The empire's exploration method is advancing step by step and expanding steadily. Now the exploration force has just entered two star clusters and is starting to explore from the frontier galaxy.
In the frontier galaxy of the light and dust star cluster, a small exploration fleet jumped to a green planet. The outer armor of the battleship is engraved with the emblem of an empire-affiliated galaxy-level civilization. It is responsible for exploring this nearby area. This planet is their exploration. The goal.
"The transition is over, the destination has been reached, and the transition engine is cooling down."
"The planetary environment probe has been launched, and the planetary environment and resource distribution are being detected."
"The life monitoring device is activated and is scanning the target planet for signs of life."
In the main control room of the command ship, many crew members were busy manipulating various equipment, and the captain paced back and forth in the room, waiting for the detection results.
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At this time, the door opened, and a man wearing a heavy mechanical armor walked in, showing the figure of a soldier while walking.
The captain turned his head and glanced, then nodded in greeting, "Captain Kreber, what's the matter?"
"I'm just here to have a look." The man known as Kribe was expressionless and his tone was a little impatient.
This person is one of the natural disaster grades of this affiliated civilization. He follows the expedition team and is responsible for armed security.
But obviously, when exploring in Glittering World, the chance of encountering an enemy who is qualified to let him shoot is too small. Kribe's existence is more of an insurance, and he usually has nothing to do, so he is naturally unwilling to perform this work. He seemed to be wasting his time exercising.
After waiting for a while, the monitoring results came out and displayed on the virtual big screen in the main control room.
"Report to the captain, the environmental parameters have been read. This is a habitable planet with abundant resources. We have also found signs of life. We have scanned 730,000 kinds of creatures, including one kind of intelligent life. A settlement has been formed, according to observations, the level of civilization is still in the tribal era, the level of intelligence is temporarily unknown, and the population is about 120,000."
The virtual screen showed the appearance of this intelligent species. It looked like a bunch of goblin-like short upright creatures. There were a lot of folds on the white skin, and it looked baggy, like a fat man who had been pumped.
"It's not bad to have intelligent life." The captain nodded, "Then contact them according to the exploration rules."
The Empire stipulates the procedures for contacting the indigenous civilization in the exploration code, and adopts different policies according to the situation. For this kind of indigenous people who seem to be no threat, it is mainly based on mild education. Han Xiao once in the first issue. When exploring the Pangurid star, the policy of education is adopted.
The fleet slowly landed in a forest on the planet, the ground troops landed, and they began to friendly contact with the indigenous tribes. These indigenous intelligent beings were surprised and scared, and at the same time, they were very curious about these suddenly appearing creatures.
With the help of the universal translator, the expedition team successfully established a bridge of communication with this group of indigenous people. While learning about the indigenous people, they explained their intentions to the indigenous people. They used various images and images to explain the situation of the explored universe and introduced the red Empire, in order to let the natives know what the situation is now.
The doctors on the team also began to conduct medical examinations for the curious natives to prevent the natives from carrying new types of germs they had never seen before—there are too many examples, and to examine the physiological structures of the natives.
Everything seemed orderly, and Kreber was bored, walking through the busy camp.
When he turned his head, he suddenly saw an aboriginal leave the quarantine queue and sneaked towards an aboriginal tribe's house.
Kribe didn't think about it, and was about to withdraw his gaze, but at this moment, an inexplicable sense of alertness rose to his mind.
His footsteps stopped immediately. Most of the natural disaster grades have keen intuition, and occasionally predict certain threats. Basically, the more powerful the power user, the more they will believe in intuition.
"There seems to be something wrong..." Kriber frowned, turned to follow the sneaky aboriginal, opened the door, and walked straight into the aboriginal house.
The native was sitting in the corner with his back to the door. He didn't know what he was doing. When he heard the sound behind him, he seemed startled and turned his head sharply to look over.
"What are you doing?" The bad premonition in Kreber's heart grew stronger and stronger.
The next moment, the native's expression suddenly became grim and twisted, and suddenly he took out a bone dagger and stabbed him in the neck.
Sa!
A gust of wind blew, and Kreber moved extremely quickly. He flashed in front of the other party in an instant, and with a flick of his fingers, the dagger in the native's hand flew away, pinching his neck and lifting it up.
He didn't know what the aboriginal's move meant, but it was definitely right to stop it.
However, before he could ask further questions, the aboriginal's body suddenly trembled, foaming at the mouth, his eyeballs popping, and he died on the spot.
"Drinking poison?" Kriber was surprised.
At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation outside the door. Kriber ran out carrying the corpse, and found that there was a commotion on the team's doctor's side. I saw a large number of doctors surrounding a medical equipment for medical examination. More doctors leaned in and seemed to find something.
Kreber flew directly over, and as soon as he landed, he looked at the head of the doctor's team.
"What are you doing?"
