Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Thinking about it in another way, if the cat alliance loses more than half of its population or even cubs after encountering a similar situation, she may do even better than the other party.

"Keep working hard, and see if you can gain their trust with time." After studying the entries about the Taga civilization in the Tukeka database, Hong sighed, "They... are very good civilizations. As a last resort, try not to let them suffer more losses."

How good is it?If what is said in the Tukeka database is basically true, and if there are no major changes due to the events of these years, Hong believes that after certain operations, he can give the other party the status of a cooperative country like the birds.

And after becoming a partner country, it is not impossible to consider returning the 7 star systems that originally belonged to them to the other party-in other words, Hong believes that such a civilization is a very suitable ally, and can be trusted to a large extent of.

It may be slightly worse than the birds. After all, the level of pro-foreign peace thoughts of Zhiniao is really hard to come by, but it will not be so bad-in short, if possible, Hong still hopes It is possible to absorb this Taga civilization into the cat alliance's partner country system.

Of course, before that, Hong will still carry out normal development of these galaxies-these things have not yet been written off, and even if they will be paid back at that time, it will definitely not be given to them in vain, and certain efforts must be made. benefit exchange.

Let's develop it and make it easy to use first, and then leave it to time to decide.

"For the fleet's restoration and new construction plan, consider the inclusion of these 14 new star systems, combined with their industrial development level and estimated reconstruction progress, and then consider our local progress..." Hong did the math and came up with the answer. "We will almost be able to build an additional 5 million tons of new warships at the end of the third 25-year plan in five years' time while repairing all repairable warships, restoring the fleet's total tonnage to about 2 million.

"Then, during the next 25-year plan period, the output of these galaxies should be on the right track. Considering the 2% power ratio redline we set, by then the fleet may exceed 10 billion tons, or even It may be 15 billion.

"After all, a peaceful and prosperous civilization always needs strong force to guarantee it."

"really."

Zai Zai nodded, expressing that he quite agrees with this point of view.

In this dark universe, peace depends not only on a group of kind intelligent creatures, but also a strong military force.

Only when you are strong enough can you have the capital to choose peace—otherwise, everything will be nothing more than a mirror image.

In fact, after experiencing this war with the Tukeka civilization "personally" (live broadcast) to a certain extent, the Zhiniao civilization also found Hong on purpose, and began to discuss about the security issues after the Zhiniao civilization enters the interstellar era in the future. How to solve the matter.

Although after joining the cooperative country system, Hong will definitely provide it with a certain amount of military protection. If it encounters extinct regimes such as cleanliness, killing, and iron heart, it will 100% fight with it with all its strength. Not so reassuring for the bird.

What's more, after becoming more and more aware of the dangers of this universe, they realized that, compared to developing their own planets after going into space, using their technology to build fleets to contend with extinct civilizations is obviously a Let the cat alliance turn it into their advanced battleship to have even higher combat power.

Although doing so will make them lose their sovereignty over those planets, but think about it carefully, what is their purpose for wanting those planets?

What kind of industry and power are just appearances. In essence, it is not for the better future of civilization, for the continuation of their civilization, for them to better explore the universe, and to work together with more like-minded creatures. Are you making progress?

If the planet is transferred to the Cat League, a civilization that has advantages that they will never be able to achieve in terms of industry and military, let Hong use these resources to protect them and provide a solid foundation for the wise birds to explore the universe and peacefully progress. With the backing of the Chinese Communist Party, wouldn't all the above-mentioned things be achieved as well?

After all, they are different from humans, Kion, and Locke. The environment of Zhiniao determines that they will definitely be closely connected with the Cat League, and she basically has no possibility of competing for hegemony with each other. To take over everything and reduce the efficiency of the entire alliance, it is better to give these to more professional people, and they will do what they are better at, the best of both worlds, isn't it?

The most important thing is that after all these years of getting along, Zhiniao Civilization has completely trusted this powerful but kind "sovereign", and believes that there is no problem in becoming a part of the red system, and there is nothing wrong with it. something wrong.

Therefore, after conducting many referendums from different angles and confirming that there is no resistance at the social level of this matter, Zhiniao started further negotiations with the Cat League, preparing to push the relationship between the two countries to a whole new level. .

After several rounds of negotiations, they finalized a new agreement.

The Avis Federation gave up all sovereignty claims except for the habitat of Avis, and retreated their territory from the entire star system to a single habitat of Avis, which is the parent star where all their populations are located. The planets are all handed over to the Cat League, and no longer specialize in the construction of their armed forces.

