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"Those who come after, do not reveal your location. This universe is a vast dark forest; remember the law of the jungle!"

Li Yichen braced his hands on the edge of the control panel, his thumbs pressing hard against the metal surface. The large, blood-red translation text on the screen exuded an extremely uncomfortable sense of oppression in the dimly lit room.

Ling'er's holographic projection stood in the lower left corner of the screen, all her previous lively movements gone. Her two small arms hung limply at her sides, and her face, formed by the data stream, had an unnaturally pale gray color.

"Brother, that civilization on Mars, wasn't it caught up in the interstellar war..." Ling'er's voice trembled, with a hint of noise at the end, "They exposed their coordinates and were crushed like insects by a passing higher-dimensional civilization."

Li Yichen straightened up, pulled over a swivel chair, and sat down heavily. He rubbed his face a couple of times, mentally reviewing all the intelligence gathered over the past six months.

The civilization in the constellation Ophiuchus is only 5.2 light-years away from our solar system. According to the information we have so far, they are not some advanced civilization capable of easily crushing planets; at most, they are a level-two civilization that has mastered light-speed travel.

But it is precisely because they are a Level 2 civilization that they are even more dangerous.

In the dark forest, if you encounter a god-like civilization, they might not even bother to glance at you. But if they encounter a hunter of similar strength, their first reaction upon discovering intelligent life emerging in this region of the solar system will definitely not be to come over and greet them or make friends.

In order to protect themselves and to prevent the future technological explosion of the Blue Star civilization from turning the tables on them, the Ophiuchus fleet will definitely do everything in its power to wipe out the Blue Star people and the solar system.

This is a war of genocide with no room for negotiation and no end in sight.

Li Yichen tapped his fingers on the armrest of his seat. Since the Martian civilization left this death knell-like warning, it meant that the coordinates of the solar system had already been exposed tens of millions of years ago. Now, Earth absolutely cannot send any more signals outwards recklessly.

He was just about to tell Ling'er to cut off all of Great Xia's deep space exploration projects when something suddenly popped into his head.

Li Yichen jumped up from his chair, the movement was so sudden that the swivel chair slid half a meter away and crashed into the equipment rack behind him with a dull thud.

"Holy shit!" Li Yichen cursed, pointing to the ceiling above him, "Voyager!"

Ling'er was startled by him, and the holographic figure took two steps back: "What Voyager?"

"Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched by the United States in 1977!" Li Yichen strode back to the main control console and typed out a series of commands on the keyboard.

"Those lazy idiots! They put a gold-plated copper record on the probe, which not only contained the absolute coordinates of Earth, but also human DNA, greetings in fifty-five human languages, and a panoramic view of the solar system!"

Are these people afraid the aliens won't be able to find their way, or are they afraid the aliens won't know if our genetic structure is easy to digest? Find out right now where those two crappy satellites are!

Ling'er reacted extremely quickly, her hands blurring across the void control panel. Massive amounts of astronomical data were refreshing like a waterfall on the main screen.

The data stream froze in just five seconds.

A three-dimensional star map of the outer solar system was displayed. Two red orbital lines started from Earth, passed through the orbits of the eight planets, and extended all the way to interstellar space at the edge of the solar system.

Ling'er pointed to the end of one of the red tracks, and the data stream of the holographic image flickered again.

"Brother... they've already flown out of the heliopause of the solar system." Ling'er swallowed, her voice hoarse. "Moreover, Voyager 1's flight path is pointing directly towards the constellation Ophiuchus."

Li Yichen slapped the metal tabletop, causing the coffee cup next to him to jump.

"These brain-dead idiots!" Li Yichen was so angry that he paced back and forth in front of the control panel. "This is like lighting a high-powered searchlight in a dark forest full of hungry wolves, and then shouting across the universe through a giant megaphone, 'I'm here, the meat is delicious, come and eat me!'"

Decades ago, all of humanity regarded the launch of Voyager as a great feat in exploring the universe, and even textbooks were praising it.

