Three modest figures knelt in clusters before a crystal-cast royal seat, and they prostrated side by side at the foot of the stairs, as if they were meeting a great man.

"Your Majesty, we are waiting for your awakening." Their voices are reverent and sweet, and they are overwhelmingly submissive.

On the throne sat an ordinary young man of nineteen, with a fine appearance, his eyes were blank, and he had no idea where he was, he looked around like a baby who had just woken up.

After a long time, his dark onyx-like eyes turned to the three figures.

He opened his mouth, startled by the three strange figures in front of him, and his brain, which was still chaotic, woke up at once.

The three figures were made entirely of delicate and flexible metal bones and fiber pipes, like three thin and small skeletons carved from metal and crystal, and their eyes were embellished with two red crystals, which shimmered with a terrifying red glow in the bright light around them.

"Where is this?" He whispered unconsciously, and unconsciously repeated, "Where is this?" ”

"This is the center of the Galactic Empire, Your Majesty....... Welcome back......" The metal skeleton in the middle whispered, its frightened look all the more startled by the young man.

He tried to swallow his horror, trying to take in everything around him, only to find himself sinking into a soft crystal seat.

The crystal seat in the center stretched out to him like a semi-circular fan, and the five sword-like crystals behind him rose high, like five slender fingers rising high, trying to lift him to the top, and on his head, a lavish crystal crown with no weight held the ends of his loose hair.

He touched the delicate jade-like crystal, which faintly emitted heat, like a warm blanket, but it was obviously a crystal.

It was strange, no matter how stupid a young man was, he could understand how shocking this kind of thing was, he had never seen anything like it before.

The three of them reverently repeated again, "Your Majesty, we await your orders. ”

The young man's fingers were slightly raised, but he couldn't speak, he stared at these metallic "robots" in a daze, and he couldn't be sure if they were real robots.

"What should I do?" It was the only thought in his chaotic mind.

"Where am I?"

"Who the hell are you?"

"The recovery of the empire is imminent," the robot's eyes flashed with a faint red indicator-like light, and streams of tinkering electricity passed through its "eyes" that looked like some very evil light.

"Your great enemy is already on the move, Your Majesty, when the time comes, we should also announce our return to the galaxy."

Archenemy? Galaxy?

The young man only thought it was a little ridiculous.

He didn't know anything about these at all, what galaxy, what enemy, he was just an ordinary person who had some difficulty even surviving alone, he was just an ordinary person who worked hard to survive in the Earth Federation, why was he brought here?

He just wanted to go back and continue his education.

"Can I go back?"

"Of course, Your Majesty," the robot whispered in a more submissive manner, "according to the calculations of the Empire's data scientists, when you cross the material boundary wormhole and reach the material galaxy, you will appear in the K-238-193352-VT galaxy, which is more than 37,000 light-years away from your galaxy. ”

The young man was silent for a long time.

More than 30,000 light years, this distance ....... Let him despair.

Even the Federation's fastest interstellar travel spacecraft, without the help of subspace shipping lanes, would have taken a long and long time to cross more than 30,000 light years.

This period of time was long enough for a Stone Age civilization to grow into an interstellar age.

If these "robots" are right, he will not be able to return to his homeland for the rest of his life, a land that is very cold and unkind to him, but it is his homeland after all.

"Why did you bring me here?" He asked in a low voice through gritted teeth, but he didn't expect a response from the other party.

"Because of your will......"

My will? He doesn't understand. "Why is it my will?"

"Your Majesty, this is your choice, we have no way to respond, and we dare not easily figure out your wisdom."

My wisdom? What is there about me that makes you feel wise? The young man wanted to laugh, but he chose to close his eyes.

He only felt that all his strength was drained by the strange and strange environment around him, and he was thinking about something, but he never got a clue.

He had thought that this was just an illusory dream, but how could there be such a dream in the world that could make him really feel that his sense of existence was so strong.

Dreams are empty and broken, but everything here is revealing their own truth and wholeness.

If he was so stupid that he couldn't even tell whether he was in a dream or not, the other party would not choose someone like him to be this so-called emperor.

"Tell me what I have to do to get back to my hometown."

Either way, if they can bring him here overnight, they'll find a way to get him back.

He hoped that it would be a transaction, not a unilateral coercive decision.

