Volume 3 Chapter 149: The Battle between Humans and the Cleansers
"There is civilization in this galaxy. It seems that civilization is quite common in this galaxy." Nanzhu looked out the porthole at the spaceships flying back and forth between the planets in the distant galaxies and sighed.
"In a sense, restricting the existence of higher civilizations is indeed beneficial to the development of lower civilizations." Lin Xu said with some emotion.
"Indeed, it was the same in the Milky Way before. Many low-level civilizations had no chance to develop to the nuclear energy age before the galaxies on which they relied for development were occupied by advanced civilizations. These galaxies became resource galaxies for the advanced civilizations, and they themselves were destroyed. In a sense, the expansion of advanced civilizations is like the cancer of the universe." Nanzhu also sighed.
"Cancer of the universe. If the universe is compared to the human body, then humans must also be suffering from a horrible disease!" Lin Xu said with a smile.
"Of course humans are different. Humans have already jumped out of the universe, and they have been working hard to maintain the balance of the universe." Nanzhu immediately retorted.
"Cancer of the universe? If that's the case, then the cleansing of the Cleaner is actually removing cancer cells?" Lu Yao said after thinking for a while.
"Maybe, but no one is qualified to define whether others can survive. It is wrong for higher civilizations to destroy lower civilizations and occupy their planets. It is also wrong for the cleansers to cleanse higher civilizations and restrict the development of all civilizations." Lin Xu replied.
At this time, the Skylark was traveling at a thousand times the speed of light and had quickly arrived inside the galaxy.
Using optical camouflage to conceal his body, he blended into the routes between planets.
In this galaxy, in addition to the civilization's original mother planet, there are three other planets that have also been transformed into habitable planets.
Compared to the previous galaxy, there is one more planet.
But what is different from the previous galaxy is that the four habitable planets in this galaxy are actually unified under one regime.
One civilization, one country.
And this country without any external enemies is developing peacefully within this galaxy.
Everyone is enjoying peace.
This is the information that Shirahoshi obtained by deciphering the electrical signals flowing between planets.
At the same time, Shirahoshi also learned that the people on these four planets were preparing for a grand celebration.
Celebrates the thousand-year return of the Son of God.
According to the calculations of this civilization, the time should be very recent.
"The Son of God they are talking about should be the Cleanser! So, this civilization, like the previous one, still has memories of ancient times and has preserved the stone slabs for signing contracts?" Nanzhu said a little surprised.
"It seems to be the case." Lin Xu nodded, and then instructed Bai Xing, "Look up the myths and legends of this civilization to see if there are any related myths, and also find the location of the stone tablet of this civilization."
So Bai Xing quickly began to investigate.
With a clear investigation target, with Shirahoshi's ability, it was easy to find the target.
In the history of this civilization, there are indeed myths and legends similar to those of the previous civilization.
There is a legend about an intelligent life form that signs a contract with the gods, then gains the gods' favor and conquers the planet along the way.
The stone tablet of the contract is still preserved in the National History Museum of the mother planet.
After knowing the location, Lin Xu set out in person.
Taking Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nanzhu and Lu Yao, they went directly to the capital of their mother planet, to the National History Museum which houses precious cultural relics and is not open to the public.
They easily disabled all alarm systems along the way, and entered the history museum without anyone noticing, and found the stone slab that was almost identical to the one seen by the previous civilization.
The reason why they are said to be almost identical is that over the years, different stone slabs have undergone different weathering, so they appear different.
But according to Bai Xing's analysis, at least when they were first distributed, the two stone tablets should have been identical.
At the same time, Bai Xing also copied the data in the stone tablet. Even the data was the same, with the same warnings prohibiting certain aspects of technical research.
"So, the Cleaners really distribute the slates in bulk? Just like wholesale vendors?" Nanzhu poked the slate with his finger.
"Wholesale? When you put it that way, it feels like the cleaners are just unscrupulous businessmen." Lu Yao complained.
A few people were still studying the stone slab here, when suddenly, bursts of cheers came from the street not far from the History Museum.
The sound even penetrated the thick walls of the National History Museum and reached the heavily guarded storage room inside.
"What's wrong?" Nanzhu paused for a moment as he poked the slate with his fingers.
"The Cleanser has arrived." White Star's voice sounded.
"Let's take a closer look at what the Cleaner is, and then we'll go say hello later." Lin Xu thought about it and made a decision.
