Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 13: Grand Structure: Ideal City
"Bang bang bang bang..."

Bullets from the heavy machine gun hit the humanoid creature that was as hard as steel and covered with scales one after another.

The black raincoat on its body was pierced by bullets one after another, its sharp claws slapped hard on the armored vehicle, and the thick steel plate was almost pierced.

However, at such a close range, the opponent was also shot in the head and exploded.

"Alert, alert, no one is allowed to come near!"

Warning tapes were pulled up one after another, driving all the uninvolved citizens far away.

Hu Yiyi frantically wanted to get into the warning belt, but as the warning belt gradually stretched, she could only watch the deformed monster get farther and farther away from her, until the deformed mother was completely Disappeared from sight.

Tears blurred her eyes, and Hu Yiyi slowly opened her eyes.

In her sight, a man wearing a uniform of the Earth's United Nations Space Force was helping her arrange everything in the ward.

Then he sat next to Hu Yiyi's bed.

"Why are you here...You're not..."

Hu Yiyi looked at the soldier, slightly surprised.

"Xiaomeng called me. Now you are the governor of the Centaur Galaxy. As soon as my superior heard that I asked for leave because of you, he immediately approved it for half a month. You are very precious to the higher ups now. Every pioneer All the planets need you to take charge, but nothing can go wrong."

Yu Minghai smiled and then said to Hu Yiyi.

"Look what I bought you?"

As he spoke, Yu Minghai stretched out his hand that had been hidden behind his back.

"Yes, mermaid doll!"

Hu Yiyi swept away the haze in front of him and held the doll in his arms.

"Do you like it? I went around the world to buy it for you."

"Thank you."

Hu Yiyi laughed while crying, and suddenly a bear hugged him, almost strangling Yu Minghai to death.

"Unknown hyperspace channel coordinates discovered."

Suddenly, Chen Xiaomeng's communicator placed above the main computer in the biology laboratory rang.

Chen Xiaomeng walked over and briefly glanced at the information on the communicator that the data download progress was 100%.

Then he unplugged the data interface between the communicator and the laboratory's main computer, browsed the screen carefully for a while, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely excited.

"The home galaxy of this ancient civilization is actually only three space jumps away from us!"

Qin Xu said with some confusion: "Isn't this right? We have explored the information about the three surrounding space jump positions, and we have not seen such a thing."

Chen Xiaomeng explained: "The hyperspace engine can only perform space jumps when it is started at the entrance of the hyperspace channel. In other words, you must first know where the entrance is. Under normal circumstances, these entrances can be detected and can also be detected. If the channel entrance is considered to be obscured and the coordinates of the channel entrance are not known, the hyperspace engine will have no use..."

Seeing that Qin Xu still didn't understand, Chen Xiaomeng surrendered.

"To put it simply, there is a security door at the door of their house, and we now have the key to this security door."

"Oh...understood."

Liu Wenhan suddenly said at this time: "But don't forget, this is a civilization that is so powerful that we can't imagine it, and now we know nothing about the situation over there."

Chen Xiaomeng's excitement was gradually brought back by reason, but then she said firmly: "But we can't just leave it alone. This biological laboratory has been abandoned for countless years, and this civilization also has far-reaching consequences that are beyond our imagination. History, whether it still exists now is still open to question. What if this is the remains of an uninhabited ancient civilization’s mother planet..."

"But risks and benefits coexist. If the other party still exists, with the current strength of the Earth United Nations, there are only two ways to be vassalized or purified."

"But you know, there's no way we're not going."

Chen Xiaomeng said firmly.

"So, let me go. If I don't come back, then you should never try to go in again."

Liu Wenhan said calmly.

Chen Xiaomeng was stunned for a moment, while Qin Xu fell into silence.

Liu Wenhan, who was so frightened when facing a small beetle that he didn't even have the courage to raise a gun to shoot, has now begun to take the initiative to take on such an almost certain death task.

Once there is a human civilization inside, Liu Wenhan must choose to let the spacecraft self-destruct as soon as possible.

There is no other option.

During the preparation stage of the spaceship, Qin Xu found Liu Wenhan, "Liu Shaomei may not be dead, maybe..."

Liu Wenhan smiled, "It doesn't matter, it's all the same."

Qin Xu was silent.

"I can see that she has always wanted to have a father since she was a child, and she did not hesitate to pass the most difficult astronaut test. Her scores in almost every subject were low. She is not a genius in science, so She has worked harder than anyone else. And she has done so much just to see her irresponsible and despicable father who has not come back for 20 years."

"Although it's impossible, if she really comes back to life later, then let this heroic father live in her heart... That's enough."

With that said, Liu Wenhan smiled and shrugged at Qin Xu who wanted to say something else.

"And don't be too pessimistic. Maybe the other side is really a dead galaxy? After all, this biological laboratory has been abandoned for a long time."

Chen Xiaomeng saw Qin Xu coming out of the room and hurriedly took two steps forward. When Qin Xu saw her, he just shook his head, indicating that he could no longer persuade her.Chen Xiaomeng looked at Liu Wenhan's back as he prepared to board the ship alone, feeling melancholy in his heart.

