Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three months have passed since the rebellion in the imperial capital.

During this time, the interior of the empire appeared to be as calm as before, but with a little careful attention, one could feel the turbulence of the undercurrents in it.

Even if he is just an ordinary citizen, as long as he has rich life experience, he can get a lot of valuable information from the news media.

For example, more than two months ago, the legendary starhunter Wang Lihao received the support of the Governor, who commanded a hunting fleet of brand-new spaceships directly into the Arcturus Nebula.

Five days later, the fleet returned with a full load, and according to insiders, the cargo hold of the spaceship was full of starry sky beasts, among which there was even a thousand-eyed beast, the eyes of this thing were very good laser crystals, one was worth 1 million, and there were more than 3,000 on that thing. In this way, the fleet made a net profit of more than 500 million star shields!

Such a huge profit suddenly made countless hunters go crazy. The rich lord directly bought a brand-new Nebula hunting ship from the Heyue Shipyard, and if the money was not enough, he mortgaged his things and used all his strength to buy the spaceship. In just half a month, more than 3,000 Nebula hunting ships flew into the Arcturus Nebula.

As a result of this move, the Oasis Galaxy has become the absolute center of the Starbeast trade, with the Starbeast material trading volume exceeding 800 billion in a month!

At present, the Oasis galaxy has been called the 'Heart of Gold'.

In the face of great benefits, the Governor took advantage of the situation to announce the formation of a new Nebula fleet, nominally to protect the security of the Starry Sky Beast trade and regulate the trade order.

For another example, a few months ago, the imperial capital was attacked, and Emperor Chu Taixin was furious. In order to protect the security of the imperial capital, 10 trillion star shields were allocated to build a new defense system.

One month ago, the royal family suddenly announced that the new God of War machine 'Vulcan' had been completed, and then began to select candidate pilots for the Vulcan from the entire empire.

Vulcan is known as the most advanced and powerful God of War mecha in the entire interstellar world, and as soon as the news came out, countless young people in the empire went crazy about it.

It is said that billions of people signed up to run, and in the month before and after the selection, less than 10,000 remained.

The emperor publicly promised that he would spend a lot of money on training, and even if these 10,000 people could not fly the Vulcan in the future, they would inevitably become an important member of the imperial fleet.

Putting aside all kinds of reasons, at present, Heyue and the imperial capital are greatly increasing their forces, and there is a faint sense of competition with each other.

Many people are feeling a sense of impending crisis.

Of course, these are superficial imaginations, and the deeper changes are unknown to ordinary people, and only those who are truly involved can experience them.

Star hunter Wang Lihao is a deep participant, during this time, he has been going back and forth between the Arcturus Nebula and the Oasis Galaxy, from the nebula, he brought back more than 22 billion star shields of wealth.

To others, he is an unsurpassable myth, but only he knows that what he is doing now is just the preparation of the strategy of the Heyue Nebula, and compared to the real goal of the governor, it is just a small fight now.

Now, he is entering the Arcturus Nebula for the eighth time, and unlike the previous seven, he will go deep into the 500 light fraction range of the Arctura Nebula.

His purpose this time was not to hunt some gentle and weak starry sky beasts as before, but to capture an adult black-scaled desolate dragon!

Yes, only the Arcturus Dragon is the real wealth in the Arcturus Nebula, that thing is a treasure, an adult, intact Arctural Dragon, even if it is only the lowest level of black scales, it is worth more than 20 billion Star Shields, and it is said that the Arcturus Nebula has more than 300,000 Wild Dragons, among which there is an extremely powerful, but also extremely precious black gold dragon god.

This is a fortune that can change the entire distribution of interstellar power!

In order to successfully capture the Wild Dragon, he brought 9 spaceships this time...... No, to be more precise, it should be the Nebula Battleship, which is manufactured by the Heyue God of War Workshop, has the latest technology, and is a war machine built regardless of the cost!

Wang Lihao's flagship is called the 'Dragon Hunter', the largest spacecraft, 1,000 meters long, and the nebula core engine is loaded on it, which can propel the warship to cruise at a sub-light speed of 0.7C in the Arcturus Nebula.

Such a speed ensures that the battleship can get out of danger at any time.

Beside Wang Lihao, there is also a Nebula native Landing, she is the guide of this operation, she will lead everyone to the nearest dragon nest, according to her, there are usually only two adult wild dragons in a dragon nest, one male and one female, and if you are lucky, you can also collect dragon eggs and dragon crystals.

The dragon egg does not need to be explained, and the dragon crystal is a strange crystal secreted by an adult barren dragon, which is used to provide energy for the dragon egg, of which the energy density is extremely high, reaching more than 17 times that of the most widely used fusion battery in current interstellar technology, which is an order of magnitude higher.

What's even more bizarre is that it can be reused.

This is simply the most perfect battery material, if you figure out the principle of dragon crystal, then you can create a new battery, put such a thing into the mecha, then its internal space will be greatly saved, and the mecha can be equipped with more advanced functions.

