When the pilot fleet arrived, it was discovered that there was more to it than that.

The third planet of the Shadow Galaxy not only has a similar atmosphere to Earth, but also has the same plate topography.

The surface of the earth does have a complete ecology, but it is still quite different from the earth.

Within the solar system, the Oort Nebula forms a protective layer with the solar wind.

The main component of the solar wind is a stream of charged particles from ultra-high-velocity plasma, which can partially block and absorb cosmic radiation with energetic properties.

But the solar wind itself is harmful to carbon-based life, and fortunately, the planet's atmosphere absorbs the stream of charged particles from the solar wind.

The solar wind and the planetary atmospheres complement each other and provide excellent preconditions for the birth of early life on Earth.

However, in shadow galaxies, the direction of the stellar wind is affected by the gravitational pull of the black hole and multiple revolutions, which is very chaotic and disorderly, and even tears open holes from time to time, and the amount of cosmic background radiation and black hole radiation transmitted from the outside is not small.

The radiation emitted by a black hole can be divided into two types according to the mode of generation.

One is the Hawking radiation, which is released by black holes all the time, which is mainly composed of real particles transformed by virtual particles that escape from the black hole using tidal forces.

The other is that when the black hole successfully captures the mass energy of the universe, when the mass energy enters the event horizon, the pure energy rays mainly X-rays released in reverse have a certain directionality.

If the total amount of mass energy captured is too large, gamma rays may even be generated, and even more terrifying gamma-ray bursts.

These energy-based radiations, sometimes through the obscuration of stellar winds, have a certain probability of directly hitting the planets of the shadow galaxy.

The absorption effect of the planetary atmosphere on the radiation shielding of pure energy type is poor.

From time to time, when a black hole absorbs too much material, if the super-strong rays that happen to be released point to a shadow galaxy and pass through the shadow of the earth, there will always be a large area of ecological collapse on the shadow of the earth from time to time.

When the pilot fleet arrived, the biodiversity on the Earth's Shadow was about the same as that of the Earth tens of millions of years ago, and it was also dominated by carbon-based life, but the biological forms showed obvious differences.

For example, the trees on the Shadow of the Earth are extremely short, and there are hardly any trees larger than five meters, and the leaves are not flaky, but very thick, lumpy, with more leaves like fruit than leaves, and show a distinct geometric structure.

The animals are also very small, with exceptionally thick hair and skin.

Some animals look like behemoths with fur, but they are only the size of a dog, and their skin is hard and thick, with a basic scale structure.

It has both fluffy and towering fluffy hairs and scale structures, which do not conform to the rules of the evolution of life on earth.

But in this shadow of the earth, it is just right.

The surface molecular structure of the villi forms a special coupling, forming a reactive layer like a hydrophobic layer, which has a considerable degree of reflection effect on energy radiation.

It seems to be somewhat similar in mechanism to the frozen long whiskers of a spherical battleship, but the core principle and efficacy are very different.

The oil film on the surface of the scale armor on the skin will form a special structural layer, which has a strong absorption and energy conversion and storage effect on radiation.

Humanity has not completely destroyed the original ecology of the Earth's shadow, but has temporarily taken root on a continent that was swept away by a super-strong gamma-ray storm about 100 years ago, and is still full of deadly radiation residues, and there is almost no grass.

With the level of science and technology that the pilot fleet had at that time, the transformation of the galaxy no longer needed to be carried out slowly from the planetary level, but directly transformed the overall environment of the entire galaxy.

It took the Navigator 70 years to establish a total of nine Dyson membranes in the Oort cloud range of the shadow galaxy.

The nine-fold Dyson membranes are stacked on top of each other at a very close distance, and are pulled into a concussive egg scramble shape by the interaction of the gravity of the black hole, the centrifugal force of the first and second orbital motions, the gravity of the stars inside, and the structural forces of the body.

Since then, the interior of the shadow galaxy has changed dramatically.

The Dyson membrane absorbs the Hawking radiation and intermittent bursts of X and gamma radiation from the black hole, and absorbs stellar wind and light energy internally, and the electrical energy output is several times that of the solar system, comparable to a multi-star system.

