The Empire became increasingly adept at exploring the surrounding universe, but apart from the two previous civilizations, the Empire did not discover any other civilizations in the vast universe.

Over the past few decades, thanks to the pioneering efforts of the Empire's soldiers, the fog of the starry sea surrounding the Empire has been dispelled, and now the details of every galaxy within a diameter of 5,000 light years are under the control of the Empire.

Everything seems to be progressing smoothly but slowly.

The infinite vastness of space made the people of the empire begin to worry about whether they could still find their lost territories and whether these territories survived the changes in the universe.

As for whether those so-called enemies can still encounter the empire, it is still a question.

The laziness at the bottom and the active development at the top form a sharp contrast.

For this reason, Zheng Gan had to bring out the system of the old empire and start to unify the thoughts of the people at the bottom.

When people have free time, things will become more complicated.

To keep everyone busy, the imperial government developed a major development plan.

The people of the Empire were sent to colonize the surrounding star systems.

Encourage galaxies to develop and mine resources, allow private organizations to explore the universe, engage in foreign trade, etc.

At this time, the blood of the giant enterprises was activated again. These profit-driven businessmen did not care about taking a steady and cautious approach. They were frantically contributing their remaining energy to this new era of navigation.

The empire selectively established strongholds based on the intelligence they received to provide military assistance to this group of crazy businessmen.

Since the empire's current foundation has been stabilized, the nationwide craze for great navigation has allowed the empire to quickly reach a new level of understanding of the surrounding universe.

In the second year after the decree was announced, a chamber of commerce that risked their lives to pass through an unstable wormhole contacted the Empire. They discovered a new alien civilization on the other side of the wormhole.

Based on the contact with this group of aliens, we obtained star maps of some surrounding star fields. According to the comparison of star maps, this civilization should be quite far away from the empire, and it is impossible to make a limited comparison.

However, the channels on both sides of the wormhole were not yet very stable, so the caravan secretly left a locator in the galaxy and returned to the empire.

On the way back, the wormhole coordinates deviated to a certain extent and landed on the other side of the imperial territory.

The civilization discovered was an emerging force that had just begun exploring the universe and was capable of cross-galactic colonization, and it was a civilization that was friendly to aliens.

After selling some general intelligence and technology, the caravan chose to return to the empire.

This discovery is actually nothing, but it has aroused the adventurous spirit of other caravans. You must know that the rewards of the Empire's official star sea completion plan are quite generous, and a large number of subsequent galaxy governors of border star zones will be selected in the star map completion plan.

What an honor it would be!

More and more chambers of commerce gave up exploring ordinary methods and began to study how to take a different approach. This resulted in the loss of a large number of manpower, but it still couldn't suppress the profit-seeking desire of these businessmen.

However, in just a hundred years, the empire discovered dozens of other civilizations in the universe, and by comparing the star maps of these civilizations, the empire actually filled in some gaps in the starry sky.

The Empire is now seen as a powerful and benevolent force in the eyes of these civilizations, and it is a desirable force.

Through research, the Empire discovered that these civilizations, without exception, all had their own special features, and compared to the civilizations of the old universe, these creatures had more advantages.

And in terms of scientific and technological research, these civilizations are even faster than the Empire!

Although this was largely due to the empire's high level of technology, Zheng Gan still discovered that the empire's research seemed to be constrained by this universe.

This situation gives people a very bad feeling. It would be fine if there were no large number of new civilizations to compare with, but after the vertical comparison of empires over the years, this result is very obvious.

These individuals, who do not seem to be particularly outstanding, have a much higher probability of success in scientific research than the Empire.

The reason why the empire's technology can still develop steadily is because of its solid foundation. The computing power of the super nesting doll brain directly breaks through this invisible blockade.

With the intention of finding out what was going on, Zheng Gan had the Inquisition secretly kidnap some of the top scientists from these civilizations to conduct scientific research.

As expected, these scientists had a lower success rate using the Empire's advanced equipment than using their own junk.

The empire seems to have been labeled in some way, and what needs to be done now is to eliminate this unknown influence.

In order to find out the truth, the Empire decided to secretly cultivate a new group of humans from newborns to complete this experiment.

These new humans have no genetic modification or psychic enhancement of their souls. The Empire simply chose a habitable planet to sow the genetic seeds of ancient humans and no longer interfered with their evolution and growth.

In order to find out what exactly restricted the development of the empire, Zheng Gan had to continue searching for the location of the virtual world and the subspace.

The proportion of psychic energy in the new universe is no longer as high as it was in the old universe. Psychic energy is now a rare energy. In the eyes of psychics, there is no difference between now and the Dharma Ending Age.

The empire's outward expansion continued, and it eventually encountered an attack by indigenous people in a star system 60,000 light-years away from the solar system.

Although they are called indigenous, this civilization has already colonized multiple galaxies, has a sound navy, and their weapons and equipment vaguely bear the shadow of the old universe.

I think it is because it obtained the relics of an old civilization and accelerated the development of its own civilization.

This made Zheng Gan very confused. The civilizations of the old universe were suppressed by this universe while they were still alive. Could the new civilization archaeology exert their full power?

So it's a ruthless extermination?

As one of the strongest remnants of the old era, the Empire certainly does not care about these civilizations now, but it is foreseeable that as time goes by, the Empire will definitely be surpassed by other civilizations under the pressure of these universes, and finally be swept into the dustbin of history.

If this is the case, then this universe has no value in existence.

A universe without empires has no need to exist.

This is a battle between the old and the new!

I think those other "old friends" must have the same mentality.

Zheng Gan immediately issued an order to evaluate all civilizations that the empire could radiate to at this stage, and when necessary, stamp them with ideological stamps and incorporate them into the empire's administrative system.

Anyone who dares to disobey will have their entire clan and planet destroyed!