The meeting lasted for half a day, and Tarrokov introduced the various matters of the second exploration phase. Finally, it came to an end. He slapped the table and said with a deep voice, "There is one last thing.
During the exploration phase, please pay attention to any abnormal signals. From the start of the first exploration phase, there have been many organizations trying to sneak into the Flickering World. We have taken various measures to eliminate a large number of stowaways, but there are always some that have escaped. If you discover any stowaways, you must pursue them. "
The Flickering World was still in the closed development phase, and there were many organizations trying to sneak in. Most of the people present knew that most of the stowaways were the troops of the various Star Cluster and Supercluster civilizations or people hired by them.
Because the first region had already been explored, these stowaways had already escaped to the later regions, and their whereabouts were a mystery. The Empire had also sent some small teams to pursue them into the unexplored areas, but the results were minimal.
The way the dynasty saw it, the best way to deal with this was to complete the exploration plan step by step. In any case, these stowaways would have nowhere to run.
After the meeting, the representatives of the various allied organizations brought the contents of the meeting back to inform their upper echelons. A portion of the Beyond Grade As did not leave immediately and stayed to chat.
After chatting for a while, Tarrokov walked over and asked Han Xiao to talk to him privately.
The two of them walked to the side, and Han Xiao was a little curious.
"What's the matter?"
"Can't I talk to you if there's nothing?" Tarrokov chuckled. "However, I do have something to talk to you about. The Garu Star Cluster is connected to the Russo Star Cluster, and your territory happens to be connected to the Garu stargate and the Russo Star Cluster border. The transportation is convenient, and it can be used as a long-term transportation route for the other exploration organizations. Therefore, during the second exploration phase, a portion of the teams will borrow the route from your territory, and they will also need your help to transport some resources."
"Sure," Han Xiao agreed without hesitation.
The dynasty had given him seven Star Systems, and he had absolute control over them. Because the agreement had already taken effect, the dynasty could not casually order his territory around and had to ask for his opinion first.
Based on the situation of the second phase, opening up the transportation network to allow other exploration teams to pass through had more advantages than disadvantages. This could build an important resource circulation foundation for his territory. The more people chose this route, the more it would become inertia, allowing his territory to consolidate its position as the core area of the Garu Star Cluster and even improve the transportation network.
Being responsible for the transportation of goods was equivalent to being responsible for logistics to a certain extent. Everyone knew how much profit there was in logistics. During the first exploration phase, the Black Star Corps' role was more of a pathfinder. In the second phase, they had their own territory, and their role began to change to half logistics and half exploration, with more responsibilities.
After saying this, Tarrokov suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Have you received the news? The call for the Evolutionary Totem to be opened has started again."
Han Xiao nodded and didn't mind. "It doesn't matter. They can't do anything to me now anyway."
Now that the dynasty's upper echelons had different opinions about the Evolution Cube, it would not affect his current position for the time being. In the past six years, none of the dynasty's upper echelons had targeted him because they all knew that before things took a turn for the better, targeting Black Star would be a waste of time.
"I know, but you have to be careful." Tarrokov softly said, "I heard that one of the candidates seems to want to obtain the support of the opposition …"
Hearing this, Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and playfully said, "You're telling me such news? Aren't you afraid of being punished? "
"Ah ah, I didn't mention any names, so it doesn't matter if I say it. Will you report me? Furthermore, the faction I'm in doesn't really like his actions. "Tarrokov smiled.
Han Xiao suddenly realized that Tarrokov was not just reminding him out of kindness but also had a political goal.
The dynasty's Ruler was a nurturing system, and during the term of the previous Ruler, many candidates would be nurtured for the next Ruler. These candidates were all high-ranking officials and had the support of different factions. Most of them would accept the nurturing obediently.
However, there could only be one Ruler, and everyone else was just there to accompany him. Thus, some of the candidates who knew that it would be difficult for them to be elected or had great ambitions would think of ways to expand their own faction during the nurturing period to obtain the support of more factions.
In his previous life, Uranril's term had ended not long after the Flickering World storyline.
When a new Ruler took office, the general framework of the dynasty would not change, but the details would change according to the style and personality of the new Ruler. For example, the way to deal with competition, the way to treat the subsidiary civilizations, the way to treat the Beyond Grade A allies, and so on.
The Ruler of the dynasty would be chosen internally. Other than extremely special circumstances, none of the allies would have any influence on the succession of the Ruler, including the Beyond Grade As.
Thus, to the Ruler of the dynasty, obtaining the support of the various factions was much more important than pleasing the Beyond Grade A allies. Although Han Xiao was surprised by what Tarrokov said, he was not surprised in his heart.
