The purpose of the First Civilization's negotiations was very simple, that is, to ask for prisoners of war and warships, and the representatives of the other side did not seem to realize that they were the defeated side, not only in a very arrogant tone, but also in an extremely tough attitude, with a bad face that I came to see you, which was enough to give you face.

Ou Zhanpeng couldn't help it after only listening to a few words, and directly scolded back: "Want to be captured? No problem, when you win, I will give you the earth together!"

After speaking, he left directly, ignoring the other party's clamour.

Negotiators from the First Civilization...... Well, the guy who claimed to be some duke was stunned for a moment, and there was only one question in his mind: where did these primitive people get the courage to shout?

That is, Ou Zhanpeng didn't hear this, otherwise he would definitely say again: Lao Tzu has completely annihilated your fleet, this is the qualification!

After a short period of negotiations, the representative of the other side went away angrily and returned directly to Qianyunxing.

The duke didn't know that as part of the captivity's work, the entire negotiation was broadcast live to the captives, which immediately caused extreme dissatisfaction among the captives.

In particular, Duke Misha hated this pig teammate to death.

It's not good to send someone to send such a straw bale, which is not enough to accomplish and more than to lose?

For this reason, she also found Zhan Wenyi and took the initiative to ask Ying, willing to take the responsibility of negotiation and transfer the human will to Qianyunxing.

To put it bluntly, you let me go back, and by the way, bring back your intentions.

Zhan Wenyi doesn't know what to say, okay, this little abacus is too fine, right?

The result is naturally no result, and everything is business as usual.

However, the issue of prisoners of war will have to be resolved sooner or later, and the bigwigs really took time to discuss the possibility of opening a dialogue channel by Misha.

After all, the bigwigs do not want to be hostile to prehistoric civilizations all the time, and peace and development are the main themes pursued by mankind.

And war is always a matter of politics. Extension of governance.

In other words, the bigwigs don't mind fighting to the death with prehistoric civilizations, but after winning, they must get the gains they deserve, otherwise won't this battle be fought in vain?

For this reason, the bigwigs found Ou Zhanpeng, hoping to hear his opinion.

"I don't think we need to rush to return the captives." Ou Zhanpeng's attitude was very clear, "You can use this group of prisoners!"

A few big people looked at each other, and Shan Qiuyu asked suspiciously, "How to use it?"

Ou Zhanpeng found a document from the terminal and passed it to the three bigwigs in person: "This is my plan."

With three points of doubt and seven points of curiosity, the bigwigs browsed the documents in person.

Zhou Guangyi only looked at it for a short moment, then raised his head in shock: "This is all true?"

Ou Zhanpeng nodded: "It's all true."

"Quick, talk about it carefully!" Zhou Guangyi said eagerly.

Ou Zhanpeng immediately stated his plan: "To put it simply, there are only two words at the heart of this plan, and that is expansion."

"As we all know, since the shipbreak, our achievements in science and technology are obvious to all, but we are also limited by technology, and we have basically been on the defensive over the years. However, no one can guarantee that we will be able to defend the earth next time, so going out is an urgent problem that we must face." ….

Shan Qiuyu smiled bitterly: "It's not that we don't want to go out, but we don't have that condition at all!"

Ou Zhanpeng nodded in agreement: "Yes, not long ago, we were still having a headache because of the lack of warships, and it was impossible to leave the solar system, but now it is different, we have captured dozens of warships, which is the confidence for us to go out!"

Speaking of this, his eyes seemed to be shining: "Since one of our feet has crossed the threshold of interstellar civilization, we should continue to march forward, it is the most stupid choice to stick to the solar system, expanding to the surrounding and farther galaxies is what we should do, even if the earth is destroyed by alien civilization, there is the capital to make a comeback!"

"That's it!" Zhou Guangyi waved his hand, "We all understand the truth, wasn't there no condition before, since we already have a foundation

So how do you think we should expand?"

Without hesitation, Au replied, "First of all, survey the situation of other galaxies; secondly, the establishment of permanent bases abroad, especially industrial bases; third, immigration; Fourth, trade!"

Several bigwigs looked at each other again, and they all understood the first few points, but the relationship between human beings and prehistoric civilizations was so stiff, who did they trade with?

