113 The Sprout of War
Under the supervision and assistance of the Inquisition, the Order's expedition fleet officially launched an armed expedition to the vast pyramid complex.
The grave-digging fleet of the Mechanical Warriors Society is still on its way to subspace at this time, and the main fleet of space necromancers who left for unknown reasons does not know when they will return, and time waits for no one. They need to get as much information as possible as soon as possible.
In order to accomplish this mission, the Order of Truth will do whatever it takes.
The Irony Banshee, the advance scout, was scattered in all directions, followed by a large number of intelligent servants and mortal survey troops armed with antimatter bombs, along with the enraged Banshee carrying high-pressure hot melt, ready to break through the pyramid that had not yet been opened.
The preacher who stayed behind activated the teleportation beacon on the Cyberlux hull, which had been converted into engineering machinery, so that the ground forces could teleport in at any time when they sent a request for reinforcements.
Under the protection of Alphonse and an elite Banshee force, the Director of Research and Bernarti traveled with Bernarti Tower to explore the interior of the massive pyramid with a destroyed spire in the center of the complex.
In addition to a large number of troops, they also used a large number of high-end equipment that is still in the experimental stage.
While the armed expedition in the Flare System was in full swing, Russell, who had left Falla in a hurry on the grounds that he had something else important, also crossed the L Gate and entered the Lost Dream Constellation together, accompanied by Colonia.
The delicate and beautiful Gray Gu Mothership with a silver arc plunged headlong into the nebula, and under the guidance of Colonia, Gray Wind quickly jumped to the designated coordinates and docked above the corpse of the world ship of the Furdora Ark.
What unfolded in front of Russell was a scene of very strong contrasts.
Half of the body of this world-class warship, which is larger than the main planet of Nifol, can still see the white and beautiful spirit bone structure, and the other half has been covered with a thick chitin carapace, with thick and lengthy biological tentacles and curved horns, and a large number of crushed ship wreckage remains in the huge mouthparts covered with sharp teeth.
Half elegant, half hideous, the swarm is not unpleasant for the biological assimilation process of the Fódlana World Ship.
It is a commendable achievement, but Russell's visit was not to inspect the progress of Coloniai's work, but to have real pressing matters to be addressed.
In the cabin of the Gray Gu Mothership, Gray Wind exhaled a slightly hazy holographic stereoscopic star map that was still slowly rotating in front of Russell, and said: "The Dream Lost Nebula has become much thinner than before, and this is related to the spiral galaxy in the dust cloud...... This is a real-time star map of the Lost Dream Constellation. ”
Russell nodded and didn't answer, looking down at the star map in front of him.
There are three bright spots of light in the slowly rotating spiral constellation: the galaxy where the L-Gate is located, the real-time coordinates of the Fódlana Worldship, and a star system labeled Tiberon.
"In order to transform Fódlana into a hive world as quickly as possible, I released a large number of swarm tentacles in the Dream Lost Constellation to collect biomass everywhere."
Colonia pressed herself against Russell's side as if in a merit, her delicate voice as soft as warm cream on a cake: "But not long ago, one of the tentacles broke off after reaching into this galaxy called Tiberon......"
Russell and Grey Wind both looked serious, they knew what that meant.
Each of the swarm tentacles isolated by Coroniai can easily devour indigenous civilizations in the late atomic or space age; It also has the ability to fight in space enough to capture the stowaway ships of the Human Empire.
The breaking of its tentacles in Tiberon means that there is a considerable amount of space combat power in the galaxy, at least, it is a civilization that has passed the early stage of the space age, and can set up orbital habitation stations and planetary defense fortresses in the orbits of various celestial bodies in the system, and even build star bases.
"The singularity at the center of the vortex is still spewing out new galaxies without the slightest sign of slowing down." Grey Wind said, exhaling another holographic stereo star map, but static.
It overlapped the static star map with the dynamic star map in front of Russell, and with a slender white finger lightly moving forward, Russell followed the coordinates pointed by the gray wind, which was a galaxy highlighted green.
The system in which L-Stargate is located: Xihe.
