The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The second thing mentioned in the battle report that attracted Leo's attention was that the other alien civilization that was fighting this overlord-class battleship was an alien civilization named Shataya, which was listed in Leo's database However, this information does not seem to be the same as the Shataya mentioned in the battle report.

Under the supreme council of the universe, there is an organization that is responsible for finding and recording potential inland civilizations and primitive civilizations, and this organization will update and record the data every thousand years, delete the civilizations that have perished, and add some newly discovered civilizations .

For those civilizations that have entered the cosmic civilization sequence, a thousand years is just an inconspicuous short period of time in the civilization process. The rise and fall of almost all cosmic civilizations are counted in tens of thousands of years.

However, for those inland civilizations and primitive civilizations that have not left their own planets and entered the cosmic civilization sequence, a thousand years is enough to determine the growth and extinction of these civilizations.

In the relevant information in Leo's memory, Shataya is just a primitive civilization in the ground. This civilization has not even invented any technological products based on mechanical power, and the update time of this information is seven years before his death. One hundred and thirty years.

That is to say, it took only a thousand years for the Shatam sub-civilization to complete the span evolution from the primitive civilization in the ground to the mid-level cosmic civilization, and it was also able to fight head-on with the mid-cosmic civilization that had been changed to the sacred earth. There are dozens of star regions under the jurisdiction of different alien civilizations between the two. This is simply a fantasy, and it is absolutely impossible to happen under normal circumstances.

However, now that something has really happened, there is only one possibility for this kind of thing, that is, the advanced civilization of the universe intervenes in the development of this Shatam sub-civilization. The civilization has developed into a medium civilization in the universe that can compete with the old medium civilization.

It is an absolute taboo in Leo's memory that advanced civilizations intervene in the natural development of other civilizations in the universe. The Supreme Council of the universe has extremely strict regulations on this, which are equivalent to those laws of the universe that will not change if the universe does not perish. The same as the truth of the universe, all existences that violate this law, whether they are Omega-level advanced life forms with the status of members of the Supreme Council of the Universe, or advanced civilizations in the universe that existed before the Supreme Council of the Universe, will be punished most severely , directly erasing it from the universe.

In the past countless years, at least hundreds of Omega-level advanced life forms and dozens of cosmic civilizations of different levels were directly wiped out by the Supreme Council of the universe because they interfered with the normal development and evolution of other civilizations in the universe.

Therefore, according to the normal situation, the Supreme Council of the universe will never sit back and watch a high-level civilization in the universe interfere with a primitive civilization in the earth to a degree as serious as a medium civilization. , will punish that higher civilization.

Even if the Shata sub-civilization will not be punished because it passively accepts artificial evolution, it will still be monitored by the organization under the supreme council of the universe, and there will never be any opportunities for leapfrog development in the future.

But the fact is that Shattaya civilization has indeed developed to the level of medium civilization, and is strong enough to compete head-on with Earth civilization, then it is only possible that something happened to the Supreme Council of the universe, and it is impossible to punish the advanced civilization of the universe that violated the laws and regulations. It is also impossible to monitor the Satya civilization that has been artificially interfered with and developed.

The most unlikely thing that Leo deduced from the battle report and related materials happened to be corroborated by another incomplete dialogue in the battle report. The conversation of the captain of a battleship, most of which are some small talk about life, from the content of the small talk, we can faintly feel that the current situation at that time was not very stable, and this current situation is not limited to the current situation in the star area of ​​the earth civilization , including other civilizations in the universe.

In these chats, there are two fragmented sentences that mention the Supreme Council of the universe, and the contents of these two sentences are the same, that is, the earth civilization has not received any information from the Supreme Council of the universe for more than two hundred years. And this is not only the case with the civilization of the earth, but also with other civilizations in the surrounding universe. In addition, wars are happening in almost all star regions that the civilization of the earth can touch.

Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for this kind of war in the entire universe to happen. Even a war between two cosmic civilizations will always be reduced to the two civilizations themselves under the interference of the Supreme Council of the universe. In the star area of ​​the universe, and now this impossible thing has really happened, then there is only one possibility, that is, the Supreme Council of the Universe and those powerful beings in the Supreme Council of the Universe have all disappeared, and all over the universe The net of order in the place also disappeared.

Everything is just the result of Leo's deduction from the fragmented information in this incomplete battle report. He is not sure whether his deduction is correct and needs more reference materials, and these reference materials may be hidden in those garbled data middle.

In the next few days, Leo stayed in the small room to sort out and restore the garbled data. The progress was neither good nor bad. Most of the data was completely damaged, but there were still a lot of data that could be recovered. After recovering, most of these data materials are the daily reports of the battleship, the content is mainly the status of the battleship, but there are still a lot of chat conversations mixed in these daily reports. Through the content of these chat conversations, Leo gradually improved the inferences he made earlier.

For example, before he judged that the Earth Federation government had rebelled and was overthrown, and then formed a new Sacred Earth government, this inference was wrong, there was no rebellion at all, and the Earth Federation government naturally evolved into the Sacred Earth government of.

The reason is that after his death, the psykers of various civilizations in the universe suddenly exploded, and the Earth Federation was no exception. In his era, the public psykers of the Earth Federation only accounted for hundreds of millions of the total population. One-third, or even less, but after the explosion of psykers, the number of psykers has become two-thirds, or even three-quarters of the total population, and psykers have thus become the backbone of the entire civilization. mainstream.

