Some scholars who study the sociology of the universe believe that the establishment of an orderly interstellar society from scratch requires several prerequisites: first, an exchange in the form of a cosmic war, and a considerable number of civilizations have survived and have a certain understanding of each other; second, there is one or more powerful rulers who can suppress all disobedience, and have the strength to force the cosmic rules for other civilizations to form order; Third, the cosmic distance scale should be greatly shortened from the real and virtual levels, that is, the transition technology, the stargate technology and the general quantum communication technology.

In the eyes of some historians of the development of civilizations, these three technologies are the greatest inventions of the cosmic age, giving civilizations countless light years apart the ability to communicate quickly, and thus forming a stable interstellar social system for the entire explored universe.

After four months of Shining World, including Han Xiao, the Black Star Legion has become more and more in agreement with this view.

It took Task Force Hardaway four months to travel from the southern part of the Gaul Cluster's planar star map to the east, and it took Han Xiao's main ship force less than two days to complete the task force's four-month journey through the stargate passages left along the way.

In the eastern border galaxy of the Gaul Star Cluster, the two fleets converged in a piece of space, and the task force spacecraft was like a milk swallow returning to its nest, embedded in the dock compartment of the main ship, and completed the docking.

Han Xiao waited in the bridge command room for a while, and soon saw Hardaway and his subordinates hurrying over from the dock passage.

"Legion Commander!" Hardaway looked excited, his arms were wide open, and the whole person pounced.

The corners of Han Xiao's mouth twitched, he hesitated for a second, but he still didn't retreat, he hugged Hardaway hard, and the strong chest muscles of the two made a thumping sound.

"It's been four months!" Hardaway's tone was agitated.

"As for being so excited...... Han Xiao only felt that Hardaway's arms were tightly wrapped around his back, and with a helpless expression, he patted him on the shoulder casually and pulled him away from him with one hand.

But he didn't know that these four months were extremely painful for Hardaway, his body hardening ability needed strong external stimulation to make progress, as a super A-level seed, he was willing to become Han Xiao's subordinate, just for the opportunity to compete with the super A-level, after following Han Xiao, he felt that his long-stagnant ability increased again, which made him ecstatic.

However, in the past four months, he was sent out, and the strength that finally showed signs of improvement fell silent again, and the task force didn't even have a natural disaster-level cadre, and he couldn't even find a person to talk to, which was simply unbearable for a battle maniac like him, and after four months, he was already suffocated!

Seeing Han Xiao at this time, Hardaway felt as if he had seen a relative, in his eyes, Han Xiao seemed to have a holy aura hanging behind his head, and there seemed to be a holy song around him, and he found that he missed Han Xiao so much...... of the fist.

Hardaway was in a good mood, looked at Hela next to him, grinned, and opened his arms to hug him.

"Will you touch me?" Hela swept her cold eyes, and the energy of death appeared in her eyes.

Hardaway's face froze, he retracted his arms, and muttered secretly, If it weren't for the sake of the Legion Commander, I would not have acted without looking at your face.

"Hardaway is also a super A-level seed, don't talk like this." However, Han Xiao on the side felt that Hela's attitude towards the guards was not very good, so he reached out and patted her shoulder and pinched her shoulder blade.

Hmm, it looks good.

Hela's face suddenly tensed, she glanced at Han Xiao's palm, put away the red energy overflowing from her eyes, and said in a sullen tone:

"Oh."

Hardaway greeted a group of guard officers such as Ferdin, and then looked at Han Xiao again and said, "According to your orders, the task force has set up a long-distance star gate, what are you going to do next?" ”

Han Xiao didn't answer directly, but snapped his fingers and summoned a three-dimensional star map in front of everyone, he searched carefully on the star map, and confirmed the planet that contained the treasures of the ownerless universe in the barren cosmic belt area outside the Gaolu star cluster.

In the previous life, the planet was called Amber Star, and at this time it was still a numbered planet with no name.

"We're going to this planet?" Aurora looked curious, "Is there anything special about it?" ”

Han Xiao nodded, and casually made up a reason, "Some time ago, when some legion members were exploring the barren planet, they found some information left by aliens, which seems to be the travel records of some explorers, which contains information about this planet, and it is said that there is a civilization on it, since it is here, it is just time to explore." ”

There is nothing wrong with this reason, since it was said by Han Xiao, even if everyone was a little surprised, they didn't have many doubts, after all, there was the incident of the Great Universe Corps before, and everyone was not surprised by the existence of the natives of the Shining World.

Han Xiao didn't say nonsense, the Amber Star itself was a relic of a dead indigenous civilization, and that cosmic treasure was stored in this ruin.

