Hundreds of years have passed in a hurry. In the endless starry sky, this huge fleet carrying more than 200 billion people has crossed a long distance of hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of kilometers and arrived at this place where it has been before.
More than a thousand years ago, human civilization fled from here in panic. More than a thousand years later, the human fleet came again. The only difference is that the size of the fleet now has increased by more than ten thousand times compared to that time.
In the main control room of the Yuanhang No. 1 spacecraft, which still serves as the flagship of civilization, a leader walked in.
"Leader, route planning has been completed."
The Iron Blood Nebula is a nebula. Navigating inside the nebula is obviously different from sailing outside the nebula. Here, even if we are already at the pinnacle of level three civilization, the performance of the spacecraft has been improved many, many times compared to the past.
You can't run rampant here.
Even the spacecraft armor at this moment cannot withstand the various secondary radiations caused by the high-speed collision with interstellar dust.
Fortunately, human civilization now has all the scientific data of the Storm Civilization. As a large civilization that has survived in the Iron Blood Nebula for at least thousands of years, the Storm Civilization knows the distribution of safe channels in the Iron Blood Nebula very well.
At this moment, a projection appeared in front of Zhao Changxing. In it, many green lines appeared, marking the location of the safe channel.
"Don't waste time, choose the fastest one."
"yes."
Under Zhao Changxing's order, the huge human fleet spacecraft uniformly turned their direction, aimed their jets at the interior of the nebula, and uniformly began to slow down.
Even within a safe route, the speed of up to 60,000 kilometers per second is still too fast. It must be decelerated in advance to reduce the impact of the collision with the interstellar dust cloud to an acceptable range.
"From now on, some more advanced civilizations that are relatively close to us will be able to discover our traces by observing various types of radiation." Zhao Changxing said slowly: "But it doesn't matter. They don't have enough time.
Let’s complete the union and assembly.”
The huge human fleet plunged into the Iron Blood Nebula.
Another few years passed. After having penetrated some distance into the Iron Blood Nebula, a large-scale awakening began. Countless people who had been sleeping in hibernation for hundreds of years woke up one after another. Countless roller bases that had been sealed were reinvested in
During the operation, the originally sparsely populated human fleet once again became busy and noisy.
Human civilization comes with good intentions, but people also know in their hearts that the only way to ensure that the other party also upholds good intentions is to have sufficient strength.
In this vast universe, not every civilization can be like human beings, not bullying the weak, and not plundering wealth when they see it.
In this way, it is very necessary to allow civilization to enter a normal state in advance, maintain sufficient social productivity, and maintain sufficient combat capabilities.
So the Space Force soldiers began to gather, and then entered different battleships, and began the still strict and even harsh training, ready to start a war at any time.
Originally, it was inconceivable to maintain the normal operation of civilization during an interstellar voyage, or even conduct large-scale combat training. This is because it consumes too much material, and during an interstellar voyage, it is impossible for the fleet to carry out large-scale combat training from the outside world.
Get supplies.
However, the material reserves carried by the human fleet, which were ten times more than normal requirements, provided sufficient support for this move.
Time passed slowly, and while still sailing at high speed, the human fleet had truly entered the interior of the nebula. At this time, the fleet that had just become lively due to the large-scale awakening, now fell silent again.
Everyone's expression was dignified and solemn. Countless people put on black clothes, and then tied a white cloth on their arms or pinned a white flower on their chests.
There was no organization, people seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding, and everything was formed spontaneously.
On this day, Zhao Changxing also put on black clothes and pinned a white flower on his chest. His figure once again appeared in various media and in front of almost everyone.
Under normal circumstances, unless something big happens, Zhao Changxing rarely appears in the media so formally.
"More than a thousand years ago, when our civilization tried to escape the Iron Blood Nebula, it was here that we were pursued by the G1 galaxy coalition forces.
The enemy is strong and we are weak, civilization is in danger and may be destroyed at any time.
At this time, our brave Space Force warriors stood up. They left the main fleet and stepped into the vast space, taking on the responsibility of blocking the enemy and defending civilization.
They have no stable logistics, no unified command, no communication with each other, and no idea where their comrades are, so they have to solve all problems by themselves.