Anyway, there were already quite a few arrows on his target, so there was no harm in adding a few more.
"Heh, a candidate is a candidate. The current Ruler is not him." Han Xiao smiled.
"You're right. I think so too."
Tarrokov praised.
After pausing for a while, he changed the topic. "There's one more thing I want to ask you."
"Speak."
"How much do you know about the legacy EsGod left behind?"
Why did it suddenly involve EsGod? Han Xiao was a little confused.
"Hasn't his legacy been spread throughout the universe a long time ago? I don't know what you're referring to. "
"Hehe, speaking of which, this matter is related to you … Do you still remember the spatial coordinates you gave us back then? The ones EsGod was looking for?"
As soon as this was said, Han Xiaoxin's heart tightened. It was as though he was struck by lightning, and it took him a lot of effort to suppress his shock.
Those spatial coordinates were the key to the World Tree that EsGod had left behind!
Why would he suddenly ask about this? Could it be that the Red Empire had already researched something?
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice, "What results did you guys obtain?"
"I don't know. I'm not a researcher." Tarrokov shook his head. "It's just that the project team in charge of researching EsGod's legacy seems to have some ideas about this set of data. Since we know each other, he asked me to ask you about the situation."
After EsGod's legacy was leaked, this set of spatial coordinates was hidden among the vast amount of legacy data and became very inconspicuous. The project team would rather spend more time researching other legacy data than this wormhole data that had no records and led to an unknown location.
However, after spending a few years, they had basically sorted out the various legacies of EsGod, and the project team seemed to have set their eyes on the mysterious coordinates that EsGod had obtained in the Shattered Star Ring.
"… I only found out that EsGod was looking for this set of data by chance. I don't know what's going on."
Han Xiao heaved a sigh of relief and casually replied, hiding the truth.
"Alright, I'll answer my friend like this." Tarrokov did not suspect anything.
After chatting for a while, Han Xiao deactivated the remote projection and returned to his room. He heaved a sigh of relief and looked a little helpless.
…
After the meeting ended, the Red Empire publicly announced to the entire universe that the second exploration phase of the Flickering World had officially begun. Under the attention of the entire universe, more exploration teams were sent into the Flickering World.
After the first exploration phase, the Black Star Corps was already very familiar with the process and had made all sorts of preparations. When the second exploration phase arrived, they started to move out.
This time, the mission assigned to them was to explore the Russo Star Cluster. There were many more exploration teams with them, and each organization had a more detailed division of work, making it seem more orderly.
[Flickering World] Second Round completed.
Your Mission Rating is: A
You have received 1.5 Trillion Experience, Random Reward x 2,1500 Dynasty Contribution Points, and 1 Blank Character Summon Card.
[Exploration Pioneer] Current Progress: 2/3
The third round of the mission has been updated.
Mission Introduction: Complete the second exploration phase of the dynasty.
Current Exploration Area: Russo Star Cluster
Personal Exploration Points: 0
Total Exploration Points: 0
Current Rating: E-
The third round was to explore the Russo Star Cluster. There was no problem in completing the mission, but the main thing was to raise his own Mission Rating.
In this regard, Han Xiao was still very confident. Although there were many more exploration partners this time, the advantage of being familiar with the map was still useful. Perhaps he might not be able to get an S + rating for the first round, but it should not be difficult for him to get an A rating.
The exploration teams of the army were all sent out, and Han Xiao's main body remained in the Black Star Palace. He only sent a Lord's Avatar and a mechanical army to follow the exploration team to the Russo Star Cluster.
The graduates were split into different teams and set off to explore the new area together. Han Xiao purposely split Nero and Mia into two different teams.
According to his understanding, there would not be any problems with the exploration on the Russo Star Cluster side. Only the Dust Light Star Cluster's team would encounter a tough opponent.
Han Xiao was waiting for the matter on the Dust Light Star Cluster to blow up. When the time came, he would throw Nero and the others over.
Han Technician had already come up with more than ten scenarios that would give him a chance to trigger Nero's mission. He would not give up until he deeply hurt Nero and made him feel pain and despair.
Since Fu Ding was a mental expert, he could treat Nero's psychological trauma. Thus, Han Xiao did not have to worry about tormenting him.
…
At a certain border of the Dust Light Star Cluster in the Flickering World.
One of the dynasty's exploration teams had arrived at this region and started to construct a stargate.
At this moment, many Star Systems away, there was a group of people observing the actions of this exploration team through a special observation device.
This was a conference room, and the huge screen displayed the real-time observation of the dynasty's exploration team. There were many crustaceans in the room, and they looked like a bunch of gray crayfish. This was a native intelligent species of the Flickering World that did not belong to the Galactic Society. In their language, they called themselves the 'Kunde Race'.