At the same time, the radiation background environment inside the shadow galaxy has been basically eliminated from the influence of black hole radiation, and has become highly similar to that in the solar system, and the difference in star rules that are different from the solar system has been smoothed out.

The superposition of nine layers of Dyson film has a very high absorption efficiency of stellar light, and the light transmittance is as low as 0.05 to the ninth power, which is only 1.95 parts per trillion, which is infinitely close to zero, which means that the light of the shadow sun almost does not escape from the outside.

The multi-layered Dyson film also has a strong light absorption effect, and no longer reflects yellow light in the universe, but is inky black.

Absorbing light externally and absorbing it more thoroughly internally, the planetary system constructed by the nine-fold Dyson membrane is almost perfectly integrated with the black hole background.

Shadow galaxies have since been completely hidden in the black hole environment.

Subsequently, mankind innovated the Dyson membrane technology, and built the tenth Dyson membrane that only absorbs information from quantum networks in one direction to prevent information leakage in galaxies.

The Shadow Galaxy has truly become a second home for humanity, as well as the core of the original World Government and the Savior, and has begun to develop rapidly, gradually regaining its leadership over humanity, trying to make the Orion Arm civilization into what it wants.

In fact, at this stage, it is difficult for the shadow galaxy, which has been "wandering" for more than two hundred years, to successfully take over the power and ask all the other colonies to cooperate with their actions.

With a great enemy in front of mankind, it is almost impossible to have a war internally, and it can only evolve peacefully.

Peaceful evolution is a new model of Orion arm humanity that is both competitive and mutually reinforcing.

Science and technology competition, knowledge competition, commander simulation battle, special simulation battle......

For the fifty years between 2801 and 2851, the aforementioned competition became the leitmotif of Morrowind.

At that time, the Shadow Galaxy, which had not yet closed its information channel, was landslides ahead of many other colonies in several races.

In 2851, the Morrowind Empire voted 99.98% in favor of the Shadow Galaxy's strategy as the guiding line, and declared its submission to the Shadow Galaxy's overall leadership of the Empire.

For no other reason, in the past 50 years, the Shadow Galaxy has contracted almost 70% of the major scientific and technological innovations of the entire empire with the power of a single planetary system, and has achieved an overwhelming advantage in many aspects of the competition.

Especially after the birth of a young scientist named Dong Shan, the scientific innovation ability of the shadow galaxy can be called unparalleled.

Since then, the shadow galaxy has closed its channels and changed its communication patterns.

The shadow galaxy itself will simultaneously monitor the external environment and collect information through the communication between the stars and the clones, but its own information is closed and no longer communicates information to the outside world in real time.

At the same time, the Shadow Galaxy will also absorb a batch of new blood from outsiders every few years, bringing together high-awakeness, high-IQ and special operations talents born in different star regions.

However, after these people came, they could no longer easily contact the outside world.

At the same time, the Shadow Galaxy sends out a group of people every few years, carrying a large amount of information through the stargates, appearing in many other colonies, including the Orton Galaxy, sharing scientific and technological achievements with the outside world as "inventors" of these galaxies, and proposing new plans for the development of civilization.

One of these plans is none other than the DF-711 Bastion starship.

When the Fortress Starship was first born, it wasn't actually in that position.

The position of the ultra-small star is much inner.

When the first generation of fortress starships was built, they had already begun to sail slowly to the borders of the Empire, constantly updating their technology as they sailed, and it took a full 150 years to reach the position where they were at the outbreak of the war in 3020, and now in 3121, they have just reached the border of the Empire.

At this time, the fortress starship happens to form a straight line with the solar system and the shadow galaxy with a symmetrical midpoint.

The total length of the straight line is 5,000 light years, and the midpoint is the solar system.

As for the connection between the two key colonies of the Orton system and the Xuanwu galaxy and the solar system, the straight line with the shadow of the sun in the fortress is exactly perpendicular at an angle of 90 degrees.

The two galaxies of Orton and Basalt are less than 5,000 light-years away from the solar system, which is related to the geometry of the Orion arm itself.

Just like Chen Feng's previous analysis of multiple baits, such a layout is indeed a man-made bait for everyone except the shadow galaxy.

