When I opened my eyes, an entire night had passed. It was as if the sun had risen the moment I closed my eyes. Apart from a strange dream, I didn't remember sleeping at all. I didn't even know that my daughter had snuck into my room. This energetic little fellow was probably the only person in the family who was forever happy apart from Jingle. That was because even the usually happy-go-lucky Shallow Shallow would have times when she was in low spirits. I didn't even dare to imagine what Little Bubble would be like when she was worried about the country and its people.
Looking at Little Bubble who was rubbing herself against my chest, my depressed mood due to the dark history of the Empire actually inexplicably improved. It would seem that having an obedient daughter was indeed an effective antidote to psychological trauma. I felt that as long as I hugged a certain cute little girl at home who knew how to act cute, I would be able to laugh even as I watched the tragic world unfold …
Mercury Lamp had woken up quite early today. I raised my head and saw that Mercury Lamp's large suitcase was firmly placed under the window. The suitcase was half-open, and it was completely empty. There was only a large pile of white and black feathers. The white feathers came from Alaya. I had collected the feathers that my angel sister occasionally shed and used them as a mattress for Mercury Lamp. As for the black feathers, it was because …
A certain humanoid doll had recently been molting.
I felt that this was rather mystical. What was the principle behind this? How did an alchemy creature come up with the ability to molt?
Next to Mercury Lamp's suitcase was a large row of suitcases. Those belonged to True Red and the other girls. Last night, before going to bed, Mercury Lamp had carefully and seriously stacked all the suitcases together. She had even placed a dozen or so books on top of the suitcases. These were the songs that she would play whenever her younger sisters came over to play. In any case, I didn't know why that girl was so addicted to pranks on her younger sisters and never got tired of it. Of course, what was even more mystical was that the rose girls, who had been pranked so many times, had even learned the "Scoundrel Sister Fighting Technique" to deal with Mercury Lamp's pranks every night. The specific method of doing this was to first let the top suitcase rise into the air, and then the rose girl in the second suitcase would jump out and save the other sisters one by one. This sounded quite simple. The only difficult part was that they needed to keep in contact with each other in order to know who was placed first and who was placed second. In order to solve this problem, I heard that True Red had led a group of humanoid dolls to learn Morse code. Every morning, they would first knock on the suitcases. Actually, they had wanted to use walkie-talkies at first, but civilian communicators were jammed in the suitcases, and they weren't able to buy military ones. After all, the princess of the Empire, Mercury Lamp, was watching …
I didn't want to comment on Mercury Lamp's depravity anymore.
These rose girls had come from another world to visit my home as guests, and it was likely that they would be staying for a few more days. Although True Red claimed that she wanted to observe what real royalty's lifestyle was like, everyone knew that this was just an excuse. The real reason was that her group of troublesome younger sisters wanted to play at their older sister's home for a few more days. True Red's excuse was far too lame. What was there to observe about royalty's lifestyle? Have you ever seen royalty who woke up every morning to eat a bowl of soy milk and four youtiao? Then, they would carry half a fried pancake and walk a fox at the door? Sandora would wake up every morning to eat several dozen kilograms of fried pancakes. Her fried pancakes added together were even larger than the Jade Star sisters put together. It was obvious that this type of lifestyle wasn't worth observing …
"Morning, Icetis."
When I went downstairs, I met a certain female pervert who was daydreaming at the bottom of the stairs. I casually greeted her, and then discovered that Icetis was acting a little strange today. The female pervert who was always running around like a madwoman to play cards and drink with others was actually leaning against the corner of the stairs with a melancholic expression this morning. She stood on one foot and lightly swayed her body. Her long hair seemed to have lost its luster, and her entire person was as dispirited as the sun at four or five o 'clock in the afternoon. This gave me quite a shock. "What's wrong with you? Did you sleepwalk into the kitchen last night and eat Sandora's cooking? "
Icetis immediately threw a punch at me. "You can even pull out so many details with your nonsense. Do you have any proper business to do!?"