It wasn't until Ou Zhanpeng gave a detailed introduction to the situation of the group of star thieves that several bigwigs suddenly realized.

"What do you mean, do you want to issue a privateer license to the Star Thieves?" Shan Qiuyu said.

"You can say that." Ou Zhanpeng did not hide it at all, "We need more scientific and technological items, Star Pirates need materials, supplies and security, cooperation is a win-win situation, I personally believe that for the development of mankind, we should not be confined to ways and means, the result is the most important thing."

Human beings are still very weak, unqualified, and incapable of swaying those powerful interstellar civilizations, and at this time, it is useless to say sympathy and humanity as much as fart.

Only when human beings are truly strong can they be qualified to speak of compassion and humanity.

Several bigwigs got together to discuss a few words, and after coming to a conclusion, Zhou Guangyi coughed lightly, revealing a melancholy that could not be concealed: "We agree with your plan in principle, but there are a few points that need to be paid attention to."

"First, try not to use the banner of human beings to avoid being targeted by other civilizations."

Ou Zhanpeng nodded: "This is also what I want to emphasize."

"Second, manpower must be reliable; Third, safety must be ensured; Fourth, it must be profitable; Fifth ......"

The bigwigs made a series of demands, and the expansion plan was so happily decided that the issue of prisoners of war was directly left behind, and no one was left behind.

Soon after, eight warships left the solar system and rushed to Centaur α, Barnard, Wolf 359, Laland 21185, Sirius, Rutan 726-8, Rose 154, and Rose 248.

But this is only the first batch of exploration targets, and in the future, this batch of warships will also visit Tianyuan, Rakai 9352, Ross 128, Aquarius EZ, Nanhe 3, Tianjin Zengxijiu, Gliese 725, Gronbridge 34, Indian Star, Xuanyuan Zengxi, and Tiancang 5, etc.

In short, it is necessary to take the solar system as the base point, map out all the surrounding galaxies, grasp the general situation first, and arrange unmanned space stations or scientific research stations in harsh environments; If there is a planet and the environment is suitable, go to a permanent base; If there is a habitable planet, it is a colonization base. ….

In addition, finding the right ore star is also one of the focuses of this operation.

Another is to establish a complete early warning system with the help of mapping operations.

Speaking of which, both the big guy and Ou Zhanpeng are particularly painful, because wormholes are the mainstream maneuvering method of aliens, and the so-called long-range warning fart is useless.

As soon as he talked about this, Ou Zhanpeng especially wanted to get the space blockade technology of the Black Horn people, if he could create a no-fly zone with a large radius with the solar system as the center, he could completely solve the problem of aliens appearing near the earth at every turn.

It's a pity that even if you get the space blockade technology, you can't lock such a wide range of space, it's just a fantasy.

But as the warships continued to move, the military not only figured out the situation of each galaxy, but also placed the first batch of space bases.

These bases are all unmanned bases built by the Xingzhou base, and their main function is to collect basic information about the galaxy.

Later, the military sent garrisons in each galaxy, and arranged warships in important locations, and since then countless stories have occurred in various galaxies, some of which are singable and crying, but most of them are just ordinary and obscure.

There is not so much vigor in life, and emptiness and loneliness are the eternal themes in the universe.

There were also windfalls during this period, the first of which was the universality of planets, basically, where there are stars, there are planets.

The second is the universality of water, the fleet touched more than 20 galaxies, and found more than 70 planets with water or ice, and 14 with liquid water, which simply subverted the three views.

However, there is only one liquid water in the widespread, or there are rivers, lakes and seas, and the polar temperature is about 40 degrees, and the equatorial temperature is more than 110 degrees, which is simply a scorching hell!

It is supposed that the atmosphere of this planet should be full of clouds, but in fact this is not the case, because its atmospheric pressure is too great, more than a hundred times that of the earth, in this case, the boiling point of water is more than three, and there are miraculous stable rivers, lakes and seas.

If humans immigrate here, they will only be able to move on the polar earth.

It can only be said that although there are many habitable planets in the universe, they are not so widespread that they can be encountered by looking for them.

