"Hey, I said I'm from the Mechanical Empire. Did you hear me? Don't ignore me." Thangka was left with only half his body and no arms. Apart from being able to speak, he couldn't move even if he wanted to.
But his body is mechanical after all. With the help of the ups and downs of the machine, he can move a little on the ground.
After just a few moves, Lu Yao stepped on him.
"Hey, please be honest and stop crawling around like a bug."
Well, Lu Yao's behavior may still be a reward for a certain group, but Thangka obviously doesn't think so.
He opened his mouth and spit out obscene words.
But as soon as the words came out of his mouth, Lu Yao kicked him in the mouth, and filled his mouth directly with the heel of his shoe, making him unable to say a word.
Well, for a certain group of people, this reward is more generous, but Thangka is so angry that he almost loses his temper.
"Tell me, what exactly is the Mechanical Empire?" Lin Xu finally put aside the wanted order for the time being and continued to ask.
"You don't know about the Mechanical Empire?" Lu Yao removed his heels, and Thangka, who was finally able to speak, looked incredulous.
"Should we know?"
"Well, that's the Mechanical Empire, the only existence that can compete with the Galaxy Alliance! You don't know this? Which rural civilization did you just come from?"
"We are country people, I'm really sorry, so are all the Mechanical Empire's modified people like you?" Lin Xu continued to ask with an expressionless face.
"Hahaha, of course not. Ordinary low-level flesh and blood creatures are qualified to undergo transformation. Only those who have accepted the test like me and are qualified to ascend can accept transformation. They will be machines in life, and after death they will be honored in the mechanical heaven and live forever. Immortal.”
"Mechanical Heaven?" is another new term. Lin Xu asked, "Does it mean becoming a digital life on the Internet?"
"How can it be something as superficial as digital life? This is the real soul ascending to the mechanical heaven, rather than just copying a piece of your memory signal and storing it. Do you understand the difference? You idiot."
Then he was rewarded by Lu Yao kicking his heel into his mouth.
"The real soul ascends to the mechanical heaven?" Lin Xu was stunned for a moment, then thoughtfully.
Does intelligent life have a soul? Of course not. That kind of ethereal thing is not scientific or materialistic at all.
But is intelligent life conscious? This is definitely the case.
Although consciousness cannot be seen or touched, it is a real objective existence.
"When you say soul, do you mean consciousness?" Lin Xu continued to ask.
So Lu Yao took out the heel of her shoe and glared at him fiercely.
I don’t know if it was because Lu Yao had tamed him, but Thangka actually continued to answer honestly.
"That's right, it's consciousness. When my consciousness was undergoing body transformation, it was briefly uploaded to the Mechanical Heaven. I'm pretty sure that's my consciousness. It's absolutely correct." When Thangka said this, his eyes flashed. Still shining with fanatical light.
"Consciousness uploading technology!" Lin Xu nodded.
"Yes, it is consciousness uploading, a technology only mastered by the Machinery Empire." Thangka is not a religious lunatic who is brainwashed by religion. He is simply a mortal who wants eternal life. After all, I believe there will be no temptation to live forever. How many people can resist.
"Understood, last question, you said you are the nail that drives the Mechanical Empire here?" Lin Xu asked.
"Yes, this is one of the boundaries between the Mechanical Empire and the Galaxy Alliance. Both sides have hammered a lot of nails here. They both want to take this place as their own, but they are wary of the other side. Otherwise, the chaotic star field would have been wiped out long ago. ." Thangka said disdainfully.
"So that's it. Okay, thank you for the information."
"Then, can you let me go?"
"I never promised to let you go."
"You, you bitch..."
But before he could say anything, Lu Yao kicked him into the mouth again with the heel of his shoe.
"Lu Yao, don't you feel dirty? The saliva is disgusting." Nan Zhu, who had been watching for a long time, finally couldn't help but said.
"It's okay, just throw away these shoes later." Lu Yao said calmly.
Then he bent down and picked up the thangka and took it outside to deal with it.
After all, the Skylark cannot be dirty.
Lin Xu followed Nan Zhu into the base where the remaining interstellar pirates were scattered like birds and beasts, and came to the place where Nan Zhu found the wanted order.
"This seems to be an ordinary quantum communication device. Although it is indeed relatively powerful and can receive quantum signals several light years away, it cannot be so fast." Lin Xu said in confusion.
Then he opened the portable space and released a large number of nanorobots, taking over the entire semi-abandoned base. Zhenxing then took over the database and began to retrieve information.
Zhenxing soon completed the information retrieval. After all, it was just a pirate base, and it was impossible to have any massive data or special information.
