The deep universe, the vast starry sky, the dots of stars, every bright spot, magnified thousands of times, is a huge galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars.

Zhou Yu stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, staring blankly at the vast space, his resolute face revealing an indelible tiredness and longing.

A curling figure slowly walked behind him, gently holding his back with both hands.

"Yu, I've often seen you standing here in a daze lately, if you want to go back so much, we can act immediately!" The woman lay her head on Zhou Yu's sturdy back and whispered comfortingly.

Familiar taste, Zhou Yu didn't look back and knew that his wife was coming. The vastness of the stars

Zhou Yu didn't retract his gaze, and sighed faintly: "No, we have already laid a foundation in this universe, and it is difficult to go back!"

Zhou Yu sighed and continued: "The exploration spaceships sent by my father, their footprints are all over the many star fields in various universes, and they are bound to provoke countless civilizations, once we take the initiative to contact, it will be possible to attract the peeps of other civilizations, it is very difficult to do!"

"Don't be like this, isn't it your dream to return to your home planet? Now that you finally have a clue, do you want to give up?" Lin Xiurong turned around and walked in front of Zhou Yu, looked directly at him and asked.

"I ......。 Zhou Yu opened his mouth, his expression was complicated, and he didn't know how to reply for a while.

Is it the fear of threats from other unknown civilizations, the reluctance to give up the life of this universe, or the fear that the only clue is invalid,...... In short, it was a kind of homesickness and more than 200 years of longing, mixed together with complex feelings, which made him unable to face it calmly.

"At the beginning, we stayed away from the home planet in order to carry out the Ark Project, so many years have passed, what is going on on the home planet now, aren't you curious? If there is no accident, our relatives should still be alive, don't you want to see them in your lifetime?" Lin Xiurong looked at her husband and threw out a series of questions, pointing to the deep corners of Zhou Yu's heart.

"Then what should I do, do you want me to leave more than a billion compatriots behind?" Zhou Yu said helplessly.

"After so many years, you have done enough, this burden has been borne for so many years, they should not continue to bind you, you have a longing life, you have unrealized dreams, haven't you ever thought about living for yourself?" Lin Xiurong looked at the painful Zhou Yu and asked excitedly.

Since learning the clues of the return, Lin Xiurong can often see Zhou Yu alone, frowning in a daze, looking in a trance, and his previous calmness is like two people, as his wife, she naturally knows why.

Since the Rock landed in this strange universe, Zhou Yu has conscientiously led human beings to settle down in this universe, defeated planetary monsters, vigorously developed interstellar colonies, and developed human civilization with only tens of thousands of people to a population of more than one billion in just two hundred years.

Now, after getting the clue to return to the home planet, due to concern for the safety of human beings, Zhou Yu has forcibly suppressed his thoughts about his home planet and his relatives, and Ren continues to think about the entire human civilization.

Seeing Zhou Yu's unrelenting appearance day by day, Lin Xiurong really couldn't look at it anymore.

Hearing this, Zhou Yu's whole body was shocked, and his originally gloomy eyes suddenly brightened, he has always longed for the free life of the stars, and he has longed for the dream of breaking into the universe since he was a child,......。

"Is it okay!, can I leave!" Zhou Yu asked in a muttered voice.

"Of course you can, 'Tinder' is already on the right track, even if we leave, they can continue to develop!" Lin Xiurong looked at Zhou Yu and nodded seriously.

Zhou Yu showed a sudden look, opened his arms, hugged Lin Xiurong tightly in his arms, and thanked him excitedly: "Thank you, rest, I know what to do, maybe this is the best choice." ”

After thinking about it, Zhou Yu's face changed, and the whole person became radiant and energetic.

The next day, Zhou Yu immediately convened the political core high-level to discuss the election of the successor and organize the exploration fleet to return to the home planet, which caused a huge repercussion, and the meeting was chaotic on the spot, and countless people persuaded him to give up this idea.

"Commander, it's too dangerous to explore the path back to your home planet, you don't have to go out yourself!"

