The dynasty's exploration method was progressing step by step, and the exploration team had just entered two Star Clusters. They were currently exploring from the border Star System.
In the border Star System of the Dust Light Star Cluster, a small exploration fleet arrived at a green planet. The armor of the battleship was engraved with the insignia of a certain dynasty's subsidiary Star System civilization. They were in charge of exploring this region, and this planet was their target.
"Hyperdrive completed. We have arrived at our destination. Cooling down the hyperdrive engine."
"Planetary environment probe has been launched. Detecting the planet's environment and resource distribution."
"Life monitoring device activated. Scanning for signs of life on the target planet."
In the main control room of the command ship, many of the crew members were busy operating the various devices. The captain paced back and forth in the room, waiting for the results.
Shua!
At this time, the door opened, and a man wearing heavy mechanical armor walked in, showing the posture of a soldier as he walked.
The captain turned around and nodded. "Captain Kreb, what's the matter?"
"I'm only here to take a look." The man called Kreb was expressionless and impatient.
This man was one of the Calamity Grade Supers of this subsidiary civilization. He followed the exploration team and was in charge of security.
However, it was obvious that the chances of encountering an enemy worthy of him taking action in the Flickering World were too low. Kreb's existence was more for insurance, and he did not have anything to do. Thus, he was naturally unwilling to take on this job. In his eyes, it was a waste of his training time.
After a while, the results were displayed on the virtual screen in the main control room. "Captain, we have reported this planet.
This is a habitable planet with abundant resources. We have also discovered signs of life. 730,000 species have been detected, and one of them is an intelligent life form that has formed a settlement on the surface. According to our observations, their civilization level is still in the tribal era, and their intelligence level is unknown. They have a population of around 120,000. "
The virtual screen displayed the appearance of this intelligent species. It looked like a bunch of short and upright goblin-like creatures. There were a lot of wrinkles on its white skin. It looked like a fatty who had undergone liposuction.
"Intelligent life form? That's not bad." The captain nodded. "Then, let's make contact with them according to the exploration rules."
The dynasty had set out the procedures for coming into contact with indigenous civilizations, and they would adopt different methods according to the situation. Toward indigenous civilizations that did not seem to be a threat, they would adopt a gentle approach. Han Xiao had once come into contact with Planet Pangurus during the first exploration phase, and he adopted the approach of educating them.
This fleet slowly landed in a forest on the planet. The ground troops disembarked and began to make friendly contact with the native tribes. These native intelligent life forms were shocked and afraid, but at the same time, they were very curious about these creatures that had suddenly appeared.
With the help of the universal translator, the exploration team successfully established a bridge of communication with the natives. While understanding the natives, they explained their intentions to the natives. They used various images to explain the situation of the explored universe and introduced the Red Empire, allowing the natives to understand the current situation.
The team's doctors also began to examine the curious natives to prevent them from carrying new germs that they had never seen before — there were too many such cases. At the same time, they also examined the natives' physiological structures.
Everything seemed to be in order, and Kreber was bored to death as he strolled around the camp.
As he turned around, he suddenly saw a native leaving the queue and sneaking toward the house of a native tribe.
Kreber did not think too much about it and was about to retract his gaze. However, at this moment, a sense of alarm rose in his mind.
He immediately stopped in his tracks. The majority of Calamity Grade Supers had sharp instincts and would occasionally sense certain threats. The stronger a Super was, the more they would trust their instincts.
"Something seems to be wrong …" Kreber frowned and turned around to follow this sneaky native. He pushed open the door and walked into the house.
This native was sitting in the corner with his back facing the door, and it was unknown what he was doing. When he heard the sound behind him, he was startled and turned around to look.
"What are you doing?" The ominous feeling in Kreber's heart grew stronger and stronger.
The next moment, the expression of this native became twisted, and he suddenly took out a bone dagger and stabbed it toward his own neck.
Whoosh!
A gust of wind blew past, and Kreber's movements were extremely fast. He appeared in front of the native in an instant and flicked the dagger away before grabbing his neck and lifting him up.
He did not know what this native was trying to do, but it was definitely not wrong to stop him.
However, before he could ask, the native's body suddenly trembled, and white foam came out of his mouth. His eyeballs popped out, and he died on the spot.
"Did he consume poison?" Kreber was shocked.
Right at this moment, exclamations rang out from outside the door. Kreb ran out with the corpse in his hands and realised that there was a commotion amongst the doctors. A large group of doctors were surrounding a medical equipment, and even more doctors were crowding over as though they had discovered something.
Kreber immediately flew over and looked at the person in charge of the group of doctors.
"What are you guys doing?"
"Your Excellency, quickly take a look at this genetic report!" One of the doctors said with a shocked expression. "We discovered that there is a huge flaw in the genes of this intelligent lifeform, and this flaw is actually caused by someone modifying the genes. This has caused the brain of this intelligent lifeform to be suppressed by more than eighty percent. Simply put, someone has castrated their intelligence!"
