Just as Xiao Yu was on his way to the Small Magellanic Nebula, something strange was happening in the Milky Way, about 10,000 light-years away from the Silver Heart.

Densely packed battleships lined up motionless in the void, and in the center of these battleships, there was a very strange celestial body. If Xiao Yu could see this, Xiao Yu would immediately recognize the thing in front of him. It has a small diameter but a large mass, it is not visible in the visible light band, and it has powerful radiation......

This is the Neutron Battlestar. For some reason, the Neutron Battlestar appeared here, and there were more than 30 million warships clustered next to it. Obviously, after the loss of conventional forces in the battle with Xiao Yu, after more than two thousand years of recuperation, the Sweeper civilization once again has considerable conventional combat power.

More than 30 million warships stayed here, and in front of them was a somewhat illusory space, as if there was a black hole there. The light bends as it passes through the space, so it looks a little blurry and distorted, as if it were shrouded in a layer of fog.

"Shenzhou Civilization, since you have separated from Xiao Yu, then we have no reason to target you. As long as you leave the stargate and give up control of the stargate, we can let you leave freely and will never interfere with you. "In the midst of this distant confrontation, a message was sent from one of the flagship ships of the Sweeper civilization.

The front of the Sweeper's civilization fleet was still a blur, and I didn't know what was there, or if there was anything in there. But the Sweeper civilization seems to have known what was there.

After a few moments, the Sweeper Civilization was answered, "Don't be delusional. I believe that you have also touched the seventh-level barrier in some aspects, and if you want to be promoted to the seventh-level civilization, you should honestly go and impact it yourself, and don't think that you can obtain the empty energy formula by analyzing the stargate. ”

"It's not helpful to say more. If you refuse to give up the stargates, then we will have no choice but to drive you away...... Neutron Battlestar, let's go. The voice, which represented the civilized will of the sweeper, said quietly.

Within the warped space, Ares stood in front of a huge display, carefully looking at every subtle scene on it, looking at every piece of data. Behind him were a dense crowd of workers, each with a computer system directly connected to the nerves, and at least tens of thousands of workers were busy processing various instructions.

"It's been more than two thousand years since Xiao Yu left here, I don't know if you're okay at the moment...... Alas. Ares sighed softly. For Xiao Yu, he didn't know what it was like in his heart. When he became the leader of the entire Shenzhou civilization. He knew how difficult it was when he personally led a huge sixth-level peak civilization struggling to survive in the dark universe.

His previous wish was to lead his civilization to become a sixth-level civilization, and now, his wish has been fulfilled to a certain extent. The entire Shenzhou civilization is under his leadership. It was only at this time that he felt the difference between the sixth-level civilization and the fifth-level civilization. Now him. even misses his idle life when Xiao Yu was still there.

He's not alone. Because of Xiao Yu's departure. Some huge computing tasks require scientists to write their own programs to calculate. Without Xiao Yu, many subtle things need to be solved by themselves, and they can no longer just focus on studying science as before, and everything else will be handled by Xiao Yu.

There is no longer the spectacle of tens of trillions of robots working together. Robots can only adapt to certain repetitive, untechnical tasks. Without Xiao Yu, some complex work would have to be done by the intelligent creatures themselves.

Without the abundance of data provided by Xiao Yu, managing a regime has become complicated. After all, except for Xiao Yu. No one has the energy to keep an eye on so many surveillance devices at the same time. Without surveillance, some of the inevitable problems within civilization are exposed, such as crime.

A large-scale survey shows that after Xiao Yu left, the happiness index of the people of the Shenzhou civilization dropped by at least one-third. This does not include those who are assigned to work in more difficult conditions. You must know that in the past, these things were all handled by Xiao Yu.

In this case, the idea of hoping that Xiao Yu can come back has taken over. After the luck theory was announced in detail, and it was learned that Xiao Yu's luck value had been reduced to a certain extent because of the death of the accompanying ghost clan, in the Shenzhou civilization, there would be a large-scale public gathering every day to pray for Xiao Yu. Although it is not useful, it can give them psychological comfort.

