Coster paused for a moment and continued, "In addition, Black Flame also discovered that the energy source was actually located in the galaxy called 032. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and it's in the area controlled by the Gutila civilization. ”

"The Gutila civilization has more than 10,063 first-level administrative stars, and at least 60,000 second-level administrative stars. The resource planet is more than 100 million. According to information gleaned from the Kafatla, they possess at least six million space combat vessels. There are more than two million capital warships. ”

"According to the confession of the captured officers of the Guthira fleet. That fleet had cleared a large number of fleets into the cluster three years earlier, in order to prepare for a surprise attack on the Kafatra civilization in a massive attack. Perhaps it was because of our presence that they gave up their intention to start a war. But it is clear that the Gustila Empire itself did not have the strength to conquer the Khafatra civilization. Not to mention that the other two civilizations in the Kaffatra system could not possibly watch it conquer the Kaffatra civilization. So, I think there may be external factors in this. ”

Zhuang Bifan heard him say this, and interjected and asked, "You mean that Gutila is supported by foreign civilizations?"

"Yes. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain that they have the courage to go on an expedition to attack the Khphatra civilization. ”

"But what does that have to do with your conclusion?"

"That's the usual tactic of the reapers. ”

"Reaper, is that the civilization you said before using the evolutionary information of other civilizations to evolve itself?" After Koster attached, Zhuang Bifan heard him say some secrets of the universe. For example, Koster's civilization was exterminated by the Reapers. "Are you indeed them?"

"Ever since I was in charge of my own forces, I've been gathering information about the Reapers, and from that information, I can probably tell that this is similar to the way the Reapers. If he finds a civilization, if the level of this civilization is high enough, they will attack immediately. If there is a subordinate civilization in this civilization, then they will nurture this subordinate civilization as a seed. After this civilization develops, we will see whether it is a merger or harvest. If they encounter a galaxy with a large number of civilizations, they will first support a seed civilization and use it as a testing stone for other civilizations, so that other civilizations can evolve to a higher level. Wait until they feel they can harvest. ”

Zhuang Bifan heard him say this, and asked in a deep voice: "The Kafatra civilization and the other two advanced civilizations are both sixth-level civilizations, and so are Gutila. Why are they looking for Gutila to make seeds?"

"Because Gutila is not a sixth-level civilization developed by himself. Another Level 6 civilization in the Kafatra system colonized System 032, and the Gutila were an indigenous social group of civilization 032 who later became slaves of the colonists. The colony is at war with the overlord mainland. Due to the lack of population, the colony had to use the Gutila as soldiers. In the long-term war between the colonization and the homeland, the colonial power was constantly weakened, and the Guthira civilization was very fecund, and finally seized control of the Guthira system. In fact, they were originally just the germ of a civilization that had just learned how to use tools, and belonged to a civilization that developed artificially at an accelerated pace. Even now, they themselves are not very evolutionary. It is far from matching the civilization level. ”

"However, because they are extremely fertile and have a large population. They cannot keep up with other advanced civilizations in the development of civilization, but they have a high potential for war. Other civilizations will not clash with them too much for resources. After all, if you want to develop, there are still many galaxies in this galaxy cluster. But Gutila's trajectory is a bit unusual. After we learned about it, we found that the speed of their evolution and development far exceeded the height of the curve of the development theory of a civilization. So I think they've been under the guidance of some higher civilization to get to this point. That's very similar to the trajectory of seed civilizations that I've seen. ”

Zhuang Bifan listened to him, nodded and said, "You are familiar with the reaper, how do you say we should deal with them?"

"First of all, we're going to take down the other party's communication station in System 032. ”

"What's the point of that?" while it was necessary, he didn't think it was the most urgent.

"We have only dispatched six motherships against the Guthira fleet, and if the Reapers, they don't find out about the existence of our main fleet. It is possible to confuse them. ”

Zhuang Bifan understood the meaning of his words, and said in his heart: "You mean that the scale of the reaper's forces is very large?"

