Chapter 334 The missing "hunter"
While the exploration of the "Huanyu Enterprise" galaxy was in full swing, Li Wenyuan sent the second batch of "advanced teams" to the galaxy that was about to reach the destination eight million light-years away.
This is the place where exploration is going to be done synchronously, but unexpected circumstances hinder the exploration.
The spaceships sent in this direction by the "alien gate" were hindered by unknown forces when they were about to approach the galaxy group. They still maintained a speed beyond the speed of light, but they seemed to be standing still, which made the "monitoring terminal" who arrived later "Gradually discovered their anomalies.
Through the comparison of the coordinates of the celestial reference object, it can be confirmed that this group of "advance teams" seem to have been advancing, but their spatial positions have not actually changed.
The movement of the "alien gate" is obviously impossible to change midway, that is to say, if the cause of the problem cannot be found, then this group of fleets will continue to move forward forever until the universe comes to an end.
But because the distance is too far, none of the previous detection methods can take effect at this distance, and Li Wenyuan can only guess the reason for this phenomenon.
He guessed that the area was probably a place with extremely large space-time curvature, and the fleet's advance was actually repeating "returning to the origin".
At present, there is no evidence to confirm whether it is just his bad luck, there is such a "special area" on the path of the alien gate.
However, it can only be said that such a "mis-hitting" situation will occur in the distance of the universe. It can only be said that it is almost impossible. A gap of one millimeter is enough to produce a huge deviation after a few light-years, let alone a distance of 8 million light-years?
Now Li Wenyuan feels that it is likely that the galaxy has a very special external environment, and even the entire galaxy is actually surrounded by this peculiar environment.
"Is this also a protection method similar to a 'curtain'?" He couldn't help thinking of this.
If this is the case, then the situation in this galaxy must be unusual.
After thinking about it, Li Wenyuan decided to use the "alien gate" to send several batches of fleets there, to test whether this place is really in this "shielded" state.
This will take a while, after all, the "Alien Gate" needs to be recharged halfway through the activation, and this waiting time will not be wasted.
He has already selected the location for the construction of the "Pillars of Creation". This kind of super-extreme megastructure spanning dozens of galaxies is a huge project. In order to find a suitable celestial environment, he has conducted multiple investigations. Finally, a galaxy border area far away from civilization was selected.
After the complete "Pillar of Creation" is completed, it will undoubtedly become a huge help for him, whether it is military or scientific research.
So at present, his focus is still in the galaxy where the Huanyu Enterprise is located. This place is closely related to the "Hunter" civilization, which may help him understand what the "Hunter" has been doing all along.
The stars turned again, "Presolin" fell into silence, and even the group that was still in the spiral galaxy was depressed, as if they had lost their vitality because of the weakened connection with the queen.
And "Assimilation Fighter" has also made new progress in the universe corporate galaxy.
At this time, it is a special festival for the "servant" Huanyu company. The current Huanyu company has a unique "holiday" system, and different classes apply to different festivals.
However, this only takes effect for high-level people. People of low-level people don't actually have holidays, and they don't even have much time to rest.
But there is only one time exception, and that is the century-old festival called "Welcome Day" by Huanyu Enterprises. This festival is held every hundred years, and everyone can get a prescribed holiday, even the lowest class personnel No exception.
In fact, even the "miner" himself has experienced this festival. The average life expectancy of people in their class is about 120 years. As long as there are no accidents, most people can survive this festival .
And will Huanyu Enterprises really be so kind as to give everyone an equal vacation? Of course not.
This holiday can be forced to "work overtime" for various reasons. It is not difficult to pick this kind of thorn, so in fact this holiday is equivalent to no for low-class people.
But for the rest of the class, it is still an important holiday, because it usually means that "that civilization" is coming.
Some time before the festival was about to be celebrated, the board of directors of the Huanyu Enterprise Headquarters held a meeting as usual.
This group of people standing at the pinnacle of power and resources will only gather together on this day.
Although they can be equated with the "gods" of everyone else in this galaxy, they still have to beg for mercy like dogs in the face of "that civilization" that is coming.