When Xiao Yu left, he left behind a huge intelligent program based on himself, but after all, a program is a program, it is dead, but the intelligent creature is alive. As a result, it gradually ceased to adapt to the development of civilization, and eventually, about 500 years ago, it was abolished, and only some modules such as weather maintenance systems and ecological circulation systems were still in use.

The people of the Shenzhou civilization are learning how to rely on their own strength to live, rely on themselves to independently complete scientific research experiments, rely on themselves to independently manufacture various types of spaceships, build all kinds of huge machinery, decide their own destiny, decide their future plans, and so on.

In this life, more than 2,000 years have passed. The war with the Sweeper civilization has left too many psychological shadows on people, so in the past two thousand years, people have never slackened their efforts to build warships. Without Xiao Yu, these warships could only be operated by intelligent beings themselves, so a huge army was formed, and the military council finally had the power commensurate with its own specifications in this era.

Up to now, the Shenzhou civilization has more than 10 million warships of various types, including two stellar-class warships. There are 20 billion active military personnel and about 3 billion reserve soldiers. The reborn Shenzhou civilization still maintains the basic policy of multi-ethnic coexistence and peaceful coexistence, and the supreme leadership body is still the Social Council, with Ares as the first chairman.

The huge military reserves are only for the Shenzhou civilization to protect itself, and the Shenzhou civilization has not taken the initiative to invade any other civilization. This has been the case for more than 2,000 years, until now.

In the direction of Cygnus in the solar system, about 10,000 light-years away from the silver center, the Shenzhou civilization discovered the remains of a seventh-level civilization. This relic was originally well hidden, but the gamma-ray burst caused by the photometamorphosis supernova explosion of a supermassive star destroyed the ruin, and it was discovered by the Shenzhou civilization.

After preliminary analysis, the researchers of the Shenzhou civilization determined that this was a relic of a seventh-level civilization in the direction of travel. This is a stargate, which is an ultra-long-distance teleportation device. It is speculated that the seventh-level civilization in the direction of travel used this stargate to complete the distant journey across countless river systems.

Although the gate has been damaged by gamma-ray bursts, a considerable portion of the instruments are still intact. This means that a Level 6 civilization may still be able to parse a large amount of technology here. So the Shenzhou civilization was immediately stationed here, trying to peek into the mysteries of the seventh-level civilization with the help of these intact seventh-level civilization creations.

However, after a period of scientific and technological analysis, the researchers of the Shenzhou civilization found that although these scientific and technological creations can bring a certain amount of scientific and technological improvement to the sixth-level civilization, it is impossible to peek into the mysteries of the seventh-level civilization. At this time, the Sweeper Civilization somehow found this place, and the Neutron Battlestar led more than 30 million warships to personally dispatch to try to drive the Shenzhou Civilization away and occupy this seventh-level civilization relic by himself.

There is no doubt that the Shenzhou civilization is no match for the Sweeper civilization, but the current leader, Ares, has no intention of letting this relic out. At the joint meeting of the Social Committee and the Military Committee, Ares said: "Our Shenzhou civilization cannot be promoted to a seventh-level civilization with the help of this ruin, but the sweepers are not. And if the Sweeper Civilization is promoted to the seventh-level civilization through this, it will be a disaster for us and for Xiao Yu, who has already left. We can't afford to take that risk. Even if we are no match for the Sweeper civilization, with the help of this ruin, we can support at least fifteen hundred years. So, let's buy this time for the departing Xiao Yu. ”

"However, we don't know if Xiao Yu is still alive now, and we don't know if he will be able to develop enough to fight against the Sweeper civilization in fifteen hundred years. I'm worried that everything we're doing is going for nothing. ”

"Even if it's useless, we have to do it." Ares said lightly: "Even if the Sweeper Civilization can't be promoted to the seventh-level civilization level with this relic, their strength will definitely increase significantly again. And, I don't believe that the Sweeper Civilization will let us who have a close connection with Xiao Yu go. So we can only do this and not let the Sweeper civilization get this ruin. ”

That's the whole way it goes. After initial negotiations failed, the Sweeper civilization seemed ready to attack, forcibly occupying the ruin.

At this moment, Ares, who was standing in front of the huge display, gave a faint order.

"Space Warp Protection System is on at full power...... All combat teams are in place, ready to snipe the Sweeper civilization battleship ......" (to be continued......