The Memoirs of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 481 The Red Tide
The Orion spiral arm is the outermost secondary spiral arm in the Milky Way, located between the two main spiral arms of the Centaurus and Perseus spirals.

For hundreds of millions of years, Orion's spiral arm, which is a barren and barren area, has been hiding in a corner, away from the prosperity and disputes in the central area of ​​the Milky Way, and has lived a peaceful life without shitting.

If there is no accident, this small spiral arm will continue to be so quiet until the next billions of years, when a lucky civilization breaks through the technological singularity, pokes its head into the real social stage of the Milky Way, and interacts with those Intermediate and advanced civilizations meet.

Human civilization on Earth has this potential.

Although human beings are cruel and tyrannical, warlike and bloodthirsty, communication methods rely on low-efficiency language sound waves, the flow of conceptual time is slow, the body is weak, and the education rate is low, most of the time technological progress needs to be driven by a very small number of geniuses
However, human beings are a war race, just like a certain German Third Reich major who unfortunately died in London said, human beings like wars, annihilation wars, blitzkrieg wars, strike wars, and defensive wars.

The time they spent on war occupied most of the entire history of civilization; the energy they spent on the art of war was far more than the pursuit of art.

If given enough time and luck, the 70 billion human beings on earth may really be transformed into a war madness. One day, with an unrivaled posture, they will sweep the world like a mad dog, sweeping the world, and let the glory of primates shine on the Milky Way .

Unfortunately, this possibility was ruthlessly obliterated.

Looking around, the Orion spiral arm where the earth is located has never been as lively as it is today.

There are countless spaceships moored around different star systems in Orion's spiral arm. These spaceships have different shapes, sizes, and aesthetic tastes. The differences between them are greater than that of humans and mice.

Chimney, cigar, flintlock, bird, sea urchin, tortoise, pyramid, kelp, zoomorph
There are so many types of spaceships, dazzling and dizzying, I wish I didn't have four eyes to see all the magnificent and huge ships.

These spacecraft belong to different interstellar countries, civilizations, and planets, and have completely different technological development curves and cultural backgrounds.

The extremely prosperous commercial federation, the barren and primitive tribes, the militaristic feudal military state, and the religious capital with the supremacy of theocracy.
In the Milky Way, almost all mid-to-high-level civilizations that can be named have sent ships.

Using their respective engine technologies, they spanned tens of thousands of light-years,

The ships of some civilizations even crossed almost the entire galaxy with the help of stargates (interstellar transition channels, that is, artificial wormholes set up by the three empires in various star regions).

If you look down at the Milky Way from a high altitude, you can find these densely packed ships, like ants smelling syrup, encircling the earth in the spiral arm of Orion.

The ships are quietly shrouded in the light of the stars, one side is illuminated by bright light, and the other side is surrounded by darkness, like tall models standing quietly in the studio, waiting for the moment when the photographer presses the shutter.

drop.

The public communication network of the Milky Way (that is, the public screen chat system between various civilizations) refreshed a text marked in red.The publisher of the content is the Supreme Council of the Three Empires.

"The Demon Slaughter Order is activated."

Just a simple line of text.

In a certain star field outside the solar system, Li Ang, who was having a conversation with Hela, seemed to have noticed something. He suddenly raised his head and looked around.

"what happened?"

Thor, who was taken aback by Li Ang's sudden movement, asked a little uneasily.

Li Ang didn't answer, he drove the candle dragon phantom silently, extracted a steady stream of vacuum zero-point energy from the void, and instilled it into his eyes.

Li Ang, who was beyond the horizon of the speed of light, could see something far beyond the light cone.

Thousands of light-years away, countless interstellar warships started the stellar leapfrog at the same time.

Ships with different shapes first extract energy from the star they live in, open a dark and swirling wormhole, then start the conventional engine, enter the wormhole, and jump to the vicinity of the next star.

The ships of various civilizations that had just exited the wormhole channel had no time to repair, and immediately began to extract the energy of the second star, use the energy to open the second wormhole, and make another leap.

This kind of military behavior, which utilizes the energy of stars, opens wormholes in a row, and finally completes the ultra-long-distance march, is called stellar leapfrog.Only those intermediate and advanced civilizations in the Milky Way have the technical ability to complete it.

In most cases, the intercommunication between interstellar civilizations will rely on the star gate, which is the interstellar transition channel belonging to the three empires.

But in wartime situations, the faster and more convenient stellar leapfrog has become a better choice.

Because opening the wormhole consumes a huge amount of energy, the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation of the star increases—in the visible band, the spectral line that appears as the spectrum moves toward the red end, which is also called a red shift.

And when the ships complete the leapfrog, the spectra of the stars on the way will gradually return to their original state, no longer redshifted.

The spectral redshift effect of a single star can only be detected by advanced astronomical detection instruments, but when the number of spectral redshifts rises to hundreds of thousands or millions,
The ordinary redshift, then, turns into something even more terrifying.

On the outer side of Orion's arm, a red dot suddenly lit up, and soon other stars near the red dot also emitted red light.

The red light spots shone one after another, condensing into a red water droplet, which immediately turned into a stream, and soon turned into a river.

Eventually, it turned into an overwhelming red tsunami.

The blood-red wave composed of discolored stars rushed towards the center of Orion's cantilever, towards the earth, and towards Li Ang.This kind of terror that is silent but reveals firm strength, neither rush nor slow, neither arrogant nor impetuous, like a slim girl dressed up, walking briskly in small steps towards her partner in the center of the dance floor go.

"What is this?" Zhulong Xuying watched Hong Chao silently, then lowered his head suddenly, and asked Hela indifferently.

The charred body of the Goddess of Death suddenly tensed up. She felt the terrifying coercion emanating from the blue dragon, and felt the incomparably real threat of death, but she didn't have any fear—even if she was afraid of death, it should be the other party.

"Devil Slaughter Order."

Hela said calmly: "Signed by the Supreme Council of the three empires, it is a massacre order targeting a certain individual, a certain civilization, a certain planet or even a certain galaxy.

Under the order of the demon slaughter, no life can survive.

Here they come. "

(End of this chapter)