"The other party seems to have discovered our deliberate whereabouts? It seems that they have mastered quantum radar. Lu Yao looked at the various feedback from the system, especially the actions of the other party's reconnaissance spacecraft flying towards this side, and judged the current situation.

"The curvature engine of fifty times the speed of light has mastered quantum radar, although I don't know their level of armament yet, but such a technical level, even in the galaxy, is definitely considered an advanced civilization. But why would such a civilization choose to leave the original river system and go into exile in the extragalaxies? The space outside the river is definitely not a friendly place. Lin Xu sighed.

"Maybe they have some reason to do it? Like, they're being hunted down? Nan Zhu thought for a moment and said.

"What level of pursuit does it take to escape from the river system? Normally, the galaxy is so vast, no matter where it hides, it is enough to avoid being chased and killed. Lin Xu said he couldn't understand.

"Could it be that the existence of chasing them is too powerful, so that the galaxy where they are located has no place for them?" Lu Yao also guessed.

"Even if the galaxy under the rule of the Galaxy Alliance, if a civilization carefully hides in the remote galaxy within the galaxy, the Galaxy Alliance does not have the ability to completely control every corner of the entire galaxy. So what kind of existence can a civilization whose technical level is not enough to cross the river system force it to flee to the space beyond the river for the rest of its life? ”

Lin Xu became interested in the fleet in front of him, or the fugitive fleet, who was evading pursuit.

At this moment, the opposite reconnaissance spacecraft approached the Skylark at a speed of 100 times the speed of light, and at the same time sent a quantum communication request to the Skylark.

It was a reconnaissance ship about a kilometer in size, far larger than the Skylark.

It looked like it was crushing the Skylark, but the crew on the reconnaissance spaceship did not dare to be careless about the small spaceship in the distance.

It is precisely because of its small size that it represents a higher technological content.

Because with the current technological level of the fugitive fleet civilization, the curvature engine is already the limit when it reaches the size of a kilometer.

Moreover, their curvature engine, at most, can only achieve a hundred times the speed of light, or when the burden is small enough, such as the curvature engine used on reconnaissance spacecraft.

And the motherships of the fugitive fleet, because of the huge burden, can reach fifty times the speed of light at most.

But the small spaceship in front of him, only 100 meters in size, can travel at a thousand times the speed of light in the space beyond the river.

The technical gap is terrifying to think about.

So they didn't despise each other in the slightest because they were just a small spaceship.

The same is true of the upper echelons of the fugitive fleet.

Everyone understands very well that in the case of a large enough gap in technological level, don't look at this as just a small spaceship, maybe it even has the ability to destroy the entire fugitive fleet.

So the contact was cautious from the start.

On the Skylark, Lin Xu accepted the quantum communication request from the other party.

The first thing that comes in is the other party's language packet, which is the basis of communication between the two parties.

Just looking at the language module in the data package, Lin Xu's expression was strange.

Chinese is Chinese again.

Has Chinese really become the universal language of the universe?

However, thinking about the river system they came from, it was exactly the river system that Lin Xu was going to, the river system where humans had stopped, Lin Xu was not surprised.

Obviously, the target river system this time should also be greatly influenced by human beings, so that Chinese has become a lingua franca in a sense.

As a result, the communication between the two sides was quickly established.

Although Lin Xu sent a message in Chinese.

But the other side didn't know that Lin Xu also used Chinese.

thought that Lin Xu chose to talk to them in Chinese after analyzing the voice packet they sent.

This exhilarates the fugitive fleet's reconnaissance ships.

Since the other party is willing to communicate in their language, instead of sending their own language packs, and communicate with each other in their own language, this is a manifestation of goodwill.

So the reconnaissance spacecraft made a polite request to the Skylark for a transaction between the two sides according to the benefits of the top management of the fugitive fleet, and it was a technical transaction.

"Deal? Lord Lin Xu, do you want to agree? Miss Qiu, who is in charge of operating quantum communication, asked.

"Yes, if they have the right technology for trading!" Lin Xu didn't mind trading, but he didn't think that the other party would be able to come up with a technology that interested him.

"The other party wants to trade the curvature engine technology." Miss Qiu reported again.

"Curvature engine? Is this to increase the speed? Good idea, but do they have the technology they can use to exchange? Lin Xu was noncommittal.

Immediately, the quantum communication device received a large number of research report packets about a certain material sent by the other party.

