The minister asked directly, "What are you doing here? Are you sick and dying, so you jumped out and planned to let the Empire take care of you in your old age?"

Shi Qian looked very peaceful, without the madness of Shi Qian in the minister's memory when he was a pirate. In response to the minister's question, he asked back: "Have we met before?"

"No, but I know you."

"I know you, too."

Now that both parties knew each other, they reached a consensus not to talk nonsense.

Shi Qian also stated the purpose of this trip: "I don't look like I'm going to die of illness, I just heard that my master died, so I came to confirm it."

"He is indeed dead."

"Is there a grave?"

"There are only clothes, not empire."

"Where?"

"In...your fellow apprentice's colony."

"Junior brother?"

Shi Qian seemed to have really lived in seclusion in the past and had no close knowledge of the outside world. He did not know about Chen Ming's situation.

However, Shi Qian still very much wanted to meet the last disciple Wu An took in before his death.

"Can you help me contact him?"

"You are a wanted criminal now, don't ask for too much."

"You know I'm not. The wanted criminal has long been dead. The one who came out now is just a person who happens to look the same, has the same genes, has the same abilities, and is also called Shi Qian. You know why I came out."

"Natural disaster?"

Shi Qian nodded.

He cannot escape the extinction of mankind, and as a person who has died once, he does not want to die again.

Upon hearing this, the minister hurriedly recalled his past judgment on the effect of Time Transfer's psychic power. It seemed to be a simple and crude psychic power that could be used to directly increase the strength of various things.

A clear idea suddenly occurred to the minister's mind.

They had just suffered a failure, and Shi Qian's psychic power might be able to be used here.

In fact, his psychic power may become the best psychic power used to defeat the strong with the weak.

But the minister suddenly sighed and said, "I can't contact him, and your junior brother is also temporarily out of contact."

"But I can help you contact his men."

Shi Qian made a gesture of invitation.

The minister simply took out the terminal and called Huihuang directly.

Faced with Shi Qian's request to go over, Hui Huang only asked Shi Qian one question.

This was the name Wu An used to call Shi Qian in private.

Shi Qian recalled the past and answered uncertainly: "Little lunatic?"

"Shi Qian can come over."

The minister shrugged: "I'll prepare a spaceship for you."

He also had no intention of stopping Shi Qian.

It’s up to Shi Qian to be willing to come out, but whether he can be transferred to a suitable position to play his role without others reminding him of the past is something he needs to do.

Before this matter is settled, the minister should temporarily pretend that Shi Qian does not exist.

He has other tasks now.

Not only the Nano matters, but also the matters of the Mechanical Clan, a considerable number of tasks have always been within the scope of his responsibility.

The empire is still facing two enemies at the same time, and he doesn't want to create a new enemy because of some past or small things.

The minister shook his head and suddenly asked, "By the way, what have you been doing for the past few decades? Even Wu An doesn't seem to know that you are not dead."

Shi Qian hesitated for a moment, but still chose to answer the question: "Since I escaped from that encirclement, I found a place in another star field to hide."

"In the past few years, I have always felt sorry for my master. You must know how much my master did for me at that time, but I had nothing to repay him."

"I thought maybe it would be best if I died, so I didn't go back to look for him."

"I was too young and hot-headed at that time. I could have solved many problems by simply lowering my head..."

"I wanted to live like a normal person, but within a few years my mental state couldn't support it."

"I went into cryogenic hibernation for a long time and only woke up in recent years."

"I had just adapted to the new world when the mechanical tribe invaded. Then I heard the news of my master's death."

"You can check everything I said. I'm here now, so I should be able to find out everything."

"No."

The minister waved his hand. He could tell that Shi Qian's life was also quite painful, and even very similar to Chen Ming's experience.

But Chen Ming held on, and even killed one of the two level 6 psychics who were surrounding him.

However, Shi Qian failed to do so and could only fake his death to escape, and he even dared not show up again afterwards.

The minister sighed as if he felt the same way.

However, he did not have a very personal experience of the pain of the lower class, but he knew what attitude he should have.

Just like he just said that he would not check, but there was always someone who put everything Shi Qian had experienced in front of him.

The minister and Shi Qian were silent for a while.

Huihuang's voice suddenly rang out from the communication that had not yet been hung up: "No need to fly the spaceship, use a faster method."

The minister didn't say anything when he heard this, but turned around and took out the special terminal that Chen Ming had given him before.

"What?"

While Shi Qian was confused, liquid metal flowed out of the terminal and moved towards Shi Qian's feet.

"Relax, it will be over soon."

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

The countdown in the online conference room has also been suspended for two days, and still remains at a little over six days.

On the bright side, at least the Empire's plan against the Colossus was successful, and the promise made to the minister that the countdown would not be extended was broken.

