Chapter 2: Night in Space City
Through Hewein's introduction, Evan learned that the Federation is currently in a period of great conquest, very close to the Spring and Autumn Period of the Porcelain Kingdom, or the Age of Exploration of the White Skins. Through continuous foreign wars, it is accumulating bloody capital and expanding its sphere of influence to the unknown starry sky.
And the conquest of the Menes Empire by the Hebleen Development Consortium is just an insignificant episode in this context.
The Extinction Order was the extreme treatment of alien intelligent life forms during this period of conquest. It has certain limitations, and can only be used against extraterrestrial lifeforms that do not have human genes in their bodies and are reproductively isolated from humans.
However, there are only three conditions for implementation:
1. A race that resists stubbornly and causes great loss of life and property to the Federation fleet.
2. Dark and evil, a race that is naturally aggressive towards humans, or has potential threats.
3. Race that consumes great resources, pollutes the planetary environment, and has a strong reproductive ability.
At first glance, it seems reasonable, but in reality, there is too much operability in the content, and there is a lack of constraints from the accountability department. To put it bluntly, it is a legitimate excuse for human beings to step on the corpses of countless alien creatures to expand.
After learning the truth, Evan felt a burst of fear in his heart, and sincerely thanked God for letting him reincarnate again. If there is no human existence on Hyperion, the catastrophe that all life forms on this planet are about to face is undoubtedly the extinction order.
In his view, the seemingly brutal extermination order is, to some extent, actually a kind of identification of friend or foe based on racial identity, which belongs to the ideology brewed in the context of conquest.
The so-called ass determines the head, and Evan is still very much in favor of this ideology that can protect himself - how many of those strange alien lives die, what does it matter to him?
At the same time, under the touch of this incident, he also slightly understood the bloodthirsty and warlike nature of the human race.
In the current view of Ivan, humans are an out-and-out fighting race. Only when there are no competitors, when there is great material abundance, and when there is a solitary desire to lose, will the heart of the Virgin be overflowing.
And in the period of conquest and expansion, human beings will show a very cold-blooded and cruel side, as long as they are competitors, not to mention animals, even if they are of the same kind. In order to expand the living space, the Homo sapiens on the blue star did not show the slightest mercy in the face of Neanderthals of the same kind, and killed them all. The reason why Blue Star became the Blue Star of Homo sapiens is not even a single subspecies left is by no means an accidental coincidence.
In the universe, unknown life forms are rampant, and the explosion of stars and the extinction of the race is commonplace.
In this bloody environment, how can they coexist peacefully with alien alien creatures. Unless they domesticate themselves like dogs, they may be able to keep a little bit of the torch and gain the title of a good friend and companion of humans in the future.
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Evan and Hewein flew halfway through the city and arrived at the living quarters of the foreign guests.
According to the other party, the people in this area are all human nobles from various planets, and they all come here to join the big family of the Federation. In the face of this shameless self-beautification, he certainly expressed his gratitude.
Then he said that the Federation is a large state, and Menes is a small state, so it is natural that they should learn the advanced knowledge of the Federation, obey the leadership of the Federation, and actively integrate into the order formulated by the Federation.
The receptionist, perhaps accustomed to seeing all kinds of loyalty from foreign guests, said nothing, just giggled.
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Evan's residence for the next three years is a towering 'lighthouse' building.
The straight metal building towers over the grassy square, backed by the blue sky and white clouds, and looks strange and imposing under the artificial sunlight.
The lighthouse-shaped building is eight stories high and cylindrical, with a wall about three meters thick on the ground floor, and an elevator inside the tower to reach the top of the tower. In addition to the top and bottom floors of the tower, each floor extends outward from a large circular platform on which a variety of low-flying vehicles are moored.
From the whole shape, this combination of classical and interstellar style building is quite beautiful, the base is lined with semi-open-air restaurants, which are integrated with the 'lighthouse' to form a unique architectural complex.
Hewein took Evan through the hall, walked into the elevator and went straight to the top floor, where there was a circular corridor more than 100 meters long, with overlapping arches on the corridor, and the rooms were about 20 meters apart from each other, and there was a white stone statue of craftsmanship at the end.
The two of them stopped in front of the door on the left-hand side of the elevator, and the receptionist motioned for Evan to reach out, then took his wrist and pointed her index finger on the round black crystal on the surface of the door's handrail.
Tick ——!
With a soft sound, a miniature image of Ewen suddenly appeared on the black crystal, and the font of His Majesty the Emperor of the Menes Empire, a high-ranking foreign guest, appeared.
Then the door slid open without warning, revealing a luxurious room within, unlit, and light filtering through the glass door on the left and onto the soft plush carpet.
"Is it so high-end?"
Ivan walked into the room in a daze, feeling like a rich man in the countryside who had never seen the world.
"I'll use this to contact you this time tomorrow. ”
Hai Weiyin took out a watch from her satchel, stuffed it into his hand, and explained with a smile:
"I've set it up just now, and it's all language recognition when it's turned on and off, and there's no complicated way to use it. Through it, you can directly solve the problem of eating and entertainment, and I will handle the matter of studying abroad now. ”
"Thank you!"
He took the watch and thanked him solemnly.
"It's safe and the neighbours are friendly, so try to talk to them if you need to. After the receptionist finished speaking, she waved her hand politely and turned around and left the room gracefully.
“......”
After seeing Hewein leave, Evan walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out at the city's vista.
It was close to evening in the space city, the sky was a light gray, and the suspended islands moved with the sunlight, casting narrow shadows.
Soon after, Space City went dark.
Suddenly, the whole city seemed to burn from the inside out, and countless waves of lights quickly lit up, emitting a brilliant light. The light shone in front of Ivan's eyes, and he squinted his eyes and looked at the city that was as bright as a dream in front of him.
How nice it would be if Hyperion could become like this, he thought to himself.