"Your Majesty," the robot crawled on the ground, a faint hint of eagerness flashed in his words, "tens of thousands of years ago, where the stars went was your hometown, where the light shone was your land, our mission appeared from you, we follow you, willing to sacrifice everything for you, undoubtedly, your will is our will, your direction is the end of our progress." ”

"But you won't pull me to a world tens of thousands of light-years away from Earth for no reason," the young man couldn't help but laugh, "So, you won't let me say a word and send me back, otherwise I'd have gone back now." ”

The droids leaned even lower, their voices lighter and more eerie, surprisingly unanimous, "We have been asleep for too long, Your Majesty, your enemies, they are recovering, for your safety, we have to bring you back to the heart of the Empire, we cannot act without your orders." ”

And the "enemies", those hidden in the depths of whom they have never even met, and the young man cannot be sure whether the robot in front of him is lying.

"Who are they?"

"As you wish, Your Majesty........ They are the most powerful invaders of the galaxy for tens of billions of years, and the dimensional demons from the psionic galaxy have sensed certain twitching changes, they are trying to cross the boundary, and some even claim to be gods, and have begun to infiltrate the remote corners of the galaxy.

The swarms of deep space have also given birth to a new master, and they are beginning to coalesce under his will;

And the remnants---- the synths who have been exiled to the center of the river system for 20,000 years by betraying their creators in the Dawn of the Machine, are beginning to stir up, and even the fallen old empires have undergone certain changes, and some of them have become restless in their duties.

And all this change, those emerging civilizations are unheard of, they are too young. ”

The droids' rhetoric became more outlandish, its voice fluctuating in tone from mechanical voice, "We have unanimously decided that it is time to recall you, the Empire needs to be regained in glory under your will, and you will lead us to save the galaxy once again." ”

The young man did not say a word, he was a wise man, and the "reason" in his heart told him that all this was undoubtedly just the alarmism of these "freaks" in front of him.

They are talking about things in order to intimidate me, and then to manipulate my thoughts, words and actions.

But....... Just seeing the shocking scene around him, young people don't think that it can't control itself physically.

"Your Majesty, we have prepared a colony spaceship, an engineering ship, a scientific research and exploration spaceship, five engineering robots, twenty sapper robots, two security robots, including two managers of research models with scientific research calculators, and I, the administrator-001, within a certain range, our databases are connected to each other, Your Majesty, you can collectively call us synths. If you're looking to expand initially, they're the best way to help you. ”

It's synths! Summer thought to himself, you know, synthetic human research technology has always been taboo in the scientific and even political meetings of the Earth Federation, and the government has repeatedly emphasized that any scientific research project related to the study of complex AI projects is listed as the highest level of taboo technology projects.

Can these synths ...... He had no doubt about their intelligence, and just by the three robots he saw in front of him, they were already showing him miracles that the world had never seen before.

These three robots are made up of blue and red crystals, inky and silver-white metal plates, and wiring in various unknown materials, even if not mentioning their words and deeds, the soft and smooth perfect curves alone are enough to make people feel fearful.

He pondered every word of the mysterious robots, who wanted to awaken the glory of the empire and save the galaxy themselves.

It's ridiculous, he is just an ordinary person, how can he have the ability to awaken the so-called glory and save the so-called galaxy?

But could he have any other choice?

The young man didn't dare to try to reject the robots, and if he really couldn't go back, maybe he should accompany these weird robots to play the scene and see what tricks they had.

"Your Majesty, please come with me." The three robots spoke in unison, as if they were one.

The young man hesitated, and at last he raised his feet and followed him.

The young man and the group of quirky robots soon entered a roulette elevator covered in cylindrical sapprite.

As if they were some kind of flying saucer floating in motion, they stood on a metal disc engraved with a double ring of circular rings, and with a slight shock, the young man found himself in a blurry and dim light, moving at a very high speed.......

In just a few seconds, or less, the young man finds himself in an even stranger place.

The suspended disc-shaped elevator had disappeared, and around him was an endless empty metal earth, with layers of light blue and dark red lines flowing through this black and gold metal land, except for that, the young man only saw the deep and endless night sky, the stars were like a sea of light, dotted beyond the black and blue sky canopy, and a faint but visible dome light shroud condensed in the night sky, separating the space stars from this land for a long time.

He lowered his gaze from the night star, and two giant ships and a small light ship were silently resting on the sea-blue empty mechanical land, extremely abrupt.

The three ships did not have any weapons that looked like weapons, some were just layers of mechanical parts made of metal plates and sleek and slender metal pipes connected by lines, and occasionally one or two strange crystals wrapped around the joints of the ships, and the head of one of the ships had a large black arc-shaped glass cover covering the console, and behind the tail was a large-caliber engine vent, which was like a bore opening of a giant cannon, ready to spray a stream of high-heat matter.

