The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

This requires the approval of two-thirds of the board members of the Alpha Space Station.

At the same time, the most important point is to examine its civilization.

Confirm that the other party's planet is a real, existing civilization, and not an individual or organization.

With the general's weakness in hand, the multi-party alliance passed the inspection smoothly.

Although they did not own any planets in World Nine, the data about Cybertron provided by Lu Qianwei and his team was real.

The explorers presented this information to various civilizations and races. The alien councils that had regrouped looked at the information and showed considerable interest in some of the technologies.

Ultimately, after a series of discussions and theoretical debates, and with the approval of the Supreme Commander of Humanity, the Cybertronian civilization, after several rounds of questioning, successfully joined the Cosmic Alliance family.

"Then welcome Mr. Sentinel Prime, the silicon-based representative from Cybertronian civilization, to the Cosmic Alliance!"

Alan Phillips, with a fake smile, led the enthusiastic applause to welcome the arrival of the new civilized race.

In the circular council chamber, several council members of different races stood up in unison.

The distinct sounds of tribute intertwined and blended, creating a powerful salute that resonated throughout the hall.

"Thank you all for your enthusiasm for our Cybertronian civilization!"

"As members of the Cosmic Alliance, we will dedicate ourselves to maintaining peace and order in the universe..."

Due to its size and height, Sentinel Prime appears as a holographic image centered on the ground.

In conclusion, that's the end of a long, formal, and tedious speech.

The matter has now entered its second phase – the question of where the Cybertronian civilization will be located to occupy the Alpha Space Station.

The council members engaged in heated discussions, but ultimately, led by the general, and with the revelation of some kind of space compression technology from the Cybertronian civilization…

Without considering expansion or territorial encroachment, the Cybertronian civilization acquired a central location where other civilizations intersected, situated in all four cardinal directions...

Three days later, thanks to the general's lavish media coverage, the more than 30 billion residents of Thousand Star City all learned about the addition of the new race.

With the added allure of space compression technology, many curious civilizations quickly headed towards the areas inhabited by the Cybertronian civilization.

"Tsk, it feels like just an ordinary building, nothing special."

Grandpa, why don't we go to the western area and see what good food and fun things there are?

Lyra, who was piloting a two-horsepower spaceship, looked at the unremarkable area in front of her and curled her lip.

"Hehehe, you haven't even gone in yet, and you're already complaining." Horace, with his black hair, chuckled.

Since escaping death and having his lifespan extended, the old man is in excellent health and very active.

But elderly people who have recovered from illness are never idle.

Just two days later, he started engaging in those dangerous activities again.

Leila, a wealthy woman who never worried about food or drink, was furious when she saw this. She immediately dragged him out of the industrial area, threw him into the car, and started a tour of the City of a Thousand Stars.

"Welcome to our civilized residence. I am Li Ying, the resident representative of the Central Region."

"Central Region?"

"When did our City of a Thousand Stars gain a central region?"

"Does this alien think that getting the central position at the boundary means it's the middle region?"

"Haha, where is there such a small central region!"

"Not necessarily. Didn't the Cybertronian civilization say they brought some kind of spatial expansion technology?"

Perhaps there's a hidden paradise inside.

"emm~"

The aliens swarmed in from all directions, chattering amongst themselves, but soon some people became suspicious and stood in front of the hatch at the figure in sharp clothes... a human?!

The aliens, who had come specifically to see what the new race looked like, suddenly became furious.

Damn it, what happened to us being from outer space?

"How could a representative of human civilization be sent here? This doesn't make sense!"

"Isn't Cybertron a silicon-based civilization?"

"I've heard they're all very large; this human might be an agent they've hired."

Aren't some aliens who aren't good at expressing themselves like that?

"That's true."

"Nonsense! They're robots, how could they not be good at expressing themselves!"

"Ahem, today is the day we officially open our Botan civilization to the outside world..."

Regardless of the discussions among the crowd below, Li Ying finished her barrage of rubbish and finally opened the hatch behind her amidst the expectant gazes of the civilized crowd.

The hatch is not embedded in the space station, but is a triangular cubic column that is nearly sixty meters high.

With a deep, resonant energy hum, the heavy gates on both sides of the triangular cube pillar slowly disappeared, leaving a smooth passage over a hundred meters wide.

Not to mention visitors on foot, even three small or medium-sized spaceships lined up side by side could easily fit inside.

The crowd that was originally packed outside poured in through the passage without any sense of congestion.

Leila listlessly piloted her secondhand spaceship, which had been painted pink, and drifted slowly behind the convoy ahead.

"I have a feeling that there is a portal here, but it doesn't look like a place compressed using spatial technology."

If I hadn't wanted to see what Cybertronians looked like, I would have…

Before she could finish speaking, her voice suddenly caught in her throat.

The spaceship had just passed through an invisible soft energy barrier, and not even half of the anticipated modified space station cabins or the rumored giant metal skyscrapers of the Cybertronians appeared in sight.

A warm breeze carrying the dampness of grass and trees greets you, and what dazzles you overhead is not the unchanging, cold white artificial light of the City of a Thousand Stars, but a real, deep blue sky dotted with large, soft clouds.

Looking up into the distance, the dark green mountains stretch along the horizon, extending to the very end of the field of vision. At the foot of the mountains, the shimmering river meanders around the green fields, and even the wind carries the fresh, sweet scent of grass and river water. There is not a trace of the cramped feeling of the metal cabins of the Alpha Space Station.

In the City of a Thousand Stars, which of the more than 3 billion residents hasn't lived in pre-divided metal compartments since childhood?