The 14,400 galactic colonies of the entire vast empire, and the total population that has grown to 35 trillion, are all decoys.

The purpose of setting up so many decoys is to gain more strategic depth, gain greater productivity, explore more rules, and lengthen the time of the war.

The Centennial Struggle is not only the struggle of each galaxy member, but also the preparation for the final battle in exchange for more information for the shadow galaxy.

But this matter cannot be made public at will, and it is impossible for everyone to know about it.

In addition to the people in the Shadow Galaxy, only the second marshals who have come out of the Shadow Galaxy, as well as the top leaders in the core systems such as Orton and Xuanwu, are eligible to know.

So far, it seems that this cold-blooded plan has been executed very successfully.

Orion Arm Humans used the war outside to fight for a hundred years of stability for the shadows.

In the past hundred years, the scientific research institutions on the shadow side have never stopped providing technical support to the outside, and have also sent many soldiers and commanders to join the meat grinder-like battlefield and play an important role in many battles.

In the end, the shadow waited for Chen Feng, who was "close at hand", only 42 light years away.

It was a huge success.

After listening to Fanxing's introduction, Chen Feng was completely shocked by this big stroke.

After pondering for a long time, he shook his head slightly and commented: "Good idea." ”

Star: "You're shaking your head because you think it's unfair to the rest of Orion's Arm based on your past worldview. But your sense of the big picture as a leader agrees that this is the best we could possibly come up with. ”

Chen Feng hummed, "Yes." You've done a lot better than I thought I could have hoped for. If it were me, I wouldn't have been able to do it. ”

The stars gave him a blank look, "Wake up." The original Voyage Fleet project was originally proposed by you, and the Salvation Society was originally determined to implement your will. Without your spiritual guidance, God knows how many variables will arise throughout the implementation of the plan. It's just that you didn't predict that there would be a twin of the solar system in Orion's arm at the time, you just pointed out that we should concentrate our superior forces on a galaxy and keep the most intelligent and creative people together as much as possible. In short, you are the one who started it all. ”

Chen Feng was stunned, "Is that so?" Ha...... Haha, I'm pretty capable. ”

"Well, in your later years you were particularly keen on controlling everything. The whole Salvation Society is just a projection of your spirit. ”

Chen Feng's old face blushed, and he was secretly glad that he didn't give a negative evaluation just now, otherwise wouldn't it be a self-defeating face.

Chen Feng remembered an important matter again and asked, "Then tell me what means you used to make sure that I would be in the right place at the right time." ”

The stars behind the barrier smiled: "Have you heard of psychohistory?" ”

Chen Feng was shocked, "Of course I have heard of an academic discipline that sprouted in Freud's psychoanalysis and was carried forward by Asimov in the "Base" series. The core is to analyze the tens of billions of inhabitants distributed on 20 million planets in the fiction of fiction, summarize the economic, political, social and scientific events of large-scale groups of people in history, in order to find the objective laws that conform to civilization and the universe, and use the laws mastered to predict the development of civilization. Right? Am I not mistaken? ”

Fanxing: "Your summary is basically accurate, in line with the apocryphal in science fiction. ”

Chen Feng's heartbeat gradually accelerated, "Have you mastered psychohistory?" ”

Fanxing shook his head, "It doesn't count." ”

"Huh?"

"First of all, we don't have a population base that is as large as tens of billions. Second, there are far more other civilizations in the galaxy than science fiction writers could have imagined. Civilizations composed of different intelligent life will interfere with psychohistorical judgments that only act on human beings, so that we cannot conclude this law. Now that we've discovered more about the effects of stellar quantum storms on the quantum laws of the human brain, swarm behavior has become more unpredictable and will inevitably continue to complicate as populations increase and we arrive at more galaxies. ”

"Whether true psychohistory exists or not, and what it relates to the quantum nature of the universe, we do not yet know. In short, it doesn't matter, in this case we've simplified psychohistory and turned it into a kind of personal probabilism that is only for you. This is probably just a branch of psychohistory, which we call pre-philosophy. ”

Chen Feng: "Huh? Targeting me? Philosophy first? ”

"Yes. Only study the philosopher Chen Feng alone. ”

"Okay. Tell me what's going on. ”

"Our historians and psychologists have learned more about you by studying The Compound Eye Crisis, The Sharp Bud, and how your life trajectory has changed. All your life trajectories from childhood to adulthood, including every word you say and every micro-expression you make, as long as there is a record, are the objects of study by scholars. ”

Chen Feng imagined it, and there was a feeling that he had been completely seen through, and he felt a little creepy.

