Chapter 876: Transgalactic Expansion
You must know that the remnants of ancient civilizations, their lethality is equivalent to the terrifying existence of another dimension.
Even against the powerful fleets of cosmic-level civilizations, the remnants of these ancient civilizations also have their special advantages.
Although if the direct lethality is relatively high, the soul bodies of these ancient civilizations may not be as good as a faster-than-light spaceship, and their instantaneous lethality can only kill a small handful of lives.
And a faster-than-light spaceship, especially some powerful interstellar civilizations, if they have some powerful weapons of destruction, especially some super-destruction weapons provided by cosmic-level civilizations, even if there is only one spaceship, they can instantly destroy an ecological planet, and even destroy a star.
However, although the remnants of the ancient civilization are relatively inferior in terms of instantaneous lethality, but under the long-term lethality, especially the prepared layout, their devastating lethality is that of interstellar civilizations and even cosmic-level superluminal spaceships cannot be compared.
A well-prepared remnant of an ancient civilization, if it does not encounter a powerful existence that can restrain it, as long as it is willing to spend time and energy, it can even destroy a powerful interstellar civilization by itself, even a cosmic-level civilization may suffer huge damage, which is something that neither cosmic-level civilization nor super interstellar civilization can do.
And now, with the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance winning three cross-galaxy wormhole passages, a large number of remnants of ancient civilizations have rushed to garrison the safety of the wormholes, which provides ample opportunities for the remnants of ancient civilizations to arrange in advance.
You must know that around these three wormhole passages, their original operating civilizations have already carried out a lot of development and investment around the wormhole passages over the years, and within a certain distance around the wormhole passages, a large number of planets, space bases, etc. rely on the operation of wormhole passages to make profits.
This time, the alliance forcibly seized control of these three wormhole passages, and for further follow-up actions, the alliance only dealt with all military facilities, garrison fleets, etc. around the wormhole passages, but did not deal with the surrounding planets, space buildings, etc., so there are still a large number of people still living in the vicinity of these wormhole passages.
And this itself is also specially prepared for the ancient civilization to be able to show its strengths.
With the arrival of the remnants of the ancient civilizations, under their targeted infection, a considerable part of the population living on the surrounding planets and space facilities were infected by the soul virus, and died completely in a very short time, and their souls infected by the soul virus were concentrated on both sides of the wormhole passage.
This time, the remnants of the ancient civilization did not collect these souls to satisfy their appetite, on the contrary, these souls were specially prepared by the remnants of the ancient civilization!
You must know that for the remnants of the ancient civilization, it is not difficult to infect ordinary souls, but in the process of infection, a medium is needed, and there must be a corresponding infected soul body to infect and spread the virus, so that the lethality of the remnants of the ancient civilization can be reflected as much as possible.
However, in interstellar warfare, the speed of those faster-than-light spaceships is often faster-than-light, there is no communication between spaceships and spaceships, and the distance between spaceships is often too far, which greatly limits the ability of the soul virus of the remnants of ancient civilizations.
It's like the last time they dealt with the Gularen civilization, the remnants of the ancient civilization took action in person, and because of these reasons, it took a long time for the ancient civilization to solve this fleet, and it didn't make the Gularen fleet really a threat.
However, in order to destroy the fleet of the ancient Laren civilization, the ancient civilization also spent a considerable amount of time and energy, and mobilized a lot of manpower to do this.
However, now that these intergalactic wormhole passages are laid out in advance, the situation is completely different.
After all, no matter which interstellar civilization or cosmic-level civilization wants to enter the meteorite star sea, it must fight around the wormhole channel, and even directly cross the wormhole channel, and then the remnants of the ancient civilization who have prepared in advance will no longer need to be forced to spread the virus one by one, and send these infected souls to each spaceship that passes through the wormhole channel one by one, ensuring that these spaceships can have no return.