In exchange, the cat alliance is responsible for all their space security work, and has the responsibility and obligation to use their planets to build a more powerful fleet to provide a strong military guarantee for the entire cat alliance and its partner countries.

Of course, this does not deprive them of the right to build warships, they can still do so, and will not be subject to any form of sanctions, but in the eyes of both parties, as long as there is no accident in this agreement, Zhiniao has no special power of its own at all. It is only necessary to build a battleship.

To some extent, it can also be considered that the Avis Consortium has been partly merged into the cat league system, and the integration of space military industry, national defense, etc. has been handed over to Hong for unified management.

However, they still retain a lot of sovereignty, such as the management of their own people, civilian industries, and social systems, etc. They still do it themselves. To put it bluntly, they are still a country, but part of their rights are transferred to foreign countries. A country of the Cat League, not a province under the jurisdiction of the Cat League.

For example, Zhiniao's law is not directly incorporated into the cat league system, but while adopting the cat league law as the basis, it has made some reasonable improvements to its own situation.

In addition, Zhiniao still retains most of its own diplomatic rights. Except for the right to declare war and sanctions because it cannot be separated from the Cat League, other diplomatic activities can still be carried out normally, in name The above is to negotiate with the cat alliance through the ambassador, rather than accepting orders as subordinates.

In this agreement, the Cat League obtained the Zhiniao galaxy they are very coveted, the super-rich galaxy that is worth three or four of them, and can safely and boldly integrate it into the Cat League industrial system, and use the Cat League in industry and Military advantage to maximize the productivity of these planets.

The smart birds, on the other hand, have obtained a military guarantee that can be called "sleeping and worry-free", and can start to concentrate on improving their own livelihood, and shine in their areas of expertise, such as scientific research.

This is undoubtedly a win-win situation with the best of both worlds - not the kind of "win-win" where one side wins twice, but a real win-win situation.

It is actually very difficult for humans to accept this kind of agreement, because in their cultural thought, it is undoubtedly a very unacceptable thing to hand over the safety of their own race to foreign races-human beings will never be willing to be the first in their bones. Second, as long as there is a chance, they will think about climbing until they reach the "first".

This kind of thinking cannot be said to be wrong, neither Maomeng nor Zhiniao will think that this kind of thinking is wrong, but obviously, humans with this trend of thought are more suitable to be "suzerains" rather than being suzerains Its vassals, let alone a "specialized partner country" like Avis that has given up the military.

But for Zhiniao, this kind of agreement is obviously beneficial to both parties and complements the shortcomings——

It's really great!

Volume 220 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] Seven Great Silence

"You came just in time, I want to tell you some good news." Seeing the visiting Taga, he waved his wings happily, "Our strategy is correct, those nasty Tukekas have been liquidated. "

“How come you see?”

The visiting chief scientist was stunned for a moment, then asked.

"According to the data of the spiritual protection instrument, the subspace fluctuations in the direction of Tukeka have completely disappeared. In addition, these days, the unknown civilization has been deployed in the former Tukeka galaxy. It can be confirmed that the Tukeka civilization It's completely gone."

It pushed the document over with its short wings and gestured: "Detailed data and information analysis is here."

"That's really great!" Knowing that the leader can't fool himself, the chief scientist also jumped off his chair happily. "In this way, our strategy has already succeeded by half!"

"Yes." It flapped its wings, "This good news should be notified to other shelters immediately!"

"Yes!"

The deputy on the side nodded his head, and ran out the door with small steps—not because he was afraid of the impact, but because for the semi-aquatic Taga, a small step on land was already the limit.

You can't expect penguins to walk like flying.

"By the way, do you want to talk to me about something important for your sudden visit this time?" After untiing his scarf and calming down his excitement, the Taga leader asked, "In such a hurry, even the scarf Forgot to wear it."

"Ah, yes, Mr. Leader." He flapped his wings fiercely, "I have something important to talk to you—very important."

"You mean...very, very important?" the leader pointed.

"Yes."

"understood."

He nodded his head, opened the drawer under the table, and fiddled with it a few times, until a red light on the table turned on, and then he continued: "I have let them leave temporarily, tell me, what are you talking about?" It's so urgent that you can't even use the phone?"

"That's right." The chief took out a document from his clothes as if by magic, "Actually, this matter is somewhat related to the news you just said—it's about the discovery of subspace."

"Oh? Let me see."

The leader took the document and went through the summary above: "Hmm... The stability of the subspace has begun to recover rapidly? What do you mean?"

