The Empire's exploration methods have progressed step by step, steadily expanding, and now the exploration force has just entered the two star clusters, and is starting to explore from the border galaxy.

In the Frontier System of the Bright Dust Cluster, a small exploration fleet has jumped to a green planet, and the outer armor of the battleship is engraved with the insignia of an empire-affiliated galaxy-level civilization, and is responsible for exploring the nearby area, and this planet is the target of their exploration.

"The jump is over, the destination has been reached, and the jump engine is cooling."

"The planetary environment probe has been put into place, and the planetary environment and resource distribution are being examined."

"The life monitoring device is activated and is scanning the target planet for signs of life."

In the main control room of the command ship, many crew members were busy controlling various equipment, and the captain was pacing back and forth in the room, waiting for the detection results.

Brush –

At this moment, the door opened, and a man in a heavily armored mechanical armor walked in, showing the posture of a soldier as he walked.

The captain turned his head to look at it, and bowed his head, "Captain Krieber, what's the matter?" ”

"I'm just coming to see." The man known as Cleber was expressionless and his tone was somewhat impatient.

This person is one of the natural disasters of this affiliated civilization, and he acts with the exploration team and is responsible for armed security.

But obviously, in the Shining World exploration, the odds of encountering an enemy who is qualified to make him shoot are too small, and Krieber's existence is more as insurance, and he usually has nothing to do, so he is naturally not willing to perform this work, in his opinion, it is a waste of his time to exercise.

After waiting for a while, the monitoring results came out and were displayed on the large virtual screen in the main control room.

"Report Captain, the environmental parameters have been read, this is a habitable planet, and the resources are relatively rich, we have also found signs of life, and seven hundred and thirty thousand creatures have been scanned, among which there is an intelligent life, which has formed a settlement on the surface, and it is observed that the level of civilization is still in the tribal era, the level of intelligence is temporarily unknown, and the population is about 120,000."

The virtual screen shows the appearance of this intelligent species, which looks like a bunch of dwarf, erect creatures like goblins, with numerous folds in their white skin, and looks loose and baggy, like fat people who have been fat.

"It's nice to have intelligent life." The captain nodded, "Then follow the rules of exploration and contact them." ”

The empire stipulates the procedures for contact with indigenous civilizations in the exploration code, and adopts different policies according to different situations, and for this kind of natives who seem to be no threat, it is mainly gentle indoctrination, Han Xiao once contacted Pangulid Star in the first phase of exploration, and adopted the indoctrination policy.

The fleet slowly landed in a forest on the planet, and the ground troops landed, and began friendly contact with the indigenous tribes, who were surprised and frightened, and at the same time curious about the sudden appearance of these creatures.

With the help of the Universal Translator, the exploration team successfully established a bridge of communication with this group of natives, while learning about the natives, while explaining their intentions to the natives, using various images and images to explain the situation of the explored universe, introducing the Red Empire, so that the natives can understand what the situation is now.

The doctors who accompanied the team also began to conduct physical examinations for curious natives to prevent them from carrying new germs that they had never seen before—there were too many such examples, as well as to examine their physiology.

Everything seemed to be in order, and Krieber was bored, strolling around the busy camp.

Turning his head, he suddenly saw a native leave the quarantine queue and sneakily walked towards an indigenous tribe's house.

Krieber didn't think much about it, and was about to withdraw his gaze, but at this moment, an inexplicable sense of alertness rose in his mind.

His footsteps immediately stopped, most of the Scourge class had a keen intuition, and occasionally foresaw certain threats, basically the more powerful the superpower, the more they would trust their instincts.

"Something seems wrong...... Cribber frowned, turned to follow the sneaky native, pushed open the door, and walked straight into the native's house.

The native was sitting in the corner with his back to the doorway, not knowing what he was doing, and when he heard the noise behind him, he seemed startled, and turned his head sharply to look at it.

"What are you doing?" Cleb's premonition grew stronger.

The next moment, the native's expression suddenly became hideous and twisted, and he suddenly took out a bone dagger and stabbed him in the neck.

Sa!

A gust of wind blew, and Kleeber moved extremely quickly, flashing in front of the other party in an instant, and directly flicked his fingers to fly the dagger in the native's hand, pinching his neck and lifting it up.

He didn't know what the native's move meant, but he was right to stop it.

However, before he could ask, the native's body suddenly trembled, foaming at the mouth, his eyes bulging, and he died on the spot.

"Poisoned?" Krieber was surprised.

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation outside the door, and Cleber ran out with the body, and found that there was a commotion on the side of the doctor who accompanied the team, only to see a large number of doctors surrounding a medical equipment for a physical examination, and more doctors approached, as if they had found something.

Krieber flew straight over and looked at the head of the doctor's team as soon as he landed.

"What are you doing?"

