Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

This discovery did not bring them any surprises.

Quite the opposite.

Civilizations on all three planets were briefly plunged into panic.

The existence of a chain of suspicion led all three civilizations to choose "closed-door policy".

Sending messages to other civilizations without authorization will be punished with death—although no civilization would believe messages sent by other civilizations.

While keeping the door closed to "exchange," these three civilizations are all pooling global resources to develop aerospace technology.

It must be said that the power of the entire civilization is immense.

At the expense of developing all other industries, these three civilizations entered the cosmos in an extremely distorted and premature manner.

What followed, naturally, was war.

War raged across the entire Heng galaxy.

It nearly brought down these three civilizations—until their eyes turned to the vast space beyond the Heng galaxy.

The three civilizations suddenly realized their mistake and subsequently shook hands and made peace.

Time is the best medicine.

Over the long years, the three civilizations almost forgot that history and merged almost perfectly to form a powerful alliance—the Enrogett Alliance.

Under the influence of the integration of civilizations, the Enrogete Alliance has experienced rapid technological development.

In just two thousand years, it has advanced from a Level I civilization to a Level III civilization and successfully ventured out of the Heng star system.

During their exploration, the Enrogett Alliance encountered their first opponent.

That was a level two civilization.

A conflict arose between the two sides over the mining rights of a star system.

Under normal circumstances, how could a Type II civilization be a match for a Type III civilization?

From then on, the Enroget Alliance absorbed its first member civilization.

To manage the growing alliance, the Enrogett Alliance established an Alliance Council.

Council members are naturally selected from all member civilizations.

The chairman of the Alliance Council is personally appointed by the leader of the Enroget civilization.

……

Enroget Council.

The huge room was filled with all sorts of intelligent creatures, some of them bizarre and wonderful.

But one thing was the same—almost every intelligent being was wrapped in a thick life-sustaining suit, and at the same time, their expressions were extremely solemn.

"You're all aware that curvature fluctuations were detected at the border outpost, right?"

The council president, seated at the head of the table, repeatedly opened and closed his flat vocal cords, emitting a muffled voice: "It seems that a level five civilization has appeared next to us."

Inside the conference room, it was the only intelligent being not wearing a heavy life-sustaining suit.

As the leader of the Enroget civilization, the only Level 5 civilization in the Alliance, it is qualified.

No one would, and no one would dare to, raise any questions.

As soon as he finished speaking, a murmur of discussion filled the conference room—every intelligent being used the same language.

The council president silently scanned the room, gently tapped the table in front of him, and said again, "Let's begin the vote."

"How should we treat this unfamiliar Level 5 civilization?"

The meeting room fell silent again.

The creatures, with their diverse forms, appearances, and races, began to carefully consider this matter of great importance after he spoke.

The council president remained calm and cast his vote without hesitation.

Upon seeing the text on the screen, most of the intelligent beings in the conference room showed expressions of horror.

"Everyone, first of all, let's make one thing clear."

"According to reports from the border outpost, there may be a large number of similar probes in an area ten light-years away from the Alliance border."

Facing the horrified gazes of his members, the leader of the Enroget civilization stood up, his expression grave, and pointed to the sky: "Like us, they are expanding rapidly!"

"The purpose, of course, is resources."

"Think carefully about what attitude we should have towards them!"

"Furthermore, according to reports from border outposts, the other side's detectors are cruising at thirty times the speed of light."

"From this perspective, the strength of this Level 5 civilization should be far inferior to ours."

"It's even possible that they've just become a Level 5 civilization."

"This is an opportunity for the alliance to grow again."

After speaking, it sat back down in its chair and silently looked at the council members around it, each with a different posture.

Time passed by, second by second.

The voting results were slowly revealed to everyone.

A look of satisfaction appeared in the eyes of the Enroget civilization leader, who slowly rose to his feet: "Then..."

"I hereby declare a state of war for the alliance!"

……

The fifth planet in the Enrogete system.

This is the operational center of the Enrogett Alliance.

The civilization leader looked at the explosion on the screen and the silver-white spherical detector that had been reduced to countless fragments, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Just as it predicted.

This Level 5 civilization is not very powerful, and it has not even mastered the means to detect warp drive.

"Has the fleet set sail?"

He asked.

"Master, the Alliance expeditionary force has set off and is expected to reach the Alliance border in two years." A combat officer respectfully responded to his question. "Victory will surely belong to Enrogett!"

The civilization leader nodded in satisfaction again, then turned and left the operations center.

Interstellar warfare is time-consuming, and there are other things to attend to as well.

……

It was awakened by the piercing alarm.

Seeing the dark blue warning light in front of it, it hurriedly got up and began to check the emergency information sent by the operations center.

"Wh...what..."

Bang!

With a dull thud, the display terminal in its hand fell onto the hard ground.

The faint light emitted by the display terminal, intertwined with the eerie blue warning light, cast slightly strange patterns on its pale face.

It paid no attention to any of this; its flat vocal organs opened and closed, but no sound came out.

After a long while, a hoarse voice finally rang out.

"One, one hundred times the speed of light..."

As the door was kicked open, a hoarse, terrified voice cried out: "Leader!"

"All our warp missiles have been intercepted!"

"Those thirty probes are heading towards the area where the border outpost is located!"

"The operations center is in complete chaos, you..."

It took a deep breath, suppressing its panic and unease, turned and walked towards the door, interrupting the person who came in.

"The alliance is issuing its highest-level alert."

"Mobilize all troops within the Alliance territory..." It paused slightly, "including troops stationed on the Alliance's borders!"

"Tell all members of Civilization that the Alliance is facing a life-or-death crisis."