Some scholars who studied the sociology of the universe believed that building a galactic society with order from scratch required a few prerequisites. First, there had to be a communication in the form of a universal war, and a portion of the civilizations had survived and had a certain level of understanding of each other. Second, there had to be one or a few powerful rulers who could suppress all disobedience and had the power to force the rules of the universe for other civilizations, forming order. Third, the scale of the distance between the universe and the universe had to be greatly reduced, which was the hyperdrive technology, stargate technology, and universal quantum communication technology.
In the eyes of some civilization development historians, these three technologies were the greatest inventions of the universal era, allowing civilizations countless light years apart to have the ability to communicate quickly. The entire explored universe thus formed a stable galactic society system.
After exploring the Flickering World for four months, including Han Xiao, the entire Black Star Corps agreed with this view.
Hardaway's Special Task Force took four months to travel from the southern part of the Garu Star Cluster to the eastern part, but Han Xiao's main fleet only took less than two days to complete the four-month journey through the stargates left behind along the way.
In the eastern border Star System of the Garu Star Cluster, the two fleets met in space. The spaceships of the Special Task Force were like swallows returning to their nest, embedding in the dock of the main fleet and completing the docking.
Han Xiao waited in the command room of the bridge for a while, and very soon, he saw Hardaway and his subordinates hurriedly walking over from the dock.
"Army Commander!" Hardaway had an excited expression on his face. He opened his arms wide and pounced toward Han Xiao.
Han Xiao's mouth twitched, and after hesitating for a second, he did not back away. He braced himself and hugged Hardaway. Their strong chest muscles made a thumping sound.
"It's been four whole months!" Hardaway said with an excited tone.
"Is there a need to be so excited …" Han Xiao only felt Hardaway's arms tightly around his waist. With a helpless expression, Han Xiao casually patted his shoulder and pulled him away with one hand.
However, he did not know that these four months had been extremely torturous for Hardaway. His Body Hardening Esper Ability required intense external stimulation to improve. As a Beyond Grade A seed, he was willing to become Han Xiao's subordinate for the chance to spar with a Beyond Grade A. After following Han Xiao, he could feel that his Esper Ability, which had stagnated for a long time, had once again grown, which made him ecstatic.
However, after being sent out for four months, his strength, which had finally shown signs of improvement, once again fell into silence. Furthermore, the Special Task Force did not even have a Calamity Grade officer, so he could not even find someone to spar with. For a battle maniac like him, this was simply unbearable. After four months, he had been bored to death!
Now that he saw Han Xiao, Hardaway felt as though he had seen his family. In his eyes, there seemed to be a holy halo behind Han Xiao's head, and there seemed to be hymns surrounding him. He realized that he actually missed Han Xiao's … fist so much.
Hardaway was in a great mood. He then looked at Hella beside him, grinned, and opened his arms, wanting to hug her too.
"Why don't you try touching me?" Hella glanced at him coldly, and the energy of death appeared in her eyes.
Hardaway's face stiffened, and he awkwardly retracted his arms. If not for the fact that I'm the Army Commander, a Beyond Grade A seed like me would not care about you at all.
"Hardaway is a Beyond Grade A seed after all. Don't be so rude with your words." However, Han Xiao felt that Hella's attitude toward the Black Star Guards was not too good, so he patted her shoulder and squeezed her shoulder blade.
Hmm, it feels pretty good.
Hella's face immediately tensed up. She glanced at Han Xiao's palm and retracted the red energy overflowing from her eyes.
"Oh."
Hardaway greeted Fu Ding and the rest of the Black Star Guards before looking at Han Xiao again. "According to your instructions, the Special Task Force has set up a long-distance stargate. What do we do next?"
Han Xiao did not answer directly. Instead, he snapped his fingers and summoned the 3D star map in front of everyone. He carefully searched through the star map and confirmed the planet with the ownerless Universal Treasure in the desolate universe belt outside the Garu Star Cluster.
In his previous life, this planet was called Planet Amber. At this time, it was still a numbered planet without a name.
"We're going to this planet?" Aurora was curious. "Is there anything special about it?"
Han Xiao nodded and casually made up a reason. "Some time ago, when the army members were exploring the desolate planet, they found some intelligence left behind by aliens. It seemed to be the travel records of some explorers, and there was information about this planet. It's said that there's a civilization on it. Since we're here, it's a good time to explore it."
There was nothing wrong with this reason. Since it was Han Xiao who said it, even if everyone was a little surprised, they did not have many doubts. After all, with the Great Cosmos Corps incident, they were not surprised by the existence of the natives of the Flickering World.
Han Xiao was not spouting nonsense. Planet Amber itself was the ruin of an extinct native civilization, and the Universal Treasure was stored in this ruin.
[Spacetime Amber] was the name of this Universal Treasure. It was not created by the native civilization but an item that had accidentally landed on this planet. It was once treated as a holy item by this civilization.
