiao suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, "You also tell me this kind of news? Aren't you afraid of being settled in the fall?"
"Hehe, I didn't name my name, it doesn't matter if I say it, will you report me? Besides, the faction I belong to doesn't really like his approach." Tarrokov smiled.
Han Xiao suddenly realized that Tarrokov was not only a kind reminder to himself, but also came with a political goal.
The head of the empire is a training system. During the term of the previous head of the empire, he will start to train multiple candidates for the next term. And these candidates for the head of state are themselves high-ranking officials, with the support of different factions behind them, and most of them will be trained in peace.
However, there can only be one head of state, and everyone else accompanies them, so some candidates who know that it is difficult to be elected or have great ambitions may try to expand their team during the training period and gain the support of more factions .
In the previous life, Ulan Riel's tenure ended not long after the Glittering World plot.
When a new head of state takes office, the general framework of the empire remains unchanged, but in terms of details, it will change with the style and personality of the new head of state, such as the way to deal with competition, the strategy of dealing with subordinate civilizations, and the treatment of Transcendent A Grade allies. attitude, etc.
The candidate for the head of the empire is chosen internally. Except for extremely special circumstances, all allies will not have any influence on the succession of the head of state, including Transcendent A Grade.
Therefore, for the candidate of the head of state, it is much more important to obtain the support of different factions within the empire than to please the super A Grade allies. Although Han Xiao was surprised by what Tarrokov said, he was not surprised.
Anyway, I have already inserted a lot of arrows into this target, and it is okay to insert a few more arrows.
"Hey, the candidate is the candidate, and the current head of state is not him." Han Xiao smiled.
"You're right, I thought so too."
Tarrokov appreciates.
After a pause, he changed the subject, "There is one more thing I want to ask you."
"you say."
"How much do you know about the legacy left by Ability God?"
How did it get involved with Ability God... Han Xiao was a little puzzled.
"Isn't his legacy spread in the universe long ago? I don't know what you are referring to."
"Hehe, this matter is still related to you... Do you still remember the spatial coordinates that you gave us, the one that Ability God was looking for?"
As soon as this remark came out, Han Xiao's heart suddenly tightened, as if a thunderstorm sounded, and it was difficult to suppress the emotion of surprise.
That space coordinate is the key to the World Tree left by Ability God!
Why are you suddenly asking about this? Could it be that the Scarlet Empire has already researched something
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice, "What have you achieved?"
"I don't know, I'm not a researcher." Tarrokov shook his head, "It's just that the project team specializing in researching the legacy of Ability God seems to have some ideas about this set of data. It happens that he and I know each other, so I asked me to find you. Ask the situation at the time."
After the inheritance of the Ability Gods flowed out, this set of spatial coordinates was hidden in the massive heritage materials, and became very inconspicuous. The project team would rather spend more time studying other heritage materials, and may not want to spend time studying this one without any Record, don't know where to go wormhole data.
However, it took a few years to basically sort out the various heritages of Ability God, and the project team seemed to be eyeing the mysterious coordinates that Ability God was conspiring in Broken Starlink.
"... I just accidentally found that Ability God was looking for this set of data, and I didn't know what was going on."
Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, dealt with it casually, and concealed the truth.
"Okay, then I'll answer that friend of mine like this." Tarrokov doubtless had him.
After a few more chats, Han Xiao released the remote projection and returned to his room. He breathed a sigh of relief, his face a little helpless.
…
After the meeting, after a period of time, the Scarlet Empire publicly announced to the entire universe that the second phase of Glittering World's exploration had officially begun. Under the attention of the entire universe, more exploration teams devoted themselves to Glittering World.
After going through the first phase of exploration, Black Star Legion is now well-versed and has already made various preparations in advance. When the second phase of exploration arrives as scheduled, they will start to act proficiently.
The task assigned this time is to open up the Russo star cluster. There are many more exploration teams, and the work of each faction has a more detailed division, which is more orderly.
When the Empire announced the start of the second phase, Han Xiao's [Glittering World] main quest was also updated.
[[Glittering World] The second ring has been completed]
[Your task is rated as: a]
[You get 15e experience, random reward x2, 1500 empire contribution points, blank character card x1]
[[Exploration Pioneer] Current progress: 2/3]
[The third ring mission has been updated]
[Quest introduction: Complete the second phase of the empire's exploration]
[Currently exploring area: Russo star cluster]
[Personal exploration points: 0]
[Total Exploration Points: 0]
[Current rating: e-]
The third ring is to explore the Russo star cluster. There is no problem in completing the task. The main thing is to try to improve your own task evaluation.
In this regard, Han Xiao is still very confident. Although there are many more exploration companions this time, the advantage of being familiar with the map is still useful. Maybe he can't get the s+ evaluation of the first ring, but it should not be difficult to reach the A-level evaluation. .
The Legion’s exploration troop was sent out, and Han Xiao’s body still stayed in the Black Star Palace, and only sent a dominion clone with a mechanical army to the Russo star cluster with the exploration team.
The group of graduates were disrupted into different units and set off to explore new areas together. Han Xiao deliberately divided Nero and Mia into two different teams.
As far as he knows, the exploration on Russo's side will not lead to any trouble, and the troops on the other side of the light dust star cluster will encounter difficulties.
Han Xiao is waiting for things to break out on Guangchen's side, and then he will be able to throw Nilo and others over there.