Could it be, these descendants even know how many times they have wet the bed, how many times they have eaten bad things, and how many times they have diarrhea?

"At the same time, scholars have also speculated on the behavior patterns of compound eyes by analyzing the mysteries, compound eyes, and the signs we have observed of civilization in Orion's arm, throughout the galaxy, and even in galaxies beyond the galaxy."

Chen Feng nodded, "This is as it should be." ”

"And then. You look closely at our star chart. The stars projected the layout of the original territory of the Morrowind Empire in the central control room, and the 14,400 colonies before the war and more than 100,000 Dyson membrane energy bases came into Chen Feng's eyes.

"This is the overall layout of the Morrowind Empire before the war began. You'll find that different sectors and colonies have different levels of development. But in fact, some of these colonies should not be so prosperous, and some of them should be stronger. We've adjusted the technological progress and development tendencies of each colony to form a vast web spanning 5,000 light-years. When the war began, the fleet of the Compound Eyes was indeed strong, but in fact, the course was always going in the direction we had planned. There will be some nuances along the way, but none of them will be too big. ”

In the next moment, changes began to occur in the star chart.

Proxima Centauri's galaxy suddenly turned red, representing the arrival of the Prism fleet.

After that, the red circles began to spread outward, and new green and blue dots spread outward, and then turned red.

The flames of the war began to spread in all directions from the core star sector, and finally formed today's pattern.

Fanxing: "This is the evolution of warfare in the past 100 years. You see, the Compound Eyes will absorb our art of warfare, moving from meat grinder tactics to focused strikes, and then scattering our forces or going deep alone, which creates a lot of opportunities for us to eat and catch the lone-edged ship. At least 10,000 times. ”

Chen Feng nodded, "Although it has not been successfully cracked yet, from the perspective of collecting information alone, it has been done to the extreme." ”

Star: "But it's all you, and you." You look at the direction of the compound eye fleet......"

The stars marked several different routes in the star map, some of which coincided with Chen Feng's route in the past hundred years, and some of which were different.

"Except for the fact that we didn't calculate that your crossing anchor point is really a solar system where no one is there, we've almost all guessed correctly. We know you'll choose to stay on the sidelines and then use the theater layout to create these safe routes that won't be easy to run into the compound eye fleet. ”

"At the same time, scholars know that you will definitely visit different star sectors through the stargates. Although no one expected you to find a stealth method before, your pattern is still in the calculation. The information that Frydes and you intercepted on the network about specialty galaxies is actually filtered. There are some specialty galaxies that I've blocked. ”

"If you use the filtered data as a basis, then your path will end up like this, and you will eventually have a high probability of appearing near the shadow galaxy at this time in the world. We've prepared so much, it's no surprise that we can achieve this effect. There is a 33% chance of success, which is the ultimate probability calculated by scholars, and there is no way to improve it. However, a one-third chance is worth the fight, after all, we have to respond to you in order to maximize the benefits, right? ”

After the stars finished speaking, a golden route appeared in the star map that meandered and jumped many times through the star gate, which was all the footprints that Chen Feng had left in the empire in the past hundred years.

Chen Feng was silent for a long time, "Yes, the great plan, it succeeded." ”

Fanxing: "But we also made a big mistake. We didn't even find the ships hidden in the lava planet in advance, and we didn't expect the Fans to suddenly step up their offensive, otherwise we would have been able to delay it for at least a few more years. ”

Chen Feng smiled, "What's foolproof." If you want to win, you need to look for possible variables from the impossible, that is, the X factor. ”

Fanxing: "You're the biggest X-factor." ”

Chen Feng nodded, "Okay, it's almost time to talk." I know the ins and outs of what happened, and the most important thing now is that I still have to find a way to reach the Shadow Galaxy as soon as possible. ”

Fanxing: "Hmm. ”

"Before that, you have the list ready for me."