Even if those attacking civilizations were not able to pass through the wormhole passage, in the process of their attack on the wormhole passage, with these infected soul bodies prepared in advance, the remnants of the ancient civilization would be able to infect a large number of soldiers inside the warship with less effort, so as to ensure the absolute safety of the meteorite star sea!
With such advance preparations, it can be said that the surrounding areas of these three cross-galaxy wormhole passages have become a plague death realm in the true sense, as long as there is no civilization that has the ability to deal with the invasion of the soul body, it is impossible to get benefits in the process of attacking the meteorite star sea, even if any civilization has some temporary results and recaptures the wormhole passage, it is just a self-inflicted death for them, and sooner or later they will return the results they have won.
In this way, guarding the choke point such as the cross-galaxy wormhole passage, no civilization can threaten the rule of the ancient civilization in the meteorite star sea, and even those cosmic-level civilizations will inevitably feel unbearable if they want to deal with this situation.
The reason why the ancient civilization adopted such radical means to deal with this external threat was because it felt the crisis, and in order to avoid being threatened by repeated wars and affecting its own interests, it used such a means once and for all to directly cut off the black hand of the foreign civilization to control the meteorite star sea, so that the many interstellar civilizations of the meteorite star sea could truly become resources under the control of the ancient civilization.
On the other hand, it is also because the ancient civilization has returned to the material world for so many years and harvested a large number of souls, and the power of the entire civilization has become countless times stronger, and it can be said that it has been fully fledged, and gradually began to be dissatisfied with the boundaries of its own interests.
When the first year returned to the material universe, the ancient civilization was not clear about the surrounding power pattern, coupled with its own lack of a solid foundation, the basic disk of interests, at this time, the ancient civilization was cautious, lest if the action was too big, it would attract the blow of the universe-level civilization, so it was silently lurking in the newly developed star field of the meteorite star sea.
However, over the years, the ancient civilization has completed the layout, and has faintly controlled most of the immigrant civilizations in the Meteorite Star Sea, and it can be said that it has basically digested the foundation of the Meteorite Star Sea.
At the same time, because of the improvement of the strength of the ancient civilization, the number of new soul bodies continues to expand, just relying on the basic plate of the meteorite star sea, the ancient civilization has gradually begun to feel that the money at hand has become less abundant again, even if there are soul resources that are normally harvested from the many interstellar civilizations in the meteorite star sea, and there is a large part of the income that has skyrocketed because of the provoking civilization war, but because the ancient civilization itself has seen the continuous increase in the consumption of soul resources, these resources are still slowly becoming a little insufficient.
This shortage of resources also led to the impulse of ancient civilizations to expand abroad.
After all, the meteorite star sea is the basic plate of interests of the ancient civilization, and every year the civilization here provides a large number of soul resources of the ancient civilization, which is a resource treasure directly controlled by the ancient civilization.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of their own growing resource gap, the remnants of the ancient civilization can only focus on the area beyond the meteorite star sea.
In the past, the reason why they did not dare to act rashly in the meteorite star sea was because the ancient civilization was afraid of attracting the blow of the cosmic-level civilization and could not afford it. Moreover, the soul resources of the Meteorite Star Sea can fully meet the needs of the ancient civilization, which naturally allows the ancient civilization to be content with the status quo and not be in a hurry to expand externally.
But now, on the one hand, the resource potential is insufficient, and there is a need for expansion, and on the other hand, it is also because the ancient civilization has figured out the surrounding civilization situation and knows that at least a certain degree of expansion in a short period of time will not easily attract the blow of the cosmic-level civilization.
What's more, the ancient civilization that is now strong and strong, even if it really encounters the military power of the cosmic-level civilization, which side will really suffer will have to wait until it is really fought to know.
Therefore, with both the need for expansion and the strength to expand, the ancient civilization simply took the opportunity of this foreign civilization to meddle in the affairs of the meteorite star sea, and directly opened the opening of this external expansion, and prepared to start relying on cross-galaxy wormholes to carry out cross-galaxy expansion actions.
