I take the earth to wander

The sailing calendar is 11493 years.

After three years of continuous voyage, the Skylark finally arrived at the target galaxy 40,000 light-years away.

Although the surrounding area of ​​the Skylark still seemed to be a pitch-black space, it was no different from when it was in extragalactic space.

But judging from the information fed back by various detectors, various substances are increasing in this cosmic space.

Meteorites appear more and more frequently, meteors from a few light-years away, and stars whose light can already be seen hundreds of light-years away.

It all shows that the Skylark has entered a new river system.

It's just that because it is still on the edge of the river system, various substances are relatively scarce.

But compared to the truly empty extragalactic space, this place is already relatively rich.

Of course, compared to the real interior of the river system, this place is really barren.

So even if an intelligent race is born here, as long as the intelligent race masters the technology of curvature navigation, they will basically choose to migrate to the inner area of ​​the river system that is more livable.

The star system there is denser, has more resources, and is more suitable for the development of civilization.

Therefore, in this outer region of the galaxy, unless there are some primitive low-level civilizations that have not yet developed the curvature engine technology, generally there will be no traces of intelligent life.

There will be no spaceships sailing with curvature passing by.

However, the strange thing is that the Skylark has just completed a leap of a hundred light years and is preparing for the next leap.

The hyperspace radar, which relies on space folding to transmit signals, transmits the presence of a star more than ten light-years away in front, and there are space bubble fluctuations generated by a large number of curvature navigation.

After further detection, it was determined that there are a large number of spaceships there, and they are sailing in curvature.

And that star system is obviously the intersection point of curvature navigation, and countless spaceships that are conducting curvature navigation either arrive there or depart from there.

Obviously, the galaxy where the star is located is the base camp of a civilization with curvature navigation technology.

"Is this true or not? Looking at the number of curvature spaceships, it should not be an ordinary stronghold, but one of the main bodies of civilization. But will there be a higher civilization developing in such a remote place?" Nan Zhu looked at the probe's Report, I just feel that this is really beyond common sense.

According to the standards of the Milky Way, mastering curvature navigation technology can be called an advanced civilization.

One of the big reasons why mastering the curvature navigation technology is regarded as an advanced civilization is because the advanced civilization can no longer be restricted by the mother star, and can choose any location at will as the location for the development of the main body of civilization.

But Nan Zhu has never seen any advanced civilization that would place the main body of civilization in such a remote place.

At least on the other side of the Milky Way, advanced civilizations gather together and run towards the center of the Milky Way.

Grabbing the territory is also robbing the territory of the region in the center of the Milky Way, until the disorder and filth of the Milky Way broke out.

However, the civilization in front of him placed the main body of civilization in such a remote place.

The analogy is roughly equivalent to that when building cities in ancient society, instead of choosing places with lush vegetation and dense rivers, they ran to build cities on the Gobi Desert, which is incomprehensible.

"Bai Xing, change the target, let's go and have a look." Lin Xu thought for a while and ordered.

"Follow the human Lin Xu." Bai Xing replied, and began to adjust the orientation of the space transition.

The next transition point originally planned to be a hundred light-years away was revised to this location more than ten light-years away.

And because the distance is closer, the time required to prepare is also shortened.

In the space transition channel, the space was continuously folded, and in about ten hours, the space folding spanning more than ten light years was completed.

Then the Skylark rushed into the transition channel.

Appearing again, it has come to the place where the galaxy is close at hand.

At the same time, the state of the galaxy where the star is located has been observed more clearly.

Standing in front of the porthole, Lin Xu didn't even need the data from the hyperspace radar and quantum radar mapping. He was able to get a rough idea with his naked eyes that had been strengthened to the extreme.

"Are they making a whole galaxy into a tortoise shell?" Nan Zhu hugged Lin Xu's arm, widened his round eyes, looked at the condition of the galaxy in the distance, and his eyes were full of incomprehension .

"The planets are connected by iron cables, so it looks like Cao Cao connecting boats with iron cables." Lu Yao on the side said with emotion.

"You still know Cao Cao?" Nan Zhu said with a look of surprise.

"How fresh, I've played Dynasty Warriors to the 108th generation, how can I not know Cao Cao." Lu Yao felt that her previous game career was insulted.

"What is Three Kingdoms Warriors? Married wives from three countries?" Nan Zhu asked puzzled.

"No, is there a deviation in your understanding of Cao Cao?" Lu Yao suddenly felt that her cognition was different from Nan Zhu's, and should she give her a popular science about what the Three Kingdoms are.

