"What are we? Already out of the asteroid sea? Liu Rushun, who was lying on the command seat, was woken up by the crew, and the yellow light that spilled into the bridge caught his eyes.

"Yes Captain, we've escaped from that hellish place!" The numerous crew members on the bridge were excited.

It didn't take long for the Ark to sail into the asteroid sea after they woke up as crew members and were responsible for the maintenance of the ship.

Due to the activation of the emergency plan for the special circumstances, the crew members were denied the right to continue dormancy.

They could only stay awake and wait until the ark was out of danger, and who would have thought that this sobriety would take seventeen years.

In the seventeen years that had passed, some of the crew had already given birth to children, and they thought they were going to die of old age on the ark, or decay in the stars with the ark.

Unexpectedly, just when they had lost their fighting spirit, the ark actually sailed out of the asteroid sea!

"Quick, scan this starry sky, I want to know where we are!" Liu Rushun stood up from the command seat and shouted anxiously.

Several telescope-like geoscan radars rose from the upper deck of the ark and spun to begin scanning the surrounding starry sky piece by piece.

Dozens of minutes later, the crew member in charge of the star map shook his head in frustration.

"Captain, the star system we're in now isn't in any of the regions we know."

"Not only have the Empire's astronomical telescopes not recorded this star region, but even the deep space exploration ships have not discovered this star region." The crew sighed.

"Could it be another galaxy here? No way, we haven't ever traveled through a wormhole. Liu Rushun was a little puzzled.

"Captain, we are currently in the interior of a special celestial system."

"According to the information transmitted by the various scanning equipment on board the ark, this star field is wrapped in the center by a thick asteroid sea, forming a strange star field isolated from the outside world."

"Because it is far from the midline of the main arm of the Milky Way, and because it does not emit a single ray of light, this star field has not been noticed by our Imperial scanning equipment at all."

"When the deep space exploration ship that entered it lost its signal, we thought it was just a short loss of contact, but we didn't expect this meteorite sea to be so vast."

"There are six hundred and sixty-three star systems in this star field, and the starlight you see is emitted by these very close star systems."

"Each star system here is only 5 light-years apart, which means that the distance between two adjacent star systems is only about a quarter of a solar system." (The diameter of the solar system is calculated according to the diameter of the Oort cloud that surrounds the solar system by two light years) The artificial intelligence carried on the ark appeared in front of Liu Rushun and slowly explained what she had learned so far.

"So close, how can this line of galaxies stay undrawn to each other's gravitational pulls?" Liu Rushun was puzzled.

"The gravity of the surrounding asteroid sea and the gravity between these star systems create a delicate balance that keeps these star systems quietly in their respective positions."

"But this balance is very fragile, and the disappearance of any planet will cause the balance system to collapse, and the same is true for ships that are too massive to come in."

"Of course, our ark isn't that big." After speaking, the artificial intelligence spread out a hologram in front of everyone in the bridge, and the various star systems in the hologram were scattered in a large circular empty shell in an orderly manner like chess pieces.

Obviously, the round empty shell was the asteroid sea they had traversed when they entered!

"I detected a large number of electromagnetic signals of different frequencies between these star systems, which indicates that there are a large number of civilizations between these star systems."

"According to my speculation, because of the special terrain here, it is likely that these civilizations did not develop the technology to jump, after all, it only takes a short quarter of a star system to reach the next star system." The artificial intelligence waved its hand on the map, and electromagnetic signals of various colors immediately covered the entire star field.

"Send a few drones to infiltrate it, I want to know the details of this place." Liu Rushun waved his hand at several crew members.

"Yes."

A few minutes later, five deep-space exploration drones flew out of the ark's warehouse and leaped into hyperspace towards the five nearest planets.

In a matter of tens of minutes, the five drones jumped out of hyperspace and into the star system they were responsible for.

The messages sent between the various star systems were intercepted by drones and uploaded to the Ark.

Soon, this information was translated and sorted out by the Ark's supercomputer and handed over to the artificial intelligence.

"There are twenty civilizations in this star field, and the relationship between these civilizations is intricate." The shipborne artificial intelligence said to Liu Rushun.

"Oh? What do you mean? Liu Rushun was puzzled.

"It's that you have two friends, but the two friends are enemies of each other, and your friend's friend may be your enemy." Artificial intelligence spreads its hands.

"These civilizations also maintain a weak balance like these stars, and none of them declares war on the others, but small battles on their borders keep happening." Seeing that Liu Rushun didn't speak, the artificial intelligence continued.

"Calculate what the odds are if we intervene?" Liu Rushun said in a deep voice.

"Calculating"

"The calculation is complete, and the probability of our success is "

"The civilizations in this magical celestial system are very familiar with each other, but once we, an outsider, intervene, there is a 98% chance that they may attack it en masse."

"Not only that, although their warships do not have the ability to jump in hyperspace, according to the data collected by our drones, their warships are not weaker than our warships."

"Although we have obtained the blueprints and technical information of the new warships sent by the Imperial Capital, we are not in a position to modify the existing warships."

"At present, our warship technology is still quite backward, and we have no chance of winning against the many civilizations in this celestial system. No, it can be said that there is no chance of winning. "Shipborne artificial intelligence poured cold water on Liu Rushun's head.

"We, we, we all vote!" Liu Rushun thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't dare to decide for himself, so he could only raise the banner of voting.

"Let's just pick the nearest civilization and go in recklessly!"

"We turned around and went back, got out of here, and continued to make a detour towards our goal."

"How about we stay and deal with these civilizations through guerrilla tactics, like when we become interstellar pirates?" Speaking of the third option, Liu Rushun's eyes lit up with excitement.

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