"We seem to be in trouble, that 'Lost Empire of Machines' doesn't know what to smoke and is crazy, and has issued a mission to 'find the barrier planet', and we will soon become the target of public criticism here.

This scientist of the "empire of conquerors" made such a warning.

Their families were nobles in the Empire, and only this status allowed them to serve in the Royal Institute, which was considered the core of the Empire.

Although the "Conqueror's Empire" was a civilization with an absolute monarchy, and the emperor was the supreme authority of the entire civilization, education was still highly valued in the civilization.

The nobles in the empire were not all gentlemen, and the nobles who enjoyed the preferential treatment of concentrated resources had significantly higher literacy than other "inferior people", and the emperor was even more so.

The imperial power of the "Conqueror's Empire" has become eternal in the technological and cultural environment, and all possible successors have received the most rigorous, if not cruel, imperial education.

Generally speaking, every emperor of the "conqueror empire" is theoretically a wise and infallible "sage monarch".

However, this is often not the case.

The corruption brought about by time is far deeper than they imagined, and the rigid system and concentrated selfish desires are the main culprits that lead to their decline.

The technology of the "Conqueror's Empire" is not enough to achieve immortality, and more than one emperor has been doing the stupid thing that only indigenous emperors would do to "find the elixir of life".

If it weren't for the fact that there were a few "sage monarchs" who had operated a strong military force for the "Conqueror Empire", otherwise the "Conqueror Empire" would have come to an end in decay.

Although the current "Conqueror Empire" has the most nominally most powerful power among ordinary galactic civilizations, this is only the afterglow of the sunset.

So no one in civilization is aware of this problem?

The answer is yes, but those people either subconsciously ignore it or don't want to change it at all.

After all, the normal decline of civilization often takes thousands of years, and the moment of its end is not yet their turn.

They can completely hypnotize themselves to "the empire is in its prime", and then obey their own desires, what does the "destruction of the country" thousands or even tens of thousands of years have to do with them?

It is a pity that civilization itself is declining, but its strength is increasing instead of decreasing.

The special warships they acquired from the Barrier Planet became a source of self-confidence, and as a result, more and more people in the Empire regarded the Barrier Planet as part of civilization.

Even the emperor.

“…… The entire galaxy should belong to the emperor, and the emperor took pity on the people's hardships and gave other star fields to his subordinates to manage. Now this group of people is actually ungrateful, and they have to fight against their own emperor for the orders of a group of iron cans? ”

A scientist at the same Royal Academy of Sciences spoke out indignantly, his words full of abuse and hatred, and he looked like a close minister of the emperor.

The rest of the fellow scientists, knowing about the scientist, all sighed inwardly, ignoring his anger and instead pondering worriedly about how to get the Empire through this difficult time.

Unlike other scientists, who received an aristocratic education from an early age and were able to maintain a stable state of mind all the time, this scientist was promoted from among the "inferior people".

Although he was gifted and intelligent, under the distorted educational and cultural environment, the whole person became a fanatical fan of the emperor, and anything involving the emperor would attract his passion.

Other scientists see it more clearly, knowing full well that the "guardians" don't issue random assignments.

According to past experience, after the mission issued by the "Guardian" is submitted, the "Lost Empire of Machines" will personally check the truth of the matter.

Such a civilization wants to find a barrier planet, and has mobilized the entire galaxy for this purpose, and the "Conqueror Empire" does not feel that the news of their barrier planet cannot reach the "guardians".

At that time, whether the "guardian" just wants to "see" or wants to make a move on the barrier planet, it will be a huge blow to the emperor's prestige and the face of the empire.

"What's more...... We also happen to have something here that will definitely attract the 'guardians'...... "a scientist from the "Conqueror's Empire" is pessimistic.

As he spoke to himself, a comparative data instantly appeared in front of the eyes of this group of scientists.

“…… This is a mission that the Guardian has issued: to find a special ship of this style—"

The data comparison chart is instantly zoomed out, replaced by a blurry image.

This image is from one of the "Guardians'" search missions, documenting a monstrous warship made of geometric metal blocks.

After a long period of inactivity, this mission gradually faded from the vision of galactic civilizations, and was soon forgotten.

But today, some scientists have a flash of inspiration and have made a centralized comparison of the mission information of the "guardian", and soon found similarities in the warships made of regular or irregular geometry.

While it's not 100% certain that the two warships represent the same civilization, the similarities of a few key nodes alone are enough for these scientists to think of them as the same thing.

They believe that the Guardian's targets include the strange warships that are already under their control, and Barrier Planet is one of them.

Having two things that the "guardian" is interested in at the same time, they will sooner or later meet the "guardian".

The price paid by those who threatened other civilizations to choose "support" at the meeting to "establish the Star Sea Empire" was that they had exposed the matter of the barrier planet and the strange fleet.

Even though they seem to be dominating the galaxy, they know very well what the level of the "guardians" is, and it is not a problem for one civilization to beat them ten civilizations.

They don't want to have any confrontation with the "guardians" unless they have to.

“…… You all know the Emperor's temper, and we can't just bring bad news to him......"

The scientists of the "Conqueror Empire" began to wonder how to minimize the risks of the situation, but one of the scientists, who had been immersed in research all along, suddenly exclaimed, as if he had discovered something terrible.

Ignoring the heavy atmosphere in the laboratory, he announced his discovery with great enthusiasm:

"Hey! Guys, look what I found? Remember that strange signal from the barrier planet? ”

"From the very beginning, I noticed that the signals were somewhat familiar, as if I had seen them not long ago."

"It turns out that my guess was correct! There is a high degree of similarity between that signal and the 'ghost signal' when the 'guardian' makes a change, and they seem to be the product of the same origin! ”

(End of chapter)