[Amber of Time and Space], this is the name of this cosmic treasure, which was not made by an indigenous civilization, but an extraterrestrial thing that accidentally landed on this planet, and was once regarded as a sacred object by this civilization.

In the previous life, with the steady development of the Empire's allies, the Space-Time Amber finally fell into the hands of an Empire ally who participated in the exploration, and that ally was Raven Lauder, who was one of the super A-class members that Han Xiao had seen when he went to the Red Empire's home planet, and who had a bad relationship with Aesop.

Later, Raven Lauder was defeated by another Super A-class in the Super Calamity version, and the space-time amber was snatched away by others, and later, after countless turmoil, the space-time amber changed owners several times, one of which was still a powerhouse of the World Tree civilization, and finally fell into the hands of the Radiant Federation.

The origin of the space-time amber is quite mysterious, and the players in the previous life only learned about the origin of this thing from special intelligence channels in the later version, which is not a great secret, but the reason for its formation involves the legendary primordial, and there is a story behind it.

As for the effect of space-time amber, it can only be described by the word "special".

It doesn't give a bonus to combat power, but it works...... Even the super A-class will be afraid of it!

According to Han Xiao's memory of the plot of his previous life, after the birth of Time and Space Amber, the super A-level "planted" on this thing has exceeded the number of palms!

Now this thing is an ownerless thing, except for himself, no other competitor knows about the existence of space-time amber, and he can get his hands on it without much effort, Han Xiao is naturally bound to get it.

……

A few days later, the fleet arrived at Amber and entered the atmosphere.

The distance between the star and the planet is relatively close, the scorching sun is scorching, and from the high altitude, the surface of Amber Star is almost a desert, and bursts of hot wind blow, blowing up long-lasting dust and sand, and a series of black-brown sandstorms wander aimlessly on the earth, and there is no trace of civilization in sight.

Han Xiao was about to send out a probe ship, when Aurora closed his eyes and shook his head.

"There are no signs of life on this planet."

"Your life sensing range already covers a planet?" Hela's eyes fluctuated, and a look of surprise flashed.

Seeing everyone look at her, Aurora smiled shyly, but there was some pride in her tone, "I have also grown." ”

"Not bad, not bad." Han Xiao smiled with relief.

Every time Aurora improves, he is happy.

After all, this means that Aurora sauce has more milk......

The effect of Aurora's character card is to restore the full state, but that is the product of the panel, Aurora's own milk power is limited, and her ability to activate it needs to consume her own vitality. His super A-level cells contain terrifying energy, with Aurora's current ability strength, his consumption is very large, maybe once or twice, Aurora will be paralyzed.

When Aurora is upgraded to the Cataclysmic level, her endurance will be greatly increased, and her milk will be more sufficient, so that she will be just full.

Hearing this, Ferding spoke: "If there is no life signal, then the civilization you said may have died out, and only the ruins remain. ”

Han Xiao nodded, looked at the vast yellow sand, and sent a probe ship to sense the environment under the planet.

In the records of the empire, the ruins of the civilization where the space-time amber is located are buried under the yellow sand, and the specific process of discovering the space-time amber is not recorded in detail, so he doesn't know the specific location, but there are interstellar-level detection equipment here, and it is only a matter of time before the ruins of the civilization are found.

As expected, before Han Xiao could finish watching Hardaway finish playing the Venn card with another guard officer, the probe ship sent back the news that many suspected city ruins had been found under the desert.

However, the probe ship did not find a special energy source, and there was a dead silence on the energy radar.

"No anomalous energy signals found? Well, space-time amber shouldn't be wrong on this planet, maybe it's because it hasn't been recharged for so long, so there are no energy fluctuations. ”

Han Xiao looked at the ruins marked on the planet map and shook his head helplessly.

"Looks like we're going to have to search them all...... Tsk, why didn't the empire write down the specific process of discovering the space-time amber, and I had to trouble myself to find it slowly. ”

After thinking about it, Han Xiao asked the fleet to be on standby in outer space for the time being, and came to the sky over the planet with a group of guard officers.

Looking down at the ground under his feet, Han Xiao waved his hand, and the majestic mechanical power poured out, stirring up ripples of energy, and a huge light door suddenly opened behind him, and inside was a dense number of mechanical soldiers, which was the second-dimensional military camp he was carrying.

Kerala ......

Countless mechanical soldiers swarmed out, and thousands of mechanical beings such as Youzu were at the forefront of the mechanical troops, all looking at Han Xiao.

After releasing millions of mechanical troops, Han Xiao closed the second-dimensional military camp, and the mechanical legions were neatly arranged in front, covering the sky and the sun, like a military parade.

