Chapter 281: Here They Come, Here They Come
“…… Today, Duke Qiangshi, the Frontier Soldier of the Empire and the head of the Knights of Benevolence, will once again visit the sacred and solemn 'Ancient Battlefield' for the first time in two hundred and thirty years to pay tribute to the deceased heroes! ”
Similar reports overwhelmingly covered the entire "Skywalker Empire", as if they wanted everyone to know what the duke was going to do today.
The people, who had been a little silent in the past, had a little more brilliance because of this incident for a long time, and they would more or less mention the duke after dinner.
"Duke Qiangshi...... The last time I heard this name, it was about the fire in the capital data core city, right? ”
"Indeed...... Even the latest generation of automatic firefighting systems could not be saved, and the fire was really ...... Tsk, I've heard that you can even see fire and smoke from space! ”
"Isn't it! It is said that the culprit is this Duke of Qiangshi, who did not wear protective clothing according to the regulations when inspecting the work, and even drank tea in the database! The result was a large-scale short circuit, and the entire core data city was destroyed! ”
“……”
In the casual conversation, the people were more talking about the affairs of Duke Qiangshi, as well as all kinds of rumors, and they didn't have much feeling about the "ancient battlefield".
After all, the history related to the "ancient battlefield" is too long, and they may still sing about it for a hundred or thousand years, but what about ten thousand, one hundred thousand or even a million years later?
The people of the Celestial Empire are now numb to the past, and the million-year-long history has made them almost intimidated by this high wall.
Although they can be deeply impressed by the weight of history, no one dares to say "I love history" without hesitation.
Because they have been exposed to hundreds of thousands of pages of history textbooks since they were students, even with the help of auxiliary machines, they have been miserable.
In their compulsory education, the most difficult thing is not physics, not chemistry, politics or geography, but history.
It can be said that except for the elites of the upper class, who have been passed down from generation to generation, they will remember these "old history", and most of the people gradually forget the past in their daily lives.
For the "Ancient Battlefield", they only remember that it was the battle for the founding of the "Tianxing Empire" in the past, in short, the invaders did all kinds of evil, and the heroes showed their might and broke the enemy without fear.
At the end of history, the "Celestial Empire" became the "guardian of the galaxy" that ruled all the peoples, and that "heavenly moat" was also the scar left after the Great War.
On the other side of the "moat" is the place where the defeated invaders survive, and the "movies" that are played in the galaxy of the "Grand Theater" every once in a while are a means for them to appreciate the tragic situation of the group of war criminals.
In the past history, although the memory of the "ancient battlefield" is somewhat vague, this is the "history" that they remember most clearly.
They are arrogant in their bones, the "Celestial Empire" rules all the places they know, and the entire "Upper Three Spiral Arms" are in the sphere of influence of the "Celestial Empire".
However, they have no way to personally "lower the three spiral arms" to act as a prestige, and only by seeing the wails of those "low-level" civilizations in the apocalypse can they satisfy their sense of superiority as a "high-level civilization" that has nowhere to vent.
“…… Let's leave this group of nobles alone, let's talk about my thoughts on the last 'movie', I heard that there are a lot of praises? It's really despised! ”
“……”
The people returned to their daily lives, and the Duke of Qiangshi, who had released the news of his travel, also came to his destination at this time, the "Ancient Battlefield" star field.
There are more than 20,000 stars and more than 10,000 galaxies in this star field, which is a huge territory.
However, as a powerful person of the empire and an insider of "past history", Duke Qiangshi knew that this "ancient battlefield" was actually just an illusion, and the real core was actually just a galaxy in this star field.
After navigating countless galaxies, Duke Strongstone finally found himself in a dim galaxy.
The central object of this place is a black dwarf, a type of object formed after the neutron star naturally came to an end.
It does not emit light, nor does it emit any heat, making it almost unnoticeable in astronomical observations.
And around this celestial body are countless "shattered planets", as well as a ruined artificial intelligence planet.
It's hard to imagine how the galaxy has undergone such upheaval that almost all the planets have been shattered, making it difficult to maintain the appearance of stars.
However, Duke Qiangshi didn't squint and let the spaceship sail straight to the artificial intelligence planet.
At this time, there were almost no mechanical traces on the planet, and no robots were working on it, and only metal ruins and broken parts could be seen in the thin irritating gas.
But it was in this ruins that Duke Qiangshi walked through it with ease, looking like he had been here many times, and quickly found his destination.
- A near-abandoned control center.
The faint lights that still flickered from time to time seemed to tell that the control center was not "dead", and the arrival of Duke Qiangshi made this already faint light up rarely, as if to welcome his arrival.
And Duke Qiangshi saw the control center, and immediately said straight to the point:
"We need a way to close or destroy wormholes, you should have, right? This is a joint petition of the Emperor and we, the pillars of the Empire, and at the same time, it is ...... A petition for the sake of our 'Civilization Survival'. ”
He deliberately accentuated the phrase "the survival of civilization", as if this was the most important word in this passage.
After a flickering light from the control center, the relevant technology was finally transmitted back to the database of the "Skywalker Empire" through some means.
Duke Qiangshi, who received the response, also breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned away without hesitation, the pungent smell of engine oil here made him very uncomfortable.
The half-dead control center remained in place, flickering lights.
After another period of time, Duke Qiangshi brought an unstable bomb to destroy the structure of the wormhole, and the nobles near the wormhole passage at this time were already anxious, and they were all relieved when they saw Duke Qiangshi.
"You finally brought something, you don't know that in order to make the civilization over there unbearable, we threw everything into it that can burst out of huge energy, and as a result, the wormhole is still stable, I knew not to build so strong......"
There were complaints, but they were quicker to drop the instability bomb into the wormhole.
However, he saw that a large storm like lightning and thunder erupted in the wormhole passage where there should have been nothing, quickly disturbing the entire wormhole, directly leading to the collapse of the wormhole.
Seeing this, they finally reassured themselves that there would be no more threats that could threaten their "higher civilization" life.
However, a looming signal made its way through the wormhole at the last moment, unnoticed by the huge fluctuations generated by the wormhole's collapse.
It first infected an unmanned mining drone abandoned here, and then used the drone as a springboard to infect it layer by layer, and finally infected a large flagship stationed here.
The next moment, what the "lower civilizations" who were laughed at and amused by them did in the "dark forest" happened to them.
The large flagships began to uncontrollably broadcast the detailed coordinates here to the entire galaxy, whatever the data.
Someone noticed this and jokingly said to the flagship captain: "Dude, you also play this game?" Do you think there really would be a civilization that was 'advanced' to us like this to attack us? ”
However, as he spoke, the man noticed that something was wrong, for he noticed that the captain of the flagship, whose face was pale, frantically tapped the order to stop the flagship, but received no response.
"You ......"
He was about to speak, but suddenly his vision went dark, and the light that hit the porthole disappeared in an instant, as if it was obscured by something.
A huge sense of oppression and fear caused him to sit on the ground in an instant, and the fear deep in his genes was also evoked at this time, and he was excreted on the spot in just a few seconds.
But this kind of physical fear is not what scares him the most, what scares him even more is that on the ship's radar, the dense and constantly flashing signal points almost fill the entire radar surface.
This means that a fleet of desperate numbers has descended here.
They didn't expect that civilization would still come.