Of course, unlike the scattered sand inside the Meteorite Star Sea, there is no strong civilization that has come out, so that the ancient civilization can calmly place chess pieces and pull up the peripheral force that is enough to rule the Meteorite Star Sea, the Meteorite Star Sea Alliance. The Ancient Civilizations were not prepared to support the same proxies in this cross-galaxy expansion, or at least in the early stages, the Ancient Civilizations did not intend to do so.
Infecting some people step by step around the wormhole passage, and spreading the infected soul body to farther star fields and more planets, and gradually establishing a soul virus network covering many planets and covering various civilizations, this is what the ancient civilization really wanted to do.
As long as this can be done, the influence of the ancient civilizations can be said to have truly penetrated into the bodies of various interstellar civilizations, even if the ancient civilizations have not directly established contact with these interstellar civilizations, but these interstellar civilizations have essentially laid the imprint of ancient civilizations.
At that time, once there is a necessity, the ancient civilization can be said to be a single thought, it can set off a devastating storm in various interstellar civilizations, harvest a large number of soul resources, those interstellar civilizations can never get rid of the control of the ancient civilizations on them, and these civilizations will naturally become the new basic plate of the ancient civilizations.
Of course, in this process of expansion, the ancient civilization was not prepared to harvest souls with great fanfare, causing a big storm like the previous zombie incident. Because if the action is too big, it is easy to cause panic among various interstellar civilizations, and even lead to the flight of a large number of civilizations, which is not in the interests of ancient civilizations.
After all, if it makes too much noise and really attracts the attention of super interstellar civilizations or even cosmic-level civilizations, it will likely bring some unexpected variables to the expansion of ancient civilizations.
Super interstellar civilization is nothing, if it really arouses the attention of cosmic-level civilizations, if the ancient civilizations want to wantonly expand externally in the future, the difficulty will obviously be greatly increased.
A cosmic-level civilization may not be enough to destroy an ancient civilization, but once it attracts the attention of a civilization of that level, if they want to limit the strength growth of the ancient civilization, there are many means.
For example, destroying a large number of civilizations in advance, establishing a vast civilization blank isolation zone in the starry sky, and even dispatching spaceships and battle star weapons with equipment aimed at soul bodies, to carry out targeted strikes on the star fields already occupied by ancient civilizations, to destroy the civilizations under the command of ancient civilizations, and to destroy the source of soul resources of ancient civilizations, these are all actions that cosmic-level civilizations may take.
Once these actions are carried out by a cosmic-level civilization, even if they are not directly aimed at the ancient civilization, they will greatly affect the interests of the ancient civilization and affect the growth rate of the ancient civilization, and the ancient civilization has no effective countermeasures.
After all, although the ancient civilization has its own advantages, it also inevitably has its own defects, and the power of the cosmic civilization can compete with it, even if the ancient civilization can hold it in terms of force, but in terms of comprehensive influence and flexibility of means, the ancient civilization still has some gaps.
If the ancient civilization could not have planted a sufficient number of infected soul bodies in the cosmic-level civilization in advance, it would obviously be unrealistic to create an equal threat to the cosmic-level civilization.
Therefore, for the current ancient civilization, it is not the best choice to act too high-profile, and before other civilizations really discover the existence of ancient civilizations and realize the danger of ancient civilizations, expand their sphere of influence as much as possible, and place their own chess pieces within more civilizations, which is the most important thing.
And this time to snatch the cross-galaxy wormhole passage that links to the meteorite star sea, if it works well, it will undoubtedly also be able to increase the expansion range of ancient civilizations.
After all, it is a matter of belonging to such a large galaxy as the Meteorite Star Sea, no matter how marginalized the Meteorite Star Sea is, no matter how much it is not taken seriously, this is a big galaxy after all, and the powerful civilizations in the surrounding area cannot sit idly by, and those more powerful civilizations will do it sooner or later once they are ready, and if they fail to solve the problem, it will trigger the interference of higher-level and more powerful civilizations.
In this process of continuous collision and exchange, the ancient civilization will naturally not have the opportunity to take the opportunity to make a layout.