Looking at the massive data packets, Lin Xu was also puzzled for a while.

Even if it is a technology transaction, it is not necessary to first reveal the technology and inventory you want to trade as soon as you come up.

"It doesn't seem to be a technical document, but a report of data from the study of a material called the Washer Armor." Miss Qiu said after a general glance.

"Washer armor?" Lin Xu's heart moved.

"Ask them about the origin of the Cleaners' armor."

At the same time, Lin Xu also ordered Yingfu to analyze the report of the Cleaner armor mentioned in the data packet.

Soon, the analysis of the Glowing Puzzle was the first to end.

"Master, according to the data provided by the other party, this material called the Cleaner Armor has a strength level that is probably equivalent to that of the material polymerized by nanorobots, and cannot be used as a building material, nor can it be used as a production material for autonomous mechanical aggregates, and it is a civilian-grade strength material." Based on the various experiments conducted within the packet, Glowing quickly came to a conclusion.

"That is, it is useless for us." Lin Xu nodded.

"It can't be said to be useless, but it's basically useless." Glowing replied cautiously.

At this time, the exiled fleet on the opposite side, I don't know if it was made after internal discussions, or if I didn't expect Lin Xu to ask about the origin of the armor of the cleaners.

Anyway, finally another message was sent.

As the information appeared on the holographic projection display, everyone in the cockpit had strange expressions for a while.

It is recorded above that the origin of the armor of the Cleaners.

At the same time, this information also explains why the exile fleet chose to exile in the space beyond the river.

Obviously, the other party also saw the doubts of Lin Xu and others, so he simply did not hide it and revealed it, which can be regarded as a gesture of goodwill.

And according to the instructions of the exiled fleet, the scavenger armor came from a group that called itself the purge of it.

No one knows where they came from, no one knows if they are one race, or if they are a union of multiple races.

It is only known that they call themselves the second sons of mankind.

At the same time, every thousand years or so, they carry out a great purge of all civilizations in the entire river system.

No civilization has survived the cleansing of the cleaners.

Even if it barely resists the purge, the technological level of the entire civilization will not surprisingly return to the planetary age, or the pre-nuclear era.

If you can't bear the cleaning, you can only go back to the Stone Age.

And the Exiled Fleet civilization is one of the civilizations that barely resisted the cleansing of the cleaners in the last millennium, but has only regressed to the planetary age.

But no matter how hard they continue to work hard to develop science and technology, it is theoretically impossible to withstand the next purge.

Therefore, after two hundred years of hard work, the exiled fleet civilization that redeveloped the curvature engine technology by using the technical data secretly preserved, made a decision.

They are fleeing from a desperate river system with no future.

Even if it is nine deaths and one life, you have to go.

So they built a huge exile fleet, took all the people with them as much as possible, and embarked on this desperate voyage.

The Exile Fleet did not deliberately hide its current predicament.

Because their situation is actually not difficult to judge.

It's better to be honest.

And after reading the information in front of them, for a while, Nan Candle, Mu Xiyue and Lu Yao looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

In the end, it was Nan Candle who shook the fox's tail and broke the silence first.

"Lord Lin Xu, this second son of a human being is definitely fake, or a rebel at all. Doing such a thing in the name of human beings, do they have an enmity with human beings? Nan Zhu said indignantly.

"Who knows, but since these purgeers claim to be the second son of mankind, they should at least know something about humans." Lin Xu was noncommittal.

"Who knows, maybe he just accidentally dug up something from some ruins, thought he had inherited the mantle of mankind, and then claimed to be the second son of mankind." Nan Candle just reacted when his voice fell, and then he was shocked by his own words.

"Human relics? Could it be that those cleaners really dug up the remains of humanity? Lu Yao's eyes widened.

Although the previous human relics were all successfully obtained by Lin Xu without accident.

But who knows if there will be an accident this time?

"No, I just said casually, it shouldn't be like this, how can human relics be so easy to dig." Nan Zhu hurriedly made up for it.

"Who knows, anything is possible. However, this washer armor may really need to be studied instead. Lin Xu made a decision.

"Lord Lin Xu, the technical data of the curvature engine of the transaction has been prepared, with their technical level, with the help of this information, they should be able to double the sailing speed of the curvature engine." Under Lin Xu's order, Miss Qiu sorted out a list of technical materials that had been packed.