"According to the literature left by the pioneers, subspace stability is an index that reflects the local universe's ability to resist subspace erosion—in simple terms, a higher value indicates that the subspace and subspace creatures are more active here. Difficult, the ability of the creatures in this universe to resist the invasion of subspace is also higher."

"Isn't that another good thing?" The leader felt that today is the lucky day for their Taga, "Double happiness!"

"No, leader, you may have misunderstood."

"What? Is there a mystery in it?"

"Yes." The chief pressed the tip of his wing on the document, his eyes slightly confused, "Do you know why the stability of the subspace rises and falls according to the records of the pioneers?"

"Because of subspace creatures?"

"That's right, under the premise that there is no influence of subspace creatures or technology, the subspace stability is actually a very stable value after excluding the slight difference in the background strength of different galaxies.

"However, if subspace creatures come here, they will gradually destroy the stability of the vicinity, which is equivalent to making the subspace invasion easier and making the ability of intelligent creatures to resist erosion worse and worse—as long as the subspace creatures do not If you leave or die, the stability of this galaxy will continue to decline until the dam bursts and the spiritual defenses of intelligent creatures are completely overwhelmed."

"And what if the warp creatures leave?" asked the leader.

"If you leave, then after the residual influence fades to a certain extent, the space's own repair ability will begin to become prominent, making the stability begin to slowly recover—although the degree of recovery in the end will definitely be higher than before it was not invaded. The degree is weaker, but for civilizations without subspace technology, this can be regarded as a life-saving thing."

"Since this is the case, now that the subspace creature of the pure religious order has left, and the residual influence has basically disappeared, isn't it normal that the stability is starting to pick up?"

The leader asked in confusion, "Is there any problem?"

"The problem is big!"

He patted his stubby wings, and said very seriously: "That unknown civilization still has a subspace creature! They haven't died yet!"

"You also said just now that the corrupted civilization has fully taken over the past territories of the religious order, including the planets above our heads, which means that its pollution has covered all these places——under such circumstances, how can it be stable? Might it go up?!"

"Yup!"

He was shocked, and finally realized that something was wrong.

There was obviously another subspace creature right above their heads, and he even watched with his own eyes that the spaceship carrying the corrupted civilization it belonged to stomped all over the space that once belonged to them——

How does stability go up? !

"I suspect that there may be something wrong here." The chief walked over, "We have ruled out the possibility of equipment errors, and have tested multiple sets of spare parts in different places and under different conditions. It can be said with certainty that its stability is indeed on the rise, even..."

"Even what?"

"Even the magnitude of the increase - far beyond the healing ability of the space itself." Its wingtips point to the rows of data below, explaining, "Generally speaking, the erosion of our galaxy depends on the space Natural healing will take at least decades, and it may take hundreds of years at most, and the degree of final healing will definitely decline compared to before."

"But the rate of increase we have observed so far is too fast, at least dozens of times faster than the rate of natural healing—more importantly, according to the data reported by several other planets, this rate of increase also shows A very weird trend."

"What trend?"

"The closer you get to the subspace creature that belongs to an unknown civilization, the faster it will rise. On the planet Robins-947-d, which is only one hop away, its peak speed even reaches a thousand times—this is not true at all. Can't be explained by natural healing!"

"A thousand times?!"

The leader suddenly stood up, a little unbelievable: "Doesn't that mean that the Robbins-947 galaxy only needs a few days to restore the space stability to the upper limit of healing?"

"Not only that, but there are even more terrifying things." It turned the document to the back and showed, "Look at this."

"...the stability has surpassed that before the border with the sect?" The leader raised his head, his eyes filled with surprise and puzzlement, "Didn't you say before that according to the records left by the pioneers, the limit of natural recovery is also Is it lower than it was before the damage?"

"Yes, this is more convincing proof that this astonishingly rapid increase in stability is by no means a natural healing - there must be something specifically promoting it!"

"Therefore, based on this information, all the members of my research institute and I agree that that unknown civilization and that subspace creature are definitely not ordinary—normal subspace creatures cannot and cannot do such a thing. Things, there is likely to be a big secret hidden in it!"

"I think we should convene a meeting immediately to gather relevant people, especially those related to subspace research, to conduct research on this abnormal phenomenon!"

"But..."

The leader hesitated—obviously, according to their previous strategic judgment, no matter what the warp creature was doing, they should remain completely ignorant, not receive or analyze any communications or data transmissions about the other party, so as to To prevent the tragedy of being infiltrated by the subspace creature of the cult and killing more than half of the population of the entire civilization from happening again.