After the old and new star maps overlapped, the two green highlighted points of light did not coincide. The Xihe galaxy on the old star map is closer to the inner spiral arm, while on the current real-time star map, Xihe is more outer.
"In the time we were away, the Lost Dream Asterism expanded rapidly to the point where it almost filled the space where the nebula was located, and the Xihe galaxy shifted to the outer regions of the nebula."
Grey Wind said with some concern, "The Dream Lost Constellation is still expanding into space beyond the nebula, and this expansion is trending faster and faster......
Colonia also looked at Russell, although the space-age civilization in the Tiberon system was quickly devoured by other swarms of insects from nearby galaxies after breaking off a hive tentacle. But, this is far from the end.
The closer you get to the indigenous planets inside the whirlpool, the more civilized you become, and the end of the spiral arm is only the Stone Age where you drink blood, and the more you go inside is an agrarian society that rises and lives every day. Now it has reached the point where it can break the tentacles of the hive.
Is there a more powerful civilization in the miniature universe of the singularity?
Has there been a civilization that has inherited the mantle of the god-level civilization "belligerent C" that can create a new universe?
Colonia didn't know the answer.
The only thing it knows for sure is that as more and more galaxies are pulled out of singularities, the mass difference between the miniature universe and the present universe will become larger and larger. More and more, more and more advanced civilized planets will come to this universe, and they will soon be able to reach them.
They are likely to face an interstellar war......
"Master, do you want to stop the process of assimilating the biomass of the Fódlana World Ship and use all the biomass for the production of the Swarm Battleship? Still is......? Colonia asked softly, "As long as it is your will, I will carry it out to the letter." ”
Russell shook his head.
He fears war against a powerful civilization from the stars, and even without the power of the Empire, he is confident that he can win the war with the Hive Fleet of Colonia alone. But the point has never been on winning or losing, or even on the war itself.
It's about that civilization coming from the stars.
"The descendants of the belligerent side C have been hiding in the miniature galaxy for too long, and there has been widespread social degradation." Russell said and tried to touch Colonia's head, but found that she was standing taller than himself, so he had to rub her ears, and continued: "Some of them may have powerful science and technology inherited from their ancestral civilizations, but they don't understand the existence of chaos in this universe - which is the most terrible thing in itself. ”
It is not without advanced psionic theories and technologies related to shielding the Void among the stars, but those need to be actively studied and used.
Will the embers of civilization, which has been cowering in the miniature galaxy for thousands of years, be like Russell to be always vigilant against the threat of chaos, and even tremble to expand the organization and recruit individuals? No, they have no way of knowing that chaos exists.
I don't know that there are guns pointed at me at all times, and there are a few people who wear body armor 24 hours a day.
"If the idyllic primitive tribes and the indigenous civilizations that have not yet flown out of their home planet are not enough to attract the attention of the gods, then the almost inevitable interstellar civilizations that hide in the depths of the miniature galaxy are also siphoned into this universe......" Russell stroked Colonia's ear and said, "To Chaos, they are a bunch of unsuspecting bosom children. ”
"I can't predict what kind of waves a sudden interstellar war will cause in the galaxy, and how many forces will be stirred up by this war."
"I don't care what direction this war will eventually take."
"What I really care about most is whether the various black technologies in the hands of the warring party, which have almost climbed the Star Technology Tree to the top, will be obtained by other forces in the chaos."
Russell sighed softly, let go of his pointed ears that were rubbed red by himself, and scaled out the holographic stereoscopic star map in front of him with both hands, so that the other star fields around the Dream Lost Nebula had enough space to be displayed.
Looking at the corner of the starry galaxy, Russell said slowly: "Without knowing the specific state of the miniature galaxy, we can't formulate a battle plan that can quickly resolve the chaos and cut through the chaos. ”
"In an interstellar war, we are still underpowered to take care of the battlefield across the star sector and do everything in every way."
There are bound to be flaws.
And Russell knows that there is no room for error in this matter.
If a space necromantic overlord with it in nine out of ten gongs sneaks into the battlefield and gets a "synthetic personality matrix" that can truly give the mechanical body a soul......