Driven by such a huge population base, the number of high-level psykers among psykers has also increased rapidly, and one of these high-level psykers stood out, crossed the boundaries of life forms, and became an Omega-level advanced life form. Some people even think that the life level of this existence is even higher than that of ordinary omega-level advanced life forms, because in the process of fighting with the surrounding alien civilization, this human being's strongest existence directly fought and killed four of the other civilizations. Omega-level advanced life forms.

Also because of such a brilliant record, the strongest existence of mankind has won the worship of all mankind, and naturally controls all the rights of the Earth Federation, and under the secret promotion of its subordinate high-level psykers, the system of the Earth Federation Taking advantage of the trend, it was changed to the imperial system of the sacred earth, and the strongest existence of human beings became the emperor of human beings logically.

Although the human emperor has an unparalleled reputation among the human race, the monarchy is unpopular. Except for the stable star area and star field regime directly under the human emperor, other places, especially the border star area, have all kinds of rebellions. It has not stopped since the establishment of the sacred earth.

However, even if civil strife frequently occurs in the Sacred Earth Empire, this does not mean that the strength of the Sacred Earth Empire will be weakened. In fact, the strength of the Sacred Earth is very strong. When carrying out the mission, the Holy Earth Empire has annexed more than three surrounding medium-sized alien civilizations.

What is very interesting is that the Supreme Council of the Universe did not show up when the sacred earth annexed the medium civilization, and even the observers were not sent. This is obviously inconsistent with the past behavior of the Supreme Council of the Universe. The council has lost contact, so many people in the Holy Earth Empire speculate that something may have happened to the Supreme Council of the Universe, but they are not as bold as Leo guessed, thinking that the Supreme Council of the Universe has disappeared.

In addition to the information about the civilization of the earth itself, a large part of the restored data also involves information about the subspace.

I don't know whether it is the cosmic mutation caused by the explosion of the entire psyker, or the explosion of the psyker caused by the universe mutation. Through any external force, just relying on the normal connection between the subspace and the universe, the cracks in the subspace can directly appear in various places in the universe.

At the same time, the chaotic energy in the subspace poured into the universe and began to affect the laws of the universe. Among them, all kinds of creatures were the most affected. Under the influence of the chaotic energy in the subspace, intelligent creatures including psykers have mutated , not to mention those low-level creatures.

On the contrary, the energy of the universe itself flows into the subspace along with these subspace cracks, which also causes the variation of subspace creatures, and the most obvious variation is that those subspace creatures with only hunting instincts begin to possess wisdom. The intelligence possessed by those powerful subspace creatures is not even inferior to any cosmic intelligent race, and the subspace creatures have also begun to undergo group-like evolution, as if the injection of cosmic energy also injected the laws of cosmic order into the subspace.

In addition, because of these reasons, some special subspace creatures entered the normal universe along the cracks. Usually, these subspace creatures would self-destruct after entering the normal universe, but some of them completed adaptive mutations, and these mutants Subspace creatures have become very dangerous monsters, and more importantly, there are still a lot of such monsters. The main incidents to be dealt with in the politically stable star regions of the sacred earth are attacks by such subspace monsters.

The dialogue records of some of the combatants inside the battleships show that many of these combatants have fought this kind of subspace monsters head-on, and usually only after paying extremely heavy casualties to kill the monsters, and they also They exchanged each other's battle experiences as if they were exchanging experiences, and descriptions of the appearance of those subspace monsters were naturally indispensable.

Although most of the descriptions of subspace monsters have never been heard by Leo, there are two descriptions of monsters that Leo feels familiar with. One of them is the star monster he encountered in the vacuum ruins of subspace not long ago. , in the mouth of the warriors of the sacred earth, the name of this monster is Green Furui, which means hunting the starry sky.

This is an extremely dangerous subspace monster, not only because he has high intelligence, but also because he is almost impossible to kill with conventional weapons, and only extremely powerful offensive psychic powers can break it up, and this is also Not to kill him, because even if he is scattered in the normal universe, he can be resurrected in the subspace, and he will make a comeback in a short time.

As for the other monster, Leo is more familiar, because according to the warrior's description of the monster's appearance and behavior, he is almost certain that the so-called subspace monster called a disaster by the emperor of the Holy Earth Empire is actually a serpent of the abyss , and it is an abyss serpent that has reached the level of a superior.

In that conversation, when two senior military officers who should be from different border star regions were talking about the rebellion in their own star regions, they mentioned that their rebellion was bewitched by a subspace monster, and that the subspace monster’s Its appearance is very similar to the abyss serpent that Leo knew, such as blood-red eyeballs, human-like lips, and striking front teeth. In addition, it rarely engages in direct confrontation with people, and it hides in the dark to confuse people, etc. The details are enough for Leo to have a lot of associations.

The abyss is also a part of the subspace. The abyss has always been connected with the universe and has been involved with various civilizations. It’s just that there has never been an abyss creature directly entering the universe in the past, usually through bewitching and corruption. Let the power of the abyss erode into certain planets or civilizations in the universe, drag the entire planet and civilization into the junction of the universe and the abyss, and then begin to invade these planets and civilizations.

And now there is an abyss serpent that has always been known for being cautious and cautious, risking being directly killed by an omega-level high-level life form in the universe, and entering the universe, which makes Leo have some crazy associations. This association It was at that time that the entire universe might have been eroded by the abyss, so the abyss snake dared to enter the universe that also had a large number of powerful life forms.

But this is just Leo's own guess. He couldn't find any useful reference clues from the recovered materials. Perhaps he can only go to the vacuum ruins of the subspace to collect more useful clues from Only the remains of the sacred earth's devices can be used, or useful clues and information can be found from these existing alien remains.