Homo sapiens

Milky Way, galactic center area.

The void here near the cantilever of Andei is very bright. On average, there are dozens of stars densely packed in every cubic light-year of space.

This is only the edge of the galactic center. If it is an inner region, the density of stars there is even higher.

But precisely because of this, the area closer to the core of the galactic center becomes more desolate.

At the edge of the galactic center, this is the habitable zone for the birth of life.

The galactic center area is like the tropical tropics of the earth. There are indeed a lot of living planets in the area outside the galactic center.

However, there are generally no powerful civilizations on the living planets here. Instead, each living planet is in a relatively primitive stage.

Suddenly, a huge silver-gray planet floated out of the void in the chaotic gravitational field, and was then attracted by a red dwarf star.

The radius of the silver-gray planet is approximately 2.6 times that of the Earth.

Soon, the silver-gray planet slowly approached the red dwarf star, and then the silver-gray planet seemed to turn into mercury, wrapping around the surface of the red dwarf star.

It was not until eight days later that the surface of the red dwarf completely turned silver-gray, and no trace of radiation energy leaked out from the interior. It was obviously absorbed by the outer shell of the silver-gray planet.

The dozen or so red dwarf stars around were also surrounded by silver-gray planets one after another.

A dozen huge spaceships also appeared around the silver-gray planet.

Inside one of the spaceships, several silver-gray spheres were floating in the cabin.

"This time of grazing requires 588 kiats (approximately 801 years). Do you have anything else to do?" A silver-gray sphere sent out electromagnetic waves and asked his companions.

Another silver-gray sphere rotated its body: "Part of the alarm previously set up on the Baisai Cantilever was destroyed. There should be a cosmic war happening over there. Do you need me to go over and investigate?"

"Baisai Cantilever? Okay, you go and take a look! It is probably some new civilization. Let them calm down, otherwise they will be completely destroyed."

"good!"

One of the silver-gray spheres turned into a puddle of liquid and disappeared inside the cabin.

Then a spacecraft deployed the space distortion system, using the difference in space distortion before and after, to quickly increase its speed by 60% of the speed of light, and rapidly advance toward the direction of the Andromeda cantilever.

As the spacecraft flew rapidly, it left a series of gravitational waves on its flight path.

The spaceships that were still in place were still guarding the dozen or so silver-gray planets.

These silver-gray planets are planet-level silicon-based organisms specially cultivated by the Shepherd Star civilization - light-devouring star beasts.

The light-devouring star beast is a silicon-based creature, and it is also a creature artificially transformed by the Shepherd Star civilization. This creature can swallow the energy of stars, and then convert this energy into special dark energy crystals.

This is also the reason why the pastoral civilization herds the light-devouring star beasts. After all, the behavior of civilization and the behavior of individuals are actually similar.

If there is no benefit, the Pastoral civilization will not transform such planetary creatures.

The importance of dark energy crystallization to the civilization of the Shepherd Planet is like oil, natural gas and coal in the Earth era.

The energy of the space distortion engine of the Shepherd civilization is dark energy crystals. If there is no dark energy crystal, then the Shepherd civilization will have no way to start the space distortion engine.

In addition, dark energy crystals can also be used as raw materials for some special weapons.

This is also the basis for the survival of the Pastoral civilization in the galactic center of the Milky Way. After all, the Galactic Center is not just their Pastoral civilization.

Just when the herding team of the Shepherd Star Civilization was grazing the light-devouring star beasts here.

In a void about 300 light-years away from them, a triangular spacecraft was also staring at them in the dark.

Triangular spaceship interior.

"Captain Fass, those guys are grazing. In addition, 45 epochs ago, a Shepherd star spacecraft left the direction..."

The bodies of these communicating creatures are like a shimmering mist.

One of the fogs stirred: "Continue to monitor. As for the departing spacecraft, if I guessed correctly, they should have gone to the Baisai Cantilever."

"Baisai Cantilever? Are you going to investigate that new civilization?"

A red-grey mist sent out a special wave: "That new civilization is not simple, hehehe..."

"So what if it's not simple? If you anger the Shepherd civilization, they will definitely be destroyed." Another dark green mist mocked.

"Should we take action? After all, the enemy's enemy might be able to take advantage of it?"

"Haha, it's just rubbish, there's no need for it."

Soon the discussion inside the triangular spaceship fell silent.

The shepherds who were herding the light-devouring star beasts were also secretly wary of the surrounding situation.

After all, when they were herding the light-devouring star beasts, they were attacked by hostile forces before. Although the light-devouring star beasts and dark energy crystals were not taken away in the end, they suffered heavy losses.

Cultivating a light-devouring star beast requires a lot of resources and time. Currently, the Shepherd Star Civilization only has more than 10,000 light-devouring star beasts.

These light-devouring star beasts are the foundation of the Shepherd Star civilization.

Although there were no visible signs of enemies nearby, these Shepherds did not take it lightly.

…

the other side.

The Shepherd Star spacecraft heading to the Andromeda Cantilever for reconnaissance is also rapidly approaching the Silicon Tribe-controlled area of ​​the Andromeda.

Using the sirens of the Shepherd civilization hidden in the cantilever of the constellation Cepheus, the Shepherd quickly investigated some situations.

In the cockpit of the Shepherd Star spacecraft.

Famu's brain core was thinking quickly: "That civilization turned out to be from the Kefuya Cantilever (Orion Cantilever). Their technical level seems to be not low!"

The Pastoral civilization naturally has a certain understanding of the five major cantilevers of the Milky Way.

Although the Pastoral civilization looks down on the cantilever areas with poor resources, it does not mean that they will leave the cantilever areas alone.

This time Famu came to the Senying Cantilever to investigate. It was not on its own initiative, but after receiving an order from the headquarters.

The Pastoral civilization not only left a large number of sirens in the five cantilever areas, but also regularly reviewed the cantilever areas.

Originally, it would be about 40,000 Earth years before the next review.

However, this time the large-scale war in the Andromeda Cantilever made the Shepherd civilization feel a little unusual, so it quickly advanced the review time.

Although the sirens were unable to collect a large amount of information, the explosion of a large number of stars in the Andromeda cantilever and the sudden appearance of chaotic gravity made Famu and the Shepherd civilization behind them feel uneasy.

However, there is also a limit to the speed of the spacecraft of the Shepherd civilization.

Even with space distortion engines and dark energy crystals, there is still no way to achieve faster-than-light travel.

This situation made Famu even more uneasy.

At this time, this Shepherd Star spacecraft is still 7364 light years away from the nearest human civilization territory.

Thank you for your support (ω)