"Then send it over." Lin Xu was lying on Nan Candle's lap, closing his eyes and enjoying the knee pillow, Nan Candle was still caressing Lin Xu's face with his big tail and helping him massage.

"Understood." Miss Qiu pressed the send button, and a technical data that was precious enough to cause countless cosmic civilization wars was sent out.

It's as if I'm not worried about the other party not keeping the agreement.

In fact, if the other party handed over the armor of the cleaner according to the content of the transaction, then everyone would naturally be happy.

If the other party breaks the contract, then Lin Xu can only take it for himself, and I believe that it will be regretted in the end, it is definitely not Lin Xu.

After receiving the technical information, the quantum communication even lost the signal for a while, but it was soon connected again.

Obviously, the other party was also suppressed by Lin Xu's big money, and he was in a hurry.

Isn't there a step for the two sides to carefully exchange the technical data directly over the technical data?

You're just studing, what should I do here?

I don't know if I felt an invisible self-confidence from the atmosphere on Lin Xu's side.

That kind of confidence is like saying that I'm not afraid of you breaking the contract, you can break the contract and try it.

So that the exiled fleet did not dare to break the contract.

Even at a faster speed, the cleaner armor was sent towards the location of the Skylark with an unmanned spaceship according to Lin Xu's request.

As if he was afraid that he was a second late, the other side thought that he was going to break the contract.

On the mothership of the exiled fleet, countless high-level officials and scientists continue to pay attention to the unmanned spacecraft launched.

The size of the unmanned spacecraft is the size of the Skylark, and at the same time, this unmanned spacecraft does not have the ability to sail in curvature, and after being launched again, the speed quickly drops to below the speed of light.

And behind the exile fleet mothership.

The top brass of the exiled fleet and the scientists were puzzled as to how the Skylark was going to receive the unmanned spacecraft.

Is it to wait for the exiled fleet to leave, and then the other party will go to receive the unmanned spacecraft?

It makes sense.

But they just feel that this civilization, which can cross the space beyond the river at a thousand times the speed of light, is definitely not so simple.

Then, they saw it through the holograms fed back by the quantum radar.

In front of the unmanned spaceship, a hole suddenly opened.

That's right, it's a hollow, swallowing an unmanned spacecraft all at once.

The unmanned spacecraft, loaded with the armor of the Washer, disappeared into space.

"What's that?"

"Replay, replay, watch again, quick."

"It's like a spatial passage, it's a spatial passage."

"Space teleportation? This is impossible, space teleportation is theoretically impossible. ”

"That's just our theory, a higher civilization, a more advanced theory, maybe it's feasible."

"But, but, even if it was possible, how did they do it, in a random location, to open the space passage, or where was the spaceship teleported?"

The scientists were arguing, and no one could convince anyone.

The top brass of the exiled fleet were glad that their side had complied with the agreement and completed the deal.

Otherwise, once the two sides start a war, just relying on the ability of this hand to open a spatial channel at any random location, the exile fleet will definitely not be able to win.

It is no wonder that the other party is so sure that the transaction will be successfully completed, because even if it is not successful, they still have the force to force the transaction to succeed.

"The other party's ship has passed us." The navigator reported.

Only then did the scientists pause their quarrel and look at the huge fleet and a small spaceship that passed by in the empty space outside the river shown by the star map.

"They seem to be going in the direction we came from." A scientist hugged his four arms together and said in surprise.

"Are they going for the Cleaners?"

"Who do you think will win if this civilization clashes with the cleaners?"

"I admit that this civilization is indeed strong, but compared to the Cleaners."

At the mention of the Cleaners, a look of fear suddenly appeared on everyone's faces.

Even if this civilization is very strong, and can even open spatial passages at will, they don't think that this civilization will have any chance of winning in the face of the cleaners.

"Okay, that's not something we should think about anymore, let's think about how to get that technical information through as soon as possible, if we can really double the speed of the curvature engine, then we might really be able to bring everyone to that new river system."

For a time, all the scientists of the exiled fleet dreamed of it.

The Skylark, which had already crossed the Exile Fleet and left, disappeared from the Exile Fleet's quantum radar after traveling a certain distance.

I deliberately leaked my traces to the other party before, but now that the transaction has been completed, there is no need to continue to show my traces.

So the Skylark faded again, and then stopped.

Immediately after that, the Skylark began to prepare for the space jump.

At this time, Lin Xu had already returned to the earth and saw the washer armor in the unmanned spaceship.

