Emperor Xiu 6435.

After two years of fierce warfare, the war between the Human Empire and the Moths was won.

Faced with the defeat of the end, the only remaining clansmen of the Skeleton Moth Clan broke through and fled, unwilling to be wiped out.

A similar situation has occurred in the Human Empire.

In that year, the Human Empire defeated the Galaxy Clan and briefly settled in the legendary sea, and was finally defeated by the later challenger, the Dragon Clan.

Faced with a certain defeat, the Human Empire abandoned the legendary sea resources and chose to retain the last strength to break through and leave.

This time, in the face of the sacrificing moth tribe's sacrificial breakthrough, the human empire took the initiative to let go of the blockade front, giving the bone moth clan a channel to flee outward.

It is not merciful to do so.

After years of war with the Skeleton Moth, the Human Empire's resources have been consumed enormously, and with the lessons learned from the failure of the last time they entered the Legendary Sea, the Empire's top brass understands that defense is far more difficult than attack.

Now that you're in the Legendary Sea, new challenges are coming.

Rather than wasting resources and combat power on encircling the defeated Moths, it is better to use resources on strategic layouts that are meaningful for defense.

But it is not without requirements to take the initiative to give a way out.

The Lord of War demands that the Moths give up all resources in the Legendary Sea, and are not allowed to leave with any resources.

The Moth Queen may be furious at the demands of the Lord of War, but she has no choice.

When the Moth Mother Mother led her people away, this tragic war that took decades came to an end.

Perhaps one day in the future, the Skeleton Moth Clan will appear in the legendary sea with a new attitude, but it may also be annihilated in the open sea world full of races.

After the war, it took several months to obtain a "Divine Crystal Resource Well" and 8,472 Divine Well Resource Islands connected to this Divine Crystal Resource Well.

Although the brutal war took a heavy toll on the Human Empire, 24 legion commanders died in the battle, and the number of soldiers killed in the battle reached 31.3 billion.

But victory also brought abundant fruits.

With the Divine Well in the Legendary Sea, the Human Empire has gained a new opportunity for development, and will use the Divine Well as the core of resource output to upgrade civilization technology in the future.

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Year 6597.

Dark God Space.

High-Level Meeting of Humanity.

This is 160 years after the Human Empire settled in the legendary sea and the end of the Battle of the Skeleton Moth.

The meeting was chaired by High Priest Zuo Yi, and all the high-ranking human beings at the rank of Legion Commander participated in the meeting, and the topics discussed were related to the future layout of humanity in the open sea and the legendary sea.

Over the years, in the face of the continuous infiltration and temptation of external forces, the human empire has accelerated the pace of building additional defense facilities in the legendary sea.

In response to the tentative behavior of foreign forces, the Human Empire has taken a "kill without mercy" countermeasure.

Back then, humans also entered the territory of the Skeleton Moth Clan in the legendary sea area to investigate, with a very clear purpose, precisely to find out the details of the Skeleton Moth Clan and the defense deployment, and then look for opportunities to start a war.

Therefore, the human empire is very cautious about external temptations, and will carry out devastating blows if it is discovered.

Just today, High Priest Zuo Yi presided over the meeting and held a detailed discussion with the commanders of the legions on the development of the human empire.

The first question facing the Empire of Mankind is:

[Is the R&D base of the Human Empire going to be relocated?] 】

There is a clear difference between the Human Empire and other forces that have settled in the Legendary Sea.

After other racial forces settle in the Legendary Sea, they will regard the Legendary Sea as the core clan land for development in the future, and the entire race will gradually relocate to the Legendary Sea during this period.

But the empire of humanity is different.

The human hierarchy clearly understands that the Legendary Sea is just a place where human beings absorb nutrients for growth, and the ultimate destination of human beings is in Emperor Xiu City.

For more than 6,000 years, the most core civilization technology research and development base of human beings has also been built in the city of Dixiu, and even in the sea area near the city of Dixiu.

However, there is an endless ocean between the Legendary Sea and the Emperor Xiu City, and there will be many problems in using resource transportation to send the resources mined in the Legendary Sea to the Emperor Xiu City.

The first is the construction of the space teleportation square, after calculating that the transportation of a batch of resources needs to go through 138 space jumps before it can be sent to the Emperor Xiu City.

