Start sweeping the universe by rubbing the CPU with your hands - Chapter 473

c469 An insurmountable catastrophe

More than 20 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the human fleet has sailed out of a distance of more than 1,500 light years again.

This time, the more than ten candidate star systems selected by the ruling committee and the surrounding 100 light years of the candidate star systems have been detected, and no traces of the existence of the Silver Alliance forces have been found.

So after hundreds of years of long travel and thousands of light years, the huge human fleet was finally able to dock at the edge of a star system for supplies.

Compared with when it just set out hundreds of years ago, the scale of the human fleet has shrunk a lot. About 100,000 ships with lower priority and less important ships, such as transport ships that have exhausted supplies, some household ships, etc., have been dismantled, or burned as fuel, or parts have been taken out to supplement other ships.

Even in the residential ships, the rivers and lakes that used to be abundant have dried up or bottomed out, and the weather has stopped changing with the seasons.

Some rare ingredients that require more supplies to grow have also stopped supplying.

Everything is to save resources to support until now.

Fortunately, this voyage did not disappoint people.

The huge fleet has begun to go deep into the star system, carrying countless mechanical equipment, countless engineers and others ready to start preliminary construction. Once the preliminary construction begins, some resources that are easier to supply, such as water and energy, can be replenished in a short time.

By then, the environment in the living spaceship will improve rapidly.

Looking at this scene, Lu Xinghe was full of relief.

During this period, the new faction has become more and more active.

He had expected this situation a long time ago. After all, whether it is the new faction or any other evil faction, the worse the living environment, the more active it has always been.

Although under his advance arrangement and strong suppression, the new faction has never made any big noise, it is always annoying.

Now, after obtaining new supplies and the rapid improvement of the living environment, I believe that the new faction will gradually become quiet.

As for the complete eradication of the new faction, frankly speaking, Lu Xinghe did not expect it.

This is impossible to do.

Just like a wasteland, it will always grow weeds. Even if you keep mowing the grass, there will always be new weeds growing.

As long as there is a suitable environment, weeds cannot be eradicated. At this moment, human civilization has an environment suitable for the existence of the new generation.

Long voyages, hiding everywhere, facing crises at all times, and the pressure of being discovered by the Silver Alliance and suffering a devastating blow at any time, this environment is the soil for the new generation.

Want to change this environment?

Lu Xinghe can’t do it. No one in the human fleet can do it.

So at this moment, Lu Xinghe can only accept that there will always be people who are bewitched by the new generation, and there will be another batch after catching one batch.

Even the Greenoka civilization, which has persisted for a million years in the long night, has been deeply troubled by factions similar to the human new generation until now, and has not been able to eradicate it for a million years.

According to regular exchanges between the three major civilizations, Lu Xinghe learned that similar existences have also been bred in the Luotu civilization, and it has caused the head of the Luotu civilization Huo Xiyu a lot of trouble.

What virtue and ability does human civilization have to be able to eradicate the new generation?

Perhaps… when the head of state was still there, he could completely eradicate the new faction. But then again, if the head of state was still there, I’m afraid the new faction would not have been born from the beginning.

All Lu Xinghe could do was to suppress them with all his strength and prevent them from affecting the whole.

Fortunately, it was already docked near the star system at this moment, and a large amount of supplies could be obtained soon.

Soon, the first batch of engineering fleets transported back a large amount of supplies. So, in each living spaceship, the rivers began to flow again, the oceans were full of waves again, the four seasons began to flow, private travel was fully liberalized, and all kinds of rare ingredients began to be supplied without limit again.

The activities of the new faction quickly decreased and quickly disappeared into the dark.

Lu Xinghe sighed again in his heart.

“It’s too slow… When the head of state was still there, the fleet could complete the supply in a maximum of more than a hundred years. Now relying on ourselves, it is impossible to complete it without three hundred years.”

An inexplicable emotion surged in his heart. Taking advantage of the leisure time at this moment, Lu Xinghe came to the observation room again and stared at the star map of the Canis Major dwarf galaxy.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years had passed.

When the supply project was about one-third complete, a piece of bad news suddenly appeared in front of the ruling committee.

“The alert cruise fleet discovered traces of strange life. Judging from the speed and space fluctuations, this is a level 5 strange life, and its target is a galaxy only 12 light years away from us.”

“Level 5…strange life?”

Lu Xinghe looked at his colleagues, and their faces were full of solemnity.

Although the target of strange life is not the star system where they are located, it is actually not much different.

Because strange life cannot communicate and is extremely fierce. Based on human civilization’s understanding of strange life, they must not be able to accept the existence of intelligent civilization so close to them.

For level 5 civilization or strange life, a distance of only 12 light years is about the same as the front and back yard.

The only choice they may make is to kill the intelligent civilization next to their bed, and then occupy this star field alone.

But…

At this moment, the human fleet has not yet completed its supplies. The risk of setting sail hastily is too great and all fault tolerance will be lost.

If we start a war with this group of fifth-level strange beings…not to mention whether we can survive the situation when supplies are not completed and the industrial system is not fully established, whether the noise caused by the war will attract the attention of other forces, It is something worthy of careful consideration.