Of course, I was no match for a professional pervert like Icetis in terms of the traditional martial arts commonly known as Tortoise Fist. Thus, I hurriedly dodged her punch and asked with a smile, "Then what are you so depressed about!?"
Icetis pulled out a bunch of pancakes from her chest (By the way, why was it her chest?) She pulled out a bunch of pancakes (Why was she able to pull out a bunch of pancakes?) A glimmering scroll came over with a depressed expression. "There are many worlds under my rule now. These are the daily reports that I have to deal with. I was supposed to finish writing these reports yesterday … Yesterday, I was playing cards with Kenser and the others until midnight. Damn it, I've lost all my time."
I was stunned. "Can't you just make up for it with a burst of power today?"
Sister Bing glanced at me and didn't say anything. She walked away seductively — she didn't even eat. Perhaps she had really gone back to her room to make up for it.
Perhaps I woke up late today. When I reached the living room, I discovered that the entire family was already seated around the dining table, preparing to eat. Liliana and Mercury Lamp were playing a finger-guessing game to decide who would wake me up. I personally witnessed Jade Star and Chu Mei eating all of the latter's desserts while Liliana distracted Little Lamp. It was evident that a criminal alliance filled with betrayal and conspiracies had been formed when the silly Mercury Lamp wasn't paying attention. Of course, it was also possible that Mercury Lamp simply didn't care about such a small matter. Others might not know, but I knew that the 92.3-centimeter puppet was actually a good and gentle older sister who treated her younger sisters very well.
"You're here to freeload again?" I raised my hand to greet everyone. Then, my gaze fell on Lin Xue out of habit. This girl was becoming more and more arrogant. She was completely treating herself as one of the masters of this family. Of course, I personally felt that there was nothing wrong with my relationship with Xue Er. But judging from Lin Xue's parents' reactions — this girl might really have been a gift from her parents when they were topping up their phone's credit card.
"When I left last night, I guessed that you would definitely say this."
Lin Xue had a nonchalant expression as she immediately got down to business. "About the exile fleets, I just discussed it with Sandora. Do you want to hear it?" I had just sat down at the table and was spreading sesame sauce on a pancake. I was stunned when I heard this. "Business so early in the morning? That's not your style at all. "
While I was stunned, Shallow Shallow, who was sitting beside me, quickly stood up with a mischievous smile. With lightning speed, she swapped her pancake with Jingle's pancake with mine. I lowered my head and tears almost flowed down my cheeks. This girl was up to something new again. In the end, if she couldn't eat it herself, she pushed it to someone else. She spread chocolate sauce on top of her pancake and even sprinkled wasabi on top …
"Ah Jun, there isn't a suitable world for the exile fleets to reside in in the Empire's storage."
Sandora skillfully pulled the pile of strangely colored pancakes in front of me in front of her. As she ate, she said, "By the way … what about my pancakes?"
"There isn't one?" I was surprised. "How many coordinates do we have in the storage?"
There was a reason why I was surprised. From what I remembered, the New Empire's coordinates storage seemed to be a rather large number. The so-called coordinates storage referred to the coordinates of the other worlds that the New Empire had scanned through the macro world network, the void scanning, the reconnaissance fleet, and the Departed Garden System. This was what we had been doing ever since the City of Shadows was established. Initially, the coordinates storage only had Vadis and a few other worlds in it. Now, we had thousands of coordinates in our hands. Any world that was accurately located and could be teleported to would be stored in the Empire's storage.
