After establishing contact with a fleet two million light-years away, the first thing Li Wenyuan saw was a dilapidated spaceship and a local resident on the spaceship who was "scared to death".

To be precise, he died of sudden death caused by cardiac arrest, and physiological scans of the resident showed that the nerves used to control the relaxation of the heart muscle were violently stimulated for a short period of time, directly causing the heart to stop.

However, this is only a direct trigger, and in fact the scan also shows that the local resident has been engaged in heavy physical work for a long time, and his heart has been overworked for many years.

There is also an old-fashioned pacemaker on top of his heart, which is at least twenty years old, suggesting that the native is actually aware of what is going on inside him.

However, the old pacemaker stopped working about five years ago, and he didn't replace it, he probably knew about it, but the pressure from all sides eventually made him ignore the time bomb on his heart.

Li Wenyuan's orders for these "advance team" spacecraft did not include firing, they only followed the instructions to monitor the "unknown units" that approached them.

What the aboriginal thought was a "cannon muzzle" was actually an external scanning device, and the so-called "energy is gathering" was his delusion, and even if he held on a little longer, the artificial intelligence on the spacecraft would determine him as a "non-threatening target" and launch humanitarian assistance on him the moment it detected a sharp deterioration in his vital signs.

It's a pity that his body, which was already overwhelmed, decided to leave like this, and he completely became a lonely soul in space.

Li Wenyuan didn't react too much to this, the death of the individual was just an insignificant point in the long galaxy, and he could roughly guess the reason why this aboriginal chose to get close to the battleship, there were still many old spaceships scattered and fled in the galaxy, but this aboriginal did not do it like others, and the gambling mentality became his fatal trigger this time.

After establishing contact with this group of advance fleets, the entire fleet began to carry out "covert exploration" according to the predetermined plan, and a total of more than 200 "armed scientific research ships" went to different directions of the galaxy.

Although the ability to detect anomalies and collect data is weaker than that of specialized scientific research spacecraft, its combat capability has been significantly improved.

This was an improvement made by Li Wenyuan in order to explore these unknown galaxies, and he did not want to cause too much movement if necessary.

In parallel with the exploration, there is also the extraction of the memories of the aborigines, and it is most convenient to learn about the situation of this galaxy directly from the memories of the aborigines, and the aboriginal is obviously a species of civilization at least in the interstellar age.

So the relevant memories were converted into data and transmitted to Li Wenyuan, and he began to investigate the possible doubts in this memory and obtain a preliminary understanding of this galaxy.

However, to his surprise, the memories from this aboriginal were so "bland" that they couldn't find any anomalies or get much useful information.

Although he never expected to find an anomaly by extracting a person's memories alone, the main purpose was to understand the general state of the galaxy, but unfortunately this part of the native's memory was not even there.

[I am a member of the "miner family", the number is U1E25Z99, U means that we belong to the U1 class, E25 and Z99 represent our predecessors who have undergone genetic modification of "underground life adaptation" and "extraordinary endurance", and the people above say that we were born to mine]

This is the self-perception of the aborigine, he has no name, or the people around him have no name, they all call each other by code names, and the names that only those of the upper class are entitled to have.

[Our development is very fast, it only takes three years from birth to be able to operate mining machinery, and the foreman told us that this is so that we can make a return to the company faster]

Decades of darkness followed.

At first, Li Wenyuan even thought that the memory data was wrong, but after careful inspection, he found that it was actually this aboriginal who had been mining underground since then, and he had never left the underground "from beginning to end".

The chaotic lights and the numbness of daily life have made this memory tend to be forgotten, and only the faint light and shadow and the sound of hitting stones are in this memory.

[The foreman said that the company has a new welfare policy, as long as we can work underground for 20 years, we can rise from U1 to U2, and it is said that when we reach this level, we can leave here and go to other places to mine]

The aborigines in memory seem to be the happiest during this period, and even the colors of memory seem to be much brighter.

But after that, there was a longer sound of pounding stones, so long that even the memory owner himself had forgotten how time had passed.