In addition, the fleet has traces of star pirates on alien planets in three galaxies.

The closest one of them is actually in Sirius!

Even Ou Zhanpeng was taken aback by this news, he didn't expect the distance between the star thieves and humans to be so close.

The warship that carried out the mapping mission also had direct contact with the star thieves, but when they saw the unique one-to-four appearance of the human warship, they immediately retreated and sent a friendly greeting.

Just kidding, although there is no blood skull symbol, among the group of star thieves, the flame class has always been regarded as the Star Boat.

Moreover, most of the star thieves are well-informed, and now there are very few who don't know about the Star Boat, and even fewer dare to provoke the Star Boat.

It's just a chance encounter, those star thieves actually opened the door to human warships, provided a lot of useful intelligence, and provided strong intelligence support for the military's follow-up plans.

It's outrageous to say. ….

Eventually, the military decided to base humanity's first trading base on Sirius.

For some reasons, there was a fierce dispute between the bigwigs.

One view is that Sirius is too far away for trade between humans and aliens, and that Proxima Centauri is more appropriate.

Another view is that proximity is not good for the safety of the planet, and it is better to keep a safe distance.

The two sides are at loggerheads, but most people feel that the safety of the planet is more important than the fruits of trade...... Wouldn't it be over if the Star Boat made a few more trips?

That's right, it's still the Starship.

Not a battleship, but a starship base.

In other words, only with the size of the Starship base, the task of establishing a trade base in Sirius and transporting supplies in large quantities can be completed.

Therefore, this task can only be handed over to the Star Boat Base.

In order to solve the transportation problem, he had to discuss with Gong Yiding to cancel the construction plan of several warships and build them into transport ships, so as to reduce the burden on the Xingzhou base.

After a period of preparation, the Starship base quietly set off and arrived at Sirius through the wormhole.

As we all know, this is a binary star system, a main-sequence star, a white dwarf, because of the gravitational entanglement of these two stars, if there is a large planet, no matter which star orbits, the orbit will be chaotic, either off the orbit and hit the star, or be thrown away from the original orbit by gravity, and finally break away from the galaxy and become a wandering planet.

So, only at the edge of the galaxy are some larger objects, but the largest are dwarf planets.

But it doesn't matter, the trade base is not a colony base, and it doesn't matter what the environment is.

It took several months to hollow out an asteroid with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers and install the necessary systems such as power furnaces, shields, and force fields, and finally build a space base integrating trade, leisure and entertainment, and supply and maintenance.

Since it is a trade base, what kind of goods are sold is the key to attracting customers.

The military deliberated for a long time and finally decided to sell some of the heavy element raw materials.

For most civilizations, although heavy elements are not unattainable, they are not available everywhere, and large quantities of heavy elements are even more rare, and they are very scarce good things.

Otherwise, gold would not have become a hard currency between interstellar civilizations.

Therefore, the First Civilization deliberately included mining and trade clauses in the franchise agreement

, in order to obtain large quantities of cheap heavy elements from the solar system.

At first glance, it seems unreasonable, since the solar system has a lot of heavy elements, it is only natural that other galaxies should also have heavy elements.

But in fact, this is not the case at all, the vast majority of galaxies are not so lucky at all, and the light elements below iron are the mainstream configuration of this universe.

It is no exaggeration to say that within a few hundred light-years nearby, the solar system is the easiest place to obtain heavy elements, and most of the mineral deposits are concentrated in the asteroid belt, and if you cross the asteroid belt, the further you go to the edge of the galaxy, the less heavy elements will be there.

There is an opinion that the solar system is not a generation of galaxies, but a supermassive star exploded to form a large nebula, and the nebula regrouped into a star to form the current solar system.

Therefore, the solar system has a large number of heavy elements.

It is also said that at the beginning of the formation of the solar system, it passed through a nebula rich in heavy elements, and a large number of heavy elements were enriched in the primitive dust disk, which formed the current solar system.

In any case, the importance of heavy elements to interstellar civilization is obvious, so it is indeed a very feasible way to open up the situation with heavy elements.

However, without adequate armed forces to protect them, the abundance of resources will only serve as a reason for other civilizations to covet the solar system.

Cracks in the metal