"Is there a possibility that your system's lack of metal was actually dug by the 'Recorders'?"

"In our experience, this civilization actually often conducts various social experiments on a whim, perhaps they just dig up an entire galaxy of metal to study how this will affect the civilization here?"

The "Empire of Silence" reverberated violently in the ears of the "exiles".

They also know that the Recorders are a swarm of bad creatures, and that they have brought in the Recorders after they have exterminated countless galaxies, but the attitude of the Recorders is that their extinction has seriously affected the observations, not because of the "extinction".

It's clear that this is a group of extremely indifferent people, who have not become extinctionists, but who find it much more interesting to observe the ups and downs of civilization than to "extinction".

It is also interesting to observe a sociological sample of the "end of civilization", and perhaps the current "recorder" was once an "exterminator" who took pleasure in perishing.

The higher-ups of the "Exiles" began to carefully recall their history, and their powerful brains were working at full speed, digging out all the subconscious, deep memories, trying to find evidence that the "Recorder" had left traces in their galaxy, and most importantly the search for the "observation terminal".

Basically, as long as the "recorder" has been there, this thing will exist in some hidden location in the galaxy.

After some searching, the "exiles" finally found something from the depths of their almost forgotten memories that might have something to do with it.

That's when one of their scientists submitted a report that their metal detector had discovered a special planet with a very high metal content in a galaxy that was almost a solid iron ball.

However, at that time, because they were about to leave the home galaxy to invade a small group of galaxies 500,000 light-years away, and the long-term collection of metal meteorites also gave them a certain accumulation, so they did not take this metal planet to heart.

After tasting the sweetness of plunder, they never returned to the resource-poor place of their home galaxy, and the metal planet was gradually forgotten until today.

They can remember this because the scientist is a fairly famous historical figure, and his biography has a lot of circulation.

In the past, the Exiles have never found the Recorder's "observation terminal", but they have not connected it to the metal planet in their home system.

Now, alerted by the Silent Empire, they suddenly realize that the Recorder may have been to their system for a long time, and that even the lack of metal was caused by the Recorder.

In their minds, the "recorder" is indeed a civilization that can do such things.

“…… Could it be that we are equivalent to being sold by others and counting the money for others? ”

“…… No...... At least what we've done is an indisputable act of extermination, but it's debatable whether we should do it for the 'recorders'......"

They began to wonder if their current act of "atonement" had become a "tool" for some of the experiments of the "Recorder", and although they were happy to stop such an extinct civilization as the "Hunter" here, they were also wondering what the purpose of the "Recorder" would be.

In the end, it was the negotiator of the "Silent Empire" who inadvertently asked about one thing, which made the rest of the people present have a sense of "conspiracy".

【…… So, have you been here for so long that you have discovered the "observation terminal" in this galaxy? 】

[Since it was the "recorders" who asked you to come, it is impossible for them to have no "observation terminals" here, but we don't seem to have found ......]

This question made the "Exiles" suddenly apparent, as they had looked for this thing when they came here, and it turned out that there was no trace of the "observation terminal".

They thought the "Recorder" had done it on purpose, so as not to make the "Hunter" think they had sealed it off.

But how could this group of bad observers miss such a good show to see their enemies deflated? This once again affirms the particularity of this group of galaxies, and what purpose the "recorder" must have.

[And, you...... Have you ever found any signs of other civilizations? You've been here for a long time, but there are no other races in your species, and we don't find any indigenous civilizations, or any other civilizations.]

[This group of galaxies is so "clean", so clean that it seems to have been cleaned up in advance, and there are not even decent ruins, as if this place is so dead and silent]

[But according to the habitability of the planet here, such a situation is impossible, even if there is no "civilization", at least the indigenous creatures should have......]

This final suspicion finally shook the "Exiles", because the truth is that as the "Silent Empire" said, there is not a single other civilization in this vast rod spiral galaxy, and until today there are only three foreign civilizations: they, the "Hunters", and the "Silent Empire".

So where did the original civilization in this galaxy go? Under the conditions here, it is impossible not to have a civilization without the birth of it.

In the past, because they were busy fighting against the "exterminators" who did not know when they would come, they had been building war facilities and survival facilities, and they had never considered this issue.

Suspicion of the "Recorder" has now been raised to an extremely high position, and it can be tied with the "Hunter" who has been dragged.

Eventually, the entire "cage", or "penal colony" system, fell into a long-lost peace.

After negotiating with the Exiles and confirming that they were no longer interested in the Big Wound, the Silent Ones vanished without a trace and returned to silence.

The "Hunters" were no longer born after a large-scale firefight with the "Silent Empire", and even the "Stalkers" who were constantly wandering were all recalled, as if something was brewing.

The "Silent Empire" simply stayed here, the "exiles" did not ask why they came here, and the "Silent Empire" itself could not have taken the initiative to talk about it, but from some limited information, it seems that the "Silent Empire" came here to find something.

As for the "exile" civilization, they began to sort through certain details that they might have missed in their long memories, trying to find the truth that the "recorders" had chosen this place.

These three civilizations, which are more or less involved in "extinction", have maintained a state of balance in this way, waiting for the storm to come.

(End of chapter)