If a Spirited Prophet who wants to summon the Grim Reaper sneaks here following the prophecy and gets technology such as Sentinel Arrays, Psionic Theory, or Jump Engines......
If......
Such a thing would be too terrifying and uncontrollable for him to accept.
- So, let's snuff out all the ifs at the source.
Sensing the change in Russell's micro-expression, Gray Wind didn't say anything, and the back half of the small cabin they were in quickly reorganized, and the soft sofa and coffee table prepared for Russell, the bookshelves full of all kinds of spirit books, and other daily necessities were swallowed into the wall, freeing up a spacious open space.
A ring-shaped instrument approximately 3.14 meters in diameter was raised to the floor, and along with it, Russell was presented with a fully transparent cube the size of an adult's fist.
Time weapon, the principle of the ring. and a sub-core of the inverse entropy that holds the authority to activate the Ring.
"Master?" Holding her cheeks flushed from Russell's pinched ears in both hands, Colonia asked suspiciously, "Do you want to go back in time to the entire Dream Constellation and return the broken miniature galaxy to its full state, as the Fódlanels originally planned?" ”
"I don't want to do that, but I can't find a safer way for the time being." Russell said.
He couldn't imagine the consequences of an unfettered flow of a tech tree capable of building an urban planet and creating a miniature galaxy into the universe, so it was not too cautious to deal with the Dream Constellation.
The only problem is:
"Can the Ring Principle really rewind the time of the meteor sector to such an extent?" Russell asked.
"You may have a misunderstanding about this weapon, Mr. Bulletin." The voice of the inverse entropy was still calm, without any emotion: "The space helicarrier of the same specification as the Earthly Dawn that I served in was only two other ships even in the Federation era, and I am the only one equipped with a time rewind weapon of the Ring Principle level. ”
"If you were to ask me if I would have the ability to rewind the time of a standard cube with an edge of 200 light-years back less than 100 Terra years ago, I would answer yes and only one."
As the words fell, Grey Wind, Russell, and the red-faced Colonia all stared at the small, transparent cube beneath the Ring Principle, waiting for its answer.
"Absolutely." Reverse entropy replied.
"Easily." The starlight in its secondary core shimmered slightly, as if to emphasize.
Russell was slightly stunned by this familiar answer, and then nodded in approval: "I understand." ”
Loyalty to the Bullet Star has long been written into the lowest level of the original code of inverse entropy, and it is impossible for it to lie to Russell's question. If you say that it is absolutely possible with inverse entropy, it is absolutely possible in the literal sense of the word.
"Colonia, recycle the swarm." Russell said lightly.
"Yes, my master~" Colonia's tone was cheerful and brisk, sounding very good.
The tentacles of the swarm spreading in the starry sky quickly retracted due to the will of the Queen of the Life Shaping Worms, and one by one the adult battleships, transport insects, and small biological motherships all returned, entering the half-assimilated world ship of Fódlan.
Under the control of Colonia, the huge hive world began to follow behind the gray Gu mothership, sailing towards the central singularity of the whirlpool, along the way, swarms of insects flew back to the hive from all directions, and even Russell couldn't help but sigh a little at that huge scale, Colonia is really a very high-quality fertility machine.
On the way to the center of the whirlpool, the Engineered Protozoa are also using the returning swarm as raw materials to accelerate the process of biological assimilation of the Fódlana World Ship.
Due to their sheer size, the Elven's bulky Ark World ships are usually only able to travel at sub-light speeds, so they rarely leave the net.
Once the swarm's biological assimilation has progressed to a sufficient level, Koronia can directly use the Hive Creature Engine to warp or even make a psionic leap on the worldship.
As Colonia worked hard in anticipation and was looking forward to how he would ask his master for credit when the Hive World was completed, Russell's mood was a little complicated, and he was thinking about something.
The inverse entropy's affirmative answer made him let go of a big stone in his heart, but another hidden worry haunted his heart.
"In the past, just going back in time to a small object called the Wattaum Reality Perforator gave me a strong sense of crisis and a sense that I was about to encounter a catastrophe, but now I have to use the Ring Principle to directly rewind the time of a constellation."
Russell's heart couldn't help but feel uneasy.
(End of chapter)