Lu Xiao is not sure whether the Earth Federation will encounter mysterious alien civilizations in the future, but he can indeed feel the existence of the concept of magic in this parallel universe.
Considering the possibility, there must be a mysterious civilization in the vast universe. As for whether it will be encountered by the Earth Federation, this is not something Lu Xiaoneng can predict.
Halman and Aznar were educated in materialism by the Earth Federation since childhood, and they were unwilling to believe in the so-called mysterious civilization.
But a living example is right in front of us. From a dialectical perspective, the possibility raised by Lu Xiao will not be zero.
Halman is the undisputed admiral in the North Atlantic Combined Fleet, but after all, he is only a soldier and cannot make administrative decisions on behalf of the Earth Federation.
"Mr. Lu Xiao, I have informed the Earth Federation headquarters of your information."
Harman exhaled a long puff of smoke: "Please wait patiently until the headquarters gives a clear reply."
Lu Xiao shrugged and said, "No problem, but... you won't let me wait for news on a warship, right?"
"Of course not."
Halman put out his pipe and uploaded a detailed star map from the Ark Royal. A planet was shining brightly on the star map.
"This is Tianheng, one of the Earth Federation's colonial planets closest to the battlefield. It is managed and developed by the East Asia Republic."
"Mr. Lu Xiao, you can rest on Tianheng Star for a while first. Once the senior management reaches a conclusion, we will tell you the result as soon as possible."
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While flying slowly along the star map to the destination, Aletheia asked Lu Xiao worriedly: "Is this really good? Aren't you afraid that the Earth Federation will catch you and use you as a guinea pig?"
Lu Xiao smiled: "Whether they can do it or not, I will take precautions."
"In the final analysis, I just need a partner, and it doesn't necessarily have to be the Earth Federation."
"There are countless civilizations in the universe. If the Earth Federation seeks death, at worst I will change my goal."
"The Earth Federation was chosen as the first target just for emotional reasons, but that doesn't mean I will hang on a tree."
Aletheia: "Okay, as long as you have a plan, I'm just reminding you just in case."
Tianheng is one of the Earth Federation's colonial planets close to the front lines, and it is not the only choice.
The reason why Lu Xiao was placed here was that his East Asian appearance played a decisive factor.
The Earth Federation hopes to use local sentiments to sway him and get Lu Xiao to make as many concessions as possible in the negotiations.
Tianheng is a small planet less than one-tenth the size of the Earth. It has not been long since the Earth Federation established its presence here.
Most of the entire planet is bare, with the orange-red ground directly exposed to the universe. From time to time, sandstorms blowing from the surface of the planet can be seen.
There is only one place where life can be seen on Tianheng. Under the hemispherical energy shield, a small human city is expanding rapidly, and a large number of robots are constantly expanding the scale of the city.
Aletheia explained: "This energy shield is mentioned in the messy data stored on the Glory, and the Earth Federation calls it an ecological ball."
"Whenever a new colonial planet arrives, the Earth Federation will first generate one or more ecological spheres, then expand outward from the center, gradually transforming the planet's atmosphere and water environment."
"There is air inside the ecological sphere. The pioneers use intelligent robots to rapidly expand the city. Only after reaching a certain level will they attract investment and immigrants from the earth itself."
It has been less than three years since the Earth Federation captured Tianheng. Due to its proximity to the war front, the transformation of Tianheng, which is not a military colony, has been slow and only one ecological sphere has been expanded so far.
However, as the saying goes, where there are risks, there are opportunities. Many businessmen who planned to speculate in this war settled in Tianheng Star in large numbers. This led to many opportunists and poor immigrants to take advantage of the low land prices in Tianheng Star.
Decisively buy and wait for appreciation.
Lu Xiao's life identification signal has been transmitted to the Star Port Management Bureau of Tianheng Star. After some handover, a young woman with typical East Asian characteristics appeared in front of Lu Xiao, with a formulaic business smile on her face.
"Welcome Mr. Lu to Tianhengxing, I am Zhang Juan from Tianhengxing Immigration Bureau."
"I have heard the general situation. I have completed the citizenship information and entry procedures for the Earth Federation and the East Asian Republic before your arrival. Please follow me."
'oh?'
Lu Xiao was a little surprised by the high efficiency of the Earth Federation, but didn't care much about the citizen identity information they produced.
The Earth Federation officials arranged a Chinese-style courtyard for Lu Xiao. Zhang Juan introduced Lu Xiao to the main entrance of the courtyard, entered his iris recognition information on the access control system, and then left knowingly.
"Aletheia, take over all the systems in the courtyard and check if there are any backdoor programs."
"learn."
The Earth Federation still knows how to behave and has not left any clues in this courtyard. The system of the courtyard is kept very "clean".
After eliminating hidden dangers, Lu Xiao began to visit the structure of the courtyard.
The entire courtyard has a typical Chinese garden layout, with small bridges and flowing water creating a relaxing atmosphere. Lu Xiao immediately fell in love with the pavilion in the center of the lotus pond in the backyard.
"It's pretty good."
Standing in the pavilion and feeling the cool air in the courtyard, Lu Xiao sighed and said: "I didn't expect that in just a few hundred years, Earth's technology would be able to develop to this point, is it an ecological ball..."
Aletheia: "If you are interested, I can sneak into the Earth Federation's civilian database and steal relevant technology. The confidentiality coefficient of civilian technology is not high."
Lu Xiao thought for a moment: "By the way, strong artificial intelligence should already exist in this era, right?"
"Yes, the relevant records I found in the database of the Glory spaceship before."
"Each member state of the Earth Federation has its own advanced artificial intelligence. The North Atlantic Federation's advanced artificial intelligence is named Merlin."
"Merlin..."
Lu Xiao's expression was a little strange: "...If you think about it carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong with it. After all, Merlin is the court mage and great sage in King Arthur's legend."
"Aletheia, will stealing information attract the attention of the East Asian Republic's artificial intelligence?"
Aletheia: "Probably not. As I said just now, the confidentiality of civilian technical information is relatively low. Nuwa's focus is on military technology."
Nuwa is the name of the artificial intelligence of the East Asian Republic. According to Aletheia, she vaguely felt the attention from Nuwa when she was searching the database of Tianheng Star.
"Then forget it."
Lu Xiao looked at the sky and could intuitively see the stars in the universe through the protection of the ecological ball.
"Before reaching cooperation with the Earth Federation, don't do anything that may irritate them. Anyway, we don't have much use for this technology. Let's talk about it when we have the opportunity in the future."
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After entering the age of interstellar navigation, the technology of the Earth Federation has maintained rapid development with the provision of sufficient resources.
Even on Tianheng Star, a remote frontier colonial planet, there is a direct network connection with the earth. Lu Xiao also tried to play several immersive VR games that are said to be very popular now.
"Xiaoyu would be very happy if she came to this world."
Walking on the commercial pedestrian street of Tianheng Star Ecological Center, Lu Xiao looked at the dazzling holographic projection advertisements around him and said with some emotion: "The entertainment methods in this era are too rich, and people's life satisfaction is unprecedentedly high, but...
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Consus took over: "To be honest, social welfare is a bit too high."