At this time, the fleet had penetrated to a depth of more than 330 light minutes, and the surrounding area of the battleship was pitch black, filled with thick dark matter and dark energy, and nothing could be seen here, as if sailing in the deep sea.

The dark energy radar showed that as the battleship moved forward at high speed within the nebula, the dark energy was like squeezed water, showing a ripple in the shape of an arrow.

Every now and then, the radar will spot some starry beasts, and in the past, these guys would pounce on the battleship as if they were in a delicacy, but now, they are flying away.

Part of the reason for this is that the Nebula Hunters are more ruthless, those guys are hungry, and when they see the Starry Sky Beast, they will attack, and the Starry Sky Beasts in the outer Nebula are almost captured and extinct, and those Starry Sky Beasts that run away are all cowardly guys. There is also a more important reason that a special beast repeller is installed on the battleship, which can emit strange dark energy fluctuations, which can easily make the starry beast dizzy and avoid.

"It's time to start slowing down" Landing suddenly spoke, her eyes staring at the dark energy radar without blinking, and continued: "There is a large area of star islands about 50 light minutes in front of you, and some star islands have a very strong gravitational pull, which will form a folded space-time around them, and once you enter, you can't escape, so you should pay special attention to this." ”

Wang Lihao immediately ordered to slow down, and then asked, "Are there any characteristics of such a star island?" ”

"Yes, they usually have a dark energy vacuum on the outside, and a huge spiral of dark matter accretion disks further down the surface that are easy to dodge. Of course, in addition to these dangerous star islands, there are also some star islands that are very good places, and they contain many strange mines. I know that there is an ore called 'Black Star', which has super permanent magnet properties, and its magnetic properties are more than 50 times that of the strongest magnetic material in the current interstellar space, and if they are formed into a matrix, the size of the kinetic energy cannon can be reduced by half. ”

Wang Lihao's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Black Star Mine?" That's good stuff, I'll release some probes out later. ”

He has many tasks this time, the most important of which is to accumulate experience in the flight of the Nebula, what he does now, what he sees and hears, will be the action guide of the Heyue Nebula Fleet in the future.

Under this premise, drawing a map of the Dark Nebula, drawing a map of the Starry Sky Beast, detecting the mine, etc., are all his tasks.

About an hour later, the star island that Landing had spoken of appeared in front of the fleet.

In the dark energy radar, these star islands are a luminous body in a pitch-black mist, their shape is irregular, and the whole body emits a pale white warm light, which looks like pieces of jade.

After flying for a while, Landing suddenly pointed to a white dot and said, "Look, there is something wrong with that star island, stay away from it!" ”

Wang Lihao hurriedly looked over, and saw that on the radar image, there was a spot the size of a thumb cover, the spot was very peculiarly divided into two layers, the inner layer was vague and unclear, vaguely spiraling, but the outer layer was a layer of high-bright, well-defined white circles, which looked very peculiar.

Landing said in awe: "This kind of star island, we call it the Eye of Death. It looks very conspicuous in the radar, but in fact, there is nothing in that area, and if it is captured, I am afraid that even the Dark Lord will be destroyed. ”

Wang Lihao turned his head to look at the holographic porthole of the battleship, and sure enough, only darkness could be seen on it, and other detectors other than the dark energy radar did not respond at all.

If an ordinary warship enters the inside of the black cloud, not to mention that it will be besieged by the Starry Sky Beast, if it is unlucky enough to encounter the Eye of Death, it will definitely die in vain.

The fleet cautiously circled the Eye of Death, unleashing probes along the way, which flew to the various islands to begin exploring for minerals.

After passing the Star Island belt, the fleet flew forward for about 30 light minutes, and Landing raised his hand again: "Okay, it should be the dragon's nest not far ahead." There are at least two adult desolate dragons there. Inside the Dark Nebula, their power is amazing, more than twice that of ordinary space, so be careful. ”

Wang Lihao nodded, he raised his voice, and said on the dark energy communicator of the characteristics of the battleship: "Activate the dark energy dragon gun!" ”

After speaking, he said to the main controller of the flagship Dragon Hunter: "Start laying traps and prepare energy-absorbing alloy nets." ”

The entire dragon hunting process has been repeatedly demonstrated by those engineers many times, and hundreds of virtual exercises have been conducted, and it has entered the nebula many times before, it can be said that the entire fleet does not have a single beginner, but it was a small fight before, and today is the real challenge!

Although he was well prepared, Wang Lihao was still a little nervous in his heart, no, it should be said that he was nervous and excited. He knew that if he succeeded, his name would be recorded in history and passed down through the ages.

After about 15, the main control brain responded: "The trap is set." The main and secondary alloy nets have been prepared. ”

Hearing this voice, Wang Lihao took a deep breath, suppressed the tension in his heart, and waved his hand heavily: "The whole ship entered stealth mode and began to release traps." ”