It has been almost five years since the Battle of Veen ended.

Four years earlier, Emperor Imran had sent a message asking for a peace agreement with the Ioor Federation, and was willing to cede the ten star systems close to the Io, and Queen Elfi immediately agreed.

In fact, at first, both angels and humans didn't want to agree, but then after learning from Basel that the Sierra Empire still had 2 royal fleets and more than 4 million warships, considering that although it could take down the other party with the strength of the time with its strength, its own losses would not be small, so it finally agreed.

After all, time is on the side of humans and angels, as long as there is a period of three or five years, the strength of humans and angels can be multiplied several times, and then the destruction of the Serra Empire can be done at a very small price, and there is no need to be hard at that time.

Taking advantage of the past few years, the Io Federation not only re-established the establishment of the First Legion of the Queen's Guard, but also established the Second and Third Legions of the Queen's Guard with the support of humans.

At present, there are three legions composed of quasi-fourth-class warships, and the number of warships is as high as 900,000.

In addition to the Queen's Guard, the Io Federation has also modified a number of ordinary fleets, which only install a shield system, but not a jump system, purely for the defense of the Frontier Node Star Road.

There are currently four such fleets, each stationed at four nodes on the newest border between the Io Federation and the Serra Empire.

I have to say that in the past four years or so, the actions of the Io Federation have been very rapid, especially the development of the warship manufacturing industry is breathtaking, and it is worthy of being an old third-level civilization.

At this moment, a fleet exited the transition state and appeared in the capital area of the Io Federation.

This is the Seventh Fleet of the Second Legion of the Human Federation, and this time the mission of coming to the Io Federation is to escort Bella's mother and son.

Speaking of Bella, the previous queen of the Io Federation has been away from the Federation for ten years, and now even Lin Tian is nine years old, so she specially discussed with Lin Zhen and wanted to take Lin Tian to the Io Federation to have a look.

In this regard, Lin Zhen naturally would not refuse, and even asked Liang Xingchen to arrange a fleet to escort him.

Finally returned to Io, Bella was also very emotional, she never thought that she would stay on Earth during a visit, and even made a pair with Lin Zhen.

Thinking about it now, it seems that that guy just bullied himself back then and didn't understand anything, and he was deceived by him in a daze, but now that he has a lot of knowledge, he thinks back to himself back then, and it feels incredible.

The most exaggerated thing is that he even said to Lin Fan back then, please ask me to have a child, but now that I think about it, it is really embarrassing.

Through the porthole, looking at Io Star who was getting closer and closer, Bella also pulled Lin Tian and said to him.

"This is where my mother was born!"

"Mom, why is this planet green?"

Lin Tian pointed to the growing Io Star in front of him and asked Bella.

Io is different from Earth, because the ocean occupies more than half of the entire planet, while the ocean area of Io is relatively small, only about 20%.

The most important thing is that Io, as the capital star of the Federation, has basically no industrial equipment on it, and it is good to think about nature conservation, and the entire planet is covered with this dense vegetation, and tropical jungles can be seen everywhere.

Coupled with the refraction of light and many other reasons, the whole Io seems to exude a green glow.

"It's because the environment is different, and you'll learn it when you go to middle school!"

Bella said with a smile.

Just when the mother and son were looking at Io Star, an unexpected uninvited guest came!

Just about 5 million kilometers from the edge of the Seventh Fleet, the void suddenly contracted, and an unfamiliar fleet of about 1,200 ships appeared.

Suddenly, the alarm sounded throughout the entire Seventh Fleet, and inside the bridge, Legion Commander Scott knew very well that this was the jump engine!

However, in the entire Orion arm, in addition to humans and angels, the jump engine is the subordinate civilization of mankind and the Babawi Empire.

But after comparison, the shape of these ships is not recorded in the database, then the answer is obvious, it is very likely that it is a fleet of the Babawi Empire.

"Commander Scott, what's wrong?"

At this time, Bella also took Lin Tian to the bridge and asked Scott.

"First Lady Bella, a fleet suddenly appeared not far from us, and it came here again through the jump engine."

Scott said as he controlled the projection of the observed fleet.

Bella's eyes shrank the moment she saw it, she had the impression of this fleet, she had seen it once decades ago.

"This is the fleet of the Babawi Empire, but this is not their battle fleet, but a fleet of interstellar merchants!"

"Star Traders?"

Scott was a little puzzled, after all, humans don't have such a profession.

"Yes, it's the kind of merchant who runs around on the Orion arm and does business with civilizations!"

Listening to Bella's words, Scott breathed a sigh of relief, but then remembered something and frowned again.

Even if you are a businessman, you can't expose it, otherwise the news will reach the ears of the Babawi Empire.

"First Lady Bella, we can't be overexposed to the eyes of the Babawi Empire at the moment, and we have to trouble you and Queen Elfi to ventilate and pretend that we are an ordinary third-level civilization fleet!"

Scott thought for a moment and said to Bella.

"Okay, I'll contact Elfi to tell you about the situation!"

Bella then picked up the communicator and contacted Elfi.

And 5 million kilometers away, on the flagship of the Babawi Empire's caravan, Babawile was also observing the fleet on the side that was obviously not the Io Federation.

"Lord Babaville, we have compared the databases and found that this fleet is unlike any civilization we know! There is no record in our database! ”

Listening to his subordinates' reports, Babaweile was a little surprised.

Looking at the observed images, the composition of this fleet is very similar to that of the Babawi Empire's fleet, that is, a unified ship class, which is also a sign of a fourth-level civilization.

After all, after the fourth-level civilization has an energy shield and a jump engine, there is no point in multi-ship at all, and only civilizations below the fourth level will use multiple ships to cooperate in combat.

Could this be the mysterious fourth-level civilization that Imran said, it can't be so coincidental, right?

"Keep a detailed record of everything in this fleet, and take turns going through all the scanning methods that can be used, and record all the data into the database."

"Yes!"