Chapter 60: Precursors to War
"You've watched too many human movies, kid, and as a Kande, we should put tradition first." Seaside Rainbow smiled at Add.
She did see it with her own eyes for kids like Add, who were obsessed with human culture, singing loudly and doing weird dances that twisted around, eating gagging reptiles and mosses, watching movies with the protagonists that didn't change for thousands of years, hating words and reading stories with pictures, and so on.
In fact, isn't there such a family in the Seaside Rainbow family? In recent years, the Kander have referred to this situation as "friendly syndrome", because it is not only humans who are obsessed with imitation objects, but also the Unites and Ibiks who are allies. It is said that experts from several well-known scientific families are already working on research to try to cure the epidemic disease through certain psychosuggestive treatments.
"Aunt Rainbow, I didn't mean that. I'm just wondering if there's been anything big in the Walken world lately that deserves our attention. Eddie explained.
"Big deal? Walken people? Immutable Brainshell Lords? Don't think too much, children of the Xiaofeng family, you must know that these aliens with amazing brain capacity should have appeared a technological civilization that is more powerful than any of our races, but they chose to live in a relatively primitive way, after so many years, what big things can they have? ”
"Of course, if you have to count it, a delegation of the Disfaradhoo visited Pegassos last month." Seaside Rainbow thought for a moment.
"Disfaradoo?" The tentacles above Add's head moved.
"Well, it's said to be for sales." Seaside Rainbow laughed. "You also know that they sold the miniature star cave device to Yinmeng at a high price, but never signed any bilateral agreement with us, it turns out that they have already thought about the follow-up, that is, once they can't squeeze the juice in Yinmeng, they will change the buyer and squeeze another round."
"Don't you have any feedback on this?"
"Of course a protest has been filed, but a kid like you doesn't need to know this." Seaside Rainbow reminds you, and you're still a man, and her point of view that can't be said directly in words is fully complemented by her eyes.
"Yes, anything else?" Add couldn't think of any connection between the two, so he had to ask again.
"And? Come to think of it, this is not the haze valley of Escudabis, where there is something new and interesting every day...... Oh, and one more thing indeed...... The Alum have discovered another Ascendor relic on the frozen planet, but that was a few standard months ago. Seaside Rainbow said.
"The Ascendant Ruins? What is it about? Add's tentacles swollen and reddened.
"Who knows? The people of Vulken will not inform us of these internal situations. Seaside Rainbow looked at Add's tentacles in a strange way.
"So both things are about the 'Ascender'? I mean, the 'miniature star hole', which was also invented by the Ascendant. Add said with a movement of his tentacles.
"Isn't it?" Seaside Rainbow couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.
"The Disfaradhoos have always flaunted the power of their own technology, but in fact they have not invented anything, and the Ascension disappeared inexplicably hundreds of millions of years ago, leaving the ruins of the Darwinian galaxy all over the place, which were handed over to these evolutionaries who may still be microorganisms back then. With the trees planted by their predecessors, they lie on these legacies and feast on them, packaging and selling all kinds of cutting-edge technology in exchange for human warships, Ibic cuisine, and Unity's livelihood technology. They sealed off the entire Darwin system with the warships they had exchanged for the Silver Alliance, and even travelers were not allowed to enter, in order to dominate these ruins and sell them for a price. She laughed.
"Are you talking about the Hodul system? Is it blocked and you can't get in? Eddie was a little disappointed, as his father had been to Hodul as a traveler and had described to him and his sister the magnificent wonders of prehistory.
"Well, Hodall is Darwin, and the evolutionary doctrine popular in mankind is named after it. The name also illustrates the correctness of this view from another perspective. You see, to evolve, it's best to find the right environment, especially on a pile of unclaimed Ascendant relics, which will maximize efficiency. You should know that the brain size of the Disfaradhoo is only half that of us and humans. Seaside Rainbow couldn't help but burst out laughing, but Add just smiled politely.
Female Kander are more emotional in personality than male Kande, and it is not uncommon for negative emotions such as jealousy, hatred, and revenge to appear among female Kande.
And because of this, in the later stage of the Shadowless Betrayal War, when the Kanders and their allies were losing one after another due to avoiding the battle, the main body of the military composed of female Kanders defeated the 1st Legion of the Shadowless in the Battle of Cerberus, thus making a fundamental reversal of the tide of the war.