Secondly, the sending of god-level resources out of the legendary sea area will inevitably cause the covetousness of other forces in the open sea, and it is very likely that a looting incident will break out, and it will be difficult to deal with it.

The cost of resource transportation, the risk of resource transportation, and even the cumbersome transportation process are all problems on the surface.

The meeting discussed the relocation of the R&D base.

However, the advice of most of the corps commanders is not to relocate the R&D base and continue to use transportation for resource transportation.

The reason for not relocating is simple.

The construction of civilized technology R&D bases can not be completed in a short period of time, and the equipment of many R&D bases cannot be moved at will, which is likely to lead to the destruction of R&D equipment.

Secondly, the foundation of the Human Empire in the legendary sea area is not stable, and it may be challenged by foreign forces at any time.

But the most important reason is related to the fact that the Emperor Xiu City is the root of human civilization.

After all, one day, the legionnaires of the Human Empire will return to defend the Emperor and retreat from the legendary sea.

In addition to the resources of the Legendary Sea for research and development, they should also be used to build defense facilities in the Imperial Repair City.

With a clear direction, the theme of the meeting shifted from whether to relocate or not to an update of the open sea pattern.

The entire session lasted a week.

The final result is that humanity will embark on a great migration plan to completely change the layout and structure of the open sea.

Humanity needs to give up a lot of resource islands.

In the past, the expedition plan started from the main city of Emperor Xiu, and expanded outward in a fan-shape, continuously incorporating the resources and territories of the open sea into the territory of the human empire.

At this stage, the human empire is most concerned about the number of resource islands.

Naturally, the more resource islands the better, and the more fronts opened up, the better.

However, after the Battle of the Moth, the situation of the Human Empire has changed, and the resources produced by the Legendary Sea are not at all comparable to those ordinary resource islands in the open sea, and even the core resource islands.

From this point of view, many resource islands have lost their meaning of existence, or have limited value to the human empire.

Garrison forces need to be drawn as much as possible into the legendary seas.

At this meeting, the commander of the 102nd legion, the "Lord of the White Charm", presented a vision for the future of population migration.

In the idea, the human empire can give up a large number of offshore resources, and concentrate the garrison defense forces and even ordinary people who produce resources to the central point, creating an impregnable resource transportation line.

The simple explanation is to turn the fan-shaped expansion of the sea territory into a direct route from the Emperor Xiu City to the legendary sea area.

After that, this line will also become a transportation line for the Human Empire to obtain resources from the legendary sea, and all spatial teleportation nodes will be built and defended on this line.

This would not only reduce the pressure on the defense, but also allow the scattered people of the empire to unite and thrive on this route.

As soon as this plan was proposed, it aroused the approval of many corps commanders.

The territory of the human empire is so large that it can even be described as bloated.

There used to be no choice for development, but now with the output of the Legendary Sea Resources, the value of those ordinary resources is no longer important.

This is the inevitable consequence of development.

Just like human beings in the famine years, all edible resources are good things, even tree bark and grass roots.

With the progress of the times, the number of resource islands is increasing.

Many low-level spiritual resources are as common as weeds, especially in the process of gradually advancing towards the legendary sea, the quality of spiritual resources produced by resource islands is getting higher and higher, and it has long been common for spiritual plants to be regarded as regulated.

Choosing to abandon such resource islands would not result in a substantial loss to the human empire.

Turning a fan-shaped territory into a direct route to the legendary seas is a good choice from both a defensive and development point of view.

However, while deciding to shrink the territory, the meeting also revised the idea proposed by the Lord of the White Charm.

For the core resource island that has built a space teleportation square in addition to this direct route, human beings will not give up and will still firmly control it in their own hands.

In the end, the envisioned human territory is not only a direct route to the legendary sea, but also a core resource island that surrounds the outer part of the route like a starry dot.

The reason for not giving up is simple.

High Priest Zuo Yi said at the end of the meeting:

"It's completely unknown how far we can go in the Legendary Sea, and perhaps one day, our human empire will once again usher in the era of great collapse that has occurred in history, and at that moment, these core resource islands will be our hope for restarting the expedition plan."

It is precisely these words that have finalized the bottom line of the population migration plan.