However, I did find some information about the communication device.
"Hyperspace communication technology? Transmit information packets by means of information jump?" Lin Xudu was shocked by what he found.
"Yes, the entire Galaxy Alliance has established countless communication base stations in the vast galaxy. There is basically one every one hundred light years. They transmit information packets by leaps, allowing information from all over the alliance to be transmitted within a few days. Internally and transmitted to all parts of the alliance, this is the information highway strategy that the alliance has adhered to for countless years, and it is also one of the basic policies of the alliance."
"What a generous move." Lin Xu sighed with emotion.
Of course, this does not mean that the Alliance has mastered the ability of spacecraft to make space jumps.
Compared with making a spatial jump to specific physical objects, such as an apple or a bottle of water.
It is obviously much simpler to perform a spatial jump on information.
Because of information, as long as an atom-sized space jump channel can be opened, a massive amount of information can pass through.
The real thing is troublesome.
There is simply no level of difficulty.
Even so, under the premise that the alliance cannot grasp the specific physical space jump, it is already very powerful to use the information space jump method to build a communication network throughout the alliance.
At least if the Great Wall of the Galaxy had this level of technology, there would be no need to use stars to establish communication channels.
Thinking of this, Lin Xu discovered again the difference in the technological development of the two river systems.
The Galaxy Alliance is obviously superior in terms of communication technology and curvature engine technology.
On the other side of the galaxy, war technology is more advanced.
This can be seen from when Mu Xiyue fought against the blocking fleet at the Starring Skyport.
Their battleship technology is really not good.
All I can say is that the environment here is too peaceful.
Although the Machine Empire and the Galaxy Alliance were in confrontation, most of the time they were just in confrontation and there was no direct act of war.
The various subordinate civilizations below are relatively stable because they are supported by big bosses above, and they will not easily fight. Peaceful development is the mainstream.
It's not like the other side of the Milky Way, where everything is turning into a pot of porridge.
Not only do they fight each other, but the dependents also fight against disorder and filth.
How could war technology not be developed?
I believe that if the two parties had the opportunity to meet each other, the first feeling would probably be that each other felt that the other party's technology tree was crooked.
After understanding how the information was transmitted, Lin Xu was no longer interested in this base.
After all, what he saw in front of him was indeed just an ordinary quantum communication device, and its communication range was only a few light years.
After receiving the information packet, a communication base station that is a hundred light years away will broadcast the information that can be known to the public.
In this way, all places can hear the current information of the entire alliance just like listening to the radio.
The quantum communication device in front of us is, to put it bluntly, similar to a radio used to receive broadcasts from communication base stations.
After the Zhenxing scanned its structure, the quantum communication device already on the Skylark was slightly changed to the receiving frequency band, and the alliance information was able to be heard.
That's right, Lin Xu also wanted to hear the information widely advertised by the alliance, so that he could grasp the latest developments.
Then returning to the Skylark, the Skylark slowly drove away from the checkpoint, and finally left this semi-ruined interstellar pirate base.
As soon as he arrived in the Chaos Star Territory, he attacked a wave of pirates, which was considered a good deed.
Moreover, from the pirate database, he learned the star maps of several large settlements in the chaotic star field, which could bypass the chaotic area full of asteroid meteorites.
Congratulations, congratulations.
Although, Lin Xu didn't really care about the meteorite belt, he could just rush over to it.
But the location of large settlements is still needed.
"Master, several spaceships ahead have sent messages, asking if they can accompany us." Zhenxing's voice sounded.
"Come with me? Are you looking for free bodyguards?" Lin Xu smiled.
He didn't care at all. He thought about it and replied, "Reply to them. Just follow them if you can. And let's go to the meteorite belt."
Soon, several cheers came from the ships waiting in front.
Pirates are rampant in this chaotic star field, and those who can spend money to buy their way are pretty good like just now.
What I fear most is being directly robbed and everything taken away.
So of course it would be best to be able to go with the Skylark.
But soon, they stopped laughing.
"Why, why didn't you take the star road and go directly to the meteorite?"
"In the state of warp navigation, hitting a meteorite is a dead end. How dare they do this?"
"Their speed is so fast, they have exceeded five hundred times the speed of light, and they are still accelerating."
With the technology of the Galaxy Alliance, five hundred times the speed of light is already the limit of curvature navigation, but the spacecraft in front of us has obviously exceeded this limit.
Just like that, the passengers on the spaceship who were cheering just now looked at each other, looking at each other, and watched helplessly as the Skylark disappeared into the meteorite belt.
The Skylark has already penetrated deep into the meteorite belt.
