Volume 3 Chapter 150 They Betrayed Humanity
"Rebel Alliance? Resisting the Cleansers?" Lin Xu looked at the message Bai Xing had just received, with a strange expression on his face.
"Yes, they want to invite us to their headquarters to discuss fighting the Cleansers together." Bai Xing replied.
"We go to their headquarters? Why don't they come to see us?" Lin Xu asked with a smile.
"The other party said that since they saw that we have space jump technology, it would be faster if we go to see them! They have no objection if we ask them to come over, but they may require us to wait for a while." Bai Xing relayed the other party's answer.
"How long will it take them to arrive?" Lin Xu continued to ask.
"Ten years." Shirahoshi replied.
"Ten years? Where are they now?" Lin Xu asked.
"About a thousand light years away." Bai Xing replied.
"A thousand light years away, ten years, that means their curvature navigation technology can only reach a hundred times the speed of light." Lin Xu nodded to show that he understood.
"Human Lin Xu, the other party asked if we need them to come and see us." Bai Xing continued to relay.
"Forget it, let's go find them! Ask them to send us the coordinates." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
A thousand light years away, the Skylark can reach the destination with just a few jumps, there is no need to wait here for ten years.
"Understood. I have replied to the other party, and they welcome us."
"Have you found their detector?" Lin Xu continued to ask.
"We've found them. There are more than one of them hidden on meteorites inside the galaxy. Do we need to destroy them?" Bai Xing asked.
"No, that's not necessary."
At the same time, after receiving the news that the Skylark would go to the War Star for a meeting.
The top leaders of the war star a thousand light years away also became excited.
"The other party agreed to come and meet with us. It can be seen that this is a reasonable and civilized party. This is good news."
"But is it really a good idea for us to expose the coordinates of the war planet to the other party? What if the other party has malicious intentions?" Someone was still worried.
"Yes, the opponent is so powerful."
"The opponent is very powerful, but our war stars are not made of clay. If we really fight, we might be able to break all his teeth."
"Forget it. Our war planet is not capable of destroying the Cleaner's fleet, so just think about some things and don't lie to yourself."
"I don't know if you noticed, but except for the battle with the Cleaner Fleet, when it summoned a large group of warships, it usually only operated in the form of a small spaceship."
"Indeed, I noticed that too! Could it be that they have built a base outside the galaxy, and that small spaceship was just a reconnaissance ship. After determining the target, they called for the battleship to come? But why did the battleship immediately jump away after the battle was over?"
"Not sure. By the way, did the other party say whether they would send a fleet to the war planet, or just send advance personnel to contact us?"
"The other party didn't explain this. Do I need to ask?"
"How about this? In the name of preparing for the reception, ask about the size of the personnel sent by the other party, and also ask about the approximate time of their arrival."
"clear."
Soon, the senior executives who were in the meeting received a reply.
"Only one ship?"
"Great, it seems the other party does have good intentions."
"Not necessarily. Even if there is only one spaceship coming, once they know our strength, they can send a fleet at any time." Pessimists are always pessimistic.
"Wait a minute, the arrival time is the time it takes for a standard planet to rotate thirty times. Doesn't that mean they will arrive soon? Are they going that fast?"
"After all, they have the technology to jump into space. Looking at the speed of the Cleaners' jump, we can roughly guess their speed."
"It's still too fast! Can our resistance alliance really be taken seriously by such a civilization?"
"They are now our only hope against the Cleansers. We have no choice."
On the War Planet, discussions were still ongoing about the upcoming visit of the Skylark.
The Skylark, which had just finished cleaning up the battlefield, received a signal sent by a civilization in this galaxy.
In the name of the president of the native country, he thanked the unknown civilization to which the Skylark belonged for their help, and invited the Skylark to go to the still intact planet for hospitality.
At the same time, a kilometer-long spaceship took off from the satellite next to the shattered mother planet.
The spacecraft was originally hidden inside the satellite, and now with the destruction of the mother planet, it will soon affect this satellite.
It is obvious that this satellite cannot be saved.
So the spacecraft hidden inside the satellite took off and escaped when it saw that the danger had been eliminated.
And the President is on this spaceship at this moment.
He even took the initiative to come and greet the Skylark.
"What is the shape of this spaceship?" Lin Xu looked at the appearance of the spaceship and was surprised.