"Okay, I've seen Three Kingdoms, am I just joking with you!" Nan Zhu was a little depressed that Lu Yao didn't catch his stalk.

In short, Lu Yao's description of the iron chain and boat is a very vivid description of the situation of the galaxy in front of him.

I saw that in the entire galaxy, except for the star at the center, there are a total of seven planets, ranging from smaller planets closer to the star to giant gaseous planets far away from the star.

The seven planets are connected by a huge metal device that looks like a chain from a distance.

These metal devices are interlinked one after another, spread among the seven planets, and connect the seven planets together.

The diameter of each chain is about tens of thousands of meters, and there are various lights shining on it. It may be an energy transmission pipeline, or it may be a personnel transportation channel. The bigger possibility is that it has both functions.

At the same time, every planet is covered with a shell, just like the tortoise shell that Nan Zhu said.

It is not like the dome of the earth, covering the sky above the earth.

Instead, it clings to the ground and is covered with a shell.

Just looking at the appearance, you might think that these planets are metal battle stars.

However, after zooming in on the image with the telescope, there are various signs that it can be seen that these planets are only covered with a thick layer of metal.

It's like wearing a tortoise shell.

However, the tortoise shells of the seven planets, plus the iron cables connecting the seven planets, the amount of work, even if it is not as good as building a battle star, is extremely huge.

I just don't understand what the purpose of the tortoise shell is to occupy this remote galaxy and consume so many resources.

"They are, are they trying to fight against the purgers?" Nan Zhu suddenly realized with a flash of inspiration.

"Very likely." Lin Xu nodded, and he also thought of this possibility.

These facilities, whether it is the turtle shell or the pipelines connecting the planets, do not seem to be designed for offense, but for ultimate defense.

A tortoise-like defense.

"So, are they hiding in remote galaxies outside the river system to avoid the Cleaners?" Nan Zhu continued to speculate.

Indeed, generally there will be no advanced civilizations, and if the main body of civilization is established in such a remote galaxy, if it is really to avoid the Cleaners, then the previous doubts can be solved.

But, does this really work?

Think about the exile fleet of the entire civilization fleeing that I encountered before. If it was useful, they would not have to flee with a narrow escape.

"No, if hiding here can hide from the Cleaners, why do they build such a defense facility? Therefore, they should also know that they can't hide, so they will build such a defense facility." Lu Yao shook her head and questioned .

"Since you can't hide, why do you have to build defense facilities here? Isn't it better to build in places with richer resources in the river system?" Nan Zhu thought about it, but couldn't figure it out.

"Okay, since you can't figure it out, then don't think about it, go and have a look and you will know." Lin Xu interrupted the conversation between the two.

So the Skylark is ready to enter the state of curvature navigation, and go to the galaxy that is close at hand to check.

But at this moment, data from hyperspace radar and quantum radar came.

Looking at the scene in the galaxy not far away transmitted in real time, Lin Xu was stunned for a moment.

Because at this moment, in Lin Xu's sight, it is still very normal, there are spaceships taking off and landing from time to time, and seven turtle-like planets connected by iron chains.

In the real-time data transmitted by the hyperspace radar and quantum radar, it has been completely broken.

The iron chain between the planets broke, and the fragments floated in the universe, everywhere.

The wreckage of the spacecraft is everywhere, and the tortoise shell on the planet has been completely broken.

There are even a few planets that seem to have been bombarded by some kind of weapon to create a huge gap, and the magma and ground fire at the core of the burning planet can be clearly seen in the quantum radar.

A large number of broken planetary organizations have formed more than one asteroid belt.

This advanced civilization hiding in the remote area outside the river system has completely died.

"Human Lin Xu, this is the current real-time image." Bai Xing commented on the holographic image drawn by the hyperspace radar and quantum radar.

What Lin Xu saw, the galaxy that was still intact, was the scene of this galaxy seven days ago.

Yes, where Lin Xu is now, it takes seven days to get there.

So what Lin Xu discussed with Nan Zhu and Lu Yao before was what the galaxy looked like seven days ago.

"This happened seven days ago?" Lin Xu asked.

"Not sure." Bai Xing replied.

"Go to the place where you can see the image from six days ago." Lin Xu ordered.

So the Skylark moved forward at a thousand times the speed of light, and soon stopped.

Observed again with the naked eye and optical telescopes, the galaxies not far away are still intact.

So the Skylark continued to move forward until the image it saw was from three days ago.