"Commander, after so many years, we are accustomed to your decisions, and no one can take your place ....... ”

"Yes, Commander, we are now in the transition stage of high technological development, and once you leave, you will soon be able to cause great turmoil, which will interrupt this rare time!"

……

As soon as Zhou Yu's decision was announced, it immediately aroused the fierce opposition of the crowd.

The greatest credit to human civilization in a strange universe is that it can develop so quickly and so smoothly is that Zhou Yu has maintained a relatively unified political pattern by virtue of his personal prestige for more than two hundred years.

Once Zhou Yu leaves, in the absence of external enemies, because of the conflict and contradiction of internal interests, whether human civilization can continue to maintain a unified political system in several interstellar colonies is something that no one can predict.

"Everyone, I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade me anymore, you should let me take a long vacation after so many years!" Zhou Yu's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and he said undoubtedly.

After speaking, Zhou Yu looked at everyone and continued to announce without pause: "Within three days, you will hand over the list of presidential candidates to me, prepare to implement the electoral system, and next, we will discuss the formation plan of the exploration ship!"

"Because this operation to explore the home planet is not small, and the smaller the scale of the ship, the easier it is to act, so I think you have any opinions on bringing all the fourth-generation 'Xuanwu Ships'?" Zhou Yu looked at everyone and asked.

Hearing this, everyone glanced at each other, and their eyes showed helplessness, looking at Zhou Yu's tone, it seemed that it was irreversible for him to make a decision.

"Commander, there is still a distance between the finished products of all the fourth-generation 'Xuanwu ships', and there are not many of them, or you are holding off for a while, about half a year, we can 'evolve' five thousand fourth-generation 'Xuanwu ships'!" Professor Smith looked at Zhou Yu and replied.

There is a fundamental difference between the warship evolution mode of the biomechanical civilization and the warship manufacturing mode of the mechanical civilization.

A biological battleship is a 'living thing', by absorbing 'nutrients' (energy, mineral resources, etc.), by optimizing genes, cell tissue structure, constantly improving the strength and volume of the battleship's 'body', using various elements to upgrade the process, and the expansion of the scale, it can be expanded by individual division, or, by 'reproduction'. Just like the biological warship group used by the Shepherd Clan, the time when the battleship 'grows' and the size of the individual are closely related to their combat effectiveness.

The mechanical civilization manufactures warships, and the expansion fleet is through the forging of various mechanical metal materials, upgrading the spaceyard, manufacturing process skills, and the contained 'technology' technology, integrating spaceships that integrate countless scientific and technological skills, and then, carry out unlimited homogeneous production, individual combat effectiveness, shape, and other parameters, before manufacturing, have been confirmed, unless the technology replacement of the manufacturing origin, the improvement of ship-building technology, and then continue to improve the overall performance of the warship.

Different from the ship-building process of biological civilization and mechanical civilization, the warships produced by biological mechanical civilization combine the advantages of both, and the biological mechanical fleet can reproduce and split like biological warships, absorb biological elements, mechanical elements, and continue to grow, at the same time, it has the attributes of mechanical civilization, and can optimize the growth of the hull from the inside through the improvement of scientific and technological skills, so as to 'evolve' more powerful combat effectiveness.

"Commander, after absorbing the database of the home planet family, many third-generation 'Xuanwu' ships are constantly optimizing to the more advanced fourth-generation 'Xuanwu', however, due to the limitations of time and material supply, about 5% of the transformation of the fleet can be completed in 2 years, and in the later stage, the speed will be reduced. Professor Yang Yi looked at Zhou Yu and introduced.

"You don't need to bring so many warships, it's enough to give me 100 ships, concentrate resources on the priority of 'transformation', and strive to complete it within a month. Zhou Yu gestured to everyone and ordered.

"A month, so urgent, you are too risky!"

"Yes! Although the combat effectiveness of the fourth-generation 'Xuanwu Ships' has increased a lot compared to the third-generation ones, there are only 100 of them! The number is really too small!"