However, what the chief scientist said is indeed reasonable. Such an obvious abnormal phenomenon that has not been recorded by the pioneers, if they just ignore it, they will deal with it according to the plan for dealing with "ordinary subspace creatures". Special phenomena also have a very high possibility of unexpected problems, or even greater disasters.

It has just taken over the leadership position for less than ten years, and some don't know how to make a decision.

"I understand your concerns." Seeing the leader's expression, the chief who knew what he was thinking added, "But I think that no matter what kind of countermeasures we adopt in the future, even if it's just a simple continuation of the current strategy, we It is also necessary to report this key information to other shelters to let them realize that there is an anomaly in it."

"You're right." After deliberating over and over again, the leader finally nodded with difficulty, "However, you have to promise me that we must not act without authorization until we come up with a solution that everyone can agree on. Let your guard down, you can't analyze the communication sent by the other party."

"I definitely understand that." He patted his chest and assured, "Unless I get permission, I will never violate the strategic policy set by our Taga. You can rest assured about that."

"Then it's not too late. I'll notify the other shelters immediately. You go and prepare the materials first. When you're ready, go to the confidential meeting room and wait for me."

"it is good."

...

What they didn't know was that while all the Taga were arguing fiercely over whether to change the strategic policy, in a dim room, a young Taga was nervously typing something on the computer. , stretched out a wing, and turned the knob on the weird-looking instrument a little bit, as if he was debugging something.

"A little bigger... a little... fine, everything works."

While muttering something in his mouth, Ed accelerated the movements of his hands... on his wings.

He knew that he was doing something heinous and anti-social in the eyes of the Taga society. Once he was discovered, he would be taken to prison by a reinforced platoon soldier. If there were no accidents, he would never see him again in his life. The crime of the sky outside.

He—is receiving a communication from an alien civilization.

Receive those polluting communications from corrupt civilizations that, in the eyes of other Taga, just want to sneak in and create another 3.15 tragedy.

Since that incident, Taga Cake has completely banned the radio equipment that was originally under strict jurisdiction, and even the computer has become a high-risk thing that is extremely difficult for ordinary people to touch, in order to prevent as much as possible. The "Adventists" deliberately received communications that corrupted civilization, completely ruining the future of the Targa civilization.

Ed is not an anti-social element—although within the Taga civilization, there are indeed a very small number of such Taga, who want to drag the entire Taga civilization to hell for various reasons, and among these Taga civilizations there are The future imagined by a very small number of extremists is to let the pollution of corrupt civilization flow into the territory, and carry out a thorough cleansing of those "degenerate" Taga in their eyes.

Although his behavior looks similar, he knows that he is not that kind of Taga. The reason why he chooses to do such "evil" things is precisely for the better future of Taga civilization.

It's not the "beautiful future" polluted by subspace creatures in the mouth of those cultists, but the real "beautiful future" that can walk freely on the ice sheet and restore the leisurely interstellar idyllic time in the past.

Ed used to be the same as other normal Taga, very much supported and understood the "Great Silence" policy made by the cake, and understood that the hardships and difficulties they live in today are not what the cake wants to do, but to prevent the destruction of civilization It is a "necessary choice" that has to be made.

Even back then, he was one of the first group of Taga who responded to the Great Silence Policy and voluntarily handed over radio equipment and computers. Coupled with his status as a senior researcher, it can be said that his net worth was extremely clean. No one would have thought that such a hard-core A supporter of the Great Silence policy is secretly an "anti-social element" who listens to the communications of a corrupt civilization and puts the safety of the Taga civilization at risk.

Although listening to the communication itself does not necessarily mean that it will be infiltrated by pollution, on the contrary, as long as it does not listen to the "pollution communication" specially made by subspace creatures with great effort, there is actually no risk of pollution in normal communication with corrupt civilizations.

But as the saying goes, being bitten by a leopard once and fearing sea stones for ten years, since being overshadowed by this method and paying a very heavy price, it is naturally unreasonable for the Taga people to take the risk to listen to those who are useless to them. Helpful newsletter - at least for the vast majority of people.

And he is not a normal person.

"Why don't you understand..." he kept muttering, "Her strength has never dropped, and there is an extremely small increase every day. rise, and the extremely violent warp stability that rises—

"She is not an ordinary subspace creature that feeds on the souls of creatures and corrupts intelligent civilizations!

"If she is really a special creature that can 'photosynthesize' by itself without eating people, continuing to maintain the Great Silence Policy will only make us lose our last chance, and we will be trapped under this crust forever!"

Looking at the series of jumping characters on the screen, Ed's eyes gradually became firmer.