"Your Excellency, look at this genetic test report!" A doctor looked surprised, "We found that there is a major defect in the genes of this intelligent life, and this defect actually has traces of artificial genetic tuning, resulting in the brain ability of this intelligent species being suppressed by more than 80%, to put it simply, someone castrated their intelligence!" ”

"You mean, it's a captive species?" Krieber chuckled inwardly.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

Boom Boom –

At this moment, everyone felt that the ground under their feet suddenly trembled.

In the next second, all the spaceships erupted with a shrill siren!

"Alert! Alert! A high-energy response has been detected and is being compared against the event model database...... After the matching, the [Primal Spectral Energy Burst] match has reached 99.8%, please evacuate immediately! Please evacuate immediately! ”

"Primordial Spectral Energy?!"

Everyone, including Klebe, suddenly changed their faces.

As if he had suddenly thought of something, Krieber slammed the skull of the strange native corpse in his hand with a slam of his hand, and lifted himself upside down, pouring out all the contents while an extremely tiny piece of machinery mixed with slurry fell.

The moment he saw this mechanical prop, Klebe's pupils shrank suddenly, and he instantly understood.

This is a life signal sensing device, to put it simply, when the user's life signal fluctuates or even ends, the device connected to the other side will be activated or turned off - the original ghost energy burst is related to this life signal sensing device!

Bang!!

The planet collapsed inward in an instant, and fountains of dark blue energy broke through the surface and rushed into the sky.

Immediately afterward, the dark blue color spread rapidly over the earth, polluting the entire planet.

Mountains, rivers, forests...... Land, sea, sky, all existence is swallowed up by the dark blue, transformed into a part of the primordial ghost!

Swelling, swelling without end!

All the matter disappeared in this blue, and in the process of mass energy transformation, it released an incomparably huge amount of energy, and the escape speed of this exploration fleet could not even keep up with the speed of the expansion of the primordial ghost energy, and it was all swallowed by this dark blue light.

Krieber rushed out of the spaceship, still trying to struggle to escape, but the endless blue light overwhelmed his figure, and in the face of this wave of primordial ghost energy that destroyed the world, the Cataclysm level was just an indistinguishable mass of matter.

And the same scene is playing out on more than one planet on the border of the Bright Dust Star Cluster.

……

Lighthouse Star, Commander's Boardroom.

Not long after the last meeting, the remote projection of representatives of all the forces involved in the exploration gathered again.

This was an emergency meeting, and Han Xiao and a super A-level were also urgently called over for a meeting.

Looking at the casualty statistics on the virtual screen, the atmosphere in the room was solemn.

"As you can see, our exploration force has been caught up in an accident at the Bright Dust Cluster." Tarrokov's tone was condensed, "More than six thousand warships were destroyed, and the death toll exceeded seven million, including the two Scourge class of the affiliated civilizations. ”

Hearing this, many people were in an uproar.

"What happened to them, did they encounter a very powerful native civilization?"

"There are such powerful natives in the Bright Dust Star Cluster?!"

Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, he only knew that this indigenous civilization had caused trouble to the empire, and he didn't fully understand the detailed process of the war, after all, this was what happened during the version update, and players in their previous lives had no personal experience, they could only understand it from the historical background materials.

Tarrokov pressed down with his hands, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said in a deep voice:

"This group of natives is more powerful than you think...... They have mastered the spectral energy technology, and these lost teams have all been wiped out by the primordial spectral energy explosion while exploring the planet, and we have reason to believe that this is a trap laid by the unknown indigenous civilization. ”

As soon as these words came out, most of the representatives in the audience were breathless, and their expressions became stunned.

They can accept the indigenous civilization with strong military power, because with the Empire's warship technology, it is not a problem to suppress the indigenous civilization, and no matter how strong the conventional military force is, it will not pose much of a threat to their exploration army.

However, the meaning of the indigenous civilization that has mastered the primordial ghost energy is completely different!

In the explored universe under the jurisdiction of the three major civilizations, the primordial ghost energy is an absolutely forbidden weapon, the power is terrifying, and the subsequent pollution is even more serious, this weapon has absolute deterrent power.

And this group of natives has also mastered the primitive ghost energy technology?

How exactly did they climb the tech tree?

Could it be that there are still some black technologies that we don't know about?!

In the hearts of most of the delegates present, there was a strong fear of jealousy.

The feeling of facing this indigenous civilization is not the same. In the interstellar society, even if you don't have a certain technology, you know that this technology exists, but in the face of a powerful indigenous civilization that has never been seen before, who knows if he will suddenly pull out some incredible black technology from his crotch?

Many of the civilizations here have experienced the Exploratory Calendar War, and at this time it feels like a dream back to the Exploratory Calendar - no one knows what terrible hole cards other civilizations have, such as the high-dimensional Apocalypse Teleporter of the Radiant Federation, the Pantheon Scepter of the Ethereal Sect, the Aberrant Missile of the Evolutionary Civilization, and so on.

This group of indigenous civilizations is naturally not bound by the rules of the interstellar society, and they don't care about throwing primordial ghost energy at all, which is very dangerous, just like children playing with pistols, and everyone here has a premonition in their hearts...... I am afraid that the casualties this time are not small.