But the minister still has a headache, because the Empire has no way to deal with the nano planet. Their methods are too weak, and they must find and try new ways.

In the past two days, the minister has already told others about Shi Qian's existence.

People in the military were complaining, but at this moment no one would take the initiative to bring up old events.

And looking back now, it was not the Imperial Military that first had a conflict with Shi Qian, but the Fifth Legion.

Only later did things gradually ferment, eventually leading to irreconcilable contradictions.

From the current perspective, the Fifth Legion itself has very big problems.

In the last major incident involving Zuo Jing, the Fifth Legion did not play a good role.

There seemed to be the shadow of Zuo Jing in this past incident.

Fortunately, Zuo Jing was already dead, and the Fifth Legion had also declined somewhat, even to the point of being on the verge of reorganization.

In any case, if Shi Qian’s psychic power really has the effect that was once speculated.

Then the key to solving the nano planet and even solving the queen lies in him.

He can be considered an alternative means for the empire.

The Empire is currently mainly promoting the means of dealing with nano planets, which is a technology that the minister seems to have heard of before, but was not too impressed.

Of course, this weak impression is not due to poor technology, but mainly because this technology was only taken out once very early and then sealed up.

This is a technology that Fan Chao had just recently found from his inventory.

It is a technology that uses massive celestial bodies to destroy stars, undermine their stability, and use stellar matter to destroy entire galaxies.

This technology has been accumulated for a long time.

However, the method of directly destroying stars to affect the entire galaxy would never be used in the past when the empire was not under such great external pressure.

As for now, the situation is different.

When we asked Fan Chao how long it would take to make the technology available for use, we were told it would take three days, along with various paper data.

There is also a way to hand over the weapons to the military in advance for training on how to use them.

Just wait for the weapons to arrive and use them directly.

Today is still one day before Fan Chao gives us the results.

But today also happens to be the time when the previous batch of nano fleet arrived at the border of the empire.

The minister also established contact with the military early on and kept a close eye on the news coming back from the sentinel array.

He even set up a holographic projection to the military command center responsible for this matter.

He just stayed in the command center, waiting for further developments.

As the coordinate data of the nano fleet was sent back by the Sentinel array, it was getting closer and closer to the Empire.

The atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly serious.

Under the watchful eye of the Empire.

The nano fleet finally arrived at the border of the empire and collided with the mechanical race surrounding the empire.

The battle was about to break out, and the fight between the nano fleet and the mechanical fleet could almost be said to be completely one-sided.

The mechanical race had no experience in fighting against the nano fleet and were assimilated by the nano almost instantly.

However, after the nano fleet cleared out the mechanical race near the point of contact, they had no intention of continuing to advance into the empire, but instead dispersed to attack different star systems of the mechanical race.

It can even be said that no nanoship had the intention of moving towards the Empire.

The fleet that was on high alert at the empire's border was stood up.

This result suddenly made the heavy atmosphere in the command center a little lighter.

"The Mechanical Tribe also has Colossi, so they might be planning this."

"What should we do?"

"Ask the higher-ups?"

These issues were quickly passed on by the minister to the right people, and soon a new order was issued.

Keep a close watch, wait for the right moment to act, and be prepared to cover up the Empire's next move.

The empire's next move will naturally be to use stellar-level weapons to launch destructive attempts on nanoplanets.

But the preparation time was not as long as expected.

Just a few hours later, the fleet was in motion.

The reason is Shi Qian, who was also sent back to the empire by Huihuang today.

He was willing to accept the Empire's comprehensive examination of his psychic powers and was willing to help the Empire confront the survivors head-on.

So, after a few hours.

The fleet incorporated into the Colossus set out again and headed for the Nano star field.

Although the original plan was to wait a day before using Fan Chao's technology, if Fan Chao's new weapon was ineffective, it would be a waste of time to arrange for Shi Qian to take the field.

Anyway, the Colossus is always prepared and the escort fleet is always there.

With the guarantee from Huihuang, it is not difficult to reorganize a fleet with Shi Qian as the core.

The military has basically remained silent on this matter.

Most people are aware that the Nano Colossus has not yet been recreated.

But it probably won't be long before it is remade or transformed through the colossus of the mechanical race.

The nano fleet's occupation of the mechanical star field is most likely in preparation for their subsequent Colossus deployment.

It never goes wrong to try more.

With the help of the sentinel array, the fleet carrying Shi Qian found a galaxy at the border of the Nano Star Region with reinforced defenses.

The Sentinel Array's terrifying reconnaissance capabilities allow the Empire's fleet to maintain extremely powerful concealment capabilities despite being of a considerable size.

The fleet approached the target system.

After once again dealing with the galaxy's patrol fleet, the Colossus arrived above a nano planet in the galaxy.

The nanomachines on the planet gathered faster than last time, and the raging nanostorm had gradually built a layer of something like a shield outside the planet.