Here, I should explain the concept of the Empire's territory. Storing a world in the storage didn't mean that the world had become the Empire's territory. It only meant that the world was within the Empire's sphere of influence. As the Xiling Empire was a huge entity that divided its territories into universes, the way we declared our sovereignty over a world was very different from how ordinary civilizations drew national boundaries. Under normal circumstances, there were three criteria for a universe to be classified as a territory under the direct jurisdiction of the Empire. First, through the use of full-band broadcasting and other means, all intelligent civilizations in the universe with the ability to travel through the stars would know and obey the unified charter of the Empire. These intelligent civilizations would still have the right to develop freely, but they would have to obey the Empire's laws when they were in space. Second, the World Barrier of this universe was under the Empire's control. The Schilling Army had the ability to completely control the movement between worlds in this universe, and all movement between worlds should be under the supervision of the Imperial Army. At the same time, the Imperial Army also had the ability to completely shut down the flow of external information in this universe in case of emergency. Third, a world that was classified as a territory must have a sufficiently large colony of the Empire. These colonies would usually consist of more than one administrative planet, non-fixed military planets, several military bases, and an unlimited number of armies. This would ensure the Empire's direct control over the universe, including the use of brute force.
At present, the most typical world that was classified as a hundred percent Empire territory was the world where the Pan-Galactic Civilization Community resided. The number of soldiers stationed there was already outrageous, and Sives and Sandora were desperately stuffing planetary fortresses there … Because the Pan-Galactic Civilization Community's celestial bodies were in chaos, the universe was in a state of correction. Planets that were not in orbit could be found everywhere, and the abundance of basic materials directly made that universe the Empire's largest planetary fortress production base.
Those were some of the basic concepts of the Empire's' Sovereign Zone '. Of course, the universe we were preparing for the exile fleet would not be such a universe. They would definitely not be able to accept the horror of seeing a Schilling starship hanging in the sky every time they stepped out of the door. That was why Sandora was trying to find a low-development universe from the reserves for the exiles.
"The first condition is that there cannot be any civilized civilization that has the ability to colonize the universe." Sandora drew a circle on the table with her soy milk. "This is stipulated by the Empire's charter. It forbids the random planting of foreign civilizations in a universe with civilized civilizations to prevent wars between the lower races. We cannot violate the laws we set for others. This removed most of the reserves: when we first rebuilt the Void Coordinate Repository, our goal was to find a suitable world as a new territory, and the direction of the scanning was towards a universe with a civilized civilization. Now, they are no longer usable. The second condition was to have sufficient resources and a habitable planet that could be inhabited without modification. This was because the exile fleet was on the verge of exhaustion, and they did not have much resources to modify their new home. Moreover, they were not willing to accept direct help from the Empire. This was not a problem. Any material world that had evolved normally would have sufficient resources, and the Void was fair in this regard. The third condition is the most troublesome. It suddenly makes all the worlds unsuitable … "
At the last point, Sandora's expression was clearly conflicted, which made me curious. "What's wrong? Are all of them uninhabitable? "
Sandora sighed and suddenly poked Pandora's head with her index finger. The latter was sitting on a pile of books, picking out the corn kernels from the porridge and eating them in advance. Sandora poked her so hard that her chopsticks almost dropped on the table. She instantly pouted regretfully and did not say a word.
"This precious sister of yours has already set up military stations in all the worlds. It doesn't matter if they are in the Empire's territory or not. Battle puppets are stationed everywhere. Every time she discovers a new world, the first thing she does is to build an arsenal there!"
Me: "… D * mn! Pandora, when did you do this? Why didn't I know about it? "
"Daily work, no need to report it." Pandora continued to pick out corn kernels for herself as she spoke without lifting her head. I instantly lost my temper. Setting up an arsenal in a place that she thought was suitable and starting to build an army seemed to be within Pandora's authority. She did not need to report it at all. Now I finally understood why we would have millions of soldiers in the Empire three years after the revival of the New Empire. This war maniac did not do anything else!
Of course, it was right for Pandora to increase her army. But it would be great if she could gather all the military stations in a few universes. I had sufficient reason to believe that all the military stations added together would not take up much space. Just how big is a universe? Even the largest psionic death star of the Imperial Army was just a sesame seed in front of the entire universe!
But she just had to place bases in every universe she discovered, completely ignoring the problem of wasting land …
"At the end of the day, it is Pandora's occupational disease to place a bunch of military bases in every newly discovered place." Miss Lin looked at Pandora with a conflicted expression. I continued the second half of her sentence, "Isn't it the same logic as a dog marking its territory when it pees?"