At a thousand times the speed of light, meteorites kept passing by in front of the eyes. The Skylark was like a swift in the clouds, nimbly avoiding all the meteorites.
In the chaotic star field covering hundreds of light-years, the nearest large-scale settlement to Lin Xu's current location is located on the satellite of a gaseous planet twenty light-years away.
The distance of twenty light years, coupled with the fact that Lin Xu walked directly through the meteorite belt in a straight line, so he had already reached the sky above the settlement in just seven days.
The gaseous planet is far away from the star it orbits, so theoretically, there cannot be enough light on the satellite of this planet.
However, the gaseous planet itself reflects the light of the star. Coupled with the light of the star itself, although the moon is not warm, it is not so cold that it is frozen all year round.
At most, it is possible to be enveloped in a severe cold of minus 50 degrees for most of the year.
Therefore, in such a harsh climate, it is natural that indigenous civilization cannot be easily born.
In addition, this place has been occupied again and has become a large settlement. Unless the large settlement leaves the planet one day, there is a high probability that no native intelligent lifeform will be born on the planet.
"This is the Harvey settlement. It is named after the interstellar pirate Harvey. The pirate Harvey is also the manager here. All people who come here must abide by his decrees, otherwise they will be taken away by Harvey Feed his pet vulture." Miss Qiu stood behind Lin Xu and introduced the information here to him.
Of course, this information was also obtained from the previous base database, and then Miss Qiu compiled it in concise language.
"What specific decree is it? Is it in the database?" Lin Xu asked.
"These are not recorded in detail." Miss Qiu shook her head.
"Okay, anyway, our goal is to find a guide. If the law is not law, let's talk about it." Lin Xu didn't care.
It's like he doesn't care about the rules among ants.
So the Skylark landed on the satellite of the gaseous planet in front of it, and soon found the most conspicuous psoriasis on the satellite.
Well, you can't expect pirates to have any architectural plans, right?
So that large area of chaotic buildings, piled together, gorgeous high-rise buildings and shacks mixed together, looks like a small body poison.
The Skylark descended towards the ground. During the landing, various spacecrafts were seen, which were also taking off and landing.
These spacecrafts all take off and land from a fixed location.
It was a huge, continuous square, with thousands of various spaceships docked on it.
Some are cargo ships, with countless slave workers operating machinery to transport goods.
Some were pirate ships, and a large number of interstellar pirates swarmed down, ready to have some fun in the settlement.
So the Skylark also landed there.
Soon, it stopped at a place full of small spaceships.
Nanzhu lay on the porthole, looking at the various races outside, shuttling in the square filled with various spaceships, with curiosity in his eyes.
Anyway, she is just curious about things she has never seen before, and she doesn’t know if all foxes are like this.
"Let's go, let's go down too." Lin Xu greeted.
"Oh, let's go." Nan Zhu jumped up and rushed out first.
Lin Xu followed, followed by Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue and Lu Yao.
As soon as the five people got out of the Skylark, they felt the coldness on this planet.
It's not the coldest time on the planet, but the temperature is well below freezing.
Although Lin Xu and the other five didn't feel anything, they wore thick clothes in order to be inconspicuous, just like the people outside.
As soon as they stepped out of the Skylark, there was a man wearing strange decorations with protruding teeth, arrogantly walking towards him with a few guards.
Blocking Lin Xu's path, he stared at Lin Xu with a condescending look.
"Well, is there something dirty on my face?" Lin Xu asked in confusion.
"Pay taxes. Do you want to leave after paying taxes? You dare not pay Mr. Harvey's taxes. I think you are tired of living." The man immediately became upset and pointed at Lin Xu and lectured.
So before Lin Xu could take action, Mu Xiyue, who was next to her, stretched out her arms. In an instant, nano-robots surged and directly grabbed the tax collector with outwardly turned teeth by his neck and lifted him up in the air.
"Keep your mouth clean. Do you want to die?" Mu Xiyue said bluntly.
The Immortal who came from the Immortal Ship and suppressed the Galaxy was never a good-tempered person.
Seeing how silly and cute she always is around Lin Xu, that's just when she's around Lin Xu.
"God, God-giver!" Several guards nearby who were originally careless immediately raised their weapons nervously, but no one dared to take action first.
They have recognized that this iconic ability is like magic, but it is not a gift from God.
"Just teach him a lesson. We are just here to find someone." Lin Xu said lightly.
So Mu Xiyue let go, and the man fell to the ground with a pop.
"You, you are so presumptuous, ahem, so what if you are a god-given person, Mr. Harvey is not afraid of you." The tax officer kicked his feet on the ground and retreated for a distance, then coughed and said.