Under such extremely difficult circumstances, they completed the blocking mission brilliantly. Not only did they defeat the enemy, they even captured the enemy's flagship and brought it back to civilization. They became an important factor in our civilization's breakthrough to the third level.
nourishment.
Our civilization has developed and grown as a result, and every soldier who successfully returns home becomes a hero.
However, more soldiers died silently in this star field.
We don’t know what difficulties they faced and what dangers they encountered. Because of the situation at that time, the soldiers could not communicate with each other at all. They had no logistics, no support, and no command. They were in the most desperate situation
, still persisted in carrying out his mission, and finally died here quietly.
Their sacrifices created our civilization.
Heroes, if your heroic spirits are still wandering in this star field, please turn your attention now. Take a look at how far our civilization has developed at this moment, and take a look at how huge our spaceship is.
Look at the number of space force warships and look at how advanced our technology is.
Heroes, come back and leave here with your descendants.
From now on, we humans will never fall into that situation again. Your sacrifices have resulted in unnecessary sacrifices for future generations.
Your merits will be known forever, forever.
Now, let’s pay a silent tribute to these heroes who sacrificed their lives in this star field.”
In the media footage, Zhao Changxing stood up, lowered his head, and bowed forward. Almost everyone watching also stood up at this moment.
A solemn atmosphere spread throughout the entire fleet.
At this moment, everyone's hearts are gathered together.
Some citizens of the Storm Kingdom who were also awake at this moment had no feelings about those sacrifices at first. But after seeing the solemnity of human beings at this moment, they seemed to feel something the same.
They understood more deeply why the Storm Civilization was so powerful in the first place, but it was defeated miserably at the hands of human civilization whose hard power was far inferior to their own.
Such a civilization, no matter what, is great and worthy of respect.
The solemn memorial ceremony lasted for several days until the fleet finally left this star field.
Now, the speed of the human fleet is too fast, and it only takes a few tenths of the time to cross this long distance.
At this time, the leader of the team of scientists who continued to observe the star that was scheduled to be the target star for this interstellar voyage, that is, the star system numbered G2 where the most powerful civilization in the Iron Blood Nebula is located,
But he hurried to Zhao Changxing's office.
Originally, based on his level, he was not qualified to report directly to Zhao Changxing - if people of any level came to Zhao Changxing for any matter, then even 240 hours a day for Zhao Changxing would not be enough.
However, being able to obtain level-by-level confirmation and approval from lower-level departments shows the importance of this matter.
as expected.
"Leader, our space telescope array has observed extremely large plasma flashes and nebula radiation from the g2 galaxy."
The person in charge's tone was slightly bitter.
Plasma flash comes from the tail flame of the spacecraft thruster. Nebula radiation comes from the interaction between the spacecraft tail flame and interstellar dust.
"According to further observation and analysis, we confirmed that these extremely large-scale flashes and radiation came from three different directions, and seemed to have traveled here from other galaxies. According to the scale analysis, these three flashes,
At least it indicates the scale of up to 200,000, 300,000, and 300,000 large spaceships respectively.
At the same time, from inside the g2 galaxy, we also observed signs of spacecraft maneuvers that were far beyond the norm. This greatly exceeded the records of the strength of the Basiltisa civilization in the Storm Civilization data. We have reason to believe that before our observations,
There is already a fleet of considerable size that has gathered in the g2 galaxy from other star systems and other civilizations in advance.
Based on the overall assessment, we believe that the number of warships gathering or currently gathering in the G2 galaxy at this moment may have reached between 2.4 million and 3 million."
Zhao Changxing's expression also began to become serious.
This is a situation that no one has thought of before.
In order to prevent the gathering of civilizations in the Iron Blood Nebula and putting too much military pressure on ourselves, we would rather spend more time visiting each galaxy one by one. However, we did not expect that the other party would complete the fleet alliance ahead of schedule!
How is this going?
Could it be that they had observed the existence of their own fleet in advance and predicted the destination of their own fleet in advance?
This is impossible!
When the distance is as high as ten or twenty light years, no observation method can detect the existence of a fleet! Even human civilization that has reached the peak stage of third-level civilization does not have this technology, and Basil is lagging behind our own side.