The meeting lasted for most of the day, and Tarrokov introduced the various matters of the second phase of the exploration, and finally came to an end, he patted the table and said in a deep tone:

"And one last thing, during the exploration, pay more attention to the abnormal signals, since the first phase of exploration, the smuggling of the shining world has been common, we have taken various measures to annihilate a large number of stowaways, but there are always fish that slip through the net, if you find the stowaways, you must pursue them."

The Shining World is still in the stage of closed development, and the stowaways of many organizations have been repeatedly banned, and most of the people here know in their hearts that most of the stowaways are troops of various star cluster level and super star cluster civilizations, or they hire people.

Because the area of the first phase has been explored, these stowaways have already run to the unknown area further back, and their whereabouts are a mystery. The Empire also sent some pursuit squads deep into unexplored areas to pursue them, but with little success.

In the eyes of the Empire, the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to complete the exploration plan step by step, anyway, the general situation is over, and these stowaways will have nowhere to escape sooner or later.

After the meeting, the representatives of the various alliance forces went back with the content of the meeting to inform the high-level, and some of the super A-level did not leave immediately, and stayed to exchange feelings a little.

After chatting for a while, Tarrokov came over and said that he would let Han Xiao have a private chat with him.

The two came to the side, and Han Xiao was a little curious.

"What's the matter?"

"Can I talk to you if it's okay?" Tarrokov smiled, "But I do have something to look for you, the Gaolu Star Cluster borders the Russo Star Cluster, and your territory is just connected to the border between the Gaolu Entry Star Gate and the Russo Star Cluster, and the transportation is convenient, which can be used as a long-term route for other exploration forces to transit and transport materials, so during the second phase of exploration, some teams will borrow from you, and some materials will also ask you to help transport them." ”

"Yes." Han Xiao readily agreed.

The empire has divided the seven galaxies to itself, and it has absolute jurisdiction, because the agreement has already taken effect, and the empire cannot dictate his territory at will, and must ask his opinion first.

In the case of the second phase, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of opening up the transportation network for other exploration teams to cross, which can lay an important resource circulation foundation for their own territory, and the more people choose this route, the more inertia will gradually be formed, allowing their own territory to consolidate the position of the core area of the Gaul star cluster, and can also help improve the transportation network.

Undertaking the transportation of materials is equivalent to assuming the responsibility of logistics to a certain extent, and no one knows how big the oil and water of logistics is. In the first phase of exploration, the positioning of the Black Star Legion was more of a pathfinder, but in the second phase, with its own territory, the positioning began to change to semi-logistics and semi-wilderness, with richer responsibilities.

After saying this, Tarrokov suddenly lowered his voice, "Have you received the news, the call for the opening of the evolutionary totem within the empire has begun again." ”

Han Xiao nodded, disapproving, "It doesn't matter, anyway, they can't trouble me now." ”

Now the differences of opinion on the evolution cube at the top of the empire will not affect his current status for the time being, and no high-level officials of the empire have targeted him in the past six years, because they all know that it will be in vain to target the black star before things take a turn for the better.

"I know, but you need to be careful." Tarrokov whispered: "I heard that one of the candidates for the head of state, it seems that he wants to gain the support of these oppositionists......"

Hearing this, Han Xiao suddenly narrowed his eyes and played with taste: "You also tell me this kind of news?" Not afraid of being reckoned with? ”

"Hehe, I didn't name me, it doesn't matter if I say it, will you report me? Moreover, my faction doesn't really like his approach. Tarrokov smiled.

Han Xiao suddenly knew that Tarrokov was not only kindly reminding himself, but also came with political goals.

The head of the empire is a training system, and during the term of the previous head of the empire, multiple candidates for the next term will begin. And these candidates for the head of state are themselves high-ranking officials, and they all have the support of different factions behind them, and most of them will be trained in peace.

However, there can only be one Führer, and everyone else is the runner, so some of these candidates, who know that they are difficult to elect or who are very ambitious, may find ways to expand their ranks and gain the support of more factions during the training period.

In his previous life, Ulanreal's tenure ended not long after the Shining World Plot.

When a new head takes office, the general framework of the empire remains the same, but in terms of details, it will change with the new leader's style and personality, such as the way to deal with competition, the strategy towards subordinate civilizations, the attitude towards super A-level allies, and so on.

The choice of the head of the empire is made internally, and except in very special circumstances, all allies will not have any influence on the succession of the head of state, including the super-A class.

Therefore, for the candidate for the head of state, it is much more important to get the support of different factions within the empire than to curry favor with super A-level allies, although Han Xiao was surprised by what Tarrokov said, but he was not surprised in his heart.

