Chapter 304
Outside the Tianyun Star.
In the boundless deep space, a small spaceship is sailing.
The ship's hull is black and blue, with no special markings, and is entirely wrapped in an indistinguishable material.
The streamlined body with smooth and rounded ends makes it encounter almost no resistance when sailing.
This is the repaired Deep Blue.
The Deep Blue was converted from an escape ship. However, although it is an escape ship, it is the escape ship that the Lord once rode on, so it is naturally different from an ordinary escape ship.
Not only because the materials used to build it are of the highest quality, but also because it is now equipped with the main AI from the original Deep Blue.
In the vast space, Deep Blue looks so small, but it is actually nearly fifty meters long.
When it landed on Tianyun Star with Chu Xiu, people standing next to it seemed insignificant.
The only civilization that could build an escape starship as luxurious as a single-pilot starship was the Tianjia civilization during its heyday, which built escape ships for their masters.
Generally, escape pods are used for escape. Only large deep-space motherships can be equipped with escape ships, which are basically military.
Inside the command room of Deep Blue.
Qi Heng was sitting in the navigator's seat, looking at an open star map.
Deep Blue has been away from Tianyun Star for so long and has done a lot of things, such as this updated star map in front of us.
He had seen it before in the information sent back by Deep Blue.
Compared with the star map at hand from ten thousand years ago, many areas of the latter have changed a lot. The closer the area is to the important galaxies of the Tianjia civilization, the more serious the destruction is.
He still had memories of some important galaxies from ten thousand years ago, so he felt shocked when he looked at the current star map.
It is hard to imagine how serious and cruel the war that involved the entire Tianjia star field ten thousand years ago was. Seven or eight out of ten of the star field was destroyed.
Ten thousand years later, all that can be seen in these star regions are the debris left over from that war.
Qi Heng certainly knew what war meant. When the game became a reality, the casualties that he had once ignored as virtual data became extremely heavy at this moment.
As prosperous as the Tianjia civilization was in the past, it is now as destitute. Compared with the past, the number of remaining Zergs can be said to be on the verge of extinction.
And all of this was caused by myself.
Qi Heng sighed, thinking that it was useless to think about it.
Among the issues facing us now, population growth has to take a back seat.
——Among the several goals listed at present, the most important ones are to rescue other trapped Zerg, rebuild the interstellar industrial chain, and get rid of dependence on foreign trade as soon as possible.
Zoom in on the star map and move it to the original location close to the mother star system of the Tianjia civilization. Also appearing on the star map are planetary systems labeled with words such as "Sky Clouds", "Sky Rain", and "Sky Fog".
The Tianjia galaxy is the mother galaxy of the Tianjia civilization. The Tianjia Zerg originated from an Earth-like planet in this galaxy. The structure of the entire planet is very similar to that of his hometown, the Earth.
After the Tianjia Zerg broke away from the planet and began to develop outside the galaxy, most of their people migrated out of Tianjia Star. Later, with the development of civilization, they even gradually migrated out of the Tianjia galaxy.
As the Lord of Tianjia appears less and less frequently, the Tianjia planet where he lives is rarely open to the public except for some major festivals and special events that need to be held on the mother planet.
The entire mother galaxy was protected.
This is also normal.
Any civilization that enters the era of interstellar migration will protect its home planet, as long as it has not lost its home planet.
The Tianjia civilization just did it more absolutely.
The eight main stars of the galaxy closest to the Tianjia galaxy later became the most important administrative stars, and were very honored to have the honor of being named by the Tianjia Lord himself.
He marked the locations of several galaxies, some of which belonged to the coordinates of the eight main galaxies.
Not all of them, because three of the eight administrative planets were destroyed, which were considered the main battlefields of the war. The entire galaxy was destroyed by various giant weapons and can only be used as a mine.
There are five administrative star systems left, including Tianyun Star.
Two of them are like Tianyun Star, with some Zerg imprisoned on them. According to the intelligence obtained by Deep Blue, the number of imprisoned Zerg is less than that on Tianyun Star.
[…Expected to enter space jump in five seconds.]
Usually, when entering space jump, people on the starship will feel uncomfortable, but the Deep Blue, as the crystallization of the highest technology of Tianjia civilization, does not have this trouble.
Soon, the space jump was over.
They jumped directly from Tianyun Star to a new galaxy.
[Space jump completed, current deep space coordinates... have reached the Tianlan Galaxy.]
The Tianlan Galaxy is one of the most thoroughly destroyed galaxies. The original inhabited planet was cracked, and the original star train tracks could be seen floating in pieces, as well as many warship wreckages.
Deep Blue is wrapped in a force field that allows it to exist independently without coming into contact with the chaotic and disordered space debris outside.
Otherwise, given the density of debris outside, the starship would be hit if it didn't activate evasion mode.
Qi Heng looked at the image transmitted back by the deep space camera on the screen, selected a coordinate, and communicated with A0 to teleport the original Zerg larvae sleeping in the folded space.
It was a relatively safe coordinate point, next to which was a large piece of starship wreckage and part of a star body.