At most, you might get tired of the simulated starry sky projection on the ceiling, and occasionally squeeze into a small garden of about one square meter in the artificial ecological area to satisfy your craving for nature. But who has ever seen such a bright, boundless, and completely pristine natural world, just hidden behind that inconspicuous entrance in the center of the space station?

"Where...where is this?" Leila's hand gripping the joystick froze, and she opened her mouth for a long time, unable to close it.

Instead, old man Hollis rubbed his slightly moist eyes and said, "Hahaha, I never thought I would live to see mountains and rivers again!"

The sun in the sky is really realistic!

The Cybertronian civilization really spared no expense.

Not just the two of them, but all extraterrestrials who breathe air and are carbon-based life forms gasped in astonishment upon seeing the magnificent landscape of mountains and rivers in space.

Whether it was the large or small spaceships floating in mid-air, or the ground visitors who had just stepped into the energy barrier through the smooth passage, they all seemed to have been frozen in place, most of them with their mouths agape and looking dazed. It took a long time before someone managed to utter a series of earth-shattering exclamations.

How many years has it been?

They had almost forgotten what the land looked like!

That feeling of being grounded is something I really miss (╥╯﹏╰╥)!

The race that thrives in oxygen-rich and humid environments panicked and immediately opened the glass dome on their exoskeleton upon entering the barrier.

The crisp, sweet air, carrying the scent of grass and trees, rushed in. The old man, who had been coughing and panting, leaned against the side of the ship and closed his eyes. After taking a deep breath, he opened his eyes a while later and saw a bright light in them. He looked up and stared at the flowing cloud shadows in the sky, unable to look away.

Many people were unusually quiet; the businessmen who had just been shouting complaints about the "gimmick" and "deception" were now completely silent.

Glenn, whose body was studded with star-gold gems, didn't even notice the top-grade blue crystal that had rolled off his feet when he entered. He held his stone head high and stared at the endless blue-green mountains for half a minute before uttering a deep exclamation: "I feel like all my possessions combined are not as valuable as this mountain!"

"Bullshit! You're not even worth a tree!"

The contractors who made a living by creating artificial ecosystems in Thousand Star City had already squatted on the ground. They reached out and pinched the dewy grass by the roadside, and then touched the trunk of the tree next to them that was so thick that it would take two people to hug it. They confirmed that these were all real, native living things. They looked at each other and couldn't say a word for a long time.

Their proud "largest man-made ecological park in Qianxing" is only a dozen square kilometers at most, which is not even a backyard compared to the endless sky and earth in front of them.

Those aliens born in the City of a Thousand Stars, who have never seen mountains and rivers in their lives, are full of curiosity. They touch this and that, and can squat on the ground for a long time to observe the ants on the ground.

"Everyone! Welcome to the Central Region!" Li Ying shouted through a megaphone high in the sky, after giving another long-winded explanation that everyone was allowed to visit and experience this place.

Almost instantly, no one wanted to listen to his rambling anymore.

Lyra slowly maneuvered the spaceship downwards, gazing at the shimmering ripples on the river below and the verdant green of the distant forest...

For some reason, I suddenly felt inexplicably joyful and happy.

"Grandpa...you said before that our hometown is like this, is that true?"

"Hehehe, yes~" Horace leaned against the porthole, gazing at the vast plains in the distance, and sighed with a smile.

He never saw the mountains and rivers again after he was taken to the space station when he was five years old.

“ε=('ο｀*))) Sigh, after living for so long, I've finally felt the feeling of home again…”

Lyra found a flat patch of grass on the riverbank, parked the spaceship steadily, and pulled Horace out of the hatch and jumped down.

As soon as her feet touched the ground, she exclaimed "Hey!" and subconsciously tiptoed.

This feeling is completely unlike the artificial turf in Star City. The grass roots have the softness of soil, sinking into the soles of your shoes, and even have a warm, sun-kissed feel.

"Silly girl, take off your shoes and step on them."

Hollis laughed heartily, bent down to untie his shoelaces and take off his shoes and socks. He stepped barefoot into the grass, squinted his eyes in comfort, and sighed, "This is the feeling. When I was a kid, I used to run on the riverbank in my hometown, and this is exactly what it felt like under my feet. It was soft and the grass roots tickled my soles."

"Hahaha……"

Leila followed suit and took off her shoes. As soon as her toes dipped into the soft grass, she couldn't help but laugh.

However, just as she chuckled twice, a brown and white shadow darted past her feet, startling her so much that she shrank back. She then realized it was a spotted hare with long ears. It tilted its head, looked at her for two seconds, then turned and hopped into the waist-high weeds, leaving only the tip of its white tail swaying back and forth.

"Wow! That's a rabbit! I've only ever seen them in biology books!" Lyra's eyes lit up as she chased after the rabbit.

Unfortunately, the little bunny's agility far exceeded her large movements.

"Huff, huff~ This is too hard to catch!" Leila panted, only realizing before she knew it that she had run to a stream.

The clear river water made her unable to resist squatting down to touch it, and she hadn't even had a chance to enjoy the cool, refreshing feeling of her fingers touching the water.

She watched as several shimmering silver fish darted through her fingers, and the cool river water brushed against her skin, making her groan with pleasure.

A breeze blew across the river, carrying the sweet scent of wild roses from the riverbank. The poplar leaves overhead rustled, and several small birds with colorful wings perched on the branches, chirping away. A gray squirrel, carrying a pine cone, sat on a branch, its large tail held high as it tilted its head and peered at the crowd below, showing no fear of people whatsoever.

Hollis had already taken off his coat and run to the shallows to have a water fight, his laughter carried for miles on the wind.