"You're saying that this is a species that has been reared in captivity?" Kreber's heart skipped a beat.
Right at this moment, there was a sudden change!
Rumble!
At this moment, everyone could feel the ground beneath their feet trembling.
In the next second, all the spaceships let out ear-piercing alarms!
"Warning! Warning! Detecting a high energy reaction. Comparing with the event model database … Matching complete. [Primordial Psionic Energy Explosion] has reached 99.8% match. Please evacuate immediately! Please evacuate immediately! "
"Primordial Psionic Energy?!"
Everyone, including Kreber, had a drastic change in expression.
Kreber seemed to have thought of something as he smashed the skull of the strange native in his hand with a fist. He lifted the body and poured out the contents of the corpse. At the same time, an extremely small mechanical product fell out along with the liquid.
The moment he saw this machine, Kreber's pupils constricted, and he instantly understood what was going on.
This was a life signal sensing device. Simply put, when the user's life signal fluctuated or ended, the other device would be activated or deactivated. The Primordial Psionic Energy Explosion was related to this life signal sensing device!
Rumble!
The planet instantly collapsed inwards, and a series of deep blue energy fountains broke through the surface and rushed into the sky.
Following which, the blue color spread rapidly and polluted the entire planet.
Mountains, rivers, forests … land, sea, sky, everything was devoured by the blue color and turned into a part of the Primordial Psionic Energy!
Expansion, endless expansion!
All matter disappeared in this blue light. In the process of transforming matter into energy, an unparalleled amount of energy was released. The exploration fleet's escape speed could not even keep up with the expansion of the Primordial Psionic Energy, and they were all swallowed up by this blue light.
Kreber rushed out of the spaceship and struggled to escape. However, the boundless blue light drowned out his figure. In front of this destructive wave of Primordial Psionic Energy, even a Calamity Grade Super was no different from a lump of ordinary matter.
The same scene was happening on more than one planet at the border of the Dust Light Star Cluster.
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Planet Lighthouse, the commander's conference room.
Not long after the previous meeting, the remote projections of all the participating organizations gathered once again.
This was an emergency meeting, and Han Xiao and the other Beyond Grade As were also called over.
Looking at the casualty statistics on the virtual screen, the atmosphere in the room was heavy.
"As you can see, our exploration fleet encountered an accident in the Dust Light Star Cluster." Tarrokov's tone was solemn. "More than six thousand battleships were destroyed, and more than seven million people died, including two Calamity Grade Supers from the subsidiary civilizations."
Hearing this, many people were shocked.
"What kind of situation did they encounter? Did they encounter a very powerful native civilization?"
"There are such powerful natives in the Dust Light Star Cluster?"
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes. He only knew that this native civilization had caused trouble for the dynasty, but he did not know the details of the battle. After all, this happened during the version update, and the players in his previous life did not experience it personally. They could only understand it from historical information.
Tarrokov gestured for everyone to keep quiet and said in a deep voice.
"The armed forces of these natives are stronger than you think. They have grasped psionic technology, and these casualties were all wiped out by the Primordial Psionic Energy explosion while exploring the planet. We have reason to believe that this is a trap set up by that unknown native civilization."
As soon as this was said, most of the representatives held their breaths, and their expressions were filled with shock.
They could accept a native civilization with powerful military forces because with the dynasty's battleship technology, suppressing a native civilization would not be a problem. No matter how strong their military forces were, they would not be able to pose much of a threat to their exploration fleet.
However, a native civilization that had grasped Primordial Psionic Energy had a completely different meaning!
In the explored universe under the three Universal Civilizations, Primordial Psionic Energy was a weapon that was absolutely prohibited from being used. Its power was terrifying, and the subsequent pollution would be even worse.
However, these natives had grasped Primordial Psionic Energy technology as well?
Just how did they climb up the technology tree?
Could it be that they still have some black technology that we do not know about?
Fear grew in the hearts of most of the representatives present.
The feeling of facing a native civilization was different. In the galactic society, even if you did not possess a certain technology, you would still know about its existence. However, facing a powerful native civilization that they had never seen before, who knew if they would suddenly pull out some incredible technology from their pants?
Many of the civilizations present had experienced the exploration era war, and they felt like they were dreaming about the exploration era. No one knew what terrifying trump cards the other civilizations had, such as the Radiant Federation's Multi-Dimensional Sky Opening Transportation Device, the Arcane Church's Ten Thousand Deity Scepter, the Evolutionary Civilization's Mutated Missiles, and so on.
This group of native civilizations was naturally not bound by the rules of the galactic society, so they did not care about throwing Primordial Psionic Energy around. That was very dangerous, like a child playing with a gun. Everyone present had a feeling … that the casualties this time would not be small.
"What's the dynasty's plan?" someone could not help but ask.
