Set sail in 11493.

After three years of continuous sailing, the Skylark finally reached its target galaxy 40,000 light-years away.

Although the area around the Skylark still seems to be a pitch-black cosmic space, it is no different from when it was in the outer space of the river before.

However, judging from the information fed back by the probes from various aspects, various substances are increasing in this cosmic space.

Meteorites are appearing more and more frequently, meteors are a few light-years away, and stars are already visible from hundreds of light-years away.

All of them show that the Skylark has entered a new river system.

It's just that because it's still on the edge of the river system, all kinds of materials are still relatively scarce.

But compared to the truly empty space outside the river, it is already relatively rich.

Of course, compared to the real interior of the river system, it is really barren.

Therefore, even if an intelligent race is born here, as long as the intelligent race has mastered the technology of curvature navigation, they will basically choose to migrate to a more habitable area of the river system.

The star system there is denser, has more resources, and is more suitable for the development of civilization.

Therefore, in this kind of galaxy periphery, unless it is some primitive low-level civilization that has not yet developed curvature engine technology, there is generally no trace of intelligent life.

There will be no curvature of the ship passing by.

Strangely enough, however, the Skylark has just completed a 100-light-year jump and is preparing for the next one.

Relying on the hyperspace radar that transmits signals through space folding, a star more than ten light-years away is transmitted, with a large number of space bubble fluctuations generated by curvature navigation.

Further probing has determined that there are a large number of spacecraft there, which are sailing at curvature.

And that star system is clearly the meeting point of curvature navigation, and countless ships that make curvature voyages, either arrive there or depart from there.

Obviously, the galaxy where the star is located is the stronghold of a civilization that has mastered the technology of curvature navigation.

"This, really? Looking at the number of curvature ships, it should not be an ordinary stronghold, but one of the main bodies of civilization. But will there be a higher civilization developing in such a remote place? Nan Zhu looked at the report of the detector, and only felt that all this was really out of the ordinary.

According to the standards of the Milky Way, mastering the curvature navigation technology can be called an advanced civilization.

One of the big reasons why mastering the curvature navigation technology is considered an advanced civilization is that the advanced civilization can choose any location at will as the location for the development of the main body of civilization without being bound by the home planet.

But Nan Zhu has never seen it, and there is any higher civilization that would put the main body of civilization in such a remote place.

At least on the other side of the galaxy, the higher civilizations are all rushing to the center of the galaxy.

The land grabbing was also the territory grabbing the area at the center of the galaxy, until the disordered filth of the Silver Heart broke out.

And the civilization in front of us has placed the main body of civilization in such a remote place.

It is incomprehensible that in ancient societies, cities were built instead of places with lush vegetation and dense rivers, but instead went to the Gobi Desert to build cities.

"White Star, change the goal, let's go over and see." Lin Xu thought about it and ordered.

"Obey human Lin Xu." Shirahoshi replied, adjusting the orientation of the spatial transition.

The next jump point that was originally planned to be 100 light-years away was changed to this location more than 10 light-years away.

And because the distance is closer, the time required to prepare is also shortened.

In the space transition channel, the space is continuously folded, and it takes about ten hours to complete the space folding spanning more than ten light years.

The Skylark then rushed into the jump tunnel.

When they reappeared, they were already in the vicinity of the galaxy.

At the same time, the condition of the galaxy where the star is located can be observed more clearly.

Lin Xu stood in front of the porthole, and he didn't even need the data mapped by hyperspace radar and quantum radar, he could already see it with the naked eye, which was strengthened to the extreme.

"Are they making an entire galaxy into a tortoise shell?" Nan Zhu hugged Lin Xu's arm, his round eyes widened, and he looked at the situation of the galaxy in the distance, his eyes were full of incomprehension.

"The planets are connected by iron cables, so it has the posture of Cao Cao's iron cables." Lu Yao on the side sighed.

"Do you still know Cao Cao?" Nan Zhu said with a look of surprise.

"How fresh, I have played to the 108th generation of the Three Kingdoms, I still don't know Cao Cao." Lu Yao felt that her former gaming career had been insulted.

"What is Warriors of the Three Kingdoms? Wife of three countries? Nan Candle was puzzled.

"No, is there a deviation in your understanding of Cao Cao?" Lu Yao suddenly felt that her cognition was different from Nan Zhu, and she should give her a science popularization of what the Three Kingdoms were.

