"I brought the will of the Federal Assembly," the senator said to Peng Yichen in a vibrating intelligent field, "and they still strongly recommend: to screen the stars in the empty space of stars for life-level protection before destroying them." ”

"I understand the council. Peng Yichen thought for a while and said, "In this long war, the number of lives and civilizations destroyed is even more than the stars in the Milky Way.

After this tragic war, the most urgent need to rebuild in the galaxy is the respect for life.

This respect is not only for carbon-based life, but also for silicon-based life. It is also based on this respect that I did not give the order to completely wipe out the silicon-based civilization.

But the silicon-based empire does not have this affection for life.

Since the technological development rate of silicon-based organisms is much higher than ours, it can be predicted that in another 5,000 years, the silicon-based empire will be able to regain its former military strength at the top of the first spiral arm. By that time, they will definitely provoke a war again.

So we have to build a sufficiently wide stellar blank space between the carbon-based federation and the silicon-based empire.

In this case, it is not realistic to screen the hundreds of millions of stars in the stellar blank belt for life-level protection.

Although the first spiral arm is the most inhospitable region of the Milky Way, the number of stars with living planets may still reach the density of leapfrogging, which is dense enough for a medium-sized warship to leap.

And even if only one medium-sized warship of the Silicon-based Empire broke into the territory of the Carbon-Based Federation, the damage that could be caused would be enormous.

So in the stellar blank zone, I can only let the fleet screen above the 2C civilization level.

We have had to sacrifice the lower life around some of the stars in the stellar blank to save more of the higher and lower life in the Milky Way.

I'll report back to the council when the mission is over. ”

The senator felt that the consul was a little strange, because although he still didn't want to screen the life level just now, he relaxed the bottom line for the scope of civilization level screening.

From insisting that only civilizations above level 3C can be screened, it has been changed to screening civilizations above level 2C.

You know, just such a level change could save thousands of planets and lives on planets.

The senator believed that the consul was making some kind of concession, saying: "The council understands your difficulty, so in the stellar blank zone, there is a star system of civilizations above level 2C, and I hope you can protect it." “

"Please rest assured!" Peng Yichen used his intelligent field to express his firm belief: "We will carry out the strictest inspection, and civilizations above level 2C will be duly protected." ”

The commander of the fleet suddenly used his intelligence field to interject: "Actually, I think the council is too worried. The first spiral arm is the most inhospitable space in the galaxy, where there are not even many planets where life exists, how many civilizations above level 2C can there be?"

"I hope so. Peng Yichen and the senator sent out the message at the same time.

The resonance of their intelligence field formed a solitary plasma ripple in the command room, passing through the metal shell of the battleship, spreading to all the warships in the entire fleet.

This is to remind every warship that they have countless lives in their hands, and they must be cautious, and they must not think that they are higher lives and treat lower lives as child's play.

Subsequently, under Peng Yichen's orders, the huge fleet began the second time and space jump.

With the help of the latest curvature engine, the entire fleet arrived at the first spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy after only two stellar leaps.

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Peng Yichen, as the supreme consul of the carbon-based federation at this time, should have treated all the lives of the first spiral arm of the galaxy equally.

But after all, he still has a human soul in his body, and he has a very special affection for the earth.

Therefore, the flagship, under his command, rushed to the vicinity of the solar system as soon as possible.

He wished he could be there to ensure the safety of the entire planet.

At the same time, he didn't want that respectable rural teacher to die silently in the post he had dedicated his life to because of the torture of illness again.

"Stellar system number: 1055715, absolute visual magnitude: 3.5, evolutionary stage: the main sequence is up, two planets have been discovered, the average orbital radius is 1.3 and 4.7 distance units, respectively, life has been found on planet 3, this is the report sent back by probe 29003. ”

In the flagship command room, the battleship operator reported to Peng Yichen with some admiration.

At this time, the one million warships of the carbon-based Federation Starfleet were scattered in a ribbon area ten thousand light-years long.

They want to create a 500-light-year blank stellar belt in the first spiral arm of the Milky Way.

This massive project has just begun, and it has already experimentally destroyed 5,000 stars.

But so far, only the star system where the flagship is located has such a planet with life.

Everyone in the command room didn't know why His Excellency the Supreme Archon had to let the flagship fly to this inconspicuous star system of only 9 planets.

I don't know why the Supreme Archon knew that there was a planet with life in this galaxy.

But no one dared to question his orders on such a small issue.

After all, this is a hero who has spent 5,000 years, stepping on the bones of the corpses, and climbing to this position step by step.