Do not give up the core resource islands, as long as the offshore forces do not infringe on the core resource islands planted by the human empire, other offshore resources can be taken at will.

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After this meeting, the population relocation program lasted 150 years.

If the territory of the former human empire is regarded as a starry sky, then the stars dotted on the starry sky map are tens of millions of human cities.

From millions of people to tens of thousands, human resource cities have sprung up as the expedition plans to the open sea.

But this relocation plan banned many small cities and combined them into large cities on the voyage.

Every major city has a minimum population of more than 10 million.

This also brings with it a series of problems.

Many residents have different cultural customs and philosophies, and the sudden convergence has brought a series of contradictions and conflicts, and even a lot of bloodshed.

There is no solution to this problem for the time being, and it will take time to settle and solve it.

The problem of ideological contradictions is affected by the growth environment, and it is difficult to repair it by various means in a short period of time.

It's like the latest human city "Bloodlight City".

It is a city named after the Bloodlight Legion, with a total population of 38 million and a population of 228 resource islands.

The city is divided into 28 districts, named from 1 to 28.

Recently, there has been a lot of conflict between people in the city.

For example, the human inhabitants relocated from Blackwater Island live on the snow-capped mountains all year round, and after several generations of inheritance and succession, they have unique cultural customs, and the buildings they build in the new urban planning area are made of ice sculptures, and the special ice blocks will not melt at normal temperatures, while the human inhabitants from the meteorological islands live in the depths of the tropical rainforest, advocating force and fire, and erecting continuous flame pillars near the residents of the neighboring Blackwater Island, releasing rolling heat waves, causing a large number of ice sculpture buildings to melt.

Conflicts over customs have led to many conflicts.

But in the view of the high priest Zuo Yi, these problems are the inevitable pains that human beings will experience in the process of integration.

The only thing that there is no need to worry about is that the belief of the people in different environments in the Emperor Xiu God has always been firm.

If you can't go wrong with the root causes, the cultural differences in the minutiae will eventually be smoothed out by the years in the process of urban integration.

Especially when the annual "Prayer Festival" opens, no matter how many conflicts there are, they will be transformed into a united picture of praying to the emperor and the god together.

And the belief in the Emperor Xiu God is the key to the unity of the people of the Human Empire.

People's identification with the same race is far less high than their identification with a common faith.

The expedition program has developed to this day, and if it were not for the support of the same faith, the human empire would have long since become a plate of scattered sand.

This is also the reason why the faithfulness of the faith does not allow it to be tarnished.

Today, the population migration plan of the new era has further strengthened the unity of faith, and the streamlined human empire has significantly improved both the efficiency of operation and the degree of unity.

But the crisis of the new era is also quietly coming.

The future development of the human empire needs to face two challenges.

First of all, after settling in the legendary sea area, the human race has become a challenge target in the eyes of many powerful offshore forces, and there may be forces attacking from the outside at any time, trying to snatch the interests of mankind in the legendary sea area.

Over the years, small frictions have been happening.

Every year, a large number of forces enter the legendary sea area controlled by the Human Empire, carrying out trials and investigations, trying to find out the details of the strength of the Human Empire.

Thankfully, the Human Empire has not encountered a real challenger in the past few hundred years, and local friction will not affect the development process of the Human Empire.

But the crisis is always there, and the human empire still needs to be ready to enter into all-out war at any time.

Secondly, there is such a rule in the Legendary Sea, which is formulated by all the forces in the Inland Sea, and every force that has settled in the Legendary Sea and successfully occupied the resource land for thousands of years can obtain the qualification to challenge the Legendary Inland Sea forces.

This opportunity, the Human Empire did not want to miss.

Compared with the chaotic and complex situation in the open sea, entering the inland sea is truly beyond the mundane.

As long as it succeeds, the Terrans will have a long period of peace, as the resources produced by the Inland Sea will not be plundered by any of the other legendary forces of the Inland Sea.

Although they will face challenges from foreign forces, they will be less frequent and there will be plenty of room for preparation before the war.

This is the final end of the expedition of the Human Empire.

As long as it successfully settles in the legendary inland sea, there is only one goal left for the future of the human empire, and that is to fight against the Kuroshio Scourge.