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As soon as Sal heard the word 'trouble', his body froze.

Because through this time of getting along with Luo Xiu, he already knew Luo Xiu, and the 'trouble' that could be said from his mouth was usually not a trivial matter.

For example, in the last battle with the Kasakuk civilization, when everyone else thought it was the end of the world, Luo Xiu only thought it was a 'small problem'.

In other words, this 'trouble' is much more serious than the last 'minor problem'.

However, for Thrall and the Proxima people who have become accustomed to their status in the United Solar System Civilization, they will not be afraid of any difficulties even for this stable life and scientific research environment.

"Commander-in-Chief, please stop joking with me. If you have anything to do, just ask me. You also know that my emotional expression is very different from that of you Blue Star people."

Sal said with a wry smile.

Luo Xiu nodded, not intending to continue joking with Sal, but said directly: "After the last war, we imagined two enemies based on the intelligence at the time, and now, one of them has appeared."

"Is it that omnic civilization or that unknown civilization?"

Even Sal, who was not good at expressing emotions, had a hint of emotion on his face at this moment.

There is no way, who makes these two imaginary enemies more powerful than imagined. No matter which one is an unprecedented disaster for the current United Civilization of the Solar System.

Luo Xiu sighed and said: "It's the Cygnus omnic civilization. Not only has it built a more powerful fleet, it has also begun to gather again the civilized races that once vassalized it. Maybe it will find us at some point. .”

Thrall was obviously relieved when he heard Luo Xiu's words. After all, among the two imaginary enemies, the Cygnus omnic civilization was relatively weak, and the unknown civilization that destroyed the cruise fleet base camp was the weakest. horrifying.

However, that is only relatively speaking. Civilizations such as the Cygnus Omnic Civilization, after all, have hundreds of thousands of years of scientific and technological heritage, which is far beyond what the current United Solar System Civilization can compete with.

"Then how much time do we have?" Sal directly asked the most critical time.

But Luo Xiu shook his head, and then passed the message sent by Qiong from the Nolan people to Sal.

After reading this, Sal's expression became solemn.

After the last war, they had discussed the history and model of the Cygnus omnic civilization, so he still had some understanding of the vassal races of the Cygnus civilization.

However, the main research at that time was the development shortcomings of the Cygnus United Civilization. It was originally intended to save the United Solar System Civilization from taking some detours.

Unexpectedly, the details discussed at that time came in handy at this time.

"The Cygnus civilization once had a total of twenty vassal races. Fifteen of them were directly wiped out in the battle when the cruising fleet base camp was destroyed. Now the Kasakuk people have joined our solar system United Civilization, plus The Nolan civilization has been destroyed, which means there are still three surviving civilizations left."

Sal analyzed.

"Yes, it seems that the Cygnus omnic civilization does not know which civilizations have survived, so it will take a lot of time for him to visit all the former vassal civilizations."

Luo Xiu nodded and said.

"But we must also consider the delay of this message. From the time when the Nolan civilization was destroyed and this message was sent to the time when the Kasakuk people received this message, I am afraid that the Cygnus omnic civilization is already on the way, and Nolan is also Not necessarily the first place to be explored by the Cygnus omnic civilization.”

Sal continued.

Yes, this is the worst case scenario, if other civilizations are destroyed or become vassals of the Cygnus omnic civilization without sending any message to the outside world at all, and the Nolan civilization happens to be the last civilization to be visited.

It is very likely that the super fleet of the Cygnus omnic civilization is already on its way to the solar system.

Only then did Luo Xiu realize that he had overlooked this, and immediately used a quantum communicator to contact Qiong and Xue He.

"The situation has changed. You should quickly destroy the star gate from the Cygnus cantilever to the Orion cantilever based on the star map left by Ferma's fleet."

Although Xue He and Qiong didn't know what Luo Xiu meant by 'the situation has changed', they also guessed that it was probably related to the Cygnus omnic civilization they had discussed before. They both knew that this matter was of great importance. , so he didn’t ask anything, but went directly to carry out Luo Xiu’s order.

In the absence of a stargate, unless the Cygnus omnic civilization invents another way to jump, it will take a long time to go from the Cygnus Cantilever to the Orion Cantilever based on the fleet's sailing speed alone, even if it is moving at full speed. It's time.

Even if the other party plans to recreate the Star Gate, it will have to wait until the first fleet arrives at the Orion Cantilever.

And this time difference is the development time of Luo Xiu and the others.

When the opponent's first fleet arrived at the Orion Cantilever, it was also decided who of the two civilizations would have the last laugh in this clash of civilizations.

However, it is not that simple to defend the opponent's fleet.

Not to mention that the strength of the opponent's fleet is even stronger than the civilized ship according to the Nolan people.

Moreover, the area of ​​the Orion cantilever is too large, and it contains tens of thousands of galaxies similar to Alpha Centauri.

It is already very difficult for the current civilization of the United Solar System to detect the periphery of all Orion cantilevers, not to mention that when they discover the other party, they will send a fleet to prevent the other party from building a star gate.

So what Luo Xiu and the others can do is to selectively carry out fixed-point detection in the directions closest to Cygnus, hoping that as an omnic civilization, Cygnus civilization will not play any "little cleverness".

As for how to prevent and prevent the opponent's fleet from creating star gates, it depends on their development and intelligence progress during this period of time.

Luo Xiu quickly made a task assignment with Thrall on the roles and responsibilities played by the Proxima people during this period, and then he returned to the command room.

All the less important scientific research documents were handed over to the control system and a few mechanical ascension assistants.

Luo Xiu focused on checking the development of the ghost fleet.

After ten years of development, the size of the ghost fleet has reached 20,000 ships.

And due to technological breakthroughs, the improved ghost battleship has now reached ten meters, can carry more crew members, and is equipped with weapons. It no longer only has impact as an attack mode.