But this time, under the influence of Shi Qian's psychic energy, the power output of the colossus was increased nearly tenfold by him using the simplest and crudest means.

The energy beam shot out from the muzzle of the Colossus was almost pure white.

This all-destroying energy no longer just penetrates the surface of the planet, but also destroys the core of the planet.

This time, it went straight through the entire planet, completely obliterating everything in its path.

Dazzling, almost white flames appeared on the surface of other areas of the planet that were not directly hit by the energy beam, dragging everything into an extremely high-temperature purgatory and burning.

A nano planet does not mean that the entire planet has been completely transformed from the outside to the inside. The interior of the planet still retains some of its original structure.

Now that these structures have been destroyed, even the nanomachines can no longer fill the gap.

The entire planet began to collapse.

Completely destroyed from the inside out.

Only a broken planet was left.

“Success!”

Several cheers from young officers were heard in the command center.

But this is just a small step for the empire.

To truly contain the nanos, more planets need to be destroyed.

The Colossus has now recovered from the damage caused by its use under the influence of brilliant psychic power.

Before the nano fleet arrives, the Colossus can continue to search for its next target.

And at the same time the nano planet was destroyed.

In the galaxy where the wormhole is located.

In the hall where the Queen sits.

The Queen still sits on the throne.

But for some reason, her majestic demeanor disappeared.

She looked a little embarrassed and covered her left eye.

Between the palm and the face, some metallic liquid was continuously flowing out.

She seemed to have been through something painful.

But she is still as gorgeous as before.

The Queen suddenly loosened her hand and wiped away the metallic liquid flowing from her left eye.

She seemed to no longer be in pain, and instead let out a sigh and closed her eyes again.

She stood up and waved her right arm, creating a dark and indescribable space.

The queen stepped in without hesitation.

The next moment.

This dark space rift spanned countless light years and appeared in the galaxy that had just been destroyed by the Colossus.

The tens of thousands of meters long giant statue was instantly torn into pieces with an average diameter of no more than half a meter by some unobservable force.

The escort fleet followed closely behind and was twisted into a knot by some force.

Whether it was a battleship or a frigate, as long as it was movable, it was completely destroyed.

Shi Qian, who was originally on the fleet's flagship, felt for a moment that he was already dead.

But fortunately, his feeling was wrong, and he was pulled back to the empire by the president using psychic power.

The Level 6 psykers who returned to the Empire were preparing for their daily duties, waiting to be summoned to deal with some troublesome places that only they could handle.

Only now did the Sentinel Array reluctantly give warning that the Queen had arrived in the system where the Colossus was located.

This terrifying power was beyond everyone's imagination.

And something even more terrifying is happening.

The Queen reached out again and tore open the crack.

And the torn, pitch-black, indescribable space rift appeared within the territory of the empire, at the place where Shi Qian finally arrived.

The shrill alarm didn't even have time to sound.

The terrifying force has already acted on the planet where the level 6 psychics usually stay.

The entire planet was completely torn apart and crushed at this moment.

Of the eleven level 6 psykers on the planet and thousands of ordinary people who provided services to the psykers, only five survived.

They each have their own way of escaping.

But for the rest, there was no room for struggle.

There seems to be no difference between one psychic and eleven psychics in front of the Queen.

There was even a psychic among them who was capable of facing super bodies, but he also died in the Queen's surprise attack.

All those who knew what was happening where the Queen was at the moment were silent as if their throats were strangled.

Humanity's hope seemed to be completely crushed at this moment.

There are only about thirty level 6 psychics in the empire.

Losing one-fifth in just a few seconds is an absolutely unacceptable result.

This means that the upper limit of the power of the psychics possessed by the Empire is greatly reduced, and it also means that the Empire may truly have lost all threat to the Queen.

It can even be said that the Empire never seemed qualified to fight the Queen.

The Minister of Psychic Power, who was also paying attention to this place, suddenly noticed the metallic liquid overflowing from the corner of the Queen's left eye.

He saw the subtle pain in the Queen's slightly opened nanomechanical eyes.

At this moment, the minister realized that Wu An's death was not so easy.

The life and death, survival and destruction of the empire seemed to depend only on his thought at this moment.

He made the calmest decision he had ever made in his life.

"President, send all the Level 6 Psychics, including me!"

No one can escape the disaster that will destroy the empire.

Only when everyone comes together can we launch the final and most effective counterattack at this moment.

If it succeeds, the empire will continue to exist. If it fails, it will be better than a long journey into hell.

"I can't do that."

"What?"

The minister didn't have time to ask in detail.

Because at the same time he was speaking.

A black spot with completely different properties from the dark space torn by the Queen appeared beside the Queen.

The black spot that was barely visible to the naked eye suddenly expanded, as if the gravity that could attract everything was telling everyone.

This is a black hole.

(End of this chapter)