"Your Majesty, this is the colony ship on the left," the robot whispered, pointing to the kilometer-long ship on the left, "it can be expanded into a base of your own, and its core power source can provide a powerful power for your initial development." ”

The ship was slightly larger than many of the ships that young people had seen in the Earth Federation, its metal lines were relatively rigid, like a giant mechanical hull, its left and right sides were curled up with four support arms, and the engine jet tunnel of the tail was large enough for several people to pass, this guy was a big and bulky one, and it shouldn't be fast.

"On the right is the scientific exploration spacecraft."

The young man looked at the relatively small and sophisticated flying saucer spaceship on the right, the hull structure of this ship was indeed more linear than he had imagined, every curve was soft and transparent, its hull seemed to be able to cope with many large-scale cosmic disasters, and it was easy to escape or hide itself.

The engineering ship in the middle is full of tightened mechanical arms, which are surrounded by a large warehouse-like square box at the bottom, which is no smaller than the colonial ship, and its pipes are denser.

"Your Majesty, we have prepared enough energy for you to cross the boundary, and if you want to leave immediately, you only need to pass through the wormhole to reach the material galaxy on the other side."

The young man looked around and saw that there was nothing left in this mechanical world of metal and pipes but these ships. Although he was still confused, he also understood that on the other side, in the direction of the wormhole they claimed to pass, there was his hometown.

He didn't know what he was thinking, and it wasn't until he sat in the main control room that he realized that he had been subconsciously following the thoughts of those robots, like a puppet, he was shocked by his inexplicable actions, but his face could only be shown to be silent.

"Your Majesty," the three robots asked flatteringly, "are you ready to go?" ”

The young man looked at the distant sky in a trance, he couldn't see any familiar starry sky, these strange planets were big or small, far or near, but they were so strange that he didn't know them at all.

He also saw several huge stars covered in jet-black metal and blue crystals surrounding his world, obscuring the third of the sky at the far horizon, as if they were choosing to devour people, they were arranged on top of each other, but the young man could not clearly see whether they were acting according to a certain pattern.

What kind of planets can be so close to each other without being gravitationally attracted? He couldn't know, just thought it was a dream.

The spaceship took off too calmly, not at all like it was in the Earth Federation, he didn't feel any engine jet power, there was no shaking, he only felt that the vision in front of him was blurring, the light was receding, and the scenery in front of him was rapidly drawing lines.

He stared at the blurred vision, completely devoid of any feeling, and he couldn't figure out what kind of acceleration they were doing this interstellar journey.

Soon, they stopped in space, the endless eternal black night, accompanied by all the stars bright and clear, without the atmosphere to cover the galaxy is indeed different, the stars shimmering, the whirlpool system condensed into a cloud of mist, they swallowed each other, swirled, shining, adding to the whole galaxy catalogue.

Ahead, there is a black ocean, the vacuum is silent, only a spiral space station floats, at the end of its spiral channel, a distorted space slowly rotates, like a sphere emitting a faint purple mist, the wormhole surface of this circular sphere refracts numerous galaxy clusters, like another universe contained in a black sphere.

"This is the Boundary Wormhole, Your Majesty, through it, we can reach the Material Galaxy."

Hopefully, young people can only imagine this trip as best as possible.

The galaxy is long and sinister everywhere, even the Earth Federation, which has discovered the subspace shipping lanes and has been able to carry out interstellar crossing, does not dare to lightly say that it can go on an expedition in outer space without any safety or security, and even the United Empire of Mankind, the United Empire of Mankind, the United Empire of Mankind, will not easily make a long-distance journey without the assembly of multiple spaceships.

There are countless dangers in space, such as a storm of particles that sweep by from time to time, a sudden strong gravitational field from a star, and a large group of meteorites floating in outer space, each of which can be fatal. And the pirates who hide in the gutter, they have always liked to plunder cargo ships.

They only have three ships, can they really pass through this weird-looking wormhole?

The young man pinched his fingers uneasily, the scientists of the Earth Federation had described the state of existence of wormholes, as well as the theoretical basis of artificial wormholes, but neither he nor the Federation scientists had ever really seen such things, and the situation in front of him was undoubtedly telling him an obvious truth, they could artificially generate a wormhole and stabilize it.

What exactly are these robots? Can he really trust these weird robots? His confusion piled up like snowflakes, growing heavier and heavier.

"Can we get to our destination any other way?"

"Your Majesty, crossing the boundary requires extremely complicated conditions, except for the wormhole generator, I think only the super gravitational field that reaches the limit can pass, but it takes a long time to get to the nearest super strong gravitational place, and it is full of dangers, I don't recommend you to take this risk."

Well, the young man was helpless, "through the wormhole," he whispered after a long silence, how he wished it was a dream.

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