Flickering World, Renault Star Cluster, Jeraton Star System.
The joint exploration team of the Bloodshed Land and the Klent Kingdom was carrying out the plan step by step. The exploration fleet was like a paint brush, slowly painting the gray unexplored areas on the star map into green. The stargate transportation network in the first Star Zone was gradually built. The planets were explored one after another, and the detailed information was recorded in the database. A large number of space buoys were left in the areas they passed.
The exploration process on the Bloodshed Land's side was peaceful. There were many resource rich planets in the Jeraton Star System, but they had not encountered a single native civilization so far.
Heber had been very idle for the past ten days or so. The huge fleet worked according to the plan and did not need his command. He found a Fixed Star to train his energy.
On a hot red Fixed Star in the Star Zone, Heber walked on the surface of the Fixed Star. The plasma energy of the Fixed Star formed a moving whirlpool and rotated around him. Under the stimulation of his energy, the cells in his body swallowed the intense radiation around him at a special rhythm and turned it into his own energy. Dazzling white patches appeared on his skin.
The Stellar Furnace training method that Han Xiao had drawn came from Heber. Every Pugilist was addicted to fitness. They would feel uncomfortable if they did not train for a day.
Heber exhaled and expelled the redundant energy in his body. What he spat out was an energy arc that looked like a red Fehn Wind.
With a stomp of his legs, the huge force turned into a shockwave that spread out. The red energy whirlpool around him was instantly shattered. Heber was wrapped in dense flames. He broke through the strong gravitational force of the Fixed Star and shot up like a beam of light toward the universe. He quickly left the outer area of the Fixed Star and returned to the fleet outside.
Walking into the spaceship, Heber casually put on his cloak and took the communicator from his subordinate. It was a message from Klent.
"Your Excellency Tyrant, we just received news that the commander-in-chief has issued an order to the Black Star Corps, asking them to eliminate a native organization."
"Attack the local forces?" Heber paused. "The Empire's exploration rules forbid the use of violence."
"Our men on Planet Lighthouse have found out that Black Star's situation is special. That native organization is a group of raiders that occupied the center of the Star Cluster. They were coincidentally discovered by the Black Star Corps. The dynasty wants the planet's information that this native organization has accumulated, so the chief commander allowed the Black Star Corps to eliminate this organization."
Hearing this, Heber frowned.
While they were developing steadily, the Black Star Corps had already started fighting in the jungle?!
If the Black Star Corps were to obtain the accumulated intelligence of the local forces, it would be a great achievement. They would be able to obtain a large amount of information on the planet.
Originally, the Star System they had explored was more fertile, and the results of their exploration could have easily surpassed the Black Star Corps. Unfortunately, Black Star's luck was a little too good …
Heber shook his head.
He did not want to see the Black Star Corps obtain this result, but he could only watch. He could not help but feel a little depressed.
"Your Excellency Tyrant, our commander has a bold idea …" this time, the Klent communicator spoke again.
"Dealing with Black Star again?"
"That's right, we plan to …"
"Alright, cut the crap." Before the other party could finish, Heber interrupted him. "I've reached a truce agreement with the Black Star Corps, so I don't want to provoke them now. You guys better not do this either. It's meaningless."
Then, he hung up the communicator.
The Klent Kingdom was not willing to give up. They did not want their enemy, the Black Star Corps, to successfully obtain the credit. Heber did not want to mess around with them.
The commander sent by Klent this time was from the radical faction of the secret war, so he had a deep hostility toward Han Xiao. He only wanted to steal the credit of the Black Star Corps and annoy Black Star. In Heber's eyes, not only was the success rate low, it would also cause the dissatisfaction of Black Star and the dynasty. Furthermore, it would not affect the Black Star Corps much, so it was not worth it.
In the Flickering World, Heber really did not want to be enemies with the Black Star. With such a huge cake, it would be better to just explore his own area. Trying to cause trouble for the Black Star Corps would only benefit the other dynasty allies who would participate in the exploration in the future.
…
In Han Xiao's previous life, when the players entered the Flickering World in Version 4.0, many Star Clusters had already been explored. A large number of external organizations had entered and fought with each other, so the players had a lot of opportunities to fight. However, the situation was different now.
It was only Version 3.0 now. Han Xiao allowed the players to come into contact with the storyline of the Flickering World a version earlier. While gaining the upper hand, they also faced a different environment. In the early stages of exploration, there were only the Empire and their allies, and they were all on the same side. Therefore, the players lacked the storyline of faction wars and did not have many opportunities to fight.
Therefore, as soon as the [Destroy the Great Cosmos Corps] mission was released, all the players who followed the Black Star Corps to explore the Flickering World participated in this collective operation. There was no limit to the number of players, so most of them chose to participate.
Han Xiao was happy to see this happen. Because the players were in different exploration teams and were rather scattered, he casually arranged tens of thousands of spaceships to gather these players and form an expedition fleet.
Only a small portion of this expedition fleet were army NPC warriors. Most of them were players.