Looking at the unmanned spaceship in front of him, which was about the size of the Skylark, there was a large piece of armor shell with traces of battle damage.

Lin Xu was a little puzzled for a while.

Because Lin Xu sensed the feeling of belonging to a nanobot from the armor shell in front of him.

It's as if these armor shells are made up of nanobots.

But it's very different.

This is because nanobots enter an abnormally active state when they are around humans.

That kind of active state will even make the family with intermediate authority aware of it.

At the beginning, Mu Xiyue determined Lin Xu's human identity through the abnormal activity of this nanorobot.

But now, these armor shells, although Lin Xu felt similar to nanobots, they were not active when they saw Lin Xu.

Nothing even reacted.

It's like dead.

Lin Xu even wondered if this was the "corpse" that the nanobots collected by those cleaners after they lost their activity, and then only used their strength to make armor.

"Lord Lin Xu, why do I think these armors seem to be nanobots, but they don't seem to be, there is always a feeling of paradox." Nan Zhu took a closer look, and was the first to ask.

"I think it's similar, but it's wrong." Lin Xu nodded and shook his head.

"These nanobots don't respond to my commands. No, it's more like these nanobots, which don't have this kind of function, so they can't respond. Mu Xiyue tried to control the so-called Cleaner Armor, releasing sword qi as usual by controlling nanobots, but in the end failed to control it.

"What do you think?" Lin Xu asked.

"Master, this needs further testing."

"Let's get started." Lin Xu nodded.

As a result, the so-called cleaner armor was sent to various laboratories, and all kinds of experimental reports and data test reports came out like a stream.

And Lin Xu still returned to the familiar courtyard, boring and watching dramas, waiting for the results.

Lu Yao was not surprised, and went to the library to continue brushing the questions.

Seeing that Lu Yao took the initiative to disappear, Nan Zhu also took the initiative, and even pulled Mu Xiyue to attack together, and put on specially prepared equipment.

Lin Xu, who was watching the drama, originally just wanted to rest and rest, but he couldn't withstand the pressure of Nan Zhu and Mu Xiyue, and was soon brought into the rhythm of the two.

That's it, until Lin Xu completely suppressed the two and divided the winner.

The report from the Glowing Confusion side also came out.

Lin Xu, who was entangled in the fox tail of Nan Candle, read the report through the information transmitted by the nanobot in his consciousness.

At the same time, the report was also synchronized to Miss Qiu, who was preparing dinner next door, as well as Nan Zhu and Mu Xiyue beside her.

"It's really nanobots? No, a simplified version of the nanobot? Nan Zhu looked at the report, and stared at a pair of fox eyes full of charm.

"The material combined into the armor of the Cleaner is very similar to the nanobot, but in the strict sense, it cannot be regarded as a nanobot, but more like a simple nanomaterial, a nanomaterial that can be ever-changing." Mu Xiyue read the analysis in the report.

"Nanomaterials? A simplified version of nanobots? Lin Xu looked at the final definition on the report and frowned slightly.

"A simplified version of nanobots? Unable to accept instructions, unable to be flexibly controlled, more like a nanomaterial produced by a specific factory, which can be flexibly combined into various devices? Well, I still don't understand, why not just use nanobots? Nan Zhu finally sighed as if giving up.

"Maybe they can't use nanobots?" Mu Xiyue guessed after thinking about it.

"So it's really they digging up human remains?" Nan Zhu couldn't help but say again.

"Can you think of something good? Human relics are so easy to dig up. Mu Xiyue said speechlessly.

"Maybe we won't really understand the reason for all this until we actually meet the so-called cleaners." Lin Xu also shook his head.

The report is detailed, detailing the differences between this nanomaterial, or a simplified version of a nanobot, and a nanobot.

Lin Xu quickly finished reading the report, but he did not relieve the doubts in his heart, but became more doubtful.

What exactly are the so-called cleaners, and why do they clean the entire river system every thousand years?

The second son of the human race, which they call themselves, is it really just a self-proclaimed one, or does it really have anything to do with human beings?

Every thousand years, they have to clean the river system, could it be an order from humans?

Or is it really like what Nan Candle said, he just dug up human relics, so he called himself the second son of mankind.

Also, since he claims to be the second son, is there still the eldest son?

The answer to everything may not be found until you reach the target river system.

PS: Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommended ticket.

(End of chapter)