But ordinary weapons are obviously not suitable for ghost battleships.

Therefore, the weapons they are equipped with are also the latest anti-matter annihilation weapons and improved neutron annihilation weapons.

After ten years of development, anti-matter weapons have made further breakthroughs. There has been a breakthrough improvement in range. The power has not changed much. However, for material materials other than strong interaction materials, it is still destructive. Sexual strike ability.

Not to mention neutron killing, the original power is very amazing, but after years of research by the United Solar System Civilization, the technology and principles of this weapon have been basically understood.

Improvements have also been made at the same time. The new type of neutron killing should actually be called a 'hyperspeed microscopic particle energy' weapon, in which the microscopic particles as the main part of the weapon are composed of high-energy protons, electrons and neutrons.

At present, the laboratories of Starship Civilization are also trying to use other high-energy particles for experiments.

Originally, Luo Xiu felt that the improved 'neutron killing' was powerful enough, so he even slowed down the development progress of this project.

But now it seems that the original decision was too short-sighted, so he personally contacted the scientific researchers responsible for the project and asked them to restart the project and tilted resources and manpower.

Then there is the civilized ship.

After the battle with Ferma, Luo Xiu had the idea of ​​using the civilized ship as the main battleship of the future fleet, while the Qinhuang-class battleship was used as an escort and transport ship in the galaxy.

Nowadays, there are 100,000 civilized ships.

But Luo Xiu was not sure how useful these civilization ships would be if a conflict really broke out with the Cygnus omnic civilization.

Whether to produce more ghost battleships or continue to produce civilized ships is a very difficult decision.

This decision can only be made after new breakthroughs in microscopic particle carving technology and new information is obtained from the Cygnus cantilever.

What Luo Xiu can do now is to promote all technological advancements that can improve his own combat power.

…

Ten years of development time is a very rare golden time for the United Solar System Civilization.

Because the war with the Ferma Fleet did not break out in the area of ​​the solar system, and because of Luo Xiu's policy adjustments, coupled with the newly obtained various brand-new technologies from the Cygnus Core Technology Section.

It can be said that the comprehensive strength of today's United Solar System Civilization is no less than that of the original Cygnus-affiliated civilizations.

And some technologies are not even involved in the Cygnus omnic civilization.

For example, in the two major aspects of antimatter technology, the development of weapons and strong interaction materials.

The former has now become the scientific research project that Luo Xiu is most concerned about, and he is full of expectations for the Tyrant, the strongest combat weapon in the United Civilized Fleet.

This is a top-level battleship that can face civilized ships in a single battle without losing any of its strength. It can be said to be the strongest trump card in Luo Xiu's hand.

It's just that because of the antimatter membrane, the Tyrant has become a 'consumable'. Once the energy stored in the battleship is exhausted, it has no choice but to give up.

It is precisely in order to break through this technical barrier that Luo Xiuke invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this scientific research project.

But obviously this scientific research problem cannot be solved in a short time.

However, their development in antimatter technology has also improved to a considerable extent.

Antimatter technology only had one type of annihilation bomb at the beginning, and later several more were developed.

Another researcher also creatively proposed the idea of ​​using antimatter to make a protective shield.

This technology and antimatter membrane are two directions, but they seem to be more promising.

Once it can be developed, it will render almost all energy weapons including 'neutron annihilation' useless.

Although it is just an idea now, it has attracted Luo Xiu's attention.

He even thought of the battle where the cruising fleet base camp was destroyed, when the battleship of an unknown civilization withstood the "neutron annihilation" attack of thousands of civilized ships.

When he heard Austin describe this scene, he was only shocked.

But now he saw a clue from this researcher's idea.

"Perhaps the technology of advanced civilizations is based on anti-matter technology. This also explains the real reason why the Cygnus omnic civilization has developed for hundreds of thousands of years and has not yet reached advanced civilization."

Luo Xiu said this to Xue He and Gou Wen.

Although both of them are leaders in the field of technological research and development, they also deeply believe in Luo Xiu's words.

"Assemble elite researchers from the Lunar Research Institute, Proxima Centauri Research Institute, and the Kasakuk people to me. I will make a breakthrough in this technology in the shortest possible time."

Luo Xiu made his decision immediately.

Although technological breakthroughs are not determined by the number of people or even time.

But facing the threat of the Cygnus omnic civilization, Luo Xiu could only adopt this approach of demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall.

Another half year passed like this.

Good news finally came from the research department of micro-particle carving technology.

Xue He immediately conveyed the news to Luo Xiu.

"General Commander, in accordance with your requirements and ideas, we have achieved a technological breakthrough in performing precise operations inside the proton, and have now produced ten such protons."

Xue He said with a look of unconcealable joy on his face.

Luo Xiu nodded and said: "Transmit the data, and then send all these protons to the Cygnus cantilever. Based on the star maps of other vassal civilizations provided by Qiong, we will find traces of the Cygnus omnic civilization as soon as possible."

"Yes, I'll do it right away."

Xue He knew that Luo Xiu was most worried about this matter during this period, so he took action immediately.

At the edge of the Orion cantilever, the last star gate originally established by the cruising fleet was finally destroyed.

After Luo Xiu got the news, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Now even if the Cygnus omnic civilization wants to reach the Alpha Centaur galaxy in the Orion cantilever, it will take at least several decades.

And this time may be enough for him to study countermeasures against it.

In the following period of time, the Blue Star people discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, the originally stable economic market suddenly began to fluctuate.

A large amount of materials seems to be flowing in the direction of military industry again.

Although this is not the kind of forced expropriation that occurred in the last war, it has also attracted the attention of some thoughtful people.

A news gradually began to spread among the Blue Stars that ‘there is going to be a war again’.