A star, after the end of its main-sequence period, either collapses into a black hole or becomes a red giant. So what happens when a red superstar also enters the end of his life?

Then in place, perhaps, only a pile of remnants will be left.

When the Hunter finished its faster-than-light voyage, the first thing that appeared in Kungo's sight was not the planet discovered by the drone, but an unspeakable cloud of stellar embers that looked like space jellyfish.

"Maybe even this trace will disappear completely in thousands of years!" Anyang has a lot of knowledge of the universe, "But now this thing is the most suitable source of materials for us. Squid can easily draw energy and supplies from it! ”

Kungo nodded: "Host, send out all the squid, search here, and start building the broadcast tower!" ”

"The host understands!"

"Now let's take a look at what that planet is like, a planet that exists in such a place should be a dead place!" Kungo recalled the drone that had done the job and transferred the footage it captured to the bridge.

Without the illumination of stars, planets are like corpses floating in space.

That little bit of stellar ember can provide the energy and matter needed for the autonomic squid, but it is far from enough to "live" a planet.

Sure enough, what appeared on the holographic projection was a dead and silent planet.

"1.3 times the size of a standard Earth, rocky crust. Preliminary scans have revealed that the planet once had an ecosphere, and it is suspected that there is a high intelligent civilization! "The host is reporting the preliminary scan results of the drone.

Kungo looked at Amber: "Are there any vassal races of the empire that are particularly backward?" For example, even interstellar civilizations have not reached? ”

Amber shook her head: "There are indeed some civilizations in the empire that have not reached the interstellar civilization, and are even in the feudal primitive society, but those civilizations are not vassals of the empire, and they don't even know about the existence of the empire. All races that can be vassalized by the Empire have at least a stellar civilization! ”

Humanity is now in the transition from a stellar civilization to a galactic civilization. By the standard of the Golden Empire back then, it had just reached the qualifications to be a vassal.

Kungo rubbed his chin: "If that's the case, then this shouldn't be the remnants of the empire's vassal civilization we're looking for, right?" ”

Everyone nodded.

At the very least, the ruins left by a civilization that is at least stellar should have some fairly conspicuous landmarks. However, after an initial scan of the dead planet, nothing like that was found.

Maybe there will be some ruins on the surface of the planet or some underground, but there is not even a single large ruin on the ground, so it should theoretically not be the work of the vassal race of the Empire.

"Well, wait two days! Once the squid has put up the frame of the broadcast tower, we'll go down and have a look! Kungo thought about it and finally made a decision.

Only after the framework of the broadcast tower is erected can the production module of the autonomous robot be launched, and only with enough autonomous robots can Kungo and their team go down to the surface of the planet to explore more conveniently.

Otherwise, when will Kunwu and the others go to explore a planet that is 1.3 times larger than standard Earth?

Two days later, the production module of the autonomous robot was launched, and the production of the autonomous robot under full operation could produce ten autonomous robots per hour. With stable backup, Kungo took his friends down to the surface of the planet together.

Except for Haiwei, who killed the Hunter and Xiao Xiaobai, who was left by Lao Bai, the rest of the people all came to the surface on the Raven, and converted the Raven to low-altitude levitation mode and began to explore the entire planet.

The quest yielded significant results, and after 38 hours, Amber discovered an extremely important clue.

In an area that looks like a valley, there is a residual space bozzon energy.

Although it was almost dissipated, Amber and Abona were able to find this place with a scanning energy far beyond human imagination.

Everyone came to the valley wearing space plug-in armor, and not long after descending to the ground, Anyang found a clue.

Underneath the rock formation, a few hundred meters underneath, is a layer of high-strength alloy crust.

Anyang was able to spot this because she found a distortion point in the rock formation, from where she saw the reflection of metal, and after losing a miniature probe, she finally determined this.

"It seems that my previous estimate was wrong, this planet is probably the big guy we are looking for. However, this vassal race's hobby may be a bit strange, they don't like surface buildings! Kun Wu touched his nose and sighed that the world is so big, there are no surprises.

Amber's eyes had turned icy blue, and he was scanning the valley around it as he searched the surroundings of the valley before he found what looked like a mound of broken dirt, and when he turned over the dirt on it, he saw a dizzyingly complex machine.

Of course, the device was completely damaged.

"This is a fine-tuned probe for the coordinate-like engine!" Amber Road.

Everyone was at a loss, and they couldn't understand what this meant.

Apo's humble voice rang out in the Mind Channel: "Ah, it's a little too far for humans. Humanity has just progressed from working engines to non-working engines, and even your faster-than-light engines are the most rudimentary. If it weren't for Imperial technology, you wouldn't even be able to build a Migration Engine! ”

"Shut up, I'm asking you to explain the coordinate engine, not letting you judge the level of scientific and technological development of human beings!" Kungo scolded.

Po let out a whistle: "To put it simply, the coordinate-like engine is actually a more advanced version of the Hop Engine. The point-to-point single transition was changed to a linear continuous transition. By modifying its own coordinate system in space, it can achieve the ability to move at high speed without inertia! ”

"Strictly speaking, that's the engine of a real planetary fortress. Humanity's current planetary fortress seems to me to be a toy! After routinely complaining about the technological level of human beings, Apo said, "According to the regulations of the year, this is a planetary ark, just like the Golden Capital!" Oh yes, there is also a coordinate-like engine on the Golden Capital, if you don't blow it up, maybe humans can research the coordinate-like engine a hundred years in advance! ”

Kunwu's forehead was bruised: "Shut up!" ”