Looking at the fleet on the screen, everyone present fell silent.
After a long time, the Kunde Race leader sitting on the main seat spoke.
"Everything has come true. The data of the spaceship that crashed is real. There are more life forms in this universe, and our world … has been targeted by a group of aliens."
Everyone was silent, and their hearts were in a mess.
For hundreds of thousands of years, the Kunde Race had slowly developed their civilization there. Ten thousand years ago, they had started to walk on the path of colonization, and their territory had been expanding continuously.
It was not that they did not encounter other intelligent species during this period, but they were far weaker than them and had all become their pets and slaves.
All along, the Kunde Race had been guessing if there was a stronger civilization in the universe, but they had never encountered one. After so many years, they had controlled many Star Systems, and their population numbered in the trillions. They were the strongest civilization in this Star Cluster.
However, their exploration range was limited to the Dust Light Star Cluster, and the regions beyond were unknown to them.
There was no galactic society, and there were no civilizations to communicate with. This was an isolated island, a dark forest. The Kunde Race did not have the concept of Star Systems or Star Clusters, and their technology tree could not be as comprehensive as that of the galactic society. They did not have any stargate technology, and their hyperdrive engine was outdated. They could only rely on cryogenic chambers to survive the long interstellar journey.
To them, a journey that would take a day in the galactic society would take the Kunde Race more than ten years.
However, all of this changed a few years ago.
The members of the Kunde Race present would forever remember that day when a spaceship landed on a colonial planet. On it were countless pieces of advanced technology that they had never seen before, as well as countless pieces of information about 'alien civilizations'. This shocked them greatly.
After hundreds of thousands of years, they had finally met a civilization that was stronger than them!
Through researching the technology within, the Kunde Race's technology had developed by leaps and bounds. They had learned stargate technology, advanced hyperdrive engine, and applied quantum network communication technology.
However, this surprise was followed by an even greater shock. This spaceship also recorded a powerful 'alien civilization' known as the Red Empire.
According to the information, the Red Empire was not only a powerful civilization, but it was also a universal predator. They occupied many Star Systems and resources, and all the civilizations that they discovered only had two paths to take … destruction or submission.
The consequence of submitting was that the civilization would lose its future and would never be able to reach a higher level. Their future would be stuck, and they would never be able to surpass their current situation.
It was not that the Kunde Race did not suspect the possibility of the information being fake, but the technology was real, and the authenticity of the information was guaranteed. However, it was a pity that there were only corpses in the spaceship, and there were no survivors to interrogate.
The spaceship's logs recorded that this spaceship was a group of refugees escaping from the expansion of the Red Empire. It also announced that the Red Empire was not far from where the Kunde Race was and marked the possible routes that the Red Empire would take. This made the Kunde Race extremely uneasy.
In the database, there was also a super long-range interstellar observation device. The Kunde Race had created this device and sent people to use it to observe the possible locations of the Red Empire. A few years later, this information was confirmed, and an unknown fleet had really appeared not far from their territory.
"The predators have already appeared. What should we do? Should we engage in friendly contact or strike first?" the Kunde Race leader said with a grave tone.
One of the upper echelons slammed the table and said resolutely, "We definitely cannot submit. We have to prepare for both eventualities. First, we have to preserve the fire of our civilization and find a way out for them to find a new home. After that, we will strike first and attack before the enemy discovers us!"
"They are too strong, and we will not be able to win. We might even be wiped out. We cannot start a war. I feel that it is better to engage in friendly contact … "
"Don't have any delusions! The only result of engaging is submission. Are you willing to lose your future and become someone else's subordinate, just like those intelligent beings that we enslaved? "
"What if they are not predators but a friendly civilization?"
"Friendly civilization? How did you get to this position? Don't forget, have we ever been friendly to other intelligent beings? Can there be a friendly civilization in the universe? Do you want to surrender and let our entire race be enslaved? "
"… But if we don't try, how do we know if the information is real or fake?"
"Are you crazy? That technology is all real, and you still doubt it?"
The upper echelons who had different opinions argued fiercely.
If not for that spaceship that descended from the sky, there would definitely be more people who agreed to contact the 'aliens' first.
However, the situation was now the other way around. Under the influence of their preconceived notions, more of the upper echelons believed that the appearance of this' alien civilization 'was a disaster from the heavens. They were predators that had come to occupy their universe.
At this moment, a strange fluctuation flashed past the Kunde Race leader's eyes. He slammed the table and said coldly, "Stop arguing.
"Stop arguing, I've already made my decision …"
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