The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The second thing mentioned in the battle report that caught Leo's attention was that the other alien civilization that was fighting the Overlord-class warship was an alien civilization named Sataya, which was in Leo's database. information, but this information does not seem to be the same as the Sataya mentioned in the battle report.

There is an organization under the Supreme Council of the Universe that is responsible for finding and recording potential civilizations and primitive civilizations, and this organization will update the records every thousand years, delete the civilizations that have perished, and add some newly discovered civilizations. .

For those civilizations that have entered the sequence of cosmic civilizations, a thousand years is just an inconspicuous segment in the process of civilization. Almost all cosmic civilizations rise and fall in tens of thousands of years.

However, for those inner civilizations and primitive civilizations that have not yet walked out of their own planets and have not entered the sequence of cosmic civilizations, a thousand years is enough to determine the growth and demise of these civilizations.

In the relevant information in Leo's memory, Sataya was only a primitive civilization in the land. This civilization had not even invented any technological products based on mechanical power, and the update time of this information was seven days before his death. One hundred and thirty years.

This means that it took only one thousand years for the Sataya civilization to complete the span evolution from the primitive civilization in the land to the intermediate cosmic civilization, and it was also able to fight head-on with the cosmic intermediate civilization that has been changed to the sacred earth. There are dozens of different alien civilization jurisdictions between the two. This is simply a fantasy, and it is absolutely impossible under normal circumstances.

However, things have really happened now, so there is only one possibility for this kind of thing, that is, there is a higher civilization in the universe intervening in the development of this Sataya civilization, and through the means of external force, the primitiveness of this land can be made in a short period of time. Civilization has developed into a medium-sized civilization in the universe that can compete with the old medium-sized civilization.

It is absolutely taboo in Leo's memory that higher 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 is equivalent to the laws of the universe that will not change until the universe perishes. Like the truth of the universe, all existences that violate this law, whether it is an Omega-level advanced life form with the status of a member of the Supreme Council of the universe, or an advanced civilization of the universe that existed before the appearance of the Supreme Council of the universe, will be subject to the most severe punishment. , wiping it directly from the universe.

In the past countless years, at least hundreds of Omega-level high-level life forms and dozens of different levels of cosmic civilization have been directly erased 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 normal circumstances, the Supreme Council of the Universe will never sit and watch a higher civilization in the universe interfere with a primitive civilization in the land to such a serious level as a medium civilization. The existence of the Supreme Council will be when the Sataya civilization has just entered the galaxy. , will punish that higher civilization.

Even if the Sataya civilization passively accepts artificial evolution, it will not be punished, but it will also be monitored by the organization under the Supreme Council of the Universe, and there will never be any opportunity for leapfrog development in the future.

But the fact is that the Sataya civilization has indeed developed to the level of a medium civilization, and it is strong enough to compete head-on with the earth civilization, then it is only possible that something has happened to the Supreme Council of the universe, and it is impossible to punish the higher civilization of the universe for violating the laws and regulations. It is also impossible to monitor the Sataya civilization that has been developed through human interference.

And the most unlikely event that Leo deduced from the battle report and related materials also coincides with another piece of incomplete dialogue information in the battle report. This dialogue information is the captain of the Overlord-class battleship and another Most of the conversations of the captain of a battleship are some small talk in life. From the content of the small talk, we can vaguely feel that the current situation at that time is not very stable, and this situation is not only the current situation in the star area of ​​​​the Earth. , including other civilizations in the universe.

In the content of these small talk, there are two fragmented words referring to the Supreme Council of the Universe, and the content of these two sentences is the same, that is, the Earth civilization has not received any information from the Supreme Council of the Universe for more than 200 years. And this is not only the case with Earth civilization, but also with other surrounding cosmic civilizations, and almost all the star regions that Earth civilization can reach are experiencing wars.

According to normal circumstances, such a cosmos-wide war is absolutely impossible. Even a war between two cosmic civilizations will be under the interference of the Supreme Council of the universe, so that the scope of its influence will always be narrowed to the two civilizations themselves. 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 the powerful beings in the Supreme Council of the Universe have all disappeared, spreading all over the universe. The network of order at the place also disappeared.

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

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

For example, before he judged that the Earth Federal Government had rebelled and was overthrown, and then formed a new Holy Earth Government. This inference was wrong. There was no rebellion at all. The Earth Federal Government naturally evolved into the Holy Earth Government. of.

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

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

It is also because of such a brilliant record that 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 psionicists, the system of the Earth Federation. Homeopathy changed to the monarchy of the sacred earth, and the strongest existence of human beings became the emperor of human beings logically.

