Voyage of the Stars

The bright stars are like guiding lighthouses in the universe, and also like islands in the sea of ​​stars. Every civilization that embarks on the journey of the starry sea needs them, either for star maps or for docking and replenishment.

But even if the stars are bright, they cannot illuminate the darkness of the universe.

The darkness between the stars is always the theme of the universe. For the vast and boundless space, the stars are still too small.

Whenever you leave the range of the star system and look around, you can only see stars that are like fluorescents.

The cosmic environment is like this, empty and lonely, quiet and weird. Countless civilizations are running in such an environment, but it is difficult to find each other. Sometimes even if they pass by each other, it is difficult to see each other.

Not long after the Star Alliance fleet left, a team of exploration spacecraft appeared in this star field on the stars. The exploration spacecraft team immediately chose a star to explore as they did before. Then, they discovered something strange in the star system.

"Ship 16, take Ships 7 and 8 back to communication node 52 and tell the 316th exploration team that an abnormality was found at coordinates XXXX. The star number is ***. It is suspected that a civilization has mined relics. It is initially judged to be a level 4 civilization or above. The other party is likely to be in this star field. We need support."

"Understood!"

Communication information appeared on the communication channel of the exploration team, and then three exploration ships left the exploration team, while the remaining dozens of exploration ships continued to explore this star system with great significance.

Not long after, the exploration team left this star system and headed straight for the nearby star system. After arriving at the next star system, another communication information appeared on its internal communication channel.

Then, as before, three more exploration ships left the exploration team.

After exploring the four star systems in this star field, the exploration team again let several exploration ships leave the team, and explained through the internal communication channel: "You go directly back to the interstellar communication node No. 12, where you can directly contact the headquarters, and say that the traces of unknown level 5 civilization are suspected to be found in the Perseus edge star field. At present, our 3rd exploration team has detected their warp tail. According to the preliminary detection of the warp tail, the size of its fleet is more than four million, and the majority of planetary ships are in the direction of navigation. The next step of our 3rd exploration team is to keep a distance along their tail."

"Got it!"

Warp navigation has warp tails, which are caused by the distortion or flattening of the warp engine. This kind of tail exists for a long time, and the tail of a star-class ship disappears after several years. The fourth-level civilization has a certain detection capability with the grand unified force field technology, and the fifth-level civilization has the ability to roughly judge the approximate size and composition of the fleet from the depth and form of the tail by relying on the derivative technology under the framework of the universal theory.

However, this so-called detection cannot be discovered from a long distance, and the detection ship must actually come to the area where the tail is located.

The reason why this exploration team found the tail now is that they first found many abnormalities in the star system, and then followed the clues to find the warp track.

And the fleet they found was obviously the Star Alliance fleet that had just left this star field not long ago.

Because of the need for large-scale creation upgrades, the Star Alliance carried out large-scale destructive mining in this star field. Basically, all the rocky planets were blown up wherever they went, and all kinds of gravel and rocks were floating everywhere in the star system.

This exploration team was able to easily find the warp tail of the Star Alliance.

In this way, this exploration team followed the Star Alliance from a distance, and from time to time sent one or two spacecraft to deliver the latest news to its headquarters.

And all this, the Star Alliance knew nothing because they were always rushing forward, until the Star Alliance fleet was about to arrive at the star system where Adley was located.

"Marshal Yue, the Red Flame Civilization Exploration Team reported that they found an unknown civilization exploration team 13 light years behind the fleet and are currently in confrontation." The voice of the intelligence monitor sounded at the Tianqin Command Center.

Because they were about to arrive at the star system where Adeli was, for the sake of safety, Yue Yuan ordered to double the detection range and send out more detection teams, and such measures actually worked.

After hearing the report from the intelligence officer, Yue Yuan touched his chin and thought: "Unknown Level 5 civilization detection team. Could it be the evil Level 5 civilization mentioned by Adeli?"

Then Yue Yuan said: "What's the situation on Adeli's side?"

At this moment, the Star Alliance fleet is about 6 light years away from the star system where Adeli is located. The entire fleet has left the warp speed and floated in the starry sky. At the same time, detectors are widely spread in all directions to guard against the evil Level 5 civilization mentioned by Adeli.

The intelligence officer replied: "General Yue, Adeli is still there."

At the same time, another message was also transmitted to the Tianqin: "General Yue, the 97th exploration team of the Red Flame Civilization has discovered another unknown civilization exploration spacecraft, with a number of 300. They are currently trying to communicate."

Hearing this, Yue Yuan sat back in his chair and waved his hand, then looked at the 3D star map image composed of a blue light screen, "Okay, notify them and let them communicate in the name of the Red Flame Civilization."

The star map has synchronized the positions of the two exploration spacecraft teams, one behind the Star Alliance fleet, and the other to the left of the star system where Adeli is located, 13 light years and 15.6 light years away from the Star Alliance main fleet respectively.

As he said, Yue Yuan reached out and fiddled with the holographic screen a few times, and then saw that the holographic screen in front of him expanded several times, and more than a dozen figures appeared in it.

"You have also seen the information, what do you think!" Yue Yuan said after scanning the dozen people in the holographic image.

This way of communicating through holographic projection has been popularized by all mankind, and the Tianqin, as the flagship of mankind, naturally cannot be without it.

"I am afraid it is the evil level 5 civilization that Adley mentioned at the beginning. We must be prepared for battle!"

The commander of the Seventh Fleet spoke.

Then the commander of the Fifth Fleet also spoke: "I think so too, but I don't know why they didn't take Adley away, and according to the intelligence, the star system where Adley is located has not encountered their detection spacecraft at all, which is really puzzling."

"Is it possible that it is not them?" In the holographic image, a tall staff member of the headquarters put forward his own different opinion: "Could it be that Adley lied to us at the beginning?"

"No, it is possible, but why did Adley lie?" One of the staff members shook his head.

Now it is just the detection spacecraft team responsible for training detection that has discovered each other, and the distance is still quite far, so it is not urgent.

The staff of the command center considered and said, "When Adley was under the attack of our star destroyer, his life and death depended on our thoughts. Seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the instinct of life, and he is no exception. It is reasonable for him to use lies to get us out of the way."