"So what's the Empire's plan?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

Tarrokov said coldly: "The current situation shows that this indigenous civilization is not friendly to us and is a high threat, according to the "Exploration Code - Native Civilization Contact Regulations", we will adopt the 24th set of response plans." ”

Hearing this, many people felt a pang in their hearts.

This is the last set of responses, and compared to the others, the content is simple - to deal with the target by means of war, until the extermination or enslavement.

The hegemon-level civilization that has come from exploring the wars has never been a good man and a woman.

The Shining World is the epitome of the exploration of past wars, the difference is that the three major civilizations have become the hegemon, and they have the confidence to adopt gentle measures, and the weak are easier to protect themselves.

The stronger the natives, the more stringent the attitudes of the three civilizations.

And the natives who have mastered the spectral energy technology have become an obvious threat, and the Red Empire does not mind strangling them in the cradle and reducing an annoying hostile star cluster-level civilization, which is also beneficial to the entire interstellar society.

Glancing at the audience, Tarrokov said coldly:

"We know almost nothing about them, we don't know where they are, we don't know what species they are, but they have launched a precise attack on us, which means they have some information in their hands, and we have not been in contact with this civilization before...... Therefore, it can be judged that someone is secretly haunting, and those smugglers are the most suspicious. ”

Hearing this, the representatives of civilization present had different faces, and they all thought of going together.

It's not hard to guess that a single civilization can't be all-encompassing, and the power of the interstellar society is that technology circulates with each other, and it is the stowaways who pack up a lot of advanced technology in the interstellar society and throw it to the indigenous civilizations, including ghost technology.

Those super-star cluster-level civilizations also have enough motives, the first is to kill and injure the armed forces of the empire, the second is to delay the progress of exploration, and the third is to kill people with knives to indirectly eliminate powerful indigenous civilizations and make more space for the shining world.

Of course, they don't throw technology when they see people, only advanced indigenous civilizations with sufficient productivity will be targeted by them, otherwise they will not use technology if they are given.

"I announce that the exploration plan of the Bright Dust Star Cluster has been temporarily suspended, and the Imperial Exploration Force has officially entered a state of war." Tarrokov's tone was calm.

Everyone looked awe-inspiring and nodded.

There is no longer a slow exploration before the opponent is resolved, and the Empire has a wealth of experience in warfare, and there are countless cases to refer to, which is an advantage.

The opponent has a temporary intelligence advantage, but this advantage will not be maintained for long, with the trap of the primordial spectral energy explosion as the anchor point of the event, the Empire's prophecy ability troops can come in handy, and the mechanic is not given for nothing.

The empire summoned the army, and the Black Star Legion also had to respond to the call, but Han Xiao didn't plan to take action personally, mainly let Nilo and a group of subordinates participate, and it was almost enough to send a mechanical force to protect it secretly.

He knew that the Kunde tribe did not have a superhuman system, and the individual force was only various armored warriors, and the biggest threat was the strategic-level ghost bombardment, as long as he paid attention to avoiding the battlefield in this area, he could reduce casualties.

"I'm familiar with the advantages of maps, so I can help a little." Han Xiao said secretly in his heart.

……

At the same time, the depths of the light dust star cluster.

One by one, the spaceships carrying countless civilians disappeared into the depths of the starry sky, looking at this scene, every Kunde soldier who stayed behind had inexplicable emotions flowing in their hearts.

"Report that the rover fleets of each colony star have set off, all carrying local civilians and loaded with all the creatures and crop seeds we have found, and will go in search of a new home."

Listening to the report of his subordinates, the Kunde leader nodded silently, and the other high-ranking officials were also silent.

The downed ship did not deceive them, and they quietly arranged for some enslaved subordinate races to contact each other, and the other party was indeed called the "Red Empire", which was as powerful as the information suggested.

Although the other party seems friendly and there are some discrepancies in the information, in the eyes of the Kunde people, what is hidden under the friendship is still the attempt to colonize and control.

The future is predictable, and this is unacceptable to the Kunde clan - originally, this entire star cluster will be a resource for their development and a ladder for their evolution, but now that the Red Empire is here, if they want to take away these resources, just like the information says, their way out will be blocked, and they will no longer be able to develop normally.

In this regard, supercluster-level civilizations are not all lies, and they know it all too well—to be honest is the most brilliant demagogy.

The Kunde do not want to become vassals, and the universe is so vast, they still have a way out.

Considering defeat before victory, while deciding to resist by force, the Kunde tribe prepared for the worst, packed up the vast majority of civilians and sent them to the depths of the starry sky, leaving the fire of civilization behind - whether they win or lose, there is no chance of normal development if they stay here, it is better to send their people to find a new home that will not be disturbed.

And those who remained to defend their old homeland were only the Kunde army, ready to break the cauldron and sink the ship.

As cosmic relations scientists have theorized, war is always the only way to peace.