"Okay, I've seen the Three Kingdoms, is it just a joke with you!" Nan Zhu was a little depressed that Lu Yao didn't catch his stalk.

In short, Lu Yao's description of the iron cable boat is a very vivid description of the state of the galaxy in front of him.

In addition to the star at the very center, there are seven planets in the entire galaxy, ranging from smaller planets closer to the stars to huge gas planets far away from the stars.

The seven planets are connected by massive, chain-like metal devices from a distance.

Section after section, these metal devices are linked to each other, spreading between the seven planets, connecting the seven planets together.

The diameter of each chain is about tens of thousands of meters, and there are all kinds of lights flashing on it, which may be an energy transmission pipeline, or a personnel transportation channel, and more likely to have both functions.

At the same time, each planet is also covered with a shell, just like the turtle shell mentioned by the Southern Candle.

It's not like the dome of the earth, which covers the sky above the earth.

Rather, it clings to the ground and is covered with a shell.

Just looking at the appearance, you might think that these planets are metal battle stars.

However, when the telescope zooms in, it is clear that the planets are simply covered with a thick layer of metal.

It's like wearing a turtle shell.

However, the tortoise shells of the seven planets, coupled with the iron cables connecting the seven planets, such a large amount of work, even if it is not as good as building a battle star, is extremely huge.

I just don't understand what the turtle shell is for, which occupies this remote galaxy and expends so many resources.

"Are they fighting the Cleaners?" Nan Candle flashed and suddenly realized.

"Quite possibly." Lin Xu nodded, he also thought of this possibility.

These facilities, whether they are turtle shells or pipes that connect planets to each other, are not designed for offense, but for ultimate defense.

Turtle-like defense with a shrunken head.

"So, did they hide in this remote galaxy on the outskirts of the river system to avoid the Cleaners?" Nan Candle continued to speculate.

Indeed, there is generally no high-level civilization, and the main body of civilization is established in such a remote galaxy, if it is really to avoid the cleaners, then the previous doubts can be solved.

Just, does this really work?

Think about the exiled fleet of the entire civilization that they encountered before, if it was useful, they would not have to flee to the death.

"No, if hiding here can avoid the cleaners, why are they building such defenses? Therefore, they should also know that they can't hide from it, so they will build such a defensive facility. Lu Yao shook her head and questioned.

"If you can't hide, why do you want to run here to build defenses? Isn't it good to build in a more resource-rich place within a river system? "Nan Zhu thought about it left and right, but he couldn't get the point.

"Okay, since you can't figure it out, then don't think about it, just go over and take a look." Lin Xu interrupted the conversation between the two and said.

So the Skylark prepared to sail in curvature and go to the nearby galaxy to have a look.

But at this moment, data from hyperspace radar and quantum radar came.

Looking at the scene on the galaxy not far away that was transmitted in real time, Lin Xu was stunned for a moment.

Because at this moment, in Lin Xu's sight, it was still extremely normal, and from time to time there were spaceships taking off and landing, and seven tortoise shell-like planets were connected by iron cables.

In the real-time data transmitted by hyperspace radar and quantum radar, it has been completely destroyed.

The iron cables between the planets are broken, and debris is floating in the universe, everywhere.

There are shipwrecks everywhere, and the tortoise shells on the planet have been completely shattered.

There are even a few planets, as if they have been bombarded with some weapon to create a huge gap, and the magma and earth fire at the core of the burning planet can be clearly seen in the quantum radar.

A large number of broken planetary organizations have formed more than one asteroid belt.

This high civilization, hidden in the remote area on the outskirts of the river system, has died completely.

"Human Lin Xu, this is the current real-time image." Shirahoshi annotates holograms drawn by hyperspace radar and quantum radar.

And what Lin Xu saw in his eyes, the galaxy that was still intact, was the scene of this galaxy seven days ago.

Yes, where Lin Xu is now, it will take seven days to reach it.

Therefore, what Lin Xu, Nan Candle, and Lu Yao discussed before were all the ways in which the galaxy looked seven days ago.

"This happened seven days ago?" Lin Xu asked.

"Not sure." Shirahoshi replied.

"Go to a location where you can see the image from six days ago." Lin Xu ordered.

So the Skylark moved forward at a thousand times the speed of light, and soon stopped.

Again with the naked eye and optical telescopes, the galaxy not far away is still intact.

So the Skylark continued on until it saw the image it had seen three days earlier.

I finally saw the moment when this advanced civilization hiding on the edge of the river system was destroyed.