"The current situation shows that this native civilization is not friendly to us and is a high threat. According to the 'Exploration Rules: Contact with Native Civilizations', we will adopt the twenty-fourth response plan," Tarrokov said coldly.
Hearing this, many people's hearts skipped a beat.
This was the last response plan. Compared to the other plans, the content was very simple. They would deal with the target through war until their race was wiped out or enslaved.
The overlord-level civilizations that had survived the exploration era wars were never kind and easy to deal with.
The Flickering World was a miniature version of the exploration era war. The only difference was that the three Universal Civilizations had already become the overlords and had the confidence to use gentle methods.
The stronger the natives, the harsher the attitude of the three Universal Civilizations would be.
The natives who had grasped Psionic Energy technology had already become an obvious threat, and the Red Empire would not mind killing them while they were still in the cradle. There would be one less annoying Star Cluster Civilization, and this would be beneficial to the entire galactic society.
Tarrokov looked around and said coldly, "We don't know anything about them.
"We know almost nothing about them. We don't know where they are or what species they are. However, they launched a precise attack on us, which means that they have a certain amount of information in their hands. Before this, we have not come into contact with this civilization … So, we can determine that there are people behind this. Those stowaways are the biggest suspects."
Hearing this, the civilization representatives all had different expressions, but they all thought of the same thing.
This was not difficult to guess. The technology tree of an individual civilization would not be able to cover everything, and the strength of the galactic society was the flow of technology. It was the stowaways who had packed up a bunch of advanced technology in the galactic society and thrown it to the native civilizations, including Psionic Energy technology.
Those Supercluster Civilizations also had sufficient motives. First, they wanted to kill the dynasty's armed forces. Second, they wanted to slow down the exploration progress. Third, they wanted to kill with a borrowed knife, indirectly eliminating the powerful native civilizations and opening up more space in the Flickering World.
Of course, they would not throw their technology to anyone they saw. Only the advanced native civilizations with sufficient productivity would be their target. Otherwise, even if they gave their technology, they would not be able to use it.
"I hereby announce that the exploration of the Dust Light Star Cluster will be temporarily halted. The dynasty's exploration army will officially enter a state of war," Tarrokov said with a solemn tone.
Everyone nodded with solemn expressions.
Before dealing with the enemy, they would not continue to explore slowly. The dynasty had plenty of war experience, and they had countless cases to refer to. This was an advantage.
The enemy had the advantage in terms of intelligence, but this advantage would not be maintained for long. With the trap of the Primordial Psionic Energy explosion as the anchor point, the dynasty's prophets would be of use. Furthermore, the Mechanics were not given to them for nothing.
The Black Star Corps also had to respond to the dynasty's call for reinforcements. However, Han Xiao did not intend to take action personally. He mainly wanted Nero and his subordinates to participate while he sent his mechanical army to protect them in the dark.
He knew that the Kunde Race did not have a Super system, and they only had various armored warriors. Their greatest threat was the Psionic Energy explosion, and as long as they avoided this battlefield, they would be able to reduce their casualties.
I have the advantage of being familiar with the map, and I can be of some help, Han Xiaoxin thought to himself.
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At the same time, in the depths of the Dust Light Star Cluster.
The spaceships carrying countless civilians disappeared into the depths of the galaxy. Looking at this scene, every remaining Kunde Race soldier had an indescribable feeling in their hearts.
"Reporting, the wanderer fleets of every colonial planet have already set off. All of them are carrying the local civilians and the seeds of all the creatures and crops that we have discovered. They will be searching for a new home."
Hearing the report from his subordinate, the Kunde Race leader nodded, and the other upper echelons did not say anything.
That fallen spaceship did not lie to them. They had secretly arranged for some of their enslaved subsidiary races to come into contact with the other party. The other party was indeed called the 'Red Empire', and they were as powerful as the information stated.
While the other party seemed friendly and was different from the information, in the eyes of the Kunde Race, the other party was still trying to colonize and control them.
The future could be predicted, and this was something that the Kunde Race could not accept. This entire Star Cluster was supposed to be their resources for development and the ladder for their evolution. However, the Red Empire was here and wanted to snatch away these resources. Just like what the information stated, their way out would be blocked, and they would not be able to develop normally.
In this regard, the Super Star Cluster Civilizations were not all lies. They had a deep understanding of this. The truth was the best form of deception.
The Kunde Race was not willing to become a vassal, and the universe was so vast, so they still had a way out.
When they decided to resist, the Kunde Race had already prepared for the worst. They packed up most of the civilians and sent them to the depths of the galaxy, leaving behind the seeds of their civilization. Regardless of whether they won or lost, they would not have the chance to develop normally if they stayed here. It was better to send their people to find a new home that would not be disturbed.
Only the Kunde Race's army was left behind to defend their old home, and they were prepared to fight to the bitter end.
Just like the theories of cosmologists, war was always the only way to peace.
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