Ghost Signal, this is a sword that has always hung over the head of galactic civilization.

The beginning of this crisis was due to the spread of "ghost signals", and although it is not clear whether it was or not, the galactic civilizations still attributed a "ghost signal" generated by the "guardians" a long time ago to this "unexpected enemy" crisis.

They believe that the anomalous "ghost signal" spread must have had some kind of effect that they were not aware of.

The truth is indeed close to their speculation, and the spread of the "ghost signal" revealed the location of many key galaxies to Li Wenyuan, and also provided him with extremely important information.

And the crisis of the "unexpected enemy" has actually begun in earnest since that 20-year countdown.

However, just as accidents always happen, the "enemy of the unexpected" does not always follow the "predicted" timing.

Anomalously, it once betrayed the "guardianship matrix", and it is very normal to conduct the "Galactic Examination" led by it at an unexpected time.

With a long time left before the countdown ended, it was manually activated again, and then announced that it would perform a cleansing of the galaxy.

The sudden and destructive "ghost signal" caused great damage to the galactic civilization, but it came and went quickly, and the time of the months was fleeting.

This speed is not even comparable to the spread time of some epidemics, but it has never been despised by galactic civilizations.

After all, the "guardian" has not been used, and this strange signal virus has always been classified as a weapon.

However, during the time of the battle with the "Unexpected Enemy", no one detected any signs of the "ghost signal" being reactivated, neither the "Accidental Enemy" nor the "Guardian Group".

At first, they thought that the "ghost signal" was no longer useful for these two mechanical intelligences, so they did not use them on the battlefield.

But after the intensifying civil riots were revealed, they realized that the confrontation had already begun in secret, but only against them.

[The "Vaccine" program has been installed with the "Ghost Signal", and now all civilizations will no longer be infested by the "Ghost Signal"]

The announcement of the "guardian" also surrounds the hearts of every high-level who knows the news.

And many self-proclaimed genius network engineers have long been sifting through the civilized network for traces of "ghost signal" infection.

Their expertise had told them that "everything was normal", but after the "guardians" revealed the conspiracy of the "unexpected enemy", they discovered that the "perfect" firewall had long been infiltrated.

Perhaps when they were first infected by the "ghost signals", the seeds of calamity were planted in those places and waiting for the right moment to erupt.

Countless seemingly normal nodes were marked and interrupted by some conspicuous signal, and then waited for the engineers to fix it.

The images of the "Battle of Stargate" that had been circulating on the Internet were confirmed to have been leaked by these external nodes.

In addition, the tracing of these nodes eventually leads to countless buildings that have long been abandoned.

Some of them are hidden deep in the mountains and forests, some are hidden in space junk, and some of the robots that were once lost are hiding here.

Dressed in the cloak of bionics, these disguised infiltrators have contributed to the spread of public opinion, while also secretly planning a series of sabotage and assassinations.

Even if it can only be traced here, the mastermind behind these events does not need to be said.

This makes the galactic civilizations feel even more cold sweat, and the "galactic crisis" they face, even if they have a strength far beyond them, will use this "despicable" means to increase the probability of achieving their goals.

They even wondered, if they were also very powerful, would they also see enemies who were far weaker than themselves as "opponents" in war?

Although the curse left by the "unexpected enemy" has caused trouble and even harm to many civilizations, none of the idealistic civilizations and hive civilizations have been affected.

Idealistic civilizations, which often use psionic energy for psychic communication, can see at a glance that those creatures in bionic cloak are not human, and the collective thinking of the hive civilization makes them never infiltrator.

The "troubles" within the civilization have been temporarily resolved, and with the help of the "vaccine" that knows the cause and is supported by the "guardians" planted in the civilization network, the chaos has been confirmed to be the work of the enemies of the galaxy.

After the destruction of a large number of "bionic factory" dens, the interior of civilizations has returned to a stable state, and although martial law is severe, it is much better than the previous situation of occasional riots.

What needs their attention most now is the escalation of the war and the opening of new aid from the "guardians".

The content of the published string has basically not changed, but there is something new in the "aid" column.

【To increase the probability of crisis resolution, you can ask the machine for the following assistance】

[(1): Guardian Fleet; (2): the resources you need; (3): scientific research reinforcement; (4): shelters; (5): shelter; (6): Shelter]

[Note: "Purification Terminal" is dangerous, I hope these can help you]

Contrary to the expected "new aid", the additional "shelter" is also a "shelter", and this strange situation immediately sparked a fierce debate.

All civilizations are instantly aware of something not so good, just like the actions of the former "civilization annihilators".

When Cordyceps was rampant, they were asked to "evacuate" in order to prevent the spread of the crisis as much as possible.

At that time, this happened against the backdrop of a disguised "benevolent receiver", believing that this would increase the probability of resolving the crisis, and that only by reducing the area of defense could the defense be able to concentrate on fighting the galactic enemy.

And now, the redundant "shelter" choice seems to reveal the same reason:

- The "guardians" may be overwhelmed, and such a last resort must be used to preserve the fire.

The extra "shelter" may be enough to accommodate the entire galactic civilization.

This undoubtedly made some galactic civilizations who regarded the "guardian" as their savior panic, and they could never have imagined that the "guardian" who seemed to be synonymous with "invincible" would have a day when they could not hold on.

However, since the "guardians" did not directly offer to let them take refuge, most civilizations still felt that holding their positions was the best option.

Even the Tinder Alliance, which has always had great trust in the "guardians", was a little hesitant at this time.

If the "guardians" had explicitly ordered them to take refuge, they would not have hesitated to do so, and now this ambiguous hint has made them undecided.

As a result, even if the "assistance" of the "guardians" has changed, the galactic civilization has generally maintained the same state as before, holding its ground and catching the fish that slipped through the net with the "guardian fleet".

They are not idle to develop themselves, relying on the almost unlimited resources provided by the "guardians", as well as scientific research assistance, they are also making extraordinary progress.

Technologies that they once couldn't have imagined, such as the "Jump Engine", have also been inspired by the frown.

In their hearts, they hope that the "guardians" will hold on a little longer, until the day when they can turn the tide strongly.

Battleships are still fighting in different galaxies, and the star field of the "unexpected enemy" is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a faint tendency to purify everything.

The situation does not look optimistic, but the real leader of the crisis, Li Wenyuan, knows that everything is under control.

He had already figured out the maximum production capacity of the "Active Purification Protocol", and it was completely foolish for those artificial intelligence planets to compete with him who had mastered countless giant structures.

In addition, the real core galaxy of the "Active Purification Protocol" has long been under the monitoring of the "Sky Curtain Battleship", and if there is any abnormal movement, it will be captured into subspace entirely.

Now he felt that the situation was almost brewing, and it was time to enter the end stage, starting with the galaxy he was looking at now.

This is a "stage galaxy" that he built in his spare time during the war, where a large number of engineering ships come and go when no one is looking, building the necessary props for "performances".

It is a "superstructure" that surrounds the central star, and the rotating stellar rings make it look exactly like the "central processing unit".

Of course, this is not a real "CPU", it is just a temporary "imitation" made of cheap materials, which will collapse naturally in less than 10 years.

In keeping with his image of "4%" computing power, the replica even had missing and aged post-processing, making it look like it had been working for years and was crumbling.

It won't be long before this fake "CPU" will be destroyed by the "unexpected enemy", and the scene that happened in the "guardianship matrix" will be staged.

And this may be able to keep in mind the civilizations that really have potential in the galaxy.

(End of chapter)