"You search the ruins, report to me if you have any special finds, and by the way, find out if there is such a thing." Han Xiao sketched the shape of the space-time amber in the vision of the quantum network, and conveyed the order to all the mechanical troops through Philip.

Whew-

The next moment, the mechanical legion in front of him scattered as birds and beasts, and acted separately, burrowing into patches of yellow sand to explore the ruins.

With so many useful mechanical helpers, Han Xiao didn't want to waste his energy searching for so many ruins by himself.

"Master, we have discovered a special phenomenon."

It didn't take long for Youzu to send back the good news and bring pictures.

Han Xiao glanced at it, the picture was a huge room, like some kind of hall, the walls and pillars were carved with mottled murals, and in the center of the room was a large black disc lying horizontally, but there were integrated circuit matrix-like lines on the disk, which might be a mixture of magic and technology.

On the ground around the disk, there are many translucent circular crystals, each about one meter five high, wrapped in creatures of the same species, without any signs of decay on their bodies, but their expressions and movements are all frozen, without any life signals, like creatures solidified by amber.

"This phenomenon is the effect of space-time amber......"

Han Xiao was stunned for a moment, he had also come to Amber Star in his previous life, but at that time, there were only ruins here, and there were no such creatures that had become amber specimens...... These creatures must be the race of this extinct civilization.

Perhaps when Ravenlaud discovered the Amber of Time and Space, he took these specimens with him.

But this is also good news, which means that you are not far from the amber of space.

Han Xiao beckoned the fleet to come, and the spaceships worked together to suck a piece of desert dry with a traction beam, revealing the ruins of the Hidden Ancestor.

The group descended quickly, landed in the ruins, and followed the signal of the ancestor all the way to the center of the ruins, observing the scene of the city as they walked.

Although the site has been severely eroded by time, it can still barely restore the original appearance of this civilization when it existed.

The buildings are undulating, and the mottled patterns can still vaguely show the beauty of the past, and the artistic attainments of this civilization seem to be not low.

"It should have been a pretty beautiful civilization when I was alive." Ferding Road.

"Perhaps."

Han Xiao was noncommittal, and soon came to the center of the ruins, which was an extremely huge fortress, like a super-large safe house and shelter made of countless hard materials.

The Youzu troops were in this fortress, and Han Xiao and the others quickly entered the hall shown in the picture, and after a cursory sweep, they found that there were probably no less than 20,000 amber bodies here.

"What are these things, which look a bit like amber?" Hardaway curiously touched an amber beside him, the touch was very strange, he couldn't feel the temperature of the amber, but his palm couldn't move an inch.

Han Xiao casually walked in front of an amber and stared at the creatures in the amber, these creatures should be mammalian carbon-based creatures, they looked furry, their facial features looked a bit like sloths, they were about one meter tall, they maintained the expression before they were frozen, their eyes widened, and their eyes were full of apprehension and uneasiness.

Turning his head to look at Hela, Han Xiao pursed his mouth, "Try attacking it." ”

Brush!

Without saying a word, Hela spurted out of her eyes and bombarded an amber.

The next moment, a strange scene happened, although the amber was knocked out, but unscathed, the energy released by Hella spread out on the smooth surface of the amber, all of which were displaced, without the slightest destructive force acting on the amber, as if the energy was like a drop of water, and the amber was like a lotus leaf, which did not absorb water at all.

"Huh?" Hela frowned, she didn't believe in evil, her death energy was highly condensed, and she was ready to strike again.

Seeing this, Han Xiao called out to her, "Okay, don't try again, otherwise this room will be collapsed by you later." ”

Hela had no choice but to put away her energy and wondered, "This thing is immune to my attacks, including my mental damage, which can't penetrate it." ”

"It's not just mental damage."

Han Xiao stretched out his hand and pressed an amber, surging mechanical power poured out, lightning only flowed on the surface of the amber, and the amber did not have any tendency to be scorched.

"To be precise, this thing should be immune to all kinds of energy and not be destroyed, even if you use brute force, you can only send it flying, and you can't do any damage to it."

Han Xiao raised an amber with one hand and weighed it twice, but it was not heavy, so he put it down, shook his head and said, "Even if it is a super A-level, even the strongest star-destroying weapon of the universe-level civilization, it can't cause damage to amber." ”

Hearing this, everyone was moved.

"How can there be such a strong material in the world?"

