40,000 Years of Cultivation

The more you move closer to it, the more you can feel the heroic meaning of human civilization changing the world and conquering the universe. To this day, two orbital docks have been built completely orbiting the planet, and the "third celestial ring" is being built. Under construction-this super dock and cosmic city, which has just started construction, is like an arc-shaped longbow and left the deepest impression on Li Yao, because he can only see the busy surroundings of this circular dock. The starship and the workers can convince him that the first two magnificent celestial bodies that bloom their own light even at the scale of the universe are the hands of these humans who seem to be ants or even dust!

The transport ships were getting closer and closer to the first day ring. They turned off their own power and allowed themselves to be locked and captured by the first day ring's psychic array, drifting towards the port like a wave.

More and more starships appeared around, and even the battle emblems and hull numbers painted on each other's ships could be seen with the naked eye. Compared with these super-giant transport ships, engineering ships, and the main battleships of the Federal Fleet, their transport ships are slightly smaller. They were so thin. Sometimes, a few huge ships dumped towards them like towering mountains. There was a feeling of crushing them into thin slices. However, under the command and guidance of the psychic magnetic field, they couldn’t see from the top of their heads. He swept over in a hurry, like a lazy beluga whale.

"Oh!"

Many people who have lived on the Firefly all their lives, were born lonely in the sea of ​​stars, growing up and aging, are deeply shocked by the gorgeous flames inspired by at least thousands of starships, and they are at a loss. The exclamation.

Amidst one after another of exclamations, they passed by the second home port of the federal ace "Liaoyuan Fleet" and also the largest starship refining base of the "New Four Realms".

A solemn and awe-inspiring starship, the armor is all brand new, polished to be smoother than the mirror surface, and there are no traces of scraping by star debris.

Under the sunlight and the flames of thousands of starships around them, they reflected a deep dark golden light, like a rolling mountain ridge containing infinite power.

Behind them, under the orbital dock, there are countless steel tentacles extending all the way down into the atmosphere of Skyring, until they are deeply inserted into the underground veins of Skyring, and various metal and spar resources are directly extracted into the dock. .

And there are countless tiny bits of light flying towards the sky around it, like meteors conquered, controlled, and used by humans-they are all artificially mined asteroids, originally part of the resource planet, in the resource planet Mining and smelting, but later invented a more convenient way to use it, to directly explode a part of the resource planet, install power units on it, and push them directly to the vicinity of the sky ring for mining, smelting, manufacturing and The assembly is all centralized, which greatly improves the refining efficiency of the starship.

If you narrow the detection distance of the crystal eye infinitely, you can see the details of the sky ring clearly on the fuzzy picture. At this distance, the smooth, beautiful, and integrated feeling of the sky ring completely disappears, and it becomes Like the Firefly under overhaul, there are countless super-alloy "branches" erected from the surface, and new branches are branched out at the ends of the branches, which continue to "grow". Until every point of the space except the waterway was occupied, at the end of the most "thin" branch, a starship that was being repaired or refined was connected.

In this sense, these "branches" are somewhat like umbilical cords. The "Sky Ring", a planetary behemoth, keeps moving from the sky ring stars and hundreds of resource planets for a second. Collecting and devouring metals, minerals, spar and everything, after chewing and digestion, they are turned into new nutrients, which are continuously transported to the starship through these "umbilical cords", and bred one after another steel that is about to set off stormy waves in the universe. Behemoth.

Such a picture is not "natural" at all, but it is very "human".

The transport ship was slowly connected to a "branch" extending from the sky ring. This was the first stop of the delegation, the "Sky Ring War Memorial."

War is the most extreme outbreak of a civilization's full potential, good intentions and evil thoughts.

Through war, you can understand the true face of a civilization in the shortest time.

Therefore, people from Xinghai Central chose the first stop here, and a "communication committee" composed of people from the federal government, military, cultivators, and academic circles warmly received them here.

Because of the relatively subtle and even embarrassing relationship between the "Xinghai Republic" and the "Xingyao Federation", coupled with the fact that the Federation is in a state of intense combat readiness, both parties agreed to discuss more practical issues during this exchange and negotiation, and put it aside. Controversy over the "righteous name".

Therefore, the level of this delegation is not high on the surface, and it is simply a "general election observation mission". Correspondingly, the "communication committee" sent by the federal side also played down the color of the government and the military as much as possible. At least at the beginning.

