Chapter 77 Undercurrent Surge
The slight movement from the "Ancient Land of Heaven" galaxy is the beginning of everything.
This galaxy is the parent galaxy of "Watcher", and there are two extremely habitable Gaia planets inside: the Throne of Heaven and the Temple of Sky. The vast majority of the "Watchmen" population lives here.
This is also one of the holy places of many idealistic civilizations, but the "Watcher" itself does not recognize this statement. The only holy places they identify are "Emerald Tomb", "Walled Garden" and "Pure Treasure".
However, this does not affect many idealistic civilizations who come to this galaxy for pilgrimage.
The first civilization to know about the "Watcher" change is their vassal civilization.
Similar to the "far traveler", they will occasionally improve the indigenous civilization, teach the indigenous people, and let the indigenous people walk on the path of idealism.
These vassal civilizations, which had already calmed down, realized the abnormality of their suzerain country early on, and then all of them entered a state of tension
They found that the signal exchange in the "Watcher" territory became extremely cumbersome, and more and more spaceships began to leap within the galaxy.
Even though they had not received any news from the suzerain country, this dangerous abnormality still aroused their vigilance.
Another period of time passed, and in addition to the vassal civilizations, more and more other interstellar civilizations also discovered the "Watcher" change.
A large number of ancient fleets began to move in and out of the frontier galaxy, and extremely advanced scouting ships began to visit those ancient and destroyed planets.
Because of this heavy atmosphere, almost no civilization dared to borrow from the "Watcher" border, and all of them stayed away from them as much as possible.
"...Manager, the 'Watcher' has restored the data link of the survey beacon and reactivated those abandoned scouting stations..."
Beside Brenning, a subordinate was reporting the information they had detected in a low voice.
The change of the lost empire has been the hottest topic of discussion in the galaxy during this period of time. Although Corebo has no trading station near the "Watcher", they are also very concerned about this matter.
After all, no matter how you look at it, the intention of "The Watcher" is very likely to return to the big chessboard of the galaxy.
"...Okay, you go down first." Breining suddenly interrupted his subordinate's narration, there was no emotion in his eyes, and he couldn't see what his opinion on this matter would be.
And this subordinate didn't ask any more questions, and left the room with a low body.
After he retreated, Breining turned on a projection device, only to see a holographic image sent by his boss:
"...Brenning, I don't need to tell you about the hot spots in the galaxy recently. Every move of the 'Watchmen' proves that they want to participate in this galactic opera."
"Although we don't know what the other lost empires will think about this matter, we still need to be prepared."
"You are in charge of the 'Guardian'. If you can get acquainted, try to get as much as possible. If necessary, you can approve it with the headquarters. As long as you can win some favors..."
"We haven't been in this galaxy for long enough. Any matter involving the 'Lost Empire' must be treated with caution, and there must be no mistakes...By the way, you should also pay attention to the recent situation of the 'Guardians'. ’ attitude couldn’t be better.”
Hearing such serious words from his boss, Brianin's heart gradually became heavy.
They are a universal enterprise, an interstellar company that puts its interests first and is committed to selling products to all parts of the galaxy.
If there is a war between ordinary civilizations, they will definitely be very happy, and it is not uncommon for them to make money from wars.
But if it is a war of the lost empire, then they can only try their best to avoid becoming one of the many dusts of history.
The only thing that can be thankful now is that the headquarters of Corebo is quite far from the "Watcher".
Even if the "Watchmen" expand again, there is still a long way to go to reach them.
After reading the information of the holographic projection, Braining fell into a brief silence.
He could hear the pessimism in his boss's statement, but he actually felt a sense of excitement soon.
Risks and opportunities coexist. He once escaped the threat of "killing the swarm" and then became a man of the enterprise.
Although he is still the person in charge of a small trade enclave, his other identity is that of the "Mechanical Lost Empire", which is enough to make him an existence above ten thousand people, and everyone in a trade enclave at the same level needs to see him. He acted on his face.