Because it would take quite some time to reach the central region of the Garu Star Cluster from here, Han Xiao did not plan to let the players stay in the spaceship all the time, as that would be a waste of their high-quality labor. He planned to let this expedition team explore some of the planets along the way, making the best use of everything.
Similarly, to make it easier for the players to return, they had to build stargates along the way.
This way, the exploration plan of the Black Star Corps also changed. The main force would slowly explore the border Star System. The first task force led by Hardaway would open up the path from the south to the east of the Star Cluster, and the second expedition team led by the players would open up the path from the south to the center of the Star Cluster.
Therefore, the manpower of the army was once again thinned out. Han Xiao ordered Sylvia, who was guarding the Shattered Star Ring headquarters, to send out the second fleet as soon as possible to replenish the manpower of the exploration team.
After the development of the previous two versions, the players now had Grade B combat strength. The millions of army players were more than enough to hold their own, so Han Xiao was quite assured.
As the versions changed, the strength of the players would become stronger and stronger. They would gradually grow into an organization that could not be ignored. They would gradually get rid of their identity as cannon fodder and slowly walk onto the stage of the universe.
After sending out the players' expedition fleet, Han Xiao did not bother about them anymore. He commanded the fleet to explore the resource planets one by one every day and used his free time to expand his mechanical army. No accidents happened during this period, and everything was peaceful.
Another two Star Zones were explored, and in the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed.
On this day, Han Xiao finally received a report from Philip. The players' expedition fleet heading toward the central region of the Star Cluster had finally met the scouts of the Great Cosmos Corps.
…
The scouts were a team of players that were setting up space buoys. They only had a small reconnaissance spaceship that only carried about three hundred players, while the scouts had three battleships.
A battle broke out immediately. As soon as this scout fleet discovered this group of players, they immediately charged forward and engaged in a side battle, planning to capture the enemies with their advantage in numbers and interrogate the Black Star Corps.
Cannonballs hit the shield of the small reconnaissance spaceship one after another, causing a series of explosions. However, the blinking shield did not move at all.
"Warning! Spaceship under attack. Shield energy remaining 97.1% … 99.7% … Charging complete. Evaluating threat … Evaluation complete. The enemy's firepower is unable to break through our shield. Threat level: Extremely low. "
The hundreds of players in the spaceship exchanged looks.
The spaceships of the Black Star Corps used perfect Star System technology and even reached the Star Cluster level in some aspects, such as energy cores, weapons, and shields. In comparison, the spaceships of the Great Cosmos Corps were too backward. Without a huge difference in numbers, there was no way they could pose a threat to the spaceships of the Black Star Corps.
The boarding battle was exactly what the hundreds of players wanted. After the three enemy scout spaceships got close, they were about to dock. At this moment, more than ten ejection charge cabins shot out from the side of the small scout spaceship, biting through the three enemy spaceships and embedding themselves into the hull of the enemy spaceship.
The players in the charge cabins were like ferocious tigers that had just been unleashed, slaughtering the enemy spaceships. This group of players was basically all above level 100, and the enemy spaceships were basically ordinary people.
Not long after, the hundreds of players cleared out the enemies within the enemy spaceships and obtained the three spaceships.
On the other side, Atimo, who was leading the army, also received news that one of the scout fleets had lost contact with them.
However, he did not receive the information that the scout fleets should have sent back, and the strength of the Black Star Corps was still unknown to him.
"Before the scout fleets lost contact, they only sent back news of encountering the enemy. After that, the connection was cut off. We don't know how they fought with the enemy," the aide-de-camp said with confusion.
"It's the same as that time with Kikiga …" Atimo narrowed his eyes, and a rare solemn look flashed through his eyes. "The enemy's quantum technology might surpass ours …"
When the battle broke out, Philip had hacked into the enemy's artificial intelligence through the quantum network and forcefully blocked the enemy's communication to prevent the army's intelligence from being leaked. It was the same when Kikiga encountered Psionic Prime. Thus, Atimo still did not know how many spaceships the Black Star Corps had and how strong they were.
On the contrary, Philip had found out the location of Atimo's main force through the quantum network and was currently recalling the exploration team outside. He then ordered the expedition team to rush toward the enemy's main force.
No matter what war it was, the importance of intelligence could not be ignored. The army's Virtual Technology was far superior to the enemy's, and the Great Cosmos Corps was like a bunch of blind men in comparison.
Ever since he had dominated the 'universe', Atimo had never met an enemy that could make him feel pressured. However, the appearance of the Black Star Corps this time shook his confidence.
This might be the strongest opponent he had ever met.
"The Black Star Corps is not bad," Atimo said with a solemn tone. "I'm willing to call you the strongest."
"However … your outcome won't change at all after encountering my fleet!"
Atimo's eyes were cold and filled with confidence. This time, he had brought all his forces, a total of 100,000 battleships!
This was the fleet that he had accumulated for many years, the foundation for his domination of the 'universe'.
In his mind, such a large fleet was more than enough to sweep through all enemies.
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