In any case, since the Cleanser claims to be the second son of mankind, it is necessary for Lin Xu, a human, to meet him.
But soon Bai Xing's voice sounded again.
"I'm sorry, human Lin Xu. According to the reconnaissance of the nanorobots, the Cleansing Fleet is suspected to be just an AI fleet that is executing fixed programs. Moreover, it is an AI fleet that can only execute established programs, has no intelligence, and cannot think." Bai Xing replied.
"You mean, there is ?" Lin Xu asked in surprise.
"Yes, to put it in an analogy, the entire fleet is more like a sweeping robot that performs cleaning procedures at a fixed time every day." Shirahoshi replied.
"The procedure is performed once every thousand years, no wonder it's called the Cleansing." Lin Xu was speechless for a moment.
But after thinking about it, Lin Xu decided to try his best to communicate with the fleet.
Because the Cleaner Fleet is likely connected to the real Cleaners who established the program.
It's impossible for the Cleansers to release the fleet and then just ignore it.
"Send a signal to the Cleansing Fleet, stating my identity and saying that I want to meet the Cleansers. If the fleet can communicate with the Cleansers, then tell the Cleansers to come see me." Lin Xu's words sounded more like an order than a request for a meeting.
Since you call yourself the second son of mankind and have used this title for so long, Lin Xu doesn't mind accepting you as his second son.
However, before White Star could send a signal, the entire planet suddenly began to shake violently.
The shaking was so strong that it was like an 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurring around the world at the same time.
Inside the National History Museum, the chandeliers kept shaking, but fortunately the building was strong enough and the museum did not collapse directly.
But on the entire planet, some buildings that do not meet the standards are in trouble.
Soon the entire planet was filled with collapsed ruins and the sounds of people wailing.
"What happened?" Lin Xu asked in surprise.
"Lord Lin Xu, the Cleaners have taken action." Bai Xing replied.
"Take action? But hasn't the civilization of this galaxy developed curvature engine technology?" Lin Xu asked puzzledly.
But no matter how puzzled they were, the cleaners finally took action.
Lin Xu took Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nanzhu and Lu Yao and flew directly out of the National History Museum and arrived above the capital of the mother planet.
At this time, as the shaking on the planet became more and more intense, the buildings collapsed one after another, and the entire capital was reduced to ruins.
No, not just the capital, but the entire planet is almost in ruins.
Birds and beasts ran around, the earth cracked, mountains and rivers collapsed, and rivers and seas flowed backwards.
An obvious crack appeared on the planet and gradually began to split into two sides.
"What is this?" Nanzhu looked at the cracks that spread across the planet.
"Space cutting directly cut the entire planet into two halves." Bai Xing replied.
At the same time, the Skylark appeared nearby. At this point, there was no need for the Skylark to remain invisible.
So Lin Xu and others boarded the Skylark, which took off directly and arrived in space again.
At this time, the Cleansing Fleet spread all over the space had already easily wiped out the fleet of the current civilization that went to welcome the Cleansing Fleet.
Even the fleets of advanced civilizations are vulnerable in front of the Cleansing Fleet, not to mention the fleets of lower civilizations.
The advanced civilization fleet was able to at least knock down a few armor pieces of the Cleansing Fleet, but the low-civilization fleet was wiped out without even putting up a fight.
Then the planets within the galaxy also became targets of the Cleansing Fleet.
At the same time, on the satellite base closest to the mother planet, a group of senior leaders of the current civilization were watching in despair as the mother planet broke into two halves before their eyes.
"Mr. President, the mother planet is over!"
"How could it be, how could it be, we are clearly a race blessed by the gods, I don't believe it, I don't believe it."
"Mr. President, please calm down. We have been attacked by the gods. We must escape."
"How can we escape? How do you say we can escape? Even our home planet has been destroyed. There's no way we can escape."
"We have other planets."
"Do you think the Son of God will spare other planets? We are finished. Our civilization is finished."
"But why, we are so submissive, we haven't even researched the warp drive."
"Mr. President, do you remember that the advanced civilization that passed by here some time ago traded a curvature engine to us?" The defense minister's face turned pale as he spoke.
“But, but wasn’t that obtained through a transaction? Didn’t we hide it?” The President’s face was also pale.
He already knew the reason, and if possible he really wanted to slap his past self.
Why couldn't he help but be curious? He thought that since it was just a trade and not something he was researching himself, the Son of God wouldn't care.
After all, our race is favored by God.
But it was too late.