"Commander, you better wait patiently! Contacting the exploration ship will definitely encounter other civilizations, if the fleet is not strong enough, it is easy to encounter danger!"

……

As soon as Zhou Yu's words fell, everyone who was taken aback excitedly persuaded them.

"No, there are too many warships, it is easy to attract the attention of other civilizations, too few is not conducive to interstellar voyages, a hundred ships is not more, not less, this number is just right, you can arrange it immediately!" Zhou Yu smiled slightly, looked at everyone, and resolutely ordered.

Hearing the undoubted meaning of Zhou Yu's words, everyone glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Obey, commander!"

The project was confirmed, and Zhou Yu continued to the next topic: "Well, next, let's discuss the personnel adjustment!"

……

Despite the importance of today's agenda, as always, efficiency is moving very quickly.

It is precisely because of Zhou Yu's personal ruling style that before the matter is decided, a precise arrangement was made, so that Zhou Xiaozhi will make overall planning and deduction in advance, and after confirming that there is no problem, Zhou Yu will announce it to everyone.

Therefore, relying on the 'tinder' regime established with Zhou Yu as the core, the efficiency of governance has been very fast, and it is precisely thanks to this that the human tinder civilization can gain a firm foothold in a strange universe and develop rapidly.

It is precisely because of Zhou Yu's personal ruling style that before the matter is decided, a precise arrangement was made, so that Zhou Xiaozhi will make overall planning and deduction in advance, and after confirming that there is no problem, Zhou Yu will announce it to everyone.

Therefore, relying on the 'tinder' regime established with Zhou Yu as the core, the efficiency of governance has been very fast, and it is precisely thanks to this that the human tinder civilization can gain a firm foothold in a strange universe and develop rapidly.

……

Time passed bit by bit, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Millions of small ships gathered in the huge space dock, surrounded by millions of giant 'Xuanwu' with a body length of nearly 50,000 kilometers in diameter, full of feelings of attachment and pity.

Ever since learning that their commander was about to embark on an interstellar voyage, the entire human society was filled with anxiety and reluctance, and on the day the fleet was about to sail away, the entire starry sky was filled with the send-off procession.

"Dear compatriots, everyone knows where they come from, we carry the hopes of other compatriots, and leave a 'fire' in this strange universe, and now, we have ignited this 'fire' into a raging fire, and began to burn to other galaxies, describing a flame that can never be extinguished!" Zhou Yu stood in front of the command platform and made an impassioned parting speech to everyone.

"I am honored to be the person in charge of the continuation of 'Tinder', leading everyone to open up living space in this strange universe and strange planet, which has now become our home, and we must do our best to develop and defend our home with our lives,......。 ”

"However, today I stand here and explain to you one fact, we come from a universe with a galaxy, we come from the earth, I can never forget the place where I was born, I can't forget my family! I hope you can understand my departure, and I hope you live well, and then, wait for me to come back!" Zhou Yu looked at everyone and explained solemnly.

After speaking, Zhou Yu turned around and ordered loudly: "Let's go!"

As soon as Zhou Yu's voice fell, a hundred 'Xuanwu' giant ships slowly slid up.

"Commander, take care all the way!"

"Commander, remember your promise to come back!"

"Commander, you will always be our commander, don't leave us behind!"

“……”

Watching the fleet leave, countless people wept and shouted wildly.

For more than 200 years, Zhou Yu's human society has established too many feats, he is their father, their patron saint, almost everyone has witnessed his contribution to the development of human civilization, if he leaves decisively, countless supporters will cry sadly.

The dense group of small ships, reluctantly chasing, just followed the mother's school of fish, however, the four generations of Xuanwu fleet continued to accelerate, and the distance between the two sides became farther and farther, and in the end, the four generations of Xuanwu ship groups turned into a little light, and finally disappeared from everyone's field of vision.

"Gone!

"Without the commander, what will we do in the future!"

"How could he abandon us like that!"

……

Countless people watched the four generations of Xuanwu Fleet disappear, as if they had lost their backbone, and they collectively fell into confusion.