They are smart people who understand who gave them everything.
But this time something is different.
In the conference room where only the virtual image was present, a director asked this question, while the rest were silent, obviously not knowing how to answer this question.
"If you do the math, they haven't come here almost twenty times, right? It's been two thousand years, and even us old things have changed their bodies from generation to generation, but they still haven't come."
"... In this case, can I understand that they are 'trapped'?"
Another director deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "sleepy" during the inquiry. On the surface, he was worried about whether something happened to that civilization, but in fact he was asking whether they had perished for some reason.
Two thousand years may not be long or short, but it is enough for a civilization to go from turmoil to destruction.
At this time, the oldest member of the directors spoke:
"...Don't draw conclusions on them. They have galloped in the sea of stars for an unimaginable age. Even if they perish, they will never be so casual. Think about the last time we saw them. We just do our own thing."
His words caused many directors to ponder. Although it has been a long time, they will remember everything related to that civilization clearly.
When that civilization came here to pick up the “Hound Dog” for the last time, it didn’t appear to be in any hurry. It maintained its usual arrogance and casualness, and did not shy away from revealing to them what it was going to do recently.
【We found a good place with a lot of resources, it’s a good place to go】
【You can use your observation methods to take a look. It’s probably near you. When you see a galaxy whose stars all go out suddenly, that’s our hunting ground】
【By the way, the number of 'hunting dogs' needed recently may be a bit too much. Be prepared, I will see ten times the amount next time I come here. You... can you do it? 】
The civilized visitor obviously didn't have any threatening tone, but it still left a huge impression in their hearts, and even now they can recall every move they made at that time.
But it was also after this time that that civilization never appeared again, the so-called "star extinction" did not happen at all, and even batch after batch of "eggs" that were in the critical state of hatching had appeared, and they did not Did not come to fulfill the promise of recycling.
Once or twice is okay, but now two thousand years have passed, and they are a group of opportunists. Even if they know in their hearts that they can't afford to provoke that civilization, they can't help but have some adventurous thoughts.
In fact, quite a few directors have been secretly researching ways to control those "Eggs of the Void", aiming to convert this creature into their combat power.
Capital is always profit-seeking, and raising these "eggs" for free is an "unnecessary" burden for their enterprises. In the database of a large computer within the enterprise, there are even "war with that civilization and Capture the record of their method of intergalactic voyage".
The capitalists standing at the top are no longer satisfied with the market in the galaxy. What they want is to open up the alien market in other galaxies. Under the surface of surrender is the huge ambition of establishing a "pan-universe trading company".
It can be said that they have drifted away, but the huge resources accumulated after ruling a galaxy group without any effort are also the root of their ambitions.
If they really find a way to travel across galaxies and master the hatching and control methods of the "Egg of the Void", perhaps the ambition of this "Pan-Universe Trading Company" can really succeed.
However, until now, this ambition is still deeply buried in their hearts, and every director has tacitly understood it.
Two thousand years may not be enough, but what about 10,000 or 20,000 years?
They know that one day they can't help it. Although they still respect that civilization on the surface, everyone is looking forward to that civilization really dying.
In this way, they will become the biggest winners.
"...Anyway, let's keep the festival as usual this time. We have tried to delay the hatching time of many 'Eggs of the Void'. This time is not bad, but..."
At the end of the meeting, a director frowned and reminded:
"The mice in the meteorite belt seem to be active again recently, and they seem to be preparing to make trouble in this festival..."
The other person sneered, and said indifferently: "Why, are you still afraid that they won't succeed?"
"What a group of poor fellows. They claim to be great successors, but they don't even have a decent lost building. They can only live on the surface of meteorite belts and gas giant planets. As long as we think we can catch them all at any time, it's just not necessary."
"Isn't it fun to watch their struggles? Every day I would personally look at their activity schedule and laugh at them for not knowing that more than half of their organization is spies."
The director who reminded him before nodded thoughtfully, as if he knew something new.
(end of this chapter)