The mother planet was only the first target. When the Skylark took off, Lin Xu saw that the second planet had also been directly pierced through the entire planet by a thick beam of plasma.
A huge cavity appeared in the center of the planet, with magma flowing inside.
This planet has obviously entered the stage of death. Even if the planet collapses and reorganizes due to pressure, it will take an unknown amount of time for it to become suitable for life again.
And obviously, the next one is the third planet.
"Lord Lin Xu, what should we do?" Nan Zhu stood in front of the porthole and looked at the planets outside that were suffering. He turned around and asked Lin Xu.
"Has the signal been sent?" Lin Xu asked Bai Xing first.
"The signal has been sent." White Star replied.
"Is there a reply?" Lin Xu asked again.
"No, the Cleaner Fleet is like a black hole. Any signal entering it will not receive a response." Shirahoshi replied.
"Very good, it seems that the child is disobedient and it is time to spank him." Lin Xu nodded and said.
So the next moment, with the Skylark as the core, a large number of space channels opened within a radius of ten thousand miles.
In Lin Xu's personal space, a large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates emerged, and then the autonomous mechanical aggregates combined into a temporary warship.
The size of these temporary warships is much smaller than that of the Cleansing Fleet's ships, which are tens of thousands of meters long.
Each temporary warship is at most a few thousand meters long.
But they have bravely rushed towards the tens of thousands of Cleansing warships spread throughout the galaxy.
Afterwards, as soon as the two sides fought, they won and lost alternately.
Amidst the loud explosion, the tens of thousands of meters long Cleaner warship did not gain any advantage in the duel with the thousand-meter long temporary warship and was directly blown up in mid-air.
The achievements of countless advanced civilizations in this galaxy, which even the entire fleet could not achieve, were easily accomplished by the temporary warships.
And during the bombardment, more and more Cleaner warships were blown up one by one.
Of course, the temporary warships also continued to suffer losses.
Seeing all this, the top leaders of the native civilization on the satellite base that had already lost its mother planet stared with wide eyes.
"That's, what's going on? Where did that fleet come from?"
"No, I don't know. It seems to have just jumped through space, just like the Son of God fleet just now."
"Where do these warships come from?"
No one can answer Mr. President’s question.
At the same time, detectors hidden on meteorites in various corners of the galaxy have already been quietly activated.
Scouting everything that happens within this galaxy.
At the same time, everything discovered will be transmitted through hyperspace technology to an equally secret communication base station hundreds of light years away.
This communication base station then continues to transmit the signal hundreds of light years away.
This is the hyperspace communication technology once used by the Galactic Alliance.
And now, in this river system, there is also a civilization that has mastered this technology.
In this way, the signal was transmitted from one station to another and reached a distance of one thousand light years.
And a thousand light years away, on a war star exiled in the galaxy, recorders are recording yet another cleansing of the Cleansers.
According to past experience, it basically doesn’t take long for the cleaner to complete the cleaning and then move on to the next cleaning location.
This is the Cleaner Countermeasures Research Room that is responsible for recording the Cleaner's cleansing process, hoping to summarize more of the Cleaner's action patterns and find the Cleaner's weaknesses.
There are more staff members busy.
They are also recording the Cleansing operations taking place in other locations within the galaxy.
The cleansing takes place once every thousand years, and there cannot be only one fleet of cleansers taking action.
Instead, there are countless fleets of Cleansers acting together.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to complete the cleansing operation of such a vast river system.
While these recorders were working hard to record the countless cleansing operations occurring at the same time within the galaxy.
The recorder who was in charge of recording the cleansing process of the galaxy where Lin Xu was located suddenly overturned his chair with a bang and sat down on the ground.
At the same time, he had an expression of surprise on his face, pointing at the cleansing process taking place in the galaxy that was being displayed in front of him, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"Recorder No. 189, what happened?" The supervisor in the distance glared at him with some dissatisfaction.
"The Cleansers, the Cleansers fleet is being annihilated." Recorder No. 189 gurgled in his throat for a long time before finally shouting out.
"The Cleansing Fleet is being annihilated?" someone repeated his words.
Then all the recorders who were recording looked at each other and burst into laughter.
"Are you kidding? Were there too many happy fans last night?"
“I’m hallucinating.”
"I told you, such a serious job is not suitable for him. Let him do something more suitable for his status."
Some people laughed at him, while others took advantage of his misfortune.
The supervisor came over with a frown on his face.