If there is a chance to trigger the script of Nilo's mission, Great Technician Han has already compiled more than a dozen. If he does not deeply hurt Nilo's little mind, and does not let Nilo feel despair and pain, he will never give up.
Anyway, Fording is an expert in spirituality. Even if he leaves a psychological shadow on Nile, he can still treat him, so Han Xiao can rest assured to toss him.
…
Glittering world, light and dust star cluster, somewhere on the border.
One of the Empire's expeditions arrived in the area and began building stargates in situ.
At this moment, outside many galaxies, a group of people are using special observation equipment to have a panoramic view of the actions of this expedition team.
This is a conference room. The huge screen broadcasts the observation of the Imperial Expedition Team in real time. There are many crustaceans sitting in the room, which look like a pile of upright gray crayfish. This is the local Glittering World that does not belong to the interstellar society. Intelligent species, in their language, call themselves "Kunde people".
Looking at the fleet on the screen, everyone present was silent.
After a long time, the Kunde leader sitting on the main seat slowly spoke:
"Everything has been fulfilled. The information of the fallen spacecraft is true. There are more lives in this universe. Our world... has been targeted by a group of aliens."
The crowd was silent and confused.
For hundreds of thousands of years, the Kunde people have proliferated here, slowly developing civilization, and began to embark on the road of interstellar colonization 10,000 years ago. The territory has continued to expand, and they have controlled one planet after another.
During this period, it is not that other intelligent species have not been encountered, but they are far weaker than them, and they have all become their pets and slaves.
For a long time, the Kunde people have also guessed whether there are more powerful civilizations in the universe, but they have never encountered them. Over the years, they have controlled many galaxies, with a population of trillions, and are the most powerful civilization in this star cluster.
However, their exploration is limited to the light-dust cluster, and the more distant regions are also unknown to them.
There is no interstellar society, and no civilization can communicate. This is an isolated island, a dark forest. The Kunde people have no concept of galaxies and star clusters, and their technology tree cannot be as comprehensive as the interstellar society. Stargate technology, transition The engine is also lagging behind, and the long interstellar voyage can only be survived by cryopods.
For them, a day's journey in the interstellar society, the Kunde people may need to spend more than ten years to fly slowly.
However, this all changed a few years ago.
The Kunde people here will always remember that day when an extraterrestrial spaceship fell on a colonial star, which stored countless advanced technologies that had never been seen before, as well as countless "alien civilization" materials, which aroused their shock. .
After hundreds of thousands of years, we have finally encountered a product of civilization that is more powerful than ourselves!
Through the research of the technology inside, the technology of the Kunde people has developed by leaps and bounds, and they have learned new technologies such as stargate technology, advanced transition engine, and application-level quantum network communication.
However, with the surprise came an even bigger shock. The spacecraft also recorded a powerful "alien civilization" called the Scarlet Empire.
According to the data, the Scarlet Empire is not only a powerful civilization, but also a cosmic predator. They occupy galaxies and resources. All civilizations discovered by them have only two ways to go... Destruction, or surrender.
And the consequence of surrender is that civilization loses the prospect of development, it is impossible to reach a higher level, all futures will be stuck, and it will never be able to transcend the status quo and become an eternal vassal.
It's not that the Kunde people have not suspected the possibility of the data, but these technologies are true, and the authenticity of the data is guaranteed. Unfortunately, there are only shapeless corpses in the spacecraft, and there is no living mouth to interrogate.
The spaceship log recorded that the spaceship was a group of refugees, escaping the expansion of the Scarlet Empire, and declared that the Scarlet Empire was not far from where the Kunde people were, and also marked the possible route of action of the Scarlet Empire, which made the Kunde people sit on their feet. install.
In the database, an ultra-long-range interstellar observation device is also recorded. The Kunde people made it and sent people around the clock to use this device to observe the possible orientation of the Scarlet Empire marked by the data... And a few years later , This information has come true, there is really an unknown fleet in the starry sky not far from their territory.
"The predator has appeared, what should we do, is it a friendly contact, or a preemptive strike?" The Kunde leader said solemnly.
A senior patted the table and said decisively: "We must not surrender, we have to prepare with both hands, first save the fire of civilization, find a way of retreat, let them find a new home, and then we will preemptively strike, before the enemy finds us, Attack first!"
Someone on the other side disagreed, "They are too powerful. If we can't win, we may be exterminated. We can't provoke war. I think it's better to contact..."
"Don't have illusions! The result of contact is only surrender. Are you willing to lose all your future and become someone else's vassal, just like the intelligent species we enslaved?"
"Maybe they are not predators at all, but a friendly civilization?"
"Friendly civilization? How did you get this position? Don't forget, have we ever been friendly when we met other intelligent beings? Could there possibly be a friendly civilization in the universe?! You want to surrender and let our entire species be killed by Slavery?!"
"...But, if you don't try it, how do you know if the information is true or false?"
"You're crazy, those technologies are all real, and you still doubt whether they are real or fake?!"
High-level dissenting views quarreled.
If there wasn't that spaceship that landed in the sky, under normal circumstances, there would be more people in favor of contacting "aliens" first.
However, the situation is now reversed. Under the influence of preconceived notions, more high-level leaders firmly believe that the emergence of this "alien civilization" is a disaster that descends from the sky, a predator who has come to occupy their universe.
At this time, a strange wave flashed in the eyes of the Kunde leader, and he slammed the table and said coldly:
"Stop arguing, I've made a decision..."