The change of "Watcher" this time seems to support the opening of an epic, so maybe a small person like him has a chance to become a member of the epic?
Several monarchy civilizations headed by the Turbulent Empire began to discuss the plan to sign a mutual defense agreement. They have stayed above ten thousand people for a long time, and they are not willing to submit to others, even if the other party is a lost empire.
The Mingbo technological dictatorship that already had an alliance tradition and several other civilizations around it still maintain an alliance state. They have just divided up the legacy of Pechichiti, a racial cleanser.
Having enjoyed such benefits, they have set their sights on the Pyro Alliance early on, but given that the Iron Heart Exterminator's "extermination unit" is still stalking the rear, at least on the surface they still maintain a kind attitude.
The change of "Watcher" has strengthened their determination to maintain the alliance state.
In addition, not all idealistic civilizations have an ecstatic attitude towards this.
On the contrary, except for the vassal civilizations of the "Watchmen", most idealistic civilizations have a worried attitude.
Although they revere the "Watchmen", this does not mean that they like to lose their autonomy and become a part of others.
Every civilization that can fight through cruel natural selection and embrace the universe in the long-term development will not want its pride to be reduced to the glory of others.
Among them, the Dankam group is the most intense. After they made great achievements in the virtual world, overwhelming gifts enveloped them.
Many unsolvable scientific problems have been magically solved, and their resources and output are rising rapidly.
So much so that the pacifist and egalitarian trends of thought that have been popular in the country are rapidly reversing.
Because psychic users are divided into strong and weak, dividing social status according to psychic talent has even become the social norm of the large Dancam group.
The equality of the past is gone forever, and even if the people don't realize it, authoritarianism has taken root in the hearts of the people.
The Dancam group, whose business is booming now, is not reconciled to their ambitious dominance being shattered by the "Watcher". Undercurrents are surging, and they have even reached a deal with some old interstellar civilizations.
Most of the changes in ordinary civilizations are similar, but the vassal civilizations of the "far traveler" are very different.
Different from other civilizations, they have known for a long time that the clock bomb that blew up the planet of the Holy Land was released by their suzerain country, and the change of the "Watcher" was already in their expectation.
What's more, judging from the information leaked from some "far traveler" scientists who came to teach, their suzerain country probably had a bad relationship with the "Watcher" a long time ago.
Although the long time seems to have dilute this hatred, they understand that sooner or later the fanaticism brought by revenge will spread to this galaxy again.
They don't want to go to war, but they were well prepared for it a long time ago, because they will have no choice as a vassal civilization.
The stars turned, and with another round of sun and moon alternation, the eyes came to the "Mechanical Lost Empire" that lived in a corner.
It seems that the "Guardians" have no interest in the upcoming major events in the galaxy, and still maintain a large number of scientific research spacecraft flying randomly in the galaxy.
But Li Wenyuan, who had the latest discovery in the ruins, frowned at this moment, thinking about something.
A string of encrypted messages was unearthed from a ruin on Earth. After decryption, the text fragment left is as follows:
【Document No. N027: The First Pressure Resistance Test】
【After countless simulations in the virtual world, we finally decided to trigger a controlled crisis in the real galaxy to test whether the civilization formed under the inspiration of our force-feeding can resist the coming threat】
【Test result: failed】
【Most of them have regressed to the indigenous era, or even lower. Only a small part can maintain the incomplete state and still have the ability to travel between stars]
【This is not okay... Is it true that the rapid growth of seedlings cannot form a stable state of civilization? 】
【Then, next time we can only do our best】
This piece of information was very short, but the content made Li Wenyuan feel unprecedentedly heavy.
He feels he has peeked into the history of lost empires in the galaxy, but he's more concerned with the repeated threats.
"...how long is it left? Can we solve it with the current us?"
He had such a question, and then looked at the galaxy map.
The color blocks representing the territory of many civilizations fill the monotonous colors here.
"... I hope the galaxy will not have too much internal friction..."
(end of this chapter)