"What list?"

Chen Feng rolled his eyes, "Don't ask knowingly." ”

The disadvantage of turning from a star to a star is here, it's very skinny.

In the next moment, Chen Feng's eyes began to list a long list of names.

From top to bottom, they are:

Ding Hu, Pang De, Xiao Zhou, Ouyang Zhenhua, Tang Tianxin, Ye Luming, Scott, Ou Qinglan, Lin Bu......

Chen Feng's eyes swept from top to bottom at an extremely fast speed.

Before he knew it, his heart was beating faster.

Yes, all of them.

Wait, a few people less.

"What about Dong Shan? What about Emmanuel Petto? ”

Fanxing: "Some people have passed away because of old age. ”

Chen Feng was shocked and sighed, "It's gone." ”

Fanxing: "Well, time is the deadliest weapon in the universe after all. ”

He suddenly felt stunned, and his mind couldn't help but think of Old Man Dong's old and uncultivated appearance with steady skin.

The old man was already one hundred and seventy years old in 3020, and now it is 3121.

The old man's work intensity is so great that he can't wait for himself, in fact, it is a matter of course.

"Here's a video that Mr. Dong left before he died, he said it's only for you to see, do you want to see it?"

Chen Feng nodded, "Take a look." ”

The projection in front of Chen Feng's eyes turned into an ancient room, and the old man with white hair and wrinkles was sitting on a Taishi chair with Erlang's legs crossed.

The old man's head hung obliquely, as if he were sleeping.

The voiceover sounded, "Mr. Dong, let's start shooting." ”

The old man shuddered violently, sat up straight, and his eyes, which had been cloudy a moment ago, suddenly became bright.

The old man was staring ahead, his lips curling into a smile.

Then, he opened his mouth violently, his voice was loud, his tongue was full of lotus flowers, and his speech speed was extremely fast and crackling.

"Grandpa, you've gone too far this time! I've been waiting so hard for you! I can't wait! Hey, you don't know how hard it was for me this time. From childhood to adulthood, they were indoctrinated to worship you, respect you, and look up to you. I've tried my best, but I can't do it. I'm just reading what I played in the movie, I'm the person who pierced your ass with a needle, how can I respect it. Look at the good guy I prepared this time. ”

Dong Shan's hand was raised, and he grabbed a huge thigh-thick needle tube from the side, and the tip of the needle was still covered with a swarthy black glow representing spatial cutting, as if the online game equipment had been equipped with particle effects.

"How? The big needle I prepared for your grandfather this time is strong enough, right? But if you don't come, I won't have a place to tie up! Okay, okay, so much, brother, I just have one request. Grandpa, you must remember my name, next time you can't forget me because we haven't met, and I'm gone. But you can't ...... Grandpa, you must remember me......"

The voiceover sounded again, "Mr. Dong, pay attention to the image!" Image! You're two hundred and fifty years old. ”

Dong Shan glanced sideways, "The image is a fart!" 's life is gone, and he wants the image of an egg, how to make him profound. Oh yes, am I two hundred and fifty? ”

"Ten seconds to go, two hundred and fifty-one."

"Oh, I've got to hold on! Otherwise, when others read the history books in the future, they will see that at my age, the old thief of Dongshan, died at two hundred and five. Doesn't that trick me? Ten seconds gone? ”

"Yes, you're two hundred and fifty-one."

"I also prepared a poem. Grandpa, listen, I'll read it to you......"

Old man Dong still couldn't read this limerick poem in the end, and he tilted his head when he was making a fuss, and there was no sound anymore.

Suddenly there was a howl and a cry in the voiceover.

The video came to an abrupt end.

Chen Feng on the other side had a smile on his face, but inexplicably, his eyes were very moist.

This old thing, in order to rub a name, is too special, and there is no discipline.

When I'm old, I'm still like a little kid, and I'm still a teenager.

It has the style of rubbing Zhong Lei in the next year.