In his previous life, as the dynasty's allies steadily developed it, the Spacetime Amber eventually fell into the hands of one of the dynasty's allies who participated in the exploration. That ally was Ravenlaude, one of the Beyond Grade As that Han Xiao had met when he went to the mother planet of the Red Empire, a member of the Ancient Ones who did not have a good relationship with Aesop.
Later, Ravenlaude was defeated by another Beyond Grade A in the Calamity of the Supers version, and the Spacetime Amber was snatched away by someone else. After countless storms, the Spacetime Amber changed owners several times. One of the owners was even an expert from the World Tree Civilization, and it finally fell into the hands of the Radiant Federation.
The origin of the Spacetime Amber was very mysterious. In his previous life, the players only learned about the origin of this thing from special intelligence channels in the later versions. It was not a big secret, but the reason for its formation was related to the legendary Primordial Ones, so there was a story behind it.
As for the effect of the Spacetime Amber, it could only be described as' special '.
It would not bring about any bonuses to one's combat strength, but its effect … was something that even Beyond Grade As would be afraid of!
According to Han Xiao's memories of the storyline in his previous life, after the Spacetime Amber was born, the number of Beyond Grade As that had 'fallen' for it had exceeded the number of fingers on one hand!
Now that the Spacetime Amber was an ownerless item, no one other than himself knew of its existence. Since he could obtain it without much effort, Han Xiao was naturally determined to obtain it.
…
A few days later, the fleet arrived at Planet Amber and entered the atmosphere.
The star was relatively close to this planet, and the sun was scorching hot. Looking down from the sky, the surface of Amber Planet was practically a desert. Waves of hot wind blew past, stirring up dust and sand that would not stop for a long time. Dark brown sandstorms wandered aimlessly on the ground, and no traces of civilization could be seen.
Han Xiao was about to send out the exploration spaceship when Aurora closed her eyes and sensed for a while. She then shook her head.
"There are no signs of life on this planet."
"Your life detection range can already cover an entire planet?" Hella's eyes flickered, and a hint of surprise flashed through her eyes.
Seeing everyone look over, Aurora smiled shyly, but there was a hint of pride in her tone. "I've also improved."
"Not bad, not bad." Han Xiao smiled with relief.
Every time Aurora's strength increased, he would be very happy.
After all, this meant that Aurora's healing power had increased …
The effect of the Aurora Character Summon Card was to recover to full health, but that was a product of the interface. Aurora's healing power was limited, and she needed to consume her own life force to activate her ability. His Beyond Grade A cells contained a terrifying amount of energy. With Aurora's current strength, the consumption of healing him to full health was extremely high. Perhaps after one or two times, Aurora would go limp.
When Aurora reached the Calamity Grade, her endurance would increase greatly, and her milk would be more abundant, allowing him to be full.
Upon hearing this, Fu Ding said, "There are no signs of life. Then, the civilization you mentioned might have already perished, leaving only ruins behind."
Han Xiao nodded. Looking at the vast expanse of yellow sand, he sent out a probe ship to sense the underground environment of the planet.
In the dynasty's records, the ruins of the civilization where the Spacetime Amber was located were buried under the yellow sand. As for the specific process of discovering the Spacetime Amber, there were no detailed records, so he did not know the exact location. However, with the galactic-grade detection equipment here, it was only a matter of time before they found the civilization ruins.
As expected, before Han Xiao finished watching Hardaway and another Black Star Guard play a game of Wayne Cards, the probe ship sent back news that many ruins suspected to be cities had been discovered under the desert.
However, the probe ship did not find any special energy sources, and the energy radar was dead silent.
"No abnormal energy signals? Hmm, the Spacetime Amber should be on this planet. Maybe it hasn't been charged for so long, so there aren't any energy fluctuations. "
Han Xiao looked at the ruins marked on the planet map and shook his head helplessly.
"Looks like I'll have to search all of them … Tsk, why didn't the dynasty record the specific process of discovering the Spacetime Amber? I still have to find it myself."
After thinking about it, Han Xiao ordered the fleet to wait in outer space for the time being while he brought the Black Star Guards to the sky above the planet.
Looking down at the ground beneath his feet, Han Xiao waved his hand, and a majestic Mechanical Force gushed out, stirring up waves of energy ripples. Behind him, a huge door of light opened, and inside it were densely packed mechanical soldiers. This was the secondary dimension military camp that he always carried with him.
Clank …
Countless mechanical soldiers swarmed out, with Psionic Prime and thousands of other mechanical lifeforms at the front of the mechanical army, looking at Han Xiao.
After releasing millions of mechanical soldiers, Han Xiao closed the secondary dimension military camp. The Mech Legion lined up neatly in front of him, covering the entire sky as if they were in a military parade.