Pandora swung her head and rammed into me. Miss Lin chased after me with chopsticks, "Are you crazy? We are eating right now! "
"Then what should we do? We can't just not do what we promised." I spread my hands. "Besides, the exile fleet adds up to a few hundred million starships. It is not a good idea to stop them in the void. Oh yeah, if we really can't do it, we can dismantle a part of the base … "
Just as I finished speaking, Pandora headbutted me again. This girl's head was really hard!
"I am also weighing the matter. But those military stations have already developed to a very large scale. It is not a wise move to dismantle the military bases rashly. Military stations are not temporary like outposts. After a period of development, a military station is equivalent to a new military core. Any spaceport, heavy weapons factory and war laboratory are built with the military station as the base." Sandora rubbed her head with a troubled expression. But at this moment, Monina suddenly coughed softly, "Maybe we can help."
Seeing that everyone's attention had been successfully diverted, Monina scratched her cheek and smiled. "The world reserve of the Star Field is absolutely astronomical. What we have the least is a variety of template universes. If there is a need, maybe I can think of a way."
Sandora nodded in understanding, but there was still a hesitant expression on her face. Monina seemed to have guessed what she was thinking. She lightly knocked on the table and said, "Actually, this is the most suitable solution. The relationship between the exile fleet and you is still very complicated. Although they have generally resolved the misunderstanding with the Empire, it is difficult to guarantee that some of them will not be able to accept living in the territory provided by you. But if their new home is provided by the Star Field Protoss, it will not be a problem."
"Why do we have to go through so many twists and turns when we are doing a good deed?" I rubbed my forehead speechlessly. "Comforting the people is really a tiring task."
Monina nodded in agreement. "Being a good person is usually more difficult than being a hooligan because you have to think for many people."
I nodded in agreement. "Yeah, Icetis's life is much easier than mine."
"Speaking of which, transferring a world from the Star Field should be quite a big deal, right? Do we need to go through any procedures?" Big Sister asked carefully. I also felt that it was better to clarify this. After all, this was not a matter of borrowing a bottle of soy sauce or a bottle of vinegar! A world, this was the transfer of an entire world! I had ample reason to believe that even if the Star Field and the Schilling Empire were best buddies, transferring a world would not be as hasty as borrowing a toothbrush. Moreover, there would still be a lot of follow-up work, such as how to transfer a world that was originally under the Star Field's control to the Empire's territory. This was a complicated technical work. I could only vaguely guess that this might have something to do with changing the entire world's "information frequency" in the void. By changing the world's information frequency, it would be "moved" to a new "location". If I had to make an analogy, it would be equivalent to cutting and pasting on a computer. Based on the usual style of the Star Field, there was an eighty percent chance that it would be such a ridiculous operation.
However, I did not expect Monina to show a very disapproving expression. She shook her head casually. "Only when transferring a world with advanced lifeforms would they go through the procedures. Generally, the worlds that are produced in batches based on ready-made templates are blank. After the physical plane has completed its evolution, it will be temporarily frozen. This kind of universe is common and can be found everywhere. Actually, if it wasn't for your high requirements, I could contact a few of my old classmates. They might not have thrown away their homework when they graduated. Once activated, it would be an undeveloped rich universe … "
I was speechless.
These d * mned nouveau riche!
Monina thought for a while after saying that. Then, she excitedly said to us, "Oh right! I'll go on a group purchase to see if there are any suitable ones. Recently, the Creator's Holy Church is having a celebration. I might be able to get some good stuff. Do you have any additional requests? High magic and high energy worlds usually have a lot of free gifts, but they don't give invoices. Normal material universes have fewer free gifts, but they are usually stock. If you don't bring the goods to install, they can even give you a twenty to thirty percent discount … "
Although I had said it once, I still wanted to say it again. These d * mned nouveau riche!
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