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In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed, and the human fleet has once again sailed a distance of more than 1500 light-years.

This time, more than ten candidate galaxies selected by the ruling committee, as well as the surrounding 100 light-years of the candidate galaxies were detected, and no trace of the existence of the Silver Alliance was found.

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

Compared to when it first set out hundreds of years ago, the size of the human fleet has shrunk a lot. About 100,000 lower-priority, less important spaceships, such as transport ships that have run out of supplies, some domestic spaceships, etc., have been dismantled, or burned as fuel, or taken out and replenished with parts. On the spaceship.

Even in the residential spacecraft, the rivers and lakes that used to be abundant have dried up or bottomed out, and the seasonal changes in weather have stopped.

Some rare ingredients that require more materials to grow have also been discontinued.

Everything is done to save resources to support the present.

Fortunately, this voyage did not disappoint people.

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

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

Seeing this scene, Lu Xinghe was filled with relief.

During this time, the new faction became increasingly active.

He had already expected this situation. After all, whether it is the New Faction or any other evil faction, the worse the living environment is, the more active it becomes.

Although under his advance arrangements and strong suppression, the new faction never made any big noise, it was still annoying.

Now, after obtaining new supplies and the living environment has improved rapidly, I believe that the new faction will gradually become quiet.

As for the complete eradication of the new sect, frankly speaking, Lu Xinghe had no hope.

This is impossible to do.

Like a wasteland, weeds will always grow out of it. Even if you keep mowing the grass, there will always be new weeds growing up.

Given the right environment, weeds are impossible to eradicate. At this moment, human civilization has an environment suitable for the new generation to exist.

The long voyage, hiding everywhere, facing crises all the time, and the pressure of being discovered by the Silver Alliance at any time and causing a devastating blow. This kind of environment is the soil that breeds the new faction.

Want to change this environment?

Lu Xinghe couldn't do it. No one in the human fleet could do it.

So at this moment, Lu Xinghe can only accept that people who are bewitched by the new sect will always exist, and if they catch a group, there will be another group.

Even the Greenoka civilization, which has persisted for millions of years in the long night, is still deeply troubled by factions similar to the human neo-sect, and it has not been able to eradicate them in millions of years.

According to the regular exchanges between the three major civilizations, Lu Xinghe learned that similar beings had been born within the Luotu civilization, which caused Huo Xiyu, the leader of the Luotu civilization, to worry a lot.

How could human civilization be so virtuous as to be able to eradicate the new sect?
Perhaps... while the Führer is still here, he can completely eradicate the new faction. But having said that, if the head of state was still there, I am afraid that the new faction would not have been born from the beginning.

All Lu Xinghe could do was to try his best to suppress them and prevent them from affecting the overall situation.

Fortunately, we were already anchored in the galaxy at this moment, and we could quickly obtain a large amount of supplies.

Soon, the first batch of engineering fleets delivered a large amount of supplies. As a result, in each residential spacecraft, the rivers began to flow again, the oceans began to wave again, the four seasons began to flow, private travel was fully liberalized, and all kinds of rare ingredients began to be supplied in unlimited quantities.

The activities of the new students decreased rapidly and quickly faded into darkness.

Lu Xinghe sighed again in his heart.

"It's too slow... When the head of state was still there, it would take at most more than a hundred years for the fleet to complete the supply. Now relying on ourselves, it won't take less than three hundred years to complete."

An inexplicable emotion surged in his heart. Taking advantage of his free time, Lu Xinghe came to the observation room again and was fascinated by the star map of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.

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

About one-third of the way through the supply project, bad news suddenly appeared in front of the ruling committee members.

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

"Fifth level... strange life?"

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

Although the target of the strange life is not our own star system, there is actually not much difference.

Because strange beings cannot communicate with each other and are extremely fierce. Based on human civilization's understanding of strange life, they must not accept the existence of intelligent civilization so close to themselves.

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

The only choice they can make is to kill all the intelligent civilizations on their side, and then occupy this star field by themselves.

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 current 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's something that deserves 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."

Hey……

Lu Xinghe sighed slightly.

Obviously, it would be best if everyone did not disturb each other, which would be good for both sides. But this group of strange creatures insisted on attacking us. Facing a group of strange creatures, we had no way to communicate, which was really frustrating.

"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 agreed 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 committee unanimously passed the resolution.

Human civilization immediately began intense preparations for war. The industrial system 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 10 warships of the Seventh Fleet were ordered to undertake the main attack mission. The remaining approximately 40 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 other fleets were implicated and fell into chaos.

In the end, the human side lost more than 30 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 ideas of the New Life Movement and joined the New Life Movement 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 personnel 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 it is a pity that 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 the extra-distance communication network 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 perished 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 a maniac: "It's better than the hopelessness and precarious situation now! Even if the Silver Alliance wants to destroy us, it will be the price we paid for the wrong things we did before and betrayed 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 cut off by Lu Xinghe.

He looked at his colleagues: "Before the head of state left, he once told us that if we encounter a disaster that we cannot survive, we can open the message left by the head of state through the approval of all the ruling members. That message can help us Survive the disaster.

Now... I think that the disasters that our civilization has encountered cannot be dealt with by relying solely on our own strength. "

"I agree."

"agree."

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

"I propose that we open the message that the Führer left for us."

"I agree."

...(End of chapter)