Although the human emperor has unparalleled prestige among the human race, the monarchy is unpopular. Except for the stability of the star region and star region regime directly under the human emperor, other places, especially the border star region, all kinds of rebellions There has been no rest since the beginning of the establishment of the Sacred Earth.

However, even if the civil strife of the Holy Earth Empire is frequent, this does not mean that the strength of the Holy Earth Empire will be weakened. In fact, the strength of the Holy Earth is very strong. It can be determined from the restored data that this Overlord-class battleship is still At the time of its mission, the Holy Earth Empire had already annexed more than three surrounding medium-sized alien civilizations.

What is very interesting is that the Supreme Council of the Universe did not come forward when the Sacred Earth annexed the medium civilization, and even observers did not come forward. This is obviously inconsistent with the past behavior of the Supreme Council of the Universe. In addition, a large number of cosmic civilizations expressed their The council lost contact, so many people inside the Holy Earth Empire speculated that something might have happened to the Supreme Council of the Universe, but they were not as bold as Leo guessed, thinking that the Supreme Council of the Universe had disappeared.

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

I don't know if it is the cosmic mutation caused by the explosion of the entire psionicist, or the explosion of the psionicist caused by the cosmic mutation. All in all, at the same time as the explosion of psionicists, the connection between the subspace and the universe has also become closer. Through any external force, just by virtue of the normal connection between the warp and the universe, it has been able to make the warp cracks appear directly in various places in the universe.

At the same time, the chaotic energy in the warp also poured into the universe and began to affect the laws of the universe. Among them, all kinds of creatures are the most affected. Under the influence of the chaotic energy in the warp, intelligent creatures including psionicists have all mutated , let alone those low-level creatures.

The relative energy of the universe itself also flows into the warp along with these warp cracks, which also causes the variation of warp creatures, and the most obvious variation is that those warp creatures that only have hunting instincts began to have wisdom. The wisdom possessed by those powerful warp creatures is not even inferior to that of any cosmic intelligent race, and the warp creatures have also begun to undergo ethnic evolution, as if the injection of cosmic energy also injected the law of cosmic order into the warp.

In addition, for these reasons, some special warp creatures entered the normal universe along the rift. Usually, such warp creatures will collapse after entering the normal universe, but some have completed adaptive mutation, and these have completed the mutation. Warp creatures have become very dangerous monsters. More importantly, there are still a lot of such monsters. The main events in the politically stable star regions of the Holy Earth are the attacks of such warp monsters.

According to the dialogue records of some of the combatants inside the warships, many of these combatants have fought against such warp monsters head-on, and usually they have to pay extremely heavy casualties to kill the monsters, and they also As if exchanging experiences, they exchanged their battle experiences with each other. Naturally, there was no shortage of descriptions of the shape of those warp monsters.

Although Leo has never heard of most of the descriptions of the warp monsters, there are two monster descriptions that make Leo familiar, one of which is the starry sky monster he encountered in the vacuum ruins of the warp not long ago , In the mouth of the warriors of the sacred earth, the name of this monster is Green Furui, which means hunting starry sky.

This is an extremely dangerous warp monster, not only because he has a lot of wisdom, but also because he is almost impossible to kill with conventional weapons, and only extremely powerful offensive psionics can break it up, and this also It's not killing him, because even if he's broken up in the normal universe, he can be resurrected in the warp, and it won't be long before he makes a comeback.

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

In that conversation, when two senior officers who should be from different frontier sectors were talking about the rebellion in their sector, they invariably mentioned that their rebellion was bewitched by warp monsters, and that warp monster's The appearance is very similar to the abyss serpent that Leo knew, such as blood-red eyeballs, human-like lips, and eye-catching front teeth, plus he rarely engages with people head-on, all hides The details such as bewitching people in the dark are enough to make Leo have a lot of associations.

The abyss is also a part of the subspace. The abyss has always been linked to the universe and has been implicated in various civilizations. However, in the past, there has never been a direct entry of abyss creatures into the universe, 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.

But now there is an abyss snake, which has always been known for its cautiousness, and has entered the universe at the risk of being directly killed by an Omega-level advanced life form in 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 serpent dared to enter the universe that also had a large number of powerful life forms.

But this is just Leo's own guess. He can't find any useful reference clues from the recovered data. If he wants more useful clues, he may only go to the vacuum ruins of the warp to collect more information from Only the remains of the device on the sacred earth, or find useful clues and information from these existing alien remains.