"Lord Lin Xu, it has been detected that the curvature engine in the spacecraft is in standby mode." Bai Xing replied.
"They have a curvature engine? They shouldn't have developed it themselves, right?" Lin Xu could roughly tell just by observing the level of development of this civilization.
Because the curvature engine requires many prerequisite technologies that this civilization does not have, or has never developed them from the beginning.
"Yes, it was most likely obtained through a transaction." Bai Xing replied.
"So, this is why the Cleaner took action?" Lin Xu guessed.
"That's most likely the case." Bai Xing replied.
"But which advanced civilization did they trade for the curvature engine from? There are very few advanced civilizations that would go to the edge of the galaxy!" Nanzhu asked puzzledly.
"Have you forgotten the rebel alliance that just contacted us?" Lu Yao asked from the side.
"The Rebel Alliance? Why would they trade the curvature engine to this civilization? And they did it just when the Cleansers were about to start the cleansing. Wait, you don't mean to say that the Rebel Alliance did it on purpose?" Nanzhu suddenly reacted.
“There aren’t so many coincidences in the world. When there are too many coincidences, it can only be deliberate.” Lu Yao said with the tone of an experienced person.
But it is true that Lu Yao, who grew up in the world of cultivators on Xianyuan Star, has naturally seen a lot of intrigues. Although she herself disdains them, she has broken through all the intrigues she encountered with her force.
But after seeing more, I naturally understand the evil of human hearts.
In comparison, Nanzhu, the little fox who grew up on the Great Wall of the Galaxy, might be strong enough and wise, but he still lacks understanding of the wickedness of human nature.
"Why do they do this? Isn't this hurting others and not benefiting themselves?" Nanzhu expressed his incomprehension.
"Maybe they do have their own interests, but we just don't know it." Lu Yao replied.
"For example, the detectors they left behind are hidden in various places within the information. I think these detectors were definitely not intended to monitor us in the first place, right?" Lin Xu also said with a smile.
"They are monitoring this civilization. Do they want to watch it being destroyed by the Cleansers?" Nanzhu reacted immediately.
"Or maybe they want to find out the Cleaner's weaknesses from its actions? No, that's not right. The Cleaner's weaknesses cannot be tested by a weak civilization like this. Maybe they just want to find out more about the Cleaner's action patterns." Mu Xiyue also guessed.
"If that's the case, we have to be careful when we go to that rebel alliance this time." Nanzhu nodded and said.
"We do need to be careful, but we don't need to worry too much. After all, conspiracies and tricks also depend on strength. If they are really strong enough, why would they be chased by the Cleansers and have to hide everywhere?" Lin Xu didn't really care.
"Then Lord Lin Xu, should we accept this invitation code from the president?" Nanzhu looked out the porthole and saw the spaceship that had been waiting there for a long time.
And that spaceship was still sending various signals to the Skylark, trying to invite the Skylark to go to their planet.
After all, in their eyes, the old god has fallen, and the new god is before them, so naturally they have to establish a good relationship with him.
But Lin Xu was not interested in playing house with them.
"No, I'll also remind them not to be too happy too soon. What was destroyed was only a small fleet of the Cleansers. There are many such fleets in the Cleansers. They escaped this time, but they may not be so lucky next time, so hurry up and find a solution!"
On the spaceship not far away, the President was stunned when he received the reply from the Skylark.
"Purifier? Are you talking about Son of God? Are there still many such fleets? Then, what should we do?"
"Mr. President, if the Son of God is angry because of the warp travel technology, what if we destroy this spacecraft?"
"No, we can't destroy it. If we destroy it, we won't even have the last chance to escape." The president immediately retorted.
The senior executives remained silent.
Indeed, one spaceship is a little too few, but it is enough to take these senior leaders away. If it is destroyed, if the Son of God’s fleet comes again, they will have no way to escape.
In fact, the reason they decided to buy the curvature engine in the beginning was so that they could have a way out in case of emergency.
They just didn't expect that their retreat would destroy the entire civilization's chance of survival.
"By the way, since this civilization that saved us is capable of fighting against the Son of God's fleet, it would be great if we could keep them."
"Yes, we must keep them. We will give them whatever they want."
"Money, wealth, anything."
It’s a pity that they didn’t seem to realize that in the eyes of more advanced civilizations, these things are worthless.
Before they could figure out how to keep the Skylark.