It is very suitable as a nest for the hatching of this small group of original Zerg. After they hatch, they can eat the wreckage of warships and broken stars on the spot and start building a Zerg nest.
The core of the insect nest is a bloodworm. The bloodworm has no other abilities, but its greatest ability is its strong adaptability, which allows it to build a suitable nest in any environment.
The size of a hive depends on how many original Zerg are in it and how many offspring it can produce when there is enough energy.
The original Zerg has a strong reproductive ability. With the commander's permission, each Zerg can carry different gene fragments.
As long as the energy is in place, the bloodworm can continue to fuse these gene fragments in the egg, and then one becomes two, two becomes three, endlessly.
The advantage is that the reproduction speed is very fast, but the disadvantage is that the insects reproduced in this way are difficult to advance and can only be used as cannon fodder.
Don't underestimate the original Zerg born in these hives. During the period when the Tianjia Zerg dominated, these cannon fodder Zerg were the ones that truly made hostile civilizations shudder.
Wherever they pass, there is nothing left but emptiness, and there is nothing they cannot eat.
The only one who can order them to reproduce crazily or stop reproducing is the ruler of the Tianjia civilization in the entire starry sea.
The original Zerg is a natural disaster from the enemy of the Tianjia civilization. Encountering it means the end of civilization.
If a mobile natural disaster of this magnitude gets out of control one day, it will definitely be more than just one or two civilizations that will be in trouble... Fortunately, they have owners.
——It’s reassuring to hear a mad dog with a chain around its neck.
As long as you don't offend the Tianjia civilization, you don't have to worry about being surrounded by the original Zerg and the Tianjia civilization's army one day, and you don't have to worry about your home planet becoming a nest for the original Zerg to reproduce.
"Go to the next location, the battlefield with the largest impact that you recorded."
【yes. 】
Deep Blue jumped again and disappeared from the Tianlan Galaxy.
This time, it appeared as a meteor belt.
The Tianjia star region is divided into the inner and outer star rings. The outer and inner star rings are separated by this meteorite belt. There are more warship wreckage floating here than what we saw just now.
There are countless wreckages, many of which can be seen to be of the Tianjia civilization model, and there are also many corpses of warships with different styles and markings belonging to other civilizations.
The meteorite belt that was originally arranged as a defense belt was almost destroyed, but it was not much different from the original one - the warships abandoned here made up for this.
Just like before, he teleported the original Zerg larvae that had been dormant for a long time to the appropriate location. After several times, he placed a total of six immature C-level Zerg nests.
These insect nests are used to recycle resources.
The materials that can be made into starships are not bad, but they are difficult to recycle in the Lost Star Zone, otherwise they would have been towed away for recycling long ago.
But it’s better this way, I’m getting a bargain now.
The wreckage of these warships, mechas, and weapons are all rare materials. Some of these materials are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and resource-wasting to manufacture now, but direct recycling is a different story.
For tens of thousands of years, they have been floating in deep space, almost the same as they were ten thousand years ago.
The environment in space means that their properties are difficult to change.
If you want to recycle them, machines are not as useful as these insect nests used for resource collection and recycling.
The insects in the hive have specially developed decomposers that can break down these warships into usable resources and store them for recycling next time.
Next, Qi Heng went to several places in succession.
With him around, the Deep Blue doesn't need to return to Tianyun Star or stop to replenish energy, and can make space jumps uninterruptedly.
In these specially selected galaxies with rich resources, he placed insect nests for recycling resources.
At the same time, he ordered them to strengthen their hive after waking up, collect all the resources that could be collected around them, keep one tenth for the reproduction of larvae in the hive, and store the rest.
In addition, resource collection ships are placed around some gas planets with normal environments, and mining ships are launched towards earth-like planets containing minerals, etc.
In the interstellar age, as long as you have the ability to conduct deep space exploration and mining, there will be no shortage of resources.
He is short of people now.
However, Qi Heng also knew that he could only rely on himself in the short term, after all, there was a shortage of resources on Tianyun Star.
The development outside Tianyun Star can only be passed on after Lan Yi’s talent pool is accumulated in the later stage.
Qi Heng drove the Deep Blue and stopped in a relatively complete galaxy.
Opened in front of him was a design and manufacturing drawing of a space dock capable of producing starships, along with an endless list of resources required to build the space dock.
In addition to this blueprint, there are also space bases, processing plants, etc. that have not been opened nearby.
These are all supporting facilities related to the interstellar manufacturing chain.
Interstellar battleships and deep space motherships, the length of any one of them is measured in kilometers, not to mention the weapons they carry. Even the smallest mecha that can operate and fight in deep space is at most tens of meters high.
These certainly cannot be manufactured inside a planet.
In the past, they were all built in space. Usually, a suitable planet would be selected and corresponding giant buildings would be built on the periphery of the planet to manufacture and mass-produce starships.
The original Zerg have their own hives and don’t need many starships.