“Marshal Zhao Peng, you must immediately mobilize all detection forces to find out the combat effectiveness of this strange life and make war deductions.”

“yes.”

Zhao Peng stood up, greeted his colleagues, and left quickly.

Lu Xinghe looked at his colleagues again: “This is not bad luck for us humans. This incident is inevitable. Even if we don’t encounter supplies this time, we will always encounter them in the future.

The root cause of everything is the recent big moves made by the Silver Alliance. The Yinmeng’s big move has squeezed our living space, and also squeezed the living space of strange life. If the living space is small, we will encounter it one day.

Strange life did not appear when we first docked, but appeared after we had supplies for more than a hundred years. This is already our luck. ”

The ruling committee members nodded slightly and agreed with Lu Xinghe’s statement.

More than ten days later, good news came.

The intelligence collection and war deduction organized by Marshal Zhao Peng have produced preliminary results.

“Intelligence shows that this group of strange beings are probably in a similar state to us, and they all embarked on an ultra-long-distance interstellar voyage in a hurry. They are also facing the problem of lack of supplies, insufficient materials, and insufficient population at the moment.

It is estimated that their combined combat effectiveness is probably only half of what it was at its peak. ”

Lu Xinghe asked: “Is it possible that strange beings occupy another galaxy and we occupy this galaxy without interfering with each other?”

Zhao Peng shook his head: “I’m afraid not. Intelligence shows that the strange life cluster is already adjusting its course, and there is a high probability that it will head straight towards our galaxy. War is probably unavoidable.”

Why……

Lu Xinghe sighed slightly.

It’s obviously best for everyone not to disturb each other, which is good for both parties. But this group of strange beings wants to attack us. Facing a group of strange beings and having no way to communicate with us, it is really helpless.

“What was the result of the war game?”

A confident smile appeared on Marshal Zhao Peng’s face: “After comprehensively considering the combat power of both the enemy and ourselves, the current situation, and development potential, the staff unanimously believes that we have more than 90% probability that in 200 win a decisive victory.”

The ruling committee members breathed a sigh of relief.

If a decisive victory is won within 200 years, it can almost be regarded as a quick victory, and it will not even have much impact on the next voyage.

This result couldn’t be better.

“In that case, let’s fight!”

The ruling council unanimously passed the resolution.

Human civilization immediately began intense preparations for war. The industrial system has also shifted to a wartime system, with routine material supply tasks postponed and all-out production of war preparation materials begun.

More than ten years later, a cluster of strange beings arrived as promised, and the war began.

The development of the situation was just as expected by the staff. The human fleet advanced rapidly. In just over twenty years, it won three battle-level victories and annihilated about 20% of strange life forms.

Although huge casualties were incurred in the process, these victories still made people extremely optimistic about the future situation.

But at this time, an incident happened that shocked all mankind and made Lu Xinghe furious.

In the process of organizing the fourth battle, a total of about 100,000 warships of the Seventh Fleet were ordered to undertake the main attack mission. The remaining approximately 400,000 warships were distributed in the surrounding area, preparing to attack the strange life cluster from other directions and undertake the mission. Follow-up encirclement and suppression mission.

As long as this battle can be won, the number of strange beings will be reduced by more than 30% again, basically establishing the future direction of the war.

But after the battle began, riots broke out among the key battleships of the Seventh Fleet. Thousands of captains and commanders were killed. The Seventh Fleet was in chaos and was directly defeated by the strange beings’ counterattack.

The defeat of the Seventh Fleet directly destroyed the overall situation on the battlefield, and the remaining fleets were implicated and fell into chaos.

In the end, the human side lost more than 300,000 warships and hundreds of millions of elite soldiers died.

The cluster of strange lifeforms then violently attacked the gathering place where the human fleet’s residential spacecraft gathered. In order to ensure the safety of the people, the ruling committee had to urgently dispatch a fleet to defend, and it paid an extremely heavy price to repel the strange life cluster.

After this battle, all human plans were disrupted. As for the strange life side, because they obtained a huge amount of high-performance materials, they reproduced in large numbers, and the population directly increased dramatically!

The advantage between the enemy and ourselves has been completely reversed, and the human side is in danger.

At this moment, it was impossible to escape because there were simply not enough supplies. Fight, can’t beat!

In the ruling conference room, the atmosphere was as heavy as ice.

Marshal Zhao Peng’s face turned pale: “It has been found out that Li Han, deputy marshal of the human fleet, was bewitched by the neo-scientist’s ideas and joined the neo-scientist as early as three hundred years ago.

He has been lurking in the human fleet and has never been discovered. This riot in the Seventh Fleet was planned by Li Han.

He recruited a large number of new members into the fleet, intentionally dispersing them to serve in the Seventh Fleet, and also pushed the Seventh Fleet to assume the main offensive mission, triggering riots at critical moments, leading to a disastrous defeat in a war that was almost certain to win, and even The main fleet was implicated…

President, I bear the main responsibility for this incident. I did not discover in advance that Li Han had rebelled and caused heavy losses to civilization. I request that I be tried by the highest judicial body. ”

At this moment, Zhao Peng was heartbroken and despairing, feeling that his whole life had become a joke.