Until a voice in memory appeared:

[Your heart working age has exceeded the theoretical maximum tolerance, if you still want to continue to live, I have two options here, one is to perform a genetic surgery for you, add the gene numbered "L77", which can increase your life expectancy by at least twenty years, but this is not cheap, based on your income level...... You may also need to sign an additional agreement to work with me for 300 years after you die.]

[As for the second option......]

[I'll pick the second one]

It was the voice of the memory owner himself, a memory that seemed very important to him, and even after all that time had passed, he still remembered his choice.

[It's a pity...... Then I'll give you a pacemaker, theoretically it can help you live for more than ten years, but there may always be various accidents that make it useless, and you need to pay ...... This number]

There was a brief silence after that, and when the light flashed back to memory, the native had his own spaceship.

This was the reward he received after more than 100 years of working with the company, which declared him a "model miner" and gave him a perk: a debt loan to buy the old ship with a debt loan for another fifty years of work for the company.

The owner of the memory signed a debt contract with the company without hesitation, and since then he has changed from a miner working underground to a miner working in space.

He's still mining, but he's mining in the asteroid belt.

It wasn't much safer than underground, and the old ship couldn't afford the slightest touch from a meteorite, but he chose it that way until not so long ago.

He and a group of miners, who also work in space, have found the remains of a batch of spaceships, which is no different from pie in the sky for those of them who are the equivalent of wandering in space, and they are ready to recycle this pile of waste to improve their lives.

Even before the arrival of Li Wenyuan's fleet, the aboriginal was still thinking about such trivial things as "how much is this alloy plate worth", "how much can that instrument be sold for", and "you can have a good meal tonight".

But everything eventually disappeared like a dream bubble as the body reached its limit.

And the ultimate motivation for this aboriginal to approach even at the risk of risk, Li Wenyuan checked it in his memory for a while, and finally locked it on when the aboriginal first left the underground.

The place where he worked was a barren planet, with bare rocks and wind-blown sand on the surface, but veins of some precious mineral underneath.

He had been working for twenty years and was able to mine on another planet with a slightly better environment, but on the way to transit, he was always looking at the stars in the universe.

When others asked him, he said that he had never imagined that the outside world would be so beautiful, and even if he died in the arms of these stars, he felt that this life was worth it.

He violated the company's rules and regulations because of this inpositive remark, was fined to work for the company for three months for free, and was required to correct his mistakes, and announced at the labor conference that he had realized his mistake and would die for the company until he paid off the debts owed by his ancestors.

Although he "realized his mistake", he never stopped thinking about it, and became more active after getting his first ship.

Originally, he had saved enough to buy the high cost of the next vacation and could start his interstellar journey, but due to the use of pacemaker life extension method, the company considered that it was not enough insurance, and he might die in space, and the value of life had not been created enough, so he was required to pay a deposit to get this vacation.

However, he knew very well in his own physical condition that if he continued to make money from mining, it was very likely that he would die before he could earn enough money for the margin.

This is the motivation for him to choose to take risks, it is the instinct to survive, and it is also the desire for dreams, he should have lived in the mining muddy, and then died in the muddy, and in the end, what made him different from others was still a certain hope in his heart.

There was hardly much useful information in the aborigine's memory, and the only thing that could help Li Wenyuan was that he confirmed that the galaxy seemed to be under the rule of a "Universal Enterprise".

This is indeed a real sense of the "global enterprise", different from those giant enterprise civilizations in the galaxy, the global enterprise of this galaxy has completed the monopoly of the entire galaxy, whether it is science and technology, economy or military strength is the absolute hegemon here, is worthy of the name of the "enterprise empire".

However, the name of this global enterprise is very interesting, they call themselves "servants", which makes Li Wenyuan curious about their background.

"Another ......"

His gaze returned to the aboriginal who had died on the road to his dream, and thanks to the sudden death, most of the aborigine's body tissue was quite well preserved.

Although due to the delay caused by the distance, before Li Wenyuan made this decision, a part of his brain tissue had inevitably undergone permanent necrosis, but this was not a problem for him.

"At the very least, there will be a group of 'your' 'companions' to continue this dream."

(End of chapter)