"Yes. According to the records of our civilization, we faced an enemy with more than 30 million capital warships. But I've been collecting information on them, and I've found that if a galaxy with few troops does not have more than a million capital ships to harvest. ”

"There is only one force for the Reapers?"

"As far as I know, there could be three, or more. They call themselves civilized arbitrators. Each Reaper faction has hundreds of millions of warships. Their warships are not necessarily very combative. But there are many dark energy under them, and they are also very strong. Some are said to have controlled the degree of spatial mass on a large scale. ”

Hearing that the enemy he might face was so powerful, Zhuang Bifan had plans to gather his fleet and escape.

However, I heard Koster say: "From the analysis of the detection data of that signal source, the other party did not detect the existence of our main fleet. Because their detection signal time is too short, our mothership is large enough that it is easy for the other party to mistake it for a planet in long-range detection. They were able to know about our existence, but I am afraid that it was because the Guthira fleet was completely wiped out and escaped from the net. ”

Zhuang Bifan nodded. During the battle with Gutila's fleet, there were indeed their small flying machines that escaped from the battlefield.

"So, they'll probably only send a small number of troops, but did you ever think that they'd consider harvesting the other civilizations in the cluster as well?"

"The odds are great. But the civilization here will not be taken into account by them. Even if they wanted to, they would send an advance force first. But if they find our large forces, they will most likely wait until they have gathered enough troops before coming to the cluster. ”

The more Zhuang Bifan listened, the deeper his brows furrowed, and said, "If that's the case, even if we kill their advance troops, we may not be able to gain much more time." ”

But Koster shook his head and said, "King, if you had known the Reaper's ways, you would not have thought that way. He paused and said. "The power that can become a reaper is strong, for sure. They can run rampant in the universe. They even think of themselves as gods. And their total strength, although large, is also scattered. It is precisely because of their conceit that even in the face of the situation of the local galaxy cluster, it is very likely that the nearest fleet will be sent directly, rather than waiting for all the troops to be assembled before starting the operation. Because they believed that even if their detachment faced more enemies, they would be able to support the reinforcements of the follow-up troops. They even thought that what if the advance fleet might be able to harvest the enemy alone?"

"Then we'll just work at ease?"

"It's the best way to go. But of course, we can't wait, and it is certainly necessary to strengthen ourselves. When their possible advance fleet arrives, even if they discover our strength, it will take a long time for them to gather a large force, and we will have more time to develop. If they still haven't discovered our strength, we can eat the meat they send us again and again. ”

If that is the case, that signal station really needs to be taken out as soon as possible, so that the main fleet will not be discovered as well.

Run away, maybe you can hide for a while. But now that he has shown traces in front of the other party, does he want to keep running away? What's more, he didn't leave the earth with his woman to escape.

"Can you guarantee that they didn't spot our main fleet?"

"Can't!"

"What do you think should be done with the Gutila Empire?"

"I think that when we find out the source of the signal, we can annihilate this civilization. Coster said coldly. "They became a reaper seed civilization and will one day be exterminated by the reapers. If we keep them, it's a timed bomb that doesn't know when it's going to explode. ”

Zhuang Bifan frowned and thought for a while, then secretly exhaled and said, "You arrange it." Full throttle!"

"Yes. Coster replied, and immediately suggested. "The dockyard of our mothership can build battleships. But productivity is not high. However, at the beginning, Black Flame had each mothership carry a large space shipyard. You ordered us to build new ships with all our might. The fleets are already looking for suitable locations to assemble. If all of them are put into production, about 150,000 capital warships and 300 Tarzan-class ships can be built in one Earth year. However, I still recommend that the main battleship be miniaturized as soon as possible. That way we'll be able to build ships at least twice as fast. ”

Zhuang Bifan was not satisfied with the speed of construction of the battleship. But also know that those space shipyards consume huge resources. Now it's a bit difficult to build a ship with all its might, and at the same time increase space, and the shipyard is a bit difficult.

