~： 967 The Changing Fate Track

After the meeting lasted for a long time, Tarrokov introduced various items of the second period of exploration, and finally came to an end. He patted the table and his tone sank:

"There is one last thing. During the exploration, you should pay more attention to abnormal signals. Since the first period of exploration, the forces that smuggle into the Glittering World have been common. We have taken various measures to wipe out a large number of smugglers, but There will always be fish that slip through the net. If you find a stowaway, you must pursue it."

Glittering World is still in the closed development stage, and many organized stowaways have been repeatedly banned. Most people here know that most of the stowaways are troops of various star cluster-level and Transcendent star cluster civilizations, or their hired personnel.

Because the area of ​​the first phase has been explored, these stowaways have already ran to the unknown area further behind, and their whereabouts are a mystery. The Empire also sent some chasing teams to go deep into the unexplored areas to chase, but with little success.

From the perspective of the empire, the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to complete the exploration plan step by step. Anyway, the general trend is overwhelming, and sooner or later these smugglers will have nowhere to escape.

After the meeting, representatives of various allies brought the contents of the meeting back to inform the high-level staff, and some of the Super A Grade did not leave immediately, staying behind to exchange feelings a little.

After chatting for a while, Tarrokov came over and said that Han Xiao would talk to him privately.

The two came to one side, Han Xiao was a little curious.

"What's the matter?"

"It's okay, can't you talk to you?" Tarrokov laughed, "but I do have something to look for you. The Gaolu star cluster is bordered by the Russo star cluster, and your territory just connects the Gaolu entry gate and the Lusso 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. Therefore, during the second phase of the 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 allocated seven galaxies to itself, and it has absolute jurisdiction. Because the agreement has come into effect, the empire cannot dictate his territory at will, and must first ask his opinion.

Taking the second phase of the situation, the advantages of opening the transportation network to allow other exploratory teams to cross the border will outweigh the disadvantages. This can lay an important foundation for the circulation of resources for their own territory. The more people choose this route, the inertia will gradually form. Own territories consolidate the position of the core area of ​​the Gaolu star cluster, and also help improve the transportation network.

Undertaking the transportation of materials is equivalent to assuming a certain degree of logistical responsibilities. No one knows how big the logistics is. In the first phase of the exploration, the Black Star Legion was positioned more as a pathfinder, but in the second phase, with its own turf, the positioning began to transform into semi-logistics and semi-reclamation, with more responsibilities.

After talking about this, Tarrokov suddenly lowered his voice, "Have you received the news? The voice of opening the evolutionary totem within the empire has begun again."

Han Xiao nodded, not paying attention, "It doesn't matter, they can't cause trouble to me anyway."

The current differences of opinion between the senior empires on the Evolution Cube will not affect his current status for the time being. In the past six years, no senior empire has targeted him, because they all know that before things turn around, it will be useless to target Black Star.

"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 the support of these opposition parties..."

Hearing this, Han Xiao suddenly narrowed his eyes, playing with the taste: "You tell me this kind of news too? Are you afraid of being settled by someone else?"

"Hehe, I didn't name it, so it doesn't matter if you tell me about it, will you report me? Also, my faction doesn't like his approach very much." Tarrokov smiled.

Han Xiao suddenly knew that Tarrokov was not only a kind reminder to himself, but also came with political goals.

The head of the empire is a training system. During the term of the previous head of the empire, multiple candidates for the next term will be trained. And these heads of state candidates themselves are high-ranking officials, supported by different factions behind them, and most people will receive training in peace.

However, there can only be one head of state, and everyone else will accompany them. Therefore, some candidates who know it is difficult to be elected or have great ambitions may find ways to expand their team during the training period and gain support from more factions. .

In his previous life, Ulan Riel's tenure ended not long after the Shining World plot.

When a new head of state takes office, the general framework of the empire remains the same, 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 subsidiary civilizations, and how to deal with Super A-level allies. Attitude and so on.

The choice of the head of the empire is made internally. Except for extremely special circumstances, all allies will not have any influence on the issue of the succession of the head of state, including Super A Grade.

Therefore, for the head of state candidate, obtaining the support of different factions within the empire is much more important than pleasing the Super A Grade allies. Although Han Xiao was surprised by Tarrokov's situation, he was not surprised.