Li Yao didn't find any acquaintances in the communication committee, which happened to save him the problem of how to deal with old acquaintances.

He looked at the new generation of Federations on the opposite side with great interest, and found that perhaps it was a complete transition from planetary civilization to star-sea civilization. The new generation of Federations were more slender, taller and lighter, as if they could be in the sea with a single jump. Swim freely in the middle.

Regardless of men, women, young or old, they are all full of energy, their eyes are piercing, and between gestures and speeches, they are confident to the point of sharpness.

Judging from their costumes, apart from the uniformed uniformed officers who are not easy to distinguish, civilians are basically from all worlds-including ghost repairs in the Underworld, and many people still have some characteristics of the monster race. , Such as smart rabbit ears, cat-like green eyes, and so on, others do not take it seriously.

It seems that in the past 100 years, the new federation has implemented the integration policy very thoroughly.

Under their guidance, Li Yaochang traveled to the "Tianhuan War Memorial" and experienced the war thirty years ago through the actual objects, the war logs of the officers and soldiers and even the simulation games in the illusory realm.

He has carefully studied many details about the War of the Sky Ring on the Firefly, but he really likes the way the New Federation describes this war-calm, objective, and slightly restrained, without describing too much." The ugliness and evil of the "Tiangang tribe" only records everything faithfully like a sketch, and even in one of the links, through the illusion, several solutions that can completely avoid war have been conceived.

Only a true winner can be so calm and restrained, and even confident enough to begin reflection.

Seeing the scenes in the war memorial, Li Yao finally believed that the Federation had completely integrated and assimilated the Celestial Circle Realm, and the world had completely become an inseparable part of the Star Federation.

Until the exit of the memorial hall, he saw a statue.

What the statue depicts is not a scene of the victor's rejoicing, but a sad, lonely young woman, holding a ragged, dirty girl, and the two raised their heads together and stared silently ahead.

Following their gaze, on the opposite side was a slowly rolling, never-ending list. Those who appeared on the list were all people who died in the "War of the Sky".

In this way, the woman and the little girl in the statue seem to be intensively searching for the names of their relatives, and the uneasy and complicated mood is undoubtedly revealed.

The list is divided into three columns, with three different colors, recording all the Tiangang, Disha and Federation people who died in the war.

This detail made Li Yao stand in front of the statue, silently aftertaste for a long time.

The narrator who accompanied him on the tour saw that he was so interested in the statue and introduced: "The sad woman on the statue is the Ding Lingdang who is regarded as a ‘liberator’ by our Tianhuan people."

Li Yao: "Huh?"

Narrator: "After the Tianhuan War ended, we liberated earthshaks wanted to build a tall and majestic statue for Ding Lingdang, but she refused. In the end, she reluctantly agreed, but said that the shape of the statue should be her own. To decide, in the end, she didn't choose the kind of straightforward and majestic look, but chose such a small, unremarkable statue, trying to dilute her own appearance, not even letting her name be engraved. , It’s placed at the exit of the War Memorial. If you don’t say anything, few people can recognize that this is actually the "Federal God of War"."

Li Yao stared at the woman with soft eyes written on the statue in a daze. His thoughts seemed to float back to that year. In the Great Desolate War Yard, Ding Lingdang was drunk and had a nervous breakdown, like a lonely and helpless person. The night when the little girl was crying and crying in his arms, he remembered for a long time...

Narrator: "The one next to her is her daughter."

Li Yao: "Ah!"

Narrator: "It was the righteous daughter she adopted during the Celestial Ring War. The little girl's parents were her comrades in arms when she launched an uprising in the underground mine. Unfortunately, they all died in the war."

Li Yao: "...Is there any more, can you finish it in one breath?"

Narrator: "It's finished, are you uncomfortable, Representative Lin?"

The visit to the Tianhuan War Memorial is over. Next, the senior officers in the delegation will discuss the details of the formation of a joint operations base camp with the military high-level officers of the General Staff of the Federal Army.

Li Yao didn't know anything about the battles of the massive army, there was no need to waste time, but Meng Chixin, Han Baling, Qi Changsheng, and Phoenix Emperor Zhu Zongyou were quite interested in the way of killing and destroying the battlefield.

Li Yao, through Cui Lingfeng, placed a few positions in the senior officer regiment for them, and it can be regarded as representing the Speaker to pay attention to the establishment of the joint operations base camp.

As for Li Yao himself, he has more important areas and can't wait to learn more about it.