"This may be a means that they are willing to exchange the miniature star cave technology, the Disfaradhoos have long planned to blockade the entire Hoduer system, but there are not many possessions left for them to defend themselves, except for the big and terrifying 'Ancestors Bless Me', which is basically the shell of some large ships."
"Well, billions of years of corrosion will wipe out anything but relic metal." Add politely listened to his fellow elders unreservedly expressing their hatred of the Disfaradoos, but he couldn't comprehend the sentiment at all. The lockdown of the Hodor system was bad news for him, as it was supposed to be an important part of his travels.
"That's right, but since you talk about the 'Ascension' ruins, your travel spaceship, the 'Sailing', it's really a treasure, the pride of the Xiaofeng family, I didn't expect it to be driven out by you." The female Kander is not without envy.
"And I think you should know." She changed the subject.
"The Balde system is the one with the most remnants of the Ascended Beings of all known galaxies, except for Hodul, right? Even on Pegasus, the main planet of the Walkens, indestructible golden buildings abound. "It's rare to meet a traveler from my hometown on the front line of the border, and when I see young Eddie, the seaside rainbow is a little uncontrollable.
"But the birthplace of the Vokken people does not seem to be here, and it is rumored that they migrated from the distant Verdani system to Bald thousands of years ago in anticipation of the explosion of stars in multiple galaxies. They have successively transformed the planetary environment, settled and rescued a number of vassal races that had escaped the catastrophe of destruction after they had been warned. Therefore, even the unruly Hoss are loyal to the Walkens, which is very similar to ours. She analyzed.
But we haven't saved any of the Rich Star races, Eddie thought to himself, he didn't think it was appropriate to make such a point at this time, so he just nodded yes.
"Compared to an upstart like the Disfaradoo, the Walkens behave very strangely, it is said that they have the technology of large-scale interstellar migration thousands of years ago, coupled with the 'Ascension' technology, they should rule the entire galaxy through the stargates scattered throughout the galaxy, but they still use the technology of the past." Seaside Rainbow shrugged its shoulders.
"And according to our analysis of the information we have contacted, not only have the Vulkens not made any progress in science and technology for hundreds of years, but they have 'regressed', they rarely leave Pegasus, and they usually don't see their spaceships, and the Walkens let the Hoss people guard the Bald border, and let the alum people seal the remains of the 'Ascendant' everywhere, it seems that if they find one place, they will close one place."
'Closed?' Aren't the Ascenders' ruins indestructible? Eddie asked.
"So it's just closed, filling the main body of the ruins with special liquid minerals to make it ineffective, and the alum people have been frantically looking for the ruins in recent years, but it has nothing to do with us, it's just in the Bald system."
"By the way, there's one thing I forgot to mention." Seaside Rainbow suddenly thought of something.
"A team of Alum crew ships entered the Dumitev Stargate a few days ago, and our probe discovered the anomaly. This has been the case before, and the Dumitev Stargate has been under the blockade of the Vulkens, never revealing what is behind it, and many people speculate that this is the direction of their homeland, but it has never been confirmed. ”
"Maybe there's a bigger world behind that." The female Kander added.
"Why did they go there?" Add asked suddenly, the tentacles on top of his head turning pink with excitement.
"I don't know, and I don't care." Seaside Rainbow looked at Eddie strangely. "It's not the territory of the Silver Alliance, the Dumitev Stargate belongs to the Walken people, and the spacecraft can't pass through the Stargate without their authorization."
"What should be done with these authorizations? I mean, from the perspective of folk travel, ......," Eddie asked hurriedly.
"Travel? The Walkens have been blocking the Stargate for many years, so our people have never set foot on it, but it is strange that their Stargate fleet is not there these days...... It seems to be ...... guarding," said the female Kande to herself.
"Then that's it, excuse me for being presumptuous." Add jumped up from the guest chair.
"We're about to set sail." He called Lilac, who was still helping him make a transcript of his travels, and turned to leave.
"The Dumitev Star Gate is a forbidden place for the Travel Committee, you must not go there without permission, I advise you to return to the area of the Silver Alliance as soon as possible." The seaside rainbow reminded behind him.
"Maybe a war is really coming." She shouted.
"I know very well." Add had now walked out of the office and into the air-lock room of the cubicle to change clothes, and he felt the beating of his heart echo in his head, and his reddish palms were tense and could barely be lifted.
Kurusodamus, he knew, came the third time, and this time, it reacted even more strongly than the previous two combined.