He thought for a moment and said, "I agree to make the battleship smaller, and when the technology is perfected, I will start building a new ship like that." But now the construction of ships cannot be relaxed. At the same time, the exploitation of the resources of those systems should be accelerated. It is possible to build new shipyards with five hundred shipyards, and at least one and a half thousand new shipyards before the arrival of the main forces of the Reapers. ”

"Yes. ”

Zhuang Bifan nodded and said, "Also, let Hei Yan determine the exact coordinates of that signal station." ”

………………

Hei Yan only detected an unknown energy emitting station's energy reaction, and it couldn't determine the specific coordinates of the other party.

Moreover, neither Heiyan nor Coster thought it was a fixed signal station, and it was more likely that it was a huge warship. Because the energy response of that energy source is very powerful.

It must be difficult to find a possible battleship within a galaxy. Not to mention that the other party may have received the active detection signal of Black Flame. The other party wants to hide, and Hei Yan really has no way to find it.

But Zhuang Bi felt that Koster was right. This signal station must be removed. Fortunately, the location of the energy source was not within the control of the Guthira civilization, and he sent five Warlord-class motherships to finally find the coordinates of the energy source to search.

Zhuang Bifan didn't let Sima Yun know about these troubles. He was also in the mood to go anywhere else. The First Fleet is the most productive here, and it's just right that he stays here. As for the other seven fleets, with the fleet commander and the mothership brain, he doesn't have to worry about anything going wrong. There is no need for him to meddle in the affairs of the detachment at all.

He simply arrived on New Earth with a dozen motherships. It is intended to build an industrial base within this star system to produce warships.

However, these tasks do not need to be equipped for him to worry about himself. In his spare time, he took Sima Yun to transform the "new earth".

The New Earth itself is a planet suitable for living beings. It's just that the environment is not suitable for human survival on Earth. All Zhuang Bifan has to do is to transform the environment above to suit human survival, and then they will make their home here.

This new earth is indeed suitable for the breeding of life, but it is not suitable for the emergence of civilization. At least on land. Frequent mega-earthquakes and harsh climates, as well as asteroids within the star system that often hit the planet, are all possible reasons for the extinction of fragile civilizations.

In just a few years, the planet has erupted several supervolcanic eruptions and more than a dozen major earthquakes of magnitude 8 or higher. Hurricanes, although converging as the temperature of the interior of the atmosphere drops, are still unbearable for life on land above.

Sima Yun felt that Zhuang Bifan seemed to be enchanted, and even used tens of thousands of main warships to enter the atmosphere of the new earth, and used the air filtration system on the battleship to purify the atmosphere of the new earth. In order to make the temperature and air composition of this planet suitable for human beings on earth.

The mutated environment has certainly affected some indigenous organisms. But it seems that a large part survived.

Because the temperature of the new earth has dropped sharply, the water vapor in the atmosphere has also been squeezed out, and even one or two heavy rains have fallen in the depths of the desert that may have lasted for hundreds of years, and the whole world seems to be plunged into floods.

The biosphere and biosphere on the planet will definitely shift with climate change, but if it is left to change on its own, it will definitely take a long time.

Zhuang Bifan doesn't seem to even be able to wait. He used a large number of flying machines to sow new plants in the new biological belts calculated by the brain, and released animals bred by the genes of the earth's animals in these new biological belts.

If you look at it from above, these planets have a belt of buildings spreading and intersecting on land, and these buildings are mainly found in mountains and islands. Each chain of buildings eventually connects to the coast. Those were built to consume the energy of the earth's crustal movement in seismic power warfare. In the past year, there has not been an earthquake with a magnitude of more than five on the entire planet.

And a large number of active craters are busy. Some aircraft are hoisted with some large modules installed in the crater.

Some of the craters that have been fully built have several large chimneys emitting thick fog, and several conduits extend from the device holes on the craters to the mountainside, and the mouths of the pipes flow from the hot lava.

In fact, electricity is no longer the best mode of energy conversion and conduction for advanced civilizations. However, for short-distance energy conversion and transmission, electricity is still the most cost-effective way.