Chapter 281 Here they come
, they come
"...Today, Duke Qiangshi, the border uncle of the empire and the leader of the Knights of Benevolence, will once again visit the sacred and solemn 'ancient battlefield' after two hundred and thirty years to pay homage to the fallen heroes!"
Similar reports covered the entire "Tianxing Empire" overwhelmingly, as if they were eager to let everyone know what the Duke was going to do today.
The people, who had been somewhat silent in the past, became a little more radiant because of this incident for a long time, and they would mention the Duke more or less after dinner.
"Duke Qiangshi... the last time I heard this name was the fire in the Capital Data Core City, right?"
"Indeed... even the latest generation of automatic fire-fighting systems can't save it. The fire was really... tsk tsk, I heard that the fire and thick smoke can even be seen from space!"
"Isn't it? It is said that the culprit is Duke Qiangshi. He did not wear protective clothing as required during the inspection and even drank tea in the database! As a result, a large-scale short circuit was caused and the entire core data city was destroyed.
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During the chat, the people were mostly talking about Duke Qiangshi's embarrassment and all kinds of romantic rumors. They didn't have much feeling about the matter of paying tribute to the "ancient battlefield".
After all, the history related to the "Ancient Battlefield" is too long. They may still praise it for hundreds or thousands of years, but what about ten thousand, one hundred thousand or even one million years later?
Now the people of the "Tianxing Empire" have long been numb to the past. The millions of years of history have made them almost afraid of this high wall.
Although they are deeply impressed by the weight of history, no one dares to say "I love history" without hesitation.
Because they have been faced with hundreds of thousands of pages of history textbooks since they were students, and even with the help of auxiliary machines, they have been complaining endlessly.
In their compulsory education, the most difficult thing is not physics, chemistry, politics, geography, but history. Just judging history from the textbooks is far behind other subjects.
It can be said that, except for the elites of the upper class who have passed down generations to remember these "ancient histories," most people have gradually forgotten the past in their daily lives.
Regarding the "ancient battlefield", they only remember that it was the founding battle of the "Tianxing Empire" in the past. In short, the invaders did all kinds of evil, and the heroes showed their power and defeated the enemy without fear.
At the end of history, the "Tianxing Empire" became the "Guardian of the Galaxy" that ruled all the people, and that "sky chasm" was also the scar left after that war.
As for the opposite side of the "Cairn", it was the place where the defeated invaders lingered. The "movies" that would be played in the "Grand Theater" system every once in a while were their way of appreciating the misery of those war criminals.
In the past history, although the memory of the "ancient battlefield" is somewhat vague, this is the "history" they remember most clearly.
They are arrogant at heart. The "Tianxing Empire" rules all the places they know, and the entire "Upper Trispinal Arm" is within the sphere of influence of the "Tianxing Empire".
However, they have no way to personally go to the "Lower Three Spiral Arms" to show off their power. Only by seeing the howls of those "lower" civilizations in the apocalypse can they satisfy their sense of superiority as an "advanced civilization" with nowhere to vent.
"...It's better to forget about these noble gentlemen and talk about your feelings about the last 'movie'. I heard it got a lot of good reviews? It's really despicable!"
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The people returned to their daily lives, and Duke Qiangshi, who had widely released news about his trip, also arrived at his destination - the "Ancient Battlefield" star field.
There are a total of more than 20,000 stars and more than 10,000 galaxies in this star field, which is a huge territory.
However, as a dignitary of the empire and an insider of "past history", Duke Qiangshi knew that this "ancient battlefield" was actually just an illusion, and the real core was actually just a galaxy in this star field.
After driving through countless galaxies, Duke Strongstone finally came to a dim galaxy.
The central celestial body here is a black dwarf star, which is a celestial body formed when a neutron star naturally reaches its end.
It does not emit light or release any heat, and is almost unnoticeable in astronomical observations.
Revolving around this celestial body are countless "shattered planets" and an artificial intelligence planet riddled with holes.
It is hard to imagine what drastic changes this galaxy has undergone, so much so that almost all the planets have been shattered and can no longer maintain their celestial appearance.
However, Duke Qiangshi did not look away and let the spacecraft sail directly towards the artificial intelligence planet.
At this time, there are almost no traces of machinery on the planet, and there are no robots working here. In the thin irritating gas, only metal ruins and broken parts can be seen.
But even in this ruins, Duke Qiangshi walked through it with ease, as if he had been here many times, and quickly found his destination.
——A nearly abandoned control center.
The weak light that was still flashing from time to time seemed to tell that the control center was not "dead" yet, and the arrival of Duke Qiangshi made the already weak light shine rarely, as if to welcome his arrival.
When Duke Qiangshi saw the control center, he immediately said straight to the point:
"We need a means that can close or destroy the wormhole. You should have it, right? This is a joint petition between the emperor and us, the pillars of the empire, and it is also...a petition for our 'civilization's survival'."
He specially emphasized the word "civilization survival", as if this word is the most important thing in this paragraph.
After the control center's light flickered for a while, the relevant technology was finally transmitted back to the database of the "Tianxing Empire" through some means.
Duke Qiangshi breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the response, and then turned around and left without any hesitation. The pungent smell of engine oil here made him very uncomfortable.
Only the half-dead control center remained in place with its lights flashing.
Some time passed, and Duke Qiangshi brought an unstable bomb used to destroy the wormhole structure. At this time, the nobles near the wormhole passage were anxious and anxious, and they relaxed in unison after seeing Duke Qiangshi.
Take a breath.
"You finally brought the things. You don't know that in order to prevent the civilization over there from getting through, we threw everything that can explode with huge energy into it. As a result, the wormhole is still stable. If I had known better, we wouldn't have repaired it.
So solid..."
Although they complained, they quickly dropped the unstable bomb into the wormhole.
However, a huge storm like lightning and thunder erupted in the wormhole passage that was supposed to be empty, quickly disrupting the entire wormhole and directly leading to its collapse.
Seeing this situation, they finally felt at ease, feeling that no more threats would threaten their "highly civilized" life.
However, a series of faint signals came here through the wormhole at the last moment, and were not noticed at all under the cover of the huge fluctuations caused by the collapse of the wormhole.
It first infected an unmanned mining drone abandoned here, and then used the drone as a springboard to infect it upwards layer by layer, and finally infected a large flagship stationed here.
The next moment, what those "low-level civilizations" who were laughed at and made fun of in the "dark forest" happened to them.
The large flagship began to uncontrollably broadcast the detailed coordinates here to the entire galaxy, no matter what data it was.
Someone noticed this and jokingly said to the flagship captain: "Brother, are you playing this trick too? Do you think there will really be a civilization that is more 'advanced' than us to attack us like this?"
However, as he was talking, this man noticed something was wrong, because he found that the captain of the flagship was pale, and he was frantically typing commands to stop the flagship, but he never got any response.
"you……"
Just as he was about to speak, his vision suddenly went dark, and all the light shining into the porthole disappeared in an instant, as if it was blocked by something.
A huge sense of oppression and fear made him paralyzed on the ground in an instant. The fear deep in his genes was also aroused at this time, causing him to urinate on the spot in just a few seconds.
But this physical fear was not what frightened him the most. What frightened him even more was the dense number of signal points that kept flashing on the ship's radar, almost filling the entire radar surface.
This means that a fleet of desperate numbers has arrived here.
They didn't expect that that civilization would still come over.
Chapter completed!