"No. 189, you have to understand that whatever you say next will be recorded." The supervisor's words were obviously cold.
"I, I'm not lying, it's true, you can see for yourself, they are really being annihilated! The Cleansers, the Cleanser fleet is almost wiped out." Recorder No. 189 saw that no one believed him and even doubted whether he had seen it wrong, so he took another look and then argued.
The supervisor who came closer was too lazy to listen to his explanation. He grabbed him and was about to throw him out of the countermeasures research room.
This is one of the core departments of the entire war planet. Those who can come here are all elites. How can we let such a madman stay here?
The Cleansing Fleet is being annihilated? Why didn't he say that the universe is being destroyed and we will be annihilated in the next second?
But before throwing No. 189 out, the supervisor subconsciously took a look at the record information in front of No. 189.
Then he rubbed his eyes carefully and looked again.
Then he grabbed No. 189's hand and let go.
With a bang, No. 189 sat back in his seat.
The supervisor held the recording screen in front of No. 189 with both hands and started yelling.
"The Cleansers, the Cleansers are being annihilated."
Suddenly, the many recorders who were just looking at you at me and me at you, now look at me and I look at you again.
The implications between them are obvious.
What should I do if my supervisor also has hallucinations this time? Should I continue to laugh at him?
It was not until each recorder was brought to screen No. 189 by their supervisor that everyone confirmed that the Cleansers were indeed being annihilated.
So the entire countermeasures research room went crazy.
The news that the Countermeasures Research Room had gone crazy was quickly reported to the top leadership.
After all, the Countermeasures Research Laboratory is the core department on the War Star.
Any latest news can be reported directly to the top management.
So an emergency meeting was held and all the senior executives on the war stars were gathered together.
Everyone looked at the recorded data transmitted from a thousand light years away, and they all seemed dumbfounded.
"Are you sure it's the Cleaner? Could it be that it's not the Cleaner?"
"You can't even recognize the Cleaner fleet?"
"Of course I can recognize him, but how is this possible? He's the Cleanser, the Second Son of Humanity!"
"Yes, second son of mankind! We have never seen humans, but we have been lingering under the shadow of humans for thousands of years. What do you think humans are like?"
"Forget about humans. A second son almost wiped out our race! If it was the legendary human, we would have been wiped out long ago! But I think humans must be far more brutal and terrifying than the second son of humans."
"Okay, okay, let's stop going off topic and talk about this civilization that suddenly appeared and was able to fight against the Cleansers! What is their origin?"
"I think this should be a civilization from an extragalactic galaxy," someone speculated.
"Why do you say that?"
"That's easy. If there was such a powerful civilization in our galaxy, would we have been oppressed for thousands of years? And look at where the fleet of this civilization is now. It's at the edge of the galaxy, so it's very likely that it came from an extragalactic galaxy."
"What do you think?"
"I think it's most likely to come from an extragalactic galaxy."
"So, should we contact this civilization?"
"Of course we have to make contact. After all these years, we finally have hope of fighting the Cleansers. How can we not make contact?"
"How can you be sure of hope? And not new despair?"
"Even if it is a new despair, it is better than sitting still and waiting to die."
"Everyone, please vote on whether or not to contact this civilization that is suspected to be from an extragalactic galaxy."
"I agree."
"I agree."
"I abstain."
"I object."
"I agree."
Under the pressure of massive temporary warships, a large number of Cleansing warships were constantly destroyed.
Although there were losses in the temporary warships, they could be quickly replenished as much as they lost.
In contrast, the Cleaner warships did not receive any reinforcements.
Soon, the number of Cleaner warships became fewer and fewer.
"Bai Xing, can we capture a few ships for research?" Lin Xu asked.
"I'm sorry, human Lin Xu, I can't hack into the opponent's control system, and the AI fleet does not have the option of surrender." Bai Xing replied.
"Forget it then, let's destroy them all. It's the same if we study the wreckage." Lin Xu nodded.
Thus the fate of the Cleansing Fleet was decided.
Until the last Cleaner battleship was blown up in mid-air.
A large number of temporary warships that were originally on the front line of the battle instantly disintegrated into autonomous mechanical aggregates, carrying the wreckage of the Cleaner warship into the open entrance of the portable space.
Lin Xu planned to move all the debris into his personal space for further study.
At the same time, the detectors hidden on the meteorites inside the galaxy have also received instructions and sent signals to the location of the autonomous mechanical aggregate.
The signal was naturally captured by Bai Xing at the first moment.