Anyway, I have already inserted a lot of arrows on this target.

"Hey, the candidate is the candidate, the current head of state is not him." Han Xiao smiled.

"You are right, I think so too."

Tarrokov appreciated.

After a pause, he turned around, "I want to ask you one more thing."

"You said."

"How much do you know about the legacy left by Ability God?"

How did it get involved in Ability God... Han Xiao was a little puzzled.

"Didn't his legacy spread in the universe? I don't know what you are referring to."

"Hehe, this matter is still related to you... Do you remember the space coordinates you gave us back then, the one that Ability God found?"

As soon as he said this, Han Xiao's heart suddenly tightened, as if thunder was struck, and he finally suppressed the emotion of surprise.

That space coordinate is exactly the key to the world tree left by Ability God!

Why did you suddenly ask about this? Has the Crimson Empire 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. "The project team that is only responsible for studying the materials of Ability God's legacy seems to have some ideas about this set of data. It happens that he knows me, so I ask you to Ask about the situation at the time."

After the Ability God’s legacy flowed out, this set of spatial coordinates was hidden in the massive legacy materials and became very inconspicuous. The project team would rather spend more time researching other legacy materials, and may not want to spend time studying this one without any. Record the wormhole data that does not know where it leads.

However, it took several years to clarify the various legacy of Ability God, and the project team seemed to be eyeing the mysterious coordinates of Ability God in Broken Starlink.

"...I just stumbled upon Ability God looking for this set of data, and I don't know what is going on."

Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and dealt with it casually, concealing the truth.

"Okay, then I'll just answer that friend of mine." Tarrokov didn't doubt that he had him.

After chatting for a few more words, Han Xiao just released the remote projection and returned to his room. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his expression 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 the exploration of Glittering World had officially begun. With the attention of the entire universe, more exploratory teams devoted themselves to Glittering World.

After the first phase of the exploration, the Black Star Legion is now familiar with the road, and has already made various preparations in advance. When the second phase of the exploration arrives, it will start to act proficiently.

The task assigned this time is to open up the Russo star cluster. There are many more exploratory teams in the same industry. The work of each force is more detailed and more orderly.

When the Empire announced the start of the second phase, Han Xiao's [Shining World] main mission was also updated.

[[Shining World] The second ring is complete]

[Your task evaluation is: a]

[You get 15e experience, random reward x2, 1500 empire contribution points, blank character card x1]

[[Explore Pioneer] Current progress: 2/3]

[The third ring mission has been updated]

[Task Brief: Complete the second phase of the empire exploration]

[Currently explored 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. It is no problem to complete the task, mainly to improve its own task evaluation.

In this regard, Han Xiao is still very confident. Although there are many more exploration partners this time, the advantage of familiarizing himself 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 exploration troops of the legion were all sent out, and Han Xiao's main body was still staying in the Black Star Palace. He only sent a Domination clone with a mechanical army to the Russo Star Cluster with the exploration team.

The group of graduates was disrupted and organized into different units, and set out together to explore new areas. Han Xiao specially divided Nilo and Mia into two different teams.

According to his understanding, Russo's explorations will not produce moths, and the troops on the light dust star cluster will encounter hard stubble.

Han Xiao waited for Guangchen's incident to erupt, and then he could throw Niluo and others over.

There is a chance to trigger the Niluo mission script, Han Da Technician has compiled more than a dozen scripts, not to deeply hurt Niluo's little mind, not to let Niluo feel despair and pain, and never stop.

Anyway, Fording is a spiritual expert, even if it leaves a psychological shadow on Nilo, he can still be treated, so Han Xiao can rest assured to toss him.

...

Shining world, light dust star cluster, somewhere on the border.

One of the empire's exploration teams arrived in this area and began to build the Star Gate on the spot.

At this moment, outside of many galaxies, a group of people are using special observation equipment to get a panoramic view of the actions of this exploratory team.

This is a conference room. The huge screen displays real-time observations of the Empire Exploration Team. There are many crustaceans sitting in the room, which look like a pile of upright gray crayfish. This is a shining world native that does not belong to the interstellar society. Intelligent species, in their language, call themselves "Kunde".

Looking at the fleet on the screen, everyone in the room was silent.

