The vastness of the universe. It's quiet and profound, but it's full of dangers. Every star with a subtle bright spot is an infinite indication of the possibility of hope. There are countless galaxies in the colorful nebula, and the solar system on which mankind depends is also distributed.

At this moment, in an unknown universe, a spacecraft more than ten meters long is lying quietly, and the frequency band used for scanning is probing towards the unknown deep space, and the two high-tech electromagnetic cannons in the bow of the Anli ship confirm its unusual identity.

Captain Warlot is the caretaker of the area, responsible for maintaining the passage and safety of merchant and mining ships along the way. By the way, it can also help subdue the debauched interstellar pirate bullies and hooligans in the surrounding area. In the eyes of some low-level civilizations who have just been able to use chemical fuel to break free from the shackles of their home planet, his strength as an absolute ruler of the galaxy is not an exaggeration. But in front of the advanced civilizations that have broken through their own shackles and come into contact with other dimensions, he is just a small security guard who receives a low salary.

Under the appointment of the supreme authority of the Interstellar Federation, there are at least tens of thousands of such caretakers. Originally, the main duty was to protect some galaxies that may or have evolved low-level civilizations from interference and invasion by extraterrestrial civilizations.

But in fact, the natural evolution of life must have at least a process of tens of thousands of interstellar epochs. So they are also jokingly called living interstellar beacons by large merchant ships passing around the galaxy, an absolutely accurate location navigation point......

And the vast majority of those who are often entrusted with this task are old fritters who have many years of regular interstellar sailing experience, but because of certain things, their resumes are tainted. The condition for serving the Interstellar Federation is to serve for a full thirty years of the interstellar era, and the past mistakes are written off. This condition has the effect of a federally recognized regulation. Any civilization system under the Federation must abide by it.

Hua Luo is one of them, in his fifth year in office, as a family of seafarers, his ancestors rose from the Earth Federation fleet and conquered the sea of stars. And he is the forty-second great-grandson of this legend...... An inconspicuous character.

As a young man, he had just turned sixteen years old and ran the interstellar merchant ship with his uncle, who was the second mate on the ship, and spared no effort to teach this nephew. In less than three years, he made a name for himself at a young age. However, at a ball held by Interstellar Corporation, he made a bad impression of the daughter of a galaxy ruler, and was finally ordered to be fired from the ship, and he was reduced to the situation he is today.

Fixed-point patrols between galaxies are boring, and Hua Luo clicked the confirmation button a few times on the transparent panel in his hand. It was necessary for him to get paid and complete the task, and it could have been given to Glade, the helmsman and first mate sitting in the front, or Roo, the communicator and chief engineer, who sat beside him.

It seems that every crew member on this battleship wears many hats, but the actual salary of each person is only half, and he thinks that he is an old fritter in the interstellar world, and the famous captain who picks the door, Hua Luo bribed his superiors with money to ask for the salary of two more positions, but did not hire a new crew.

Looking at the clock at hand, according to the stellar clock of this galaxy, he has been working for a week, and I don't know if he can go back now to catch the weekend's beer special.

"Hey, Glade!" Warlow tapped his chair and shouted to the helmsman in front of him, "End the patrol, let's go back to the Explorer's Bar, I don't want your slow sailing skills to make me miss out on discounted beer." ”

The helmsman known as Glade lowered his information mask, revealing light gray features, somewhat similar to those of humans, except for a slightly smaller size.

He was very dissatisfied with the captain's shouting, but after all, he was his own boss, so he had to respond simply and turn on the start button of the ship.

Glade comes from the constellation Centauri, and when humans broke through fossil energy and really looked up at the starry sky, the first alien civilization with official significance was Glade's home planet.

Then human beings realized that in the original science fiction works, those silver appearances, huge eyes, and small bodies are not groundless.

And Glade's home planet has always abided by the rules of the interstellar federation, the supreme authority in the universe, for hierarchical earth civilizations. It is only appropriate to dispatch reconnaissance and investigation vehicles to survey and sample in uninhabited areas.

At the beginning, human beings thought that they had grasped the thighs of higher civilizations and kept learning from their neighbors in Centauri, but in the later process, human beings discovered more and more advanced civilizations of all kinds, and only then did they find that this neighbor was just a few years older than themselves and had a little more experience.

Humanity has also successfully gained a place from the Interstellar Federation, although it is still at the bottom of the list.

But at least, humanity knows the level of civilization in the universe - barely reaching the toes of a third-level civilization.

However, at this time, the diverse human race has shown its own advantages, and the cultural blending of various races, constantly learning advanced alien technology, has been catching up with higher level civilizations. Steadily surpass this arrogant neighbor at the beginning.

Nearly 5,000 years of interstellar development and multiplication have allowed this weak race on the edge of the galaxy to shine in the universe. Especially in recent years, the continuous attempts to space theory have faintly touched the feeling of a fourth-level civilization.

You must know that there are only two civilizations in the Supreme Authority Interstellar Federation that have come into contact with the fourth level, and they are still skins. It has already made other civilizations awe-inspired.

As soon as the human space theory experiment was exposed, there were different galactic civilizations circulating, and the interstellar federation may have a third decision-making power. What does the fourth-level civilization represent? Absolute power! And the interstellar federation, which is dominated by many third-level civilizations and two fourth-level civilizations, distinguishes and positions the living galaxies according to the degree of evolution and development.

The evolution of language and social living systems, the invention of tools to establish a recyclable and sustainable natural industry, and the strict identity class characteristics, are the first-level civilization, the primary civilization, also known as the embryonic stage of life.

A second-level civilization is the discovery and use of all available energy resources in its home galaxy and the ability to destroy and destroy a planet, and is able to carry out simple and short-lived interstellar voyages and near-Earth colonization, which is called the Enlightenment Stage.

And if a civilization can carry out efficient, long-term and fast interstellar travel, has the ability to draw the necessary energy from different planets, stars, and even black holes, and can easily destroy and destroy a galaxy, then this civilization is a third-level civilization, also known as a high-speed civilization. Human beings have been using it for nearly 5,000 years, from an obscure pseudo-third-level civilization to the current peak of third-level civilization. It is important to note that the epoch year in the universe and the first year of the parent galaxy's rpm around the star are different. The epoch is long, much older.

Fourth-level civilization is the longed-for and unattainable existence of many third-level civilizations that can swim in the sea of stars, and there are traces to follow from the second-level civilization to the third-level civilization, and as long as it is a young civilization, it is almost effortless to upgrade from the second-level to the third-level. However, the fourth-level civilization has blocked the progress of all civilizations. According to the prophecy of the ancient civilization of the galaxy, every time a new material energy source is discovered, a higher civilization will appear, and if a fourth-level civilization really appears, then this universe will be exposed to the greetings of the fifth-level civilization or exterminated. After all, if a second-level civilization wants to destroy a first-level civilization, it can do so without much effort, and in the same way, a third-level civilization only needs an interstellar warship to destroy a civilization weaker than him. And the fourth-level civilization may only need one bullet, and the fifth-level civilization ......

The only possible fourth-level civilization in the Star Federation is only the result of constant speculation from the battlefield wreckage of their several edge wars. The in-depth study of space theory by the earth's civilization during this period is bound to break the shackles of the former's civilization.

The intervention of a third-party civilization will also be accompanied by the future change of decision-making power and future direction of the Interstellar Federation.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are sad!

However, the story here has nothing to do with the development of human civilization.