The Skylark accelerated instantly, and the next moment the spaceship flew out of the galaxy and disappeared into the sea of stars.
The president was left with despair in his eyes.
As for the Skylark, after flying a certain distance and avoiding disturbances, it stopped.
A space jump channel slowly opened at the front of the spacecraft, and the space inside the channel began to continuously fold.
Three days later, the space fold reached a hundred light years away.
The Skylark rushed into the space jump channel and arrived directly a hundred light years away.
Then there were continuous jumps.
This time, Lin Xu and his party did not encounter the Cleansers' fleet on the way.
After all, a river system is vast enough, and no matter how many fleets of the Cleansers there are, it is impossible for them to cover every corner.
The entire river system can only be cleansed step by step according to certain rules.
The Rebel Alliance took advantage of this rule, bypassing the location that the Cleansers were about to cleanse and hiding in the area that the Cleansers had already cleaned.
Although the cleaner will clean repeatedly, he will not clean only once.
But as long as you find the right pattern, there is always a glimmer of hope.
As for trading the curvature engine to lower civilizations, the lower civilizations can be used to delay the actions of the Cleansing Fleet and more accurately predict the patterns of action of the Cleansing Fleet.
For the Rebel Alliance, there is no psychological burden at all.
This is just normal operation.
In this universe, weakness is the original sin.
Just like the colonists would not sympathize with the natives.
Perhaps only humans, a race that has leapt all the way from the pre-nuclear energy age in a very short period of time, still retain sympathy for lower civilizations.
After all, many of the people whose human civilization has been elevated to a higher dimension are still the ones who were there when the long-distance fleet just set sail from the earth.
Those people from the 23rd century sailed far away, extending their lifespans all the way until they reached a higher dimension.
They still have memories of the pre-Earth era, and they also have memories of when they were weak, so they have more sympathy for lower civilizations.
Just like Lin Xu now, who comes from the 21st century, there is no way he can look at lower civilizations in the same way as higher civilizations.
Because the technological level of those lower civilizations is actually not much different from that of the Earth in the 21st to 23rd centuries.
When Lin Xu saw them, he would think of the era in which he lived. He really could not be as indifferent to these low civilizations as the higher civilizations.
After ten space jumps, which took a month, the Skylark soon approached the coordinates given by the Rebel Alliance.
This is a relatively empty area located between various galaxies. There are no stars around, only empty space.
According to the Rebel Alliance, as long as they reach the coordinates, they can easily find the Rebel Alliance.
Sure enough, as the Skylark left the space jump channel, Bai Xing soon discovered that about one light year ahead, there was a war star traveling at a hundred times the speed of light.
"It seems that the war planet is the base of the Rebel Alliance? Or the headquarters?" Nanzhu was lying on the porthole as usual, looking into the distance, although she could not see any objects flying at superluminal speed a light year away.
"There is actually a war star. No wonder they dare to call themselves the Rebel Alliance. But in order to build such a war star, they must have avoided many purges, right?" Lu Yao said uncertainly.
"Maybe it's not just that it avoided the purge. It's possible that this war star existed before the purge began. Otherwise, it would be an impossible task to avoid the purgers and build a war star in just a few thousand years." Lin Xu had a different opinion.
"Indeed, if that's the case, then these rebel civilizations should be the remnants that existed before the cleansers began their cleansing." Nanzhu also nodded.
After all, humans only arrived in this river system ten thousand years ago.
And since the Cleanser claims to be the second son of mankind, he must have started the cleansing after humans left.
It is basically impossible to hide from XZ and build a war star within 10,000 years, so this war star can only be something from 10,000 years ago.
Building a war star is not easy even with the power of an advanced civilization, let alone building it while escaping from pursuit.
"White Star, send a signal and tell them we are coming." Lin Xu ordered.
Then, the Skylark headed towards the war planet at a thousand times the speed of light.
Soon, after a few hours, they had caught up with the war star which was traveling at a hundred times the speed of light.
At this time, on the war star, after a period of chaos, the welcome ceremony was ready.
In order to show seriousness, the entire war planet even slowly stopped, waiting for Lin Xu's arrival.
Inside the main control room of the war planet, a group of senior executives were waiting.
Although the top leaders from various races and civilizations did not go to greet him in person, they actually attached great importance to it.
As for why we didn't greet them in person, it was because only a small spaceship came.