"Your Excellency, look at this genetic examination report!" A doctor looked surprised, "We found that there is a major defect in the genes of this intelligent life, and this defect has traces of genetic debugging, causing the brain of this intelligent species The ability has been suppressed by more than 80%, in short, someone has castrated their intelligence!"
"You mean, this is a captive species?" Kriber snorted inwardly.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
rumbling—
At this moment, everyone felt that the ground under their feet suddenly trembled.
The next second, all the spaceships burst out with harsh sirens!
"Alarm! Alert! A high-energy response has been detected, and the event model database is being compared... After the pairing is complete, the match rate of [Original Nether Energy Burst] has reached 99.8%, please evacuate immediately! Please evacuate immediately!"
"Original nether energy?!"
Including Kribe, everyone's expressions suddenly changed drastically.
Kribe seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and smashed the skull of the strange native corpse in his hand with a punch, lifted his body, and poured out all the contents inside, and an extremely tiny mechanical product mixed with the slurry fell. .
The moment he saw this mechanical prop, Kreber's pupils shrank, and he understood in an instant.
This is a life signal sensing device. To put it simply, when the user's life signal fluctuates or even ends, the device connected on the other side will be activated or turned off - the original nether energy burst is related to this life signal sensing device!
Boom! !
The planet collapsed inward in an instant, and the blue energy fountains broke through the surface and rushed into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, the dark blue spread rapidly over the earth, polluting the entire planet.
Mountains, rivers, forests... land, ocean, sky, all the existences are swallowed up by the blue, and transformed into a part of the original net energy!
Expansion, expansion without end!
All matter disappeared in this blue, and in the process of transforming quality and energy, unparalleled huge energy was released. The speed of escape of this exploration fleet could not even keep up with the expansion of primitive nether energy. swallowed by blue light.
Kriber rushed out of the spaceship and wanted to struggle to escape, but the endless blue light drowned his figure. In front of this wave of primitive nether energy that destroyed the sky and the earth, the natural disaster grade was just a mass of indistinguishable matter.
And the same scene is being played out on more than one planet at the border of the light and dust star cluster.
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Beacon Star, Commander's Conference Room.
Not long after the last meeting, the remote projections of all the representatives of the forces participating in the exploration gathered again.
This was an emergency temporary meeting, and Han Xiao and a group of Transcendent A Grade were also urgently called for a meeting.
Looking at the casualty statistics on the virtual screen, the atmosphere in the room was solemn.
"As you can see, our exploration team encountered an accident in the light and dust star cluster." Tarrokov's tone was solemn, "More than 6,000 warships were destroyed, and the death toll exceeded 7 million, including two affiliated civilizations. natural disaster level.”
Hearing this, many people were in an uproar.
"What happened to them? Did they encounter a very powerful local civilization?"
"There are such powerful natives in the light and dust star cluster?!"
Han Xiao squinted his eyes. He only knew that this indigenous civilization had caused trouble for the empire, and he did not fully understand the detailed process of the war. After all, this was what happened during the version update. Players in previous lives had no personal experience, and could only learn from the historical background. information.
Tarrokov pressed his hands down, signaling everyone to be quiet, and said solemnly:
"The armed forces of this group of indigenous people are stronger than you think... They have mastered the technology of nether energy. These lost teams encountered the explosion of primitive nether energy when exploring the planet and were wiped out. We have reason to believe that this is the unknown Traps laid by indigenous civilizations."
As soon as these words came out, most of the representatives in the audience took a breath, and their expressions became shocked.
They can accept indigenous civilizations with strong military power, because with the empire's warship technology, suppressing indigenous civilizations is not a problem, and no matter how strong the conventional military strength is, it cannot pose much threat to their exploration army.
However, the indigenous civilization that has mastered the original nether energy has a completely different meaning!
In the explored universe under the jurisdiction of the three major civilizations, primitive nether energy is a weapon that is absolutely forbidden to be used. Its power is terrifying, and the subsequent pollution is even more serious. This weapon has absolute deterrent power.
And this group of indigenous people actually mastered the original nether energy technology
How the hell did their tech tree climb
Will it still have some black technology that we don't know? !
In the hearts of most of the delegates present, there is a strong fear.
The feeling of facing this indigenous civilization is different. In the interstellar society, even if you don't have a certain technology, you know that this technology exists, but in the face of a powerful indigenous civilization that has never been seen before, who knows if he will suddenly pull out some incredible black technology from his crotch
Many civilizations here have experienced the Expedition Calendar war. At this time, it feels like a dream of the Expedition Calendar - no one knows what terrible cards other civilizations have, such as the Radiance Federation's high-dimensional apocalypse teleporter and Ethereal Religion's scepter of gods. , Aberration missiles of evolutionary civilization, etc.
This group of indigenous civilizations is naturally not bound by the rules of the interstellar society, and they don't care about throwing primitive nether energy. It is very dangerous. It is like a child playing with a pistol. Not small.