The Tianjia Zerg is still a serious technological civilization. At its peak, the number of starships of all levels they had was countless. They were lined up in the starry sea, and even an equal level six civilization did not dare to underestimate them.
For those level six civilizations whose headquarters were far away from the Lost Star Zone, this star field that had become chaotic due to the war was like chicken ribs. After looting all the valuable things, they abandoned the rest.
The higher civilizations didn't care, and the lower civilizations were unable to develop it and were restricted. In the end, it all benefited the original owner of this star field.
The folding space comes in handy at this time. You can collect resources and carry them with you, and then determine the coordinates for delivery when you arrive at the destination.
In this way, as long as the resources for building the starry sky building are in place, construction can begin directly.
The system can be used at the beginning of processing, and then mechanical manufacturing can be done after it is on track. After rolling out, AI scheduling and management will be enough.
After a tour around the Lost Star Zone, I made arrangements and prepared the necessary preparations.
The last place Qi Heng went to was the Tianjia Galaxy.
He wanted to see the home planet of the Tianjia civilization.
It wasn't because of some unspeakable plot, he was just very interested in the content of Deep Blue's report.
Before sending out Shenlan to explore, he thought that since the Tianjia civilization had fallen into such a miserable state, the fate of Tianjia Planet, as the mother planet, would not be good.
Referring to the mother planet of the civilization that was destroyed by the Tianjia civilization in the past, it is possible that it was shattered into ashes.
But since Shenlan was allowed to go, it wouldn't be a big deal to go and take a look at the situation on Tianjia Star. However, he didn't expect that the final result would be completely different from what he expected.
Deep Blue did not enter the Tianjia galaxy, it was rejected.
Therefore, it could only conduct internal detection outside the Tianjia galaxy, trying to explore the situation of Tianjia Star. However, it detected nothing at the original position of Tianjia Star.
——Tianjia Star disappeared from its original coordinates.
Moreover, the disappearance of Tianjia Star seemed to be simply gone, and did not cause any imbalance within the galaxy.
If a planet is missing from the galaxy, the galaxy should be out of balance. Even if it does not cause extreme chaos, disorder is inevitable.
But the Tianjia Galaxy is simply resisting the approach of all surrounding matter.
A strange force field enveloped the entire galaxy. The closer to the center of the galaxy, the stronger the repulsive force field became. After analyzing the danger, Deep Blue did not get any closer.
Outside the Tianjia galaxy.
Qi Heng saw the Tianjia Galaxy in front of him through the deep space lens of Deep Blue.
He recalled the past Tianjia Galaxy. He was not too familiar with the basic base he chose when he first entered the game.
Although the images I saw at that time were different from reality, they were generally consistent.
"It looks the same as before. Did it survive the war?"
Qi Heng thought thoughtfully: A0, can you see any problem?
A9 scanned it briefly and replied: [Unable to determine. Further scanning will require consuming system energy to obtain more detailed information.]
Is there enough energy?
[The system currently has sufficient energy to scan the entire galaxy.]
Qi Heng: How long will it take?
[Calculating... If you only do a shallow scan, it will take seventy-two hours.]
Seventy-two hours, that's pretty fast.
Shallow scans, though?
Qi Heng: Can't we conduct a deep scan? Something is wrong with the Tianjia galaxy, and the shallow scan is not enough to find the cause.
[According to system analysis, the cause of the Tianjia Galaxy anomaly involves spatial changes. If a deep scan is required, the 1000w system energy required is not the final consumption.]
Too many.
Qi Heng frowned.
Using so much system energy just for one result? Too extravagant.
After thinking for a while, he asked: How many units of system energy does the shallow scanning you mentioned consume?
【About 100w system energy. 】
Qi Heng pursed his lips: No need, terminate the scanning task.
【yes. 】
With one million energy points, I don’t know how much I can do with them, but I waste them on a scanning task - that’s such a waste.
Forget it. It seems that Tianjia Star has not disappeared for more than one or two years. There is no need to figure out how it disappeared now.
Qi Heng took one last look at the Tianjia Galaxy and said to the Deep Blue, "Let's go back to Tianyun Star."
Counting the days, it has been almost two weeks since I left Tianyun Star.
Although not receiving any information from Tianyun Star was good news, he was still a little worried.
Without saying anything else, he just said that the inhibitor he left for Chu Xiu before leaving had limited effect. After a long time, the medicine would not be very effective for Chu Xiu... It would be better to go back earlier.
[Coordinate calculation complete, jump engine operating normally... Estimated arrival time: 15 minutes.]
Qi Heng leaned back in his chair, thinking quietly.
He achieved all the goals he set for this deep space voyage, but it seemed that interstellar voyage was just like that, and he didn't have any special feelings about it.
The entire journey was spent in constant jumps, and all that was seen were the ruins left over from the past Tianjia civilization.
After seeing all this, he was lucky to remain calm, and there was no way he could feel relaxed.
Now that I am going back to Tianyun Star, I feel more like I am going home.
Yes, after all, this is the first time I’ve traveled far away since I came to this world... It’s normal to miss the people, things, and objects on Tianyun Star.
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