Lu Xinghe was noncommittal.

A confidential secretary suddenly broke in.

“Head of State, it’s an emergency. Li Han, the former deputy marshal of the human fleet who has absconded in fear of crime, suddenly sent a communication request to the ruling committee through multi-layer encryption, requesting to speak directly with you. We are arranging people to confirm his location.”

“He still dares to talk to me? Promise him! Let me see what reasons made him choose to betray our civilization!”

Lu Xinghe’s face was as cold as frost: “Even the new sect would not do such a heartbreaking thing like Li Han!”

Soon, Li Han’s face with a slightly nervous smile appeared on the big screen.

“Hello, heads of state, fellow ruling members.”

“Li Han, tell me the reason why you betrayed civilization.”

Li Han burst out laughing: “My respected head of state, do you really think there is still hope for our civilization?

The founder civilization has strictly blocked our hope of promoting to a sixth-level civilization. Do you really think we can still advance?

Dear Head of State, admit it, we have no hope. Returning to the Silver Alliance is the only way for our civilization to continue.

So, you think I have betrayed civilization, but I cannot agree with that. In my opinion, I am the one who is most loyal to civilization, and you, all the ruling members, all of you, are the traitors!

You will only lead civilization into the abyss! ”

Marshal Zhao Peng shouted sternly: “Li Han, you despicable and shameless traitor! I wasted my trust in you, trained you, and promoted you before!”

Li Han’s expression calmed down and he bowed solemnly to Zhao Peng: “Marshal Zhao Peng, thank you for your care and love for me for hundreds of years. But unfortunately, some sacrifices must be made on the road to saving civilization. The price. I have no choice.”

Lu Xinghe snorted coldly: “So, is it your loyalty to ruin the lives of hundreds of millions of elite soldiers, or even ruin the entire civilization?!

You keep saying you are loyal, but tell me how to deal with the current situation! ”

Li Han smiled and said: “I have no choice.

Your blockade of devices that can connect to over-the-distance communication networks is too tight. I tried making it myself, but couldn’t.

I also tried to sneak into the top-secret communication room through some means, but even as the deputy marshal of my fleet, I couldn’t succeed.

As I said, I had no choice. I can only sacrifice them and force you to contact the Silver Alliance at their expense.

These hundreds of millions of elite warriors are the price. The millions of new warriors who triggered this riot and died together with them under the attack of strange beings and died in the starry sky are also the price.

They have souls in heaven, and know that their sacrifices have contributed to the continuation of civilization, so they will probably rest in peace.

As you can see, our military power is now unable to defeat the strange life forms. Our industrial system is not enough to support subsequent wars, and our materials are not enough to support subsequent voyages.

Fight, can’t beat. Escape, cannot escape.

We are at the end of our rope.

So…why not contact Yinmeng?

My respected head of state, at this moment, contacting the Silver Alliance and returning to the Silver Alliance in exchange for the rescue of the founder civilization is our only way out and our only hope to continue civilization…”

“Li Han, you are talking nonsense! Not to mention whether the Silver Alliance will accept us, even if the Silver Alliance is willing to accept us, we will have to pay all our core interests and the civilization will lose all autonomy and even the right to development. Our civilization will be lost All hope!”

“That would be better than now!”

Li Han’s voice suddenly became stern, and he yelled like crazy: “It’s better than the hopelessness and precarious situation now! Even if the Silver Alliance wants to destroy us, it will be the price for our previous mistakes and betrayal of the Silver Alliance!

Look at the Blue Mountain Civilization! Look at the Luotu civilization before it broke away from the Silver Alliance! What’s wrong with surviving within the Yinmeng system?

Now, no matter what, our civilization has no other way out except asking for help from the Silver Alliance. You have no choice!

Perhaps you are unwilling to contact the Silver Alliance because you are worried that you will be handed over as a war criminal? Could it be that you are so insane that you want to bring down the entire civilization just because of your own life?

You are the supreme leaders of civilization, you can’t be so shameless! ”

Lu Xinghe slowly shook his head, completely losing interest in talking to Li Han.

“Li Han, you have gone crazy. You have committed an unforgivable sin against civilization. I will definitely catch you and torture you in front of the tombs of all the victims and in front of everyone in civilization.

At this moment, civilization is in a difficult situation, but the hope for the continuation of civilization is not only through contacting the Silver Alliance. Because, Head of State Liu Yuan has already anticipated this situation today…”

“Liu Yuan? An old man who has been dead for tens of thousands of years…”

Before Li Han finished speaking, the communication was directly cut off by Lu Xinghe.

He looked at his colleagues: “Before the president left, he told us that if we encountered a disaster that we could not survive, we could open the message left by the president with the approval of all the ruling committee members, and that message could help us survive the disaster.

Now… I think that the disaster encountered by our civilization can no longer be dealt with by our own strength alone.”

“I agree.”

“Agree.”

The ruling committee members all agreed with Lu Xinghe’s judgment.

“I propose to open the message left by the president.”

“I agree.”

…(End of this chapter)