Anyway, I already have a lot of arrows on this target, so it doesn't hurt to insert a few more.

"Hey, a candidate is a candidate, and the current Führer is not him." Han Xiao smiled.

"You're right, I think so too."

Tarrokov appreciated.

After a pause, he changed his words, "There's one more thing I want to ask you." ”

"You say."

"How much do you know about the legacy of the gods?"

How did you get involved with the other god in a good way...... Han Xiao was a little puzzled.

"Hasn't his legacy been spread in the universe long ago? I don't know what you're referring to. ”

"Hehe, this matter is still related to you...... Do you remember the spatial coordinates you gave us back then, the one that the alien god found? ”

As soon as these words came out, Han Xiao's heart suddenly tightened, as if thunder sounded, and he finally suppressed his suspicious emotions.

That spatial coordinate is the key to the World Tree left by the alien god!

How could you suddenly ask about this? Could it be that the Red Empire has already researched something?

Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice, "What results have you achieved?" ”

"I don't know, I'm not a researcher." Tarrokov shook his head, "It's just that the project team that specializes in researching the Alien Legacy materials seems to have some ideas about this set of data, and it just so happens that he and I know each other, so I asked you to ask about the situation at that time." ”

After the alien heritage was revealed, this set of spatial coordinates became very inconspicuous hidden in the massive heritage data, and the project team would rather spend more time studying other heritage materials than not necessarily spend time studying this wormhole data that has no records and does not know where it leads.

However, it took a few years to basically sort out the various legacies of the alien gods, and the project team seemed to be eyeing the mysterious coordinates of the alien gods in the Broken Star Ring.

“…… I just stumbled upon the alien god looking for this set of data, and I don't know what the hell is going on. ”

Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, dealt with it casually, and concealed the truth.

"Okay, then that's how I'll reply to that friend of mine." Tarrokov did not doubt him.

After chatting a few more words, Han Xiao released the remote projection and returned to his room, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his face was a little helpless.

……

After the meeting, after a period of time, the Red Empire publicly announced to the whole universe that the second phase of exploration of the Shining World had officially begun, and under the attention of the whole universe, more exploration teams were all invested in the Shining World.

After the first phase of exploration, the Black Star Legion is now familiar with the road, and has already made all kinds of preparations in advance, and when the second phase of exploration arrives as scheduled, they will skillfully start to act.

This time, the assigned task was to open up the Russo Star Cluster, and there were many more exploration teams in the same group, and the work of each force was more carefully divided, which seemed more orderly.

When the second phase of the empire was announced, Han Xiao's [Shining World] main quest was also updated.

[[Shining World] Second Ring Completed]

[Your mission rating is: A]

[You gain 15e experience, random reward x2, 1500 Imperial Contribution, blank character card x1]

[Explorer] Current Progress: 2/3]

[Ring 3 quest updated]

[Brief Mission: Complete the second phase of the Empire's exploration]

[Current Exploration Area: Russo's Cluster]

[Personal Exploration Points: 0]

[Total Exploration Points: 0]

[Current rating: E-]

The third ring is to explore the Russo Star Cluster, and it is no problem to complete the mission, the main thing is to try to improve your mission evaluation.

In this regard, Han Xiao is still very confident, although there are many more exploration companions this time, but the advantage of being familiar with the map is still useful, maybe he can't get the S+ evaluation of the first ring, but it shouldn't be difficult to reach the A-level evaluation.

The legion's exploration troops were all dispatched, and Han Xiao's body was still staying in the Black Star Palace, and only one Juggernaut clone was sent to the Russo Star Cluster with a mechanical army to follow the exploration team.

The group of graduates were scrambled into different units and set off together to explore new areas, and Han Xiao deliberately divided Nilo and Mia into two different teams.

As far as he knew, Russo's exploration would not produce a moth, and the troops on the Bright Dust Cluster would encounter hard stubble.

Han Xiao waited for the matter on Guangchen's side to break out, and then he could throw Nilo and the others over.

- There is a chance to trigger the script of Nilo's mission, and Han Da Technician has already made up more than a dozen, so as not to deeply hurt Nilo's little heart, and not to make Nilo feel despair and pain, and never give up.

Anyway, Furding is an expert in spirituality, and even if he leaves a psychological shadow on Nilo, he can be treated, so Han Xiao can rest assured that he will toss him.

……

Shining the world, a cluster of light dust, a border somewhere.

One of the Empire's exploration teams arrived in the area and began building the Stargate on the spot.

At this moment, outside many galaxies, a group of people are taking a full view of the team's movements through special observation equipment.

It was a conference room, with a huge screen showing real-time observations of the Imperial Exploration Party, and in the room sat a number of crustaceans that looked like a bunch of upright gray crayfish - the sapient species of the shining world that did not belong to the interstellar society, and in their language, called "Kunde".