I finally saw the moment when this advanced civilization hiding on the edge of the river system was destroyed.

The first is that a large number of space channels appear inside the galaxy.

Some space passages even appear directly on the turtle-shell-like planets.

After that, a large number of warships of all kinds appeared in the galaxy.

And all kinds of mech robots appear on the planet.

What followed was an overwhelming massacre.

Massacre without resistance.

Lin Xu frowned slightly, watching the battle that took place three days ago.

Until the antimatter bomb is detonated, the black hole-like image swallows the light.

This made it impossible for Lin Xu and the optical telescope to continue observing.

When everything returned to normal and he could re-observe, what Lin Xu saw was a ruined galaxy scene.

A shattered planet and a utterly failed defense.

There are also a large number of wreckage of spaceships that failed to escape.

And, after ending the massacre, opening the space channel, and the suspected cleanser fleet that is about to leave.

"Ten hours." Nan Zhu, who was counting the time beside him, said when the fleet withdrew and the space channel was closed.

"It only took ten hours to completely destroy a high civilization." Lin Xu sighed.

"They also have space jump technology." Lu Yao said with a solemn expression.

"Yes." Lin Xu nodded.

Among the currently known civilizations, Lin Xu has never seen any civilization other than humans that has mastered the technology of space transition.

These cleansers who claim to be the second sons of mankind, can't they really have something to do with mankind?

Then what is their purpose in doing this?

"Master Lin Xu, do you still want to go and have a look?" Nan Zhu asked weakly.

"Go ahead, we need to confirm whether these are the so-called purgers." Lin Xu said calmly.

So the Skylark moved on.

At a thousand times the speed of light, it quickly arrived at the interior of the galaxy that was already in ruins.

The Skylark slowly slowed down, and the wreckage of the huge warship passing by passed by the porthole of the Skylark.

The battleship decorated with patterns of different civilizations looks very nice, but unfortunately there are only half of the wrecks left.

The wreckage is not only battleships, but also planets.

The shattered gaseous planets raged in the universe, and attracted the broken iron chains connecting the surrounding planets.

The wreckage of various warships also fell towards the planet one after another.

But this is only the corner of the battlefield.

On the battlefields all over the galaxy, even after three days, all kinds of follow-up chain disasters are still going on.

But above the ruins, the Skylark did not detect any electrical signals, quantum signals, or any signal response.

This can only show that this civilization is indeed dead.

Not even a single living being survived.

"Is it so thorough? But didn't the previous exile fleet say that the cleansing is just to clean the level of technology back to the planetary era?" Nan Zhu looked at the empty galaxy with only wreckage, and felt a piercing feeling. the chill.

"They said that only by resisting the cleansing can we go back to the age of planets. If you can't bear it, then that's the end." Lin Xu sighed.

"But why exactly?" Mu Xiyue didn't understand.

Although the former fairy ship had punished countless civilizations, it was because those civilizations were out of order and dirty, so they were punished.

And the fairy ships will not be wiped out.

Even with what these purgers are doing now, Xianjian is already merciful to the Holy Mother.

"Who knows." Lin Xu shook his head.

Immediately, the portable space opened up, and a large number of self-disciplined machine aggregates poured out, and began to search within the entire galaxy.

Soon, a few pieces of armor that were suspected to be dropped by the cleaners were found.

Bai Xing immediately sent it back to Earth for data analysis.

It soon turned out that it was the same thing as the Cleanser armor traded to Lin Xu by the Exile Fleet.

They are all nano-robots that do not respond to human calls, or they can be said to be simplified versions of nano-robots that have lost their activity.

This also proves that the one who did all this three days ago was indeed the Cleanser, who claimed to be the second son of mankind.

"Is that all?" Lin Xu looked at the battlefield where the autonomous machine aggregate collected the entire galaxy, and only a small part of the armor fragments were collected, and he didn't know what to say.

"Are there no Purge warships that were destroyed? Are there any Purge personnel killed? Or is the Purge fleet entirely composed of artificial intelligence?" Lin Xu continued to ask.

"Only these armor fragments, no destroyed Cleanser battleships were found." Shirahoshi replied.

The destruction of an entire advanced civilization only resulted in a small loss of the opponent's armor, not even a single battleship of the Cleanser fleet was destroyed.

It should be said that the Cleaners are too strong, or this civilization is too weak.

Lin Xu could only sigh again.

"Look for the database of this civilization, whether it's on a battleship or on a planet, and try to piece together as much information as they know about the Cleansers." Lin Xu could only save the country in this way in the end.

