Inside the unnamed base of the Ghost Secret Service.

"Report, the Wingman civilization has been completely extinct, and the Engineer monitoring ship is about to leave."

Chen Li stood up, the corners of his mouth rose slightly: "Act immediately, I want to find out the nest of engineer civilization." ”

"Understood."

A group of ghost agents concentrate on operating the quantum wormhole.

……

The monitoring spaceship of the engineer civilization, after unfolding the jumping wormhole, did not hesitate to pass through.

The 16 quantum wormholes followed the past, and on the Ghost Secret Service's cosmic star map, those 16 quantum wormholes appeared 16.8 billion light-years away from the solar system.

But the Ghost Secret Service understands that this location is definitely not the home star domain of the Engineer civilization, because after the surveillance spacecraft stayed for more than ten minutes, it once again unfolded the wormhole and made a secondary wormhole jump.

Looking at the cosmic star map in front of him, 16 quantum wormholes followed the monitoring spacecraft, jumping 6 times in seven corners and eight turns, before staying in the starry sky 288.6 billion light-years away from the solar system.

"It seems that the engineer civilization is an intermediate civilization." Chen Li thought to himself.

After all, advanced civilizations are the reapers of the universe to a certain extent, and it is estimated that they will not go around so hard.

Only an intermediate civilization like the new human civilization would hide in Tibet, this speculation, coupled with the fact that the engineer civilization had no way to counter-detect the quantum wormhole, made Chen Li's heart calm down a lot.

If the engineer civilization is an intermediate civilization, then the gap between the new humans and the other party will not be too big.

He turned his head and took a closer look at the final destination of the surveillance ship.

A terrestrial planet slightly larger than the Blue Star, but with no atmosphere, the surveillance ship is moored directly to the surface of the spaceport.

There are not a few spaceships here, many of which are similar to surveillance ships, and it is estimated that this is the home port of the surveillance spaceship of the Engineer civilization.

"Add some quantum wormholes and explore this galaxy and its surroundings." Chen Li commanded.

"Roger."

The ghost agents jumped the last quantum wormhole into the interior of this star system and gradually expanded the scope of monitoring.

The secret reconnaissance was carried out for more than a week, and the situation made Chen Li a little strange, after the engineer monitored the spacecraft to return to the planet, there has been no movement.

And their reconnaissance of nearby star systems did not reveal human activity, spaceships, and most importantly, living planets.

"It seems that the engineer civilization is the same as ours, and it is difficult to deal with it." Chen Li said with a headache.

Qin Buyi, the leader of the Engineer Civilization Task Force, was also saddened by this, although he had manipulated the quantum wormhole to track other engineer spaceships many times, the spaceships on this steel planet were all similar monitoring spaceships.

After several tracks, it was also discovered that these ships were monitoring various experimental civilizations.

"Ju Chen, I estimate that this planet is a relay planet for the Engineer civilization, and these ships will not return to their home star domain."

Chen Li agrees: "It should be similar to our quantum wormhole relay spacecraft, the purpose is to prevent the coordinates of the home star domain from being exposed. ”

"Chen Ju, this matter will be handed over to us to continue to pay attention to."

"Well, then I'm bothering you." Chen Li nodded, and then left here.

He is the head of the ghost secret service, so naturally it is impossible to keep an eye on the engineer civilization, and the real enemy of the new human race is the reaper, which is what he should focus on.

Qin Buyi continued to analyze and study this planet, judging from the scale and industrial strength of the other party's spaceships on the steel planet, there are at least 3000~5000 spaceships in preparation here.

From time to time, the spaceships on the spaceport return, or go out on missions, which means that the number of experimental civilizations of the engineer civilization is quite large, maybe even tens of thousands.

If he Qin Buyi came to plan, it is estimated that he would not concentrate the control center of the experimental civilization, and the intermediate civilization already almost understood the nature of the universe, and would not be stupid enough to put his eggs in one basket.

Extrapolating backwards, there are at least several, or even dozens, of experimental civilization control and management centers in the engineer civilization.

While calculating and analyzing, he was compiling an evaluation report on the civilization of engineers.

From the current indications, the engineer civilization, like the new human civilization, is in the same intermediate civilization, mastering wormhole jumping technology and quantum communication (uncertain).

The technology of vacuum decay bomb should not have been mastered, at least the mature vacuum decay bomb should not have it, and the theory may have.

An iron planet and some surveillance ships can only bring these analyses, and the others are some ambiguous results that can only be seen.

Qin Buyi understands very well that he can't advance to a high-level civilization, after all, he is an ant, and no matter how strong he is, he is also an ant, so the engineer civilization is very cautious.

When returning from the opponent's monitoring spaceship, he adopted a cautious attitude of not directly contacting the monitoring spaceship, and knew that the other party knew that the Reaper civilization existed.

It is estimated that this experimental civilization monitoring and management center is also an existence that can be given up anytime and anywhere, even if the reaper discovers this planet, the other party can retreat with his whole body.

This is what is worth learning from the new human beings, scattering, hiding, and low-key people can be powerful in the primary civilization, but there is nothing to be ashamed of in the face of the advanced civilization.

For example, the arrogant Nibelung civilization, which seems to occupy tens of millions of light-years, is actually exposing itself.

Now within the new human civilization, it is also very cautious, and the exploration of colonized planets must be investigated clearly, so as not to be discovered by other middle and high-level civilizations.

Qin Buyi took the ghost agent to investigate everything in the engineer civilization in depth, and conducted a detailed investigation of the inside and outside of the steel planet.

Of course, they didn't act rashly, similar to hacking into the computers of other civilizations, which is actually a very dangerous and stupid practice.

If you don't understand the other party's computer technology level, if the other party has strong artificial intelligence, wouldn't it be a meat bun beating a dog - there is no return.

The more terrible consequence is that being counter-controlled and anti-tracked by the other party will directly expose one's own situation.

This is also the reason why the new humans have been very careful since they captured the Heart of the Nibelon, even if they are connected to the computer, they are physically isolated layer by layer, and they are in the event of an emergency.

……

Unconsciously, between spring and autumn.

The Spring Festival of the 30th year of the new era has arrived, and the new human race has been in an orderly development in these years, and various plans have not been left behind.

However, the speed of technological development has gradually slowed down, and the technology after advancing to the intermediate civilization has begun to become very unfathomable.

Now Huang Mingzhe, together with the Science and Technology Commission, is checking and filling in the gaps in the science and technology tree of the new human race, and laying the foundation of science and technology in all aspects as much as possible, so as to avoid a top-heavy situation.

This is something that has to be done, the time for new humans to enter the intermediate civilization is too short, and there is not enough cumulative time.

And it is less than 3,000 years before the Engineer civilization returns to the galaxy again.

If they could, the new humans would not want to abandon the Milky Way, unless it was a last resort.

The vacuum decay bomb, which has been highly valued by the war committee, has remained on paper since the project was established.

The theory has been perfected a lot, but the engineering difficulty of the pit is still as unattainable as a Dyson sphere.