It's not just one Strong galaxy that has disappeared into the flames, as many as seven resource systems within twenty light-years of the surrounding area have been reduced to ashes in this magnificent fireworks festival.

Although this loss was completely bearable compared to the sheer size of the Empire, the rapid action of the Intelligence Headquarters also allowed the dissemination of information to be nipped in the first place. But the impact of the disaster remains strong and long-lasting.

Scholars from the Imperial Academy of Sciences rushed to the periphery of the incident field, which was still surrounded by bright energy turbulence, as soon as possible. In their opinion, even if they lose ten or a hundred more galaxies, as long as they can get a sample of that monster, then it will be worth it.

As for the price to be paid in between, and the hundreds of millions of victims, it has never been on the radar of these madmen.

After all, everyone is dead, and no one will hold anyone accountable for this.

On such a long scale of space and time, who cares about what happens tens or hundreds of light-years away?

There is a limit to the information that living beings can receive, and even if the Empire has fully popularized genetic modulation surgery, and every adult citizen of the Empire is tall, strong, heroic, beautiful, and intelligent, the information they can access, or to the best of their ability, is still limited to one or two neighboring galaxies.

If it is farther away, it will directly become a more absurd and nonsensical story than the gossip after tea and dinner, and it will just make people laugh in vain.

For the vast majority of the citizens of the Empire, the sudden disappearance of the Strong system does not make much of a splash in their lives.

Of course, the losses suffered by some consortia are indeed not light, but the Imperial Department of Resources can easily compensate for ten or eight undeveloped galaxies with more abundant resources, not to mention, no one wants to wake up with dozens of planet fortresses above their heads.

All in all, a new round of development projects has once again led to the economic development of parts of the empire, which is really gratifying, gratifying.

Living up to expectations, after paying a huge price, they forced hundreds of millions of drones to pave a way to the original force field coordination center of the Strong star system. It was a bit of a long time, but at least their efforts were not in vain, and there they got a piece of the monster's limb of what they had always dreamed of.

......

"How's the research going?"

"If you call this time-wasting behavior 'research,' then of course we've done a great job. ”

Responding with irony, Roslyn, a first-class academician and Honorary Lady of the Empire, pointed to the holographic projection that was busy beside him, "Look! we have spent so much time and energy, and all we have achieved in the end is such a result!"

"What's wrong?"

His Excellency, the vice president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, who had just finished cleaning up a newly discovered gathering place of life in space, was confused, and he looked around puzzled: "It seems...... They seem to be doing a good job?"

"It's just looking. ”

Speaking of this, Roslyn waved his hands indiscriminately, almost incoherently: "Can you imagine? No, you can never imagine what kind of monster we have found, which is just, fundamentally challenging my dignity as a researcher!"

The remains of the monster they found from the ruins of the battlefield were more than 1.5 kilometers long...... Fingernail. Based on the monster's proportions, that's probably just a fraction of the end of its fingernail.

And it was such a 'nail tip' that seemed to be made entirely of crystalline materials, but most of the research institute turned their backs.

"Do you remember the guy who came up with the theory of 'malleable energy crystals?'" Roslyn asked him a seemingly unrelated question.

"Elvina, that's the name, right? I remember that he was very hopeful of becoming a second-class academician in the next selection, after all, his theory has entered the final stage of laboratory verification, and he is only one step away from industrial production. ”

"Ahh ”

Roslin spread his hands and said helplessly: "You see, it's so direct and cruel, it's just because we discovered such a fact, only one standard unit of monster crystals is needed to drive a first-class main starship to run at full power for a combat cycle." Therefore, although his theory looks beautiful and practical, it has lost its qualification as a front-line key project of the empire. ”

"So he's going to Alboron to make money?"

The vice dean, who didn't know what to say, rubbed his forehead, "Okay, okay, what else about it, there should be more than that, right?"

"Ah, of course, there are a lot of people who are shocked and speechless, and those guys in materials science are almost wiped out. Roslyn dragged several light screens out of the air to begin his explanation.

"First of all, the strength of this crystalline exceeds that of all man-made substances known to us, and the new armor created by mimicking its molecular structure is capable of withstanding the direct impact of the maximum power tachyon light spear, up to six thousand times. ”

He uttered a rather frightening number with a blank face, which meant that the armor was immune to almost all known entities and energies in the universe.

"In addition, the small consumption of the powder made from the grinding of this crystal can promote the secondary development of the human body and obtain certain ...... that we cannot explain for the time being Strength. ”

He hesitated for a few seconds: "You can think of it as some kind of super-weakened version of the Emperor, or something. In short, it's the kind of weird stuff that can't be explained. ”

In the experiment, several specimens gained different abilities, but one thing was the same, their body organs did not show any mutations, if not to say, the activity of the cerebral cortex increased by more than 20%.

"There are many more examples, and I don't bother to explain them all. By the way, Fasini, I'm sorry I have to say that, in a few days, I'll have to leave too. ”

Roslyn took a few deep breaths, "Because my project has completely lost its meaning because of its appearance, and I can only be an idle consultant to stay here." ”

"You know what, it reminds me of a story I heard when I was a kid. ”

"My great-grandmother once told me a bedtime story about the Wishing Stone, which was made with countless lives, and it was said that the wishing stone could grant all wishes. Don't you think it's a bit like this?"

It can meet all the needs of people, no matter what field, it is the most perfect universal material, improve the quality of the human body, increase life, give strength, and even the artistic creator will have frequent outbursts of inspiration when he stays on the sidelines.

"But why?"

Fassini asked rhetorically, "I have never been so arrogant as to think that humanity has really become the absolute ruler of this galaxy, so why is almost all of the effects of this thing directed at humans?"

Both of them tacitly did not mention what to do if this thing was really just a spontaneous response to external stimuli. Because this kind of fact is so terrifying, so terrifying that they don't want to think about it.

"So, how did you split the crystals?"

"Uh......"

Roslyn's eyes wandered, "...... His Majesty the Emperor is now assisting us in our work, and his powers are well equipped to handle this material. ”

"But isn't he suppressing those bugs now?!"

"Don't worry about that, Fassinis," a third voice intervened in the conversation, "The rebels are nothing compared to this 'real' force. ”

"Allow me to pay you the greatest compliment, Great Emperor. ”

After a meticulous salute, Fasini continued: "The power of 'real'?