Although the eyes of Lin Xu and others looked angry, they did not dare to step forward.
Although Harvey is not afraid of the God-giver, it does not mean that they are not afraid of those below.
And it's impossible for Harvey to fall out with the God-giver just because of a few of their soldiers.
And Lin Xu didn't want to cause trouble.
So he threw out a wad of banknotes, which were all just aggregated by nanobots.
The stack of banknotes fell to the ground in front of the tax collector.
I don't know if Lin Xu did it on purpose. The banknotes were scattered all over the floor, and he had to pick them up one by one.
"Take it, we are not here to cause trouble, but we don't like to be troubled either." After Lin Xu finished speaking, he left with a few people.
Looking at the banknotes, or taxes, scattered on the ground, the tax officer's face turned blue and white.
The people who were still watching immediately dispersed, as if they were afraid of being used as a punching bag by the tax official.
Not long after Lin Xu walked, there was a small man with unusually strong legs who could cover a long distance in one step. A young man of unknown race approached him.
"Sir, sir, are you here to guide us?" the young man said with a flattering smile on his face.
"How do you know?" Lin Xu asked curiously.
"Hey, you are the God-given. You just said that you are looking for someone. If you are not looking for the God-given, who are you looking for? I know where the guide is. Do you need me to help you lead the way? It's just that I may need a little help. The reward." The young man said carefully.
"Okay, then you can lead the way." Lin Xu nodded.
Although Sai Donggu said before that it was easy to find a guide and his identity was completely public in various settlements, Lin Xu did not expect that it would be so easy.
As soon as I arrived, someone with knowledge of the matter came to my door.
As for payment, Lin Xu didn't care at all. Anyway, it was copied by nanorobots, so you can get whatever you want.
In this way, under the leadership of the young man, several people walked outside the spacecraft docking place.
Along the way, the young man was still introducing the scenic spots along the way to Lin Xu, quite like a serious and responsible tour guide.
"Sir, do you want to take a car? This is far from the pub where Mr. Guide often goes, but I know a driver who can serve several people throughout the journey, but he also needs a small reward." He just stepped out of the spacecraft. At the stop, the young man continued to promote business.
Obviously, the driver should also give him a commission.
"No problem, but can there be so many of us sitting down?" Lin Xu didn't mind such a trivial matter.
I even admire his hard work attitude.
"Of course he can. He has a very spacious hover car. It's very clean inside and will never stain the clothes of gentlemen and ladies." The young man smiled happily.
Just like that, a hover car soon stopped in front of a few people. It was obvious that it was not a new car, in fact it was very old.
But it was really clean inside.
Even Nan Zhu didn't mind that his big tail would get dirty.
Several people got into the car and entered the Harvey settlement.
There were various shacks on the road first, then some beautifully decorated buildings, and then shacks as they continued.
I don’t know whether there were several buildings built in the slum area or whether there were some shacks built in the group of buildings.
Finally, we arrived at the tavern the young man mentioned.
Or it would be more appropriate to say it is a club.
As soon as he got off the car, Lin Xu saw the luxuriously decorated door and several bunny girls standing at the door greeting the guests.
Yes, they are bunny girls, beautiful girls of various races, dressed like rabbits with little tails behind their long ears, who receive guests there.
These girls come in all skin colors, even some with red skin, but they all look good.
As soon as he saw Lin Xu getting out of the car, his eyes lit up and he was about to rush up.
But then he saw Miss Qiu, Nan Zhu, Mu Xiyue and Lu Yao who got off the bus with Lin Xu.
Suddenly the little rabbits hesitated again, wondering if they would anger these female guests if they went up again.
"The guide is here?" Lin Xu looked at the luxury hotel in front of him with a strange expression. Didn't you mean the pub?
So this is the tavern?
"Yes, Mr. Guide has a private room here all year round and lives here all year round." The young man said quickly.
However, the expressions of several little rabbits who did not dare to step forward changed after hearing the young man's words.
"Are you here to lead the way?" A little rabbit asked hesitantly.
"Yes, these God-given ones." The young man immediately introduced them proudly.
"But the guide was just captured by Mr. Harvey's men." Little Rabbit said, and quietly pointed to his head.
Lin Xu looked up and saw a big hole opened above the hotel building.
Obviously, the capture that Little Rabbit was talking about was not so peaceful.
"How, how is it possible? Master Harvey and the God-giver are going to war?" The young man's face turned pale instantly.
Especially when I think about how I just led the way for a god-given person. I am just a nobody and I don’t want to get involved.
So he ignored Lin Xu, even before Lin Xu paid, turned around and ran away.
Money is not as important as life.
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