"Super A-level can't be broken? Impossible! ”

"Is it ......," Hela flashed of inspiration, "this is another cosmic spectacle." ”

Han Xiao touched his chin and pretended to guess, "Hmm, sort of, it feels the same as the Evolution Cube, this is also a man-made product." ”

He doesn't know exactly how this amber is formed, but the wonders of the universe, like evolutionary cubes, are always difficult to explain. According to the information of previous lives, this kind of amber seems to have changed the nature of time and space, allowing a small piece of space-time to materialize, forming an amber-like effect, enveloping objects in it.

The object wrapped in the amber of time and space is isolated from reality, as if it exists in a different space that does not advance or retreat on the time scale, and the performance effect is like freezing time and space.

However, according to common sense, the body of an amber-encased creature in this form should not change, and it should have a long or even infinite lifespan just like in a sleep pod, and its mind should be frozen as well...... However, according to the description of the NPCs who had tricks in their previous lives, they were wrapped in amber in time and space, and they really couldn't control their bodies, and their energy couldn't penetrate the amber from the inside, but in fact, their consciousness was active, and they could even observe changes in the outside world through sight and hearing, and they could also perceive the passage of time in the outside world, but they were just like being trapped in the body, which became a paradox of common sense, and it was also one of the important factors that were regarded as a cosmic wonder.

Only individuals who have been imprisoned by the amber of time and space for too long will their thinking eventually fall into stagnation, and finally self-erasure, fall into silence, and give up thinking, the stronger the person can hold on longer.

So this thing can create a cage that imprisons any living thing without fear that the prisoner will escape, and it is also a torturous torture.

Even if the goal is super A-class!

The only problem is that the activation process of space-time amber is relatively long, and it is extremely difficult to make a super A-level hit.

"If this thing falls into the hands of the enemy, it will also be a great threat to me, and if it falls into my hands, I can reduce an ability that needs to be feared."

Various thoughts flashed, Han Xiao turned his head to look at the black disc with a diameter of about ten meters in the center of the room, and observed the matrix patterns on the disc for a while, probably confirming that this was a circuit of energy transmission and activation.

"Looks like this thing needs energy activation."

Han Xiao beckoned, and Youzu obediently turned into many floating guards, shooting out pillars of light, outputting energy towards the disk.

Buzz –

The disc shook, as if some kind of device was turned on, and the loop lit up in the blink of an eye, and dust fell from it.

The next moment, the disc lit up, revealing its true function...... It's the screen.

A video begins to play on the screen, and a creature of the civilization appears in the frame, slowly speaking.

At this time, the translator had not yet entered this language, and everyone could not understand what it was saying, but it did not prevent them from reading the images on the video, which flashed scenes before the demise of this civilization, as if from the beginning of the history of civilization, from the development of primitive creatures, learning to use tools, gradually developing airplanes, hovercars, and trying to build starships, beautiful cities, people live and work in peace and contentment.

Unfortunately, due to the abnormal activities of stellar celestial bodies, the living environment of the planet has changed drastically, and the disaster that is enough to exterminate the planet's creatures has swept the world.

The appearance of that "holy relic" was the space-time amber in his memory, he didn't find the wrong place, Han Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to look at it.

It takes a lot of energy to use the amber of space, which is very difficult for a surface civilization, which charges it with the power of the people, and almost depletes the energy, which is why the amber of time and space has been used many times, not only the ruins of the city, but also many amber bodies are preserved in each ruins...... While everyone was watching the video, the troops exploring other ruins also discovered more amber one after another.

At the end of the video, the whereabouts of the space-time amber are finally mentioned, and it seems that it is stored in a large city, but this is the city scene before the destruction of civilization, and it is not known which ruins it is now.

"Let's let Philip copy their database first, as long as you decipher the language, you will know what this video says in detail, and you can also directly locate the ruins where the space-time amber is located according to the map."

Han Xiao was about to act, when a prompt to trigger the task suddenly popped up on the panel:

[You trigger the hidden quest [Traces of Existence]!] ]

[Brief Description: Due to the anomalous changes of the stars, a catastrophe swept through the Yasr civilization, before the destruction, the Yasr people chose two paths at the same time, they wanted to save a small number of clansmen through the holy relics, so that they could survive the catastrophe and rebuild civilization in the future, so they have been waiting for the latecomers to unlock the effect of the holy relics for them. But if no one comes, the Yasr people are willing to become eternal specimens, preserving all the materials of civilization to the present day, leaving traces of their existence in the vast starry sky...... And you are the visitor they have been waiting for for years, but unfortunately, the endless years have already chosen the final fate for them]

[Requirements: Use the "Holy Relics" of the Yasr civilization to remove the "Holy Relics" effect on all Yasr people]

[Rewards: 15e XP, Legend x1, Random Reward x1, Exploration Points +780, [Daring Explorer] Skill Fragment x1]