"Search the ruins. Report to me if you find anything special. Also, look for this thing at the same time." Han Xiao outlined the shape of the Spacetime Amber in the quantum network and passed the order to all the mechanical soldiers through Philip.
Hu!
The next moment, the mechanical army in front of him scattered like birds and beasts, splitting up and going into the yellow sand to explore the ruins.
With so many useful mechanical helpers, Han Xiao did not want to waste his energy searching so many ruins himself.
"Master, we found a special phenomenon."
Not long after, Psionic Prime sent back a good news and pictures.
Han Xiao took a look. In the picture was a huge room that looked like some kind of hall. The walls and pillars were filled with mottled murals. In the middle of the room was a large black disc with integrated circuit matrix-like patterns. It might be a product of a mixture of magic and technology.
On the ground around the disc were many translucent circular crystals, each about 1.5 meters tall. Inside them were creatures of the same species. Their bodies did not have any signs of decay, but their expressions and movements were all frozen. There were no life signals, as if they were creatures frozen in amber.
"This phenomenon is the effect of the Spacetime Amber …"
Han Xiao was stunned. He had been to Planet Amber in his previous life, but there were only ruins there at that time. There were no creatures that had turned into amber specimens at all. These creatures should be the race of this extinct civilization.
Ravenlaude might have taken these specimens away when he found the Spacetime Amber back then.
However, this was also good news. It meant that he was not far away from the Spacetime Amber.
Han Xiao ordered the fleet to descend. The spaceships worked together and sucked the desert dry with their tractor beams, revealing the ruins where Psionic Prime was.
The group quickly descended and landed in the ruins. They followed Psionic Prime's signal all the way to the center of the ruins, observing the city as they walked.
Although the ruins were heavily eroded by time, they could still barely restore the original appearance of this civilization.
The buildings were continuous, and the mottled patterns could still vaguely show the beauty of the past. This civilization seemed to have quite a high artistic attainment.
"It should have been a pretty beautiful civilization when it was alive," Fu Ding said.
"Maybe."
Han Xiao did not deny it. Very soon, they arrived at the center of the ruins. This was an extremely huge fortress. It looked like a super large safe house or shelter made of countless hard materials.
Psionic Prime's troops were in this fortress. Han Xiao and the others quickly entered the hall shown in the picture. After a rough scan, they realized that there were probably no less than twenty thousand amber bodies here.
"What are these things? They look a little like amber." Hardaway curiously touched one of the amber next to him. The feeling was very strange. He could not feel the temperature of the amber, but his hand could not move an inch closer.
Han Xiao casually walked in front of one of the amber and looked at the creature inside. These creatures should be mammal-type carbon-based creatures. They looked furry, and their facial features looked a little like sloths. They were about one meter tall and maintained the expression before they were frozen. Their eyes were wide open, and their eyes were filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
Turning around to look at Hella, Han Xiao pouted. "Try attacking them."
Swoosh!
Hella did not say anything. A beam of death energy shot out from her eyes and bombarded one of the amber.
The next moment, something strange happened. Although the amber was sent flying, it was not damaged at all. The energy that Hila had released spread out on the smooth surface of the amber, and all of it was deflected. There was not a single trace of destructive force on the amber. It was as if the energy was like a water droplet, and the amber was like a lotus leaf, not absorbing water at all.
"Hmm?" Hella frowned. She did not believe it. Her death energy was highly condensed, and she was ready to attack again.
Seeing this, Han Xiao stopped her. "Alright, you don't have to try anymore. Otherwise, this room is going to collapse because of you."
Hella had no choice but to retract her energy. "This thing is actually immune to my attacks. Even my mental damage did not penetrate it."
"It's not just mental damage."
Han Xiao stretched out his hand and pressed on one of the amber. Mechanical Force surged out, and lightning only flowed on the surface of the amber. The amber did not show any signs of being burnt.
"To be exact, this thing should be immune to all kinds of energy and will not be damaged. Even brute force can only send it flying and will not cause any damage to it."
Han Xiao lifted one of the amber with one hand and weighed it twice. It was not heavy, so he put it down and shook his head. "Even a Beyond Grade A or the strongest Planetary Obliteration Weapon of a Universal Civilization will not be able to cause any damage to this amber."
Hearing this, everyone's expression changed.
"How can there be such a strong material in the world?"
"Even a Beyond Grade A can't break it? That's impossible! "
"Could it be …" Hella had a flash of inspiration. "This is another Space Wonder."
Han Xiao stroked his chin and pretended to guess. "Hmm, you can say that. It feels the same as the Evolution Cube. This is also a man-made product."
He was not very clear about the principle behind the formation of this amber, but it was a Space Wonder. Just like the Evolution Cube, it was very difficult to explain. According to the information in his previous life, this amber seemed to have changed the nature of time and space, causing a small piece of spacetime to materialize, forming an effect similar to that of amber, wrapping an object within.