After a long time, the Kunde leader sitting in the main seat slowly spoke:

"Everything has been fulfilled. The information on the fallen spacecraft is true. There are more lives in this universe. Our world... has been targeted by a group of aliens."

Everyone was silent and confused.

For hundreds of thousands of years, the Kunde people have multiplied here and slowly developed civilization. Ten thousand years ago, they began to embark on the road of interstellar colonization, their territory continued to expand, and they controlled one planet after another.

During the period, I did not encounter other intelligent species, but they were far weaker than them, and they all became their pets and slaves.

For a long time, the Kunde people have guessed whether there is a stronger civilization in the universe, but they have never encountered it. Over the years, they have controlled many galaxies with a population of tens of trillions, making them the most powerful civilization in this star cluster.

However, the scope of their exploration is limited to the light dust star cluster, and the region further away is unknown to them.

There is no interstellar society, there is no civilization to communicate, here is an isolated island, a dark forest, the Kunde people have no concept of galaxies or star clusters, and their science and technology tree cannot be as comprehensive as the interstellar society, and there is no star gate technology. The engine is also backward, and the long interstellar voyage can only be passed through the freezing cabin.

For them, it takes more than ten years for the Kunde to fly slowly in a day's journey in the interstellar society.

However, all this changed a few years ago.

The Kunde people here will always remember that day when an extra-spacecraft crashed on a colonial star, which stored countless advanced technologies that had never been seen before, as well as countless "alien civilization" materials, which caused their shock. .

For hundreds of thousands of years, we finally encountered a civilization product that was stronger than ourselves!

Through the research of the technology inside, the Kunde people's technology has been developed by leaps and bounds, and they have learned new technologies such as stargate technology, advanced transition engines, application-level quantum network communications and so on.

However, with the surprise came a greater shock. This 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 slices of galaxies and occupy resources. All civilizations discovered by them have only two ways to go...destroy, or surrender. .

And the consequence of surrender is that civilization loses its development prospects and can no longer go to a higher level. Everything in the future will be stuck and will never be able to transcend the status quo and become an eternal vassal.

It's not that the Kunde people have never doubted the possibility of the information, but these technologies are true, and the authenticity of the information is guaranteed. Unfortunately, there are only unshaped bodies in the spacecraft, and there is no living mouth to interrogate.

The spacecraft log records that this spacecraft is a group of refugees, evading the expansion of the Crimson Empire, and declares that the Crimson Empire is not far from where the Kunde is located, and also marks the possible course of action of the Crimson Empire, which makes the Kunde difficult. Ann.

In the database, there is also an ultra-long-distance interstellar observation device, which was manufactured by the Kunde people and sent around the clock to use this device to observe the possible location of the Scarlet Empire... and in a few years Later, this information was fulfilled, and an unknown fleet appeared in the starry sky not far from their territory.

"The predator has already appeared, what should we do, is it friendly contact, or preemptive?" The Kunde leader said solemnly.

A high-level executive patted the table and stubbornly cut the railway: "We must not surrender. We must prepare with both hands. First, save the fire of civilization, find a way out, and let them find a new home. Then we take preemptive action. Before the enemy finds us, Attack first!"

Someone on the other side disagreed, "They are too powerful, we can't win, maybe we will be annihilated. They can't start a war, I think it's better to get in touch..."

"Don't have illusions! The result of contact is surrender. Are you willing to lose all your future and become a vassal of others, just like the intelligent species we enslaved?"

"Maybe they are not predators at all, but friendly civilizations?"

"Friendly civilization? How did you get into this position? Don’t forget, when we met other intelligent creatures, have we been friendly? Is there a friendly civilization in the universe?! You want to surrender and let our entire species be Enslavement?!"

"...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 the truth?!"

The high-level disagreements were quarrelsome.

If there weren't that skyship, there would be more people who agreed to contact the "aliens" first.

However, the situation is now reversed. Under the influence of preconceived notions, more senior leaders firmly believe that the emergence of this "extraterrestrial civilization" is a disaster from the sky, a predator who came to occupy their universe.

At this time, a strange wave flashed in the eyes of the Kunde leader, and he slapped the table abruptly, and said coldly:

"Stop arguing, I have already made a decision..."