Except for the senators, who represent the parliament, no one here dared to question his order.

"What a desolate place the first spiral arm is. The fleet commander couldn't help but sigh.

Just as he was about to say something, a message suddenly came from the battleship 578822, hundreds of light years away, saying that they had discovered another planet with life.

This message is a bit of a slap in the face of the commander, who just said that this place is very desolate, but he didn't expect that two planets with life have already appeared.

This made him feel a faint trace of anger in his heart.

This time, the commander did not consult the supreme consul first, but directly made the intelligent field vibrate, and used his commander's authority to call up the hologram of the 578822 battleship.

The next moment, the entire command room seemed to be hovering above the battleship, and everything around the battleship could be observed from every angle.

Then, he called up the image of the planet that the ship's probe had sent back.

The void first appeared with a fireball glowing with blue light, and everyone could see that it was the star of this star system.

Then, the commander adjusted the picture to a small yellow point of light, and then zoomed in infinitely closer to this point of light at a very fast speed.

Soon a planet wrapped in a dense atmosphere appeared in the flagship command room.

In its orange-yellow sea of gas, the turbulent atmospheric motion reveals a myriad of extremely complex and ever-changing lines.

The Commander then mobilized the probes and led them into the planet's atmosphere.

Breaking through the thick yellow fog, they finally saw the life on the planet intuitively.

It was a group of balloon-like creatures floating in the upper layers of the dense atmosphere, with beautiful patterns on their surfaces.

These patterns are constantly changing colors and shapes, sometimes striped and sometimes speckled. Each balloon has a long tail, and the tail end of the long tail flickers blindly from time to time, and the light travels along the long tail to the balloon, turning into a diffuse fluorescence.

They seem to be able to communicate at the rudimentary level in this way of changing colors and shapes.

Apparently this is a species that has developed a visual language.

"Start four-dimensional scanning!" the commander commanded the probe.

A very thin beam began to scan the balloons from top to bottom.

This wave is only a few atoms thick, but it has one more dimension of space within its wave tube than the outer universe.

This beam wave is a scanning method that goes beyond the perception of a three-dimensional living organism.

In a very short period of time, it can convert the situation of the entire planet into a specific four-dimensional information and transmit it back to the probe, and then send it back to the flagship.

In the flagship intelligent main brain, the group of balloon lifeforms was cut into hundreds of millions of thin slices in one hundred thousandth of a second.

The thickness of each sheet is only one atom in size.

On this thin slice, the state of each quark is precisely recorded and analyzed.

"Start Data Mirroring Combination!"

Through the calculation of the intelligent masterbrain, the hundreds of millions of billions of flakes are superimposed in the original order.

Soon, in the command room of the flagship, a group of virtual balloons reassembled from four-dimensional data mirrors appeared in front of everyone.

This is not a simple replication technology, but in the four-dimensional space, an extremely distant life form is directly reproduced in another space of the universe.

If the commander wanted to, he could even grab the balloon-like life on that planet directly into the flagship.

That completes an interstellar transmission.

It is this technology that senators use, from the halls of the Federal Parliament, directly to the flagship.

But if you don't want to transmit it to the other party, then you just need to maintain a virtual 4D image.

This image can completely replicate the characteristics and intelligence of the subject's living organism.

However, once there is no energy to sustain it, this virtual image will instantly dissipate into space, and will not have any adverse effects on the life itself itself.

Of course, this technique has limitations. It can only be used to transmit and virtualize real living beings, and has no effect on inanimate items.

"Apply to start the Level 2C Civilization Test!"

The commander looked at the spherical life in the command room and asked Peng Yichen.

Peng Yichen stood in the command room, watching the commander's actions, but he didn't have any intention of interfering.

He didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit that he was evading this huge responsibility and pressure.

Now, what is about to take place is a test of the survival of the entire planetary life population, and a cruel and indifferent doomsday judgment.

Who should live in this universe and who should disappear in this universe.

When this power of choice is put on him, even though Peng Yichen has experienced countless trials and tribulations in the plot world, he still can't bear it.

Any wrong decision may make a brilliant civilization completely disappear from the universe.

As soon as he thought of this, Peng Yichen felt that he was about to collapse.

Fortunately, the memory and will of the Supreme Consul helped him survive.

But now, he could no longer escape, he was no longer an actor on that earth, but the supreme consul of the entire Federation.

There are responsibilities that must be borne by him, and they can only be borne by him.

"Through the application, start the 2C civilization test. ”

Peng Yichen used the intelligent field to issue an order for the final judgment.

He could only pray now that the orb in front of him would survive the only test that would save them.

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