Who would have thought that this thing wasn't a peace envoy at all, but rather a death warrant handed to the alien fleet?

Li Yichen didn't have time to curse anymore. He took out the military-grade secure phone and pressed the number one hotline.

The phone was answered after only one ring.

"Yichen? The material data from Mars has been analyzed?" Old Lu's voice came through the receiver, with the sound of rustling paper as he turned the pages of documents in the background.

"Old Lu, put the materials aside for now, the sky is falling." Li Yichen spoke very quickly, and poured out all the information from the black box intercepted on Mars, the law of the dark forest, and the reckless behavior of the American Voyager spacecraft.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone for ten seconds.

"Clang!"

The receiver crackled with the sound of a teacup shattering, followed by a guard's exclamation.

"Don't worry about me! Prepare the car immediately and head to Conference Room One! Call over the heads of the Communications Bureau and the Astronomical Bureau!"

Old Lu shouted into the phone, then his voice became closer to the receiver and his pace changed, "Yichen, can we intercept the Voyager now?"

"I'll figure out a way to intercept them later," Li Yichen said, leaning against the control panel. "Right now, the most urgent thing is to shut up every mouth on Earth that can speak."

From this moment forward, the entire world must enter into absolute radio silence. Anyone who dares to send a single radio wave into deep space will be a sinner against all humanity.

"I understand." Old Lu hung up the phone decisively.

Kyoto, Core Conference Room No. 1.

The bright, glaring incandescent light illuminated the entire room, leaving no shadows. The huge screen on the wall had been divided into dozens of communication windows.

Old Lu sat at the very front of the oval table, with a red encrypted microphone in front of him.

He hadn't even had time to put on his military jacket; he was only wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.

The first line to be connected was to the Russian Empire's President Putin.

On the screen, King Putin is sitting behind his large desk, holding a pen in his hand.

"Old friend, is it urgent that you're calling me so late?" Emperor Jingpu asked casually.

Old Lu brought the microphone closer, without a single pleasantry: "Old friend, Great Xia has just intercepted a piece of alien intelligence. The law of survival in the universe is to hunt down those who expose themselves."

From now on, all your deep space exploration projects and radio wave transmissions into outer space from your Russian country will be completely cut off. The universe is too complex; we can't afford to waste any more time on reckless endeavors.

Emperor Jingpu stopped writing with his pen, his brows furrowing deeply. Seeing Old Master Lu's serious expression, he quickly realized what was happening.

"When Brother Lu speaks, the Russian bear country obeys."

Emperor Jingpu threw his pen on the table and laughed, "Anyway, we don't even have a firecracker that can fly out of the atmosphere anymore, so we can't afford to cause trouble even if we wanted to. I'll have the space agency unplug those damn radars right away."

Old Lu nodded, disconnected the line, and directly connected to the special line of the acting president of the United States.

The screen flickered, and the acting president of the United States appeared on the screen. He was sitting in the Oval Office of the Black House, his eyes puffy, looking quite exhausted from the mess at home.

"Mr. Lu, it's a pleasure to receive your call. Is there anything I can do for you so late at night?" The acting president forced a fawning smile.

Old Lu's voice was cold and hard. "I have something to inform you of today. All observatories, deep space exploration radars, and radio telescopes within the United States are to be shut down within ten minutes. No further signals are permitted to be sent into outer space."

The acting president's smile froze, and he instinctively retorted, "Mr. Lu, this is not in line with the spirit of science. Science knows no borders; we have the right to explore the universe, and you cannot interfere in our internal affairs..."

"I'm not discussing this with you." Old Lu pressed his hands on the table, leaned forward, and stared at the screen like a knife.

"You're talking to me about science having no borders? Then let me tell you about the rules of Great Xia."

From this day forward, anyone who dares to send a single radio wave into deep space will have the Great Xia's space carrier hovering over your capital within ten minutes, collecting scrap. If you don't believe me, you can try turning on your radio telescope.

The acting president gasped, his back soaked with cold sweat.