The first is the emergence of a large number of spatial channels inside galaxies.

Some space passages even appear directly on tortoiseshell-like planets.

This was followed by a large number of warships of all kinds, appearing within the system.

and a variety of mecha robots, appearing on planets.

This was followed by a one-sided slaughter.

Massacres without the power to resist.

Lin Xu frowned slightly, watching the battle that took place three days ago.

Until the antimatter bomb is detonated, a black hole-like image engulfs the light.

This made Lin Xu and the optical telescope unable to continue to observe.

By the time everything returned to normal and could be re-observed, what Lin Xu saw was already a ruin-like galaxy scene.

A shattered planet with a completely defeated line of defense.

There is also a large number of shipwrecks that failed to escape.

and, ending the carnage, opening the space passage, and preparing to leave the suspected launderer fleet.

"Ten hours." Nan Candle, who was counting the time next to him, said as the fleet withdrew and the space passage closed.

"It only took ten hours to completely destroy a higher civilization." Lin Xu sighed.

"They also have space transition technology." Lu Yao said with a solemn expression.

"Yes." Lin Xu nodded.

Among the currently known civilizations, Lin Xu had never seen any civilization other than humans master the technology of space jumping.

These purgators who claim to be the second son of mankind can't really have anything to do with humans, right?

So what are they doing this for?

"Lord Lin Xu, do you want to go over and have a look?" Nan Zhu asked weakly.

"Go ahead, we need to make sure if these are the so-called cleaners." Lin Xu said calmly.

So the Skylark moved on.

At a thousand times the speed of light, he quickly reached the interior of the galaxy, which was already in ruins.

The Skylark slowly slowed down, and the huge wreckage of the battleship swept past the Skylark's porthole.

The kind of battleship decorated with patterns of different civilizations looks good, but unfortunately only half of the wreckage is left now.

The wreckage is not only a battleship, but also a planet.

Shattered gaseous planets wreak havoc in the universe, drawing the shattered chains connecting the planets around them.

The wreckage of various warships also fell towards the planet.

But that's just the tip of the battlefield.

On the battlefields all over the galaxy, even after three days, all kinds of subsequent cascading disasters continue.

But above this ruin, the Skylark did not perceive a single trace of electrical signals, quantum signals, all signal reactions.

This only shows that this civilization is indeed dead.

Not even a single living life remains.

"Is it so thorough? But didn't the previous exile fleet say that the purge was just a purge of the technical level to the age of the planet? Nan Zhu looked at the empty galaxy with only the remains left, and only felt a chill to the bone.

"What they're saying is that only by resisting the cleansing can you just go back to the age of the planet. If you can't bear it, that's the end. Lin Xu sighed.

"But why is that?" Mu Xiyue didn't understand.

Although the former immortal ships have also punished countless civilizations, it was because those civilizations were disorderly out of order and filthy, so they were punished.

And the immortal ships will not be wiped out.

Even with what these purges are doing now, the fairy ship is already considered merciful to the Virgin.

"Who knows." Lin Xu shook his head.

Immediately, the portable space opened, and a large number of autonomic mechanical aggregates poured out, and began to retrieve throughout the galaxy.

Soon, several pieces of armor were found, suspected to have been dropped by the washers.

Shirahoshi sent it back to Earth for data analysis as soon as possible.

Soon the result came out, and the washer armor that was traded to Lin Xu by the exiled fleet was the same thing.

They are all nanobots that do not respond to human calls, and they can also be said to be simplified nanobots that have lost their activity.

This also proves that the one who did all this three days ago was indeed the existence of the purge, claiming to be the second son of mankind.

"Is that all?" Lin Xu looked at the battlefield that had collected the entire galaxy through the autonomic mechanical aggregate, and only a small part of the armor fragments had been collected, and he didn't know what to say.

"Aren't there any wrecked Cleaner battleships? Were there no fallen purge personnel? Or is the fleet of cleaners made entirely of artificial intelligence? Lin Xu continued to ask.

"Only these fragments of armor, no destroyed Cleanser battleships were found." Shirahoshi replied.

The destruction of an entire high civilization was only exchanged for a small loss of the opponent's armor, and not even a single warship of the Cleanser fleet was destroyed.

Should I say that the cleaners are too strong, or that this civilization is too weak.

Lin Xu could only sigh again.

"Look at the database of this civilization, whether it's on a warship or on a planet, and piece together as much information as they know about the Cleaners." Lin Xu could only save the country in the end.