The object wrapped in the Spacetime Amber would be isolated from reality, as if it existed in a different space where the scale of time would not advance or retreat. The effect was like frozen spacetime.
However, according to common sense, the body of an object wrapped in amber should not change. Just like in a sleeping pod, their lifespan would be long or even infinite, and their thoughts should also be frozen. However, according to the description of the NPCs in his previous life, being wrapped in the Spacetime Amber, they would not be able to control their body, and their energy would not be able to penetrate the amber from the inside. However, in reality, their consciousness would still be active, and they could even observe the changes in the outside world through their vision and hearing. They could even sense the passage of time in the outside world, just like being trapped in their body. This was a paradox in common sense, and it was also one of the important reasons why it was regarded as a Space Wonder.
Only those who were imprisoned in the Spacetime Amber for too long would have their thoughts stagnate, and in the end, they would erase themselves and give up on thinking. The stronger the person, the longer they would be able to last.
Therefore, this thing could create a cage that could imprison any creature, and there was no need to worry about the prisoner escaping. At the same time, it was also a form of torture.
Even if the target was a Beyond Grade A, it would still be the same!
The only problem was that the activation process of the Spacetime Amber was relatively long, and it would be extremely difficult to trap a Beyond Grade A.
If this thing falls into the hands of the enemy, it will be a huge threat to me as well. If it falls into my hands, I will have one less ability that I need to be wary of.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind. Han Xiao turned to look at the black disc in the middle of the room that was about ten meters in diameter. After observing the array patterns on the disc for a while, he roughly confirmed that this was an energy transmission and activation circuit.
It seems like this thing needs energy to be activated.
Han Xiao waved his hand, and Psionic Prime obediently turned into many hovering guards, shooting out light beams toward the disc.
Hum!
The disc suddenly shook, and some sort of device seemed to have been activated. The circuit lit up in the blink of an eye, and the dust on it fell.
In the next moment, the disc lit up, revealing its true function … It was a screen.
A video began to play on the screen, and a creature of this civilization appeared on the screen and slowly spoke.
At this time, the translator had yet to record this language, so no one could understand what it was saying. However, this did not stop them from understanding the images on the screen. Scenes of this civilization before its demise flashed across the screen, as though it was narrating the history of this civilization from the very beginning. From primitive creatures, learning how to use tools, gradually developing airplanes, hovering cars, and even trying to build interstellar spaceships. The cities were beautiful, and the people lived in peace.
Unfortunately, due to the abnormal activities of the Fixed Stars, the living environment of the planet changed drastically, and a disaster that was enough to wipe out all life on the planet swept across the entire planet. In order to preserve their civilization, they used a 'Holy Artifact' to seal their people and a large number of lives, storing all the information of their civilization in a database. Every ruin had a database set up to ensure that anyone who came later would be able to discover them.
The appearance of that 'Holy Artifact' was the Spacetime Amber in his memory. He had not found the wrong place. Han Xiao secretly heaved a sigh of relief and continued watching.
Using the Spacetime Amber required a large amount of energy, and it was very difficult for a surface civilization. This civilization had used the power of their race to charge it, almost draining their energy. This was why they had used the Spacetime Amber so many times. It was not just this city ruin. Every ruin had many amber bodies … While everyone was watching the video, the teams exploring the other ruins had also discovered more amber.
At the end of the video, the location of the Spacetime Amber was finally mentioned. It seemed to be stored in a large city, but this was the city before the civilization was destroyed. It was unknown which ruin it was in now.
"Let's get Philip to copy their database first. As long as we decipher the language, we'll know what this video says in detail. We can also directly locate the ruins where the Spacetime Amber is located according to the map."
Han Xiao was about to take action when a notification popped up on the interface that he had triggered a mission.
You have triggered the hidden mission [Traces of Existence]!
Mission Introduction: Due to the abnormal changes in the star, a world-ending catastrophe swept through the Yasrean civilization. Before their destruction, the Yasreans chose two paths at the same time. They wanted to use the Holy Artifact to preserve a small number of their people so that they could survive the disaster and rebuild their civilization in the future. Therefore, they have been waiting for a successor to undo the effects of the Holy Artifact for them. However, if no one came, the Yasreans were willing to become eternal specimens and preserve all the information of their civilization to this day, leaving traces of their existence in the vast universe … And you are the visitor they have been waiting for for many years. Unfortunately, endless time has already chosen their final fate for them.
Mission Requirements: Use the 'Holy Artifact' of the Yasrean Civilization and remove the effects of the Holy Artifact on all the Yasreans.
Reward: 1.5 Billion EXP, 1 Legendary Point, 1 Random Reward, + 780 Exploration Points, 1 [Bold Explorer] Skill Fragment
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