The image of the Great Xia's space cannon vaporizing alien spaceships on the lawn of Washington flashed directly into his mind. That blue-white beam of light would haunt his nightmares for the rest of his life.

"I...I understand!" the acting president stammered, frantically grabbing the intercom on the table. "We'll disconnect the observatory's network cable immediately! Absolutely no signal!"

Old Lu snorted coldly and cut off the connection.

Next up is the Prime Minister of India.

The moment the scene appeared, the Prime Minister of India was holding a cup of curry, about to take a sip.

"Your Excellency Lu..."

"Shut up and listen to me." Old Lu didn't give him a chance to be polite. "Stop your so-called space exploration program and smash all your space communication equipment. If you dare to send even a single punctuation mark into the sky, I'll have the space carrier plow New Delhi all over again."

The Indian Prime Minister's hands trembled, spilling curry paste all over the table. He didn't even dare wipe it clean, nodding repeatedly at the screen: "Stop! Stop immediately! We'll dismantle the radar tonight and sell it for scrap!"

Then connect with the President of Gaul.

The President of Gaul, who was wearing pajamas and had messy hair, quickly straightened his posture when he saw the picture of Elder Lu.

"Mr. Lu, the Kingdom of Gaul will always be the most loyal friend of Great Xia..."

"Stop trying to get on my good side." Old Lu tapped the table. "Shut down that deep space radio telescope array in the Alps right now."

Great Xia has intercepted extraterrestrial intelligence; the universe is teeming with hunters. Anyone who sends out signals recklessly will die. If you can't control yourselves, Great Xia's fleet won't mind helping you manage it.

The president of Gaul was terrified and waved his hands repeatedly: "Close it! Close it now! We'll dismantle the telescope tomorrow and turn it into a ski resort! Mr. Lu, as long as Great Xia can provide protection, Gaul will never cause trouble for Blue Star!"

For the next half hour, Old Lu sat in the conference room like a dictator who held the power of life and death over the entire planet.

The prime minister of the Sunset Country, the president of the Gauls, the representative of the European Union... one after another, these usually high-ranking leaders became as docile as schoolchildren being scolded under the intimidation of Lu Lao's absolute military power.

There were no protests, no condemnations. Those few space carriers in the stratosphere above the Great Xia Empire speak for themselves.

Global radio silence was forcibly implemented under Lu's iron fist.

Shanghai, the future aerospace base precision testing building.

As Li Yichen listened to the progress report coming from his secure phone, his tense nerves relaxed slightly.

"Well done, Mr. Lu," Li Yichen said into the phone. "You can put aside the mess in China for now; I need to speed things up here."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yichen tossed it onto the control panel. He pulled up a swivel chair, leaned back, and let out a long sigh.

Although Earth's mouth is currently blocked, the Voyager spacecraft's megaphone is still flying towards Ophiuchus. It's only a matter of time before the alien fleet in Ophiuchus locks onto Earth's coordinates and accelerates its jump to Earth.

The time left for humanity may be shorter than expected.

Li Yichen spun his chair to face the enormous holographic star map above the main control panel. In the center of the star map, crimson Mars was slowly rotating.

His eyes changed; the original seriousness faded, replaced by a kind of fanaticism.

The remnants of a planet-destroying cannon from tens of millions of years ago beneath Mars, along with the material technology capable of mass-producing dark star alloys—this dead star is a super-factory that the universe has gifted to Great Xia.

"Since these alien scum are going to come sooner or later, we must quickly fill this prime location with our Great Xia people." Li Yichen pushed off the ground with one foot and slid his swivel chair to the front of the control panel.

He interlaced his fingers, and his knuckles made a cracking sound.

"Ling'er, raise the priority of the Mars geological terraforming plan to the highest level." Li Yichen stared at the red planet, a grand blueprint already unfolding in his mind.

"First, send 50,000 Terminators and large excavating equipment over there to dig out that prehistoric planet-destroying cannon. Second, establish a forward base on the Martian equator and set up an assembly line for Dark Star Alloy."