From his love for the stars, abandoning his wife and daughter into the universe, to actively asking to perform the most dangerous mission in order to cleanse his previous image in his daughter's heart.

Chen Xiaomeng glanced at Qin Xu next to him, "Aren't you going to persuade me again?"

Qin Xu was silent for a while, "Before, I forcefully stopped his suicide because he wanted to die. But now, what he wants to do is not to seek death, but to make a carefully considered choice. I am not qualified to intervene, even though he is my A friend and a good senior of mine.”

The scientific research ship Mozi ejected the boat carrying Liu Wenhan and other scientists who were willing to die.

Then the scientific research ship returned along the original path, returning to the Centauri galaxy through hyperspace jumps again and again.

In the silent and uninhabited universe, countless broken space scraps have formed a circle of space garbage belts over a long period of time around a giant planet whose entire surface, whether it is mountains or oceans, is covered with steel buildings.

The entire planet is covered in urban and industrial clusters, and the natural shape of its crust is no longer discernible from space.

It was supposed to be an ideal city that was incredibly prosperous and could accommodate 500 billion people.

Nowadays, only dilapidated buildings and the ground have collapsed due to disrepair. At first glance, except for the plants that are still tenaciously surviving, there are no signs of life in the city.

Liu Wenhan and others conducted a simple survey on the surface of the planet. The life detector scanned most corners. After still not finding any creatures that threatened humans, they contacted the external research ship Mozi.

The scientific research ship broke through the information barrier and entered this strange galaxy where information cannot be sent from the outside world and can only be sent out from within.

"Automatic galaxy scanning is on."

550A took over the operational authority of the scientific research ship and conducted simple resource exploration of the entire galaxy.

The reserves of resources are not much greater than those of other galaxies. Presumably even if there are any, they have been mostly exploited by the civilizations that once existed here.

"It's really an unbelievably great project."

Chen Xiaomeng looked through the window of the scientific research ship at the steel planet where urban buildings were spread all over the planet's surface, and the development and utilization rate of the surface and mid-air had almost reached the limit.

Unlike Chen Xiaomeng's intoxication, what Qin Xu saw was just a dilapidated, super-large garbage dump covered with ivy.

"I've seen this kind of scene before."

Qin Xu said.

"where?"

Chen Xiaomeng was stunned.

"The waste car processing plant next to my house."

"These two are related?"

Chen Xiaomeng was speechless.

"Yes, there is a lot of iron. The used cars there are piled up like a hill, and you can't see the end at a glance."

"...Forget it, I shouldn't talk to you about this."

Qin Xu and others were standing on an urban planet that had been abandoned for countless thousands of years and was covered with sky-high buildings.

At this moment, when the sun is rising, the gray world gradually becomes brighter before our eyes, but under this light is a lifeless steel jungle.

Everyone has received information from Liu Wenhan and others who have established an outpost here in advance. The climate here is very suitable for living things, and there are no problems with the air composition. There is no problem in being able to disembark directly from the ship.

"Brother Liu, long time no see. Why do you feel a little older?"

Qin Xu saw Liu Wenhan greeting them, walked over and said.

Liu Wenhan smiled noncommittally, "In various senses, after all, I had prepared for the worst before setting off. ... But I didn't expect that the situation would be much better than what we imagined. This is a heart attack It is an uninhabited planet, and it is also a highly developed capital star of an ancient civilization. It contains things that we may not be able to understand in a few lifetimes of research."

"It shows that Lady Luck is still on our side."

Qin Xu said.

The deeper everyone explores this ruins, the more they feel the greatness of this planet.

"The development and utilization rate of the planet's surface is as high as 100%. No part of it is redundant, and no part of it has not been transformed. It is a thoroughly urban planet. Strictly speaking, the entire planet is just one city, and this is the only one."

"It's hard to imagine, it's hard to imagine what kind of civilization could do this."

"There is almost no place on the entire planet that can continue to be built. In other words, this is the ultimate form of an urban planet. It is roughly estimated that it can accommodate at least 500 billion people."

"This does not include the possible underground space and the huge buildings thousands of meters high that have collapsed."

"Coupled with high-altitude utilization and underground utilization, there is no problem in using only one planet to accommodate a population of more than 800 billion."

"This is calculated based on high living standards. Based on the current common living standards on our planet, I think there is no problem in accommodating 1500 billion."

Another scientist assessed.

"Have you not noticed the powerful buff of +20% of the total output of this ideal city? If we move everyone here to live and work, then we will increase the total GDP by 20% out of thin air. This is really terrifying. number."

Even more scientists marveled at its magic.

"Is this the essence of ancient civilization? With such a planet as its capital, it must have been a dominant civilization at that time... It's a pity that time is a sharp knife. Even such a powerful civilization will eventually perish. It's..."

But more scientists couldn't help but feel similar emotions when looking at the ruins of this magnificent ideal city.

(End of this chapter)