"What plans does the empire have?" Someone couldn't help but ask.
Tarrokov said coldly: "The current situation shows that this indigenous civilization is not friendly to us and has a high threat. According to the "Exploration Code-Regulations on Contact with Indigenous Civilizations", we will take the 24th set of response plans. "
Hearing this, many people froze in their hearts.
This is the last set of response plans, and compared to the other plans, the content is very simple - to deal with the target by means of war, until the genocide or enslavement.
The hegemonic civilization that has come from the exploration and war has never been a good man and a woman.
Glittering World is the epitome of the Exploration Calendar War. The difference is that the three major civilizations have already become overlords, and they have the confidence to take gentle measures, but it is easier for the weak to protect themselves.
The stronger the indigenous people, the stricter the attitude of the three major civilizations.
The natives who have mastered the nether energy technology have become an obvious threat. The Scarlet Empire does not mind killing it in the cradle, reducing an annoying hostile star cluster-level civilization, which is also beneficial to the entire interstellar society.
Glancing at the audience, Tarrokov said coldly:
"We know almost nothing about them, we don't know their location, and we don't know what species they are, but the other party launched a precise attack on us, which means that they have certain intelligence in their hands. I haven't been in contact with this civilization... So I can judge that someone is working in secret, and those stowaways are the most suspect."
Hearing this, the representatives of the civilization present had different expressions, and they all thought of going.
It is not difficult to guess. A single civilization cannot cover all aspects of the technology tree, and the great thing about the interstellar society is that the technologies are interoperable. Energy technology is also in it.
Those Transcendent star cluster-level civilizations also have enough motivation. The first is to kill the armed forces of the empire, the second is to delay the progress of exploration, and the third is to kill people with a knife, indirectly eliminating powerful indigenous civilizations, and freeing up more space for Glittering World.
Of course, they are not throwing technology at the sight of people. Only high-level indigenous civilizations with sufficient productivity will be targeted by them. Otherwise, they will be useless if they give technology.
"I announce that the exploration plan of the light and dust star cluster is temporarily suspended, and the Imperial Expedition Army has officially entered a state of war." Tarrokov's tone was solemn.
Everyone's faces were stern and nodded.
Before solving the opponent, it will not continue to explore slowly. The empire has rich experience in warfare, and there are countless cases to refer to, which is an advantage.
The opponent temporarily has the advantage in intelligence, but this advantage will not last long. With the original nether energy burst trap as the event anchor, the empire's prophetic troops can come in handy, and the mechanics are not White given.
The empire called the army, and the Black Star Legion had to respond to the call, but Han Xiao did not intend to take action in person, mainly let a group of subordinates such as Nilo participate, and it was almost enough to send a mechanical army to protect it secretly.
He knows that the Kunde people do not have a power user system, and the individual armed forces only have various armored warriors. The biggest threat is the strategic-level nether energy bombing. As long as you pay attention to avoiding the battlefield in this area, you can reduce casualties.
"I am familiar with the advantages of the map, but I can help you a little bit." Han Xiao secretly said in his heart.
…
Meanwhile, deep within the Light and Dust Cluster.
Spaceships carrying countless civilians disappeared into the depths of the starry sky. Looking at this scene, every Kunde soldier who stayed behind was filled with inexplicable emotions.
"Report, the wanderer fleet of each colonial star has set off, all carrying local civilians, and loaded with all the creatures and crop seeds we found, and will go to find a new home."
Listening to the report of his subordinates, the Kunde leader nodded silently, and other high-level executives were silent.
The falling spaceship did not deceive them. They quietly arranged for some enslaved affiliated races to contact each other. The other party was indeed called the "Scarlet Empire", which was as powerful as the data showed.
Although the other party looks friendly and has some discrepancies with the data, in the eyes of the Kunde people, what is hidden under the friendship is still the attempt to colonize and control.
The future can be predicted, but this makes the Kunde people unacceptable - originally, this entire star cluster will be their resources for development, the ladder of their evolution, and now the Scarlet Empire is here, wanting to take away these resources, just like data Like what they said in here, their way out will be blocked, and they will no longer be able to develop normally.
In this regard, Transcendent star cluster-level civilization is not all lies, they have a deep understanding of this - to be honest is the most sophisticated delusion.
The Kunde people are unwilling to become vassals, and the universe is so vast that they still have a way out.
Before winning, thinking about defeat first, while deciding to resist by force, the Kunde people made the worst plan, packed the vast majority of civilians and sent them to the depths of the starry sky, leaving behind the fire of civilization—whether winning or losing, staying here has already been done. There is no chance for normal development, it is better to send clansmen to find a new home that will not be disturbed.
And those who stayed to defend the old homeland, only the army assembled by the Kunde people was ready to sink the boat.
War, as cosmographers theorize, is always the only way to peace.