Since there is no way to directly get the wreckage of the Cleaners' warships, there should also be a lot of information about the Cleaners in the database of this civilization.

Next, it was time for the autonomic mechanical aggregate to search the entire galaxy.

Because it takes a little more time to carefully search whether the database on the wreck of each battleship is intact and whether there is a good database on each planet.

During this period, Lin Xu had been standing in front of the porthole, looking at the ruin-like planet outside the window in a daze.

Mu Xiyue looked at Lin Xu, then at Nan Candle, and glanced at Nan Candle.

Nan Zhu suddenly looked back, why don't you go?

Mu Xiyue hesitated for a moment, then glanced back and gestured together.

Nan Zhu nodded, together together.

So the two stepped forward and leaned on Lin Xu's shoulders one left and one right.

"Lord Lin Xu, I think that what kind of cleanser must be some second son of a human pretending to be, I am a human family, I understand best, how could a human being allow such a thing to be done, is it Mu Xiyue?" Nan Zhu winked at Mu Xiyue.

"Yes, although the immortal ship also kills extremely hard, it will not kill innocents indiscriminately." Mu Xiyue nodded solemnly.

"You don't think I'm going to take what the Cleaners did for myself, do you? Don't worry, I don't have that hobby. And it's not certain now, is the purge really the second son of the human being they call it? Maybe they're just using the name of humanity. Lin Xu smiled and shook his head.

"Then Lord Lin Xu, what's wrong with you?" Nan Zhu said curiously.

"How can I say it, it's still a little sad to see a civilization die so easily." Lin Xu sighed again.

Today's Lin Xu has also sighed more than once.

"It's like this in the universe, the law of the jungle has never changed." Nan Zhu is also emotional.

Then, Nan Zhu pulled Lin Xu to lie down on the sofa, pillowed her thighs, pressed his temples lightly for him, and helped him rest.

It was also to prevent him from continuing to look at the scene outside the porthole, to prevent him from continuing to feel uncomfortable.

Until Shirahoshi's debriefing rang out again.

"Lord Lin Xu, I have found the relatively intact database of the current galaxy destroying civilization, and found some information about the Cleaners, do you want to listen to it now?"

"Say it." Lin Xu immediately opened his eyes, and above his line of sight were hills and fox ears that blocked his vision, and he couldn't see Nan Candle's face.

"According to the data of the current civilization, the current civilization learned of the existence of the Cleaners eight hundred years ago."

"At that time, although this civilization was not just out of civilization, but it had just developed the curvature engine and became a higher civilization that could truly sail in the universe, and at this time, they met another advanced civilization, and it was that encounter that they learned about the existence of the cleansers from other higher civilizations."

"The purge will not purge civilizations that have not yet developed the curvature engine, only if the curvature engine is researched and becomes a civilization that can truly sail across the universe, it will become the target of the purge purge."

"That's when the current civilization began to prepare for the Cleanser Crisis."

"They knew that the cleaners would clean the river system every 1,000 years, so they started preparing 800 years ago."

"First they relocated to a remote galaxy on the edge of the river system, and then built defenses here in a vain attempt to survive the cleansing of the Cleaners."

"It's a pity that they failed, and now everything is the result."

Bai Xing's voice was extremely stable and he made a report to Lin Xu.

And Lin Xu kept nodding slowly.

According to the intelligence of the previous exile fleet, they had been sailing outside the river system for eight hundred years at that time.

And they set sail two hundred years after carrying the last purge.

So thousands of years have passed, and this purge has come as scheduled.

It's just that Lin Xu didn't expect that as soon as he arrived in the river system, he met a purged object.

I don't know if it's good luck or bad luck.

"Why did they choose to hide here from the cleaners?" Lin Xu asked.

"The database shows that they learned a piece of information in a certain transaction with a higher civilization, although the cleaners will not let go of remote galaxies, but the attack on remote galaxies is generally low, so they chose this place as a place to resist purge, and they will have a greater chance of carrying the cleansing, but unfortunately it still failed."

"Is the news true, or have they been scammed?" Lin Xu's brows furrowed.

If this level of purging is only a low level of blowing, then what kind of blow should the civilizations in the river system face?

In this case, he was still able to carry a purge, and Lin Xu suddenly felt that the exile fleet he had encountered before did not seem to be so weak.

Before it was purged again, it should have been a very strong civilization.

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