Since there is no way to directly obtain the wreckage of the Cleaner's warship, there should be a lot of information about the Cleaner in the database of this civilization.

Next, entered the search time of the entire galaxy by the autonomous mechanical aggregate.

Because it is necessary to carefully search whether the database on each warship wreck is intact, and whether there is still a complete database on each planet, it takes a little more time.

During this period, Lin Xu has been standing in front of the porthole, staring at the ruined planet outside the window in a daze.

Mu Xiyue looked at Lin Xu, then at Nan Zhu, and winked at Nan Zhu.

Nan Zhu immediately winked back, why don't you go?

Mu Xiyue hesitated for a moment, then glanced back and motioned for them to come together.

Nan Zhu nodded, together we will be together.

So the two stepped forward, leaning on Lin Xu's shoulders, one on the left and the other on the right.

"Lord Lin Xu, I think that purger must be some kind of second son of human beings pretending to be. I am a human family, and I understand best. How could human beings allow such a thing, right Mu Xiyue?" Nan Zhu blinked wildly at Mu Xiyue.

"Yes, although the immortal ship kills heavily, it will not kill innocent people indiscriminately." Mu Xiyue nodded solemnly.

"You don't think that I will take what the Cleaner did on me, do you? Don't worry, I don't have that hobby. And now I'm not sure, is the Cleaner really the second son of human beings in their mouths? Said Maybe it's just that they pretended to be human beings." Lin Xu shook his head with a smile.

"Then what's the matter with you, Master Lin Xu?" Nan Zhu asked curiously.

"How should I put it, seeing a civilization disappear so easily, after all, it is still a bit sad." Lin Xu sighed again.

Today's Lin Xu also sighed more than once.

"It's like this in the universe. The strong prey on the weak, and it has never changed." Nan Zhu also sighed with emotion.

Afterwards, Nan Zhu pulled Lin Xu to lie down on the sofa, pillowed on her thigh, and gently pressed his temple for him to help him take a rest.

It is also to prevent him from continuing to look at the scene outside the porthole, so as to prevent him from continuing to feel uncomfortable.

Until Bai Xing's report sounded again.

"Master Lin Xu, I have found the relatively intact database of the current galaxy's ruined civilization, and found some information about the Cleanser. Do you want to listen to it now?"

"Let's talk." Lin Xu immediately opened his eyes. Above his sight was the hills and fox ears that blocked his sight. Nan Zhu's face could not be seen.

"According to the data records of the current civilization, the current civilization learned of the existence of the Cleaners eight hundred years ago."

"At that time, although this civilization had not just stepped out of civilization, it had just developed a curvature engine and became an advanced civilization that could truly navigate the universe. At this moment, they met another advanced civilization, and it was also that encounter. They knew about the Purge from another higher civilization."

"The cleansers will not cleanse the civilizations that have not yet developed the curvature engine. Only when the curvature engine is developed and become a civilization that can truly travel in the universe, will it become the goal of the cleanser."

"That's when the current civilization began to prepare for the Purge crisis."

"They knew that the cleansers would clean the river system every thousand years, so they started preparations eight hundred years ago."

"First, they moved to a remote galaxy on the edge of the river system, and then built defense facilities here, trying in vain to survive the cleansing of the cleansers."

"Unfortunately, they failed, and everything now is the result."

Bai Xing's voice was extremely steady as he reported to Lin Xu.

Lin Xu kept nodding his head slowly.

According to the information of the previous exile fleet, they had sailed outside the river system for eight hundred years.

And they started their voyage two hundred years after the last cleaning.

So thousands of years have passed, and this purge has come as scheduled.

It's just that Lin Xu didn't expect that as soon as he arrived in the river system, he encountered a person who was cleaned.

I don't know if it's good luck or bad.

"Why did they choose to hide from the purge here?" Lin Xu asked.

"The database shows that they learned a piece of information in a transaction with a higher civilization. Although the cleansers will not let the remote galaxies go, their attack on remote galaxies is generally relatively low, so they chose here as a resistance The location of the cleaning will be more likely to pass the cleaning, but unfortunately it still failed."

"Is this news true, or are they being deceived?" Lin Xu frowned.

If this level of cleansing is only a low blow, then what kind of blow should the civilizations in the river system face?

In this case, even being able to survive a cleaning, Lin Xu suddenly felt that the exiled fleet he encountered before seemed not so weak anymore.

Before being cleaned, it should be a very strong civilization.

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