Looking at the fleet on the screen, everyone present was silent.

After a long time, the leader of the Kunde tribe who was sitting on the throne slowly spoke:

"Everything has come true, the information of the downed spaceship is true, there is more life in this universe, our world...... Already being targeted by a group of aliens. ”

The crowd was silent, and their hearts were in turmoil.

For hundreds of thousands of years, the Kunde people have multiplied here, slowly developed civilization, and began to embark on the road of interstellar colonization 10,000 years ago, expanding their territory and controlling one planet after another.

During this period, they did not encounter other intelligent species, but they were far weaker than them, and all of them became their pets and slaves.

For a long time, the Kunde tribe has also speculated whether there is a more powerful civilization in the universe, but they have never encountered it. Over the years, they have mastered many galaxies, with trillions of populations, making them the most powerful civilization in this star cluster.

However, their exploration is limited to the Bright Dust Cluster, and the farther regions are unknown to them.

There is no interstellar society, no civilization can communicate, this is an island, a dark forest, the Kunde people have no concept of galaxies and star clusters, and their technology tree cannot be as comprehensive as the interstellar society, there is no stargate technology, the jump engine is also backward, and they can only spend a long interstellar voyage through cryophorics.

For them, a day's journey in the interstellar society, the Kunde is likely to take more than ten years to fly slowly.

All that, however, changed a few years ago.

The Kunde people here will always remember the day when an extraterrestrial spaceship crashed on a colony planet, storing countless never-before-seen advanced technologies and countless "extraterrestrial civilization" materials, which caused their shock.

- For hundreds of thousands of years, we have finally encountered a civilization that is even more powerful than ourselves!

Through the study of the technology inside, the Kunde tribe's technology has developed by leaps and bounds, and they have learned new technologies such as stargate technology, advanced transition engines, and application-level quantum network communication.

However, with the surprise comes an even greater scare, as the ship also records a powerful "alien civilization" called the Red Empire.

According to the data, the Red Empire is not only a powerful civilization, but also a cosmic-level marauder, they occupy a piece of galaxy and occupy resources, and all the civilizations they have discovered have only two paths...... Destruction, or surrender.

And the consequence of submission is that civilization loses the prospect of development, it can no longer go to a higher level, all the future will be stuck, and it will never be able to transcend the status quo and become an eternal vassal.

It's not that the Kunde people have not doubted the possibility of the data, but these technologies are real, and the authenticity of the data is guaranteed, but unfortunately there are only shapeless corpses in the spaceship, and there is no living mouth to interrogate.

The ship's journal records that the ship is a group of refugees fleeing the expansion of the Red Empire, and declares that the Red Empire is not far from the Kunde Empire, and marks the possible course of action of the Red Empire, which makes the Kunde uneasy.

In the database, there is also a record of an ultra-long-range interstellar observation device, which the Kunde clan manufactured, and sent people to observe the possible directions of the Red Empire marked by the data day and night...... A few years later, this information came true, and there really was an unknown fleet in the starry sky not far from their territory.

"The Marauders have appeared, what should we do, is it friendly contact, or is it a preemptive strike?" The Kunde leader spoke solemnly.

A high-ranking person slapped the table and said categorically: "We must not surrender, we must make preparations with both hands, first save the fire of civilization, find a good way to retreat, let them find a new home, and then we will strike first, before the enemy finds us, attack first!" ”

Someone on the other side disagreed, "They are too strong, we can't win, maybe we will be wiped out." I don't want to provoke a war, I think it's better to get in touch......"

"Don't be under any illusions! The result of contact is only surrender, are you willing to lose all your future and become a vassal of others, just like those intelligent species we enslaved? ”

"Maybe people are not predators at all, but friendly civilizations?"

"Friendly civility? How did you get into this position? Don't forget, have we ever been friendly with other intelligent beings? Is it possible that a friendly civilization exists in the universe?! Do you want to surrender and let our whole species be enslaved?! ”

“…… But how do you know if the information is real or fake without giving it a try? ”

"You're crazy, those techniques are all real, and you still doubt the truth or falsehood?!"

The top brawls with different opinions.

If it weren't for that spaceship, there would normally be more people in favor of contacting the "aliens" first.

However, now the situation is reversed, and under the influence of preconceived notions, more high-level leaders firmly believe that the emergence of this "alien civilization" is a disaster from heaven and a predator who has come to occupy their universe.

At this time, a strange fluctuation flashed in the eyes of the leader of the Kunde clan, and he slapped the table suddenly, and said coldly:

"Don't make any noise, I've already made a decision......"