In the eyes of these senior officials, this might just be a reconnaissance ship, and the people coming might just be some ordinary advance guards.
We should pay attention to it, but we can't have all the senior executives go out to greet an ordinary staff member from the other side.
Therefore, the docking of the war star and the grand welcoming ceremony are both expressions of importance.
However, the top management will not come to greet us in person, which can be considered as a kind of modesty.
In this way, under guidance, the Skylark slowly docked on the surface of the war planet.
This place has already been occupied by welcoming crowds of various races.
All kinds of strange races welcomed Lin Xu's arrival in various ways.
As soon as Lin Xu and others got off the Skylark, they were greeted by special diplomatic personnel.
Lin Xu looked at the row of receptionists of several races standing in front of him.
And there is no distinction of importance among these reception staff.
I immediately understood that there was no dominant race or civilization on the War Planet, and there were many obvious conflicts between the various civilizations.
Otherwise it would be impossible that the welcoming staff is so mixed, which obviously requires taking into account the interests of various ethnic civilizations.
In fact, at the beginning, each civilization on the war planet was also preparing to select a person to be mainly responsible for reception.
However, each civilization is unwilling to give up this position to other civilizations. Otherwise, what if the powerful civilization that can fight against the Cleansers thinks that the civilization responsible for reception is the main civilization of the war planet?
Once a certain civilization controls the dialogue channel with a powerful civilization, the consequences will be extremely terrible.
After all, they are just allies, not subordinate to each other.
So in the end there was no choice but to send people from each civilization.
Next, it was the routine process of taking Lin Xu on a tour.
Lin Xu followed the local customs and took Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nanzhu, Lu Yao, and the reception staff to have some fun using public funds.
However, while playing on the War Star, Lin Xu did not forget to collect various information.
Bai Xing is constantly collecting public intelligence on the war planet, and at the same time, nanorobots are spread out to collect various non-public intelligence, as well as intelligence on the Internet.
At the same time, Lin Xu also asked for information from the people who were leading the tour from various civilizations.
Especially intelligence about the Cleaners.
The receptionists didn't think much about it. After all, the civilization represented by this man had just fought a battle with the Cleaners, so it was natural for them to pay attention to information related to the Cleaners.
In addition, they had already been authorized, so they had said everything they could.
"Mr. Lin Xu, the civilization you represent has just arrived in our galaxy from an extragalactic galaxy, so you don't know a lot of things. In fact, 10,000 years before you came, there was a civilization that was probably as advanced as yours. It had already been here. That civilization called itself human civilization."
"Human civilization? Can you give me a detailed introduction?" Lin Xu was excited. He didn't expect that before he could ask anything, the other party would take the initiative to change the topic to humans. He had to take this opportunity to learn more about it.
“It is said that human civilization ten thousand years ago was very powerful. They mastered the technology of space jump and even some high-dimensional technology. Human civilization was also as friendly as the civilization you represent. Not only did it become friends with many civilizations, it even taught many civilizations more advanced technologies. For example, the hyperspace communication technology used on our war planet was given to us by humans at that time.” The receptionist said with a look of yearning, as if he was yearning for that beautiful era.
"But I remember that the Cleanser called himself the second son of mankind? Is there any connection between them?" Lin Xu asked with pretended curiosity.
"Hmph, those cleansers who tarnished the name of humanity are nothing but shameful traitors." When the receptionist mentioned this, his face was immediately filled with anger.
"Traitor? How do you say that?" Lin Xu asked puzzled.
"As we just said, humans are an extremely friendly and advanced civilization. They taught us the most advanced technology. Before leaving, they even created those Cleansers, hoping that those Cleansers would help us and assist us to better manage this river system. Unfortunately, those Cleansers betrayed humans in the end and raised their butcher knives against us, humans' former friends. It's really hateful." A different receptionist continued the story, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the gnashing of teeth while telling the story.
"So the Cleansers were created by humans? Why would they betray humans?" Lin Xu continued to ask.
"Who knows why? Humankind's original intention was to let those cleansers better maintain the tranquility of this river system, but they started the massacre of civilization first. These traitors who betrayed human expectations even had the nerve to call themselves the second sons of mankind! How ridiculous." The receptionists spoke one after another, criticizing the cleansers.
Lin Xu nodded slowly, like an outsider who was learning all this for the first time.
